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country, they 1: 4 .- discretion of a tingle man ? This 111411 may posse. the clemency of Titus, and every good enality that ever adorned the heart ; but he niti.t have as much wisdom as virtue, sisal be exempt from the weaknesses necessarily incident to his. mainly, to be enabled to prevent the abuse of his authority. He was likely to be deceived, and he might kud himself unwittingly to private misrepresentations, and inflict an injury upon ilium°. cent persons. liiiintlatiene from interested indivi duals might cause him to destroy the prospect of a man's whole life. A case happened not long since, which went to shew the possibility of having a power abused. indirectly. without even the know. ledge of the Minister. The late Mr. de Beau( had expended on the Continent a considerable sum of money in the purchase of books, which he had brought to London for the purpose of selling. I o the collection there happened to be some copies stir a work not pleasing to certain persons, said some person, known to have the ear of the Sbuister, having one day entered his shop, and seeing the books, said, is You have a great many copies of this work—you will, of course, bike care bow you sell them." This slight obserwatren was sufficient to induce Mr. de Coeur to send back the honks to the Continent. and forego the advantages of his speeulatioo. There was also another ripe-. that equally evinced the power of abusing srbiirary power, even without any belt of the persons P 011• 11114ing it. A wan who hal associated with Geo tleisteu, and hid passed for one, waited on Mr. Pitt, and t. 4.1 him, iu confidence. it a plan formed by the French Govermnent to assassinate him, and iu confirmition of his intelligence, Wormed him of a crrts:• sum of money having been sent by way of Ilru-rels, and other places, to be placed at the disposal or two men who were to perpetrate the murder. The informant minutely described the ',rm.'s% their route, and the mode iii which the money was to be remitted, and au application being made to the Austrian Government in the Nether lands, an inquiry was set on foot, and every circum stance was foetid to correspond accurately with the I.llow's information. The two unfortunate men were seised and thrown into duintemis, where they binguidted for five years, until peace was restored, and then it was discovered that they wee perfrctly 1111141Ctfit of any evil intention, and hyd been at the time of their arrest on their way to England, for the purport of demanding payment of a debt from tie very man who had given Mr. Pitt this information. The Noble Lord then alluded to the case of Dl. Las Cases ' who had been sent from St. Helena to the Cape of Good Hope, and having thence arrived iu the firer Thames_ . he was immediately shipped off to the Coutirrent. Possibly the Government might have had very goad information, sufficient to induce them to send off the Count Las Cases, but this Alien Act pee them no right to seize his papers. This was an Act not only highly illegal, but cruel in the extreme. The seizure of a literary man's papers, and their detention for several moutlestbat individual being - then in distress—might have ruined the hopes of his life. lie might have treated wi,li a boi.kaeller 'fur the productions of his industry, and might have 'heel disappointed iu his speculations. Such, how 'ever, was the necessary result of arbitrary lower, lud the abase of it must Bow almost from its ex- Isteoce. The Noble Lord had said, that the • power of 'sending aliens out of the country must 'exist somewhere. A pewee must exist somewhere doing every ibing—..s power must be lodged in a Government of banging people • but it was a q u e stion whether that power s hould be grouted to the Executive to exercise without control. The Noble Lord had said what lie should do in the Committee, and that he would propose the suspeusion of a law of Scotland, winch had been enacted before the Urinsu, and hod btrat subsequently sanctioned by Acts of the United tegislotarei so that the Noble Lord in suspending that Act by a retrospective measure, would attack the private property of individuals consecrated by on Act of the Legislature. 