The Sun. — London, England, 1812-07-03 00:00:00

~•, Ta-rls. After stating that it was the duty of t }louse to inquire into the state and employ ment r-f the Crown Lands, be adverted lo the Act of Frrliament,.which called upon the first Commis siocer of Woods and Forests . to make a Report once in three years, w.-Ititin 30 days after the meeting of Parliament. This pro . vision bad not been complied with by Lord Glenbervie, and in con sequence he (Mr: Creevev), had fell it his (fay to endeavour to obtain infOrmation in some other mode. He went therefore to Mary-le-bone I'ark, to witness the improvements .and plantations, • for . which so much money bad been issued, but he only saw long gravel walks, and-the p'iincipal plan tations *consisted of boards, v‘ . .hi ch warn ei him from. committing tiespa.ss es, bywalki-agfurther to acquire - the information he desired. Under these circum stances he tho ughtith atParl iam entwasbound to look . to the Accounts for which he should move, as the conduct of Lord . Glenbt;rvie and Mr. Nash, who appeared to be commander in chief .in ?Mary-le bone Park, was to be regarded with much suspi cion. Mr. Nash was .a subscriber of 10,0001. and Lord Glenbervie Of 35001. to a scheme. called the Regent's Canal (hut which might, with moretruth . be called LoriOlenbervie's Canal, inasmuch as the Regent bad not the slightest interest in it) that ran through Mary-10-bone Park., He disapproved of these interferences of private interest with public ditty, since it ttj4ht be nOthing more than a plan, by which an artificiar - e;cpanse of Water should be supplied for the ornament of the grounds of Lord ; and as the process of the 'scheme ought to be 'watched with, great jealousy, he moved . " That an humble Acldref:s be presented to, the Prince Re gent, praying hi!‘ Royal to order an account of all the sums money expended on Mary-le-bone Park, from the expiry the leiv , e 4z-1814up to the preat period, be laidbe fore fill:4 Mr. WHARTON did not wish, by any Means, to resist the motion, but he was- anxious to remo.ve some of the annverited a.tpersiOns, thrown upon Lori Glenbervie, who he would, with(nit fear of'' contradictidn, declare to be one of the most meri torious public - servants that had ever been , ployed. The Hon. Gent. had expatiated much upon `what he called the various facts of the case, and, had permitted his imagination- to range without restraint,-for certain it was that Mr:-Creevey came to the discussion of the subject.unshaekled by the slightest information; he was raiftaken in 'every point to which he hail advertt<l. First, as to the triennial Report he (Mr. Wharton) . 'regretted that Mr. Creevey had not yet- read the admirable Re port which had bee made by the Chief Conunis -coner of Woods and Forests, and hewoulri assure him that it was a pl s eas * Ure, a delight,whieb yet re mained for him. The Hon. Gent. had .called the Canal projected, Lord .Glenbervie's 'Canal, as if it were to be named after his Lordship, who had only a share ;of 32001, out of 280,0001. in stead of receiving its appellation from the per sonage Who now exercised the functions of Royal ty, and to whom it was intended as a compli- . went. The succeeding assertion was, that Mr. Nash, the Surveyor, was Commander in Chief of Mary-le-bone Park, and that he and Lord Glen bervie would derive improper advantages from the plan of carrying the Canal through the Crown lands. The truth was, Mr. Nash was merely Sur veyor, and had no discretion, and seven acres df land had been rented at the high rate of 151. per acre for the purpose ; if the Hon. Gentleman thought k a bargain for the tenant, Mr. Wharton assured him, that he, if he chose it, might on similar con ditions' obtain a' similar advantage. That -.413 to the suppOsed.beneat which Lord Glenbertie could derive as a subscriber, he has for himself and in trust thirty-two shares, or three thousand two hundred pounds out of two hundred and eighty ,thousand pounds ; and by a calculation which he (Mr. W.) had inade, if his Lordship were to cheat the public, as the Gentleman terms it, and instead of the 15/. an acre, or about 3/50/. for the whole, (which is the price already fixed by estimate of an oath) were to give the seven acres -gratis to the Canal Company, what his Lordship would gain would he 311. odd; but it is also apparent, from the proceedings, that Lord Glenhervithas in sisted, to the. detriment of the Canal Company, in point of expense, on an alteration of the line, which will cost them 5000/. • It was acknow ledged by all, and proved by satisfactory evidence, that the revenue of the Crown appropriated to the Consolidated Fund would be benefited by the improvements now effected,-to 