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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers - , March 18. [THE Timms] We observe with pleasure, that the liberal principles of commercial policy announced and enforced by Mr. Huskisson, in the debate on the silk trade, have been echoed and recommended by a very influential part of the French Press.— The following quotation from the reported speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman has been translated into most of the journals, and eulogized by many of them :—" If for advocating such principles he should be accused of leaning strongly to a liberal policy, he should at once plead guilty to the charge : but they were principles founded on experience, and sanctioned by the best authori ties. In his opinion, to be liberal in matters of commercial policy was to remove the jealousies which had hitherto prevented a free intercourse between different nations—was to extend to each the advantages and enjoyments of the other—was to promote arts, science, and civilization ; and, in A word, was to advance those salutary, beneficial, and enlightened views which were best calculated to increase the wealth, opulence, and power of the country. In short, he was liberal to other countries, because by being so he felt that he best consulted the interest of his own."—The Constitutionnel, which is most. extensively read among those powerful classes of French society devoted to commerce and manufactures, and which, as their organ, has frequently expressed an illiberal jealousy of the progress of English trade and industry, has been the first to give to the above sentiments all the advantage of its circula tion, and all the weight of its authority. It even goes farther ; and, as Mr. Huskisson professed that he would be liberal to the commerce of other countries, because in being so he best consulted the interests of his own, the French Journalist recommends the abolition of certain restrictions on the importation of foreign manufactures into France, because they provoked reprisals 4 ‘ in " jurions to French agriculture and industry."— By frequently reciprocating such sentiments be tween the enlightened orders of different nations, prejudices must be gradually removed, and jea louses allayed, among those persons who are most liable to take the alarm at every proposed improvement, who consider every relaxation of monopoly as a boon granted to foreigners, at their expellee, and wko unhappily act too power fully on the ignorance or timidity of their rulers to allow the immediate adoption of better prin ciples. By a free commerce of liberal ideas, we shall soon have a free commerce of commodities. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Moniteur of Monday contains nothing of any importance from Spain ; but under date from Frankfort of the Bth March, it contains an article of some length, impeaching the recent accounts, from Corfu and the lonian Isles, the successes of the gallant Christians against their oppressors, and the details given of the storming and sack ing of Caristo in the Isle of Negropont, by Odysseus, the Greek leader, and his devoted followers. The account of the capture of this important place may be premature, though, from every intelligence we have, if it has not already been taken, we look upon its fall ascertain; but the authority impeaching it must rest on better foun dations than the calumnies of the Smyrna journal, the avowed and purchased organ of the Turks. This publication, for the last three years, has been ceaseless in its calumnies and falsehoods against the Greeks. As the tide of freedom has set in more strongly through the Morea, its tem per has somewhat moderated ; but still no reli ance whatever can be placed on its statements.— Now, however, that an authentic Greek journal is published at Missolonghi, we shall have authentic intelligence from Eastern Europe, and the Oriental ,Spectator will be quoted no more. [ - NEW TIMES.] The Debates in both Houses of Parliament on Tuesday evening will form a very memorable epoch in the history of civilization. The ques tion was, whether any and what steps should be taken toward the extinction of Colonial Slavery, whether a specific course of action should be en tered upon, with the distinct view of raising the Negro Slave to the rank, and investing him with the rights of a free man. It was the first time that this great practical question was ever agi tated, and in its agitation three things were very remarkable, and in our view of them highly auspicious. First, the people of England, by numberless petitions and other expressions of opinion and feelings not to be mistaken, called on the Legislature to proceed temperately, but firmly, toward the attainment of the object we have stated. Secondly, his Majesty's Ministers not only brought forward a plan for ameliorating the condition of the slaves, but unequivocally declared that such plan was intended to pave the way for the ultimate extinction of the state of slavery. And, thirdly, what is perhaps the most remarkable of all, the great West India proprietors present either tacitly or explicitly admitted that slavery was an evil, which it would be desirable at some time or other to extirpate. We cannot help re garding this unanimity of sentiment as a great triumph in the cause of humanity. It lays the foundation for a superstructure which ere long must arise in ample and majestic proportions.