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...nceivt(l there was no ground svlhitcvet ior guitz Mtn n eftlnillitter• Mr. 11. SUMMER it would be most un jtvmt to the wool-growers if the 'object were not examined. In the Committee of 1816, to which the Noble Lord alluded, the proceedings were hur• bed forward in the most summary in:rimer. A number of individuals had cumnplaiimed to him, that, in consequence of the suinatary manner m which the business was conducted, they hail not had an opportuaity of expressing their sentiments. Ile slid not believe that the statement of time Noble I.ord was correct, when lie said, that, in proportion 11'4 ore spa mil wool was encouraged, another must lie depreciated. 'r.ere were two descriptions of laud applicable to the growth of different kinds o r wool--.nod, i n consequence of the alteration of the times, considerable quantities of each species of laud would be thrown out of coltiyattoo, and ‘iould, of course, be employed in pasture. He could tint conceive that ally mi.chief could ensue from the publication of a Report on a subject nearly connected with the agricultural and MIMI. factoring interests. Ile should therefore vote for time Committee, though hr would not pledge him self to agree in any plan that might be founded on their lalwors. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said, it was evident the object of the Honourable Gentleman was, to ad mit the exportation of a parricidar sort of wool. If it were allowed, there would be such a fluctu ation in price us must materially atter, the manufac turers. It appeared to lion, that if the inquiry were agreed to, it would check the importation of wool hum abroad. This would narrow the amount of mattufactuies—a circumstance which he con entered exttertirly dangerous at this Sir J. CatAHall said, the tole.• of wool had con sidersbly increased Wave this time last year. No new Petitions (tad been presented. Instead of har ing the table covered with them, only one had been broirgh: up. Udder these circumstances, would they throw the inaitufacturing districts into con tusion and slur ni, by entering on such an inquiry ? II Gentlemen looked to the end of the American oar, they would Lind that the present prices of wool were five, six, or seven times as great as they then weir. He could out consent that a system which had existed for near two hundred years, and which lid been an advitotagrous to our usanufac tures, :Look' be disturbed—and he hoped the Hon-e wont,' pause before they took the first step for that purpose. Mr. F. LEWIS said, the fact stated by the No. ble Lord, that, two years ago, t Committee was appointed to inquire, who did not inquire, was :done soiNctrut, other remost existed, to in duce the House to apt ta C • ltee on the first favouruble opportunity. Last Sesaion the tabl- au, crowded with Petitions, but the frieitils of the grow..l* .ad abstained from bringing the business forward, on account of the state of the country, winch IlidhCtti thew to forbear from introducing such topics to the attention of the Legislature. '(slit %e trio-will had passed away—and it Cotthl not hr dehied that the present was a good tone to in vestigate the questiosi. Ile trusted the House wooed ant dispose of the ;notion 411 grounds so wh o lly i,stifficient to , liaise advanced by its oppo nents. 11 was said, that the price of wool had risen very considerably. But the question was, not *bat tar l aic,- of wool might have basso ten or twenty year* w 4 ,)—but What it was proper for the Legisla ture to do, with respect to a pritiviple of policy ap plied to wool, and to wool only. The policy, with respect to merchants getier.il, was, to suffer them to export as much as possible. The Legis- Idiom permitted the exportation of corn, the first necessary of life—dud yet, notwithstatitling this, they prohibited the exportatiou of wool, at all time', and under all circumstances. This was a principle au which the sale of no other production was regu lated. The grower was to sell his coluitiodoy to no other persons but the manufacturers. lit retort', the grower was obliged to ',mellow the cloth of the manufacturer, whole the latter had an opportunity, it lie pleased, to buy Ins wool elsewhere. %Vas it tar fur one class to have all the advantage, and another all the disadvantage!? The manufacturers neae boom' to 'hew the ati.olitte ilecessity of con t.nuing this system. Now, if the Hume granted I:ie motion for a Committee, lie would sheer that tie grounds on which this policy was founded. in Wtio, were utterly futile nod untenable. The idea t. ,-, that foreigners