Star.
London, England, 1817-05-22 00:00:00

FRAUD FREVENTEU.

To counteract the many attempts that are daily
made to impose nit the unwary a spuriotri composition in.
stead of the Genuine Blacking prepared by Day and Martin. they
are induced to adopt a new Label, In which their a.ldresi,
r 97, High Holborn,
Is pbced so conspicuously, that they trust an attention to this,
and the difference of the type, which is unlike all letterpress,
will enable parch a s aaa at once to detect the intf.o4itinn. The
Real Japan BLACKING, ma.ie by DAY and MAI. l IN, .97,
High Holborn, will in future be sold In Bottles at 6d. Is. and
Is. 6d. each, and a copy of the I.abel left with all Venders.
DAY A::n MARTIN, 97, High Holborn.

To Mrs. JOHNSON, Newman-street.
IT appears requisite your invaluable A\'l ZR ICA N
500 MING SYRUP should be universally known, thit
its usefulness might be more generally extended. My little girl
had been extremely ill a long time; slse had fits' and her bowels
so much affected that her life was depaired of ; doctors and me.
diems were of no avail. We were tchi that her teeth was the
only cause of her aftiction. it blind callin upon us, who had
seen rho happy effects of the Syrup, prevailed upon us to try it ;
she brought us a bottle, and rubbed the child's mouth, and iu a
lew MilllittS a most astonishing alteration took ;Ilse, the fits left
her, and she recovered as tan as possible; it requiring only a
bottle ands half to perfect the cure. Our sorrow was thus, in a
lew days, turned into joy.
We arc, Madam, your obliged servants,
Nov. 27, laid. J. and M. MALIN.
No. Q. New John-street, Ashton road, Birmingham.
To be bad, wholesale and retail, of the Proprietors, J. Johnson
and Williams, No. 94, Newman-street, Oxtord.street ; acid, by
their appointnient, at all the principal Medicine Venders ILI WM
and country, at f.a. ad. a bottle, for ready money.
Caution.—Be sure to ash fur " Johnson end Willianse's Amy.
Aran Soothing Syrup," as there are a number of spurious sorts.
Mrs. Johnson relieves the infant poor, u usual, at her house,
every Tuesday sad Saturday Mornings, from nice to ten o'clock,
by isti,ii.eg a triter from a respectable hoses-keeper, to certify
ant they ate teal objects of charity,

A few Private or Local Bilk were brought up from the Com-
Mom by Mr. BROOD Ey and others sod frAti a tiro ' •
'nu Lottery, and the Loud= mod Westothibter Coal Meters'
SUla were read a *toad time.

'1 he Newfounaind Trad.e, the Navy NUJ [mem*. and the
Wert India Trade Bllle, wire severally read a third time, and
passed.—Adjuurned till toinorrOw.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The Stone Bonk" Duty Dill, and the Receiving Spittle Allow-
ance Bill, were read a third time and passed.
Mr. M.A. TAYLOR. brought up the Report of the Metro-
pubs Paving all, which was agreed to.
Mr. blititl presented a Peutiou Iron the Inhabitants of Shat.
well against the lihadwell Church 11111.—Read, and or.kre4 to
he on the table.

Ou the mod= that the Shadwell Church Bill be read a
atoonl luny

Mr. CALVEIiT opposed it, thinking that the Church was
capable of bclug repaired—that there was nu uecaskai to re-
build it.

Mr. ROSE was of a different opinion, as II4C Surveyors had
pronounced the Church Dot to be susceptible id repair suincieut
te nial:c it eve.

Mr. MELLIiti trusted the BM would he st!awkd to p to
a Cenimirce.—Bill read a second time,

A :Menage was &tot to the Linda, degit icg that.petndsslan
might be given to Lord Mt LVILLIC to attend the kiiimice Coot-
mince.

The Salt Dole; Escise Bill Went through a Committee, after
M:. 1.1:411ING toN had declared thtt Ike cta.r ah•rr.ttoua which,
he hal to prai•the related to the mode of collecting the thulta,
and ►orate übirrwmcluna 11011/ Mr. litratArNlL, Mr. CUAWatt,
Mr. W zt, >1 y>trt 11, &c.—ati art r. cet•ed, and ordered to be
tak..a into further corhiderati iiii on 1 rtiAy
Sir JAIVII.S hiI.WI:IN 1 OSi l rosTrone.l his nintlri3, of which
be had give.) votic.. for twillvlruW, tetkecting the Druitt ol Ad.
ru.ra..y; to June sth. _ _ _

