The Sun.
London, England, 1820-06-30 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JUNB 29.

An Annual Accouni,vespecting St. Nicholas
liarhour was presented:---Ordered to lie upon
the Table.
The St. Dlltighifl fleetory Bill'ana other Bills
were br.ought up from the flouse of Commons by
Mr. Drat, Mr. Cart and °diet INlember_s,'
and tear) n first iiine.-

The Lawilo:d aiid Tinant (Iretatvl) dill passed
du/nigh a Comm-wee, trit,h .11 anitnilmefft Tow-
ed by the Earl of alhoilhiskore.—itepurt to!
shoriow.

The Ti•hes Cornpenviiiiiii (Ireland) Bill wail,
on the miniiin Of the I; ill (It Gslt(lnt), lead a be-
yond lime, And enininitted for.to-nuittow.
The 29,000 0001. Exclieciner Bilk Bill and the
Greenhind y Bill were reid a second
and committed t.,r tii-tnni 10 w

The Bin bovines Flee furl Bill was read a. se-
c-owl time, and of (feted to b• p,
The Laan (12,000,0001 ) MIL-Arm] the Funded
Deht Charge Bra, 'ere read a !bird time and
passed —Adjourned till to-ntot row (this day).

to a seer tax, the little formality of gaining that
of the House of Commoos were dispensed with.
Mach as ingenuity had beett strained to tax the
people in this country, some taxes 11,1 d trees, im-
posed its the lonian !shoots that bid riot yet been
thought of by any English Cnancellor'otshe Ex
chequer. There a tax was imposed upow.water ;
ectry person who kept a well or a fountain was
obligedriopay a ditty of one dollar per mouth. The
bord High Commissidther had given a flout isiring
account of the finances of the loisian Islands, and
lie•had filo-tight it 'necessary to ittereisSe the sala-
ries of the Public Functionaries, Korot of which
he bid doubled!, and others he. had fielded, It
however did not appear .that the esneuces of the
lonian State hid been covered ae ritey ought to
have been, by the lonian testi-tine. In the last
year there appeared in the Euglisli accorinA
charge of 148,0001. for exoeoces created by the
lorrian Isles. Other chalets hail heel, thrown on.
this Country on their accouut in the present year:,
so the result of the flottrishin4 statetnent of the
Lord High Cominissioner was this, that be was
obliged to get the sum necessary for caerying at,
hi, Government made tip by atiVitilet9 front Etig-
land, and the people of this Country !tad to pay
the salaries which he hid thought it right- to aug-
ment. Ile had 110 doubt that the Goverument of
Sir 'l'. Alailland was itt malty respects excellent,
brit he thought no ;nab fi• to he. the autocrat or
despotic Sovereign that he had beets matte. Related
as Sir 'Photons %vas to a great political Economist
that House, he was surprized to find that he
had taken a monopoly of Cotii.lntti his•own hands.
It might be title that the merchants of Corfu had
previ'ousl'y enjoyed a Monopoly,„ bait he might
.haveadoptect meesitt es by which he could tot4e-a sell
,them, and tr.ns have ecirrotiricted tlie,morospoly of
the nit re ha rt t s vs it hoot having recourse to the
sti sop., extruottlionry, anti suspicions measure of
raking a mooopoly into his hands. - fire
Lord Hie).- Comotissioner had spoken highly of
[be Wolking of time Constitution of tire lonian Is-
lands, 'sod said he would not conseitt to alter it
for the theoretical opiniotis of any ai.tn, When
saying this, lie seemed to forget that
.this excel-
Ivor Coostiturion was itself but theory in 1617;
anti in the three yeala chick had streceeded there
irad..bren abtady at, insurtection and general tilb-
cpiat et, t among the people. He concluded by
moviti for a copy of a leinotial transmitted -by
tu.o.airitives of Corfu to•the Secretiir.y.nt State for
Atte Colonial Depart ;new, togeNer with time (loco-
-mews, or extracts from 11)&10, tiatismittdol haute
by Sir T. Maitland, 'dative to the lonian Islands.
i:(401L/31./ )4N was glad that the moment Was
dearly at rived when this subject could be finally
guile iota, and when it could. be sten what the
,doirloct of Eitglatid ild(h really been. lie was 68-
front the speech of the Noble Liota, that he
Was at least it) doubt about the merits of the case
of •Pargl, or he would tirver have brought for-
ward emery cOmplaitit that had been faiSed
to Islands. trout the time of their coming tm•
tier the protectitin of Great From the
dexterity mein!! which the Noble LOftl usually
managed what he took it, bawl, lie was convirtced
that ice wotald not have acted thus bad be not telt
that his case was a weak:owe, and stoottin need
of bolstering up. He shewed that ,in.vaerious
ware the lonian Isles had -been repeatedly:ceded to
tlififertnt Powers. In 1814,whers the island,ot Corfu
was blockaded by this coontry, Parga war occupied
by
.France without any regard to its indeirendence,
and used. as the means of tesistiog on, 4161,c6" 011
Cot fit. Our Officer commanding there upon thus
thunglit it necessary to make an attack
.011 fared,
and the success of that attack was certaiii/y
ac-
celerated by the efforts of else Pargoinotes them.
e.elves. integtity of the Turkish doinittions
was re:cogni&eil by England, and at the Leal of
Vitoria, large anti many whet places, witht"ut be_
itig naMerl, Crete left to revert to those to whom
they had. formaoy belonged. England then had
tin duty to perform wills iiespect to Targa, but
honestly to inquire-to "thorn it had belonged. Re-
taining that territory, which she herself was to
keep, in good faith, she could only resign whit
belonged to others. He denied that any engage-
meta shall been made to take Parga under !be pros
tection of England. Sir J. Campbell, written to
on this subject, had replied, '!1 have to acquaint
you: most tlistinerly, that no Officer Itras,beeu au-
thorbsed by me, verbally or otherwise,, to enter
itseo any engagement, Or to give arty assur-
ance, that .Parga would be take, wilder the
psotectiott of tile • British Goyeritment.'",--No
one, he presumed, would he found to say,
that having entered into a solemn ettgagement, it
would be right for any party to plead the cha-
racter of the nation as an exemption firm' the
performance of it. So tar from this having beet,
an art of treachery, it was a irenSactionin'evhieb
we were strictly bound by every 06110601.10 aCt,
is we had done. The only other tpresttim,lll•Efe-
fore, after this was disposed (,f, VVtIS whether the
restoration itself was ptoper. And before any
person should cotne to arty conclusion on tJais
point; lie ought to revolve it, his 'nsind ie.ll the re-
sources which were open for choice. Thentanner
of accomplishing the restoration, by witittfrawing
the garrison, was certainly nor 01,5 that COtald be
et/mended for. The not giving the place op st-
all, and thereby thawirtg this country icsto a quar;•
lel, which it was not prepared to adopt, was not
advisable; ant! therefore, the only thing that re-
maioed was to restore it to futkey. This ;olio
bring established, it was however i.icumbeut
un them to Wier security to those who might
be. subjected to the hostility of the, party
to whom their territory was to be delivered up.
Accordingly it was stiptilata d that a remunera-
tion should he given to them equivalent. to the
Clqb kill of property made, and that they should
be allowed to retire, receiving a compensatioo for
their terr'it'ory; and there was no doubt, that in
point of tact these was no case in which the per-
-s't-is had riot received the full value of all they
gave- up. He kilt tv that the memorial to which
the Noble Lord referred, estimated the value of
•tLe property at. 600,0001., and this with a popu-
lation of only 2700 prisons. It was almost irscon-
ceivahle that 4 population ut this extent could
have acquired a propel t y of this value in a 'space
so limited'. as it was allowed on all hands time
Parguinotes possessed. They were not left to
find a purchasett---the Government of this Cottn-
try took 011 themselves to pay the value of tFe
property according to a fair valuation. He Wtli.

