Star.
London, England, 1812-07-18 00:00:00

LOCAL TOKENS.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved to discharge the Order for
the Cairnittneot of the Local Tokens Bill, and to renew it fur
Tuesday.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE trusted he should be able to
spew their Lordships when this Bid came to be &cussed, that
no measure was more likely than this to create a confusion in the
country. In the present state of the circulation of the country,
to prevent the issue of local tokens, would be to destroy the
small change, that in many parts of the country was the only
esieting medium for making small payments, and he contended
that this subjsct u•uld nut be properly considered, without, at
the same time, taking into consideration the paper circulation of
the country, and ihe effects produced by it.
The B.h was committed for Tuesday.
LATE OVERTURE FROM /Rave.
Lord HOLLAND wished to know from the Noble
Lord opposite, whether Ministers were in possession.
of any farther information relative to the late Over-
tnre from France, than what had been published in
the Foreign Papers ? He was desirous of absta;rting
ftom delivering any opinion respecting the Answer
to that Overture, althoogh he was certainly not dis•
posed to admit, much less to guarantee, the existence
of King Joseph at the head of the Government of
Spain as a principle of negociation. He should have
approved, however, of entering into a negociation
upon the principle of rendering Spain independent of
France. ' He, at the same time, with respect to the
terms of the Answer which bad been published,
could not but protest against the difficulty which ap-
peared to be felt in designating the Emperor of
France as Emperor. He wished to know whether it
was intended to communicate any farther informa-
tion upon the subject to Parliament or the public ?
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that the Letter
front the French Government, and the Answer of
this Government, which bad been published, were
(without tying himself to the critical exactness of any
particular expression) correct copies. The reason
why no communication had been made to Parliament
was, that the answer of this Government • called for
explanation on the part of the Government of France,
and therefore in the expectation of that explanation
the documents could -not properly be made public.
If, however, any motion was made for the priSduc-
don of these documents, he should not interpose any
obstacle. As to the terms of the answer of this. Go.
vernment, he could not conceive that there could be
any difference of opinion in that Hoene or in the
country, that if we had consented to acknowledge
Joseph Bonaparte as the King of Spain, it would
have been most ruinous to our character and our
cause ; as to the other. point alluded to by the Noble
Lord, the answer of this Government bad proceeded
upon the principle acted upon in allantecedent negoci-
ations with trance since the event alluded to happen-
ed, in not acknowledging the Ruler of that Country
as Emperor, it being a fair and a just principle that
such acknowledgements ought not to be made gra-
tuitously, but to be th objects of a stipulation for a
consideration and eqn*alent.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, he did not
mean to express either approbation or disapprobation
of the answte of this Government ; be merely wished
to know whether any communication had been re-
ceived from the French Government since the Letter
of Lord Castlereagh, which bad been published in
the Newspapers ? -
The Earl• of LIVERPOOL said, that subsequent
to the letter of Lord Castlereagh-, published in the
Newspapers, no communication whanver had been
received (rpm the French Goverment.
Ex.orrimo INPOitIIATIONA.
On the• Order of the Day being read for the se-
condseading of the firs relative to Fat-OIECiO
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Lord HOLLAND observed, that after what he
had saidamon this subject on a former occasion, and
-considering the thinness of the House at the present
moment although
he admitted the season of the
(
year to be inauspicious for a full attendance), he
should not have been disposed to have said a word
now upon the subject. had not what ,he former!),
stated been misunderstbod and Misrepresented, in
quarters where he was anxious not to be misunder-
stood or misrepresented—and had trot his object also,
in proposing these Bills, been greatly misconceived
by some persons amongst the public. Ex-officio infor-
mations and libel had for some time past beenso much
identified that there were some persons in the country
so ignorant of law as to suppose them inseparably
connected, and even to suppose that his object was
nothing less than to abolish the law of libel altoge-
ther, and thus expose the Government to every at-
tack that the utmost licence of imagination could
invent. Whatever might be his own speculative
or particular opinions upon this subject, he was not
such an Utopian reformer as to call upon the House
to adopt a measure embodying those opinions.