could not make good cloth without English wool. It was rim this alone that Vie policy was founded. But the manufacturers had a right to point out some true and reasonable ground in support of their case. It was well-known that the woollen trade was comparatively better before exportation of wool was prohibited, than it war at present. In his opinion, it would be bene ticial to the country to allow the exportation of this article, trout winch such u revenue might be raised as would enable 11inisters to commute the Leather Tex. The flott%e then divided— Fur the Motion Re Agaiusi it es Majority 3 PRINCE REGENT'S MESSAGE. Immediately after our re-entering the gallery, which was a work of very treat difficulty, in conse quence. or the crowd whom curiosity hurl a ssembled, Alr. IV ILBSRFORCE row, and, a* we lerstoott, inquired of the Noble Lord opposite (Castlereagh) whether he iLietirled to proceed immediately to more for a C.unniittee on the Prince Regent's Message; so, ill that ea.r, he (11r. Wilberforce) would postpone a notice of his, which stood for the presto, evening. Lord CASTLEREAGH Said, it wea his intention to propose that the Older of the Day for going into I Coutinittee no the Nlessage should be real, with a tie* to the rte.tiameatelit of ii.—(Shnuis pt . Ili ir frorri ell rides V the Muse, which coati- Need for several struarli.) nit. Order of the Day was then read. Lead CASTLIRI , ALM moved—" That the Coos- In'ttre be postponed till to-morrow." Mr. BROUGHAM 1.:1141, when be took the liberty, "" 'he preceding *veiling, to lew tateder.ite, and, lie thought, cullstitu tloinirspresssitinr, to the AlldresS to the Throne, ;he Lbw' ration was Met, lii thlrerestt parte of that itot*.y *de__ .1 li le _by. I,ee, , :es opposite—sod by his Dom fiends below km, to whobc authority he .was more disposed to bow—with a declaration, that it was contrary to precedent. His Ho n . F r i en d s agreed with him. its principle, and were anxioes to place, on the face of the Address, • stateineut of the necessity of economy, in any grant that might be nestle. They said, however, they could not adopt it, merely because it wait calamity to the received practice in such Cases. The precedent usually billowed in Addresses to the Throne, ill 'ower to Royal Messages,. was cited against his pro position--aad he was told, that his Amendment could not he agreed to, in consequence of the prin. I (aide that had been long adopted. But what was the conduct of the Noble Lord ? Ile now came I ' down to the Howse, mud deviated from all precedent. —The Noble Lord moved, that int order should be postponed, for taking into consideration, on the day on which the House had directed it should be taken into consideration, • Message from the Throne, an Amendment to which Nlessiii,e pro- .1 posed yesterday by him, was negatived, merely be cause such a proceeding was utiuthal.—(Near, hear.)—The reason why those forms were necessary wa-, because they were founded on a dile respect to I the Throne—because they origniated in that re- I spectfitl attention which was owing to every thing ! that proceeded from that quarter, whether hi the i ' shape of is Speech or of a Message. And sni t ch wigs sacrificed in debate. coil in consideration, I for the propose of coinciding in this principle, and *hewing decorous 'mention to common. cancels of this nature. This was evident—for they were often called on promptly to deliver their rya. i Mon, where delicate and critical matters would, under other circumstance*, have called for deliberate se- rious investigation. They acted, on those occasion., thus promptly, lyecause the bustaess came recom- • mended to the manner to which he had alluded. The plain English of the present proceediog too ()brio'', to allow it to remain secret for one se cowl to any person who wished to discover it. A Noble Lord, a Member of another House,. met ; standing at the head of his Majesty's a private room—iii a manner contrary to the spirit ! of the British Constitution—in a way which was j against all practice, but which no man, eveu if die practice esisted, could defend on that ground— thought fit to meet a select body of the Members of this House—(Hear.)--Fie understood the party consisted, in general, of most respectable country gentlemen—of gentlemen, whose liberality of conduct, and whose general tendency of princi. plc, to support Government, where they could at all support it, were perfectly well known to the Noble Lord. One or two of those gentlemen, lie hail been informed. were not of the description he had stated. Au Hon. Member of die learned pro. fessiou to which he was attached, was, he under stood, included in this selection. (The Learned Gentleman alluded, we believe, to Sir S. This looked as if the Noble Lord felt a doubt upon I the aubject—this appeared as if Ministers wished to feel their way before they came to a decision.