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propolti+lons respecting, certain Beneficed fic,d wile: Cie: gymeo, hicu, he thongl“, would .go t o ,i,Tect the condlict of certain Reverend Ment!iers of tlint House. He mentioned this as onxio , s for the attendance of these Reverend Loi The Bishop of E X ETER said a few words which tve c onlii not distinctly hear ; but be avowed his peileet. readiness to meet the Noble Lurd wt any time. Their Lordships were then ordered to be sutu moiled for w-inorr. , w sennight. C)ii the motion of the Eail Of LivRRPOOL♦ and after r. short eitlogiom on the Noble Lord's offi cial condnet trout the Lotto CHANcaLLott and the "Node the Earl of Shatteslniry was re appoitt!cti Chairman of all their Lotdships' Com mitievs fhe present Session of f'arliatt►ent. l he usita! vAncling ()Niels Upon the coinn►e:ice n►en of a Session were then made, and the Ilouse adjourned till-to-morrow. [SOUSE OF COMMONS. The Speaker rook the Chair at a quarter before t..vo o'clock.—At two o'clock the Usher of the lihtk itoti etiterei the Ibootte, I ant_ comm4nded the lttettdonee of the House in the noose of Pr. r,. - The S1'8,11(1;19, aceomp tided by ft nit•hber of Members, immediately obeyed the fklintmons.— Upon his ret salt 1 0 the House the :speaker st3g grsted, :hat it would he expedient to resume at a itinsrter before dote, for the putpo!-,.e of swearing in Members, and took that opporunity of observ 7 th:it some Members tool expettenced consi derable inconvenience from pressure of the crowd in their pasrge to the Bouse of Lords. — He felt it neressaty to owe t o the House, that as far as his influence extended, he had'given orders that the lobby and all parts adjacent should he cleared at n minutee before three. He himself, upon entering the House,' bad observed no st t angers, and he had perhaps been less sensible of the pressute than some other Members in their passage to the Loids ; some inconvenience, burs , - ever had been sustained, and tie felt it necessary to exonerate iiimself by making this communica tion to the House. Several Members, among whom were Sir Win. the 1-100 Henry Grey Bennet, Lord Pal merston, &e toiik the Oaths. - The Clandestine Oil%leiwry Bill - was read a first an second tittle ; and the St andirig Orders of lie Morse were read, and agreecl to in, the usual lot • At five o'clock the Sri . ..Ai:Bß informed the House, that the flodse had been in the Hons.: of Lords, end had heardshis Aljesty's most gracious Speech delivered from the .Throne, of which Speech he had procured a 'copy. The Speaker then proceeded to read the Speech (for which see the House of Lords). THE' ADDRESS. *- As soon as the Speaker heti read the Speech, StrEnaanken•KNATcnatrct. rose for the purpose ut moving the Ark d hess. ltr bringing under the consider: lion of the .Howe" M-jesty's most posing Intrti: an - Address, as . wonla beat accord with Ote•gra'ittulc wind' the House must feel foe the et acious language of toe Speech . , and with die warm -and sincere attachment which they enter tained to the !tenon of the Sovereign. He was tree to confess, - that on the piesent occasion, he felt particularly anxious for the unanimity of the Hoonse. Since the accession of his present Ma jesty, this was the firsropportunity afforded to his Parliament of approaching the Throne ; and it was, therefore, highly desirable that the Addre.s which he shunhl have the honour to propose, should meet with the unanimous concurrence of the House. He would studiously avoid the in troduction of any topic which might tend to pro voke discussion, and he felt it due to himself, and to-the county which he had the honour to repre sent, to state, that in occupying the si nation in which he then stoo d ; he by oo means pledge-1 himself as to the cour,e which- he shoold-pursne upon any future question. Before he proceeded to notice the principal features. of the Speech, he could not refrain from adverting 'to the exalted character of the late Sovereign, whose reign had contributed not less to the interests, than to the glory of the country. Whatever difference of reunion might exist as to the policy of the mea guses pursued dining his reign, upon the personal character of the Monarch the genthnents_ of all parties were united. During a long and eventful reign, his parental solicitude for the