l His object was the regulation of the power of Ex-1
officio Informations, in order to guard against the
abuse to which that power was liable, to the oppres-
sion of the people. The power of information alto-
gether was inconsistent with the spirit of our Consti.
tution, and was condemned at least by inference, by
our own laws, which expressly forbid any other mode
of proceeding in oases affecting life or limb, than the
ordinary, safe, and constitutional mode of proceed.
lag, by indictment, to be first found by the majority
WI a Grand Jury, namely, twelve, before the indivi-
dual accused ei.uld be put upon his trial. And it
was highly worthy of remark, that whenever the
subject was to be oppressed, it was effected by means
`of an extension of the power of information. Thus
in the reign of Heisry VII. the grievances endured
by the people through this means were so great, that
it was found necessary in the first year of Henry VIII.
to pass an Act for ttie express purpose of regulating
this power. Again in the reign of Elizabeth, and in
the reigns of the first Princes of the House of Stuart,
this power was resorted to, and was the favourite en-
gine of that most oppresii we Court, the Star Cham-
ber. This pawer Continued to be made the engine
of oppression up to the perisid of the Revolution,
when the Committee appinted by the House of
Commons (in which Committee Lord Somers, then
Mr. Somers, took a most active and zealous part)
came to a Resolution, that the power of information
ought to be abolished altogether, which Resolution
was unanimously agreed to by the }Luse. He was
aware that the informations then more particularly
alluded to were not informations Ex-officio, but in-
formations in the name of common informers. The
fact, however, was, that this species cf information
had been found sa convenient to the Governmeut,
that the information Ex-officio had lailm into d'Ause,
and had become in a great degre. obsolete. To re-
gulate the power of information thus exercised, and
prevent the grievances that resulted from its abuse to
the people, an Act was passed in the third or fonrdi
year of William and Mary, enacting that the informer
sVuld enter into recognizance as a security to the
I),etendant for the costs, provisions had previously
been enacted to prevent the intOrmer from not prose.
cuting, or from co:iipounding it. He trusted he
should not now be told by a Noble and Learned-
tor,l, as be was on a former occasion, that the act
passed soon after the Revolution, relative to the in-
tormation to which he had alluded, was obsolete.—
That Noble and Learned Lord could not now say
so in justice to himself. that act being still in opera-
tion, and constantly, he was happy to say, acted
upon by the Court of King's Bench. He was aware
that this recogi izance wish respect to costs could not
he applied to Ex-officio informations without the vba
lafi n of a well known maxim of the law—a maxim,
that whatever opinions night be entertained respect.
ing it, had been long acted upon, and certainly ought
not to be hastily violated, namely, that the Crown
pays no costs. The act, however, to which he bad
alluded, had left the question respecting Ex-officio
informations where it found it, by the insertion of
worth which could not be construed to recognize the
legality of that species of Information. If, therefore,
the Ex-officio Information was, as some eminent
lawyers had maintained, .actually illegal, it could
derive no legality from that Act. What was the na-
ture of the Ex-officio information ? it was a power ex-
ercised by the Attorney-Gel eral of the Crown,at plea.
sure, of tiling an Information against an individual,
and placing, by his single act, that individual in the
same situation as it a Grand Jury of twentl.three
men had found a bill of indictment against him. It
must be at once admitted, that such a power was
most liable to abuse, and against its abuse, which
might tend grievously to the oppression of the people, I
it was the duty of the Legislature to provide. He
hied obtained a list of the number of Informationsi
:Ex-officio which had been filed in the course of a few
years past, a proceeding it should be observed, that,
with the exception of revenue cases, was confined to
libel, and he found, that whilst from 1800 to 1807,
the number filed was fifteen, in the three years from
1808 to 1810, the number filed was no less tam
forty-two, of which, however, more than half bad
never been prosecuted to trial. He did not mean to
impute any other than proper motives to Sir Vicary
Gibbs, in not prosecuting these Informations to trial,
bat he must say, that it was a power of fining and
punishing individuals which ought not to exist with-
out regulation. He had several cases before him,
but he would not name individuals, his object being
to abstain from mixing personal considerations with
the question, confining himself entirely to the princi-
ple. One of the cases was that of an individual who
in three successive years had had three successive In-
formations filed against him on charges of libel, on
one of which he was acquitted on trial, and the other
two had not been brought to trial. The expences in
curred by this individual, in consequence of these Es-
officio Informations, amounted to £278. 18s. 11d.
