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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT• HOUSE OF PEERS. THIJikeDA.Y, MAY 31. THE House having resolved itself into a Com mittee of Privileges, heard evidence in support of the claim of the Barony of - Zigtich of fliryngurOrth; the - father consideration- thereof was adjourned to this day_se'nnight, . Seine Bills (chiefly of _a private_ nature) were • brought upfrorn the CoirimOns. • ' 'the Pills on the. Table were passed in their re _-• , - spe6live stages. kk.,l PETITION RESPECt!NG THE CONDUCT OF ONE OF TRE..JODGES IN. IRELAND. • 77Ye Margnis of ABERCORN moved the Order of .the , Day far summqning the Lords; which being read, The Noble Mittquis rose ; and stated, tha t LeAteld in his ,hantita Petition relating ~to one of the most inwort,ant and serious • AtaNetts that could possibly engage the attention of their Lordships., It was a. subjeA to which the vigilance and jealousy of that Hpuse, as one of ti,e branches of the Legislature, should be most particularly direeted ; for Parlia ment, %.k Lich was vested, by the Constitution with the privilege of - ehatting Laws, was also charged with thervilligation'of seeing that they were administered abiliA - ..:auci impartially. The due administration of justice contributed..more to the establishment and maintenance of , the rights and liherties of the People, than all .the legal provisions and assertions tespeecing , thent.thst so often occur in our national history. The Petition ,which he was requested to present to their . Lordships., complained of the con.. du i tt of, the H0n...1_,1ixt...k . 0x, one of His Majesty's Justices Of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland. The instances of abuse of his official charatier were alledged to have taken place on the. North-West Circuit, at the last Summer Assizes. The Petition, had been in his hands ever since the month Of Au gust, and he had abstained from making it the sub- Jed of Parliamentary discussion at an earlier day, beeacise he uncierstotd that some representations, respecting the - general Condo& of that Learned jiidge, during . that Circuit, bed been-transmitted by His Majesty's Government in Ireland to the Administration in this Country, and had engaged their consideration. The other important measures vs lii_lt occupied their attention, he presumed, did not allow,.them leisure for the examination of matters of inferior corp4deration, and possibly it was owing to those circumstances that .they had not, as yer, come so some determination on that subject. He had waited, ,knowing that all the f act s were fully and fairly - Left:re 'them, - witli‘all thatdeference that was doe to His Majesty's Government, to give them an opportunity of bringing forward this question, whose duty it more•immediately was, and he • should not now likve deemed' it incumbent on him to submit it to- Par:iament, did not file advanced period of 'the Sesakn,-and his ignorance of the intentions of Go vernment respe'ting this most delicate of all sub je6ls, i ns pi re him witch vety, just apprehensions, that -he-should lose -ths.opporiunity of procuring justice to those to whom it was due. He would candidly avow, that 4is object in addressing their Lordships, and .Cringing forward the Petition he shi'ilifd now, take the liberty of reading to them, was to punish past miscondutt, and to prevent the com mission of it in futUre.' As he ;vould pledge himself to their Lordships; that the Petition did not contain one improper or offensive expression, he trusted the House 'would be so indtilgedt as to allow it to be read by the Clerk. Their Lordships having assented, the Clerk pro ceeded to read the Petition, which being of consider able length, occupied him nearly twenty minutes. It purported to he the Petition of JOHN HART, Esq. residing- near 'Londonderry, who stated himself to possess considerable property in that C‘ianty, and oeighbouring Countfa . amegal.] [tile` mutt (led it* subrriitting , to the P üblic"the particulart of Mr.l I:AK is Petition. We do not think ourselves justl-: ex-i arte st4ternent, in vtrbliOing,circtimstances, which may possibly 41PEt the reputation of one of the Judges ot , th , :and.] - commenting lin, the matter of the - Petition, the - 14031e Marquis proceeded to enumerate various othei instances of similar condua by the Hon. Judge; one of which Particularly applied to his LOrdShip.,;but .which, from • he motives above stated, we do not consider it either fair or prudent to men- The Noble Marquis, then resuming the speech, said, he would assure their Lordships, that he had not ady'anced a single assertion which he was not prepared to substantiate by evidence, wherever