Star.
London, England, 1817-06-28 00:00:00

SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.

Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that the Ha-
beas Corpus Suspension Bill be read a third time.
Mr. BENNET'L' contended, that the best means
of repressing disturbances, would be to provide work
for the industrious, and food fer the hungry. In-
stead of that, his Majesty's Ministers had preferred
adopting measures of severity, extending to the in-
nocent as well as the guilty. . He blamed such a line
of policy. If severe measures were necessary, let
them be local ones, but let not the whole Constitution
be taken away from England and Scotland. He
then referred to the period of 1312, at which greater
dangers and more insurrectionary movements had
threatened the tranquillity of the State, and at
which, however, no suspension of the best liberties of
the nation had been proposed. He contended that
the Manchester plot was the semis: ot spies and infor-
mers, though not Asf the same class 2S Oliver and
Company. In 18112, it, was proved before the Com-
mittee, that the Militiamen employed to tepriss the
disturbances, had themselves proposed to burn the
Poor Houses. The intended conflagration at Man-
chester might proceed froin quarters equally uncon-'
nected with the conspirators. lie then read a corn.'
munication from a Gentleman of high respectability
at Manchester, who stated that Oliver had been sent
on three missions to that town, in April, May, and
June ; that he had represented himself as intimate
with Sir Francis Burdett, Major Cartwright; and
others, but had never seen more than five persons to
' whom he had proposed a plot, stating the great num-
ber of people ready to engage in it, and advising them
to send a delegate to Yorkshire—that on their refusal
lie had actually sent two messengers to Yorkshire to
fix a day for a rising, and that was the 9th of June—
that he pretended to be employed by the people of
Liverpool, Derby, Nottingham, and Birmingham.—
'hose five persons, whom Oliver had attempted to
seduce into crime, implored to be heard at the Bar of
the House on the facts which he had mentioned.—
Oliver had seen none but them ; he always had
plenty of.money, of which lie was not sparing; and
the quarter front whence it came was not doubtful
He then referred to the evidence o( Mr. Dickenson,
taken before the: Magistrates at Wakefield, on Mon-
day, June 16, by which it appeared that Oliver had
used the :Jame arts to seduce him and several others .

into acts of rebellion. The Noble Lord op -nsite had
said, that Oliver had asked for no reward. He hoped
that he should haee one—the reward which he de
served ; that he should, be given over t those laws
veh•cf: he had hre':en, Cu!a noder which he nughe to
suffer. S2veral wretches hid been lying under sen•
tenee of death for .earn months 14 haviag seduced
ignorant men to cornatit fel.,nies. Oliver had dine
Worse ;he had t!‘e starving manufa.emers into
tehellien. :.linis:ert brought for a•aid be:ter. .
grounds than the I,pert of the Secret 1r immittee,
and better evidence than the blasted Les:laicl of
Oliver, Castle, anc: Co. he would never consent to
place the power which they demanded into their
hands ; for hr main:44,2d, that there (lid no: exist a
people muse attached to their itistitutions, and more
determined to keep their Censtitutioa than the fit itish
people.. ( Hear, hear.)
Mr. CHAR LES GRANT co.ati•aded that the
case was Vile of rxtternc d.onger, and Tec!uired the
applieatiou of this ::11)41y, which wt, cleat ty one or
the poweis of the Co.ttituti,up, for the preservation
of Liberty an,l property. lie I:new that there v Lee
Away., g intet•tn,:.t..l :nen who disheiievcd in con
spirit thr,u;z:i tt:ey re..lly existed, and it might
•vouid he this ne,Jected when tl•ey
Net: mil>t cap,hle of suprre.ted. lie valueJ
the Carpus Act, but 1,:: v..dited thrsrt
cred productions, urn ‘, Llch infamous and blas-1
phetnnus paroders had bc:.n published, poisoning the
minds of the lower orders of the people, (Hear, hear),
and if we must give up the reverewe for the one, or
suspend the other, be should not hesitate about the
Choice. (Hear.) It was well known that factious
demagogues always erected tlitar engines upon the
distresses of the people, with which they attempted
to shake the State. (Hear, hear.) But he was sure,
the interests of the poor, as well as ut every other'
class would be secured by this measure. It was most
consonant with the Constitution to adopt measures
of prevention, rather than of punishment, and this
was a measure of that kind. The argument, then,
that the laws were sufficient to punish the disturbers,'
he did not think :applicable to the present case. They
were told that the disaffection was local.; it might be
so, and this aleatory then was intended to prevent it
from becoming general. "(llear, hear.) Against the
arguments, that no man of rank, talent, and property
were implicated in these transactions, and that the
schemes were too ridiculous to be regarded seri-
ously, he would appeal to that monument of crime
the-French Revolution:" (Hear, hear,)
.The revo-
lutipuary spirit of the Continent had spre.4 in .this
country, and unless it wait watched and chea.cd, the
Constitution would tall beneath its infhienee. •

