The Sun. — London, England, 1819-06-25 00:00:00

‘ 1, 3 ;Se' I I' 13i‘ A;( 6 ii) 4l re' ere 01 3 014 ,~ hie i 4 • try . eV; 0; 'llff •• 111 6 ;C° Lit/ I ro• e• ~e• i t e PTO ; 01 if • ,C 44 , 41, ~~ • SePaltit's t'st Ahlislinfen't the -. 1“(1 M • • He s h ou ld exros,i. , g the Ibisre "etttatioils of ilie:;e Ito bad described t hat 'tact of is t r ter 'itory as totally tin fi ., from its climate tr e t ;''''Y, for the purposes of culonivoion. erse was the fact, and as early as the yearii°u2, Lord Seticitk had pnifiled out its vti olya foesiit a lett er i n Lord Pelham, Oleo Seceeta , y t he H ome tun'. The charter origi• granted to thy Bay Company to itartl!'" th e For Trade in Aineri:ca pot hat• Cont tot possession of an immense extent . of t...erri totY• lu 'Progress of time the Most valuable furs 4% 0 becom e in a part of that territory, le nt ' it appeared Advantageou s that it shout& he 't e llied eultiy4tr.d. On this groom!, the Pi , ga etors of the Hiol.on's Bay Compatly grant tt”ii the . tract oti the . 11ed River , to hif or i ds , li e ip r ,. ° did not think himself warranted in in laki • .; lig h i s settlement until he ha&aieertained the . iifir ti o le f ir the Company tri make that grant. Eie ehartr before the ablest la i leyers ; and , f •l a3 the tunanimous opiniou of Sir, S. RoMilly, t now Jtistice) Holroytl, and Co unsellors jilt Searl e tt, an d B e ll. that the ' I:Unison's `'Y (-:onipany were authorized to make the t ar t 'I his opinion Was - confirmed by, that of Ministers; arid, if a doubt 1-)ttrl :'eti on 'the subject, it ennst have beet) re ecl by the conduct of the Colonial pepart i flt 1813 . Th e war whit A met ica hay -44 then b ro k en - out ? fears were entertained i rio an Attack On Lprd estaolislonent, i t - ; .i t ite• 13epartMent furnished him tor l o,'"fettee with '2OO sta'nd of iiritt 11114 several % t eCei Of ordnance. Bat another enemy soon j e B „ l ; te d against his Colony. It had excited ibe ~- ; ""s Y of the North-West Company, who be their attack by inserting betters in the.News hiPers in order to deter from joiiiing 14:,,, 1 ,'" % 4° " 15 bi1t. They were told that the neigh- Indian s wo uld tise and molder the col°. 4 , 1; 8 ., whilst the contrary was the case, send the In ;Kos (t. 4..1 came over and became settler's thernsel-ve§•7.-' i t s sr. heat t) —He had been told, that applic.a -to,?1"1,1 been ma de by the North-West Company lz„c' e Indians toattack ~and dettroY the colorly.7. ly e tat • he w o uid not answer,' but he hadSeert 4t,.. a ' u 'ttvit of an Indian, called Kattlewabig, A g ,_ - , l ti "te that he hid been applied to by the strL, s of the North- SVest Company to de-, t s h e, settlement. '1 here was a set of men rtl loorgrroldies, the offspring of Canadian fa;1 1 1 -3 a"( 1 traders with Atirhaii women, whose I : jer amounted to about 1000, and who acted, t t e i ,rtil lig to the education which they 110 0 '`Fe 1t.02,"i' "3 clerks, 'servants, or—lionters. 'These o - collect e d t rout a grea t distance by the pro:. • t o „ t ,? l 'g W m the N ort h eso Copaoy, atol in lbls destroyed his Lor'dship's settlement, .t.i.otitig the h orses , and ring every ipe 7 1):: 1If devastatii,o, The esiahlisliment , having per tl r ''' . 