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London, England, 1814-05-14 00:00:00

ed the 2d reading of
:Meth.

Bill, which he con.
rate extremely to the
said this would be a
is opinion it ,would be
ld operate in a man-
ise p.tsons who had
by opening a door.
urn of s4ci.riy, drawn
id every where.—(4
passing this Act; in-
to the mechanic, as
ensures, and thus do
tte would pause—(4
away the necessity of
ue, and thit at a time
tuation to throw away
a Bill whjch had filled
min: with anxiety.—
however, he stould
e trouble on this novel
.er a lapse of '2'2o ea
That it be read a 2cl.

the Bill, which went
h apprenticeship to re-
ed to the pleasure in a
respect he was upheld
and Sir Wm. Bl,clc.
• vetatious prosecutions
; but, nn ►nquiry, he
.iot twenty years, there
ti. If apprenticeships
i satisfied that combitia-
d abnost entirely be put
e to lower its attention
tey would there we the
beholding careful
vho, in- addition, were
ling, while their morals
e harpy that the present
se measure unaccompa-
! introduced.

; - t not disguise tioto him-
vas attendei With many
tedly be of great advan.
It the present law should
tstraint should Le remuv.
6 Supposing a person
for which, from his con-
; he to be excluded frora
r occupation tshatever
ta makers., which was a
tway, or of gun-makeve,
ight in a few months be
wad is to be held that
xcupation, but must re 6
annunity ?" The more he
urea the more he was sa,

lained that hR cmild wish
Le system.
any one measure more
to involve the general.
sent was that measure,-
tal right of the iniiabit,uits
fat energies of their mind
hemseives pleased 2 And
flued by which men were
undoubted right, it seem-
>se who contended for the
ricrion to spew 011 what
It Gentlemen attended to.
in question was passed,
s a period in which many
been granted, and one in.
at subject hid been made
on the impobcy of such a
a much attended to. No-
ad contributed so much as
k the progress in our arts

on the part of his consti:
rf Birmingham, was strong-
t repeal. It the law, as it
ce, at would have the effect
possible. letters upon inge-

Led the law totally repealed,
oso far. The present law
vy day. It was clear, that
d to evade it, when they
case of two men, who were
for sawing a piece of Nood;
iad b.tker in the same town,
that the good one had not
eship, had !Lim turned out,
all his neighbours with his
lame years ago the printers
ifficulty in getting even the
nted. Let those who chose
apprentices ; but let not
the same. Instances of the
ad be innumerable. it was
!! of it, which the worthy Ba.
in factisupperannuated, and
way to let it die quietly, and
3oth in this country and in
)rd Ellenbornugh got the
rape ingeniously enough.,
heel-makers; but his Lord-
uld not have been known in
Queen went to Parka/lent

t this was an extremely dif.
not consent that the sysc rn
dbe put :in end ; but
ii ze such atter:v.lms might
emovek the •iturctions he, at
the Learner le int. He
id improve the stri
agree to tins unqualified

s astonished at the partiality
aronet (Sir F.• Flood) to tint
led, the more par •iculArly as
of the law of lrelaiid. On
Ile was decidedly of n;on

