The Sun. — London, England, 1819-02-13 00:00:00

PA R IA AI EN'!'. DOUSE, OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 12. 'Fite ltovll Assent w;is noCE:.(I by Commission 1 : e Bill for providing for the Care of tile Royal Person, and the \Vest minster Hos t Commissioners were, the Lord Chancel -I,•r. tht. Girl of Shaft eultury, and Lord Niscount 1 lo• oath!: were administered to the Earl of Putobiol;c nini the Bishop of Chichester. 1 is , Li It; v B 11, and a Road Bill, were bronglit ilool !he House of Commons by Mr. Stuart Wot ticv, Mr. Lawson, a mid oilier Members, and vrail a first time. 'Die Cutlery Bill was ordered to he printed. The Marquis of 1 NSDowNr., in ron.lrcinenre of 11,c absence of the Noble Secretary of State (Eat I Ilithorsi), to %shorn it was inconvenient to attend, InAti,ottCCl his motion respecting the cession of Batica and the Sid( an of Pilembang till :I.lon , lay next.—Adjourned till Monday. lIOUSE OF CONINIONS. PETITIONS. A Petit on was preseuted from the Manufac turers of Leicester, complainiug of their distresse( situation. The t%vo Members for that Town, Mr MANS FIELD and Mr. PARES, bore testimony to the dis tresses and the good conduct of the Petitionerq. Lord G. liEnEsFonn presented Papers from the Prince Regent, hi pnr,uance of Addresses of the HMIs e. Lord I\IOIIPETII presented a Petition from some Landholders of Cumberland, praying for protec tion agitt , t the Importation of Foreign Agricul tural Produce. Mr. CultwEN presented a Petition from Wort , ..- inwon on the subject of the Poor Laws, which, v'tur H few %voids from Mr. S. Boy RNE, was-or (kir(' to lie on the tAble. _ CoLsoatce presented a Petition frota Corporetion of Thetford, praying that ;it) slteration might take. place in the manner of lloidirt.; the Assiies for the Comity of Norfolk.-- He ob.-i-ved, that this petition was presented in consekpie ,, er of another petition which had been prcseoted trot:4 Norwich, praying that the Assizes, itch were F,,,w hell once in the year at Norwich, anti once at Thetford, toigsut be held, both in the spi ing ant; fall, at the former City.--(littered to lie on the table. APPEAL OF MURDER. The 13;11 for tie ssb,dition of the Appeal of 'older and Trial by Battle was read a second time. Mr, DCNMAN observed, that as the proposal to Lbolish. the Appeal of Murder had caned forth some remarks in another place, it might be ad visable that the Committee should stand over for some time; to see whether any petitions - were pre sented against that measure. The law, too, pro posed to abolish Wager of Battle, not Only in writs of right hereafter to be brought, but in any which might be now depending. Though he - did not know whether there were any such writs now dependiug, he thought it would be a bad prece dent in legi.lation to introduce' a clause' having an effect upon suits depending, The Bill was ordered to be committed on Monday. cumEnY 13-ILL. On the question - tcatiiiiCtitlery Bill be read a third time,. Mr. DPNMAtt objected-to a clause in the Bill, which face a reward to' persons employed in a manner forbidden by the Act; for discovering those %rho had employed them. This clause offered a reward to treachery, and probably to falsehood aid as the Bill itself watt of doubtful' policy, being for the professed purpose of preventing the public from beink.deceived in the•pitrehase of articles of Cutlery, he thought it would be hardly. worth the ill example of such' a clause. , • Mr. S. Wotri'Lry said, the same objection bad occurred to the' framer' of the Bill, but it was thought impossible to make it.effectual without the clause alluded .to. . The Bill was read a third time and passed,. .. ' Mr. C. LONG moved fora New Writ for New Romney,' in the room of, Mr,. Drax Grosvenor deceaied. ' The Eseheiiiier Bilk Bill went through a CuMmittee: The Report to he revel Veil oh Monday. The