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Hem or eoimmott. • kriend had truly stated, a telon's cell, bat an apart- wawa as he professed, or, otherwise, how strong
MONDAY, JULY 1. ment appropriated for the confinement of persons a colour it would' impart to his assertions the ell--
A Commission went up to the Lords, add the found guilty of misdemeanours, and as that was cumstance that such principles were *vowed and
the species of offence of which Mr. Finnerty bad been upheld in publications under the auspices- of the
SPEAKER, on his return, announced their Lordships'
assent to the Militia Interchange Bill, the Deer convicted, he was in his proper place. The room was Government. What was to be expected front the-
Stealing Bill, and others. by no means uncomfortable, it was twenty feet long, temper or the principles of the man but the most
Colonel STANLEY rose to correct a mistake
sixteen high, and looked out into a yard exclusively determined retaliation ? They eertainiy should-
which had been made in a report of his speech, with appropriated to the use of whosoever might become not be the persons to slight the apprehensions of*
respect to the number of persons who received pa-
its occupant. Mr. Finnerty could not have the be- such retaliation, who maintained that he kept in his
rish relief in Manchester ; he had been represented
nefit of the doubt, expressed by a Noble Member, -pay a band of assassins, and that one of those per.
to have stated, that they amounted to twenty-five as to his misconduct, for against his allegation there sons was actually in England some time since on a
thousand, but he had included twenty-nine town. happened to be the testimony of two persons in commission of murder. Having seen this most.
ships, with Manchester, as giving that number. support of the Turnkey's assertion. With respect damnable and dangerous doctrine justified in papers
to the Jailer's house, it was, so long as he held thel said to be connected with the Government, and hay-
Mr. GILES made a few observations on the Pe•
tition of the Straw Manufacturers, which had for
office, his castle, like the house of any other indi- ing heard of the manly disavowal of the Marquis
vidual, and he would be glad to know if it were of Wellesley on the subject, he wished, before the
its object to obtain protection against the competi-
tion of the French prisoners. reasonable to require him, or what means could be House rose, to give the Right Honourable Gentle-
The amendment of the Lords on the Spirit Draw. resorted to in order to compel him, to give it up. man opposite an opportunity of in like manner dis.
back Suspension Bill being taken into consideration, Mr. BROUGHAM contended that the sub- claimifig any wish to promote such abominable
on the observation of the bpeakerahat it was merely stance of the Petition would afford an ample deft. opinions. The extraordinary man, against whose
the correction of a clerical error, the clauses were nition of solitary confinement. existence the peoplepn whose writings he had ani-
agteed to, Mr. STEVEN observed, that the prayer of the
i madverted, amid the shafts of their eloquence, was
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the
Jailer's Petition was for inquiry, and that• Gentle. i an instrument in the hand of Providence by which
second reading of the Vexatious Arrests Bill, which
men should wait for evidence as to the counter as. l some mighty change in human affairs was proba.
was read a second time accordingly, went through sertions now before the House, ere they should bly to be brought ahem, and it would be a vale
a Committee of the whole House, Report received, enter into a discussion with respect to them ; the I attempt for a short-sighted man to think of chang.
and read a third time. time moreover chosen for it, at so late a period of , ing or obstructing the arrangements of the Almighty
Col. Pitemen gave notice, that he would take an I the Session, might form a reasonable ground of ob. 1 Disposer of events.
early opportunity in-the course of next Session of jection. i The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER:
!hinging forward his father's claims in the shape of Mr. WHITBREAD observed, that if the Noble
professed himself obliged to the Hon. Centime*
a Bill. Gentleman would refer to the Petition, he might for the opportunity he had afforded him to disclaim,
Lord COCHRANE gave notice that he would move, 1 find the reason why it was not presented at an earlier .
en the part of the Government, every thing like a -
to-morrow, that the House should address his period of the Session. I wish to countenance the abominabledoctrine inques-
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying that he MILITARY PUNISHMENT. .
tion, though he was sorry to observe that such a dis-
avowal. could be thought in the smallest degree ne-
would be graciously pleased to order the rtcal of the Mr. MANNERS SUTTON rose to state, that '
cessary. He was entirely of opinion that suck
Judge of the Admiralty Court in Malta.
