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PIIINCEBS OF WALES. kltts Is Pirticulars froas a Paris Paper.) . , ~., --n int4G, APRIL+ 5.-- ms - All article on the tra °flier 'loyal Highness the Princess of WALES ktl ini the following details :--- ‘, t. 1,4 ntr Court is composed of the following per- ILl,**The Countess Oldi, of Cremona ; Doctor iilre."etti I the Chevalier Schiaviiii, Dtlaster Of the Ire,' liaise Mr. liatmarn, an Englishman, Private ttery; several footmen, servants, &c. th" rilePtincess bought of the Conntess Piro ,fli7).1011.1-Imase near the Lake of Como, in 4;: 4 46 resides. .It has received, by her or t.' 4 number of expensive embellishments. Se `t°lllPativ ex • tt, t .., ~ excursions bylind and on the form ltri4„Private theatre, and evening concerts, torn „,,"eeent amusements. 14tt%vtral report s having been spread with re ; k ilt : tiwo odious attempts On the Princess . a li t4. ' A s k has thooglit proper to publish t he i ki d , 1 Genoa several armed men , penetrate d ti l lyile night into the Princess's apartinents. lo st ad d nearly 'Tubed her bedchamber, when ,i ed '.44l ' being aroused, fired on them. They e , aml Ito trace of them has ever been dis 7 •t otti. ~,/ Ie li ttl l c other affair happened in the country °' C " 10 . A certai n Baron --, bribed a klb ' lla rtieti Crede, to introduce hint secretly, 4, 41 Y means of false keys, into the , Princess's kili' ~: th e Plot was discovered, and the groom kt t si t'l. This !ban afterwards wrote to, the il ql t kttl- It -illn inains confessing that he had been r t4l ll 4 scr" a : r° n • The Princess communt si4„ 6, air to the Governor t iut who I 11 General,- Count 1 _....... to quit I cat r i tt ga , e or( ell to Arai ti territory. 'Th e s k . eererary 'Flamini - 1i challenge(' Baron .41) / i A l l , t th e Baron has hitherto contrived, ""- 41, - "' Pretences, to postpone the meetitig i, l ' l te, e Ch"alier Schiavini is charged with t e ~..."It Odle trav e l s o f t h e P r i ncess in t h e (Quo tidiewic.) I,`" (Curiou ; " 4811 10 NA BLE PAWN ES. 41 0.t y C't ChoZmondaley g ave a gra nd Concert , I 414. 11, 1 Cholmoutletty liouse. Nearly 700 "'4lit distinction. and fashion were present.... '44 it *.e res their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of 1 4 144 (ii o „ 4,4 rester, &e. &c. &c. 1' 4 4544 e gate a grand Ball and Supper on Monday 1 '4%7 tel ideitee in Portland•plare. Anion; the dis kt,47rsuthlges Present were, their Royal Highnesses 141111, Clireactrand Glonester, Ductless of Munches kkt4i 444 Ntarellioness of Worcestec, &c. &c. &c. t I tts W°14(11 Russell-stplare, gave a magmficesi Ik tGl l ti "4l evening. The Fete was honoured by . the I bukr of Sussex, and a. numerous and fashion 01;44lati l 'n gave it grand Entertainment yesterday, I l lk tiltit C I ht. 441 eed•Wia re' (.44Itrr,st rest s graud Entertainment on Monday .. lea .l)4 rtY uf distin uished personages, at his house 1 iv 144 aes, kisembly, on M on . • -of Camden's elegant 41 %44t0n-street, Deus ty fashionably at. i„. .........,,,,,z->-. ritlt,,;. rOVABLE ARRIVALS. .. Ail ia"tlnal, Lady an d Mis s Cockburn, from Bath ''' 4 '0:51'4443.5-street t Mr. and Mrs. Willonghby q .f,,,, 141 "I'r " from Dockland, Surrey; Miss )14i dcitidre ri_ park, Oxford. 44a or.simire, from ioame 1 0.1 4 5 '"............. ' , t 5 0 01 1 , 05 4 R.....T1ie P u bli c f u ll y ill ustrate t h e 'iti„ "kt pcople begi n tp be more lose, 1 L.' N u , , At • Cif Willa t !ivy are about to li I nit., ' ' ' it I 4 attracts more and more ev ery , 1 k„, 4 : ii,,itrfornis. a n d his Hotspur last n i g ht ~vs, i tett "I"4 c rowd to Covent-Garden I 'me' a-near il:44ill,4/,'ti°ll welcomed his first pi' .Itii ' renewed tvi ' ilie every time that he came i, t ilet a stage. Ile sustained . the part til,kti,o,4lll•4eY and eXpressiveeriimii . tio . i. riil Le was easy, playful, and :4111" l'! 