The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

this short Session, resisted the revision of our san-
goiirnry•Crimiral Code with nil their might, they
intvo continutd she-infamous gains scraped from the
Lottery, atuls7sasr 'Lave moved and carried a grant
to the Duke of*:orl:,-of ten thoutemd pounds * year,
fur a weekly visit to. his aged atve afilicted ipher.

Mr. Grenfell, on Thursday rtgnt, brought
wan: his motion fin. a Committee Tif the whale
Ho :se, to consider the expediency of *Ascribing thst
Sinking Fund of the year to any loan which may be
necessary for the year's public service. It tees opposed
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; end if the
que.;tion depended upon evidence and argument, kir
opposition would Lave been feeble indeed. He suc-
ceeded, however, in •persueding the aouse to reject
the motion by a mAjoritrof .117 to-99. 'Hie prin-
cipal grounds urged by him weie,-she inexpediency
of interfering, by •theauthorisy of an Act of Par:ig-
Cut, with •the discretion vcstel lily the former Act
-in this Cominksioners, mid the dangur of leaving the
inorket at themturcy of the Jobbers, by-withdrawing
the Commissioners from the market. With • respect
to the first, iris difficult to see why the,LOslature
should -not d.itoct• the application of the'Sinling
Fund from its ordinary 'impose to the atirrent set.
vice of the,year, if the public interest demand is;
and we ,think the dealers in• neck (for stock is lie-
ctanc e commodity like any otlier)Ausy be safely
left to their own wits; sharpened h., 'their interests,
to guard them agairAt gamy attcMyt at deception b'
the Jobber.

The same night the Attorney-General obtained
leave to brin!.; to prevent enlistments int,"
fin-eign service, and the eeluipment of vessels of war
-without lice-!ee. This hill may, we think, act in its
progress us a test of attachment to gene-r,d principk,.
elliberty. We regret that the learned gentleman dii
not cm,ress intentioismore fully to the Hous-:-.ri
one pint; we mean, whether he proposes to give a
retrospective action to his Bill—whether he mean 3
to give Xiini.it,.rs the powo: of recalling, wider pi,
'ink?! of ail those wiriiilave already ergaf,ed
in the latriut war.—Sir ,Tames Machintorh most
truly de:erica it " as an enactment to repress the
rising liberty of the South' Americans, and to ena-
ble Spain to re-impose that yoke•of tyranny which
they were unable to bear, which they 1,8,1.f10b1y
shaken off, and fiem-which he truste3 in. Gig they
wmfla finally lie enuVed to free themseivi %elm:-
ever attempts were male by the minierers of this
or tiny other coontry to counteetnec or assist their
oppreasors." Anil if the -retrospective clause We
have above alluded to ho inerodueed, we think lie
might linvc added to hi:' description " that it was a
-manitesvattempt to continue the fyster of perse-
cution agniest an enOrpriting nobleman, where
services had shed brilliancy over our own naval uri-
nals, and 'whose 'ans7ec!:s in the patriot cause was
vl.dently wished for by • v.-cry lover of the revel
rights of Men." The hitter part which relates to
shipping, is deslrtictive of a considerable branch of
commerce. and our already half-starved manufac.
torero of Birming-,tram, will doubtless feA grate':
to the imposer -of a measure which wi,! ;ertoln.;
drive their cttonzers to other :nal-Lets.