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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

civil power, by which means a stop was put to any far.
ther depredations. It is pretty certain that all the lug-
gage and cargo will he saved, although some articles of
a perishable stature are much injured by the salt water.
Hopes are even entertained of bent z able to get the ship
off next spring tides, by putting in a deck above the
keelson ; hut the success pith's measure must, of course,
he considered as extremely uncertain. 'rite owner, \Jr.
Blanchard, with some h;ghly respectable officers of the
East India Company's Service, are very actively em-
ployed in superintending the removal of the cargo.—
Nothing can exceed the bustle and contusion that pre-
vail at Eastbourne in consequence of this deplorable
event. The place resembles a fair. On Thursday a
loaf of bread could not be obtained at any of the bakers,
owing to the great Manx of strangers : and we are assured
that one of the public houses was compelled to stop sel-
ling for want of beer, every drop having been drawn out
of the cellar.

Voltce.

MANSION HOUSE

On Thursday, the well-known Samuel Waddington,
who has been some time employed its selling publica-
tions in Collie's shop, applied to the Lord Mayor for a
warrant against a 13ow-street officer, under the following
singular circumstances :
Waddington stated, that he had to complain of a
most gross assault and battery rommitied union his per-
son by a Bow-street officer, ❑ toted John Patton, who
entered Mr. Guide's house, iu Fleet-street, fur the pur-
pose of making an illegal seizure. An extent its aid
had been executed in the house, and the sheriff's officers
were in possession. The front shop, however, did not
belong to Mr.Carlile, but to himself, and he remained
unmolested by those who entered by legal authority ; bait
a Bow street officer thought proper to walk out of his
own district and enter the city, for the purpose of doing
violence to one of the inhabitants. This officer, upon
gMlig into the shop, proceeded to seize Soille papers
which were in an obscure part of the shop, not at all
exposed to public observation, nor intended for public
or private sale. Waddington expostulated against the
injustice of such conduct, and asked him whether he
had any warrant or authority to sanction a measure of
SO arbitrary a nature. The officer replied he had on
warrant, but it Waddington resisted, he would blow his
brains out. lit the course of this impetuous proceeding,
Waddington received a blow from the officer, who per-
severed in his intention of seizing the papers, and left
tie shop, not however without leaving his address with
the tutored person. It was, Waddington olnerved,
perhaps fortuuate for tne officer, that he at first supposed
los :madam to be a city officer, for he was resolved not
to resist the city polite. Under these cur 1111 l ssaiices,
ha called upon me cuter magistrate for protect on, and
had no doubt of receiving it.
_ _ . . . . .

The Lord M tyor asked hint whether the officer had
seized the papers upon the ground that they had no
rioter's name allixid to thew; and whether NVad-
dington had about f any copies of those papers ?
Waddington replied, that the officer had given no ex-
planation of his conduct, and deLlared that he bdieved
the papers in be most itioliensive. He added, that tore
papers hail beets kept ler a shelf, for tne purpose of
lwitig used 11111Killotie the gas of the shop. As for the
suspicion 'oat he would poloish any thing witl hav-
ing the printer's name :Axed to it, there Was 110111111 g to
Apia, bend. He had hit site t ther clay been applied to,
to sell an Account' of NIT. Hunt's confinement in Prison,
bin he had roused to do so, fr his knowledge of tile
illegality of the Jet, And wolfish( should twiner him to
violate the law. He had 110 Cllll 0, the papers, 110 f did
lie know what they reixed Us.
I hr Lord May.rr stated to W.fil,l.,:i!wolhat he would
mak.- the sseeeNs.lry soltorylllol ttse c i.r, and that justice
I la lit done to hm. His L misu i (11,41144(mM of
the lira 'lee of rnipluvii Bow-street ntheers so do busi-
ness m tile coy, when the city nliieer. were very active,
and had the advaistaLte of knowing so litany tourers of
accurate mit ttttt atom.

