The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-01 00:00:00

CORTES.-SITTING OF TILE 17TH.

the cause.

Senor Alcala Galiano brought up The report of the Special
Committee to which the memorial, presented by the Minister
of the Interior in the sitting of the 12th, was referred. Speaking
in the namellf the Committee, he said—

When a nation•is divided into factions, fomented by foreign
intrigue and foreign gold—when Sovereigns with views hostile
to our system of Government, keep their eyes fixed upon us—
when a neighbouring Power maintains an army of observation
on our frontiers,—we must not hesitate a moment to adopt the
necessary measures, however strong and violent those measures
may appear to be. The history of all ages teaches us the im-
perious necessity of sacrificing the enjoyment of the dearest
and most valuable rights to the great duty of self-preservation.
The Committee, in their Report, proposed the project of a
decree, consisting of 20 articles in nearly the same terms as
the propositions submitted to the Cortes by the Minister of the
Interior in the sitting of the 12th. (See The Sun of yes-

terday.)
The project provides, that all the articles shall have the force
of law during the present session. The Government is also
directed to transmit to the Committee every information con-
cerning the affairs of June and July, and to accompany the
same with a notice respecting the precautions adopted by the
Government between the Ist of March and 12th of July, as
also what relates to the affairs of Aranjuez.

This project, which tends to give to a patriotic Ministry a
kind of dictatorship, was ordered to be printed.

SITTING OF OCT. 13.

This sitting was chiefly occupied with the discussions of the
project for a system of general police.. Several of the articles
were adopted.
The project of a decree for sanatory regulations was read.

The- Journal Pol;tique de Toulouse contains the following
intelligence from the Spanish frontiers :
" According to reports made to us by Navarrese coming from
the borders of Catalonia, we understand that the army of Mina
continues to occupy the same line, which is that commanding
the best resources ; that this Commander acts constantly on
the defensive, and will adopt no other plan till the Royalist
Guerillas occupying the environs of Tarragona, Monblanc, and
Villafranca de Panadas, have been dispersed, and Mequinenza
and Balaguer are in the power of the Constitutionalists. His
object is to unite the forces collected at those several points,
and to form with them a corps de reserve, to which will be
joined the reinforcements promised him, and which are already
on their route by sea and land. The Royalists are in Brea'
numbers in the position of Castelfollit, A gramont, and Solso'
and are fortifying the line of defence they have formed,on the
banks of the Segre, before Urgcl. The forces of Mina, includ-
ing the garrisons of Lerida, Tarrega, Z.',ervera, Cardona, Man-
resa, Vich, and Roda,, which are on his line, are estimated at
16,000 men : those of the Royalists, comprehending the divi-
sion which occupies the vicinity of Tromp and of Gerona, at
, 26,000.; of whom 12;000 are well armed and disciplined.

These latter would be more numerous had not the small Gue-
rillas refused to enter into the plan of organization and dis-
cipline adopted by General D'Eroles."
The following articles are from the Urgel Gazettes of the
15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th ; and we need not point out through
what a distorted medium they view the situation of the Consti-

tutional party :
" Letters from Madrid state that measures of conciliation
have been proposed to the ruling party in that unhappy city,
but that the propositions have been rejected with the utmost
disdain/

" The provincial grenadiers of Lugo, Tug, Santiago, and
other troops destined to form part of the army of Catalonia,
have revolted two or three times on the march from Madrid ;
two of these battalions have wholly withdrawn their services and
refused to leave Gallicia, where a force of about 5,000 Royal-
ists is assembled.

" The desertions from the militia have been very considera-
ble, and. those who have continued their march through re-
monstrances or threats, have testified an extreme ill.will to

.‘ The Regency, in its paternal views, continues to conciliate

the attachment of the people under its government. Baron
d'Eroles, who watches attentively the movements of the con-
stitutional troops, is the idol of the soldiers, whom he has hith-
erto conducted to victory."

It is remarkable that the Gazette of Urge!, while it speaks
of conciliatory propositions, makes no mention of any battle.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held for the ,dispatch
of general business. It was fully attended.
NEW LONDON BRIDGE.
Mr. OLDHAM said, he had been informed that no less than
52 plans for the intended new London Bridge had been sent in
for the judgment of the Bridge House Committee. On behalf
of the artists, of their friends, and of the public, he wished to
learn from some 'Member of the Committee, what progress had
been made by the Committee in their examination of these plans,
or whether any particular plan had been selected ?
Mr. JONES stated, that the Committee had not thought
themselves competent to decide' upon the merit of the plans
transmitted to them, and had therefore requested the Board of
Works, as a body of scientific and skilful men, who were paid
by the public, to enter into the necessary examination, and to
give their opinions upon the plans. The Board of Works, how-
ever, had thought fit to decline the task for the public, and the
Committee now had it in contemplation to take the individual
opinions of several of the Members of the Board of Works, who
refused decision as a body, for their guidance on so important

