The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-21 00:00:00

YRII3AV, MARCH ;9.

Mtit'qir Bill was read a third time, and prifiged.
On etc motion of the Earl of Sun► si easc k v, the Committee
oa the Poor Laos .Itit,ndment Bill was yuxtponed to 'lutaday
L:).e.—Adjourned to Monday.

HOUSE OF C031M0N.3.
51014rDAY, MARCH 15. -
INiortvENT DENTOues A e7'.S.ir J. Go alialn ptteented a PltlD.tt, 114111C11 19.
Petition from New Credos, signed by about 400 persons, against I noel Arcerows.—A retillllll Via, presented from Bath,
the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Upwards of too of the Petitioners
ptiramys.ing the adoption of some measure to suppress Mock Auc-
stsied, that they had been iniiirt,ti by this law ; and if it were to
be renewed, they therenire &sped that it would undergo some 3lv. Alderman Warrnstarr asked, whether it was the inten-
Very material alterations and improvements. bead, laid metered don of Gevernment to bring in a hill to put down those great
to bu printed. evils, Mock Auctions. Some communication on the subject woulu
Mr. littauist presented a similar Petition from Hull. Or-
tend to set the minds of %est numbers of era urea at NA.
shred to he tin the table. 31r. LVTIITICGION replied, that if a Bill were introduced,
Mr. W. COritTENAT presented a P.c.ition from Exeter, without the objections collision! in the measure cf last year, it
against any change of the Coal Duties. would receive the support of GOVernminit.
Mr. H. Sr 3IN eu stated, that he had already received several petition nrdeed to Ice •no the .table.
retidmh Pr*..air t° be relieved froth certain tidies on coals; New COAL. DllTY.—Petttioas were resei,tas: (mm oswestry •
that he cap _et 1,1 inau y' ut a ,huilar tendency. and that he should
and Newywirt, Salop, against any alteration of the Coal Duties.
rat bring forward his. Motion respecting this. subject until after Lied Fetweireorte said, nuts.there was such a ferment in
Laster. many parts of the country on this subject, that he thought a more
Sir 11. Wirsow moved the order of the day for continuing the definite surainunicatinn resettling the intentions 01. Goveuinient
imisitigatido On the stiliket of 31r. Quin. was tory desirabees • t limb •
Mn tiooto and Mr. ttoseh were vitamin d. Sir IL Wilson
r,..,verl that the further consideration of the petition be !•djourniti he eiviild net be more' definite than he' had already been. His
to Thursday sc'unieat. This was put and monied. Adjourned. orietion tele, that it woislii.neither, b. beneficial retie expedient to,
Ti..7pitii.sw, stAitt:Ll tfi. make: any alteration in the Curd Duties at tl.e present titre.
INscit.Wrict Draroas.—The Attorney .(leeeral moved for a Petitions ordered to lie on the table.
Ciimalittee to enquire into the -*eta:trona 6f the Insolvent • WtaIDSOR ESTAIII.I,III.IIEITT.-1 ord CASTLE/I-CACI; moved
liOtNs Ast. that the Report of the IYindsot Establishment be taken into fur.;
Mt. Warrustav, at great lett7t, hi enlarged on the defeele of thhr &en:ideation.
VA act, the frauds C 071.11: It' ILi &Met it,' din MA felt persiweleel Lord hotes•ruire complainal of the Clam*, grantin,, tri.eoni.
that the Cointuittee• would nutke such debuts saidirtuds still i a-year to the Duke of Yurk, as CUStOt, maintaining-that the
utiattcppareot. . , . este* osponce of post horses; if there were any. was hardly
Mr. Allitheito nate: contended that'die frauds alloded.to • worth mentioning; it emtainly Was diltacctiti to those who c.on-
rabid not be charge upon th.: Act; its priociel.: was geed ;• ita I descended to use it in timputt of the Grant. He also thought
provisions might he amended. thee Mule of York was not the proper person for Customs; that
The Coin mute agreed te, and appointed. duty ought to have been vcstse eh UM of die Princesses, Of Wile
-Sir A. HOPE rose to make his pronii4ial tnotiOn, to Continue one' conszattly residing at Windaur. He disapproved of this
the sikequerries making part Of his ,314>ty's bltalllillkuent at Cixtue altogether.
Wiudsor. instead of re:Tieing the hUit)IXT to four. as mom- f The question having twat put, without any one of the Ministers
nifnJod idt....: Report of the valect consmittrte. • • rising,
Tl.e motion s .case eeecnithd bi Itfr.SraCer Pei-Lyrist tthOsOn of Mr. LYTI'L ETON said, as his Ncble Friend had been so
m;. Cie lair pre.ri. but after tiloti4 de rte there appear:ad at a Fula at:ern:L-1 to, he ce...1:: 1,a,-.sly expect to attract the almitteta.*
ditijoa Ay es fiG, Nu vs 259 ; l'ifejori•y• i 9.1. tido of the Gettlemen of potrite; bat he• nevertheless could not
Alter a ILTiort from the ColimitLie on the Windsor Ens- I lose die opportuoity of expres,ing hie opinion that there was
Wallowa.. had been brought up, the House adjourned, something peculiarly scandalous its the requiring of this Grant.

