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what the motion had been in the Commons,
for an inquiry into the state of Ireland gene-
rally. The Marquis of Lansdown moved the
amendment avowedly for the purpose of ob-
taining an opportunity of recording his pro-
test. Lord King contended that there was a fa-
tality in every measure for the benefit of Ireland,
by which the object intended was uniformly
counteracted, and terminated in increasing the
dissatisfaction and misery which it professed to
remedy. The Earl of Liverpool argued that all
which could be fairly expected from an inquiry
into the state of Ireland generally, would more
satisfactorily be obtained by the more limited and
more practicable inquiry proposed. A Select
Committee is thus appointed, by each of the two
'louses, to inquire into the state of the dis-
turbed counties of Ireland. In the House of
Commons Lord Althorpe expressed so much con-
fidence in the Committee of Inquiry into the state
of the insurrectionary districts in Ireland, that
he postponed, for this Session, his Bill for pre-
venting the seizure of growing crops, thinking it,
better to leave all the grievances of Ireland un-
touched, to the consideration of the Committee.
The Law of Merchant Amendment Bill was last
night committed. The opposition offered to it
called forth some important observations from Mr.
Huskisson. The object of the Bill is to give the
purchaser or mortgager of foreign goods in the dis-
posal of a factor or consignee the same title to the
goods which he could have had if the factor or
consignee were the actual owner of the goods.—
At present there is much litigation, and conse-
quently much obstruction to trade, arising from
the doubtful relation which the seller or pledger
of foreign goods warehoused in this country holds.
The decisions of our Courts have been against
the purchaser or mortgager, where the seller or
pledger is found to be but the factor or agent of
another. It is surely necessary to apply a re.
medy to this state of things, and we agree with
Sir John Newport that the country is indebted
to Mr. Huskisson for his Bill to remedy it.

DESPERATE PLAN FOR BREAKING OUT OF

NEIVGATE.

On Sunday week a very desperate plan for
effecting an escape from the prison of Newgate
was discovered. Indeed so great is the vigilance
of the Superintendenta of the Prison, that there
is not the slightest probability of the accomplish-
ment of any object of the kind. The apparent
impossibility in all likelihood induced the adven-
turers to determine upon committing murder, if
opposition presented itself—an intention which,
it is manifest, they entertained from the follow-
ing facts, which rumour-has set afloat with con-
siderable accuracy :—A rope, 44 feet in length,
was found in the coal-hole of the middle yard,
which is allotted to prisoners who are to take
their trial. It was found to be made from the
mats about the prison ; and the gradual diminu-
tion of the mats was, we believe, the first thing
that caused the suspicion. It was while the pri-
souers were at Chapel the yard was searched,
and the discovery of the rope, to one end -of
which was attached a piece of iron, forming a
right angle, one part of w.hich was intended to
catch the- top of the wall, led to a further exa-
mination. It was then ascertained that the bars
of one of the rooms were pertly severed through,
and that it was intended by two of the prisoners
to get into the yard, in the dark, to throw the
rope to the top of the prison, .to ascend, and if
the watchmen on the top should attempt to op.
pose their escape, to hurl them headlong upon
the pavement. But at the same time that these
preparations were going forward within, those
who laid the plan of escape took care that there
should be a powerful co-operation on the other
side amongst their friends, who are candidates
for the gallows. A great number of thieves
were to be stationed (according to the directions
of some of the most experienced) iu Newgate-
street, for the purpose of preventing the inter-
ference of the passengers in the event of alarm
in the prison. Those coadjutors were to he arm-
ed with pistols and cutlasses, and were, in' fact,
to cut down all opposition. The prisoners were
to receive a brace of loaded pistols in moist su-
gar, calculating that no examination of that arti-
cle would take place ; and those pistols they in-
tended to use against the watchmen on the roof,
if there was too much difficulty in dashing them
into the street, upon au outcry raised by them,
or by others, for the purpose of alarming them
to their duty. There were other prisoners con-
cerned in the plan for escape, but they were ra-
ther silent spectators of the preparations than
active partners in the enterprise. They disa-
vowed being parties to the breaking, but they
have admitted that if the ringleaders escaped
they should make the experiment, as they could
not bear to let so inviting a thing as a rope-way
out prison to lie. idle. The prisoners who set this
scheme on foot were only waiting for the dark
nights to commence vigorously ; and us their hope
of escape must be, considering the stupendous
difficulties which, to the knowledge of every
one in Newgate present themselves, but very
slight, their desperation would, if not checked-
in the outset, have undoubtedly caused a horri-
ble scene of bloodshed. The watchmen at the
top of the Prison are constantly supplied with
blunderbusses, pistols, and cutlasses, and to cal-
culate upon their not hearing the dashing of the
iron of the rape against the wall(for the prison-
ers did not suppose that in one throw they could
fasten the rope to the wall), could be little less
than madness. The necessary steps, it is need-
less to say, have been taken ro prevent those des.
perate adventurers from engaging in any other
phi" of escape. Perhaps there never was a racee
completely digested and arranged scheme laid.
In Mr. Newman time five men broke out at
the top of the house, and actually escaped ; four
's
of them ••were afterwards hanged. Siuce that
time the top of the prison has been.as well guard-
ed as any part of the interior of the prison.

The Rev. Mr. VANSITTART, nephew of Lord
Bexley, late Chancellor of the Exchequer, is ap-
pointed to the Prebend's Stall in our Cathedral,
vacant by the translation of Dr. Law to the Bi-
shopric of Bath and Wells. This appointment
is worth about 8001. per ann.—(Carlisle Journal.)