'eweti, -a greater number•ufAtiose people Cl e o "sienibled the. next year, treaded by the . "t the North Vest Company.. Notice of ki vt ; r'il'l and of their : ioteto ions havint4 been " by the liidians to the Colony, ?.ir. Se' 6 l)le to meetnt t; it h as many men as tie cool , ) le r i ect • lie arid his party, however .heing'far in -qii• • thtir in numbers,. were, easily surrounded by der assaildnts, who were mounted, and all who qt ► bur killed in wc_le b hot .soon after. p re ' . tl ' e e'Orisittred-t1 have been a .moit foul and ILZetlitaieil murder. It was painful in hint to 1 1 , 1 E'btili charges against Gentlemen who' Were_. Ip e 4l tesent, but they:were tieress-ary to establish tie r , i rcntuti for ,his motion. It was to be consi-;. j %Is°, t h at ;I le case was not Only a foul tour- • e, bin ea r tote likely to recoragain. lie tneti 'read e : c t% fron t l etters wr i tten at different times 'by .Mr, . Robert tleory, and Ill e‘ elreh ibalil Lellaoci, part avrs of the North S e n t ' io. t :'"olan in Whictr they stye& that Lord te t „ ntly-%! h e made , to. ahandon establish ;tired ‘; I : ) e ' ll i t wonid strike tit the•rntrt of their trade, ( ;scribed the expeditions which were sit,„ ll ) . 'ing to set ant both in 1515 and 181 G, to de ll, I Y B ', l ce Col ony, ~rt the•restilt of those expeditions the ' 6 , som e of the Colonists were allOwea by tt),,, relv. ,atters to return home, on their binding never to come hack to the Red River. I"ch"rd, whose Petitintr was before the to had b een less fortntiate; he hail been se- No e vid ` l4o o , hi s w if e - an d anti carded to vh ere ": 11 iath, a distatice oh eight hundred tio l l e Partners of the 'Hudson's Bay . Comp Any, tOtip, . 4 " .1 of the property se i ze d, b a d` also been ( I, att. Yed, , Ice sante time his settleineot was 111 luyec l (Or the second thee, Lot ti Selkirk was ‘l ,.: t r "al, preparing to repair to the Red Ri -I°Li% iti roue hundred disbanded soldiers of Nlen- Ivish el e giotetit, tvlio hail agreed lo join him. lie Thin t , , I° know o •j cv a Sessions of Oyer and , He • J • , , s • n„, barn held to America, to try those were intended to be brought before a ir trit ) '" 1 to " 0 "1, instead of suffering the proceed tlit,3 (h. _ 'AK on as they had done ? Orie-tourth.of. e - • hdiev eas ed had pot been put on their trial, and F ord e . ( l , were n ot intended to be tried ; and 'wo , i , vl ktrk, after bringing some of kis witnesses I ttai t , te .'"said miles, had been at the expence crf a ble "' j og the m for some years, wit bruit being st ed tk. ' 4) " t the questions in wl) , 'icli he was inte taizo set at rest, In the few •trials th f it had t o P ld ee, Lord Selkirk tad not .b een a ll o w e d t. -(14. •-lt a single. witness, Ile ,thougbt the tra ord , Plltsned to-yards his Lordship very ex it• t le i l ts t :!rY, •as tri4eir lie had wished t o e x A mi'ne • SL eti : r , he was told hi the Governor, sir k; , , , a natitt .. _ )o !‘e, that all Crowo prosecutiops it) , s to ll) cc.nducted by the. Officer of the 414 1)e . an ' ! hits Lordship's legal advisers cool( 14 ' 1 ' I n sur ieled to take part in the proceedings, tot . %`ll " in e 'l'oesees„ .w • •' ka • I leave, it tout apet.., lo th at instance e did not feel justified in 11, t g• h From v_ar , ierts eircionst'attces eppear.ed, SiNentrtb-VI est Compatly had that iuflue.nce ass n eliut l l : n e — tu r t e t r ' 'l3l :t io . t (I-117cl) ( i t n oin s t a st i ci tC 7e c ea i n s d : t i ' l li le el si e rt a r :e ts ics(l:: f aott ' llfl ' ' ' ktislit."ic ` nitli one pe t c on , of t h e s name o f G eorge " _ .hose case was so bad that nobody P"tin " I "in ; but he fount) a better way of ‘'s • o n pretence of being sick ; anti lie on a I ,0 te,giviptYrr t f l o e t r i , d e o ii knew irPgslll'7luhcleiea er7esficieTerri9thihefi:l • • i • 4 14 utt tiette:ral in Canada to be in the. tktr `iisiol; powers which he believ _ e;) "AAA 6ever seen Claiineil 11 the Attori'v".. General dt'lSlglancl. 