. Mr. WA !IRE said he should now give his oppo-
sition to a M 'awre which, thee months ago he sap-
ported. (Hear) He then depended on the unani.
mous Report of the Committee, bele he since bad
reason to believe be had suffered that Biwa to
weigh too much with him. It would be recrllected
that they were told -the danger was to be looked for
.from the Spenceani, but where was that Society
now ? The last Com inure, with all their powers of
'
.investigation, had said nothing about those pant-
tioners of land ; of course they might now be per.'
teed, at ease with respect to that tremendoui So.
ciety. The Spafields affair and the Manchester
rising were of much the same complexion.
Mr. PROTHEROE gave his support to the for-
mer Bill from private information of an alarming de.
scription, as seed as on the unanimous Report of the
Committee. The time which had elapsed had given
an opportunity to consider whether the remedy ape
plied was the proper one, and he was wady to ac-
knowledge that he did n it think it was. His 1114-'
jesty's Government had done right to prosecute the
late trials, but the Jury declared that no ueason ex-
isted, and the example had convinced the people how
small was the number of persons engaged in the dis-
tutbances, and bnw little there was to apprehend
from any attempts to overturn the Government. On
these grounds he should vote against the Bill.
Mr. HART DAVIES agreed with his Honour-
able Colleague that the City of Bristol was free from
the most remote suspicion of par.icipation in the rt.-
cent treasonable des gus ; and that so far the measure
was uncalled for. But he should ill discharge his
duty as a Member of Parliament, if he confined Ins
views upon the policy of a. general measure to the
special relation it might bear'to the place which he
represented—( Hear,- hear).—lt had been shewn by
undeniable testimony, that attempts bad been mad:
agairst the peace of the kingdom by artful and dis-
affected men ; whole districts had been in open atul
declared insubardination,cand he thought that he
I should be Wanting in justice th the loyalty ef his
Constituents,• if, under- these' circumstances, he did
I not lend his assistance to defeat their schemes, and
punish their guilty abettors. • - .
Mr. G. BANKS thought that tt,a report presented
from the Committee distinguished, as it war, for la-
boriousness of investigation and accuracy. of jud 4.
meat, would fully justify him in vciiing for. the Bill.
Mr. BARHAM believed that the measmytheii
before the House would not only be dAngeroUs t4iiie I
Constitution, but to thy peace of the Country. ~ He
desited to enter his solemn protest against the lienti-
ments that the Constitution would not he impaired
by the Sespetision ti the Habeas Corpus Act.- To
him the Habeas Corpus was the most essential idea- 1
lity of the Constitution, andrather than pa;t withir, I
lie would submit to be governed by martial law,' :ie.
had been already declared .by anutheedlonantalle
Member. Whit security would there be for any
man when this safeguard was gone? Any man might !
be dragged to a prison, his fortune sacrificed, and in,
children ruined for want of his protecting care.—
, What greater calamity could fall on a human being? '
I Could any thing exceed such an injury ? Yes, it 'might
be aggravated by his being toldoefter all, that he I
lived under a tree Constitutiou—(lieae,hear).—Cutt:d 1
there be a more humiliating, agoi34,ng meekeey ? i
He would rather part even with the Trial by Jury 1
than with the Habeas Corpus Act. In the one case!
he should have a right to some suit at trial, with Le'
chance of a fair one; but de the other he coal leave
no trial at all. It was said that this Bill would only
operate against the evil designing, and that “ tne
galled jade might wince." He, for his part, thought
there was as little wincing on his side of the House,
as in the quarter from which this smart and ;rev),
quotation had proceeded. His answer was.that des-
potic power was never attempted, omit by the most
tyrannizal person... without a solemn and seothing
assulanee 111'4 H it WAS Ilittlidtd Linty against the

v-ickcd"-• (;*•-• • r 1,:(4) tr' I;.c'
01 C0111:1:":!.. la. ;I! 1 .1- 1,1 r 1.4.11•1:. Ot,l
'C tji itt' arar:a pcv.-.: was irn •
hist:As v..ocht IV t. Lu; tL:,t they cotil..!
such abuse. I! co:e Niir.!sters h 4.1 the pow:,
without dlr.. ili.psitioo, cur liberty V•4s g4;:lt!.
set:tin:rat