Holyhead Road Bill was read a second titrie, tilid re fen t‘i to a Coitimittee. New Writ wat 'ordered' fat' Tipperary, in the room of Vishiunt . Cahir, now Earl of Glentrat. • ELECTIONVitTITIONS—DROGHEDAi Sir .1. GRAHAM presented Petition.from &T -wat d Ahierson, the - agent of the petitioner, against the Drogheda Election . , praying that the peti tioner,- wlin had not put in -proper recognizauces within the .14 days allowed by law,, might have further t nine alloWe'd to . do • The STEAICiiIt stated' to the House the difficulty in whiCh the Hotise %vie placed by the words of the Act billarliatnent, and the doitbt which arose, whether it Was not prescholtdirinn granting the prayet of th'e petition. The -difficulty Wes tWti foid. In the first place; . the'Act' of Parliament - deel red, that if a petitioner "did tint enter into Isis tecognizatiees - withiu 14 days; his petition fell the gt otinthilsongh the House waa attairirised to enlarge thelime.• Bat, its the present itaitanee,' the' ti nge' 1144 expired before the petitioner ' ha i l xvidied for further time. Could -the word entsftged tie taken to mean the granting u new term for pitting io recognizance' 'alter - the petition in the tee of the law was dead and' gone ? The second tiilficnity was, that the House by law was only enspoweted to enlarge" tlie - term once. Now it Is'appetted that this was one of e'petitions which by nad meutioned to the—House nu Mond,' y, aud its the case of which the terms for.receivingintel lieenee- of the potting in Of the recognizances in Itelatol had been enlarged. Was it then its the power of the (louse, after the enlargement of the hick they had pawed in the former in ..l;•;lice peal!' to ' , vend the terns, when it was said by the Act, that the term should be extended only °nee ?—(Hear, hear !) Afts-r a few word. from Sir J. Graham. and Mr. S. Bonnie, w ye l a ,ibsereed, that the petitioner descry , H• !-ivourable consideraiiun of the House. he" . she first Geucral Election since thr 1.331 Aet Mt S rmed, it WWI dOlibt 1111 whether ire ►Va3 riceinailited w. 1.1, the nature of it. B+lt eettled frotil the statement of the Ca3e, that it Wal nut ill the power of die House, bound down as it WhS by an Act Parliament, to grant the relict . which hart been prayed. It might be question whether this was not it case toe a special act of legislation, Auld whet tier, as in former cases in which petitioners had been prevented from eitternitz into their tecognizances, being absent on public service, a special Hill might not be sent up to enable the Howie to giant ;thief. Sir J. (;ttAnAttt, after some hesitation, said, he tholikt it advisable, as the House could not act iu the matter, to ~ s/tioltave the petition for the present —The petition was then withdlawn. Tire tiiil for preventin4 the employment of f..:lonliing Boys wa, react a first time ; to tic read a around tituc Urn Monday, arid onletcd to lie nriott.d. 1.01,1 IIAMILTON prt•suntetl a pttitiou (torn Wigtown, a , ,;tiost the iyatem of porch NO'! t'INGHAM. Mr. BunyanAst stated the case to the liott,e which he intended to move that the consideration of the petitiim against the electiou 01 Nottingham should be pustponed. Iwo petitions had been presented against the return for that town—One on the 25tii of January, and the other on the 3d of February. The petitions were in the saute words, but signed by different- Voters. The first petition which had been presented W 49 ordered to be taken ion) consideration on the 2d of March ; and the second, which was presented before the first, was ordered to be taken into consideration On the 2:1111e day. Aftiir this, the first petition was abandoned. If the second petition had been presented after the first had been abandoned, it conk not have been taken into consideration till between the '23d and 30th of February, but by keeping the first petition