The Statesman.
London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

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sitat are iat much inconvenience was likely to arise ducted in the Court of Cheater by the former, with-
um that adjournment with respect to the hearing out any previous interferencer by the hate. But
et 'lly appeal causes. this wds not always the case.. For insialice, the re-
-"nr DERBY -The ndjournmunt must, if it cent criminal prosecutions for riot lu that part of the

country were directed by his Majesty's Attorney- 'mined a confident expectation , _ 4. the situ
General, who assisted at the consultations of his Gentleman opposite would not object to their adop- !weary :
Majesty's Government, the ob Bison Marulezject of which was to flog,. lie would, therefore, move as an amendment o Commandant at Besancon, write*
ascertain the best mode of quelling the disturbances. to the Right Holt. Gentleman's motion, to leave OM as follows: ,
Should such occurrences again take place under the all the words after the word 41 That," for the pare << On the 31st of January the,enemy. made an ata
existing circumstances, persons would he tried by an I pose of inserting the following : tack from the side of Briguelle : ia...the'Wet, ag
individual who had advised and directed their prose- 1 "An humble Address be presented to his Royal Highness caused to play iriverthe town twollefteries of howit,
cution ! It WAS ,undoubtedly true that these two the Prince Regent, to express to his Royal Highness the tens and cannon, and attempted an attack-spow•tha
offices lied at former periods been held by the same grateful acknewiedgments of this Houle for the commnoication fort of Chandone; he was every wl•ere repulsed,
amidst the cry of Pive l'Empereur.t He has lost `
and which his Royal Highest. has beeo pleased to send to this
individual. Lord Kenyon, Lord Aleauley,
Home, in the name and on the •b m
ebelf ef his Majesty. To as than 1200 men. At whatever part the ei#roy
other persons, whose memory be highly respected,
I sure his Royal Highness, that eotwithstandier the recent Ad-
had so held them. Bat so inconsistent did the ap-
him, with pure notions of the 's" season when s• many mum or presents himself, rabies iisa condition to well re..
pointment seem to t i urnment of this House' at a
the gravest importance pressed themselves upon its maidens. ceive him. ' .
All the Cossacks` who had spread themselves as far
independence of the judicial character, which ought tion, and for ii,period of very unusual length, this House will
not to be exposed to be affected either by the hope .
cheerfully comply with the pleasure of his Royal Highness, as Orleans are hastily falling 'back. %Every where
of Royal favour, or by the fear of R I Royal re- fortified by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and adjourn itself the pestleids pursue, and take and kill a Brent num.
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setionent, that no example, even had Sir Matthew .to the Iht day of March instant, trusting that the unexampled her of them. At Nogent, .those Tartars, who have
of public affairs upon the Contioent of Europe will afford
Hale, or Lord Somers himself afforded it, could in i state I nothing human, burnt some barns, to which Viet '
, a justification of their conduct to their Constituents and to pos.
his opinion sanction such a measure. It was a great , set fire with their •hands. The- peasants NM
terityoprevent its heir drawn. into pernicious precedent, and brining
come out to
...extinguish it, the Csossecks chastest.
...•
misfortune that the instances to which he had just
preclude the possibility of its being attributed to Inattention to . •
them, and rekindled the fire. Ina *tillage on stile
alluded, in which the two offices were held by one
the great concerns which tall for the increased vigilance and as-
individual
• ilr "en ne, the Cossacks were amusing themselves in
d been *allowed to pass without corn- •
.9 ha corn-bully of the House of Commons, or any dereliction of its sacred i
meet. Impossible is It was to justify the appoint-
.1 burning a fine farmshouse, the totain was soonfjed
nsent, it seas essential that such silence should not , and the whibitants threw some 30 of them West) $
. .The ' I It ' ;.''
duties."
eCI ANCELO of the in
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again be observed, and particalarly in that House,moved dames.
reply, defended the propriesk of Ms having
one of the peculiar duties 'of which was vigilantly to ! for the postponement of the Committees before he i The Emperor Alexander slept on the 17th at
" Bray; he had fixed his head-quarters for thefollow.
watch over the impartial administration of justice.— • • .
made the communication to the House from the
Fontainbleauf
.The Emperor of Austria
What would be said by the country if one of the,
Prince Regent; but the Right Honourable Gentle- lag day /it
twelve'Judges was to accept an office inconsistent I did not quit Troyes." . .
1 man spoke in a tone of voice which was at times so. .
