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London, England, 1820-07-18 00:00:00

ORANGE CLUBS.

LIVERPOOL, Jo I.Y 15:—On t4vdties.day the I,2th instant the
Members of this Club Met at the York Hotel..decorated with
orange sashes, !Maps, roses, &C. hearingdhree silk banners
with, mottos and devies, amt about ten A.M., amid the ringing'
of bells, with colours Hying, - drums beating, &c. proceeded
through Richmond. street, Whitechapel, Dale-street, Castle-
street, Lord-street, to St, Peter's Chinch. Unfortunately, at
the end of Richmond-street a battle commenced, in which two
or three persons, we bear, were severely wounded.- After
Divine Service the Orktigemea made another display, and
unirched through. Tatretott-street, Williamson-square, and
Clayton-square, and hack -to the- York Hotel. During
this route numerous fiiiirstoi,l place, arrd' individual efforts
were made to. seize tkeir•tlags, without success. Of the
rioters an Wednesday eleven were apprehended, of whom two
have been sihce dischaigi.4l, two admitted 'to bail, and seven
remanded for want of sureties.

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Dooldtt, JULY 12.—This is on'Orange-anniveisary. The
events at ,the recent Election led people to expect that it.
would be maiked by something pecciliar in the way of re-
joicing; For the statut! in College green it was known that
new trappings had fur some time been in preparation; and
as tor firings and shootings, there was what was considered a
well-founded rumour that they would Continence earlier and
end later • by some hours, than on ordinary,occasions of this
sort. The procession consisted of several hundred persons,
and the rejoicings • continued front one till six o'clock this
morning.

HIGH TREASON.—The Scotch State Trials
commenced at.'Stirling on Thursday last when
Hardie, one of the Bonnymuir Radicals, was
found guilty. - The indictment on which he was
tried charged him with conspiring to: levy war
and subvert the Constitution, .and publishing and
posting up printed addresses to, the inhabitants. of
Great Britain and Ireland, to incite the soldiers
of the King and other subjects to rebellion.
The Court has• strictly forbidden any publication
of the proceedings till all the trial are conclud-
ed. -The prohibition, like that issued on the
trial of the Cato-street Conspirators at. the Old
Bailey, is not confined merely to those now.i❑
progress at Stirling, but extends to those which
will follow at. Glasgow, Paisley, Dumbarton, and,
Ayr.

We are happy to learn, from a Gentleman who

has recently travelled a thousand miles through
various counties in the north, south, and west of
England, that the country presents one unvaried
scene of fertility and abundance. . The hay-har-
vest, inmost parts, is terminated, and the corn
in all of them is rapidly maturing for the sickle,
with the promise of an almost unexampled crop.
In the prosent state of the country, what a scope
for satisfaction and gratitude is offered to every
pious bosom -for these providential-la-yours ! The
earth teems with riches, not-those which unhap-
pily form the root of evil, but with those which
refresh and.strerWhen man's heart. (Plymouth
l'ele,f.rraph, July 15.)
• •A most retnarkable circumstance occurred at
.Morant bay, Jamaica, on the 16th April.. The boat
'
of the ship Waterloo was lying alongside, with
three boys in it, when a shark, supposed to have
intobeenhn g
sprung at the boys
veiorlencv as to stave in. one
impelled
boat w boy:
such u
the
of the planks..- 'The voracious fish was 'taken on
board the -ship; it measured 7 feet.

the plate Lelonged could not be doubted, for it
appears that while furnished for, her use in Ken-
sington Palace, the following entry was made by
the Ldrd Chamberlain :-L-46 Here is a list of his
Majesty's plate in loan to her Royal Highness
the Prtncess of Wales, residing in Kensington
Palace.'-' After this, to some it may appear
strangS that her Majesty could for a moment sup-
pose the plate to be her own property, since it is
quite dear. that she had no more right to
pack it up, with a view of carrying it off to
the Coiitinent, than she had to pull down the Pa-
lace to.which it belonged, for the same purpose.
—Dr. Lushington, in his reply, found it neces-
sary to explain the circumstances which led him
to bring for Ward this motion. His. colleagues,•
Messrs'. Brougham and. Denman, have, it seems,
left torn, and they accordingly: gave this job
with adroitness, quite,as creditable to their pru-
dence as to their generosity, to their new ally.
The House seemed satisfied with his explanation,
and though they unhesitatingly negatived his mo-.
tion without a division, the general impression
was, that fai, from deserving blame, he was to be
pitied for ha\ing been so cruelly imposed upon,
and betrayed' into so awkward a situation.