— True it is, that the immediate practical result is of comparatively narrow extent. Nothing more is absolutely done than the forming of a plan for the benefit of a fourteenth part of the Slave po pulation of our Western Colonies. Viewed in this light many of the friends of emancipation .will doubtless regard the measure as maimed and imperfect; but we are disposed rather to look at the principles which are called into ope ration than at the space within which they are first to be carried into effect ; and therefore, omitting for the present to state where the scheme is to take place let us look at is features in the abstract. [MORNING CIIRONIGLR.I Most of our readers must, by this time, have gained from the perusal of the Order iu Council for improving the condition of the slaves in Tri nidad, and of the report of the Debate of Tues day night, a tolerably correct notion of the in tentions of Ministers with respect to our negro populations in the West Indies, and the result which their interference is likely to produce.— With respect to Trinidad, there can be no ques tion that the Order will be productive of good ; and the result would be still more striking, if that Island did not already possess more merciful laws than those of our old Colonies, and if the treat ment of the Negroes were not more humane and considerate, many of the provisions of the Order forming already part of the written or customary law. It was stated by Mr. Canning, that the Negroes were better treated in our Spanish Co lonies than in our French, and better in our F Tench than in our Dutch,—so that the Dutch and English, unquestionably the two richest and most civilized nations of Europe, are the harshest in the treatment of their slaves, while the poorest, and, with the exception of Russia, the least civilized of the Christian nations of Europe, the Spaniards are the most humane. Neither the English nor the Dutch are chargeable with cruelty or inhumanity ; institutions of a benevo lent character abound both in England and Hol land to a degree unknown elsewhere. How then are we to reconcile their inhumanity to their Colonial Slaves with their humanity towards each other ? The answer was given by Mr. Wilberforce, when he said, "it was the misfortune of these Colonies that all the affluent, e nlightened, and liberal proprietors re sided here, whilst men of a far different character resided in the Colonies." Without going so far as Adam Smith, who, in his ' Theory of Moral Sentiments,' maintains, " there is not a negro from the coast of Africa who does not, iu his contempt of death and torture, possess a degree of magnanimity which the soul of his sordid master is too often scarce capable of conceiving; fortune never exerted more cruelly her empire over mankind than when she subjected those nations to the refuse of the jails of Europe, to wretches who possess the virtues neither of the countries which they come from nor of those which they go to, and whose levity, brutality and baseness, so justly expose them to the contempt of the vanquished ;"—without, we say, going so far as this, we may safely affirm that the indivi duals who leave this country in quest of employ ment in the West Indies, and to whose imme diate controul the slaves are subject, are among the least reputable of our citizens. In the Spa nish Colonies the owners of plantations generally reside on them ; and the slaves are not delivered over to individuals who have none of the motives for treating them well which resident masters must have. The circumstance of the slave and his master growing up together on the same estate, must have a beneficial influence on the treatment of the slave, independent of all legal provision ; and hence, notwithstanding the cruelty of the law in the Slave States of North America, we find that the Negroes, from the above cause, are much better treated than in our Colonies, though Lord Bathurst, judging from the law merely, was unadvised enough to infer the con trary. [MORNING POST.] It is unnecessary, and would indeed be supe rerogatory in us to expatiate on the wisdom of the plans and measures adopted by Government with respect to the present 'West India question, so fully and satisfactorily were they developed in the judicious and eloquent speeches of Earl Bathurst and Mr. Secretary Canning. We would only briefly observe, that the Draught of the Order in Council for improving the condition of the Slaves in Trinidad, which, when modified to meet the peculiar circumstances of St. Luck, Berbice, and Demerara ) will likewise be ex tended to those Colonies, has received the un qualified approbation of all parties. On the part of the West India interest it cannot be said that any objection has been made either to the principle of this order, its practical ten dency, or its application ; and by the most ardent apostle of anti-slavery the only complaint is, that instead of limiting the measure to those possessions under the immediate jurisdiction of the Crown, it ought