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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

LORD BYRON.
►f'HE FOURTH and LAST CANTO of CHILDE
• HAROLD was published Tins Diir.
Pritited for John Murray, Albemaele-etredt, Lomb*.

had interfered to prevent him from obtaic.ing justice,
by representing him as an adventurer, assuming a
title to which he had no claim. He would refer only
to the Constitution under which t'inse islands were
governed, wherein it would be found there was no
remedy against any interference cn the part of the
High Commissioner. The Petitioner, therefore, came
to the House as his dernier resort, and he hoped the
House would agree to his Petition lying on the table.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT argued that there was no
'remedy but in the Courts at home for the oppressions
complained of by the Petitioner.
Mr. BENNET said, it was very true that the
Courts were open, in the same way as it had been
said that the London Tavern watopen t but the Pe-
titioner might not be able to go•to law with one who
had made a fortune in the Islands, under circum-
stances which had reduced the means of the Peti-
tioner. Could the present Government be so indif-
ferent to the conduct of its Officers as to say coolly
that the only remedy was to be found by applying
to Copts of law ? ju such a case, were persons to be
referred to a law-salt as the only means of obtaining
testy justice ? Were they to hear the Under Secretary
of State for the Colonial Department say, that a Ger-
'man abroad might hang, and flog, and seine pro-
perty, and circulate false and fraudulent coin, and
that redress was to be had only by going to a Court
of Law ? Whether he should bring f Award the sub-
ject in another shape remained in his own discretion'
Mr. GOULBURN explained. He dertieci that. his
observations were liable to such a construction as the
Honourable Gentleman had put upon them.
Mr. F. DOUGLAS expressed his anxiety that Go-
vernment would not attempt to obtain more power
'Treaty
the lonian Islands than was given them by the
of Paris.
Sir C. hIONCK wished to know how it was, that
there was no general or regular intercourse between.
this country and the lonian Islands ? Some letters
had been received within these few days ; but none
had arrived before for a long time ; sometimes coma
munications did not arrive for three or four months,
and Gentlemen here had been as long as eight or
nine months without hearing from their friends and
correspondents.
Mr. GOULBURN said, that the regularity of the
intercourse had been interrupted by the appearance
of the plague in some parts of Northern Africa, and,
in consequence, vessels coming from the Levant were
oblined to perform a long andagorous quarantine at
Ancona.—The Petition was tillk ordered to lie on
the table. •
Sir S. ROMILLY said a few words expressive of
a wish to bavathe documents relative to the conduct
of Huggias easucined by a Committee.
BREACH OF PRIVILFAIII.
MT:WYNNE moved that the Report of the'Com-
, mitsee of •Privileges on the case of Thomas Fergus-
son be read; which being done, he then moved that
the said Thomas -Fer„ausson had; been proved, Li
writing and sending the said letter, to have made a
corrupt attempt to interfere in the purity of election,
and had thereby been guilty of a high breach of the
privileges of this House. The Motion being agreed to,
Mr.WYNNE said, his next Motion would he, as
directed by the Committee, " That the said Thomas
Ferg,usson be committed to Newgate." Undoubtedly
this was not all that the House was bound t., do in
jealous regard to the freedom of the Election of its
Members. The Honourable Gentleman here went
into a statement of the evidence that had appeared
before the Committee, and stated the laws in such
cases, one of which was, that if any person so de-
tected in corruption should hold any situation under
his Majesty's Government, he should be removed
from his office, rendered incapable of serving his
Majesty again, and be fined in the penalty of 1001.
He should feel it necessary to bring the subject again
under the consideration of the House ; and the proper
time would be when the Committee had concluded
their inquiry, and given their opinions embodied in
their Report. For himself, he thought it would be
more consistent if one punishment were inflicted in
all such cases, and that that would be the removal
of the guilty person from any office he might hold,
whether great or small. He should now merely move
that• the said Thomas Fergusson be committed to
New gate, and he should give notice of it being his
farther intention to move, that he be removed from
his office of Surveyor of Taxes.—Motion agreed to.
EDUCATION OF THE POOR.
Mr. BROUGHAM said, he rose merely to move
the commitment of the Endowed Schools Bill, pro
forma. He should then move, that a future day be
fixed for the consideration of the Report, because the
subject had excited no sensation hitherto, and many
misrepresentations had gone abroad as to the nature
of the Bill. If this were an ordinary subject, he
should leave such misrepresentations to refute them-
selves ; but if these were suffered to pass unnoticed,
well-disposed persons might any day be deterred
from making donations to schools and other acts of
benevolence. -This Bill had been stated to be one for
interfering with the management of charitable funds.
This was a gross misrepresentation. It was a Bill
not for interfering with their management, but only
with their mismanagement, by inquiry and report.
The Commissioners were only to have the power of
making inquiry respecting the application of such
funds. It was said that the Bill would go to trend[
upon private property. This was a misrepresentation
more gross than the other. A person in trust of
money for charitable uses, was as much in trust of
public money as any receiver of the revenue. The
Honourable Gentleman then alluded to varioes Com-
missions of Inquiry into public abuses, and com-
mented on the good that had resulted from them,
concluding with stating the powers of the Commis-
sioners under the Bill before the House. They were
not called on to demand the production of any title
deeds, as had been asserted, unless they were such •
related wholly to charitable uses. But if such a do-
nation were mixed up with the tale-deeds of an'

