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t • TYPERIAL Pas. 'esda 'HOME OF LORDS, Wcossoialt, The Loan Rill Mid the Irish Militia Come* read a third tour, aad passed. Mr. Whartuu, Mr. lityns, and other Members., • Howse of Commies, broogist op the Irish Aimee& Bill, tie Coffee Qs, Irish rtooprheder Ht. Local Militia A t•ttill, the Lwterylldl, *et private Silk, whi 1111111r40 6 %P0n lbe Tan mil le' wards read the firm time. y • • Mr. Rickman presented papers from the Connidasieners el the Caletkvoian Canal, which we t * ordered to Ot.laid on "the Table. - CRUELTY TO Al 4 66LS. Upon the Order of the Day bein ad, for 01 ittotaanitment of the Bill to peereot wilful sand 111A ii0ous cruelty to animals— • Lord BRUME rose, for the purpose of calling "their Lordships atteetinti to those amendments which he should propo.e for the considisratimi of 'the. Committee. Since the sz.rorvi rca ling of the ;I:11, he had ser.ousle rliected Ilona every anittivil •'.,teia A Lich might rrniler this legislative measure s.: t.vprltetiesiale:Ultd Alit) less OlAjcoithiable, on the 'ound, that It Might, in its consequeeces, affect the lobeity of the subject. lie - perfectly essincided - bid' what had been stated fir has Noble eta! tea. a cal Frieed (the Lord Ciiissicellor) Ull n lot-tbs.)• dity, that great deliberatieio was ne.sessaty its feainiug :e several prorisions of the Bill. At the some tone he could net Oral repressing the ratisfetteion iirt felt At the general cretenrrtuire - of err full a ilottee. in tbr principle Otitis intruded lea, winch .lid honour to the chum:ter of their Lorsidinw.—,l There were several words, as they saw whin:lit be should propose to atter; for ate Word " Vann- ' eel," he submitted the sunistitptiosi of " tansel," as being more eligible, having been used in a for mer, stater, which was male enverrnmg those ani mals, considered as property. lei regard also to tlm inantior of treating the at tttttt ills 't,neutioural, he 'considered it safer to adept th,'e eseale whiele the legislature lad already wed. lweaase limbs:lily they would be found snore definite in the sense of tier law. Fur. this purphe he ittferred to 11 statute of Charles 11. which contained' the words " wound, or hurt," front which he am disposed In reconanieud the insertion of the mime %Ord ith the addition '" or otherwise abuse," instead of those words now contained in the fill! i f .• infliction of punishment was anotlitr subject, wo!!,:o• par tieular and on e.leell he con . hutted with °tie r per sane, particularly a ,Nolivi and teemed Lord, whin was peruharly cutiversatt bills the criminal ea! 5.4 the kingdom. 'lt bed been deemed etr e : ....t kve a summary to who. upon conviction, Poser to imprison fur heertain are, limiting the 'mane, by stating . the longest and sheeted Pe riod, so that the pnesseliment might be oftplied, tic e,wiliag to the nature of the offends. It was ides oriented, that c •riain.pitierfties might he e . serf, 4:-,oraing to the ;Prater or less, degiee of se;giavation Of the offenee, sad erwordierg to the diseretion'of the magistrate. This was agreeable nt principle to' the provisiorie of au maims' statute 0'37 idea.,VIII. c. tl. wfirre pnnishmeut was in- II (-till for minute; nut the tongue of an Animal. It tisr a eta ha. intention tier Ititl sisesukfeeuluin an . other mode of proseeittino iiiiitittnent, and that the uEence, tor that purposes, Josiah' lade...hared a misdemeanour. Having said thus much use the provisions of the Bill. tie saw no realms to advert again to the necessity of Its ottroductinn ; on that subject he he i already delivered his setitineenta, and ate was inure convinced of the propriety of the interference of the Legislathre. lie erisithl not re. late the shocking Meissner* of cruelty which,, since the w cowl reariiiv;,;. had beets trbustraitted Whim from different parts of the country. There were. several taste/was. el...versa torturrto mainsails, for the' %Hug.d poi pose of cotivenieneo or profit. A habit of ratting the /redo...chi/kis of cattle. which was alone for the purpose Of driving them more coreve nientiy, was certniuly a term! practice; and a hat was still more horrid, was a custom systematically adopted by some botcher". es the cosiutry, of cm tire.,l sheep they are about to Its from the usolah to the ear, whit+ was said improve the colour of the meat ;. and even when thrilled cut the throat of the anismalot ride it was yet Oettling, and before is was dead, they proceeded to skim the - elite:ow. lie wnuld also