to embrace those endowed with independent Legislatures, hitherto enjoying and exercising the privilege of legislating on their internal concerns. Upon every possible ground we think the decision of Ministers right, and the suggestions of the Abolitionists wrong ; and moreover we are certain, not only that we have the sanction of Parliament for this opinion, but also that of every rational disinterested man in the country. Iu the first place, however de sirable the improvement, or rather the perfect civilization and freedom of the slaves in the West Indies, the accomplishment of such an object is allowed to be not merely difficult—it is alarm ingly dangerous, and must be viewed like one of those experiments in physical science, where the peril of the process is in proportion to the splen dour of the result. We are therefore free to say that if the whole of the West Indies were as solely under the direct controul of the Crown as the Island of Trinidad, it would be as prudent, as it is now likewise politic, to commence with the latter, and let the progress of amelioration in the rest of the Colonies be regulated by cir cumstances and opportunities, aided by example. When the effect of the new system on a small slave population was ascertained, should we not be the better qualified to frame measures and apply them to the great mass of slaves in the West Indies generally ? How much more impe rative is it then to act with caution where the case is so different in some most essential parti culars ? Can any man who has turned his atten tion to the recent state of our valuable Western Colonies—who has not indeed purposely closed his ears, his heart, and his understanding, to the terror of the White inhabitants of those Islands,and the frightful discontent of the Negroes, conscien tiously entertain a thought of Parliament sud denly breaking through all local rights to inter pose between master and slave, and with one e ffort abrogate the power as well as the property of the former, to the injury, not the benefit of the latter ? We solemnly declare, that such a pro posal would seem to us almost as much the off spring of frenzy or ferocity as of fanaticism. The step taken by his Majesty's Ministers well con- 1 trasts with such a project. It impliedly recog nizes the legislative authority of the local assem blies over the slave population, and thus incul cates obedience by declaring dependence on the part of the latter; and while it thereby leaves the grace of concession with the planters, it strengthens the bonds of amity between them and the Negroes. His Majesty's Government at the same time have not left the Colonial Legislature at a loss to know their feelings and wishes on the sub ject of ameliorating the condition of the slaves-- they have set an example in those Islands directly dependent on the Crown, of the best mode of attaining so desirable an end ; in a word, prac tically suggesting the course which should be followed elsewhere. We trust those hints will not prove useless ; and if we may augur from the temper and judgment which the West India in terest has manifested hitherto in this country, they will produce then' proper results on the other side of the Atlantic at no distant period. NORNING HERALD.] The press of debate prevented us from no ticing the able speech of Lo r d L an sd ow n on the South American question. The only fault of that speech was, that it let out too much truth to the Holy Alliance. The Ministers are proceeding wisely in this busiuess, they are giving it time. Before they make any decl ara tion, we should imagine they will wait to read and to weigh what the Consuls may write, who departed not long since to the several South American Republics. —Should these Consuls report that these Repu lics are free from the presence of Spanish troops, and that they have been so for some years, then we should think that the Ministers would make such information a ground for saying that England acknowledged the independence of those Republics—on just the same principle that we could not complain, if, after our East and West India subjects had driven our soldiers from those possessions, and had for a series of years been free from them, France had chosen to say we consider Eng land's East and West Indies independent.— The proposition would be monstrous, that until the independence of a Colony were recog nised by the mother country, though the latter had lost all dominion, that no other country had a right to say that the Colony was free. At the same time English people should bear in mind that what we consider reason, and justice, and expediency, as to the Colonies of Spain—which Colonies she has had for more than two hundred years—will equally apply to Ireland, Wales, Scotland, the Last or West Indies, New South Wales, the Cape of Good Hope, Sierra Leone —or, in fact, all our colonial and other acquisitions. So that English people ought not to be too anxious to goad on the Ml' nisters to do that by another nation which other nations insy -hereafter think o f d o i ng b y ng.