welfare of his people had justly entitled him to the character of patriot King, and the father of his people. The country had every reason to believe that his pre- sent Almjesty would possess the same claims to their gratitude end confidence ; (or they had received the Royal assurance, that the King would follow the great example of his fattier. He would pro ceed to congratulate the House upon that part of the Speech which assured them of the continu ance of that amity which subsisted between this country and its foreign connexions. During a long and arduous war, this country had maintain er! its high character: The glorious termination of that war had established the security of our Constitution, and it must now be a source of in finite satisfactioo, that the country continued to command the respect of her foreign relations, He next adverted to that part of the Speech in which his Majesty lamented that in the present internal state of the country he cook! recomtnend no re duction of our military establishment. 01 the necessity of continuing that establishment he ex pressed his entire conviction. Whatever differ ence of opinion might exist as to the measures of Ministers, no man sincerely at Ached to the Con stitution would wish to withhold from Govern ment that support which their necessities might require. In adverting to that part of the Speech in which the House was called upon to make such a provkion for the Crown as Would uphold its dignity, and to provide for the expenses incideo• tat to the Civil Establishment, he looked for word to the ready concurrence and to the gratitude of the and be doubted not that the anxiety evinced by his Majesty to mitigate, and, as far as he was personally concerned, to remove the dis tia sses of the country, would he regarded as a source of hope and consniatiuu. 'nese assur ance. from the Throne would bc received with the 4 greater satisfaction, as a report had been moiuse triously circulated that one of the nisi. measures proposed to Parliament would be a large into ease of the 'Civil List'. Instead of increasing the btu delis of the c ountry, a consider able reiltietimeand saZ'leg' - wouid - actinic ' front - id:icing the Civil List upon the same tooting as in 1816 . lie now came in'the" - most • Irainful - part ot the duty which he bad undertaken, and he leinetited the neces sity of adverting to the insurrections which bad takes) place in many parts of the country. — The spirit of resistance to the Constituted Authorities which pervaded _these dist' lets, af• lorded matter of deep and serious retlect , on, Ile recollected that an eloquent Me,nber of that House had said, on a tot suer oecasion, that he did not diced a revolution, but an attempt at a revolutiou. That attempt had been made, and melancholy indeed would have been the results had it utihappily succeeded. The plot had not originated in the disaepoilord hopes of the eon-vino ors, +, or h,ill it proceeied trout a (It'sile to glatify pi ivive malice.--lt was a re44113r, y e as c hievoits, systematic, and in sidious deNi s o to overturn the existieg order w society, by tooting li' Itoni the 111:11115 Of men every princ;ele of morality anti relit:ion. The et teets of that system were but. ion visible , in the defietice wunit tied been shewu of all constituted authority. It was the duly of all men who re earded the blessings of ,oriei outer, sill! ‘vito e were attached to . the C ,, tlStilit':oh, to cppose themselves to this system ; told it tv,is inurc espe cially the ditty of that House to emleavour to bring back the deluded part of the people to a respect for the haws. Government might he to ebled to suppress rebellions, bin these v, as an interest bevoed the present moment, and no per manent advantage would- be obtained, unless the laws were sullered to re•essunie tiicii Ascend:Alley in the hearts of the propie. He trusted that the character itt the people of Li:'nglanti was not chauged,.and that atheism and monerality emeld never supersede that respect for the religious in stitutions of the comory, for which our torela tilers lied been distinguished. That great-distress had existed, anti still continued to exist in many. parts of the country, was a fact not to be denied; and he was satisfied that there was not a merotier of that House who did not ieel irady to remove or