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those loolidt: fellows, tyliose nausea he hail quoted. iN(.ltit• and Ge Inlet! Lord theis titinted many . e,ises, commencing with Trinity Term, Geo. I in which iiersoni arrested' bY virttie of warrants issued I+~ Justi(•ei of the Peace for 'Nlithilesex, some w( re committed for want of hail, ititil others intr tsted to the custody of their hail.-- llet`itn ud.crted to the Opinion of Lord Camtle'3. blew is (Itsittiction between the power of • i‘iittgi'lEtitec and of Secretaries of State, anti of vthich every argument that went to support the milli,' it y of Secretaries tel State might, a fortiori. be nr,teit in favour of Nlagi.ttlates. The question before the Ilonse was not tvliat it ought to be, but 'what it redly was ; it they desired so-vxpiess art opinion on t he one, let them have a distinct motion `iii that eff-er, but stir the other point he emslll 'readily.lotticip,sre their determination. The Noble Earl (616?) had said that there seemed au evident 'desire to eacro,sch (woo the liberty of the sohject. be would say, that in the decline of life, after having mixed its many great and interesting affairs, in any retirement to whiel: it might please Ili s•en to permit him to pass the last period of his 'eitiatenee, if lie mold think 'of any'attempt to entrent on the 'liberty of the subject , it would limit the 111P,ISart• of his enjoyments ; but in every its which be bad concurred, as necessary for preserving the aft.ty of the Constitution, he had hi et, itifioes , ced s , !ely by a regal d for the preser vation Of. t i wse civil and 1 101;661 rights which atone: secured the happiness of this country. They' bad dispensed to us a degree of happiness unknown, in whet nations. We had drawn on its, the envy of others, who sought to de , poil us of those hlessings ; hut, thank God ! their endeavours had not !seers attetohd with success. . LordlioLLANO observed, that the 'motion was fur timber inks ination' regarding the circular letter of the Sec:et;:ry of State. Those who' thotight that 111 e Sticre:tasy of Staft had acted in a meaner perfectly legal, might consistently vote ag q iust the motion ; hut tbOse wlx, thought with him that the Act stirs neither legal or expedient, must feet the tiecessi yof fresh information. No Ulm ever had, bolo the Bar or the Bench, given snore able st atement of the law: on this oneslion than his 'i'lsle Friend hatl done that vetting ; and it coold'uot be contradicted by any of the audio s itiets that bad been quoted as the practice of At taroks and Solicitors General. Ile asked if ever there was any bad or unconstitutional practice that load not been sepported-by Attornies and Solicitors General ? But the nethornies he should lisok op to were, the usage of the common law, and the de cisions of Judges; and on this ground he con tended, that the opiniOn of Lord Camden was de cisive its this case. That excellent Judge laid it down deafly that the autlittrity of Secretaiies of State and of Magistrees were not convertible terms. The Justices of the Peace were the crew turet of statute law only, aril be wished to know what statute it was that gave them the power now contended for 1 The power was not only illegal, hot the, direction of the Secretary of State to put it in force was most dangerous and unconstitutional. it was asserted by Hawkins, that a single Jus tice Could not hold a man to bail for an offence cogniAable by the Sessions'. lie wished to know what objection could there be made to the good old practice of preferring indictments before Grand Juries. By the power now contended for, the most illtlOCCltt Mtn its tire kingdomlotight thrown into prison and kept there for several months, whenever