Star.
London, England, 1820-07-12 00:00:00

speaking to him co the subject, me net- with the reploalbat
he was ready to be accountable for bisection; that he find
calved tboeducalos of a Gentleman, and so forth. Ile
/bran) certainly haithen said,, that he did not proposeti:
k to the issue of " trial by hattk".(2ffsai;gh).—The Gent
then told him, that 61 future, care would be taken that alllk
odd he ad cause for comolaint, 44 For (said be) we vnll lay
down our pens —we will lay down our pens, and nothing thati
you may say shall be reported." This day, however, in the Tee.
per alluded to, he was made to say what could tall from no
man but the inmate of an asylum for lunitics. Ile felt cwU4
that this had been done on purpose, and would therefore subadt
a motion to the House, " That the Printer and Publish,
that Paper should be called to the Bar."
The Clerk then read the following paragraph from the Paper
complained of : •
" Mr. Martin, of Galaxy, compared the Opposition Gentle.
men to a big-bellied hackney-coachman, whom he once met in
Perla, who spoke in the most disrespectful terms of the King of
France, and said he himself would make a better King if put in',
his place :"
He then moved, " That John J. Robeson and E. P. Glassing-
ton, the Printer and Publisher, should be ordered to attend the
House on Friday."—The motion was agreed to.
PETITION OF JOHN MAACK 6.
Mr. BENNF.TT presented a Petition from John Drake,
complaining of certain hardships imposed upon him by the Go-
vernor of New South Wales, and praying for relief. The Peti-
tioner had been the Captain of a vessel employed in taking nut
convicts to. New South Wales. Upon a late occasion, while
taking out a number of convicts from Cork, he was obliged to
ire upon them in his own defence, in consequence of their haver
ing mutinied, and threatened to seize the ship. Twelve of the
convicts were killed, and thirteen wounded. Upon his arrival at
New South Wales, Governor Macquarrie, at the suggestion of
his Secretary, had hint apprehended, and sent home to account
for his conduct. Three of the convicts were sent to England at
the same time, to appear as witnesses against him upon his trial.
The Judges, however, had seen no ground of charge against
him; and the prosecution consequently failed. It would be suf-
ficient, to account for the character of the witnesses, to say, that
one of them bad since been hanged, and the two others trans.
ported. The Petitioner did not complain of the Government at
home, but he complained bitterly of Governor Macquarrie, who'
had treated him with the greatest severity, and prevented his
getting the certificate which would entitle him to the allowance
usually granted topersons in his capacity. This conduct on the
part of the Governor had rendered the present application ne-
cessary, and the Petitioner trusted that the House would eatend
tfi him such relief as to their judgment should seem meet.
Mr. WYNN thought that the Petition could mein received,
as it contained an allegation, stating the claims of the Petitioner

