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P: R. I,tAA'IEN F. HOUSE..OF LORDS, APRIL 21. OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. At hatt l irtat (vc,, o'clock the Archbishop of Catitetkory, tlie Lord Ch4oeellor, th, Lord Privy Se-if (Earl o f Wr,ttoorland), the Duke of %Veil- Ilit , l toe Esti of Shaftesbury, took their Fees (t. the Niog's Commislimier,' for opening the Pdrlintos•ot. Mr Q.o.rtne, the Depiii' Usher of the Mick Rod, Wds Rent to revice the attendance of the iimise 41 1 COMMOnS. 31mol•1iy Kitel . v. - Ards , Dyson and Mr. Rick man. t l .mits of the Eliomse of Commons, followed .by the Cilauceilor of time Exchesimmer, Mr Bathurst, Mr. Nianitei•• S.1(10,1, and a utitttimer (mt otimet MeM bers, came t o flit liar . , Time Lotto CH 4NC "'LION—My Lords and Gen tit•awn, his Ma;-sty, not t. , immking fit to be per souttily here present, has been gracious!y pleased to issue tt Counsussiomt to us and 0: het Lords di rected, for declaring the couses "f holding 11 1 .1, plesrio l'ArliAmemmt, wlmicim Corntuision you will 4 13titr hear rem!. The C(sattui:sion 'for opetti.ig the Parlittment w•a' then read by . the Reading Clo - k et the Table. • I its Loan CHANCELLOR —" My Lords and Ckwileniert, it I*fnu the gr.eions intention of his Al.jesty tsirther - 0 declare the causes of holding this present Yadtament, and it being requisite tut that purpose that a Speaker should be chosen, yo.i. therefore, Gentlemen of the [loose of Com worts, are to repair to the place from whence you came, and there chose a fit and proper person to be your Speaker, %%hid, person you are to pre •srot at this Bir to-morrow, at two o'clock, for (hr et:winos approbation of his Majesty." The Commons made their obeisances and with drew. The Lords Commissioners retired to unrobe, and having returned, prayers were read. The Lord Chancellor advanced to the Table and took the Oaths. his Lordship then took his seat on the ‘Voldsack. The Oaths were then administered to his Royal Highness the Mike of Clarence, after which the return of the election of the sixteen Peers of Scot land having been read by Mr. Cowper, the other Lords present, amongst whom were the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Wellington, the Nlirtriess Camden. the Eall of Liverpool, the Estl of Shaftesbury, &c. took the Oaths, witrCh were also administered to ti.e Lords who inhsegnently entered the Eionse‘mttil fAtr o'clock, when an adjournment took place till to-morrow (this thy). HOUSE OF COMMONS. Many of the Members of the New Parliament having assembled itt the Hone of Commons Kt 1,,,11...p g .t tiro, the Yeoman 11,ber of the Black R.td appe4red at the R•tr of the House, and hav i•tg ptoeeedecl to the table, informed the Members that they were required by the Lords Conitnis siotters to attend the House of Peers to Lear the Commission read. CHOICE OF A SPEAKER. After they had returned, Sir W. SCOTT rose, for the porpose of propos in:. a Gentleman to fill the honourable place of ,!•ipe.ilicr of the House, and lie rose with the more unmixed satisfaction, from the manner in which he coofidently arvicipated that the name of the imlividoal whom he should offer to their choice would be received, The Honourable Members who occupied seats in that House during the two last Parliaments, would Ito doubt, after their ex perience, have their views confined to one indivi dual, though, under other circumstances, private or public feelings, or a mixture of both, might hive induced them to turn their eyes towards others, as entitled to fill the Chair. It could not be denied [rat in that House, which contained in it the Representatives of all the component parts of the (Jilted Kingdom, many might be found whose talents and whose general merits might en title them to aspire to, and enable them success folly to fill, that honourable station. But it was now an advantage that they were not obli g ed to choose among carious candidates, or to compare the shades of untried merit ; but they had to bear testimony to the demonstration of abilities already applied to the discharge of the office in ques tion, and which had commanded the approbation of all who had witnessed the execution of its du. ties.—([tear, hear !)—To those Members he should appear goil!y of undue assumption, if he entered on the detail of the merits of that Gen tlemen ; and he should do better to refer to his conduct in the discharge of those ditties, always laborious, and of7en arduous and painful. He relied oil their testimotty that Mr- Alatoters Sot too possessed all the qualities which they would wish to see united in the stetson who filled their Chair ; a warn, loyalty towards our happy Consti tution, including a (toilful veneration for the Throne, nod an affectiooate attachment to the rights awl privileges of the House ; a state of stealth ad. Time to the severe labour, be had al ;nasi s a id the oppressive fatigues, of the office ; an exact k n0w1e•1.., , e of the proceedings of the House, which now formed the matter of voluminous come pilatioo; an acquaintance not only with the forms of those proceedings, but the principles on which they were tvisely established ; a facility of access, and a frankness of communication to all Alentheis lit the course ut his official duties ; art attention ever awake iii the more p 'bile exercise of his functions ; an on•ospected integrity of judgment in every question referred to his decision.