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I or other business, till the claim of ft itedom was de- cid•J on. As the law 14 the Irish Parliament at present stood, the person entitled to freedom. if not admitted within one mooch, was entitled to apply fora on-swiemut to the Court of King's Bench, sad after obtaining it, no penalty attached to the fit ;left or d lay of the corporate Aker. This Bill Was tote ied to give effed to that Law. The n-xt clank Of the Bill went to regulate that the decisions should take ..lace according to the order of delivery. l'he ob jrEt of this was to remedy the abase of claims made within a few bows being frequently, by the in fluence of the parties, considered •sod decided upon before those which had been preferred and unde cided upon perhaps for three or four years. It must be obvious, that if -very freeman, perhaps in low cir cumstanc,s, was to mak • good his right against the vie.ght and power of a corporation, he must labour under a great hardship. As to the insinuation, that this Bill Was a Ministerial one, he wo tl i only say. tkat if he made uus of office for any private or corrupt purposes, he deserved t' be reprobated ; but as he scorned to mince matters, or go behind the bush, he must now declare that the Bill was ren dered necessary, it it was only from a circumstance which happened at the last eledion for Waterford, • when the sum of 50001. was raised by the Corpora tion, for no other purpose than that of keeping a man from the exercise of his freedom. As the law was at present, if a man spent 1001 in assert ing his fr" dom, the kreatebt costs he could have against the person who illegally kept him out of it. vas 301 s but by the present Bill, any public officer °intruding the exercise of the right of voting. would be to a fine of $OOl shameful and cry.ng abuses were known to have existed. and this Bill would only compel the officers to do justice. Is was, in fad, no more than a farther regulation of the hill of 33 of the King, and the reason why he was in this ita ; :e. to address himself at so much length to the house was, that he may do away the insinuation that he was capable of any abuse of office. C. Innei VEREK ER said, he opposed the mea sure, as being the representative of one of the most mp-flable corporations in Ireland. Mr. S. BOURNE thought the question to be considered was, whether a Rid which so much al. felled the right. of the Eledors, should be allowed so pass the House in the coursr of a few days, and !score the people of lielanJ had time to judge of ? He suggested t.. the Right. Hon. Bart. the pro priety of filling up the blanks now, rather than or dering the Bill to be printed ; and afterwards to let it stand over to the neat Session of Parliament. Mr. ALEXANDER as.erted, that in the cor- poration in Ireland with which he had the most connexion, he never heard of any instance of in justice ; he only knew of a discretion which be thought properly vested in the corporations, to in fee of she finless of persons, according to the fair ness •if their charafters. islr FOS ('ER said, he hoped that on a question which affeaed so many of the franchise tights of Ireland, the Hon. Gentleman would net, in the absence of so many Irish Members, press a Bill now on the 19th, which was only brought in on the 14th of this month. It was a serious thing to im pose a penalty of 10001. on a returning officer, for omission or pealed ; and Ara penalty on him, it Ire was a Revenue Officer, and gave a casting vete. It the measure w.te now persisted in, he should oppose the Speaker's leaving the Ch air; but be hoped the Right Honourable Gentleman would net press it. Mr. O'HARA said, that if the Gentlemen oppo site wished the Bill to be well understood by the Corporations in Ireland, the best mode of doing it wt u.a be, to have the blanks fast filled up in the Ca emotes. in which all the objeaions they proposed raw' be obviated. Earl 'IEMPLE thought, that as the objelliess went merely to the clauses, it would be right to go into the Committee, and after they Were tilled up, be understood that his Right Her. Friend would consent to defer the Report for tin days, during which there would be time to celled the wan of the Corporations in Ireland. Colonel VEREKER arid Mr. S. BOURNE said, that explanation was not sufficient to induce them to give wp their objellions. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, be should consent to allow fourteen days for consideration, after the blanks were filled up; but if he deferred it for twelve months, the consequence might be, that a number of Ekftors stood a chance of being de rived of their franchises. Colonel BAGWELL did not think a fortnight, by any mean', sufficient to coiled the sense of the corporations its the distant parts of Ireland. Mr. PARNELL said a few words in support of the Bill. Dr. LAWRENCE said, that if any modification of t h e pi nvi‘i"ns was desirable, that would be done best in a Committee. lie. S. BOURNE thought, that as there were so many oi , jeftions to the Bill, he should vote against the Speaker's leaving the chair, unless it was agreed that the blanks should be filled up in the Commit tee, and the further consideration of the measure deferred ti:l the next Session. That House, he thought, should br careful, and particularly in the absence of so many Irish members, how it interfered in the eleCtive franchises of Ireland, and of Ireland only. Were it even early an the Session, he thought 14 days would tie insufEzient for t;:e consideration of a measuie, which involved the elective franchise of the whole of Leland. The House then divided on the Tiestion for the Spealti.r's leaving the chair, when there appeared, for it 27—Ag.inst it '2,6—Majority f. The Kw e then resolved itself into a Committee on the Bill , Mr. Hohhouse in the Ch air. Mr. ALEXANDER thin stated his objeCtions to a measure which at/Cetera the r;7..hts of all the Cornora-ons of Ireland, comprise„ ; nut less than 300460 Eleflors. He was called to • rder by Dr LAWRENCE. who th it irregular that he should take that opportui. • taming on the general merits of the Bal. Mr. ALEXANDER was again when be was interrupted by Earl TEMPLE, who obsetved, ir it WAS then on toe strums ct aye o'clock, and tila. an under standing had last night prevailed, tl.a. to other sutj. ft sluitud be discussed, till the ex.:lL:la:ion 0 Witnesses uu the Charges agansst the L.:. ;.cis Inky was evaelneedie ant thereto, loosed gg that the Chairman should repent progress. and have leave to sit aga . n." The SPEAKER said, there was an understand ing that all other business should give way to the exaMination of witnesses. Colonel V EREKER considered this interposi tibilas the exercise of Ministerial 14th-flee. Mr. FOSTER remarked, that it was irregular in the Noble Earl, to take advantage of his speaking to order, for the purpose of making a motion; the Noble Karl rose either in order or slisor- der. The House was pressed by the Right Hon. Bart. into this Commi•tee. and the clock had not since moved so rapidly, that he might have foreseen 5 o'clock would arrive before the discussion cool be over. Mr. S. BOURNE expressed his lamentation and surprise, that the advocates of this Bull should pro pose and press a measure at the same moment, or within a few moments of the time, when they were obtged to propose that progress should he reported, and the Chairman have leave to sit again Earl TEMPLE said, that he would n 4 appeal to the Hon. Gentleman, but to the Committee et large, whether the understanding was not la,t night, that the examination of witnesses in Lord Wellesley's case, should precede eve. y other discus. sion ? His motion, therefore, was not liable to the invidious remarks made on the other side. Mr. ALEXANDER vindicated himself from having said any thing which imuld be called invi• dious. Dr. LAWRENCE said, that when he had the honour of being more acquainted with the Honour able Member who spoke last, he considered him as a good classic scholar ; but th'ugh u e Honour able t;entleman might h ve changed his i•pini , ins, the word " invidious " had nor changed its signification. Sir J. NEWPOR.I explained. Mr. ROSE said, that when he came into 01, House, he was astoni.hed to find it dividit g in) measure, the discussion of which must necessarily isterfere with the arrangement of last sight. VEREXEIt said, the argu vents of S J. Newport were unsatisfaeory to hias. lie ha. anew's his ignorance in his statement, as the Clerk of dm Peace. 11 vitull as she May '7. WS: an annual Officer. The Howse then divided on the C'..ainnan's re porting progress. when the hum en ...tie • Fur it, S9—Against it. 27—Ma:aority 12. The Chairman then obtained leave to sit again on Monday. Mr. PAUL moved, d , that a return he forth.