•`1,..: toms of f; w• rvr.:,-w 1.• tr:! cwir,:...
" Wll:ce'cr i:: 1,4-' Jd • t .. ..1 'Si- I:cal
was a b tae tee. and unts rthy uf an Heeliietn; le
It the Minietes deptiesd die Peop:e of. the C.•: .- ••• Ir.
lien, they left them nothing worth dcfctidine. \''.7:(l:
out the liabeas Cl:Tpus Act, therc was timhisi ka
England to di,,it. .11 .it: lecr in hi, e) e, from tit.:ni...:
despotic Seas ie I.;:iireei.
1.):. THII.I.reIOI;L cave his eeprort to tli:• /ii:!,
considering it, in t:ft! :46,1:1i ste..• cif the c.vl:lll',',
wise, just, and liesti inv. it ch.! net appear to hint
that the conspir.e:y aii .iite the .veate was to he kie-
cried fret:: the Lea ce:idition ie! there who weir te -
gaged in it. Toe. I.lwcr or‘lev,.,
•wh,ot thee enf...red
with acikrity, and eelisted their pa :'.ions in s'lol 3
I' 561erne, IV6e Ole r1":4 I'll ert...ibit! ill'Aftl,:lenf'i that
could be earecte.l avainst a (losis:ro,eelt. It w ts a
1 remarho,l-- lect, that it was die iier those reirms ie
,
w!.:ic!r the people enja3 es! eu.tt fi..r. . eo, that the..-11::
i;ed been sea .••,.t. d. It h ..! ti .t k.r..:1 sespeintel is
the ,reign of James 14. Oa: rtne.t arbitrary ot keir
lungs. The exameles re Or. Trr.,••",,r.• ,:,,,,, h “nr.,..„ the
I.:onse w.f.,- to 110 fro-„! :n 1:•,..i !,:::,7,
.we ;7/5.
Lord NUt;i....:4l', v.....!1 the. 1.. e! :•-!.. riA:pe:t f.ir the
Secret Committee, could r,:e e i: ..i. this Bill. tle
could not forget that the eviderise• b.:tere t!,at Com-
mittee vfas proposed and selected by Nliltist-rs :f e7l-
- (Hear.) The Ministers, it bad been tiet.y
said, had pet' their country upon trial, and stood for.
ward themselves, as evidence for the accusation. They
instituted a most unbounded trial for high Treason,
and are defeated, to the general satisfaction of the
nation, ih a case where the wide would have gladly
seen inflicted the punishment ut. All atr064415 riut.--
(Thar, hear.) ate of the worst consequences of the
systemptlrstied was the of an odious race
of spies, who had the inyodence to Accuse the people.
But heyould ask the Ministers had they discovered
any form-of adjuration, by which these accusers
could be bound ? Ile had heard of the sentiments of
the people oh this subject—that if an appeal were
made to them, they would aeprove the b:11 But
how could such an appeal be made with effect 1 The
people were.,gagged—the pies% was gageed. • He
did not deny that titiblic liberty had been kit• and
enjoyed•during the present as telly AS •tt :tny period,
hut he wotilir add .:that. public iih..irte %cis never
in nreater dattA.Fi: than :it present. (lie ,r, heir)..r.
It was sail the pu.d.c rrimals were ciorapurd ; but
was thi, enesedly :he cote option oi Goveromente.a;
the public p :vett). had becik cancel he its prolusion?
The Alarm el dene-r from poeular axeteses was un.
reasonable and vei.eiei. Ile would prefer "viii po-
puler commotion to those precedents of slyspotic
power which ultimately (ermine"? in the ruin•of the
Constitution. He would rather see hi; covnik y rye.)_
lutionised—(Cries of Hear, hear, front the Mini:aerial
Benches)—he would rather see his country revoie-
tionised than enslaved—.(Hear, hear). The tide -of
public opinion went too much on one side. Tim
public mind appeared quite ineeuid when it touched
the popular tile, Lint insensible to the encronchtbents
of power. Till% %VAS the quarter from which he
feared danger to the C-.o,tittition. Ile had given his
opinion on thi. Bill—calling G. to Witness that he