i . in consequence of a notice given on a former even-
means could have no tendency to advance the
MR. FINNERTY. ing by an Hon. Baronet, whom he did not then see
. wishes of such as were base -and impolitic enough
Mr. CHAPLIN presented a Petition from the inluis place, withrespect to the case of a person of
Keeper of Lincoln Jail, stating, that the Petition the name of John Evans, who had been punished .to adopt them, and any temporary advantages that
presented on behalf of Mr. Finnerty, contained ain the Isle of Wight; he had inquired into the mightbe gained by the establishment of such a sys-
' gross and scandalous misrepresentation with respect affair, and woule, detail the circumstances to the tern would, be vastly out-balanced by the evil con-
to. the treatment he received in his confinement. House. The name of the individual was not Evans,
sequences hat must inevitably flow from it. He
That so far from that having been peculiarly severe but Every. This person had been brought -from
would admit, in its fullest extent, the doctrine_
he had been allowed an extraordinary degree of in- Tilbury, and delivered over to the Royals in the which the Hon. Gentleman had endeavoured to in-
- diligence, such as the use of his (the jailer's) yard Isle of Wight. He was considered, from the first, as culcate with respect to the necessary disposal of all
and garden, consisting of three acres of ground, a suspicious character, and as it appetred not without human affairs, at the nod of the Almighty Ruler
till his own conduct made it necessary to withdraw reason, for remaining with his regiment only till he of the universe, but he should be very sorry
them. He had not scrupled to offer money to him had received the whole of his bounty, he attempted that any inference should be drawn thence which
the petitioner, to induce him to permit him the to desert in company with some other individuals, would induce us to quietly bow beneath
means of illicit intercourse with a female convict, he was taken ,however by a press-gang, and while the sceptre of him who might be the instrunftnt
and when he found diet attempt unavailing, be had the sentence of a court-martial which sat in judg- appointed to fulfil his behest. If i: was pursuant
endeavoured to effect his purpose by bribing one of ment on his offence was yet unknown, he attempted to the decrees of Providence that Buonaparte de.
the turnkeys. to cut his throat; when put on his defence he threw spoiled mankind of their rights, we might be the
Mr. WHITBREAD was happy that the Petition himself on the mei%y of the Court. He (Mr. S ut- chosen instruments by which his ravages were in be
had been presented, because-the charge with respect ton) did not wish now to argue the question of the checked, and as long as such a surmise could be
to his conduct was therein specified. That conduct 1 expediency of corporal punishment, but if it were
'cherished, it was our duty to act accordingly.
was undoubtedly improper, but hot to such a de- to subsist he could not cone eve a fitter case for it This person might be sent forth as the scourge of
gree as would warrant the excessive rigour with than that of the person he had been speaking of, the human race, but we might take a more consol.
which the delinquent had, been treated. He had and he had theii::,la it right
.to explain it that it ing view of the intentions of Providence. We
had a letter from Mr. Finnerty, stating that he had I might not hang en the public mind for so long a might suppose hint ordained to call forth splendid
made no; offer of money to the turnkey, but on the 1 period as from this time till the next Session of . exertions of unman virtue, and assuredly there was
contrary, that that person had offered to assist him ' Parliament. no lack of spited and noble deeds perlormed.by
provided he would pay him for so doing, and on his 1 Mr. WHITBREAD said, that the case, whether ' our countrymen .to impart probability to the hypo.
refusal he had framed a falsehood in order to antici- , of peculiar hardship or otherwise, did riot iuterfere thesis, or it might be that both conjectures were
correct, the French Despot might be
pate the complaint he was apprehensive would be with the general principal,whether corporal punish- partially
lodged against himself. There was nothing in the I ment in the army were or were not necessary. He designed .to inflict ills on suffering humanity to
petition of the jailer which went to prove that Mr. had lately received information which, in his opi. ; a certain extent, and we might be the favoured
Finnerty was not improperly confined, and in the 1 nion, was quite conclusive on that head : it was : nation before whose efforts his fortune was to retro-
circumstances of that improper confinement there I contained in a letter from a general officer coin- I grade. If we were to consider his extraordinary
was nothing which went to prevent a recurrence of,l manding in a place where recruits were received ; achievements on one side, as indicating the probe-
that part of his conduct which formed the groundlof and where, it would seem, that if at all, corporal 1 bility of an interference from above, would not die na-
complaint which had been urged against hint. He punishment would be peculiarly requisite ; but onof our achievements warrant on the other as lively
might still bribe the turnkey, or the turnkey might the contrary this officer stated, that if there were I a faith ? If his progress to universal dominion on
require a bribe, as the case might he, so that there any cat-o'-nine-tails in that quarter, they must be land was considered as a proof in his favour, was
was severity without 'any reasonable motive. He lying rotting, and if there were triangles they were our proms: towards the empire of the seas to be
could not think there was any reason why Mr. Fin- never produced on the parade. accounted as nothing in opposite scale ? or was it
netty'i punishment should exceed in rigour that of Mr. Bitinonsm said a few words on the intentions not rather the counterpoise from which mankind
as non confined for a similar offence. of Sir Francis Burdett in giving the notice to which might reasonably hope for safety from the horrors
Mr. CHAPLIN stated that there 'were altera- Mr. Sutton had alluded, ,of a despotism embrazing the world ? He had not
tions making in the jail which would remove the Sir C!taitms BURRrLL argued for the necessity expressed himself thus because he conceived that it
stench complained of, as one.of 'the grievances un- . of corporal punishments in the army. was the wish of the Right Hon. Gentleman to palsy
der which ;ylr. Tumerty suffered.; and as to the DOCTRINE OF ASSASSINATION, our exertions against the enemy, but because there
other circumstances of his confinement they were Mr. WHITBREAD would take the opportu- was a part of his speech which might have given
by no means so bad as the Hon. Gentleman seemed nity, while the House was unoccupied with other
to imagine, as would sufficiently appear from a let- business, to observe on the doctrines with respect
birth to erroneous opinions on that head among
others. He would conclude with renewing his
ter he could produce from Mr. Drakard, another to the legality of assassinating our enemies, or
porson confined in Lincoln, in which it was stated causing them .to be assassinated, which he was son y assurance to that Hon. Gentleman,. that it was
with much pleasure he siezed the opportunity o:
that nothing like severity, but on the conti-arrevery to think were gaining ground, and which were suf. disavowing any assent to the abominable principles
indulgence and humanity was to be found in the ficiently mischievous, if' it were only that the vets-
mode in which his sentence was carried into me- geance aimed at the guilty objects of our aversion, which he had so justly reprobated.