aware the Parguinoics load been led to m ,ke
a calculation for above what they were entitled
to ; but the valuation had been struck, as was
usual in similar cases, by a Commissoner appoint-
ed on both sides. The grounds upon_ which the
valuation had taken place would be found fully
explained in the papers. The Hon. Gentleman
then proceeded to refute many other objections
which had been weed against this transaction,
many of which the papers would satifactorily
prove were grounded on erroneous, and in many
cases falsified statements. itiluch oblotjay bad
been attempted to be cast on the gallant Goer!.
nor of the lonian 1)1”nds, Sir 'Diorites Maitland,
tor the part he had performed io the cession of
P'arga ; but he was sure the Noble Lord would
regret ale terms he had used with respect to that
meritorious Officer, if he were acquainted with
the true mature of the case. None of the acts of
the gallant General could with justice be stigma-
tised .virtm the character of harshness. He had
actea up to the directions given to him by Go-
vernmeot in the utmost spirit of forbearance ;
and he should be ready to enter at any time jilt()
full and particular justificatiott of the whole
adniinistiati.om of that distinguished individual.
He concluded by declaring, that if Honour-
able Members would take the trouble of perusing
the papers, they would entertain entirely opposite
sentiments to Wnat they then did with respect to
this affair.,
Sir itooaßT Wiesen a said, ha felt confident that
the possession of Paige could not have been main-
tained. It would have been just the saute as if
Fiance endeasoured ro ktep possession of Dover,
r Englind of Ile did not complain of
the sorrender. His objection wise against the
mode in whiCh it Was Carried into
.etlect.. He
tied every reason to believe. that the Pargoinot es
were dissatisfied,' and with respect to the lonian
Isles it was notorious that they we; e tliscont emit!.
Severel complaints were made relative to the ad-
ministration of Government there.
Mr. Hosea would allow that Varga was never
iodepeodatti. ‘Vitell the command of the lonian
Isles was conveyed to Fiance by Venice, Parga
nits transferred with them. When therefore
Great fcri't Ain in 1815, bectinie protecturs.ot these
Isles and their dependencies, it' wits of course oil-
derstood that Parga was to share their fate, and
such was the idea of the inhabitants. lie regret-
ted that this was not the case. As circumstances,
however, did not admit of it, this country should
have redressed the wrong as much as she could,
by procuring an mulct/time compensation for the
losses of the iobalaitauts. With respect to the
officer who was said by the Hon. Gent. opposite
(Mr. Gottlbutam). to have raised expectations in the
Hondo or the people which could not fait ly be fulfill-
ed, he twist say,that ire had the pleasure of be rag ac-
quainted with him, acid never knew a maim of
higher honour. li:s plan appeared the fairest,
that was, to value the reivals fur a certain num-
ber of years, and- fix the price of each -person's
pi °pert y saloon that principle. The ground on
.which the people 04 Fargo complained, wee, that
they knew not upon what principle the valuation
took dace until witimio a few tumults back. The
value, at first, was catch-Inter!. to be 250,0001.
and it was afterwaids declared by podamation,
that no mote than 150,0001. could be given. Be-
"ides Ihis, the payment was made in bad money,
time consequeoce of which was, a deduction of
48.0001. from the 150,0001. lie had been on the
Island that was given tip to them ; it contained
nothing but &utiles, and was utterly incapable of
cnitiva, ion.
Mr. GoutflußN said, the money might have
been paid au alloy, but the difference in value was
made up by the amount actually received. The
fractional coin was.ealculated, and paid in qoao-
tity, so as to cover the amount of dollar's agreed
Ispno.