'I he Noble Lord had said, that to the Alien Act the safety of this coun try was to be principally attributed ; but did the Noble Lord torso to confess the inadequacy of all the exertions or the Cabinet to maiutaiii the tranquillity of Europe? Weir all the victories purchased by so much blood and treasure, inside. quote to secure the stability of the existing system of Europe ? The Noble Lord then alluded to the effect which the possession of at bitrary power was calculated to produce ou the minds of those who enjoyed it. Could it be supposed that they could route front the exercise of it as pure friends to the Constitution of the country as before it had been iutruoted to them ? What au effect might it not produce open the tuliid of a Minister, who, having found Moamar enabled to pruored with vigour and effect against an alien, was yet prevented from act ing itt a similar way against a waive subject ! He would naturally say, 4 4 What a heady thing is ark,- leery power;" and with such feelings he would be axtreantly desirous of eulauging his authority, fo abort, to grant arbitrary poser to any British sub ject, even over adieus, was incousisteut with the security of the oilier subject, and with the Constitution by the century. As another iustatut of the abuse of the law, he eluded to the case of Doe Diego Gooses, who, with other Spaniards, bad takeu refuge iu Gibraltar, front the Guitars triolence of their own Government, and were deli- vered up hi the F.ngliati Guveruur. These !WWI'S ware tiled, wurr WcIC 161:11LCUCCd to death, and Dun Diego GOWti was condemned to the galleys fur twelve years, and the furleituse of all his pros/city. The Bntish Guvernmeut. much to its credit, had, he tiudirstood. remoustnited with vigour spinst the senteme, and Dun Diego Gomez came into this country, where, he lamented ti., s..y, he had not le reeved the atteutiuu *limb he well merit.d. It had beau since disci/lotted, that the Gureruor Clima te, bad given him up au the belief that this man had been the author of souse of the must violent papers circulated iu Spaiu a l pinist the British interests. This impel... Rm. however, Wil• Incur fret, and had originated iu a mistake of names. The Noble Losd then adverted to the oligarchy melt the uniuu of the allied Sovereigns of Europe huh created, in place of the universal mouarilly, avian( which they had been so long cuuteuding ; amid concluded by observing, that the present Bill was wholly unnecessary, cruel to individuals, and d..tigiquus to the ConslitiViou.—(Hear, hear.) 7. 7 was a total refu,sl to them or all law, and that' txp.in g is,ch,id.oa to the chance of bring j ' , riven from the country, th e y were thrown under Tlietarl of i'llisrstottattio said. the objects of the pretreat Bill were thrserlirdi ; feariare the pre servation of she tranquillity of Age iesrestri—the preservation of the relations of sod amity with foreign States--and the preservatiss of the tratiquillity of Europe. lie contended, genteelly, for the power of the Crown to remove milieus from the cuuutry, as absolutely necessary to enable the Executive Power to observe relations with other States; and cited, in support of his assertions, a passage of Magna Charts, exempting merchants from a genensl previous prohibition. It hod beeu urged that this measure had affected the character of the country fur hospitality ; but the present Bill bore flit comparison with that which was greeted to Ministers in 179.1, sod yet the cha racter of the country never stood higher for hos pitality than satire that period. It had been also asserted, that it operated to the diiadvantege of the country, by preventing aliens from settling among us. lie, however, felt no apprehensions of any want of population in this country; he there fore mold not feel the force of that argument, particularly when the increase sun desired was to be obtained only from admitting all the rogues and vagabonds of the Coistiosent.—(A feirgh.)—The Noble Lords opposite übjected to the time of passing this Bill. it was somewhat utifortunaie that these Noble Lords could never find tiny time proper fur pasetng it ; they had been as hostile to the measure on every former occasion, Me at the present. lie returned the Noble Lords Isis st grateful acknowledgments fur the compli ments they had, by implication, paid to the I rte peace ; but lie should desire to know whets this light broke iii on them, fur, if his memory were not very bad. he had not long since the misfortune of differing with them iu opinion, upon the security of that peace ; but even the hopes he had ewer. bitted of its permanence, did not seem to justify the total neglect of every measure of precaution. He alluded to the proposition *litchi lied been mule to the British Goveroment, fur assassinating the late ruler of France. 0.1 this, he said, a lore: laser was sent, and Ilse IlbtAßbiti was immediately driven from the cou n try; but how much better was such a mode of proceedirg, thou iI intdligence led been dispatched, that iu the course of live or six terms the man should be sent out of the cotton,. ? Upon these grounds ho could fed nil braltallail iu calling on their Lordships to support the measure. The 'Marquis of LA NiDOWN contended, that the existence of such a power must of necessity lead to the abuse of it. lie observed, that the expe diency which was alleged to reitiler this measure necessary, did not depend uputs any secure or general poinciples, but seamed to have reference solely to the characters of a few individuals who could not be supposed capable of effecting the safety of this country. 