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One question was, in what situation theschar ac te r o f the Lord - Chie Baron of Ireland should be left during the prorogation of Par liament ; and this, •if any of .the tohnisters had thought fit to have attended their &Ay, he Should have propounded for their consideration—(Hear !)—As none of the Min:sters.thought fit to attend now they had passed their money votes, lie thought it. would be very proper for any Member to move that the House do adjourn.—(Hear !) After a few words from Mr. HATTCz3IAi9ON and Mr. RICE; the Report was ordered to be taken into considexadort on Mon day se'nnight. had been subjected, he shewed to have been enormods, their circumstances being considered. He gave further instances of the arbitrary power exercised by the Lord High Commissioner, re marki`ng, that he was obliged to content hituseif with a•selection, as he had not time to go through JrOLTSE OF LORDS, JUNE 7. Catilliigue, One Shilling. H. HOWARD, R.A. Sec. . . - - REGENT'S CANAL. . NOTICE is hereby given; That an AD- JouttNED GENERAL , A,SSEMBLY of the COM PANi.of PROPRIETORS of the REGENT'S CANAL will be holden at the FREEMASON'STAVERN, , in the Parish t (*Saint Giies'-in-the-Fields, - in the County of Middlesex, 011 SATURDAY the 23d Instant. The Chair will be taken at 1 in the f,relloon. precisely. JAMES - W. I.YONOCIerk to the Company. gthle, . . IVO FIX ED PRIZES ! ! ioviodito 4 • rr?O PRIZES o. MUST ALL BE DRAWN 14TH THLS MONTH, (JUNE.) P:verY ( 7 : , anc.• boneht between 2Sfh May and 14th June will he decided 1411 i June. N) Fixed Prizes !—No Classes ! Every Ticted drawn singly., - eatill detiding its own Fate and no other,, , • The Tickets. are issued itt Chances of Tickets, Halves, Qnlrters. Eizhths, and Sixteenths. which are now selling " • and J. SIVE WRIGH r, the Contractors, 37, Cornitill ; n ; and ss, H-aymarker; and by Ids Agents in the Country. • J. and J. SIVEWRIGHT sold in the Drawing which took pt.tee the 28th nit No. 1,44 G, a Prize of 4,0001., and seve till minor Capitals.. And several 21,0001. and 20,0001. Prizes i 4 the last Four Munths. For the ISLE of FRANCE and CEYLON. 1.. ' , - 7.'..-- . THE fast-sailing coppered -SHIP , - JOHN BUSHMAN, FRANCIS TREAD tr . •, ? 'f , .P 1 WELL, Commander. Burt hen • 380 4 ons. .c . 14 ..4,'r5..*_.,,,,H. 1 , - 7 Lying in the City Canal. Has fine Accont -- modations for Passenger`. F,r Frei::l,t or Passage, apply to BUCKLES, BAGSTER, It'',i BUCHANAN, 33, Mark-lane. FOR PASSENGERS ONLY. To Snil nn the.l7th Instant, for BENGAL direct, THE Hon. Company's Chartered SI-liP BARRosA,' HENRY H IN , SON, Commander, Burden 698 Tons, lying %.,. u , •24 e , ' in the City Canal, Blackwall ; his a poop 71 " --1 " and very superior accommodations for Pas at'nzers. F o r Thous of Passage apply to th? commander, at , otreehouse; or to BUCKLES, BAOSTER, asta BUCHANAN, - 133, dark lane. . TM, Day vac 'price 3s. rm. 4 AIION and PYTIIIAS, a Tragedy, in Five Acts, as Performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Ca ro , n •. Printed for John Warren, Old Bond•street. ENGLISH TOPOGRAPHY. - TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION. SOTI-1E131 7 , at his Hous.e, No. WF,LLINGTON STREET, WATERLOO-BRIDGE. STRAND, on MON - bAY, June 18th, 1841, and Three following Days, at Twelve o'Cloets, 4ART of the Valuable COLLECTION of 1 1 ,,, not KS, chiefly relative to ENGLISH BIOGRAPHY, bi rl'OltY, and TOPOGRAPHY, in which will be found 2.Z0,Y ,of 4he Works of Dug - dale. Slid:dry, Gough, Pegrze, d fl fi""s: Strtitt, Pennant, &c. &c. The Property of Mr. i and Catalogues (price Is.) had at the place . ~tr%.-rec r FIGE AT, 1' EETH, on an unprecedented ze Principle, by Mr. GRAY, Monther of the Royal Col . th,, 0 f Surgeons, in London. constructed so as to answer all ti n eurPoses of the human teeth. in mastication, articula- Nlpearance, < c• unit to remain perfectly secnre n their by she pressure of the atmosphere; thereby avoiding 1,, stumps, tying, twisting .wires, or fastening i•uii • e t th adjoinin teeth, or any attachment whatever , ein o ain e in , teeth, g and consequetilly, instead of '.atiiird thew sopport. These artifici.il teeth may be • vut, and teptacerl by the wearer with the greatest fa • To those who require whole or half sets, Mr. Pray h h aLhis own - to furnish pieced which shall v!'l' alit purpose above described, without the annoy tui,,Pcuntiivance of the spiral springs, which are usually' 4 , h ea 1 , 0 such pieces. ~"0 Old Ilurlitigton,street. THE CORONATION. 