felt what he spoke--and with the impression that it
would be a sort of treason t.) his country it lie (I'd
not raise his voice to protest that liberty which was
handed down to him front hi, forefathers, when he
thought it exposed, as he new did, .to the most im-
minent danger—(/fear, hear).
Mr. LAMB concurred its the sentiment, that he
would rather see his coitntry reveletionited than en.
slaved. l le would not go 'lvo any &A:tit of the
I causes that had placed the country in it; present con-
dititni ; but the Jaeger was ulliosed -by all. Wilda
Parliament was pelitiookal 14 L'iliveleal Sufrrage and
.Innual P.itliatricills, ':heft v:.ii Ors bust l'etitionieg
for Revolurion ? 'l•:.e state of the Public l'zess, too,
greatly aided the rejects (t those who excited the
people to sedition. Ile weuld not cep. c: a news-
paper to be Ire,' from ticcal.io.i.il inters cf inadver.
tency, and h. was wady to allow th.tt the Ness was,
in vet y important p..ir..:, ctoidlict:,d with great can-
dour and fairness; Lot he w.;uld :;till usert, that in
the Sunday siewsp:ti-Als, there was A system of Lk-
rreciating t!.e Coaitiunion, and rendetiog the peo.;:le
disconteated tvith. ii, patticul irly durii.t.; the rek ekse;
of Perliament. •Ile•woull recomm ncl t.. 'lithe :eh.,
concincted tlei rtels Anitenexini wl i it they s i of t,ot
held forth 'to Icangs,en4.,:eikkistees, o drat tho•e e- ho
poiseased great *power, exercised'st tinkl-r the vk....!,,E
iesporaibility..!:':He ski ni n.et kart, liewever, r,, say,
Viet the present; rfe..ahr eiceas id the Press; coeli in.
duce liinOti isertirn POrfinllcetrL...-' The 1 lf.:, .orable
Oer.aensan-sOntluded),with* 4hservi4, th.:t. I-..! ;r, p.
ported pr 11/44,cbiti,:s.Vi4lettd. to , isree:ee ‘,.,•
~„ riser
meeting- si.;l3Arlitiq44,..cqoeirsted-timr It nottra!, c
s Cetitlynken'euteto•mk4lnorer ;,tirod in plieir;o,:e%
I
ill iliet'House, th9.l4thtinereapettlei- L. i... i•.
Mi. MAVNts.M..4.4".curnreakreei,. resat they,.• -...."
no .analogy betgs.!e 0 lima:CV:4v' Ml,iP:llt:ons e.:: th.•
1 1-labeasCOrpos qq,:yoti, th;odoili Trp0.i.%1.. k„,..!
Oil! tli.• aegrenfveni?.....ttuf al.:ate:le 120./...!..; Aft
i has litclos. sylpeolvu 0., tine, .of v.qtr, therefore y. 41
Slibt.litiSttytillY it...lllt*Aptit peerree• • itf, ,frica'ds'ili,sere,inns(ity,;;
ti-ii:o:}jo4‘;',.f.°:::4ltYw4o,:yilie7ll:sr.4.:l7thhastrb't:lieZtl,pended r. ti.tx
ill'
silo: j.:,lrsal ir.uitti.:l...7..;:;istt.,llo:Tilk'S.:s:l:Af',g,ct::—.::(Ni iitifia;.s:6lrt
re;r94:holirij:).:lll:i:c. 1:%,..i::::.....i•
' g:.-..cy. li.e wa.), 12,1 ul z!..e.htithed•prole.:sion, Ira ;:••
t:1„tt0;t ~ 4.a 4:4gen:e entergeney"jeite mean 50P1t•
suc!) case as thil: u; a ciiiptized :dynasty o.iit ,Lvel,,e
people, not the di.c.eitehr ne partial. a :::11,6., is
jjll:2 lahnurets and artizans, driven' ;010 -jc,ig.,s as
b:1:11 as criminal by their disirexs. r.e ineatute
now proposed by Mi!:;:-.ters' would tholt-ace o,e
people or England in the eyes n:' i. reigo Powe• s.
He had often asked how the •§usteliiiko of the 11?-
beas Corpus could. be (kernel :t rtoie.ltr applicable
to the discontents of the e,,nniry, :old he never
could receive an anitver—( Hear, It, .e, her:..)...
There was every reason ..,r the rcan..vAl of the Mi.
iii-Atr, Let none for his !wins; a Dietator—(ediours at
:(leritue:si:nuedi, hear).— In every a:.;e, Wiie:l,llvilasstsetpillwd. was
empard:
11,'}::::,1,ti. ;11.,
.....t oaldnyci:::iontt:eck
Itilths::s.ste:co'izairt:
tt ye uti i thei:stepeor s
wouldple—