'The Noble Earl opposite had cited a passage from Magna Cla.rta, wherein adieu ntercluints were declared admissible to the country, nisi publics pruhibiti. tie had hoped the Noble Lord could hose added Sir Etlwaid Coke's interpretation of this passage. where it is stated by that great low authuiiiy, that the public pro hibition eututiosied there meant one by the so lemn act of the Legi-lature. Its all CAWS of difficulty, it was desirable to refer to the Acts of the best times of the coustituti ~,, . cal al though in former times this country was nu less I exposed thou at present, such a poster was never required as was nut, imposed upon the Ministers. Was it ever thought necessary to have recourse to such a policy, even when the safety of this country was threatened by all the ntschinatiuus of the Je suits, or when the whole fabric of society was endau gered by the society of Anabaptists existing in Gel massy. bitt hoeing their cuunrrtions in this country ? yet then no person came down to Parliament, and said, the existence of suds societies required the enactment of such a measure us was slow offered. Next came the danger arising nom the adliereiits of the battled Stuarts ; and yet then nu security was thought of, beyond what was to be obtained by the ordinary laws of the country. Oil a former eveuing, Isis Noble Friend (Lord Holland) alluded to the high estimation enjoyed by the Republic of Holland, principally Irons the refuge it affaided to all fortiguers, and had recited the opibion of Sir William Temple respecting the treatment ex- I there by refugees ( France iii the time of Henry IV. It could not be supposed that this great Statesman, Sir Wilhans Temple, with his English predilectimis, could have felt any particular affection for Ilullaird, or fur the enemies of I lenry IV. Ills opitsion was influenced solely by ilia remarks upon the happy affects pro duced to the Republic by the safe as ) lush it offered to all foreigners in distress. The Noble Lords op posite had urged that this power was necessary fur inailitaining the foreign relations of this comity ; but it should nut be forgotten that in all past times foreigners had been admitted from every part of the world, aid yet the peace mid good understauding of the country with other Powers were sieves eoditokered. This country had once enjoyed the proud distioc- Itiou of beiiig the only sisvluais fur persons fleeing from persecution. The United States of America now enjoyed that distinction; and much as he ad mired and esteemed the United State,. and confi dent as he felt that their prosperity was essential fur maintaining that of threat ( llear)— he should, however, envy them the enjoyment of this proud distinction, mid the inotsupoly of the ad- ' vantages to be deduced hum it. %Visit respect to the clause intended to be proposed by the Noble Load, if it were to operate ism-pm:lively, he did nut believe lie should make any opposition to it,' but he never could consent to deprive sissy nob vidual of the property he had consigned ou the faith of a solemn act of the Legislature. The Earl of HARROWSY, iu support of the Bill, recapitulated the arguments that hail been 11h - rad y urged to favour of it. The Bill, he considei.d, WAS calculated to secure the tranquillity of thus country, by excluding suspected foreigners from seekiiig a►t a►ylum its countries immediately iu the viciiiity of Great Britain, where tl.ey might exercise their ta trut► iu disturbing the 'Alice and tranquillity of this criusitry. The House then divided, when there appeared— Tor the House pine iuto Committee 34 Ageism( it Majority The !louse then rewired itbell ;Lau Cuwalittee upon the 8011. Lutsl Siouorru then proposed his clause for pre veutint aliens from availing theetelvis of the Act: passed for regulating the Sank of Scotland, and which naturalised foreigners iu Scotland by nivking a deposit of money iu the hands of the Governors of the Bank of Scotland. lord LAIUDERDALV begged to hear this Act alluded to, read by the dolt at their Lordship,' table. Lord Mst.vitt.s stated, that be knew such an Act was now eiirolled iii the Record Office of Edin burgh, but could not then produce it. Lord LAUDERDALE said, the Howie knit, no. thing further of this Act, but by its preamble, which was the only part of the Act of which the House could be cognisant. Earl Gant said, it would be too much to permit this Act,. by one •weeping clause, to repeal ill the privileges which alien• lord acquired by all prece dent Statutes for centuries past. In reply to a question from Loril LAUDERDALE, whether the Noble Lord (Melville), who, lie un derstood, was the O,vernor of the Bonk of Scotland, stood there to give information to their Lordships as Governor of the Scottish