Star.
London, England, 1810-02-20 00:00:00

. On the motion of Mr. rfOR/4ER, a wins Committee was ap-
pointed to inquire into the present high price of Bunion.
Mr. PONSONBY gave notice that be would to-morrow move
for Returns of ail foreign vessels trading under liceiwes from Li-
verpool to London.
The Committee of Supply Was porponed till Friday, and tint
of Ways and . _
- Means to Wednesday.

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The captors were absifinteit ea‘pellell to P*llolln.s
for theecondemnatiOn of vessels. This was the leaf
in which they were often rewaeded for their vigilance
and valour. These things might be denied' by the
Gentlemen on the other side, but they could oothVe
disproved. •He promised to prove them erue, if the
WALCHEItEN. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. documents shOuld be granted. It was not by iienialS
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Mr. TIERNEY appeared at the Bar, requesting the attendance Sir THOMAS TU RTON rose to present a peti. (if this kind, that 'these things were to be got over.—
of John Earl of Chatham in the other'House, to be examined on tion from the prisoners confined for debt in the King's • Every man in that House was bound to decide upon
the subject of the Expedition to Watcheren. Bench Prison, on the subject of which, before it was
Their Lordships resolved that an answer should be returned laid on the table, he asked permission to offer a few ,his own Judgment, and not on that of mother ; and
he saw no reason to believe that there Would be any
to the Commons by Messengers of their own. observations to the House. He said, notwithstanding.
The Marquis of HUNTLEY (Baron GORDON) being present, e. more difficulty in counting the ayes and noes, if
leave was given to his Lordship to attend the Commons on the : that a Bill for the relief of Insolvent Debtors passed every one were to decide or himself, than there
same subject, in consequence of a previous application from that in the last Session, there were already 346 Insolvent
Would •be if Gentlemen -were to follow a leader
House to that effect. ! Debtors accumulated in the single prison of the
On the motion of the Duke of NORFOLK, the Bill of Divorce iz- • —Could it be considered as at all consistent with
i g' Bench, from whom the present petition came ;
between Mr. Henry Wellesley and Lady Charlotte, was read the ' 'lle, s common justice, that the whole navy of England
third time, and afterwards was passed. amongst the number 276 had wives, and their chit- should be obliged to employ a single individual
saws juptc..m.mt. . , . 1 dren amounted to one thousand ; the whole of'whom to carry on its business before the Admiralty Court?
Lord GRENVILLE observed, that the Report of the Conuni.. : were suffering the most poignant want and wretched. • A person, perhaps, in whose competency they
sioners en this subject. had, as he learned, been laid btfore the ness. What they asked of the House, was no more I 'milk have no confidence ; but allowing ability and
other House, but had not been produced to their Lordships; than to take into its consideration the existing state oil.
which, In so important a matter, required some explanation. i integrity to be unquestionable, still. the thing was
: the laws between the debtor and creditor, to the endi
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that only one copy bad been . , , preposterous. .
How would the Gentlemen oti, one
transmitted, and that copy had been laidbefore the other House, that the Legislature L • lature might, in its wisdom and hums- attorney, Who,
transmitted, side like to be obliged to employ an
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in the first instance, exclusively, merely by inadvertence ; but nity, draw some line of distinction between the honest at the- same time,
did business for the other side :
the Report was printing, and would shortly be laid before their ;slid fraudulent debtor. An Honourable and Learned
Lordships. i Was this consistent with equity or common
_sense ?
