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thew which it must be especial wanhl have died daring the palmate. and fur which an allowance woo always MIOP by the speculators in the infamous tralkc. By this means the owner of the ship fre quently obtained more money by the capture than he enolel have gained had he been remitted to complete his voyage. It was now satisfactory to kiieo that if a Portuguese slave Asp resssamaystured. no compensation should be made to the owners from the want of a judicature to determine the claim of the captor 4. Fsarl BATHURST repeated his former statement. I . :le Marion. of LAN,DOWN asked. whet here wm.i any ohjeetinti to !Producing Sir (ivory.? o.llyer's Report to the A dinifielte mu the Slave Trade? The Earl of LITURPOOL wish that the motion for the production of the Report should not be then mule. The Local Jurisdiction Bill and the Annual In demnity BM were severally read a third time and parsed. ! PLACES IN REVERSION. LnKI SIDMoUTH presented on answ►r to the A.l. dress moved iu the early part of the Sea. ttttt , by the Noble Earl opposite (Earl Groayetsur), relative to places granted in inn. The au.wer owed iltai no place or (Ore lid.' been granted in reyrrsines by soy of the Judges in hi• Majesty's Courts of Justice, since the first of January 1819 (the date ►petrified in the Address). The Noble S.cr.ta►y ❑lso laid on the table, two reports made by John Capper to the Home Department, respecting the ►tate of the Convict Ships. BARNSTAPLE. The Earl of C•att&avuet asked whether any moot/yes had been adopted by the Attorney-Ge neral upon the order of their Lord.hips, reapreiiii* the prosecutions or some pe►sons who had been exa mined as witnesses at their Lordships bar upon the Barnstaple Bribery Bill ? Lord SIDMOUTII replied, that on this point he could not at present rive an explicit answer. SUSPENSION OF WRITS. The E al of C A itN A aVoN moved the Order of the pay for the second reading of the Bill for soa p-tiding the issuing of writs to the boroughs of Barnstaple, Grampound, Penryto, and Camelford. The Noble Earl then sail, he had not before the preceding night supposed that it would be news saty for him to advance a single observation upon the propriety of adopting the present memoir, ; he Ted, in fact, thought that their Lordships must have given their assent to the Bill almost as a mat. ter of course. Parliament had lung been in the habit of inquiring into the circumstances of corrupt e!ectione, which in some casts were followed by it. enactments, and in other, by the poesing of Bills through the Howie of Commons, winch, however, were rejected by their Lordships. The House was of course aware that during the continu slice of a Parliament no writ was issued fur the elec tion of a Member of the other House without the Speaker's warrant ; but by the dissolution of Par. liemeut they were about to be placed in a situation in which writs must of course issue without the control of the House of Commons. In that case, the boroughs which had been so long under the con eideration of Parliament would send eight Members to the House of Commons, even at the very time when a question was raised whether they should he tor ever deprived of the right. Either this must Like place, or their Lordships must come in aid cf the House of Commons, and if they refused to Ju so, they must thereby arraign sill the proceed ing- adopted by the House of Commons during the last century; they must condemn every vote of that House and every exercise of their discretion when they withheld the right of election until the propriety of continuing that right was fully deter mined. Those who now refused to agree in the de s•re expressed by the House of Commons, and thereby declared that the writs ought to be issued to these boroughs, were bound to shew that those who were desirous of sifting the corruption of these boroughs and punishing them for their crimes, were not by such a step thrown into a worse condition than they previously occupied ; for with what pro spect of fully attaining the objects of justice could they proceed in a new Pathanseut to the cots. sideration of such subjects, when the boroughs would appear to be fully represented, oilers rio tatiot might be found in their recent pricer/hugs, told when the Legislature, passing over a virtuous exercise of their constitutional rights, sought to punish them, not for a recent offence.but formic com mitted at a period comparatively distant The Noble Earl declared himself to be a decided enemy to all plans of general reform, but whenever a specific case requiring amendment appeared to Parliament, lie would willingly pursue it for the purposes of ob taining such a practical and