and whenever an opportunity should be afforded birti of doing, so. Most of the circumstances whiCh he had suinnuted to their Lordships' consideration, were within.tl:e knowledge of his Noble Friend who was TlQA;t' at the head of the Government in j Ireland, and he- was persuaded chat he cOLI: t corroborate those chases, ,;eriotis anti extraordinary as they were. probably their Lordships would soon have an opkortuoity of hearing that Noble Earl declare in his Place, that there were sufficient reasons to in duce Parliament not merely to receive the Petition, but *to institute an inquiry into the whole of the ju dieial condod of that Learned Judge during the last jutamtr assizes. He must supo o s e t h e a pp earance of that Noble Lord among them could not long be delayed ; for he had no doubt that the same cir. circumstances which had caused the dismissal of the laie Mini;ter of this. Country ; the disgrace of bay ing aCted conscientiously and uprightly in every part of his Administration; the disgrace of having made the basis of his continuing in office a resolu tion not to use any undue influence or exertion to sway the favour of the Public or of Individuals ; the disgrace of having quitted it, accompanied by the regret and good wishes of his Sovereign, and of the picL , !it in general ; would soon operate, as they equally applied to his Noble Friend, on occasion ing his di,rnissal also. His Lordship would not ap point any- day for taking it into consideration, nor m tke it the stihje.;`,l of a specific Motion, for he had i)opei that His Majesty's Ministers would in the in terval adopt some measure to obviate the repetition of gh condul. In the meantime he would only mote tl at it lie upon the Tat*. Adj. , u;ned o'Clock tomorrow, HOUSL OF COMMONS. rHURSDAy, MAY 31. Ltd LOVAINE and \V!.!. DICKENSON, EsCt.were introduced, and took tilt: Oaths and their Seats, on theta re.eflekttion. Oniered, on the Motion of Sir JonN NEWIORT, that an Account be laid before the House, of the Disbursement of :cool. which was direded by the Aft of the 4.tst of His pre.ent Majesty, to be ap plied to ceriain officers from Ireland. A Petition, presented by Mr. Alderman CO M BE , respe‘qing Drawbacks and Duties on Sugars, &c. was ordered to be laid on the Table. Sir Jon ANDERSON brought up the Report of the Committee appoin:cd to examine the Petition from the Corporation of London, respeding a Coal Market—and upon the Report being read and agreed to, the Honourable Mel/' er obtained leave to bring in a Bill to alter and enlarge the powers of the Ad of the 43d of His present 'Majesty, for establishing a Free Nlarket for the sale of Coals in London, &c. Mr. CARTWR IGHT brought in a Bill for altering and amending the Ac`l of the 28th of His present Majesty, with respea to Chimney Sweepers and their Apprentices. The Bill proposed that as, not withstanding the invention of machines, many boys were still employed to clean chimnies„ Trustees or Guardians should be appointed, to whom master chimney-sweepers should be obliged to report their names, in order that their boys should he under the ins; eftion of the said Trustees ; and also, that to render t the object of the Bill more effectual, such master chimney-sweepers as neglefted to return their names, &c. should be subjeet to a certain pe nalty, if they continued to follow the business.-- The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time. The Committal of the Scotch Militia Expence Regulation Bill was postponed till Wednesday. Sir JoHN NEWPORT, adverting to the Motion which he had announced his intention of bringing forward on this day, with respeft to the operation of the Property Tax on persons deriving revenue from property situated in Ireland, stated, that as the CHANCELLOR of the IRISH EXCHEQUER was not in tendance,"and as the Papers necessary to his Motion were nut yet on the Table, he should wave his pur pose for,the present, .and as the Session was so far advanced, postpone it to a future opportunity. The Felons Apprehensiol Bill was, on the Mo tion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, read a third time and passed. Mr. AL EXANn FR brought up the Report of the Irish Accounts Regulation Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill ordere4 to be read a third time to m/11'0W. Trade, it was the Right Hon. Gentleman's inter— tion that his Motion should precede that Order ? This question he was induced to put, from a cun. siderazion of the solicitude entertained upon the Linen business by a vast and respectable number of persons in that Country to which he belonged, and because, if the Right Hon. Gentleman meant to sub_ mit his Motion, it must, from its superior importance, claim the precedency, and the consideration of the Linen question must necessarily be postponed.