alive till the second was prcso.ted, the petitioners had obtained a priority over petitions which had been presented earlier. This was shortly the ground on which he bad to apply to the candour and justice of the House, to pot the sitting . Member in the Hanle situation as if the first petition had not been presented. The hardship the Member petitioned against was, that the last day on which the petitioners might put in their recognizances was the 17th of Fe bruary, and as the peiition was to be taken into consitteration on the 2d of March, the Member had only six clear days to prepare his lists. lie therefore moved that the order for taking the pe tition into consideration on the 2d of March be discharged. Mr. BATITURsT said, be was at a lass to know o n what grounds the proposal could be made. It had been admitted both the petitions were in the sante words it could not be'said, therefore, that the sitting Member was taken by surprise. The' circumstances connected with the petitions were these :—The agent of the petitioners had not been aware of the notice required on putting in snreties ; when he had come to town, thereftice, he had found that the time had elapsed for giving notice. He had therefore sent in another petition, signed by different Electors, in the same words'as the former. He therefore could not see that this was a disadvantage to the sitting Member, because, if a mistake had not occurred, he won't.' have had to meet the first petition at the time that he would now have to meet the second. It was to be ob served also, that the days between the 23d and 30th of March were full, so that if the petition were not taken into consideration on the day now appointed, it must be put to the end of the list. It deserved consideration, too, whether it was advisable to keep such a tOwu as Nottingham in a state of lento:tit longer than was necessary. Mr. linoconAst, in explanation, said, that his Noble Fliend, the Member for Nottingham (Lord Rancliffe), had been put to this material iocon venience, that whereas if the first petition had been proceeded with, he would have had from the 7th to the 24th of February to prepare his lists, lie had now only from the 17th to the 24th. He had notwithstanding this been put to expellee and inconvenience front the presentation of the fitsr Petition. If his motion was rejected, it might, and undoubtedly would happen, that a first Pe titiott would be presented without any intention of prosecuting it. After which a second Petition would be put forth, the recognizances on which ,might be entered into only a short time before 'the ballot. If the House could'utit fix any day between. the 23d and 30th of March, because there was no vacancy, it was to he recollected, that it was by the negli:ence of the Petitioners that they bad incurred this inconvenience. The fair course for then) to have pursued, would have !been to have acted as the Petitioners in the Camel fold Election had done—to have abandoned the first Petition before the second was presented. If the House should object to a long delay, there was the 9th of March which stood open, as the Petition lion) Oxford would not be prosecuted as an Election Petition. Mr. livrtioßST said, that if the Honourable and Learned Gentleman only wished for a delay of a Week, he should not, though it would be incisti ivenient to the petitioningsparty, oppose it. • Mr. Beouoti AM said his application was, that the Petition should be taken into consideration on some day between the 2311 and 30th of Marcia. -• Mr. IVYNN said, he conceived a Member was boon& iiii"prepare his (lettuce from the first mo• ment of the presentation of a petition against him . . Yet, at the same time, the petitioners, who had neglected to take the_proper . steps in the first petition, could not complain if they were put in the same situation as if that'petition had nut