1 Friend of his not now in the House, had pledged The personal liberty of the Officers of the Nagy was
The Earl of LAUDLRDALE noticed the great Inconveniences
himself, in
Ho from the present system of Appeals from Scotlati&to another place, to bring forward a Bill on answerable for some seizures, the produce of tviiich
that House,and the number of year:: that must be taken up before, this subject in 'the present SeSsion ;to • thaeoßill he scent, notwithstanding, to the crown, and the most
in many cases, decisions could he had. His Lordship concluded : wished every success, and should say no more at pre- abominable compromises sometimes took place: Wile-
by moving for certain Accounts of Appeals, from I tivo to lain, sent, than merely recommend the subject to the aim-
snaking up tie Accounts anneally to the first of February.— - . —ther the profits of these compromises found their way
Agreed to. , siderate wisdom of the House. • The petitiOtt Wag-re',lnto the•pockets of any particular individdil, he was
EAST-INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER. ' • 1 ceived and ordered to lie on the table. e -not absolutely sure, but he.thought. he had evident,
,
The Earl of LAUDER DA LE expressed adesire to ter
sin- , . IRISH PRISON LAWS. to skew this to be the fact, 'He could not conceive
then the renewal of the Fast-India Company's Charter was in- I Mr. W. POLE then rose to make his promised what could be the design of confining the captors.
tended to he brought forward this Session, as in that case, he motion on the Prison Laws of Ireland.. He observed to one proctor, except that the secrecy so 'suited to
thought various important documents would be necessary, for
that the Report-of the Commissioners who had been
which be shoal feel it his duty to move. these transactions, might thereby be better Preserved,
The Earl of SUFFOLK agreed In op'nion with the Earl of appointed to investigate this subject sufficiently shew. Vessels were-sometimes condemned for the captors,
Lauderdale.. ed the lamentable state of the prisons in Dublin. It upon their paying a hum commanded by the Admi:
The Earl of LIVERPOOL stated, that it was intended in ano- , was shocking to humanity, that the evils detailed in ralty Court, which ought not to have heneetindemnhdh
titer place to move for the institution of a Committee, to examine i
that report had so long been permitted to exist. A
be-
into the whole merits of that important question. There were other papers of. great Conekeeirce,
considerable part of those evils originated in the
CAMPAIGNs. ' yond those of which he hid given notice ; and, if he
The Marquis of LANI.DOWNE said, after adverting to his crowded state of the priso»s ; a circumstance which . ~
could ge: these, he thought he could .liehbpetr a sys-
previous notices of motions, that as hr understood there would be arose from the accumulation in them of persons sen- tern tof corruption such as never had-beenifeard of,
no opposition to the production e the Papers he was about to tensed to transportation, hut whom it had been found nor even conceived, in this country—a sikk. of .abiasa!
move for, he should oat trespass on the atteution ot the Hons... i impossible to send to Botany Bay. By the corres- such as never existed, in:Spain,%- evete 'nndesth the infa-
The Noble Marquis then moved fur a suing of Papers, which
i pondence just Lid upon the table, it would however
motion was agreed to, .sum. di:. mous Gedoy, who betrayed hia king? and'..was the
cone AND DISTILLEHII,S. I appear, that since the report to which he alluded had cause of his being dethroned, far less tittilte the Su-
The Earl of HARDWICKE gave notice of a motion for Wed- I been made, the condition of the prisoners had been p reme Junta, whom Ministers seemed to have no dis-
mally next on the subject of the Corn Trade and Dittilleries. I considerably ameliorated. The prison laws of Ire- inclination to vilify. He had been in lialihs of inth
Lord GR'ENVILLE matte some observations on the inconve- i lend were contained in fourteen Acts cf Parliament.
',knees arising from the parsirg of tills at a late period of the . It !lacy with some of the members of the Junta, and he
. had been thoueht advisable to semi r.:ss these into
Session of Parliament, and the. necessity of expeditiog the public i b could take upon himself to say, that they were, at
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business. I one. The subject had been referred to the consider- least; equal in ability to the Ministers who now go-
I atton of the great LenhOfficers, and particularly to verned this country, if gOvernment it might be call-
the Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Dublin,. ed.—(Harr, hear !) The documents which he would
erhich highly respectable' individual was at present move Tor, would not rest the matter upon two or
engaged in digesting a system of Prison Laws, for three blundering cases. His object was to expose
the purpose of its being introduced into the Bill which the general system, and to prove thatcotniption was
lie hoped-the House would allow him to bring in.— at the head of it. He pledged himself -to prove
Should lie obtain that permission, 6. should propose that the Navy was paralysed by this corrupt system.
