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The CRAWtELLOR Of the ItelitilLUSlt defended
tll.°Pinioei of the Solicitor-General, and contend-
ed.that the high Law Authorities were not equally
,‘P&d; as had been asserted by his Right Hohour-
40_ole Friend. It was unsupported by the authority
one -ingle Judge or Magistrate, or the Honour-
hie Gentleman who brought the subject forward:
would have strengthened his own opinions by seat-
11.1g that circumstance to the House. He did not
think the Bill would ha,e a tendency to prevent the
commission of the critne ; if he did, he should think
it a good Bill. He did not know that there were
any reasons for believing that more persons were de=
erred froth prosecuting than from committing the
°Trffenee by dread of the punishment. His Right
90te friend seemed /t 9 think it a most extravagsnt
elea of the SnliCitOG Generars,_ that those likely to
.',I reed were as likely to dread the punishment, as
the Juries who decided on t;esir case, from the dif-
ference between the mind of a hardened sinner -ad
1. well regulated mind. Was it only the hardened
31lmer en whom the severity of the punishment
could be wished to produce an effect ? Wes it' not
equally to be wished that those who were not hard-
ened might be do erred from committing such of-
. tences ? And might not that effect be elipposed to
result from the severity of thsepunishment ? The
prosecutor and the Juries might be affected by the
severity of the punishment, but, he did not believe
the felon would commit are offence from an
hdea` that that - circuinst.ince would screen hip
from punishment: If such inconveniences' arose
from the conduct of prosecutors and Juries, might
het the end of the Hon. Gentleman) be answered by
lnOteasing the sumsuecessary to constitute a capital
o ffenee• It was easy to bring forward instances of
Prosecutorse being unwilling ,to subje& an offender
. b/a Punishment so severe ; but it was not so easy
t`
° bring forward those instances when persons 'llls-
rrsed to commit such, an offence had been deterred
-a dread of the punishment. Prosecutors were
those
enough to come forward with statements, but
who had been tempted to offend would keep
their secret for their own sakes. The 1800 cases
blentioned to prove the defective state of the law,
went to establish. its pet feetion, as in all those- cases
t
'severity of the sentence had been ameliorated,
444 the appropriate punishment inflicted. This
proved at least that the execution of the law was
het so
much too severe. It should seem that the
severity ;was iri the amendment, as its objet
Was not to get rid of severity of putsishment, but
merely of severity of denunciation. LishtseelleCt of
the Bill would be to make the offence mere fre-
-Inent's and he cautioned those who might be dis-'
1,
rt,°sed to support it, lest in consequeece it should
r`)come necessary to: them egaie to have recourse
„ the Legislature, and_not only revive the law; but
ut it in execution.
Sir S. ROMILLY replied at some length to the im-,
I;.,!ltatin t
ns which had been thrown en his conduct.
Hon. Gentleman had supposed tie wiehed for
the introduction of something like the French Po-
4;_ce, and another like the French Revolution, and
to en
ar?appeal had been -made to his humanity- for
ine sake of those millions who might fall in conse-
Vence of the supposed changes he might cause.
Pe hoped-Gentlemen would net oppose the Bill