to pecuniary remuneration.
Mr. GOULBURN said, that it was perfectly true that the
Petitioner had commanded a convict ship. In the course of the
vflyage, circumstances occurred that had caused the guards to
fire on the convicts, and that not merely once, but on two or
three occasions. In consequence of this, by the time the ship
had concluded her voyage, there had been twelve convicts killed,
and thirteen wounded, besides two sailors. The Governor then,
very properly, caused an inquiry to be set on foot, and the deci-
sion finally come to was not founded, as the Petitioner sup-
posed, on the evidence of convicts, but on the evidence of con-
victs and sailors. A fairer course could not have been taken;
and the Honourable Gentleman, placed in such a situation him-
self, could not have come to any other decision than that which
had been taken. It was complained, that the Petitioner had not
received a sum oc money which was usually given to those who
landed their convicts in good order. Did the Honourable Gen-
tleman think, that because the Captain was acqtfitted of murder,
that it followed, as a matter of course, that be must have landed
those entrusted to his care in good order? He might be quite
innocent of the murder, and yet not entitled to the reward. It
might, for instance, appear that the disorders which had occurred
had in the first instance been created by his own improper con-
duct, by denying the prisoners the customary recreations, or
withholding the usual allowances.
Mr. BEN NEIT reminded the House, that the Judge had
thought it unnecessary to go into the &fence, conceiving that
, there was not a tittle of evidence against him.
The SPEAKER said, that the Petition could not be objected
to, as informal, if it was the opinion of the House that the usual
allowance had been withheld from the Petitioner in consequence I
of baying been refused the necessary certificate. Au allegation
of this nature'would form a ground of charge. of which it was '
competent to the Petitioner to complain.
Lord CASTLEREAGH had no objection that the most fa-
vourable construction should be put upon the Petition:
Mr. WY NN was of opinion, that the subject ought rather to
be referred to a Court of Law than to Parliament. He was de-
cidedly opposed to charges being brought against the Governors
of Colonies, unless they could be satisfactorily proved, which did
not appear to be the case in the present instance.
Lord CASTLEREAGH though disposed to put the most fa-
vourable construction on the Petition, yet concurred entirely
with the Honourable Member who spoke last, as to the impro-
prietiof making allegations against persons holding responsible
situations, unless they could be duly authenticated.
After a few words from Mr. Liaantm, the Petition was read,
and ordered tp lie on the table.

BREACU OF PRIVILEGE.
Dr. PHILLIMORE presented a Petition from Richard
Armstrong Jarvis, expressing his contrition for having Incau-
tiously disobeyed the order of the Home, when ordered to at-
tend as a witness, and praying that the indulgence of the House
might be extended to•hinL
Mr. BANKES did not rise to oppose the prayer of the Peti-
tion; but thought that a longer confinement ought to be awarded
to persons offending In such cases.
Dlr. W YNN instanced a case where a paean under similar
circumstances had been confined six weeks.
On the motiun of Dr. PUILLIOIOII4 Richaid Armstrong Jarvis
was ordered to be brought to the Bar of the House to-morrow,
in order to be discharged.
TUE QUEEN'S COUNSEL.

Mr. BROUGHAM said, that there were two Stand-
ing Orders of the House, which prohibited the attend-
ance of its Members as Counsel in the House of Lords.
One of them prohibited the attendance of Members
at the Bar of the House of Lords on Appeals and
Writs of Error ; the second referred to Bills in pro-
gress through the Upper House. Ever since 1710,
the Standing Order, as faisas respected law proceed-
ings, had been disregarded, as Members of the House
were constantly in the habit of attending on suchbu-'
siness at the Bar of the other House. With respect
to Bills in progress in the other House, the practice
had been different ; the Standing Order of the House
had been attended to. It was manifestly a great con-
venience to the Members of that House, that they
should not be liable to be called upon to attend on
all Bills, as they might be if they attended on any
Bill, as, by the etiquette so essential to the mainte-
nance of justice, no man could refuse a brief in the
Court in which he practised, and the Order was fur-
ther useful as excluding one mode of influencing the
opinion of Members as to Private Bills, the door
being, in the opinion of many, quite wide enough
open to that kind of influence. The proposition he
had now to make was in respect to the case of a Bill
now pending in the Lords. He should propose that
an exception should be made from the Standing Or-
der with respect to this Bill, in behalf of the Queen's
two Law Officers. This application was rendered
necessary by the situation in which her Majesty was
placed by the introduction of the Bill into the other
House, where she had no Law Officers, and no Of-
ficer of her Household, the effect-of the ,Bill at the
same time being to prevent her from ever having an
Household. The other high party concerned had in
that House his Ministers and the Officers of his
Household, while her Majesty had no one in the si-
tuation of Nominee in an Election Committee, partly
Advocate, partly Judge. He should move, there-
fore, that the Queen's Attorney and Solicitor-Gene.
rah be allowed to attend the House of Lords on the
Bill now pending respecting her Majesty. He had
to state, that if that happened, which he could not