The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-08 00:00:00

110 USE OF CONIVONS.

A person from the Office of the Commissioners of
Sewers for Westminster presented an Account of the
Rates imposed by tlent.-I,aid on the table.
POOR L
Mr. CURTEIS presented a Petition from certain
inhabitants of Robertsbridge, Sasser. complaining of
the defective state of the Pour haws. and praying that
the Bill at present in progrers through the House on
the subject might be allowed to pass into a law. The
Hon. Member supported the prayer of the Petition.
and declared l&ls opinion that some tax npuu perwral
property was the only way of equalizing the burdens
for Cie relief of the poor.--Ordered to be printed
Mr. 1108HOUSR presorted a Petition on the same
salts cl from a great situsber of the 186:mM:outs of Li-

end smArsr Ara its the lestibit IP'

mood 'Estate lhe Bill. Tie Pethimeerreetraeusesded.
min better mode for relieving the Poor, the reileettas
et the Marie* of thl 11161111 ere of the Crown. The
Member inveighed against the laws respecting
combination of workmen against their masters,
Ea ales agaiast the law against begging. He did
est attribute the present distresses of the labouring
dames so much to the existing Poor Laws as to the
rof 'mismanagement carried on by the persons at
hisesdof public affairs.
Tie Petition was read; and on the glestiou that it
&Re on the table,
Mr. BROUGHAM concurred will' slme of the sen-
timents of the Hon. Member for Westminster ; for if
,_they altered one part of the laws roNting to the Poor,
they could not in justice retails tit others. If they
took from the poor certain worm-, of relief, they should
not dep%ive thee. of the means of ohtaining it by pri-
vate tharity. He had given some consideration to this
saltjeet, and it had always appeared to him that the
present system of Poor Laws should not he altered
without preparation. He did not mean simply a lone
notice, but timit preparatory measures should be taken
to ntake the change as little perceptible as possible.—
Amongst other preparatory measures might be reck-
oned colonisation, but that must be a.buiniatered in
the exercise of a proper discretion. 11e would refer
those who were anxious to see this Pubjert trea'ed h a
most satisfactory manner to the pamphlet of Mr. Sand-
hurst.

Mr. S. BOURNE concurred in every thing that had
fallen from the lion. and Learned Gentleman who had
spoken last. There was uothiug in the Bill lie was
more struck with than the incompatibility of its enact-
ments and the retention of the Vagrancy Laws, and lie
was of (minion they could not exist togetlivr.
Mr. HARBOR() thought the attention of the Levis-
Wore engin to be given, on consitlerissz this silkier!,
to the question of population. The theory of Mr. Mal-
thus on that subject had been complote!y rrfuted by a
late puhl:cation fr.uni the pen of Mr. lio•lsvin.
Mr. BROUGHAM expresses' hope, that the House
would coin* to the consideration of this important sith.
jest, as a matter of science, rather than of factious po-
litics, without receiving • bias from the productions of
short-sighted and unprincipled persons out of doors.
After a few words front Vii.. M txn ct.t. and Mr.
Hammitt', the Petition was ordered to lie on the table,
and lie printed.
The Report of the Justices of Peace Bill was
brought up, and the Bill ordered fur third reeding
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Mr. Alderman WOOL) moved, that a Copy of the
Report made by persons appointed to examine into the
state of Minter liaol at the last Somerset Quarter
Session, together with the evidence relating to the
conduct of the Choler, be laid before the House.—
Ordered.
Sir 11. MARTIN presented a Petition from some
Individuals at Plymouth, praying for a Repeal of cer-
tain f onnage Duties. Referred to the tounsiittee on
Foreign Trade.
Sir R. WILSON presented a Petition from W. Ben-
bow, • bookseller and printseiler in Westminster, cum-
plaiiiing of being prosecuted by a gang of conspirators
calling themselves the Constitutional Association,
through the means of one Charles Murray, Attorney.
The I'etitiuuer prayed for relief.—Ordered to be
printed.

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had only to state that *soot' three Samoan, Mr.

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daunt to ►e employed by Sir I'. Mathias' fie
of his talents. This order for their Meadmish
to be observed, was because they wear " Wept
rapt.' Mr. Flambonriari, after Whig rhos
mended and employed antler (lovemmOtt, VAN again
thrown into a dungeon, became he had dried a peti-
tion to the King of England, stating the rod ceases of
dissatisfaction which the lonises had. now w'ho rend

the addrerors to Sir T. Illaithnot from The /onion

Gazette, mild not fail to be persuaded that he was
4 tnan of extreme vanity awl fond of flattery,
whirl, idea would be confirmed by the amber
of trinniphal arches, eoloosal statue*, beats, For-
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r tits, Ike., raised in his honour in the Weed ; 40;1 it

