The Sun.
London, England, 1822-03-29 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. •-
JOViS, 28° die Martii, B'2.
Gas LlGHT—Wigan—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill or-
dered ; Leave given to present the Bill on or before Monday.
DLTIVII AM PAVING BlLL—Report from ;he Committee ap-
pointed to inspect the Journals of the House of Lords,
btou.ht up and read ; to lie on the table.

-.AND LIGHTING—BiII ordered.
RoAns—Brighton and Shoreham—read a third time, and
passed. Whirchurch rmd.Ternhill, and Nether Bridge and
Millthrop,-reported, to be ingrossed. lioniton—Petition
tbr additional provisjon reported, Report to lie on the table.
brctosunEo,--Bra.b.ourne,.&c. (Kent)—reported, to be in-'
grossed. Tansivy (Derby),Petition,• of Unwin Heathcote,
Esq., against;:ta he on the table till second reading.
BARNSLEY ISIPRcIyEMENT;,-re,eommitted Bill reported, to
be ingrossed..
onri LAWS--Petition of, Merchants and Corrifactors of Lon-
don (preesented March), .referred to the Committee on
Agricultural Distress.
AG atc ULTURAL DlSTRESS—Petitions from Cottingham, and
tile Hundreds of Odsey—to lie on the table, and to be printed.
LIVE RP() /, Wa =1: E 4:Bit.4.—Petition of Landholders and In-
habitans of Toxteth Park; also, of Surveyors of the High-
ways, and other Inhabitants of Liv,2rpool, against, to lie on
the table till second reading.
Smi.t.r. DEBTS—Petition from Wells, in favour of a Small
" Debts Bill—to lie on the table.
Susan—Petition of West India Proprietors and Merchants of
Liverpool, for a reduction of the Duties thereon-to lie on
the table, and. to be printed.
DANA )A—Petition of. Merchants, Ship-owners, and others,
interested in
.the • trade of Canada, resident in Liverpool,
complaining of distressed state of the Colony, and. praying
for relief; to lie on
,the table, and to be printed.
WET'. INDIA•C9LQNIEs-,Petition of Planters, Merchants,
and Proprietors of British West India Colonies, complain-
ing of the• distressedstate of the Colonies, and praying for
relief ; to lie on,thetable, and to be printed. •
WEST INDIA .DOCKS—Petition of West India Planters, for
an inquiry.intxathe Affairs of the:Company ; referred to the
Committee an Foreign Trade. •
C.IIA-ar t Es—Seventh Report of Comm issioners presented;( Ad- •
dress 27th March):;--to heron the table, .and to be printed.
BRAY DRAINAGE AMENDMENT BlLL—Petition of Owners

and Occupiers of .LanclS 'in Bray; against ; to lie on the
Table till secondreading ;_ Counsel ordered. •
GREENWICH.CHIHICII—Petition for further time for present-
ing the Bill; referr6l to a Committee. .
REFORM OF. PARLIAMENT—Petition of Mayor and COM-
monity of Monmouth, for a Reform of Parliament ; to lie
on the Table, and to be printed.

ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY.
1. Vagrant LRWR. AMendment Bill—Second Reading.'
2. Summary Proceedings Bill—Further consideration of Re-
port.
Supply—Committee.
4. Ways and Means—Committee.
6- Bank of Ireland Charter Acts—Committee thereupon.
e. Five per 'Cents. (Ireland)' BM—Further C-onsideration of
Report.'
7. Slave TradeAbolition' Act—Report thereupori.
8. Fever hospitals (Ireland) Bill—Third Reatiitig.
9. Innkeepers' Bill—Committee.
N. Malt and Countervailing Duties (Ireland) Acts—Commit..
tee thereupon::
NOTICES OF MOTIONS for THIS DAY.
I. Mr Charles to regulate the sale of Bread in
the Metropolis.
2. Mr. Arbuthnot,—Commiisariat, Barrack, and Miscellane-
ous Estimates; (In Committee of Supp.)
Mr. Hum6-Z-LExi)enditure (Third Class), Civil List.
.4- Mr. Chancethir of the Exchequer,—lnterest and Sinking
Fund on Exchequer Bills. (In Committee of Supply.)
PRIVATE BlLLS—Second Readings for This Day.
1. Dartford Road - I 3. Scatborough Pier.
2. Lincoln Heath Road

• PRICE OF STOCKS
TIIIS DAY AT ONE 0-CLOCK.
Bank Stock shut South Sea Stock 89
3 per Cent.. C(6'3. •80i 79/ 80i Excheq. Bills 1 3 1 pr.
per Cent. Navy Ann. lon Bank for Opening
Imp. 3 per Cents. -80 Cans. for Account 80ail

HIGH WATER A.T LONDOP
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;BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Evening, 36 minutes after 7.