'COrnT OF Cr„UMS.—At half-past one o'clock eke, v.the Commissioners of • the Court of Claims met in the of the House of Lords, to hear claims on the . - art Of T e . to attend his MAJESTY'S C eroe t r -l ' ser g Berl of Harrowby, Pre sittte4 on. here present, . ;` 4 ,,the Duke of Montrose, the Earl of Donoughmore, NiL,i;„ 23 'eniev and Redesdale, Sir William Scott, Sir John A - 1,"") Lord Binning, Mr. Becket o raxl Mr. Sturges Borne. Prcelamation -was made, in the usual form • Petition wasresented from the Lord Mayorand Corpora . rit () "l t he City of Dublin, claiming places at the Coronation. ltoil l ' ,t? .e Was also a Petition presented from the Rev. Mr. Dy- Oral Parson of 'Scrivening, praying to be allowed to with ,Lq il l application to have his service of Chat - 4ton performed Reader, inn Fso. as his deputy, and to have sub by' te room of the latter, the name of his son, William Ato h Coombe, Jun. a fine young man, who appeared in armour in o 'eels':'ttifilon wes made on the claims, but they stand over for 41 1 1 . 7 „, 4 with others. ,Cli4l o ' is r 'ellow s attended the Court on behalfof the Lord Fli , gh lottkirt4in, which office is bow held conjointly by Lord /lpf c io"., 3 .' and Lord Cholmendeley, but who have not appointed tiloric' l-I ,tY. Mr. Fellows stated to the Ccurt, that he had au zinp . i .`-','rGrn their Lordships to transact such business as might should ( to the 9 • of Lord Iligh Chambulain until they o.„ ce T he 't,Ppoint a deputy. / . CZr e churns of the Barons the Cinque Ports to carry the • over the King at the ceremony was allowed, ber ap 4 e Bareness Cray de Wilton. to carry a pair of silver spurs the'e„ th e Xing, and perform ether services, was allowed by •.11er deputy is to he appointed by the King. 411 e,Claim of the Mike of Norfolk to present a glove, was tlel °. ;„ eu • The claim of the of Norfolk, as Earl of Arun forlY Perform the office of Butler, and to have the great ewer 111 c , 14 fee, was allowed by the Court.. The same claim, made li eet t,cte.flerbert, was disallowed. Irel l epinin of the 'Marquis of Ormond, as Chief . Butler of Tru, to attend the Coronation, was allowed. - to be e r etition of the Lord Mayor and Corroration of London 10 o i o ,` klowed to perform their services by D . eputatien, was al ttlxi.,M, A similar Petition from the University of Oxford was T i s tiolved by the Court. I,:a o ' l l'ee Petitions from the Duke .of Bedford, S. Whitbread, th e l;.,and another, claiming to be almoners to his Majesty on ti l i k; oronation, were next considered. . The Court allowed the hells ofThe Duke of Betiford and of Mr. Whitbread, but disc leqe . ti that of the other Gentleman, whose name we could not • ih The claim of the Duke of Montrose, to be allowed to• have "% care of the sil ver scu ll ery, was referred to the King and The claim cu. ef Mr. Soames, to be allowed to hold the towel ,!)a - sin, wed to have the ewer for his services, - was allowed. 41,1:01,1,1(iclairt a John Campbell, to be the King's Waferer, was • e o 1 : 1 1!" claim Of Mr. Wil• tshire, to be allowed to present the first. "Tito tlhe King at dinner, wos -Ho d • e lto of the Duke of Hamilton, as Esquire of Angus, allowed to carry the Crown a Scotland at the a4 odisallowed.ceremony, t • ,_ fr : l l l 4 , .Con - rt i 7ose. at three o'clock - , and was adjourned by Pro '4, 4,ton until Saturday the 16th. In the Committee of Privilege, Counsel Were heard on the Strathmore and Molesworth Peerages. The Irish Public Works. Bill was read a third and passed. Lord SIDMOUTIi laid on the table copies of the Correspondence-between the Judges of Ireland and the Irish Government, relative to the fees taken in the Courts. 