The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-26 00:00:00

ELY ASSIZE.

At the dose. A r
t. 1.3 0111
'Chief Justice of the Isle, addressed the Court.
The only part of his speech possessed of generta
interest was ns follows :

In my inquiries into the original came or
motive ut these extraordinary crimes, J find cer-
tainly that they cannot be attributed to a spirit of
disaffection to the Government prevailing in this
Isle since I have had a knowledge of it, I:have
never heard that a seditious weeting, publiCation,
or expression, has existed within lit time, or ever
did exist before my connexion with it : all hither•
to have concurred in one sentiment of loyalty and
reverence for the constitution of their country.
" The conduct of the rioters' cannot be attri-
buted to want or poverty : the prisoners were all
robust men, in full health, strength, and vigour,
who were receiving. great wages and any change
in the price of provisions could only lessen that
superfluity which, I fear, they :Wo•fregnently
mmed in drunkenness.

" 'the great sinus these deluded men levied by
their shocking robberies were not inteNiett to of-
ford assistanc,; to their families; but were to he
spent in liquor, and thus to be applied as fish
fuel to the flames of their fury."

About ten o'clock on Monday night, Mr.
W. ‘Voodhatch, of Marehinont-street, Tavistock.
square, having Etrrived at his house [tom the
country, leaving his horse at the dour in care of
a boy, previous to its being sent to the livery.
stables, a villain came and, mounting the animal,
galloped off at fall speed.
Twenties or Thirties—it is all-the some to Wsue.
—Yesterday the Lottery was an drawn, when
the Ticket 325, a Prize of 420,0001. was soli by
WO BB in five Shores. His Woe for seiliuglirtzr3
of 30,0001. has beet) some tithe gstohlished, but it
appears it is all the same to him, Twel)ties or
Thirties, whichever the Scheme et/means, go to
bim;and you arc sure to be amongst them.

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110 USE OF COMMONS.

the BPFAKEit infurrind the Honse, that the
itoyal Assent 'had been given by Commission to
social Bills. The
„Claremont Estate BilL the
IlertiOrd'College Bill, the Erin Marbles' Bill,
the'Crinan Canal Bill, and the Irish Criminal Re-
turn Bill. were reAd a third tiitc.- .
A new tl'rit was ordered for Yarnionth, 'in the
INle of Wight., in t,bli room orgr. Foster, who
has accepted the office of King's Advocate in Ire-
, land.

. 'CORONERS' DILL.
On 'the thiid reading, Mr. CALCRAFT Mild, that
after repeated disctissionshe Shiy no reason to alter
his Blain cans against the Bill.
Mr. Guar LANGTON strongly 4 adverted to the
present situatiollof the country, which disabled it
from bearing any additional burdens,.
Mr. IVonTLEYMOVed, that the Bill be read that
day three

General TuontiTOlsl seeonoled the !notion.

Sir J. GIIAITAM supported the Bill, which only
proposed anepence a mile, instead of fourpence-
'halfpenny, which was settled seventy year• ago,
The expence would not be more than a farthing
in the pound in any county, and in some it woi►ld
n►►t amount to a tourth of a farthing.. Great mis-
representations had been made by hand-bills
against this- Bill, .particulatly iu Somersetshire.
Hence the Somersetshire Members bad been trou-
bled with so many Petitions;
Mr. DICKINSON Said, that whatever the hand-
bills might 'hove stated, an expence would be
.thrown on Somersetshire of 12001, a-year.,---On a
sli v 4inn , the numhers'wete—
'. Ayes,— 40 Noes, Nlfijority, ..10.
• ROMAN CATI-101,1W.