THE SUN.

SOLZ3I QUIS DICE RE FALSUM AUDEAT ?

LONDON,
FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1822.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Tuesday, which contain the following further
particulars of the lat-. 1 alarming plot at La Ro-
chelle :
" PAais, ,Miacir 25. Accounts from Ito-
Olelle, of the 21st March, say—' For some
thbe past it had been observed that several
1104-comtnissioned Officers lived in a manner
tOO expensive to •be within the limits of their
__.roeans, and this circumstance caused them to be
Particularly. watched. Songs of seduction, joined
to the propagation of some infamous falsehoods,
had so exalted their imaginations, that they could
40 longer disguise their horrible hopes. The
20th or 21st of March had been chosen by them
to hoist what our Liberals call the old standard.
In the morning of the 19th, the principal Au-
thorities were informed of the approaching execu-
tion of the plot. T:-,e Marquess de Toustain,
Colonel of the 45th Regiment, received besides
the communication of one of the conspirators,
whose heart revolted at the idea of the bloody
zeenes which were to accompany the execution.
!t is thought that more were concerned, but
fourteen non-commissioned officers have been ar-
rested. The tranquillity of our town was not
listurbed for a moment during the execution of
these measures. These men are to be brought
1 trial forthwith, .and we hope soon to become
4e44l,:inted with all the details of this abominable
v"%spiracy. Not a single officer is compromised
14 the affair; nor does it appear that any private
soldier has taken part in it."
The Law relative to tht Press has received the
r
),Yal sanction, and was published officially in the
410niteur of Tuesday. The French Chamber of
bePuties was on Monday still occupied with the
Budget. The 10th chapter, entitled, " Public
oildings at Paris and St. Denis," and demand-
.l4e the sum of 2,400,000 francs,gave rise to some
'lBeussion. From. this sum the Committee pro-1
,P'sed to deduct one million of francs,—to sell
t
le new buildings in the Rue de Tivoli, de-
-4f
!Jedd ;ince 1814 for the Office of the Ministry
Finance, and of the Establishments con-
Wcted with it,—and to leave the Treasury
ere it stands. Mons. DE BOURIENNC re-
`i,trotnended an opposite project, in a Yong speech.
4',oese buildings had already cost the public
ove 5,600,000 francs (near 230,0001.), and it
;011d require 200,0001. more to complete them.
..very part of this great mass cf edifices having
Y,een constructed with a view to their official des-
-11-tlation, it was urged by M. Dr BOUBIENNE

that they would sell fox' very disproportiofiate
prices to individuals, who,' moreover, would
allow nothing for that consideration on account of
which a large portion of the expence .had been
incurred, viz. the purchase of old houses, the de-
molitiou of which had been necessary towardS
opening a space for the new erections. On compar-
ing therefore the profit and loss, says M. de Bou-
RIENNE, arising from the sale proposed by the
Committee, the public would suffer from that
operation a loss to the amount of three millions
of francs: but the great anxiety of M. de Bop-
MENNE for .the success of his proposal seems to
have arisen from the opportunities afforded, by
removing the present Hotel of Finance, of
enlarging and improving the Royal Library,
that 'noble monument of the liberality, taste,
and judgment of its founder, RICHELIEU. The
Bibliotheque floyale has obtained an accession of
300,000 volumes since 1791 ; the numberofport--
folios filled with engravings has increased since
1783, from 2700 to-5700; and its annual acqui-
sitions are estimated, by Made BOURIENNE, at
6000 volumes in French, and half that number in
foreign literature. The amendment of the Com-
mittee was rejected ; upon which M. de Bop-
RIENNE withdrew his amendment, as his object
was attained by that decision, and the chapter
was finally adopted as it originally stood.—The
following are further extracts :

