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~~ ~ ,~ 44. :,,t , > 4 degree . *premed in leaving out this particular Act, which disagreed essentially with the occasion which h.d rendered 'Bill (she Expiring Laws Hilt) etunise the!: would rertalltly have ,been deliberated oa, and some remedies w,•111.1 have applied. Tin., he emteeived, could now oily be done by a new Peebailment. The present system was one which had 1110 W been in force for some years, sad those unfortunate persons who had been confined fur debt had enjoyed every advantage belonging to it. It did not appear to him likely to conduce any thing towards public credit to suspend these be . :befits so suddenly ; and indeed though the pre sent state of the law was certainly defective, mid in twiny respects exceptionable, he was not sure but that the late one was much more so. The capability a-1- lowed to the creditor to continue the period of im prisonment for • debt, uo matter under what cir cumstances contracted, or front what cause arose trte inability of the creditor to pay. was • circuin titmice of itself sufficient t• make the House suspi c ous of the propriety of those laws. This had nude :t necessary in times past to release by diff-rent Aers a considerable number of debtors at one time, with out any examination of their capes, such as now took place. This had proved exceedingly inconvenient, arid hence the necessity of the new laws. To sus pend the Act. even for the few weeks during the dissolution and re-assembling of use Parliament, could only have a harsh and injurious effect, and weld by no means benefit the interests of credi tors. lle therefore opposed the motion. Sir R. Wltsou isms sorry to differ from hie No ble Friend. especially as he had been a Member of the Committee appointed to consider the lusolvent Debtors' Bill. But it certainly would be wrong :,red inconvenient to suspend that Bill so suddenly. For his own part, he bad not heard such numerous and urgent complaints made again,. the Act by the trading part of the community. The impri soned debtors ought certainly not to be placed in a worse wondstion than they would base been other vise, on account of the demise of the Crown. The I,rtnciple of the Bill had been admitted as correco; In as great a degree at least as its defects wee.: ob i ectionable. The Segmaita was about to quit the Chair, when Mr. Dcwm II *Weed to know how the provision. cf the Annual Indemnity Bill were to . he made lorod wall the parties who were entitled to claim its ►.eai.fits ? Those who were hand to undergo par txular. qualifications on or before the 11th of March last would sc.rcely be covered by the Expiring Laos Bill, which was to commence its operation to the 2411 i of March. Lord CASTLE/MACH apprehended that the Bill its progress would place *II such persons as had Leen alluded to by the Honourable and Learned Lisatlemen on a secure footing until the resembling sf the new ['Ailment, when their cases could be immediately token into consideration. ?.Jr. DENMAN thought be could convince the Noble Lord immediately. There was a ease now pending in a northern Court, wherein one of the parties concerned had omitted to qualify himself is a particular way reqnired by law. The trial would gram likely mane on in the third or fourth day er We intuit% Assizes. This person would not be covered by the Bill in progress. Lord CASTLIMEACII admitted that such ants ought to be provided fur. It would be inconvenient, ki,wever, to stop the progress of the present Dill on tort recuurit. If the Hon. and Learned Gentle man thought 6t to bring in a short Bill for the purpose, Ins Lordship thought that there could be objection to allow it to pass through all its stages 16 the same day. The House then resolved itself into the Commit tee, through which the Bill passed. The Report was brought up and read with its amendments, and ordered to be read the third time as sore as engrossed. hind A. liatitLToN brought up a Petition from the Goildri and Borough of Stirling, the Peti. twiner* riling to be allowed to elect their Borough Officers ri.orig themselves. The CisArcELLoR of the EICIISQUIMI moved the third reading of the Expiring Laws Bill, which was reed die third time, sad parsed. Lord PALMERSTON moved the third reading of tiie Mutiny Bill, which was accordingly read the third time, ■nd passed. IRISH ELECTIONS BILL. _ Sir H. Paasts.t. moved the Order of the Day for the third reading of the Irish Election Polls &H. • Lord CASTLEItEAMI understood that the Bill contsioed some very important regulations. He con ! /eased that he knee, nothing of the Bill from his observation; he could not support it from his hnooledge of its contents, as