The Report of the Committee, Appointed to in-
quire into the Regulations of Foreign-States, re-
iative to ROHM) Catholics was brought up„.
On the question that it should lie on the table,
Sir J. C. HiPPISLRY said a few words as to the
course of inquiry which the Committee had thought
fit advisable to pursue, and gave a short account
of the substance of the Report. In the Com-
Mittee, he state 4, that there had only been one .
dissenting voice, amid the reason assigned for it
was to the principle of the inquiry, which appear-
ed to Assume that of legislating on the principles
of Foreign States. He regretted 'bat the Report
of the Corntnittee had not been more coMprehen-.
There was very great occasion to regret the
delusion practised upon almost the whole of the
Roman Catholics of Ireland, relative to. restric-
tions on the nomination of Bishops, and hehoped
that the result of the inquiry which was now ter-
minated, would be totally to remove the decep-
tion, by Mien ing the regulations which•all Fo-
reign States had found it necessary to adopt.
Mr. CAstslatvo—Not having been in the [louse
Whett the Committee, • whose labours were now
prodneed, had been moved fin, nor at that other
peridd of the present Session, when the great
question seifitad, been brought forward, he was
desirous of stating, in a very tew words, Vs con-
eurrence in the course which the lion. Gentle-
man had pursued, and also of declaring his own
unaltered opinion on the question to whielt
the inquiry which'had been instituted referred.—
,Having been one of a great majority which'
hd, on a former occasion, rejected a mo
tion made by the Hon Baronet for ti similar Com-
mittee, he was desirous of noticing; that the ell=
cultist:lures' under which the mottou was then
brought before the [louse were very peculiar,
and that the present situation of the question
wits very diticrent from what it then was.—
The alternative imposed upon the House .at
that time, %vas
,either tolay aside the Bill then in
progre%s through the House With every prospect
of success, or to reject the Motion at the Honour-
able Bat noel.. In such a case the choice could
not he very difficult. He had perused the pre-
sent IL port, and had no hesitation in saying, that'
it was likely to further in the greatest degree, the
Dialect which they hart all at •heart—that it would
convey the most perfect information upon the
anhjecl.; and, above all, it would insure the pre-
viroes conviction and willing.assent of all classes,
Which were so necessary, in older to carry the
queNtion as they wished. The gi eat misfortune
hitherto had been, that there existed a real igno-
rance on the subject, and a belief among tire Ca-
tholics, that if the proposed restrictions were
.adopted, they' were such as did not exist in any
other State-r-while, on the other hand, there had
been as great a belief, that the two religions could
riot be so Completely,hartnonited as they were in
other State's. His desire for the final settlement
ot this great question, was inereased—not on any
romantic notion that it was the root of all 'the.
evils safeied by Ireland, but that it was that with-
out which none of the evils could be radically
removed.—(Hear, hear, hear !)—lt-was the cause
Of .many evils—it was a pretext for none,---it aggra-
Stated and embittered them all. It was inter-
woven with all the evils which it was somilit
to cntre• docoments annexed to the present
Report ,;hewed that tire concessions asked for the
'Catholics, were less than they enjoyed in ultuo,t
}every other State. It h Ipperiett to him a tote
weeks ago, to be in that part of tt, foreign awl
Catholic coty, ‘vhere persecutions had. been
represented (gibe carried on against the Protest-
ants, but where he had found.no traces of such
persecutions. On the contrary,. instead of even
finding any thing like, dee seeds of such an evil,
lie observed what was well worthy of notice. In
the department of the Gironde, to which he ill,.
hided, the amount of poptdation was 513,000,.0f
which the number of Protestants was about 30,000,
r shout one sevemeeoth. This district sent seven
nictube.rs to the French Parliament, one of wham
Protestaut ; out of '2,1 members of the
litinicipality, five 'were Protestants ; in Another
political corporation, there were seven Kotest4
ants. While he was there, lie happeued to seeas
procession where the first per Son was the catholic
ilishol of the 'lista-jet, next to whom walked
•
u oteStiot... Ciergyman. Poring his abode
terre, it-totpnened that several- of the Pin:-
cipal inhabitants of the piovinee were raised to the
of Nobility, and amongilthe number his C) VI)
Banker, who was a Protestant,' received a patent
of Noblesse, besides another Protestant. Thus.,
then, in Catholic countries, Protestants'were more
than tolerated--the two religions were harmo-

. .
oized. bn the other hand, the _danger of Omit-
ting into office persons professing a religion which
was not the dominant one, weft; sheWn to fie
completely fallacious. His own viewS Of the
question reinaiced unaltered, or if nitel•e(l, it ‘vas
thus—.that he was more and more coniiiiCed of the
expediency of the measure. It was not us a par-
tiian of the Irish Catholics, but for the 'pqtee
the empire, that lie wished the concessions to 1)e,
made with such modifications as should be thought
necessary for the final settlement of the ques-
tion. *To this settlement the bubours of the
Barooct ‘vould'mtich contribute.