partial reform as would attord, not a radtcal, hut • Isermsuent improvement. To this species of reform the country looked with ager and anxious eyes, and if the present Bill were 'ejected, lie feared much and serious disappoint tnent would be felt. What indeed would the COllll.. py think of then Lordships, if having heard that a *erten' borough in which extrusive bilbery and cor ruption had been discovered, was so placed amongst knot 4 of other boroughs, that the plan of exteod. jolt the elective franchise to the neighbouring hun dreds could sot in its case be adopted; that a pro position bad been mode of removing the franchise to the old and populous borough of Leeds ; that the approbation of a leading Minister of the Crown was given iu the House of Commons to this plait ; that the measure having been impeded by an inop portune dissolution of Parliament, a Bill to promote the same object in the new Parliament was passed in the House of Commons, and rejected in their Lord ship's House What further would thecountry think when they should learn that the measure having receiv ed the approbation of such of his Majesty's Ministers as wise in the House of Commons, was opposed by their colleagues io the other House The Noble Earl warmly expressed his gratificatioo that this measure of partial reform, in which all classes of men seemed to concur, should have been intros deiced by a young Nobleman with such a display of rising talents a. must have held out to the country the flattering hope of Gudirig iii the first mks of the Nubility on able said energetic champion of lire rights and liberties, mid imbued with those glo rious and aiiiutating sentiments that have already metered the name of RUSSELL dear to the heart of every holiest Eoglisliman.—(liter. hear.)—The Noble Earl then argued on the expediency of agree. ing with the Commons is this measure of suspect. slot, and remarked, that 111 the caw of the borough • • . . • s of Shaftesbury th y had held utat in equal "esi-I in the Shorts/04mq which hod lAto 'so mach to the Howe of Coatroom. by 1"." 1 "K * hell s silloded In, th writ was suspended for • year or during a prorogation (is the I.w thru was) • writ • two. midi* world ask, was it not a piece of in should not be loomed to that borough in the teems josoce, when earlsament afterwards declared that it of a vacancy. Between the case or the imprough of ; was an, her remoring the electors their riots ? 'rite Shaftesbury and the prevent ill-re was sot perceplia I conclusion which the [louse of C lily bad hle difference, and he trusted that an equal pomade come to on the Bernstaple cave. he had on he.,. of justice world now influetice thew proveriltors. t atom tai saving. was founded MI the evidence lie was tooter the necessity of sr,rug II htile us to of person. shit ought not to he believed Islay the unexpected husineas of last ought. It was his where, and he was borne out in wiring so by intention, before he tittered into the 'moues. oh the what passed at their Lordships' her when they nig4t, to more to rescind the Resoluta'', of lest i were wider resinous* before them. Persona night. for lwarmg Counsel it the her rehoite 10 the i having a skin to vote at. corporstoes, were Otte Barnstaple Petition. As it getter»! Irmo:ode, lie I different limn those who hart the right to . vote iu would not pillow that their Lordahips could not re. an.nh-r way. Ile tiros therefore of op that jest th e hearing of Cuur.srl 1111 arch u (titration. their Lordships, instead of dirfrancliising the Tlte Bill before theist vets n o t a pro/ rte one. but I roughs ill question. ought to restore to electors to all intents and purposes a public one, and a I their right of franchise. The true way to iw qtsestino of great public importatire ; it WAS Mot pular eres to du justice, and it would 1w an act of that Barnttaple sliould lose the right of election, injustice if this was not done. lor which reason he but whether that 'louse should he on a Itsture day world vote against the present measure. placed iu • situation to prosecute their incoirtes Nlarquis of LANSDoWN said lie must insist, which had brain commenced. Who world be the on behalf of the people of &gimlet and of the situation of Ministers and of Uses,. Lordships, if Legi•lature. Bost there was no right held by au they allowed Counsel to be head on the application elector which lie dill not hold for the public and of every individual who thought los interest wet I the purity of the Legislature, nod it was only try affected be ally public tnessure ? it. would be that right being held sacred that Parliament could the means of preventing them from getting through be kept pure—and as the right was only held for the ntc y business