a Justice of the Peace took it into his bead that he published a libel. If a single Magistrate chose to interpret any publication to be a libel, he might have tire publisher immedi tcly,throw is into prison. Here a general •order was sent to every Magistrate to take every body up. This was a conduct so unconatittitional, and so destructive to, the harmony and safety of the country, that it was the duty 4f Parliament to take- it up. When the iiistrates dOubted the • legality of the letter, what they said was, "We are not lswyers enough to have an opinion, but if we act wrong the Government will indeMnify us." If he had written that. letter,. and a worthy Magistrate, lip hie to all the penalties Consequent on his Conduct, shotild come to him forindemnity, he should feel his situation to be most lamentable. When that soble Viscoant was at the" head of the Admini stration, some years ago, he (Lord 11.) had' op-' proved Of many parts of his conduct', particularly that of keeping the people in good hum Our. But lie had now, within the last three months, done more to abridge the libertieS of tine people and desiloy the Constitution, than all the good he hid ever before done ; he had now associated himself with an Administration that seemed resolved to do away all tire rights which Englishmen hitherto thought they possessed.. Lord Stni.siouTH said, that be 3110111d'he inex cusable if he attempted to add to the mass of dead and living authorities in support of the legality of the measure which had been brought into disctis slots. To the other point in debate, he felt it necessary to refer; he stood' charged with stripping the circuits:ion, of blasphemy and sedition, and to that charge 'be pleaded guilty: In that Report of their Lordships' Committee, the truth of which hall not been invalidated, atones it had been vehe mrntly attacked, the circulation of Seditious and blasphemous publications was referred to as pe culiarly shuttling. When he concurred its that 'eport, he. knew the truth of the statement, bat since that time he had more lamentable evi dences of its correctness. The publications referred to, were circulated at . a small ex pence into every cottage its the manufaeturing dis 14Iany youths, whose examinations he had attended, had stated, that previously to the month of November last, their characters had been utt , exceptionable ; that since , the influence of these publications bad been felt, and not before, had t heir condnet become. culpable. Never at any former period was blasphemy to such a degree enlisted in the cause of treason and sedition. — There were now more active and intelligent minds ins the country . ----a greater number of persons who could read—and, he was Limey to say, the ale-houses were much more frequented, and greater bodies 'of people • were brought , together. The 'works which dissenthlated the mischief were not so much prirchased at shops—it was against the itinerant dealers in se dition and blasphemy that the letter was directed. It was in consequence of nutnerous applications front Magistrates lti Ail parts of the entmtlr, met 1 he reqsiested - the opinion 'if the Law Officers. The venders of these publications were aware thlt they could not he touched before the Onto ter So;- siooS by in&ctment, and beforeth.tt time they took care Id remove I Slid timing all the interval bet ween the Sessions, they went on wit!. increased and ac elmolotting mischief. Under ali t heSe cirrnmsta ,, CeS be thought it his y'to a:At the opinion of the Late Officers, ith:l haVing receive it to proitmlgate it ; ,and he was happy to say it had produced some of the effect's he had hoped for, and itt'im ease any ill effects. As for the-opinion Of the 1.44 Officers, it