the printing of the Bill, and then leave a sufficient -He would shew, 'that the most _trifling vessels were
time before any further proceedine upon it, to allow a condemned at an expellee eqtlal to that of the greatest
full discussion of its merits by those who were the —that the condemnahon of a fishing boat is thus-
most competent to estimate them ..He concluded swelled up to the expellee of .condemning an
by moving for leave to:bring,
in a sin to repeal tilf‘ Indientan ; and that, consequently, in many. cases,,
Laws respecting Prisons in Ireland, for the Parr*,.the captors had no other immedial* kterest an ton--
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Of hheeturting. several of them, with imendtnents. .. dunning, except that of putting rniiiley.into ;.r.f pock -.
A Person from the Office of the ,:peaker rresenttd an Ac. I Mr. MAU R rtt FITZGE R ALD expressed the ets of the Proctor. He adverted to an inst.-Alex in
-tainted Fees received at the said o:fic,.—Oedered to lie no the !satisfaction which he felt at any proposition to amend which one Moses Griffin,, a.Jew, an Agent at ode. of
Table. ! the Prison La* of Ireland. From something that
The Prince of Wales's Lease Bill was read the third time, pass. 1. the Out-ports, had received two-thirds out of the pro-
fell from the Hon.-Gentleman, he was apprehensive, duce of a vessel, the remaining tnird being.the whole
ed, and ordered to the Lords. ss
The second readin., ot the New Loudon Dock Fill was, at the , howeverOthat et was intended to establish Poor Laws. share -distributed for Admiral, Captain,. infecior Offi-
request of Alderman'Cost Hr., postponed till Friday. i in Ireland, an attempt which he strongly deprecated.. ters, Petty Officers,- Seamen, and Marines. ;He also j
A New Writ as ordered .a be issued for dr Election of a I
Adverting to the conduct of the House of Industry: adverted to a Bill' which had been brought in for es-'
Member for the Borough of Lugershall, in the room of Air. Eve- .
tin Dublin; he represented' it as requiring coneiderabl4- tablishieg certain regulations he these proceedings,
*lir, deceased..
Mr. H. THORNT ON presentee:a Bill for the better Vegula- ileform. • • which was of no use whatever, but to bring. more.
ting and Repaiiltig the Commercial Docks.—Read the List time, Mr. DENNIS BROWNS defended the conduct at,, money into the Admiralty Court. .Was it necessary.
and ordered for the second reading. the House of Industry in Dublin. ,• I to-have 120 ships.of the line in commission to block-,
Mr. WILBERFORCE presented a rut for Reituleing and Re- .
1 Mr. W. POLE disclaimed anrintention of propo- ,
gisterieg Charitable Donations in England 4.41 WaleS.-:-Rcael the 1 . .ode 23 (er 43) ships of the enemy ? Certainly not,
first time, and ordered to be printed and read a second . time on i sing the establishment of Poor L iws in Ireland. ' •
. 7 if proper exertions were made. On this point an -in-
Monday next. The motion was then agreed to. . I crease of pay would be of no use. ...a.O insure alacrity
Mr. GRATTAN presented two Petitions; the one from the ALLEMIED ABUSES IN THE ADMIRALTY COURT. 1
in harassing the commerce and shipping of the enemy,
Corn Merchants of Dublin, the other from the Distsilers of the Lord COCHRANE rose, pursuant to notice, to i,! the abuses of the Admiralty Court must be done away.
same City, praying the din-until:l:avec of the Lave for prohibit- . - ..
tag the Distillation from Grain in Irelaud.—Ordered to be on the 1 move . , for several pipers with a view to expose abuses i
, Nothing else could be effectual. The navy ought to
Table. .I prevalent in the Admiraky Court.' The propositien t have the largest share of that which was produced by.,
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY moved to ...ostpone to the I,2th of lie was about to submit would be found worthy of the ..
