The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1820-07-26 00:00:00

thielly relied nn for hi+ rase were these: "Siedl a women, as notoriously devoted to Ilscchits as le surh a WOITI*II, as, of found on our pavement, would be committed to Bridearll and whipped—shall *nth an one 'be brill eft av an exe ample of suffrriug innocence ?" The C%rrk having read these hoes— Mr. Wtrrlltttlst.t, said, that he wished the whole lihel to be entered as resit ; becairae, though he had *Orefield the wont passage.. the context would he necessary to connect the libel with the queen, and the inquiry Sotto her condect then penitiiig in Parliament. The riper was then reset iron[ the beginning of the article containing the libel. When the Lie& had read IA far 4.1 the passage first w onted Mr. TIERNEy stipimarti the[ rs ~,,, 1 :11 had /seen read to connect the article with the Queen and the proceedings of Parliament. Mr. WETHERELL then moved— That as there was an ingniry 'then penalise on•the combed of the Clarets in Parliament, tinder all the 'siren-installers of the else, the Paper just now read was • gross breach at the rif that /loose. Sir M. Cttett.slPLßY felt that there was a nee's- I.:1 , for active interference with respect to the sub -2..ct i n question. The licentiousness of the press bad become so terrible, that, if not checked, they lynold scarcely hr able to go home to their families ;re neace. Their wives and daughters had no other means of makiug themselves acquaiii.ed with the proceeding* than through the newspapers ; he hoped, therrrore, that the Attorney Geneml would hr instructed to pelt a mark on aft those who shreds' continue to offend against decency and morals this kind. Hr cordially seconded the motio... Lord CasTLERE•ott entirely concurred with :he llon. Member who seconded the !Immo, 1111 l {nog could be snore painful to hononrable mind, those who were solicitous for politic morale and the seeurity of our instieutions, than to withess the izeievons excesses of the press, employed, as it was r II y , in exciting the vilest, tlw basest, and the 'oust angry passions of the multitude. There could rot exist two opinions on the publication which had been just read, sod whatever observations he 'night afterwards feel himself called on to make, ..o one could feel more strongly th an hi m t h e w i n . :ence and abominable wickedness of the libel. '.'here could be no difference of opinion tee ; it was a ,u3ll flagrant libel. The o n ly qoestion, however, immediately tit for Or consi deration of the House, was as to the propriety cf dealtug with it according to the mode proposed. First of all, he dill not admit the necessity of Pasha ro'oit feeling any earnestness about the publication, • pointisig it out for the consideration of the A ttor •,-y-Getorral. it did not follow, that, her-nose it wma mint already under prosecution, that his Right Il .81. Friend hail not yet noticed it. It had. smoked, attracted the attention of the Attorney-Generul ; 17ot it could not be brought before the Courts until the close of the long vacation ; at present it was a 'remit case, and really in the conflict of libels at. fresent raging, it was impossible for his Right f lull. Friend to check them all. If. however, Ilia Right lion. Frit surf hail been unmindful of his duty, that -"sold he no reason why the offence should go v, , thout punishment. There were other means tor •rlirliing it, which the Queen enjoyed in a stiflivient r.-gree, at least for her own p ro t e ctio n ; s h e h m l his (Avers whose 'bower was quite sufficient in such ...s e g. Bat the lion. Mover must allow !sum to sass , that if Parliament were to he called upon to take the subject up as a breach of privilege, Mere must be a much more extensive and equal admi. c'stratiou of jitatice and punishment than that which were comprised in the motion. He did not it'ititc the lion. Member could *hew that the !louse as in any respell with the proceedings. against t%e (,Laren, as to make it necessary to viti.licate it'-m.elvrs against encroachment such as that com e lamed of. Undoubtedly it was not lit to be e•assed over in silence. But the Hot,. sod Learned Member lied lout the House in a painful situation ; t :cause the effect of the motion would be, if nut cafti , .l. to convey all intimation out of doors that rt , tre will a disposition in the House, on every oc (Noun.. to refuse what was asked on behalf of the Queen. Besides. the Hon. Member should have further, and he would have found labels equally atrocious on the other side; he would have found the public authorities, to whose care the proceedings against the Queen were intrusted, i.srmeced and traduced, and their witnesses scan- l'aliced, and even threatened with assassination.