Star.
London, England, 1822-03-01 00:00:00

_- country , . was—
tes 7 Government so large a revenue. If the taxes were
a greater quantity of articles would be vneumed,
etwillt was therefore doubtful whether the revenue would suffer
it ali. • He concluded 'hi giving the Petition his support.
The Petition was then ordered to lie upon the table, and',
be printed. •
Mr. HEATHCOTE rose to present e Petition felon the
Owners and Occupiers of Land at Louth, in Line°inahire, com-
plaining of Agricultural Distress. The Petitioner; had re.
quested Mm to state to the , House the deplorable situation" is
which they were ; and, from his own knowledge, he wee enabled
to say that the most severe distress prevailed in the neighbouts,
hood with which he had the honour of being enoneeted
Unless there was some change of system, no frugality in the
farmer, or allowadce in the landlord, could avail the agricultu-
rist. It was absolutely necessary to extend some immediate
relief, otherwise the country could not go on, and the revenue
would be totally dilapidated—(Hear).-rTh; Petitiooers com-
plained of the disappointment they felt that no immediite
relief was intended by GoVerament, and they expressed their
surprize at the overwhelming majorities in that House, by which
the plans of Government were sanctioned—Meer, bear).—lie
would not now enter tato an iuqeiry as to die causes of that dis-
tress, but would content himself with saying that the present
distress was greatly aggravated by the amount of taxation.—
It was not only the Government taxes which oppressed the
People, tint also the Poor Bates, which, at "any time, were a
great burden, but at the present time they were, totally insup-
portable—(cle:lr, hear).—The Petition was laid on the table.
SHERIFFS IN SCOTLAND.
A Menses said, that seeing the Right Honourable Secre-
tary (Mr. Peel) in his place, he wished-to ask him a question
upset a subject of considerable importance to Scotland. He ob-•
served, that by the Act fur abolishing Heritable Jurisdictions in
Scotland, it was provided that there should he a Sheriff in each
County in Scotland. This Officer was to be a laWyer of a certain
standing at the Bar, and he was to reside-far four months in the"
year.within his Shrievalty. Tie had, however, •heard a report
within these few days, that Ministers did intend to oblige the
Sheriffs to reside longer than four months within their Shrievaity,
.which he hoped wesnnfouuded. lie understood that the expe-
daunt was about to be made, in the case of a recentappeint-
went which took place in a County (Lanarkshke) rpromined
' by a Noble Lord (Hamilton). Zoe =" , ~ , ...... . ~..,
The SPEAK Elt interfered, soideseninded the Hss Mem-
ber that it was irregular to lay grainiest debate unites be meant
to conclude with a motion. . .
The Hon. Manua said, he certainly did not mean to matte
a motion, but he only wished follow from the Right Honourable
Gentleman whether there was any Mt* As. the report which be
had heard? . .. ,,,_., ..
Mr. Secretary PEEL Mid, be liOd WO Plietilty to answering
the Hon. Member's question. The Mb* to Which he alluded
had occupied the attention of Government• for some time, and
he believed he could state that a measure, snob as the Honour-
able Member stated, would bo Sadly adopted. Government
had been guided by the Report of the Coouniseloners of In-
(sills which recommended a wrestler bf this nature • and upon
the fullest consideration of the ease, and mute particularly on
'Manna of the late therarbancoi which took place at Paisley and
diespw, they deemed it empedient. kW the security of the
r iir;'otthat the Siuriff should i forresitte constantly within his
• y. Wacticielled to the Actabolishing Heritable Jo-
dal:dons in i be did hoe see that that Act threw any-
*lade in the *ley of Mir Mitesure, .lot. a widgets of four
=was by that made the minfinems if theMowio duty.—
that abase ,of duty lad been emptied with Milken°.
be would sot nqw inqutte, but
_there Certainly Was nothing in
*the Act to Make 'Oust .the Sheriffs lidding. in their=
4nore thin &it- stootba,-(Halar).--At sit. deems, she ,
took credit' to tisemadoii for. 4we4ir.oo4ertobei ‘ this *Pro!**
ment,•which weenentemiely with a.,elynt.te, the greater security
ipt the public peace. . .
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And he would
__ *mato them whether the measure proposed by
the Leoroediderrd mit a complete evasion of the business
orbit:hiss hid as hit tight! It bad lately moo nufortb-
Ismael, bees tits essmesilat no are could suecessfully originates
measure in that Beramatolesche sat oe !the Treasury Bereekl-1--
He did not objett to the Bill, but he andertook• to my that it
did sot go far enough. lodeed, he had oo doubt but the Learned
.Laird himself was aware thaehis Bid would not cure half the
evil. tut he got rid of the basin** by introducing that an as
+streak et copra, without pitstlearadiag to let the Rouse
koftyrien uhews.—Leavo was granted to litinglo the Mil.