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As the sue not stood, it seemed that the Duke of York want,d
the balmy and the bii:ary only ; but it' his [loyal Higialeu were
endmrissayel. it would Le better that such fact should Le at once
stated titan to apply tier nwiey in so indirect a manner. If the
Duk_'s debts were buttlen,ome, why should not that fact be
mentioned; at the saute tittle lie exiressed. his belief, that no
very long time would elepse before some application would be
made to Nilo:scot redper.;.iag the Duke'sd.bts. If such an
application were rnade, after els Grant, with how h.ul a grace
would the Duke of York come before the !louse. Ile trusted the
!louse would negative so ungracious a Gant.
Mr. eat/Tilt:ROE rose ani lSet some cheering and lattgliter, PS
none on the Ministerial aids ;wean's' disposri to spstak. Ile
e'npressed. 'trim& stoney aping Cie motion, and said he
annuli' have bean b tter pleased had Me ,tlinisters come d9wr.
with a comminaration, cutting. that the Duke of York dadred
the grant to be wit'idrawo.
Neptune gazting up on sise Ministerial side. there became
rolls piesiion ; and strangers were then ordered to withdraw.
Thu house tii,ided on the question to retain the words **malting
the Grant." The numbers were—Ayes 13G, Noes 97. Majority
59 in favour of the Grunt. _

The remaining Portions of the Report were then agree': to,
and the Rill ordered to br engro,e(l.

GAME LAWIL—Mr. MEAN.) nioveil the *Prowl reeling of t:ic
Bill for the A.neniiiiient (if rite Gone Laws; upon sir
John Shelley moved, that it be read this day bin nioritlia. 7 iii;
anienitment was Ina, arid tie original motion produced a moat
animated debate, in the course of which,

Mr. Coen said, he hail always looked 'Ton those laws as most
odious ears. (Hear.) He was an Old Alt:tuber of that House,
and he remembered, about 50 years ago, that a Bill use intro.
duced, which gave to keepers and others a right to take up per_
suns ghoul w .sing about t/te grounds of their employers;
which Bill was at)erwards withdrawn, on a prosecution having
been commenced. by virtue of its enactments,. agaittet an indb
vtdual, who took the opinion of the three mcst distingaislisti
hewp.rs of their time ivrin the suEect : they gave it its their
on. opini that game was. legally, private property t upon which
the he had beim,' stated, was a:doh-awn. note lawyers
were Lord Kenyon Mr. Dunning. aid Mr. Lee. (HAT, hear.
hear.) He should hope that the framers of this Bill. in bring.
ing it in, had not merely the preservation of i• aase in view,
but the good of their country ! (Ilea,. hear.) X. to the mere
presetvauou of game. he thought an attention to farmiag, agri—
culture, or any other useful amusement or rational pursuit.
infinitely more laudable. lie was slopinion, that every man had
an inherent tight to that which was on Isis pispeity ; nor could he
tutu the; he wtte sent there to legislate on one man's property
to the detriment of another. (hear.) It appeared to hint, that a
men with a single acre of land, had just its clear and natural a
right to that which was on it, as he himself had to what am on
his owu. Why, then, should not -he have also an equal power ta
destroy what was on his possessions. its the wealthy owner of pre
serves had to destroy what was on his P (hear.) fie had heard x
great deal said by the gentlemen aho owned preserves, about their
it.terest anti arintse.ment ; but for himself, he was not sent there
as consider merely his min nutuaement anti interest (cheering);
1 Iso he should moat likely have gone to the other side of the
house; he might have found his interest prissibly in sitting there.
(continued clicses.) lie had to look to other, to more important
.
interests—to protect thuw whom he reptile:mad, from the opera.
don of laws Titieh were arbitrary, cruel, and tyrannical; Lila,
which were not to be t;lured. (heat.) It was tally on time close
of the last shooting season, in Norfolk. that a poor old woman,
in crossing a gentleman's plantation, was cruelly shot, most des.
perately mangled. (hear.) Her crams at length brought the
keeper up to her aid all the he offered was to tea
her, that she had only got a little leaded !" whereas Lad
she cone further up the plantation, she woe./t1 have been cer-
tainly shot through the hodY and killed. Application was then
made to the meg...trate ; and who did the magistiate prove ti be?
Why, the owner of the soil ? The house would ask, what relief
did he extend to het He gave her so order on the parish for the
weekly payment of one shilling ! lie would again ask, was this
to be andurtal ? (hear.) _ _