Thug it appeared, that the Attorney- General, without
the intervention of a Grand Jury, without the inter-
] 'nation of any regular or constitutional mode of pro-
41tesietbe amount o
ding,hadthef
neapowrly.‘esoo.er of amercing an individual
in the course of three
fi.eg"oallear nsstfcteilelnala)culisestoofneit'?upontit had
s
tliyonW:stuoogunteatdariTtiars.g
Justice
power that required some
subject, and he nmst again quote that learned Judge,
who, in statitig the necessity toe the existence of the
"war of FA-officiu InforialhOttik Cobicrfacla, Out it

was necessary to meet adequately enormous mhdb
oseanors, such as obstructing or affrighting the Son.
reign in the exercise of his functions, in which set •
a moment's delay could be suffered in bringing tee
offender to justice. Now those who suppoiLed dis
power of Ex-officio Information:, must either dog
the authority of Mr. Justice Blackstone, or they meg
accuse the Attorney-General of negligence, inset
bringing to trial the intarmation he had alluded .‘
or they must admit that the offences for which these
informations .Earnajfeie were filed, were not erone,el
misdemeanors, and therefore that the infant:awes
were improperly filed. lie could not contemplate
the existence of such a power in the hands of an tin.
cer of the Crown, without feeling that it was peer.
nant with the must dangerous consequences. is
might give a most improper influence over the pee.
tic press. At the present moment the Attorney Co.
neral had the power, after filing an information at,
(Ode, of keeping k hanging over the head of die de.
fendant without any limit of tins, and thus possessed
the unlimited power of keeping individuals, atui
pleasure, in a continual state of terror and elem..
From the general diffusion of knowledge, and ths
general curiosity to know the state of public *fait
4 curiosity, perhaps, sharpened by the large w
which the people had to pay—there were at the
sent moment a great number of periodical publics.
tions, It was, therefore, of great importance to cro
sider what effect might be produced upon the public
press, by this power vested in the hands of the At
torney:General. By not prosecuting an infetvonee
there might be 4 tacit undee.tanding, undu sneak
the individeal against whom it had beta filed might
be most improperly influenced in his opinions, part,.
cularly if his subsistence depended upon the conauct
of a periodical publication—or the abuse of ouch a
power might bare the effect of driving from the con-
duct of the public press persons of conscieuceand is.
tegrity, who would not sacrifice their opinions to
temporary interest. It might be said that the cast
he had alluded to of three successive infoimatiore
filed against the same individual made against this
argument, but the case did not make against cher
neral principle of danger whi-h grew out d sus
power, unlimited, as it at present was; in the nee
of he Attorney-General. With respect to Wad,
he wished to be more cautious in what he stated, as
he WAS not sl well acquainted with the applicaticed
the law in that count, ras in this. He had been,
however, a case, from report, in that country, is
which a person in p: ison for one lkel had had as is.
formation Exijwio filed against him fdr anotherlitel
(for it Has possible, and that was the Liw
country, that a person in prison might be convicted
of a false, scandalous, and malicious libel, of whim
libel he bad never seLn one word) and was convicted
without having had an opportunity of reaujeg the
charge against him. The facts of the case were, as
he understood, that whilst this person was in prima
tor a libel, an Information Ex .offuio was filed against
him by the Attorney General for another libel. The
defendant applied for a copy of the charge, and was
reierred to the Clown Office, where he was informed
that the charge on stamps, &c. would come to 15w
£2O, which he must pay, before they could great
him the dopy. He made an affidavit that be was aol
worth the money—but he was taken to have pleaded
Not Guilty, and upon the trial was found Guilty.—.
