The National Register.
London, England, 1820-07-09 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Mr. RENNET presented the report of the Berwick.
npon-Tweed Election Committee, which declared Sir D.
Milne unduly elected.—A new writ was ordered.
EAST INDIA VOLUNTEERS.—Mr. CANNING moved
the second reading of this Bill. He ub d, that the .
Government having agreed to the raising of this corps, it
was likely to be iiiiide what it would have become, had
the corps not been suspended.
Mr. BERNAL was sorry to see this bill brought for-
ward.
Mr. CANNING observed, that he should not press the
bill, if he could nut support the measure with a good
case.

Mr. HUME was sorry to observe, that the military
were called in on all occasions, the civil power being
deemed as nothing; end this readiness was peculiar ly
shewn on Friday, when the Lord Mayor had called out
the military.
Sir W. CURTIS said, that this was the first time lie had
heard of ally thing of the kind; he had prim no niiiitary.
Mr. HUME did not know whether the Honourable Ba-
ronet had beeu asleep; but the military were in Holborn.
(Hear 1 )
Mr. Alderman WOOD confirmed the statement, ob-
serving, that they were in Hatton Garden; the horses•
tails might be in Middlesex, but their heads were In Lon-
don. One of them was in communication will, the Lord
Mayor, and his Lordship acknowledged that he had or-
dered out the military. It was most unnecessary, as the
Hall was never more unanimous.

Mr. CANNING said he should, in the Committee, move
that the damns regarding the pay be omitted ; with that
clause lie should nut think of pressing the bill.
Bill read a second time, mid ordered to be committed.
ELEC rlON.—Lord LOWTHER asked whe-
ther one was to be done on the Carlisle Petition.
Mr. :LIME i replied, that lie should, next Sessiun,
'wive to call the Magistrates to the bar for their conduct
in ceiling out the military when there was perfect tran-
quillity
Lord LOWTHER said, if the charge were not urged
now lie ,hould deem it groundless and unfounded.
New SOUTH Wat.r.s.—Mr. OOULBURN moved the
third reading of the New South %Vales Duties Bill.
Mr. GOU L BOURN arteres ;ads said, in reply to Mr. Wit-
berforee's enquiry, twit the itivesti,noion which was to take
place would embrace the various suitjects of complaint.
Bill read a third time unit passed. •
The Cuintuittee MI the Excise mid Spirits' Acts was post-
polo d till to-morrow, ellen
Mr. M. Fitzgerald said, he should submit his motion 'Te-
pee:tog the intercourse of the Spirit Trade between England
and Ireland.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed,
that to-morriiis, he should be prepared to submit a proposition
ou the subject.
Committee postponed till to-morrow.
Kanw's Messses.—Tbe House, on the motion of Lord
Castlereagh, went into a Committee on the King's Message
is-vector, the Royal Incomes.
Lord trASTLERLAGH said, he thought the seven pro-
positsous wilted he should have,to move would have the una-
nimous support of the House. 'They were merely to con-
tinue those allowances that acre in existence at the time of
toe lame Kiti.Cs demise. Under other en cumstunces he
might have sssss ved some additions to the Duke cif Clarence
and the Duchess of Kent. int account of her infant Princess.
Prince Leopold, hoe ever, had, witagreat hbrrility,token
upon himself the 'moon t and education of the infant Princess.
iCileers.)—Tlbe krauts which lie should have to move would
simply be a tuutiuuauce of the former imouses. His Lord-
ship added, twit there would Ise required some allownuces
fur some of tneservutes of his late Majesty ; a sum of to cloy-
four tuomand pounds per autumn, and the charges required
might be abort 10,0001. Sums actually paid in pensions,
befo.e the King's death, amounted to 80d01. mid he appre-
heuded time would be iio objection to these small additions;
he should tat call for these additions to-night. lie nom-
timed the Mos. lie concluded ii ith moving a grant of
14,IEVi. a sear for the Duke of York.