— Being on his legs, the Hon. Member said he could not refrain from observing upon the conduct of the Right Hon. Gentleman with respect to his so very long promised plan of provision for the National Defence—a plan which above a month since the Right Hon. Gentleman himself told the House that not one moment should be lost in bringing it for ward, and yet it seemed that it was still unprepared, nor was the House assured that it would be ready even by Tuesday. The late Administration, v.hich he rejoiced in the recolleetion of having supported, were often charged with tardiness and hesitation, and particularly by that Right Hon. Gentleman, who in this instance was guilty of the fault which he had imputed to his predecessors—delay, indeci sion, want of energy and promptitude, appeared ❑pon this occasion to be peculiarly applicable to himself. Those remarks he could not forbear to make ; but his objeest in rising was to obtain an answer to the question he had mentioned in the out set. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER felt that it would not be consistent with the Order of the House to enter at present into the animadversions upon his conduit, which the Hon. Gentleman had coupled with his question. Indeed he doubted that he should not apologize to the Hon. Gentleman for even answering his own question, as that did not at all seem to he his obj,!it for rising. With regard to that question, however, he should say, that it was his anxious and earnest wish to bring forward the subjeft to which it referred, as soon as possible. If therefore the Committee mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman, which stood for Tuesday, was one upon which a diversity of opinion existed, and a debate was likely to arise, he should certainly feel it his duty to propose the postponement of the Order to another day. The other Orders were disposed of, and the House adjourned till to.mortow. CORN TRADE. Mr. WESTERN mo ved the reading of the Order of the Day, fur the further consideration of the Report of the Committee on the Corn Trade, for the pur pose, as the Hon. Gentleman stated, of postponing the Order until tomorrow. Mr. P ESON observed, that the considera tion of this Report had bzen freqacntly postponed, and he wished to know the reasons which induced the Hon. Gentleman to propose the farther post ponement of it until to-morrow. The lubject to which the Report refer red, he conceived to b e of the utmost importance. It was one upon which hr had taken every method in his power to acquire the fullest information. To the Committee appointed to consider it he had paid very close attention, an,i he had the misfortune to differ fr m the weiner are of the Gentlemen o► which that Comitir ire was composed. This difference was of such a nature, that he hoped one of the motives for postponement, was to reconsider the grounds of this diffirence.— Indeed the Report W 3.5 such, that he wished it to be totally reconsidered, for it would go, if adopted, to alter the bearing and tendency of ouf Corn Laws, and the whole _system of our Imports and Exports, with respeCt to grain. Mr. WESTERN saw no nbjeCtion that could, in point of candour, be advanced against deferring tins Motion till to-morrow. There was in the "fable proposed in the Report of the Committee, a devia tion from the Table fixed by the Corn Act of 179 ; the reason's for hich, though founded on the best principles, werenot sufficiently explained in die body of the Report. To obtain such explanation, and to sa tisfy the House and the public as to the motives of the change, ii Was 'proposed to move the recommittal of the Report. This was one reason why it was deem ed advisable to put off the consideration until to_ morrow, when other reasons for the delay which had taken place in this business would be stated,— Under those circumstances, he trusted there would be no objettion to the Motion he submitted. Mr. I',I 4 T.F.FSON acceded to the Motion, and expressed a hope that when the Report of the Com mittee should again come before die House, it would come in another shape. Sir R. BUXTON thought the Motion of post ponement ought to be fur a Liter day. He wished to know whether it was intended to-morrow to consider the Report on the Table, or to move for • its recommitment ? Mr. FOSTER stated, that one reason fur the proposed re-commitment of this Report was, 'that it would, in its present form, tend to affect the Corn Trade between this part of the United Kit doM and Ireland. This was a subject which ii was understood was to form the subjet of another Com mittee. With respect the question