The Emperor Naptiletin bad on the 20th, ' the
and the proper discharge of his judicial functions, veil inaudible that we were utterly unable to fol- ! in a
and from Which he was removable .at his Majesty's ' evening, his head.seuerters at Nogent.
kir him, Although he seemed to be arguing that the
pleasure? What then could be said of an inclijianal; , , .
ellmmuuseasion must, of neeessit be the last step, I All the enemy's army is marclang upon Troyes.
who held the two incompatible offices of*Judgisind
• air respeCt to the Crtikwel wont of mute induce' Gen. Girard has arrived with his corps, and the
division of cavalry of General Roussel, at Sens ; he
Attorney-General, the emoluments of the latter office
i the house, without entering into any further busi-
: had his advanced guard at Villaneuve l'Archiveque. •
being four or five times greater than those of the
, The advanced-guard of the Duke of Reggio is half-
ness, to adjourn immediately on the intimation of
, former, and from which latter office he was removablel the Royal pleasure. He 'Proceeded to say, that he
at the pleasure of the Crown ? Could such a person ; s • the Amendment ,
;at Mesgrigny ; those of the Duke of Tarentum are
could by no - means consent to the Amendment pro.. way between Nogent and Troyes, at Chartres and
be considered an independent Judge ? The House ;
posed by the Hon. Gentleman.. The House would
, at Pavilion.
. The Duke of Ragusa is at Snanne, ob.
must be aware that the office of Chief Justice of ' that by the present mode of proceeding the
serving the movements of Gen. who
' Chester was a very high one,. being next in import- l nbaervel
Suspension of the fuectioni of Parliament was left
left Soissons, has marched upon Rheims, by
lance to those of the twelve Judges; the Chief Justice! Winzingerode, s
lin the hands of Parliament itself.. if, however, by : baying
to 'unite. With' the wrecks of Genteel
of Chester having always to try an extraordinary ‘
! adopting such a proposition. as that made by the Hon. : CbaleUss
'Blucher's annt. .This..:Dake of Ragas& would felt
number both of criminal and of civil cases: He
Gentleman, any jealousy were evinced by the House,
upon his left ank. if be should again engage ;hit's.
! had felt it to be his duty to throw out these ob•
t;then, under similar circumstances the Crown would
I servations; but he repeated that it was not his iii- . 9 r
. ,1 1 ...
Ibe put to the necessity of. preferring the more incon self
Solite* is a place' ibeltered from's' coup de onefts.
tention to make any motion onabedebject.—gleoral
venient form of prorogation, to that of simply re- i
Gen. Winzingerode, at* the head of 4 or 5000 light
hew) hear! commending an adjournment. The present was a
summoned it to surrender. Gen. Rusca re-
. The motion was then put atxd agreed to..
proceeding sanctioned by the practice of all former ;troops,
as he ought... Winzingerode placed 'his It
On the motion of Mr. PONSONBY a new writ :
, periods. In very few instauces had such a recom- ! Plied
pieces of cannon hi a battery: unfortunately the first
was ordered to be issued for the Counts', of Kildare mendation frogalahe Crewn.<the House resting on the P
ball killed Gen: Ruses s 1000 men of the national
in the room of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, who had ac-9.
cepted the office of Steward of East liendred. ,; responsibility of Ministers) been even made the sub-
. : guards were the 'only garrison in the !Ascii they
ADJOURNMENT. • ! ject of debate. In one case, during' the last war,
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the the question of adjeurnment in similar circumstances were thunderstruck, and . the toteaty entered
,Sois-
sons, where he colfsmitted. all:the.horrors imaginable.
EXCHEQUE, the Comniittee of Supply was post- had unquestionably been brought to a division-allot
what were the numbers? On the one side the tellers, , The Generals who were in theplace, and who should
poned from t Ro-morrew until Wednesday the 23d
.on the other the whole body of the House ! With , bare taken the command •upen the deathof Gets:
instant.
•-• '
On the CHANCELLOR. of the ICXCHXQUER • respect to the last 'subject alluded to by the Hon. ° Rusca shall `be brought before a Council of Enquiry,
making a similar motion with respect to the Coin- Gentleman, he would only say, that when the proper i for this town ought ,nOt to have been taken.
mittee of Ways and Means, , • . time should arrive, his. Majesty's Government would i The Duke of Treviso Se-occupied Soissons on the
Mr. TIERNEY expressed his SIAM . , ,
mi ihe .be ready to give every viplanation that migbt 1,,e pe. ; liith; Slid has re-organised the defence of it. - •
'cgolecassigt ... • -s•
s. • . • Higlpt lion.- Gentleman had ahstaineitf
s. . - eessar to elucidate the discussion which the Hie Oen: Vincent writes from Chateau h'
.r . isle „, 7 . •. $
, T terry, that
. ss treteleniati anticipated. 2so of the enemy's light troops having returned to
any ,liatoll9 for these' propositions: , X,„. • 1.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. ~,. , .