of the country. Ile could the public, it was returnisble to them when it was not avoid recollceling when ese usual Orders of improperly used. Bot as it was held out by the that House were disoeused with to pass the Train- Noble Earl opposite. that In • new Parliament there ing Bill in one night. Ile would ask then, where would be 'oohing to frustrate farther inquiry, . lie wail the opportunity of Counsel being heard in would recommend his Noble Freud pint now to that case ?So urgent did the flamer of Commons press Ihe inelienre, but if he was of a dill-rent opt consider the present Bill, that they suspended neon, he would certainly vote fur the Bill bents their Stanilitog Orders to pass it, and the Itesolu- read a second lime. titan of their Cordthips to hear Csouts•rl at the bar Eta GROSIII:SuR anppnrte.l the measure. sigaifist it, was Ceusing such s delay, that it was to The Earl of LAUDERDSLE moved that the Bill the effect of negativing it. If the Bill, hooever, el 1d be read a second time that day fortnight. was read a second time. be would more to-morrow, 011 the question being put. their Lordships di although it was Saturday. that tile Standing Utters Prided, when there appeared— should be dispeused with, for the portico* of it Contests.... going through its other sieges. Ile felt liimeelf at Sao Coates's@ • II a loss whether, 'according to the n e og e of that House, ,he might to conclude by moving that the Bill should be read • fecund bop-, or that the order for calling in Counsel to be heard at the bar should he rescinded. He was aware that he would be informed by ilwNoble rod Learned Lord on the Woolsack, wtsdi was the proper course to pursue. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said there could be eto doubt of the course the Noble EA. I ought to pur sue, as it was necessary to get oil of the wile- of last night lwfore the 13:11 was real a second time. Bat he would rather meet the case at once on its . merits. 'flue Bill was fur the purpose of cheroot chisitig certaits Boroughs ; the quest' then was, whether they would agree to grittier a Borough i.f its rights before a suflir sent coot. was made out, not only by a trial in the House of Commons, but at their Lordships' own her ? The power assumed by the House oh Commons to disfratichise was a very strong power, and if the queation was now agitated for the first time, lie would oppose their having that power; they had however exeretard it, nod it would flat he right now to dispute it. The Si li firabory e ase , which hail been quoted by the Noble Earl. did not bear on the present case. This was not a measure relative In the withholding of a writ, but it went the length of saying, that it shotild not issue when there was no Parliament, which would he defeating the rights of the Crowu. Ile was convinced the [lone of Commons had taken up the queetion wrong. fur as Imig as they were a (louse of Com mons they had the right of feta g the issuing of a writ, but the moment they crated to be such, they had no such power. and by assuming it they . affected the rights of the Crown. Tne Bill went to take away the right of election fur four Boroughs, and osit of the four, tight Members were 1145 M Ol lU. ally sitting by the tight of the very election com plained of. Ile would state plainly and without dia guise, that lie was of opistion that their Lordships were the only tribunal in which the question of slit franchisement could be fairly diwursed. If in the new Parliament a case was made out against the Boroughs tomplaitied of, it should have his eupout t ; but on the eve of a dissolution, sod contidering that there were eight Members bitting in the wefts'? Parliament returned for these boroughs, he would not agree to suppress the rights of the electors. Ile requested that their Lordships would consider that when they wished to do justice to the Consti tution, they ought at the same tinie to be careful of the rights of Corporate !ladies. The Earl of DARNLEY hoped their Lordships would not do such au ungracious act as to nega tive the second reading of the Bill. due if they did so it would be telling the mats Of the people that the corrupt practices carried cis iu the boroughs were not to be cortected. Ile would tertaitaly vote fur its being reads second tone. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that the question before them was certainly mow, whether Counsel should be beard at the bar, than whether the Bill should be read a second time; but it was of little consequence to the individual eddressing their Lordships in which order the question was debated,. fur he was of opinion the surest way to attend to public feeling was to do justice, mid if they did to the country would wooer or later du justice to them. As to the justice of the present case, it was fur them to decide on. Ile would tell them what they were called nn to do by the Bill lwfore thetas—that at the dissolution they were to withdraw the right of election from certeiu boroughs. There twos tau man had a greater respect fur the Howie of Comusous than lie had. But suppose there was OH election for Barnstaple, and out of twenty-one voters eleven were bribed, it would not theta be a qui-union at issue between the borough sod the Hauer of Com mons, bot between them and the eleven voters, and the puoislimetit should poly fall on the guilty parties. Ile fur one did tiot thusk it was fair to get rid of such • subject as this by a side wind, for it ought to be fully Diet. Ile would nut say thst he would Dearer vote fur a chcfranchising Bill. but he o v oid say that be never would give a vote for ouch a toes sure, until he heard evidence that %strained his comma to that conclusion at their Lordships' We, Suppose they were to take the caw of the Bo rough of Grampound, which they were told was tainted with corruption. and because tha were told our were they to alter toe Constitution by infringing out the rights of the Crown, by rewash'. big it from issuing a writ to return Members for that place. when at the same tone Xlembeis were sitting ita the resent Pailiatucut fur ilia: borough. Majority for the Earl of Lruderdale'r Minium Their Lotthaulm then adjourited to Mondry. HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, FgaftllMlT NEW MEMBERS. As soon as the SrICAKEIL took the chair s three in* Members took the oaths and their seats. ACCOUNTS PRESENTED BY ORDER OF THE HOUSE. . _ _ _ _ ' Mr. Longman, front the West India Dock Com pany, presentrd Accounts of Ike It.celpt. and Alt idie.ti,to of all Sams beinitgilig to that B lour alma ha am order of the I louse. Mr. Nlamm, from the Fast India Company, pre. seeitril Acroitlit. of Ite-olutionliagreeJ to at a Ge io•r.ol Court of Directors or the aline Company.— These accounts were laid on the table. SITPLY. On the ornion of the CHANCELLOR Of the Ex- CHEQUER, the Report of the Commettee of So l . W.M receives, •od the Resolution for greening 7.000,0001. foe !Laying off Exchequer Bulls was *greed to. CONSOLIDATED FEND. Mr. LUsHINGTON resettled itecuuuts of the net lit-venue of Grritt Britain, and the produce of the Coutolidated Fend during the last year.—These Papers were ordered to be printed. Tnr Committers of Supply and Ways aud Means were postponed until Monday uext. ORPHANS' FUND. Mr. Scott, from the Chamberlain's Office of the City of London, pre•ruted accounts of the Receipt and Expenditure or the Orphans Foud.—These accounts were laid on the table. COLONIAL ACCOUNTS. On the motion of Air. Hume, the accounts pre vented on a former night reopecting the antouot of the military and civil staff at the I 0000 Ceylon, the Cape of Good Hope-, and 'lie Monti tilt., together aith the India sustusl accouute, *eta ordered to be printed. MARRIAGE ACT. Dr, PHILLINORE void, Ilut in rising to discharge the order for the arCallti reeding of the 111mriage Act Amendment Bill, he was solely induced to take That viep by the situation its which the public busi ness was now placed ; and he begged to give ow tire, that early in the next Session he would, if re. turned in the enetaing Parlieuient, introduce a simi lar measure to the present, which had already re ceived the sanctum of so large • portion of the House, and which was so ceseiltial to the comfort and happiness of society. The Bill was then ordered to be read a second time this day six wet ks. CASE OF THE BRIG CHARLES, OF ABERDEEN. 111 r. licitie rms., In pinauairre of the mince he had riven. to give a short detail of the case of the brig CAArles, of Aberdeen, which, early iu the year 1815, vet sad fruits that poll for Testerille to take in a cargo of wine. On their arrival the port, they had a pilot pat. oo board, bat were after. wards unfortunately driven to I.ts in a gale, and while in that courlition, the pilot, alw had sliewu strong symptoms of tu,amty, jumped overboard, and their efforts, by lowet mg the boat and taking every pains to their power, failed to mive him from being r.l roarsied. On their teach- Mg the port the following day, the master of the Clarks reported to the Governor the late of the pilot, tevillying the fact by the statesuenta of his passengers and crew. And immediately after he Lad mode this communication, the toaster and mariners of the brig carte taken into cus tody by the Spanish authorities, on the stiocioas charge of murdeting the utifortutrate man, and committed to clove custody. They in vain offered to attest their innocence, and Bleu failed