Lind A. HAMILTON expressed his astouishment that no
pitivisiun w s made fur her Mai sty. He had repeatedly
asked for nit-oroom 00000 on this subject; mid he irow thought
toe ',toper period for something to be dune had arrived.—
lie apprehended that there was um lehat income for her
Majesty. (Heir !) What was grAilled, it any, was illegally
grimed and tom nuttily received. lie understoon that it had
b •eii intimated to her Majesty that she wa, to ree:eve the
$3,0011. a !ear; but as a Member ut Parliament, he must
sk uu %but wound the Ministers thus made a branch
alike Roy ul lainily their peuisiumer, ?—(llenr, hear!)—
But w hy am not a provision to be named this Session; why
was it a itlitield ut a moment like the present 1 Wus it
generous, just, or enlist itui imial I or was it not convenient to
the blinisti re to ,tir the suluject I Su much W3ll he taken by
surprise, Him he did not know e hither be might to supply
the defect; but at alt events, he should move tont the Cuair-
IMM slum IrliVe Ihr eisir,to lye the 'ii Misters time to rectal.
sister the tenure they were iaz.eu ng—to repair what tie COll-
- to be- an narion Sc', House .if Commons, and au
instil to the dignity 0. I Crown.—(llear, hear I)
Lord CA STLER i.G.I thought the surpr.se would Lave
been greater had he ,mine demo aill nay proposition ter
pectiog the Queen. Xl..m he left town yesterday, arrange-
ments were made to h. invite to het Majesty hint not only
would her tormer Le continued, bet lnc means al forded
of meeting those esprit( es which taught be incurred in the
ellorts made to vindicate her character. (Hear, hear.) Ile
apprehended that the Noble Lord could net have been m-
oue ted by her Maje sty the Queen to make the etiquiry,
because her obijesty had intimated that she did not wish
i mom.. to I% .run any consideratioe nt present ; and it must lie
reini•inheiril that the House mold originate no measure of
ties In., II ; the CII. wit mint forward the initititive ; and then
co. subject ohs to hr considered.
Lola A HA Si I LTON complained that the Noble Lord
put.md a uo.si unfair conduct respecting this question.
1 ILI N r. Y observu d, that lie had expert. d sow.
omit be to keu ut the Queen tin this occasion. lie
did out ex o..et that n pei mouton ainangement %mild he
made, but he Ilitie;lit the former iur e mull be contimied.
•.id how t the n:tonanre tuns to
he ciiiitinceil for the clisitiag qUariei by vote of Pailiament
knelt I lions the M musters ;) nod aloi that thi Queen
have urhAtic..s such us would li.• des med necessary for tr...
defamer.—(llear,liear.)—lle was lia pp) t.. kat II so much;
he hail nos atiothei a ord to I.tiy .11,.,cct.
Arter SUM ri-smai I: • from (%Ir. I)EN MA tS amid others, the
resolutions for e‘octiaUtilg I.) the loUllfllrb nt the
Ituiyiul Cmutity toe Si/Ille tut units by tuciu ut the
rleriiiLe el the late KW), UV re then agrei it to.
Coops al tots Lxressrs —On the motion that the
Boos. iesulve itself into a Coninsitte.., 111.1:.e a ;rant on

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aceouut of the Coronation Lxpeuses, an eetended con vei ea
tem arose, Mr. Creevey and others submitting that the pre-
sent period was not very favourable to the celebration of*
Coronation ceremony ; that it would be better first to see an
adjustment of the existing unhappy disputes between the
King and Queen ; and that if it take place now the public
temper was not in a state to view it w itb satisfaction. The
contrary was urged by other Members, and
Dr. LUSHINGTON said, lie apprehended that at pre•
sent there were circumstances of so peculiar a nature,
both with respect to the situation of the Queen-consort,
and the slate of the public finances, that Ministers them-
selves must believe they would best discharge their duty
ey advising that this ceremony should be delayed. There
sees, in fact, no necessity fur a emanation at all, and he
believed it would be fulled, on role, ring to the history of
tliii country, that many kings had reigned for a e.onsi-
dere hie time without having gone through that cm weeny.
lf, then, there was no necessity for liis Majesty's being
crowned, it became a question whether or not, at the
present moment, it was expedient. His lion. friend (Mr.