P,►itis, MARCH 25.—The Government has just
granted 2,000 francs to Spaniards who have taken
refuge at Toulouse, to be distributed in the first
place to the most indigent families. There was
a report in that .ci,ty.on the 19th, which seemed
to gain credit the• next day, that some Mil/chinos,
united with some Spanish Custom House Officers.
of Puycerda, took advantage of the moment when
the Mayor of Tour de Carol and an Officer were
on the frontiers, regulating some affairs relative
to the posts, to arrest them and keep them as
hostages. This strange news must soon be cleared
up. It is supposed that they will be immediately
set at liberty, when some explanation is made.
" This morning the Bureau of the Chamber of
Peers, introduced by M. Corbiere, Minister of
the Interior, had the honour to present to the.
King the Project of ,Law relative to the Press,
which had been adopted by the Chamber of,
Peers, excepting an amendment which the Cham-
ber of Deputies adopted the day before yesterday.
" Some Piedrnontese, who took a distinguished
part in the troubles of Piedmont last year, were
arrested yesterday at Paris, where they have
resided some time under false names."

FRENCH FUNDS. •
March 25, Five per Cents. Opened at 9O f. c.
Closed at B9 f. 80 c.
Bank Stock 1597 f. 50 c.

At a late hour last night a Flanders Mail ar-
rived, bringing Brussels Papers to the 26th, the
contents of which, as far as regards the-relations
between Russia and Turkey; are of a warlike
character, and threaten the speedy commence-
ment of hostilities. The following are extracts:—
" AUGSBURG, MARCH 18.—Merchant letters from
Brody, of the 6th of March, announce the-arrival
of an Aide-de-camp from the Emperor Alexander,
at the head-quarters of Count Wittgenstein., .at
Tulczin. IMmediately after his arrival, all the
Generals received orders-to repair-thither without
delay ; and Count Wittgenstein made them ac.
q" u-inted with the orders which he had received.
.
It was announced that all the troops, would begin
their march as soon as possible. Since that time
the greatest activity is observed in all the corps ;
and the report was generally spread. that the
army was going to take the field. . -
" OD iS'sA, FEB. 28.—Within these few days war
is very much spoken of. The Government has
made large contracts for the supply of the ar-
mies; The fleet at Nicolajiff is equipping with
increased activity to take troops on board. The
Emperor, whom we did not expect till May, will
come, it is said, next month. A traveller just
arrived from the banks of the Danube says, that
the_ Turks are working with the greatest activity
to plaCe. Bender and Ismail in a state of defence,l
and that they Are in fcirce on the frontier. These
reports .of.war,.so often repeated,rnake us believe
that -they will 'soon end: in an open rupture.
VICIINTA, MARCH O.—Since the arrival of M.
De Tatittschetr, it is observed that he has daily
conferences as well with Prince Metternich as
with other iMportant personages. The activity
in the Diplomatic department has never been so
great as at this moment. Every thing announces
that in a few days we shall know what to think
of the affairs of Turkey, which now fix the atten-
tion of all Europe.
" Bausser,S, Msncn 25.—Accounts from the
French frontiers inform us, that several persons
have been brought to the prisons of Laon, who
were endeavouring to excite an insurrection by
sounding .the'tOCsin in the communes of the can-
ton, and that:arnong them is an ancient half-pay
Captain. It -is affirmed that papers of the highest
importance were found . upon him, which prove
that this plot- was connected with many others of
the same kind. lie has been several times ex-
amined by'the King's attorney. • .
" An EngliSh Cabinet Messenger from London,
going to Vienna, passed through this city yes-
7,

erday.

Savannah Papers arrived this morning to the
13th February, and a file of Charleston Papers
:o the same date as the last.

(Prop:La Savannah Paper of Feb. 12.)
The coloured inhabitants of the.lsland of Dominica lizave sent
an Agent to London, (a man of colour), to lay before the Bri•
tish Government the grievances under which they labour in
that Island, and praying to be place: upon the same footing as
the Whites.

(From theCharlestown Papers.)
• TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Fgß. 1,.1822.
SIR—In obedience to a Resolution of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the 23d ult., directing the Secretary .of the Trea;
sury to furnish the Hotise.With 'the annual statement of the
transactions'of the Bank of the United States for the year 1821,
I have the horiour to inferm the House, that no such. statement
has ever been rendered by the Bank of this department. The
statements received—by department, which approach the
nearest to that called for by the Resolution, are those rendered
semi-annually, upon which the semi-annual dividends are de-
clared. Inclosed I submit these statements for•the year 1821,
and also the monthly statements' for the month 4 of June and
December of the 'smile' year • • these monthly statements arc
merely abstracts of the several accounts on. the face of the
books of the Bank and its offices. The statementslor these
months.areaub'mitteti in Conneetiah with the aemi-atitinalitatee.

menu of profit/mt. loss, because they furnish- the materials
from which the latter are formed. •

I remain, with respect,
H. CRAWFORD.
To the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Arrived the Schooner, Wheeler, from St. Jago de Cuba, last
from the Bahamas. Captain W. reports that the day previous
to his sailing, a piratical schooner, with 70 men on board, was
taken by a French frigate off St. Domingo, and carried into St.
.Tago-; the frigate again proceeded to sea.