'the amount..pf no less than 30,0001. per annum. Mr.WT. censured, in, very severe terms, the flippant manner in which the Honourable Gentleman bad treatedthe charac ters of public men placed in responsible and ardu ous situations ; such conduct could answer no good purpose, and might lead, to the most danger ous consequences, even to a revolution, of, which, perhaps the Honourable Gentleman did not entertain so much dread as many of those to whom lie vas, generally politically- opposed. He con cluded by stating, that the accounts moved foil would not comprise the whole sum expended, whiCh amounted to a little more than 14000/. Mr. CIEZVEY replied very shortly, and dis claimed having used the. word cheat, an'd the Address was agreed to., DISTURBANCES IN BRISTOL. -Sir F. BURDETT was desirous of putting,• two questions" to the Gentleinen opposite. The first was, Whether any steps had been taken to inquire into the case of :qr. Fletcher, the brewer, from whom he had some time ago presented a Petition, complaining of; oppression on the part of the re venue officers ? The other question related to a , subject of much grcater importance. Notwith standing what the Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down had said of the danger which his Honourable Friend ran by his observations in Par liament of throwing the country into confusion, he should always assert his right in that House, to eommenton public men and public measures. ,He had frequently and deliberately declared in that House, that he considered it illegal to call out troops against the .people. It was his firm conviction, that the man who ,ordered troops to lire on the people was guilty of murder) and he was prepared t? contend with every lawyer in that House— The SPEAXER asked the Hon. Baronet what his abject was Sir F. BURD3TT replied, to put a question to his Zilajestyti The SFEA K2:7 observed,that it was not the.ptae tice of the douse to allow of art argumentative question. If sueli t•.n 'were permitted, a de bate would freverttly..ai;ise without any question being before theliome:: • . , . . . Si F. RDF:TT that there W = ere N!arions mode's of wh. ch, if he thought ptoper, lie might avail himself to communicate to the House at once his sentiments on this or any other subject. , - At resent he would content himself with asking if his ajesty's Ministers were , aware that ,there were soldiers present at the taking of the poll at the elec tion' for Bristol ? Mr. WHARTON,' in reply to' the first question put by the Honourable Baronet, stated, that when the Honourable Baronet presented the original peti tion from Fletcher, he had looked into the official documents, and had found in them a complete re futation of the allegations of that petition: He had propos'ed to lay those-documents on the table of the House, but his late Right. Honourable Friend had recommended him not to do so.until it should be ascertained whether or not the Hon. Baronet intended to proceed any further in the business. Sir FruNdrs BURDETT then gave notice, that be would to-morrow make a motion on the sub ject. Lord PALMERSTO NE (who. was not in the House when the Honourable Baronet put his two ques tions, but who entered it a few minutes after) re plied to the second question proposed-by the, Ho nourable Baronet, implying that the onbiliable Baronet had received information of improper in terference on the part of the military, during an election at Bristol. He would state to the House what he was sure would be satisfactory to theth, that, as was usual on all such 'occasions, he, - as Secretary at , War; had iskaied orders that the -troops should be marched out of Bristol the, day, before the c.ominencement of the election, and that they. ,should not return until the day after the.election had tertainated„. He had, however, that. morning rec.ived a letter from General Oswald, who was in the command 'of that 'district, informing him, that in consequence' -of a requisitionyfrom the Mayor of Bristol, and . several MagistrateS of plo cestershire, he had .mnrched the - Eail Middlesex Regiment into the vicinity of Bristol ; but that he had conkdered it ineXpedient to post the troops in the heart.of the eitv. itself, and had therefore stationed a portion of them in the suburbs, and the remainder out of the city, in the neighbouring part of ,the county . of Gloucester. If the Hon. Baront had received subsequent information, eon-. veyinethe intelligence. that.the troops Were actu ally in:the city of Bristol, he wasper.. - maded that such *a step must have been rendered necessary by some tinn,ultuary proceeding - Which imperiously demanded it ; but of such a fact Govei'mnenf had no 'knowledge wbates