The National Register.
London, England, 1811-07-21 00:00:00

BANK-NOTE EILL.

Mr. CR EVES' made a motion to disqualify forty-five members
from voting on the Earth-note Bill, on the 1 round that, as Bank-
stock Proprietors, they were interested in the passing cf the
time. The motion, after a lons debate, was negatived without
a division.

On the Order of the Day for the House going into a Committee
on the b Bitt, Mr. • tNicrs iiiluded to the three-shilling hark
tokens, rot s 9 much with respect to their value, as the execution
of them. which he termed most wretched and mean, and very
disgriceful in thi.• eh:ivacter of those arti, which, in his opinion,
Intimately connected with the honour arid prosperity of
• every civilized ountry.
Mr.:MA MN (NG said, the three-shilling hank telten weighed
eight :ernyweights and eleven ; r!uri that at the present
price of Owl- it w'as worth (2s. These tokens had been
by. the 'lank, so!ely for the convenience of the public, and
could not he exec:uted better withltit an irfurious (Hay.
The House havin7 de:ermined by a maji;rity of 75 to 11, to go
into a Committee on the Lill, Mr. Pr:Rel.:v.li. moved the f.'llow-
ing provision should be subjoined : " That every v! son who
rnnzi:t offend against the should he deemed alid ..ljudged
guilty of a mistlemeaner."—After along discussion the same was
•
agreed to.

The House then resumed, and ordered the report to be received
to-tnorrow.—Ac.jnurned at haf past one

Tf~RSDAY, JULY 18.

Mr. \\"l:.r.r.ttrr.tacF. tlymed, that there should b - hid before
the Rause a Copy 4111,2 CondeninatiGn of all Prop,rty by the
Admiralty in the iblund called the Saints, in the Webt Indies.—
Ordered.

ADMIRALTY COURT OF MALTA.

Lord cocur N entiTed into a tit-t:llc' Ftatement c.f all thr.
• abuses which he c”nce•ived to exist in th. Lice-Atimira:ty Court
, a Malta, itnil recapitulated tin' liktory ~f his impriontilent.—
' He was fuspected of taking down a table of fres aud int-
* medistcly seizec! and carried t.) prison. He did not go of him-
self, bu; they clrried him. He WiLS conducted to ati odious pri-
•' son, with a grated window—an iron door—a vile close-stool,
and no other ennirert than a broken chair! He was afterwards
' shifted into the. keeper's room, and then brought before ite
• eclat, whr re a-sl-ring of interrogatories were put to him, whic h
he refused to answer, because he did not chwe to crirdnate
bllline/f. • He was afterwards recommitted to prison; :.lid there

•
was an affidavit, which he was ready to prodtice, that there was
no proof, by the Judge's own ndmissico, -of his hiving taken
down the table of fees. The Noble Lord liere went into a
l
history of the bad administration of jerstiee in the Ithisni,
Malta, where the civil and military. power was blended in the
one person. He was kept in prison, and it appeared to be the
intention of the Judge, to keep him there till the depatture of
the packet with divarches, and perhaps till the return of it with
tit? answer from England. He, however, escaped; and there
was a Proclamation posted up all over the island, offering 2COO
scudi, that is ..001.•for his apprehension. He did not wish to
rely merely on his privilege, but he wished to know from 'the
Speaker, whether the privilegEs of that House did not extend As
colonies where the-Courts professed to act on the Law of Eq.
land. _ _

The SPEAKER. thus unexpectedly called upon, could* not re
collect any case similar to thitt cited by the Isloble • Lord. He
knew, however, of no means ‘vhich the 1-I..use had of enforcing
iti °wt.'s, except by its own officers; and there was ro instance
on reccrd of those officers having been sent beyond the seas on
such an errand. He never knew either that any Member was
entitled by his priviltie to go into a Court of Justice, and offer
it a contempt, with impunity—f Hear, hear ! )
Lord Cocnß A N z 'Alen declared, that he had all the documents
to substamiate his cases ready at a moment's warning, and
moved, " That a Committee should be appointed to cximine
into the coneuct of the Judge, Register, and Marshal,' of the
Vice-Admiralry Court of Malta, together with that of their
I)? :tities.". The Nollic Lord said that those Officers had vic.
loted the 45th of the King, the penalty for which was depriva•
tint: of office,

S ime interval occurring before any one would second the
Motion, •
P. Mona E said he knew nothing whatever of the case,
hut from the Noble Lord's statement. However, conceiving it
would he a rdkcti.,n on that House, if any Member lost an in-
quiry f. .r want of formality, he would second the Motion.
Mr. Si ErnLN cemplimented the Hon. Gentleman on titis ex-
ertion of his benevolence. • He sec. nded the motion, it seems
because nobody else would do it. ( Hear, hear ! ) Most cha-
ritztble it was in him to protect this poor
,out-cast—this destitute
o:phao. In his o;linion the Admiralty Court at Malta treated
the Nol,le. Lord vt Ey properly ; for even on his own showing, he
d!d not deny the contempt with which he was charged. On the
contrary, he (Mr. S.) had to state, that when the Deputy Marshal
brAught him the monition of the Court, the Noble Lord pulled
out a piAtol, and swore he would shoot any one who would serve
him with an illegal process—(Heal' hear.)
Lord COCHRANE again declared he was ready to prove all he
asserted; and remarked how extraordinary a thing it was, that he
never moved for an investigation in that House which had been
granted.
Mr. YoRKE thought this the most frivolous case which was
ever brought before Parliament. If the Noble Lord was wrong-
ed, why not apply to the proper source—the Admiralty Board
It would have been better for the Noble Lord to have kept to
his ship, and not invested himself with a roving commission; and
then, perhaps he nii:;ht have heard from the Admiralty in a very
different way.—(Hear, heti, ) . •
'the Motion was then put, and negatived without a division.
Mr. Ros E brought up a letter from Cook and I-Toiford, which
had last night been mentioned by Lord Cochrane as kept back,
which was read, and Mr. Rose moved that it lie on the table.•
Lord Coon ItANE said, it was not the letter he had last night
alluded to, arid therefore ought not to be received.
Mr. Ros e said lie bad no objection to the whole of the corns-
poodtmee between him and Cook and Holfurd beintproduced ;
on which

I,ord COCIIRANE was about to frame a motion—

Mr. CALCRAFT observed, that 1--kn. Members who brought
forward matters before the IL use ought to come prepared and
if the Noble Lord was not ready, he should not keep the ,House
waiting, but bring it forward. to-morrow.
The SPEAI:fiR said, that it was certainly the proper, mode of
proceeding :.and his Lordship acquiesced.
Mr. BitOUGHAm moved, that there be laid before the House
the Minutes of a Court Martial held on Lieut. Richards, of the
Dart sloop. in Carlisle Day, 13arbadoes, for causing the, death of
a man by excessive punishment, and for which he bad been dis-
missed the Navy.—The Motion was opposed, on the ground
that no man could he tried twice for the same offence. It was,
however, agreed to.
The Circulating Medium Bill was ordered to be read a third
time to-morrow.-4djourned.

FRIDAY, JULY 19.
CIRCULATING MEDIUM fiTLL.
T 1;(! Order of the Day having beez read for reaciirg a tbiFel
tine the Circulating Medium