We do not know whether it is intended to
found any Parliamentary proceeding on the Pe-
tition received yesterday_ from Joust BARKLEY,
one of the persons "imprisoned for selling CAR.
MEE'S Republican ; or whether the document
was introduced solely for : the purpose of ..en-
lightening the House upon- certain legal . and.
'constitutional points. It is no new remark
that Trial by Jury, like other national in-
stitutions favourable to liberty, is applauded anti
extolled by popular declaimers as long as it works
conformably to their wishes, but as soon as they
or their friends are likely to suffer by its opera-
tion, they begin either to detect faults in the
system Itself, or to quibble so ingeniously upon
its practical application, that their scruples, if
attended to, would
_almost reduce it to ineffi-
ciency. The • present " Petitioner grounds his
complaint principally. on the fact, that he was
tried by. the Jury which had previously convicted
another individUal of publishing the same libel,
and which, he therefore thinks, must have been
improperly biassed and prepossessed. No at-
tempt is made in the Petition, nor was it endea-
voured in the debate, to support the objection by
a reference to the practice adopted with regard
to other defendants, which we have always un-
derstood to be the same as that now complained of.
But the Petitioner (or the person who has drawn
up this Memorial in his name) produces a quotation
from Coke upon Littleton, to the effect that if a
Juror has already given a verdict on " the-same
title or matter," though " between other persons,"
it is a good cause of challenge : and he states
that several of the Jury declare .themselves
to, have been placed in a most irksome si-
tuation in having to try this second charge,
and that they would not have done so if they
had known any legal means of relieving them-
selves. Now as to the quotation from Sir EDWARD
COE E, we believe, notwithstanding the weight
assigned to it by Dr. bUSHINGT.ON, .that any
lawyer examining the expressions with an un-
biassed judgment•would -pronounce them to have
been written with a view solely to civil causes.
In criminal cases of the most important kind,
decisions have been given in direct opposition to
this supposed opinion of Sir EDWARD COKE. On
the trial of COOK, one of the persons im-
plicated in Sir Jon FENWICK'S conspiracy
(in the year
.1696, the eighth of King Wu,
LiAst's reign), the prisoner's Counsel challenged
a juror as having given a verdict on the trial of
another individual for the same treason, and in
a great measure on the same evidence, but the
objection was scarcely supported, and was over-
ruled without hesitation. Not two years ago,
on the trial of the Cato-street conspirators, a pro
ceeding certainly conducted:with the greatest pos..
sible deliberation, and the most. anxious attention
to all principles of equity, -nine of the Jurcirs,
who had convicted THISTLEWOOD, sat afterwards
upon the indictment against BRUNT. It is re-
markable, too, that one of these is stated in Mr.
GURNEY'S publication of that trial, to itave•ttp-
.plied for his discharge on the very ground now
dwelt upon, :that, having given a verdict in the
former case, he did not consider himself sufli,
ciently unbiassed; but. Mr. Justice RICHARDSON
refused to admit. the objection unless urged on
behalf of the Crown-or Prisoner in the form of a
challenge. Such is the practice considerately
and undoubtingly sanctioned by the highest au-
thorities, in cases which involve the :severest pe-
nalty inflicted by Our law.
We believe that very. ittle argument -would
have arisen on this point if the Jury, instead•of
convicting, had acquitted the first defendant.
If that had been the _case, what a hubbub of in-
dignation would have arisen -against the advocate
who had proposed„ and the Judge who had
sanctioned, the dismissal of such a jury,. for the
purpose of submitting the libel, in a second case,
to jurors who might possibly entertain severer
notions.! Yet if the arguments of Jolts LVARK-
LEY and of Dr. LUSHINGTON have any weight,
they would fully bear out this, as well as the
opposite proceeding.
The Petitioner complains that his Counsel was
restrained from making animadversions on the
Bridge-street Association. We. certainly read,
at the time, some highly satirical reflections
which that Learned Gentleman was reported to
have indulged in at perfect liberty and leisure,.
while defending his client ; but this circumstance
appears to have been overlooked, as well as the fact
that the recommendation to mercy preferred by the
Jury was meat earnestly seconded on the part of the
prosecuting society. We notice these points as.
illustrative of the manner in 'Which petitions are
drawn up on behalf of prisoners and other unfor-
tunate persons, by individuals unacquainted with
the true state of the case they take into their
hands, and who frame their representations in
a spirit which does neither credit nor service to
the nominal complainants.
Doctor LUSHINGTON condescended on this oc-
casion to repeat the hackneyed and sophistical
argument against prosecutions for the mere hold.'
ing of certain opinions,--In the first place, we
believe that Mr. CARLILE'S speculation in Fleet-
street, to which so many ignorant and obstinate
persons have fallen victims, had as little connec-.
tion with any conscientious opinion or system.of be-
lief, as the establishment of a private still or ille-
gal lottery. And further, we are persuaded that no
reflecting person is now unapprized of the dis
tinction between simple, opinion, however openly
expressed, and hostility to the opinionsOfothers,
displaying itself in open contumely and.brutal re-
viling.. The truths of our religion are not the less.
certain, because publicly ridiculed and denied,but,
is no present evil produced by that ridicule.and
vial ?and to what purpose do we live under laws, if
not to be._ protected from immediate as .well,
as ultimate injury ;if we are obliged per-
mit mischief and insult for the present, and
have only. the consolation, of, reflecting that
time afid the progress 'of events' will restore

