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PLR IA L PA AAIENT. OF LORDS, Artin. 25. . _ Ceorisel rr, farthur and finally beard respecting the Choi:eery Cause, WilLoi Willan. Coasideratiori of Ju.11;4- Mein deferred till Wcilnesc'ay. In the Scots (7atist, of Ni'ailier Cnnoinghame, Counsel %Ter!! Ti proceed again _on Wednesday. :Eail 'Pt rz•Nit.t.t?ot presented a Po,,itWon froni a nititt!)er of e ..a, erne t s t thatship-knlding . trade, praying yeliefi i•Mkil s.,•as ordo-ed to lie on.theto:ile. Th e I.,,,3o•CAA:'clial,oll. acquainted 'the Honst., that in con- Setinence_of Woliwsdity tiring the first day of Term, be could not attend at the tegniar hour; be shthild therefore propose, that iii,itead . of ten, the meet In;lori that day should take place ttt, two o'clock, " His Lordship haring moved-to this effect, it tors Ordered Aceardingly. The Coef,ll.eal 'importation Bill passed throligh a Commit tee cf the whole House, and was reported without any amend ment. • S(•veral Private Bills were brought n from tho Commobs by Mi. LYGON, Si: a - A11};55 GamiAr.l, and othei - M•jioiiers, and respectively read a first time: • A good deal of private business wasdisposed ; after which the Holiste. adjourned till to-morrow.' novsn op:cvmNIONS. A ntw Writ was ordered , for ,the County of Rutland, Mr. Nosl, haring accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. FOSrElt, presented' a Petition from the Catholics of the County of Louth. - Lord A: HAMIL[ON presented a Petition front Glasgow, against altering the Corn Laws. Committee _appointed • for' next Wednesciiy on the .1-Top pocket Oct. Mi HORNER presented a Petition from Augustus Cove, compui.r.iug of oppression and injury from the Grand Junc tion Canal Company. Celonial Bill ordered to he read a third time to-morrow. The LORI) ADVOCATE, gave notice of a Bill to-morrow, respecting Debtors and Creditors in Scotland. • • - GOVERNOR AINSLIE.• Sir n. rilmomAy wished to know what:infor mation Government had received respecting'eer ttin transactions of Governer Ainslie, in nica and Grenada ; _particularly regarding a pro- - claniation said to have been issued by him in the foiluer, in which the rung — Way'slaves were threaten ed, in the event of not returning, with the destruc - - tion of/their wives anti children. Gothaßukzi said, lie saw the paragraph hua publication ,respecting the proclamation. He constylted'the head of his office (Lord Bathurst), and the Governor had been written to for infor mation on the subject. Sir H. MLLDMAY alluded to the memorial of the free people of colnur in Grenada, Mid Ivistied to know what steps Governinent had taken on that matter. . . . . me. (IOULBOURN said, inquiries imoi been di reeted : he should not object to any motion Tor inforii)ation. The inotmmt the paragraph about Dominica was seen, ,the proclamation alluded to was written for. ' - - - Sir IL MILDMAY moved for the Grenada Me nioriaf from the free people of colour, and the other papers relating thereto. Qrriered.—He then desired to knoW, whether-Governor Ainslie was aripointed to . Dominica atter the receiving of the Mernarid from Gtenada Mr. Gout.toßbr Said, lie had received his ap pointtuent long prior to that. CORN LAWS. Lord A. flimmTotv wished to know what mode was int.ended to be pursued ill the proposed pro ceedings on the Corn. Laws. " • Sir H. PAR LL said, his intention was to move a Conitnittee, and therein to propose cer t a i n re -- solutions ; a fter that, to introduce a Bill to effect an alteration essentially necessary in th'e eirentn stances of - the country,«and different from that whieh he brought :in_ last Session, lie should propose a lower price to regulate the importation, -but sitch•as would not interfere with the present course of trade either in grain or bread. Ile then presented a petition for an altetration in the Corn Laws, from Queen's County, Ireland. DROITS pr The Hori.. Captain BENN:E,rT moved for an ac count of advanees