War:.Motion raid that he had wituesses present who
would orsmy as to the 111 treatment he had received in
the shop.
Tile Idlrd Mayor said he should attend to the wit-
nesses on the proper (lee .iSI,III, 41111 " •- r,l that a 10111-
Mons should he served upon the linw-street officer iu
attend to answer the
Waddington expressed s.irprise at hearnig, *ha' a sum-
mons way. to he do course through which he WAS 10
tweet Justice. all said the l.iw required that a warrant
sh""I`l IK 111111110!Iltely issued to take the accused into
eusio.iy. Ile was iirnoteding In 'hew ili illoollllg but
a warraot woul 1 aiiswer his ouritose. N llttl tie WAS SU -
tleall• e. rcked , advised 11.11 ut presoille 13 dictste to
he Chief Nl.antraie. lie then seethed w,th
~,,, se o Inch his Lord:on/I tlioU6lll. 11r.,per to take, anti
left the Justice room.
Oil F Ulay. POOOO, the Bow street olli•er, appeared to
olls,%er 110. ellArge of W11.1,11111i.1011, fOr an assauli. He
was AlWllolvli by Mr. Liuurphrrys, :lie sol.alior.
sated. that on he Sin Ins,aut I'.i.;tue
came into his stirs!), N.). 55, Fleel•sirett, and coming
behind the coun•er. took up some "cute paper. and col
I tred him, saymu he was Ms prisoiter. Waddingtoie
skid bun by what Pinion snowed a peace
odic. stall, " addmition, " any one
might hate lOC SIX10:11Ct ; he showed no oilier aLsilioilly,
hill thieateneil to blow ni, 'mons i wade any re-
mittance." 10,.e. riled w star, Mal 111 spite
of Port.tit's code:avows to no ,1 toi .1 di-regard
of his threat of 'Moonily& him, he disengaged OliliSrlf
Guns
Two city ofll,7ers came into the situp soon after. and
;old Watidliigt,ll that ell,
" which (said the Itatlical), had I known 'Miser,
should has e treated him accordin..:ll: and
Lord (to it. Lord Mayor), I appeal to e-or Lord in
defence of the in;ivileg.• of .he city of London, as w.II as
of the outraged laws of the couoiry."

In reply to a qtwation from Mr. Humphreys, Wad-
dington said the papers which Parton took up before he
collared him were printed papers, but that he had only
used them as waste paper, never having sold any.
Parton, being called on to answer the charge, said he
saw printed papers in the window which had not the
printer's name, the same as others he had received at the
shop front Waddington when snaking a purchase there
on the 10th of January. He here produced one of the
papers, which was headed, " An Address to all the Pub-
lic except the Rubbers;" and proceeded to say, that con-
sidering himself justified by law in seizing the papers,
and bringing Waddington before a mastisivrie to answer
for exposing them, he went into the shop for that pur-
pose. lie admitted that he collared 'Waddington. but
denied that he threatened to blow his brains out; hut
that Waddington said the friends of liberty, who were
outside the holm-, meaning a mob who had collected.
would not allow him to be taken, he (Porton) said, if
any one were to interfere, he would blow his brains out.
lie stated that he had not at the time any fire-arms about
him.

The facts being stated on both sides, Mr. Humphreys
produced the act of the 39th of George the fiord, by
which it is enacted, that if any person shill sell, or in ahy
m inner expose to public view, any printed paper, on
which the name of the printer shall not be printed, it
shall be lawful for any of his Majesty's subjects to take
such person before a justice of the peace to answer for
the said offence.

The Lord Mayor. on Inokin2 at the act, told Wa.l-
- it appeared to him that the officer was justified
in what he had done.

Waddington appeared by no means satisfied with his
Lordship's decision, and was reliving to argue the
matter, when the I.,rd Mayor repeated that the com-
plaint. was dismissed. Waddington reluctantly retired
from the bar, where he stood, consoling himself, how-
ever, for the disappointment he had experienced. by the
consideration that he hail exposed to public view the
outrage that had been committed on him.