was perfectly iatelligible and complete without the case ; he should therefore oppose the Minim). The Bishop Of CHESTER gave an explanatidu of w h at f e ll f ri , m hint nn a former occasion respect ing the case of Wt ;gilt of Liverpool. He had not Oven any opinion as to whether the conduct of Magistrates in that business was justifiable or not. earl GRay, in reply, teeth over the cases refer red to in his opening speech, and contended, that they were not invalidated by the reasoning brought against them, nor by the praetice of the hired servants of the Crown. Neither of the' Learned Lords who opposed him had even referred to the authorities of Holt and Coke. He was switched to hear, he observed, that the Noble Viscount said, that the truth of the Report of their Lordships' Committee had never been invalidated. When he recollected the petition of Mr. Cleary, which was never refitted, and the presentment of the Grapd Jury of Norwich, which negatived the existence of seditions and immoral clubs in that eity,Which the Committee bad so confidently assirted. This, he trusted, would make their Lordships Cautious how they built measures on such Reports in future. The Noble Viscount had argued that this measure was rendered necessary by the increasing informa tion and extensive reading of .the people. . Did he mean to say, that the Christian religio ,, in this Pro testant country led to blasphemy and sedition? He was, in with, astonished at such an argument from•the Noble Viscount, and scarcely could be lieve he seriously meant it. He felt: himself called upon to re-assert, that this Circtilar was an un constitutional interference with the Administra tion of justice. The same principle however upon which the Noble Doctor had set about remedying the evils of which he 'complained, by instructing justices of peace in their duty, Culled upon him also to inStritet the judges. His Lordship, after quoting a parody from the 'Ant,i4acobin, which had never been ques tioned, to skew the absurdity of prosecuting with severity, at the present time, what mere called blasphemous parodies, conelndid a very do. quent reply, by re-asserting the Unconstitutional nature of the Secretary of State, and calling upott the House, as they valued the liberty Of the sub ject, to join in condemning it. 'The question was t►ien put, and the House ti vided— Nnii-C ,, ntentz 7S Contents Maibrity apinst the :11a1 Adinurned at Twelve eiCkcik till this days. TIIE PITT CLUB. The SLClttl'Altttli of `Tilt; PITT CLIIns I trroughotit tits Cottestry are requested to transmit to Jottm t Amcitt, Esq. at this Otßee, Strand, on or before the 10th itittant, the Partien- Inns of the Nisetißgsof their respective Clubs en the 2eth lustant. THEATRICAL. REGISTER. Performed Last Nigia. AtitutY-LANg.—Othello: Othello, Mr. Roan Dnalcraotut, Mrs. Bartley. After which, a Spanish Divertisement, end The llonse Out At Wiudows. COVSNT-Gis Apostate : Principal Performers, Mr. Youtig.aud Miss o%skill.. After which, ALuidin. Al AILS. Annivp)—i France, 1 Lienyn, I Onermey and Jersey, I Dab liu; I Waterford. Dos:-2 Guttenburgh. STOCKS wELvr: o'c Luc IC. IS per Cent. NaryAnn...lo:l4 a Bank L. Anti.... N 7-IGths Etch. Bilk.- 101. ISs. pr: Cons. for Accouist,.;..7sl 73 rittcE o t • TIM DAY AT t BAIA Stade...," .2265 a per Cent. Red 7'7, 71 per Cent: cons— -4 per Gents . 89a HIGH WATER AT LONDON. BRIDGE TO-MORROW Morning, 7 minutes advt. 4 I. I &citing, 32 minutes alter THE SUN. 110tliiM gtili DlCsAllt ?Awry AIJOLAT t LOND9 I Ig, 7'UESD4Y, M4Y 13, 1817, We mentioned yesterday the reported march of the Austrian Troops towards Rome, and to-day we are 'assured that they have actually taken po ' s• session of that Capital. We received this morning the Paris Papers , of SaturdaY last.