frpm the. Droits, fur the last three years. kfe understood that so,me advance as to - the Royal: yaaiily been repaid ; but wished to ascertain the facts: At the desire of the CUANcELLoR of tbe.E.x cut:aucrt, the subject was postponed till to- morrow.. Mr. BE NETT then moved for a return of the artillery and the horse artillery and drivers in June 25, and December 25; 1813, stating the numbers at home and abroad';' of the engineers and artificers, and sappers and miners, distin guishini.f those enliited for years, ;and for life; or the recruits, with the same distinction ; of the Oflicers of the army, 'specifying 'those who were on hall=pay. .Ordered. EE •MARCHANT. Mr. A. BRoW.Nr. observed, that this Gentleman bad been appointed to an important office'in An tcgtt ; but circumstances had .appeared which connected his umne with a Pate transaction, on which there could he hut one opinion. AL: de ,sired to know, whether Governmeat had taken any not ice of the matter ; or whether Mr. f o e: Marchant was to be permitted to go out to An til-oa, under the stigma which the circumstances MUM: throw upon him Mr. GoULBURN said, that Government had in timated to Mr. Le , Marchant, thar-he. should not leave the country on his appointm en t, unt il pro per enquiry had heeri made, and sufficient infor .mationreceived on the subject. - I±74i4LAND, Mr. TittßwEv obserVed that it v a s pos s ibl e a de6nitive treaty of peace might be concluded soon. I-le wanted, therefore, to be informed what course Governine it meant to pursue respeeting the Rank, Wh:ch, as inattiirs stood, was to re-com mence cash payments six Months after the coa .clusion of peace. Was it intended so, or that the restriction s should continue six' months longer ? It the last. did the Chancellor of the Exchequer, mean to propose a s_iciev. Committee - of thellouse of COMTUOISS to, enqui r e into' the circumstances, and report thereon ? • The CHANCELLOR OF the Ih'CIIERLIER could not answer such a'prematur e string of questisns. A treaty of peace might be soori , coneinded ; and i t . was probable that Government ihit,,,ht not call o n t h e B a nk to resume cash payments at thc'ex piration o f six months. What particul a r s t eps Would be taken he co-uld not then say. sir. RNEY said, his question ywas ,„„ re i v, whether, if the resiriction was to continue, it was judged ekpedient, as due to that Hot!se, 'to pro ply;e a Select Coin diittec - to. enquire and report. It might be coiled premature ; but the matter might conic. on very late in the Session : he was Ilyt so impolineut as to ask specifically what was) biit, hitt intetniel to rig pursued respecting the park of England. The CHAN C ELLOR of the Excn Haut* said J that be was tiotf•i;t: all, prepafoti to anAsiter that question. GLASGOW UNWEIWIT. front .1,0111 A. HAMlLTONprestnted a Petition tr the Principal of tht Univerity of Glasgow, Which complained of statements in a Petition, pre sented by MT.'llosc, - Vbarging the Univerly with kinfaimess; fraud, and perjury, in the piinting of works. • Mr. Rost said; that, thti Petition he presented, was put into his hands by a number of respectable. London Printers. He slid not conceive himself implicatotl in the_ whole of its contents. • • ConargYriON "OF BLOOD.: - The Honse 'went into a Committee Upon Sir Samuel RoMilly's Bills, for the alteration of the penalty of Corruption of Blood, &c. which at,nre , sent attaches to the of High arid Petit Treasbn and Felony. • , Mr.:YORKE contended, thatino case. was made. oat to justify the proposed cleparture from the ancient- principles of thc Law. He enumerated the progress and operation of those -enactments from the Norman Law, in which they formed an' intel4ral part down to modern tidies; in which they must have had a salutary opeeation, in pre venting the commission of crime. The complaints of the injustice thus inflictod upon die children of criminals, he conceived wholly unfounded. Pro perty was a civil