After Me. fla.t,in's.reply, the House divided, Ayes 113—
Noes 83—Majority 17.
On the motion that 79,0n01. (42,0001. being for snufr-boxes to
Foreign Ministers) be grantrd to supply Civil Contingencies.
Mr. C. Hutchinson moved a Resolution, that such expencc we;
extravagant and culpable; but, I.ord Castlereagh having e•;.-
plained the cmtorn, it was negatived.
The further progress of the *1 rial by Battle Bill wag resisted br
Silt F. Burdett ; he had iie ohjection to abolish Trial by Battle.,
but he wished to preserve tile tti.,ht of A ;peal.
This business, and the Order, being thspoied of, the (louse
adjourned.

Washington, Fe',. 6.—Desperate Di:el.—We re-
gret to have to state the melancholy result of an un-
fortunate meeting which took place between General
Armistead T. Mason, of London, Co. Va. and John
M. M'Carty, of Fairfax, Co. Va. They.repaired,
we are informed, to the neighbourhood of Illadens-
burgh, early this morning, armed with muskets con-
taining three bails each, and fought at the distance
of six pares. At the first fire General Mason re.
eeived the contents of his antagonist's piece in his
laxly, which put an immediate period to his exist-
ence : Mr. M'Carty received "rst4..the same time a
wound in the arm.—General Mason's remains were
conveyed to George. Town, and lodged at Sir John
P. Mason's. We have heard no further particulars;
when they are known they will be published. The
deceased (General A. T. Mieuti) was a Senator in
the 14Vir Congress, from Virginia, a valuable menu.
ber of' society, and highly rt spected by all who
kneW hins. He has left a wife and child to deplete
untnnely end. We believe this melancholy ca-
tastrophe grew out of a lirrmer well-known political
dispute, with Mr. 'Carty.
A substitute for walking has been already seen in
this country. It, has, however, been entirely sur-
passcd by an Italian, who has made a sort uf
Pegasus of the hobby• horse, if we may believe the
foreign papers; one of which says:—" A Mr. Bri-
anea, at Aiihtti, has invented a new travelling ma-
chine, 'whichis said to be far superior to that of
Ilaron I)rais'.., and-with which the traveller may go
backwards; or forward,. In the front of this vehicle,
one of the Milan papers say, there is a winged
horse, by the wings of which the carriage is put in
motion."

NT ARCH al.

STATE OF PRISONS.

Mr. J. J. Cdrney, the brother ..1 the philanthropic Mn.
Yrs, and thr ant bor of a 'recent ‘sui.X upon the above guttiret,
;Le; ad.treAcd the roltna•iug Later to the Magistlates of the
County and City of Kure

PaSt• &CM: t) FRI F:4 DS,
Filmed be wanting both in justke to thyself ant}
in respect towards y. u, were 1 to take no notice of
your address to the public, erintaiurd in r•,e Norfolk. hro-
vide turf Norwich Alerenry of lust week. I w 111, there-
tore, now trouble you with a few observations.
I beg leave, in the first place, distinctly to assure you, thst
when I wrote the 1:a agru*ph in.. my little work OH pi re-
specting the Jail at Norwich, ',Cad not the Oast remote in-
fection of casting any retlesion on the Magistrates of thls
City. la a country like England, where public opt ~ ~ hap-
pily for tuo, is so much the regulator of public conduct, I do
iddced deeth it to he of go eat importance, that the teal state
of the pritrou .I.ould be grimily and getter-ally known.
Whilst I have enileaviiured to make it known, I have been
particularly careful, iu every part of my work, to avoid ini-
putiiig blame to the Alagistracy because lam persuade,'
that very few p 13006 have until lately been assure, how
twiny evils ybe avoided, and how much good 'nay be ef-
fected, by a correct and enlightened system of prison
pliue -by that system which is norw so geueraily approved,
but which fwenterl,y was little adverted to and little under-
stood.
In the particular paragraph to %Web yea' allude, and of
which you have been pleased to cite so very inadequate au
extract, my truly &Wet was to support act important argu-
ment by adducing a particular fact. This may easily be per-
ceived by any our who is ill do me the favour to peruse the
whole passagr. It is as follows t —`• Amongst the male pi i-
somers, Nardi-ma kilns, shah—making, the tread-wheel, careen-
tering, and other handicraft trod s, may easily be introduced,
where there is n.. opportunity for conducting a regular mu-
arnictury. In the City dart of Norwich the buitdinglards
no such oppottunity, and it has lootg heel, a scene of total
and ea/ruining idleness. About tio ..e months ago, it sirs
übserted that one of the five pr;s:mer. then in the Jail had
been accustomed to make shoe, lie readily undeitourk to
.teach Ids COMpilllloll4. Toni, leath,'r werr provided. A
what sale dealer undertook to furnish work The wheel
am, easily set : and this siuk of idleness soon asiulned
the pleasing aspect of conynrative ha/spit:Cm and colt-Aunt
Judah ry." _ .

