The National Register.
London, England, 1817-05-05 00:00:00

WEDANADAI, A PHIL 30.

CLERGY itEguLATIos BILL. .
Mr. NIANN gas Surrom, after a speech fraught with much
good sense, and statistic his object to he to prevent the Clergy
from falling into the hands of common informers, for non-
residence M.. moved for leave to bring in a Bill amend
and consolidate the acts with respect to spiritual persons
holding farms, fur enforcing the residence of spiritual per-
suns un their heiiitices.,, sod fur the support and maintenance
of stipendiary curates.--( Ilefir, hear ! )
Ge.teral 'lnoutrutibigitified his assent to the motion, but
t"Sted Ant fiite is *e stilt to retain the power of inter-
fering in the disriplint of the church, whenever it should ap-
pear to Ix neglected.
After some rentatits from one or two Members, the Sill
was brought in, re id a first time, and ordered to be'read
second tune uu Friday seeutlight.

SALT TAX.
•
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHFIQUER moved, that a se-
lect committee be appointed to consider of the oiNe of Rock
Salt in the fisheries; of the regulations respeetilg she storing
of suit ; and of the ditties on foreign salt imported ; and that
tiny should report their tmittious thereon to the Howie.
Ater a few words from Nord Lasegt.t.es awl Mt. CCHWEN,
the motion was agreed to, and the Committee named.
Mr. GOULOURN gave entice, that he would move, to-mor-
row. tOr leave to bring is a thU for the regulation of Mar-
_
rta ges in

POOR-RATES.
Lord LAKELLISII rose, ;..•rmonnt to notice, to ■IAro for
leave to bring in a Bill ta woke lead wines chargeable td the

Po-r-rates.
Lord 3iii.tor4- seconded the Motion, and olpiervetl, that
though this 11111 would estabfkli a new law, it would not an
act auy new pi :belies., as he had rm etre& infsirmatioli that,
for tipw .r.ls of twenty yews past, the proprietors of these
mines had been rated tossares the relief sit she poor.
The moths.' was agreed to, and the RIB aa. re ad it first
times Mitered to be read a second time on Cie 19ili of Ma
..m.l to be pi
EXCHEQUER BILLS R ELI El: B ILL.
The CHANcI.II.I.OR tit' the ElkcliElat ER brought in a BO!
In enable the Co 11111 l issioners of the 'treasury to issue mine
foe himilred thousaad pounds in Esichrquer Bills,
Ilinlor certain limitations, for the flirt ..eriince of public not ks
of utility, the eucom moment of the fisheries, anil the em-
ployment of the poor, fur a limste time, ACClllities brine
erten for the repayment. Read a first time, and ordered
to be read a second time ou this day sennight, and to be
printed.
Mr. ilnoubitast presented a petition from the united
parishes at St. Mary Ahlefaillfy, and St. Thomas the Apostle,
against the London 'lithe niti.—Ordered to lie on the Table.
Mr. BENNET moved for.a tetilftl of the nuoiloa. of Writs
Ridged with 11w Sub Sheriffs of Dublin for the last three
years; oldie n 1111 l her of special juries summoned during that
time; and for a Copy of the Table of Fees taken in the Site
tiff's Office.—tlrilered.
Mr. BENNETT then moved fora return of the number of
Persons, males, and females, distinguishing those oho were
• ender 21 years, that had been transported to New South
Wales since the Ist of Juana'', Isl2.—Ordered.
11r. LESIIINGTON brought in the State Lottery Bill, which
was read a first time, and ordered to he read a second time
to-morrow.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned.
No business of general interest.
FRIDAY, MAT 2.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
Mr. BENETT addressed the Otair, for the purpose of calling
the attention of the horse to • proceeding which he enuelacred
as affecting the privileges or a cans:inner, and therefore as
equally affecting the privileges of the house. He held a book
in his hand which had been transmitted by its author to the
committee of police, and wasentitled " A Vindication of the
Magistrates of the Tower division front the Charges contained
iii the Minutes of Evidence talon before the Committee of the
House of C 1111 l mons, &c. Without commenting on the general
tone of its language and observations, which was far from re-
spectful, and without referring to allusions which concerned
himself personally, there were passages in the work that ap-
peared to him grossly offettsive, and amounting to a direct
violation of Parliamentary
_privilege. The person whose
name appeared to the public:die/Iliad been smumuned to at.
tend the cetntnittee. when hiseeknowledged hituself to be the
author ; and with respect towhat followed lie would state to
the house, after reading in the first place the passage of which
be felt it his duty to complain.
By the direction of Oa griIAILER, the clerk then read the
title of the book, and a par amass passage io it, the batiste», s