regulation,. and subject to ciis,jl contront. The Right Honourable Gentleman read' 'several extracts from Lord , Coke in support of his opinion, and concluded by troposing an Amendment, leaving out the words "'High and 'Petit Treason." . • Sir „Jaws •Ma;:ftileTosu replied to the,argu , ments of the last Speaker. The antiquity •of.the Confiscatory Acts found no ground for their perpe tuity, any more than it would' for the continuance of the Laws, de Heretic° Cowbarendo, PeipePfiirtes et durent, and others, long since banished from the Statute Book, and it-hose existence was for the time a disgrace to the couritq. Those horrible punishments, unknown to the other nations of Europe, ought to be erased from the page 'of law' which they stained, and from•the character of the country which they degraded ; their effect was cal culated to disgust the eye of the beholder, and to wean the mind from the salutary contemplation of proper and ordinary punishments.' It wi\s for the Legislature to follow and identify themselves with the.henignant clemency which masked the present Sovereign reign, awl to adopt a more enlightened policy.--(lear l)—The Honourable' and Learned Baronet here took an able and elo.; qtient review of the ancient system of plin/shinent, - in the course of whiCh lie pointed out the causes' which led to - the coilliscatory extension of the Trea son Laws tri Scotland, in the 7th of Queen Anne; The SOLICITOR GiSIVERAL contended, that his Honourable Friend bad taken a very erroneous view'of the subject, when he stated that Corrup tion of Blood was a ‘iolatiOn of the principles of English legislation adopted on a pattictilar,occal sion, and that every alteration that bad been • subsequently made in it was a step thwards a restoration of those principles. The Right HO-" nonrable and Learned Gentleman then went on to shew • that it was . sanctioned by Magna Charta, 'and by numerous subsequent Acts Of the 'LegiSlatnre, and insisted that the anti quity of law generalty was IV . be talien'into consideration before it was altered. He then dwelt upon the protability of the deprivation af fecting his - poster(ty, checking the passions of a turbulent lend daring. individual, who could be re strained by no consideration of personal 'suffering, admitted the hardship that had been suffered by the persons whose ancestors had been engaged is the Irish Rebellion, as alluded to by the lion. Rl ronet ; hut contended, that an individnal case of hardship was not to affect a general principle of legislation. ' He.concluded by:stating, that in all cases where. the Government had ay :tiled them saves of an escheat for felony., it had been to serve the family / of the delinquent. Sir S. Roitfit.r.t expressed at once his concerti and satisfaction - at the speech of - his - Right Hon. and Learned Friend . —his con . cern, because it af forded evidence that he should have him for an opponent again on similar occasions ; his satin, faction, because his opposition was of a candid and liberal nature, disdaining, as to thrtiw out any imputation as to the motives of the per son, who proposed what he deemed innovation. The Hon. Baronet then went on to adduce new ai-- guinents against the Corruption of Blood. He read an extract from Blackstone's 'Commentaries, in which that Learned Judge- deClares his hope that some general Measure might he adopted for the complete removal of Corruption of Blood. He contended, that even if the antiquity of the prie. ciple were adMitted, that we were' not to make every feeling of justice and 'humanity subservient.; to what one set. or another of barbarians had chosen to consider as useful law. He went on to animadvert on 'a letter from the laic Mr: Yorke to JUdge Blackstone,: in which he seemed to ap prove the vinciple of Corruption of Blood: The' SOLICITOR GRNIRAL, Sir S. ItomiLY, .and.S„ir J. MAckiNTosti, severally - explained. Mr. Plit:sToN Contended, - that .Coreupdon or Blood was first introduced at the Norman Con quest, and made no part of the ancient common law of England.