mention another ell I ojeet, nn which he Iliad b fare shortly commented, he meant I were were any who louder-stood bet t r than himself, and who believed that sport might afford any atonement to the bell himself, and that it ought not to Ivies been affected by the Bill under their considered on, they ought tee to have per "mined it to hare tome to a Committee, but have optioned it in an earlier store; beeditse. in doing as they had done, they certainly admitted the He had further to minittk. if there were two modes of bull-baiting, baiting him cruelly and not cruelly, the mode of baiting him cruelly would alone hr liable to puisishment. The altera tion which he had proposev!, hr trusted, would make it lent objectionable as to its practical result, and those alterations were coos:steitt with other statutes, in part wateria. As he had slated on a for mer occasion, the theheu!ty riedld not hr great in tarrying the measure Imo effect; it would depend upon the feelings of those who would administer the law ; and on all oceasioni it would be requisite t oat the maiming, wouniline, hurting, or otherwise a tusing the animal, would tat alone reinstitute the o fever ; there must also appear a wilful, malicious, aid wanton intention to commit cruelty. For the safety of this subject, it would in all eases be requi site the act insist be coupled with the intention. for. Faison ma facie team nisi mem e.t rex. Thu:, weals!, on this account, be little danger of any impmpri-ty attending the admitsistmtion of the law, which would be guarded by every consi 'relims due to all othee parts of our ernuissal juris pradenee. Besides, as there was no reward to be otwairied, 110 pecuniary elicouraganent to inform er., I et being a remedial law, left to Ise carried i.sto effect by those whose hurestnity and feelings impelled them tc 'Orden. on the pert of the am- Lail, lie ron , •eiiea there Wll, 110 probability of stay ever combs' u , iclor prosev•vit Vito. !mt what was Its.. torsously an act of Apparent sto-Ity. The Loan Celt piraLtote shspored to sup }. wt the principle of this li4islatire measure, bet he would recommend to hie Nn h le ana L ear n e d Friend, the propriety of having the Bill, with .such amendments as might Le deemed expedient. re printed, and in thatstate again submitted to thieve- r. . 11. ' • . • • • d ~. It I F L 1 . , sideration. of the House. tre thought great rieliber ation ought tar be used in framing the laW upon this rubject, and he was afraid, if the Bill were to embrace every act which might be termed creel, !some consideritble iiiffienlty would probably arise upon the application. For instance, thong the terin " reclaimed" . the Moment a sal mon was caught and laid in nic boat, it might he called " reclaimed," and the treatment afterwards practised upon that animal, might, in the mane way as the treatment skean to sheep, for the purpose of rendering their meat better,. be called cruelty.— How far this ought to be brought under punish ment, which even might be extended to those who ate the meat, and encouraged thereby the prac tice, was liable to considerable difficulty. Ile would recommend great pregautiec its framing it law of suds great importance, which ni4ht afterwards, if found salutary in etiect, be further extended iii principle. The Earl of Ltrutooot. considered it his duty to offer a few ultsetvations on the Bill under their con sideration. lie was friendly to the principle of the measure, although he conceived great difficulties lay in the wry of carrying oily kw upon this ques tion into elle. t. It admitted of nice distinction, what a mats 'night do, and what he, aught to do, and also what he imig:st not do, and what lie ought not to do. On this account, he would advise the Noble and Learned Lord to limit the extension, and confine it to &mile. of draught and burden. If the IN:, as it bow were to include other , spe c i e s.: for it... of food or of sport, it frijol. i .:ur consider& i . • objection, ou the ground of . requiring to distkiction, rind might sit prac:.oa be lmosi. • i-eudeircl ridiculous. 