alleviate it by every means itt his power. kViie titer these elistresses were to be brought under the constdtretion 01 - l'arliament in ibb Session he was unable to say ; hot at whatever time, or iti what . ever shape they might he i n troduced, he trusted that they scull be discussed without any refer ence to party comiderations. Vain, however, and fruitless would be every attempt to-alieviate the condijon of the people, uhle , s the country were •• 'restored to a stave of trompiiiiity, and the spirit of ! resistance which had unhappily manifested itself Ito soma. diesnos, bnereetle(i by on obedience to the laws, and an affection to the constituted Hil lthorities of the country. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the Address, which, as , usual, Aar all echo of tire-Speech. •• I• Mr. Wtt.A.toT rose to .-econtl the Address, and said, ohm be did not yield to the Is o nourehle &4, teat ink:-.stAist",hslnt `Zirlilikritt‘iklY 5 z R r t s ?: ' the Address ; and he trusted that bo expression . would toll from him which Wight hi dhy degree ten:l to provoke discussion, or interrupt the on . animity of the House. Hr would am u se s e e in troduction of any topics. which "eight tunic pro perly come under tire subseirieht ConsH erat i o n o f the House ; but there was one topic on which he could anticipate the. unanimons,feelings of the House, he meant the demise of our Isle venerable ! Soveieign„ . Looking-at the posiod of his , Accession to the Throne in the prime set life, and the pride of hope, and contrasting it with cue itiod: r itt eic tn ii lc t l s ,f os , e of his life, when confined within the le his palace, and bereft of that sense, which might have mitigated his afflictions, he was shut out from almost ail the consolations which this ibe affords. Whatever difference of opinion might exist as to the policy of the measures pursued during his re go , every feeling of irritation most subside: at the con templation of so awful an iestarice of the instabi lity of !tionan grandeur. The recollection of the paternal solicitude with which he nuitortely watched over the interests of the people, would secure to his memory the *lasting gratitude of the country. Hiti'l eign, one of the longest in our annals - , wits distinguished by an event so promi , Ilebt, as almost to moiropolize our aitrution ; he'alludeti to the French Revolution, an event which ;night justly be regarded ae one of the most extriordinary. in the history of nations, whether ww regarded its origin, its continuance, or its ter -1 ruination. it had tertninated in - a 'Diktat y des potism, which threatened to overwhelm the whole civilized world, but which had been, at • length, triumphantly overthrown by the perse , veritig exertions of this country. That great event had occurred in the actual reign of the late Monarch, but in the virtual reign of our pre sent Sovereign. %Vs had not only the pro mise at his Majesty that he would follow the. great example of his father, but we might look bock with satisfaction repon its actual performaice during the period in which he had exercised the functions of Royalty.ln adverting to that part of the Speech which related to the finances of the coun try, he felt assured that the House would convey to the Throne its.gratitude for his Majesty's re , nunciation of his hereditary revenues, and for the principle of sttict economy which dictated the ar rangement of the Civil List. lie lamented the disturbances which had agitated sonic parts of the country, and while lee admitted the existence or much distress, he deplored the advantage %violet) designing men had taken of that distres., to awaken disloyalty in the minds of the people. He trusted, however, that the tine Waif not tar dis taut when they would return to a sens% of that duty front which they had been temporJri4 in duced to swerve. In aevettiog to the coottetto of those mho persevered in exciting public discon tent. lie alloded to the observation of Air. Burke in 1791, who stated, that as keg as by every art, disatfectioll was proik,igilterl, and public mistor topes Were at(' iihited to the constitution of the House of Commons, the result would be, oinless the plover vigilance mud determination tvai ma nifested- by earliate;:nt, lux is pretended Reform, bat a real Revolut too. He dul therefore hope, that Without