in all their endeavours to procure u trial. The British Consul, Mr. Stuart Bruce. whose conduct through out the whole Isusittess was in the highest degree creditable to him, was refused access to them from the 07th April to the 10th July, 1818,, and the un. happy prisoners were kept .utterielic under the greatest privations. The British Consul, as he would sheer in the sequel. transmitted to the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Castlereagh) au account of tot trausectism, and complained that this was not au isolated cave of cruelty un the part of the Spa. Mar authorities, for that be had before written to Iris Lordship respecting the cruel and rigorossh con tiagannt of Hubert Clarke, the muter of a Dub. t t ' lirt•veise7, also wag then it t All throe repre•etsiati 111 l , (Mr. Mame) knew they were enforPed wi rioted weight by the Nob le Lora opipiorettr. t the medium of the Militia A .1111111111111114' in MI111111(!, I% MC merle in ' vino, and the unfortunate men were will stoking unde► their rigorous entihnement. and nothiog but the strength of their 111 l s ',resented them from falling v.c.inis in their ill treatinesit. (1•t the 85,11 of October. ISIS. the ship *lnch wag detain• ell by the Spanish authorities broke from he► moor. n ix% I.evame orrckeil uti the cosi,. and seised as pronS of the Goveribinesit. The Hon. Member then read the folios/mg extracts from the letters which pasrd on the 0CC461011, to skew the house still more strongly the importance of doing justice to these poor men:— .1 ' PRISONS IN THE. FORT OP SAN FELIPF. " Piot Omar*, Teswriffe, May 28, 1619. " 211111—Lawysishong ruder an unjust inapriswissmut of upwards of thittero oimilles' duration, in s foreign country, and subjected to every hardship and privation and insult ihal cad be supposed to attach to individuals ender oar ter emnstasorro, accused of the airorMaps crime of sword. r ; she undervigned, late Master and Mariners of she brig Charles, of Aberdeen, have nu other resource bill In appeal to you as she 'Representative of leech place of aativisy, is the supreme tribunal of their coislitry, inelstunng yam to lay their cave before Parliament, to'hbliaie fOr the, the jostiee and rearms they have so lout in vans implored here. " We enclose lo you for bat purpose copies of rundry jormilegili, as per oreompanyiag teats, demonstrating oar inisurer.ce of ibis imposed crime; mid proving the sigualice suit cruelty which we have suffered muter a protriie•ed acid 'oppressive imprisonmeed, while oar pretended trial is post. poised Hader frivolous prelexia. We appeal also lei our country for indemnification for She total 1,4. or our properly, and that of the owners of our said •earl, lie Charles, of Aberdeen, totally wrecked •lo las under the unjust seizure of Shia G r iee-aui•ei, Cu wor e fully set forth in 'he said documents. %Ve have the honour to be, Sir, " Yuan MOM obedieni humble servant., " Robert Prods?, Master ; Joseph M•lniyrc, Mate; /oho Turnbull, Seaman; James Moshe, Seaman ; John Taylor, &amiss ; William Aria; and James Gordon. " To Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P." Nitrite's frail' /As kritisA Censure dispel...hes lowa : "She yea tined that tosolsted on Monday the 27th. *hew nottert Brodie, the twister, immediately tnAe ur 'kWe lu give notice to the Governor of this melancholy occurrence un board his verse!. Brodie was fin timid§ ordered to rinse confinement by the Governor of Purt Oriatavit, and de prived of all commoniestion with me or any other person, in which situst he still icinaius. Proceedings were then instituted against Inn, by secret examination of witnesves. I have demanded officially to be present while the evidence was given, but have beets refused. On Sunday last, the 10. h of May, the Guvermw, accompanied by a mewl, went to board the Charles, without having made any communication to me, and after prising anti placing the vessel smiler reques- Oration, he put a Sluttish crew un board, and brought the littlish mate and seamen on shore, as prisoners, under • guinea, comm . g them in close couhuement in the dun geons of Fort St. Philip. Arainsl these violent and undue proceeding', I have solemnly protested, and offered the strongest reentmstratices, boil, to the subordinate antburitits at Port Geneva, and to the Copulas-General of the Pro vince; but, as usual, ineffectually. " Is • ease of this nature, where British eithjects are ac cused of crime so atrocious, and against whom convenient ly the strongest prejndices are entertained, it cannot escape your Lordship's observation, how essentially their cause is injured by soy arbitrary exclusion huts their trial, and by the prohibition of my holding any communication with them, thus depriving them of the defence sad protection in truded to be provided for British subjects, by my official 19.