'Nu case of bull-baitin a g itsc!f. left te the feelings ai twelve , emu in E-sex, iniglit be decided differ ently from the sane number of mien in Middlesex. kle swell with the Noble and Learned Lord who spoke last, that it war incumbent to leave it to the 60116.13.1 ry of magistrates. But rreat cete oa...sit to be used its picierechii:e gradually, and lii that case it would noret with his approba tiou,lnr no man could view, aithaut horror, the acts of cruelty w inch were daily committed, particular ly Grim horror, in the streets of this town. There was another animal of burden, the ass, equally useful in its station, subject to more cruelty, if posaible, joanicalarly clM.uctl the interposi tinii e.F iii. legislature. Lord ELLs11110110001; :I , ortly observed, great caution was to be used to legislating upon a sub ject, !Weil, its its consequences., nright be of the greatest inapintioiec. For itpwartb of twenty . yrcrs be had known it to have been under the coirerileru. non of his Noble and Learned Vriend. pail would recommend the words " maim, wonud, hurt, or do any bodily sisjary," as perhaps expressing more de . . banely the act of cruelty to be punished. The 13/11 generallt Met with his concurrence, an.l it wa s a measure which would always reflect honour upon Iris Noble and Leac.ed Friend who introduced it. The Earl of DAKNI.V.T, wv Underatood, 1411. proved of the principle, but triou 4 ht practically it %salad Le attended with .ome i.ieouveniencier. Lord Evsattte wan ile,irotiq the Bill should he so ultererl, that h eniett meet with the concurrence uF tlieir /....rdships, and he less likely to incur op position iii another place. Upon the suggeo tun of Lore' RELEID LE, it was agreed the Bill should pad., pro forma, RINI be again reconsidered in toe Committee on Friday. Adjourned'. HOUSE Ol COMMO:CS. , The Strand Bridge Bill was reAtl a third time, and ordered to t b Lorill. Up..n all order of the day, for the third reading of the SUITCV Sen era' Btll, Sir T 1104 AS TU kTON inured "That The bill should be read • third time ern this day three months," when there appeared for the proposisiou of Sir Thomas Tartu; to, agetnst it 49. The hill was then read • thud time. l'poa the quest that the bill do pass, as amendment was proposed, upon a supplerseatary clause, when 'moths! division took place, and the nunsticis ware 57 Mid 23. The atilt was then passed, and oriknsl to the Lards. On the minim+ -.f Lord 31t LTON , the account of the In.- 'ports sad Ex.ports, p 'recited yesterday, was ordered to be printed. On the mation of Mr. Hogs, the Woollen Marinfacturcrt' Biii wits read suited hula null passed. A Messio front the ICIIIIrt of Lords informed the House It their Loidalsips had speed to the Loau !Silt , and 'eve- PI Wilt.' !Who. The Oro., of the day, fur the House going into a Com liiit tee on the Friendly Siseieties' Bill, was dcfci red till to rn:Win ow. Mr. Pekes A L rose, fur the pin'pose of deferring the inu of which he bad given notice last night, relative to small Living*, as recominieudecl by a Slcuage limn His Majesty—the papers upon the subject win not yet print. Alia lie thee, toe put it off till l'ridx seat. Mr. PERCEV A L said, in pursuance of a notice which 1w had given last night, relative to an Increase of SAury to the Judges of England and Wales, he should inopore that the Acts of the tath and 13th George 111. should be .cad, and that the House should to-morrow resolve itself into a C 0.., mince to consider the same. Agreed to. Sir Jots, t EMVORT postponed further Windings in this Embezzlement 11.11 until Tunis' , next. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented a Petition from • George Beaumont, now a prisoner in his Majesty's Gent of Newgiite. The Petition was received and vend. It stated, that the Petitioner is Proprietor, Printer, and Pub lisher of the Weekly Paper, called The British Guardian ;—that on the Okla day of Oetdber last, he published a Letter in the sad Paper, signed " 7iberiese Greg:duct ;" which, alluding to the disputes between this Country said the United States of America, attributed dwelt origin —echo ing the sentiments of the late Lisnl Chatliani---" to an influence behind the Throne, greater than the Throne itself thst upon this publication. an in fi,rination was :i!i-d in the (Atm of HiuK s Bench, His Majesty ' s Attorney-General ; upon which the Petitioner was tried and found guilty ; and iiphi. that c , ,:ivictinn lie vias sentenced to he confined fur the space of tivo years in Ilia Majesty's Ciao! of Newgatr, to pay a tine of 501: and to Roil a clarity fur his gond behaviour, himself in ~ sum of will. and two • nreties in 2001. each: that the Pilitioner, soon after the publication of the ssid biter, war arrested under i statute lately passed, end iselil to bail ; a practice heretofore un known widtr whirls arrest be *us kept in confine ment for two months, and wine,' two months were not afterwards taken into consideration