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London, England, 1819-02-13 00:00:00

TIIE CRIMINAL (IMF.

11.• of Commons
eir AT COHN F.Y-( iI;N El: A 1., In, abolislmig appeals
(ii n,uidrr, leluily, or mayhem, awl wager of !rude,
in writs of right, ha. been printed. The murices
f berrrolooog the Hill are expressed in the pie-
souls'c but with great propriety—..tVlieit4ll
appeal of mutiler, feluoy, and usayhein, and the
manner of iirocrednig therein, hose been (timid to
be ypressive, moil the trial by battle in any suit
as a mode of tiial, is irryit to be used," &c.
From this it is to he undeistosid that had the old
law not I.ten found oppressive, but hail coutinurd
drad Icttcr, the Legislature would nut have inter-
lured to repeal it, even although it were avowedly
mild fur use. In het historical exposition of the
law of appeal, the A TTORN BY-GEN LIIAL expresAril
himself lirlltly to the same effect. Ile said there
were occasionally found on the Statute Houk cotton
laws, of which the reason had ceased to etc-t,
and %Inch by bring opposed to re recent
iurtt-
tutiuur, or the growing spins of the age, cut.-

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sideverl dead letters, until rave cirenmstance sr: se
to bring them once again ion life and Reboil.
That the Legislature then interfered and prevented
the recurrence of the evil. Bit wrthd it not be much
bette► hail the evil tied beet suffered to happen ?
The low of appeal, flout 11..4mm/dons and revolting
character, hail I .pig excited the attention pint only
of our lawyers lint of alnlo•t every class of ptreillllP,
yet it an* permitted to etnititisie on the Statute
Books, although no ireisoti could doubt that it
might at any Itinitiropt he iirought into ole►.ltlom.
It was no security fur the character of our jurispru-
dence that the majority or the hel pie ni1,411, nut
choose to take advantage of the law, because, as it
afforded ■ means of reveopp, tlwie seemed every
renninn to apprehend the cootrary. We lately saw
how very narrowly the vrierable Judges of the
King's Bench escaped the riograre of sitting from
111 stru•rt in au Innis field as the umpires
of a lerociting coun—kist. Ilnt Wi1.1,1151 ASI11,0111)
lieu of looldr slrength papal to 1 /mighty,. 'nitro-
Mu, this reproach had [wen affixed in our national
character, awl Etglitiol, in the teeth CentUly,
hail displayed no the wondoitig eyes of in her nit-
nuns, a spectacle which, it less advanced ages ref
society, would be lasi steal at 1141 our or the ien4t
egoivocal 'woofs of rittreclained barbarism. This,
would have 111.1:11rrec lint a few month•
hero.... the I rgi.latiort- had declared that trial by
brute was " unfit to hr toed," 141611 at a 000000 ti•iit
whet, every inn, to the contitri, Prince, Prelate,
.14.1,e.Legm.lnor, anpl Lawyer, would feel him-
self ;iiimiliated i,y the event.

From we drdnre the proprielv of It Trvishoo
of our Suitor. Rook, fir the sole purpose of Juicer-
tainitig wino 1`1%.* reinaiii, obsolete 'lidera, from
tlo it being to the otortt of society, but cd-
palile of Fri og still brmaglit onto use. ‘Ve cannot
boast a depth of legal reading ruffieient to rookie
its to !mint out /1101 I twg many of 'him, portico.
larly Fowls iis relate to civil tiroceerlimr, have been
mitigated and morlersised by the rules of einirts,
and the occasiritial changes in practice. Among
the peon! statutes there are many ro notnnnuyly
revere, that they rmoot he eXeCtstrtl; such, for
114 th it which maker prisattly stealing
from the persons to the bn)1)11ilt of one ,tolijog,
a capital felony. IVe also call to mind a
very severe law, enact, rl, we believe, in the
reign of lICNILT IV. with regard to Ireland,
which made the werteini4 of hair 1111 the upper lip
by a mere Irishman," within that kingdom, fe-
lony without bentlit of clergy. Thu statute war
never repealed. It was a custom in Athens, dierinv
its flays of liberty, sionually to apponit a Commit-
tee for the purpose of wtrertaiolog whether there
were in existence any I.ws contradictory In rollers,
or reotirrrel Onocerr.ory by the course of e.eols.-
111 this means the reeiirds of that Stair weir an-
nually pit rved of such danzermis and iniv:r.sit lum-
ber; while, by the fierpormec of the revision, the
labour fell ligotiv on tio,e who were oploOlooted to
lertake it. With ns the task would at present
lie lierruleins, havisig Intipy