— A more dangerous moral could not be propos g•tett . than this, which made the characters at.ei even the lives of witnesses insecure—which had eouelly inflamed mobs in the country against them. He solemnly protested against this select sod partial mode of upholding the privileges of the /lons'', End administering the justice of the laws. 13e wished that the whole management of this ques tion had been left to the Attorney-General and the BQ.ieen's law officers. But if Partininent must take up. if there were no other remedy for that odious disgusting spectacle of vice and licentiousurss which the public press of the present day per e•-riled, and which cool.' not be tolerated in ally co so!ized country, it would be necessary, at least, to deal out retribution impartially. It was 'lnvincible for any one to read the productions of that press, MA overlook its shockiug excesses. He would Hot s...y . .that. on some days at least, if the Hnu. Mover e.ailis the habit of reading the papers, he must have I with instances of them; he would rather say was impossible fur him to point out any dsy in which hr had not read them. Tne Hon. Member aketild have proceeded Mare diligently and equitably, than to hive directed the attention of Parliament to one side of the question without 'laming the other. lie might have found libels even snore atrocious swainst.the privileges of Parliament than that which be referred to the House. He would not say. 11141 iii- lino. Member was wrong in the chain of legal a;gurnent, and the application of precedents whirl, lie had gone through. He (Lord Castlereagh) iseirnowledgeti for his own part that he dill not feel rslacii influenced by that chain of reasoning; there needed nut much diligence to detect much worse than the one quoted. Since the argument been so called for, lie war obliged reluctantly to " into a comparison of cases, to thew how deep and .;-adly was the disease which rankled it, that hoe, ...A degenerate press, which ought to be a source of 1.---1111 and usefulness to the pountry. la the last twn.ber of [he tramiler (the lion. Member 1k would e how recent was this publics nea) were longed more to himself. Ail had ever cnnoillered these word-- that any attempts to restrain the activity of the The voice or the British sate's, if pomerly echoed he piddie 'ewe, were objeetinneble. and delcislaseil to Perham/est, would bus al store oilltel°v't 0 1' Pull Cootie- peed uce in fi mischief . Notwithstanding the "A i ' 'hat if Royal ma st " . I ' d d '"" ^ " e """ i g' " lessis ' ca!nulaints and outcry which were generally male plan. ..f, the prover Courts were an open to him as to allty of_ his subjects, lint that the great business of the node* email mennet its anuses and licentiousness, which its • great measure he did ant deny. he 'consider.. sot be sisslivnited matter. of sorb a caters. The t• what • trite Contusion* Hustle nonl.l have Susie ; hot whew red tbat the greatest blessing which could House fur the main part is composed of wean' Weal • befoug to any country was so unshackled lapse; sa e lp f ers, grasping placelltroi greedy olveltovever • with aN its excesses, the like.- rlies of the country aspiring lute-hooters, or the represeetaiives of sues Colitil never Ise sere without it. Saying Ibis, be LK " l '' in °h. "' e " ntaisi " a far ir " 1 " Pr"P"r- did mewish tu interfere for the preservation of the emit piehlic criminals than public guardians—what coo be expected from it bat —jest what we have seen it as t delimpient wheat offences bed brought the llnras ' I readily perform f" into this dircuasion. He wished that die Law 061 But it the Houle sought to apply a remedy, it cur . of the Crown would do their (testy, and not ought not to be applied merely to off:owes spina I leave it be done by indirittuds who had no suck that House. The Lords were as fur an eseential messes for accomplishing it in their power. It had 'tart of themselves. Now let the Ilium listen to a horn said that the Quern might go into the Courts passage or two out of The Itepublican, of the else of Law if she felt herself aggrieved. But 'level Mosta, a very recent publication also:— I with bit COOCUrrellett, if his opinion weir to have W e h av e very little hopes that the Divorce Bill will he any weight, should the Queru ..r England go rejected iu. such a Parliament as the present, Intense or I into the Courts of Law to seek that protection konw and kayo area that they are soflictentty profligate ant which it art wastille fu ll y dd thei ll inor o.r power yetomeot,o afford to g ive . servile to set against the clearest testimony of eritleitee an.l ✓ight. Still thus will matter nothing-4W King sod Portia- lir' anent muss nape off the di which has an kmg bane lit her, and which yet they thoeight proper to re sist's! themselves lwfure they can therms, the (kneel' in the fume He expressed his strung reprehension of imltlic mind. The mo r e she"ffer,„ t h e mere o h. wilt be any attempts which had been or might be made I endeared to .the "li"n• There 614"*" la F' "l s" • to prejudice t h e characters of witnesses before %march more suspected and despised, nor • Parliament trial, or that was likely to have the effect of en move notermowly profligate than at present. Was it not /hat they hoist purse.strines of the ma fi osi, they ditligerlole their lives, or subjectingthem to suy v,..nid he kicked on of an power in a few heart, andfairly sort of inconvenience.