its vigilanceand valour.- This was the proper mode of
March the second r ading. of his three 'Bills, eia. that OD Pri- mast serious attention of the House. Had the Navy ! proceeding, and no other would completely answer the
vately Stealing, tha: on Stealing in a Owelling-house,.and that oil
alone heels concerned, lie believed he should not have ;put pox,
Canal Robbery.—Orelered accordingiy. His Lordship then mentioned, that he him-
Mr. whia.hel.ell I'OLE moved tor Copies of the Corns- obtruded himself upon the Hause, as he might be con- self had captured thirteen vessels laden with corn, tor
pondenee which passed between the Lind Lieuterant's Chief tie- sidered as a person interested. The-habits of his-life; Barcelona, protected by two small.shipsof war, Which
cretary in Ireland, the Cilief Itistiete of the King's Bench, and the would have prevented hint loom coming forward, ex o. were sunk.. Ilhe had, talwri.these and carried them
Sheriffs in Ireland, respecting the mate of the Jail% in that par or • ,
the United Kingdom—Ordered, presented forthwith, and order-s P, s. ce tin cases where, be thought, the interests of his into Malta, and got them condemned, he .must have
ed to be.printed. country were deeply involved ; as there were many put his hand in his pocket and paid foi it. "Perhaps
The CH,ANCELLOZ of the EXCHAQUER presented, par- Others more acquainted with the•tnode of conducting he spoke more Warmly on this subject from the oppor-
suant to order of the Hoe se, a Copy of Lord Chatham's Narra- business in that House,to whom ordinery subjects ;
live of the Procetclings ou the Schelit Exprditlelb.—Ordered to . left. But
. rn-ght tunities lie hal; of being acquainted with these abuses ;
lie on the Table. be
Mr. TIERNEY= teed at the Bar, that lie-IJ been to the of every man to 011ie fotwaid; and such a case he but the country also. His Lordship then adverted
Lords with the request of the Howe, • for their- Lordships' per- conceived the present to be. • The .interests, -the dear- to a regulation, by which six privateers, if taken
:Ashen to allow the Earl of Chatham to attend the Censmittee ; ebt interests ithhis country, he considered armost ma-
Lord,ships would so rul an auswerbya mosatpger ofwithin three months if each other, were to be included
and that their
terielly involved In the event of the proposition he was
their own.in one libel fee condemnation : a regulation perfectly
Mr. H. WELLESLEY's Divorce BM was brottan-up from the about to briug forward. '" If the papers he intended to , futile, and a- mere humbug upon the Navy and the
Lords, was read the Brat time, and ordered tOr the second reatl move for Should he granted, lie would expose a system Country. -His Lordship next stated, that the com-
ing to-morrow. • • .• - of abuse unparalleled in this country, beyond any thinie
Mr. R. DU NDAS gave notice, that be should tn.n,orrow move •10 UterCe of-the enemy was carried on or fair immense
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tnat existed Spain, us under the Administration of the
for the appointment of a Committee on Fast India Affaies. . Prince . _
the Peace.
amount by our licences, which were an article of coin-
r. FOS fER presented the usual Estimates for the Protestant of the . ,
Whether the subject was consi-
. . mon sale .in Harnburgh and other places. The
Charterl‘.i Schools and other Charitableinatitutions in Irelaild,,ae- dered with. a view to :he saving of the surds, of which enemy's ships were seen by hundreds, coasting along
eustorried to receive annual grants from Parliament, and be gait the public nets pilfered ; or wiili'a view to the better.
notice that he should move tor these grants in the Committee of by nieene• of these licences, in perfect security, and
performance of the duty : ivhether with a view to el
-4p....seeerefeUed the river 'Thames, eontrarY in the Naviga-
sergre
sou Wednesday el, ni. • .
eI..IIIk.VRE presented Petitions from the 4t4nhol- . .
destructiOn Of. the commerce caned on held large an. AionAct.:, thus raising sailors. fur Napoleon, to whose
. ;lets and.Vietuallera of the Boroughs of Rea:ling and Chipper- -extent on, the enemy's Oast ; or with a :View to the ct'uunerce and . navy our Ministers- were the best
barn, praying an increase of aliewance foi .the maint'ettance of encouragement and security of our 'own trade i.— .
