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London, England, 1812-07-15 00:00:00

CAP TAIN KING.

Lord, FOLKSTONE -)se to m4ke his promised
motion relative to Captain King, , and enter-
cdinto a detailed re-statement "of all the pro-
ceedings of that transaction, which, as we have
already laid them before the ptibliel we think it
npnecessary to 'repeat. His Lordship concluded
moving*,

" Ttrat the _Papers presented to the Howe on the 21th Of
April 'and the Ist of M4y, relative to that case, should be re-
-I,:rred to a Committee.''
The SPEAKER observed., that the Committee to
.wham those Papers would be referred must of
course come to some resolution upon them, and
the whole of the- Noble' Lord'S speech being'an
appeal to the liberality of the "Houfe, the object
of the motion appeared to be to obtain remunera-
tion. There was -a standing order against mo-
tions of that description, unless
.when accompa-
nied with the consent of the Crown. I,f, how-
ever, the Noble Lord would so word it as to steer
clear of the claim of remuneration, no objection
could be made against it.
Lord FOLKESTONE then moved that the Papers
should --be referred to a Committee, for the pur-
pose of examining into the conduct of those who
tad signed the "warrant for 'the distribution of
Trize money taken at Buenos Ayres.
Sir W. SCOTT opposed the claims of Captain
King at some length, and defended the conduct
of the Board of Admiralty: He declared -that
be should meet the question with . a direct ne-

.tative.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON supported the,motion.
( aptain BERESPORD opposed it.
IJONI:CASTLEREAGH reisted it, upon the broad
principle that nothing could be made . out against
those wha were entrusted with the distribution
of the money, -and dwelt forcibly on the impro-
priety of the Mouse. of Commons assuming to it-
self -►•jurisdictioyl of this so►'t.
Aft- y -some further discussion, in which. Mr..
:Bastard and Mr. Dent, Sir NV: Beresford (in-ex-
planation), and Lord Folkestone (in reply) par-
- ticipated, the motion was negatived without a
division. -

Mr. BENN ETT, seeing an-Honourable and Learn-
" ed Gentleman (Mr. Manners Sutton) in.his place,
wished to ask if any general order had been is-
- ailed, founded on• the Opinion expressed in that
7 House; that it was illegal for an officer to cause
"-a man, after'receiving as-many lashes as he could
• bear -at 'one time, to be led out an a future day to
receive the remainder of the punishment to which
he had been -sentenced ? He also wished ter-know
if the Honourable and Learned Gentleman had ad-
- vised theissuiag of such order ?

Mr. M. SUTTON did mot- •know that any ouch
Order had been issued; and, -up to this time, he
had not felt it lo be his duty to advise the issuing
of such- an order.- The opinion alluded to -by the
Eon:Gentleman, he conceived to be, that which
he 01r. M. Sutton) had given, on discussing the
provisions of the Mutiny Act ; when he had stated,
that to lead a man. Out a second time to punish-
ment, after he- had received' as many lashes as he.
could possibly bear at one time, was not justified
tythe law as it now stood.

Mr. BENNETT then stated it to be his intention
to take an early opportunity of bringing this sub-
ject under the consideration of the House.
MR. ST. &MIN MASON.

Mr. SHERIDAN observed, it gave rise to an
afflicting consideration to hear it said, that they
should not'continue to inflict on a man more cor-

poral punishinent than human nature could bear
at one time.

The &TAXER here interrupted the Right HOn.
Gentleman, and reminded him, that there was no
question before the House.
Mr, SHERIDAN then proceeded to call the atten-
tion of 'the House to the case of Mr. St. John
Mason, parsuant to the-notice be had giveti,
Ailer stating the perseverance of 'Mr. Mason to
arise from his feeling himself to have been unjust-
ly.injarcd in his fortune, andin his profession,
but above all, in his' character, the -Right Hon.
Gentleman-, to show that this was not a casd

which others would not have taken up, read a
copy of a letter from Mr. William Hoare Hume,
M. P. to Mr. Mason, in which the Honourable
Member gave it as his opinion; that he (Mr. Ma-
n) had been most cruelly treated; as he (Mr.
. :1* wire) had told the Duke of Bedford, and Mr. G.
l!ousonby. He (Mr. Sheridan) also read the.

- - -
cTy of a" letter froni Mn: Hoare to Mr. Grattan,
in which he expressed himself to'bc sAtisfied.of Mr.
lasbn's innocence, and believed him to have been
0 maned only because he was Emmett's first cousin.
11! (Mr. Sherifilan) had never known Mr. Mason,
(tirectly or indirectly; but his' attention. had been
directed
.through him to the abuses in the Irish
gaols,_ where persons had been murdered; starved,
and scourged, and treated with the greatest bar-
barity that inhumanity and personal malignity
(supposing the latter to have any'connectfon with
hose atrOcities),.'cOuld'have induced any men to
ekercise. Herhad seen a copy of a Coroner' In-
quest held on the body of a man of wttom he
ould say; ang,he would provb it, that he had
een, murdered in Kilmainharn gaol. Much to the
1 °nom' of Government,' he -had to state that they
had paid proper attention' to the subject witen,he
lad once brought it forward. - He described the
A' ruched state- of the prisons in ~Treland as -set
for* in the Report made. by the'Commission ap-
. pointed by Government to inquire into the alleged
bUses, The Right Honourable Gentleman next
yroduced a letfei: from the Duke of Richmond on
the subject of the arrest and, detention of Mr.Ma-
ton, with a copy of a letter from J. S. Towns-
(nd, Esq.. which contained the whole of the evi-
dence 'against Mr., Mason: From this letter it
a; eared to him, that he really did not wish to
exaggerate; or to place the-subject in a ludicrous
point of view,-that Mr. Mason-was detained, first,-
. because he
~was the cousin of Emmet,'• and second-
,
because he bad one day come
_too late for. din-

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