Creevey) had stated, that while the trial of her Majesty
wits going on, it was improper that there should he a pub.
lie sidemility in which she could take no past. In this
opinion lie entirely concurred; and he also agreed witk
his hon. friend in thinking that it would he imprudent to
rouse and provolw the it 'Amp of the people of this
country, at a tune whets they would be in a high state of
eacitatien. He 'stad appeal to the noble Lord himself,
(Castlereagh), whether it was not impolitic to offer this
additional excitement to public feeling, at a time wheat
the noble Lord moist know, from the addresses that were
presented to her Majesty, what the opinion of the people
was respecting the treatment which site hail received;
and when he must also Leo'', if lie at all looked forward
to futurity, that these feelings would hereafter become
stronger than they were at present. But there was still
another objection which had more weight with him thau
either of those to which he had adverted—he meant the
universe, distress which at present pervaded the country.
(Hear, hear.) That distress was so real and so great,
tied he would not consent to vote away a single shilling of
the public money for any purpose that was not absolutely
and iudispensably necessary. Let the hon. gentlemen hunk
at their table covered with petitions front the agricultu-
rists; let them reflect on the present state of all the great
manufactining towns iii the kingifoui—Glasgow in s silos,
Leeds in ilistress,and Birmingham scarcely able to support
herself ; let them also look at the situatien of the sister
kingdom to relieve e hose commercial distresses they had
a few nights ago voted a grant of 600,0001.; and wills this
picture before their eyes, was the Noble Lord to tell
them that 101,0001. was a small sum?—(Hear, hear.)—lt
was not a smell sum; it was a large amount, when tl.e
means of the country and the distresses of the people
were taken into consitlei ation. What would he the effect
of a Coronation at the present moment on the public
feeling? They would have in the newspapers colones
upon colientis titled with acco 111116 of this pompous cere-
mony, with gorgeous descriptioins of the Cul onatiuu rube,.
and of all the splendid trappings and costly equipage
displayed on the occasion, and when the starving indi-
viduals iu Glasgow, Leeds, mod Birmingham, should
reed these accounts, and learn that 14,0001. had thus
been spent in one day, when there was hundreds of thou-
sands of individuals in those towns without any means of
siiissisteuce•—what ethect, under these circumstances,
could such an account have but to excite disgust and
discontent? Let the House compare the misery and
entleriugs of these people with the pomp and pageantry
of the proposed Coronation, and then they would see
if Ministers were not exerting theuleelves to aggra-
vate the distresses of the country. 'they not only
neglected the public distress, but were also want-
ing In attention to constitutional forms. They were
erecting additional barracks at the present moment at
Glasgow, at Meneliester,and even in the metropolis; and
fur swum eurpose ? Why, to keep down the dissatisfac-
tion of the country. Thus, while they were taking mess-
mires on one baud to suppress discontent, they were On
the other doing all iii their 'mote to excite it. If this
measure were persisted in, he, for one, should say, that
to whatever ex.remities the people might go, whatever
outrages they might cosntuit, (hear, from Ministers,)—lie
was not arrant to avow the sentiment ; and lest the hon.
gent. should think that 1w might disavow it at risme future
period, he would 110 M repeat, he believed in his con-
science that whatever excess. s the people might commit,
they had been driven to them by Nlinisteis, by their ar-
rogant and oppressive conduct, and their contempt of
public feeling. Did the lion. gentlemen opposite eenuse
that the spirit of the country was to be leileied and ma-
nacled by those velnnteurs that were now raising. or that
it was to be kept down by she bet reeks that %vete rising
up in every directiuu? This effect might indeed be pro-
duced for a short time—but only fur a shot t time; for
there was still spirit enough iu the e wintry to lay in the
dust ail the machinations of the lion. gent. and kis col-
leagues. (Heat, hear.) He had ilionglit it Isis ditty to
state these sentiments, because, on looking nt the es cots
which had occurred tor sonic tune past, amid at (hue mew-
sere, w;1101 hid been adopted in consequence of those
mien, lie flu inlY believed Met no hills tonal effectually
;sat doss .1 du.atlreLion, because lie was convinced that
disaffection never existed generally ,iniongst a reel ,••,
except it were the couseqeence of misgovernment on :lie
part of their rulers.—(Cheer.)
The Holier lifterwards went into a Committee, when
a grant of 10:eneel. ml account of the Cavitation ex-
peiices was moved mill nerved to.— Report tu-moriaw.
The King. 4 Ileveli Bin having goes throurz' I a Cora.
mittee, and the remeiiiing videos having Jeep disposed
of, the House adjourned.