be as little disposed to snrrender this measure, as in
the last Session they had been to give up the Property
Tat—(Hear, hee:!).—Sotne further gr unds will then
be advanced tor destroying liberty—it would depend
indeed °lithe revival of trade whether we were again
to get a taste ot iteedom for a short time—it would
depend en the tetions from Nottingham and kont
Menchester•—the commercial reports would be the
criterion—the gauge of our freedom —kilear)—lt
appeared to him that A language had been introduced
into this country not known in it before—a language
peculiarly belon.:ing to despotism, and that the Noule
Lord opposite had leatned it in his intercourse nith
arbitrary potentates—(/liar, hear) —with whom he
conchs 'ed, in the pretaned name of England, a
league, the lest object of which was Liberty I He
had heard a great deal about reposing confich nce in
MillibletS —for himself, he placed no confidence in
them. He hoped the House would pause before it
would aid the acre, ' of error and calamity. Ile
knew not what the cones,,/ had to expect when a let-
ter of the Secretary of State was to he held as law—
an Arbitrary edict to be substituted for written statutes.
ouch proceedings must excite a !lame in the country,
and who could undertake to extinguish it—(Lied
:eve, c.if Yew% hear.) The discord was acknnwledged
to he local—Licat it should be the remedies.
Let the existing leas be energetically entorced, but
let not Legislative violence be used ennead of Esc-
entive vigour. These measures cure the des affected !
hey ss ill but irritate and increase them. The truest
Trieste of appeestag the at-et ittented *told be to
held op to them die Censtitutien is ad it, glotious
pie it y—to tracts teem to actinic its strength, its gran-
deer, and its tt,u 111(01 tli them that
Itet• (Then (bp not rxest who wtiold desert in a panic the
of rty ( Rear, hear.) Bridges and
sew, r monuments may 1w erected to record die &aids
when, a tire people c.iuld achieve ; but to what would li
th‘y avail it the Constitution was attiiihilate I—(l%n
ilotiourable Genleman sat down amid loud and rei-
terated shoots of hear, hear.)
Mr.., li. STANHOPE said, that as a friend tO
fret dont, !.e would v. to for the preseitt Bill.
Sir FRANCIS B'JRDETT—Whatever might
he the indefieite sen.iments which operated upon
some minds in that House, one at least had laid
down as the wounds of this opinion something tan.
Bible (Mr. Lambe). He had nnidesst cl that the p's.
swig ot the Suspense n Act was the way in which Mi.
nistets had considered it safest to meet the petitions
for Keirnm from all quarters; he, on that question
( P.eforrn), had advocated the tippesite side. In ibis
Lc only did *het might be expected of him, and
riould net he blamed—he was a borough nominee.—
( Year, and a laugh ) But, for his part, he felt no con-
getiality of spirit v ith 111.41 Hon. Member, or those
in similar eithationc. If their object was to rendir
the Coostitution a !minty, thank GOD, he owed such
persons no allegiance, nor had taken any oath to sup-
port their measures ! Whetevor treason had been
hatched during these last mouths, had been hatched
Ministersltyy themselves against the rights and privi-
leges of the pe Tie, svlocit, whilst he had breath, he
would. in defiance of Ministers, and at the tweak' of
every consider .tine de .r to m in. defend, The pre-
amble of the Bill contained a downright felsehood—
a :eging that a dart and dangerous conspiracy ex-
isted for the purpose of ovetthrowing the Constitu-
tion It w •s the general sentiment respecting Re
tor tn—rs specting the wanton es pen& u! e—the
gate waste and complete want of centroul over the
acts of Ministry, or tie public transactions. that had
made this hateful Act necessary to Ministers to
secure their places. (Laid cries cf Lbw., Afar, hear.):
But what most shelved the tendency of their Govern
ment was, the engines they had emi.loyed to exci..e
and betray the deluded peeple. Mi. Oliver and
Thomas Rey triads had been teen ted to, one to inform
against, and the other to find a bill of indictment
against those whose distresses had given a colorer to
proceedings against them, but which had happily
been frustrate J. notwithstencimg the Noble Lind ep-
posite had pursue:l the suite measures with unpar.e
leled success in Ireland, by the agency ot one oi these
patties, Reynolds.—[Here he read the affidavits of
some of the most respectable pc% sons, who had un-
dergone the most cruel tortures, and been threatened
with death or the open robbery of-their property by
characters abhorred by every Irishman I.e had ever
spoken with,
_Major Sirr and Me'ior Sandys.].—
America, notwithstandiag her capital was taken by
our troops, her provinces threaten ed with dismem-
berment, and her Execntive considered deicient :n
energy, never had resorted to any restriction of the
liberties of even that part of her population strongly
suspected of disaffection and a disposition to join the
CALM of the British invaders. The severe practises
which had raised rebellion to a flame in Ireland,
would not be long in doing the same in Great Britain.
The bloody steps of the Ministers might be traced in
the affairs of Ireland, as a monerrio, and it should be
recollected that aU those enormities were carried on
under the auspices of the Noble Lord and his co-
adjutors, whose bands were but too deeply dyed in
the bloody transactions of that day ilhar, hear).—
What might be expected from such a coalition of
nesehievous and sanguinary powers to British liberty?
One of that coalititn• (Mr. Reynolds) had been ap-
pointed as Grand Juror on the late State Trials, in
order to end an iodktraent, which other spies and in-
formers were to substantiate and swear to:--(Hear,
hear.) Were such personsthe trail et legate: honaaa re.
(tuned by law in such cafes as Grano Jurors ? I-1c
could see nu conspiracy which seemed to threaten
the Constitution but that of such Ministets and such
detestable tools—(Aoudeitering.) There was nu con-
spustcy discovered to exist but that of the Members
of Government with spies and informers against the
people's rights. Government had not hesitated even
to dress up the witnesses, to give them a sort of ex-
ternal credit in the eyes of the Judge and Jay on that
IAA With practices like these the people, he thongle,
the gentry of the country, would nut put up much
longer. The Bill was not fairly denominated a sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus Act. Better, tar bet- 11
ter would it be, to repeal the Act altogether, h.r still
the old remedies of our ancient Constitution would be
open to persons accused. He would rather at once
Ministers were empowered to hang suspected persons
than condemn them to solitary confinement eluting
their pleasure, without Ministers even being Able a
le* days afterwards to teal in what duegeons these
wretches were incarcerated —as those persons were
seed had for thirty or forty years been coutioed to