been presented. Lord CASTLERRAGH thought it fair to grant any accommodation to the sitting Member that was not inconsistent with the just claims of the ,Peti liottets, who were but too likely to be inconve nienced by the extent of the delay which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman proposed. — With a view to decide fairly towards both rirties, he thought it better to discharge the order, and fix the ballot for the 9th of March. Mt. BaouGnArd acquiesced in the arrangement proposed by the Noble Lord, and the ballot %%as accordingly fixed for the 9th of March. MILBANK PENFITNTIARY. Mr. Luster NGTON moved for an account of the expenses incto red (or the support, &e. of the Pt:. ititential y at Milbaok.—Motion glinted. The I-louse then adjourned about halt-past 5. We have again to announce the non-arrival of Paris Papers. Two days' Journals are due. Jamaica Papers arrived this morning to the 27th December. A curious contest bad arisen between the Home of Assembly and the Chief Justice'of the Island (the Hon. TuomAs WITTER JACKSON), in consequence of the latter having refused to be sworn to give evidence before a Committee of the House. The Chief Justice, having been ordered to attend at the Bar of the House, justified his refusal on the ground that the Committee were proceeding to inquire into his - judicial conduct. A motion was made for his discharge, which was negatived, 18 to 16. He was then ordered to the Bar again, and asked by the Speaker whether he intended to deny the privilege of the House, to examine him self and ail other persons on oath. The Chief Justice said, most unquestionably not ; he had no intention to invade their privileges, his single ob ject was to maintain his own. He was then on motion discharged,—The Legislature was pro rogued by his Grace the Governor, on the 19th ult. till the 19th of January. THEATRICAL 'REGISTER. PerforMed LastLfht. THEATRP. ROYAt., PRI) 101- LAN F..—(4 St tinie l ,Brutus: Lu cius .lunittl, Mr. Kean : Tarquinia, Mrs. W. Wcst. After which 1 :2 tinre), High Notions. THEATKIS ROYAL, CO ENT-GA RDE7f.--.-The Beggar's Opera: Captain Maelicath, Mr. Hunt; Polly, Miss Stephens. Af ter which (Ist time), Place Hunters. To which was added, Harlequin Munchausen. TO CORI", ES PON D ENTS. For A BRITON, cee the rim Page—For ANALYsts and COM. MENTABY On The INSOLVENT DEBTORS' ACT, see 00V Fourth P tge. PRICE 0 STOCKS THIA DAY AT r 3 pet Cent. 1ied....77k 77 767,- 3 per CeDt. 7()44,1 31 per Cent ..... ....... 8(;“ 4 per Cents 9 7 , n-5 5 per Ct. Navy Ann. 1061,15',i F,LVF. Low: Ann 9.0 3-16ths India Bonds 76s. 77-.. pr. Ex Bills, IN. I pr. Cons. for Account....76iii;,i NIAII.S. Attrtivr.D-1 Dublin, 1 Waterford, 1 Guernsey and Jersey, 1 Flanders, 1 Jamaica. DuE-15wtden, 1 Ilanikirgli, !Holland, 1 France, 1 Lisbon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON lIRIDGF. TO•MORROW. Morning . , 4 minutes after 4. I Evening, 9 minutes after 5. THE SUN. SOLEM QUI DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1819. KINGSTON, Dec. Q 6. On the 15th inst. off Cape Tiburon, the Danish schooner Erasmus, from St. Thomas's, bound to St. Jago de Cuba, in ballast, was 'chased for nine hours and boarded by a felucca, carrying Dutch, Spanish, and Mexican colours, armed with an 19-pounder and a swivel, the Captain a Frenchman, with a crew consisting of 4 whites and se. coloured men. As soon as they came on hoard they drove all the Erasmus's people aft, and commenced plundering the vessel's provisions, com pass, quadrant, spy-glass; and the wearing apparel belonging to the Captain and his passengers, and broke to pieces every thing . they -could not take away: The Master of the marauder was recognized by one of the men of the Dane, as having been an officer of the Mexican Congress, Commodore Aury, and went by the name of Mr. John, when he boarded and plun dered an American