The National Register.
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F. Denham, jun. King-street, Covent-garden. milliner.--J. Et.
Stockpoet, joiner.—G. Giehrook, Sloane-terrace, linendraper.
.—J. hate. Tarry 'Barr, turn-dealer.—W. W. Young, Newton Not
'cage. merchant.—W. Cowdroy, Maaehencr. printer—J. Hatfield,
Eccles, cotton-manutieturer.—.l. Bishop, Wact‘n, innkeeper.—J.
£kr4, Hatrunontankh, coach-manes.

Mr. Lowrie, Dram-major el the Ist or Grenadier Guards,
I,4oiag spent the night on Tuesday at the Gnard•room, at the
Horse Guards, with some friend., rni•ted it about two o'clock
'wetlncsday morning, iatendiug to go home to Knightsbridge;
but finding the gate shut at the top of Constitltiorehill, and
unwilling to go round, he endeavoured to scale it; but on
ircadlting the top, the spikes penetrated his thigh, and lie

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vcsietinetlettspended thereon nearly NM minutes. his cries at
Ot length being heard by Mr. Nelson, of Eaton Gardens, who
e I. twaPPened to Le passing with a friend, they with difficalty re-
* leaved him float his borate F.itnation, ami ,conveyed him
to. St. bulge's Hospital, where he remains in a precarious
state._

A few evenings since as a small boat, in which were R. and
ff. Griggs, two pilots, and their nephew, was tetaruing
from spratting, oft Haber, by a sodden gust ef wind she wits
upset, and all three precipitated into the ts7ster. 11. Griggs
estricatt tl himself, and succeeded in d. awing his ii phets. a
outtlt hid fre.in antler the boat, and they reached the shore:
-I,u; tentaisted, fir want of assistance. •-• !Itch VO:11,1
not be procured, for unwinds of In culottes,; and wheua,asful
up, it was 14/ought the vital wark was extinct ; but being
taken to the lams': of x friend., the wean, rt commended by,
the Humane :society were tried, and after three hours an rsc.l
verance, crowned with acme) awl be 15 gOss.4oidg

TUT: NATIONAL REGISTER.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUrSDAY, JAN. 27.

This day, shortly after Wer o'clock, the Lord Chancellor,
with the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, the Earl of Har.
roethy, the Earl of Westmorland, and the Doke of Montrose,
u Lords Commissioners, entered the House; and as soon as
the House of Commons, attended by their Speaker, in rouse_
(pence of the usual summons, appeared at the bar, his Lord-
sl►ih read the Speech as follo%s:--
••
My Loaas, sad G) artystrls.
" We ate commanded by :as Royal Flightless the Prince Regent to
infortn you, that it is with great concern that he is obliged to an.
nounce to you the coati:llona of his Majesty's lamented indispo-
sition._

" The Prince Regent is persuaded that you will deeply participate
in the affliction with which his Royal Highness has been visited, by
the calamitous and untimely death of his beloved and only child the
Princess Charlotte.