to be submitted to the House to-morrow, of which the Hon. Baro net who spoke last, wished to be informed, he had to mention, that it would be this, whether the Re port should be re-committed or not ; and from the advanced period of the session, it appeared to him that such re-committal should take place as soon as possible, in order that upon the consideration of the general question, the Report, upon such re committal, should be laid before the House in due dine. The Motion was agreed to. DEFENCE OF THE NATiow. Mr. rur - r deferred till Tuesday his Motion on the Subject of the Defence of the Nation. Mr. CARR rose to ask the Right Hon. Gentle rzan (the CHANC LLOR of the EXCHEQUER) whe ther, as his promised Motion respeding the Defence of the Country was deferred till Tuesday, upon which day an Order stood for a Committee to con ider s:veral Petitions relative to the Irish Linen OUR Readers Will do us the justice to recol. lea, that on Saturday last we stated that BONA. PARTE had been proclaimed Emperor of France, avid 'hat the Magistrates were then employed in Lr nistering the Oaths of Allegiance to the People ; n Tuesday we stated, on the authority of a 1- - -:•ivate Letter, upon which we • knew we could ,lace the most perfet reliance, that he had been proclaimed on the zoth ; that his Brothers Jose PH and Louis had been declared Princes of the Blood ; and that the Senate bad waited upon their Imperial Majesties with Addresses of Con. gratulation. It is with the greatest pride and satisfaetion we now add, that every part of the intelligence we were exclusively enabled thus early to communicate, is confirmed by the Paris Papers, which we received yesterday to the 22d ult. The Senatus Co/nu/turn which confers the Imperial dignity on BONAPARTE, was decreed in the Senate on the t9th, after which the Sena tors repaired in a body to Sr. Cloud, where the President, CANtansc saes, informed His Imperial Majesty of, the dignity which had been conferred upon him. The Emperor returned a very gracious Answer, and assured the Senators, with great gra. vity, that " his spirit should cease to be present with his posterity, whenever they ceased to deserve the love and confidence of the Great Nation."— The Senators having received this promise of post. hutnous protdlion with becoming gratitude, had the honour of being admitted to the presence of the Emprers, where a similar ceremony was performed. cAMBACER ES, in order to justify this extraordinary measure, represents France as being reduced to the brink of destruttion, from which it was saved by the miracles performed by BONAPARTE. His services to the SS,tate are blazoned forth with great eloquence, particularly his zeal for Religion ; bur there is no allusion whatever to his famous Egyptian Proclaim. ;inn, in which he boasts of his efforts for the destruc tion of Christianity, and professes his sincere belief in the Tenets of the Coran. On the zoth BONAf!AR'rg was proclaimed Ern peror in Paris. Such is the end of what was called the Repub.. lican Constitution of France, which is now repre sented to have been only an experiment. This experiment, which cost so many hundred thousand lives, and prod iced scenes of horror unprecedented in the civilized world, has not been found to . answer, and i s rance ends exaftly where she began with an Absolute Monarchical Government. It i s rather singular that t 7. 'no RONAPARTE'3 Btu in thers, LUCIEN at,d jEitow s do not 61,31'4 tLe general elevation of their _Family : theY reinai simple Citizens,. and are excluded from tlu " c-- cession to the Empire. E can assure our Readers, upon the best 3 311 ' ° ' rity, that the Paragraphs whicsk have apre 3 r ed several of the Morning and Evening p3pers, speaing Mr. DE KAI. ITCHEF (destined, as i t I said, to replace the present Russian Ambasr! who has solicited his fecal), are entirely void odor! foundation. The Paragraphs to which ire allude, pretend th at Mr. Dr KALITcHEr has been suspeded of I parties ality fur the views of France : •so far from t his be ' ing the fad, this upright and enlightened 'Minister has at all times been distinguished by the sounile 6t principies, of which indeed he has given the 0 3.4 convincing proofs in his various Missions at th e Hague, at Berlin, at Vienna, and at Paris. On this subjel ve can safely refer our Readers to the energetic Notes presented 'by him to the French Government' on the subjed of the Kr Nos of N4PI. ES and SA 1191 : NIA, the consequence of which, as it is well knel l/ ad the Diplomatic Circles, was, that BorstArAr rs recourse to secret intrigues and ri s represeoPi ti°°l - to procure his mai from Paris, though in , da c o ing he was in 14 forwarding this Ml nlst c s o own