CORONER'd INaIUEST —TuestlE, morning, at eleven
o'clock, an i ig4i.iiion was taken at the Prince Regent,
Sevmonr.place, Marylebone, berme Thomas Stirling,
Esq. Cormier, on the body of Mr. Harris,
nephew, it is said, of an opulent gentleman, by whose
death he would have come into ignsession of between
30,0001. and 40,0001. The investigation lasted some
hours, and excited the utmost interest. The first Williela
examined was James Dodd, a watchman, of Seymour.
place, who stated that on the Friday nreceding, at 3110.4
nine o'clock, having heard that a man had dreadfully
ill-used his wife in a house in Quern-street, he with
oilier watchmen gained ailmiss'ai into the house, in
the passage lie Maud the &ceased's wile lying; ihe
bottom part of her lice was shatter 41, and she was
bleeding profusely at the mouth. lie went into the
hark paritmr, and found the deceased lying on his back
nit the floor ; a nirgeon was sent tt,r, nn examining the
a;tart mein, he foam' near the window a pistol, which
Bail lately been discharged; atwitter pistol was laying
neat the right hand tat the deceased, and also appeared
to hate been recently discharged —Mr. John North, of
Soy. ~,,, ir-place, surgeon, stated he went to the house of
Collinson, in Quern-street, on the Friday preced-
ing at half-past nine o'clock ; he 101,11)(1 a kin ale severely
led on the right side of the lower part of the face;
he also observed the deceased lying on his back on the
parlour fluor; he appeared to h :ve received very cons'.
derable injury. On examining hint, he discovered that
a ball had passed complett ly through his head, entering
'he lempqr,l how., and passing tint of the back of his
skull, :111(1 passed through the brain; the %%mind it is
extensive, and Of that nature tit it the witness entild not
render hum ally daec:ing his attention
in the female, he Mum! her jaw fr loured ; he repla,7ed
tile Iracnir 11 pieces Of the j I‘v w tictu had been hrokite
by a pistol ball, and had extracted a tooth f lter jaw.
hoe Was then put in bed, and notwithstanding her situ-
ation (being seven mart is advanced its a sta.e of meg.
n they), there was every probability that she would do
well, though her lac.• would he sadly disfigured. 'late
wititeas mete handed in two kilos to the coroner, wal-
let' by the deceased, stating, that in spite of his wd:e's
infidelity, he had frequently tittered to take her th.ck,
and be irvilleiled, and fipret i:it• past, wittelt site net et
would consent to.—Si-veral 01111:1 iciness S were called,
and the whole of it riidence went to prose that the
decrasi Ws lived alone lie the Mitsui ; and title Might
they itearil the deceased comic iu and quarrel with her.
Use vottirss said. they had been separated Il ~,,,,, ins; .
Site fretweilkly was otssert c.nupatiy with aii.liner
111411, a atmer. The joty wiew,d tilt body, and, slier
cia.r4e from the ettroia:r. rMnruej 11114: IlAttOritt#
" ill deerawd committed the act of violence upon his
woe gill .nwlf welds to a state of letup tray derange-
ment."

riDINTKIASISIS —Yong, JAL 31.—Wrieht. the
(view ate.i ISe.uul erodes mail, ;141.iiituer..dorat tier .4 tflalll4
V% 4/IClr. ow &moon ttttt g to bi. to wail. 1140 miles in three
days, 111 the tollowing manner. fir lirrr 11. i). 40 miles
in y boors; anti in 'he seco:ol and unrd IL), 50 wilts
ill '1
Ile eround on o hien h. is in walk
I* tt th a mile still hack again, on the south road, c
to nit, cite 1 where he hits w ascend :11111 descend a if ry
steep bill. He bnsatt uis isiinert.ikioy ye-4'lday u.
mit at V 0 tui es vast nine. and arluc.u.lyd at ten
• before hetiig 11. d an hour of:hilt ;he time ie.
towel. He res ell Is:s ta.k this r11:14 al 2n .111:14,11
p.isi seven, alail completed the bit miles by Y I iiistsidt •
nielote serest this et enithz, being the
gisen iiiii e. tie will rec vier hie toetett.tking
morrow tniorti!mA; and, lions the in:11114:1 111 wli•Cli
lads vroceedeil there is holt. d..ubl bill iIIC rest..l
will b lit nur.ble to Itheiself. We totierstopti, that its
shout fourteco days, h.: commences to walk 400,1 tunes
iu i3Ouu hotirs at SiteCGAsl.