" Under this awful dispensation of Providence, it has Deena sooth-
ing consolation to the Praia Regent's heart, to receive from all de-
scriptions of his Majesty's subjerts the most cordial assurances, both
of their just sense of the loss which they have sustained, and of
their svmpathy with his parental sorrow ; and amidst his own suffer-
ings, his Royal Highness has not been unmindful of the effect which
this sad event must have on the interests and future prospects of the
kingdom.
" We are commanded to acquaint you, that the Pritee Regent
continues to receive from Foreign Powers the strongest a.aueleeesef
their friendly disposition towards this country, and of their desire to
maintain the general tranquillity.
" His Royal Highness has the satisface.on of being able to assure
yen, that the confidence which he has invariably felt in the stability
of the great sources of our national prosperity has not been disap-
pointed.
" The improvement which has taken place in the course of the last
year in einem every branch of our domestic indusuy, and the pre•
sent state of public credit, afford abundant proof that the difficulties
under which the country was hibouring were chiefly to be ascribed to
temporary causes.
" So impottant a change could Dot fail to withdraw from the dis•
affected the principal means of which they had availed themselves for
the purpose of fomenting a spirit of discontent. which unhappily led
to arts of insurrection and treason ; and his Royal Highness enter-
tales the most confident expectation that the state of peace and tran-
quility to which the country is now restored, will be inaintained
against all attempts to disturb it, by the persevering vigilance of the
Magietracy, and by the loyalty and good sense of the people.
GENTLEMEN OF Till: House OF CONt3IONS.
" The Prince Regent has directed the estimates t'ur the current year
to be laid before you.
" His Rural fliglineee recommends to your continued attention the
state of die public income and expenditure of the country; and lie is
most happy in being able to acquaint you, that since you were last
assembled in Parliament, the revenue Iris been in a state of progres-
sive iiiipnweinnet in its most important trtat
" V LORDS, AND GENTLEMEN.
" Weare commareled by the Prince Regent to inform you, that
be has concludeltreaties with the Courts of Spain and Portugal, on
the important anted of the abolition of the slave-trade.
" f lit, Royal II igehese has directed that a copy of the former treaty
shall be itnniediately laid before you, and he will order 2i similar
communication to be made of die latter treaty, as soon as the ratifica-
tion of it shall have ewe' exchanged.
" In these negeciations, it has been his Royal Highness's endes-
your, as far as circumstances would permit, to give effect to the re-
commendations contained in the joint Addresses of the two Honses of
Parliament, and his Royal Highness has a full reliance on your rea-
diness to adopt such immures as may be necessary for fulfilling the
eugastements into which he has entered for that purpose.
"'The Prince Regent has commanded us to direct your particular
attention to the deficiency which has long existed in the number
of plates of public worship belonging to the Established Church,
when compared with the increased and increasing population of the
country.
" His Royal Highness most earnestly recommends this imp-emit
subject to your early consideration, deeply impressed, as he hss no
doubt you are, with a just sense of the many blessings which this
country, by the favour of Divine Providence, has enjoyed ; and with
the conviction, that the !religious and moral habits of the people are
the most sure and firm foundation of national prosperity."
Earl ‘VHITWORTIf took the oaths and his seat. Their
Lordship then adjourned till live o'clock. ‘Vhen they again
assembled,
Lord HOLLAND rose to say a few words on the act passed
last session of' Parliament for the suspension of the act of
Habeas Corpus. He did trust and hope, that the Noble Lord
or some of his Majesty's Ministers, intended to move the re-
peal of that Act, as a kind of act of grace, after they had so
wantonly and so unnecessarily suspended so great a protee- ;
tion of the freedom of the subject. The leading topic of the '
speech which their Lordships had heard, was one on which
no man M that house could hold any but one opinion ; and
every man, he was sure, would concur with him in lamenting
the occasion of that topic's having been introduced.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that if the Noble Lord had
waited till the due course of business, he would have heard
what would certainly take place during the evening. If lie
had widitil till that subject was more immediately under cue-
sidetation, he would have heard his Noble Friend melee a
preposition exactly such as the Noble Lord himself wished.
ADDRESS TO THE PRINCE BEGENT.
The Earl of A xi.eseort la, in nosing the usual Adt/rese, de-
plored the loss which the country had sustained in the death
of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte. He glanced
at the difficulties akiolt the country had had to contend with,
and rejoiced drat the present aspect of atiUirs seas more
gratifying.
Lord Series seconded the motion. He dwelt upon the
topics of the speech at some length, and cent taWlatcd flee
country on the escape which we had had from ali the horrors
of snatchy.
Earl STA NiOrli began by avowing his independerece in po.
litics. and by deprecating all systematic opposition to the
government. He' thought the measures which had been
adapted to suppress the mullahs which had arisen ire the comae
try hail been most effectual, and that the administration had,
with great abi!lty, steered the vessel of the state iii safety
theougli aanost dangerous storm. He combated at soiree length
the argument,' of those who had contetith•d, that the Allies
had co right to interfere in the internal affairs of France;.
but he would say, -that as the Allies had twice conquered
France, they had aright to dispose of her ae they thought ti .
For his part, lie was of opinion that the best mode of teem.
inrher, would have been to divide her into three merle, and
create new dynasties upon the newly erected throne.. A.
things were; however, he was decidedly of opinion, that Louis
XVIII. nmed his present existence, as a king, to the al Ma It
the Allies, .nd as the peace of Europe depended on tleraiii
France, he would strongly opuuae the withdrawing of the
army eerier:upsilon.
The Margins of Leesnowese deplored the•calamity whirl,
had visited We coulee., and thouilit that the
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public opinion upon it had heels such as must convince every
man that the people were well affected to the House which
rules over them. There were parts in the Address to which
he could not give his concurrence, although he did te t intend
to move any amendment. He meant those parts which pro_
plied a doubt that the tranquillity of the country could havq
been restored by less violent means than the Suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act. After all the trials which had taken
place, could tin it Lordships believe that there bad been any
thing like an organized conspiracy e Even at Derby, where
the evidence had been the strongest, and where execution bad
followed conviction, 18 dragoons had been sufficient to quell
the whole rebellion.