Bank, or :is a Peer of Parliament ? Lord NiEl.Vll.l.lt replied, that he offered the in. formation alluded to as a Pert. of Parliament, although lie ought lie conaitlerell at t party to the interesh of the Bank of Scotland, Crum hit be in g a Governor of the Irntok. Lnr.l Ilort.asin reprobated the ilicoosistettcy of the Noble Lord, so acting els au informer on this occasion, lu the obvious prejudice of those whose iisterests, both as a Peer of Parliament awl Go vernor of the Bank of Scotland, lie was inure parti entail). called upon to .alvocate end protect. But he had iiiifortutiately been bewildered between the vioiety of duties lie had to peat to his country, and those lie must effi,sially fulfil towards his col leagues in office. Hence lie was discovered actually *acting in the capac.ty of the jauntier to his col le goes, as to the propriety of mitering the old established custom mid statute law of Scuilaiiil, inertly to give a more general effect to the Act now before the Cusuguittee. The Earl of Li•eepoot. stated his extreme sur prise at finding any objection to a clause which only provided that aliens should not obtain naturaliza tion, without applying for such a boon to Put hi.a uleaut, by availing themselves of 8 device which lie knew certviii aliens had had recourse to, relotke to the mode of naturalization, by purchasing shares an the Bank of Scotism'. These objections inure 1 1/11 ticularly lost their force, because it was not intend ed to give to the clause a retrospective effect, except fur a very few days indeed, computed with the term prescribed by former similar Acts. Kul Glue - was the more surprised at the ob jection of the Noble Eail to admit aliens to all the privileged of British subjects, uptin constita tiotial grounds, when the !louse must recollect that there had been two statutes passed for grant ing aliens the privileges of naturalization withito the last century—first to sailors serving two years iti the British navy; and secondly, to foreign settlers residing seven years in our American The Noble Earl had stated that a device had 'Well resorted to in purchasing these sitars in the Scotch Bank, but no proofs hail been exhibited to the House of such an artifice having been resorted t&. A +strong objection to the Bill was to be found iii its retro epective character, by which persons who had em barked in speculations as to Batik shares, or even by purchases of lands, during the period hetweeii the passing of the Act and the period to which it retrospectively referred, were rendered incapable of possessing such Owes, lands, or estates, mid the property rendered halite to confiscation.—( Ileor.) —The clause was then read, and sgreed to. Lord LAUDERDALE proposed as un amendment, that the operation of the Bill 'lipoid be limited to our year, which was negatived without a division. Lord CAENARVON proposed an amendment, ex cepting from the operations of this Act, such alien persons as had been domiciliatril here before the late war, or resident and doiniciliatrd here daring five years isrevious to the passing of this Act.—Thus anseinlment was also negatived. The LORD CHANCELLOR then moved * clause for rentlernig to the pew/linens of this Act sod) aliens as bad purchased shares in the Bank of Scotland since the '2Bth of April. 1818. This clause lie con►idered the parties alluded to entitled to in coinnion justice. The '2Bth day of April bring that day uu which notice had been given in Parlia ment of the intention of the Administration to intro duce the present Bill, thus affecting their deniiatiou. After a few words front Lord Realesdale, Lord Lauderdale, Lord Melville, arid Lord Itosslyit The Marquis of LANIDOWN ved as an emend. ment, that the words " 2811. of April" be omitted, mid the worsts " from and after the passing of the Bill" be substituted. Their Lordships then proceeded to a disjoint.). al►e►► there appealed for the amendment of the No ble Marquis— _ _ Aye. Nuts Majority spinet the Amendment.. 20 The clause of the Lurd Chancellor was then car ried. On our re-admission, we found Lord GAGE mov ing a clause, enacting that a mouth's notice should be givesi to every alien, in order to afford ass oppor tunity for inquiring into Isis character, before he was sent out of the country—and also providing that the alien should be sent to such port as he lnm. self pleased to aaa i t sate—and, if a ship were not in readiness to proceed to such port, that lie should remain in custody until a vessel was provided. Ou this clause. the Committee divided— GM.. nil 44 owtouteasts 4S Majority &pima Lb. Clamor tt On reading the title of the Bill— The Earl of LAUDERDALE opposed it, as not being► of a sufficiently comprehensive nature—and, after a few üb,ervations from Lord SIDIIOUTH. Lord HOLLAND. and the Earl of LIVERPOOL. a verbal alteration. moved by Lord Stossowni, was agreed to. The Earl of I..suDERDALL hoped the Bill would be printed. Viscount SIDNOUTH mid. that. when the House had resumed. he would give notice. that ceilings standing orders of the House be suapeuded to• morrow, iu order that the Report might be received N \ • ' -3,41 V • NJA 4 4 . 