— (Hear, hear.)—Muay Gentlemen were excluded from that favoured body—but why that principle of exclusion was adopted, after the principle of selection had been acted en so widely as he had stated, he was at a loss to conceive. There war a full atteudasice of the country gentlemen, who were much respected, and wlio were to be feared by the Minister on account of their weight. To theta a disclosure of a most delicate stature was made—a disclosure which was refused to that House. wheel lint that House asked it.—(Hear, hear.)-11 . suds .aretitigs as this were to be allowed—if Parliament were to he *deist when they heard of ouch as oemblies—it was • mockery to proceed to a debate in the House of Commons.—( Heor.)— The debate might go on—the result of the diviaiou might be declared by the Speaker from the Clear— but, in point of fact, the matter was previously settled elsewhere.—/Near.)—How settled ? By private means—by practicing . on Members of that House in withal* ways—(Hear)—which lie had, constitutionally speaking, a right. to suspect Go. 'eminent of a wish so to do, when they proceeded in such a course.—(Hear.)—The preliwivary de bate was carried on in silence—and in silence and darkness the feelings of particular individuals was ascertained. If Ministers found that the majority was so commanding that they were sure of carrying their measure, the House would hear nothing more of the transaction. unless by some unaccountable mistake, like that which fortunately occurred yes terday, the busisidss came to be initiced.--; It was it mockery to talk of legislation. tf such pri rate debates were permitted. Not having an op. portunity before of fully speaking on this subject, he now rose to enter his protest against such an unconstitutional practice. He could not let it 'sacs, with a proper regard to the discharge of his parliamentary duty. But it seemed Lord Liver pool had mistaken the sense of this secret inert. ing. The astonishineut and silence of the pow ties assembled at it, had. somehow or other s beeu taken for assent—(Hear, hear, hear/ —bay no sooner had those Gentlemen come to the public and known House of Commons, than they opened their months, and, one alter another, they all declared (what tended to the no small confusion of Mittioteni)—that it war a propoaitiou so extrava gant. that they could not possibly concur in it.— (Hear, hear.)—One miter another they made this declaration—and, although his I,earned Friend below him—(Mr. M. A. Tay lor)—detied any one of them to state that he was an except . to this rule— not one of them rose in his piece and amid, " I agreed in the proposition made at the Earl of Liverpool's-4 dissented from the independent Gentlemen who met there." But, he understood other meetings had taken place there—and that there had been more feeling of pulses—(heer, hem.)—He had • right to believe, as no auspicious result attended the first tri...eting, that others would be sought. And now another delay was required, not that more pulses should lie felt—but that arts might be used, and unconstitutional practicer resorted to, in order to get over those Gentlemen, whose honesty stood recorded by their conduct lust night.—(Hear.)— If the House passed over this proceeding of Mini sters, they would tacitly agree in the practices of the Noble Lord. He had called on the House to sanction, indirectly, what he knew he could not directly propose.—(llear.)—He should, therefore. take the liberty of moving, if the motion of the Noble Lord were disposed of by 31 negative, which he could trot help believing the House would have the virtue, firmness. and consistrocy, to give, he would, in that event, wove a Resolution, so con stitutional in its nature, and, at the same tiir.c, in language so respectful m►d temperate towards the parties out of door., whose interests it was meant to touch, at Would, he doubted not,, meet the general concurrence of Holton relate Meambers--(ticar.) Lord CASTERREAMI did Not /!Pan to trouble the Howse with many observations en this ocesikion. The Learned Gentleman got up for the purpose nf priite.tilig monist a practice—which lie loudly in veighed utmost —as if the right of any tiumbir of Members, to ilehlienite out of that [Douse, was a practice tow for the first time known. not the Learned Member was for ever in the habit of throw hog out ideas of this kind, which differed entirely from long-established enstom. He (Lord Castle- reagh) apprehended, that if Members were pre vented from meeting out of the Hoose—if they were debarred born fleeting Minietere, for the purpose of preserving the purity of the House of Common,— his Majesty's Government would find themselves very little in n eituation to propose measures either wise in themselves or likely to meet with the con currence of Parliament. —(Hear, hear.)