,r'ecause-they might &tier from him in sentiment,
l`awished thorn to consider what the law is at pre-
, sent, Nee the proposed arriendments were, and
itsofge the Bel from its indi,viduo! merits. It was
1101., as had been said,- founded on theory, but on
)13e.Iitee flousrobbing, he kid asserted, had con-
'. sitlerably ibcreased for some yeas. psst. This 'no
'(3. ne had thOuight 'props!, to deny. lJc could only
Impute this inereese to the circumstance of the law
'lo+ being euforted. It ,had been -said to disprove
1415:1t; that the proseeetor not wishing to caeee the
heath of the offender, might .prosecute liim 'fin. a'
• 'rhinor offence. kit vA ns not proper that it sresuld
thus depeted, upon an ob,cure indisideal whether or
119 t a maq ebonite be tried for his life. In -those
Lases where the Hon. Gentleman thoughtopposite
'tie offence the greatest; that of setvantse robbing
tneir master, the parties oftenest escepeds He knew
instances of that nature. He knew, too that
Vries in many cases doubted where no doubt
'Would exist, it they were not averse to pun'.sh with
4rlth excessive rigour. A- year ago, a woman ss as
tried at the'Old Bailey for stealing a 101. note from
tier master. She had-stolen nothing beside, except
tile box in which it. was inclosed, which was worth
out a penny.
The Jury conviaed her of stealing
I 0 the anpunt of eess and thus sunk the capital part
of the'charge: Many similar cases might be found
in the recent Session Papers. Juries ought not
thins to be led to slight their oaths. Judges had also
been thus influenced ; they had frequently carefully
Itvoided asking the vedue of things in order to shun
the Capital part of the charge. He deniee that
the system had been of so Ibug ,standing as the
_ 'l'llicitor-General had asserted it to be. In support
of this he cited LOrd Chief Justice Hale. Dr. Paley,
to whose authority the SolicitorsGeoeral attached
so mutt') importance, spoke el the certainty of: pun-
ishment as being spore likely to deter men front the
?Plilinission of ottences these severity. He wt shed
the laws to have effea, as those who from their ir-
regularities were most likely to offend might thus be
restrained. Tile authority of the Maeherates he
h=onsidered to be in his favour, as they had not en-
'creeti the law as it stands. He had never said that
s•n discretionary power ,should be 'held by the
Lades, but he-had said that the power ought-to be
'24 circumscribed as mislit The tiequencysof ex-
, 'ecutions took away from their effea, and rendered
- 'them more cruel. No brae could witness the cere-
' Inotte of passing sentence of death upen criminals,
_ end hear the solemn prayer with which it concludes,
leithout being affeaed, were it not considered as be-
ing an idle form. Non one! tei.ith part of thOse thus
Jeetenced to death being aecated, it almoSt
doge-
ferates ihto a solemn mockery. The individuals
knowing this, still continued to be buoyed up
evith hopes of escaping, each hoping it- will not be
his late to suffer, till at length theLfatel 'order ;4r-
rit'es, and he, ail ehurry, has liele time to prepare
, -for -that world into which he is :about to pass.L-Sir.
Sallee:A concluded a very energetic speech, defend-
ing his general conduct, and denying that he had
puts.ished his pamphlet merely with a vice.v of gain-
tug reputation or popularity. •
• 'eVdivision tool; place, when the hunibeis Were—