callieg for any pledge„ either agwitst ot in favour of any aliOtact question of repte. sent at ion, that House would stand by i s own character, and demotistrate that the NO.t;ic prosperi y was not incompatible with its forma tion. He telt, that the soundest views of littiiti cal economy could he - better-realised -by such au institqion, than by a body merry stieeted tQ re gister the edicts of the people, and to act • noon toe dictation of those to whom they promised Al legiance,. It was the grossest delusion to state • that such a violence to our representative system would remove the distresses of the country, or that they. so tar as they were susceptible of exa mination, could be corrected by any other mode but a detailed and deliberate inquiry. Such a coarse tstis necessarily slow, but it was certain, and lie had no doubt but he might. with such a prospect, anticipate the enjoyment of those ble,s ings Which were the result of peace. In that hope Ile trosted that the honest impressinnsof the sonnd part of the population would soon supersede the t4!Se nollon3 which were eine:rained by otlit--04, MIA stay the progress of those a etations with ,vhos , 'ex• isceure a return touub'ic pro l t• city was impossible. 1,0 adeerti.)g It, ,lotse topics, be ‘s 'shed not in he understood as asking for any ple'l t , t e aro; .iews fit amelioration or tettow which ungio `submitted by Hotworable Memb.rs to that delation of rh.it [louse. It at,zniost thesweep ing aVeration in our r,-fire•en , ,trive system s o openly avowed by other persons th,t he ftlt his duty to enter his pro7est. The Honourable Seconder cm,cluded with an expression of his so licitude for its unanimity in support of the Addres , , nuts had ht en moved, and which he had the honour to second.—(l;. or, hear, hear !) The Address was thin read from the Chair, and was meet ry an echo of the Speech. \lr. T IER NEY rose t uecely• to exptess hitt agree ment with the sentiments of the Hon. :d oeer . a nd Seunntler of the Address. Their speeches ten fier,..,(l it nnttecessaty for him to detain the 'House a single motnent. For if there was any thing in the Speech from the Throne which might' have raised animadversion, they had put so tai-r an in terpro at inn 19)011 it, that tit) nbjeetion could • no-silAy be taken, aud he congrpoolatrd the House and cite Country on the unanimity which pre,- vailed, their all uniting in loyalty to the Crown ; in s opporting the hue liberties of the People; and in setting their laces against the machinations of the Ili"atr - et ed. S:r BVIMETT said, he should be extremely unloippy to be thought willing to diiturb the ex isting unanitnity, and he would not do so, for the reasons stated by the Hon. Gen!team) (Mr. Tier ney) who precedvd hitn. He felt at the same time the awkward predicament in_ which the House was pl.ced, in conbecittence of the modert) practice troduced by the Executive Government in refe rence to Speeches from the Throue at the opening of Paili3ment. Formerly it was intentle4l that: those communications should convey to that House and to the country a fair statement of its hole situation in its various relations, not to be frittered away by being mixed with consktera• lions of respect where nothing but respect could be telt. ‘Vhile such was the pr.ctice, Members' %%A:re not constrained to abandon that line. of to acquiesce in statements which they knew not to he just. He could not help considering the latter piactice as a want of courtesy to that House on the part of the Execntive Government. lie might say that it was the privilege of that lino4e to be put in previous possession of the Speech from the 'Throne. It was the regular custom to have it read at the Cockpit the (lay before the .s.se►nblitig of Parliament, where every Menthe: was at liberty to a•tttnd. '[he effect of such publicity was, tl►at it became the topic of general conversation, and Members came prepared, under such circumstatices, to meet and to discuss its leading features. In feelings of respect and de votion to the Throne and Constitoiion, no man was prepared !ia shew more titan lie was ; but Was'unfair to have those eousiderations bletetid with that statement which the Ministers of the Crown were bound . when they assembled "'Alia meta to lay before then►. When the modern practice was first introdnced, he then, a