he hod not had time to eitanisise it. He understood, however, that it was a desirable point with the people of Ireland that the Bill should pass; sod, therefore, though be ovoid not give it the support of his judgment, he should not interpose to prevent it from passing. - Sir H. PARNILL thought that it was very desire. ble to pus it before the elections commenced in island. Mr. C. floicwintion eederstood from his Hon. Friend, that great point bed bees taken with the to prevent its oper.iting to the disadvantage of soy sprats of Cotes or soffrages. He knew soothing of the Bill himself. He depended, how.. eves. most confidingly. in the averment of the Km. Baronet. that every thing had been done by hint In prevent it in every case from injuring the right of voting. la its first formation. he was •were that the right of voting would have been injured and contracted. and mach mischief done to st . generally by the Bill. There was no duty more incumbent on the House Mae to prevent the elective franchise from sustaining any in. jury. eepecially on the approach of a general elec. 'ion, fie trusted entirely is his Hon. Friend's de . Imam, that no species of vote wiwild be inj @red by be Bill. And with this confidence. however kiddies he might otherwise bare Mt af say attempt te alter the laws for regulating the affairs of elec. FOREIGN lATELLIGENCL .~ . , sore end more imthosalellide ►deli, es ',tries merchant. mid ►e declare Ives wholly favourable to it. The •I,Uat, already waited on Prince aletteruien. end Ministers and great Officers of State; they shortly to be admitted to as audience of the iperor. and to express to kis Majesty the request he would be pleased. conformably to the of the Austrian merchants and menurecter declare to the Congress iu favour of • ge- system of commerce in Germany. upon which they design to present to the Congress a circum stantial memorial upon the subject. It is said these very beneficial measures appear tbitteutl.ht n very• Islet opposition, sod that NMI ttc staffs in Eng lish manulecteres 4 tut the age►t: of the German Zianurseturers Mfg taitl to be now resolved to prove to the Congress, and in the face of all the Sove reigns of the Continent, that 'commercial system can never be effectual in the whole Continent against England, es long es the German markets are open without restriction to English good.. In general this subject excites, in the highest degree, the attention of ■ll the Members of the Congress, and it c. be doubted that the results will be very advemageous to the distressed 'lasses of mane fact uras. BERLIN, FEBRUARY 5. Several changes are spoken of as likely to be made in the organisation of the government of se veral parts of the kingdom, according to which tight of the Governments will be abolished, and all the Chief Presidents are to act as such. The governments to be abolished are those of Berlin, Dantzig, Coslin, Reicheubsch, Cleves, Erfurt, mod Meestburg. The Presidents be ing men versed in business, will probably be Mem bers of the Council of State. The districts of the provincial Counsellors will be organised throughout the whole ki.igdom by the Ist of June next. The local adaiiiiibtrarioi will be confided to them, and in this manlier a beginning will be made for laying the foundation of our Constitution. If in other places they have begun the construction of the edifice with the roof, we shall begin with the foun dation. Our Constitution will certainly not be modelled as hlr..Groerres would have it, on the principles of the middle ages; nor *ill it lie imi tated from one of the seven French Constitutions, which never had any complete existence, except upon Raper; nor from that of England (which is hewn in stone) ; nor front those of the other Ger man States ; and least of all. from that of North America, but it will be • national Prussian Consti tution.—ln the mouth of January the cold has been variable here. It was the most severe on the 17th, viz. at 19k. it wss seldom less khan 12. but we had some days of thaw, and one morning the ther mometer was for a few hours 6. above freezing. It is said that it St. Petersburgh the cold was Si. and that 170 sentinels were frozen to death, or partly injured by the frost, in one night.