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• ' t.....,AFFRAY AT KNIGHTSBRIDGE. •
ti.AldertitarisWOGif said, that the object of the
which he rosé to make, in pursuance of the
noti he had given,-was.td bring under the consi-
deration of the -House the Subject of the Petition
Which was presented on the Bth of the present month
kern the City of LondOn.. In endeavouring to in-
lidcl the House to concur, in his motion, it was ne-
cessary to advert to the evidence. on Which the 06_
tion was founded'; but, in 'doing so, he would Con-
fine himself its much as possible' to the facts of the
ease. lie-bad the satiifactiob to know that his.nrh-
-tion would be seconded by his. Hon. Colleague (sir
Miti.rCurtis), who was not in the habit of :agreeing
mach in opinion with him. The course hi theanisto
**rase Would) be. to appoint a select CoMmittee to
inquire into the fact; set forth 'in the Petition. That
Petition, suppoitedly a mass of evidence, stated an
assault to have beirn Committed on the. person of the
Sherirof London by the Military. He would, there-
fore, call on die Home to inquire into that assault, • •
and to consider whether those who were called out
to discharge an imfortint duty were to sit dOwn
quietly after such violence offered them. He need
istepegble this Hattie 'with a derail of the eircum. •
stiMiseiiill that base. AH knew the state of public
feeling in London on the occasion of the funeral of
Honey and Francis, the individuals who lost their
lives in consequence.of the attack of the military on
the people on the day of the funeral procession of her
late Majesty. It was intended by the populace to
have a public funeral for those individuals. The
Lord Mayor received intimation that a meeting would
be held in Smithfield for that purpose. His Lord-
ship lost no time in making preparations for presetv-
ing the peace-Of the metropolis.. It was afterwards
intimated-to the Lord Mayor and to himself (Mr. Al-
derman Wood!, that the funeral procession -of those
persons would move through Hyde Park to Hammer-
smith church-yard, where they were to be interred,
and that the procession would form in Red Lion-
street or Red Lion-square, in the neighbourhood of
which place the bodies lay. NO intimation was givers -
to Mr. Sheriff Waithman all-that time, either from
the Home Office or from the Police Magistrates--
not one word was mentioned to the Sheriff about the
propi iety of his attending with the City police. Mr.
Sheriff Waithman, however, attended ; and, havihg
learned that the procession was to move by Knights-
bridge Barracks, and apprehending some disturbance
would follow on account of the general indignation
felt at the recent conduct of the Life Guards; he. very
properly assembled the police of the City, iii order to
preserve the race.. Mr. Waithnian, in the absence
of his colleague, conceived that duty to deiolve. on
him, and tOcik all possible pains, to prevent' a public
IsMiti
funeral at all.' He would read, with the
of the House;'a leiter which was written' With 'lliton
that
view shy Mr. 11)*tiff9Vaidinian, and sent to
.ialkor .
most of the NeWe'spapeis. That was, he belieyed, on
Friday, anditeleltev appeared on Saturday the nth
of August. Re could not say for certain whether it
was in the SatUidayor Sunday Papers, but the words
of the letter:Wein these:
H Sir' (addreseing himself to the Editor of the Paper) baying
seen in ate of;the Newspapers a paragraph which rates 'that
a procession is intended, to proceed to-morrow from Smithfield,
to attend the funeral of Prods and Honey, as I am interested
in the peace of the Metropolis, I b:.g leave to communicate,
through the medium of yner Paper, that I most eat-4417'de-
precate this, as the matter is going through a course of inquiry,
and hope the people will retrain from attmding the proposed
Meeting."
—lle (Alderman Wood) would ask wha more could
Mr. Sheriff Waithman do? No one could charge
that Gentieman_with a neglect of his duty. .After.all,
he found it his duty to attend the funeral, and had
not the c6-operation of his colleague, who was ab-
sent, but ho had. the assistance of the Under%Sheriff.
klr. Waithman, at an early hour, placed himself in
the neighbourhood of Sloane-street, where be cob-
tinued until the funeral procession had gore qu etly by.
There had been, indeed, some little interreption et
the barracks, in consequence of a brickbat 'having
been thrown from the top of the barracks among the
people in the road. Mr. Waittirtian then came for-
ward and reqiietited cf the people.eo take no notice,
but.to gosin itiitetly‘ assuriagilessii4hat II so doing
no one should *ellen them... ' nit Vitval at wits
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