The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-03-04 00:00:00

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arc 2.9215. 2.9215. pressed,. from being bawd nod duly attended UN--.
,i T a nonterneh pn4 iVipeetable VESTRY of the • • f But it itly rattr, no preelplnteltui heiuld ()totted -the
Ilk *nee PARISI!, litititte 'the Miurch, this Day, la • EOF LORDS, Women 3. general, be might say almost utiirersal setae Of the
caoseqweitee Ida Reqelsitiomk.realved by the Churchviardem,i 4.6.. kt „.. people from being expressed and felt. Ile *Mod
• Ity tape into coasielermion the presprimy of. Pesitimslag blob a","„,,,-- a- appeal Earl of Traquair v. Barrows, was •
-Wrimis -nf P•ribsinent, the
She -linmoied ALTER,ATION `""'""'-'"niethe cif the COllllll lit WB, sad to adopt Such Riesolutius as ma. e. sad others, postponed. -their Lordships tq observe, that. this Petition *ad
Y Appeal, " istrilson v IMandforti, Inner, signed, not merely by those on whom the propelled
1 were beard in part ; to proceed again
be deemed expedieut,.
regulations would press most heavily, but by a great
• Sr. JORK 'MARLOW. Cherchwentia,,ii:thetheirs •ea illeneisy.
i ' The Beet Thee Million Loon Bill was read a third time, I huddler of tandholders who were convinced that the
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, Tit kin whet Reseietioes were agreed Mi.- •I art limited. , '
! principal article of subsistence with the pdorer.
. are sow sulfeehrg distrias,l Tbe furtherogienceedings on the Bertha ick Peerage cause oat
•1. T the. pip,r nroms parr
Idart %Me lets s, do it white slaw roe deriver any period Bind for Tintridioy, the 16th instant, classes ought not to be touched by those regulations.
es( die 'M.= i.viviosbon bring halt* ravish OM-
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. 11 ELSTON li VOTERS. Deeply convinced of Hie soundness of the opitilint
yrs see• f the• Poor besides. rid . ..
their own homes,flare fully enenge'd ft'elevreevidit'i tiligia.._ ,7erg-at .1 • - Lord GRUNIILLE.E• stated, that by the sugges. which he himself entertained ou this most interesting
till which 'be had made as to the further proceed. ; subject, he was anxious to take every opportunity of
AMU. to nine at night, weekty, In furnishing their mamma
'll#l4/Watsb• with Ilwittesas of procuriog Brand—the being able Hlise.witls respect to the Heistone Voters Bill, he.by .1 declaring that opinion and of promoting to the at-
to °twilit which, by I brir labour, they have is vain sought She tukineaus.r.-aedged his opinion as to whether the Bill I most of his power the' most attentive consideration
ninon, the other blessings of returning Peace. In tilt state of, .
thingsit apissors that the adoption of any measures by which ' 011#t ultimately to pus er net. He had merely I the most mature and. ample discussion, end the most
t; •or the Necessariet of Life mu, he incivased, will be . aryls} the propriety of
ougirhit wittedanger of the vrkrsi of calamities. ~ : p so. - I cautious and deliberate mode of proceeding, when
2. That It is the opurion of this Vestry, that Mt Itearugit. .witevettateelves on the subject without delay, that I they were about to legislate ou a matterp
of ouch vital
inteekreice reepectisie the .prlnes of provisions Ms •I tinemetter,Might be finally disposed of 'this Session..: importance to the community. He deeply regretted,
.141 lure ;Atria!' of the same. .•V" That Leglative inti•rflefenee in the price er Coro 1
-..iitigt:,**l....:4t More necessary, as the Bill had come I therefore, that he did not happen to be in his place
conseqemive in other articles. at the present period of geoeral. wwwr -b to HON Hoose-wltlveat any thing final ' last night, when some discussion on the subject had
.1".1r, be "tag a war pricer when it is einsfewed by all that heviegitems done respecting it. If. should, on Mon. taken place : bet whatever might be the difference
the nosiest has boruerlse most unexampled press' res and sailer-. A '• •
day, propose whet might appear to be Necessary. 'of opinion among them, in this at least he should...
ate the severest &Orations, ander the consobilim 'promises ef
lawieliorution tie peace arriving, is'mnst injedkioas, galling, ant for the perpose of procuring the desired iuformatims.. imagine that ail most be agreed,—that in legistatiag
elppreteive. . 1 The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that it Wovid• on this question every appearance of precipitation
-4. That ai the present application to the Legislature tars .