er. CRIMINAL LAW IN IRELAND, After a few prefatbry observations, Sir S. Ro- IVILLY moved for a Return of the Number of Persons, male or female, confined in the several Gaols of Ireland prior to the Assizes, from t►►e year 1605 to the year 1811—distinguishing the crimes cf which they were accused, and distill gui,,hing those who wete acquitted, those who were convicted, those against whom no bills had been found,. those discharged by Proclama tion,. &c. Mr. M. FITZGER2ILD expressed the great sa tisfaction which pervaded Ireland, on hearing that the lion. and Learned Gentleman intended to take up the subject of the Criminal Law of that country. Mr. GOLBOVRNE made a few obserVations, af which the motion was agreed to. by the Committee from whence it proeeec!ed ; this would give the Committee an 'opportunity of obtaining greater knowledge on the subject, and of seeing whether in any one similar case the, .power of the House 'of Commons to §end - for whatever persons' they thought proper had been resisted. Lord A. HAMILTON concurred in the sentiments of the Chair, but doubted whether, in- point of order, the, Report could be rercommitted. The SPEAKER replied, that the re-commitment of the Report of a Committee was a matter of daily oatuirence. Sir E*BURRETT entertained very strong doubts with respect to the power of the 'House of Com mons on this subject: . if he were a Sheriit •he would not dire expose himself to the legal con sequences of obeying the warrant of the,Ficthe under such circumstances. Of. course, this ob servation referred to those cases only in nrhich debtors were concerned there was , no doubt, with respect to:other pers o ns.. But in the case of, debtors, lie did not think that the Sheriffs was intitled to plead the warrant of the House of Commons, as a banto an action for escape. There was no Act of Parliament which so declared, and as to what Was called the Law of Parliament, he, for his part,\knew of no law but Acts of Parlia ment. As the question, at present stood, the Sheriff was placed in an awkward predicament ; he was between the hammer \ and the anvil. He humbly conceived that it would be the fairest way to investigate the whole subject by way of Com 7 mission, Mr. 13ANKEs moved that the report should Ipe re-committed. Sir S. RomILLY quoted the case of Bainbridge and others, from the Journals of the House, tc , shew that the House, had always exercised such a poWer, and argued that without it their power of inquiry ,would be useless.' , • The' SPEAKER gave it as his opinion that the uniform practice of the House had recognised tne existence of such an authority. After a few words: from Mr. Courtney, Mr. Chaplin; and Mr. Lockhart, the report was re committed. • The Committee on the East India Loan Bill, was postponed till to-morrow. The Highway Bill was read a third time and passed. - The report of the Ceiranittee of ; Supply, was postponed to to-morrow. On the question forgoing into a Committee on the Frame Work. Knitters .Bill, Mr. Hulvm was proceeding to state - some objec tions- to the principle of the Bill; when General Tarleton observed, that: the attendance was at that moment too thin to enter into the discussion, and moved that the Honse"inight be counted. The SPEAKER having counted;tl►e House, and there not being 40 Members present, the• House was of course adj-ourned. MAILS.' ARRIVED-1 - Dublin, 1 - Waterford. DUE—I Cadiz, t Li,bon. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS pAY Al' TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols ' 674 1 Red. Ann. 55i 56 1 ()minium b 1k pr. THE SUN. SOLE:SI (t IS DIC7IIF. FALSLiM AL - Dr.. 3 1.T ? L 0 ND 0 N, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1812. LINCOLN GAOL. Mr. D. GIDDY brought up a Report of the Committee appointed to examine into the allega tions of the Petitions complaining of Abuses in Lincoln Gaol. The Report was read by the Clerk, and stated, that in the course of their proceedings the Com mittee found that it would be indispensable to call before them as witnesses, several persons con fined for Debt in Lincoln Gaol. Not being per fectly assured that the Sheriff would be warrant ed in bringing up those persons, without ,render, ing himself liable to an action for . escape, the Committee felt themselves in a difficulty, and had thought fit to suspend their proceedings, un- . til they should be instructed by the House how to act. Mr. D. GIDDY, in moving that the ; Report should lie on the Table,. repeated the reasons which it assigned for the suspension of the jla hours of the Committee, and added, that the sub ject •was of such a complex nature, and would require the examination of so many witnesses to elucidate it, that in_ any