05 ‘. •X. •on that day, and the Bill read the third time. ILs Lordship afterwards gave notice accordingly. LordLotttrio expressed himself strongly against this proceeding, winch was must unconsti tutional. In the course of * few hours, the Noble Lords opposite would. by this 'course r establish a measure, which evidently interfered with the private property of individuals. The Earl of Livripoor. denied that the Bill in terfered with the property of airy person. With re spect to ' the stispeuding of the standing orders, their Lordships must be aware that that was riot a circurostince of rare occurrence. Whets Noble Lords inveighed against the haste of tins proceed ing, They 'should reeolleet that the measure had been adtually retarded in order to accommodate sortie of them. The Marquis of Latisbown said. that no case ever occurred in which it was more necessary to ad here to the standing orders, than the present. The Earl of Laticscroit.tt strenuously argued, that this Rill evidently interfered with the funded property of indivi dusii—sisd, in such a case, their stardust orders, which were intended to further the ends of substantial justice, sired not to be dispensed with. By this precipitancy the people of Scotland would he prevented Gum tasting, by petition, their sentiments wills respect to this Rill. Viscount SIDNOUTII couceiceil, that as every part or the Bill had been fully discussed by deer Lurdstripa, sir recto sity existed fur (nether delay The Earl of Ruultxtt experased himself hostile to tbe suspension of the standing orders. The Nliorpos of lArsolowie 'looked, whether any &when tie accoutit squalid of ilw her of foreigners who had purchased stock in the Ihiiik of scotiand? Viscount MEr.vit.l.6 said, lie was perfectly aware that foreigners had purchases' stuck of she description alluded to, but he bad 110 authentic &stonier*, relative to it. The Marquis of Larsnows !lien Moved, •' for as aecoupt of all stock purchase] by foreigners, in the Bank of Scot laud, since the 211th. of April After a few words from Viscount Met.vo..t.c, the motion was agreed to. Viscount Strmotrot's notice for die consideration or the propriety of surpembug the standing orders lu-istOirow, was nut withdrawn. EDUCATION OF THE POOR BILL The Earl of Rossi:lir cube, and staled• that lie felt it to he his duty to propose, that the Report of this Bill be farther considered, iu order to imbmit certain Altera! ~,, s, which, he conceived, were necessary to the just operation of the sues sure. The Report was accordingly reconsidered—and the Noble Earl proposed his soneoduteuts—whieh, with souse modifica tions, wer e acres a to. The toms 01.4Ni:tuna said. in his opinion the Rill was very b improved slice it had come fs um the C although souse persons, without duly considering the bob ject, spite:and to think otherwise. Ni. Peer, he wow particularly au iinhvidual situated as lie was, had a lieu* mote what passed elsewhere, especially as it was is, difficult to come at a collect account of prorerilmes welt of doors. omethiu,7, lead, however, occurred on this subjetl, it. another place, nu which I.e wished to say a few violas. Ile could but separate from their lairsibliips, that nicht, without ob- Iseeing, that, having cisiosislered all that was done with re spect to this Rill, his eundwct had out liven treated, us far as lie could judge, from what he had rend, with that justice slid in ups let!, which it deseiced.—; Mar, hear, hear.) — Ile was in the judgment of ilnoe who hail kiln. is Min bung, and who could decide 0111 the Huth of this obseavatitm,— /fear, Atar.)—The attack, however, to which be alluded, should nut operate WI him to diminish the rts;v•ct, civility, and attention lie had always sliewn 11.•To4tr of liament, to every Gentleman, and especially to the Geutk men of lii, own professium—lllear,hear.) The Ketant was ordertd ill be receives'ln-morrow. Mr. G. V. Edwardes presented the 15th Report of the Corronissiouers fur the Calvjouiau Canal.—Laid tau the Adjuuraeil at ONE o'Clorx. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, Jules 1. The House was summoned to attend in the House of lambs, to bear the Royal Aaarnt given by Commission to &treat public Bills —,-tor Osiris see Me Lords' h'sporri The Report of the Cueunsisai tttt era of Raukrupta Solaria II tilit W 36 brought up and agrectl to. Mr. J. SMITH brought in the Bill fur amending the Bank rupt Laws, whirl, wits rerd a first time, auil ordered to be read a second time to- row, after some caplauatory re mark. front thr lion. hirratbrr. The Lords' Report uu the Puor's Laws was ordered to he printed. The Howse went into a Committee upon the *object of the Irish Fisheries, and leave was given to Mr. Puri In bring iu a Bill, pursuant to the Residutunis therein adopted. Mr. PIIKL then Iwinicht in the Bill, which was read a first and second time, and in dried to be committed to-morrow. alr. CALCRiVT brought up the Rep o rt of the Cuuiniittec upon the S4ll Duties, which was ordered to b• printed. Mr. P►►'s. brought in • Bin to amend the inactive of the Court of Chancery in Ireland.