the Bastile, until ;hey were forgotten—(Hew., heir.)
Bait what would the world think of that pious and
exemplary Member, who had avowed his conviction
of 11,e propriety of this• Act at this period ? What! he
who had released the captive negro, would he tamely
hear to see Englishmen chained together, sent op to
Lord Sidsnouth's Office from distinct gaols, or shifted
about from gaol to gaol throughout the country.
contrary to the oldest principles of our Constitution ?
Not only were their friends, but even the MaAisttates,
prevented from seeing those petsons confined, as the
French termed it, orr teem: He entreated the House
to resist, if there
yet remained any powers of resis-
tance in that House, this attempt to enslave the peo-
ple of England—(Hear, hear, heir.)—The rthole
danger arose not from Luddites bet Br it":, Chair
and &Jim,
from men who were hunting for blood
rnorei, and those who were so abominable as to em-
ploy six!) miscreants.
Mr. LAMBE explained with respect to what he
had said with reference to the Petitiems for Patlia.
Tnentary Reform ; but declared that upon all other
points, his
opinion on the present ques:iou WAS
Unalterable
_ - •

Mr. WILBER FORCE rose (amidst much cnnte-
sion, and calls of ()region 1) briefly to notice the
manner in which the llonnurable Baronet had thought
peeper to allude to him—(Near, hear).—That Ho-
nourahle B fronet hail the greatest dread of alarmists,
th"ugh he himself was always foremost to sound
alarms in the popular ear. The Honourahl• Baronet
seemed to think there was no great mischief te he
apprehended from I wering the value of our glorieus
Constitution in the °etiolation of
the people, and from
encouraging a spirit of disaffection and sedition. as
ungrateful in the eyes of Heevev. as it was to joist
towards those persons who had lehoured to preserve
the eresent happy order of slings by their cnuncils
and their valour—VA/rel.—lt was true, perhaps, that
all this arose from the Honreirehle Baronet's dread
of despotism; hat he would tell that Honourable
Baronet, that if despotism was to be apprehended
front arm sourer, it wis certainly not from the we-
blushed laws, nor those who administered them. but
from those principles and practices which the Hie
nnurable Baronet on all occavient had espoused with
an apparent warmth—(Cries of Hear.)—lt was licee.
tioesness, not legislstiun, that was in reality the pa.
sent of despotism and the nuree of crime.
Sir GODFREY WEBSTER. felt it his duty to
protest against this measure as uncalled for, uncoil.
stitutinnal, and contrary to the warning voice of our
most illustrious and patriotic Statesmen. The meat
Lord Chatham had Netted that it would he better tor
England to be afflicted with all the horrors and tu-
mults consequent upon revolution, than bate one
jot of her constitutional privileges for one moment
(Loud amlaesses.) The only treason now meditated,
lie was satisfied. existed in the beciet of the Ministry
themselves, who (he meted retort the charge) wete
now feeling their way, step by step, how far they
might go in introducing arbitrary government over a
people who, he trusted, never tenuld tamely endure
the hateful yoke.--( Lewd cheeringf ri me sir:..)
The LORD MAY,R denied the ;mei tint% of the
Right Honourable Gentleman ( Mr. H. Addington)
in 4 late speech of his, that the Government had not
timely notice of the attack made some time sign, upon
the Bank and Tower. Their eetliest knowledge of
the affair was at halt-past one o'cleck, as that Right
Honourable Member had said, whilst it was wen
known the mob had been dispersed by himself and
six censtahies at the Mansion House, by half-past
twel re e...( Hear, hear. and laughter).
The LORD ADVOCATE defended his conduct
respecting the confinement and proceedings in the
vise of those patties in Scotland, charged with Sari.
lion and Treasonah:e Practices. He complained of
the unfairness of attacking him when he was ebseet
and unable to defend hirnsell; but now he wis in
the Heese, those questioe► so boldly put in his ab-
sence by an Honotoeble and Learned Genttem in
( Mr. Brougham), ie, re no longer heard oi---he was
afraid that Honourable Member had forgot his
Scotch law and his candour together. His conduct
towards him was, he repeated it, unfair and un-
worthy of him.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY denied that he had
made any charge against the Lord Advocate during
his absence. A circumstance which he conceived
oppressive had come to his knowledge, which his
sense of public duty compelled bum to notice in the
Mr. ERCUGIIAM commented on the measures
adopted by the Lord Advocate during the late trials
'or High Treason in Ediulaurgh, and chewed that the
Learned Lcrti'e indictments had, in three several
cases, been (loathed by the authority of the Court of
Session. This opinion was founded on a report of the
proceedings which he had seen in a public newspa.
per, and which, from its correctness, must evidently
:rave been prepared by a Professional Gentleman.—
He had also received the opinions, on this subject, of
some of the most eminent persons at the Scottish bar.
The LORD ADVOCATE replied, that the
statement given by the Honourable Gendentan of his
indictments baring been quashed by eke Court, was
wholly without foundation.
Lord FOLKSTON-5 asked the Learned Lord whether, in his
opinion, according to the Scutttsh law, the present Bill eztendoi
to Scotland 1