—(Hear, ocar !)—To these lt4;11 qualities of his station he a dd e d every teatore of an amiable character ; an unifiected suavity of disposition and manners—a suavity which, without coot-tine popular applause, ;sataioed is—which softened the re ercise of power without derogatiog from its digoiry ; the eKeic k, of at+ liospoality rougeoial to the habits o: toe cooniry, and hecoming the Representative or the it he yielded to hie feelings, be emold aogery his detail of the %follicles which pouted hiot Out as the peculiar object of the choice of fi le 11 hot in induleilig his private I-chiles, tie silouift ott!y retard the general nt4tii tistltion ,if the stone sew heents treat !) lie then unveil, that the night 11.mourable Cliailes Manners Sutton do take the Chair.— (Ilear, hear !). Mt. HoLMR SVNINFR said, that during the time he loot sat in the House, he had witnessed the greclt increase of public and private business had rendered the office of Speaker still more arduous than it had -formerly been, aUd the disturb ed state of the country, and the still - increasing weight of business, would continue to make it inure important and lebolious. In rising, there fore, to second the motion for calling an Honour able Member to the Chair, be felt that he was assuming a duty, which nothing but the length of time during which he bad held a seat in the House, could warrant him in performing. When he considered bow important the office was to the regulat it y, dignity, and honour of their pro ceedings, he should have hesitated, if he bad had to recommend an unknown individual to such an office. He had not the honour of being enabled to speak, as the private friend of the Gentleman xelio had been proposed; he had only known that Gentleman through his public conduct, which was enough to inspire all who witnessed it with re spect and regard. Tile education of that Gen _ tleman bad been in the laws of the kingdom, and in the knowledge of the principles on which the Constitution was founded ; and when they con sidered in how short a time after his promotion to the high office which he had filled, he acquired a perfect knowledge of the laws and rules by which that assembly was goverued,—the readiness with whiCh he decided every point of difficulty, would have made it believed that that knowledge had formed the duty of his life rather than of a rew mouths. His mode of describing to the House the law oil the cases submitted, at once maintain. ed his own dignity, and shewed deference to the' House. His to hatiity and facility of access, and those various qualities, in attempting to recapitu late which, he should weaken rather than add to the eloquent address of the Right Honourable Mover, convinced him (Mr. H.'S ) that in se• couding the motion, be footnoted the choice of a Gentleman, at once capable of filling the high office, and agreeable to the House—(Hear !) He concluded by seconding the motion. Mr. MANNERS :SUTTON said, he telt it difficult to express his feelings, but he hoped his Right Hon. Ft lend who had proposed him, nor the Honour able Gentleman who had so handsomely seconded his nomination, nor the House in general, who had so kindly received it, would do him the in justice to measure his thankfulness by the feeble manner in which be could express it—(Hear He concurred in every thing flit had been said by his Right Haiwerable Friend, and by the Hon. , Gentleman as to the impala ance of the situation of Speaker to the House and to the people at large. All the qualities which had been described as those which should belong to the occupier of such a station, he acknowledged would be highly necessary to the due discharge of its duties. In all the opinions which an individeal was Called upon to give, none was more difficult than when he was called on to speak of himself. No man who spoke honestly would be ready to undervalue himself ; but when befelt the weight of the office to which he was called, that man should be indeed a bold one who presumed he was adequate to the due execution of it. His Right Honourable Friend, with the partiality of private attachment which he had manifested on many occasions, but on none more kindly than on the present, bad re , (erred with approbation to his (Mr. con duct during the two last Parliaments. If h e had had the good fortune to satisfy the House it was his highest wish; but as to any services erce c s‘ t v ait hi he was said to have rendered, they to were be attributed, not to his own exertions, but to that for which he was most thankful and proud— the co-operation and indulgence of the House, their disinclination to judge hat ably, their inclina tion rather to be satisfied with any exertions ho nestly meant in the difficult and laborious per formance of his duties. Though lie had no re liance on his powers of duly supporting the weight w hi ch w i s t h rown on hi m , he would ambition to disguise that it was the highest o bject of his be found worthy of the station—(Hear, hear !) The most be coold do, therefore, was to pr om i se , that if the choice of the House fell on him, his anxious and unceasing exertions should be devoted to their service—(HeTtr, bear !) The Right Hon. Member was then led to the Chair by the Mover and Seconder in the accns= toured form. The SPEAKER then said, it was quite impossible he could express his deep sense of the kindness of the House, and he would not attempt to add to what he bad already said as to his sense of the duties of his station. He should therefore, as lie bad done heretofore, implore their continud as sistance and indulgence to supply the defects of his ability and thus much lie would promise, that he would discharge honestly, with the ut most zeal and strictest impartiality, the duties en trusted to him.