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ViLINI\QUIS DICItfIE FALSUM AUbEAT?

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WEDNESDAY, MAY '1,1.„, 18-10.

Letters from,Paiis statF, that Louis the XVlth,
daring the period- lie ,Was in confinement, wrote a
history of his own reign, and sent it to Madame
'ADELAIDE, his aunt, at Rome. At his death the ma,
ntAcript passed into the possession of her sister, who
died at Trieste, and afterwards into the hands of the
Countess of NAIII4IVNE, and' her son disposed of it
to BUONAPARTE, who, it is slid, means to deposit
the Royal Manuscript in the Archives of the Senate,
Some doubts, however; are entertained whether be
• would not cause it to be published first.

The appointment Of Mr. YCOME to the Office of
FirSt Lord of the Admiralty has unfortunately ex-
cited the displeasure. of the Opposition, .and that
diSpleasure .has been strongly expressed in the Pa-
pers devoted to the Party. They are, however, very
mach puzzled to find out any plausible abjection to
Mr.`YonKE's appointment, except that they per-
Sonally do not like him. They express their di •p.
probation in terms Very Much like those of the
Epi-
-grans--

I doilot like thee, Dr. Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell, &c.

13,it as this - mode of reasoning, though Very con- 1
vincing to tlictParty, was not likely to be very sitis- .1
facao:ry to the Public, it was deemed absolutely ne-
cesslry tiint somethifig of an übjedion should be
btattA, and the one which the leading Paper of the
Party has this morning stumbled upon is the most:
unfortunate that could have been devised. It is
said that Mr. YoAtke ought not to be First Lord of
the Admiralty beeause he is a Teller of the Exche-
quer. We should be very much obliged. to any of
the advocates of the late Adminis!ration if they would
infurim us' how it happens ,that it is highly improper•
that'a Teller of the Exchequer sl;ould be First Lord
of the Admiralty, and yet that it should, have been
perfealy consistent with propriety to
:appoint the.
Auditor of , the Exchequer First Lord, of the
Treasury. There .is no connexion whatever .he-
twcen the offices of Teller of the Exchever and
the First Lord of the Admiralty ; but „there is
betwt'en the Auditor of the ackquer and the First

Lord Of the Treasury : the former cettamly was itl-
,
i,thdeil as a aleck Evian the latter, and yet tOrd
OiENVILLt held both offices. together, and the
party expressed great arnazeinent that any possible
objeaion ,should be Started.to such an arrangement.
But then it is said, that the office 'of Teller of the
Exchequer is a sinecure; so we 'believe is that of
Auditor. We do not, however,. see how this Ob-
jetEtion. applies. -If the Telh r of the Exche-
quer had laborious duties to perform; he would
be unable to perform those of First Lord Of the
Admiralty; .lit the one oifiee being a sine-.
. .
cure, certainly cannot prevent the holder of 'it from
executing the duties Of the other. But this objec-
,tion'comes rather aukwardly, as it appears to us, from
the friends of the late Adminisiratioq ; hecanse, if it
be good for any thing, it tells directly against them-
selves. We should esteem it a favour if any of
them would inform us what are the dutiei perform-
ed by the :Chief justice in Eyre South of Trent
We believe that office is 'a Sinecure, and yet Mr. T.
G4-ENVILLE field .that office when lid was appointed
First LoR.I of the Admiralty There are however,
two offences of which Mr. YORI E is stated to have
been guilty, which it seems disqualify him for of-
fice. First, it is said, that he shut the gallery, and
endeavoured to keep the people in ign'orance of the
prdeeedings on the .Walcheren investigation. To
this we answer, that Mr.YORKe did no suit ct thing :
he- publicly declared, that his wish was,- not to keep
the accounts of the proceedings :from being pub-
,but to take care that the accounts that were
pUblished should be accurate; and in point of fact,
every word. of the examination was laid before
the public. The other charge against Mr. Volock
is, that he complained of Mr. GALE JONES.
I-Wcertainly did; 'but it is also, we believe, true,
that there was not a dissenting voice in the House
Upon the question; that Mr. JoNEs's.hand-bill" was
a libel, and a gross breach. of privilege. II our
recolleEtion.do- not fail us, that question was carried
nenzine tontradicente. It is then surely straoge
that-Mr. YOttice should be accused for complaining
of a paper which, in the opinion of every Member
is the House was 'a libel and a breach of privi-
lege.. But if. the making a.complaint of this na-
ture to the Houie 'of Commons be a disqualin-..
cation for office, bow'
icarne thew ‘Genflernen

not to start it. as au atje6lion to the appoint-
ment of Mr. Fox, who at` one period of his life
did distinguish himself very much in that way's
How came they Overlook the conduct- of Mr.
GREY, who had The. Propr;etor_ of a Paper taken into
custody for ventuting to.disapprove of his conduct
But we bT pirdon, we-shah be acct sed of recrimi-

tlfljur el; th,- Ch.;utlyz-well Of havf,
a most deeidsd antipathy to that species of political
warfare; they conceive that
.they ought to liave
an unbounded license of attack, but that nothing
can be more improper thajr that their opponents
should' attempt to retaliate.' We might say much
mote. upon this Subjeak, but we shall at present only
add, that nothing can afrorda stronger proof of the
integi ity of, Mr. ,YORKE,'S 'charaaer, than that his
opponents, .withtlail their ingenuity, and all their
Irosiility, have only been able to bring forward such
charges as those to which we have alluded.