'The Sale of Bread _Dill was read a third time and passed ; and the Irish Rate of Interest Bill was reported. The Earl of DONOUGIMORE adverted to the Petition he -had presented from Wm. Claucey, Clerk in the - Irish Court of Common Pleas. The Petitioner complained that he was deprived of the emoluments of a freehold office, without due. compensation.- He should, therefore, Move to morrow, on the order for going into the ComMit tee, that the Petitioner be heard by Counsel. Lord SIDAIOUTII trusted that the House would not .suppose, from hi's silence on the subject of this Petition, that he admitted the facts it set foilh. Ile was, however,' perfectly willing to take the matter into consideration, if any ground - could be offered for the claim.—Adjourned. HOUSE . OF COMMONS. POOR LAWS. Mr. CURTEIS presented a Petition from the Parish of Robertsbridge, Sussex, in favour of the Poor Laws Relief Amendment Bill. Mr. HOBHOUSE presented a Petition from some indivi duals of ListrPool, •against the Poor Relief Amendment Bill. The Petitioners,. he stated; objected to all the clauses, except that regulating the Law of Settlement. Mr. Hobhouse said, he feared he should be obliged to vote against the Bill, his op position to which would rest on the ground that forms the pre sent state of , the laws against the poor, against emigration, against eambination, and against begging; a compulsory pro vision for the poor was rendered necessary. Mr. BROUGHAM concurred in opinion with the Honour able Member for Westminster, to a certain extent, anti he was willing-to say 'that if such a measure as the Bill before the House, or anything like it, was passed, a great alteration would be necessary in all the laws concerning th Poor. The subject was attended with great though not with insurmountable diffi culty. The system could not begin and end with the Bill in troduced by his Hon. and Learned Friend, but there must be a corresponding change in all the laws affecting the poor. Tliere was another difhculty with which the Bill was attended, which was, that it would create two classes of poor; for if the principle of Mr. Malthus was carried ;into - effect, the children of marriages contracted at one time would be entitled to relief, while the Children of marriages contracted at another time 'would not be entitled to it. If the principle of the Bill was ad mitted, it would be most tyrannical to retain the laws against emigration; .combination, and begging. The present system of the . Poor Laws was especially built on the prohibition to beg. .1-le:threw out these observations to show how many difficulties the subject was attended with. There ought too, if the Bill was passed, to be measures of precaution taken to make the execution of the Bill safe, as well-for the Police as the Poor. It was needless for him further to enter into this topic, but he particularly referred to the questions of emigration and coloni zation. On the latter subject he referred to a pamphlet-of Mr. Herbtrt Saunders, which contained.much valuablepactical in formation on experiments that had been made in Holland and in Ireland. Mr. S. BOURNE concurred in the observations of the Ho nourable and Learned Gentleman. He cleaned it a great oversight, that by a clause at the end of the Poor Relief Bill, the Vagrancy Laws were left untouched. When the funds were limited; as .they would be by the Bill, it would be im possible to leave them subject to the unlimited demands of Ma gistrates. Mr. lIARBORD observed, that the doctrine on which the alteration of the Poor Laws, was proposed, was chiefly that of Mr..Maltbus, according to which a certain quantity of vice and misery was necessary as a check upon population. This doc trine had been, in t,lie opinion of many people, well qualified to forth an opinion upon the subject, shaken by the elaborate work lately published by Mr. W. Godwin: Ntr. Malthus's theory • was founded on the supposition of a rapid ratio of increase of. population, which .Mr. Godwin had, in the opinion of many, disproved. After a few words in explanation from Mr. BROUGHAM, Mr. MAXWELL observed, that in every part of Scotland where machinery was introduced, a cumpulsdry provisiOn had been, found necessary, and he . believed such a provision - would be found necessary till machinery was taxed. . The petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved for a Copy of the Report te , the eornerset Quarter Sessions of the Committee to inquire into the state of Ilchester Gaol and the conduct-Of the Gaoler.