in the Pe titioner's sentence, as neither was the mouth iu , vhich the Petitioner was kept in ch:se custody, im mediately before he received sentence; that nett the Isom- day in which the Petitioner received his sen tence,a person who hid been csinvicted of gruisi wit- fel, and corral* perjury, received sentence only le he confined for three months, notwitlistatiding the Pe-' titioner, for an undefined crime, was senteticed to en imprisonment or two yeare and dile, mouths certain, together with the risk of imprisonment b o or life, unless lie should be able to find skeitrity our his future good behaviour ; that sintiskind gene rally judge of the atrocity a crimes by the degree of punishment *Geed to them, and, its such, the Petitioner is iu danger of li.ong considered as a greater culprit than a man convicted or perjury ; that the Petitioner conceived he had not been grisly tried, inasmuch as the Jury by whom her was found guilty was elitism) at the optien of the Officer of f hue Crown. The Petition cimcludtd in the usual Man lier, praying relief. Sir FRANCIS HURD TT moved, That the Peti tion do lie on the tablu. - -Ordered accordingly. WAGES RILL. On the motion of Mr. Rossi, the House went into a Committee on the Seamen's %Vases Bill, in which the Right Hem. Gentleman proposed to es tend allotments of Seamen's Wic i es to their parents. Sir , s..llAitr Putt: thoug:it it would he the means of inducing seattica to deserr. Mr. %VI:4.1.1:11.ov Puts thought it would hate a contrary effect. This hill was originally trained to afford facility to manioc, to relieve the wants of their wives and children, and lw thought it would be baud they should be debarred from affording once to their aged parrots. It MU not a compulsory. measure, it was only to allow them the best means of assisting those who must otherwiso become a hut denim the !Jutish. Mr. Tuostesom helitved that were it not for this Bill, eitaLlins semitt n to provide fort heir wives and families, many of them would leave the country altogether; the facility of remitting money wits great, and wits considered; as a relief to the se vere measure of impressment. Sir C. PALE said. he did. not believe the Bill to be a favourite of the navy ; but was willing to allow it had been of use to families and to parishes. He still felt strong objections to extending its powers, but declined dividing the House upon it. The House resumed, and the Report was or dered to he received to-morrow. SEAMEN'S PRIZE-MONEY BILL- The House went into a Committee nu the Sea men's Prise-money Bill, in which Mr. Rosy pro posed a clause to put soldiers serving us marines upon the wine footing as the marina.; which was agreed to. Mr. Russ then sind, that seamen lied been 1111101 unposed upon by designing men, who acted for them as pnze-agents ; these men advinicetl u tcw pountbi, or a few necessaries, and then olitaiied their Power tif Attorney, by which means they fre litit oily ri ceived large sums of prize-money, and Ireipiently bilked the seaman of his clue. Ile limit preputed several new regulations upou this su'oject, the substance of which was to prevent any Agent receiving Prize-motley MI account of seaman, unless for the purpose of paying it to their near re latiims. Mr. TIERNEY agreed with the night Honourable Gentleman, in the necessity of some measure to check %hi. evil, but he did not think that proposed would have the desired effect ; lie thought it might he proper to restrict the pa) went of prise-money to licensed regents, and even proper that their coin. mission should be paid by the public. Nlr. ROBE approved of whet the lion. Gent. had sitg4r.tcti, and, after a few words from Mr. Mr. 'TIERNEY moved—" That no perNoti should have an opportunity, during the absence or sca men, to draw for any part of their prize-money, except licensed agents."—Agreed to. Sir Cita&Las POLE proposed • clause, iuflicting a penalty of 5001. upon such Agents as advanced money to superior officers, before the general dis trihutiou took place; %smelt, after some cosi%ersa unit, was given up. After going thiough the Bill in the Committee, the Honor res ed, and the Report was ordered to be received on Frnhr, next.