The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-03-14 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

ITObSE OF LORDS,—Witingssaay,

Earl BATHURST presented in petitions from own-
ers and occupiers of land in several places is Lower Ca-
nada, jirayiog for agricultural relief.—Rend, and laid on
the table.

RAPT s►Tt PLR CRNTIO.
On the motion of the Earl of LivaarooL, the Howe
want into a Committee on the Firs per Cents. Bill.
On the clause enacting that those who shall sot As.
seat on the 16th March shall be considered as having
.1111180114 Woe read,
=OM objected to the wording. The tine was
sad would be almost passed when the Bill shall
beensaplotod. It would therefore be more 'ft is
Met." the.. who r
March," instead'
After a few

oldottioa was
The Hesse Vise.
N Bill mead to

Lord Falt TON
owners and oeeopiers of
in. the *sooty of Devon.
tress. prayiog reli
form.—Ordered to
Mr. CURWtN

and occupiers railt. ...a county Os
colas ag distress.—Ordered
M printed.
Sir M. W. RlPLaraielpsul leave to 110-
toe erecting a bridge .11* jell. '
lion, and making other I.9rue:emits
Newtaide-on-Tyne.
Mr. LAMBTON presented a petition frens the lobs-
hirsute oft)* Borough of Mahon. se the county of York.
praying for I revision of the Criminal Laws.—Ordered
to lie en the table.

LONDON BRIDGE WATER WORKS.
Sir W.CURTIS brought in a Bill to remove the
Water Works from Loudon-bridge, which he moved
should be read a first time.
Mr. BUTFERwokera opposed the BM, as interfer-
ing with private propikfy. •
Sir F. 0111MANRY moved that the Bill should be
read • first time on that day &Is months.
Sir W. CURTIS deft:toiled the Bill, and declared it
was not Intended to the Water Works without
icrea7
indemnifying the connected with them for
say loss which they ad sestets. JR would be retweem
bend that alterations had been mpteMsted to be noose-
sary in the present Londes4tridie ; towing even galled
for a sew bridge. fie wee net friendly to lies Flew. as
he wee oeweitased that a IMO bridge was nee necessary.
It was new thwobjest of the city to eudesvear by other
mem toles& tie 1111 of vita at this bririgto••••
The slay , in amide( 'each experimests. be-
fees Noy Wig a vow bridge, and thereby
lemedetas
_sapient al or feßillel. He wished Up*
medlar liwoi by this teeenont to he Indemnified, bet
Tioseenitl let be allowed Maim* la ehn way a s great
Wr. =1411;00D supported Ilse BIL He was
larearshieda tie moles a a sew b4dipq, aid would

Zs now Wore Ilse honsi.

did Rot consider the Bill open to the objections which
had been stated, and hoped it would be allowed to be
read a first time.
Sir F. OMMANNEY explainal.
Mr. H. SUMNER wished to reserve what he had to
say till Ste basin to a second reading, and the house
had i.teneef-sequainted with the subject. He
t►erelbte , as it was desirable, that the Honourable
Baronet would be allowed to withdraw his Amendment.
He was opposed to tba in Represent form, but wish-
ed it to go through the present stage.
After a for farther remarks from Sir W. D. Crespig-
ny, Mr. N. Calvert, and the Speaker, the Amendment
was withdrawn, and the Bill read a first, and ordered to
Oread a second time.
&ISTRINIS IN CANADA.

Mr. MARRYATT presented a petition from the As-
sembly sad Inhabitants of Lower Canada, complaining
of distress, arising from the legislative measures of the
Mother Country, which had injured their trade, by com-
pelling them to purchase those articles which were ne-
cessary for their use in England, where they were not al-
lowed to send the pain which might enable them to
purchase. Orest distress was the consequence. They
considered themselves as suffering under a double mono-
poly from the enactments complained of, and prayed re-
lief by the removal of the restrictions opposed to the ins-
portation of grain from Canada into this country.
Mr. ELLICE spoke to the distress of the petitioners.
From the measures which had been resorted to, the West
ladies was now the only market left open to them, and
this from certain rumours which were afloat, it should
seem was likely soon to be taken from them. This, he
could say, the evils complained of were such, that it was
impossible for things to go on in this way without pro-
during consequesees in the first instance disastrous to
the colony, but in the cod most injurious to the naviga-
tion and best interests of the Mother Country.
Mr. BEN ETT (of Wilts) opposed the prayer of the pe-
tition, tso the ground that it was as necessary to protect
the English agricniturist, as it could be to relieve the
Canadian corn grower. When corn might be imported
into this country. large quantities of-American grain
had been sent to Canada, and thence smuggled into
England as being of Canadian growth ; so that the re-
straint row complained of the petitioners bad in fact
brought upon themselves. He wished to give the colo-
nies ell equitable protection, but could not consent to
afford that species of relief which the petitioners now de-
sired. _ _ _

?dr. WILMOT was fully convinced of the reality of
the distress complained of by the petitioners, but at the
same time he must remairk,tbat there was nothing in the
measures lately adoptabd that could produce that distress.
lie thought it desirable that this petition should be
referred to the special notice of the Agricultural Com-
mittee. _ .