The Earl of LivcrtPooL dekoded the eoprse which minis..
tere had pursued, on the ground that their Lordships' report
and subsequent information, had showed that the state of the
country was such as to require extraordinary means to tran-
quilite it. In reference to our relations with France, his
Lordship observed, that the great object of this country. was
to preserve the peace of Europe, and the course which his
Majesty's Government was resolved to pursue, was such as
would most effectually accomplish that object.
The Addre:.s was then agreed to. _

On the motion of the Fllll Lie en POOT,, an address of con-
dolence was ordered to be presented to her Majesty on the
death of the Princess Charlotte.

Lord St n stouTn, in order that the bill for repealing the sns.
pension of the Habeas Corpus Act might pass through all its
stages to-morrow, now moved that the standing orders regn.
luting the reading of bilk be suspended. Agreed to.
Tim Earl of LivEttemit., in einkerptence of Mr. Rose, who
has succeeded liis father'ilr eleik of Parliament, being abroad,
moved that Henry Cooper, Esq. be authorised to sign papers
and bills in his stead.

Lord HOLLAND observed, that as this was a patent office,
the House was placed in the situation of having persons r_
pointed as their Lordship's clerk OVer %%limn they had no
control. He proposed that a committee should be appointed
to inquire into the causes which had produced the circum-
stances in which the House was placed, and to report thereon.
The Earl of LIN ElivonL thought it would be bet ter to wai t
until the patent should he laid on the table. When that dc-
canwnt was! before their Lurd.hips, it would be proper fel-
them to determine what proceedings ought to be instituted.
The motion he proposed was, at present, the ouly course
which could be taken.

After a few word, front Lord GROSVENOR, the 'notion Naa
agreed to, and the }lowa adjourned.

WI?ON ES U,l Y.

The Earl of LtcenpooL laid on the table copies of the
treaties between his Catholic Majesty and his Britannic Ma.
jest respecting the discontinuance of the Slave Trade by the
subjects of Spain.
REPEAL OF THE SUWENSTON OF THE HABEAS
CORPUS.

Lord SIO,IOUTH presented a Bill for repealing the Act
passed in the last F essiou of Parliament, to empower his Ma-
jesty to seciore and detain persons suspected of conspiring,
against lois :Majesty's person and goveroorneut.—The Bill ‘,."
then read a first time.

After n loch, on Lord Sidnotith's notion, the standing
order, No. 3ti, relative to the progress of public bills %as read
and sn•pended. _

His Lordship next moved the Ferind reading of the Riti
he had introduced for repealing the Habeas Corpus Suspen-
sion Act.

Lord HOLLAND, thong!, he certainty did not rise to oppose
the motion, could not avoid saying a few words On the cir-
cumstances which had led to it. Belie% ing, as he did, that
the whole of their Lordships' proceedings in passing, the Act
far suspending the Habeas Corpus •had rested upon garbed
and unfeir evidence, he must state that he could rot be satis.
fuel with the mere repeal of that Act, and that he thought an
inquiry into the grounds on which it had been passed ought
to be instituted. '1 he right which had been snspended, he
wished to remind them, was nut one which had been granted
by any Act of Parliament whatever. 'Die personal liberty
of the people was no concession. It was a tight antecedent
to any statute, and equal to the right of their Lordships to
vote in that House, or to the right of the King to sit on the
throne. He did not mean to say that there was any elisolutso
limitation to the power of Parliament on this subject, w lien
circumstances rendered such a stretch of power iudispensihle;
hut he did say, that to suspend this right of the people was an
act of as great violence as to suspend the perogatives of the
Crown, and could only he justified by the clearest evidence
of the most overwhelming necessity. lbasere was any dis-
loth:ince or conspiracy to be found that could justify such a
measure? It was not to be found in any uf the legal proceed.
hogs which bad taken place in this metropolis or even at
Derby. Dill it appear in any of the proceedings which had
taken place in Scotland? A dreadfnl oath, an oath which •.%:-.S
nut fit to he publicly elated, it was said, had been taken in
in that country. Ministers, it was asei ted, had the fullest
evidence of a most extensive conspiracy, but which evidence
they did not choose to disclose. Well, their Law 0:11cei s
proceeded to try these conspirators and • ath-takers is Scot-
land. At first, theirlaidietment was wrong; a new indict-
ment was preferred; but, after all, they failed in provin4 that
any illegal oath had hewn taken. None of these proceedings
afforded any appearance °fa necessity for the measure which
Ministets had iecoinmencied and which Pal hament had been
induced to adopt. Bat the Noble Lail (Liverpool) had de.
Glared that lie was ready to prove, not only that the teeasare
was justified by the state of the country at the time, hut that
it hail been productive of the greatest advantages. That the
country was in better circumstances now time last year he
was happy iv believe ; but whatever imp' ovement had taken
place, certainly wits not owing to the stispeitiou of the Habeas
Corpus Act. If a Committee should be instituted, it must
lint he formed as that of last year had been. The inquiry, :o
give satisfaction. tbe tiitunte and complete. If a Com-
mittee should he agreed to, it utight to I,e an open one, to
which all their Lordship :wall have access ; and Men he
might bore, that no evidence would he permitted to be
garbled Us' withheld, as, lie was assured, could be plover, to
have been done by Ministers hi the Committee of last
year. Information had hien received by Ministers which
would have tended to counteract the itopression of other evi.
deure before the Committee, but which had never come to
their kande. This was a subject which called for a strict

