The Sun.
London, England, 1814-05-07 00:00:00

C AIYrAIN MANBr.

Ml'. ROSE called the wtention of the Housn to
the Plai'n of 11'15 Officer Nr his valuable dis-
COvery tueoug ,of saving Shipwrecked Ma-
riner', In a kin ct Con,Thitee, a variety of
wtrOog in,,tances were detailed-, in which his in-
vim ion had proved serviceable ; -iwad since that,
a 1/e-poi_t of Naval Officers h tl been given,,all of
whom concurred in t xyressing their approbation

of it. lie ernsted, Ilierefore, that the House
would feel every disposition to concur witii
.proposing a further reward to Captain
(Hear. hear !).—lt would be rewarding an in-
Tendon w;iich not only saved the lives of British
6earueu, but the lives of seamen. el over the

.world, for it linci now becoMe 10 simple and se
easy, that it only required to be known, in order
to be generally inhipted. : Captain Manby had in-,
vented three mortars Of different sizes ; the largest'
Would carry a ball, with a rope attached to
a' quarter , of a mile ; the second would carry it
300- yardS'i, and the smallest, 100 yards,. It
.was
true, indeed, that wrecks did not always take-
plpce 'near the coast ds, a quarter of a mile ; but
when:it ‘vas'colfsidered,how large a proportion of
.the in happened within that distance, the practical'
utility of the scheme would be equally obvious.
The Largek of the mortars might be carried by two
hien, in a hand-barrow ; the seeOnd.more easily;
and the ,third might be transported on a man's
baek. Tire facility of conveyance;
,therefore,
rendered iteasy to have them applied, on what-
ever part' of the coast it ,Tight be necessary.
Capt. Minify, however, ,did not stop
bad beef found difficult, sometimes, to fire ,the
mortars: on account of- the 'heavy surf. This Ike
had remedied by a very simple process. He had
also invented a ladder, which would so greatly
facilitate time saving of persons when the wreck
happened near the shore, that .''e would take upon.
:to say, that if those ladders bad been
known li•hen the naleswell was Itist, •instead of
the, fp who then perished, not one would have
been'il,rowned--(Hear, hear !).—Ciipt.Manby had
spent. •';,.!:,•r eat deal of time ,and property in bring-
ing the;t discoveries to peifeetion, and he thought
Lim a fit object f'orPacliatnentny reward—(Hear !).
He should therefore move, that the Papers laid on
the table, 4elating to Capt. Mani)y, he referred
aiSelect Committee to report thereon, _with ob-
servations. \ • •
Sir F. BURDETT expressed his hOpe, that the
claims of another individual, Mr. Maiiison, the
inventor of• the life7prescrvers, would not he ne-
glected. • -
Mr. P. MooriF,, Said, he had been requested to
lay in a claim for a Mr. I3ell, of whose invention
he had been authorized, by
,a Gentle Mon who had
called him out for the purposi!, to term Captain
Manby's s.ystem a species ot, piracy.
Mr. ROSE, in reply, read a passage from the'lle-.
port of the Committee-on 'Captain'Manlis inven-
tion, in notice war taken of the invention
of Mr. Bell, which was stated to be.very ingeni-
ous, but not at all applicable to the purPoses
which Captain M'aribY's %vent to attain. •
Mr. WYNNE wished this useful invention to be
taken up by the public, and asked the Right Hon.
Gentleman opposite how that could best be done.
Mr. ROSE said, that Government hail had this
in contemplation: It was found that at an ex-
pence of about 20,0001. 250 of these mortars
could be placed at different stations round the
coast.
Mr. -WlLBtnroncE declared, that many lives
had been saved on the North-east-coast of York-
4re *by Captain Manby's , invention •
Mr. AVHITBREAD bore high testimony to Cap-
lain Manby's merits. ;That Gevntienian had de-
voted the whole of his time and 'fortime to this