—The Journal des Debats coataini an article signed V. D. B. respecting a Letter written by Madame RENAULT to' her lju s h ar id in America, stating her hopes (founded upon no. thing but her own imagination) of another Re volution ; but singularly enough this Letter, to which an allusion is thus pointedly made," has not been published in the French Journals, tl•ough what purported to be a Copy of it reached thi s Country a short time since throwgh a private channel. The article in the Journal des Debuts seems intended to be ironical, but its real pu r p ose is not very clearly shewn, unless it is merely p ut forth to lead the way to an excuse for the libera tion of Madame RUONAVI., on the ground of its iocittg lieneath the .tiigoity of the Government Lo pro-ccute her, Tlit• following arc further extract: from these 1.',1 Ile I'S : " l'Auts, NINy 10 —The Ii iva, atter trans acting business iu his Cabinet during part of the clay, went Out u carriage at tlit . t: c o'clock, and tettiroell nt " We learn froth Switterintitl,thtit an the 16th tilt. t-he lightning strte!.k the tower of the church of Oherg, in the canton of Appenzell, which, to gether with the ehnt eh, were entirely destroyesi. The tower of the Bourg of Wahl also took fire from the lightnitig, but the Humes were extio gui6hetl. " Pkit-eßwrs.—Friday, 67 f. 73 c. " VIRNNA,MIIII. 26.—The Departure of the Archduchess Leopoldine k fixed for the 19th of May. The marriage is to take place on the 13th." The Si. haO, PRoTEcTon, from 13alii4 to Lis bon, was captured oil the Western Islands the 12th of November, by an insurgent Privateer, of 14 guns and 110 men, said to have been fitted out at Baltimore t--part of the crew an ived at Lisbon on the 24th tilt. The St. Eancisco,, XAVIEII, from China and Perninibnco, - is arrived at Lisbon. The Company's ship General Hewitt arrived in the Downs yesterday afternoon : she lett Canton the 7th January, and St. Helena the 14th March, and passed, in the Straits of Sunda, the Surat Coatle and brush Inglis ) and iii 12. S. the Mar chioness of Exeter and Lyndoch. We have received the following later from Bremen ".Two failures to a very great amount leave re cently taken plaee here—one far 240,000 dollars, the other fur about 300,000. A great mystery is attached to these failures, ts both establish ments were considered by the mercantile world to 'be in opulent , circumstances. Three .houses in Ilamburgb have stopped in consequence of their connection with the above concerns.--IDisconnt on litemen is from 14 to 16 per cent. bat good paper is refused to be taken at 16 per cent. on ac 7 COtillt of the mystery in the above failures," The Circular Letter of Loud SlD`t&►tlTH, t't want of other matter, has excited a great coot motion among the Opponents of Government.— This subject *as brought for Ward last night in the llonse.of Lords, but we are glad to see that is judgment, its good, sense, its Alignity, and , a true regard to Morals amt Religion, 'minced the House to uphold the best interests of Society on this occasion. Lord GRaY cannot deny that Sedition and Blasphemy had been openly circu lated, and even granting, which we do only for the sake - of argument, that the authorities to which his Lordbhip referred do not admit the power gitien to the Magistratts on this oceaiion, we should say with SnAKESPEattn, in allnSionn to the evil spiri:s whom they attempt to put dawn : " Wrest once the - law to yonr authority : " To do a great right, do a little wrong, 1, And curb these cruel thsilS'uf theie,witt." But Lord ELLENlinnounn clearly prOtied that the , Circular Letter was perfectly consistent with the Law of the Land) and me believe that few, ex cept those ::i►o