—He there fore entered a couuter-protest against this new con stitutional doctrine—this new constitutional light— which had broken in on the mind of the Learned Cetitlemais -for, not to allow such meeting would be unreasonable and unwise. With respect to the ground csii which the House last eight negatived the Learned Gentlemen's proposition, lie never under otond that it was because his Amemidmemit was a-ou tfit), to parliamentary practice. It was on this distinct ground, Mist the sentiment coutained in the proposition was of a nature which the House was riot called on to entertain. %Vile was the sen timent That the House would consider every measure. in the nature of a grant, with a view to the burdens which now pressed on the people. It wus a bad compliment to the Throne to give such a it was whiilly unnecessary.—( Hear, hear.)—The Learned Gentleman appeared to in sionate, that the ',resent postponement was moved, fur the purpose of etiatlilisig Ministers to practise on Member. of that I louse. —(Heat. hear, heir. J He seemed to think that it was lii the power of his Majesty's Ministers to carry on practices —to exert influence—to have recourse to arts--.-160 as to win over those, who, by their latignagr, and by their votes, on the preceding evening, had expressed their general sentiments. lie thoti4lit the Learned Gentleman might have had is fetlieg, both towards the House mid the Goveriiineut, that would have led him to put it more true amid a more liberal interpretation on their ((Polito. —I Hear, hear.) — But it was perfectly in unison with a conduct lie had so often before pursued, of throwing out any thing which might calumniate or vilify the Admi nistration of the country, which happily' had so long enjoyed the confidence of the House of Composts. —( !fear, hear.)—But it was Dilly one of those in stances of assumption which had so repeatedly cha racterised the argumentative veracity of that Learn ed Gentleman in that House. He should, without further wasting the time of the House, in replying to these unfounded assumption., content himself with moving, that time cousiderution of the Message be postommed Until ti-morrow, when he should have the honour to submit to the Nouse the grounds upon which his Majesty's Minister. toad proceeded in their advice to his Royal Highness, in a rummer which lie hoped would he satisfactory to the House and the country, and shew that his Majesty's Mi nister* had discharged their duty both to the Crown and the public.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. TIERNEY—If the object of his lion. and Learned Friend's speech had been, as it had been said, merely to vilify his Majesty's Government, he must confess lie bad taken very unnecessary paiiia, as there never yet had existed a ministry whit h had taken such pains to vilify and degrade itself iii the eyes of the Parliament amid time country as the pre aro Administration—(Loud cheering and laugh , ter )--nor ever. in his tecollectiou, had there been so much time taken up with more success to exhibit Ministersin a degraded and contemptible situation. ---(lieur.)—This he spoke advisedly, us lie had decided in his own mind that no other words in the English lauguage could serve the purpose of coo veyitig what he, amid every other Man of sound judgment its time liouse, thought their conduct siterited.—( Hear, hear.)—lt had been said by the Noble Lord that the practice pursued on n late occasion was by no wrens unconstitutional. Ti tie it was that meetings of Menilsers of Perliament were sometimes cotivetied with respect to Bills affect ing any particular trade, or professional or mer cantile interest ; but then they were always se lected for the purpose of advising what mem sures should he adopted, and were the persons best skilled in the trade or profession to be affect ed. In this ...Ina there was a wide difference, be cause the MC:ISUre was of a general nature, and therefore ouglit not to have been submitted to any select body of the douse, before it had been sub mitted to the House itself. But here the Minis ters appear to have advised his Royal Highness, and settled in their