Lust Si trampris did not expect that the Noble Lord would
Lave thought it psup. r, on the present occasion, to address to
tit. r Lordhhir alawevatsoub of the natuae of those they had
yowl heard. Tlw Nuide Lord had stated, that there was MI
,'essay foe the .Art ot lam Ae•,ion... Of .thia !!C
she-reptat made by the Committee -
oh, Ille ille11:!:e
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Act woes ptro~rd,
atiOrded its complete lotutation. The v)l,:e
Lord had also asserted, that the cv;duncr. Frail/wed, by 2.1:4;,.

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tern was garbled, and that information which ought to have I
been communicated to the Committer. was withli el.!. Ito well
knew that the Noble Lord was incapable of stating any thing
which he did not in conscience believe to be true, but he
could assure their Lordships that every kind of information
which could with propriety he laid before the Cnumnittee had
been produced to then:, and that nothing had been with.
geld which was necessary to enable them to arrive at a fair
and proper conclusion on the question submitted to their eon-
'Aeration. The Noble Lord also denies that the Act of last
session has been of any advantage to the country. In Cie
Prince Regent's Speech, it was true, only the other causes
which bad contributed to the returning prosperity of the
country were mentioned, but it did not follow that great benefit
Lad not hoen derived from the suspension of the Habeas Car.
has Act. There never was a greater contrast exhibited by
toe cnnotty than that which the comparison of its present
state with that of last year afforded; and he would now main.
tain, and if the occasion should arrive, would prove, that the
act of last session had mainly contributed to this result. The
edicts it had had in many parts of the country did not rest
on assertion; they were already proved. The magistrates
anti persons best informed in the county of Leicester stated,
on their knowledge, that the passing of the suspension Act
had produced tnatiquility in manufacturing districts where
the greatest alarm for the peace of the country had preyiously
existed. In another place, where there had been a more•
formidable manifestation of treason, the good effects of the
measure haul been still more apparent—he meant that insur-
rection in consequence of which a bill of indictment had been
found against the of who were tried at Derby. On
that occasion, ten of the persons accused tied ; four were
sentenced to suffer death; and in all, thirty one contesaed
toemselves guilty of high treason, some of whom were trans-
petted, and the remainder pardoned. These men, beside%
making a confession of their guilt, gave certain information
that an insurrection of a much more formidable minim
than that in which they had been enzafted was in contempla-
tion, and would itifallably have taken place had not the Ha-
beas Corpus Act been suspended. It was that 'straw(' alone
which haul deterred them. Thus it was proved by inentitro-
vertiblv evidence, that the measuo e for which the Sold- Lord
contended there was no necessity, had preserved the pest .
and tranquility of the country. As to the penegyric that the
Noble Lord bad passed on the privilege of Englishmen to he
called to trial,and publicly charged with the offences of which
they were ►nspectcd, his Majesty's Ministers had shown their
reapeet for iht se gloriutii and exalted rights in the proceed.
hags of that day. The act then tinder their consideration did
not expire until the I st of March, and that there was no record
on the jouraals of the house, that an act of that description
had ever been repealed, er not suffered to run out to its ut-
most limit, But kis Majesty's Ministeis admitted that nothing
could justify the continuance of such an act hut the necessity
which originated it, and when that necessity ceased, it was
due to the legislature and to the people of this country to re.
peal it lot thwith. The Bill was then read a second and ?held
time, ordered to be eng: ossed, and sent to the COMISCHIS.—
Adjourned.
Tnunsn xr. _ _ _

The Earl of Ltvenanot. rose, in the absence of his Noble
Friend, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to
give notice. that it was thaintention of that Noble Lord to lay
before the House on Monday next, certain papers relative to
the internal state of the country, and to move that these do•
currents be rsferreil to a Conunittee (tithed'. Lordships' House.
He therefore now moved that their Lordships be summoned
for Monday next.
An order was made, that no Petitions for Private Bills be
received after the 3d of alarrh next,und no Reports from
the Judges on Petitions fur Private Bills after the 10th of
April.
flie Bill for repealing the Habeas Corpus Snspension Act
was brought up from .the Commons by Mr. Brogden and
others.
The Lord CHANCELLOR read the title of the Bill and Mated
t it had been retained without any amendment.—
Adjourned to Saturday.
—mar—