41Y /1 / i D 111 ti Q s ant, a•AWCETT huMorous and '40 4 11 / 4 44 ' Tr v ' . '(Till ii, NINTorI - -/t is well known this • 41 I ' ne • • ' , Junto of e, tl cOfi he memorable , 11 4 4 4(1 oni l., Loyri, the elder COLMAN, li ih tilt belu tr % , va gs who dist ingnisheil t hem (l•ti nownning of ih e present reign. A 44r, '' (letolerrao, and the SOlll of: the 1 1 '44 li il''"•tr'N. so well known in the i, riitoit.. i,' tri. di circles, is, we understand. ~ ke , , (Cillt'ith4 ills appearatice on the Loudon r rt 1 ) , 1. I tlit ) 1 t akS 11103 t highly of his clitssi; l olls, .' Nellie! -powers, and pcis°"' Cx 0,,, . ' . 1 . , 41-1 011 3 '' gAt 14. —..We had but few 'try; lit! 444ing, and rine Wheat sold ''ii• rta( le, ' ,' bar Ordinary was dull ; in ,, litit ' I Rlieve! t,,„%ve, t, .was very heavy, and Ni(, 41 l m ' Ile, Wiis at 11,10tRitty.s prices. ) keei":4l4Y Inst. Thomas Oliver, the ''' t 4w its ) l4ll))le.house .in Wcstmin (Ptlty "gligell to 6 lit Itched battle Illi a' hrn„ h • g a lt • Ai I I , (i it , A t before the Sitting a'' ' l'ill I°a n at Nit ( In" the Wo r ship -street ilitio'llio,l ,ce %)f t ivarrant issued fori ,Cgitii, ' ."•not his place of training. ',:'ltro ), to 8„1,1, PI til b, e Y,.. Ile was bound 0 4 4 44n;i r " , f e for a twelvemonth, `til t illtoia 'el.' Pounds, and two Sure 4, t ht, t ared Antad, e ac h , and to Or l i AI Se ws . 3 ikh lt 1011 i for the County of 'i it ta I,liation of Such term. The 'titli "11 %. !rave i 'lt ' tlict, . I.e e residues) to exert a ll tit,• i l to i" law -aoppliea them, for i 'qi the 41,1 . • • • eileoor -,4 practice ot prize ages idleness, dissapation, 141 11 • e ,er, i. once I • Mom if ' 1 , 4 4, .. "" " " -' hoold 4 :tr.,: irnitibillate appliCatloll b . 444 -44.13 Oftees, No. 7, Cornllll.l. 4**'''ltt"' kr a Tielcet or Share In 44),'„'"1 Lottery, which will fi"isj litti34l', the 20th inetent, when A. 'l/; Ittl ill ftra`t". A eery limited Num ,.4,tio on h ntl, end the W h ee l Iletl,t' tir 20:800f, r nor of 200014 imel Oottierot4l other Capitals, ' PA It LIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, TuESDAY, MAY 13 `Earl Manvers took the Oaths and -his Seat.— ' Bailey's Divorce Bill passed through Commit tee, with amendments. Report to-nioirow.:-- Some Bills were brought from the House of Com mons by - Mr. Brogden, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Sir James Graham and..other Members, and read a first time.--The Landlord and Tenant Bill raised through a Committee without amendment. CIRCULAR LETTER OF viscomrtsIONIOUTFT. , Lord EaSIUNE, adverting to the discussion of last night, observed, that the authorities quoted by his Noble Friend (Earl Grey) had not, in Ills opinion, been disproved by any thing that had fallen front the two Noble and Learned Lords, and he felt it impossible to allow the matter so to rest. He wished to have before the House an. Account of all Commitments tor Libel by Justices of the Peace, distiagnishing whether returned into the Courtof Kiog's Bench, or to the Q:iarter,Ses stuns, together with the Information tiled, or the Indictments found, against the parties so held in recognizance. He was satisfied it would appear that not more than 100 recognizances of this de scription had been taken during a century past. — What then became of the argument, that such a practice was necessary to the safety of the country ? It was quite impossible the doctrine now set up could rest as it was, public Opittion would have its influence upon Parliament, and either this doctrine must be established by Act .of Parliament as the law of the land, or given up altogether. ,He never could consent to give up the public press of the country to the mere discretion of Justices of the. Peace. Establish this doctrine and the Libel Act became a dead letter ; and was it ever con tended when that Act passed that such a power shottld be vested in Justices of the Peace? The este .blished principle of the law was,,that no man was deemed a libeller until after the verdict of two Juries ; but under this new doctrine a common Justice of the Peace, without any verdict of a Jury and merely acting at discretion on his own opinion, might subject an individual to a much heiVier punishment than he would be after a re gular conviction for a libel. Ile had all his life set bitnself against blasphemous and seditious libels, but be could not consent to check their, circulation at the expellee of the general liberty of the subject. He