— The Christian rule of doing unt o o th ers as we would wish them to do to us, may be as good po litically as privately. It i s very dangeroas' to de part from that rule. In Lord Liverpool's reply to the Marquis of Lansdown, there was one tl►• wig that struck us : the Noble Lord said, that the whethercortehsetonue,g,heicigii ated with the King of Spain or found it. to be a tender point. The Noble Lord that, w these colonies, he invariably said, that he could always better treat with the i t t i l i i in t g he fo C r ° E r absolute King it would be a galling thaol should d y the East or the West Indies, or Canada, at any n te g s l ' and C , " s future period, get the better of us, and pack off our troops, or take them prisoners. If France, Holland, Denmark, or Prussia, were to propose to us to become mediators, we wonder what John Bull would say—would he not be apt to say, " mind Your own business ? We have lost our Colonies, but We intend to take them again." It should be recollected, that at various pe riods England's Colonies have been in rebellion against her; even recently in the West Indies. Who does not consider the danger ? Suppose for a moment that the Blacks had been as suc cessful, as they wer e , some years since in St. Do mingo against the Prench and the Spaniards. Who does not recollect the instance of Ireland, where, if General It __urnbert had had twenty thousand men, instead of °He thousand, that that country might have been lost to England ? Looking, therefore, at all cireumstaneee, and considering that we are surrounded by glass, we should be cautious how we throw stones at our neigh hours. It is very easy for Lord Lansdown, and other Noble Lords, to make speeches about what his Majesty's Ministers ought to do ; but it is quite another thing what the Marquis of Lansdown would do if he were placed in the same situation as Lord Liverpool. We merely put forth these remarks to John Bull, to warn him against being too much led away by oratory. There is nothing easier than to make flourishing speeches ; but it is another thing to operate according to those speeches. COURSE OF EXCEIANGE, March 17. A tustettlam Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam l2 4 Antwerp Hamburg - It Altona -37 .5 2i Us. Paris,3 Day's sight is 60 A Us. Ditto Bourdeauxolitto Berlin Frankfort on the Main Petet sburgh 9 Vienna lO 10 Trieste lO 10 Madrid Cadiz Bilboa 35 Effective Barcelona 4eville Gibraltar BOl Leghorn Gela.a . ..... Ital. Liv 27 0 Malta 45 -Naples .. ak Palermo Lisbon Oporto Riodaitl•iro Bahia . . 50 Dublin .... 91 Coil( 9i pet Cent. BULLION. Portugal (401.1,i ii Coin 1 .0 o 0 pet flu. Foreign (;old, iii liars :1 17 6 New Douldoons New Dollars 0 4 4* Silver in liars, Standard 0 0 0 PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARcH 17. Mr. BROUDEX and others, from the Commons, brought up the Irish Court of Exchequer Bill and the Sugar Bounties Bill, which were read a first time. The Orphan Asylum Bill, the 4 per cents. Bill, the county Jails Bill, and the Army Mutiny Bill, were read a second time.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER'S Writ was ordered for the return of a Mem ber for the County of Perth, in the room of W. Drummond, Esq., who had accepted the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds. G. BENNET presented a petition from the manufac turers concerned in the leather trade at Ellismere, against the Hides' Regulation Bill. Mr. EGERTON presented a petition from Wm. Newton, of Stockport, against the proposed Regulations respecting the Silk Trade. Mr. K. DOUGLAS presented a similar petition from St. Andrew's. NEGRO SLAVERY. Petitions praying for the Abolition of Slavery were present ed by Mr. Mundy, from Chesterton ; by Mr. Pares, from two places in Cheshire ; by Mr. Ashurst, from Bodicote , by Sir Eliab Harvey, from Colchester, and from Rocbfort , by Mr. Legh Keck, from Siston ; by Mr. Wilberforce, from Mon trose, Helstone, and several other places ; and by Sir W. Ingilby, from Gainsborough.—They were ordered to be laid on the table, and to be printed. Lord LOWTHER presented a petition from the Curriers of hernial, against the Hide Regulation Bill. Mr SYKES presented a petition from the Journeymen Boot and Shoemakers of Leeds against the Combination Laws.— Referred to the Committee. Mr. WILBERFORCE presented a petition from the In habitants of St. George's, Hanover-square, against cruelty to inferior animals. Mr. GASCOYNE presented a petition from Liverpool, against the County Courts Bill. Sir It. FERGUSSON presented a petition from Dundee, against the Salmon Fishery Bill. Mr. ELLIS presented a petition fron the Tanners of Dub lin, against the Leather-tax. The Hon. Member moved for Returns of the number and average lengths of the Voyages made by the Post-office packets from Holyhead to Dublin ; and for an Account of the ten shortest Voyages, and the produce of the Letters, during the years 1822 and 1823. Ordered. Sir R. FERGUSSON moved for returns of the amount of duties on whalebone, imported in British whalers in the year 1823. CASE OF MR. PERRETT. Mr. HUME rose to present a Petition from Henry Dundas Perrett, formerly a Lieutenant in his Majesty's Navy. He had had the petition in his possession for a considerable time, and delayed presenting it in the hope that something would have been done for the petitioner by the Admiralty. The statement of his case