minds what was to be tne na ture of the proposition about to he laid before the House. But previous to the meeting at Lord Li verpool's, some rumour, it appears, had reach ed the ears of those wise !Ministers, who began to suspect that the. proposition would not be agreeable even to the faithful few which were about to be collected at the !Minister's house. The purpose, therefore, of this !Weeding was, to re-consider the proposition. As there were but few Members in that lesser (louse of Common', it would only have been fair that there had been fitted up a gallery for the Mot of the Members to see at least what was going Loud laughing.) —.But that, to be sure, was not very metered, as there was no debate, it turned out to be a Quaker's Meeting.—( Hear, and langhter.)—lt was true, they said, that Lord Liverpool did snake a speech, and rather a long one, but Ito approbation folloeril it ; and etlopting the ordinary rule, that ' , deuce gives coasted, he supposed they would give their assent to the proposition iu the House. The inn. ment, however, these selected Gentlemen found themselves in the air of this Howie, which, to be sure, was a very different atmosphere from that of Fife House, they, one after the other, avowed their dissent. Now there certainly was no titan more disposed to give those Gentlemen credit for manly principles, supported in a manly manner, than he was. He therefore would give teem their mend of applause, whether Whig* or Tories, fur manitemin; what in their conscience timey felt themselves called upon to avow. The result of all this wir , , th',.t tile Nobl e L or d fi rs t called on the House to wait for twenty-four hours, and now he i found toie . zeiteary to tuake it forty-eight. But what resents had been given for this delay None at all. He had merely said, Wait till to-morrow and I will tell your why you should postpone 10 - 11 1oft0w- I 's-(Laughirig.)—The real truth was, that be hod to go mid seek advice amongst the rest of Ilia colleagues ; and such a situation as his between his colleagues awl the House was one truly to hr.. eotnmiserateti. In that steeling (for it h.id all come out since) it htd been proposed that the Duke of Clarence should receive an additional income, rendering his total income equal t o 40,0001. with an outfit 410,0001. The Duke of Kent was to receive 12,000/. so as to make his total income 30,0001, per annum, with 12,000/. as an outfit ; the Duke of Counlierland—(Reiterated shouts of hear, hear, hear)—to receive an additional 1=2,000/. per pontoon, croaking his income 30,0001. with au outfit of 12,000/.; and the Doke of Caniltridge'a In come to he augmented to 30,000/. a year by so addi tional vote of 12,000/. a year, soul 12,000/. at au out fit, making a total of 116.000/. to be granted during the first year, at a time when the country is so ill able to make good its present tares. He could not help believing that his Royal I-Ugliness the Prince Regent thought the advice given him was perfectly right, and such as should be acted upon--that the Ministers imagined tut'. that these illustrious per sons could nut maintain state and dignity in the situations to winch they were or might be placed, here or in foreign couutries,'on a more economical scale. But after admitting all this, did it not clear ly appear that the Noble Lord had thus incautious ly advised has Royal Master, and NS soon as he had found the proposition initial:veldt, then had de serted him ?—(Hear.)—txrept they now abandon ed the soma proposed, what was the object of their putting off the discussion ? They flattered them selves they might now, after proposing a greater, propose a lest sum—and yet such Men could talk the last evening of his Hon. Friend's motion destroying the system of administration. Could they be even accused of haying any sy•tem ? Only (•aitl lie) look at the Bench and set if tiny thing like system can proceed from such a strange, hely rogeneoue, and discordant body as that Belie!) pre. rents.—( Hear, hear, and continued laughter.l— only system was this—try one thing. and if that won't du try another. He twist say be felt for the situation of the Noble Lord ; he had much commiseration for one who, in the ryes of Foreign Nlsuisters, had assutued is character of importance and resputitobility, resembling that of a Sovereign rather than a Mmi•ter—when he found that Noble individual at a loss in the House to know what he could or might tin, with reference to the wishes of others not in that House, he anticipated some ad vantages from the delay, snd hoped the longer such delay the more the Noble Lord would moderate his proposition. So far was even well. He should wait pant-oily till to-morrow. But of one thing he was convinced, that nothing would satisfy any honest man no or omit of that House, or quiet the minds of the people of this country, except a total abandon ment of the proposition altogether.