a question.
Mr. FAVELL was of opinion that the Committee were them
selves quite competent to make a selection.
TITHES IN THE CITY.
Mr. SOUTHGATE rose to present a Petition from the Inha-
bitants of St. Andrew, Holborn, praying that the Court would
assist them in their resistance to the demand made by their
Vicar of two shillings and nine-pence in the pound, on the an-
nual rental of their estates. He said that every well wisher of
the Established Church, and every one who wished the sacred
character of the Clergy to be maintained for the benefit of their
flocks, must see with concern the attack which the pastors were
making in several parishes upon their parishioners. Ile re-
gretted sincerely that the avarice of the Rector of St. Andrew's,
Holborn, had got so much the better of his Christian principles
of cha!rity and self-denial, as to incite him to attempt to increase
his already excessive income, by commencing law-suits against
2.17 of his parishioners, to compel them to pay the enormous
rate of 25.9 d. in the pound on the annual rental of their estates.
The parish, which was not desirous of declaring war against
their Rector, had offered him such a composition as would
realize to him the sum of 1,5001.. per annum, but he rejected the
offer, and had ordered his solicitor to go on with the proceed-
ings. It was in this extremity the inhabitants now came to
the Court, to crave its assistance in resisting the claim as an act
of oppression, in which the whole City was concerned. Should
the Rector succeed in his attack, he would take to himself one-
seventh of the net rental, and to that amount dispossess every
orphan and widow in the parish. If he were to succeed, the
same enormous claim must be acceded to in no less than 32
parishes in the City. Therefore the question was, not one mere-
ly between the parishioners of St. Andrew's and their Rector,
but between the inhabitants of the pity and their Clergy. In
each of those parishes liable to the claim under the Act of the
37th of Henry VIII. the Corporation held estates, the rental of
which would be diminished by one-seventh, if the claim of the
Vicar should succeed.
The Petition was referred to the Tithe Committee.
Sir \Vie. Rawmsfs presented a similar Petition from the
Parishioners of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate. He stated that the
present Rector, with whom he coula positively assert the pa-
rish lived in perfect harmony, had declined pressing the claim
of 2s. 9d. made by his brethren, and had declared that he never
should press it. But as it was possible that the parish might
have another Rector not so conscientious, nor so charitable,
who would enforce the claims, the parishioners had determined
upon having the question settled by an application to Parlia-
ment, and the Rector had declared in the most praiseworthy
manner, that he should not consider such application as per-
sonally hostile or offensive to him.
Mr. HuRCOMBE, in presenting a Petition on the same sub-
ject from the Parish of St. Gregory by St. Paul, said, that
whatever might have been the grievances of other parishes, the
oppression and persecution under which the inhabitants of this
parish laboured were beyond comparison greater. The parish was
now called upon to pay, in addition to the allowance regularly
made to their Ministers, 2s. 9d. in the pound to the Minor
Canons of St. Paul's, who made their claim under the obnoxi-
ous Act alluded to. That allowance was originally made, not
for the sole use and benefit of the Clergy, but for the support of
the poor, and the repairs of the church. As all those persons
and things were provided for from other sources, the imposi-
tion was now manifestly unjust.
Mr. HuncoarnE then presented the Report of the Tithe
Committee. It in substance recommended, that a co-operation
should be obtained of all the parishes alleged to be liable to the.
payment of Tithes at the rate of 2s. Od. in the pound. Should
such a co-operation take place, the whole might apply to the
Legislature with effect, for a repeal of the statute of the 37th of
Henry VIII. and an improvement in the mode of Assessing
the Tithes. It was the object of the Committee, by obtaining
a meeting of all the parishes, to get together all possible
information upon the subject, that they might bring the whole
to bear with effect against the Clergy.
Mr. Otamam said, he felt the necessity as much as any of
the supporters of the Petitition, of having this great question
settled, but he considered that each of the parishes was per-
fectly competent to fight its own battle with the Rector,
without coming to ask the Corporation to aid them with money
—(Loud cries of No, no.)—Had there been a combination of
the Clergy against a single parish, he would to the utmost of
his power support the application of the Petitioners ; but this
was rather a combination of the Parishes against the Rectors.
—The applicants ought at all events to put their hands in
their own pockets, as the funds of the Corporation could not
bear the expenses attendant upon the proceedings.
Mr. Dixosr said, the Corporation were bOund to assist the
Parishes in the endeavour to rid themselves of the exaction al-
luded to, and if the Parishes were unable to pay, to defray the
expenses of the law process and other proceedings.
Mr. FAVELL recommended an application to the present
Bishop of London on the subject, and wholly approved of the
advice to approach Parliament.
Mr. SOUTHGATE said, the Parish of St. Andrew's did not
want pecuniary assistance, but had subscribed largely amongst
themselves. •
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN observed, that the object of the
application. of the Parishes was not to get money, but to ob-
tain the facilities which the Corporation could render without
inconvenience. .
The Report was then agreed to unanimously.
The Loan MAY on laid before the Court a letter from Mr.
Alderman Heygate, stating his intention of taking upon him-
self the office of Lord Mayor, to which he had been elected.
A Petition was presented from the Committee of the Hospi-
tal, in the River Thames, for the Reception of Seamen, for Aid;
which being read, the Chamberlain was directed to subscribe
the Sum of 300/. as the gift of the Court.
The Committee for General Purposes presented a Report for
making new Drawing-rooms in the Mansion-house, in lieu of
• the present, and for providing sundry new articles of furniture
for the same ; which, after considerable discussion, was agreed
to, and the Petitions were referred to a Committee.
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