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MARRIAGE ACT.

Dr, PHILLINORE void, Ilut in rising to discharge
the order for the arCallti reeding of the 111mriage
Act Amendment Bill, he was solely induced to take
That viep by the situation its which the public busi-
ness was now placed ; and he begged to give ow
tire, that early in the next Session he would, if re.
turned in the enetaing Parlieuient, introduce a simi-
lar measure to the present, which had already re-
ceived the sanctum of so large • portion of the
House, and which was so ceseiltial to the comfort
and happiness of society.
The Bill was then ordered to be read a second
time this day six wet ks.

CASE OF THE BRIG CHARLES, OF ABERDEEN.
111 r. licitie rms., In pinauairre of the mince he
had riven. to give a short detail of the case of the
brig CAArles, of Aberdeen, which, early iu the year
1815, vet sad fruits that poll for Testerille to take
in a cargo of wine. On their arrival the port,
they had a pilot pat. oo board, bat were after.
wards unfortunately driven to I.ts in a gale, and
while in that courlition, the pilot, alw had sliewu
strong symptoms of tu,amty, jumped overboard,
and their efforts, by lowet mg the boat and
taking every pains to their power, failed to
mive him from being r.l roarsied. On their teach-
Mg the port the following day, the master of
the Clarks reported to the Governor the late of
the pilot, tevillying the fact by the statesuenta of
his passengers and crew. And immediately after
he Lad mode this communication, the toaster
and mariners of the brig carte taken into cus-
tody by the Spanish authorities, on the stiocioas
charge of murdeting the utifortutrate man, and
committed to clove custody. They in vain offered
to attest their innocence, and Bleu failed in all
their endeavours to procure u trial. The British
Consul, Mr. Stuart Bruce. whose conduct through-
out the whole Isusittess was in the highest degree
creditable to him, was refused access to them from
the 07th April to the 10th July, 1818,, and the un.
happy prisoners were kept .utterielic under the
greatest privations. The British Consul, as he
would sheer in the sequel. transmitted to the Noble
Lord opposite (Lord Castlereagh) au account of
tot trausectism, and complained that this was not
au isolated cave of cruelty un the part of the Spa.
Mar authorities, for that be had before written to
Iris Lordship respecting the cruel and rigorossh con-
tiagannt of Hubert Clarke, the muter of a Dub.

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lirt•veise7, also wag then it t All
throe repre•etsiati 111 l , (Mr. Mame)
knew they were enforPed wi rioted weight by
the Noble Lora opipiorettr. t the medium of
the Militia A .1111111111111114' in MI111111(!, I% MC merle in '
vino, and the unfortunate men were will stoking
unde► their rigorous entihnement. and nothiog but
the strength of their 111 l s ',resented them
from falling v.c.inis in their ill treatinesit. (1•t the
85,11 of October. ISIS. the ship *lnch wag detain•
ell by the Spanish authorities broke from he► moor.
nix% I.evame orrckeil uti the cosi,. and seised as
pronS of the Goveribinesit. The Hon. Member
then read the folios/mg extracts from the letters
which pasrd on the 0CC461011, to skew the house
still more strongly the importance of doing justice
to these poor men:—
.1' PRISONS IN THE. FORT OP SAN FELIPF.
" Piot Omar*, Teswriffe, May 28, 1619.

" 211111—Lawysishong ruder an unjust inapriswissmut of
upwards of thittero oimilles' duration, in s foreign country,
and subjected to every hardship and privation and insult
ihal cad be supposed to attach to individuals ender oar ter-
emnstasorro, accused of the airorMaps crime of sword. r ;
she undervigned, late Master and Mariners of she brig
Charles, of Aberdeen, have nu other resource bill In appeal
to you as she 'Representative of leech place of aativisy, is
the supreme tribunal of their coislitry, inelstunng yam to lay
their cave before Parliament, to'hbliaie fOr the, the jostiee
and rearms they have so lout in vans implored here.
" We enclose lo you for bat purpose copies of rundry
jormilegili, as per oreompanyiag teats, demonstrating oar
inisurer.ce of ibis imposed crime; mid proving the sigualice
suit cruelty which we have suffered muter a protriie•ed acid
'oppressive imprisonmeed, while oar pretended trial is post.
poised Hader frivolous prelexia.
We appeal also lei our country for indemnification for
She total 1,4. or our properly, and that of the owners of our
said •earl, lie Charles, of Aberdeen, totally wrecked
•lo las under the unjust seizure of Shia Griee-aui•ei, Cu wore
fully set forth in 'he said documents.
%Ve have the honour to be, Sir,
" Yuan MOM obedieni humble servant.,
" Robert Prods?, Master ; Joseph M•lniyrc, Mate; /oho
Turnbull, Seaman; James Moshe, Seaman ; John Taylor,
&amiss ; William Aria; and James Gordon.
" To Joseph Hume, Esq. M.P."

