The Sun. — London, England, 1820-07-07 00:00:00

f ,-~.. k • • ~` +r• ( , ip - 1 - - ~._=-. ..„_,...,..f. ~,* ‘,.. ,t' +I, ~..:-Z•:,' -.'--. '‘.: - , e - ' • , ''',' /' .......• -- - \ - • - i A _ • , 1 chat the ? 7 ,7 - 1 . - '4 ‘ f ' - AO' , - _ . 4-4e;00-<;•e'14:":01 -. ,~ 2 s. X ::~~ qnouov MI need not , $ t "q onourt'b ie .n on t" IN - ÜBIBER (995.1 KOYAL-EXCEIANGE, ASSURANCE OFFICE. 43tablished by Royal Charter, in the Reign of King George the First. • June 1820. pERSONS, whose annual Premiums fall due on the 24th instant, are hereby informed, that Receipts are row ready to be delivered at the Company's Offices, over the Royal Exchange and in Pall-Mall, as well as by their re 4Prctive Agents in the several Counties ; and the Parties as 31Ire(' are requested to apply for the Renewal of their Poll .ei" on or before the 9th of July next, as the usual Fif ,t.een Days allowed for Payment, beyond the dat e o f eac h Po , will then expire. SAMUEL PENNING, Jun. Secretary. 11 . 11 . Attend ance i s g i ven , d a il y , at t h e said Offices, for the Assuranc e o f B u ildi ngs , G oo d s , M erc h andize, and Ships, in Harbour, in Dock, or while Building, from Loss or Da -I:age by Fire; and also for the Assurance of, and granting . ' nn nities on, Lives. 11 . 1 3. Fire Policies will be issued free of Expence to the As 11'Wi Where the Annual Premium amounts to 6s. or up- Itards. NEXT WEDNESDAY. THE LAsT end ONLY DAY, WEDNES. tild D AY, JULY 12, when the LOTTERY FINISHES, ALI N t ,Cso,ooo. RAJ k3o ‘ ooo. L'/.'t, 30,000. BESIDE 5S OTHER CAM/ALS, ankt UWitols. MUST IIE DI,LAWN. • A sa, R e pal TIAZARD and CO. t Ontractors, x••hauge Gate • .26 Cornhill ; 324, Oxf o rd-sti eet, Lim on SH AR ; "'ere WARRANTED UNDRAWN TICKETS and , ittr i -- , r ;. S at e Selling ; also at all their Agents in the 114 443 and Co. Shared and Sold in a recent Lottery, ALL Trir PRIZES OF 30,010 ! And in the I);(7sent Lottery. Cons°' , $ ) a Prize of Mono! besides ICIISTE OTHER CAPI TALS. •EXCIIEQUER BILL OFFICE, July 4, 18i0. T O BE PAID OFF. A., --`3IERUER. BILLS dated in the Months of August ilt M All F and Septemb e r, 1. LORDS COMMISSIONERS directions pain t NIAJEsTrs TREASURY having n gti., iconne d EX C HE t i I L e I -E t : e t r doff 1. S with off the Principal of the above-me at the Ex- I't Palace ith the Interest due thereon, Offic e in the Receipt of Exchequer, ire ,t . July, -:%rd, Westminster, on Saturday, the 22d ti °. attendance will be *v daily (Sundays gl en daya Holidays tx, r... Pted ) until, and including Wednesday, "Ot tett o'clock in the Morning till one in the afternoon, for the purpose of Patch, the receivinghearersofthtehessaaidmeßi the 19th Instant, dis • desired to }dace. . ii ; l i s nd, al f .c or the greater their 13,11 s in Lists (which are to be obtained . at this iee)s classing' them in the Order of their to arlsieeitre dates, such as arc for the same Amount being nuomned _le, y arranged, and specifying, the principal Sums 1 s Interest dite thereon, computed from, but excluding the Lay on which they are respectively dated, to the said 2 , 2 d day of July inclusive, when the interest will cease; and the taiei bearers should they be acting as the agents of holders 'whose names are inserted in the Bills, are previously to pro ar4l. rt the endorsements of such holders; and the bearers are be iudispenSably required to indorse each Bill with their tt.Sual sign l ' - ' tt eres; and to write their names and residence at title hottont of their List; and they are moreover required tetattend the Exchequer Bill Otce for payment, and to %Lei" the uetv Bills, and give the Receipts for the same. .farty of the holders of the aforesaid Bills should be de tiroti. . . Preri::: recew itig Payment of the Principal and Interest, to the said 22,1 day of July, they may be ac "lnotodated one omputing the Interest to the day en which tisininsthotte day prior tittY wish to 1 -. li on he, paid, and leaving the said Bills for exaraina thereto. persons as rimy be desirous of having tali....n whole (Sr in part of payment of principal, upon ortir their Lists new Exchequer _ kiog new- Bills, and mentioning the amount at the bottom , delivered on or before Wednesday, the 19th sttot, may he accommodated with new Bills, payable to , or Order, carrying an In ter"t., " two-pence by the day, on every one hundred iiiti:4ll`Q, which said new Bills will