- LocitulnT supported the Amendment; af ter whiCh the House divided— • For the Amendment 44 Against it Majority. The other. Amendments of Mr. YOAKE, for pc tepting the crimes of petty treason and murder, were, after sonic -further discussion, carried ili the affirmative. HIGH TREASON PUNISHMENT BILL. The House went into Committee on the motion of Sir S. •ROMILLY upon this Bill. -• Mr. YORKE opposed the clause that went to prevent the body of a traitor being beheaded after, his death. Sir S. ItOMILLY, though he saw not the force of the ob jection to the clause, should not press a division. • Mr. WHITBREAD was*strougly in favour of the clause.. Mr. YottKE thought that all the.mererseemeel to be in tended or the criminal, awl none for the public. sir S. ROMILLY and Mt. WIIIT.BREAD repelled the im putation ; and • Mr. YORKE explained. After some further conversation, 'the clause was negatived ; and the other clauses being gone -through, the report was ordered to be received on Friday. - The other orders were then disposed of, and tho. House ad -j at half-past nine. fit &tAi Mftii§: i'Afilti;"ArHxL , ACCOI/N - I' OP Tiff OCCUttRT;\CFS AT. TOVLOUSII, 024' 41113 11'1411, 12T1.!; 131'Ll OF APRIL. ' ' TOULOUSE, APRIL 2f): 7 :-To the day Of the 10th; , a day of gloryfor-the : EnglA And. Frelidll-arEllieS, and ako one of carnage for both, succeeded one of alatin for the-inhabitants Of Toulouse. Few ,o; them had seen a battle ; they only knew that of taster-day by the sensations of pity' which it , . occa.ioned,: this feeling tilled every mind with interest for the wounded ; who were brdeght fond number from the field Of battle, arid placed at the gates of the town from whence they were conveyed by ,the citizens to the hospitals. But wheiti on Monday; the 11th, they s;iw. the Combined Artily occupying' all the e.Nternal, po sitions of.thc town, and about to make'a last el , fort; with the certainty of carrying ; the place, they then reflected on the miseries of a place taken by assault; they recollected 'the horrors of Sar ragossa and 'Tarragona, and every one d-readed deplorable reprisals ! rilie silence of terror, the forerunner of the greatest calamities, was a . fatal pres Age of -those which threatened them cm , tho following day. Marshal -Soult -had • resolved to bury himself and his iirmy 6-111er the ruins of the town ; but the voice of reastiu sub- t►ued this intrepid warri►ir : he yielded fo -troops equal 'in courage, and superioi. i►i ifinnhers ; be: abandoned tin; town in viie night, between the 11th a►id 12th, and retreated on the road of the Lower Lmignedoc. It must 'be said to the cr'e‘q of the generous '`conqueror, that it SV in his power to close every avenue against the vanquished army, to exter . nate it, by attacking- the town" in full force, or to force it to capitulate by cutting ofr its supplies; but the magnanimOus General did not falsify the declaration of thc.rltli d Powers—" they do not _inylc,e upon the Preach naacm . They remein, bered the pledge they had given to the Duke of tAtpro dente': This amiable' Prince had entreated them to spare the good town of Tonionse., Lqrd Wellington; in preference to the glory of :seroes, thoe'destroyers - of • men and fortresses, chose to have the rare honour of preserving the lives and property of the peaceabil inhabitants of a great City. Ile therefore. suffered the troops of the Marshal to file off, under the cannon of the Eng lish army, without firing a,sbot. On the ILlth, at break of day, the inhabitants, astonished at not hearing any farther noise of litai : ioperationS,ventnred,to open their doors and go into the streets; they found them deserted.— ' Their curiosity then led t-heiti 'to those outlets, whither, on the,evening before, tlivy were afraid to cast a look. They saw in the vicinity of cacti gate of. the town, the di&rent divisions; of the combined army, ranged in the finest'order 'of bat tle, and mAintaining a - profound silence,• as if they were afraid of disturbing the people's rest ! Their calm and affecting cc..idnct iuspired confidence.