31r. RICARDO thought the petitioners entitled to
some relief. They complained of the regulations made
by this country with respect to the timber trade. Tlies•
he thought justifiable, as we had a right to the cheapest
market, but this lead him to their complaint, that they
were obliged to purchase English manufactures. This
pressed hard on them, and while this was the case, he
thought their corn ought to be admitted (he did not
mean at the present moment, but ordinarily) into this
country.
Sir I. COFFIN (bought it would have been a good
thing for this country, if Canada had been sank to the
bottom of the sea. It costs this country 500,000 f. per
annum, and did not make a Return to it of 500 pence.
The Canadians, by the timber trade, bad been in the
habit of cheating this country out of 300,000!. yearly.—

died *a Me Seeffidd!"

?tiWow. debt hr suffering great qaantities of
Tiesas tabs rent down the river St. Lawrenos,
kb haillmei theta beonght to England as Canadian
timber: Tab after leder Math a part, they now threw
*
ei*. themselves mi float - for eapport. The sooner the
Govee`wor wise "„ and the sooner the Assembly
and Colon Wows - ' slii,,p, he should be sorry to
say—ow elsib ter.
Mr. W. lefieved that Canada occasioned a
great wipes* fbla country, bat lie also believed that
this would job arilpilt diminished by putting the Cana-
dians in a fliettaff bresper, which would do away with the
necessity f•t Ookr so many thonssnds of men in that
Colony, to glta4,42:nst any attempts en the part of
America tit say wet.
The Petition alit ordered to be printed.
mintetraon -

,s from certain
Police Bill. He
assertion, which

. occasion—
treated his fel-

the Petition

•an Individual
been arrested,
, and sentenced
remission of the
Petition con-
. call the atten-
agreeable contrast
Nina'. The Peti-
'hided, said, " he
` Castle, and
the laws of

of the Ma.