• intuition. Without the presence of the Consul of their country they can neither have security for the faithful trans lotion of their evidence, nor the mean' of comainsuieation _ . with the lawye► intiusted with their dense*. " Is this just &mama, however, I have so hope of sue reeding, nor ca■ I expect in this or similar eases here to have it io my power to afford protection ur aid to his Ms. j•aly's subjecis aggrieved ill their persons or interests by obtaining for them a prompt and upright admiisistration of justice, and due observance of isefl ire, without your Lord ship's support, which I humbly solicit, to direct the corsair tics' iOn rif such strut orders from tire Ring of Spsia lu the Captain General aid other aStborities here, as will secure me from the perpetual oledructions 1 meat with in the exe cution of my official duties. (Signed) " G. STUART BRUCE." BRITISH CONSULATE, CANARY ISLANDS. " Tateriffe, October 11, 1819. " St*-1 last addreased ,nu 171 h July, on the subject of the mower mid crew (named per margin) of the late twig Charles, of Aberdeen, Impri►oned hire in April, 1118, on • false accusation of murder; and I hare now •gain to slate, fur the information of his Excellency the Ambassador, that these individuals are still (atter • lapse of eighteen lesunths) In curliness'st in the furl of Sass Felipe, near Putt Orulava, in this Island. a Being for many nermilis wiilloirt any notice of my name. ►ons ►rprrsrntslions on Ibts distressing case, I ant ignorant nhat steps base been taken I.y his Excellency iu behalf of these much injareJ British sub:vela. " laformatiun has out yet been forwarded; when it shall be, I am at a hiss to conceive by what uniarepreseutations she authorities here can justify the wanton cruelty three un irwiug.ase people have experienced, or reconcile, with the professed purpwies of public justice sod fair trial, the facts, lorg since is possession of the Ambassador, viz. the arrest of these primmer' its April, ISIS, without the smallest ground of suspicion ; their solitary and separate strict ism prisonmest for upwards of six weeks, deprived of all cum entsuicatitio with me, or wish any friend or legal adviser ; their iocret exaruinatiou, on oath, at the 'milestone of that time, deserved the advice aid protection' of their Consul, or army legal advisers ; the refusal to maiatat■ the said master and crew during their inepriso. meat, maul to be for porpoises of public justire ; the seiaure, by military force, of their vessel, the Charles, of Aberdeen, also without say commosieatiou brine made to nue, and in the face of my solemn protest on behalf of the °wipers : the subsequelit total lose, by neglect, of the said vessel, while so occupied and touter stirrer; and the sale and approprilitionathe pry credo of said wreck, without any aroma rendered. " It is only within them few days that my assupportell rentosoitrances have obtained for dowse prim:niers the boos of having witnesses examined in their dehisce. Thom exami asinine, as well as those of the Isear.asy evidence against the prisoneis, have all been taken ist private. Is every stage of the prosecution, my applications have beets constaittly nn jetted, either to be present myself to cense-gamiest., the wit nesses, ue to be allured the iut lion of Counsel fur thee purpose. " 1 forbear enteriiie into details of the studiously protract ed oppression and insult that Captsin Brodie and his crew have experienced. No ordinary delays eves of Spanish jotrisproidesice, eon account fur the pertinacious denial of justice to these much-injured people." Throe documents. he said, hr had in his possession for mare dean seven mouths, and from Ares the Haase would i.ee what had been the snfirrings of the Captain and mariners, who ought nut only to be released front the rigor ous confinement in which they were su unjustly placed, bet also, as well as ilie owners, imirmailled for the losses they bad consequently endured. The property belonged to six humble individuals at Aberdeen, mid amounted to upwards of 4,4n01. The Hon. Member then concluded by nitiviug.