had lived to see the law esta blished against a doctrine laid down by Lord Mansfield, and though then a young, and now an old man, be would venture to prophecy that he should live to see the doctrine ; now attempted to be established put down. by the law of the laud. He was, at any rate, convinced that this doctrine could not reutaiu as it was, and that some legisla tive enactments must be resorted to, lie had not yet shaped his motion, but in the course at a day or t*o be intended to bring it forward.. Adjourned till to.morrow obis day), HOUSE OF COMMONS. Colonel Woon postponed till to-morrow week the second reading ot the 13111 for Legalizing the Salt. ot Game. A PetitiOn was preseßted from Wigtown against the Cottage Tax,--Several Petitions were pre sented from the County.Of Antrim.. praying for a regulation ot the Butter Trade. It EFORM. Sir S',;tOLTltuttstires --- etited a Petition front the City and County of Cork, in , favottrof Parlia :mentary Reform, lie ►ww a s sorry to dissent from the opinions of any of his constituents, but he was persuaded this Petition did not contain the sentiments_ of .the great body of them. He differed _ . from the assertion of the Petition as to the neces sity of Reform.;---he ilitUnot thinktliat the ►resent istress arose from the want of Reform, or that the late war had been carried on against the wishes of the people. He was persuaded, on the con trary, that the votes of the Howe on that subject always went hand in hand with the wishes of their constituents. The Petition was read, and ordered to lie on the table. Mr. ARKWRIGHT presented a Petition from th Hop-Growers of Rye against the 13111 in progress respecting the Sale of Hops. Mr..I3OOTLE WILBIZAKAM moved for H Return of the number of Papers printed by order of the House, in the Sessious of 1814-15—and 16, with the title of each Paper, exceeding une sheet, and the cost to the public of each respectively. Sir M.' RIDLEY did not object to the motion, but observed, that by a Aeturn of the Titles of alt the Papers, the Honourable Gentleman would incur some of the expense which he wished to avoid. Mr. B. WILBRAHAM SRN, the Titles of all the Papers containing only one sheet would be omit ted.—The Return was ordered. Mr. Su.sw presented a Petition from the Parish of St. Mary's Dublin, gainst the Window Tax..—Ordered to lie nu the Table. Mr. SHAW then gave notice, that on Friday next lie should submit a motion to. the }loose on subject. PAPER NIAKERS. Sir E. BRYDQRS, referring to the Petition which he had lately presented from the Paper Makers of Maidstone, and its vicinity, stated, that, he was aware of the general arguments against any dis couragement of machinery. But if it could be proved, as the Petitioners stated they could prove, that the use pf some machinery in this case pro duced no advantage to the public, but produced a worse article, and only tended to throw a profit into the hands of monopolists, it would be a fit exception from the general rules on this subject. He Moved to refer the Petitions to a Comthittee. The motion was carried, and the Committee appninted.' Copies were ordered of the Proclamation for extending the Preservation of the Peace Act to some Baronies in Downshire, and of the Memo• rills on which that measure was founded. RECOONIZ%NCES IN IRELAND. Mr. PEEL rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to introduce a Bill to amend the laws re garding forfeited recognizances in Ireland. It was most important to the course of criminal jus tice in that country that the rccog►riza,nces should be enforced—that something should be done to ref Orin the present system of entering into twos- I,izaoces, which crag In operation toielns. The last Act on the subject was that of 1798, hut the law was a• dead letter—forfeited recognizances were scarcely ever enforced. Thi present mode of proceeding it might.be advisable t o m ent i on .... The sst reat s were forwarded by the Clerks of the Peace, through the Exchequer, to the Comptrol lers of Pipe and Fines, thence to the Treat:uteri of Countie s , and from them to the Baronial Con-., stables, whose duty it - was to enforce the fines The