Mr. Si. st.:M.Nr.tt moved that the Christ Church Burial
(1r0..:n1 Dal be rc.,..1 a third tune tu-inurrow.

ilf:er a few words tro.ti air C. NIONCR, ?Jr. C. W. Wv matt,
and Mr. H. :3u M NKR, tbe lull was ordered to he read a third
ume on Friday urn.
_{;dune! VtitREKER presented a Petition from the Magas-
two.* of Limerick, vindicating themselves from a chaire of
having thrown difficulties iu the way of kreeaolders desirou, of
regisieriug thilr Freeholds.
JtJilN NE's Pt/it observed, as the House had now
1),Ilore them two Pet.tiolis allegiug contrary facts, that the best
course to pursue would be to refer them to a Cot .mittee. lie
moved, that the Potitsult;be referred to a Commito.e.

Colonel V.hitßEKLit had no objection to the ni.ition, beit.g
assured that the conduct of the Magistrates world bear invest'.
gig toe. 'the complaint arose hunt a 'evolutionary wit', to L.:t
tid of the Magi racy altogether; and tic misted cie tiouse
would not couit:enance suds au object.
Lord Mk. I ON imagined that the only revolution which the
Member opposite (Colonel Verreker) th called, wvt a rev's.
Indian in the representation ul Limerick—( H:ar, d 1.1e.,;h).
Motion agreed to, and a select Coninuttee appointed.
IWJ•MAN CATHOLICS.

Mr. BLAKE rose, pursuant to his notice, to call
the atention of the House to the present situation of
Roman Catholics, Protestant Dissenters, and even
Protestants of the Established Church, re!ative to
their admittance into Lay Corporations. lie ob-
served that this subject vi as til.t comprehended within
the scope of ally of the proposed :IWASIIIt'S Lir
emancipation :A the Roman Cat:e•lits. alid that his

1' Mr. BLA KE said that he had moved for the ap.
pointment of a Committee, because lie understood
that he was precluded by the Standing Orders of the
I House from introduc;rz, any Dail to alter the exisegg
law without first laving a Committee. The measure
which he now propthed was not in the contemplation
oh those who had intro .luced the Bill of 181 S, or any
of the other proposition's on the subject of the Roman
Catholic Claims; and it the Dal of ISIS Lad been
carried, he would equally have had occasion to bring'
forward this propositicn.
..
The SPEAKER said, that as to the qtrestion of
order, it would certainly be necessary that any pro..
position for altering the provision of an Act now in
force should origiu„te in a Cmssatittee.
Mr. LLAKE tl;eit said, that in consequence of
chat Lad talb•n from the Noble Lord, he thought Lis
brit course Would be,to withdraw a motion which
WAS ant likely to be successful, but which he had
brose;ht forward from a deep sense of duty, and in
coin/rt.:mice with the wishes of his ci,ninituents.
The motion was then withdrawn.
181311 INSURRECTION ACT.
Mr. PEEL rose, pursuant to his notice, to move
for leave to hiring in a Bill, to continue for a time to
he limited. the Act fur the better preservation of the
Peace in the deiturbed carts of Ireland, commonly
known by the name of !he Insurrection Act. By
that Act the Lord Licutenal.t of Ireland was em-
powered, ou receiving cert4in intimations from the
Magistrates of disturbances in any particular dis-
trict, to declare that district in a state of insurrec-
tion, and then the Magistrates of that district were
atri:orfzed to put the provisions of the Act in force.
In order to justify the continuance of this Act, it
was riot necessary to prove that the whole of Ireland
was .n a disuirhed state ; the CMe wauld.fmt strong
enough it it wear shewn, that although the country
in general was iv a stile of tranquillity, yet that there
were partict:lir districts of it in which the operatibn
ut the laws WAS surpended, and in which -conic-
que:.tiy, 1.,,e lives and properties of the inhabitants
were endangered. He ad/netted that a strong case
..,t this kind ought to be made out--.that in trusting
the executabe Government with such extensile p•: wars
as those which this Act conferred, the House ought
to look with jealousy. into the grounds on which
these powers were clued tor, as well as the way in
which, when granted, they were exercised. 01 the
present occasion he asked fur the continuance ur those
vows rs with. great confidence, for whatever difference
1 ut opinion might have casted at o.:e time 115 to the
extent ut th: I.owers, time could be 11‘) reason urged
1 against the contotuance of them, koindeJ on theist.
abuse or utinecess a: y exercise. For the last year no
CAW had. OLCUtted to tad for the operation of Xis
I law, and it had only been rut in t.,rxe once since the