— They were not the terrific Cossacks, whose fury had so often, been depicted in. the lying Gazettes. The soldiers of Wellington, on the 'contrary, ap peared only as friends and protectors. The crowd increased, till the whole population had assent bled together. They called in the troops by their filesires, their looks, and their voice ; but they're- mained motionless till the hour fixed by their chiefs, who were then 'agreeing upon the mode of their entrance with the,Magistrates who had re- mained at their posts. At eight o'clock, amidst the shonts•of innume rable spectators, a fine division, particularly strik-; ink by its cavalry, entered at the gate of St. Cy prian, crossed the town, and went out by the suburb of St. Michel. The other divisions either marched in pm suit of Marshal Soult, or encamped in the villages at a distance from the town. Lord Wellington was concerned lest he should frighten the inhabitants by such a vast concourse. of troops. This trait was" another claim upott their gratitude. The revived confidence excited_ pleasure. The town of Toulouse was entirely evacuated ; the army Was notable to defend it, and the people were restored to liberty ; the iron yoke under which they had groaned for so many years, had lett the deepest impression on their minds. They drew comparisons bdtwcen the happy times of the an cient Monarchy, and the calamities of the present epoch. . A great King had been - assailed by ca lumniators, , because, under unfortunate circum- stances, the frontiers of the State were invaded ; but now the Empire was everywhere falling , ; whole generations, money, provisions of all kinds, all were carried off by the most disgusting extor tions, quil, wasted by a profusion . without 'either , dini.ty or utility. We remembered the example of Bonrdeaux ; the conqueror had made known his wishes by Proclamations ; the - couhtry which he occupied enjoyed perfect tranqnillity ; a span . taueous joy prevailed athougst all the Cit;zens ericali. , .-• .„ „..., .-., f‘,.:. ••• • • . n ''' . 1 c eirviiere were heard the eliei of Me be .. , e. • .V ived les 86 . 10.6661 fluent les Enlems Viva!' IV!' Vive Louil XVIIIi I - Eirerybody hoisted the white 'cockade; and on the citadel thewbite ii' g replaced the tri-coloured standard. During these tratisactionS the Council of th e town were deliberating upOn the. cireninstances„ Th 6 time was pressing : the people display'ed 4 first resignation : Lord Wellington, was on iris way, and some hotrour-ought to he shewn to hill' above all it Was necessary, deprived as they vi"e ic of all pottier, to satisfy the inhabitants of a tos':' ll whose wishes were as generi'lly as they were °' CidedlY protiouneed. The Municipal 130ilY e""' c i to a determination : they returned to .t heir, vl ` , masters, and put On.their liveries: the,' went to the Conqueror, preceded by a white flag, and licited his protection in favour of a'porti" 0f111e • heirs of St. Louis, who acknoWledged Sovereign a descendant of that holy Kink' In ,this interval, towards ten in the mornieg, Lord Wellington arrived with his Staff : • be el " tered the Court-yard of the Capitol on hot:sehack'. Unaffected in his deportinent, and plainly chrft it would have been diflicult to recogiiise bin' ji ' he had not ty The • • fiist impulse of the imagination }acct,p ' the side of the portrait of Marshal Tor en " e ! for theiy. . that of Lord W e lli ng t on . The same tale'ts' the • same modest t i .•-.iom in!o" i f !: : I l i : s ' colli(al soldier fire th o e f y, tire same 11 eio perilons circumstances,` the same activist l ''' - i u j i sa f( m )l e l r i l e ol a t t r i y l 0 : s the soldier towards 'bin), the same' sireniildnes and ; disinterestedness, :equally , sparing 01 ' ci . ,bl9od of their troOps, the vanquished en en 1 . 