* As to publicat ions like those *view oust of the country. At percent their doom* Is sealed, which the Nuhle Lard bed read to the House, be and the bershl approaching with it. The Queen might contlensited them as strenuously as any one; but rasher rejoice than repent at the separation from a faulty 110 else .s t neta was not to blame, her Majesty had o d i ous so the country; it is the only enure prospect of end one her . t ats i n peace k opp a Ncoo. Wh a t ever b o om ers of unthasig to do with them ; she had, indeed, re.. ihr prrweut family, the sufferings trf the Quietus will ever solved to read no publications of that dam enlist.. her to the protection and support of the Beghsh while proceedings were impending against here people." —This was au attack which, iii the opinion of the ( lime Noble Lord reed other extracts, and. whole c ountr y, was lib e ll ous a n d disreeeful. The st "'" 1 : the re" nee which 4" scurrilously 1 "" 1 " .. " Huss. and Learned Gentleman then expatiated on the relit:ion mid «Institut I form of t h e Govern- the inconveniencies resulting from proceedieg by meet of the country, that we must of nee-sa lty information against publicatious on trivial or doubt muit it.)—The Hon. and Learned Member should fast grounds, and those against the Morning Owe. • certainly not have noticed this subject with such a nick, and acme other papers, some veers ago, as conlisied view of it as he seemed, perhaps from doubtful that the Juries gave ac q uittals . There' the habits of its active professional life, to have fore he thought it most desirable that the law taken. If the Hon. and Leorsied Member felt it accessary to shelter the Queen from the prejudice, officers should undertake prosecutions in those coots only, munifestly and without any divots abuse, and insult of libellers, it was no lees so to calling for them shield the witnesses—if the Queen and witnesses ! which would remove all dui&were merited.— (Meer, hear.) . they were to he preserved from such injuries, undoulit- cubing, and easily secure cousin:bone w here telly so should she Judges of the tribunals before , wh the case would be tried. He would not Arroatire-GetreaAL said, that the moth's of hie Hon. and Learned Friend implied some noise • *impose the prosecution of the libel ; but if that cond ehould be recommended by the House, he should of tint ivel it his duty to follow op the example by Crown; but lie thought it a little extract delivering the papers which he had joist read, and .litsrry that his Hon. and Learned Friend should li heave selected this case iii particular from among remise% a sweeping instruction to be given to the the many and gross libels which had appeared its Attprney-General to prosecute all offences of such a nature, by whatever writers they should be corn- the public papers for the last three weeks. and. • thought it proper to engage the attention of the twitted. Yet he denied the inference that the case would not have been noticed by the Guvernment House before officers for iustit nun a prosecution elydrd by declaring that if punish before any opportunpy had been 'diorite& except for the interferesn - e of the House. He cou- Ism tne egaisist its publisher. if he (Mr. IVetherell) *jested, justice regnired that it weperpelietod; thought this of so base and flagrant • character, he was surprised that he should have overlooked the whole sphere and compass of the offences, and mist to any particular degrees thereof. the multitude of others which had appeared within the last three or four weeks, mid which not Dr. LeststeoToe in expressing his dissent from only reflected on the proceeding"' peodin; iu the the necessity of calling for prosecution or punishing other House of Parliament. but moan grossly • what might be considered a breach of privilege, litielled this. It belonged to the Moose to de.. wished to state the reasons which weighed on his termitic whether they should dirittlhe law officers mind, why it had not been f e lt i n cumbent by him of the Crown to prosecute the. proprietor er the or the. Queen's law officers to come before the paper in question; but he entreated the House to House with any complaint a g a i n st th e offence in consider iu what situation he himself stood. Ills question. The paper b e d been branded to him Hon. and Learned Friend must have been aware some days si:ice. He had consulted her Majesty's that no Information could be commenced, mid no officers