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London, England, 1820-04-22 00:00:00

HOUSE OP COMMONS. Fatimy, Airatt

The seventh Parliament of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland met yesterday. At
I t o'clock the Lord High Steward proceeded to
tile long gallery. where he admitnstered the oaths
to a number of Members; among them we observed
Lewd Cartleresgh, Mr. Serjeaut °tallow. Sir Wil-
liam Scott, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Scatlett, Mr.
Wetherell. Mr. Nolan. Mr. Aldermen Wood. the
Lord Mayor, Sir William Curtis. the Hou. Mr.
hype. Ste. dtc.
At a quarter past We, the Deputy Usher of the
Black Rod appeared at the bar of the House. and
addre►sing the Members present, mid—

Ginitissosoi
" The Loyd. Comobolo's,* oppoistal by his Majesty
desire poor stieodoisce at Noe Homo of Peers, to best his
Ml*sties Cesmainies net"

A number of the Members immediately pro.
crested to the lerth.. Shortly after their return.
Sir W. SCOTT ru►e. sod in a very low tone said,
ts.at Il r iitst tluty a the House was to appoint
their tint.dcrr. lie rose. he said, with unmixed
►atisfal ma., on that occasion. from the conviction
that the name and Ilse merits of the individual
whom he would have the honour to propose to fill
that high office, were not unknown to that House.
—f Hear, hear./—Those Members who had seats
in that House during the last Parliament had on
^l4o^riusaly of-observing the conduct of that indi-
vidual—lns laugh talents. hit unremitting attention,
cull his general character. must afford every pros-
pect that he would discharge the verities and ar-
duous duties of that exalted situation with great
statist wins!) to the Members of that House.—(lieor.)
Ifni conduct, indeed, was such as to have deserved
the spprobstson of every Member who witnessed it.
—1 Hear.j—To those who daring the two li.st Par-
tasseata had leaked that. Gentleman its the execs•

lion of his imminent duties, he (Sr William Stott)
would appear guilty of inili.cretion were he vomite►
at large into a description of the manner isi which
he acted in that Choir. Toe best thing lie could
do would be to refer them to the ...duct of his
Right Hon. Friend.—(/ear.j—lie fulfilling his
serious duties be thielrytel the utmost patience, a
I.h►orinus attention, an easy, conciliating, and a dig.
lofted manner. He had retell so as to hive deserved
Noel won the concurrent testitnoley of approbation
of all the Member, of that assembly. —1 liear.)—
For there reasons lie wi•bed to see lies lion. Fleeted
re•appuinted to that office which he lied lately filled
with so much general iwitisfection. .1 he !louse was
■ware, in the first place, that that individual enter-
tained a sincere affection for the couseieution of his
cuuutry—a►t inflexible regard for the rights and
privileges of that HOUI4e, as sell as for the general
hhertses of the kisagel at large. They were
maitre of his great attention to the public bu.i•
ties—uf his labours—of his intimate knowledge,
tint only of the forms of Parliaments, hot
of the wive p.11(16164-4 upon which those forms
were foinitled—of his fraokne•s of communi.
ci,tion end facility of access—of the attention he
always mod to every application—of hi. Uopespect.
Mg integrity—of his iiiipaitial judgment ou every
question referred to his decision.—(//ear, helm,—
Were He to dwell on his c loci as a gentleman,
he might speak of his amiable character, of hi.
suavity of manners—a suavity which, without court-
log popular regard, *aliened the harshness of power
without compromising its dignily.—(Hear, hear.)
If that, he said, were the place ur the situation fur
him to indulge his private feelings, he would dwell
with pleasure on the enumerati 111 l of those qualities
which justly endeared him to all who knew him.—
He concluded by moving that the Right Hem.
Charles Manners Sutton do take the Chair.
Mr. H. SUMNER said, that if the situation of
Speaker of that House was one of iinportance and
of difficulty in former times, how much more so
must it be considered in the present se•itated stale
of the country. Upon the prefer discharge of the
deities of that arduous situation. depended the re.
getlarity, the dignity, and the honou► of that
House. Unlike the Right Hun. Member who
proposed him. he (Mr. Sumner) had out the ho.
nour of knowiteg that Gentleman as a p►ivate
Clem!, he only knew him in public, hi the dis-
charge of his nigh duties in that House, and like
ail those who witnessed his conduct in that situs-
lion, he was impressed with feelings of respect and
regard fur him. The early education which thin
Ent lit Hon. Gentleman land received, his early
stied), of the km, and of the principles of the
Constitution of this country, prepared him fur
the able discharge of his duties in that House
accordingly, when he had been but a short time
promoted to the dignity of Speaker, he investigated
the peiesciples of the laws and rules of that 110,4 r.
And was prepared in every point of difficulty, as if
ti►at peculiar study had been the occupation of his
life. He ought also be permitted to advert to the
fac►lity of approach to that Gentleman, to the or-
bas.ity of his manners, to the attention which lee
bestowed to every communication, as qualifications
which fitted him, is. a high degree, for the office of
Speaker. After the motion of the Right Hon.
Member. thud *Nee • hearing the eloquent details.
tiou winch he had given of the character and abili-
ties of the distingu►.hrd individual in question. he
(l4r. Sumner) would not attempt to exhibit any
view of that character, conscious as he was that he
would only weaken what had beeu already so
forcibly said. He would only observe. that he felt
great satisfaction in recommending a 'semen so emi•
titutly entitled to their support, and so deserving
of their pellet. He concluded by seconding the
motion.