inunth of N.,vember, s,:rtic.i ft, a

—•
which had been presented to the House some
ag., for the particulars of the c4ses nn which,
.per sr;. is of the law had been called fur. l'l‘e
c •se. w.ich was in Noremb.4.. IRIS, originat4
apple Ati sioied by thirty OM of the thirty.
• Vl.4g.iii fairs is; she erunty 01 Lowth, and it might
44iirthat the applic4tinn was nn wrimous, as the
sliY one Nl.c!sstr.tr whose' name did nut appear upon
be application, WAS absent from the fleeting through
sin 3 he hcl;eved he was correct in say.
lilt. that 111•41 h abultr, his opinion cninelded with
•th „f the other fslagis•r.ttes. Government having
• irltl r. 4 int the e:rcurnst owes f the riotous pro.
ce.-d;ngs on :which this w4S founded, con-
rider,-4.1 rha, tin. case was one of mere individual out-1

race, which slid not call for the operati,in of the es-
tie vdiiiacy rowers of this Art, mot therctoee did not
at firs, c .mply a it.' the app:ication. It was not m-
ill the 'meth of February fAlowin,., that Govern.
Die, .t at ce led to this application, being by that time
coi;stoceil. by Ili.• mem tepee of repeated outrages
and --ts 01 vi .Ivoce sitboliient to those on which the,
eppiwarton m is founded, that an extensive aid flan-
g eons spirit of insurrection was at work, which could
only he %oppressed by the exercise of the powers con-,
furred by this Act. This rise would, he trusted, 1w
sufficient to skew the House that the Irish Govern-
ment was not disposed to put in force this Act except
in cases 01 absolute necessity. As to the operation
a the Act, it was to he itbserved, that it did not SUSr
prod the ordinary administration of the laws Ai to
ordinary offences; it only made a new offence, for
which it provided A new pdnishment. It was-still in
force in the coign, ies of Lowth, Tipperar!, and Li-
merick. As to the time dosing which he thought it
necessary to call upon the House to extend the ope.
ration of the Act, he observed, that toimerly, its
continuance bad been limited to seven years, and
latterly to three years; but on the present occasion
Ile did nut propose to continue it longer titan oae
year-r(llear. hear, hear.)—He concluded by moving
for" leave to bring in a Bill to continue the insur.
.rection Act for a time to be limited."—The Motion
was agreed to.
•MOTION Yon REPEAL OF THE SEPTENNIAL ACT.
Mr. BROUGHAM—" I rise, Sir, to give notice,
that I shall on the sth day of J ine, as the first open
clay, submit a motion to the House, for the repeal of
the Septennial Act."— (Cries of Hear, hear ! from the
Opposition.) Mr. Banc:mins' then observed, that
fearing the motion on the day he had mentioned
might interfere with a motion which already stood
fur that day, he should drier it till the lOth of June.

ALLEGED PROTECTION TO INVOkASEkI.

Sir JAMES MACINTOSH rose. pursuant to his
notice, to wove that trere or laid h.lore the House
copies of all common cati,ais, doect or indirect,
which had passed between the cli:e of the Home
Department and a person of the name of Pool, who
had taken a very active part in certain prosecutions,
lately histstuted against s.,n► persons concerning the
sale of scone pubhcathsor. As to the facts which he
had to state-to the Howe on the subject, he thought
it necessaly to notice, moat he did not state them
from his .own personal knowledge—bat he had them
firm persons ut the highest respectability—from per.
urns on whose credit he placed such reliance that he
would, without hesitation, act upon it in any the
most important of his own personal concerns. The
facts which had been communicated to him on this
high authority were these :—lt appeared that a per-
son of t' e name of Pool, of whom he (Sir James)
knew nothing. had been of late very active in laying
inforniation, against various persons, and among
others had laid informations against tln•ee persons,
whose names were Parkinson, Fletcher, and Dea.
con. When the proceedings on these informations
bad attracted the public notice, and when it appeared
that they were not likely to be legally substantiated,
mid that the persons concerned in the prosecution had
been guilty of some proceedings with relation to it
which were so unwarrantable as to make' (Lam
amenable to the law,. this person, Pool, gave it to be
understood, that while these proceedings store going
on. he had some commun cation, verbal or 'mitten,
with the Secretary of State for the Home Depart.
ment, or with some person whom he believed to be
authorised by the Home Department to communi-
cate with him.' Pool had lone so far as to say, that
he had received assurances from a respectable person,
net a member of this House, but concerned in the
office of the Hc.me Department, that be ( Pool) would
be protected hum any inconvenience in consequence
of the part he had taken in those prosecutions—( Hear,
Jeer.) It even appeared. that Pool bad chewed a
letter, purporting to be from the Gentleman to whom
he alluded, containing assurances of such protection.
This letter had been shown by Pool to a Magistrate
of the County, in which these proceedings had taken
place, a man of the highest honour and credit, from
whom he (Sir James) had this information. On this
short statement the observations which occurred to
him divided themselves into two parts—as to the acts
of this man, Pool, and as to the inference to be
drawn horn his representations. That thii person
really had in his possession such a letter as he bad
described, was a fact which appeared at present un-
questionable, and the only question which could arise
as to this, was on the authenticity of the letter. It was
also unquestionable that the effect produced by shew-
iag this letter was very sericus—(ilme, hear.) A
mischievous impression was produced, that the King's
Government, instead of protecting and aiding the
execution of the law and of public justice, bad Utter-
posed its influence to screen an individual from the
operation of the law—(ll.ar, hear.) That a contra-
diction should be given to the representations of this
man, that this contradiction should apply not only
to letters written by the Secretary of State himself,
or by any one under him, or by his order—that it
should extend to a full account of all that had passed
on the subject, directly or indirectly, either vasbally
or in writing—that such an explanation was miens*
the statement of tact: slimed. • If such an explanaal
lion were given it would atlord him very great satis-
faction. But a lull explanation of the nature of this
isternnuse was necessary, in order to thew that his
Majesty's Government were not concerned in a con-
spiracy to protect persons who were guilty of crimes
for which they were amenable to the law, The cit.
cumstances in which the country now stood, ren-
dereo such an explanation the more necessary. The
house bad lately entrusted the Government with
vrry extseordanary pott et:. The situation which pro-
totted such elll44,ldso4sy measures called upo.i she