much younger Member, proposed to postpone the dis cussion on the Speech until the next day. He should not, however, adopt that coarse at present Out of compliment solely to the new teign ; but excepting %v ba t was matter of mere form, or ap plied to congratulations to the Crown, and con dolence on the demise of the late King, he begged to be understood as not pledged to a single para. grtrph. _ _ . The motion on the Address was then pot front the Chair, and carried nernine contradicente. THE CIVIL LIST. A conversation took place across the table, be tween Mr. TIERNEY and the CHANCELLOR of thE EcensQuEß, respecting the airangement of the debate on the Citql List, hut they spoke in so low a tone of voice that we e , ;o141 only gather, that the Resolutions were to be brought in by. the CHAN CELLOR of the ExcithunEit nit Tatsday, am} the discussion (if any) taken on t::eni on Tharsday. Mr. BROUGHAM intioired if the Droits of the Admiralty, the Droits of the Crown, and the 4 per Cents, were intended to • be comprised in the new arrangements ? CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER answered (we understand) in the negative. Air BROUGHAMS said, Mt. Perceval had pledged himself that these Subjects should be considered un a new reign, as the House were precluded front entertaining them during the He of his Ma jesty, with whom in the first instance a bargain had been made. He therefOre gave this general nutice,t hat 'he. would bring the question before the House, though it would be infinitely more agreeable to hint it done by the Hight Hon. Gent!etwin, so as not to disturb the harmony which all scented so desirous of preserving.—Ad jourtird. The Rev. E Law, Minis:tr of Trinity Church, Preston, and nephew and Chaplain to the Lott' liiNhop of Che , tet, bas been appointed Cliaplain to the LING3II Factory at St. Petersburgh. Mottdmy last, about 3 o'clock, the followin:r melancholy accident happened :—Mr. Shacklock. a s.upiletit of St. John's College, 11:tilling in the river Cain, near Nt-wnliatn, on. furtunately got out of ht*drpili and . was drowned. ii iGH TR E.:t. :7,0N. TRIAL AILTPUIt. 01.0 BA: LEY. PIESt DAY, MONDAY, .1211:L 17. Arthur Thistlewood was put - to the Bar, and the . .lacy were impauttelled (a list of nitwit has already been published in this l'aper.)—The indictineue being read, Mr. litteLANn opened the pleadiogs. The ATTrorsee-GeNeiree. then rosc-fhe he said, were it,semided to dischnrge one of the most tutportnot duties that COOlll deVO;ye 011 thetn• It was natiecessary for him to ;ell them that soctt subject dem teded their nio!.t ;serious considera tion, and ht i!i mote unnecessaty was it for him id impress tiros them the propriety of causing, to it with free and I.lllbifriSSvd 114111dS Tlivy would feel it to be their duty to coehae theit attention solely and exchoileele to the etideuce that would be HO.- doced. He %could mot trouble the July wills any lengthened statement on the plescnt occasion, as the lee; epplicAle to (he case e'as so plain, alld the ta,e , weeld be so cleerly established by eel ,dt.nte, that to deotie them week he iee of toe.ir !oleo because, if the orert acts charged, or Bey of them, at least it a sefficient utonher Ot otoits were proved, there coeid rte doubt its the moot of any rational mat. that the ptkont•T guilty of High Tteason. In the indictment Ilte prisoners weir chargeo with composing and iota gining the death of the King, conspiring to levy war, and levying war against his Government. It was onneetssaty for hint to state, that even if the plans of thP parties did not in the first instance directly aim at the death or deposition of the king, yet if such must inevitably be the result of - the success of their project, in the eye of the law they • were guilty of the clime Set torch its the indictmeot• important is Wkih Ihe duty which the Jury had to perform, he might be allowed to say, that one not less arduous devolved upon him. In the ad drrsS the should make to them, his only purpose was to make them aeqtriinted with the charge , and lie had no wish; to lead them by argument come to any cotaelosioo but that which the evi deuce to be adduced would fully warrant. His object was fairly to state the case, steering cleat exaegreat ion on the one side, and of omission on the other. If its attempting to perform this duty