Sir SA.
cn the subject of the present Bill, by the constituents
o! two Honourable Gentlemen who had already de-
livered their sentiments on the measure this night
(Messrs. Protheroe and Davis). He felt the highest
respect for the Gentlemen who had so applied to him
on the subject of the present Bill ; but his opinion ot
the measure being decidedly opposite to theirs, he
thought he would not be acting a manly part were he
either to abstain from voting on this ,Bill, or were he
to content himself with a silent vote on this occasion.
He was satisfied that there were reasons sufficiently
strong to support the system.of apprenticeship in those
trades in which a number of years were requisite to
the acquiring a knowledge of them, without the assis-
tance of the law as it now stood. This law, which
vent' o prohibit a man from the exercise of that trade
for which he was fit, he therefore thought ought to be
repeTilech For what was it but to take from a poor
Man the only property he possessed—his genius and
industry—and to drive him into a workhouse ; or to
force him to abandon his country, and to forsake his
%site and family? These were the moral consequences
schich the House was to look for from a perseverance
in the law as it now stood.
6ir F. FLOOD agreed to withdraw his Amendment..
Mr. Alderman ATKINS wished that some encou-
ragernentmight beheld out to regular Apprenticeships.
With an alteration to this effect, the Bill should
have his support.
Mr. CANNING thought the present a question of
considerable difficulty. By doing away some of the
most gharing absurdities of the present law, however,
and by holding out encouragement to the system of
Apprenticeship where Apprenticeships were neces-
sary, he trusted the evils now felt would be remedied
without injuring the morals of the rising generation. i
Mr. Serjeant BEST stated it to be his intention in
the Coramittee;to propose a clause for thevncoutags-
ment of Apprenticeships, and by which the parents
might be entitled to some of the advantages arising
from the labours of their children, during their Ap-
prenticeships, the profits of which now went to the
It. masters.
W. P. MOORE Opposed -the Bill, because he
thought that its enactment would operate seriously
to the prejudice of our manufactures both in Skill and
reputation. Indeed such had been found the effect
of the partial repeal of the statute of Elizabeth with
respect to the woollen manufacture. For although
the Yorkshire tog had formerly been a sufficient re-
commendation upon the Continent, yet since the re-
peal alluded to, our pieces -of woollen manufactures
were examined yard by yard before they were pur-
chased. .
Mr. LOCKHA RT expressed his opinion that this
Bill, if enacted, should only operate prospectively ;
that is, that it should not become effective until a
certain peribd, so that those mechanics who had
meta apprenticeships upon the faith of the existing
law,-should not be injured by its operation, by being
thrown out of employment at a period of life, when
they could not devote themselves to any other pro-
fession than that to which they had been reared.
Mr. B. SHAW deprecated the idea that morality
was likely to be endangered, or our manufactures in-
jured, ..
by the enactment of the Bill under considera-
tion ; for Scotland, td which the Act of Elizabeth
never extended, was never found is any degree infe-
rior in morality, or skill in manufacture.
Mr. W. SMITH observed, that he never heard of
any proposition of reform which was, not likely to be
inconvenient to tome persons ; and therefore he was
riot surprised at the assertion, that the adoption of the
• Bill before the House would operate to injure the in-
terests of particular persons. The apprehension of
such injury was, however, in- his judgment, un-
founded. But still thCse who expressed the appre-
hension were entitled to attention ; and the objections .
which certain Petitioners urged against this Bid,'
would, he had no doubt, meet all due' consideration
in the Committee. The tact was, as to the Statute of
Elizabeth, that its existetee served to create certain
monopolies ; and the effect of those monopolies was,
that when the demand for an article was large, the
price was enhanced to the public ; while, when thetle-
viand became small, many workmen were thrown out
4' 4.- oftmployment. Therefore, the repeal of that Statute
would tend to serve both the public and the workmen.
As to the argument advanced in support of the Sta-
tute of Elizabeth, merely in consequence of its anti-
quity, he could not admit that' it had any force.—
lie declared that his ears were quite tired of the
phrase Is the wisdom of our ancestors," which phrase
was in fact calculated only to impose upon the super.
ficial. For, alter all, what did this phrase mean ?
The world was younger .in the time of our ancestors,
although they were older than us. Time, s.ii:h Lord
Bacon, was the greatest innovator ; and if, at this ad
vaneed tira2 of the world, after all our experience, we
could not improve upon the system of our ancestors,
our Intellects must be what would hardly be asserted,
slot only quite unequal to theirs, but infinitely inferior.
How then could it be pretended that the same legis-
lative arrangement applied, in the reign of Elizabeth,
when the trade of the whole British empire was not
equal to that of the Port of London at this day, was,
strictly applicable at present, and suited to our int- 1,
proved situation ?
as .. Mr. Serjeant ONSLCW replied, and, observing
upon the Petitions on the table against the Bill, ex-
pressed his conviction that they were not the unsoli-
cited acts of the Petitioners, as indeed appeared from
the several placards about t..wn inviting signatures
to such PetitiOnt, and those Petitioners, he meant
especially the journeymen mechanics, would find the
repeal of the Act of Elizabeth eather materially ser-
viceable, than in any degree injurious to their interests.
The Bill was read a second rime, and ordered to be
committed on Tuesday.—Adjaurned.