Upon being brought up for judgment, he stated that
he had not seen the charge against him ; and the
Court of King's Bench, alter hearing the case se
gued, granted a new trial—granting it, bowevu,
upon the ground of his affidavit, that he was not pelt.
sessed of the money demanded of him for a core,
the charge ; so that if be had only been posseseedd
430, he must have paid A'2o of it foe a copy ithe
information. He thought this most opperseee le I
the individual, and he had an intention of mewl
a clause in the Committee on this Bill, to:tomes
defendant in such a situation a copy niche 4
against him. He could not, however, but 013
taxes upon law proceedings, which swelled the amen ,
of these charges, as extremely oppressive, and new
anxiously wished they could be done away. 114
Lordship then adverted to a recent case in Imbeds
and expressed his wonder that such a personss Mn
Fitzpatrick had been selected for an ialtess We'
mition--a person who had so recently received&
thanks of a large body of his countrymen, and si I
moment too like the present, when the Go ernes
professed to be pursuing measures of conegiado"
Neither did the nature of the work justify the pit
ceeding. It was nothing more than a states:ego
those penal statutes which affected the Catbolit
body of that country. There was another circa 's
stance connected with that business also, and tells
which he hardly knew how to mention, it W" "
anomalous, and in some respects so ridiculous-nye&
when he considered it as a precedent, and in tel
ence to the evils it might produce, it then ,mood
a different character. The Attorney Gencui 0
Ireland, now in the dignity of filing Espoiscit left
mations, and with all the pomp and circuinsutecen
glorious law, sent a regular summons to the perso
against whom be was filing the information, deist(
him to attend at his,' the Attorney General" o"._
house. But what might be the consequence of oat
proceeding ? Might not the Attorney Geueral la
an interview, silt from him all the grounds of be 41
fence, and render that which he had extorted, as
strum= of injustice against him t Might not ma 56__
'the case, he would ask ? He did not mean to say it wit
the case, but he would ask, whether it was not ?art!
With regard to the general subject of ex#o
mations, his opinion had long been made up. I"'
Bill, however, which he now intended to introduces
was one merely of regulation. It left all the Pr!!
see for which these informations were instituted. ens
touched. It did not in any way interfere witua
speedy prosecution of enormous offences; but it
have a tendency to counteract that principle by w
at present, the terror of a criminal information Mew
kept hanging over a man's head. The first cb.
enacted, that no information should be filed IY__l7.
Majesty's Attorney-General within the United Al.2_
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, unless such aro;
minion should be so filed, or exhibited within t
time, the precise number of months to be specified
a future state of the Bill, after the misdemeanour
offence done or committed. That was the puma'
of the first clause ; and the second clanee
eel
that if any information filed or exhibited eseepT:
trial within so many months, next a
4 CPO
not proceeded upon, and the defendirtert botroeugdel
iatntinatiol, all Willer ProCeedn •• wi

information shall, after the expiration of that were now dead—still he wotld say al a Peet d vad;ng army.tho dossing of the Niemen is no
„nd determine,except such trial shall upon ..Parliament—as a British subject—never make a triumh : the Russians have put desolation as a bar-
cease •••
have been postponed by any rule or or. fudge ARBITRARY—for the sake of justice itself do tier between them and
me shed:uurt of King's Bench.
.Suc.k were the not—for they might rely upon it, that where a Judge
f of his Bill, and he did not think it necessary might do what h e pleased, public suspicion would
Must now be drawn from the rear.
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upon any anticipation . .
of o •pi, nctions that not be slow in sapping that confidence in the sanctity The new plan of defence adopted by the Russians
0 .
enter ,
made co it, He was far tram chinking to of the judicial character which gave such force and *ill baffle the enemy with whom they have td con.
.
ma on the law of criminal justice.. He efficacy to the operation of the laws themselves. As to ' tend. Without fidding supplies in the country as he
rO4 any ,sigma .