The UAW ADVOCKI E replied, that, to his opinion, there
was not else vestige of a doubt that Um would be tinnily*
in Scotland.

.
Ihe limn* then divided, when there appeared—Ayes 193..-
Nms 65—Majority 13V. Ihe 1141 SSP% th li read the third
During the exclusion of stranger► Irmo the gallery, wt under-
stand an :Intendment was moved, ti.e object of v.tach was to
limit the dwataun of the hill to the Ist day ot, Marc:a.
The flame then divided—Fur the Atitetultueut LW—Against
it tO— M:.jority 109.
'1 be ether Orders of the Day wire then dispeatd of, sad the
' I louse .I.l:,oumed at Three &Clock.

NAvroartost.—We cannot omit to call the atten-
tion of the public to a Bill, which at this late period
if the Session has been brought unto Parlianneutfor the
avowed object of the improvement of the Sewerage of
I Marsh Land. It is a Public Bill, but has only local ob-
jects, And is confined particularly to the Counties of
Ker.t and Sussex. The nature of the Bill is to legalize
and justify acts which are contrary to the com-
mon law right of every subject of the realm.—
The tights of Navigation upon Rivers are directly
assailed and must be greatly injured. The Bill is
also brought in while the question a rubjudice. The
effect I the Bill will be to destroy all the back •waters
and liatlivues. 'lle Bill has been read a tiecond time,
and is cusniniutd for Monday neat.

THI4: EVENING STAR.

I ON DON.

SATURI)AY, JUNE 28, 1817.

PRICE OF WrOCK4 THIS DAY AT TWELVE rramcict
Reet.erfi 75I1—Coni,ols shut--Con‘ol6 for On. 7till •
4 per Cent. 94if —Navy, shut-13211k Long Ar.as. --
Indio Bond+ 344 pre.—Exch. 13.11.8.. 111.

The Habeas Corpus Sispension Bill was read a
third time and passed laq night in the House of
Commons !—So much for Luddism, Spafields Meet-
ings, Lancashire pilgrimages to London,and Oliverian
industry.

A Dutch Mail arrived this morning. It is chicly
filled with details respecting the numerous emigra-
tions fo► America, which are now going on from dif-
ferenz states in Germany. Some than are fami-
lies apparently in good circumstances, and tarry -nith
them the mewls of defraying their expenses : indeed
so s•rict are the regulation: ttiat have been generally
adopted, that it wnnlJ be next to impossible for any
others n'qv to reach Anisterdtm, the port to which
they seem Okay to bend their way.

The late disturbances in the Netherlands were not
confined to lirussels. but had extended to Glienr,
Courtray, and other places, where some of the military
were killed by the populace. The immeelate cause
of commotion at Bruges was the seizure of a hiingry
child for stealing a loaf. The people interfered and
rescued the child, calling out—.“ No exportation of
grain, or no King."--Indeed all of these riots were
occasioned by the high price of corn ; but happily
they have all been. quieted by the appearance of an
early and rich harvest—a prospect which has every
where greatly reduced the prices of all kinds of pro-
visions. The hectolitre of wheat, which, at the be-
ginning of the• manth, was sold at Strashurgh at as
high as 106 fr. had fallen, on the COO, to 54 fr. and
is expected next market day to be even as low as
30 fr. At Caen, on the 2.0t1,, there as, all at once,
a fall in the price of corn, of LO fr. per sac
At home also we have the same consoling prospects
fr'm the favourable weather, which has greatly im-
proved the appearance of the sellole country. Grass,
Potatoes and Corn seem all evaty promising, and
the erect is very conspicuous iu th► Thames from
the number cf arriving daily from Leith and
other ;scotch Ports, as well as limn the Outports of
England, loaded with Grain. It is well known that
some of the holders of grain who are now hurrying
their hoards to market, expected, only a few weeks
ago, by keeping back the Corn, to obtain ten pounds
a quarter for it. They have, most happily for the
Public, been completely disappointed in their hopes.
Indeed, it is believed that, to many, their grain ape.
emotions will prove as ruinous as those in Colonial
produce a few years ago, which sent the greater part
of the aelventurers to the Gazeue. Much of the Corn
has been damaged in the warehouses, and, instead of
AlO. will not fetch RI. In Seed. in 'a
few weeks Corn
may be erpected to be under that price.