. Enrn prmerir..
%i Inch have, like nnsr..no'd nronon,. bonne Ili ih,' NAZI
I.mr, th.si twortrris 1...11 irks hare gone Innen,.
And none nF ilwin lire oln.

PlelrATE Ct EVPONDRACE.

rARta, FrDRUARY 8.
CI AMBF.R OF nrril :Is, Frsitt Any A.

" 0118 petitions uddresstd to the Chain'we, the
subjects a which were direutiwd in this sitting, not
one of them was in any degree iturrestiog.
" Af:er they were disposed of, M. Roy made a
Report from the .'n►nmission charged to examine
the proj-t of law relative to the sale of ealtpetre
and gunpowder. He presented numerous amends
mentos to the projet, especially in the regulations
respecting the privileges tube given to proprietors of
saltpetre establishments. The otaservostiotss by
which the Commission justified those amendments
were in unison with sound constitutional principles.
" M. G.►nilh afterwards lead the Hewett of the
Commission on the field of the financial yesr.
lie rwiclopled by the adoption of the projet which
establishes the financial era in the coma►euremrnt
of the month of Jody, and was serious in averting
the reproach of unconstitutionality which hood hewn
thrown upon tee projet by the extreme bides of the
Chamber. The zest entertained by th► Ultras in
favour of the Charter is so uroletit, that four or th.ot
party had registered their tonnes to ►peak against
the projet. Amongst those who have toe:lay in-
scribed to support it are, tel Royer Color(/' Se.
voir Rollie, and Durergter D'llaurinsue. The two
former are Ikelrinisis.

" The Electoral Colleges of the five Deport.
ments of which the depusotiosis are deficient, ore
to be immediately convoked. They are the Haute
Mouse, the Fini.terre. the Loire Inferieure, the
Rhone, and the Saritw. The ►Ministry, relying on
the popularity of their tnea►ures siiice their late or-
ganisation, hove declared their full coofislence in
the discretion and discersimeist of the electors, and
their determisiatuni of employing siu secret tuflueoce
to bias them.

" No public measure or impottance line been
agitated in the Chamber si.ice Iss last. M. lanne
is using terry exertion to he named Helmut r of
the Committee on the 110..0 de lot conctroing the
responsibility or Mliii•ters. Ile is summit..l
two Nlrinbers of the Commission, MM. de Villeie
mud Conner., bud by the excessive gionanters sod
oniendinents lie insists on, is cerimills seeking 10
win I•Vt r two independents, IINI. pullout de
L'Enre and lkiloch, likewise forming part of the
Commission. These D el/1L...1., II AO nobtriel of his
mullets hitherto, Iran to the sale 01Cousit Belignot,
the 111inisterial Candidate. The law will ceitainly
nut he adopted without impm taut alteration..

" The itiglit Side is divided into two beCtltliill, ar
is the Lett Side, because the second seci ttttt in
rush approaches the centre, stud occasionally voles
with the Ministry.
RITA PM' LATION
Rixlit Side { First Ser"u"
N: cuisd &chum 2V
Centre
Left Site
.1 First Svrition 35
87
1 Second Section ..... Si

22

The Chamber ought lu con.iat of 25S

" M. Peralin, Derinty of Curer, h n sioi .ilip►ur-
edl, mid the places are vacant el live Nowt*.
which :nukes the number complete.
'6 You will be ►u:prined at learning that the

•wrolame,P

THE BIUTISII PRESS.

LONDON.

SATUIVIAY. FEHUUALLY 13, 1319.