[Morning Ch. ronicle.]
It is a curious circumstance, that while the
House of Lords have determined that no list shall
be furnished to her Majesty of the witnesses who
are. to be poured into England from Italy against
her, an Italian Court of Jumice, somewhat better
acquainted with the character of the population
of that country, we presume, than their Lord-
ships can be, found it necessary to establish

it as a rule, that in every criminal case the party
accused shall be. furnished with a list of witnesses.
and copies of the papers or proofs eight days be-
fore trial,.and that no witnesses shall be. exa-
mined, whose names and designations are not spe-
cified in such list (non saiii permesso per 6 di
esaminare verun testimonio,.il di cui novae 11011 sit
stato connotato nWla suddetta Lista,.. 4-c.) If in.
the neighbourhood where the witnesses live, and
where of course their chara-cters are known, it.
Was still found necessary to secure the accused
aginst false parole:evidence and fabricated docu
ments, by a measure of this kind, how much
more must previous inquiry be necessary when
they are brought into a •country. which possesses
not the slightest knowledge of them ?

[.Morning Herald.]
In the House .of Commons, last Alight, Dr.
Lushington :renewed the motion which =he made
on Saturday, relative tp- the .Queen's plate, and
of which we yesterday- gave an account. Lord
Castlereagh,: in answering the statement of the
lion. Mover, took occasion to speak in strong
terms of all attempts made to inflame the
_pnb4
mind, and spoke of the Queen as listening, to ha,
proper advisers,• and suffering herself to be made
an instrument of the evil designs of others, which
had prevented her from- receiving those accom-
modations, of the want of. which she. complained.
On the subject of theq)late, he argued that the
late. King-could never have intended to make it
a personal present to the then Princess of Wales,
as he had no mare power to do. so than to alienate
the CroWn Lands, it being the property of the
Crown. as attached to a Royal Palace, and some
of it having actually belonged. to King William.
It was therefore merely intended for her use, like

the other furniture of Kensington Palace, .Iv7hile
she resided there in the.yearlBoB, and was never.
intended by that use tb, be detached from. th4t
estaNishment. 31r. Huskisqan corroborated this
statement, and the motion-was.negatived without
a division.—ln the House of Imrds. it. was Axed

question of
at the discussion on the important

the Bill. to amend the Marriage Act to take
place on Wednesday, the Bill having, on the mo.
tion of .-Lord Eilenborough, been Committed for
to-dad, and ordered to be .printed with, the
amendments, previous to its re-committal on that
day..

PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF IiORDS, JULY 17.

MIS' ELLANEOUS.
In the course of the Judicial Businiss that took
place, judgment was given on the three follow—
ing Appeals, viz..:--:Hotchkiss v. Dickson af-
firmed ; 'Renee v,. Young, reversed; Duke of
`ROXburgh.v: Robertson, reverted.
The'Earl of CARNAIIVON presented a Petition
'from the Calico Printers in the town and neigh-
bourhood of Manchester, stating their distressed
situation in consequence of thd stagnation of fo-
reign trade, &c. praying relief.
The Earl of LIMERICK presented .a Petition
from Thomas Bcruchier, Esq. many years Deputy
'Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, setting forth his
faithful services in that office, and his being re-
-duced to the situation of an inferior clerk, at an
,advanced stage of life, and praying the favourable
.attention o,f the House to his case.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE presented a Petition
from certain 0 wners and Tenants of Cottages in
-Glasgow, against the Glasgow statute Labour
Bill: A short conversation ensued, principally
between the Duke of MoNTaosE and the Noble
Earl, when the petition, as well as the former
Documents, were ordered to lie on the table
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the second read-
ing of the Bank Forgery Prevention Bill.
''The Earl of LAUDERDALE was of opinion that
the Petitioners against the till should be heard.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL had no objection to
the Petitioners being heard ; though for his part,
he considered that from the nature of such a Bill,
the Petitioners had not the smallest pretensions
to what they called for.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE thought the Noble
Earl at the head of his Majesty's Councils had
mistaken the nature of the application. In a dis-
cussion to which that part of the subject might
lead, it would perhaps be proper that the
strangers be ordered to withdraw, as it may tend
to expose secrets of trade and go to a dis Closure
of the plan adopted, to an extent that 'may be