was, that he had entered young into the' service, and served in active operations for fourteen years ; during which time he was present at the taking of 300 ships, and was thirteen times employed in cutting out vessels from dan gerous situations, exposed to the enemy's fire—and that in I seven of which expeditions he was intrusted with the command of the boats. He had lost an arm in the service of his country, and had distinguished himself by rescuing the lives of many per- ! sons who would otherwise have met with a watery grave. In 1816, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant, and by what was then the practice in the navy, he forfeited the pension lie had acquired as Midshipman for the loss of his arm. In the year 1812, a charge was made against him for receiving money to affbrd a person, named Robert Bullen, protection against', the Press. This the petitioner denied, and had placed affidavits in his hand to show that the money had been lent him by Bul len, but not for the purpose stated. He was, however, found guilty of the charge, and thvee days afterwards he was struck off the list of his Majesty's Navy. Having indulged in those in-1 discretions of extravagance and f oll y to which young men are ' often blind, he was at that time greatly in debt, and none of his friends were in a situation to afford him pecuniary assistance to bring his case for a rehearing before the Court. When he became able to do so, in 1017, Lord Ellen ' borough decided that the prosecution had been erroneous, and that the judgment must be reversed and the individual re stored to his former right. Under these circumstances, the Hon. Member contended that Mr. Ferrets ought to have Leen restored to his rank in the service, and not left to starve after the services lie hail performed to his country. He bad affidavits from five persons to prove that the charge was a conspiracy against the petitioner. He expected it would be said that he was acquitted upon a technicality ; and if it was so, he con tended that the Admiralty, considering his long and important services, ought to have given hint the advantage of it, and have restored him to his rank. lie had nothing in the world to prevent him front starving, as the loss of his limb prevented him from gettin g his bread in any other profession, and he there fore threw himself upon the justice and liberality of the House. As he wished to keep nothing back with regard to the character of the petitioner, he would state that lie had previously bum brought to three Courts' Martial during his service upon two of which he was honourably acquitted, and on the third he was found guilty and dismissed the service ; was afterwards restored in consideration of his services and wound. Sir G. COCKBURN said he lamented that the Honourable Member had gone into the details of this matter, because it obliged hint to expose one of the most monstrous cases that ever existed. This Gentleman was formerly a Lieutenant in the Navy, and gave a person to understand that lie could afford her husband protection against impressment. The unfortunate Lady was prevailed upon to give him money from time to I time on this account, until she was obliged to borrow of her friends, and lastly to part with the furniture of her small house, to satisfy his demands. The business ended in the impressment of the man, and then the case came out. This person was tried, and he understood that there never was a clearer case made out against a criminal in a Court of Law. It was shocking to find that a person should have been guilty of such practices who held the rank of a Lieutenant in Iris Ma jesty's Navy. After he had been in prison some time, it was fbund that there was a flaw in the indictment, and upon that ground he was set at liberty. The Admiralty must naturally he ever anxious to deal feelingly with an officer wounded in the service, and an investigation was immediately made, and the case laid before the Law Officers. An affidavit was pre sented to them, stating that the transaction had been carried on by his housekeeper, and not by himself. This was referred to Mr. Jervis, the Counsel to the Admiralty, and the whole was found to be a gross imposture. The woman who made the affidavit was in Court at the time of the trial, and Mr. Gurney, the prisoner's Counsel, refused to call her, being afraid to put her into the box. The Admiralty had been anxious to do every thing they could in the case ' because they were naturally des , sirous to remove th a t stigma from the service which the con duct of the Petitioner left upon it, even to this moment. But 'I after what he had stated to the House, he was sure they would see it was quite impossible to keep such a man in the service. --(Hear, hear !)