HOUSE DP LORDS, APRIL Of:
Carmel were finally Mani respecting the Second or Tesusite
Oran& of the Qmosinberry Leans Ca
Tie farther hearing on the Appeal The Governors of He-
riot's Hospital w Rosa." TheirLordships' judgments in both
does cases were postponed.
Mr. BULLOSLi from the 'rrasury, presented an Account of
the Staftelit the National Debt in each Year, from 1788 to
link pursuant to as Order of the House, and which subset-
gadatly, ea the matins of the Earl of Laussasnalas was order'

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A THIRD EDITION of Sir N. W. WR AX ALL'S
lIINSWIRS of HIS OWN TIME, very considerably
enlarged, and now forming Three Volumes, handsomely print-
ed in Octave, with a Portrait of the Author, will be published
ea Thursday, April 50.
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a to be pried.
Mr. Matelot-, frost the Court of Chancery in Ireland, pre.
mated certain further DOCanianti resPeetwil the Appeal
of
s O'Brien v. Recire.."--.Laid epee the Table.
The Waterloo Bridge Act Amendment Bill was brought up
Qom the Commies, sod read the first time ; as were several
andßills presented by Sir B. W. Guise, Mr. Lowy's%
and ethers.
The Ohms Dude,' ma Pawed through a Committee, and 'teas
reported; and severe private Bilis were forwarded In their re.
'petite itsges--Adjesreed tin To-morrow.
—LOUSE OP COMMONS' • -
Wiser, Pretested. hichuling due:
e[ Writs ter Members to serve lie
of the number of glens In, sad dins en,

out of the aoustry.
The Waterloo Bridge B.oad Amendment Bill was read a &lid
time, sod mood.
Lard LASCELLES brought up a Petition frees several
hundred persons at Leeds, against any additional duty eia Rape-
seed.
Alderman WOOD presented a Petition from due Watermen
of Stepney, against the Rotherhkhe Bridge Bill.
A Petition was presented from the Parish of Cripplegate; in
favour of that part of the Poor laws' Bill, for making the
Owners of Houses.liabk to the Poor Rates, instead of the 0e-

caplets.
Mr. BYNG presented a Petition from the 'Parish of St.
George's, Hanover-square, against the Water Companies Mo-
nopoly--Laid on the Table.
Mr. CALCRAFT brought up a Petition front the Ship
Owners and Coal Dealers of Rochester, praying an alteration
ia the Coal Laws, as relating to Costs carried coastwise.
A Petition was presented front the Calico Printers of Glas-
gow, praying a repeal of the Duties on Printed Calicoes, and
the substitution of some other.
The Houses of cdorrectios Chaplains' Regulation Bill went
through a Co:stature, after some conversation between Lord
FOLESSTOIIII, Mr. BAittNO, and other Gentlemen.---Report to-
morrow.