@vetl high price of Corn, and therefore of all other articles be propeuto settle, in the first place, whether, sup- ought to be avoided, and every opportunity efforded
or •aiteniince, arising from the Liod-ownericmopiring together posingotl4he facts stated in the Bill to be preyed, to collect information and the sense of the nation at
to keep up the eoormous rent of their lands, although they have the Bill ought to pass. If their Lordships were of large from all quarters of the em ire:
nut borne the burthens of the late protratted war. lry reason of p
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their tinning pule rise at their rents to the want, of the State, opinion that it ought, then the next step.would be The Petition was then laid on the table. . .
and masking the consumer of grain nod other articles pay the ad- te hear evidence on the subject of these allegations. Lord GRENVILLE presented another Petition
&clonal lases in the price of the same; theinfore it will he , The Earl of LAUDERDALE thought it would to the same effect; from the parish of Lewisham, in
most unjust. to secure those enormous rents to them by Legisla-
tive authority. • • Ibe desirable that those who were more particularly-f icent, signed by abotit 4000 persons.—Laid On tit•
5. That as the Land-owlets have raised their mitts gradually ooweerned hs bringing forward this Bill should state,, table..
doable, nod in maul insinaces treble, *bile they actually pyi • . . ,
• the eassecoltheuritnesses whom they wished .to hare. .•Tbe Earl of DARNLEY wished that.. We goblet,
do part of the barthens of the State by reason of the batiks/I
brine by them laid on the rents of 'keit land, so now they , eamnserieci, Os it would be impossible for, their Loed.. 'Friend had been present last nighttohavestated What he
might to reduce their rent, ns several, much to their honesty, ; asiirooitholit this aid to know who were theproper I might think proper on this certainly interestingsubject;
have done. whereby the public, through the hornier as medium, '"" •
might obllto the necessaries of life at R reasonable rate. ' .• pomp til, be. summoned. 1 and he wished it the more on account of the great;
6. That in conrequeuce of a Axed high price for Corn the ( . ....L..;i . . CORN REGULATIONS. I deference which he felt for his Noble Friend's opl..
artisan nest have high stages to enable him to procure sobriit:
seer, which, revolving on the manufacturer, compels trivia- _.. 1111.. MANLIPPE.—Lie had in his hands three: nion : so that. when be had the misfortune to dills!,
creased price In goods, whereby he will he shim out frods to- r. liSsels of ahem numerously and respectably from him, he wasalutost ready to distrust the soluda‘. -
reign market?, 'and his workmen ferns necessity will be then dip- sitlgt tbe %tended new regulations relating i tress of his conclusions. He had last night atherteti•
charged, and obliged to obtain a living from the Poor's Rate.
7. That this country never was, nor ever wall?, sopoomet tea d lihreta. Two of then Petitions were.i to a statement alleged to have been made by *
by agriculture, but by trade and commerce, and by raaeurall. MA iiipitalleide, and
.one of them 'was signed by 1 Chief Magistrate of London, that the price or tli4
log manufacturers, which has enabled the nation, by the great.
new of such resources, to withstand and centrist; twenty years aboist NOP persons: He took Chia opportunity of I quartern loaf would be raised by the proposed res 1,.
of war. calling their .Lordships' attention toiecharge, that I gaistious to sixteen-pence, and he now sighed
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8. That it wilt be moo impolitic to banish, by sack restrictive had been made.against him last night-.4llritaving been I move for the production' of 4 document which woulst,
measures as proposed, trade ;end co amerce from tbislaad, which ~
Joust take place If it is peisisted in; the artisan Oi ill goo coon. reprogram, as wiehiug to reduce the bum in a way I Sho
4 how efroneont such ap_opinion was, supposing
tries where he MO live, ape ea amerce follow him. Should, which yoeld medico the interests and rights of the it to have been expressed. The price Of, the
_q,uarter
therefore, war .ugain sate place, tie very
pee. by forcing trade and coinmei cr. from the land, the nsergirr ..