14ei1.01. tor instilikit.:c, right totto , “ n• Grauti 30t)t Itt►eini 111 extotiine anti oi t e . cAse v a ou n i ber of veil mstvere't. he !tied At York ll'otvu if hills wt , 're found flgalust the iii 'l , wni e . x ! •ecteil the bilis %voulti- be thiovv -- o- out ; but ritiß event lint appepitig i.lr , e ; Cowl was adjonrned sine . .die, and thy wit!), sses, some of ivirornhad he,” nrfiUght .I',ODO 'miles, and had as far to return, were at , once sent to the riglst-4014m; Ile wished to - knox! if what had taken place:w.as con. , ist. tit with-the law of Canada. Jr th e (irylit:_ral of Ln~ latid could nut enter .ry ItOoM, tie ap prehiimicil the Attorney-Getitral there could ba'Ve Jto s tight tio sQ, ii, however, - he had the right to do asitehad dne, it Tight to b* .impartially "ekeicised ; but . tills it was not, for where an actiob was brought tigainSt the North WcSt Coin pally, be Aon,lt,qiiite as diferent course. He then censured the Selisit.k had received on a charge Of resisting legal process. which tie described to have 'been highly improper. He would never maintain that resistance to legal pro , cesi waB not an offence that ought to be punish ed, more gopepiajly in the case of a person . of; rank, and in risontitry but 11,altciyq.izeti,; but, With' all these considerations he would inaintain, that the Offence wits trivial, conipared with the, wrongs Which had-beert conrmitted against the Noble Earl (Lord Selkirk,)--Lord kirk, be asserted, bad done all in his power to obtain a' legal decisiiin on the meris of . the case. He had been anxious that the char ter granted in his favour sbutild come under the consideration of the King in C.onneil. The case might, in his opinion, have been set et rest be-, fore now, had the Colonial Department taken that course which he thought ought , have .been taken. Government, be understood, had sent two , Gentlemen, Mr; Copeland and Mr. Fletcher, to • time interior of the country, in order correctly to 'ascertain the causes of, the disturbances on the act) River'. He could wish to,know the result of . their ettquiriv;;and - also the CatiSe of the distnis,,l Of Mr. Fletcher. He mOved for ati humble Ad dress,to the Prince. Regent,. for copies of all ~tli Cial communications . bet \even the. secretary, of St ate for • the Colonial Depittment and the G•t vernment of tbe -Province' Alt Upper and Lower Canada, respecting the destrontion of the Settle- - Merit on, the ft!''.ci River, and .t.,especting any legal proceeding On the- subject in Upper or Low, r Canada. - He would alsb move' tor -a copy of Hoy Opinionrgiven by..the.La.s Officers.of the Crown with respect jo the right ofjotisdicrion claimed by the Companies for- Copies of any Report ruade by Messrs. : Copeland awl Fletcher on he subject of. time havers_ Lich • had taken place ; and a ot a ny Colonial A c r.,to nip • • l'efie art. lliquiry into Crimes ant! Offences Corti-. seconded •.the motion. He would. have • been unwilling 10 cuter upon !hese state thetits, which he' now felt called upOn to make, had Ikon. Baronet teen content ° to wait for the interrinietion which he claimed before he pro notinced a j9.4lnent ot . ) an ez parte wit; w of it.. the Baiotitt had Said this was tint one of many Petitions -that might .he laid On tie tabl e of 'the tiotiie i but he hoped the Home would decide .not from the rotmher ot Petitions to be presented, hilt !Tool the real merits of the case. The Noble. Earl had beerime a large share•dio der.in the Hod so.!'s B Company,; He thought too well of the Noble Liars jtvlgnient to suppo-,e that immedi ately utter sinking a very considera-le capital in th e t ra de, he had laid. ` aside all Own:Ails ot profit. lie consnlered that lie had a right to tegard the Noble girl as a member of the Hudson's Bay Company.' lie (Mr. Ellice) had taken the opi nions of tne`most considerable persons at the Bar of this Country, which were, allAirectly at va, riance with the opinion of the lloa. Baronet, as to the validity of the grant made iti taVour of the Earl of Selkirk by' the Hudson's Bay Company.