House to exercise a tenfold Vigilance over the mode
in which those powers were executed. Tht ready be-
lief of this man in the protection which he said had
been pr. mised liiin in the name of the Government,
proCee.ted no don't from the Circular Letter lately
issued by the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment—a letter, which though he had believed it
to hive been well designed, had, from the particular
time at which it had been issued, produced the very
worst effects. It had the effect of giving the counte-
*ratite and authority of Government to the eraspe-
rate.i passions of a favoured party in the country, it
had 'he detestable effect of changing the morality of
actions according to the party to which the person
belonged. It even appeared that the effect produced
by that Circular Letter was not confined to the lower
circles, but had extended even to the very highest
Magistrate.•. Without at present anticipating Cie
discussion which would in due time come on as to the
legality of that letter, he would men ly say this—if
one were to judge from the effect produced on Ma-
gistrates. as evinced by their recent conduct, it would
seem that their opinion was, that their jurisdiction
was more estressive than they had previously con-
ceived it to be. This letter had also the effect of
goading and stimulating them to the exercise rt Omit
powers to the fullest stretch. If his thus bringing the
subject before the louse produced a satisfact.,:y ex
planation of the circumstances of the case, lie would
be satisfied; ►ut whatever the result might be, lie
would feel that be had L one his dity. He truest moved
that tittle be laid before the House copies of all corn
mnnications from the Secretary or Under Secretary
of &ate for the Home Department, or from any per-
son by their order, with John Elliston 1001, touching
a charge brought against certain persons before
Powss Clark.