Sir 11 PARNELL said a few words in explana-
tion of the grounds nn which, he had opposed the
appointment of the Committee, and mentioned
several instances in Foteign States; in which the
Catholic Bishops were elected without any inter.
ferencc on-the part of the Government.
Lord CASTLEIMAGII did not rise for the purpose
of prolonging the'converSation, eXcent 'merely to
state that the wise rule laid down by Parliament
with respect to the Roman Catholics, was not to
interfere in anything relative to the mere spiritual
or ecclesiastical mode ut appointment ; and Irons
this rule he leas sore there would be no deviation.
lie expected much brute lit irons the labours of the
Committee,. and thought much Was doe to the
eiettions of the Bardnet, whom he would
be very happy tofornish with any additional in-
formation or diletiments 011 the SilbjeCl. There
was reason to hone that `the delusion nutter which
the great body of Irish Croholi o lcs had s
u ,long la-
bortid, would now be ettectimally. removed ; and
be hoped that the great 'question would soon be
satisfactorily settled,
Mr. Monti ea was anxions to congratulate those
Mendmers of the House who were favourable to
time concessions wished for the Roman Catholics
of Ireland, at the way its which the Right lion.
Gentleman (Mr. Canning) who had lately be-;
'come a Member of the present Administratipn,
had expressed hitimself; as. it alinost •convinced
hint that m
his Majesty's.Governent had come-to
an underitanding aim stlie so'tiect. as that Right
lion. Gentleman
shad formerly, in a very 'manly
way, declined acceding to what must be outlet) the
present Administration, on account of this ques-
tion. And he hoped that in the next Session the
question would be brought forward, not on time
Catholic Petitions, or as it had hitherto been done,
but by his Majesty's Government, and in a ‘lll7 to
ensure its success. A's the allusion made by the
Right Hots. Gentleman to the' persectniou of the
Protestants in France, it was tieirer supposed that
there was any such in the department of the Gi-
rontk, but in the interior provinces, in the de-
partment of the Gard, that such a persecution
Lad been ca‘rried on (not indeed by the Govern-
ment, but by a bigotted population) was beyond
a doubt ; arfl
.that much blmne was to he attach-
ed to the Government of 'that country, for not
adopting more efficient "%measures to put it down.
CANNING said he had Mete.
ly alluded to the part of Fr.omee..which he men-
tioned, namely, the Department of the Gironde.
After is few words front Sir 3. C. Ilirmst.hY,
the Report, with the Appendix, was ordered to
be printed. •
.
SLAVE TR. ITE. -
Mr. Gootuont presented an 'Account or any
Returns of the number of Slaves in the Welt
dies, in the years 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812,
made for time purpose of a Poll Tax or otherwiSe,
After a few words from Mr. Wilberforce, Mr.
W. Smith, Mr.,A. Brown,' and Mr. Butterwmth,
the paper was ordered to lie on,the table.

!kIISSI9NARIEfi.
. Ikrr. thrfTeßWoßTii said, Ate was not present.
an ‘Vednesday when the Member for.StGekbridge,
as he was told,
,east strung ratetioto on a re-,
spettable body.
The SPP.A)Crit:—Np debate was at 'present be-
fore tholionse and it was Irregular to allude to
former debates..

Mr. BuTTEßwowrii.----lf I move for 3 paper,
may I tint make my obsyrviitir)T, ?
The SPEAKER.—TIiere is fIOW hl() MOOMI.

Ur. BUTTERWORT!) gave entice of a motion for
to-ntorroW, for Copies of dispatches from 14,11 go-
vernors respecting the condUct of Miisionaries
sent out. in the last two years.
Lord iNloace-rn movedlor Accounts of Foreign
Territorial Debts in India, with date and rate,
and amount of interest, up to the latest peritid.
Mr. CANNING had nO objection, as far as the
accounts were ready. ltespecting the Nejiaul
Negociations, some. accounts were pot yet re-
ceived.

Mr. liotvotern ho'ped the papers wotildbe ready
soon.

Mr. CANNING could not agree tO the produc-
tion of these papers at the present moment.—The
accounts were ordered.
Sir F. BuRDETT moved for Accounts of Vessels
wrecked since January 1, 1814, And the number
of Men lost and saved. lie had heard that in that
period 4000 had been lost in transports.
Mr Gott ItN said, that great losses had hap-
lie»ed in transports going to Ireland, but the
number 'stated by tire non. Baronet 'was exag'-
gerated.—The accounts were ordered.
STATE OF TtlF. PILISONv,

Mr. BENNETT moved fur a return of the number
of per Sons confined in the King's lieuch, MarShill-
sea, and Fleet Prisrms on the '24th inst. In niov.
lug for this return, the HMI. Member complained
that so link find yet been done to remedy the evils
set forth in 'the Report of the Committee aypoilit-
Lid to examine' into the state of the prisons. The
Hon. Member also again adverted to the Prison
of the county of Sussex; and complained of the
severe treatment to which those confined in that
Prison were subject. lie alluded to the case at
a man who had been imprisoned in solitary colt•
linemen( as a vagrant 'seven Months, and to the
case of the womawallutied to on ,a former night,
first committed for an assatdt, for want of sureties,
and kept in -solitary-confinement, till She had be-
wine insane. These were abuses; he said, which
called loudly for investigation.

