Star.
London, England, 1817-06-04 00:00:00

ISA SEAS CORPUS.

The Sheriffs of London presented the Petition from
the Common Council, complaining of the inattention
of the House to divers complaints urCed by the peo-
ple by Petition, and expressing their opinion that the
Ministers had pressed the Habeas Corpus Suspension
Act with the view of stifling the complaints of the
people ; and praying the House not to sanction the
Ministers' application for a continuation of the corn.
rive measures now in existence.

The Petition w.ts read, and, on the motion vf 3
W. CURTIS, ordered to lie on the table.

INCTI4 EbiTl TOR 1 REA SON.

Mr. CURWEN rose to submit a motion, which,
if he deferred, might not have the effect desired from
I he pure distribution of criminal justice was ct
great importance to the liberties of the subject, eve-
cially at a moment when those liberties were in abey-
ance ; and in casts of treason, by the 7th Anne and
other Acts, the law was particularly anxious that t!:e
persons charged should be possessed of the know-
ledge of what was alleged, and of the witnesses to he
exhibited against them. Ten days before trial a list
of the witnesses must be served on the prisoners.
Such list had been served on the prisoners is tie
Tower, and the number declared to be vabicenied
s.mounted to 210, while the indictments •,:ete
on the evidence of 41 witnesses. Why WAS the
iier
extended beyond the enumeration of those on whose
testimony true bills had been found ? He tr.t.l..a
that it did not originate from any desire to rtr;!ts
the prisoners ; but he certainly conceived it to be Al
abandonment of the spirit of the law, which rec.:ire d
the list to be furnished. There was much grnnnJ it?
the exertion of jealousy, when the country reganu.d
the idea that there was any organized plan c:
tante to the laws ; and he trusted that no Rci-V:
would be produced from the Select Committee, to
be appointed, previously to the termination et :ICS"
State Trials, which were to commence on Nlce,tal•
(Hear, hear.) He concluded with moving lora
.copy of the list of witnesses saved on the pristlntsi .
the Tower, now under arraignment for high tre.tseN
, The ATTORNEY-GE. ERAL resiatcd.the
rC
:tido; as calculated to picjudice the minds of the Yts:).

.1 :e declared, that although there were rnary witness
;, in the list who might not be called. yet that not
ie was named to whom the ability of proving some
ict was not ascribed. In the progress of the trials
:might be necessary to prove facts, which, accord-
ig to previous calculation, would not be requird;
.4,1 .a hat would be said of the Law OCR:ers of the
:own if they were not provided with the ability to
e...brsh every fact essential to their case ?
Mr. Ct.RWEN would not willingly take upon
iself any further responsibility, after what had
!Alen from the Right Honourable Gentleman. He
hashAppy, however, that he had brought the subject
,C .•,-e :he House, from what had transpired, and
..:h,:rew his Motion.

NEW WRITS.
:•1'; Writs were moved for the University of Or-
-1..J, in the room of the Right Honourable Charles
I:,bott, called to the aurae of Peers ; for Limerick.
the room of Colonel Vereker. removed to the Irish
peerage, by the title or Lord Viscount G;,rt.
sir WILLIAM CURTIS, after a slight allusion
to the continued indisposition of one of his respected
rrNragues, moved for a new writ for the return of a
Member to serve as a Representative of the City of
London, in the room of Hervey Combe, Esq. who
Lad accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—Qtderrd.
Mr. PONSONBY said, he leafed :he was too late
make remarks on the motion fora Writ for Li-
merick to be of avail ; but he understood that there
considerable doubt as to the validity of Colonel
Tereker's Peerage. Such being the case, he thought
the Writ ought not to have been moved. _

Alter some conversation as to the mode that should
be pursued,
The SPEAKER said, the difficulty was of easy
randy, as he had omitted to put the motion on that
Writ. The omission was his, and he trusted the
Hite would pardon the ovetsight, it having been
sccasioned by the litick succession of motions for new
Writs —( Hear, hear.)
Mr. PEEL then withdrew the motion for that writ.
STATE OF TUC COUNTRY.

Lord• CASTLEREAGH presented a Message
from the Prince Regent, stating, that his Royal High-
vess had directed to be laid before the House Papers
and Documents respecting the continuation of the
Practices, Meetings, and Combinations, of which it
had been deemed- necessary to save information to
Puliament at the commencement of the present Se:-
ice; proceedings that still continued to be carried
to in such a manner, and to such an wan, as to
endasger the peace of these realms. His Royal
Highness recommends the House to take such cir-
cumstances into their immediate consideration. His
Lordship then gave notice, that on Thursday he
zotild move that such grai;iuus Message be talstat
i4to consideration.