—( Loud cheer lag.) Lord FOLKSTON e was snrinised to have heard so much last night of the necessity respecting the forms of proceeding in that House, and this night witnessing nothing but attempts at violating all order and precedent, by the very parties so tuition, to preserve It last night. He could not sufficiently reprob or the proposition fur deferring the discus snot to another evening. The question WEIS then put, and carried without division. The Gaol Chaplains Bill was read a second time, and, MI the motion of Lord FOLKSTONE, ordered to be printed, mid committed on Friday next, after u few words from General THORNTON* TIIE PRIVATELY STEALING IN DWELLING HOUSES ACT. The A WORM EY•GEN ERA I. moved, as an amend. meat, that the words " Notwithstanding the ex treme severity of penal laws it had not tended to the prevention of crime, hut, on the contrary, ren dered conviction often mere difficult," be left out, and the following substituted—sr the said exist. ii Acts had out proved effectual in repressing criine." Sir SAMVUL Homit.t.st could not ! agree in the suggestion of his Hot,. Friend, as the object of the words objected to was to state the pr !iple of the Bill, and the grounds on which it had been pa►sed, as had hero usual in former cases. It was therefore necessary to state as a piiiiciple, that the severity of punishments had not decreased the num ber of crimes c•otnmitted, by rendering punishments uncertain, and calling upon the humane feelings of the Jury or the Judge, to interfere and mitigate the sentence. or defeat the law altogether. Au ex traordinary instance of this kind hail occurred ut the last Assizes of Southampton, at which a servant, who had robbed his master, notwithstanding the utmost intercession made in his favour to the Sew h ry of State, owing to his )001 amid former good chalacter, was condemned to death and hanged, notwithstanding these applications, because it had, as was then said, been determilied by the Judge•, to proceed to a rigorous executiou of the law in all cases of servants robbing their twisters. Now, here there had heretofore existed a doubt, which it would have been for the interest of society should have been settled long shire ; and set notwithstanding this determination of the iiriociple, in the Sessions iu the Old Bailey, ten days alter, a servant man, named Milwood, who hail robbed his master to the amount of 000/. and pirtigici one article alone for 51., w a found guilty by the Jury of straliiiz to the amount of 39-. only, and time the t si,.etple attempt ed to be established by the Judges on the for -r ewe war defeated completely by the humanity of the Jury. He certiiiiil) felt Parliament was called on to set the prniciiile at rest, mid in doing so, by this Act, it would not he pleilgiug itself to an iiiterfeience iu cases which might be considered utialogous. 51r. ‘VILBEItFolICI: was lumpy the lion. font Learaird Gentleman had devoted so much of his valuable time and ;turf:non to resider the !wool low 1e.... Moody. lie hoped the pr.'srot Rill a 0%11,i drt•trut the dating gambliog 5 oil of ottencleis, as to tow fir they might, atter commilling rtly on tie Judge, the Jury, ov the Prosecutor, lur eXtAcittate; thew licto the excrts:ve st:V .ily 01 t'm law. He filiould, therefore, Rapport the niii ir its •riginal shape. The amendment having heel' trithdrewn, the Bit! was read the third lime. and palmed. MOCK AUCTIONS. Mr. Aldernimi;kiatsaPostponed 16.411%064in for moving for a Select Conitnittte nis Murk Auction, until Thursday next. • The Committee on the Spanish Slave Trade Bill was postponed by Mr. BROGOEN until Tuesday next. Mr. BUTTERVOLTH presented • Petition from the labouring Cotton Spinners at Preston, i•t favour of the Cotton Spinners Bill now iwurling. • Mr. W. Ssturn slefeladt-41 the character of thosn with whom this Bill had originated, as well as the Petitioners in its favour, us equally well-wean. jug, and disposed to favour the general iiiterests or manufa~ turves , throughout the country, as those who had meted out repro:l.:hes tigaint,t thou, while supporting Oita present system. The Petition was then read and laid cn the table. Returns of the number of Pardons under iht Great Seal, during the last five 3 , ..tr5, were ordered to be laid before the House. The House then adjourned. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. PARIS. APRIL 10. The King will go to St. Cloud a b out the middle of Jane, and pa►s six weeks there, .the period lit , . et-sorry for milking the repairs reqUired by the bad state of the roof of the Thuilleries. ..... Baron Nfounter, President of the Mixed Com. mihsion for liquidating the foreign claims, had is conference fot , terdaly with Lord Wellington. It i 4 said that a great commercial house at Havre has failed for several millions. It was said that the duel between Prince exalt°. risky and General Paz had beets arranged ; it alp. pears, however. to have taken place. The Prince was slightly wounded, and the Emperor Alexander honoured him with a Visit. The merchants of Lyon% appear disposed to take an active part in the new luau to he negociated by the. French Government. Venter(lss• Lord Wellington hunte.l in Company with the Princes, in the neighhourhood of NI end.n. His Lordship this snoriting had a 0..4 from the Spanish Ainb.osador, Count Fernati-Nunes. ALRI, APRIL 3. CASE CW 1711 ALDIS. [This ease has for some day* occupied the Court. The following p ismage in the Sitting of the 33 of April ►elates to Madame Manson, and appear* *iif ficently interesting to be communicated to our readers !--1 Jeun Franees Blanc was examined. • The Attorney-General—" Do you know Madame Menem ? have you had occasion to speak with her on the assassination of Fualdes ?" The Witness—" Yes, Sir; I have conversed se. vent' times with Madame Manion during the As•izi•s of Rodez. She protested to me at first, that she had not been in Bancul's house; she then asked me if I had heard whether any of the familt• of was compromised ne this affair? I ans•.ered, that every one thought so. She then said, 114 ill not he • witness; I am a very important witties*, but my deposition would kill them." The President to 'Madame Manson—.' Is what this witness hits stated correct, MadJine?" Madame Manson—" I remember having convers ed with M. Blanc, about the assassination of Fualdes ; but I never said that my depo,ition aouhl kill the prisoners. I said nothing about killing." M. Blanc You did, Madame; Sou spoke too of the scaffold." Madame Nlanson-- ,, No, Sir, I said either of killing or of the seaffold." M. Blanc—" This is not the first time that Ma dame MaMOP has denied her own words. I ye, bist in my deposition. I must also add, that Madame Manson at the same time said to me, thdt Madeline Pens counted very much on her." Madame Mamon—" That is true." The President then addressed to ALidame Man. sett new and lively instances that bile ►hould ut length rxplsin herself. Madame Bancal—s , Madame, speak the troll." Madam Manson eaq on thia % , Jlll4ll *I look 101 l of disdain and contempt, and remained silent. Bastide (with confidence)—" Speak, Madame." Madam Alatwon—" Wretch !" _ - - Bastide—" You are not desired to speak by monosyllables." Madame Manson (with a solemn and itnp..etwive tone)—" fitutide, look at me. Do you knew me ?" Bastide (colt11))—" No, I do not knew you." Madame Manson, looking at litn , tnie uitb the most %mica intitgnation—" Wretch ! )011 to not know filP s and yet you wanted to Intatirr And she fainted. .... . _ Mende ►aid not a word. The audience mar. inured—some applause' were heard. The Pret.i. dent called the spectators to order, and the guards were doubled. Madame Manson declaring she could no longer support the sitting, it iriu adjourned. MADRID. MARCH 26. It is rumoured here that the Callon Ostrilazz has been arrested at Carthagetia by order of the King, and that seals have been put on his paper 4, Ile will he conveyed to Battuccas, where he will lie placed under the particular surveillance of the superior of the Convent. Isle has been allowed six stale a day (20d.) fur his rapport. o.tobizza known by his violent speeches in the extraordimary Curia of Cadiz, where lie sat constantly on the righ► ride; by his political sermons, Isis revelations, his visions at Valeneay, where lie was some nine trill, the King, and by a furious, zeal whir!) cause him to be removed foam Court. Notoitlistaiirthig all the exaggerated spread by the disaffected, wall-itibirined mistire mi that there are very' ley/ DOW confined la thr 1111,0 its of the juynisiliou. and that ti ! t• part ill them air for ii•e crime of rreeinamary. Intl natty that llt embarkation of the expeditou, ' it, Saadi Am..lion is near. The troops eiiitimea ur the provine;s of Andotwilit and Eitres invilura have Made 1111 movement. Only ime wiim whip of the hue am! out: fripte have been found NN int Ili• ire p 10 oll• Ott tire 'Alt. *lie r, too Itipoi HV p