Mr. WHITBREAD was happy that the object
cation. but whose misdeeds we were not to assume the
Mr. BROUGHAM 'said there was no necessary office of pUnishing, would not unfrequently fall on' of his speech had been so happily obtained in the
connexion between the respective cases of Messrs. innocent and meritorious persons. It would per- 1 manly exposition of his sentiments, which had pro-
DiAkard and Finnerty, unless that the rigours to haps be in vain
-to tell the persons whO preached up , ceeded from the Right Hon. Gentleman. As he
whit t the latter was subjected appeared more se- assassination as a duty that the system on which . had
j_ disclaimed any intention , f imputing to him A
•- • • • - - whe deeds we were i ?‘"5 -
ign of slackening our efforts against the enemy,
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those persons had acted whose
taught to. regard with admiration in our boyish
days,, had given place to the milder principles of
the Christian religion ; but he would call upon them
to say in how many instances where assassination
had been perpetrated with a view to the benefit of
mankind, the hoped-for consequences had en-
sued. Had the fall of Cesar contributed in the
least to procure the restoration of liberty to
Rome, and he would ask them, whether the steel
of the assassin had not been more frequently di-
rected by mistaken zeal against the deserving or
the innocent than against the guilty. He would
notice the cases of Henry IV. ot France, orLouis
XV. of the Prince of Orange, the King of Swe-
den, the Emperors Peter and Paul, and the two
attempts which had been made against the life of.,
our own Soiereign. Ere we preached to the
Spaniard that the assassination of Buonaparte—of
the invader and despoiler of his country—was
a duty he owed that country, we should con-
sider what might be the feelings of a Zealander
with respect to the late atrocious attack upon his
country, whether they might not be at least as fairly
and as easily set in action by doctrines such as those
of the Spaniards. Could it fail to be perceived to
what danger the reception of such doctrines might
have subjected the Marquis Wellesley in the course
of the operations which he had planned in India;
how frequently they might have rased against his
life the hand of a subject of the Nabob ot Oude, or
the Nabob of the Carnatic, or of Tippoo Sultaun,
or of any other Sovereign Prince who had been de-
spoiled of his territories ?• There were French pub-
lications in this country, meant for circulation on the
Continent, in which this doctrine was sedulously
circulated ; but their conductors would do well to
recollect with what pertinacity, whether real or
affected, Buonaparte had attributed the plan of the
infernal machine and other attempts against hi;
lite to the machinations of the government of this
country. They should recollect how much it
would tend to colitfirga his stispiciop if he really

it Wras unnecessary for him to enter in
Lion of himself trots the charge of being a fatalist.
Before he sat down *tie would take the pporten!ty
of pointing out a signal instance of how futLe the
petty attempts of men were to frustrate the designs o:
Providence. When the Emperor Paul fell beneath
the hand of the assassin, the tidings of his death
were received in this country with exultation, as
tending to dissolve the amity then subsisting
between Russia and France • but what wore the
consequences of the alliance ;hat ensued ? Fiance
was aggrandized at the expense of Russia, and
Bunnaparte now proclaims her ruler, and the succes,
sor of Paul, his firmest friend and ally.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
A Messenger from the House of Peers requested
a conference with the Commons, in the Painted
Chamber, on the subject of the English Insolvency
Bill. The House complied with the request, anl
a Committee was appointed to manage the same.
Mr. Secretary- RYDER, returning to the House
from the conference, reported that their Lordship'
could not agree with that clause of the Bill which
extended the law of Insolvency to the Isle of Man.
Mr. HORNER, by the regulation of that clauses
-so founded on reasonable law, seemed to insinuate
that their Lordships were not versant in the particu-
lar jurisprudence of the Isle of Man. He felt sur-
prised to heat that objected to by a branch of the L-
egislature, which required to understand every local
law throughout the dependencies of the kingdoms.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, that a clause of that importance revised
time for serious considerittion.
'The House then dropped insisting on the clause
being sustained, and intimated the some by Mr.
,lionsge.-,—Adjourned.
Mr. G. VANSITTART, M. P. left town on Sattli
day last, for Bishatn sNslebey, near Marlow) L'
-Buckinghamshire.
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