bear date the said 22d t er Y . O t f J alY, and will be delivered, together with the In ,...kn'ir,..eilue in respect of t Bills so desired to be ex jug clan . " ISI"d aY3 the Roth 4 day of July, and the follow he ExciteP 3 yabl e to "" Bills to be issued in Exchange, and made he either transf r ,or Order, as above-mentioned, may e Beater . e red by endorsement, or will be paid to if the blank shall not be Glled up. , 14 ' 1.3 • All I; q sta re b een aet, IL.lequer Bills dated prior to August, 1818, ..................,,1......1":11 .to be paid off. _ = TRADE TO INDIA. ~........._ 4- 'rile ringknowin letter trom J. A. S. WonTLnY, 1 ;" . °l 'e of Members fur Yulkshire, has hee teicteived by ED,,.. nitooKEs E6q. Chairman of t he r . 'eli lig of ale. chAtits, Mantriact urers, and others, vccientlY hel d at Leeds, to petition for the remo t ; p l _ Of the present restrictio n , as to tonnage an cences in the East India Trade :--. Curzon-Street, June 27, 1820 . th bl44 8/11--1 hare received your letter of the 24th, and il t Petition to which it refers, which I have tea li s m itt e d to te Board of Trade, and have had an opportunity of 41)'4"g to M e R 1 • • of it. I un:f il,„ st. _ n . _ .. 0 nuson upon the subject ti, :1 a from him, that the question of a farther opening of uf e ti l rade to China is now actually under the considerat , f ( )e C°4llaittee on Trade, lately appointed by I "ns ' dthereto f your Petition is li ko . , an re the pi aj aver o the Houle ') to Uildvrgu complete consideration. I a nus dear Sir, g Ward Brooke, Es . Your f a ithf ul humble Servant, t q J. a. STUART WORTLEY' ;, the Faille/ ere with Dir . he Cape, 23a it the latter rl Lady Mel' 9th June, la from so. V. Lung. ligbeck, W 4l ' Robson ; 3nd 's brig it' d. Lustk. t 39 days, the Tobas" I rocceded fur !veiling S ir 0411A09, s of Yong fullo'v' ;lock, P.NI• • is . t, F 0 1), BA11.1.1r: uunistaaccs , it is said , :tiown OS. sled, iir ol° to the A (l' Rot2GHA : ' l ' whet) late for ilt retaq• 5 reat - %V• l4 1(1 eSCOr'' )e, Bs s"I: lutch-s s e take: ) int ereste di l tic eoe lest mitrster being tile tises I b d e ice I.lAiLg l .e Guil t! : caus e " were n° l . : mmon 20(1 8 C °P a :re are I/ f reilcli relit Royal Le r : atteo4 l !354 s.ill r e ; 'be , leer eu to ag , : e ., er e 'zeile , los , Ildlit te time 1: e 5 ! d's he Doli e t erous 4 d . se au to Datteric-,0 Depton tio pi, several 4 rno rolg l 7,: - , )r Lon d°i ,,t and STY, 01.1)‘: Bast i" : A; )( t er O f I) Still i"11 ;: g i; rice le ft • q e, 111(1 14° of r a weel‘• 13' 11 the aasgc' sv i !stigac e r s i‘ 1 - 1311)% ill a' • z(I I 'ibUrgh et, 11°!° Ott. iP til og in g h i r:he Bo t : e rsoo of I. son Ito"r' at, ear of b y e : P 4. 1 H a tiel I t !' e 515 p;s4' jtirli"f ; ,' 10'; ;I s t . G i r li —e .a ''la w i", over . . ;r !01'..0 oe • ° 10 11 I' ° g Ll: d vel ' „( 1 ‘ ;a l e it ' a tj°. t lie V • Cit e6 A No. g 9 ' I t Y at I Ott J! 3(.0/ FRIDAY, JULY 7, IF2O. PARLIAMENT. MOUSE OF COMNIONS, JULY 6. ABERDEEN ELECTION PETITION. The House was occupied until a quarter to Ave in balloting tar a Committee to consider the me rits of the PetitiOn against the return (or the Burgh of Aberdeen.—o-TI tee are as follow T. S. Rice R. Price Rid:ford J. H. Tremayne Lord C : Fitzroy R. P. Scudamore D. Carr Earl Mount Charles MANUMISSION OF SLAVES. Sir J. MACINTOSH, adverting to the notice which he had given on this subject yesterday, thought it necessary, in order to guard against the passibility of being misunderstood, to state a little more plainly what his object was. The Motion then related to the existence of certain laws and regulations in his Majesty's Colonies, with respect to the power of mas ters to manumit slaves—laws which were often in their ope ration cruel with respect to rho slaves—unjust to the owners of them, as well as injurious to the peace and order of the Colonies. His object was to inove an Address to his Ma jesty, praying that Its would be pleased to signify to the Governors of the Colonies to recommend the gradual repeal of those laws by the respective Legislatures. He should be sorry, indeed, to be thought capable of entertaining a w.sh for the sudden emancipation of slaves, for he thought it a measure that would be the must injurious to the slaves theniselvet- Mr. BERN AL was sure that no one could 6411> for an in otant of impuliog to his Hon. aryl Learn e d F r i en d .a project whiCh was riotbighly proper. • `• • Mr. W. PARNELL brought in a Bill for'emending the laws with respect to the removal of the Irish Poor ftom England to Ireland, which was read the first time. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a Petition from Major John Cartwright, upon a, subject of the deepest importance— namely, the Constitutional Reform of the Commons House of Parliament. In that period of the Session, and in conse quence of the nature of the objects upon which the House WAS engaged, he would not take up the time of the House by any detailed statements, which would only be proper where it was intended to follow them iy by more distinct measures. The Petition referred to the unconstitutional interference of the Peers of the Realm in the election of Members to serve in Parliament. From the earliest times up to the present, statutes had been made, among which was that of Westmin ster, guarding from such interference in the choice of their Representatives by the people, and be would remind the House, that a Resolution passed at the commencement of every Session—" It is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons, for any Lord of Parliament, or any Lord Lieutenant of any county, to concern themselves in the election of Members of Parliament." 1'0793, a so ciety, consisting of sonic of the first characters in the coon .. e names of the Commit- C. Phelps W. L. Maberly J. Irmo; .7. H. Calcraft J. S. Cox D. H. Blair J. P. Grant try,' represented in a petition to that House, that too of the Members were returned by means of the interference of Peers, and this statement they were ready to verify upon oath. They had shown, that out of 154 borough patrons, 71 were Peers. This number was subsequently increased to 95, who returned directly ur indirectly Members to that House. 'll►e petition was read, and ordered to he printed. On the motion of Lord MOUNTCHARLES, Accounts were ordered of all Timber imported intu Ireland for tine last ten years. Canning, Lord Castlereagh, Mr. Abercromby, the Speaker, and Mr. Tierney severally took part, the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) consented to give up the priority of motion to Sir Ronald Fergusson. Sir Hos/Ards FERGUsSoII then rose. It was with the most sincere and deep• regret that lie felt obliged, from a sense of public ditty, to bring on this motion. This regret was increased, groin a consciousness of his inadequacy to fulfil his duty in a discussion of thi'Most delicate and serious question, fraught as it Was with the most impor tant results to the Cottutry.—(Hear .1 .)--With res pect to the necessity of the discussion itself, he could only say that if his Majesty's Ministers had pursued a different course froth what they had done, in the whole of the proceedings with which it was connected, the numerous discussions which had taken place would never have been beard within the walls of that House. If they had only left her Majesty's name in' the Liturgy, all these painful contests would have been hushed for ever, Of that act no one within those walls had e'er presumed to approve, with the exception of the Right Hon. President of the Board of Controol, who designated it as part of a general system which was to be adopted with regard to her Ma jesty. It was remarkable, however, that the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) had made a different statement on this subject, declaring that if her Majesty had not returned to England no pro ceeding was intended to be instituted against her. By this, then, it appeared that the only crime her Mirpsty had committed, was in placing herself upon English ground.--(Hear !)—The moment this crime was committed, no time was lost in bringing down the Green Bag; of the con tents of which, thank God, exclaimed the Gal lant Member, that House. knew nothing. To use the n,bie Lord's own phrase, he had turned his back upon himself in this respect, having voted that the inquiry to which be had pledged them, would he " derogatory to the dignity of the Crown, and injurions to the best interests of the Nation." He %vas unaccustomed to address the House, and he hoped if he tell into any unin tentional faults he should be excused.