Mr. Mailmen Surrott then rose and said, that
he could but iu feeble terms convey what he felt
upon that occasion. Of all subjects upon which
any man at any time might speak, the most em-
barrassing subject was that which related to I*
self. Nu man, if he spoke honestly, would be
found too ready to undervalue I self; yet, when
he considered the difficulty which suerossuiled that
seat--when he recollected the incirasisig business
of that House, and the short period in which it so
much increased—when be added to these considers-
lions the recollection of the times in which they
lived, the Wall, he said, must be a•bold man who
would dare presume to say, that he was adequate to
the duties which devolved on the Speaker of that
House. Of Lis Right Hon. Friend (Sir Withrtn
Scott), he had known I as a private friend fur a
number of years, and experienced his foiendship at
no time more than on the present occasion. He
would not advert to his own cuoduct—he would
only ray, that if lie had given satisfaction to the
House, his conduct had received its first and
highest remuneration. As to any services of his, he
could not take credit for them—hr would attribute
the went of any thing that lie might have dune to
the cordial and constant assistance which he steely-
ed from the House—to their generous indulgence—
to their disinclination to notice involuntary error.
The House would pardon him fur being anxious to
Wow. thee" fres the whirrs. He did Dot mesa
to disguise the fact, that to be placed ha the high
situation of their Speaker was the great object of
his ambition. He would only say, that should he
be once more elevated to that Chair, hia moat seilious
and must unbiassed attentions would be devoted to
their services.

After the Right Honourable Gentleman con-
cluded there was a general cry of is Chair ! Chair !"
from all sides of the House. Haring been led to
the chair by Sir William Scott and Mr. H. Sumner,
he again rose cod mid, that it would be impossible
for him to convey to the House the feeliugs under
which be laboured. After what he had so lately
said, it would ill become him to attempt to mislead
them by auuming that he could discharge the high
duties of the situation to which they appointed hum
with ability. He would do as be had dune before....
implore their constant asaistence. One thing.
however, he might promise—to discharge his duty
with the utmost zeal and the strictest impartiality.
Lord Carmine/ it said, that in the name of
the House lie would offer his congratulations to the
Speaker on his being re-elected to that Chair. if
any mark of public confidence could be more dis-
tinguished thau another in a free country, it was
that mark of confidence which elevated a men to the

Chair of that House, and created Win the Am Com-

closer ut Englaud, them could be so prouder mirk

• • •
•of eon Sis net. conferred. Tis• Noble Lard next dwelt
on the individual dliarocter of tht pre.eist Speakers
Without attiching, he amid, 81.1 particular import-
slice to ate present Inure—though the oleo must
take but im superficial view indeed who did nut owe
that they were lull of danger unit of difficulty.--yrt
when he considered the goers extent of the public
Implores, the venous sod growing interests of this
great empire, he could trot but acknowledge the
difficult and the arduous task which the Speaker of
the House of Coin 0000000 s had to perform. The
Men:liers of the present Parliament, iii the public
discharge of their functions. could nut but feel
confidence that they were to act under Ike influence
of the same wisdom, the same knowledge, not only
of the forms of that House, but of the rights end
liberties of the country, which had guided the
councils of the last Parliament. The Noble Lord
' concluded by moving ion adyouroment.
Mr. Bitouulifixi said, that in the effective of thwe
whose testisinsi,y would be of the inmt iinitortutiee
lions that aisle of the Howie, lie might be allowed
to express the feelings of that side of the House to-
wards the Right Hun. Gentleman who had been
just elected as their Speaker. He would take the
liberty Sort to congratulate them...leer on that elec-
tion—ft-fear, hear)--to congratulate mil only the
House of Commune, but the Commons of England
at large, on the free choice which had, for the
third time, fallen ou the Right Hon. Gentleman.
He wily expressed the wishes of his own heart, rod
he was sure he expressed the feelings of the House,
when he hoped that the WO Hon. Gentleman
might have lung life and health to enjoy every pub-
lic honour. It was necessary for their privileges,
which were the privileges of the country at large,
that the Speaker of that House should possess the
dignity mid f via to guard those privilege', mid
to discharge the arduous duties of his elevated
situation. By the common concurrence of the
House he was considered equal to those duties. He
was • man of high talents, of great and gifted
qualities; he was Indeed the repository of the true
dignity of flirt House, wearing his honours with firm-
i.es• and with meekness; his title to the office which
he held was best established by recurring to the pest.
On all occasions he had *hewn wisdom, courage,
and capacity, to protect the sacred privileges or
that House opium every attack, from whatever
quarter, and under whatever pretext it might be
amle.