—He should not object to the bringing up of the Petition, but he thought it was one that ought not to lie upon the table. Mr. HUME said that all the question was, as to the truth or falsehood of the charges made against Mr. Perrett. He had Live affidavits in his hands, which went to prove that he had fallen before a conspiracy on the part of his enemies. Sir G. CLERK said, that the House might judge of the value of these affidavits, when he stated that they were all in consistent with themselves. The petitioner, at first, professed not to know Robert Bullets, and he now stated that he had pre viously been introduced to him as a merchant Captain. The technicality upon which lie was acquitted, arose out of an omission to state in the indictment that the pretences under which the money was obtained were false. Sir I. COFFIN wished to ask whether there could he any Admiralty in existence so inhuman as to turn an officer adrift after such services, if they could have any doubt about the matter? He thought extorting money from this poor woman was the most horrible crime an officer could be guilty of (Hear, hear !) Mr. CROKER said lie thought he could persuade even the Hon. Member himself that there was no possibility of doubting upon this case. Perrett denied all knowledge of Bullen and his wife at the period to which the charge referred. But it so happened, that at that very time, interest was making at the Admiralty, by Sir Edward Perrett, the brother of the Peti tioner, to get protection for Bullen. And more than that, when lie found he could not succeed, he forged a protection, anti signed it with the names of fictitious clerks. This was found upon him when he was taken, and he himself did not deny it. Mr. AGAR ELLIS said, he must own that he never did hear of a clearer or a more atrocious case, and would suggest to the lion. Member that the petition had better be withdrawn. After a few observations from Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Hume, Mr. Caleraft, and Mr. Monck, the petition was withdrawn. Mr. F. PALMER presented a petition from Reading, against the Window Tax.—Laid on the table. NEW LAW COURTS. _ _ Mr. BANKES said, that up;r - eXamining the plan of the works going on in the neighbourhood of the House, he found that the excrescence which stood out beyond the regular stone building, was to form an additional Court, and being built of brick, might be taken down without inconvenience, and room could be found for the Court of King's Bench within. He therefore gave notice that to-morrow he should move for a Cora' mittee to inquire into the matter. SILK TRADE. Mr. W. SMITH presented a Petition, containing between seven and eight thousand signatures, from the Merchowl and Manufacturers engaged in the Silk Trade, in the City of Norwich, relating to the regulations of the Duty to be allowe d for stock on hand. The Petition was ordered to be printed. COMBINATION LAWS. Mr. HUMS presented two Petitions against the Combina tion Laws, one from the Shoemakers of Westminster, an d the other from the Shoemakers of So u th war k.—R e f e rred to the Committee on the Laws respecting Artizans. REFORM. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a Petition from an individual named Wirgman, praying for a Reform in Parliament, and suggesting that the laws against patronage had better be re; pealed, rather than allow the present system of bribery and corruption which was engendered by those laws. The peti tioner thought the House might consent to this kind of reform' though they would not to any other. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a petition from several Gold refiners of London, complaining that Foreign Gold Embroi dery had been introduced into this Country against the existing Law. They had, however, no objection to a fair competition with the French Manufacturers. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. LEGACY DUTY. Mr. HUME, after a few observations against the revival of, the antiquated claims for L egac y D u t y , move d f or a c opy , (11 any Treasury Minute which had been issued on the subject this year.—Ordered. THE GUARDS. Mr. HUME rose to make his promised motion respecting . the Stock Purse of the Guards. When he alluded to this sub ject on a former night, the Noble Lord opposite had admitted that sums out of the pay of the men occasionally went into th is purse. A gallant officer, however, had denied this; and in conse quence of that denial, and to shew the gallant officer he was mis taken, he (Mr. II.) b roug h t i n the motion. The whole of the m° - ney forfeited by the private soldiers became public money by Ac t of Parliament. Now, as he understood that some of this money in the case of the Guards had been appropriated to a different purpose, he conceived that the House had a right to call for an account of it. He founded his motion on the Constitutionsl principle that no money ought to be voted by that House, of the expenditure of which they could not have an account. th e money voted for the Guards was called the stock purse. ti e was aware that, by making this motion, he should e xpose himself to the usual epithets of " making slanderous an d unfounded charges;" but this should not deter him. The men in the Guards, he understood, had an idea that every Officer sitting on a Court 'Martial had an interest in the WS' rension of their pay. Whether they were right or wrong:. it was proper there should be a n ac c o un t ; f or t h e h onou r 0' the Regiment ought to be above even all suspicion.—(Hear , hear !)