—(Hear —Altbongh they knew not what were the actual contents of this bag, he thought they had a right to know where they came from. In the mean time, in this state of uncertainty, they could only listen to rumour, and upon that all that lie had to say would be founded, leaving it to those who were acquainted with the real facts of the case to contradict hint if he made any erroneous state ments. Indeed he should be glad to be contradicted nn some points which he should repeat as having received front common report, because they in volved the character of a person which bad hi therto stood high in the estimation of the world, but was now deeply implicated its these transac tion,. It was matter of notoriety that the charges against the Queen contained in the papers on the table were said to have been collected from certain persons sent to Milan for that pur pose. In truth he did not believe that Ministers were the inventors of this plan. That merit was given to another quarter—to a person hold ing a high law situation. To be plain, he meant to say that the Vice Chancellor was pointed at. If be was wrong, he wo u ld he glad to be set tight. It was said that that individual took great pains, or rather was at the hea-d of the Milan Commission. He also recommended another per son to be employed in that business, on looking at whose qualifications it appeared that he was ignorant of every living language except his own, so that be was obliged to have an interpreter. There was, it was reported, another person also employed. He knew nothing of these persons generally, nor had he any wish to be better ac quainted with them. He could not state the pre cise time at which the Learned Judge went out to Milan, but be believed he was correct in stating that he left it about the 19th of December, 1818 The expense of this Commissio►► had been very great. lie cared not by what name it was called, whether a Secret Court of Judicature, a Secret Committee, or as it had been denominated in the oilier House, A thing,' called "lhe Milan Com mission ;' it was evident that Ministers must have known that men were employed upon this service. Such an inquiry could not have been carried on at Milan without the authskrity or permission of the Austrian Government ; and as our Ambassador was in close correspondence with that Govern ment, it was impossible but the existence of this Commission, or set of Gentkinen, must have been known to Ministers. One of the principal fea tures in thin case, too, was, that they must h3ve had the informstion contained in the pap'ers on the table a year ago, and yet had done nothing upon them.- He could assure Gentlemen on the otl►et• side, that the leeling against theircondact was not confined to that House alone, but was spread through the whole kingdom. The (ies- don wag not whether the Queen was to be treated as was due to the highest subject of the realm, but whether she should have that jus tice done to her wi,ich the lowest individual in the country was entitled to. He would s -+y that a gross injustice seas done to her in the cir cumstance connected widt the Liturgy ; and this Aldan Commission was another piece ot injustice. He now came to the expences of this Expedition. It was said that th-e expended in carrying it on was no less than 33,0001..; and that in ihe space of the first five months upwards of 11,0001. were drawn by the Con►u►issioners. lie would tit. . . glad to be set right on that point, if he were wrong. Gentlemen, perhaps, were not aware of the la value of this sum ot money when expend ed in Italy—why, for one half of that sum, he would engage to blast the character of every wo man in the conntry,(Flear, hear !)---And it was opt the bought affidavits of this rascally peOple t h ; t, a Quern'! character 171414 to he blasted I In MONARCHY OF SOUTII AMERICA. Sir ROBERT WILSON seeing the Noble Lord (Castle reagh, wi.hed - tu asR nlin a question or consider able importance to the mercantile and political interests of this country. He wished to know from the Noble Lord, if Government li:sd received any official communication of a pro position on the part of the French Government, not only to recognize the independence of South America, but to place a Member of the House of Bourbon on the throne, which it was intended to erect in that country? Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that in the present state of the information in the possession of Government, he should decline answering the question - of the Hon. Member. THE QUEEN. Air. HOLFORD appealed at the Bar of the House, •nd stated, that be was charged to deliver the Report. of the Committee appointed to examine the Journals of the House of Louts. lie then stated, that by the Journals of the House of Lords, it appeared, that her Majesty the Queen, had sent ►town a petition to that House, begging to be forthwith heard by Counsel, touching•cer tain matters of importance, to be heard in that stage of the proceedings against her Majesty That this request being opposed, the question was put and negatived : That the Earl of Liverpool then presented a Bill to deprive her Majesty of her rights, title, and dignity, as Queen of these Realms, which was immediately read a first time, and a copy of it ordered to he sent to her Ma jesty's Legal Advisers. Lord CASTLEREAGH rose 'immediately after the reading of the Report, and was proceeding to ex plain the grounds of the motion he was about to make its pursuance of the notice he had given the preceding night, when Mr. TIERNEY interrupted the Noble Lord, to observe, that in the course he was about to pursue, that of abandoning his motion on the Queen's An swer to the Resolution of that House, which stood on the top of the List of Notices for the Day, and of proceeding to another which stood at the bot tom of the List, he would completely anticipate the motion of a Gallant Friend or his (Sir IL Fer gusson), which stood half way between the two, thereby taking priority of the motion upon which the Noble Lord was about to eater, when he in terrupted him. lie presumed the Noble Lord must either confine himself to the former motion, of which be had given notice a fortnight back, or must allow the Gallant General to take Isis turn and precede him. Lord CASTLEREAGH observed that in giving his notices, he had intended it to be understood that he directed himself to the general proceedings in tl►e matter, and he apprebeaded that the proceed ►ugs in the House of Lords governed the course he was to take ou this occasion. lie was willin g to be guided by the Speaker. The SPEAKER, in his explanation, said, that the giving notice of a motion was, silkily speaking,. matter of courtesy, and that as far as he was'able to determine in the present case, it must remain a question for the consideration of the House how far the course the Noble Lord meant to pursue might nut be thought consistent with the gene ral nature of his first. notice, which was that of a '' Motion founded on the Q ueen ' s rep l y to t h e Resolution of that H ouse." Al ter w ine further conversation, in which Mr: PRICE SEVENPENCE, - stating what he l.ad so far stated, he had been, actuated solely by a Sense of duty, and having performed his painful task, he should content him self by moving— “ That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, praying him to give directions to the proper Officer to lay he: fore the House cdpies of all Commission or Commissions, fu.s strnctinn or Instructions, which have been issued by his Ma jesty's command, since the departure of her Majesty the Queen from this kingdom, in the year 1814, for the purpose of taking depositianis, or otherwise,baking inquil-y, respect ing her Majesty's condnct, together with the amouut of all sums of money, and by whom they viere issued, to the same end." The question having been put from the Chair, Lord CASTLEREAGH rose to state to the House the grounds upon which he felt it his duly, under the circumstances in which the House at present stood with regard to this subject, to oppose the motion of the Gallant Member. It would be a waste of the time of the House to enter into a general examination of the conduct his Majesty's GovernMent had thought proper to pursue Willi reference to the important transactions relating to this motion. He did justice to the Gallant Ge. neral's ingenuity in making Ministers out to be the cause of all the discussions which had taken place.on the subject in that House, and for dis covering that they had Heated the Q'teen with so much injustice. He would leave it to the House to decide whether any thing Ministers had done in the course of the proceedings could justify the imputation. He would confine himself to the moo ioa of the Gallant General ; and in opposing that mo tion, he assured him it was not from any disposi tion to withhold from the House the fullest infor- illation on the subject. He hoped the House would not be led to believe that there was any im proper mystety as to the transaction 11 node(' to, nor-as to the mode of providing for the payment of the charge at ising out of it. He could assure the Gallant Member that there was nothing attending the whole of the transactions connected with the case, from beginning to end, wi,ich be could be more desirous of laying fully before the House.