truly useful invention. It was with concern he
addled, that he had also entl4ngered his life, for
be Was at that time in-extreme ill he•Altli, con-
sequence of his persevering exertions on *lie sNh-
ject. With respect to Mr.. MAlison's,inventioo
of the tile-preserver, it was certainly an excellent
one, and ought to be adopted (as it had been re-
commended ,to be, by the Committee appointed
to investigate. its merits) ;but if it ;vele' so, it
could/not supersede that of Captain Manhy's.
Lacom said, that .the drew- of the Venus,

wrecked last summer at Yarmouth,: consisting of
r• 7 men, owed their lives entirely to Captain•Man-
by's, invention.' •
The motion was then agreed to, and a Com-
mittee appointed, accordingly.
• • COLONIAL OFFICES. •

Mr. GOULtURN moved the third reading of the
Colonial Offices Bill.
Mr. BANskr:s said, the raiLical fault
_he ,found
with the Bill was, that its frAmers ul reared it
on a very bad model; viz. the Act
,passed ;
and a Bill so trained. could do no otherwise than
fail in its effect: The Goyerners and' 'Lieutenant-
Governors of our Colonies atm oa,d were the cause
of the first Bill, :passed in 782,-being of no use,
by giving lea,Ye of absenEe to those who held
places' expressly or condition of residing in such
Colony, and. performing the doty of his office in
peiSon. The framers of this Bill supposed they
would remedy the evil by taking away the 'privi-
lege of the Governors to give leave of absence,
by making it necessary' that they should give no,
tice of such leave of absence. And to whom were
the Governors to,give this notice ? Why, forsooth,
to tile offi,ce -thei.Secretaries or State, which
would, in fact, he nugatory. It was.his firm belief
that as it stood ac present, would be fully
as imperative as the Act 0n52,2, which it affects to
amcod, and which is a.bad model on which to found

an Act purporting to.be productive of so mast ad-
vantages. The-only security for the execution of
.the pi-ef:ent Bill, if passed into a law, would he the
penalty of,loo/. attaching on the non-transmission
by the Governors of such leave of absence as they
mav respectively give.: This penalty could only
be recovered by a common informer, ‘Vho would
have, infinite difficulty in acquiring his informa-
tion ; and after he had acquired it, he then would
have to .prosecute a person residing; abroad,which
would not be the most deiirable trying: The best
remedy would be to provide handsomely for the
person actually resident, and performing the
duties of his office; but not enough to allow him
• to live handsomely at home„ and to pay another,
r man for doing the duty. Uoless .you make per-
sons actually perform the duties of those offices,
the same evils would continually occur, and r fig.
for your penalties. Ile_could not consent to•cover
theta with the shield of- leave of absence under
the amended Act, which would woke it as inefft=
cacibus • and nugatory as the original had been.
found to be. The 'lion. Gentleman concluded,
by moving as an amendment, that the Bill be
reati a third time this day se'nnight.
Mr. B. BATHURST replied_ at some length to the

lastspeaker, and.. stated that every office lately
granted in the colonies had been upon the express
condition of ;the residence of the party ; which
'residence it
:would he the interest of the white pc,-
pnlation to enforce. ji..very means had been
adopted to give validity to the. provisions of the
Bill ; hut if the Mu. Gentleman were of a diffe-
rent opinion, the subject vyas as much open to

6010 Afewiber, as if no such tit
had been introduced. He was unable to see what
could be gained:by acceding to the amendmentl
if the Bill Were radically bad, it should be thrown
out altogether; or if the, lion. Member thought
it was capable: of being improved, it was compe-
tent for him or for any other Member, though
the usual stage was gone to suggest whatever
might have a teuiettcy to giie it additional.effi=
cacy.