—(near, be,,r, bear !) Lord CASTLEREALIH s aid he had to offer to the Chair, in the name of the House, as %veil as for himself, their congratulations on the Election which had been made. If it was in the power of the House to conter any mark of confidence more distinguished (and there could he none inure so ► hat) that which raised its object to the rank of the first Commoner of the kingdom), that mark would been bestowed on the Speaker. It was no small happiness to the Right Hon. Gent. to have equally conciliated the favour of both sides of the Ifuose, and the House too ►vas fortunate that at such a moment they had such a guide. rot., without at tributing any extraordinary importance to the times in which we lived, vct in the manifestly in. creasing pressure of business, it was no small sa tisfaction to those who were willing to devote their time to the public service that tl►eir Idbour would 1:),-; regulated by one so capable of guiding thefts. In whatever arduous of difficult circum stances occurred, the House would proceed more satisfactorily under the direction of the knowledge and wisdom of the Chair. The SPEAKPIt OM] put the question of adjourn. meat. Mr. iißoucn AM S,itl, iti the abstnee of titt , se more worthy channels of the svivitnews of that side of the Honse, whose test i fiv o.y too would h.ve I!,iven greater v:llur to the praise which chtv conveyed, he trusted it would not be preiumptuotts for biln to cougi awhile ia the firs! We received this morning the Paris Papers of Wednesday last. The Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday, were quiet and peaceable. After some debate upon a petition, the discussion of the financial accounts was resumed, and was again adjourned till Wednesday. The following are Extracts : " PARIS, APttiL 19,—Yesterday the Duke de FernAn Nunez, the Spanish Ambassador, had a private audience of the King to notify to his Ma jesty the re-establishment of the Constitution of 1812. His Majesty afterwards received the Am bassadors and Foreign Ministers. " A Petition from the responsible Editor of La Renommee to the Chamber of Deputies, against the execution of the law relative to the Censor ship, sent to the subscribers to that Paper, with the Journal, and sold at a bookseller's, has been stopped at the post-office, seized and handed over to the Procureur du Roi. " The Courier Extraordinary from Madrid states, that tranquillity prevailed in the Capital and in the Provinces. The King has deemed it expedient to anticipate the period of the assem bling of the Cortes, it being by a new Decree of his Majesty fixed for the 9th June, instead of the 9th July. The King and Queen appear often in public, and are received with acclamations of jov. Colonel Mauve's, a refugee from Texas, ar rested for having used expressions directed against the Duchess de Berri, previous to the 13th Fe bruary, is amongst the number of individuals who have been interrogated by the Commission of the Chamber of Peers. " The Procurenr•General seized on Monday all the copies of La Renommee, and the Editor in chief of that Journal is to be prosecuted before • the tribunals. " it is understood that M. M. Benjamin Con stant, Manuel, d'Argenson, Girardio, Bignon, Chauvelin, and .other Deputies, who put their signatures to the celebrated subscription in favour of detenus, and who are at present the objects of a criminal process, mean to address the Cham ber to-day, to request, that with respect to them the privilege of inviolability may be suspended, and that justice may take its course.. The Count Larquinais is to make a similar request at the next sitting of the Chamber of Peers. FIVE PER CENTS. Tuesday DEFERRED STOCK Of the 9.2 d March, 1917, lOO f. 45 c. 2-4(1 Sept. 1819, 9O f. 20 C. 224 March, 1820, 9B f. 45 c. " MADRID, APRIL W.—The King successively changes all the Military Authorities of the Pro• vinces. " All the Chiefs of the Insurrection have been promoted to the rank of Major-General. The troops of the Expeditionary Army Assem bled in Andalusia, are to return this eay to their homes. The provisions, &c. on board the vessels Al Cadiz, are to be solo, and the Expedition itself appears to be it not Aandoned, at least post poned. " Much .ii9content prevaili in CAtalonia, tvlierc the inhabitaws are disposed io be Reptiblieons. " RAST::DT, APLIL. 