°h.° wil of it *lit&,split %editor, nuilAeprite the . nation of a proper) of corn might battler boyoultOos. witisiet ti
of (reveal resistance will be lad, andagrieultural interest roe peace estifilishment- Heviwg-been thus grossly mil. tern loaf bring at •ms.itigh e...itylee as le. lid.,' or any
tliccotiAry. . ! represented, be thought it due to himself, and to the thing like it. That Nap prOlip of bread in Londe*
Its That as there Ls already a restrictive measure, whereby the :I. . • ..
ports are shut against importation for three month's, dile:Vestry eneeeor justice,tocalltheir Lordships' attention to the was higher In genesal than it ought to be, with Si'
alveoli:4lPd that that is argil amfaerilcient ocateretaaror rho nessf....tessestate or that Zoos. Me had last rear proposed ference to the price of tern, was true ; but that
owners; al-o having seen sop lion, , must be the effect of bad regelathess, and the propel
measure in raising the prick
to this . remedy was to improve the system, He corseleded by
grantee of the fall operation
tem.
..the it. moving for an Account of the average prices of Gridel,, ~.
-,-asv7.7sies it.k.a-avoare ..olgcl he. Flour, and Bread) in the Loudon-market daring. tiltk '
Our ratartles to resist, by
and oppressive measure, a Palm .r. tot tO7lnnereet,...-:•...---.,-4-.-- 1. .. -- - -...7-;
Houses of Lord, nod Coma publit. of ,a I .• Lord VitinitsMslik admitted, That 'llk doesp,
ono in the Corn Laws.
11. That the Drafts of Petitions 'now rend be the Petitions to. proper and adequate peace establishment. Would meat might be the ,nineps of bringing Wiper ,
be presented to the Right Honnunkble the Howe of Lords, and any one its that House again accuse him of a wish to I formation before the Rouse ; but it would not bp
.the Honourable tile House of COMIIIOIIS. defraud the public creditor, or to prevent the sup. I complete without a similar Account of the prices le,
Ici That "a Committee be appointed, consisting of the Church-
warden-, Overseer., nod 48 1%4,1b-riven, to make the necessary port of an adequate peace establishment ? lie was, the maritime districts, which regulated the hawses..
arrangements to procure the Signatures of the ilarishioners 1., persuaded that no person, after reading that Resolu. tation of grain. He moved, therefore, for a . .
the Petitions, and respectfully to request some Per of Parlia. •
host could come forward with such an accusation. turn of the average prices of Grain Flour an • •
meet to present inf. Petition to the House of Lords; and that a r , ,
deputooilon fro suc • Committee wait upon George llyng and The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that there Bread, in the twelve maritime districts of Euglaud ..
William Mellish, Esquires, the Representatives for the County was one great maxim which he wished to impress on and Wales since 1702.
of Middlesex, to request them to pre:sent the Petition to the
House of Commons, and to solicit their support to) the same. the minds of all their Lordships, which was (as we Both Accounts ordered.
Is. That in case the Bills now pending, regulating the inn- understood) to pay every deference and regard to the . SCOTCH JURY TRIAL,. . .
mutation of Corn, do paw both H 'uses of Parliament, then it rules apd orders of the House, and not to introduce The Report of the Scotch Jury Trial Bill was
is a resolution of this Vestry to Petition the Prince Regent to
withhold his Signature by which those Laws would be robbed irrelevant matter into their debates. taken into consideration,
anti completed. i The Petitions were then read and laid on the table: The LORD CHANCELLOR-proposed a clause,;
14. That the foregoing Resolutions be signed by the Chair. I
1 Earl STANHOPE presented another Petition, to Iproviding, that the Jury must be unanimous in -thole.
man, and published in two Morning and two Evening Papers,
twice in each. ' the same effect, from the parish of St. Catharine, in verdict as in England, and that the man who sena
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JOHN HARLOW, Chairman. 1 tne Tower district, very numerously and respectably first drawn, or first answered to his name, should be.
15. Thnt the Thanks of this Vestry 100 presented to the signed, which was also laid on the table. the Foreman or Chancellor. . .... .
Churchwardens fur their ready acquiescence en convening this . Lord CHARLEVILLE presented a Petition from These Amendments were unanimously agreed to. ..