-
Mr. BANKES explained.
Mr. CRELVEY coincided in opinion ivitlr the
lion. Uentlennaho proposed the amendment.
The question was two;-fold : Was any gill neces-
sary ? and, if so, was the present the proper 'Bill !
Pe thought any new Bill nnnecessary, and espe-
cially the present Bill, which went t) defeat all
the, provisions of the fOrmer: By the Act of the
22(1 of the King, theCrown.had power to enforce
residence ; and the present Bill went to ratify
leave of absence, not only to those who now field
offices In the coltqes,, but to all the patentees in
reversion. lie believed that Mr.-Lc Marchlnt
was the only Officer in the colonies who, was
con-welled to. reside. Should the Bill he read. a
third time, be should-move, that the title of it
he, 4‘ A Bill to, dispense with the Provision of
.the Act of the 22d of the King, enforcing the Re-
-silence of Colonial Officers, the case of Sir B.
•Nepean, Mr. King, and othets,• holding' Offices
in the Colonies, and also in the case of the Paten-
tees in Reversion to the same Office,"'

Air. P. MooRE read some documents to: spew
that Governor Got e, of Canada, had been charged
by a Deputation from the Colony to the Prince
Regent, with several acts of inisgovernment,.and
that be was_ an Object' of great disgust amongst
the Colonists. • • •

. Mr. \V. DoNn.kp called'A-Ve Hob. Gentleman
to order, and said this had no relevancy to the
-
Mr. P. Mooch; said Ite mentioned the circum-
stance, to give the' Ministers an opportunity of
some remedy.
Mr. BRoveN rose to ask whether Mr. Le Mar-
chant, after' the circumstances which 'had tran-
spired, was to he continued in his office.
Me. GouFßußNmdas happy to have an oppor-
tunity of explaining, the circomnstitnces,of that ap-.
pointment. Some time ;ago, numerous applica-
tions were made ro the Noble Lbrd at the .head Of
the Colonial' Department,
,in favour of .N.fr-. Le
Marchant. The applicants consisted not merely
of the friends of -Ministers, but of some of the
cost respectable of the OnpositiOn. They stated,
that Mr. Le i\lrchant was a deserving man; the
brother' of the gallant Officer who tell at Sala-
manca, and that he was left without.the-mvans
of supporting a large family. On this ground
alone lie received his appointment, being per-
sonally totalLyinnknown to .the Government.—
When a recent correspondence appeared„ he was
desired to stay till the matter should be investi-
gated. As :Co the circumstance of his having
been Paymaster at Woolwich, it appealed that. be
had in that capacity been indebted. to the public,
and had given security ; amid tie debt hail not
been. paid, vuetely account of some legal for-
mality. Mal respect to Governor Gore, be
tainly had not been removed for any misconduct.
Mr. INTITITBREAD remarked, that though the
Hon. Gentleman seemed to think it Was still fit
Matter fOr consideration, whether Mr ;Le Mar=
chant should proceed to his appointment ; yet, for _
hiS own part, he must say, that whatever might ,
be the result of certain trials, the echidna of that
person must be considered in: precisely the same
light. He had for a consideration undertaken to
give
or withhold eeidence :and- no subsequent in-
vetigation could put this behavemi out of its true -
and simple meaning,. As to Mr. Gore, it at least .
was known, that.many persons wbom he had sent-
home had been exculpated of the charges brought'
against them ; though he must say,- thht k re-
flected great discredit on the ColOilial Depart-
ment, that they had not been allowed a copy of
the charges preferred against‘thpu, nor were al-
lowed to go back to the colony. -
Mr. STEPHEN said, that it- was frequently ne-
..eessary, for time peace cfl the colonies, to separate
the. official GOvernors, though perhaps no great‘__
'blame attached to any party. He defended the
Bill, as calculated to enforce residence in cases
not provided for by the fOrmer Act.-

The IJotise then divided on the 'amendment :
for it 8, against it 48.-46 thajority in favour of
the Bill.