VtNSION To TUE LAM

Lord CASTLEREAGH presented atiothet ties-
age trout the Prince Regent, vileuch declared. that
iu consideration of the eminent set vices of the Right
Hon. Charles Abbott, as Speaker of that House, his
Royal Highness, acting in the name and on the be-
t& of his Majesty, had created that indivldual a
Dam; by the title of Charles, Baron of Colchester ;
bis. Royal Highness desired the House to enable
him to make some suitable provision for Lord Col-
chester and his heirs male, such provision as that
Ilion should deem just and reasonable. His Lord-
ship then gave notice; that on Thursday he ihatild
more the Thanks of that Honse to their late Speaker.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved, that the House do resolve itself into a Corri-
entes on ThursdAy neat, on the Prince Regent's
Message, for - some suitable provision for their late
Speaker.

Mr. C. WYNN observred, that he had heard the
Message from the Throne with feelings of great sur•
pose and unfeigned regret. In the Commons House
of Parliament the aervites of Lord Colchester were
performed, and it was there and there only his well
wand remuneration should originate—(Crier of /fear,
ken). Why was the usual practice in this instance
departed-front He regretted that such an unex-
pected procedure had not allowed him the opportu-
M of referring to the precedents of that House.—
&Stile; all did reeollett the course pursued in the
mord Speaker Onslow—a case perfectly in point,
ofol where the remuneration originated in an Address
has that House to the Throne--(Heor, hear).—tt
1113 lot to be considered as a mere question of form ;
itiavelved most serious comiierations. Was it fitting
that the future Speakerisof the Commons House of
?aliment should look to the Throne for a recogni-
thoi of their merits, and for -the reward of their ser-
liees--(Heardwar) ? -Of those merits and services
the Crown could constitutionally know nothing
(Hoe. hear). No one could deny the right of the
Crown to confer in almost every other instance dig-
cities and rewards- for public services ; but with re-
%Pat to the services of the Speaker of that House, as
they could be best appreciated there, the remunera•
tins should originate in the House of Commons—
(h est hear).
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that the provision
eras required to enable the individual to support the
title with dignity, and not as a reward for services in
t"r House. (Sows rigs: of duaispolvdiots asd &mist.)
Mr. PONSONBY said, he could not withhold his
a‘t,nisltment at the strange speech of the Noble Lord
Vposlte. Indeed, what other feelings but astonish-
'''. the could pervade the House, when it saw the
hie Lord endeavour to bring himself out of what
44seonmenly called a scrape, by the attempt to ex-
Plein away that Message„( on the ground that it had
reference to the services of Lord Colchester, as
`Peeicer of the House of Commons. What said the
leisage t Why, almost its very first words referred
those very services, and to those alone. (icar.)
l'ne Crown, constitutionally, had no right to take
°fist of services in that House. It had no constitu•
'':111 means of information ; and without those
'Jeans the interference was not only a direct and Si.
64" violation of the privileges of that House, but
the proiciples of the Constitution. (Hear, hear.)
ir
hat the House may do on the Message, it was not
uh
Oo to assume, but it would violate its own rights
,
it did not mark its opinion of this curanielioarY and
11°St dangerous innovation.—(Near, hear.)
b,Mr. H. SUMNER objected to the mode which
-44 beet. .40pLed.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
",clan,'.. that no disrespect to the House had been
cvoleati.iatedt
Mt. w YNN wished to be understood as cot:visits-
, •

ing that the reward bad not originated in that goose
—that it hid not resulted from an Address—(l,ear.
hear.) By the Ministers' mode of proceeding, it ap.
peered as if the House required to be put in mind of
their late. Speaker—(/fear, hear, bear,)—and the pre:
cedent which taught a Speaker to look to the Crown
for his reward was.full of danger—(//ear, hear.)
Mr. VESEY FITZGERALD trusted, for the
honour of the individual concerned, that there would
be no thought of meeting the motion with a negative,
for then the question would assume the character of a
struggle between that House and the Crown, as to
which could best appreciate and reward the merits of
a Soeaker—(Hauer, hear, from she Opposition Benches).
the CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
begged to withdraw. his Motion. as the cunt se sug-
gested did not appear to meet the approbation of the
House ; and added. that on 'Thursday he trusted he
should be prepared with a Motion that would be more
likely to meet their wishes—(Hear, hear).
Th. Motion was accordingly withdrawn.
Sir Fl ANCIS BURDE rr presented a Pethion from several
Hoesch Ides residing in the line of the New Street from Carl-
ton-H se, consplaining of the grievatices they were subject to
in t , r prnperty, under the Act. He moved that the Petition
be reverted to the Committee.
After a few words from Mr. C. Wrnme and Mr. Hosictssom
the House divided—Ayes is—Noes st —Majority against re.
letting the Petition to a Committee is.
An account of the Rents of the Estates of Greenwich Hos-
pital for the last year was presented, and ordered to lie cm the
table and to be printed •
On the m.rii.t, that Mr. George Macpherson Grant should
have leave of absence for six weeks on account of urgent private
busmen., the House divided—Ayes LlS—Noes ii—Majuri..y 14.
The Report of the Holyhead Reed Bill was presented, and
ordered to be printed.
The Report of the Committee on the Alnage Law was brought
up, and leave was given to report to the House the evidence
which bad been taken.