In the abscise' of French Papers, we present our
readers with some extiaets of l'iivate Letters from
Paris. which will !mobility anticipate the contents
of the public points now due. lu the Sitting of
the Chamber of Deputies oil Monday, wits read the
Iti port of the COininitlre appointed by thr Cham-
ber ul Widows to con-ider the projert of the law
impost-II by liar MiuU4cP., fur fixing the month of
July to be the comistrio tinent of the. Financial
Year; by %%loch at appears that Mr. Committee
have ;Tinto' the proposition. We have read the
rag ttttt ents uli ineunurnteriti, that are iii ed by the
Ministers in favour of this change, but 'multi see no
proof of its necessity. The question, it seems, is
likely to excite inueli angry th-cussion in the
Chamber of Deputies—wherefore ;t is hard to ima-
gine, for Ministers can gain no atleinitage by it
but that of voting the Law of Finance in the fir.t
instance, fair eighteen inatraa of twelve mouths.
The law for regulating the irsponsibility of Mi-
nisters is one of far higher importance. To this
the attention of the Deputies will soon be directed,
and will, must probably, give tier In 'ollie warm
debates. The principle of Mulish.. ial respon-
sibility is of the last importance for the security of
a free Constitution; it might, without much ex-
aggeration, he considered iis the principal harrier
to it-strain the exercise of the Royal prerogative
flour§ coming into a collision ton rude with
the hest privileges of the people. It saves the
people I oppression, without tile necessity
of ungraciously dintit the itch mut Wilged
lteawcrs of the Crown, and saves the Crown
from the oil that might occasionally attach to
an lujileat ions display a n strictly legal authority.
Fortunately for Prance, the prmciple la VOIACCtIeCi

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by the Executive, so that the future AiKussions
on the present Inen.ure,, io the Chamber of De-
puties, will be free front one great source of con-
tention. The proposed 61 le it fur the sole purpose
of ascertaining the mods of procedure, the period
within which ii-eithitions may he brought slid pro-
secuted, and by whom they nosy be conducted.—
The Chamber of Deputies is di dared to have
slime the right of preferring a charge, and Ole
Clisinher of Peers taunt the right of determin-
ing I.

Yesterday was the last day of the redemption of
the 011111111111 from the Bea ; that is, whit n the pub-
lic were hound to repay to the Molt nil the advances
which it had made upon the Oatilioni.—The pros-
pect of th:s operation ham had, for some time, an un-
favottrilh'e effect upon the Fund• ; and, as might
have been aoticipated, they assumed a b•tter sp.
peat.ince yesterday after its completion. The lytli
is the day fixed for the public to complete their
payment upon the Ouuuum to the Goverinneut.

The WestriiiiMer Election tail commence this
iy. The t'XI,VIISY of a competent liiitaig• having
intolved the I lig!) lixil 9 in troulple and litigation,
it has been deemed necessary to ott to Parliament
for a untruly, and a Bill fur thitt purpose is now iil
progress. Li this 'tate of the case, the Ifigh hail ff'
concerted (bat r hts•tings upon a et ry narrow tcale.
with a single poll-chi k,constittties as match accian-
moilation as he can he legally and morcily required
to irrovitle. Prcparations to that extent wilt Le
made at the usual place in Covent-garden hefiare nine
o'clock this !nothing. It• is matter of surprise, that
If an oppo,.ition to Mr. llottuottar aloothl have
been meditated, the intention should not have been
early declartd, and that he shouhl h,er an
long silo% cal to occupy the jaibl:c mind as the anle
and only candidate. It is only within these few
days the veteran 111ajor Catftcrtictir has been an.
now:tied as a competitor determined to cuter the
lists against that Gentleman; anal it was so late oil
last evening u third candidate was mentioned in the
hereon of Mr. G. I.Ams.