— Ordered. Sir B. :'IARTIN presented a petition from the Chamber of ComMem at Plymouth, complaining of the oppressive nature of the tonnage duty on outward-bound ships. CONSTITUTIONAL ASSOCIATION. Sir R. WILSON said, he had a petition to present from an individual: who was now a prisoner, 'being unable to find the bail which had been demanded from him to answer prosecutions for libel, which prosecutions had been commenced against him by the body calling itself the Constitutional Association. The great mischief of this Society •waS,. that great funds were put in the hands of persons who could carry on vexatious prosecutions without subjecting themselves to responsibility or loss of racter. The Attorney-General had stated in the House, with a proper feeling of pride, that he had never instituted any prose - cution which was not followed by conviction. Here there was some security to the public- against improper 'prosecutions, but in the case of the Association, the disposal of the money was in the hands of persons whose characters could not be made responSible: The Petition, which was from Mr. W. Benbow, was read. The'Petitioher stated, that he had been arrested on the 18th May on a Judge's warrant, and that he was a prisoner in the Kins's Bench prison, on the prosecution of a set of conspirators calling themselves the Constitutional Association, among whom were some of the great officers, of State, and who had many thousand potinds at their disposal. Ile complained of the great suffering and expence to which he had been subjected by their proceedings. The petition was laid on the table and ordered to be printed. • The Naval Stores' Bill was read 'a - second time ; to be com mitted to-morrow. LAW. OF ppMERA R A-TOR T URE. Mr. GOULBURN, in answer to a question put by the Tien. .General (Sir R. Wilson) a few nights, ago, was now enabled to state, that according to the interpretation of the Dutch law in Dernerava, it was not considered that torture was laWful, and it had consequently never been 'practised there. In consequence of this, no instruction on the subject had been sent thither as to the rest of the conquered Colonies, but to prevent the possibi lity of any -ads - conception, an instruction would now be sent out.—(licar !). . - WOOL TA X. Lord MILTON said, he saw no prospect of Lis being able to bring lOrward the Repeal of the Wool Tax, as a substantive motion, that night, but if the Iron. Member for Cumberland carried his motion for the Repeal of the Husbandry Horse Tax, he should move an instruction to the Committee for the Repeal of the "W9ollTax-L(A laugh !). ILLEGAL FEES.,-IRISH COURT OF EXCHEQUER Air. S.' RICE said, it had been his intention to .have brou,ght on that rioht a subject of the very highest importance, affecting the administration of justice in Ireland. He had been requested by the Honourable Member for the county of Limerick, to postpone it for a few days, and he had no h e sit a tion in doing so. Ile new gave notin,,, that when he breught the.subject forward, he should go fully into it, and take . the sense of the Eons?. upon it. He should now move only that the ninth Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Courts of justice in Ireland be entered as.read, dtd that it be made an Order of the Pqy to lONIAN ISLANDS. M'r. HumE begged to preface the motion- he was about to m ike, by I eqneking that . any 0h... servations he might Offer & Conduct of Sir T. TVlailland, might be considered as applied to the Lord _High Commiisioner ethe lonian Islands, and made from ,a sense of public duty, rather than as applying .to Sir T. Mfitland, of whom he had no knowledge. Ile re(retted that none of his Majesty's Ministers were present, because he thought some of them inculpated in the trans action