—(Allgerneirse Zietuag, February 10.1 NURIIIIII2IO, /11111UARY 12. The distressing situation of the agriculturists deserves the attention of all reflecting persons. The public securities, funds, notes, and the like, may experience a great rise, and many indulge flattering dreams of seeing the prosperity of the State founded by tfiis circumstance. But while those papers rise, the landed property is more end more depreciated, and there is but little money to be found in the country. Every where we hear it repeated, the number of labourers and servants must be diminished, and the live stock reduced, for the low prices of corn, and the scarcity of money, make these measures absolutely necessary. But does not the evil become by this means still more desperate, and is not agriculture threatened with total ruin! And what will be the consequence if the main source of all support ■nd all gain is dried up ? Should not this lean our chief attention to agriculture, and make us endeavour speedily to find means to afford it protection, security, and new life, now in the time of its distress, arising strangely enough from a too great supply of corn ? This is indisputably one of the most difficult problems of our times, and one of which the solution is the meet orgeut.--(Nereasberg Corres pondent, February lg.) PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE. 111111•11 ELI. /111111111 Altar IS. ISM They write from Louvain, chit • most extraor dinary, a most atrocious pauteeding has filled the people of that city with indignation and dismay. Mr. Trappe,. a very respectable inhabitant of the place, has been arrested, guarded by two gens dilemma. who never suffered him out of their sight during 48 hours, and finelly sent out of the king dom of the Netherlands, accompanied by • similar escort, all without' any accusation, any form of process, any legal preteat o and at the moment he is seeking redrew for au outrageous violence cow-, witted ou his dwelling. It will be remembered, that in the mouth of September last, Mr. Trappe*, relying on the 419th article of the Loi tondeasented, which provides that the inhabitants of Belgium shall not be ob liged to receive soldiers to be quartered on them, except in extraordinary sod unforeseen cases, hod declared to the Burgomaster and the Aldermen his intention of refusing to 'alp whatever soldiers should be sent to him. Notwithetaading this, oa the 19th of September, a soldier time with a • svilte r.ft : -7774 ‘ . ''A r - • . • . , . ~ • i •• .1 . . . 1 , ,1 • .„. ' : II.• . ".A . , ... i . . .• . ".10.*:.,... . . • .. •.•••''..-• '.••i .. ic... ..• • - •.,'. - . . P - it . lie liar its Isilond, 6 would give the Bill Ortise oft *Appears doubt defective, cud it WM ?emir •lyso in the amnia his support. the Au+ general manner in which its provisions were carried Sir 11. Paftuel.t. declared bile anxiety to protect themvel solo execution. At the acme time he could not the right of voting from receiving any injury to be have el but think that there would be a degree of harshness a 4 great as could possibly be felt by any Member other N 'prompt in leaving out this particular Act, which of the Flowe. dimmed essentially with the occasion which had A new clause wits brought in, and added by way hope sh rendered the prer.ist . Bill (the Expiring Lars Bill) of eider.—The Bill was then read • third time and E nler , veressery. Ile wished the subject of the Insolvent passed. , that hi Debtors' laws to receive the smste deliberation as Lord PA Liaterrom jro wgll t up accounts of all tne w . lv , r , i if there had been no demise of the Crown. money received and 'mid on account of the Half.' if it Kid not been for the melancholy event of that pay Establishment. . Cr. ? ere to sly.nise they would certainly live .been deliberated The House adjourned at Half-pant Five o'clock. neral /3 PARIS PAPERS. PARIS, fEIRTIART 19. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Pwrt7 is as well in health as Ler dreadful state permits. About the middle or uext week she will retursitst Paris. It is said that the Cuunt Deco'', had spokeu in a very 'low tune of voice to the assassin of the Duke de !Wily in his first examination, and that Louse! badreplied in the sasne tone to the Minister, but used the words Je wows k lire loud enough to be heard by all present. The Duke de Fit/4.race explains this circumstance by stating, that be had suggesied to M. Decrees to no:prim its • low voice of the asra.sio if the poniard was poisoned. The proceedings against touvel are io full aeli vily. The peeve, Comini.sioners of the Court, e. coMpanied by the Attorney General, and witted by the Secretary, proceeded yesterday molting to the Conciergerie, to interrogate the prisruer. They then repaired to their Cabinet, to the palace of the Court of Peers, Where they commenced the hearing of witnesses. Tl•ey are occupied in cessantly in cullectiug . and verifying all the docu ments that they receive. as well from the author rates as from private I-w 00... A women Kh; sells heat wits arrested yesterday. She is ss✓ to be lourees mistreat. A letter from Compiegne states, that On Satur- Coy night