—The accounts ought, he thought, to be regularly sen t to the Secret ar y a t W ar . H e t h ere f ore move d f or a return o f the number of men in the Foot Guards confined during the year 1816, and an account shewing the appropriation of their, pay during th e i r con fi nement ; ant i an account o f t h e i ncome c° the Stock Purse during that year. Lord PALMERSTON was surprised that at this time ° f day the Hon. Member should not understand the nature of the Stock Purse. It consisted of the difference between the giro allowed for the men voted by the House, and that paid for the, men actually in servic e . Thi s was t h e case w i t h th e w hole or the army until Mr. Burke's Bill passed in the year 1783. There were specific votes for all the regiments of the line, except the Gaards. Ile approved of all the present arrangements, because he thought each system had its advantages. Indeed, he We s informed that the Guards were cheaper than the other reg,i' ments ; though he had not made up his mind on this subject; Any Return which might be called for by the House would not afgard any additional information as to the nature of the stocks purse. Then, as to the appropriation of the pay of men ill confinement; this pay, lie observed, was a legitimate part o f . the stock purse which d e f ra y e d th e w h o l e o f th e ex p enc es the Regiment. In the different Battalions there had been a diversity of practice as to the appropriation of the morsel' In some cases the Officers exercised a power given to the Se: cre:ary of War, and restored the money to the men. In otheio it was returned to the public, and in others it remained in th e hands of the Agent; but in no case whatever had the moil been divided among the officers.—(Hear, hear !)—But at events, could it ever be supposed that they would act so dis gracefully as to extend a man' s imprisonment for the sake c c the paltry shillings.--(Hear, hear !)—The officers of th e Guards, however, wished to meet the charge, and begged the they might be allowed to furnish the account. He therefor! would not object to so much of the motion as called for an 3 t C ,, confinementl senunnecessary.tto;a n do.f tt T ll e ehree m yf c e ler n ioeeu b altnd : yen t r h aoc cti oc C aroii i: dn ' n i count of the appropriation of the forfeited money. But, as any h si mi a ii d i;jrei s subject nothing;nwma tlje en of the motion according to the alt ration he had suggested- Mr. BERNAL said his Hon. Friend, the Member for Aber' Been, never could intend to cast a stigma on such an honour' able body of men as the Officers of the Guards. But, as the men entertained such an idea as had been alluded to, t h e pre' sent motion was highly desirable for the purpose of relieving their minds. the office to the General GROSVENOR said the present practice as stock purse was immemorial. n i ' s d a p i rn m ar e i t n n i dra o sb f Sir R. HARDINGE expressed himself satisfied with th e explanation given by the Hcn. Member for Aberdeen. Colonel DAWKLNS said the statement of the Noble Lo ra , completely bore out what he (Col. D.) had said on the othe r subject the other night. After a few words from Si: J. SHELLY and Mr. Htr'4 o ' the amended motion was agreed to. to,olo moved d w ot iear: MILITIA. Lord PALMEPiSTON made the usual motion fora Coirl' mittee respecting the estimates for the embodied militia. Mr. HI TME moved as an addition, that the Committee ho power to inquire i n t o th e state o f these establishments, and rem port thereon to the House. The motion was agreed to, but Lord PAL MERSTON objected to the additional words , a introducing a subject perfectly distinct. It should be 0 ? „ 0 5 the subject of a separate motion. Many of the sugges° thrown out en former occasions by the Hon. Member had 1 . 3 `" acted upon. Mr. HUME did riot press his motion, and it was according withdrawn. The Bill for more effectually enforcing convictions by 11 , -I . A : strates was re-committed, after a few words from Mr. D. u` I3EItT and Sir THOMAS BARING. The other Orders of the Day being disposed of, the 11 0u5e adjourned at Half-past Seven. Admiral Sir EDWARD OWEN, who arrived L I Spithead on Saturday morning, in command 47 1 his Majesty's ship the Gloucester, has receive" instruction from the Lords of the Admiralty t ° strike his flag and come on shore. COAL-MARKET, MAncu 17. Ships at Market. 484 Newcastle 17 Sunderland Ships sold 30 13 Price.. pi 31s 6d to 4 v 6 i gl 35s Od to 40_, BIRTHS. On Tuesday last, in Cumberland-street, the Lady of Cllori eS Franks, Esq., of a daughter. of On the 17th inst., at his house at Camden-town, the Lad' Oliver Anderdon, Esq., of a son and heir. ie At his house in Hill-street, on Sunday, the 14th inst. , Lady of H. Metcalfe, Esq., of a daughter, still-bow. MARRIED. j , o ps- By special licence, on Tuesday, the 16th inst., at nib",„ c „"p's• gate Church, Mr. George White, of One Swan-yard,, s gate-street, to Miss L. Groves, eldest daughter of Mr. u'" of the latter place. el dest At Liverpool,' ,o pool, on the 15th inst., John Parrey, Esq. ,_ n ily, . son of the late Captain Robert Parrey, it.N , to 4 ,-1 - a - 0 1 , youngest daughter of the late Joseph Ward, Esq., O f me Onr-hill. the nth inst., at St. Lawrence's Church, Exeter, vy o 've• Harvey Hooper, Esq., R.N., to Miss White, of Ilitisg r lodge, Exeter. 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