he had to state. -He had himself visited the lonian 'lslands, and he 'could bear witness to the high estimation in which the British were held previously to the_ experience the lonians had of them under the yoke of the present Lord High Commissioner. Such was their opinion of the superiority of being under British Govern ment, that the arrival of Sir T. Maitland, in con formance with the Treaty of Paris of 1815, was hailed as the harbinger of peace and universal happiness. An early act of that officer, however, no less than the dismissal of five of the Senators, l because they were not disposed to be subser vient tohim, but chose to have an opinion of their own, served in a great measure to undeceive them. To give an idea of the caprice and des potism which dictated this act, he had only•to State that one of these Senators, Mr. Flambou riari, had since been recommended by Lord Bathurst to be employed by Sir T. Maitlanden account of his talents. This order for their dis missal, it was to be observed, was because they were " inept and corrupt." Mr. Flambouriari, after being thus .recommended and employed under Government, was again thrown into a dun geon, because he had signed a 'petition to the King of England, stating the real causes of _dis satisfaction which the lonians had. Those who read the addresses to Sir T. Maitland from Tice lonian Gazette, could not fail to be persuaded that he was a man of extreme vanity and, fond of flattery, which idea would be confirmed by the number of triumphal arches, colossal .statues, busts, portraits, &c. &c. raised in his honour in the Island ; and it would be seen what credit he was entitled to in that House, when he stated in 'a letter to this Government, that " he bated pomp and parade, even to a foible." After being under his go vernment a short time, the lonians began to feel that they should like to have a real Repre-. sentative Government, as was promised to them, and appeared to set themselves to work for that purpose, as on the 18th January, 1817, the Lord High Commissioner assembled the Officers of State, including the police, and informed them that a conspiracy had been formed and was about to explode. Instant arrests took place in great numbers, on whiCh the Staff were employed ; but it was found that there were no grounds against the major part of those arrested; one Laperiochi and another being found to he at the, bottom of the whole. machination. The commission ,ap pointed to try the conspirators reported to that ef fect, and sentenced Laperiochi to be hanged. .This sentence however was commuted- to one year's solitary confinement, and eight years confinement to the Islands. A few months afterwards, how ever, he was found at large. This circumstance, joined With others, cast a strong suspicion on the Whole affair. As to the Constitution of the lonians, it was a complete deception, and vested the whole power in the hands of the Lord High Commissioner.• The Legislative Assembly was composed of 40, in all 29 Representatives,a pre sident of the Senate, and the Primary Council of ten. - This Primary Council was appointed by Sir T. Maitland, and they nominated the Candi dates, so that Sir T. Maitland might be said to appoint the whole. He knew of nothing worse, except it was a Scotch Burgh. The-Legislative assembly passed the Constitution without delibe ration. In the course of three days the work was accomplished, and this glorious Constitution, which he would prove to be a perfect mockery, was adopted, and a deputation dispatched to England to announce the same . , and obtain the sanction of his Majesty. He complained of the influence exercised by the Lord high Commis sioner both in the Senate and in the Legislative Assembly, and also of the influence exercised appointing the through r y h is of having the . h7C ve o r ns o ti r tution was such, that nothing could be effected without his sanc tion, and therefore he held the Lord Commis-. sioner (who possessed all the power of Roman Pro- Consul), responsible for all that had eccurrNl, as he was the alpha and omega of every tiding done in the lonian Islands. He next