s essel about six months ago, in which be was a seaman. A fine Spanish brig, with a valuable cargo, bound to Cam peachy, was captured off Sesal, in the Gulph of Mexico, about five weeks ago, by a small schooner, commanded by one 'Vin cent, supposed to he the same person who plundered the French brig Le Lys about 18 months ago. The privateer carried the brig off Trinidada de Chiba, and sent a Spaniard on shore, with samples of dry goods for sale, when he was apprehended and lodged in gaol. He stated that the brig was richly laden with French goods, and, being a fast-sailing American-built vessel, had been manned and armed from the privateer ; and that she was given to the Captain and crew of the Spanish brig to proceed to Carupeachy. Extract of a Letter from the Havannah, dated the 27th ult.:--" I have just understood that Captain Beluche, in the General Arismendi, is off the harbour, to the great atom) , " ance . of tbe trade. Although there are two or three con_ reties, much larger than a 20 gun post ship, mid several Con sulado brigs and brigantines in the harbour, yet the trade is completely annoyed, and the flag insulted, without any effort by the Spaniards to drive the 'marauders from their door." Extract of another letter, elated 29th :—" Since toy ,last, a very fine brigantine of war, called the Amaranthe, commanded by an officer of great skill and bravery, came out to attack the Arismendi. The Amaranthe stood towards the Arismentli, hut kept at a respectable distance, the latter standing fOr the former; when they were pretty close, the Amaranthe tacked in shore, her opponent following, keeping up a smart ore, nor did the Spaniard delay until within pistol-shut of the shore;and of course out of the reach of the Arismendi's shot. The Amaranthe pretended to manceuvre for sonic time under the Moro, as if to draw the Arismendi into' a snare, but finding it would not answer, she returned into port, having had two men killed and as urauy wounded." We have received a file of Curaeaa Gazettes from the 3d Oct. to the 21st ult. The following extract from the last Paper announces the arrival of Lord CocnßANs in these Seas to join the Independent Standard " On Saturday, the 14th inst., a dispatch was received by Admiral BRION from Lord COCHRANE, stating that his Lordship had arrived at Testigos (a small lilt:m(1 to windwar►l of Margaretta) with tour vessels under his command, and that Sir Gar:ooa M'GREcort sailed from England at the same time with his Lordship, with 3000 men, to join the ludependults of Venezuela. immediately on the receipt of this news at !,largaret ts) (". ; 5 charge of Artillery from the batteries and ve 3° '; .. of ‘var, followed by of hells, &e. & e. ' 9 nounced the wel come tidi ng s to the inhabOn' s s vic t Lord Cocu NAIVE'S Flag ship, a ft igate of 44 ra t : // had been struck by lightning a few day s P re : : to her arrival at the Testigos, and the ((i re° ei somewhat inj u red. BaWN's squadron, 1Yi'4.30 Pampatar, consisted of a frigate pierc d guns, but mounting only ' l 2 rtvo brig ° guns each, four schooner% of 10 gulls " ch ' about 20 sail of Feluccas of one gun each." THE FUNDS.—The flHC(Hatioll 1139 been"' fling during the morning. Consols. cointne"cb at 76i, went to lint again f e ll (0 i , ‘c l ` le c price they appealed steady. 