a man on 'horseback passing through Ribecourt, between Compiegne sod Noyon, an nounced that the Duke of Bury had been •asss sinated. It is not necessary to remark that this news preceded the event by e twenty-four hours. On Sunday monolog t.heAmorr of this crime was circulated in the market of Compiegne. The Chamber of Peers assembled yesterday. The Minister of Finance presented to the Cham ber • project of law adopted by the lieputiet tete. tier to the purchasers of national property. The Chamber ordered the printing of the project, and referred St to the bureaus for conaideration. A grind deputation of Peers was appointed to proceed on the following day to the Louvre, there in the name of the Chamber to puy their pious du ties to the mortal remains of the Duke de Berry. The Chamber of Deputies will have a sitting to morrow a t twelve o'clock. The object of this sitting will be the appointment of a grand deputation, charged in the name of the body to render their last duties to his Royal Highness the Duke de Berry. The Committee of ‘Vays and Means, and that of the law on individual liberty, met this day at twelve o'clock. The Memorial Bordelais of the 15th of this month, under the head of Madrid, dated the 17th of February, contaius the fullowiog article : " The Ev. Minister, Dun Juan Loess. Terns, was the only see of the disgraced Ministers who merited tbe favour of residing at Court. He bad bees before intruded with the portfolio of graces and f and although separated from the Ministry. be exercised a great deal of influence oe the measures taken by Ike Guverement. He was exiled to Fort Sent Antoble de la Crumple, He quitted Madrid the fib February. " Don Anted* Vprte, spat of affairs, a man of °bemire birth, who bad semeeded in plaint the confidence of the [leg, was also exited to Fort de Segovia. He was charged with 'the offline relative to the expeditious I. preparation fire the Oblonies. " Don Villa, Frostin, schoolmaster sod notary at Congos, sad who bed for a long period filled t►e most juvenilia employments, was, ilke tbo two preeediag, coiled to Tetra gon'. " The Chief of Detaibmsot wbo bad rallied out of the lsle de Leos to procure provisions, and who was dispersed by the royal troops, was named Itiego. Haring escaped their pursuit, be embarked sloes at Algeciras for Gibroliar." The French 5 per Cum. are 70 fr. 10 c.—Bank Adjoin 1,420 fr. GERMAN PAPERS. ♦lgiiliA, I , 23RUARY IL The agents of the German manufacturers are still here; their affairs are said to be now prose. cated with great seal by the Committee appointed for the purpose. There are the best founded hopes that the fundamental plan of a future system of commerce for Germany will be here laid down. sad that it will be resolved immediately to appoint a Commercial Committee of the Confederation to pr')mote the execution of it. . . _ • lt is said that the Prussian Ambassador has ask ed for new instructions from his Court, and nobody doubts of their being favourable to the freedom of commerce in Germany. This orthir is said to be very warmly taken up by the Ambassadors of Ba varia, %Virtemberg. and Nassau, and particularly by the Baden Ambassador. Baron Von Bernell. The Hanoverian Cabinet too, from the readiness with which it accedes to the idea of • general system of commerce foe Germany, seems disposed to contradict the opinion previously excited by a aerial report to the Diet. Aostria, it is affirmed. ~~ '~. ~. • • . . • 3t, and eras reread. The „Krgoalaster madrAl damn ordered instauCy an armed force, and with • sledge hammer, in open day, and some labuisr, broke open his door. An Offices and his servant were then introduce.), and finally were lodged and entertained at the inn, at Treppes' expense, as were other Officers during the following drys. The next day Trapper made his complaint before the Jay &Instruction, which not being attended to, after different delays daring three months, he ad dressed the Preetrrinr do Roi (the King's Atteoa try.), wWo nit), if he was aggrieved, he should b:i.;g his action against the Commissaire de Police and assistants, who were the aggressors; he did so, and after many other delays, owing to ill ness of the Coannissaire, who could not attend, and other pretences, the cause came before the Tribunal on the 10th of February. Thursday last. A number of respectable witnesses attended to prove the facts, which were notorious to all the town, as the breaking the door took place in the middle of the day, and before hundreds of spec. tators, astonished to see the Civil Authorities, the Commissaire de Police, and his assistants, armed men, who are supposed to exist for the protection of the inhabitants and preservation of