case there was 'no pro bability that the CoMmittcte would be enabled to finish those lahours in the course of the present Session of Parliament. The SEE - AKER felt it his ditty to state at once that no doubt existed of the poWer of the House of Commons to scud for any persons whatever, let 'them be in the eustedy of what officer soever ; •the House would never endure, that its inquiries should be impeded by the resi4anee of any subor dinate authority to such, a right. At the same time, there might be cases in whichthe House would use, their discretion with respect to the ex ercise of that power which. they undoubtedly pos sessed. Mr. BROUGHAM expressed his dislike to any proceeding ,which was calculated' to bring that House into a Court of Law. lie instanced the eve of Sir E. Price, who was summoned as a witness befOre a Committee of the House of Com mons, on:a contested election, and maintained, that the proceedings of the Court 'of King's Bench, on that occasion, afforded a infe rence that the Judges of that Court did not think that a Sheriff could plead-in bar to an -action for escape, the warrant of the House of Commons, ordering him to bring up his prisoner. Mr. ABERCROMBIE was of opinion, that the .doubts of the Committee ought ta he removed by the instructions of the House. TIISPEAKER repeated, that the House had ne ver tolerated such a doubt ; the practice had uni formly been that which he had already stated. The House, indeed, ought to be unwilling to re ceive such a report from a Committee"; and he humbly recommended to the House to re-commit the report, in order that it might be re-considered. This day the Lottery was contracted for at the Treasury, .before,. the Earl of LIVERPOOL; the CHANCELLOR of the Exctiz - aufn, and GOVERNOR of. the'BANK. The biddiugs were-- nisi) and C0.‘15 10 6 Richardson and Co.". l5 3 4 Se:r.c conversation took place'last bight in the House of Commons, on the subject of the' mili tary being called in to 'quell the dreadful riots at Bristol, Sir FRANCIS BURDETT is to make a mo tion upon the subject this day. We are at A. loss to COUCCiVe how any blame can be attributed co tpe Arafjistrateon this occasion, unless the ap plication, for military assistance was unneces sarily.' made. It is true that an Act of Parli thent directs, that the troops should be remov ed :from places where an election is held. The object of that law was to preserve the freedom of election but that freedom maybe Violated' as effectually, by a mob as by an armed force. 'As long as :the peace of a town, in which an election is going on, can be preserved by the civil power, of course it would . he illegal to call in the military but if a' mob, as in the case of Bristol, should, in defiance of the civil power, proceed to destroy the houses an 'endanger the lives of his _Majesty's subjects, the Magistrates are not only authorized,• but it is their • luty, to ap. ply for military assistance. We are glad to find, that tranquility has been, in a great degree, re / stored at Bristol. The fol lowing is an extract of a letter which we received this. morning : " Bristol, July 2 The fear of the military has had the desired effect, and yesterday evening passed without any tumult. To-day they are proceeding quietly.— HUNT, as you see by the state of the poll, has not the slightest chance of success, yet he per sists in keeping open the poll. State of the Poll on Wednesday Evening. Davis 446 Hunt ll7 Polled this Day at Iralf-past Three o'clock. Davis 245 Hunt Total. Davis. llunt. 791 14Q It mry not be amiss to draw the attention of the public to the advantages which the prese:. t low price of the Funds bolds out, not only in the redemption.of Land Tax by such Proprietors 0 1 estates as may no already have redeemed their Land Tax, but also in the purchase of Land Tax, as a Tee farm rent upon another man's estate. tittle pre sentprice of the Funds, money so laid out will yield n early 5 per cent. interest ,and if the Land Tax s hould 1)e purchased as fee farm -rent upon another 'man's estate, will also give to the purchaser aright of voting for the election of Members of Parliaoient' for the 'county, ,if the annual amount of. land-tas. purchased shall:be 40 t s. or upwaidS ; 'and with this. advantage over other freehold annuities and fe." farm rents, which give a right of voting, that it need not tie registered with the Clerk of . the Peace for the County, 'and therefore wOnia 'intitle the purchasers to vote, .if purch,ase j . p.t any time before the Election. This is provide l for by an Act of the last 'Session of Parliament' "(chap. , 99) of which the publicmay not general!! be aware, and therefore we have subjoined an e'l**; tract of it Be it enacted, that in order to en title 'any person to vote at anEleetion for a 24eil d her of Parliament, in respect of Land-tax so nut' chased as aforesaid, it shall net be necessary to 11 3 ° the same, or any memorial of the contract or. certificate 'of the purchase thereof, registered I ' s other fee-farm rents and annuities, or a memorial of the grant thereoi, as required by law to be r e " . - giAtered before any person can vote for electing liemhz'r of Parliament in respect thereof." The PRINCE REGENT' last night gave a sulTiPi tuous entertainment to a splendid assemblage a visitors at Carlton House. Airs. PERCEVAL has reinoVed from Downink3 .