upon, and flinch indignation was excited by trial had before the following Term in November. its flagitious contents, Th e y r e fl ec ted, however, Therefore he thought that though sin legal step that it was the productionof • vile, obscure, unprin- had yet been taken in these cases. he might have cipled country jouroalist, whose work, most likely, given him (the Attorney-General) credit fur in had little circulation, end that it would be &tug tending that they should slot escape without notice very little indeed to-fall upon such • being, except or with impunity ; for. undoubtedly, his attention they corld first of all check th e more ponderous had been seriously directed to these librls which mischief of the libellers in the London press. New had itsusittsted the press since the outset of the pro when he had witnessed the t rea t men t which the ceedisigs against her Majesty. Justice would, lie complaint made by the Noble Representative for f ea r e d, c ome too tardily, necurding to the reeuler Aylesbury agamist The Morning Post, for one of course. but, at the same time, that was no reason the most malignant and venomous libel* agaiteit why it should not eventually fall on the guilty— the Queen (a librl in which it had be e n declared for undoubtedly he felt it his duty to institute pro iseceorety to sacrifice her, and whether " ass martyr secutiona against some of the publications which or a criminal" the u nprincipled wr it er professed not had fuel his eye. With respect to the reuse, ks of to care)—when he h a d w it nesse d th e treatment the Hun. and Learned Gentleman who had spoken which that complaint had receivedos well es another last, be perfectly agreed with him, that it was against The Courier for a libel not less fl-pgitious— wrong to an Attorney-General to undertake a pro em! when he remarked, moreover, the utter neglect secutiois in any case where he had not a persuasion with which those scandalous outrages had been in his own breast that a conviction would follow ; eased over, violent and atrocious as they were, and and for the sincerity of this opinion, and the strict. calculated to Whiffle the minds' of the public evils with which it hid beet' acted on by himself, lie against her Mujesiy—proceeding, too, from a print could spike'sl to his own conduct since he had been immediately ler the eye of Government, known appointed to the (Ace which he had the honour to to be in a cosisidetable d egree un d er th e influence hold, for, from r refence to it, it would he seen of Governmeot, mid supposed t o b e n u tt er the that every information which he had exhibited hail affecti )))) of Government—when he saw these hinds, been attended with a conviction—; Hear, hear)-- so full of the trust foul and venettious caluntilYs and he believed, in his conscience, such was the passed over without any attrition from the Cavern- state of the press, that had he instituted more, there went, he thought it of little consequence what such *mild have hren more convictions. That was the an obscure and wretched c reature as the writer or rule by which lie had been guided, end by which lie the Western Luminary published, whose works. should he guided as lung as lie continued in office. 111 " t Pr"hvhiY. Perished in the same ignominious The lion. Ned Leaner(' emetletuast (Dr. Lushing °tummy which surrounded their birth.—( Ig o .) limit 0 1 00.1 1 1 4 to confilie himself to the question The offence had IMen slated to be a brea c h of pri- licit:pre the I louse, did what be find dace before, Ogee, because it a ff ected an inquiry prattling in that an d ecc us ed his Majesty's Ministers of prejodging House.. Had he felt it to be so, end had the offence the Quern's case, bud. treatitig . her ass guilty &- beets confined to the papers which he hail mewl )))) rtl, graded weave,, lie deprecated swell a bee of cosi notwithstandieg his reluctance to interfere with the duct, calculates! es it was to excite a prejudice rah press in any degree (the reasons for which rebid- th e country , bud in trut h to petjud,...e the e „, .ace he would by and by stale), be should have aga i nst those who l ie d b een f o rced t o O le ver y pa i n . felt it to be his duty to hare interfered and prose- fill course at length adopted in reference to her cute the offenders, B u t l e; , w s t oo d the case ? Mojesly. As to the question of the Li!itrgy, he Were thole the only parties whirr had injured the w a s unwillin g to revive the discussiou nil it ; but • Queen by prejudging her cause. and a:l66pm- he must say, that he hod never clitertained any ing her &vermeils' ? Mudd siie go to lona with I doubt o n it. He was perfectly satisfied that the uo ether su•picions unjustly pl ace d epos' her 1111 l ission of the Queen's name was in point of law than those which suds agents were able to im- i justified—(.