Atter a few words from Lord J. ItusseLL in
reply, the motion Was agreed
A Message from the Lords announced that their Lordships
had Futssrd the Luau Bill, the Court of Exchequer Bill, toge-
ther with many (Abe's.

COTTON WEAVERS.
Mr. MAXWELL, in rising to move for a Com-
mittee to take the present distressed state of the
Cotton Weavets into consideration, felt it his duty
to make a few observations. There was. little
doubt that the degree of irritation which had for
some time petalled uniting that Class was occa-
sioned by extremevrivations. He Urged upon the
attention of his Majesty's Ministers the paramount
necessity of adopting some measure of relief before
the people were driven to the last stage of despair.
Some lieform was necessary, and it it did nut take
place in that House, there could belie( lit tie doubt
•that it would he effected out of it, and that, too,
at no vet y distant period. It was most de-
gradiug to the character of the Administra-
tion to see saute classes of society rioting in
luxury, hile the ptior operative weavers, and
other persons in" similar circumstances, were pitt-
ing through want and penury.. , The Hon. "'Virtu-
her then wive! led to the cumparatiie burdens ini7
posed on the rich and the poor mantifieturer, in
consequence of the ditL.rence of nirchinery. He
thought that, upon every fair and just principle of
political economy, tirachinety oughi to be brought
to the saute lett! with manual labour, so tar
as the interests of the large and the small capitalist
were concerned. It would, in his upioion, by at
very gnat adyintage to remove a portion of the
working classes from situations in which they
could trot now bud the means of procuring a
hood, to situations in whiclr their industry would
be useful to themselves as well. as to the country.
Sir John Sinclair. and. Mr. Ito wcroft, with smite
other benevolent iudividuals-, not particularly dis-
tinguished, indeed, but still zealous anti well
meaning, for n nit time past been exerting
bruise! vcs to devise tonne means by which the
numerous indigent poor throughout the Country
might be rescued hum their wretched state ot
misery, tinder which they now languished. A
certain sum in 'Exchequer bills might be lent
to the distressed classes, with more propriety
than for constt net ing •canals where there was no
Commerce, anti consequently no prospect of re-
payment. lie then 'proceeded to read an ex-
tract from His Aiejesty'a Speech on the opening
rue present Session ot Parliament, with a
tiewof showing that the distress noticed in it, as
existing its the Country, might have been cuyside-
irthly diminished, bad -proper menus heels adopted
On the part us the G4resilltleht. Hil 'Majesty%