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SATURDAY NIGIIT'a PARLIAMENT.

HOUSF. OF LORDS.
FEll. 9.
Mr. Brogden and o hers brought tip the Irish Insurrection
Revival Hilt, and the Ilaheas Corpus Suspension Bill, from the
Commons.
laird LIVERPOOL said, under tl.c peculiar circumstances of
these Bills. be had to propeee the surpension of the time hog
Orders, which forbid their Lo,dships proceeding more than one
stage in a day.
Lord KING, before he could proceed to adopt this proposition,
wished to know- whether the Insurrection Bill contained any in-
demnity clause for in !gistrates. With such a clause he would
not trust enormous powers, like these, in the hands of any ',Me-
g sautes, notch les, et the hands of au Irish Magistracy. With
respect to the measures, if they were at all necessary, it was re-
quisite they should be passed without delay ; and therefore he
would not wish to delay them, if tier.. was no such elnuse. But,
if there was any clause which could be construed into an indem-
nity chime, he thought the opinion of the Judges ought to be
taken on any ambiguous clause in the meantime.
Load LIVERPOOL said, the Bill v. as a copy of 3 Bill formerly
passed, and he had now only to propose that it should be passed
for the present session.
Lord KING though/ the Noble Lord had not answered his
question as to the elau.v, and in answer to his propositioo to
laud the bill to six weeks, the noble Lord proposed to pass it fur
s.x months.
Lord ELLENBOROIiGH thought this was not the time for
entedry.
I lie Low., CH ANCELLGR considered that there was no
clause in the bill tininerly paces which was not necessary, and
agreed that this was not the time for enquiry.
Lord HOLLAND considered (111 S was the rime for enquiry.—
They ought to satisfy theniscives whether a bill containing
owes trampling on the constitution, also contained a clause
such as hi. nohle friend had alluded to, before they proceeded to
pass it, noel to pass it with a baste which called on them to com-
mit a Liretali 'dune of the most impottant standing orders.
Lori R EDESDA LE said the present bill was an exact copy
of the BA I thrinerly passed. That bill was before all their Loid-
Snips. anti it iris for any one of them to point out the particular
emus: which Lore the ambiguity alluded to by the Noble Lords
satAhe present occasion. lie otion Mr supending toe standing
orders was then agreed to,f andm the Bill wass read a lust time.
Lord LIVERPOOL then rose to move a second reading of the
Bill, and in doing so, went into a review of die present state of
Lehhaf. The tpues ion was whether suer an outrage and incur •
rection existed in that unhappy country as rendered thus strong
nut:sure necessary at the present moment. This was nut tae
time to enter into discussion on the cacumstatices which had
operated to place Ireland in her present distuibcd state. It a
titan'; house was on ti.e his first object would be to extinsuish
the flames. Ile would not, whilst the conliagtaiion was con-
suming his property, waste time iii considering how lie might
best revent his dwelling taking tire gain. So i thepresent case
lie copntended it was the duty of Paraliament, win thout delay, to
adopt measures for melting the present disturbances, and a
future opportunity aught be taken to adopt tteps to prevent a
rezurrenee of the present evils. The noble had then piocetied
to
describe die nature of the present disturbances, and contended
that the existing lewd, even with the employment tit' a large mi-
litary three, were not equal to meeting the exigencies of the case.
Tine Bills now proposeo, were intended to estaolish a system of
per ice that shored nut merely have the effect ut putting down in-
s-met:tams where it pievaiiiid, but tit preventing its sewing lised
Mother places. Tue hoole Ear: concluded twohung Co.:second
reading et the bill.
Lend KING deelated his intention to move, in the Committee,
that the bill should continue six weeks, instead ui six months.
Lord DA RN LEY, atter complaming or the measure, cited the
wards of a pamphlet writlanu, Inane oft he Govein-
went. One passage, speakinten to Ireg
of the endomrs formerly made