• Beer, hear riven: Lord Castlereagh) poor ? No ; she had been first of all prejudiced —and what situation would his Majesty's Moiste' iu her case by Government—Ministers had already i have been i„ h a d they inserted it ? Now, a most treated her Majesty as a condemned and not as all serious charge had been preferred against that illus secured person. Her mime h a d b een l e f t o u t ref trines personage. Would it, lie asked, have been the Liturgy, and every thing hail beets done which f right in these individuals, when believing those could degrade her, and • take away from her the j chergea, which it must be supposed they did, to in c.infidence of general opinion. Whsle these injuries pert the Quart's name in the Common Prayer ? were con/inure it would be, indeed, little worth while Th e pl a in inference from it would he, that they slid for hrr legal advisers to stoop to the consideration or i !sot believe die charges, and that its taking such a the dirty and mean offences of The Post, he step they pronotaliced her !Majesty's acquittal.— Caririgi, and the Western Luraiserry. Such were I (Hear, hear.)—After it, could they with any con sume T the reason. which had infloraced Isis 034- sistency have *dewed a prosecution, or come clown iiiiku s land which he had carefully su bmitted to the with the Message which they had brought from th e gime, ' when he took her Majesty's pleasure upon I Crown? It would at once be resorted on them— the subject. There were other reasons which be- " You cauuot institute any pruceediug on Clot aerie,. which had been tarnished yon at the time you inserted her Majeeteo name in the Liturgy." As ulte adencate of her Majesiy, it was right of the M a . ansi Leonia-el tleilllrionri so make the best of her can.; lint tot to Nlember of Parliament he cotild not approve of observations tooth as br 114 d heard from him. lir thought that while the inveatiga ens ',endow, the less list was said by any Nlentlarr of the loci of Miitioterr, or the i - (voice or guilt of the Queen, the better, because ouch nbatinence would hest contribute to keep their mind. open for the comoderation of the great qllts 11011. whirls they should he required, as probably they would, los pay' a token') in . Sweeping cult • al of this deocriptino might most cautiously to he guarded t, inst. Attempts, lie ollowed, had been mode to pr, judge the case against the Queen, but in point both of number sod industry', they bore no comparraon to those which load been made on thr other side—to noose which, under the mask, the hypocritical mask of minims-nog her Majesty's case, in reality were intended fur what their authors had been long desirous of, to effect ',revolution. He hid no heattation in culling this a most disgraceful libel ; but as lie had seen examples of every thing which could operate in the strongest manner by way of intiiniolation—(Near/ —agniust those who were to sit in judginelot on the case, or to give testimony sol ois t h e r Majesty, he was surprised that they should have escaped the attention of Isis Ho,. and Learned Friend—that he hail not eerit, day after day, and hour after, hour, efforts made by the writs to prejudge the ease, not as against her Majesty, but as against those who had instituted the proceed ings against her, who were to decide WI the case, or to appear as witnesses. Their was nothing which could occupy the attention of a person stand nog in his situation more than the stook of the press. lie was sorry to say that at the present moment the arm of the law, mooch as it had been strengthened, 11'.15 not powerful enough to repress its licesittoustiesa it exceeded, he belityrd, that of any other period in history. It was matter of regret that he should be the Individual on whom had fallen the duty to endeavour to restrain it. blot lie honed it would not be supposed that because ate Attorney-General had not progrcuted a paper which had published an obnoxious article only the week before last, that therefore it was intended never to be done. If every paragraph of the kind were to be pro. secured, lie believed in his conscience that the whole tirue of the Attorney-General would be occupied therewith. But it was not to be imagin ed, that because these offences were numerous, on prosecution, therefore, awaited them.—(Near, /rear.)