injurious.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL did not believe, that
the Petitioners did not know what the plan was.
The Royal Commissioners had carefully examined
more than 100 plans, and had preferably decided
in favoar of the present. it Could not be ex-
pected that the House would institute an inquiry
of their
.own, which it would be' mpossible to
follow up,
. After u few remarks from Lord How-A.3m, the
Bill was 'read the second time, and committed' for
Wednesday.
After .a short conversation between the Earls
of LlvEttpoor., and.Lxvotao ALE, the Noble' Mir
nister gave '.-lotice of his intention to move the
-second reading of the Additional Postage Bill
to-morrow. -
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented two
Petitions, one from various Merchants of the
Town of Liverpool, and the second from certain
AlanufaCturers of the Town of Manchester, im-.
ploring their Lordships to consider well before
they adopted the Bill tending to do away all
protecting lltitie-i between Great Britain and Ire-
land. H would give no opirfion as to the merits
of the Petitions, but he thought that the com-
mercial relations between both countries could
not be
_placed on a sure footing, till a principle
of reciprocity should be adopted.
The Petitiors were ordered to lie on the table ;
and several Bills which were brought up, from
the Commons, were respectively read the first
time.

CONDUCT or SIR THOMAS MAITLAND, G
The Order of the Day upon which their Lord
ships were summoned being read,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE rose to bring for
ward his noticed motion on this subject.' He pre
faced it by a speech of some length, in which he
vindicated the conduct of his Hon. and Gallant
Relative on occasions, particularly with respect
to the cession of Parga, whiCh had been the sub-
ject of repeated discussions in another place ;
and, as his Lordship observed, the topic of much
calumny and misrepresentation out of doors, in
certain publications and in other ways. The
Noble Earl entered into a detailed discussion re-
specting the circumstances and causes of the ces-
sion of Parga ; and also of the conduct of his
Hon. and Gallant Relative, as High Commissioner
en the part of his Majesty, to the lonian Isles.
He contended, that the Parguenots, instead of
being treated with the least harshness or injus-
tice, were treated with every possible lenity, and
every possible attention paid to the rights of pro-
perty on that important occasion. With respect
to the valuation of the property of those who
chose to part with it on the occasion of the ces-
sion, the amount as estimated by the British Com-
missioners was 280,0001., whereas, the Turkish
Commissioners valued it only at 56,000/. ; and
eventually, the High Commissioner procured for
these persons 150,0001., which was a much greater
amount than could be got without his benevo-
lent interference. His Lordship then took a
general view of the Administration of the High
Commissioner, financial, as well as military,
and ably contended that it was in every re-
• spect beneficial to the interests of those whose
government was committed to his charge. What
'had been done with respect to the cession, was
no more than what was clearly prescribed by
the Treaty of Paris, and in this every possible at
tention, as well as in every other part of his ad-
ministration, was paid to the welfare and i,nte.
rest of the people in question. He (the Noble
Earl) was not conversant in the language of pa-
negyrics, but the dictates, of strict justice called
upon him to speak in terms of high commenda-
tion of the conduct of his Hon. and Gallant Re-
lative, and who was undeservedly the object of
no small degree of misrepresentation arid cen-
sure for, those- parts of his conduct. *He. con-
cluded by moving an Address to his Majesty,
praying the production of various docnments
therein specified, illustrative of the conduct of