Monday morning his MAJESTY and PRINCESSES
AuGoblet and SOPHIA, took their morniog airing in
Windior Park. They were accompanied. by Earl L
WILTON, Generals GWYNNE and FITZROY;CoIOticI
TAYLOR,' and Lady THYNNE. . •
The Bachelots of Witelsor are making
,great pre-
parations for the celebration of her MAJESTY'S birth-
day, .being the let h inst.
The great tiring on the -French coast, lately heard:
at Dover, was, we understand, in honour of the- ,
6000 marriages .vhich took place in consequence of
BUONAPARTE'S decree for that purpose, in honour
of his own nuptials.
Captain PETER PARKER, late of his Majesty's
ship Melpomene, is appointed to thqcommand of his
Majesty's ship Menelaus, a beautiful new frigate
just launched at Plymouth.
, Viscount Rtersrots, only son of the Earl of
HAnnwicxe, died on Saturday at Cambridge. This
Nobleman had the misfortune of losing another son
a few years ago, who was drowned at sea. The
Right Hon CHARLES YORKE is therefore now pre-
sumptive heir to the Earldom.
BIRTH.—At Rockford; Devonshire, on-Saturday
the Bth April, the Lady of S. R. HARSTON, Esq.
of a Daughter.
Some villains, in the course a last Monday night,
broke into the dwelling-house of Admiral- Sir ED-
' WARD PELLEW„ at Hampton [louse, near Plymouth,
by forcing the window shutter, and stole plate to
the amount of upwards of 5 0 01. with which they
got off undiscovered.. A reward of 'tool. has been.
offered for their apprehension ; and froni some ch.;
ediustances, that have transpired, there is reason to
hope that the persons concerned wily be appre-
hended.
The following singular circumstance occurred a
'few days ago :--An assistaut in the shop of 'a drug-
gist in_Bristril, putting up over head a large bottle of
wfter, spilt it upon his clothes; and being alarmed,
called out to his;cemp swan, w:ho, not aware of the
danger, came, with a candle to• see what was
the wetter. The 'vapour caught tire, and, in an in-
stant; he was enveloped in flames. In this situa:
tion. he ran into the street, tvitere a gentleman wrap-
:peel h s great coat round liitlt ; he was considerably
scorched in his fitce,..neck, and hateli.
A Court of Cominoe - Council ieill be held tns•
worFow, and a C9lllllloil Hull on Friday next.

A .
NAV AL ,NE Ws.

1,7 "1

'LimouTu; Ai, :10.--Arrivea e Wawa
„, .• •
frigate and Pheasant sloop of, war froma truize;
also the Nancy and. Carteh from Morlaix;
and the Cotnmerce, LitiDERS, from Liverpool.
•

POiTS:M10117TII, MAY ).---Caine in this da,-
Afijesty's ship Lion, fi'ol the Eastward. • -

Sailed his MajeAy's ship Part Malign, t‘ith•
convoy for Guernsey ;. and his Majesty's ship Ty-
ricas egi a crtlii2.

,A►rived the Swift, WnsT, from Sunderland;
and die Speadatiop, ftum Dartraouili.

Cattle into the harbour last evening his Majesty's
ship Elizabeth, from Spithead.
S2lloshe 17edley, DIXON, for Sundedand.
_ Went out of hai bour his Majesty's ship Monarch
and Primrose sloop of war to Spithead.

CORK, APRIL 25.—Tlie Helena sloop of war, •
Captgitt WORTH, h=is captured and brought into Cove
the Grand Napoleon, French brig privateer. Cap-
tain WcatTn;wlpose activity upon 'this suction has
been eminently useful to the Irish trade,' fell in with
the Grand Napoleon, ,on tlre• 19• It inst. at day-lifght
in the morning. He immediately upon discovering
her engaged in chase, which he_ maintained until .
nine o'clock at night when he came up with her and
she struCk. She, Was then' in lat. 48. 10. long. 12. •
to. Tlitt privateer mounts twelve eighteen pounders, •
and four long-guns, is manned. with one hundred
and twer.ty-fotir men, of o hundred and eighty
Cons burthen, and but three months old. She sailed
from Nasttz on the 13th of Mardi, and has since
Cruised with considerable success. From that pe-
ilod to the day the Helena fell in with her she had
Captured :the following vessels : Blockhouse, of Li-
verpool ; Bill's Marlin, of ditto. ; Fur packet, of
Greenoci ; Grey Hound, of New York ; Iris, of
ditto ; Aur Sisters,, of ditto.