After the Honourable Member concluded. the
WWIe adjourned to ten o'clock this day.

FOREIGN INTRLLIGEIVCE.

GERMAN PAPERS.

NURRIISIRRO. APRIL 10.

We hear from Dresden that the murderer of Pro-
frssor li.ugelgiti has been discovered and taken.
There is a place without the gates of Dresden
which is used se a stone-mason's yard ; the cloak of
the Professor wee found there, voncesled in corner.
among the blocks of stone—persons were immedi-
ately placed to watch. Ou the 29th, late in the
evening. • maws came. Pis* appeared to look fur
something on this spot : this excited suspicion, end
he was arrested. He has not yet mode any con-
fesaion, but it seems that he is a bricklayer, cud
that he was in the vineyard when M. Kugelgiii was
paying the workmen, during which time this men
was engaged its bargaining with the gardener fur
some trees. Nothing further has yet transpired.

According to public journal* the Frankfort fair
i• one of the worst that has occurred or late yeas*.
There are hardly any purchasers', and sorrow over
the ruined commerce of Germany. and the coma*.
quent diminution of its prosperity, nosy be ►aid to
be as it were personified in this foir. No article is
in drutand particularly. Where life arid activity
formerly reigned, there prevails now the silence of
death. It is not likely there will be any change
for the better in the remaining three weeks.—
(Nwremberg Correspondent. April 12.)

DRESDEN. biAncti 25.

If that housewife and that stale are the best that
are the least talked of, we iu Saxony tray emigres
tulate ourselves; for it is very seldom that an article,
even in the most diligent of all correspondeuts, says
any thing of our proceedings. The 'necessary pre-
parations are making in silence for the opening of
our Diet its the month of October this year, and
fu► the organization of the circle of Upper Lusatia,
which has been twig arranged, and waits only to
be pbt in execution.
The credit of our public paper currency of all
kinds is so great, that most of them are Iron ten
to twelve per cent. above their ponds:ll worth, and
are hardly to be purchased. The ►hares in the
Leipsic fire insurance have risen to double the sum
originally advanced. T bow, howe►er, present no
pleasing prospects for the improvement of trade
and manufactures. The inhabitants of Seemly,
whom none exceed in frugality and ingenuity, look
with apprehensions to the ►esult of the Leipsic
Easier fair. One branch at least will flourish.
Never has st larger catslogoe of new and revived
books appeared in any fair, never were the nu-
merous prints here so occupied as they are now.
The improvestaeuts of Dresden will be actively
continued iu the summer : new promenades and
gardens on the site of the societal fortification.,
which is now waste ground, will arise on every side.
Its fact, the desire of fo►eigners to purchase houses
here, and to live its this tity, which is equally
favoured and adsorbed by the beauties of nature and
the most splendid treasures of art, is so great, that
above twenty rich families from Berlin adobe are
looking for dwellings here, which they desire to
purchase, and to spend at least the summer months
among us.
It is permitted to read, print, and do every thing
that does sot overstep the bounds of universal more-

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lily sticlthe I.m. Any thing hie s secret police,
ploy thing keinling to 'fringe ou personal *teensy
or the ersviolsb:iity a the port and freedom of
opinion, is entirely out of the questioo under the
perms! government 9f our •enersllle Monarch
olio preserves iti old age the vigour of youth.
Itent.tx, ♦PAIL S.

Persons who are well informed amen, that the
Emperor Francis, in consequence of the ineitatism
which be has received from the Klieg, will come to
this plipitai in the month of August, accompestiCil
by PlitiCr Alettersiich, to ripen our European Con-
gyro, at • hick the Emperor Alexander will be
present, and the of ject of which will he to examine
the political resolutions of Europe in general, and
of Germany in particular.

SIERRA. APRIL 5. •

The Act he which all the quest ..... s decided by
the Congress will he embodied, will form a kind
of supplement to the Act (4C:confederation. Three
important points remain to be decided :—The for.
tresses—the freedom of internal trade in Germany—
arid a detailed regabition of the contingent of each
Stale. A Committee i• appointed to examine the
first que►tion. The freedom of trade is ton deli-
cate a 'object to be thoroughly treated of this Sc.-
'ion. As for the contisigrid, nothing is ►ntended
but to modify some minor regulations. It is in.
tended to give to the Members of the Diet at
Frankfurt instructions cos the two first points, aid
evrii on the Lod, iii order to refer the decision of it
to

The Emperor will not go to Bohemia till June.
The intended camp in Hungary will consist chiefly
of cavalry ; there will be 120 squadrons and
425 battalions.