— `. Thal an humble Address be pretested to his Majesty. praying that there he laid before the Howse Collies of dor Proteats made its the Island of Teserilfe, In ISIS, by the Captain and Crew of the brig Charles. of Abeidota, and by Mr. G. Stuart Bruce, has Britannic Majesty's Consul at the purl of °raisin, in IM said letend; sod of MI Haematite' Irons the said Goma to hie Majesty's Sesselsry of Stale its Ettoitod, anti to his Majesty's Ambassador. sad hie Majesty's Consul in Spain, reapeclisg the inspriliealacol of the crow, 0 sea site's' ilium ad esibatiticot leas of Wie brig Ms, lei at that port" Lord Callnitaeasit mid, ha did sot by say liaises Mirk the How. Member had been precipitate in his mottos; are the contrary, be 4,101 be bad awns a laudable persever ance its his abets to briag the seta In a full investiga tion,. It wits a subject on which, be no doubt, the Hsu. Meagher fell deeply. sad which he was not surprised at his thinkiag St fee the neosidieratioe of Parliament. H e (L or d Castlereagh) bad also no besitatiee Is sayiug, that lookieg at the sereuets of this traassetlee which had reached is, they were eertalely may elms esparle character, he entered in • great degree iota the feelings of the Hon. Goodman reseeding the wesplesioe of the Owe, sad thought it a grave sad serious quiratieo. At the game time he admitted a very considerable Weal hod taken place in the lavemiga. how of this subject ; but from limit was by so moms to be inferred that a delay of justice was attributable to the epe eists Govereaseet. Every body kw, that the petrologists o f Europe had is peers' *sly at slated periods of the year, direct imams of commeeitating with their distant eulisoial posseuiows. The Hon. Member had not hinted at the ap pearance of any want of seal en the pert of the British au. • ilioridee to do justice to these eafortneate people--ou the cootrery, be hod sheen that the British Consul at Tessera, had guise ewes beyond the bee of his duty in densmirling nei into the platen where the Spanish emboli' les were ea gaged is jodicial istveotigatiem, and requiring to see what had hewn the pardeolar coarse of their jittery, for what bad hero dose by these tgibonale they were only answerabk to their own Goverement. When the Hue. Member had lirst applied to him ow the 'abject, be Aspired him the whale of the Alicia, torrespaidence that had takes place between the British sod Spanish Gsreernateula There was one additional decomant, howeeer. which be hoped wield incline the Hem. Member and the House to listen to the'seggeetise with which he meant to cowhide. is the last sower a his (he believed the third) application to the Court of Madrid respectiog this transactim, which be received shoot tee days age, that answer gave the most disdain assurance, and with the ;ruffles' auxiely to do jimber to the ties; that al a very short period a reply was expected from Teireedie, whith world reside die Goverosneat at home to decide um* the course which they ought to peruse. The Howe would therefore see the propriety of awaiting the arrival of this decision, which neigh' now be expected is a very abort pe riot!. They would, he treated, see the delicacy and 'tidiest'', of interposing, while no blame was imputable to say of the authorities of this country, and while they were in the daily expectation of receiving the decision of the Court of Madrid. He admitted the talle to he of a serbses astute, and one which, if aid speedily adjusted, ought to be investigated in • sore serious manner. He would there. fore suggest to the Honourable Member the propriety of withdrawiog his natio* for the present ; if he would Rol accede to that course, he (Lord Castkreagh) Merl he compelled to meet it with the previous question. If here after the Hon. Member had reason to see that ns satisfactory adjustineat took place, it would be then competest for him to bring the subject again under the considered°, of Pal. !lament. lie repeated, from what he hail heard of the c w 7 e sei te a l r, t h h a i is silube lief that ace ern essa ilea ry th, w a te ri h il lbr o p ha il e lit wa s t ai n a e m il iIW d t yr.";nged, that he h a fi e e fillla ho te ped r:ae ror ceew had the reasons be had stated, the Honourable Member wield with draw his motion. Mr. Baounnslg expressed his (-Gunmetal's with what had fallen from the Noble Lewd, sail hoped his Her. Friend would secede to the suggestios, aad slot by a premature is. terferente, when the subject was on the eve of adjustment, call forth the previous question, and that by an &primal sh i tht. cause an opinioa to be entertained elsewhere t►at the subject woad out be catered upon. He begged to take this opportunity of saki's% the N..ble Lord for information re specting a subject, not dissimilar its outrage to what the pre. cut was alleged to be, slid which was also, he knew, In a course of inquiry. la the month of May or Jere last, a ship called the Brunswick, sash,' from Liverpool for the Mediterranean ; while In that sea, she was hailed by a Spa nish frigate, and though she knew not the assign to which the ship of war belonged, ate immediately lay to, had wait ed in obedience 50 her hail. Notviithstandisig this obedience, the frigate fired