• , He hail submitted the case to the bite Attorney- General, who bad no doubt that time Hodson's Bay Company had no power Id grant the land to Lord Selkirk, as it had 'n.ver. been granted to them by the. Crown. lie (Mr. Ellice) hail accordingly at the time given notice that he held the , grant to be nitgatory, and would not respect it. lie then read a letter from Lot d Selkirk, to show how thA Noble Lord., knowing that his claim was Objected to, was determined to enforce it. This letter, writ ten in 1812, declaring his, right to be establish-' ed by the Hudson's Bay Company, directed his agente., where they had the physical means, to seize on the timber, which others. might cut down, and to destroy the nets of those who might interfere with the fishery, as they would those of poachers.. These direetious he would show.had been fully acted up to by the agents of the Noble Earl. He then read a proclamation issued by the. Governor, Mr. Miles M•Domild, reouir- Ing the agents of the North West Company ao remove from the places where they had established themselves, within the next six months. A ,second proclamation directed against them haying been disobeyed. Mr. Mtponald sent a .body of armed men to break open the Post of the North-West Company, wheie they seized five (milked, bags of proyisioos. Mr. Pritchard; the present petitioner, .was then a Clerk in the service of the North-West Company. He was at the post.whieli had, been opened, and he (Mr. xv,oulll say, Mr. Pritchard was the person retiodiad-basely permitted it to he broke open—T. he paid basely pe.rmitted it ; for had he.(Mr. Ellice) been in Mr. Pritchard's .place, having arms in. his house, Are wonld have defended the provisions.. From this time frequent conflicts took place, and if he wished to infl .me the case by partitular fratetutffis of what had• been done against theNorth-West Company and its Agerits, he could easily do. it. He, however, would Cots ter“ himself by describing, hot_ in very different .terms, the conflict which had unfortunately taken place. He then went into a long statement o f the operatioos of the- Hudson's Bay Company against the North-West Company, from •which' it appeared that the former had, after using ,other means to destroy the trade of their rival, proceeded to attack and • raze to the ground tsvo posts or fortresses .belonging to the North West Company. The. latter., to prevent their en. tire destruction, had been obliged to have recourse to meinS of reti't (via tbeit toi) been gi.lsollily 119ivillg161 heir obi , ' I tiie t,f !he (:oloily •ot Govero'or No &itch had ever beets iiitruileo. A riliiie cabwitiv (he clic) 11.. i iwrite it tt> the B troiret), mOre tftalic , titis t epresetii a t had ne‘er been tat abroad than the t, whiCh nt ri it appear that the meo who wete eonortcting .e . cessary sup;dy of provisions to the camits we're ptoccethog to pittack t:;:)v,inor Semple in; Iris quarters. He %vas s:o e that there was nut preMedttate4•.irvenipt to ditotirb the 'COlony ••••-• .Governur Simple might miSeake the object of those he had pursued, ftod in the it rit,at ed 'state of the fe;lings . of both Pardo, that which visaed .(though he latnett'ted it as mitch as the liationercould do) did :trait appear to hint a matter ot Brea' stir/trite. That these was a dispo sition io disturb the Ball 'of 'Selkirk after the pi. racks he had committed, he did ''tit deny. Ile, for one, had been faward .to,advise thOst who had their little all at s . take to defend themselves with the best Means itt their poWer,tiod lie wits ivil iiug to'rakeopoo hims e lf there , ponsibility orgiviu;.; inch o.d4ice. . ile.d.eseribt-d the petitioner to htcve given his evidence very fairly in a Court of Justice.. where he had declared that Ire did not know which party fired the first shot, hitt he (Mr. Ellice}• would contend that Lord Selkirk had been the first aggressor, and