— VOTE in , CREDIT. The Report se toe Committee of Supply, re -111; theta sum of 3,000,0001. he granted to Ili, Alajcsty for the pumps-ow of affording ussistance to AnAria, Spain surd Portugal, was brought lip. rpois the question beim( put to agree with the Committee to thus Resolution. Mr. WarrassAD rose—" Sir. I find myself in volvel its no small difficulty. in deciding how to vote on the present gm st;on s as agreeing hi port to die null lieu ni pr0 ! .0.c.1, mid slielsgreeing. from 'mo ther part of it : u, order therefore to extricate may or:lout of it; l feet otitigett to pursue the course followed during the last session of Parlianicot, by snoring an addre,s to Ills Nlujesty oil the suhject, us the only means of recording my sentiment.. Although I view, with extreme diffidence, the bril li nit we are stated to have had lately in Portugal ; alit gli I dread that Ifilillet will tri umph, both in Austria and in Portugal ; yet I ant out altooher without a hope we may ultimately succeed in the contest we are engaged in ; ;M. 'elide there is life there is hope, especially with those that ardently desire it. I am, however, far lroin agreeing with those who represent nor cause os being in a more hopeful state than it was last year; on the con trary, I cannot but feel there is little to hope for; and is the absence of a flight lion. Friend, (MT. Ponsonby), occasioned, I fear, by indisposition, I feel myself obliged to give my reason fur this opi nion. Front all that has peened, it should seem that Austria could be fur from imagi g she should be able to crush the power of France in the contest she was about to renew, or of even preserving herself; and )et it appears, Oct the period she has chnoen for entering into that contest has been ithwhosen. This step has been taken without any previous Concert with this country, if we are to believe the assertions of His Majesty's Ministers; nay, on the contrary, we are led to sup pose, they even strovec to dissuade her from the attempt ; the events. however, which have already Wien place, have petit such as sufficiently shew she entered into the war without having previously acquired a sufficient knowledge of her own strength and resources, or having formed au accurate cal culation upon those of I ranee. We have already heard of the rapid advance of Booaparte to their capital ; the fact is. it has been eery snore rapid than .t was in 1/405, and now, a • the'', no reaiiii tauce whatever has been o ff ered at VWuins. .. (Maga of conyisaletion opposite situ 1 ea. 1 agree, a Cant oppooltitiu .sas attetnpte the Arihtloke Atay.holfivhda t a part of the at the i.xpeose of the lits:a of buq:e of aft inhabit by I. but no opposition whatever is a .off ei s s l l e y the habitants thetmelves. lo tike eriimer we have a the French cuter bat: 0:11trio, owl received by 411mb:tante there with the name facility with wbith tlw Tfritiit(i troops weir iei•ently welcomed. like success has attended the French Arens in Bo hemia ; eu that tutu winch way I will, I see no ra tional ground fur ho l e; end whether A ustr,:r been forced into three:arra, as contended !Or on Cie one hand, or that she lois voluntarily entt red upon it, as insisted rat the other, I einalot but consider it as au ill-advised step 'oil her part, and as one 111:it must crew:tally ens! iu iwr ruin. Mir, in re. ,sheering the cooduci. •:1* this coutary. I hope I may not be inistae.,-i, tin misrepresented, Or charged with being the I . ..and to Boimpatte. as 1 here taws libelled by the joitrisids in the pity of Minieters.-- . (Cro of order/ oilier . 1 )-31r, • I colt toad I ca l perfectly its order; and if any Gristle:mats tfaeks otherwise, I will repeat ley noels, and he tu;_y hare•thrin taken duvet fur the purpose of Makin, me justify them ; stotwitkatinthaig l have brew so Tibetlesl he the Journals iu thei pay of Iliastors, I will avow that.vt is my opinion now, as it ho, heru heretofore, that under the events that have e!r:•.ely happetsed, and those that art still snore like ty to It:sateen, pall grunt that isethis I cony torn sit a false prophet ! I say, Sir. I think Austria is likely to be niutiliihited, anti the Ptaii..sitla coo -1`• hat, then, vronaint for lint its cuter into the stru t aalewith the undsvidee awl aug mented 'power of Frame., single-Inamied ? .t ail the prospect theo of what may lie the possible event, m e we not called upon to husband our ie- Saill , eelo against the day of nee.l ? the itto..e espe cially, us, by looking Moo the treaty recently C4#ll eluded with that potter, it appears we are lot pledged to any specific ad Vallee to At:atria ; and considernig that although no ui:l of uto:ley would or could isifor,l her any assist:mete eilectual, erode r her iminedixte difficulties ; yct, that very suiram..! would operate as a most Severe pressure epon tie. Contemplating, therefore. the