he shoold err, by stating that which lie coola oot plove by witnesses, or by drawing inference * . which were nut fairly trade out, he wished them to disiniss sun h s;atemeuts and inferences whollY from their minds, and give that verdict, awl that .alone, which the evidence should demand• The prisoner at the bar, At ther TllistlewoOd,n 3d formed the idea of overturning the Governmen t of the country, and it appeared that the other prisoners, some of whom had, perhaps, CO'° .sooner, others later, into the plan, had coo" corred in that design. In the first instance, b e , would call the attention of the Jury to the con' duct of IWQ. of the part v, John logs mod 'I mss ',Brunt, in connection with the prisoner at tlhe bar. - The prisoner, Arthur ThiSolewood,' had lodged.. in Stanhope -street, Chre•markete Brunt, H.-ch., lie believed, was a booteloser by trade , I " sided in Fox•cOurt; Gray's„lotodane, where lie had two rooms, in One of which his trade will .carried on, and in the other he and hi o ife 11111 1 slept. Bruiit's consisted of himself , wife, and an apprenticeot the name of Joser ° Hall, who would be produced a , a witness to Court. At the latter cod of January, or the be ; ginning of Vehroary, the prisoner at the bar I ' 4" qeseetly met the other parties loeloded in th e ineictmetv, to dehate 6.s the best means of ove r '. or:)ing the Geverouscoo Try had frequen t ' iv asitemt./ed at the White Hart, in Brooks' market ; but at about the latter end of Jail"' 31y, they thought it prudent to remnyc th e place of meeting, and continue titer proceed' tiles if possilo, in the house itt which B i ting resided. Ileunt, in consequence of this vel4 4 being. expressed, had hired another room !he house where he lodged, nominally for HO' who be (he Attorney-General) believed 1 " be a butcher ; but the reel object was to gain place in which their meetings might he held with more security'. At the close of January, or o ' 4 beginning of Veboiary, these meetings bream ° mote frequent and important. They had deter' mint d, that to assasSilooe several of his MajesLY' 4 ,Ministers would best for sard their views. °I this it would . be found that they had.frequt ntIV t e ' r liberated,. and they ettfertaitied hopes that a genie' 'al meeting of the Members of the Government, " c , a Cabinet dinner, would shortly take pl a ce, a° t ' tot tilde them at once to effect their object by puttin4 them to death. Succeeding in this horrible desiel'' it was then their iotention to fire several parts 01 the town at or about the same time, to posses s themselves of the cannon in,the Artillery Ground' and of that at the barracks of the Light Horse. a b ‘ j having, created as much confusion and dismay 11 s Possible, theY elleliehed the vain hope that it wool n be in their power to establish a Provisional GO' verntuent, which shookd sit its the City, at th e Mansion•Uouse. These deliberations were cari tied on with great activity at the latter end January, and at one tithe the conspirators though t of making rile grant! attempt OD the eight of b i- : late Majesty's funeral, when their calculated 51131 their designs would be favoured by the remn ° of a large portion of the military tram the neigh . " boarbood of the metropolis. Nit this scheme II a handonetl. They found that their plan embrac e ' so many points, that they had not men enough t r carry it into e ff ect at that time. F (s For a pell.; therefore it was given up, bet brooding over W ea l sehemes, the conspirators became impatient of ti r 7 delays which were from time to tithe iiverpo 9e " c and this impaiience was at length so great, (I ? 1 on the 19th of February it was so difficult to fi le t an oppoltunity of cominitting the horrible they had contemplated, by aSSassin.iting the v4 b ( te f of the Nlinisters at onec, that it wes detertiv i o that vu the tolnwing Wedursolayan attempt 5 1 . 0( be 111 , 1de In assassinate thrill in heir own hou ses it in the mean time an opterrtunity shonla " otler of destroying them altogether, tit a r-e, nts it e.ois- determined that On the Wednesd,,y some greet blow should be struc k, 0 and lii 'evolution commenced. J Lis resol"" ce was debated on the followieg day at 1 1 "" 1 house, and coefirtned. At this meei'irig. "'" f all rite Meetings, they Wo“l,i tiod ilia , the At the bat hate taiitil a pert ; WaS