The National Register.
London, England, 1815-02-19 00:00:00

BOXING.

A baker, of the name Manby, on Monday entered the ring with
Croxley, at Willsdoil Green. where a roped ring of t's feet was
foreted at two o'clock. Oliver the Westminster hero, seconded
Croxley, and the bottle-holder was Scroggios. Maltby was seconded
by H. Harmer and Paddington JON'S. Betting 6t04 ou the tar.
It wool(' be impossible to give the rounds of this very manly fiy,lit
in dt.tail. They con‘isted of 116, which occupied two hours. In
the first round the Baker made two short hits and slipped up with-
out mischief on either side. Two blows were exchanged in the
second round, Nat the ground was slippery, and the baker went
down by accident. In the third round the baker having got his
roper length, he hit out and drew first blood with his left hand on
the head, and knocked the sailor down with his right. Jack looked
about him, and went in again undauntedly to the fight. The fourth
round was also in favour of the
,baker, who planted a heavy blow
which forced much blood again. Bettiug was. now 6 to 4on the
baker, but the odds fluctuated materially every ten mitintes, fur the
state of the ground was ouch that there was no certainty in planting
blows. The seventh was a good rallying round,,and the sailor re-
ceived a severe blow on the neck, which caused much blood to flow
inwardly from the ear throughout the battle. Croxley turned the
odds in his favour again atter this, and kept it until the 84th round
by determined fighting, each having made a gallant struggle, l'I)e
baker took the lead again fut several rounds after.tbe 84th, and he
gave his adversary two very Clean cross-buttocs.
In the 180th round both wet,e an exhausted that they went flown
upon their faces, and were tenable from weakness to extricate them-
mitres without the assistance of their seconds. The baker got weak
soon after this, and Croxley won at last,
.but with much difficulty.
Beth men showed determined courage thank) it the fight, and
weight brought the sailor through.
A iwoopd botelp.was foustit between two hc kney mama.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.
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MONDAY, FEL 13.

The Earl of Sliairesetaopresiented a Petition from the Common
Council of the City of London, praying fur • repeal of the Lisslvest
Debtors' Act. Ordered to lie on the table.
The Earl of HAT: owtcx E presented a Petition from the landholders
in the neighbourhood of Royston, praying fur • revision and correction
of the Corn Laws. His Lordship observed, that it seas not his intro•
tion to move for a renewal of the Committee under whose consideration
that question was last Session ; the great importation which had taken
place, decisively proved the necessity of some measure to protect the
agriculture of the country withent any farther delay, and had rendered
the revival of the Ceruinittee on the 0011 Laws superfluous. fl! was
happy to understand that the subject was in the hands of the Executive
Government ; and as the matter was in their hands, it was not hisin-
tention to propose any Bill to the House.
Lord G nen vt t.t.e rose for the purpose of submitting to their Lord.
ships a motion in some degree connected with the petition which bad
been presented by the Noble Earl (Ilardwicke). No man was more
desirous than lie (Lord G.) was, that the claims of those petitioners
should receive due consideration. No man was more sensible of the
'difficulties under which they laboured; and if he had the misfortune
of differing totally from them as to the sources from which those diffi-
culties had arisen, it was not from any insensibility to the magnitude vf
the distress which pressed upon the agriculturists of the country. He
could not agree with the Noble Earl, that no necessity existed for the
renewal of the Corn Committee. Although many persons bad been
examined before that Committee, to explain the variation between tpe
prices of foreign and British corn, yet the information on that branch of
the question was very imperfect; and the evidence annexed to the
Report contained a very partial and limited view of the whole subject,
and wag net at all calculated to enable their Lordships to proceed with
co,.firle, ce to legislate anew as to the means of subsistence of the com.
tiy. He had not tort with any thing which had et all varied the strerig
opinion which lie had entertained last year, that the measures which fot
two years past bad been prop .std to Parliament, were not only unjust,
hysiiihilig the weight from thnie who ought to bear them to those who
onoht not to bear them, but had a tendency to aggravate the evils under
which the country antlered. He'had been induced thus early to express
his opinion on the subject from' the apprehension that when argument
might be supposed to have a weight there would be no time allowed
for debate. His Lordship thought the measure wuuld have stood a
better chance for fair discussien when proposed by an individual, than
when brought forward, supported by all the influence of the Executive
Government. lie 100 k no interest in the question. but that which as
an Englishman he felt in the peace and welfare of the country ; .and lie
was convinced that if the measure in question was taken up by the Ex-
ecutive Government, they never had proposed a law more calculated
to injure hott-. His Lordship then moved for an account of the Input.-
tatioti and Exportation of Grain between Great Britain and Ireland, in
the several years from 1807 to the latest time to which they could be
made up, according to the books of the Customs of England and Scot-
land.
The Earl of L.tenrnoste defended the conduct of the Corn Com-
mittee. His Noble Friend (Lord Grenville) had regretted that the
business should have fallen into the hands of the Ministers ; but lie
could see no impropriety in the Executive Government co-operating:to
produce a great national good.
Lord Greuville's motion for Papers was then agreed tu.—Adjourneds

TUESDAY, FEB. 14.
Lord Walsingimm's Annuity Bill was committed and reported.
Lee's Divorce Bill was read a first time.—Adjourned.