—Read a first, sod urdet ed to be read a second time to nun row. _ _ _ Mr. Peel- also mewed for au account of the Imports and Exports of Irelao 1, for the last year, concluding the sth of January, 1818, which was agreed to. Mr. Alderman WOOD pm:ruled the Petition and remit 'trance of the Inlishiptiiis of ‘Yestutinster, praying fur uni versal fiefdom by the institution of annual Pai 'Moulds and general laid on the table, null ordered to be printed on the motion of the worthy Alibi man. lie also presented the Report of the Committee appointed to empire into the dale of !Visite Cross-street Pn►un, and the City Prison. He observed that the Committee having visited the Poisons iu question, had !Mimi that mossy im provements and alterations were nece►sary ; the Report, however, was not so complete as could have been vislird, but be hoped the labours of this C time would be revived as soon as possible in the nest Session of Parliament —I he Repoli was den ordered to be printed. \ —• The Stetaxen baying concurreil t.;th the lien. Menthe'', as to the formal mode of pricteding i • such carts— Lord LAIR:ELLE! took that opport mitt y 41( avaa. log his intention to support the Bill as at ialt!st...l formed, expressly oti the ground to which the Hon. Member had stated Isis objeetiou. The pro visions of the Bill objected to, obviously tended t. protect the articles of superior niaaufactute, amid to such protection they were very properly cut:tied. Mr. Fouuts should regret as touch as :Loy that a necessity for a distinction prejudicial to tive description of manufacturers should exist ; hot certainly behoved the supporters of the exciosi it protection to one branch of the trade, most t•11/11- factorily to make out a case in favour of the pre tension's of the manufacturers of wrought steel. Lord LAscELLES and Mr. WHARTON yxplaineii. The Bill was then read the third time. Mr. WHARTON theu moved a verbal amendment. which, after some discussion, was withdrawn. Upon another amendment of the Hon. Mtitiber. for leaving out the words describing the aitic44 manufactured nut of cast steel, as of inferitir quality." the Gallery was cleared for a divisiot.. On our re-admission, we understood that no vision had taken place, and that the ameudineht had been lost without a division. The Bill then passed. SLAVE TRADE. Lord CASTLEREAGH. presented to the Home 'lye Treaty concluded between his Britannic Majesty and the King of the Netherlands, with a slew to render more efltctual the stipulations made with other countries fur abulishinf the Slave Trade.— Although the terms of thislreaty would be foutid to be some.% hat wore accurate and strictly circum scribed than those of the Treaties concluded with Spain and Portugal, yet he had every reason to believe the House could not perceive any dispo sition on the part of his Majesty's Goveretnent to contract or narrow the beneficial opeiatiun of the sti pulations already entered into upon thissohject. H e was happy to say, the King of the Netherland, had hereby aelttiowledged, in the ftllest manner, the systein of a reciprocal right of search, to effect the objects of th-..! Treaty. It had been considered unnecessary to insert in this Treaty the European seas, as no slave vessels of course could be expect ed to he found its these seas. Vessels in the Medi terranean seas had been exempted from right of search, for obvious reasons, as the system of slavery WAS UllfUrtUll:ltCly too well known in various coot,- tries Oil it. :limes. A misapprehension had gout abroad, that no reciprocity in the right of search could be established between two States, having as inalitorte force employed in the search. The übjt-t:tion had been obviated by only authoris ing twelve cystitis of the navy of either country to si arch the vessels of either of the contracting par ties ; and it would accordingly be 'whin d to tacit of the Cloveriiiiieots contracting, what puiticolor vessels were appointed upon dos service. Toe Noble Lord concluded with congratulating the llouse upon the accession of so cousiderab'e a Power as that of the Netherlands in the great ob ject of the abolition of this most disgraceful trdefii. Mr. WM. SMITH felt happy at hurtling that t. c King of the Netherlauds had mirrored to the bene volent pirject of this country mid her allies , toe/ hoped cue long the limitation with respect to pie. vileged slavery on the coasts of the Mediterratieau would be rendered utuircessary.