had carried. his_aggressions to a height whieli those of the party opposed to hitt) had never attained. Lord Selkirk; according the• Hon Baronet, had advanced to Fort William, to punish a nest of miirderers,. Whet) there, he ought to have contented hintsflf with attesting those Who wore supposed to be goilry, tbotigh he ought tint to have gone so far, as at Sr. Mary's •he was not so - distant front York hut it would have been easy for hin<to call for the interference of GoVernw . firtre. Instead of doing so, he had advanced to Fort William, secured all who were thert, and sent them down the river, a distance 'of-fifteen hundred miles, in the• most ignomiu niotis manner. Among those thus harshly dealt with was Mr. MiGilliv , ay, a. most honourabl e Character. He was treated as a person charged with murder, though it had never -I),ett ati.empted to .preter a bill against him. The Eat lof Sel kirk besides seized on the propertg found at Fort William, and not only seized, but appro pri'ated its to his own use. From an unfortu nate, individual of the name of M Ken zie, who was frequently itt a state of intoxication, the No ble Curd (or his ages r s). had absolutely obtained a iramittlent transfer of 'tJte properly he h a d seized. This individual hail since brough-t an ac tion,in Canada, and. obtained 15001. damages. lie did not knew that theadtninivration ,of justice .there was so detective as it had been described to he; • The present was the first ()erasion on Ohio!, he bad heard a general complaint. brought against it. The conduct of the two Judges who had, -liberated Campbell seemed to - call' for eiiirhana-; flint,' but persons in their high situation ought not to be condemned. unheard, 'The AttOrney- Geoeril, from the circomstapee of both, parties be, log dissatisfied with him, he thoUght it 'might be presumed had acted fairly between them. Whet first appointed, he was retained in England by the agents ot the North West Company, but the mo lIIVnt he lartried inCanatla,be returned the retainer, and had declined acting for the North-Neat Com; pany. He entered into a variety of derails con nected with I he arrangements Of. the Colony, and took , an opportititity of expressing a hope that it, would not he or,decs•Ood that when lie Lou merly spoke of the conflicts likely to take place, that lie had at all anticipated the scenes witnessed on the • Red River. The case of Lord irk had been brought forward with every advantage, as be had posSessed himself of all the private 'papers that • could serve hint . , by.the seizure a! Fort William, or by the beibery of Iris-agents. He wished the question between the two Companies set at rest, by a legal decision in this country. He bad direc;ed prosecutions to be instituted' against Mr.- M`Donald ; but the idea ot, the late Attorney-General had.been, that though be could bring an action for damages, be could nut prose cute him criminally for his felonies. Ile viewed the proceedings *.sPliielt:had taken place to be Such as deserved the character of •a civil war. Nothiug had been done that ought to be called a Marder, except in., one instance, where the foal) * bad. been convicted, and might perhaps have been executed. kle wished' to God that every cold-bieloded mur derer might be brought to punislitnehr; -b-titthe violent pr.creedings. w7.ichltati actually taken place seemed to proceed, for the most part,,frorp remrOraty ir; . itatinn, and, as be - had - already slated, merited hot the character of a Civil Wa Mr. SCARLETT said, as to the question'whieh had arisen as to the conduct of • the person . called Lord Selkirk's Governor, he could not understand how any man of common sense could ,suppose that this Governor Macdonald had been guilty of a felony: The truth was, that the whole offence. of the Governor