The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-16 00:00:00

WLI)NESI).%Y. Jvriv 11.

The LOrT) MAYOR WAS ihltOdßCed by Mr. Porise•rns, and
Mr. CtI.CR wrr, and took the usual oaths and is LS !scat for the
City of London.

INIPRISONSII NT OF SUSPECTED PERSONS.
Lord FoLcsense rose to muse, as an instrnetinn to the
Committer appointed to cuntider the papers referred to their
consideration, which bad been contained in the greets bag,
that there be submitted to their consideration accounts of the
numbers of persons committed tinder the warrants of the Se-
cretary of State, or sit Privy Conusellorn, their warrants of
eoremituivnt, and the 11:1111lb of the Magistrates et others who
had signed those warrants, }eminent to the Act passed this
Session to suspend the Helmets Cot pits, Act and empower his
Majesty's Ministers to coo 1111 l it and imprison persons suspected
of traitorous designs against the Government of the country.
When the lives and liberties of the whole population were as
it were placed in We power of the Minister of the day,lt was
Dot too mach to ask, that the names, fee. of those in confine-
ment should be snade known. lie concluded by recommend-
ing the motion in tde•strungest summer to the noose.
Mr. liet.se Am:macron regretted the absence eche Noble
Lord (Castlereagh), hut he should feel no hesitation in accent-
modeling the matter so far as to propose ass ansendosent to the
present motion, which should embrace the names, ages, and
places of confinennot of the portans alluded to.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT considered, that, after what bad
to aispired this evening there could be lint one opinion of the
warming and flagit• course pursued by Ministers on the
pi escsit occasion. He lamented to see, 001 had trans-
pired, that the Essee• live Government of the country had be.
come the actual gaoler of the subject, as in all oilier arbitrary
Governments.--This was indeed placing the victim within the
avenger's reach.
Mr. CANNING considered the speech of the Km. Baronet
calculated to revive and Wriest: spirit and life into the disaf-
fected throeighout the kingdom. Was this a moment to trifle
with the precarious peace of the public? This was a crisis of
peculiar danger. He concluded• with moving, as an amend-
ment, that the ',object of inquiry should be confined to the
hers, pl.sces ut confiteineet, and Jess of the persons now
iu confinement on charges of high treason.
After some ipirited olisetw.ints between Mr. Ponsonby, Mr.
Bathurst, Sir W.llnrrosighe. and an ;misstated reply from Lord
Folkatone, the House dis ides], when Thu numbers were—For
the original motion .).1— Against it 10 t --Ma jority si I.
A petition against the further suspension of the
.Habeas
Corpus Act, signed by upward.; or ii,oou Freeholders of the
county of Berke, who Mims:ewed its the strongest tents,
any attempt to suspend the privileges of the Constitution,
because a few obscure indisiduala thought proper to con-
template its subversion, Nos presented by Mr. Ca ttc 1.1. s
Hess DAS, laid ON the table, and, on the mollusk of Mr.l'.
Mount:, ordered to he printed.

EXPORTATION Of CORN,

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Mr. PONFONBY said, he wished to call the attention of
of the House, fur a few moments, to a subject which was ex-
tremely interesting at the present time, lie was informed
in the course of that day, and Ie had every reason to believe
his information correct, that exportations of corn from this
country to France, were now taking place ler aff arrange-
ment entered into by individuals with the French Go% ern-
ment. Ile did nut know %theater, under the existing laws,
the Government of this country had any power of acting
in such a Case. _ .

Lord CAsmtine sr: n said, that the ineont enienee was not
likely to last long. If we interfered to prevent the exporta-
tion in the present instance. it might operate to hinder tli
the grain which came into the country upon speculation. it
might • also drive foreign Governments to the adoption of
coercive measures when our own necessities tequireil
supply.
Lord Cttf:S.ItEAGII moved that the Speaker should issue
a new writ fur die City of Limerick, in the room of Colonel
Vereker, now a Peer of the United Kingdom.

The• Report of the Committee on the Consoli fated Pond
Bill was brought up and agreed to, and the 11:11 ordered
to he brimalit in tieeorilingly.
The other Order. of the Day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned.

THURSDAY, .11'N&
THE 30/11 I 4X.

Lord ARefillt l[.1) Ila•nu.luv rOse to move, " That per.
minion he givim to bring a ilill to alter and amend so
innelt of the it of the dad 4;eorge TI I. as relates to hotises
or eottszes having no nano than four ;vindowq, and in.ying
a rout of not more than 31. a year."-- Leave grantorl.