touched on a ques tion which had been already before the Mouse. Respecting the facts of that question, he and the .Gentlemen opposite were completely at issue. He then went over the circumstances connected with the insurrection, contending, on the autho rity of documents to which• he referred,, that What bad occurred was the conseqUence of the. people being driven to desperation by distress,, anti by the unfeeling- treatment they met with from the Lord, High CommiSsioner„.to•Whose mea-. sures he ascribed all the blOodshed which had.. t aken place. The : ily,.posts to-which the people - • all the facts that had Come to his knowledge. In One,case, Church Lands had been claimed after they had been alie - nated seventy: years. Two Englishmen and two natives were appointed to inquire into this business. Two were in favour Of the claims set up ; the other twodiffered.from them. Sir T. Maitland, as umpire, .gaVe.the cast ing, mote, and wrote an elaborate letter of four teen -sides, dated April 12, 1820, in which he declared, that by the laws of Venice, framed in 1410, Church property could not. he alienated, and consequently the casting, vote was given favour of the Church. •He noticed the pluralities enjoyed in the Innian Islands ; read over a list of the various appointments held by Colonel Wil Ham Robinson, and enumerated, grievances of which the people-of Santa Maura had to corn plain, and which he thought Would have ex-, cited almost any people to acts . of an insurrec tionary character. An individual, of the name of Antonio Martinengo, he represented ..to . have been very harshly dealt with, and to have been imprisoned for a considerable period at the will of the Governor, in violation of the Constitution. He begged _to assure the House that he • would not have brought forward the present motion had he not - been satisfied that , most arbitrary acts had been committed, acts more worthy of the Government of Morocco, than of a Government established under the: pro,- tection of-the British. Empire. Martinengo wish ed not to escape being brought -to trial, but he protested against the right of the Supreme Coun cil, before whom he had been brought, to try him, as they were only authorised to try-public functionaries. This person, hoWever, tried be fore that tribunal, at the adv-anced age of 6'G, . bad been sentenced to be detained—confined in some way or other, in one of his Majesty's pos- . sessions in the Mediterranean, and to' pay all costs. Ile had heard within these few-days that the sentence had been modified by Government into three years' voluntary banishMent, as banish-, went was called, inflicted on.an individual who had called for no,modification of his sentence — who only demanded justice., and who, he was confident, would never consent to leave, his native country till he had cleared up his character. He hoped, if-a. Commission was to be appointed, the Government f ‘ p , ;' e o l u .s l o d ns ta l l v i i e lo c b a y re th t e h i a r t co it n ' a s it h c ou t% l v d o ü b l d e be likely to restore the character which England had lost in. the islands. There were two indivi duals who wished to present a Petition to the King ; having drawn up the Petition, one of theM was arrested, and the other, named Rossi, was. Obliged to fly, and was fortunate enough to effect his escape. After this it was thought necessary by some individuals, amounting to 50 in -number, to make a stand for their rights. • These 50, however, upon drawing up a Petition to the King, and presenting into Colonel Ross, were all arrested. This was.the plot of which the House had heard a few nights ago to overturn the Government.—• The Hon. Memher.then complained of the mono poly of the sale of bread, of the restraints upon the Press, and of exactions made upon . the im portation of salt. The Greeks in the different villages-were continually goaded, and reminded of the dominion of _England, so as to prevent their being reconciled to their condition. There was a system of espionage kePt up, worthy of the tyranny of Buonaparte, in the police department' - of the islands. 