.. . . .ftiends. He concluded by moving for a Copy of the
Soldiers quat.ered on them. whether with a view to the termination of the war
* Lord PALMER:iTON said the subject had already Occupfcd- .. . , by ;Agent's Adcounts from the Registrar's Office, for a
•on of Government,. and he hoped on which we
that 404. de,„„e , distressing the enemy ;.ur to the terms certain period, respecting a number of, ships which
twhoeualtdtebentsireedily
adopted that would be satisfactorytothe parties should he enabled to conclude a peace. - In all these .
ehiseLordship specified ; together with several other
concerned. . points cf view this was a matter of primary imPor• papers. He would call the attention of the House to
Mr. SHAW I ,EFEVRE Said, it was not altogether the ir.ade- Lowe ; for in all these reaped% were the abuses of thethe another. -
racy of the allowance that •was the cause of cdnitilaint; but-the
.1.- .• • subject of Greenwich Hospital at oppor-
Adnurelty of the most injurious description His' tunny. - ,
wanton waste and profusion of so!diers on their atopm oipun the ,
provisions
laid before them, for want of the proper controirl of ; Lordship complained heavily of the monopoly of pracs.: ,Sir W. SCOTT' contended that the accounts re-
their Officers. ' • • . I. tree; which was in itself. a. principal abuse, and time ferred to' were. those of Prize Agents. What &round,
Mr. WHI.I'BREAD slid, Oat this'evanf of tontroul from pro-
i can* of others,• and maintained; *th:it an immense
per Officers over bodies of troops straggitrg ihrotigi, the country,avng might p
- then, he asked, was there for this indiscominate
si be produced—(-We know not whether
on their march from place to place, was i great vie/aver to •charge on time part 'of the Noble Loft' ? Ha Lord-
any persons beside publicans aid victuallers He hinistit had we understood him correctly, whim. we thought he ship., however, had shetvn himself on a former occa-
Time instances of two or three hundred Irish recruits irarehing m:ntioned a sum equal to one-hallo; the' pay of the shin, not the accuser of 'an individual alone, but also
through the wintry without a single Sidi:ltem Officer to con- navy)—by the .correction of thit and other abuses ine of a Court of Criminal Justice ; and the Hon. Barn-
troul them—n.en certaieily very fit to form a con'pemerit part ofl
die AJmitaltyCourt. There Wei ehitherminor abuses, net
any army, but certainly by no -means fit to march
.througb a could almost stake that character 1 • 1 h boated
w itc 1 e
try 'svholly uncontroalled by the authority of their Offie • FS. h' hexcited u• le for the attention of the House, by which. :: he had gained .in the eyes of .the countryein predict-
;Thad seen strings of men in this way extended over a distance the seamen of Greenwich Hospital were defrauded of : lag. that the Noble Lord would be as unfortunate in
of 15 miles, followed by their COMn,:tulieg Officer in a stage. ''. their. just oleints. The droits of the Admiralty had i
coach, some mites in their rear.—ihe Petitions were oi th red to the charge he wr* brought forward, as in arty other
been sometimes compromised for comparatively small ; which he had hitherto made.
lie on the Table,...•
Bills Bills, after a conversation of some length sums •; and lie mentioned an instance in which-. Mr. ROS,E -said he had himself bkstowei great
teeler.lw Exchequer
eon Mr. P* NELL, the CUR NC 71.7.0 R of the Eretteopra, A'32,00.0 Wes given up in this way to a person at ; paineon this very subject, and he had. no, difficulty iii
Mr. TrtestlLY, Mr. Ros 7, ant MT. BALII N 4:, were read the third Liverpool, for :1053. This must have been by npen declaring, from the investigation he had Made that '
time, passed, and ordt red to the Lords.