, with the exception of Confiscation, and the the great age of Inforniations Ex-ofseio he did not
advances, BbNAPARTE cannot push on his army.—
ot' d disgusting words in which the sentence deny it, but if tithe was to have been made in all
Rife Treason was pronounced, there was no cases of projected improvement a preliminary and in. He has, indeed, so well-ti Med the commencement
Rife Treason
world that came nearer to perfection.— superable obstacle, what, he would ask, what would of his campaign, as to have secured the luxuriant
e Lordship concluded by moving the second read- have been the constitution of England at this day ? harvetts of Poland and Prussia for the use of his
va(Hear, brat.)—Another great objection to the power
tbe Bills' army; but a spirited enter rim on the part of the
.. ELLENBOROUGH began by lamenting of the Attorney-General, exerted in this way, was theP
Allies of Russia in his rear, will confound and dis-
tbe Noble Lord, whose great acuteness aed in- vexatious harassing that might be occasioned to the
.he admired, had not addressed himself to those accused in case any Attorney-General thought pro. ' may hint iit all his future projects. Under these sir-
,; of tafornution where. he would have derived per to defer It om time to time bringing him to trial, cumstances, the attention of every well wisher to the
certain knowledge thad he unfortunately seem. and as Ole law now stood, this was quite at the dis- common cause of Europe, is naturally directed to-
00,,ess upon t_tie. subject. He had stated that cretio. nof the Attorney-General. This was a power i
swards Sweden • and would to Gthat B
. '.i, fig ey Ex-effices Information nas not a part of he did not wish to see lodged in the hands of one I ,lIID EltblaIDOTtE
would make some positive demonstration of his sin-
regular law of the ;and, and he quoted Mr. Judge . man, be that man who he may, his best and dearest
• i
ilkciatme, to prove that it was employed only for friend, or the best friend to the liberties of the coun. , centy . Probably he waits for the arrival of seine
us offences. He would beg leave to tell the i try. The present Bill would obviate this and other '
1 satisfactory communication from this country, and
" Lead however, that Judge Blackstone wrote objections, and it should therefore have his support. Iwe are rejoiced to find that Lord CATIICART is now
oble '
,i,uurantly upon the question of ex-oicio infor- 1 Earl STANHOPE was most favourable to the his way to the Baltic; in the double capacity of
7.0715. He did not say that with any intention to Bill, if for no other reason but for that which alloble 1 on
ria.4ract' fora the great merits which his Commenta- I and Learned Lord (Ellenborough) had given him, a military and diplomatic agent. His Lordship's
mu
it possessed. It was a most elegant work; in comparing theAttorney-General to a GmndJury. . presence will no doubt give additional energy to the
4dolane more good to this country, by diffusing ;He would say nothing of any of the Attorney-Gene- • Councils a Rustia and Sweden.
Obiste for the study of law, than any other rats of his own days • but he could not forget that
far The unfortunate Danes seem to suffer most lament-
,, upon. Still, however, he was to speak the Judge Jefferies was Attorney-General.—(4 laugh.)
and lie would say, that in his belief, the Com- I The Noble and Learned Lord had said Judge Black-
ably from"their perievetance in their attachment to
of Blackstone were not the production of a , stone had spoken ignorantly on this subject. Had he France. A barrel of rye (four bushels) was lately
*an sitting down to the subject, fully preps- '
I (Lord Stanhope) said Judge Blackstone was igno- sold in the market of Elaineur for sixty-two rix dol-
t that the subject, in the progress of writing,irant, what a rage would the Noble and Learned Lord lan 2
ten Bi. sterling). Other articles are represented
the man learned. He was not the dictator of , haVe been in with him for having so libelled the
as equally exorbitant in price, and bread was not to
.. tone ; he wished to be considered rather as his i Bench !—(.4 lavgls.)—The Noble and Learned Lord
be had at a rty rate. What must be the state of the
of eulogist, for he had made the study of the had said Judge Blackstone was ignorant when he first
&pleasing science to him when he first began his began to write his book, but that before he had fi- wretched inhabitants under such circumstances ! ,
career. The Noble and Learned Lord nished it, he became wiser ;—just so it was with the " ELSINORE, 'JULY 2.