The Plril Pap :Ts of WednesclisySltr;rul this
This fact of an inserrection liPs4ng broken mit
at Lyons, the ollject of which was to overthrow the
existing G-,eernon lit, has been jndicially verified by
the trial and co,,v cit n ,t one of the principal leaders,
of the name 01 VaLENCOT. The conspiracy, it ap-
iWars, h sa he. n ~atching tor some time, and extended
to mist ot t-e Communes nt the Department of the
Rhone. VA L ENCt/T was condemned on the 19th inst.
slid executed on the following day in front of the
town of Trevoux, the place of his bird] and habitual
domicile.

•I'he Count DEBOVCUAGC ha% been superseded as
Miniver • fur the Marine and Colonies, by Marshal
Count GOMM.: ST. CYR.

ARNAULT the younger, the sni of the celebrated
Author of Germanicks, has been condemned by the
Tribunal ot• Correctional Police, for his assault on
M. MARTAINVILLI4 the critic, to—one day's imp....
sonment, and a fine of fifty francs.
French Funds, June 24, 61 t. l 5 c.

The KING of PORTUGAL has issued a Decree, or.
deriug all blasters of vessels to give to the Police, on
their arrival in the Brazils, a list of their passengers,
before landing them, on pain of being put in irons,
and otherwise punished. To be in force from the Ist
of July next.
A letter from Vera Cruz, of the 10th of April,
states, that the Insurrection throughout the whole
of the Kingdom of Mexico was then completely got
under; that withia the three preceding months every
(Jrtined post laid by the Insurgents was taken pos-
session of by the King's troops ; and that daily they,
Bock in immense numbers to the Viceroy APODACA,
to avail themselves of the clemency offrred them in
the name Of FERSINAND." AP,DACA is the same
Viceroy who the American Papers lately stated had
joined the Republican party. 'rke accounts from
Vera Cruz are known to be generally Ultra-Royal.
but we thick they could harcl.ly carry their manutac-
lure of ja':atini in:Age:ice so far as the above, with a
knowledge that the Viceroy himself had declared
agaillst the Mo:her-country.

The Duke of CLArtner, though slowly recovering,
is, we are happy to say. considered by his medical
attendants, out of danger.
COVENT-GARDEN Tnnants.—List night was per-
termed, for the benefit of Mr. Sint:Lam. the musical
piece of Me Gentle Sketherd, rendered into
and curtailed to two acts. It afforded an oppor.u•
nity to Mr. SINCLAIR and Miss STEPHENS Ot dis-
playing their taste, execution, and sweetness, in the
beautiful airs allotted to them. They were received
with enthusiasm by the audience. O'Keare's favou•
rite comic Opera of Fontainblrast followed, in which
Mr. SINCLAIR, as Henry, Mi. Jones, as Ladlard,
and Mrs. Gam, as Dotty Be!!, were very effective.
The favourite piece of the Libertine closed the per-
formatters of the night. Tl:e whole was honoured
with the unbounded applaute of a crowded :tn4 die-
gazt

7:1.7 .11!Ir7.

The Sth (or Plineess Charlime or C: .%
von Guards, commanded by Lieu:enr-tt
GoonoN, were inspected at Ham lbw) no the
June list by M40,-General l i TE,Comm4ni
Forces to North I.littaio, who Lirpseese.l h s ei
prob,ttion of the high ite of d-sc;r:ae en,l ge::,r
appear rice the It:go:new. A. rh;nate ii;si,,ct:,,n
wts nude into every depar;:a_itt, vitd :0!
flit
Gel.eral paid a y itzaing com?hoteat
cusps, tor thw ctcellcttt iat2tior eeed,,rny
order, which was conspicuous in each brattco
giniental Rego! ,tiouv.
Monday, between 6 and 700 men ittsre:ed fr:tl
the invalid Leput, Cts4tham, ler Chelsel.

FALMOI/ I If, ItItIL 25.
Arrived the Grace and F. x packets. rm.^ :•:sita
and Gsbraltat, with nulls tr the far.• !to days
from Gibraltar. and the latter ;n 9 d.lys fr.,):11

Poa ISM= IA JUNE ?T.
Sailed the L..rd tiusTettntd. ileigAL
DEAL, JUNE E -
_

Sail-A the Nnlthumbri4il ter Bet;p1; GnehT 7r7v,j,,
for Rio .1 int•tro, Asut the whole .4 oe on:v..4rd 1,
Arrived L:etiTA, wit PAtl/411.1p.tit.

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