evils of the system which thus placed the" whole Under the control of the 13aronial Con stables, wereauonstrous. The amount of forfeited recognizances was about 27,0001. per annum ; for the last seven years they amounted to 200,0001. Of that amonut not one-third had been col lected ; and what was collected, instead of being applied to meet the Baronial rates, fOund its Way into the, pockets of the constables. He wdeld illustrate bow this was managed :—Sup posing for one county the estreated recognizances amounted to 9001, Possibly only 3001. could`be or was collected. The constables were entitled to one-third for collecting ; and thus 1001. would he their's. If they could collect the remaining 6001. they would be entitled to 2001, more ; hut as there was Such amount due, they paid them selves their third of the 9001. before it was col lected, thus disposing of the whole of the 3001. which they had received !—(llcar, hear !)—But this was only a part of the *evil. Many estreats were never even sent for. In the course of seven years there were 300 estreuted recognizances that had never been attempted to be enfOrced in any way ; in 1816 there were 54 deficient. The re turns to those that were sent were very few, the forms thus becoming worse than useless. It was useless to admit parties to enter into recogni zances,. unless the estreats were enforced when they were forfeited. In King's County not one forfeited recognizance had .been enforced for the last seven years: and the law was considered in t hat count, in particular a dead letter: The House would admit that such a state of things was a serious impediment to the execution of cri minal justice. He held in his hand a letter from the Chairman of one of the'Quarter Sessions, in which it was stated, that entering into recogni-' zances was considered as a mere idle ceremony— that the parties might observe or neglect them, just as suited their convenience, and such was the operation of this neglect to erilciree estreated recognizances, that in one Sessions, out of 111 indictments on ly 30 were t il ed. One party would. make two oaths. First he would swear be was worth 501. on entering loin a recog nizance; and having found it convenient' to for feit, he would swear at the AssizeS that he was insolvent, on which no farther Notice was taken. The Hon, Member said, he objected to the en forcement of the .estreats. being placed in the hands of the constables. That duty ought to be placed in the hands of the Sheriffs, as was the Case in England ; and such was the Amendment which he proposed to make.—(Hear, hear !)—As he was occupying the attention of the House, he would mentiem another Bill which he pioposed to bring, namely, to rescue Sheri& from, being lia ble for the. acts of .their predecessOrs, and to place Sub-Sheriffs more effectually under the con troul of the %critic —(Hear concluded with moving for leave to bring in a Bill' to amend the latri respecting forfeited recogoitances. in Ire land: Sir J. NEWPORT expressed bir great satisfae. tiort at the measure proposed, and agreed that the relaxation of law had been productive of the most pernicions effects in Ireland.—Leave was then given to bring in the Bills. EIIartAORDINARY PARDON BY NAGISTRAM. `Mr. BENNETT presented a petition.frn.m Thomas Griffiths, of Oxford-street, stationer, which, he said, was of great importance, as affecting the adininistration of justice. The petitioner prose cuted Captain Hay, or Hoy, in February last,at the Clerkenwell Sessions, for an. outrageous = as sault. On the prosecutor's wife, an interesting fe male, with criminal intentions, in the parlour of petitioner's bOuse, during his absence.., The case was one of great a ggravat i on , nor Was its enor mity lessened by the prisoner's defence of an alibi. The verdict of course was guilty, and t h e; Court sentenced Captain Hay, or Hoy, to .12 months' iioprisonment in the Eonse of Correction, and to pay a fine of 201. The Magistrates then advised the prosecutor to proceed against defetulaot's wit nesses for perjury, which . had been done. The Captain, pursuant to his sentence, went to the House of Correction, and being A man of for tune, he was enabled to get comfortable apatt Ments in the Governor's house; but after having been confined' a fortnight he was discharged out of custody by the Magistrates of the Sessions.