Sir Thomas MaWand) G.C.B. his Majesty's
Commissioner to the lonian Islands.
Earl BATnuas•T expressed, his cordial appro.,'
bationof every thingthat had-. fallen from the'
Noble Earl. The wi:4e conduct of Sir Thomas,
Maitland on the Occasion referred to was de-'
serving of the, highest commendation. lielad
acted on an occasion of difficulty without example
with the.iltinost degree of firmness,, tenip‘r,*.and
moderation. A more honourable or a more-stre-
nuous servant of the public could not be found.,
A few words respecting the conduCt-151G,
ment concerning the cession of Parga, he begged
leave to state. This when fairly viewed, he
thought, must appear to have been conthicted in
the most cautious and unexceptionable manner.
It had been argued as if the cession of Parga was .
a matter of option on the part of the British Go-
vernment; it was, however, quite different.
They had, by the Treaty of 1815, no right to
retain that possession. By that Treaty, the
right to the possession of Parga was decided to
vest in the Porte. He had some official -commu-
nication with General Campbell on the subject.
Latterly, however, that gallant officer was too ill
for a personal interview, but he *had made a sort
of death-bed declaration, that he had never au-
thorised any person to give the Parguenots rea-
son to believe that they did not belong to the
Porte. Its occupation by the British was only
by the same right that we had occupied Egypt
in the war before the last, which also belonged
to the Porte, and which the British in like•man-
ner were bound to restore to that Power at the
conclusion of the war. On the same priaciple,
the French were driven out of both in the first
instance. With respect to the cession, it was
stipulated with the Porte, that such of the Par-
guenots as chose should have liberty to remove
their properties. Such as chose to avail them-
selves of the stipulation, disposed of theirproper7
ties on terms far more favourable than was known
on occasions of the kind. The motion was
immediately agreed to, without further.discussion.
. After a short conversation between Lord
ERSKINE and Lord LALTDERDALEI
Picture. Lottery Bill was read the second time,
and referred to the consideration of an Oat7door
Committee.
MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL.
Lord ELLENROROUGH moved the Order of the
Day for the committal of this Bill: 'He explained
that his intention Was to propose, that the amend-
meets he was about to prepare should be agreed
to and printed ; and that the Bill should. be re-
committed on Wednesday, when the new clauses
or amendments could be regularly discussed. ,
The LORD-CHANCELLOR; observed, that if the
Bill, after corning out' of a Committee, should, in
his mind, continue to be objectionable with re-
ference to the morals and religiOn'of the country,
he should certainly object to the'measure altoge-
ther. If, in a COmmittee; it could' be rendered
of a different nature, he undoubtedly should not
oppose it.
Lord REDESDALE said, if the' Bill could be
rendered unobjectionable in a Committee, parti-
cularly on the score of its proposed retrospective
operation, he should support it. But there were
clauses in the Bill which called for the most se-
rious consideration.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL entirely concurred in
the view taken of the measure by the Noble Lord
who spoke last. The Marriage Law certainly
required great alteration, and-he had no difficulty
in stating, that they should rather look to the fa-
cilitation than to the obstruction of marriages ;
and he certainly thought the alterations should
be of a prospective, and not of a retrospective,
operation, and the Noble Minister also seemed
to approve of the Noble and Learned ,Lord's
suggestion of a former evening, respecting the
encouragement of Marriages by Banns, preferably
to those by License.
After some further discussion, principally be-
tween Lord HOLLAND and the Noble Lord on
the Woolsack, their :Lordships reolved into a
Committee on the Bill, when the several Amend-
Ments proposed by Lord Ellenborough were
agreed to, and the Report was ordered to be re-
ceived to-morrow, with the understanding, that a
discussion of the Bill as amended, should take
place on its re-commitment on Wednesday.