lent into a variety of legal details, citingnume- Learned Lord ; when he was first made a Judge, he . " Yesterday, as a very remarkable circumstance, a
precedents from the highest law authorities, all was not so learned as he was now ; and, perhaps,
single barrel of rye, 4 bushels, did at length appear in
to shew that the practice of ex-officio infer• before he died, he might be better acquainted with
the market,f which was sent by the Parson at Blid-
' was inherent in the principle of the Constitu. the law than he is at present !—(if laugh.)—The
strap, and or which he deer,' ceded 62 rix-dollars, at
*itself ; and that, notwithstanding the clamour Noble Lord then proceeded to cite several obsolete
per.. sel2. Bs. sterling. That sum he actually ob-
thsbid been raised against them recently, they were, Acts of Parliament, which enacted, that no Scotch-
tame Numbers, of people come daily in from the
efirt, a part of the law of the land. As to the al- man should have a horse. He wished that law was
country to bay bread here, and frequently before the
kdged hardship, he thought them more humane than still enforced, and then there would not, perhaps, be
eveningot
27 is no bread to be had at any rate.
srf other. If the Attorney-General filed an infor- so many Scotchmen posting up to that House.— Oats are at rtz 9
)ars (85. Es. to 86.) and
*ion upon the affidavit of another, and the per- (4 laugh.)—He concluded with giving his support malt 42 nix-dollars (,EB. s. per barr
ea accused was innocent, might he not indict him to the Bill.
le perjury ? But, if he went to a Grand Jury, who The Duke of MONTROSE observed, that the " GOTTENSURGH, JULY to.
would tell him that an indictment for perjury could House had been repeatedly amused by the speeches ig The Danish squadron, cbaced into Arendahl
k preferred with equal facility or with equal proba- of the Noble Lord who had spoken last, but, if a con- Sound, consisted of the Nayad frigate, Sealand, Kiel,
klity of success ? In alluding to the proceeding of tinuance was made of such addresses, he for one, and Samser brigs. The Nayad was blown up, andonly
the Attorney-General in Ireland, he would only say, pledged himself, that'he should, once for all, move 50 of her crew saved. The brigs were all taken pos.
that, had it been his case, he would not have so acted; to have the bar cleared.
sessiott of, and some gun-boats sunk ; but owing to
sot because he thought it illegal, but because he Lord HOLLAND then replied, addressing him- the immense number of wounded on board them,
would not have subjected himself to misconstruction self principally to the arguments of the Noble and Captain Stuart's humanity would not alloiviaim to
and misconception. At the same time, there was Learned Lord (Ellenbonsugh.) 11e by no means destroy the rest."
robing compulsory in such a citation. It was, in asserted that the proceeding by information was ille-
“ BERLIN, JUNE so.
fat, nothing more than telling the person, lam gal, but only, that it was not the legitimate form of 41 t3y order of the French Commandant at Konigs-
about to file a criminal information against you ; if procedure in force in this country. That this was berg, the troops which garrison that city, or marl h
you choose to come and shew any cause why it should not the form of proceeding to be adopted in case of through it, are to receive their rations from the ma-
tot be done, you may. That seemed to him to be libel, he inferred from this circumstance, that Lord &mines, and are only to demand from the inhAbi- 1
the amount of the Acceding, yet, he repeated, he Camden had laid it down that persons were not to tants salt, kitchen utensils, and wood." -
weld not have employed such a course, merely from be held to bail for libel, but only for a breach of the " COPENHAGEN, JUNE test
Oath' motives, to escape just such insinuations peace—libel having only a tendency to a breach of 441 His Majesty huts issued a Rescript, dated the 15th,
Plod actually been thrown out on the present oc- the peace.
restraining luxury throughout the whole of his king.
ais
On a division the numbers were—For the Bill,
dem. His Majesty has also ordered the merchants in
lard EKSKINE agreed with his Noble and Learn- Contents, 7—Against it, 16—Majority, 9. this capital, to declare the amount in Danish moneys
oilfield in the way in which he had laid down the , ImboLvenv DLITOR S.—The Temporary Insolvent Debtors.
which they have in their hands, belonging to fo-
lnr upon the present questiot, but sitting in that( Bill for England was
-reads third time and paced.—Adjourned, rot nets, or the inhabitants of tia. two Duchies.—
Wane as aPeer of Parliament, as a lawyer, and as a-I HOUSE OF COMMONS.