Nitrite's frail' /As kritisA Censure dispel...hes lowa:
"She yea tined that tosolsted on Monday the 27th. *hew
nottert Brodie, the twister, immediately tnAe ur 'kWe lu
give notice to the Governor of this melancholy occurrence

un board his verse!. Brodie was fin timid§ ordered to rinse
confinement by the Governor of Purt Oriatavit, and de-
prived of all commoniestion with me or any other person,
in which situst he still icinaius. Proceedings were then
instituted against Inn, by secret examination of witnesves.
I have demanded officially to be present while the evidence
was given, but have beets refused. On Sunday last, the 10. h
of May, the Guvermw, accompanied by a mewl, went to
board the Charles, without having made any communication
to me, and after prising anti placing the vessel smiler reques-
Oration, he put a Sluttish crew un board, and brought the
littlish mate and seamen on shore, as prisoners, under •
guinea, comm. g them in close couhuement in the dun-
geons of Fort St. Philip. Arainsl these violent and undue
proceeding', I have solemnly protested, and offered the
strongest reentmstratices, boil, to the subordinate antburitits
at Port Geneva, and to the Copulas-General of the Pro-
vince; but, as usual, ineffectually.
" Is • ease of this nature, where British eithjects are ac-
cused of crime so atrocious, and against whom convenient-
ly the strongest prejndices are entertained, it cannot escape
your Lordship's observation, how essentially their cause is
injured by soy arbitrary exclusion huts their trial, and by
the prohibition of my holding any communication with
them, thus depriving them of the defence sad protection in-
truded to be provided for British subjects, by my official 19.•
intuition. Without the presence of the Consul of their
country they can neither have security for the faithful trans-
lotion of their evidence, nor the mean' of comainsuieation

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with the lawye► intiusted with their dense*.
" Is this just &mama, however, I have so hope of sue-
reeding, nor ca■ I expect in this or similar eases here to
have it io my power to afford protection ur aid to his Ms.
j•aly's subjecis aggrieved ill their persons or interests by
obtaining for them a prompt and upright admiisistration of
justice, and due observance of isefl ire, without your Lord-
ship's support, which I humbly solicit, to direct the corsair-
tics' iOn rif such strut orders from tire Ring of Spsia lu the
Captain General aid other aStborities here, as will secure
me from the perpetual oledructions 1 meat with in the exe-
cution of my official duties.
(Signed) " G. STUART BRUCE."
BRITISH CONSULATE, CANARY ISLANDS.

" Tateriffe, October 11, 1819.

" St*-1 last addreased ,nu 171 h July, on the subject of
the mower mid crew (named per margin) of the late twig
Charles, of Aberdeen, Impri►oned hire in April, 1118, on •
false accusation of murder; and I hare now •gain to slate,
fur the information of his Excellency the Ambassador, that
these individuals are still (atter • lapse of eighteen lesunths)
In curliness'st in the furl of Sass Felipe, near Putt Orulava,
in this Island.

a Being for many nermilis wiilloirt any notice of my name.
►ons ►rprrsrntslions on Ibts distressing case, I ant ignorant
nhat steps base been taken I.y his Excellency iu behalf of
these much injareJ British sub:vela.