giettake -. Besides this
Aligarh, bilg one to present from anelidale, in the
county ofd tat
er, en the same subject, signed by
2.100 Is i and be hoped the prayers of the
Petiti Meld be attended to.
Mr. P.
esiers±o
' N wished to offer a few remarks which
his-absence former ()cessions had precluded him fro
mofferin,g . To his apprehension the charges
against the Magistrates and jailer by
bAXIIII lon Hon. Ali. (Wood) had been completely c
established, • cone of great hardship sod of flagrant
truity bad %pee dimly subrtantiated. This opinion was
feuded ea Po issednet of the jailer towards the prl-
- ell 411r11 there was OM case of an unfortunate
man bed been loaded with irons, and whose
arms being . ad with an equal weight made it shoat
impossible fife the Individual to stand upright. The
frommissimales had ordered them to be pat en the nue
again in %bile . and the manner on which they
inflected dig in a short time peeved that if they
were kept me the Feiner" must be sebjeeted to some-
thing very like torture.' The case of the female named
wee, whit Mr of stun Sere flagrant emit/. Confined
• ieli airy cell, with°. fire, when frost and snow were
ell the gromildaroes the hardships she sustained,, that
netrlmesOldied her srioktio eaters had provided fur her
infant. Wit prevision however was made for the wen-
Hon, and-fr two imys dee snothernad child had nothing
so es
bodkin& sad nothing to drink hut water from
a beam. A person of the name of Treadle, when in
the sig. eidestb, had out met with thatimeornmoda-
.
• . . bean left in
aeo . CIMINO reg. w ; ere he ARO
turbed by oth sad where others ad 'booked
and annoyed by him. The conclusion td which he
cause to on these circumstances was, that it was the
duty of Government to order the jailer to be prosecuted.
The facts stated by the Worthy Alderman (Mr. Alder-
man Wood) be held to be completely established, end
the liouse were in his opinion much obliged to the Wor-
thy Alderman for his perseverance. He proceeded to
account for the favourable report which be (Mr. Huston)
had Toads on the state of the Heliester Jail in Ibid. The
mal-practices which had prevailed had been introduced
since that period. This he had a right to assume from
the language of the petition, which stated them to have
crept in of late. With respect to Mr. Hunt, it was clear
the Judges meant to subject him to thirty months con-
finement in a wholesome, well-situated, and well-dis-
ciplined gaol. It was plain that Mr. Hunt had suffered
through the first ?.0 months of his confinement from the
misconduct of the gaoler. It was proved that out of the
last 600 prisoners confined there, 400 bad been ill is
various ways. But a still stronger proof of the an.
wholesomeness of the situation, was furnished by the
proceedings of the Coroner's Inquest on the body of a,
prisoner who was declared by the Jury to have died by
the visitation of God, but whose death was accelerated
by cold, and by injuries sustained from damp, through
the frequent inundations of the prison, which had been
flooded six times in eight weeks. 51r. Hunt, it was clear,
was not in that situation in which the Judges had meant
to place him. If, then, he remained in prison till the
time expired for which he had been sentenced, he would
suffer snore than it had been intended that he should
suffer, and would in fact have to complain of gross in-
justice. Ile bopesl the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
(Mr. Peel), and the other Members of the Goverment.
would take these circumstances into their consideration.
He did not plead fur Mr. Hunt from private friendship.
nor from admiration of that individual's public conduct i
but whether Mr. Hunt was a good man or a bad mu,
he was entitled to justice, and justice required that his
sentence, and that alone, should be inflicted, and not
• punishment which had never been contemplated by his
Judges.
Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE said, the degree of
punishment which had been indicted might form aped
ground for the competent authorities to remit apart of
Mr. Hunt's sentence. He might go along with the
Hon. Gentleman when the subject came before the Hoase
in this shape ; but lie contended the state in which the
Hon. Gentleman had formerly found the gaol when be
visited it, went a great way towards justifying the re-
presentations which had been made on the subject be.
fore the late Commission commenced its labours. He
slid not see how the local situation of the prison could
be affected by what had lately transpired, but he was
glad the Honourable Gentleman drew a distinction be-
tween what the prison was when he visited it, and what
it was in 1621.
Mr. DICKENSON vindicated the conduct of the Ma-
gistrates, who the moment they believed there were real
grounds for complaint, had afforded Mr. Hunt every fa-
cility for substantiating the charges. It was his belief
that the Magistrates of Somerset were incepts', of act-
ing with that savageness and want of feeling which had
beenimputed to them.
Mr. PEEL, in consequence of the direct appeal which
had been made to him, was unwilling to remain silent on
the one hand, while on the other he was equally re
luctant to go into the details connected with that subject
at this moment. In the first place, this discussion was
either premature. A motion had been made for print-
ing the evidence given before the Commission, which
motion had been acceded to. Till the evidence had been

L It would therefore be more proper to in- situsaniam rows 'ILL.
who shaU not hive dieleated by. the 16th of Mr. ABBILCROMBY.prosented a Petition ft
kited of those " who shall net rimiest." inhabitant* of Edirshargb against the Polk'
'lnstils him the Earl of Livaaroei, the took tida onortealtref disclaiming an assert
5 net pressed. . he bed been tombs on a former
1 then mauled. the viliertlito ressirod. Aiii _that high! 'Mud 4tad tree
red to be reed a third time mr-morrovorAugs. low r 1.--,
-.4114..- . V Mkt aMr Mr, W. MINIMS, t
ROME Of COMMONS. srro ordered on die table.
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MIL 111714 T.
AORICITLIVRAL 1N1T1114411.
Sir it. WOW presented& Petition from as
',INOTON presented a petition from the of the toad* of Lancaster, who bad bee
weepier, of land lathe tows of Cellonsptos, tried, and 'esirricted with Mr. Haat, and
rof Devon, complaining of agricultural din- to a year's ithotiseausent, praying for a remit
R relief, and calling for Parliamentary Re- mended,* of lb b. Hens., sentence. The pi
red to be printed. taioed one h to which he would ea
KEN presented a petition from the owners Lion of the .as it presented at agreeal
sof land of WWI. in the county of Lia- to ther, that lately come before them.
iniog of agrienharal dhtrees.—Ordered to tioner in the ph to which he alluded
had been ed to a prison in Lincoln
gumeiraiiipid hays to bring in a bill bad
.bOets treated with that huanauity which
'bridge .11allt jell, sad house bf Cam., the meetly wand, to the lasting honours
thing other ineproremeats in thktown of
Orioutees sot like awes of the Prison." 1
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