are Warped by party feelings, will hesitate to how to such an authority, In the House of Commons last night the Army Estimates were brought forward. The re duction is 55,300 men and 1,800,000/. less than the Estimate of last year-. An erroneous paragraph accidentally' appeared in our Paper of yesterday respecting a naval at,- rangement. Sir JOHN Dnexwotrru is Com mander in Chief at Plymouth, .and,not -at New. foudland, as stated. -The latter station is under the orders of Admiral PLC:lomat, who will, we uoderstaud,,steartly proceed thitter. . Some Papers printed upon the Continent have published, and _Private Letters hare repeated. a report of an intention, on the part of the Allied Powers, to remove BUntinFARTa from St. Helena to. Malta. The report originated solely in the wishes of his partisans ; but it is wholly and en tirely unfounded. Whether the 'period liuut4A rawrit has yet to live be long- or short, that period he is destined to pass at St, Helena. Tug PRINCR os Sm.ras.,- , -On, Saturday night the Prince of. Salm, landed at Dover from Ger many. Me arrived in Loudon, at the residence of the -Duke and Duchess of Cumberland in St. Jorrietes:Palace, between five and six o'clock on Sunday afternoon. In the evening: the rtince visited Baron Fagel, at his house in Whitehall place. He appears to he abont 45 years of age. The Duke and Duchess of WELLINGTON, ac companied by Colonel and Mrs. Haw.' sailed from Dover_for Calais on Sunday last. Velelday the Ambassadors train France and the Netherlands had audiences 01 ,the PRINCE RE- Cst4T, , Tile Dukes of Yottx, CLARFNCE, and CL/MBER.. LAND visited the PRINCE 114GRNT yesterdAy. Yesterday .the Wirtendaurgh. Minister waited upon the QuneN. The Duchess of CUMDeiIL4ND Was present in the House of Peers yesterday to hear the debate. ir NEits • i El e D w g i i t t r' , l . —.....wiw0—.. M,I 12.—;- - Five n'Cloc.--.ltriml, just c ome to anchor l o the Downs, t he Gent C A/JO DI:0,, froth China. MaliciaTE, AI Alt I :t,--I .II C Ship London, AMaadarc, cas . , from St. i.'incent;s, IS at stitch& in PaaS Ilole, and has landed aba of letters. PonTsmoUTil, MAY 12.rriced t h e CO store-sbip from Ilermatia ; sailed (ho 7th API Alkeeirla trAnsport t atid the 'Thomas sod Willii I""vg,, from Gibraltar. Tile Cltristopher,o 13 fr o m Oportts, passed by for L on don ; sail/ 4 ' the P o ivoi 2t l inst• P ass ed up Chinnel for Pacific, St , t, from Sr. Laeii. Sailed 600 410 S T AMSIBRS, for Loudon, and West 110 port for the River. FALMOUTH, :11AY 10. --Arrived the Itosettsi CUNDY, from Naplet. Sailed the Lady packet for Gibraltar and Malta, nest packet for Lisbon, both with mails: were expected to sail last night, but (lid lot: teed till this morning. Cartes, 11f +r V2.—The Antetican shiP .. kiner, laden with cotton, tobacco, 010 tine, 8:c. was brought into this port this ~, Ing by COLIN MACKELLEIti gate of thef t ~ _ : Gl as gow, who fell in with her about 130 tit S. W. at Bermuda, with, eight feet of wo A,. boetiL her hold, and without any per Son .1. _._—r.obo --- ,; :. I ei l it! ad Printt In the course of 'Thursday O tt v e ts ~ Leith harbour (including 14 front foreig n I c ; 20 of which were loaded with grain ; on d lj Jo ar rived in the Roa ds from foreign port! , l''' , pally %Oh grain.—/E d iabidgh Courant, '11.4 THE GRAND PEDESTAIO ----- Woubsw • :lit 1 0 left __,, OOD Scantss.