— (Fleur, hear!)---'!'leas had the etlvet of the law been defeated, suit! the Captain was now at li berty, and he ased it by exultingly, walking be fore the windows of the prosecutor's house.. .The petitioner prayed the interference of Parliament.. The Hon, Member said, h e s h ou ld hereafter move fora popy'of the Discharge; and should the facts turn out to be such as they were represented to be should feel it his duty to submit a mount, to the House on this extraordinary case. The Petition having been read, Mr. 13. 134.runitsT expressed some doubt, wlie ther the petitioner had pursued the most 04vistible course; whether be bud not his remetly,at law Mr. IikaUGHAM said, : the contipc(of the Ma. giitrates was most extraordinary, and called for the investigation and interference of that House. The power of the Magistrates to mitigate the ex tent of punishment previously to passing sentence, he admitted; but he denied that they had any legal power to reduce the sentence after it had once been pronounced from the 13ench.—(Hear, hear !)-r-Petition ordered to lie on the table. JUDGE OF CHESTER. Mr. PONSONBY wished to learn whether Go vernment had any intention of advising the filling up of the office of Judge of Chester (vacant by the promotion of Sir vy. Garrow) previously to the Cotxnuittee respecting the administration of Justice in Wales making their Report. Lord CAVTLEREAOII said, that at Present t e Govereathadnosuch intention.—Mear, hear !) h m HABEAS CORPUS. Mr.. POISONSY wished to give notiee, that to !borrow he should put s queitiou to the Noble . Lord (Lnrd Castlereagh) which affected the pLc solial Ithetty of wiry man in the kingdom. Lord CASTI.HRPAan would itot question the bencvolence .of the !tight ilc,tt . GeutietaHn,, hut he Was quite unable to ituagiite whet could be al ined 10. Mr. l'ox3oBl' replied, that he intended to a-k whether it was not in the contemplation of Go vernment to apply for a renewal or a farther ex - tension of what tvas,commonly called the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.--,(llear, hear I) ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAM. Mr. Iler,Ax.P. gave notice that he would, on Wed nesday, thy 2lst inst.,more t hat. the HOuse should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to eonsider the provisions of‘the Iyish'Act of the 33(1 of the King, with a view to-explain and amend the same, so as to extend the right of mission to the freedom Of lay Corporations in Ireland to such Roman C.sthulies as would, if they had been Protestants, have an inchoate right 14 such admission. ARMY ESTIMATES. • The Report of the Committee of Supply of yra terday having been btought en, and the Itesolu tions for the Army Estimates, us voted yesterday, having been reed,. GeANT rose to move, as an emend. ment, instead of " .I)eceomber," es in rime tterv- Ititions, the time should be limited, and " Sep ,tember" substituted. The reasons on which he proposed this amentimetit muse Out of what he 'understood the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Cas tlereagh) to have recommeoded to the House. When that Nobl e Lord moved for the appointment of the Committee above stairs, to inquire into the state of the income end expenditure, it he was not misinformed, the Noble Lord on that occasion stated it as one of, the grounds on whiCh he moved for the appointment of this Committee, that it was proper that the House ebould have before it a report on the state of the income and expetuii. tore, before the Estimates for the service of the year were voted ; and the Hoese, it he was net mistaken, voted the EStimnates for six months, on an understanding that they were only given ou account, as the House could not be called upon for a final vote upon them till the Select Committee had time tomake up their Report. Therefore,before the House could be called upon finally to vote the Estimates, it behoved those on the other side of the House to state some good reason, either