An account of the extraordinary expences of the
Army incurred, and paid by the P.iymaster-General,
from the 25th of December, 1812, to the 24th of Le.
eember, 1813, has been printed. The total amount
is X 21,900,312. 13s. 10d. towardi which has been
applied the provision granted by Parliament', amount-
ing to 5C15,550,710. 9s. ,so that there remains to be
provided for a sum of R 6,350,132. 4s. 184.

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SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1814. •••,1

This day -we received the Mcmiteur and other Paris
Papers of Wednesday.. The official journal contains
a Royal Decree, making some further arrangements,
for the mutual accommodation of the inhabitants and
of the allied troops, until the latter quit France : also
a similar Decree, still further alleviating the oppres-
sive method of levying the droll: reunit. The llfoni-
teur is again filled with Addresses from the Civil
Authorities, and acts of adhesion from the Army :
PARIS, MAY
46 Yesterday morning the Emperor Alexander paid
a visit to the Duke de Berri, in the Thuilleries.
44 The Emperor of Austria visited the Metropolitan
Church, where he was received with the respect due
to his rank. His Majesty examined the treasury of
relic: with great attention, and kissed with much devo-
tion the relic of the ratted Crown of Thorns, which was
presented to him -by a Priest in his robes. His Ma-
jesty's example was followed by all his suite. The
Keeper of the Relics, in shewing his Majesty the
Crown of Charlemagne, which was formerly at St.
Dennis, observed, that many persons thought that
this Crown was taken from Aix-la-Chapelle ? I can
resolve this laid the Emperor : 6 The Crown of Char•
lemagne, which was at Aix la Chapelle, was carried
to Vienna by a Canon of the above city, and I have
it in my palace.'
46 The four Commissaries of the Allied Powers
who accompanied Bonaparte to Elba, have returned

to Paris.
66 All that we have said on the subject of his fright
and his various disguises, has been confirmed in its
fullest extent.
44 He wept vihenever he saw a crowd gathering :
his countenance changed, and he confessed that he
was afraid of being killed. If the tumult increased,
he shed a torrent of tears : when he thought the dan-
ger past, he affected an.air of serenity, renewed the
conversation, and talked with great volubility, but
his ideas were incoherent. It appeared as if his head
became daily more and more dersnged. He conti-
nually expressed a desire to go to England, but never
testified the least. regret at quitting France.
Lord Wellington leaves Paris to-morrow or next
day, for England.
66 Crouds of indigent persons having teased the
Emperor of Russia for charity, and his Majesty not
.being able to ascertain their respective merits, and
wishing to distribute his bounty in a proper manner,
has entrusted every curate in Paris with a handsome
sum, to be given to the poor of their parish.
1, The Duchy of Parma, with its dependencies,
given to the Archduchess Maria Louisa and her son,
contains about three hundred thousand inhabitants.—
The revenues are et timateclat four*sillion; of francs.
It belonged, before the-French Revolution, to Aus-
tria. In 1801 Bonaprte, then First Consul, and the
King of Spain, insisted that the Duke of Parma
should cede it to the° French Republic. The Duke
obstinately refused. A violent cholic. put an end to his
life on the Bth 01 October, the same year, and the
Duchy was annexed' tcrthe French Republic."
• OFFICIAL. DOCUMENT.
PARIS, max 9.
The Allied Sovereigns having learned with dis-
pleasarc, that the surrender of the Administration of
several French provinces occupied by their armies,
stipulated by Article VIII. of. the Convention of
April 23d last, has experienced some difficulties, in
consequence of a false interpretation of the reserve
contained in that article, have ordained that the fol-
lowing Order should be made public :
" Article Viii. of the Armistice having given oc-
casion Tor falsg interpretations, on account of the re-
serve contained iii that Article, the most positive or-
ders are given to the Authorities of the Allied Powers
established in the French provinces, indicated in Ar-
ticle 11. of the same Act, to surrender immediately,
the Administration of these provinces to the Com-
missioners nominated by his Majesty the King of
I France: " BARON STEIN,
" Chief of the Central Department of Administration
of the Provinces occupied by the Ailted Armies."
LOUIS, BY VIE GRACE OF GOD, KING OF FRANCE AND
NAVARRE, SCC.
" In remounting the throne of our Attestors, we have found
again our rights in your love; and our heart is open to those
sentiments which Louis XII. the Father of his People, and Henry
IV. that good King, formerly manifested. The same constant
application to the happiness of France shall mark our reign; and
the dearest wish of ,our heart is to leave some recollections wor-
thy of being associated with those of these Kings.
" Amidk these alienated ant affecting acclamations which
accompanied us from the frontiers of our kingdom to the hurt
of owr capital, we did not fail to turn our attention to the Mate
of our Provinces and of our brave Armies. The oppression by
which France was overwhelmed, has left behind many evils,
which have caused.us great affliction. Onr grief is, profound,
but the weight will be every day lightened. Our cares shall be
devoted to that object, and our happiness will increase wils that
of our People. An Armistice, concluded upon the basis of a wise
and moderate policy, all eady makes us feel, by anticipation, the
blessings of Peace; and the Treaty which will fix them in a du-
rieble monster, Is the most important of our thoughts.
" In a short time the Olive (the pledge of the repose of Europe)
atoll extend its s'sade over all the Nations who wish for it. The
march of the allied armies towards our frontiers has already com-
menced, and the august Sovereigns, who kart acted so generously
towards us, wish to draw closer between them and us those bonds
of friendship and of mutual confidence which can never be shaken.
We know that some abuses bave been committed, and some of
the departments have been oppressed with contributions since
the conclusion of the armistice. Bet the just and liberal decla-
rations which the Allied Sovereigns have made to us upon the
subject of these abuses, authorise us to forbid our subjects to
comply with requisitions which are illegal, and contrary to the