Mr. WHITBREAD gave notice, that he shook! move tr.-nor 11. . I
injustice, or by favouritism ; for he did not know of the fault leye not inthe King's Ptoctor, but in the Prize'
r,vr. fur Papers xylem. p i t• 9, is Al hetweetrLe r.l Wellington and the any law which authorised the Admiralty to compito ia' • .
, ...gents. He ventured to assert, that if the pawerof"
Spanish Governmei t. mise in this manner, where the interests of Greenwich r' which the Noble Lord ;complained, were *own
Mr. LUSHING'l ON brought tip the Report of the Committee Hospital rind the captors were concer:ied. There was ' abroad among ad the Proctors, it would be a thing
rt :.e pity, in which there was a Resolution for flew grata of another abuse, which tailed loudly for a remedy.--, that would ultimately injuriousth Navy,
£'2ooo per ahnum to Lord Viscount Wellington. prove to e

PROCF.EDINGS.

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HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 19.
The appeal, Kearney v. the Rev. Mr. Beazeley, &e. was heard
at sOnle length.

CORN TRADE FRANCV.
The Duke of NORIOI.I{. moved for an Account of the Corn
imported from France to this Country, directly or indirectly,
Is ring the last rirla months.
• Thel of Pool. c,br.urved, that a Noble Lord (Ha-
*wit), who would give hint the st answer; was not then present.
The /Nike ut NOSFOLK then gave notice of a motion for
Vitedneschey.

WS MAJESTY'S MEMAGO..
The Earl of I.IV P.R POOL stated the ind;aposislau of a Noble
Friend (Nlarqui, elle,ley), as the reason why he proposed to
postpone file consideration atilt King's Mesrage rerfecting Por-
tugal, until Thuruhty net; which postparemerit. his Lordship
accordingly moyed.-L.,-Agretd to. Adjourned at Si; ()Vlach.

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having arttCu opo ire: ;ni..
attended to.
Mr. STEPHEN protested against the speci:s et
discussion introduced by the Noble
.Lord into a fr.o•
tins for pmchiction of papers,' ast as il: it wele a
motion for impeachment, or one carrying alone witt•
it a most serious - charge. - If the charges which tee-
Noble Lord had brought forward. siriuld lie prov 4
he was free to' admit that they were serious, but L.
thought they would be better brought forward at 3
more distant period, when the documents were k•l'ege•
the House. He, from his • knowledge Or she Cater%
alluded to by the Noble Lord, was satisfied that !,,.
must- befeovri.mdtheinsetceakpesuintrpo,
tabostsde:bofaet
ltdhaoiedinsagbmerenowmtiarnyteb,teilileiitc„l..;.,
onlysonie le-,
brought forward by the Noble Lord.
Sir C. POLE declared that he never expected is
get out of the Court alluded to any thing like the
truth ; be had often laboured to effect something like
' a change, but had- not succeeded.* He trusted the
Nobleloed would persevere, .though he. hoped with
*psoleinoderation than be had to-night displayed.
-• We.-ROSE -suggested the proptiety.tif. the • Noble
Lerd'eAllecting • one of the convoy, rather tleia 'ex,
extending his rnotien to the whole. ,
Sir JOHN NICHOLS entered into a statement of
theVciane of the Judge Advocate, which he alledg.
ecl4:d riot exceed.k7oo9 a year,.not snore thin st4iNk
Of. veliiih Were detiVelfrom.the navy, the rent tinder
coming-from the customs„&c.: ..The conduct and
character of the King's Proctor. sfood high, and the
Noble Lord should be well, assured of the aCcuracy
of his charges before he made. them. He knew that
the fees charged by them. wept;no higher than those
r demanded by any other Proctor in the Court. •
Lord COCHRANE,. in reply, .hoped the House
wiiiild• do him the justice to reccllect, that be had
given notice of-this motion during the last Session, so
that he couldsnot be actuated by the pamphlet alluded
to. As to the charges by. the King's Preens being
no more than those of any other. Priector belonging
to the Court, that did not Seem surprising, when It
was considered that . they were 69 in - number; with
probable-- no greater income among the whole than
the Icing's Proctor alone .possessed. The • French
-cam/tierce, be contended, was at the present moment
greater in the ports from Sicily to the Elbe than at
any former period,. and their trade in wine, brandy,
ail; silk, etc. and in butter, salt beef, biscuits, acct
was valuable and of great consequeace. He could
have no object in standing up to misrepresent the state
of our enemies, but this he could, assert was the fact
•wllely ariing from our systeM et Licences, and from
the burdens thrown on oar Na)tal_Officers, who, I
thee-brought in prizes, which were afterwards libel
rated were subjected, to the.expence of bringing them
in. it .seas shat neful to think, that the King'. Advo.