% ith males, the order of the sth of June. gut Papers relative to Oude:" Them Papats, be said, would be - - necariary to the elucidation ut the c. Atge, and ou , nt to be brought f Prward beton W in..veJ at. The motion wac agreed tu. CH kRGES AGAINST THE MARQUIS . Mr. PAUL thca moved tn , • O?dcr of the .u.ty for taing into further consteerstion the chai i; e against me Marqsns Wellesley. relgtAve to ti.e tra isatlions in °Ude __- Sir A. WELL&SLEY asked, whether all the witnesses need attend the whole of he pi: tmi si r l ? Mr. PAUL replied, that t •e nest • ittle.set, u. meant to examine were, Sir Alured Clarke, Major Ouseley...and Mr. Job•trinwie ; after gags, be means to defer the farther examination of evidence tel r bailaday, in order that the papers peremptorily moved toe this day, should be on the rabic Cite evidence of yesterday and this day mtght in the mean tuns be printed. and tlle examination on Monday be supposed would not occupy mote than two hours. The House then resolved itself into the Corn . mince, Lord Folkstone in the chair. Mr. Johnstone was then examined in his place by Mr. PAUL, who first asked hint whether he had not been for twelve years in a high situation. as Re sident at Locknow ? Mr. JOHNSTONE said, that as his situation its India was in many respects a contidedtial one, he felt himself in an awkward and embarrassing pre dicament, upon which he wished to &heel ai opinion now. as he might not afterwards have say opportunity of doing so. Mr. PAUL acquainted him, that the question he meant to put to him related principally to &lance, an . would not therefore place hitn under the embarras<- ment he apprehended. He then repeated his former question, to which Mr. Johastone replied, that while he remained at Lucknow, he was frequently Aging Resident ; that the subsidy paid by the Nabob was at that time fifty-sic lacks of rupees ; that the Nabob Vizier was very unwilling, and would not. without restraint or some degree of compulsion, cede any part of his territory; that the late Nabob was said. by public report, to have been much addl.:tett to the use of opium, and intoxicating liquors. Mr. PAUL. having put a question to Sir Aimed Clarke. relative to the opinion he entertained, whe ther, if the Nabob of Oude had been obliged to pay 5o0;0001. in addition to the 70 lacks of ru pees, it would hot have been an infrattion of the Treaty? Mr.W ALLACE objeaed to it, as the Treaty was on the table, and any Member could see whether this was an intraaion or not, A long conversation then took place between Mr. Paul, Dolor Lawrence, Mr. Martin, and others, who were of opinion, that the question should be put ; and Mr. Wallace, Earl Temple, Mr. S. Bourne, and others, who objetled to it ; after which, a divi. pion took place : The numbers were, for putting the question, IS—Against it, 46—Majority SU. When strangers were again admitted, we under stood, that Mr. Paul had proposed another ques tion relative to the opinion entertained by Sir Alured Clarke on a different point. This was also objeCted to on the same grounds by Mr. Wallace. Mr. PAUL then stated, that all the questions he had prepared were of tile same nature ; he there fore moved. it that the Committee should be ad journed until to-morrow, that he might hare an op portunity of putting bis question into another shape, or for the purpose of taking the odinion of the Committee, when there were more Members pre sent." Earl TEMPLE opposed the adjsurnment, and thought the speech of the Hon Gen.leman most un parliammtary, when he proposeftseke the sense of the Committee to-morrow on a question which had Ibeen already decided. The Noble Lord then made sonic urnatas on the propriety of taking tLe opinion LONOON, FRID Tuwa 20. The Orttniune was, yesterclay, at 41 and for the next payment; and lett off rather *Wye the p.icros c f Wednesday. Sotue of our contemporaries, w'iti have no iatormation upon the subject, exclaim that ttii , improved state of the toed, is all the efface of stork j bbiiig artifice ; but the public ought to h upon tittir guard agaiutt such idle clamour. sir rep-e, with cr,Adence, that it has been pro dkrcod by the communications exchanged between this Cuuntte ant! the Government of Frame. Of drouist ; but whether they will end in peace or tot, i• a v-ry different question. A blesaenger sailed, nn Sunday last, with dispatches, in a flag of truce, for Boulogne. Lord Y 4 t.Alf.tt:To is also gone to France. He sailed on Monday ; from Ramsgate, in a cutter belonging to Lord IIEgITICI squadron; and landed, %se understand, on Monday night, at Hos Lot (+ship, hcwever, as we stated in a tor e'er Paper, is gone exelnusely epos his private uusiue,s. Hamburgh Ma.l due on Sunday, arrived early yester.tay morning. with letters and papers to the 1I th instant They announce the escape of Mrs. Spet.taa SMITH. and her arrival at Prague. l:his lady being born a sujeft of the Emperor of GLItilAt4Y, it was feared. that the m.gnaairnous Bomar•ii:c would claim her, and, therefore, she was advised to