WEDNESDAY, PER. 5.
The Duke of NORFOLK mooed that Ilia average prices of grain
in the maritime districts for the last quarter be laid before. the
House.

Ear! LAUDERDALE said the returns from those districts were en•
tirely wrong; and so also was the manner in which the Inspector-
General struck the average. Suppose 100 quarters had been sold at
80s. ; 200 at 705.; 300 at 6os. ; and -100 at Slls. ; the usual method tri
make up an average would be to divide the sum for which the whole
.had been sold by the number of quarters, and take the product. But
the Inspector-General's method would be to divide the sum or the tour
different prices by lour, and take the product as the average price.
But as it most frequently happened that the greatest quantity was

lER. 19.

„„hi As the lowest price, the method punined by the Inspectors G-
eneral gave a high average. He hoped. therefore, that in coy legis-
'five measure that might be adopted, the method of making up the
returns. and the towns from which they were made should be re-
gulated. The motion was carried.
The Duke of Nonswat presented a Petition from the Ward of
Billingsgate aesinst the Property Tax; he at the same time re-
marked, that from what lie had ever seen of the execution of the
Act, the conduct of the Commissioners was always lenient in
the extreme. As to the merits of the Property Tax, lie thought
that if any additional taxes were necessary, a tax on the income
of property, judiciously modified, would be the best tax that
could be adopted, and would be much preferable to an increase of
the Assessed Taxes, or any other. Even the continuance of the
present Income Tax was preferable to touching the Sinking Fund.
The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM expressed a wish to be informed
if the annexation of Genoa to Sardinia was sanctioned by the Bri•
fish Government; if it were, after Lord Win. Bentinek, in his
Proclamations, had so solemnly assured them of their independence
being respected, he considered that we had closed' the war by an
set as detestable as any of those which bad armed the civilized
voi Id against the French.
The Fail of LIVERPOOL declined saying further than that he
should hereafter prove, that the British Government bad committed
no breach of faith. and that no expectations which the Genoese
mere warranted in entertaining had been disappointed.
Earl Frrzwlt.LlAM made his promised motion respecting the
militia ; his Lordship, after an able speech, moved—
g‘ That an humble Address be presented to his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent, representing that by the Acts now in existence,
the Militia was directed to be called out in the event of invasion or
danger of invasion, insurrection, or rebellion. and only in those
cases—that in the present happy situation of affairs, no one of these
case, existed—that they with great humility, represented, that the
keeping the militia embodied in these circumstances, was a direct
violation of these Militia Acts, and contrary to law—that this
grievance called for immediate redress, and that they hoped that
hi, Royal Highness would be most graciously pleased to direct that
the Militia be disembodied without delay.”
Viccomit Sidinontli, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Ellenborougli,
contended that the Militia Acts Nicely left to the Crown a discre-
tionary power to act silth respect to that force, under the control)!
of Parliament, in keeping it embodied or in disembodying it, as was
most for the interest of the Public, and that therefore the conduct of
Ministers was perfectly constitutional.—Lord Grenville and the
Marquis of Buckingham supported the motion; on a division, the
numbers were—Contents, I ; Non-Contents, 27—Majority against
the Address, 15.—Adjourned.

THURSDAY, FEB. It. •.
Lord MOKTFORT presented a Petition from Mrs. Catherine
Leigh, wife of Francis Leigh, Clerk, against the Bill now before
the House for the dissolution of their marriage, by reason of adul
tery. The petition stated, that from her poverty she was not in a
condition to spew by Counsel that Mr. Leigh was not entitled to the
remedy which lie prayed, and that the Bill ought not to be passedi
and she requested their Lordships would afford her such relief as
the case appeared to require. The Petition was ordered to be taken
into consideration on Tuesday.
The Lord CHANCELLOR presented an amended Bill fdr
&eine Trial by Jury in Scotland in civil cases; the former Bill
was withdrawn.—Adjourned.

FRTI)AV, FEB. 10.
No business of importance occurred this day.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, FEJIRVARY 15.

Petitions, praying for soma legis'ative measure to protect the
Corn Trade, were presented Rom the Land -nwners and Corn-growers
of Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Reigate, Croydon, and
Guildford.