- street, to Ealing. Mr. Serjeant . SirEPHERD is to be appointed S? lieitor-General to the PRINCE' REGENT as 3 )4 lie of Cornwall. The Marchioness of IJERTFoRD gave a Fi• entertainment, on Wednesday, at her hout. , e Manchester-square. The Oinriium, yesterday, continued at a miurn of i-..per Cent. • A letter from Memel, of the. 12th of June, I ° s been received, from which' we make the followio6 important extract A traveller is arrived j u this city, wh6 passed through the Russian arrnic s . he represents them as being of the most form i ; dable nature, both as, to numbers, a n d the InariTl c ,:, in which they are equipped arid provisioned. 1 , 1 y/ " adds, that they have constructed f our c utrenci'. camps, the one behind the other, and that ei case of being dislodged from the first of the l ' i ; it is so constructed trmt they can retreat to tl} next without the pos'ibility of their - ceing cut (); as tire second affords ample security to the treating army. The French, at all events, c o , - not pO'ssibly posses's themselves of the four e :t trenched camps, :without the - 'sacrifice at ` c ; ( 1 50,000 men. It is rumotired that France Austria. meditate the partition of the Pras si territory between them." From Malta it is stated, that a grand proceo l took place at Palermo, on the 15th - of May, that there were great rejoicings - to celebrat e L , i liberation of , 'some, hundreds of Sicilian subie c ' o f who had been detained in slavery by the BeY o f Tunis, but were released - at the intercessi° n Lord WILLIAM BENTINCK. When the late 5 i 1, 8 n who made a part of the p rocess i on , caille: °r j ; posite the window in 'whi c h hi s LordshiP v . sitting to view it, they all fell on their knees, g ic e expressed their gratitude in the ma s t impress" manner. try The match made between the .horses S°° bot sayer and Ilydaspes, for the se c ond Oc t° B .- Meeting for 500 guineas, 'is off by mutual °°' sent. ._ The following matches are also off:-- o "Y rt t , against Jolter, 200 guineas; First October N ee s , ing.: and, Ilydaspes against Maria, 300 gain' for the Houghton Meeting. 426 At the Newcastle Races; on Thursday se'nt' i ° / 1 just as the race was finished, the teinP°'. li g stand belonging to `the White Hart Inn, b c t l be loaded with about 200 persons, gave way middle, and involved nearly 100 in the cran o -About forty persons were seriously hurt, an 0 , or twelve most dangerously, several of them .' c i, ing broken limbs. Mr. Redhead, sen. of Bic h c ; had• his thigh broken; Mrs.. Blackbird, of r i e : l l , bottle, a leg and thigh'; Mr: Fidler, a _ man, a leg 3 a pitman, called the Duke, an a "d i e r: 'S. H. Vane's groom, a leg ;: Mr. Moffatt, fou n d v o and several others, *ere Much hurt, but had limbs broken. • '• 54 '• The death of the late Ra - iiinD 16RwA.14' Occasioned a vacancy in the Office of Presiu e- :‘,' the Dublin Library. The candid:tes were , CURRAN, and the Bishop of CL O YN E, and, st r ,' to tay, The former succeeded against the l e3l / and aniiable Prelate, by a majority of 300 to 9 ti, it is said that Mr. and Mrs. C. KENtALE ei) t e ° r' re-engaged at Covent (.4arden Theatre. T 1)-,, td , mer was in treaty with the Drury-Lane lilte as lie could not procure an engagement ' °r f : o f' wife also he -naturally preTerred a renewal, ° t bo' tides at Covent-Garden.' But it is said ais ° Mr. YOUNG is .to succeed to Mr. ETE. - NIBLF,' ratters ;" if this should indeed be the intenu e° rangement, it will sow the seeds of disconten', t o C: KF:INIBtE, according to report, exPe cte ,.;:er , Succeed to the chief characters of his 1 0 % , 1 0' when the latter should retire, or remove t° ther Theatre. , .01/t' At Morpeth,Market, on Wednesday, sennirl.s‘ , we had a great supply of cattle, sheep, a 2 u,: - , 11 0" Being a great demand, fat sold readily. rd,/ many inferior' stood long, and part not s ° ;o r Beef sold from Bs, 6d. to 9s. 6d. per stone , 5. t ing ofils. Mutton, 98. to 9s. 4d. - Lamb , n IN. Wheat from .1445. to 168 s. per q` .l; Aye, 965. Oats, 58s. 6d. to 66,