to subdue utsurrecnon by tile weans now proposed, said it wan
putting out tee tire and kicking about toe brands. Some time
ago, witen I Leland was in a most disturbed state. his Alajet:ty's
Miniseeis were called upon to advise his Majesty to cad his
Parliament, fur the purpose, not of producing coercion, but mea-
sures tit anie.ooratioti. Ireland now, by a continued course ot
coercion, was driven to despentnon. A population of 7,000,00 u
could not be thus governed. Tney required niea.,ures ot atiece.oa
rather than force. Ile did not otter any opposition to the ROA-
sure. If It was necessary to have euessuses of coercion, tins was
perhaps as paid as any other.
The Al argots CAMDEN expressed a hope that the bill would
pass without delay. He was one who thought it had not been
brought forward early enough; but tinder ail the circumstances
he should support it. %%itliuut a measure of tits sort they coal,'
not put titian those disturbances winch at present distractw
Ireland.
Laid ELLENBOROUGH was ready with the noble Lord to
tout the flame, but when the flame shown be extinguished,
Ii trusted the state ut Ireland *mud be taken into conatoerauon.
He found, by.die papers, that the south of Ireiand was defence-
less. Rebellion could only be put down by the sword, and he
asked what his Maje ty's Ministers had been doing since August.
Lord REDEsIJALE said, the nun-residence of persons in
Cork and Kerry was one of tine g eatest causes of disturbance.—
Thtte was a emposition in that country to be disobedient to the
law. and tile first thing to be done was to make Ireland obedient
to the law. High and low, rich and poor, would be made to
respect :he law. Convince them that they were protected by the
has. mai the spirit of insubordination would cease. lle sattl this
with a sincere ete.site to promoie the weltate uf that country. Let
the west proprietors of Ireland attend their Quarter Sessions, let
persons in high situations strictly du their duties, and sheer
would
toe
people of I relued that th they have wrongs, those wrongs
be redressed.
Lord HOLLAND said, he perfectly agreed with his leatned
friend, and the noble Lord who followed Man lie could, in
Get, hardly do any thing but repeat what his noble friend had
said, (rat he was driven, by necessity, to give Ms vote against
this measuie, as he did not consider it as :tai efficacious remedy
tor the oleanders which had existence. Ifis vote would be con-
sistent with all his public life, and be had not come to the can.
elusion of voting against the bill without some degree of difficulty.
lie could blast ut no great personal iminiacy with LordWeilesley,
but he loot nut the slightest objeciiou to confide the authority to
be vested in bin'. The nobre Lord had Said, that " when the
house was on fire, they must extinguish the Hanes;" Lut were
the LOW:. to be extinguis:md by scattering the brands ? Nu,
raCiet by water. Military force was the p roper means of extin •
guishing the flames. The power of tran.porting offenders, Alien
Wien, LOII-.41 not prevent the an act woold be
loelgiup; Lbiiraey pewee in tra: menus en the magistrates, winch
was nut to be booed in Engliala. The persona 'nun. rod with
the poser wore the most uutu in tire cdunery tie had the atone
oodnuri ut the magistracy tit an connotes, taut he wunli out
uiske
• exec} tsar; iii t..vtnnr loi .hat tit ficanal. The ettotts of it, in
that °yawl) , w u e hawa n tottery body tot the last YV y ears, aoo
this wielle /..e a ices.. measure to gall the too munch irridioal people
of 17ciond. The neuie Luso tii.n Teira.-..ed in lot ethic terdai the
Trovwnusa the lri.h b it, rind unease!, oust from
its ersaent.a. nothing but an tol ail the ....forturuite
evils of frelaria Walt. be antien In his Majesty's
40%...aw.wi. wt.(' p....k000a111181J.11, 'Mew 11:ftt !be most idaintrous
shoe:* wl.xrr luau iliagneed o e ..i.rias or au, mousses.) upon
lIS been i.v.pet' alto is; Guise .lAt: aminnistrat•on
a-,; cf ::eve tie..? 'hit ut tht lanehoiy
u.tioLls of suet. aua
stei,
rjrnein of sicuent law s int the bad sham
i'. polka. ;..' •' it lol—noe of every
. Clash) Toe du:whilst gate sot sOootty
.