The CHANCELLOR of the .EXCREQUER Lord ARCII. lIA MI LTON, when he considered
,Fore, in Tardentsie, M. d'Arhand Missun marclvd
the advanced period of the Session, and the length of ; against thete with 00 horse of the- gardes d'horanallt
After a vast 1141 ofsprivate business bad been . replied, that the reason which indecif him .to wish . . . ..
the adjohrnment•which had already taken place, felt : which he had collected, and with rho assistance Ildf
gene throegh, a new writ'swas moved for the Barbugh for the postponement of the Committees**, that in
himself compelled to resist the motion of the Right ! the national guards of the .i'llages, beat them, kill.
of Eye, in the room of Sir William Garrow, Who leonsequence of the existing stet° of pablic;afairs.„ hi
lion. Gentlemen. He would ask the House, if they big several, and dispersing the romaluder.
less accepted the Chief JOsticeship of Chester : Upon had a somnitinication to niake. to the litiesefromitis
. - Gen. Milhaud met the enemy at St. Martin-Les
which, • ,
..!'l, KO il highness the Wince Regent, which colimpid-.
meat, that at the end of two months a still farther. Hammy, upon the old road from Nogent. to Troyes,:
Sir s:. ROMILLY observed, that the appoiritmeni: cation he whuldahen make, namely that it was his
delay would be asked, they would have consented . The enemy had about 800 horse. He caused thew.*
which had occasioned the necessity for the motion Royal Ilighness's pleasure, eking in the name. and
so readily as they then did ? Ile wished to throw noi to be attacked by 300 men, who overthrew him,
ju a made by the lion. Gentleman appeared to him ' on the behalf of his Majesty, that the flousOshoeld .
embarrassment in the way of his Majesty's Ministers; made 160 prisoners, killed some SO men, and took.
t.. ba so ohjoctionalde itt its nature, that he should ' adjourn anti! lifonday, the `'let inst. hi' consonance
slot consider hititsalf as having properly discharged his •to this intimation, hi! see d: neiel. that at ke
l'arNamentary daty, unless he called the attention of i the Mete should adj Out ',llliiiiiday lie elst in-
4t,rising but he really could not see in what way the sitting !about WO horses. He has pursued. and is still pur-
of the !louse would embarrass them. The quantity of ! all'ina, the enemy epee dons lee reins.
! papers exhibited that day in the House was a strong I The Doke of Castiglione bas left Lyons with a
11. e House fcr a few moments to the subject. It wasittant. reason for opposing the adjournment. • • 1 considerable corps d'armee, composed of chosen
not his intention to make any motion respeethig it ; I Mr. WHlTBREATiebsetved; Ait'ettit4t4h every ;
he had not heard that suchfosat the intention .of any one had andelPOW the .6itiiintinicitilan eillich had Mr' PONSONBY said, no man could feel morel troops, to march into Fratiche Comte and Switsere
s
`forcibly than himself the inconvenience to the public laud- .
other Hounu(able Member:: Tito present, therefore, ! just been Othounced by Ipshi:oonoOehle Gen.
with which an adjournment would at present be at- The Congress of Chatillon still continues ; het
wag the only opportunity which he reed - ever have Osman, yet it was certainly litirpOrnis'tkat.the Right •
to make the observstions that see Med to him to be so :.Honourablaneniteinara bad tlettiptettered metking the :tended ; but every man must also feel the very im- theetiemy throws every difficulty in the way of it
portant and delicate situation of affairs at this crisis; (etas l'enneatic y pork. tonic eapece dealt-aces).
necessary. lie understood that his Majesty's At- ' coMmunication the pielictilniteY atm toile ilosrpone-
torofy.Geoeral, who had recently accepted the high tent of the CoMtnittala, initeld of making,the post- : and whets his Majesty's Ministers, on their responsi- The Cossacks at every step stop the couriers, aid
judicial (Alive described in the Honourable Gentle- ' ponement of pia •CtisititNel 14 tirelitniintri step to' bility, came forward to the House and asked an ad- although we are but 30 leagues distance from Cheat-
mates motion, had nut assigned the office of Attorney. ! the communication. Trite WV *if „sore that : joarnment for the three weeks, he felt himself unable I lon, in a direct line, couriers do not arrive but after
General, told did not Mean to resign it; but that it inch was. the usual stylelis ogehinus iik4attod.of that .to resist the application.