proceed, without delay, to Polish Russia. Mrs. Soothes! SMITH was arrested at Venice, and upon her way to Valenciennes, her in tended place of impri.onment. This is the only fad of any interest in the Hamburgh Papers. The rest of their contents cnnsists principally of spek.ul,i. tions and unauthenticated rumours. We have received New-York Papers to the 21st, and Boson to the Slth last. One of the latter slates, than is the Chops, • frigate boarded an Americas trading ship. the Efiar, from Londomierry, stab's two leaguer oftbe labs!, is fee► fathoms wa►er, load after pilot bad lax ►stetted e•r bated. and violently carried drone American citizen, 14 men passengers coming to reside in this country, one woman (wife to one of the impressed), and an apprentice bey." The fourteen passengers, it is pretty clear, were British subje&s, allured by false representations to forsake their native country, and become hewers of wood and carriers of water, in a foreign land. It is not pretend-ea that more than one American citi zen was impressed by the Cleopatra, and yet this is called, " a damning deed," . 4 a daring outrage upon the sovereignty and independence of the United States." Such vulgar and angry abuse affords but an unfavourable idea of American manr.ers and ci vil:cation, while it evinces a spirit of &wait, against this country. at once impolitic and ungrateful. It is also stated, in these papers, that as the loser frigate WAS returning home, she was met by an English sloop of war, wh'els, through mistake, Ered into her. and that the Estes in return gave ber a broadside, which seat the sloop to the bottom. This, however, is coa• -. sidered only a vague report by the P.spers 'which mention it. and is consequently iatitlott to little notice. The Intelligente respeaing tilotatrissa it contradictory. One account states,tbathe has calcite the Provinces of Martgaretta. Cut:nano, Barcelona. and Caracas; that Barcelona and Caracear tureen; ' dered without resistance, and that be has beer, join ed by -ixtten thousand of the inhabitants. Om tirer . etl,er hand, *catmints from Porto Cava* of the ' 18th April, am from Laguira of the 48:14, declare Neat no insurreetion bad taken place in any of rha Provinces --that no attempt had then heed mada by mi NIA NDA, and that the alarm was subsiding. _....—.....—. A person arrived at Tortola, from St. Thomas* when the Maarhuter packet was sailing, who re. ports, that one Spanish, and three. French fri g ates had arrived at Porto Rico, from Cadiz ; and that four Fry, ch line of battle ships were at St. Do. mingo.—The Bet for Great Britain sailed from Tortola, on the 10th May, under convoy of the Am-44. and two other frigates; the 11:ePrfr.frons Grenada, for the Clyde, put back to Tortola ors the I Sth of May, very leaky. —......... The SlearLesfer past. Capt. Davis, with a Mail from the Leeward islands, arrived op Monday 184 at Falmouth; she sailed from Tortola on the IStla of May. 1 —.....n....—.. The dila., 74, from Jamaiea, is arrived at Phil mouth ; part of her convoy separated soon after sailing from Jamaica, the remainder passel Ply. mouth the day before yesterday. —,....--... , The Slave Trade Question is postponed in the House of Lords until Tuesday. We are cnherrned to state, that the indisposition of Hie Royal High- ness the Duke of CLUZSCI is the eIIIAUC of the delay. The consideration of Mr. Justice Fox's CUu was also postponed, yesterday, upon motion in th 3 Huns,. of Lords, for three months. It will, aeon:sr, stand over until the next Session. Her M*JriTY and the Pa imerssrs dn.d at Fr.lgmnre, on Wednesday. On H.§ Memory . 4 rnnin to Windsor. he walked on the Terrace wi h the Pan:cassis. Yesterday mussing the Whew( YORK derived at Windsor, and afterwards tode on horsebeet aids His PI4.IIST Y, PritKenieS AMUST•, SorMia, and A sr. A. Yesterday, the Earl of Moles trantadled busi ness with Mr. WINDHAM. Hollllfolll EtaCTION.—The Poll closed on TOMS. dad, and the nornbers went, for Mr. BILDSMAW ni9 I and for Lord COCIIIIANIE 124. Liebi CDCH. a Ns *suited the Electors of his 'dmerniniiirem to offer hinnelf again on the first vacancy. 