" laformatiun has out yet been forwarded; when it shall
be, I am at a hiss to conceive by what uniarepreseutations
she authorities here can justify the wanton cruelty three un-
irwiug.ase people have experienced, or reconcile, with the
professed purpwies of public justice sod fair trial, the facts,
lorg since is possession of the Ambassador, viz. the arrest
of these primmer' its April, ISIS, without the smallest
ground of suspicion ; their solitary and separate strict ism-
prisonmest for upwards of six weeks, deprived of all cum-
entsuicatitio with me, or wish any friend or legal adviser ;
their iocret exaruinatiou, on oath, at the 'milestone of that
time, deserved the advice aid protection' of their
Consul, or army legal advisers ; the refusal to maiatat■
the said master and crew during their inepriso. meat, maul to
be for porpoises of public justire ; the seiaure, by military
force, of their vessel, the Charles, of Aberdeen, also without
say commosieatiou brine made to nue, and in the face of
my solemn protest on behalf of the °wipers : the subsequelit
total lose, by neglect, of the said vessel, while so occupied
and touter stirrer; and the sale and approprilitionathe pry
credo of said wreck, without any aroma rendered.

" It is only within them few days that my assupportell
rentosoitrances have obtained for dowse prim:niers the boos of
having witnesses examined in their dehisce. Thom exami-
asinine, as well as those of the Isear.asy evidence against the
prisoneis, have all been taken ist private. Is every stage of
the prosecution, my applications have beets constaittly nn
jetted, either to be present myself to cense-gamiest., the wit-
nesses, ue to be allured the iut lion of Counsel fur thee
purpose.
" 1 forbear enteriiie into details of the studiously protract-
ed oppression and insult that Captsin Brodie and his crew
have experienced. No ordinary delays eves of Spanish
jotrisproidesice, eon account fur the pertinacious denial of
justice to these much-injured people."
Throe documents. he said, hr had in his possession
for mare dean seven mouths, and from Ares the Haase
would i.ee what had been the snfirrings of the Captain and
mariners, who ought nut only to be released front the rigor-
ous confinement in which they were su unjustly placed, bet
also, as well as ilie owners, imirmailled for the losses they
bad consequently endured. The property belonged to six
humble individuals at Aberdeen, mid amounted to upwards
of 4,4n01. The Hon. Member then concluded by nitiviug.—
`. Thal an humble Address be pretested to his Majesty.
praying that there he laid before the Howse Collies of dor
Proteats made its the Island of Teserilfe, In ISIS, by the
Captain and Crew of the brig Charles. of Abeidota, and by
Mr. G. Stuart Bruce, has Britannic Majesty's Consul at the
purl of °raisin, in IMsaid letend; sod of MI Haematite'
Irons the said Goma to hie Majesty's Sesselsry of Stale its
Ettoitod, anti to his Majesty's Ambassador. sad hie Majesty's
Consul in Spain, reapeclisg the inspriliealacol of the crow,

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sea site's' ilium ad esibatiticot leas of Wie brig Ms, lei at
that port"
Lord Callnitaeasit mid, ha did sot by say liaises Mirk
the How. Member had been precipitate in his mottos; are
the contrary, be 4,101 be bad awns a laudable persever-
ance its his abets to briag the seta In a full investiga-
tion,. It wits a subject on which, be no doubt, the Hsu.
Meagher fell deeply. sad which he was not surprised at his
thinkiag St fee the neosidieratioe of Parliament. He (Lord
Castlereagh) bad also no besitatiee Is sayiug, that lookieg
at the sereuets of this traassetlee which had reached is,
they were eertalely may elms esparle character, he entered
in • great degree iota the feelings of the Hon. Goodman
reseeding the wesplesioe of the Owe, sad thought it a
grave sad serious quiratieo. At the game time he admitted
a very considerable Weal hod taken place in the lavemiga.
how of this subject ; but from limit was by so moms to be
inferred that a delay of justice was attributable to the epe-
eists Govereaseet. Every body kw, that the petrologists
of Europe had is peers' *sly at slated periods of the year,
direct imams of commeeitating with their distant eulisoial
posseuiows. The Hon. Member had not hinted at the ap-
pearance of any want of seal en the pert of the British au. •
ilioridee to do justice to these eafortneate people--ou the
cootrery, be hod sheen that the British Consul at Tessera,
had guise ewes beyond the bee of his duty in densmirling
nei-
into the platen where the Spanish emboli' les were ea-
gaged is jodicial istveotigatiem, and requiring to see what had
hewn the pardeolar coarse of their jittery, for what bad hero
dose by these tgibonale they were only answerabk to their
own Goverement. When the Hue. Member had lirst applied to
him ow the 'abject, be Aspired him the whale of the Alicia,
torrespaidence that had takes place between the British sod
Spanish Gsreernateula There was one additional decomant,
howeeer. which be hoped wield incline the Hem. Member
and the House to listen to the'seggeetise with which he
meant to cowhide. is the last sower a his (he believed
the third) application to the Court of Madrid respectiog this
transactim, which be received shoot tee days age, that
answer gave the most disdain assurance, and with the
;ruffles' auxiely to do jimber to the ties; that al a very
short period a reply was expected from Teireedie, whith
world reside die Goverosneat at home to decide um* the
course which they ought to peruse. The Howe would
therefore see the propriety of awaiting the arrival of this
decision, which neigh' now be expected is a very abort pe-
riot!. They would, he treated, see the delicacy and 'tidiest'',
of interposing, while no blame was imputable to say of the
authorities of this country, and while they were in the
daily expectation of receiving the decision of the Court
of Madrid. He admitted the talle to he of a serbses
astute, and one which, if aid speedily adjusted, ought to
be investigated in • sore serious manner. He would there.
fore suggest to the Honourable Member the propriety of
withdrawiog his natio* for the present ; if he would
Rol accede to that course, he (Lord Castkreagh) Merl he
compelled to meet it with the previous question. If here-
after the Hon. Member had reason to see that ns satisfactory
adjustineat took place, it would be then competest for him
to bring the subject again under the considered°, of Pal.
!lament. lie repeated, from what he hail heard of the
cw7eseitealr,thhaiis silubelief thataceernessailearyth,wate
rihillbrophailelit was
tainaemil
iIW d
t yr.";nged, that he
hafieefilllahotepedr:aerorceew
had
the
reasons be had stated, the Honourable Member wield with-
draw his motion.