Meeting ; and, particularly to the Chairman for his able and !
impartial in the Chair. ; the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the County of . The LORD CIIANCELLOIt then stated, that
; Waterford, in favour of the proposed alteration in : he had considered the subject with a view to ascer-,
the Corn Laws. ' tain whether it was possible to point out any parti.,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a Peti. : calar classes of cases with respect .to which it would,
lion to the same effect, from a County, of which 4e compulsory on the pert of Judges to allow the
we could not hear the name. The petition had been I Jar, l'rist at the request of the parties. This he
agreed to at a meeting where the High Sheriff pre. I had done out of deference to the opinion of the
sided, and was signed by him in the name and on the Noble Lord (Grenville), who had suggested the pro.
behalf of the meeting. Bet be was aware that, au., priety of such a provision ; but he was sorry to say,
cording to the forms of the House, it could only be that he did not see how that object could possibly be
received as the petition- of hies who signed it, and at present accomplished.
therefore he presented it at the petition of the High Lord GRENVILLE could not suffer the Bill to
Sheriff. pass without expressing a further opinion. He cer-
l'he LORD CHANCELLOR 'said, that it could i tainly regretted that it had appeared to those whose
only be received as the petition of the gentleman who experience was much superior to his own, that Ro
signed it as an individual, and not as a petition signed ; line could be drawn for the discretion of the judica.
by him in his official capacity of High Sheriff. The I tore. However, the measure was only in its com.
i petitions were laid on the table. 1 mencement, and time might find a remedy here as
' Lord GRENVILLE.—He had now in his hand a in other things. The next fester, was, that it was
Petition from the Churchwardens, Freeholders, .to be subjected to the perpetual care and perpetual
and Inhabitants of the Parish of St. Luke, against 1 revision of the House. The last point. was the unit•
the proposed alterations in the Corn Laws, and this ; talky of the Jury. Without settling that point, no.
petition he was now about to present to their Lord. , thin was done; but as the Bill now aloud, though
ships. It was signed by between 7 and 8000 per- iitby no means yet came up to his desires, he could
sons in the course of 16 or 18 hours, certainly not.' not but look upon it as one of the most important
two days. He stated that circumstance merely as an 1 boons within the power of the Legislature to give to
instance to show that those were widely mistaken Scotland.
who thought that the proceedings with respect to the I . The Bill was then ordered to be engrossed.—Ad.
Corn Laws were not generally and deeply felt.—.l journed.
Whatever might be the ultimate judgment of Bali'. I
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meat as to the proper course to be taken upon this I HOUSE OF COMMONS.
important subject, it would well become the dignity!
of the Legislature, not to hurry ferward any men- Petitions
number of ptivate Bills were received.
Petitions against altering the Coro Laws were presented from
sure that might be in contemplation. Little could .the prifrisheshofTClerkertwell and( Si. Cwlem,rnitmlkin fir•oarain Tivet
Gloria
be gained by precipitation—by running a race with .? ; "I
tLillittleirlo, 3uttrey,rades
signeel7l-;0(;); from Wools:ids i from BSI,
the tabjeets of this country, so as to have the men- ihseseste; from Bishopsgate, signed hy SOW ; from Spitalfwidis
sure passed before the people bad an opportunity of from Reading, signed by :OW ; and from Coventry, signed by
declaring their opinion upon it. If •the Legislature on Mr. P. MOORE's presenting the latter, be observed that
really wished its ()easiest, to be treated with that his Coo:titers*, had etwerfolly borne their share of the amiss,
or the war, and had. looked to_ peace for the_ return'
t or plentyi
crecy• respect and defetence.which ought to be felt towards
Me-sr. CURRIE and Co. may be coosulted every day, at ~_e
eed. of Parliament it was of the last im- andreasonable prices' It bad • been said bat ht. Put"'
to proc tags, mind bad changed, because Petitions were fewer than last
their hopes, 101, nallo".6nrdell•
Id take the experience of that day • . fret
••* Letters from the Country, stating minutely the care, portance that there should be no appearance of hurry Session. Hewou
hadbeenassertion.Where no change; at an increase
modea of living. Ike. and eaclosing a remittance for Advice and
Aledieilies, will be wafted with stadiums atteation. , and precipitatiou—eo attempt to prevent the voice of opposition: and he was sure that of time were elven, the
1ve.107, Ratteseeardra• lof the peoples when regularly and temperately ex- petitions now would be is tee preportios ter eve beedred to