by shemeing that the situation of the country was now different from what it had been when the Fivance. Committee was appointed, or some other good reason, why that which was proper then was not the proper course now. Some reason MUST be stated, to show that the House were not called upon to stultify themselves in the eyes of ,the country., If no such reason was stated, the House WAS called upon to do that for which they could not account tolheir constituents. It would not de to allow Miniiters to throw the burden of the Estinuttes off their own ibriulders, t z y re ferring to t h e R epent o f the Committee above staiti, and saying that such and such reductions had been recommended by that Committee, anti had therefore beet) made. Miuisters must not ha ellowed to fortify themselVes behind the Report of the Finance Committee. He maintained ots the face of the Estimates,, that tlt Wee . intended, to be kept ep was too large; and When he called open Government to shew the neceiSity ,of taioing so large'a force" he would bold it no proof at that necessity to be Teferi•ed to the Report of the finance COmmittee. He contended, at some length, that time foree proposed to be kept up in the colonies was too great, and to prove this, re-' capitulated the comparative detaila (to be, found in our reports of the various speeches last night) of the force in 1792, as contrasted with that railed, for in the present estimetes. But what he chiefly insisted on was, that it was imposiible to say what . force the country could affordto keep up until the Howse was in possession of the state of the re. venue. If it was said that . the Report of the Finance Committee, Which was to conceit) en position of time state of time revenue, WAS not yet ready, where would be the inconVenience in having the vote 'of time Estimates confined only to six months, until the House was ioformed of the state. of the, revenue I then went through the different parts of the First ,Report of the Finance Conunittee, which recOmmetided the earioos duct ions. and he criticised each itetn touched on in that Report. Some of these items he thought quite contemptible and beneath the notice of the Committee. He also complained that the Com- millet had not entered into the general details Of the veridus estehlishments, and that the re• ductions in the public offices were trifling. Cow , ceiving that there was no danger so great to the country as the danger of having the expenditure exceed the income, and thinking that it was be- ginning at the wrong end to settle the unionist ot the expenditure before' the income was kuown, he thOught the House could trot be justified sit voting time Estimates' for more than six month's. He therefore concleded, by Moving as an Amend ment, that, in the Resolutions, the word " 6ep temher" be substituted instead of " December." Mr. BaNXits argtied that the reductions re. Commended in the Report of the Commit. tee of Finance, did nut take away the reason. sileility of Ministers as to the Estimates. 't Hon. and Learned'Gentlemen was wrong in ro , present ing. time Committee as having to itself .fanctioni which did not belong to it, in settling or recommending time, 'mount of the Mi lirary Estahlibliments. . truth was, that these inquiries and investigations roust have come fore the Pouse in souse shape. It was much more fit to carry them on in a Committee ; and instead of repeated,, and probably unsatisfactory discus. sions in the whole House, it must be allowed that it was -much more commodious to have the various details specified in, the Report. The HO. TlOElrfthip and Learned Gentleman was very in. consistent, when, after attempting to ridiculer th e minuteness of some of the objects to which the Committee had directed their noti ce , be coma pittined that the Cominittee bed not gone 'WS eiently into time details. 'fist truth was, that the Committee had not overlooked any of those details, into which, consist ent ly w i t h its duty, it onght to heir! entered, without t a ki ng upon itself any part of time responsibility of Minis. ters, or taking away any thing from time Con. trolling power of the House s As to what had