would be owes what credit he was entittell to in that

House, when he stated in a letter to this Government,
that " he hated pomp and pat ads. eves to a foible." Alto
being under his government a short time, the lonians
began to feel that they should like to hare • real Re-
presentative tiose.nment as was promised to them,
and appeared to set themselves to work for that par-
pose. as on the loth of Jattnary, Is', the Lord High
Commissioner assembled the I/Ificers of State, incluti-
int; the police, and inf,rmed then► that a conspiracy
hail been formed and was about to explode. Instant
arrests took place in great numbers, on which the
Staff were empl 'yes, ; hat it was found that that there
were no groan!', against the major part of those ar-
rested ; one Laperiochl sod another being found to
be at the bottom of the whole tnachination. The
Counnission appointed to try tbe Conspirators report-
ed to that effect, and senteneed lAperiochi to be
hanged. This aentenre however was ownnsettod to
one year's solitary confinemeot, and eight years •con-
floement to the Islands. A few menthe afterwards,
however, he was found at large. This eircemstenee.-
joined with others, cast strong suspioloston the whole
affair. As to the Constitution of the lonians, it woe a
Complete deception, and vested the whole power In the-
hands of the Lord High Commissioner. The Legis-
lative Assembly was composed of 40, lo all 29 Repre-
sentatives, a President of the Senate. and the Pritnary•
Council of ten. This Primary Council was appointed
by Sir T. Maitland, and they nomintted the ('an
dates, ill that Sir' . Maitland might be said to appoint
the whole. He knew of nothing verse, except it was
a Scotch Burgh. The Legislative Assembly passed
the Constitution without deliberation. In the cones-.
of three days the work was accomplished, and this
glorious Constitution, which he would prove to be a
reflect mockery, was adopted, and a deputation dis-
patched to England to announce the same, and olnain
the sanction of his Majesty. He complained of the
influence exercised by the Lord High Commissioner
both in the Senate and in the Legislative Assembly,
and also of the inditence exercised through his haying
the power of appointing the Sectetsry of State. The
enosti loins was snrh, that nothing could be effected
mahout his sanction, and therefore be held the Lori
Commissioner (tvho possessed all the power of Romeo
Pen Consul,) responsible for all that had occurred, as
he w is the alpha and omega of every thing done in the
lonian Islands. lie next touched on a question which
had been already before the Home. Respecting the
farts of that question he and the Gentlemen opposite
were completely at issue. He then went over the cir-
cumstance connected u ith the insurrection, contending
on the authority of dornments to which be referred,
that what had occurred was the consequence of the
people bring driven to desperation by distress, and
by the nnfeeline treatment they met with from the
Lord Web Commiskioner, to whose measures he
ascribed all the bloodshed which bad taken place.—
Tile imposts to which the people bad been subjected,
he ,hewed to have been enormous, their circumstances
being cimshlered. He rare further instances of the
arbitrary power exercised by the Lord High Commis-
sioner, remarking, that he was obliged to content him-
self with a selection, as he had not time to go through
all the facts th.st had come to his knowledge. In one
case, Church Lands had been claimed after they had
been alienated seventy years. Two Englishmen and
two Xatit es were appointed to inquire into this busi-
ness. Two were in favour of the claims set up; the
other two different from them. Sir T. Maitland, as
nmpire, gave the casting rote, and wrote an elaborate
letter of fourteen s:tles, dated April 12, 1820, in which
he declared, that by the laws of Venice, framed in
141(5, Chunk property could not be alienated, and
c ms-quently the ca-tiny vote was given in favour of
the Church. Ile noti-rd the pluralities enjoyed in
the lonian Islands, read over a list of the various ap-
pointments he'd by Colonel William Robinson, and
enumerated grievances of which the people of Santa
Maura bad to complain, and which he thought would
have excited almost any people to arts of an insurrec-
tionary character. An individual of the name of As-
tools Martinenge, he represented to have bee. very
harshly dealt with, and to have been imprisoned for
a considerable period at the will of the Ooveruor
violation of the Constitution. He begged to assure
the Ileum

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monsisehmer of the lionise tistirs; and iitillll,6ol
nee of public ditty, rather titan a$ **tying to BIT
Maitland, of whom ho had two knowledge. He te-
wiled that moos of his Majeure Hisdatore wee, pre-
nt, bees's* he thought some of them hrestipated in
le transaction he had to state. He bad biotin( rteited
le lonian Island% aid be could bear witness to the
igh estimation in which the British were held pre-
,ously to the experience the loofas' had of them se-
er the yoke of the present Lord High Orlloiltidoioset.
tick was their notion of the superiority .1 being so-
re British Government, that the onkel of Sir T.
laitlaad, is conformance with the treaty of revive
813, was bailed as the harbinger of pew met
happiness. An early set of that Alcor, however,
• less that the dismissal of Gee of the &emboli, he-
ms, they were not disposed to be 'skivvies' to him. I
et *hose ea home asepiaion of thole own, served la a
real mossure So aadeceive them. To-glee an idea of
he caprice aid despotbm which dictated this act, he
ad only to state that one of three Sesames, Mr-Plant-
ouriari, had since beta rempaimended by Lord Ba-
hunt to be employed by Sir I'. Maitlaid on seetroat
f his talents. This order for their dianelasab, It was
o be observed, was because they wale" lacitt and eittr.
opt." Mr. Flainbonriari, after being thee moot-
mended and employed ands, tioveesmeat, erns again
brown into a dungeon, because he had aigarti a peti-
ion to the King of England, stating the red causes of
issatisfartion which the Isaias' had Tarr

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