'lnstead of the taxes which had been laid upon the lonians, the salaries of the re spective. officers- should be- reduced. Colonel Robinson, independent of his pay, received one half per cent. upon the whole revenue of - the island. The revenue was 432,4281. and the per centage -at the rate he had mentioned would amount to . 21,000 dollars. The Hon. Member then said that u hat he had stated was only in the discharge of his public duty, and he only spoke of Sir T. Maitland as a public character. He should be sorry if any thing had fallen from him that-would hurt the private feelings of that indi vidual, because nothing was more remote from his intention. He hoped, indeed, that if an in quiry were instituted.he would be found to come out of it clear, with .his character relieved from those imputations- which had been cast upon After what had fallen from the Hou.Secretary of State last night relatiye tei the appointment of Committees for the, purpose of investigating the condition of our distant possessions, it was useless to hope that a Committee.would .be granted.— .should therefore move, " That an hrunblr; Mt - tress be prcsf.nttl to his Majesty. pray:- ins; thf,t he will ap.pint C)lllYr.:iSS7 ; onel's to prooeed to I,he loaip Islands, to inguire into t'::ytat , 2 of the Government then., and into the co - aenct t el? ; - ,•ernor, - .Sit. T. ; vlsn to ill icit:ire Into the ca-,l;f:ttof the: disaffection which exists, aral. Of the nunactons an-ests, that have t,:kcn Mr. Gor.r.uunN hoped the House would make allowances for a person in an official situation, called upon to answer such numerous charges upon the uncertain notice that had been 4iven. On these suhjects h e found birnsef unable 16 co pe with the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hume), fo'r this was the third thne he ,had co:pe dow'n arid Tepeated the same charges, Which he (Mr.Clotil s burn) thought he had answered to the satisfaii r Lion of the House, to which he had now super-di added charges against. him, namely, of a dispi- , :; sition to quibble and conceal facts ,fronrc't House which had come to his notice. He ha 1. comtnenced with the `irreaty .of Paris, ,vh:c.ll was the basis of the Constitution of the lonian ilauds, and was the instistunent by r.hich the conduct or the.Go.vernment was to be j,ttlget.l, :andibefore , th e He n , Gyotleman had brought for Ward these , excise-6°ns, It might have been well it he 'had . read some of the terms of this Treaty. The liOn. , Gentleman then read a:: extract from the Treaty, to shew that it 'Nees the intention to establi4l a Constitution' under the British Government;elion the principles which had been before estabil - r;loA ; !it !ie-denied it ever was the intention to make . it'as free as the GOvernment of this counfiy.'— , .And here he shoiild say, that although he might' he able. here to see the defects.. of.their ConStrtu tion, it by no means followed- that if we trans planted our Constitution there it would diately reMedY these defects. It was with st;ites as Wiffi - mtn'; iii theirinfancy they required-re straint and Coercion, and when they were more matured, they had;Capp,cit'ies to enjoy and, ap preciate the . ii freedom.—(Hear!)—He admitted that if the MOde of electing the Meiuhers of ,the -.Legislative Body 'here - and there were compared,, it , was essentially dierent, but that was no gio7:!i!cl of impatation On 'Sir Th05.361a,;.t --lan- 'The aon,-Gen:l6nian .had att.:acted sortie individUals by ramie, and he . had stated that one was notorious for his hoStiliy to. BuonaParfe ; the fair inference 'to be drawn from that was, that he entertained opinions consonant to the feelings of Englishmen. He ndviSed the Hon. G-enoe man, to compare the mode of election not with any other country, but with that which they had under the: Russian Gotermpent, and he 'would soon see that that which they had under 'ihe British Government Wes the preferable 'mod'e and again, the powers of the Lo - rd High Coininis 'sioner, as compared with those of thePlenipoten- Cary of the former protectini, Power, laige thOugh they were, he would. find them siitic to nothing in the