Mr. SHAW p►esented a Petition from the Cork Manufac.
turen and Cork Cutter►, praying that the Lot additional duty on
Cork might be repealed —Read. and ordered to lie oo the table
I.ord /SINNING presented the Fourteen tb Report of the Com.
inibsioners of the Caledonian Canal, which was ordered to lie on
the table, and to be printed.
Sir JOHN NEW POR grist notice. that on Thursday he
would move for leave to bring to a Bill to extend to Ireland the
provisions of the Act for the Relief of Unitarians —Adiouneed.

TO THE INDEPENDEN T LIVERY OE LONDON.
Gen I-sestets,
ENCOURAGED by your reiterated demonstra-
tions of esteem, I cannot hesitate to offer myself as a Can-
didate for the honour to retresod yep is PARLIAMENT, in conse-
quence of the Vacancy that has arisen from the Resignation of
Toe' long-tried, estimable, and excellent Member, Mr. Alderman
Comae.
As Sheriff—as Alderman—and as Mayor—in expensive Of-
fices, and in arduous times—l have learnt your local interests
and your municipal rights t—l have cheerfully made many nevi
aces of fortune—time—anal health, but I have been abundantly
rewarded by that kind approval which has attended rue at every
I step, and wildcat emboldens sae to solicit your further and lode-
pendent support.
Known as I must be known, I am desirous to abs oin from pro-
fessions which you cannot require; and I will only reassure you,
that, if you how place me in the important situation to which I
aspire, I will is that new situation continue to be what I have en;
clamoured to be in the situations which I have hitherto occupied ;
and .that firm bet temperate--unalleed equally with Factions as
with Courts—undismayed alike by Clamotrt or by Power, I will
devote all my energies to the promotion of your particular wel-
-1 fare, and to the restoration of our Country to every blessing which
the best sod wisest of her Bons may meet ardently desire.

•- And 1.., Oeadashos. ?war Annosi stabsost fier7snis-
Manilas Howls, June s, ist?, MATTHEW WOOD.

THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON. .

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1817.
Lugo Gamuts 111. soane4ielisy at the Public ACM.

This being the Anniversary of the Kuso's Birth.
day, the Park and Tower Guns were fired at one
o'clock, as usual. His MA./gyve is now in his 80th
tear..

The Royal Approbation was yesterday given by
Commission to the Election of the new SPZAKBIL

A Message was afterwards brought down to the
House, informing them of the gracious intention of
the Peplos Recant. to confer on the late Spataca,
now Baron Coteau:area, such provision as his long,
faithful, and important services, should seem to
merit. A measure of this kind, it was thought by
several Members, should have been allowed to origi-
natb with the House, as the best judge of the merits
of its own Speaker, and the only proper source of his
remuneration ; and, after a sharp conversation, Minis-
ters found it necessary to concede the point, by with-
drawing the motion for taking the Message Into con-
sideration, and allowing the matter to drop for the
present.

The deferred Message relative to the continuance
of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, was

also last night communicated to both Houses—to the
Peers by Lord SIDMOUTH, and to the Commons by
Lord CASTLERIAGH. In the House of Lords the
Message was immediately taken into consideration,
and a Committee of Secrecy. consisting of the same
Members as the last, with the exception of Lord
Taspoi in plus of the Duke of Baseman, was ap-
pointad to examine the papers transmitted with the
Message. and report its opinion thereon. In the
Commons, the consideration of the Message was post-
poned till to-morrow.

H. Hosnousa, Esq. one of the Welton of the
TreasuryA is to succeed J. BetzErr, Esq. at the
Home Department, the latter Gentleman succeeding
Mr. U. Sutton at Judge Advocate.
The Peerage at Colchester, which bas been so
worthily conferred on the late excellent Spurn of
the House of Commons, was last held by a branch of
the ancient and respectable fatniy of Lucas, as a
firevesup, and became extinct in 1728.—1 t was on
the monument of °mot those Peers, Lucas. Viscount
Colchester, that the eelebtatei inscription, referred
to by ADDIlibiL. in one of his Numbers of the Spaafer.
was recorded, via.—es He was of a family of which
.11 the sons 'were hi tows and all the daughters
girlies; I"

DUTCH MAIL.

Tl.e general meeting of the Bible Association of
the Netherlaods; took place on the 2d instant at A m-
sterdam, and way well attended.

Accounts from the North of France state, that
notwithstanding the falling of the prices of corn in the
Northern Departments, the distrest is still very great
and troops of from twenty to forty persons, armed
with sticks, knives, &c. rove about the country, and
extort provisions and money tiom the farmers.

The Duke of WslusoTONT is soon expected to re-
arm to Csmbray.

A scene of great distress is witnessed in some parts
of Holland—crowds of Germans seeking their way
to Amsterdam, thence to emigrate to America, with-
out friends and without money. !'heir pilgrimage
seems to have been altogether as ill digested as that
of the Manchester missionaries, and many of them
were actually bivouacking in the open fields. The
greater part, ending that they were acting under a
delusion, were induced to return from Wyk—but
they Car only reach home by begging.
The subjoined letter presents the only other intelli-
gence brought by the Mail of this morning :