—Looking over these papers, many of which lie had not seen before entering the house, he should only put in his claim fora candid coostroic lion of his conduct ; and that it would not be in ferred that, because The Ifepuldican, or The /remi tter, or Mr. Flindall had not yet been prosecuted, the Attorney General was in consequence remiss in the discharge of his duty. After s further ob. bervatimos the lion. and Learned Gentleman . COD.. eluded by upologisiug for the lunette had occupied. ( Cheer s.) M. THIRNEY said, lie should confine himself strictly to the question before the house. The first ground laid by the hon. and Learned Geo flea'su to induce the House to adopt the motion was, that the poblicetion complained of was a breach of the privileges of that House; but the •rgualent by which that proposition had been endeavoured to be established was too nice and relined to justify the adoption of any proceed toga on the deduction from it. It all rested on this, that the house knew the Lords had coin meeced proceedings monist the Queen, by means of a Report on the table from the other louse— that therefore the proceednig was a parlianientery one—and that consequently tnepublizetion tending to prejudice the case ail her Majesty pending the Investigation, was a common breach of privilege. Thu reasoiring, howeser, toss too subtle to bring coliviction to Hear, hear.)—Thry had riot hero mask acquainted with the pro crediugs its the other lionise in that solemn man ner which would justife theta in considering them a, common to both (louses. The Lords had chosen to suffer a Bill of Pains and Penalties to be brought into their hoopoe; but it might never come here, fur they might reject it; Lid it was au error of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to suppose that it must be brought before this house. If he urn: speaking as a Peer lie should approve of the mutton, but as a Member inf.the house of Commons he could not. %Vitt' respect to the other view taken of the question by the host. and Learned Gentleman, and the course which lie recommended Ilicretipini, a &recto'', by the house to the Attor ney-General to prosecute the printer of the paper_ it was a course against which objections existed us all coots. It engaged the house of Commons in a moist invidious and notion* office. and sent the accused to trial with all the weight of prejudice derived horn their opinion operating against him. lint if it was right to be done by either House in tow present instance, it vms to the Lords it pretrly belonged. The Lords bad riot thought proper, and rightly, to communicate the origteattoo of the Bill of Penis and Penalties, they deferred that till it should papa, if ever, into a law ; that then, while the Lords let:noised pae l ive, the House of Com mon, should be called oil to take Holier of the libel. was a very strange propo-trios,. The Right Hun. Gentleman then (we moderstood) suggested the propriety of withdrawing the motion. Loup A. HAMILTON said, that what lie princi pally tope fur was to COOtt'lld that whatever Itiotise If or lila friends had witil against his Majesty's Mi nisters MI noeir treatment id the Qoeen, had not been said, los was iindouatrd by the honour able mid Leas tied Gentleman (the Alturstey-(:e -octal), with a slew to inflame the tnitids of people in or out of doors. All that they had done was to recapitulate the particulars of their conduct towards her Majesty, and 11 . the conse quence of that was to inflame Ilse public mind, so much the worse fur them ( \holsters). He bad un &wood the Ilon. awl Learned Gentleman to say, dud it hi, Majesty's Molokai haul advised the con tinuance of her Majesty's uustte in the Liturgy, they could nut with any consistency hate attempted iifirreuirds to give effect to the charges against her. Now lie (Lord A. Hamilton) said. that was an er roneous tuference, and the position false, that per sons could not consistently bring a charge alpinist Minas wisoin they hail first treated as innocent. But, lie 'NI:A, was nut the eller of 50,001)1. to her Majesty In rental's nn the Continent its inconsistent with the belief of lorr crintntaltty . as any insertion of her name ito the Liturgy But he must take the Inborn to say. that the lion. moil boomed Gristle. matt (the An y-Generool) had not been accurate in Ins statements nu tins howl, for low II ght it also i.eared from the papers load before the (louse, that the omission of her mane had not taken place its consequence of any pioreedittga originated imam her. But If tory hod t►eated lire Majesty ratio ill. d ign ity, airy could not but expect that some of the lowest and most mongoloid or the psi " would take their example. With regasol t . s the libel he thought if our. of those whirla were sn grilse to their torture, a. to be by no Inesll. calculrtrd is injure her Mojesty, but to be detrimental to the author Mr. MAIM/LEL reprobated the libels which had been brought under the notice of the float; and hoped they would be subjected to the soimadver. Non of the lows. Mr. ‘VETIIIERELL rose to reply. Ile had felt very great satisfaction in beariog from the Noble. Lord and the Attorney-Getters) that the libel was one winch called for the attention of the Governs meta. That bring the case, he considered that his object had been attained. The Noble Lord had commented on his conduct, tint, he thought, with Ins usual ui baldly. Ile had said that he had not proceeded diligently and equitably, in not mincing previous lilwla„ and then read a list of others frotu the liepubfican and krantiner ; but the Attorney- General stood up a few tes after, and confessed that Ise had not known of the existence of these libels till he heard them read by the Noble Lipid. 