Mr. Baounnslg expressed his (-Gunmetal's with what had
fallen from the Noble Lewd, sail hoped his Her. Friend
would secede to the suggestios, aad slot by a premature is.
terferente, when the subject was on the eve of adjustment,
call forth the previous question, and that by an &primal
shitht. cause an opinioa to be entertained elsewhere t►at the
subject woad out be catered upon. He begged to take this
opportunity of saki's% the N..ble Lord for information re-
specting a subject, not dissimilar its outrage to what the pre.
cut was alleged to be, slid which was also, he knew, In
a course of inquiry. la the month of May or Jere last,
a ship called the Brunswick, sash,' from Liverpool for the
Mediterranean ; while In that sea, she was hailed by a Spa-
nish frigate, and though she knew not the assign to which
the ship of war belonged, ate immediately lay to, had wait-
ed in obedience 50 her hail. Notviithstandisig this obedience,
the frigate fired eit►er oat or two gees at her,sail burr down
10 as to ►un fool of the ship. Two of the paeseagers on
board were Mr. Walker, of Gilgarran, in the North of Eng-
land, sod his sister; the former a most amiable sad
accomplished man, whose hitter loss Ira., he bred out say,
most poll/nosily felt by a family, than which there was not
■ more respectable any where. A third passenger was Mr.
David, of Liverpool, s must respectable GE-oakum's', knouts,
he believed, to the Right Hon. Uenticsnan opposite (Mr.
Canning). These three passengers were on derk all the
frigate hors down, and the sister of Mr. Walker went below.
UNfortunately for her brother he remained on deck. When
the frigate fell foal of the ship, Mr. David, who was ou
Italian, and who understood something of the Spasish
loopier, overheard woe of the men on board the frigate
say to another, who held a lighted snitch, w Fire! why
don't you Ire into the vessel?" Mr. David, ohru
be beard this, immediately went ►elow, bet Mr. Walker,
Not undersisoding the laugusge, remained os derk.
An instant after a inn was Seed (runs the trigite,
and the chain stoat which it discharged blew Mr. Walker to
pieces! Su dreadfal was the effect npois this essifortunate
Geutlemen, that the upper part of his body was literally turn
to pieces, and sot cow a lock of hair could be collie-led tu
gratify the desire of his disconsolate stater. Respecting this
shocking calamity his Hoe. Friend (Mr. Landslip.), on a f ir-
mer °erotism, put a quotient to the Noble Laid, w►ile he
(Mr. B.) was is she country. The Noble Lord proasiard to
make a proper inquiry into the matter, and his applicatiou
now was, to know for the satisfaction of the (ensues of the
lamented deceased what bad beer the result of that inquiry.
—(Hear.)