order, en gaged in such acts of violence. The Plaintiff's Counsel opened the ease, and with much clearness and precision laid down the law, and the steps prescribed to be taken. But the President, and the two other Judges of the Tribunal, without paying say attention, and hav ing heard the Procureur du Roi, who said there was no cause of complaint, non-suited the Plain ' tiff with toots, or rather dismissed the matter, and would not listen to it. • IS is unnecessaty to observe that the Burgomas ter and Aldermen did not cause these violent mea sures to be taken solely on their own authority, however disposed they are to vei theii townsmen in this as in other respects, and they would not have ventured in so scandalous • =banner to Invade the dwelling of a peaceable citizen, had they not been encouraged by orders or letters from a higher quarter, and which is sufficiently proved by the winding up. _ _ Mr. T. brought his action against the Commis moire de Police ,and assistants on the 10th, before the T,ibuual; the Burgomaster and Aldermen de clued he acted by their order', and as these orders came from a higher source, the Minister or Gover nor who gave them, wishing to be quickly disem barrassed of all responsibility, and put an end to the @Mir and prevent Mr. T.'s appealing to another tribunal, obtained an order (we do not pretend to say by what means) from the King, who, assuredly, must be kept in ignorance of facts, ordering Trappe, out of his dominions. The same Commissaire de Police who broke Isis doors in September last came into his house on Saturday morning, the 12th, trs companied by an agent de police and two gene d'arnis. The agent reed from a paper in the Dutch language, whic h T. dues not understand, but the interpretation of which was the order above stilted. A copy of this order was refused him, and from the moment of their arrival u n til •the time of Isis departure for the French frontiers, on Monday morning, the letli, at sit o'clock, these soldiers, or Bens-alarms. never quitted or lost sight of him. The Governor of the province came to town on Friday evening, and concerted measures with the Burgomaster. the Commandant de Place, &c. and placed guards around the house, and we are assured, did riot leave Louvaiu on the 13th, till he was satis.ed the Prisoner was in safety. I leave you to your own reflections ou this zeal and activity in a Governor; indeed the who!. transaction offers a crowd of painful ideas ; we see his Majesty's Ministers exercising with a high hand arbitrary power. trampling under foot laws and jus tice, and sporting with the liberty of the subject. To see a man thus LOTH from home, family, and friends, fills the mind of every thinking man here with indignation and alarm, and •hews but too clearly that if any of them should have the misfor tune to diiplease only one of these Excellencies. he is exposed to be treated the mate way without the remotest hope of obtaining justice; for in Belgium the Ministers are above the law. lied instead of go verning by it. it is governed by them. M. Del. housigne, who wu so ill-treated on the lath Sep tember by the police soldiers, rod imprisoned with. nut any form of law fur twenty-four hours at that time. for . asking the Co►ttmisseire de Polite by whose authority he acted, complained. and brought an action. This *as rejected; they accused his of beating five armed soldiers, and of having the ft. testi= to lay hands on the Commissaire. and. on the lath JlllllllfY i he was fodod guilty of rebellion. fined gOO francs. and ordered to be imprisoned six days, for having meddled with other people's af fairs, in asking the Commissaire why he broke open his neighbour's door ! All these are facto; but to give you an idea of the shameful conduct of Judges, King's Attorney, &c. the partiality and ignorance displayed is above the time 1 have, or the powers of ally pen. Delhoteugee, fear ing to go farther and fare worse. paid the Gut sad suffered the imprisonment, l'reppes has left a power of attorney, and appeels to another tribunal ; but it is vain. GM family remains here for some time. . Lord GiUnits hos retried his imetessioris to Windsor.—Sir Hannan TATLOIL. hie Secretary to his Mills??, starts in his place. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FRIRUARY 23, NO. It is well understood that her Majesty th,. Queen of GREAT BRITAIN will commute to re. ceive until the meeting of the new Parliament, the amount of pension granted during the life of th.. late KING to the Princess of lVaLks. It however, suggested last night in the Iloit.r or Commons by Mr. TI,RNIT, that as the piiisioo was originally granted to the Princess of W A IAS so *mine, and as the title of Princess of \V AI. Li is for the present extinct, the pension canno t h.! continued to any individual under that a..d that if the Ministers of the Crown advance soy money to the Princess of Wales, they will h.. guilty of a high misdemeanor. The however, would encounter any danger from Par liament rather than by pronouncing the horribl e name or QUEEN, seem to give even an indirect recognition of her MAJESTY'S constitutional riviiis„ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in rtply. ing that an individual's rights were not afr eek ,t by a change of denomination. eitlwr did not perceive the object of Mr. TIERNEY's uhros vatiou, or for an obvious purpose effa.:ted to misunderstand it. Mr. TIERNEY assuredly bad no desire to stop the pension of the Illuptrious Exile, nor would he, from en untimely tilt...r ue:ice of a strict form, subject her MAJLSTY to the extreme inconvenience in a foreign cows. try of not receiving pecuniary supplies at the regular periods. But so far es we could coiltct his purpose, it was to compel the Ministers io continuing to her MatesTY the amount of pelt. lion granted to her as Princess of WA Les, to cause the allowance to be made to her MAIM!' in her proper style and title. The pertinscity of the Serirants of the Crown in refusing to recopinie 6 terms her MAJRTIIT'S proper tide, is ex tremely suspicious; but until they shall have sdceeeded in their probable intention of .in ducing Parliament to degrade her from a p.n. ticipetioh of the throne of these realms, their cooditct is both absurd end reprehensilile. What would be thought of any man in the country, how ever elevated in rank, who should presume to speak , of the Kitt* as " the person in question," the illustrious person," or " the high gentleman," or, disregarding the increased splendoUr of his rank, in solently address hiin by his former title of " Prince of W•Les ?" And yet DO kW/ tinproptr is the conduct of the Ministers in refusing to acknowledge as Queen, the illustrious Princess who is now call ed by the spirit end terms of the constitution to partake the throne of these realms. A very curious reason was indeed lait night given by Mr. LUSHINGTON, to explain the apparent un willingness of the King's Ministers to suffer the allowance to her MAJESTY' to stand in her proper name as Queen Consort. We think, however, that in uttering it, the Hon. Secretary must have been laughing in his bkm at the House of Com mons, for never did we hear any thing purporting to bear the semblance of an argument ,o utterly ludicrous. Should the allowinice now granted by Parliament Le made to stand in the 'same of the Quaint, it would forsooth require some alteration to be made in the list of allowances ; and some further chatiges might also be required, the which would be attended with soma inconvenience I The Princess of WaLes, therefore, must never, esen at any future time, be regarded or addressed as Quicxx, lest the alteration in her style and title might possibly reuse some inconvenience to _the Gentlemen of the Trustily 1 Why did not this sage temark occur to the Ministers before they permitted his Royal Highness the Prince of WALL* to assume the style and title of KING ? for un doubtedly if the argument (we beg pardon of our readers for thus prostituting the word) be of any avail iu the-csaa of the Princess of WALES, it most have been quite irresistible when applied to the de signation of her illustrious Cost ort. It will be seen by our Parliamentary Report, that the provisional measures required to tin up the interval between the demise of the late K►twt: and the meeting of the tiew Pailiament are ra pidly advancing. The business before the House of Commons will, it is understood, be completed this evening, when the Route will, it is said, be adjourned until Friday. In the mean time the House of Lords will leave completed their part of . the public duty, and on Friday the Royal attri.t will be given by Commission to the provisions', 1;111.. Both Houses will them adjourn, urd in Saturday night's Gazette will probably be inserted the Rise'. proclamation dissolving the present, sod al the bailie time yelling another Parliament. We have received Paris Papers of Saturday last. The Jorneed des Debate of that day, in a postscript published as of tea o'clock at night, states, that the Kris has dismissed M. the Comet Decants from his elevated situation of President of the Coau• ail sud Minister of the Interior. The &missal of this distinguished Minister will most probably be followed by the retreat of several other Members of the (Abend, but it is suderstood as certain thug - ..... - 4•Mr$ll;ll7L4 THE BRITISH PL U • I . : 4 _ 4 7 ~ 5. I . . t