eit►er oat or two gees at her,sail burr down 10 as to ►un fool of the ship. Two of the paeseagers on board were Mr. Walker, of Gilgarran, in the North of Eng land, sod his sister; the former a most amiable sad accomplished man, whose hitter loss Ira., he bred out say, most poll/nosily felt by a family, than which there was not ■ more respectable any where. A third passenger was Mr. David, of Liverpool, s must respectable GE-oakum's', knouts, he believed, to the Right Hon. Uenticsnan opposite (Mr. Canning). These three passengers were on derk all the frigate hors down, and the sister of Mr. Walker went below. UNfortunately for her brother he remained on deck. When the frigate fell foal of the ship, Mr. David, who was o u Italian, and who understood something of the Spasish loopier, overheard woe of the men on board the frigate say to another, who held a lighted snitch, w Fire! why don't you Ire into the vessel?" Mr. David, ohru be beard this, immediately went ►elow, bet Mr. Walker, Not undersisoding the laugusge, remained os derk. An instant after a inn was Seed (runs the trigite, and the chain stoat which it discharged blew Mr. Walker to pieces! Su dreadfal was the effect npois this essifortunate Geutlemen, that the upper part of his body was literally turn to pieces, and sot cow a lock of hair could be collie-led tu gratify the desire of his disconsolate stater. Respecting this shocking calamity his Hoe. Friend (Mr. Landslip.), on a f ir mer °erotism, put a quotient to the Noble Laid, w►ile he (Mr. B.) was is she country. The Noble Lord proasiard to make a proper inquiry into the matter, and his applicatiou now was, to know for the satisfaction of the (ensues of the lamented deceased what bad beer the result of that inquiry. —(Hear.) Lord Careteoniou was happy to give the Hon. and Learned Gentleman an explanation of the cowrie which ►e had taken respecting this sisetanchuly transaction. AuA when he detailed, he hoped the Hun. and Learned Gault. man would he satisleil that every step had been taken which the nature of the case reqiiired. When the 111144406014 was put to him us a former oceasioa, be slated that he understood the occurrence took place in the Mediterranean, and that the vend had pee to Genoa, where dermatitis, were taints uti the subject. These depositions mere forwarded to Tunis, and from thence by the English Cumuli to Sir Henry Wel kale'', the Ambassador at Madrid. This was dime without waiting for any isalructiva■ from hums. The stswilitsit the information reached this country, steps were takeu to give effect to the previous representatives, and it was require., that • Court Martial should take imme diate cognisance of the transaction. The frigate was then at sea, and no inquiry could, of coarse, take place meta her retorts to port. The muss. at she arrived an sequin., was instituted, bad the result was communicated by the Court of !Madrid in the most conciliatory terms, and with the shear-at expressions of regret at the tact urresevs—that result was, that the firing of the shot was psrrty aceblentaf, sad that theofficer,oreonlins so the tegulai toes uf the Simulate *mite, could nut be held responsible fur the consequeoce. It was farther stated,' that the frigate was sent tato the Ale. diterreseas 'to watch the swarms of insurgent rovaireis which ialbsted that sea, and 'list the unfortunate shut was fired by accident white she was perfuming this they As this inquiry, however, had been conducted not by a Court- Martial, bat by • Civil Board, which siaperinten.ls the saran department at Cadiz, sad as it was to br maisiiietrd in some degree an ex parte investigation, the British wit. ceases sot having bees called for, he (Lonl Cestkreagh, . premed his dissattafactiets at the coarse just taken, and r.. quested that the investigation 'Weld be resumed by a Court. Martial, and that the crew sad paanetigers pis board the Liver. pool ship ehossid be heard before such a tribunal. This lir loot separated to Spain as the course which, is fluidness's, bail been pursued by the English Government, soil the !adopt situ of which, in this ease, he celled fur from the Conn of 51... *id. He was glad to state that no the day this eummuns catto• was Made through the British Atebamadur, it way seceded to, and a desire expressed that the witnesses ghoul.; be seat over to be heard before the U•art.Wsrhal 'spa sew investlg•tioa. He hoped this explanative would be considered satisfactory by the eicio.wad Lensed Gentlemaa. Hear, hear.) Mr. Bistavouatt expensed Ills satisfaction he felt at tin espliastme just given by the Noble LIM!. lie begged so suite, withers encasing to prejudge the parties Row so the arc of Wel, tint lb, frigate bad ballad, and cu mooned