1 he Chereater, from Bristol for Ilegm s liSlimit swken with at sea, ih di.tress, anig y for the Wertem Is!acass - • st The Gov-rnar Parton, front the Clyde; irk at Trinidad, and expedlad to be lost- - Carsten& , A raper of yesterday says—" His MMISTT AI 1 a Privy Coined yesterday. at which an Order leidd to have bees signed, foe releasing all vessels carry ing the flag of P-ipPerslauegh, which were 0* mimed previous to the 14th d May, titers* each as elnil appear to have cleared ou: from one enemy's peg to another " Me levier BAICLAT, from Greenock, was lost at Newfoundland, on the 12Th May. he Riwriurk, Sressio•ce, from Antigua, for London, put into St. Kites leaky, and will be obliged to discharge part of her cargo. . The Wilroirhbv; LOVETT ; the Sir Affirm Haw. wed, hi'Dosi•to; and the Si. Goes* Wristep Tno as AS, from J imaica, bound to London, arrived off he Start, on the 17th instant I they parted trona the fl •et about a month since, in bad weather. Ot the remaining Capitalists in Holland, many. we an 'erstand, have taken alarm at the violent change effeete.l in their Gotreentnent. and have, is . consequence, made large remittances to this cenntr). This circumstance is highly probable, but it is by no means sufficient, of itself, to account for the late progressive rise of our funds. The Bill for regulating the conduft of the Rec-iver General of the Excise, as to the application of the Public Money, and Bills, is founded on the sum- prua drnt principle as that which now vegulate. the Navy and Army Paymasters. It proposes, thee oily 20,0001. shall be left in the hands of the Rea .• ceiver, at the close of esch day, tanks, any further sum shall be direaed by the Cnormissioners of Ex. rise, to terrain for any exigent services; or by a tow t vial order signed by three of the Lards of His Ns. Jays - v's Treasury; all other Monies and Bills t be'! de in the Bank. Yesterday morning the second battalion of th. Coldstream Guards. commanded by His R. pi Highnt s; the Duke of CA m sit and the seco-sd battalion of the Sd Regiment, commanded by Co lonel DI Lit BS, had a grand Field day, in Hyde I Park, and went throngh their evolutions with great. precision. General Last a commanded the bri gade. At half-past ten Ism night, a fire broke out in the ware:ionte of Messrs. Freest. and Bousrono. slop-sellers, in Tonley-rrett, in the Borough, snick consumed the whole of the warehon—; but, i y the . affivity tf the firemen. and there being a plentiful • surlily of water. the fire was prevented from com rnuni:Eing to the dwelling-hoises. The St. Olare't and Southwark Volunteers attended, and kiln of the crowd, wli;ch was very great. Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday morn. ing, some person unknown fired the contents of a blittiderbu.s, 1.-,aded with small shot, into the mid. dle window of thn first-ftior front room of Mr. PORTIt's house. the Lottery-cfEce in Parliament. street. which 'lnke the same, but did no °Ova. injury. of witnesses in the manner proposed, which mode of proesse,ling he deprecated. Mr. HU ICH INS° thought the motion fn. an adjournment should he acceded to, as the Hon. G .1- tleman witlled to tint the qiieqioris in another shape. Mr, Sec Mary FOX was of the same opinion, and did AM :tank much time would be Inst by ad journ;ng, is it was then near eleven o'clock, and it was UraaL, in such cases. never to sit beyond that hour . . With respect to &e propriety of asking the opinion of witnesses, he certainly did not think it improper; and it had been universally allowed in all procee hogs of the same nature ; which had been heretofore before the House. The Hon. Gentleman w.in had tken the husine:s, he conceived had a very good right to believe that he would be allow ! ed to put hi. questions in their present form, as the matter wiS debated the night before; and, though there had not been a division, vitt, what might be considered still stronger, the op?nsi•ion was given on, and the questions were a!lowed to pass, The Right Hon Gentleman then ronditded by saying, tl , at lie thong ., t the Committee might be allowed to adjourn until to-morrow ; but if that was not agreed t he would undoubtedly take the sense of the Committee on tie propriety of potting the Trott , orivin their present shape. After some further conversation. Sir Alured Clarke was, by a;-cement, called in, and a few questions put to him. i - lis examination was then cl ~ rd, and the C! irmrn tepurteJ progress, and obtained leave to sit again to morrow. On the motion of Col WOOD, James Salmon, Eq. the Auditor-General of Military Accounts in In.iia, wa. or.tered to Attend tn-MPTTOW. Mr WINDHAM brought in a Bill for settling the return of proper persons to serve in the Wert, onder th• 41.1 ol the K nz, and for suspending the lin11.1• for a time to he limited. w4s read a first, rnd ord• red to be re‘d 'a second time to-morrow, 'rid to be printed. The other Orders brine d ,posed of, the House Ajourned at Twelve o'clqck. Ftnelrn N6W6 and kaAtionable a:e sis ti.e ii.t pa c e sa.,r -hall receive en ea-le iniertion .. THE BRITISH PRESS.