S FIEE ILN ESS, ArtiL 3.o.—Saikd his Iljesty's ship

Resolution.

ClLl'se down the River Thames leis Majesty's ship

Gorgon.

MAN t .--Sailed his Majesty's Ship qiudzstadt.with-
a convoy forGottenburgh. When the next convoy
will sail is not yet fixed. •

MEAL, ?JAY 1.---Arrived his Majesty's ships St.
Georke and alinotaur,, from Portsmouth.
hissed the back of the Goodwin Sands his Ma-
,
jesty's ship Vißory for Yarmouth. —I
Cinie down from the river, his Majesty's ship
Blake and the Exeter East If:alai-Inn.

FREACII PAPERS.

LEGISLATIVE -BODY.

.
APRIL 2 .—The following,is an account-of what
passed at this Sitting, afier the speech for closing
the Sesion was delivered •by the Counsellor of
State, and which was given in the SuN of Alopday
-last.

Count Regnaud read
.the following Decree :
NIA'POLP.ON, Emperor of the French, &c.
the affairs for which the Legislative Body was
convoked, being terminated, we have decreed, an:!
do decree as follows :
Art. I. The'closing of the Session of 18 to, of
the. Legislative Body, shall take place on Saturday,
April 21.
Art. 11. The present Decree shall be carried to-
the Legislative Body by the Orators of our Council
of State, and shall be inserted in the Bulletin of
the Laws.

(Signed) NAPOLEON.

By Order of the Emperor-.
The Duke of:B4ss.,NO, Secretary of State.
prom the Imperial Palace of Compeigne,
April 19, 18so.
The President (Count Montesquiou) then spoke as
follows :—" Gentlemen( Orators of the Council of
State, the testimonies of satisfaelion which his Ma-
jesty has given to the Legislative Body, are suffi-
cient for the glorious termination of a session, alrea-
dy so recommendable by the nature of. our labours,
by the stntirnents, we have experienced in prosecut-
ing them, and by that fortunate event, the happiness
and glory of which we now feel."—After alluding to
the Penal Code, and other laws, which had engaged
the attention of the Legislature, be said— ,
." But what interest is now given to our labours
by these new pledges of peace, and by this glorious
marriage, and its favoarable iii`resages? How many -
years of delight and repose are presented' to our',
views and our; hopes ! May these hopes be SiiiL
farther extended, until the authors 9f these benefits
are rendered as dear to all Europe as to this Empire ! •
May this alliance, formed for the,happieess of 'so
[natty nations, embellish the destinies of, these an
gust spouses, and complete the • wishe4 which we
love to forni."
Having coricluded his speech, the President de-
r dared that in virtue,of ,the 19111 of April, the Ses-.
sion of the Legislative Body had terminated.

• _
The Public will please to observe, that the only
person in Ottnership with the late Sir J. BRANS-
COMB, at the time, that Firm, shared- and sold
:the
Grand Prize of One Thousand Tickets, which pro-duced 24,7651. (in last April Lotteryy I.tai E. EY-
TON, who i 5 now removed to No. 2; Curniiill, near
the Mansion-house. -

CORN EXCHANGE, MAN e,tr-,-The Lim-gning-gnp•
plies of foreign Wheat to=day are considerable, arid
in, this trade sales and quoted at -little fluctuation; •
Barley, for second. and interior, dull sale; and rather
lower; Malt likewise White Peas dearer, and few
at hand; Bearis.of the two kinds fully at last prices ;
the supplies of Oats axe somewhat considerable ;
second and ordinary arts 'quoted cheaper-; Flour at
last prices.