lONIAN ISLANDS.
Mr. BENNET wished to call the attention of the
House to a Petition from a Foreigner, Count A.dand,
complaining of the conduct of Lieutenant-General
Campbell, while Commander in the lonian Islands.
It stated that the Petitioner had been a suitor to Go-
vernment for three years, and could get no redress
for the oppression and injustice he had been subjected
to ; having been referred back to the country from
which he came ; but the Lieutenant-General, he
stated, could not be tried by any tribunal there, as
he had put himself above the law. He assumed a
right of repealing the existing laws, and setting up
the most offensive punishment, that of the pillory,
to which he exposed the inhabitants ; he also thought
fit to flog his own soldiers, as well as the inhabitants,
and had actually had one man put to death. Whe-
ther these accusations were true, be (Mr. Bennet)
could not say but the Petitioner, though offering
to adduce the most positive proofs of them, could
get no inquiry instituted. Even Sir T. Maitland had
injured his feelings, by considering him as an adven-
turer, but he (Mr. Bennet) had positive proofs of his
rank being what he stated, and also that he_was
appointed Ambassador to Russia. He prayed the
House to institute an inquiry into the treatment he
had received.
The Petitioniseing brought up and read,
Mr. GOULBURN said, it must be clear that what-
ever might be the merits of Count Adand, or how-
ever true the statements in the Petition, it must be
clear that the House could not interfere in the sub-
ject. He had imputed certain criminal actions to a
high Officer of Government, one of which was nei-
ther more nor less than his having murdered an in-
dividual. Now lie would ask whether that House
was a proper tribunal to interfere on such a subject?
He must say that if there had been any obstacle to
his obtaining justice in this case, the fault lay more
with him than with the Government. He had said
fie had the power to prove those charges. It might
be so , but there were other tribunals than that House
to take cognizance of such crimes. He had given a
list of 100 witnesses residing in the lonian Islands,
and when reference had been made to them, he said
it was no use to refer to them, as he could not obtain
justice there. But he (Mr. Goulburn) would deny
that he had any shadow of complaint against his
Majesty's high Officers ; and as to Sir Thomas Mait-
land, his character stood too high to be benefited by
any thing he (Mr. Goulburn) eould say of it. The
gallant General had professed himself most ready to
go into the charges there, and to give him that re-
dress which those tribunals were most proper to af-
ford. The Petitioner had therefore been told that he
*as at perfect liberty to proceed there, and substan-
tiate his charges respecting the property he had been
deprived of. At all events, the House was not the
proper tribunal to apply to. •
• Sir C. MONCK wondered at the course the Ho-
nourable Gentleman had adopted, in saying that the
Petitioner could obtain justice in the Islands, when
the person against whom he complained was no
longer there.
Mr. GOULBURN was obliged to interrupt the
Honourable Baronet. He had not said so. One of
the charges was against General Campbell, who is
now in this country, and he had intimated that the
legal tribunals here were the proper places for re-
dress. The charges relative to the privation of pro-
perty ought to be discussed in the Islands, where his
witnesses were, and where the transaction complained
of had taken place.
• Sir C. MONCK resumed. The Petitioner had said
that General Campbell interposed, and prevented him
from obtaining his rights. Surely the Honourable
Gentleman did not mean to say that if he was pre-
sented by military authority. from obtaining his
rights in those islands, he had his right of action in
the Courts of this country. Everybody knew there
was no remedy for him here, and he had found that
it was in vain for him to go there, as Sir T. Maitland