Private Letters flow fart-au-Piiiice, dated ROI
of N.41,41111,-1.. mrutinn, 1114 the efeW4 of the 0r vered
velorria nailing there fir cargoes %err 011 1-Xllfrifiely
111111.-}llitly, that there was t,carcely w Olin hut what
ltd Inq votne Hl* her turn, and .rural of the Ame-
rican Captain. are 4110•1 ft.lttli to Ir.,cr died. Coffee
could not he obtained hat at a vely high price, and
such was the s,:arrity of prrnhice to w-rieral, that
the teina-l.experrenctil the greatest difficulty in get.
tiinz load, d.
Q is.- bee :na! 51mitre41 rapers to the 4111 ult. have
been recei‘eil. They 1,1,.te that the agitation. whii It
the exertions of Mt. C;OLIKLAY had gomlucril in
t.:awida :Ira rather increa-rog. The Delegates of
thr I.:ay' a-ri, Towni.hilo lotd ogttin bent Its4-nthling•
They have puhllshetl nnotl,tr slateniPot 4)l* great
I.rigth, arguing the weight of their hinder's, and
the gric%airie• they ; (hi*, it is said, i 0 in-
tended Inr the Nlcinbers of the Pro.
Voltlimitent, a Mali w.,.41.0011 to be linen, bled.

Savannah and New Ot 4:11IS Papers, of much
more ',we'd dates (hull tl►nse befoul received, have
arrived. I•L.y supply Slane inuellige rice from the
Floiridas of some listertst. It is stilted pot,it 1%,
I y,
that the A nurricaii sloops gariisoving St. Nlai
Pensacola, Fout Garlsdrii, nod oilier forts, were
preptunig to take their departure for the United
States, to coristrprence of the receipt of intelli-
gence I•ruta the 1 14v:toroth, that a volopetent Spa-
ills!' (*trice would be sent immediately to occupy
these oilers. The officer commanding at St.
Alauks bad beets directed to consoler -2.50 Forst as
the arlsquatt. Spatiish force to overawe the Indians,
to whom lie was to deliver up this post. Colon,"
Anouti t.E, Cnmrnautivnl of Foot Gailsrleti, in an
unictal letter, observed, that but few of the hostile
Indiums hate surrendered of late, owing to their
haviii4; iibtaiiied inlet niatiiiii that the Spanish Go-
vet iliasupa will :rpm have isusses,iruis rut the Florida%
Letters from Trinidad to 7sh December state,
that Gt nerd BOEITAR had returned In Angostura,
where he was on lU h November. General HER.
31E0Ez way left in • tool of th- operatimis be.
fore CulliaoS. guerrillas had beaten the
Royalists on three different points. CI:DI:NO had
dislodged the Spaniards from Tarralva, where they
had 400 men. The Govermorot was engaged to
drawing up a iklanilesto and Protest against any
attempt at mediation, into which Spain might
be able to induce the Allied Powers, It is in.
Welded to express a fixed determination not to listen
to any overtures which have not for object the re-
cognition of Verwauela as a free and indepesidesit
Stele. The fire provinces of flew Grenada had
been ridded to *rod their Deputies to the new
Congress, of which the trumber of Representatives
is to be thirty-five.
A bill of sudictmeot was preferred at th►e Lan-
caster Comity Session, by 31r. CHAP MAN, against
the Earl of 17XuratimE and some others, who were
coticeriird in the disturbance at the Manchester
Theatre, as ineritimied in our last. Our readers
will recollect that Mr. CRAP MA N was one of the
gentlemen who were in the sildgr box witl► Mr.
IltiNT, at tor flow whets the Nobleman above
rairlitionial .110 ht. frielids attest •• with a vigoor
heyond thin I •t',' and expelled the travellistg orator
and hits conspaiiitnis from the• house. After a cafe.
Cul investigation of the evidence, the bill was
thrown out by the Gotha Jury ; there having hero,
as report says, eleven for its reception, and thirteen
against it. Tile same• fete, we utiderstiurd, has
been expertenced by a bull of the same descrip-
tion• which was preferred at Maticliester.—( Liver-
pool Courier.)
It is a very gratifying fart, as well with regard to
the morel elialucler of the Army arid Navy us to the
Police sit thin metropolis, that isolsi tilibtmlitling the
lamentable depravity so touch to be deplored its
many classes of life, and at very early ages, there
has not beets since thie discharge of tam loony ships
and reginitsits ceniserpirist to the 'Waft., one comic-
lion fur felony of any of those numerous ranks.

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