cate should haw.: an income of .44.0,000 a year, so m'ich
greater estetrthan the Speaker of thatHeuse.(4/augh.)
Sir J. NICHOLLS and Mr. ROSE explained.
Captain I3ERESFORI) hoped the Noble Lord, in
alluding to.pecuniary.MotiVes held out to Officers of
the Navy, AA WA mean • to say that they would ne.
glect their duty:if deprived of any such stimulus. He
had. seen the Noble Lord in service, and knew ti*t
that could not,Wieh himself be any motive.
Limit COCHRANE explained. • •
„The CHANCELLOR' of the EXCHEQUER
hoped the Noble Lord would limit his motion to a
single vessel,•ortil two or three different descriptions,
Sir CHARLES POLE explained.
Mi. FREFaIaiiNTLE said a few words as to the
mistake as to the salary of th 7 King's Advocate.
Lora COCHRANE restricted his motion, which
was then agreed to.
BREAM OF PRIVII EGE.
Mr. YORKE rose to call the attention of the House
to what he considered a gross breach of the privileges
of the' Rouse. If it appeared to theM as it did to
him, he thought no opp )sition would be made to the
motion. As far as that to which he alluded con-
cerned himself, it gave him no uneasiness—he treated
such things with contempt ; but, at the present times
he thought it proper to come to some understanding
about their privileges, as they were trenched up*
day after day. If they did not soon exert themselves,
it would be thougl4 they wanted spirit to assert their
privileges.—Ele would read part of a placard which
he held in his hand, in which his name was joined
with that of an Honourable Gentleman opposite, awl
in which also appeared a decree of a self-constituted
societ.y, galled the " British Forum," which ran thus:
I"
Last Monday, after an interesting discussion,it was Irani
rootisly resolved, That the enforcement of the standing Ordrr,te
exclude strangers from the Gallery of the House of Com
ought to be censured, as an insidious and ill-tinted attack on the
I.inetryt of the Pres„ as tending to aggravate the grievances.
the People, and relieor their Representatives objects of steeple:tom
• S thie censure, he contended, applied to the Or
themselves—Though. he was i friend to the libeitT
he was an enemy to the licentiousness of the press
land
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oppose the abuse of it ; es the abuses of it -
'most likely to endanger it arid occasion its overthrow
lAfter some further observations, he moved that
Clerk should read that article of the 'Bill of Righ'
relative to the right of discussirig what passed in ,
House out of doors. forwidd
t s •
which, the article_from the Bill of Rights, which 7
Tie placard was then read by the Clerk ; eft!
forth, that the eebates arid proceedings in that Hoes._,
were net to be questioned in any place out of Pella
ment, was read also.
sr.
and o
Mr..YORKE then moved, That the printetbe or
I dered to appear at the Bar of the House to-morro ,
No opposition was made to the motion, t
,
Printer,•J. Dean, Wardour-street, was ordered
appear at the B4r. ..
TUE WALCIIEREN EXPEDITION.
the Hon t
On the motion, of the day being read, for . .
resolving itself into a Committee to inquire in.o
failure of the Expedition to Walcheren,
• Lord FOLKSTONE availed himself of thatto
iportunity of calling .the attention of the amits: di
',length of time which had been consumed in
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into the Committee, and wished that some p
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sing other matters every evetring before they
we