-- lt the light from firEt to last but he would be allowcd to say that it would 1)e rather an extraordinary proceeding, that before the House had waited to take any measures of inquiry of its own, or what it was clear it would arrive at by another process, it should address the Crowti to put- them in possession of the whole of the circumstances.' He- apprehended thar nothing ,could be more impertinent to the Parliamen— tary course, or more subversive of the ends of justice, or indeed any thing which the human mind could conceive, more contrary to common sense than such a proceeding , -(Hear !)—He should say on this subject, as he had said in his instructions to foreign Ministers abroad, it was right for Parliament to have every information connected with the case, when i came fairly, and in due course of proceeding before them ; but be contended that it was most unjust and injudicious to anticipate a branch of the subject in the manner proposed; for bow could the House jqdge that Ministers had acted rationally or honestly in one particular point, unless they knew the foundatio n of the whole ? lie was ready broadly to admit that the outline of the facts contained in the Bill at resent on the table of the other House, had in the first instance attracted the notice of Govern went from reaching them from so many quartets, boqi private and official, that it was quite impos sible not to adopt the course they had done; un less, indeed, it was contended that rite Servants of Government tere obliged to shut their eyes to every thing which concerned the interests of the Stare; that they ought to sleep upon those cir.. cumstances which any individual in the•kingdotn would for his own honour take up. should be prepared to argue at another time, only he thought that institution W, ich the Gallant Mem ber was pleased to call a Commission, was that sort of official ploce,ding which under all the cir cumstances of ibe c.;se, and tinder every view of the question, it was most fit and proper should be appointed. The next question, whether any thing which savoured of actimony, or if any thing im proper could be attributed to the manner in %%Elicit the Gallant General had stated certain sums of moral to have been appropriated, under the faci lities, which it would appear from his statement„ ,Italy affolded. He must here stare, that the in- formation was not drawn Iron] Milan alone—it was collected from every part of Europe. Nlrith respect to the description of ebar - acters_ en- gaged in this inquiry, he was sure the Gallant General did not mean to insinuate tl►at they had. been advised to take any step that was not con sistent with principles of justice. Even for the protection of the Queen herself, it was expedient to ascertain what was true and what was false, of the information that had not bee►► sought, but was forced on the ears of Government. The in. quiry had not, he might say, an official origin ; he meant that it was t►ot commenced in a way which would constitutionally place it and all that it brought to light upon record; but its ohjtit was to attain all the practical ends of justice, aril to do this the most obvious mearis were resorted to, the employment of persons of high character and of great professional reputation. The Hon. Gentleman Lad mentioned the name of the Vice- Chanctilor in a :vay that COUld 1141.1:y be borne out, It wwilti not, it was tine, tall within the province of that eminent Law Officer to conduct such en inv€Etigation; but it was surely uo hlemish upon him, and afforded no ground of blame, that employed by his Sovereign, not per haps as King, but at Duke of Cornwall, or as a private person, he sho..ld institute a plo.zei7ding. in which there was no discredit, unless its ies„l,B were discreditable to old er Prties• hi“: yet to learn ,vhy such an conducted on prin ciples of purity and how , ur (of which the high, legal character of the persons engaged in it gave t h e surct t pleAge)J wel to zee duc;ibed 119 any