• • •
things to their natural order ? The great scrip-
ture doctrines would remain 'eqUaily sure and
incontrovertible if (as it happeneii in the
French Revolution) the Bible Were parad.
ed through the streets at the tail of an
ass ; but if such an exhibition were to take place
among us, would Dr. LusuiswroN think -it
tyrannical or impolitic to interfere with- the
amusement ? His argument of Thursday night
must stand or fall by the reply.

A paper in the form of petition, the production,
apparently, of some unhappy lunatic,_was offered
last night to the House of Commons, by desire
of certain inhabitants of the parish of Saint
Matthew, Bethnal-Green. It violently abused
the House of Commons, and. many other esta-
blishments, persons, and things, and declared the
conduct of Mr. HUNT in hichester Gaol to be
something almost superhuman. The House of
course did not receive it, although Mr. BENNth
protested that it contained no tern] of insult, and
Mr. HUMS pronounced his opinion that the Com-
mons had no right to reject 'the Petitions of the
people ; the only plea, certainly, on which this
could have been admitted. • -

IRELAND.—The accounts afi-outragei. begin
.again to be numerous. The postinan,- conveying
.the Mail from Limerick
,to,.',Tralee, was oh Sa-
turday morning robbed in the neighbourhood of
Shauagolden by a• party of insurgents, who took
from him and carried off the post-bags, with their
whole contents. The preceding night, a number
of cows; the property of B. GREI;G, Esq. of But
tenant, were houghed, and otherwise barbarously
cut and mangled. On- the evening of the pre-
ceding Thursday, two houses were_burnt at Kil-
linchy, and the furniture, with two or valu-
able cows, totally destroyed. Another honserin
Drisdall's lane, I rishtown, has also heen..burnecl,'
the family narrowly escaping- with their lives.—
Saturday night, an armed body of about a hun-
dred insurgents broke open. the.pound of Mul-
linahone, and carried off from it the cattle im-
pounded by the High Constable for baronial
taxes.. The cattle were driven into the moun-
tains, but have since been recovered.. A man,
named John Egan, having. been employvd to
distrain one of the tenants of.. Mr. F. OLD'S, jun.
was shot dead from -the houSe,'-while with other
persons he was driving
.saMe cattle out of the
yard. A young woman, whoi with her sister,
accidentally came npon a party of t-.e
_White-,
boys, after dark, near.Ballybeacon inhu-
manly murdered by the: .miscreants." The num-
ber of persons acquitted' by'the B.pecial Sessions,
under the Whiteboy Act, is very . great. It is
very gratifying to see the leniency exercised by
the Magistracy, and the merciftil consideration
with which they give the prisoners the benefit of
every circumstance in theirlavOur.