Permit me, Gentlemen, to enquire of you, whether it was
quits fair :owned; Mr, and (if your reputation can really be
directed by any words of 'Moe) whether it was quite prudent
on your own arc aint, to throw before the public the expres-
Maga which you deeds " sere e," and ;shot!) to omit the no-
tice of another clause :11 the same semen( e, s kick could nut
fail to produce tr totally opposite impression.—Ce taistly,
wheal I wren' that sentence, I hod mo ititeotion tithe' to
blume or to poise t but Flualti any of soy reads•rs feel it dis-
position to censure you, Veaus-, ander your novices, the
Jail was a sink of idleness; surely such a disp,tititits must
be instantly removed by the (-milder:olmi, that nailer the
muse airseirts it had " attumed the pleasi aspect of co tips-
Mice happiairss aad constam! iodastry."
I is et ilent. therefore, Ilsat this paragraph was not cal, %t-
-hied (as assuredly it was not iistemled) to divot-age your
magisterial character. And now having etuteus•asred to
prove that I have brought no charge egoist/ you, you muds
allow me tie say u few words in answer to the cli r,tu which
you have thought proper to prefer against ins.
You attribute to me—if 1 riJitly undesstand your lan-
wge—a want of or:odour and a want of truth. As I really
believe that you intetsded sin personal incis itity, I shall make
no en anent. opua the •• severity" of these changes; but
shall proceed at once to establish my very contciesitions plea
of " Not Guilty."
With respect to my " want of candor." you have inform-
ed the public, that previously t' the p Wishing of ins book,
(cseitaiiiing tae pas..ao supposed to be so olesssive) I vi-ited
the Jail is C ttttt puny ith John Brno iie anti Sheriff
Itackliam, and that on this occasion, 1 expressed mu satisfac-
tion at the present awl probable future state of the Jail. This
stutemeot is not perfectly correct. I is true that I vis ted
the Jail its compaisy with .hose gentlemen, that I was grate-
ful
theta for the.r politeness, and that I was pleased to
observe the efforts of the writ thy A &moan, to promote, by I
inprov.ineist, in the building, n better classification of the '
prisoners : hut, that I ever expressed the sli,ghtest approba-
tion of this Anson, in its ocigha: slat-,1 heg lents. Mow dis-
tinctly to deny. After I tissd dev.dril mw h attention to the
subject, and had formed the opinions, sibich are stated at
large in my hook, it was (pile impossible that I could feel
satisfwd w ith such nJoil ; n Jail vi bich Aar hien proved to he
Insecure; in %bleb the prima: rs are heasilyfrttered; which
aitords nn opportimitv of impertion ; in st hich th“ petty
thief and desperate offender, the lousier! and rornrieted pri-
mmer, are herded toothei without any d;st!tretiod; h
lastly, uutil very lately the illiterate aniengst the criminals,
were lams instructed. and none of them were employed.
It most, indetd, he confessed, that our Jail was at that
elm; wanting in almost all the principal reqnisites of a
amid prison. Without inspection, eltrorifietitstat, instruction,
mid ensployment,, a pr son cannot prochree reform; hot on
the color/try, will ever be found the prolitic marry of serious
awl deplorahle evil.
lint to proceed to your yet heavier charge—yon state it
at your opinion that she expresx'inms,lo which you
in my account of the Norwich are " unfounded t",
other words, that they have "so fmn,lation." Osi wnat
basis this charge is gronntlesl,lt ant Wholly wt,st loss to di s.
rover. You are perfectly Melds aware that for many years
the erialimila in this Jail were totally tlestitote of employ-
mein. Habitually as yon have visited llis!Jails yon le's°
have been arquainted with the fart, I too, ;Month the
kindness of-
successive Sheriffs, have freciiently la,peeteil
your prisms; HMI I have witnessed within its wall the
listless yawn, the game at marbles, the loud laugh, the rode
and impetnons conversation, hat she employment of its
unfortunate though guilty imitate's, ktntll lately I have
never witnessed. Now, I observe, that Dr. Johnson con-
siders " idleness and absence of employment' to be syno-
nymous; at any rate they are indivisible companions. It
is indispittallste, therefore, that the Norwich Jail has "long
been a scene of total idleness ;" amid it Mete be any tenth
in the prowl's of Asitistaity or hi the moral lessons of
daily experience. it Is (rally inili,putahle, that hit Jail
has "!mug 1”.. n a scene of total and corrupting idleness."
Willi regard to the subsequent words, Siuk of idle.
n,'," I bast. Item mere r,otopliauco with your wishea,