comparison. At all events, 'those powers Were -defined, which would be allowel by all . who knew any thing of government,*to be a principle .of control most essential to freedom. The Hon. Member had enlarged On the case of M. Martinepgo. That person" 'Was sentencuil to death ; • and . the llon..M'ember found mat{er'of complaint in his punishment being cothronted to one year's close confinement, and eight years in irons. This punishment - was less than the Honourable • Gentleman opposite desired to see inflicted on 'persons -Convicted in . this coun try of. forgery, and* surely it would mit he imputed to Sir Thomas Maitland as that he `had so commuted it. , The lionourable Member, disclaimed any personal relleetions On that officer, but 'he had not acted up to his d'e claration, for he was not content .with imPating acts to'Sir Thomas Maitland• which took. dace whilst - he was resident on the Island, but had charged him aISO with 'transactions °cent-ring-1n his absence,- and of which. he after Wards diSap proved. If there were any blaMe for the firb ceedings at Santa Maura, it could not attach to Sir Thomas Maitland, for he was not .there-at the time ; not that he meant to allow there Wits any ground of blame at all ; the part whieh*Fir Frederick Adam bore there was tlie only Olie which a British Officer could have perfOrnieil, consistently with houeur and humanity. He hoped Hon. Members who heard hint had read the.l4- .ter of Sir F. .Adam, which was yeSterday laid on the table; that alone he was • asSUred, be a sufficient answer to any suggestion to 'his prejudice ; though to those 'who kneW him it Wits unnecessary, as he had too. high a c araCtire to give ground of suspiehin that he 'wlnid .lend himself to any false statement; and . besiders, at the time there was no nnitive for his sendhly, any but a true account of the trarn•action. Trie Hon. Member (Mr. - Horne) had charged him Goulburn) with false staternentS ; but fie would reaffirm what he had before stated, thtst the insurrection at Santa Maura was occasioned by the dread which the militia had Of being sent to the - West Indies. There Was no desire what ever to act a•gainst those poor people, but, on the e,ontraey, every forbearance .was exercised to wards them. They had assembled in force, With arms in their hands, and though the first, the na tural suggestion would be, to rete( force by force, yet the Military officer had sent to know their grievances, either real or imaginary. After that a person attending- an officer of GoVernment ryas assassinated, and it was not till the day after that assassination took phrce that an order was issued at Cwfu to remove the regiment:of militia; and it was only after the insurgents hail burst into the toe n, and set fire to one part of it, that the oflcer began to act against them ; and af terwards only foor individuals, who had been the, ringleaders, were executed, and their property confiscated. The II on. Gentleman complained because lie (Mr. Goulburti) had not forniAN him with a retnr:i of the killed and woOritter, I ut in a popular disturbarice that w'as ohyletAy iihnoss.ible. From the best information . (that sof respectable persons On the spot), he 'cotild'stale that the total was not snore than 15 or 2.0 perspkts killed and wol;nded; but thal,' itiformatioi), thoogb he believeait to be correct e he . cptildsrkt embody in kforecal return. lie 'had befCre:dv nied ,that Sir T . . Maitland - sishetl. to Conliscite , t h e proper t y o f the church to the reverztts of the island, and he du:nied it still:the inten tion WaS, to rest ne that frorri tleoe who had ihipr6perly obt:iineil it, anderestore it to the church to which it ri.lzhtfolly belonged. Tite Eon., de:nan had i . efeered to the eaS'e' AtZ.s .Sandro BarGtglio, "verve before the Co!frt there,and . the ques;;.ion enreed on the okra' on tO. be given to an 0:d Ven:q'an .law. a l e : betwei‘n the Juttges,,.i;iid t v ot ed ;he two the other : ffere he lfeesc . to observe the incoiioc : l6lcy: of the Win. '4, l :ember's statements and infer,ences - : whteiche .T. Maitland of exec cuing dominating aod,qraunical ecf•scu