1 ,1 found in the 'BritiSh General that hunianitY "''`i generosity which was so much and so °fen p,ra?s6 ,i, e , act rega vc e in the FrencloGeneral. M. de Timoinc..."' " eleverest man of Iris age ; Lord• Wellingt°ll iS the part "I of the greatest Z . ....etains of. ours. ' Hence r, tral sport of admiration possessed , ;ey get a sight of him ; rind shouts and cries ?,' J vi, re sounded froth the Place Royale to the extrtl l oy a s l o o r g e i e i n n t t • r f h o i i l ce )l . l tics of the town. The voices were not sofi acle' i e, expressive; nor. could they cla p their lia'i cis . '', ic a , 1e. , . t e ll‘. i lle tt se.tcrit a ,i.e L i r l : rioitolrl,)tlitilji,s.:.esVolattltso.l(llC‘);(..('7-..,',a....4 . . pitol : they took' him se . veral times into ti' c ' .. Q . .„ witfi cony, and each time the populace h a iled .. fore c r''' reach eestacy as perhaps 110 hero ever ile e 1 th e cited. At length be .. sat down and recej ' Council of the town. M. I stances: he implored the. rod e ' 1 iannelue, the Chief ,1‘ , 190' 'r' te ' . ' - 1s• ' : fe ehl sneech full of WiSilfo4ll, and at 4t.] t It° C‘ p te‘ 4. i r is arol!, and that of his GOVelThilellt, in favc" Q : t 7lot which his • own magnanimity - hal l eri"". ; LI A o ,l l c ever the friend 'of the English rlatifp, 111" ; / 1 01 44 ' protection oi- " I . o ,„ had the firm resolution to support the ' l- (; )? ~,l i l : able rights of the Bourbons. 'fhe 0 1 ' 1.1 ' /-7- 4, 1 ieli.. answered with prudence, kindness, o' l ' -- , C I I 0 - lie The grace with which hereeeived the Ci' ll. '" -- ‘l. i itTl' of the' toWn, drew forth new exclon atie)"s / Roil shouts of Mee bi ,f.,ord Wellinqt6 ,7 ! Vire , -6 , ;Ir -- resounded in every directio„, H e Ictls t" e ': c ' i sr , vied into the court. of the Capitol, wh ere -'lc • mounted lii i 3 horse and went te• the Tiwte ;too. 1.0 1 ' iie Prefectorate, reflections or fear. Th T; beJ by markl, l) (if:/e,! sceneshi In t ‘ i v o, f l ,t i e al t i r it i c ' e l l i eb rl( l l) si i c- i t c, ' . l , g j l T C n i o li ii r , ' r epai:a t i o n s l are 0005 of t- 14 ' ly prudence were stifled by the el" heartl.thser and the sense of duty. c I h" d reser' c I E ' Tot d to w t„, 0 reward of these sentiments for th e g(“) on s" Toulouse. The reciprocal coryratulations e c'alculation s --- • - pi US e nter'. grand a commencement of such a gel' -- :` ) free a nti Prise, were general. All hearts we re f ' , . ‘yhell easy ; every face beamed . with pleasure ). . th suddenly, about five o'clock jp the after" ()ll ' , Of et. C° . i p LOrar , people heard, fro;n-tho mouth of . the swin e •To..ow.ng on e ; . - 1 .• 1 -• ........“ Tile 9- , the 1- lt ; pcctei. 1, oi c s.• it " servative Senate have decreed the overthrow ( -Jeri; `` Napoleon Bu o n a p a rte ; the Suprenie.Coin ~e " of Paris call Louis XVIII. to the Throne , r fi capital and the army reject ,the Usurper and ! , • 15 " family, ,and /have replaced then) 'by thosc 1) " the Bou r b ons !"`' At — the sam e time. it: w• 11 • •11 made kn o w n th at two MessengOs had beer} tr,e;o9. - sent off from Paris to the Duke of , i ~ letii at bourdeaux, to apprise him, o f, this , happy -- -change: How the h eart of the young Prince must, have been overConieby joy, "' e ' en v. Go uld this worthy scion of the stock of Henry I • ....... only ejaculate thefollowingadmirable %cords ' •• We Then French blood w ill runt- no mo re. • I learnt that it w a s.these two Messengers vOl O 11 ' afterwards brought b r ought the happy neW s . to the n 4th Al.)r il, fish General, with the Moniteur• of the which contained the va rticularS; and that frrn . , and an e TOnlouse th e y wer e going to-Marsiials Sault &whet, to convey to them the Dec rees of.th Senate, and the news of the adhesion of the Al••• , li'ed•Powers• .Then, certainly, the people could no longer contain themselves; enthusiasm was at its height. The painful recollection of the ty- I tir .11 )