14:—TLe marriAge of the King of %Vurteniberg, with his cousin the Prin# cess Pauline, will be celebrated to morrow." We feel it to be due to justice as ‘vell as in conformity to the order of the Court, not to pub' lish any part of the pending Trials at the Oil Bailey, till the whole are completed, but we deed it not improper to inform our Readers, that the prohibition shall be removed, such a scen e of horror will be developed as it would be iIIIPW sible to believe, unless stated upon the most ip disputable evidence. - We shall not say any thing which has the least tendency to excite prejudic e in the minds of the People, against those w" are undergoing the investigations of the rega l Authorities, but we can assure them tha t such facts will in due time be disclosed as wil l fully convince them of the absolute and indispelv sable necessity for the enactment of those Legis' lalive measures, which, in co-operation erith the energy of the Magistrates, and the firmness of $ Loyal Soldiery, have saved the Country from 93 dreadful scenes of desolation as marked the earlier stages of the French Revolution, "before the Monarchy sunk under the horrible tyranny of ROBESPIRRHIS, the terrific sway of the Directorys, and the final triumph of a Military Despot. We have taken among our daily Extracts froth the LONDON JOURNALS, two paragraphs respect* ing the QUEEN, one from the Morning Chronicles and the other from the Morning Post of this 'tlo. The former states, that, according to Letters /root Rome, dated the sth inst. her MAJESTY, u p to that time, '' had not made preparations to se t out on her journey. towards England." Morning Post states, on the authority of lettere 'of the same date, that'it was her intention "to proceed on her journey without making ail longer stay at any place than was necessary for the change of horses."—We confess. that we should be inclined to place most confidence in the' Morning Post, if, on this occasion, its information were not wholly in contradiction to the opinioo which we have all along expressed of the inipto• bability of her MAJESTY'S intention to returns an opinion which, we can 'assure our Readers, we have not formed on light grounds, but upon intelligence from sources on which We place firm dependence, tiarticul -lily as they relate to circumstances of a' very extraordinary descrir thin. But as her MAJESTY has appointed an Al' TORNEY and SOLICITOR GENERAL, who have bees duly recognized by the competent legal. Courts, why has there not been from these recognized Officers, an autborized statement upon a sub.' ject which so strongly interests the people at large, and which, in its probable coast guences, is likely to produce very important events ? The people have a right to expect sosue formal information on the subject, because on so/ farther provision that may be proposed for be# MAJESTY, her character ought to be fully cleared from those injurious charges, the refutation of which will render her an object of universal sytu" pathy, and entitle her to the zealous support of • just and generous People. This day at two o'clock, the Lords embroil , ' sinners having taken their seats in the House of Lords, the Commons were sent for, and bar" ing shortly afterwards come to the Bar, MT* MANNERS SUTTON announced his election oe Speaker, in the usual form, and the LORD CHAS. CELLUR declared his MAJESTY'S most M atte , approbation of the choice of the Commons, The, latter then retired, and the business of swearing in proceeded in both Houses till four o'clock. The Proceedings in the House of Commons* yesterday, must be in the highest degree gratify. ing to a wise and a loyal people. The Represeu• tatives of that people assembled yesterday for tbc choice of a SPEAKER. The Member who pro' posed that Speaker, Sir WILLIAM SCOTT, i 9 one of the most respectable characters that ever adorn. ed any country; as distinguished for his knowledge of the Law, as eloquent in the exposition and sti r port of it. The Gentleman whom he proposed eg fit to pre,ide in the Senate of the freest Nation no Earth, Mr. MANNERS SUTTON, is universally ac' knowlcdged to be fully competent to support It'd Chair with suitable dignity and every requisite Vl' hfication. The nomination was seconded by 'fir' H. SU:IINER, a Gentleman of great opulence, 3 34 esteemed for talents, knowledge,- and the irlie" . pendence of his character. The House unany mously sanctioned the choice, which was this tigY confirmed by the Royal Authority. Such is 0 0 atate of our Representative Body, dignified, learn" ed, upright, and loyal, and such is that branch of the Legislature which low, ignorant, and distio4 lute Wretches, c(;rropted by factious Writers, and inflamed by the harangues of those from rank, educati , n, end property, ooght, their own sakes, to know and act better, wo' ll4l ' by attempting to Reform, overwhelm with tl )c horrors of Revolution, anarchy and ruin ! ! place the House itself, aid not less the Commons of Etiglend at large, on the free choice of the Gentleman who had been for the third time called to the Chair. He congratulated also' the Right Honourable Gentleman himself on the 4,0-nom. nom. which be had merited, and hoped he would have a long life and health to enjoy his high of flee—on. which health, he was grieved to say, the demands were nut likely to be diminished. It was a matter of sincere congratulation that .the Chair was again filled by one who had shown, in all its important duties, how eminently be was gifted with the qualities which it required—who had sbewu that he was the best depositary of the true honour of the house, by wearing its dignity with firmness, and also with meekness.—(Hear, hear !)—He had she wn the truest title to the of dee to which he was called, by the courage and capacity which be had shewn in protecting the privileges of the House, which were also the pri vileges of the people, front infringements, front whatever quarter.—(Hear !) The House then adjourned. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last N4ht. 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