Lord Careteoniou was happy to give the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman an explanation of the cowrie which ►e
had taken respecting this sisetanchuly transaction. AuA
when he detailed, he hoped the Hun. and Learned Gault.
man would he satisleil that every step had been taken which
the nature of the case reqiiired. When the 111144406014 was put
to him us a former oceasioa, be slated that he understood
the occurrence took place in the Mediterranean, and that
the vend had pee to Genoa, where dermatitis, were taints
uti the subject. These depositions mere forwarded to Tunis,
and from thence by the English Cumuli to Sir Henry Wel-
kale'', the Ambassador at Madrid. This was dime without
waiting for any isalructiva■ from hums. The stswilitsit
the information reached this country, steps were takeu
to give effect to the previous representatives, and it
was require., that • Court Martial should take imme-
diate cognisance of the transaction. The frigate was
then at sea, and no inquiry could, of coarse, take place meta
her retorts to port. The muss. at she arrived an sequin.,
was instituted, bad the result was communicated by the
Court of !Madrid in the most conciliatory terms, and with
the shear-at expressions of regret at the tact urresevs—that
result was, that the firing of the shot was psrrty aceblentaf,
sad that theofficer,oreonlins so the tegulai toes uf the Simulate
*mite, could nut be held responsible fur the consequeoce.
It was farther stated,' that the frigate was sent tato the Ale.
diterreseas 'to watch the swarms of insurgent rovaireis
which ialbsted that sea, and 'list the unfortunate shut was
fired by accident white she was perfuming this they As
this inquiry, however, had been conducted not by a Court-
Martial, bat by • Civil Board, which siaperinten.ls the
saran department at Cadiz, sad as it was to br maisiiietrd
in some degree an ex parte investigation, the British wit.
ceases sot having bees called for, he (Lonl Cestkreagh, .
premed his dissattafactiets at the coarse just taken, and r..
quested that the investigation 'Weld be resumed by a Court.
Martial, and that the crew sad paanetigers pis board the Liver.
pool ship ehossid be heard before such a tribunal. This lir loot
separated to Spain as the course which, is fluidness's, bail
been pursued by the English Government, soil the !adopt situ
of which, in this ease, he celled fur from the Conn of 51...
*id. He was glad to state that no the day this eummuns-
catto• was Made through the British Atebamadur, it way
seceded to, and a desire expressed that the witnesses ghoul.;
be seat over to be heard before the U•art.Wsrhal 'spa
sew investlg•tioa. He hoped this explanative would be
considered satisfactory by the eicio.wad Lensed Gentlemaa.

Hear, hear.)
Mr. Bistavouatt expensed Ills satisfaction he felt at tin
espliastme just given by the Noble LIM!. lie begged so
suite, withers encasing to prejudge the parties Row so the
arc of Wel, tint lb, frigate bad ballad, and cu mooned

in the English Inners+2u. He merely Arad to It is fmt,
without meaning I. dwell phonily upon
it.
Lord CASTI.CIt/AMil observed. that this was not material
as there were so many English and Americans engaged in
the iniworgent privateers.
Mr INTO-HI/00N brigged to know what steps had has.
taken by the Kohl, Lord to relieve Captain Clarke, of the
Diibiiii 'easel, who was, according to the British Comore
statement, whip he wrote, 14 months &denied in • creel
and ritornelli cantinereseut at Tewerilre?
Lord CASTIMMEAGM *RA, She impression on his mind wie
that Captain Clarke bed been released; but be could oat
speak positively, as a lung time had elapsed Mere his alien.
too. had been called so the eirreisistassee.
Mr. Pont,' mini, that he knew of another outrage ems-
Inittrit span a vessel which touched at Teneriffe, hosed to
the C.p.• nt t;. oil Nitre. He feared each cases were not of
on nori.t.4l oh .rrtpi .
Mr. Hung immediately withdrew his motion at the egg-
replica of the Noble Lord. progs ovum. however, to renew it
it be had • peat in the new Perliainent, and that ultimate
justice was not done In the aggrieved parties.
The motion was then withdrawn.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
Messengers from the Lords anseoneed their Lordships'
Assent to the Annual Indemnity, the Local Jurisdictions.
the Fxpiiint Laws the Mutiny, awl the Irish Election Bills.
The last with scriesdnients, which were, on the motion of Sir
Henry Paruell, agreed to.