'rile Je` cs 1) , 3 1,0 bought an immense quantity of St ock fur - month of March at 77 for the call back at B°. We may now venture to congratulate tbe i l is to of Westminster on the opportunity n'biee afforded them of exempting their City from tie, danger and discrace of having a Jacobini LAM cal Ito► presentative. The Honourable GBO RGS 1 a branch of one of those Noble FamiFes ,03 Country, who may reasonably come forwarriire, such an occasion, has offered himse lf a 3 a 1 , te1 ; 3 [ 3- sentative of the City in which himself and o f mily reside. Mr. LAMB is a Barrister, fin‘ :' .1 ,1,,e course, must be expected to be conversant wi15,.0 Laws and Constitution of the Country. lie P°sse considerable talents, as well as literary ta ste of comes forward with au open-and manly elv°'''ool his principles, which he declares are cotta lic with those of the late Sir SAMUEL RoM il"11 „; i t or e is, therefore, if elected, which «'e heart"t,l;ri• will be the case, likely to belong to t" ( mate species of Opposition, which , We trilSti oa r always be found in this Country , to `vitc•N,l)- s° the operations of Ministers in all tim ii es. 1 1 1 ;.,„19 Mr. HoBtioUSB. The latter has been p asked what he means by Radi6l/ Refurifi'flu.gif whether he is an advocate for Annual P cirlia .4 'l ll and Universal Suffrage ; hut he has no iilla b i 0 00 sullen silence before the People a t large' tl ( e ttf he is loquacious enough in Ta verni tts :coo" Public Houses. This silence. tlieref" e ' vince every wise and loyal man OW 0,4 1 - ( such a Patriot and Politician a, Dr. NV Al's ()9 ' of V E I o , and or° JoNBS, theVANSBs, the V oot , st noisy and obtrusive characters wh o are 01 (i I - ciples congenial with those who Refaril-e soi;ei French Monarchy into alt the horrors c ' t €l.l l , tlt 1/) principles that, if they could become V l° this country, would most probably, we 0 1 ' inevitably, produce the same event 5.----k" 1 ' 13471 ; a4 of Westminster, therefore we exhort SOLI to ij:;' Mr. LAMB, who belongs to a noble a nd re6l't iu able order, those who have a strong i ut°e ,, s t l ic h supporting our glorious old Constitution, has so long rendered England happy and the object of admiration and en yY ' other States. 0 out --"....1510m......—.. It will, we are persuaded, give plessorei prell Protestant Readers to learn, that their 13refillte in Ireland are, at length, justly a lern d fl i t o ° daring Claims of the PAPISTS to be share in our Legislature, and et the 117d ori cowardice of those Protestants in 'P t rl/ who appear as the Advocates of thos e C. 4161 g°l io The courts Of THE SUN in this ceos e ' ~01 9 ;rite )- if sential to our political and religious • 0 e have, find, made a due impression till°lol° i A ' the wise and loyal People of Irehoo• fop packet of manuscripts has been sent t° 'ls o' ll Ireland, which we shall present to oor Ile a oC V f 1 4 ;" 111 i successive • ' pot (ions, under the Flead n• a c { I" PATION EXPLAINED, or POPISH Asc°l°:tiodi fidloitte% or IRELAND, by a Cituacti of ENGLAND C''',,,, We shall present the first Extract on M°" (1°1 el ° and we earnestly recommend t h e whol c C ,f ) „ the the attention of our Rulers, as well 8 5 I- ig 11 4 : 1 nisters of our Established Church, sit icef e t j ilo` (c ; ing that the example will be strenuon6lY 'tape' by the latter, as our Paper shall be alw a Y s . et / their communications, on a su b j ect of liticti that itatportance to the Empire. fl( BRIG _....--.----e t , it ° O ,l l lITON, FRO. 1 I.—At Sit: O'CIOCA -11 1'? 0000, the PUINCE REGENT teturned 10 , 1.1 1? , lion, ‘, from Carlton-house. His Rota' .-11n110 s accompanied in the travelling carci4g;erililr Dike of Y°Ric• in the course of th e 9,itd `lan, tlie Marquis of ANGLESEA, the Niaril"is "liill',lp chioness of WINCIIESTP.R, and Sir Atcri"tcl.,l GET, the PRINCE at tile l'Bl/lijorl. AI SeVeljai ,Cil ...... ,1 _ REGENT, the D,ke pf islt‘ at cl,ess of GLOUCESTER, and the 11"bli,C ii(' the Palace, sat down to tier jo *" dining-room. TI C t o ll :t ie : e t I c ll 4 l f o i r 0 1:4 i‘ e l ni _it i slite: t ;' ,ge lSetliiltlciQ,i,u',BEN final 01,1 7 .-- riortf: itki;egb g l. o fir o r: i ti: y terminates tl►is "1- : 1 : el i e ll : l a ) t ei l n: ii : . s o i r The I)4,ke of CLARF,NCR is 11 Skillg 0111-'oo° re►luctions in his establishment in li"sii,sr, eNl it h e c I I e Duke of ft;LoucEsTstt is short., /5' , 10t, where great iu~liro~•cui,ttts l '' '' made, i