sr/plastrons of the arntistice. Nevertheless, our gratitude an!. the
ages of war require, and we order all the civil and military au
rhorities to take the utmost care that the valiant armies of the
Allied Sovereigns shall receive with exactness, and in abundance,
whatever is necessary to the subsistence and wants of troops; all

demands beyond this are null.
" Frenchmen! you bear your King; he wishes that your
voice in turn should reach him, and that it should explain your
wants and your wishes. The largest cities, the most obscure
villages, every part of his kingdom, are equally under his care;
It impossible that his paternal sentiments can be too strong for
a people whose worth, whose loyalty, whose attachment to their
Kings have for many ages formed their prosperity and their
glory. (Signed) , • " Lotus."
The following extract of a Private Letter gives an
interesting picture of the present state of the Parisian
manners and sentiments : •
•
" At the Dalt at Sir CHARLES Sr Ew ART'i, was assembled
the most remarkable collection of persons, that probably ever
met before in the same room. In one part there was Lord WRL-
LINOTON, conversing with BLUCUt R and PLATO?? ; In another,
-the Emperor of Russia, dancing with the wife of Marshal NET •
14 I was at St. Owen, a league from Paris, where the King
slept the night before he entered. The room was filled with
Ladies, principally of the denim regime, to receive the King. The
scene was of a nature you may conceive most affecting: When
the Prince de CoNDI arrived, some few minutes before the King,
the tears came even Into my eyes, to see the poor old man, the
last of his name, come into the room, with his understanding
•apparently wandering; looking about him as if he knew not
where be was, but with an air of kindness, that was to the bst
degree touching. Not a person in the room seemed to feel it but
myself—they curtsied to hint with respect, as in old times, and
pressed round him with a little sort of curiosity, but no other
emotion of any kind. Some time afterwards, when the King ar-
rived, the Duchess D'AsoouLtate passed through the room,
and what do you think was the only observation I heard I Net
a word of the change in her looks, of the expression in her coun.
teuapce, or any topic of that kind—the first observation I heard
was' Pipit, elle ale petit e4a prate.'
" To understand this, you must know that there is a great
warfare here between the French and English on the subject of
hats—the English wearing them, as you know, small and fiat,
the French, on the contrary, have them as high as the elocAer of
a cathedral, and covered with flowers, but with flowers enough
to furnish an ordinary sited garden.
" There are three Royal Marriages to take place forthwith:
the Duke de BER a t marries the Grand Duchess Anna, the King
of PRUSSIA the Duchess of• OLDlNrek:iu, and the Hereditary
Prlilce of PRUSSIA an Austrian „Princess.
" Never did any map play his cards so badly as the CROWN
Palace of Sw noels—never was there seen a more striking ex-
ample of the instability of fortune. His want of decision in one
critical momemt, has lust to him for ever the fruits of all his pre-
eloui labours : by halting to make an arithmetical calculation of
the chances, instead of being the person to head the allied armies
in their erttlr into Fraice; and being regarded in history as the
Conquerer of BONAPARTE; he has now slunk back to Sweden'
without drum or tiumpet, after having lived a few days in Paris,
unnoticed and disregarded.
" I am told that a sad accident had nearly deprive! us of our
illustrious WELLINGTON. After the great review of the troops,
where the Hero was the only General Officer out of unifu.m.
dress in a plain blue frock and a roundlet, but well mounted,
the Emperor ALSICAN inn was requested to chew in what man-
ner the Cossacks charged. He complied, and gave the order-1
in an instant the body of horsemen set off—not in a line—but
breaking off in separate masses in el sErect;ons--belo-r shelter—
by which a rr.ctr.cwsry confusion took place, and several per-
sons were rode over. Lord Wer.Lincrrotes horse fell, but tlst
Noble I.orti happily disengaged bin:seir without injury. •
In consequcree of the many fatal quarrels that have taken
place at the low Tripots and Balls in the neighbourhood of the
l'alace Royal, a temporary stop has been put to them aIL . •