consisted in acting under a mistaken idea of the extent of his authority, The great burden of Lord Selkirk's offence consisted in his having established some sort of authority in his colony. He could not see what offence there was in establishing some sort of government or autho rity for regtilating; . a village of 100 inhabitants, on the Red :River. He concluded by an eulogy on the general conduct of Lord Selkirk in the mat ters, in question. • • Mr. W. made some remarks on the out rages which had taken place during the contest between' Lord Selkirk anti the North-West Com pany, and blamed the conduct of Government in having postponed ,(oo;withstanding that Noble man's repeated applications) to supply Lord Sel kirk with 'any 'opinion as to the lev.,aiity of his proceedings, though they had in the fitst instance sanctioned his undertaking, But the great question in this elite was not whether Lord Selkirk or Sir Simon Maegillivray was in the right, but whe ther a tract of ,country, far wore extensive than Great Britain, and a great part of it as fertile, should be left a waste, occupied only by half breeds, hoishrtas, and wild beasts. He trusted that this question when it was' brought fairly he- . fore ti.e ijouse would be properly discussed. But he could not conclude without expressing his per that if Government had attended to the iiplictitiOtis of Lord Selkirk, or the North West Cwnpany, by-sending the instructions which wer e 're~uireci, tic misChieri which lipti , s . ccurted might ilAr - e been %IViilde'fi EL - LICR KENNET he htleVi , the 001.0' ner ter be SO feFpect:ll)l , raiiriloiteit a ni..ti; th ! it be was in— (if . ptit!ihg'his signAlltre tn-any statement which he d i not hrlieve he trite. Ile no hen Wayne the §tip,lpetiess of the ,C 4,1 dii.s . l De fuent:in tie;zlertitig to tin that which ihty ti;i4 liierlged thrmsel4e-4 it) do, narnel, to Sen.! ow he cipinittu of the :'\ttornry aii(l If the statement ppl)khet: 1... y the inc.,,(l. of Lott( wks tear', there-wpis evitleptiv well a ctse iiiatie wit'aganise the Liw Alitil..ri tir§ in calimlA, reilitiretl iftiffictitAte re d ie s. Ile pANsetl it,vrartn encominni on Sir. Peiegrine Mr. GouLifif sAitl, lie was happy to be re-• Hexed from the Ileet•Stilly to tite con. eSI bet‘..een Selk ilk awl the North kV:vst Unnipatty,, farther as 'coneerucd die charges agriiii , t his MaOq's . Government ! These chayges , Arere, first, that of partiality to one parttar ,)ther ; and soeondly, that of neglecting _to take proper ste . ps to prevent and suppress the cotta}'' itt Lipper Canada. As ro the second charge, it et ould be 'heedless for hint to gO fulther'-back than the first. in!itnation ,of Lord Selkirk to the Colonial pepartAnt:ut, .uf his intentiyn of forming an Agri... ctiltural Settletnent its iheinterior of Notch Ante rici. But in that-intimation therewas nothing to giver any reason to Supposie that the,Noble Lord's projects would interfere with the: Oropertics or rights of any persons . in . that cootitry. The Noble Lord stated that a military f.'rce would, be desirable for the protection, of his settlement. There was no ortwillingoes.s .on C.C. part 9f Go- vernment to comply with this request for military force, and the Governor of the province was in. sit:tided to supply troops.. Bat the Governor is reply to this older made such representa,tions as _showed the impossibility of complying with it . ; but he made the only other arrangement which seemed desirable or likely to be effectual. Sir Gordon Drummond (the Governor) inforincd Lord Selkirk of the reasons which made it im practicable to protect the settlement by a mili tary force, and received a reply in August 1815 from Lord Selkirk's agents, approving of the mea sures which he had adopted to supply the want of military force. In 