Mr. FL ADI):4;7'ON Said, there certainly had
been no report on the Subject of the :Fleet Prison
yet made by the Commisttioners. With respect to
the Report of the Committee relative to the King's
Bench Pviion, as soon itS it WI'S made, a copy of
it wa . sent tothe Chief Justice cif that Court, with
instructions toltee the rt.:commendations contained
in that Report curried into effect,: With respect

to tliz other cl'iciim'stfan&',i .and ca'se'Sle:t to
by the Hon. Member, he..coold not answer them.
Mr. Butt HELL defended the condura; of. the Ma.
gistrates of Suise;;; the vlagrant 'to whom the
!ionottrable Aternber had alluded, had been found
On the road-sitle In a Most tlePlnrahle condition ;
he could n w riot or would not give any inforinlion_re,-
specting himselfe all ;they emit!! get ft out him. was
the word Newprat. tinder ehese circumstances the
AlAgistratel certainly sent him to the llouse of
Correetion, Where he was taken the greatest care
Of, mid tt.There he was certainly kept three mOnth,s„
At thet'end of which tithe, he Siagtstiates having
obtP.ined iotor'ination that he belong*ed trt Newport,
itt iNionnionthihire „he was 'sent Annie tinder the care
of two persiinS., Doting the Whole of the time he
Was treated with the greate.st ;ateotion and kind-
ness. Hatl he ,
Been left On:the road-side he would
probably have,,perislied With ft?sPect to the wo-
man, Phoebe Sttirges, to wh6se case the Hone
Member alluded to-day, and on a former occasion
he (Mr., Burrell) liad visited her in Mr. Dalton's
Lunatic Asylum, where she at present was. lie
yesterday went over
,every part of this asylum,
and it was but justice tai Mr. Dalton to say, that
it was regulated in a manner highly deserving or
!waist). Every department displayed a considera
tion for the comfort, and .cleanliness ,of the pa-
tients. yet the Gentleman would,. perhaps,
be surprised to bear, that this toiljappy Woman
.expressed ao anxious wish again to f , back to the
prison of which the. Hon. Gentleman had drawii
so wretched a picture. .
Sir C. BURRELL, also defrnded the Magistratei
of Sussex. •No prison could be better regulated
,
than time prison of t nit! comity was.
Sir F. litiSouTr highly reprobated the conduct
of the Magistrate!: of that county. IVith respect
to the poor wignan whose ea3esiond-been alluded
to, she had cirigiwdly fallen a victim to seduction ;
her sedncer had preferred the complaint against
het upon ivlrichi she was confined ; the cruelty she
had experienced, and the ,solitary confinement she
had undergone, had probably rtnadered her insane.
He hii;:hly condemned the system of solitary im-
prisonment ; which, he contender!, was cruel and
- Mr. liosmssost defended the Magistrates of
Fussex. He 'was himself acquainted with' the
ease of the man committed as a vagrant, the' in-
happy wretch Was a perfect ideot, and the Magi-
strates had cionmitreil and kept him there abso-
lutelY to preserve him' from The Han.
Alenihet deeitired himself friendly tci the system
of solitary,confioement its praetised in the Prison
which was the
.subject of discussion. He was
.persisaded it tended Much to improve the morals
orthose, confined there, who came outiwith greatly •
anteutled habits, to what they had when coin-
mitt etl. _ ,

Mr, OENNETT again adverted to the case of the
fortunate wOman, Whil,'he'sahl, had fallen a vie-
tint to the arts and Cruelty of a person, Iv ho called
hitnseif a gentleman, and whose name :the Hon.
Member mentioned; who, he said, 'net this ut,
fortunate girl, a gypsey, on the road, and having
seduced her, she had a child. He afterwards.de-
serted.her, taking the child from her ; and chit
last act it was which overcalled her reason.

Sir C. J3vtttt►a.r. biki no intention of becoMing
the advocate of setinction, bin it was but jnstice.
to ti►e per,oo who had been mimed, to say, that he
had offered if this.wontan would retire to'a distant
part of the tut►tntty, and live quietly, to, allow her
a sufficiency to live tipon.
Atter a few words from Sir CHARLBS -MONCK,
and Lord Coc HUANe., the mtici.on waaagreed to.