-
lee :abject of the realm, he must contend for it, that A sufficient number of Members not having been About 200 vessels laden with wood, provisions, &c.
miler in the letter nor the spirit of the law, or the present at four o'clock, the Hotise was of course ad. hive lately arrived here."
" WARSAW, JUNE 22.
allitattion, was there to be found any thing that, journed till to-morrow (this day.)
- ' '--- "The Deputies for the Diet have arrived; but the
rir a mument, justified the principle' that had been time for its opening has not yet been fixed."
-- ' Atte--General on

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THE EVENING STAR.

implied, in putting the office-of Attorney...
*footing wish that of a Grand Jury.—(Hear, hear.) --....------,..-..,--,,,,
-The Constitution never meant to put them on a LONDON. Yesterday afternoon despatches were received from
footing, because the liberty of the subject has not in abmialliii Sir JAMES SAUMAR7I2, in Wingo Sound.
ilea the same security.—( Hear, haar.)—The one • SATURDAY; JULY 18, Yesterday Lord COCHRANE had an interview with
comprehended in it the great principle of trial by his PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o•C LOCK. Lord MELVILLE, at the Admiralty, for upwards of
Peens the other was the servant of the Crown, and s per Ct. Red. 561-9 per Ct. Cons. 6611—for 0pg.58; 58
two hours.
4w Ct 74-5 per Ct. 87H—Bank Stock
moveable at the pleasure of the Crown. The cons- Bonds I.s. St. dIS.--0mn.941 pre.-11k: Long Ann'. 151-16th The following is the comparative state of the
Prison therefore was against the latter.—(Hear, Each. Bills. (Sid) 3,. 4s. pr.—Do. (Sid.) ls. 4s. dig. Consolidated Fund for the Quarter ending the-sth
ler.)—The Judges not in general acting on the THE Lomise—tt never wai known in the memory of the of July, for the last three years, viz.
linos given by the 26th of the King, was on the oldest Stock Broker the immense quantity of Stock taken off the
1810
Mil Of the Judo •
I .-g,, no doubt, the exercise of a most Market, than In two Loans of this y A., in any former period.
1811
etoable discretion; but then did. it follow that such s
Mr. Peacevat.4 oh the 4th March, 1812, raised a Loan of near
Seders Million of 5 per Cents. the whole of which was nearly 1812
secretion should be left to all Judges ? Their not paid up in full by the second payments. Mr. VAtisivrtatv, on The whole prodyce of the Quarter, ending the sth
acing implied, that they thought they had been en- the 16th of June, 1812, raisediaLoan of ncarlyTwenaty-threetulof July, 1811, was £4,045,000 $ and for the Quarter
!noted with more power by that Act than ought tocourse
wofasdlosa id
week
1 wenek f(tdiro' bmythe second
1i to 2i prePla.en; and, I ett'ling
late been devolved upon them. But there was one the sth of July, 1812, £3,782,000.
om Hellion.,
ni u m half
o
i nthe f
in the course of the neat four months, Commissioners for licit& 1 A person belonging to the Quarter-Master-(3ene-
Ithich point peculiarly called for their Lordships' ma- dating the National Debts, will buy as much stock as remains of rap's department, was committed yesterday to Tothill
lure Consideration, it was the difference between libels the Omniura not paid up.
and breaches Fields Prison, on suspicion of forgery.
of the peace—in all cases of breaches By a letter from Lancashire, we learn that the
of the pace there was a mere matter of fact to be From the lateness of the hour at which the Anholt I
decided upon, destined from Liverpool Boston.