1111:114DAY.

of which was as follows : " The author had intiaired into the
compotition of Parliamentary committees, having previously
conceived that all the membersof them atleitiled,and that all the
evidence received by them was fairly reported. He had disco-
vered,however, that in the meetings of the city police-commit.
tee, the chairman (Mr. Calvert) alone attended; and that, when
tire inquiry respecting the house of Hatiloory was under cou-
sideratime the opponent evidence of Mr. Fox would not have
been, muter other circumstances, rejected. As to another
member, who was called Captain Bennett, he presumed, flan*
this appellation, that he had not dedicated much or his time
to the study of the law or the nature of legal evidence: • He
meant no disrespect to the committee ; tie acknowleelged
their authority, and bowed to their decisions. He protested
against his observations being tortured to an opposite vote •.
etructiem, beeau.se he did not tel himself hound in euascienee
to admit either tlie candour or impartiality of their proceed-
ings. He entertained an enthusiastic veneration fur the in-
stitutions of his country ; but he ceillui have wished that his
friend, Mr. itereeron, had been tried before Lord Eltenbo-
rough and a jury, rather than by a Parliamentary committee,
He hail no partiality for committees, whether they wile the
committees of Cromwell, or the committees of the Preach re-
volution, inquisitions, or star•ehainbers." (Hear, hear.)
Mr. 13e.etter then observed, that be was not di-ire:seri to
take ap the time of the house by reading any other passages
of the book, or entering into any detailed examination of
them; but would acquaint the house with what had passed
• when the author was called upon to declare whether he had
any explanation to offer on the subject of these inlteltdert-
He was first asked on what grounds he had imputed to.tria
coininittee a want of candonr and impartiality; to which his
answer was, he denied that he had done so; be abided by
what he had said. On being fat ther questioned, upon his
honour and clientele'. to say, that in the expressions he had
employed he intended nothing disrespectful to the committee.
he declined to answer any question that might tend to Crimi-
nate himself. (Hear, hear). " When it was inquired what
lie meant by the expressions as to the committees of Catena
well and the French revolution, he replied he she ant what he
had stated. " no you 111C111/ to assimilate the conduct of nhia
committee to that of the committees you refer to?" " No,
certainly not, I had no idea of the kind." (A laugh.) " What.
then, is it that you do mean by the allusion ?" " I meant it
only to till up a period." Heise; farther interroeutted, he
said lie had neither alteration aloe addition to make to the
answers lie had given. it was then intimated to him that the
anbjcet would engage the attelitien of the house; and it was
fuir to hint to state, that he had that morning tender e4l as
ekplanation, expressing contrition for the answer in wquelt
he had objected to any question that might eriminete him-
self. With respect to theanswer in which lie had uterreird
his object in the use of curtain language to he merely the
filling lip a pevied, he had certainly intended it *its a rheto-
rical tivtre sio rc6 ; bht as he fumed it had riven offence,
lie was sorry for it, and had given dire( Count to his publisher
to stop the sale of the 000 k. Under these citrumste tires Le
was not disposed to gum farther than to move,. " that the
Rev. Thomas Thiilwall be ordered to atteuti this house oit
Wednesdisy next."
The SPEAK FR observed, that it would he proper to move
for so much of the evidence as the explanation in question
applied to; and that it vmit, then be for the limber to call on
the accused, to know what farther explanation he had to oti,rt
Mr. BEN NtT --tecoribugly unused fur a copy of so roue ut
the minutes of es id. lice taken befit e the coniasittve, ~
hoed to the explAnot• .2iven to the (imonite, of ce....in
passages in e work writtou by the Itlrd •T. ThlriVi Ali, which.
WWI hasped.' parineed, mot entered to be 'meted.
The q .00 for the ativu.l•isce of Mr. Teiriwall nit Wad.
tie W.I. till.-11 put. and courted unothospoto•i.
No other business of importance occurred.—Adjontired.