Last night Mr. Sctjeant CNsLew's Bill for the re-
peal of the s:h of Elizabeth, respecting Apprentice-
ships, was read a second time—the amendment, by
which it v.•as proposed to put off the second readir.g
six months, having been withdrawn. This law
has too lung di.3;:raced our Statute Books—lt is an
outrage on common sense. It does all chat a Statute
can do to compel'uten to become either thieves or
paupers in The event of the article they have been
taught to manufacture gettiag-:Out of fashion and
consequently out of demand.

Yesterday Sir THOMAS TYRWHITT arrived at Carl-I
ton-house from Wnrtemberg. Sir THOMAS had an
audience of his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT.
Yesterday the Russian Ambassador, and Lords
LivaneooL and BATHURST, had Audiences of the
PRINCE REGENT.

Wednesday morning the Prince of WURTEMBERG
was introduced to the Duchess of OLossuuno at the
Pultency Hotel, on his arrival in England. Thurs-
day morning a Russian Prince and a Cossack Gene-
ral were introduced to her Imperial Highness at the
same time. On the evening of the same day a Cou-
rier arrived, with letters from her brother, the Em-
peror ALEXANDER, in Paris.
Yesterday the Duchess of OLDENDURCIfy accompa-
nied by GeneralTurtrasa and suite, visited Coldbath-
fields Prison.

Orders have been issued for preparations to be
made at Portsmouth for a naval review on a large
scale, at which the Empefor of RUSSIA, the King of
PRUSSIA, the PRINCE RF.OVIVT, the Lords of the Ad.
miralty, the Cabinet and Foreign Ministers, &c. will
be present.
Yesterday twenty waggons belonging to the wag-
gon train proceeded with money from the Bank of
England to Portsmouth, for the purpose of paying
off a certain proportion of the Navy.
A French Officnr, at z.t:,:e at a tlataurateur's, sat
opposite to a Russian : he had several crosses and other
badges of distinction on his breast. Pointing to one
of them, he said insultingly, 4, This •I received at Vi-
enna ;" to another—•" This at Moscow." No notice
was taken at the moment, and he repeated the bravado.
Still the offence passed apparently unobserved; but at
length the Frenchman rose to depart. The Russian
followed him to the door, and struck him violently,
first on one cheek, and then on the other, saying,
44 Take that for Vienna, and that for Moscow."—
The people present applauded this act, and the conse-
quence was an immediate meeting with sabres ; its five
minutes the French Officer was a corpse. The small
sword is not much resorted to in the adjustment of
these affairs, as the French enjoy in general a consider-
able superiority in the use of that weapon.

Oat the subject of this country was entitled to the free,
eNcrcise of his talents, ingenuity, and industry, in TUE EV ENING•SrfAR.
ire a final determi. s..ratever way he wished to employ them.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY had been applied to LON DON
•
agreed to, and a Bill cn the subject of the present Bill, by the constituents ,
)ught in. The Re- o! two Honourable Gentlemen who had already de. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1814.
Lo further conbideta• livered their sentiments on the meavare this night
. . the Mtutitrur and other Pal