. Sally and Ann, to ston.
but in cases of alledged libel how Mail arrived yesterday, we had only time to make a 1
had reached the port of her destination on the Bth of
much matter was there that involved a various com-
plication ofsingle extract from the Papers which it brought; but ; June. She sailed subsequent to ttw. 98th of April,
conflicting considerations which might, we have received additional intelligence of importance I when theCr—amittee of Parliament bad been appoint-
andhate had, in sundry instisnces, produced doubts
theatre of war this morning. The fact of ,e
' dto inquire into the policy of theOrdeis in Council,
Ind differences in the breasts of the soundest law from the
land took out the intelligence of that determination.
itehonaies ?—(Hear, ,tear,)—.Why then, in cases of the desertion of the two Prussian regiments to the
It is probable, 'therefore, that the news will have
I°_Cyreeetions Ea.ofieio, should the Judges have a Russians, is stated so distinctly in various communi- reached Washington about the 12th of last month,
rinin such cases to hold to bail, where die strong ' and have produced a favourable impression, as to the
cations from the North, that we can no longer with.
relehility was in favour of the presumption of the „i
b.
news our credence on the su Jett. In sr letter from ; conciliatory intentions of Great Britain.
:".,of the land, that held all parties innocent down
Lae period of their conviction ? He, however,- .C 1
_otten ,
burgh dated on the 11th instant, their num.! Wedoesday morning the first stone of Lord Naas,
'bud tote's Monument was laid in the area of the New
require of his Noble Friend (Lord Holland), bers are stated at 1500 privates and 82 officers. In
to make one or two exceptions to this 'general rule,' Exchange Buildings, at Liverpool. The situation is
another letter from Memel, the circumstance is men-'
well chosen, and will prove a highly picturesque ad-
good as thegeneral• lfundoubtedlywas •
be
, believed that it was the intention of his Neble
mend to make an exception to this rule in cases ters consisted of the celebrated regiment of Black i Lieutenant-Colonel BARCLAY, of the Kincardine
%hoe the porkies accused excited any strong grounds' Hussars, once commanded by General BLUCHER, and Local Mirtia, of pedestrian celebrity, backed him-
suspicion
ot
of their intention to almond' from the lan infantry regiment of Fuzileers. The circumstance ; self with. Captain 1). of the same corps, to run nine
males within the hour, on Thursday, the 9th, being
Process. To argue from' the living characters of those I, of this gallant officer having been once connected
'ho had filledby agreement within 48 hours after the wager was
,4,_,
-.. Mu f with the Hussars, and the known detestation in i taken. The first seven miles was done in 49 minutes,
. se c the authority of that officer, was, in his
opinion, not very fair reasoninadvance before ' he
gto ore 1 holds the French, account in a satisfactory manner when he stopped and took a teacup full of vinegar
men acting in a legislative capacity. (Hear, hear.) 'for the desertion of this corps. 1 and wine ; he again started, and after running li
80. mile, the hour was declared out, and the match lost
ee the powers of the Coroner were limited by the Several letters state, that on the Ist instant,
4th and sth of William and Mary, was it then at- i On the same day, Captain D. no.
tempted to be argued that the excellent and unexcer any
NAPARTeS advanced guard entered Wilna without by 4 minutes..
de . rtook to drive his gig 16 miles within the hour,
tooni.iiabvlee character of the Coroner of that day oug t , opposition; but although we must be permitted carrying 34 stone, besides the weight of the chaise,
t which he could easily have accomplished had not the '
had any weight in continuing an excessive i to doubt that the rapidity of the movements of the
Power in the hands of that officer ?—certainly not-- 1, French was so great, we see no occasion to be carriage broken down.
they legislate for posterity, withprovident reference
k
to all
all
his possible contingencies—and therefore, 'because we have been already prepared for i The French General Pinuarow h supposed to be
still on the coast, secreted. The vigilant exertions
well founded and habitual reverence for the i
with '• such in event. The possession of Wilna will prove
that have been made, has effected the apprehension of
!anttity of those who had, during his time, presided ' but a barren acquisision-e-not only has the whole of
' several other French prisoners who bad absconded
le the Courts of Law—with all his rsonal res ect converted into a waste, but even the '1 from parole. The three lately taken concealed at
and esteem for those of *tent l'e
. . Courland been
'
now living—withP all . inhabitants have been removed from the possibility Folkestone, by Lieutenant Br.o* of the Impress
his reverence for the memory of such of thept as of being subjected' to abe merciless fangs of tb. in. Service, are still remaining in cestOdy at Dover:

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