rights of nations have Ile could not conjecture four or five days journey. It is the first ti
this manner been vime thed
• was his intention to hold Ilse-two' offices together.— nature—nateily, that it 'Wet ' hies . Majesty';u plea- what the affairs were which rendered such a measure in olate.
necessary ; but when the time arrived, at which a Among nations the least civilized, the couriers if
To him ta;r S. 'Si.) ii aptlfarett that the two offices sure" the Ifooseshield atettrit
.fe confeseed that .
were wholly itelonkpatible.—[ffear, hear, hear 1— he should thinkit rather an ungrAlens mods" if ea_ : disclosure should be made to the House,_ he would 'Ambassadors are respected, and no obstruction givka
then be prepared to enter on the consideration of ' to the communications of negotiators with their Gil.
To appoint a Gentleman bottling a lucrative office at pression. It was certainly, boaro,vei"j*li* by ,
• tn• sole pleasure of the Crown, and removablefrom the precedents on. the laarnaia. . lie ki notiisa•hj them. He should feel a difficulty, if his Hon. Friend Torment.
I :..k. office the very moment That he might give dims- any means to oppose the adjournment; to Which on ! pressed his Amendment, of supporting it ; for he The inhabitants of Paris might have eapected the
9 . know no instance of the House, when it agreed to . greatest misfortunes, had the enemy arrived at their
,-..ictioli to the Crown, to a high judicial situation, the contrails, he should ionsent. with Ois 'Mina midi
~..s, in his opinion, distinctly inconsistent with that iiess as he 'did to the fait proposition AI abet tiatare.! any measure like the present on the recommendation ' gate", and they surrendered thtir city without do-
or the Crown, having entered a reason for that com- 'feects- Pillage, devastation, and fir..., would hate
- ~• l'OPlldenCl9 of the judicial charm:ter, which it was Nor would he express either diiipPoinlnient Or,
s . i:o!.0. met to:preserve inviolate. It could not be out hope, or fear, with respect to the events, that .had plianee on their Journals ;as the House had always finished the' destinies of this fine capital.
considered the recommendation as a sufficient reason Ibeen favourable .to our enemies The cold is very sharp. This circumstance has
• !se knowleege or the recollection of most of taken plate'since their last meeting, or that might be •
s Honourable persons who heard him, that early taking Oki* that moment. It was his wish eau- i for its compliance. To act otherwise, would be to ,as it has enabled
hi,: Majesty's reign, and on e very memorable tiously to abstain fieni aoy'obsertatiOns Oa the sobs bring on a premature discussion of that which it was ; them to carry On. their artillery and baggage by all
..) .ssisn, his Majesty was pleated to state to Par- ject, reeerviog timself.antil the ptitioa. Whin t*t In. the object of the measure to avoid bringing under ; the roads. Without that, more than half of Oleic
t.;•aient, that it appeared to him that the indepim- formatjou should be alforttekto whichk e, the.?ouse discussion. He would therefore co n fideen ti rel y, in this; waggons would have fallen into our hands.
. ;lice •of the Judges was essential to the Impartial and the Country, looked with castifittisit expectiition:l instance, to Ministers, on that constitutional respect- i
•allminist ration of justice, to' the preservation of the But, although he hid no hisitatispe ieveting for an sibility which attached to their situations, and which :
liberty of the subject, and to the' 'maintenance •of adjournment, and for an act:Miocene° 4thp elea- at no time they could be more called on to exercise.
•.he honour of the grown. He could not think -pre of his Royal IlighneartWiAlNA
...tieeN4'enl iet The motion for Adjournment was then put and'
ohatsthase- sac/m.4- etnifiderattens were •atiended to ha•owned that he entertained. some apprehmilsibns agreed to.
in the uppoietment of It Geollento to a bigh ja., lest the pieigeee proceedings should - On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of the
be drawn -into a
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diced office, who, apselsid bare observed, held at pernicious precedent: He was not ' •
without his EXCHEQUSR, the time for receiving private Bills
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committed to paper for this purpose,' ho hoped be
hid so entirely abstained frgin expressing an opi-
nioncor Any thing like an opinion, or an anticipation
Vithf4espict to public affairs, that he really enter.
