Star.
London, England, 1809-04-15 00:00:00

NEW WRIT.

On the Motion of Mr. WALLIS., a New Writ was oriere,l to
he issued for a Commissioner to s:rve in Parliament fur hdin-
burgn, in the room of the Right lion. Mr. Robert Dunilas, uhu
since his election had accepted !he OlEce of Chief Secretary tor
Ireland.

BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.
On the Motion of Sir C. HAMILTON, the Order of the day
for the attendance of Daniel Butler, at. the bar of the House, was

Sir C. HAMILTON stated the circumstances attending the
Arrest, and Daniel Butler being called to the bar,
The SPEAKER Informed him that a complaint had been made
against him by Sir C. Hamilton, for having arrested and insulted
him, and he was now called on to say what he had to offer in ci-
cuse for his conduct ? _ _

Ile !vial' appeared extremely agitated, and held a paper in
Li; nand, which, on being interrogated, he said he could not read.
He knew its cou:ents, but had neither written nor dictated

them. lie was unit:rillto withdraw.

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Sir C. HAMILTON moved for his being recalled and exami-

fled as to whether he (Sir Charles) had not endeavourt d to sa-
tisfy him that he was net the person named in the writ, (who
was an Irish Baronet of the name of John Charles Hamilton) but

also that lie was a Mentlit.v of Parliament.

Uutlz:r bt ing recliled, was examined as to this point; bat his
answer was iaaailible.

Oct his withdrawing the second time,
e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there coeld
be tut ene way of treating this affair. He applauded the Ho-
nourable Baronet for bringing it forward in the manner he had"
dour, and from motives so extremely proper and jus tlible. He
had acted towards the person vii:h the utmost fGrbearince, and
the present was the only mode that remained of punishing his

contumacy.
The SPEAKER put the question, " That Daniel Butler had
been guilty of a breach of tile privilege* of the Home," which

was agreed to.
Mr. BARHAM wished it to be generally understood, that,
,even after all the insults which had been offered to Sir C. Hamil-
ton, he was extremely desirous to excuse Butler if any apo-
logy had been Dude; but nowe would be o&•ted by that rev-wit-
till he knew the matter was to be brought before the Ht.use of
Commons.

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On the question from the SPEAKER, Daniel Butler was for
his offence ordered to be Committed to Newgate, and a warrant
issued accordingly.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL for SCOTLAND brought up the
Report of a Committee, which had pa+sed a Reiciltrion that
British ship! captured, and then recaptured, should be regiitert d
as if they had not been captured at all.—Resol::tion agreed to,
and Dill ordered accurdin2,ly.
.IRTINIQUE.

Mr. C. c.lA,lfi wished to know from Ministers how the pro-
duce of lilaiWyse was intended to be inade a branch of our co-
lonial trade ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that
having read the Articles of Ca:dtulation, the Honourable Gen
tleman knew as well as Ministers all the agreement that had
been made on that subject at the surrender of the island. lie
had however to inform him, that peremptory instructions had
been given to our Commanders in that quarter not to agree to
any terms or articles which would permit the produce of the
Island in any way to be brought in. The matter was therefore
still perfectly open for Government to make any arrangement ;
and he had further to assure the Honourable Gentleman, that it
was not their intention to allow any of the produce of Marti•
' nique to be imported into this country for home conssunption,
but merely for exportation.
cHELsEA coLLent --COLONEL GORDON.

Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose, pursuant to the
notice, which in his opinion he had be:a called upon
very unnecessarily togive upon this subject,t, make his
promised motion. But yet he had complied with the
request of a notice, as the Hon. Gentleman on the
other side appeared to be so ignorant of the case. At
this ignorance, however, he confessed extremely stir-
rized, because he thought it impossible for any man
to see the land upon which Colonel Gordon's house
was preparing to be built, or to have any idea of its
situation conti4uous to Chelsea Hospital, and par-
ticularly to the infirmary, v. ithout being convinced
that such a building should not be permitted, and tit
the whole bargain which gave that Officer possessicm
of this ground, ought to be revokcd. It was impos-
sible for any man to give an accurate idea of the state
of this land, as it depended so much upon locality.—
But from the view which, accompanied by a Member
of that House, he had taken of it in the course of the
morning, he was enabled to assert, that such a build-
ing ought not to be tolerated. The ground upon
which this building was to be erected, was, he un-
derstood, originally crown land, a long lease of
which was granted to Sir R. Walpole, which lease