enormous sums that have brew already lavished upon that cou n try, whether under the name of subsidy, or tl at more if/L.6011. nee of loan, I feel it my duty ta make a s:sevel here, aunt to say that I ealitiot comieilt, Beulah the whole House of Commons etoodateuinti ear s tout another shil!iur should be advanced lib Austria. Although it has been said she his al. ways loan a faithful ully ro this country, yet I assert, that in 1405 slue was actually aesluced by this country mid Ramis 111i4) a violettos of her lien. •trality with Frnree. This appeured apparent. hoot the State Papers pnblisl.t..l ut the time, and actually laid on the table of this fosse. The principle of that coalition was to restrain France withiu her isroper boundary, and England was to pay for it. if Austria had not, been early crushed by her absolute conquest; she was, how ever, restored to her .auk analog the natites of Europe. After that the coalition was con tinue) with Russia, and that too wits ended by the peace of Tilsit. .1V here toes remain the lidpis of success in the present contest, alien already tier capital, as before, has been conquered ? or call lie really eptertaiii the hope of being Japan rcsitora her, merely by opening our pure-strin;es ? Sir. there is another part of this subject to which 4 cannot agree to give my coming. I objeer, as • precedent likely to be ruinous in its consequences, to our paying the hills draws by the Anstriun Go verunient upon this country, without any authority whatever; rather than do so, I would agree to give the amount, or more, but in some other shape. Sir, 1 trill not undertake to determine whether France or Austria has been right upon the pre seat occasion ; I will even: admit, for the sake of the argument, that the French are in the armee (thoegh I could in:Maui°, that, in the various veers which have taken place, France hies always been the attacked. and not the attacker.) Yet, if I cannot say that France is in the right, an neither have I any grousals for asserting that Aus tria is so; because, after her capital had been cam quered and restored, sad a treaty entered into by her with Fiume. I am not persuaded she has not catered into the preseht oar in downright violation of those engagassieista. It may be said, that 80. eaparte intended to swallow her up; but that he meant to have doilies° at the present period, when lie had his !lauds full in Spain, I shall leave to those who consider how nell all his plans are laid, and whether he was likely to provoke a contest.uil der his present circumstances. I therefore tniuk the presumption is, that she thought this a fit time for entering into the war with Fiance, when she found her involved with Spain. 'Fins, 1 confess, is my opinion ; I have read the petters published on both sides with some attention; I ihs not pretend to de cide beteeen them; bet I confess I am inclined to believe that France did not choose the present pe riod for entering into the war, and that Austria stal. It is upon these grounds that I dissent from giving any pecuniary aid to Austria, at the same time that 1 assent to affording it to Spain and Portugal. Sir, upon the latter subject I have some remarks to make. It is a common observation, that we are not apt to see our own failings, while we are suffi ciently clear-sighted in the faults of others. This remarithres town in an esaioent degree exemplified in the choice (list has been recently made of an Ambassador from this country to Spain ; for if there be another man in existence who has done the lame thiliga which Bonaparte has done, it is the Marquis Wellesley. The people of Spain, they know tiny thing of this country, must know whist that Noble Lord has am* in India; hut then al! he did there proceeded Inman ardent seal for the pahlic service, while Bonaparte. in acting the ?AMC part, was urged on by the devil. They were donbtlesa the same acts, however dictated by different motives. Be that, however, as it may, the nomination of his Lordship was certainly a bed one, as the ',col l ie of Spain must know that the Marquis Welleeley would cake b o th Sp a m and Portoaul, through his urdent zeal for his country. Sir, though I ant not owe of those who see mud, advantage attending tavern meetings, sifter dinner discussions, and bumper toasts, such as those re. probated at the Crown amt Anchor, (for I cannot suppose any stub Using to take place at the Camtlos Tuseria yet we have a tierces-m.3w in the Hon. Getitiemait over sophist one. Perhaps it with MEP .