that the Right Hon,

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toOk piece at all, be, in reality, protracted till the
to elite of April. At the close of the adjournment'
proposed would came Passion-week, and then
Ftt,ter : so that this adjournment, though nominally
tally for three weeks, ices, in fact, an adjournment
fou six weeks: He had discharged his duty in stet-
it.g this. ThiMinistcis miy,ht have given credit to
tie pledge ef•lsis4frible Friend, that they would not
he interrupted or interfered with by the sitting of
:t ;lament, in the prosecution of the important sub-
j.n which now engaged their particular atteetion.—
About the negeciation it might be improper at pre-
s. •to say any' thing farther than this—that he
wi4lied, from thebottom of his heart, that Ministers
.might be able to briug that itegociation to the desir-
able teintination—that they might be able to bring a
tone foohdlol on a solid basia,a pence likely to be
raving, and otte which would be safe and honour-
'able .fer all parties. No loipediment would be
:tbiown by him in the way if Ministers its the con
dote* 'of this negociation-r-none would have been
ti;rown in their way by him, though Parliament hid
I.'nfitined'atttittg. • Alntore opportunity would W-
eer for the full investigation and discussion of the
• conduct of Ministers in this respect,. anti he should
be niost hippy to find that their conduct had been
burl) as he could conscientioWslOpprove and ap-
phud. •.
• Duke of NORFOLK.—It was very possible, that
after the close. of the present adjournnient' apother
might be proposred. No precise judgment could be
at present formed, even by the Ministers themselveS,
'whether a further adjournment might or might not
be thought necessary. gut unless they thought it pro-
bable that Parliament could really proceed to business
at the close of the adjournment now moved, it was
desirable that they should give some notice to the
agents who were concerned in appeal causes. Many
of these had, to 'his knowledge, come to tow() al-
ready in the full expectation that Parliament was
now to have proceeded to businesi. In some way or
other, notice might be given them before the end of
the present period of adjournment, that another ad-
pursonent 'was in contemplation, in case another
should be thought advisable.
Lord LI V FRPOOL.—He could of course give no
positive pledge now on that subject. It most in seine
measure depenttf on circumstances. But' be could
mate, that at present it was intended that Parlia-
ment should proceed to business at the close of. the
prevent adjournment. As to the inconvenience stated
by a -Noble Lord on the other sideiDerby), from
Passion-week and liastar 'coming close upon the pe-
riod of the proposed adjournment, that circumstance
had been considered.; audit was expected that mat.:
• tees could be so arranged, that the inconvenience
would not be very material. '
The motion was then put, acid carried.
The LORD CIIANCE'LLOfs declared, that the
'house was adjourned tilt Monday, the2lst-of March
instant. •
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tae same time another ollice, very lucrative in its tears, that when the circumstances of the times
stature, sod flons hick he was removable at the should not be well recollected, posterity might ac-
pleasure of the Crown at any moment at which the cuse those who consented to the present proposition,
Lrown might thiol; fit so to remove him. 11.'sides, it of an abandonment of their, duty to their constitu-
•
%las -vident th it to place as a Jnr!ge aver the subject ents.—He was aware that, in 1799, an Adjournmettt
en Aitornev•Generil. lie whose duty it was to assert of a much longer duration even than that, the ter.
;%lid mailitain the tights of the Crown against thesub- mination of which had that day assembled the'
rt, was not the way to insure the equal administra- House, had been proposed, and without
t1,.11 of justice. trusted, that in making these cultv acceded to ; but That was at a period of
ottservatiotts he should not be understood as intend- the :essiott at which the public business did not j
kg any Nog personal or any thing disrespectful to press so heavily as it had pressed during the late',
tite !warned Gentleman its question. He had merely recess, and wouldneeessarily press during that which
done as others had donne before him. An individual was about to take place. Therefore, although he'
who stood in the high situation of his Majesty's did not regret having voted for the last adjournment!
Attortwy -Goner tl, had a right to exp,ct, and had —although he did not repent having placed the con-
It right that the public should extlcet for hilt, that fidence which he had on that occasion placert in his
whon any high judicial situation. became vacant, he Majesty's Government—although lut was not dis.
.nou!kl he vested with the judicial functions. Gut posed to cavil at the adjournment now propoied, yet.
hen he ought no longer to retain his office of At- he did wish to guard the proceeding from being con;
sue.-Getteral. lie knew that there was a parti- verted into a dangerous precedent. fie wished to
' it Atso,ney-Griteral for Chester as well as an have some record on the Journals of the nouse, of
miry-U.01(1.4 for the King; and that in many, the grounds on which Parliament had been:induced
• ips iu moat cases, prosecutions might be con- to take such a step. In the words which he had

was extended.

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