1816 the great Outrages took pleee, and the Whole' tract of country in . question was agitated by a civil war. The•step adopted by the Governor on this occasion was the Wiest that cosild :have been resorted to. - He re voked alt the warrants by which any of the,con t.er Ling parties ,bad been made. Justices of the Peace, sitd a ppointed two Commissioners to get into 'the interior to collect evidence. This , commission. was - executed 'OS st4edilso as ,possible. When the House saw the• detailed Report of these .Commissioners, he was sure they •would agree that flier had exectried Nheii , ducies impartially. It bad been said that the .GoVernment bad not acted impartially towards Lord Selkirk, in choosing hint as the first object of legaVprosecUtion. But it was necessary to re -6)11(.0, .titat , When a warrant %vas sent to Lord Selkirk,,instead of obeying it, he imprisoned the prrson sent to execute it. Where the object. was. to Turrish violations of the law, it most be seen that in so flagrant a case it Was impassible or the Governor to proceed immediately to prosecute the offence. The Hot!. Gcndent,in then detailed the circumstances attending the various trials, and said, that it had been found that the population of. INlontreal were so universally prejudiced on the: various questions at issue in favour of one party. or the other, that it was impossible to find Grand Jury there that could be reasonably de pended upon. But there was not the bast gi.ound. lor:wny charge of partiality against the Judicial.' Anthorities. Mr. BENNET explained. Sir JAMES MosTGomaitY, after what had been s'aid by the Hon. Member who had sat down (Mr: Gunlbnin), could not help stating, that he hail : relosyd to hint the inspection or copy of certain papers. He was by no means satisfied with tht cause of delay. . . Mr. ELLICE was glad that it had been proved that Government. had not been a party to the transactions complained of. The Amendment wag carried. Several other motions for copies of papers were put and carried, as an:ended. • HIS'.I\IAJESTY AND SUCCESSORS'. Leave was given to bring- in a, Nit to amenit and explain.certain Acts for the Disposition of the Personal Property Of his Majesty and Suc cessors. Mr.'C. \VYNNE condemned Minlitera for bring.: log forward important measures at this late period of the Session, at so late an hour, and in so thin a Rouse. it would have been more honourable for them to have offered thesesobjeCts tor discus sion at an early part, of the Session, than to have smuggled them as ~ , i‘ t -Were through the ,HOusel at so unbeasitha'ble‘aphour. IRISH SESSIONS OF THE PEACE. , The General ,Svsstoip% of . Peace (Ircland) Bin was read the second time, and after a short mon-- versation, its whiCh Mr. Croker, Mr. C. Grant, Mr. Wynn,.Mr. R.,Mart in, and Mr. R. Peel took a part, respecting an inceense of salary to. the Assistant Barristers itl tkat countty, it was orckted to be committed on MOllil,lV nest. DILLS OF EXcIiANGE. • • BROGIVEX, in the absence of the Him. Member . for Goildiord (Mr, Sericant Onslow), brought' in a Bill for the better Regulation of Acceptances of Bills of Exchange, which wits read the first time. ATTORNIES. Mr. 11RoGnFr:, for the same Hon..Mernber, br-nog hi Ina Bill to, regulate the admis.sion of At tornies.—Read i he first time. SMUGGLING. The CHANCE.I.LOR of be EXCHEQUER brought in a Bill for the better prevention of Smuggling, by rendering foreign vessels containing- e o ntr,,- band goods destined for importation' into th's country, equally liable to capture as British ships;. and also to render it -lawful .to punish Britislt subjects found on board such vessels.—Read the first time. The Other Orders of the Day were then di's posed of; after which the Honse -aijourned at Bali-past Two o'Clock is tue Morning.