The Bill was then read a third time; some
amendments were -added, and it paSsed.:
The Innkeepers Bill was re:id a third time, and passed.
The ,Irish Ecclesiastical Courts Bill went thrqugh a Com-
mittee, and the Reporr was ordered to be received on Mondhy.
The Save Ships Bill Was reported, and ordered to he read
a third time on Monday.
• The Report .of the Committee on French Manufactures, by
which it.was agreed that a duty of ICA. should be imposed on
every Wel. value, teas brought up and agreed to, and aßill
wdertid akiirding.ly: • - • . '
The SeOtetr Vetdizts.Bill went through a Committee. To
be ,eported on ribniday•
i,e motion
.as t 9 thy Co-,y Right of Books was postponed,
ti!l fuesday.—lidjounied tilt Monday.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OV KING's ALiy 6.

. .
There was nothing of interest in the Court of
King's Bench yesterday: The Co!lrt Was. cm-
played .to,ti late hour with bail afterwardS with.
special arguments, and nolno,tions of consequence
occurred..
COURT OF EI..CHEQUER, MAY 6.
• liOI3INSONS V. MA AND GOUCII.

This-_cause came before the Court upon demur-
rer, by the plaintiffs, to the- pleas put in on the
part of the defendants. :Ile action was brought
by the plaintiffs to'recover from the defendants a
compensation in damages fill an injury sustained
by the Plaintiffs,. in 'their character and reputation,
in consequence of a libel published 'against them
by the defendants. It appeared, that a certain
meeting or society was held at a room in South,-
wold;. called ti,le Cassino, -frequentecr by proprie-
tors, by annual subscribers', and. by others ; and
the libel in question consisted- in this—that the
defendants and others, who were described as
proprietors of and tubscribing to this room, had
come to a resolution, purportiug that the Rev.
Mr. Yohn Robinspn and Mr. James Robinson,
being- unfit persons to be associated with by thein,
be rejected.
After hearing; Cbtiusel, the Court was unani-

•
inO4.y. of dpinion, that there was nothing
publication in
.que-stioq which could be said Vi
constitute a libel ; and, therefOre, ordered tb,lt
jtidgment SHould be eutciej for the defendauts.

CONSISTORY- COURT, DOCTORS' COMMONS, MAY S.

DAYS, FA.I.BII.LY 4L:Ai.LED SEHVIS, V. JERYLS.
was a suit of nullity of marriage by rca.
son of Minority, • brought by Elilzabeth
Days; the wife, against Samuel Raymond 3elY4s'
her rintband. This cause waS heiird last
.Terffi;
when the' judge rescinded the conclusion of it,.
for the purpose of admitting' further prebf of the
fact 'of the father of' the husband dying intestate:
and that no guardian of: the minor was appoint°,
by the Court of chancery_ 1 he. proof now pre"
(laced being satisfac`tory to the Court, •
Sir Wm. SCOTT, on that point, pronounectl
marriage ro be null and void.

EwiNG.V. WttEArkLEY.
This was a cause of millitv of marriage, bo or •
by Martha Ewing, of'the parish of St .Mary-le-hffil:
against Fraheis NVheatlev, her husband', for t,,,d
want of a license duly:had and obtained•
case came- before the Court on the
the libel, consisting of a number of a rticies,rg ,w11.',1-
chaed INTe. heathy with falsely describing
self on procuring the licens;e:and with • fr 31,11,:...
lent alteration of the same previous ta,the
tr!'"
nization of the marriage' between the rir
a the
which tOok place the 19,h November last,
parish above stated. It appeared in the tice"-,,
granted, that the Lady's name was spelt " lev
instead" Ewing," and that Wile°l
corrected it • ".axing," being her right "griti
eivic
It was contended, on the part of the wift.:,
describing himself falsely, aid, altering the "c-,
as stated, was done wici a frandident
and therefine it would vitiate the instiumeut-,

wake the marripize null and void, .. .:t '11'0"
The Court (Sir 111.*. Soo 'r),, after, recoll of.
• lug the various articles in the libel, N,:_as cle31200(
ilPinion; that there vi-ae•no fraud intended lib ".1,
party in. this case; and therefore rejected Lli.e.-
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