Mr. ll 'LET A DDINGTON—TiII be had heard
the speech of the Honourable and Learned Gentle.
man, he was very much at a loss to know the reasons
of the notice which had been given of the motion
now before the House, or of the grounds on which
that motion was to be brought forward. In conse-
quence, however, of that notice, the transaction to
which it alluded' having taken place at a time when
he was unable to attend at the odice to which he had
the ho.logr to belong, he had made some inquiry into
the circumstances relating to it. He was read, to
admit that several fetters bad passed between the
person whose polite was mentioned in the motion,
and his (Ms. Addington's) friend and colleague Mr.
Lecke'. Emy in April last a letter was received at
ti.e office of the Home
Depaitmeni, addressed to
the U..der Secretary of State, and purporting to be
winter by the individual mentioned in the motion,
also represented tumult as employed by the Office
for regolatiog Pedlars' licenses. It was probably All
extrelite Zeal which prompted that individual so write
this letter, which was addressed to a Departmtin
wi,ere he was wholly unknown, and with which he
had never before then had any communication. Tu
that letter • very short answer was returned, which
contained only two or three lines, acknowledging the
receipt of this letter—in Amt. it was an ansaer
written in the established form used at the office At
the reply to letters of which it teas necessary to take
little :woe notice than merely to acknowledge that
they had been received. The receipt en his first lot:
ter being thus noticed, was probably what induced
the individual rs write again, and two or three fetters
were subsequently received, which were also an-
swered much in the same way. This was previous
to the `list of April. Since that time iwo or three
mute letters had been received from hiffi, to which
no answer at all had been sent. No communication
of any description had takes, place between the Re-
verend Magistrate whose name was also implicated in
this transaction (Mr. Powis), and the Secretary of
State tor the Hone Department, or any other person
in his office, on the subject. To chew how averse
his Noble Relation at the head tit that office was to
interfere in such cases, he could: state to the House,
that about three weeks ago a letter had been shewn
to that Noble Person, addressed Iseldr. Powis to the'
Lwd Lieutenant of his county, _ g two or
dike questions, to which he wished • receive an-
swers from the Secretary of State, k( ear, hear).—
eliaticin
This letter the Lord Lieutenant himself had brought
to his Noble Relation, and had afterwards called to
aik whether any answer would be given to the goes-
tioni ? But the Noble Secretary of State replied, that
as the questions related to the construction of an Act
of Parliament, it was a subject on which he did not
think it his duty to interfere; neither did he consider
it his duty to express any opinion as to the nature or
character of any particular publication which the in-
dividual who transmitted it to his office might consi-
der as of a blasphemous or seditious nature—that
in all such cases die' Magistrate must act upon his
Own discretioe, aided by such legal advice as he might
think proper or could obtain. This was the only notice
which had been taken of the matter by his Noble
, Relation, who declined all interference on the sub-
ject as not within the sphere of his duty. As to the
observations bt the Honourable and Learned Gentle-
man on the areolo.letter of the Secretary of State,
the proper time for discussing it would be on the mo-
tion of which notice had been given. But as to the
letter to the person named in the motion, he could
assure the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, that
AS far as the credit of the Home Department was
concerned he should have no objection to that letter
being read at Charing-Cross. As to the facts stated
by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, he
could only assure him, that either through the mis-
representations of the individual to whom the letters
in question were addressed, or from some other means,
the facts of the case were totally mis-represented. As
to producing thole letters, he would appeal to the
Honourable and Learned Gentleman, as a lawyer,
whether in a case where a process was instituted in
the Court of King's Bench against the Rev. Magis-
trate entitled to, there might not be passages in such,
letters ishich it could be exirentely improper and tin-
seasoniible to make public in the present stage of
these-proceedings, connected as they must be with
the action now pendidg. On this ground be must
oppose the motion. But he bad also another ob-1
jection to ir. Papers moved for in this House should
not be considered as to be granted as a matter of
course. Sometimes (although he did not mean to say'
it was the. case in this instance) such papers were
moved for out of mere curiosity. Sometimes (*nit
i
such he believed to be the present case) they were
moved for with a view to establish a charge against'
tome individtial connected pith the Eittutive Go.
I .. .

vernment. The person raovirg for stch papers wis
bound to make out a strong prima facie cast of mis-
conduct against the persoi. or persons implicated. In
this, the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, in the
present instance, had completely tailei4 but on that
it was for the House to decide.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY thought there was
ground to oppose the present Motion, on acc .unt
the law proceedings, which merely affected Mr. Powis.
The correspondence called for was merely that be-
tween Mr. Beckett and Pool. The Right Honourable
Gentleman said that his Honourable and Learned
Friend's statement of the facts of the case was rp.t
correct, but did not deny that the effect of the kttets
writt:n to Pool was such as to make him expect the
protection of Glvtronient.

• Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said, that though
his supposition of the correspondence had been con-
vetted into a fact by the Right Hon. Gentleman
I (Mr. H. Addington), he did not think this sufficient
to justify him in withdrawing his motion. It was
admitted that three letters had been written to Pool,
and that Pool had written two more which were not
ausweieJ. Pool shewed a letter containing an assur-
abet that he would tie protected by the Givarnment,
whetlitr his proceedings were legal or not ; and the
ground of his motion was, that a correspondence had
actually taken place, whether it contained an assur-
ance of that nature or nut. He had no desire that
any part of the correspondence should be produced
which might affect the proceedings against Powis,
lOW pending in the Court of King's Bench. The
expLapation given did not appear to him at all suth-
cient. The description given by the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. H. Addington) of the nature ol the
letters written by him was too vague an one, and
was not sufficient to remove the imeressicin produced
by Pool's 'hewing the letter, in which he pretended
to have received a promise of indemnification. The
House may deal with the motion as they pleased, he
would not withdraw it. If the letters written by
Mr. Beckett were produced, then it may be known
whether that :hewn by Pool was one of them. He
had no objection to liwit the motion for Mr. Ileckat's
correspondence.

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