views, who had already implored the " to ?Etcoß to ;now him to quit a post et which to could not remain without dissacisfadion and clistg cs try who are employing every effort to WeAcen the confidence which now so happily exists betweCn tit Country and .Russia. Th e) , have, with tills p a . jed in view, insetted Paragraphs in Y 2ri°° : pers, tending t o ca l umn ia te C o unt and several other M em b ers o f t he lios 9iarl P°Yer s rl ; nw ment ; and now it i s aga in st M r . tar LIT 6 The truth is, that there are foreigners in thi s Co he that their venomous shafts are so inv idiv° ; direfted. These Foreigners, however, wil l )1 , that their low intrigues have not produced the IP' petted effea, as the reputation of Mr. DE R CHEF, known as he is throughout Europe by honourable condat and sound political priticiPles; will not be shaken by such mean and desl'i cai; 6' manoeuvres, as those to which it has now beer. 11 k.e,s.,zy to call the attention of our Readers. Yesterday, at twelve o'cb,ck, His MniEsT sr f vi a e c ci companied by the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE , f " 11° 0 4 by the QUEEN aild PaiNcEssEs, .I:tented t Y 0 1,2 1, 11 Countesses Of AYLESBURY and CARDIGA' airing on the Hounslow road, and returned i° 1c Queen's House to dinner. Yesterday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet 0)11°61 was held at Lord HARROWBY'S Office, which as a t* tended by the Duke of PORTLAND, Earl ‘ v % .s he Molt LAND, Mr. PITT, and several others' Council sat till past three. Lords HARRowBY and HAwicessuitir had 6: ch a l ti on o g rse co G n u fe a r r e d n , c , e y s e :v te tt r li day th . e Doxs of Yoß' at th e , 0 lc Sir JOHN CocPoys and Admiral QAmiilag ",; (3 possession of their houses, at the Admiraltlf lei- IT st, 3d, 4th, 7th, Bth, and nth Iteg inignit terda h y e , of London Volunteers, were yesterday, rev ic r - t i tiii Hyde Park by the DUKE of Volt& and %vent r ° o l ''' a sham fi ght on the occasion, with great precteV !I ... (ffed. His R:iyal Highness was ser,Qmpinic g f v it t,' 09 La t i .Fnit .: s it i.p ri tr l ir : , :atnoodfm Colonela ncl Wales's his cn s: Ar ir aps , N. ? in ec a n f tl te s Tr ß vih tt: s :;: ijo ij g o r g 4 .o6 l , eld-exercise, and acquitted themselves li-di in ' nite credit.T hurday s 1 i l O S ? On next the Lightlietse 11° m iry' the Westminster Cavalry, and the L o ndon " will be brigaded in Hyde , : Park. y a th vv e On . Friday and _„,..niittre4ay•part of the og w e st bei ld ' . d o le e sex Militia marched out of g a rgate, af t A er by the Warwickshire Treudosndl;y mat cht ' days of Rochester, after doing duty there Ta r ry soil Volunteer Col ° ihufteell : their conduet has been highly oc ein „ P- C r in a °P soldier-like, ldier.like, and such as to meet the al'P r A - ", ba rs. the inhabitants, and the praise of thei r " --c is g; , F i t Arle _We have already stated, that General ''' cra i t 0 1 ° Militia.em' l week d ; wt Medway y e y are to be replace_ . 1 DUNDAS is to command the Expedition Bb—nr.shielfc Cape of Good Hope. The Forces destined ! 3- e d c• this and other 'Eastern Conquests, is A rt a estlfaiiierf' 7000 Infantry, rOOO Cavalry, and 50 0 ~e WO The Staff O ffi cers are to be selected from tn °9- a pie. served before at the Cape, and in the glorious a" Fo r. morable Conquest of Egypt. Captains Sir i1(" 413 14 A r HAM, PPER, R —ER ESFOR D, SPRA,NG ER, n 'Ci yea LUX ll4 't e E d fur this service ; the other Captains to be err l P ° ta ins I. IU AY, EK INS, and RAMA GE, have been arc not yet named, though it is siid that C4O , Sir A. DICKSON, WINTHROP, and Sir T. Liv i g is STONE, will also be employed. Colonel ai l At. spoken of as the O ffi cer to command the Roya a to riflery. General BAIRD goes second in carna l° op the Cape, but on the reclod nce, ion of that Pia c i ! Pont seeds to Batavia, or the Isle of Fra Wit° ...- thousand Infantry, and thr ee hundred arrill e f r i a ; sa Major-General AUCHM UTY will aCCOMpaq IliVar second in command. The Squadron 'of Men d e ye is to consist' of three of 74., two of 64, a n 0 - por - Frigates, on board of which Ships a certain P r e o/ that this armament will sail about the begi nn " ' t tion of Troops will he embarked. It ls.ef ri , of d S e° July. Several Regiments. from Ireland an Cola' land are to he embarked on the Expedition. and net 'M ACQX MLR tr , a moil. deserving Offi cer ' Ge. t Who has for some time p et acted as Adiata°,,- orc ri neral to Lord Hc.lt It I Z • ;C TO N, 2CCOmpanics Ole t . in that c:lpar;ty. MAILS. DVS. ARP.IVED. Hamburgh 2 .. PRICE OF STOCKS, THIs DAY AT TW/ELYE O'CLOCK. Red. Ann. -5,4 i I Omnium - - THE SUN. SOLEM QUIS DICrRN FA.I..SUM AUDEAT ? LONUC .v, JU NE I, ISo4.