MOST STROCIOVS MURDSR ANn OARING ROA/11MT. has
devolved upon its to add to the annals of human di. rovi.„
occurrence of its flagitious a hoe as ever tea within the
l!ass of Mir observation—all 410.16011 N lootiery and sitvaaa
:murder of 'two domestics, in the broad face of 'lay, on pro-
mises in the bosom of a popitions neighoonrhood, and on the
i.artiestiar day in the week alien immense u•imbers of coun-
try p.•ople are constantly passiag and sepassing to town close
61 the sole of barbarity. The house in which the nrir.her.
was co. tttttt tied is in Pendleton (a suburb, and two miles front
the Exeliatige of Nlanehester), adjoins the turnpike-roach to
Liverpool;and is sits-sounded by mans houses, although none
are particularly connected with it. Is belong', to a Mr. Lit-
tlewooil, a respectable grocer in Salford, who was duly at-
tending to the stranest avocations of the market•day, and was
left in the eire of an elderly woman (housekeeper) and ser-
vant girl. The woody blisimess most have been perpetrated
uefiwe o'clock, as a nurse-maid of a neighbouring family went
it that hour to see Mr. girl, with whom she was intimate.
'C.oe doors were lucked, and many of the a intloa-bliuds
down; in consequenee of which the iiiirse• maid returned
home, having first attempted to open the door, and cursorily
look through the window of the rooms, in which she indis-
tinctly saw the elderly woman iu an arm chair, twit 'whom
she supposed to be asleep. The curiosity of the nurse-maid
rexciteii she scarcely knows how) induced tier to return at
seven o'clock, when she still found the doors locked, which
alarmed her, from the singularity of the circumstance ; and,
on looking through the window again attentively, she per.
iced the old boost keeper apparently lifeless and much
bruised. An alarm was immediately given, and the house
entered by a ladder, when it appeared that the house was
robbed, and the tx a helpless women inhumanly mord, red.—
The instruments of destruction a hich it is supposed wine used
were a cleaver awl • poker. The housekeeper, it is sup-
posed, offered no resistance, and was dispatched whilst
asleep in the chair ; but the younger woman is conceited to
have courageously resisted, as several of the blows inflicted
were sudicieot 40 hero occasioned death. Si* mill have Lees
already apprehended, tier of whom there is strong reason fur
Atomising will iiltinialetr prove the perpetrators of the dialses
licaldeetls of horror.— 3luitehesiter Mercury.

Executor.—On Friday rooming was executed M the front of
the Debtor's-door, Newgate; the wal-enewit Patrick Ryan. better
known by the name of Paddy likown.• for highway rubbery,
Brown had, as our readers may meallect. attempted an escape from
Newipite. lk had his irons actually-sowed Of. a had hcen made
fast to the cherau .r.de-frise of tbs well of th• log Senate-
struet, and nothing was wanting so She name but another
rope fir the purpose of ascent mad inert. With this the wife of
Brown w,.t entering the prises osene Siliediff sing. when ch.• plot
was diwovered, the woman aprodmetist, mei the costody of Bross
slid his cotnpautons made ITIOre Mae. Brown, shwa tl.e arrival of
his de.ith-wmrant, minced every symptoms of pesAteee and re-iAna-
don, fully acknowledging the justice CZ his eememew A fe*mkr.utes
after eibht o'clock he was launched We eternity. in the prestarx of
fewer spectators than perhaps hasbeen helm llnoomi on any Anglo
UCA: al. ligh

14J

From Me LONDON GAZ ET l'E, Tam( ty, April

[This Gazette contains a Proclamation on the subject of quaran-
tine: it penults ve-sela coining from port; liable to infection, and
which may have delivery] their cargoes at foreign ports not liable to
infection, to eater a Itritish li.irbour without being subject to the qua-
rantine laws. Veuels so arriving in ballmt, mun produce certificates,
however, that they have discharova Olen. cargoes at least 44.1 days be-
fore.'

BANKRETPTCIP.S SUPERSEDED.
Crtartnr.rv, J. *rockport, grocer.
Ni•NVILLIAMS. J. Georg:-street, Spitalfkkli, victualler.
CLAY voo.tit, J. Cansiluiby, Lincoln,uire, dealer iu aorn.