—The Tuesty was then ordered to lie on the table and be priiited. CASE OF DON DIEGO DE CORIEIJA. Lott AJOBPETri ',vegetated the l'etstion of Doll t D he ie i g to o u d , e o t. i '. u u t r i s the uS Ring of Spain to hi+ d •nu- Mutts had felt it necessary to fly front Spain, owing to Isis popular principles during the l•reeediog heti )))) , and tale refuge in the fortress of 6.braltiir. together with sotue other Spanish Gentlemen, four in number, who hail espoused 'dollar politics. On his art ival there, in consequence via notification from the Consul of this comm.) at Cadiz, to the then Governor of Gibraltar. they were seized aid dr;i vered up to the Spanish Authorities. But upon the affair being known in Efiglinal, oral Pitultatutot inteting so easily in 1814, as November, n motion relative to their case was made in the House for the production of the letter of Lord Bathurst, alai other papers relative thereto. Ailininistraiiimi ad mitted it was their determination to demand this gentleman, amongst others, at the hands of the Spanish Covenantor. and it war then admitted dna the conduct of our Consul and Governor had been unauthorised. The Petitioner having since breu affected with ill health, and wishing to go abroad. Ile had applied fur a passport to his own Ambassador. preparatory to making au application to any other quarter, of a similar nature. To the request for a passport, the Spanish Charge d'Affairi re fused Isis claim or right, as a Spanish subject. to demand a passport, having forfeited his right a s e Spanish subject, by plocing himself under the pride' tion of the British Government. Ile mai, now insist unpleasantly circumstanced, and kegs, although in ill health, in this country, against hi. inclination and interest, and at a considerable and iiicouvessient expense. The Petition concluded with praying relief generally. Lard CASTLEREAGH apprehended the prayer of 51. 1)e Cosrija, implying pecuniary relief, eat, such that it could nut be granted without the inter position or the Crown, a i d saw I.ollong in this case which b !multi entitle the Petitioner to an extetniens of the beiteliceisce of either the House or the Crown. xty_ tom Ile was arrested on being found to have esi t d the garrison of Gibealtar iu a disguised name. Ile was there taken, and ut last, though an error of the lisitidt COMlllandant, surrendered up to the Spa nish Authorities., who claimed linn. M. de Coreiji, em the application of the British Government. is .s again replaced within our protection, sod at lss owls desire permitted to collie to England, at the same time reccusiug the necessary expenses he was liable to be put to, owing to his original detention by a British officer. Ili* expeuses to Eni,land were paid; but lie was distinctly apprised that be was taut to CEpret soy further assistance of this kiwi. All, therefore, that be could fairly want was gives, to him, alai though he (Lind C.) had no wish +o hurt the feelings of any individual, yet he must be permitted to say, that the conduct of NI. de Cuteijo previous to his arrest, gave IMO uo 11411141 for the friendly laces of skis country. 01 that, hustever. he would say nothing, but would confine himself to the nuirle fact, tLat the Gusartiu.ent had eff.e.. CUTLERY BILL On the motion fur the third reading of the Cut lery Bill, Mr. %WHARTON rose, and lamented that these were exceptioiss in the Bill, with respect to one branch or department of the cutlery trade, which necessarily effected in the most injurious way the interests of a great part of the manufacturers a articles of cutlery. It was necessary fur the Illowe to know there were two descriptions of steel from which articles of cutlery were manufactured. The one description produced from truss, wrought by extreme labour into a solidity and consistency ca pable of sustaining any polish—the other, pro duced by fusion only, and possessing neatly the same properties. Upon the latter, the manufac turer was not entitled to affix that mask or stamp which by law entitled it to certain advantages, in the same incliner as the hall mark upon plate. The articles therefore manufactured with nearly equal labour, out of the latter description of steel. were thus deprived of the protection given to the former, the effect of winch prefeieuce could not fail to be materially felt by the maim facturers of cast steel. It was wills a view to equal lise both branches of the manufacture, as far us re spected that species of protection to *lnch lie, for vise, considered they were both equally entitled. that he had oddrewsed the House in this late stage of the Hill. Ile Ives aware he could not propose ally alteration in the Bill stow, and should reserve his amendments until the Bill had beets read the third time.