--On Sunday Osin ~ TON :lot at ten minutes before eight 0 Ci(Ar tol G. h _ 'd 'lli utiles, Ptlatsetl:titehrt:l2.llYleesttleriniihril w;lkt. not ("I half " asv), LiATON Started at four 0'40,7' ~,/ 4i not tit( five. At six in the afternoon; 01.10 colupleted 30 * 9 111$ j• now Oii e l s gl i d , : n a t , i i i i t e a p y i " a g t a ir °till:16:7(k: c : Ihatant°ldf tos toiceccolgiccsoss a s ' s o t ti. .. l": cj e c i ; 1,LI:„::::sikt.4.3118, ed:Pnradt GI miles," pli3thAllti::):ose. , ;I:ttbit': respective l'etfs:s . i sitni* l tt ti i ll ;lt a n tli A:: l k 'P i titf • l'l l .t r n ill it :: : e le s ll) , s : i t p i li i °C : l 4 : l l B e ; tl , ') f h al' , l t r i ls. o t l i l ., :ni e : l l l ll : l: : l6 .i '. : ts o Ye i 'r t "; l: C.cs r i i rni6att f: lar l ie.r : i9t o ‘ec t r t lN•r ti i casit l .rtrti s ° : :* . itY , lllr % : , s i l e r ' leri: i i:n t i g lit l i ;c r i'‘ll:ll : :.ll .4 :l''ai . :l: l ll , lncligv c i'llicir‘c4l o ,i siltlfv:e . : l'4l:►irje;lsof , lit'llitfin"ltc ; i':":lll l tll:'ll);,°Y:,:ll,:'t i °:;lril°:llat;l4lll): tii e tl u is l t t ? l n } ,:Of i O y e e L lf c f l o:r u t t:: lt t ee y. P.sittc , l:l4: : l::ti3O'l:::l . :!:.::*: ,, ; : : :: ll ,e 4 , wool.- . 4 b e • u b IT1.•".71.11e fOltdirini, , e ill,„ !ie i ',l 0 up cresting. told, ic who tiolnu f id.', research,t b(mgeviiy :—‘, .t Gettilen° oft aortil ~i lately float a catalogue (ro t o r Ittlared persons who had al I iii"e I '';'" c e at " 11 1 found . their habits o f life °id? to 34 vorook i• 'it'll", rtautaly, early tising in' tlIc • ,`,l M 4 observe([. lirintntilolinted(r,atilliaTXl Pr.lititl;:itiol;l:j l'l.liltftrii of Snito-stittare, C Iseniis-t to 1115 :.0;,114iO4‘1 the Pritiee Regent, has introduce" )00011.0 try,. from France, is valuable Iflrt:`l b,,ing 1 : 1 i, hCINI Ehrs f o r deaf personi : 1.; eolleelg B"lited to the ear they incrose I '',ollo,' sound ; but besides the collection Oniii irilito b an additional force W3litett to 11' ' "00, iris[ beingthe rnssage. In thil respect the E.tie i , „ea . / _deficient, 0 small tube tv,l''ellibe 01 enotractilig the passage, occl3lWil o f Ill'l, enter ‘vith greater force. Tile for' ionf, flint's contrivance is partiettlatly co' it Ar e! I iCil 4)le ; • I °Milled over the natttrAl calif vi.' c o s e 1 0- i to resemble. Mr. CURTIS i1',15 lib '. 0 toil a Hear i n g Trumpet, which fornriii, ite! -7nriti, on the same print:4).lc 14 ' ~ii litta, ra.rtiiiipet used at sea, which is so 1"1:e i,pir answer the purpose in 000015 optt It, " I 8 . ° ")). Jr has this convolieoel up in a sniall ease for tbe paclie• coi ........-ro. ,ip • itt:PTUItED PATIENTS. 84°•.-- t ~C ,1 ME, find C.O.- of Gil arlutte-1:3:-.: els' 'll4 1 14, Bev . Ilowianci Hill's Cbilefi' ck ; i tre ct ' 1 ed a Medical 130tird in IVoticisti.oreel, 'e., fwr.l-stret, adjoiaing New 1!_..4,°"‘ g a t O e d • Physician sod Sttesenn, Nlem-ccors Of' ' 1 C o llege of Loudon of tllirtY L,, s o f M . . reside, and tvhere ;II tha Mvlnua':lo, le; alternately attend. That 11 , :t.)ot cani'di restored to health by thoi, ,t,.:::,1 0 01 1, ,, is' iticliiptitablc, After hospital' I I body, i'la tious ea the 11(.0, Nee, 0n.,(1, o f ~, et',o, throm, ex. Vic, nrecousetion,c‘ _,..0,505v4 pla i n being improperly treatea ,--.ed mils:,l6, MUNROii, ittiti CO. are couoi;le 1 or c sl% liollSeB, Until njild fit niint• 1 ). Ills far rert',i it each house, and private irno(.1100,0t col The Piles and Eistitia ere' cionlqiii 0 Ruptured Pittienta attend at, Fridgily 0 lilatlitrigts, Oil MOrldiOS s"t;tiov, O'h°c; Intistockouse oft "%Valle Ito tiii,),: 9te !tort ' r 1 0 ' dically cured ot redact.) ,00tit ti r' , At and anatomical principfrs,,,o, prieni to lion or the 4east excoritito/I',,av 1t5f,,,10 mime; describiog their civic) ',. .1,0.10,11,-i'c, nArr I" "Ye process sent to.soy r- . it PVIIC; ..41 dirtslll , otgol' which mean* they 111 l woo 10 Letters cootaining lin 11 ' 11c tended to. 1-:r}oN.. r •,,t -.lh c Nr.sl';',4llls,T,t,loor i 1 1" 7; --twood- " • • • q•, •oci -1- eet, sotipp w oo , oth • ee, b , ot 7, !..40ittli 114, ';trJtii4 ; Where •ilir,ocif o.Ant