The Bill for more Ppeetlily producing the Civil List Acconnts in'
future pa.sed through a Committee.
Mr. WHITBREAD inquired, whether a Lord of the Admiralty
had not jnft been appointed a Secretary of Legation to Lisbon, with
a salary of 12001. a year, in addition to the enormous grant already
made to Mr, Canning: for which that Right Hon. Gentleman had yet

done nothing but deliver a brilliant speech to a Deputation of the
British Factory?-1-The question not being readily answered, it was
twice repeated.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER then said, the Committee
was to infer, that he had been asked a question which he was
slot prepared to answer.—[On a subsequent evening (W'sdnesday),
Mr. Vansittart denied that any such appointment was iu contem-
plation.]

THE PROCEEVINGS OF CONGRESS.

Mr. WEITTBRAED said, that notwithstanding the apparent reso-
lution of the Gentlemen who represented the Administration in that
House, to maintain their dignity, to evince their discretion, or to
conceal their ignorance, by a pertinaciotn silence respecting the
proceedings of Congress—notwithstanding the declared purpose of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to answer any question upon
that subject until the return of crur negociator, by whom that Right
Honourable Gentleman promised that a most satisfactory explana-•
lion would he given upon all possible topics, he still thought it his
duty to call the attention of the House to this vets interesting
seb-
ject. Still he felt it expedient to trace the conduct and march of
our negociator, upon points of vital importance to the honour anti
interest of this country—to the general repose and future security of
Europe. That this negociator had, in concert with our Allies, en-
gaged in the unholy Congress at Vienna, departed altogether in
practice from the principles which they not long since so loudly
and so proudly professed, lie had no hesitation in asserting; for
there was already but too much evidence before the world to justify
the charge—a concurrence of well.fonnded information from various
parts of Europe. left, unfortunately, no doubt of this fact. The •
unjust design upon Saxony was now matter of indisputable notoriety;
and the authenticity of Prince Repnin's Proclamation at Dresden,
transferring that country to the dominion of Prussia, could be HO
longer questioned. Yet, at the time that Proclamation became
known in the country, it would he recollected that the well informed
Mini:ter of that House expressed doubts upon the subject, although
it was now ascertained that our Noble Negotiator had actually put
his signature to a paper authorising the transfer of Saxony to Prus-
sia, and of course sanctioning the Proclamation of Prince Repnin.
Nay, although the Right Honourable Gentleman expressed his dis-
belief, or even horror at the idea, that any English Minister should
assent to suck a measure, our Negotiator was actually a party to it.
For this proceeding, however, it would appear, that either our Ne-
gociator had not the authority of his Government, or that, in con-
sequence of the public feeling excited by the'transaction, that Go-
vernment was iinpellcd to change his instructions; and accordingly
the Noble Lord was directed to present a protest against the an-
nexation of Saxony to Prussia. But whether the Noble Lord acted
without instructions in the first instance, or received contradictory
• instructions afterwards, 'it so happened that Saxony was still in the
possession of Prussia. He did not presume to ask any explanation
upon this subject, nor did lie expect any. But the case was before
the country and Europe, which! would decide upon its merits and
upon the principles of those with whom it originated; upon whose
conduct in fact it was impossible to reflect, without astouishment
and indignation. For they who had been for so many !years appeal-
ing to the opinion of mankind the abuse of power ; they
who had been so loudly invoking the aid of humanity and justice,
and every sacred principle against the Emperor of France ; they
who had been so actively exciting all heat ts and all hands against
that power which was now no 'more, were in their present unhal-
lowed proceedings, only to be'found imitating, or even eclipsing
the worst acts of that power. Who then could review such infa-
mous coetinct without shame, remorse, and regret? The cause of
proceeding designed and pursued with respect to Italy, tinder the
sanction of Congress, was but too well known to those who had any
opportunity ofinformation,as well as to those who ale suffering. In
that country; after a pompons promise, but a short time since, of
establishing Italian independence, such scenes were acting, as must
revolt the feelings of every man who bad any regard for humanity,
justice, and, truths- area, Italian independence was exhibited on the
standards, and prattudgated in die I:declamations of oar commander
npon his first entrance into that country. By such means, Lord
Wm. Bentinck endeavoured to excite die Italian people to co-ope-
rate against the late Governor of France. Here the Honourable
Gentleman read to the House the proclamation of Lord William
Bentinck, dated March 14,1814, and issued opon his landing in Tus-
cany. This proclamation invited the Italians to arms, and stromtly
exhorted the Italian army to co-operate for the recovery of their
rights, by shaking offs foreign yoke, and for the re-establisiftetent of
r their national independence,
which alone our Commander professed
I to have in view, and to which he pledged the good faith. of Went