11. could nut agree with the logic of the Noble Lord. that It Member was partial for bringing under the cognizance of the /louse Otte must gross libel which had come to his knowledge, because there w en others published, alien the Attorney-General admitted that he had tint read the latter. The Noble Lord wished to impose op office on hint from which lie should recoil. flaring received the unanimous declaration of all who had spokeu ott the motion, that the subject deserved consideration and inquiry, with the is 00000 nation of the Noble Lord stud the Attorney-General that it should be prow rtted, he will perfectly rosy, and the House miglit distiose of the motion as they thought proper. The SPBAKER was about to put the question, but the motion was afterwards withdrawn. ADJOURNMENT. Lnrd CASTLEREAGH I)o44,eforit his police re. , sneuting the adjournment of the Hume till the .2lst August, till to-morrow,_ CARTS, Jae. Mr. C. CALVERT gate not;rr•, that he should move in ithe Holt Session of Parliament for the repeal of certain Act, of the blue and preceding reign, so frr as they required the owner's moat 10 be put on the outside of carts, car•. &c. COURT OF REQUESTS. The same Member, adverting to what he lust! said on a former evening, respecting the tees pay able in the Court of Herpes s in the Borough or Southwark, said, that he had since been tolerated by one of the Clerks of the Court, that the fees, in case the parties appeared, were but ss. I Id. ; but in case they did not, to 12a. 6d. BIRMINGHAM. Mr. Alderman Woo° said, that he had read the Petition which he had wished to present the ►rigl.t before. Ins language was very strung, but he did not see any thing to it to render it proper to be rejected. It was then brought up and read. It was en. titled the Complaint, Remonstrance, and Petition of the Inhabits's!, of Birmingham, Ault asseat. bled, and was signed by au individual named Ed monds on behalf of the Petitioners. It detailed at great length, and in warm language, the evils whirl., iii the view of the Petitioner•, resulted from the present constitution of the [louse of CUIIICDMIII complained of " a system of terror and outrageous persecution for the perpetuating of tyranny;" and prayed fur a radical reform of the ►epresentation of the people.—lt wee ordered to lie on the table. 51% Alderman %t r oop moved ilLit it be printed. Mr. H. SMITH oppwied the mutton. 11 the 'no tion fur riffling so much nonsense were persisted in, he should divide the llotiar.—[There were but eight or nine Members preirin.] Mr. Alderman WOOD replied that regularly all Petitions ought to be printed, anal a motion to that ttfcet was very rarely opposed. He should not with draw the motion. Mr. H. GURNEY was astonished at the reception or the Petition, but feared that the rejection of the motion might establish a precedent 'which would operate injuriously in the case of Petit►ous roue:: more sensible. Mr. K. SMITH repeated his objections. Mr. LVSIIISGTON bald it wits WO Wiwi) to es pec► that the Wipe would consent to so much non sense and virulence, and oleanders bring printed. Tht motion wtis then esegistived. SM A LI TEN EM ENTS. Mr. TENNIsox said, that his Lindlords and Tenants Bill hiving Jost ree.stived tile Royal A•- sent, lie rose in give notice, that in the etioutty; Session he should introduce a Bill for providing n less expensive remedy Tor the recovery of the rent of small tenements, not exceeding 301. or Su/. slow. The House then adjourned till to-morrow 'this day). The fallawine wag Testriviay received at : —" HovatltAs, MAY V.—Since theAste of my !DI (re. bruary I), I have to arquainl you that tune vessels, twntly *choosers, under the Vimeziitao 1148, conimaiAted by Com modore Aury, took the Non of 011104 and laid siege so the fort ; but using to a *Iron:: reinforcement meriting frost the iutrnur, he was obliged to *Lawton the place. PICTIOUS tr A Itr) . • attempt on Otisoa, he :ittark , il Troxillo, witboirt any success, but 161111 the Imir of a number of mcii." A letter f.-um Glasgow. dile,' July sav•:— " The Court suet on Thursday morning. at tell o'clock, %%ken ✓untes ifilson, hosier, Sttathaven. w as brought to the bar. 1-I.svisig Ar jetted the eve. deuce for the Crown, the Court rose briNtell tWelte and one yesterday and met again at ten. About nine o'elu•k to the evening the Jury return. ed a verdict of Guilty upon the 4th Count of the Indictment, " conspiring to levy war against the King. iu order to compel him to change his um. sures." This trial lasted twenty-stveri hoar.. The Court proceeded to Paisley this morning to Arraign some inisuctrs, and is to meet ou Mos• dry."