The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-19 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—FeMai%
Lord POWERSCOURT took the oaths and his seat.'
The Marquis of HUNTLEY presented two petitions
from Inverness ; one praying relief from Agricultutal Dis-
tress ; and the other praying a reduction of the Duties on
Baring.
Dr. Smith, one of the Trustees of Richmond Bridge, pre-
sented certain accounts.
The Earl of ESSEX presented the Essex petition for
Reform.
The Marquis of CAMDEN presented petitions from the
Hop Planters in Sussex, preying a Reduction of Duties.
Lord CALTIIORPE presented petition from Suffolk,
complaining of Agricultural Distress; and another praying
for a Lase for the Recovery of smell Debts.
Tint Likes alitiOetaTlONa.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that since the questions
put to h m yesterday evening by Noble Lords, he had made
inquiry respecting the papers to which they bad adverted.
and he was now ready to give them all the information he
was able to acquire on the subject. He found there were
some papers from the Russian Minister at Verona, and de-
spatches from Chr„teauhriand to the French Mioister at Ma-
drid. If those papers had been delivered to the Spanish Mi-
nister, he had no objection to their production. No formal
communication was made from the Spanish
these. There was a despatch relative to Portugal,Governmeaeof which
should be prodeced.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN said he hoped that all the
papers would be ready to be produced by Monday next.—
He understood that some communication had been made
from the Cortes of Spain to the Duke of Wellington ,• and
although it was not of an official Were, it was material that
It should be known. He could not help expressing surprise
that the Noble Duke seemed to labour under such *total
want of information respecting the affairs of Spain, as ap-
peared by Ids letter of the 30th of October. There was an-
other circumstance which seemed very strange. It wasthat
of Mr. Canning having taken no notice for six weeks, of
an important communication from the Duke of Welling-
ton, respecting the extraordinary demands of France upon
Spain.
Lord ELLEN-BOROUGH wished to know whetter assur-
ances had not been given by the Allied Powers that there
was no intention of proceeding hostilely against Spain ; and
whether any document to that effect existed.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said he never heard of such a
document.
The Earl of DARNLEY said he could not imagine
bow theAing's Ministers shonld bold out any expecta-
tion, that the war against Spain could be averted ; and
he rrislied to know whether Sir Charles Stuart had made
any remonstrance against the war after the King of
France had delivered his speech to the Chambers.
Lord HOLLAND wished to know if Ministers had re-
ceived illy communication showing that the French Go-
vernment had stimulated the business of the 7th of July,
and other insurrectionary movements in Spain. One
thing was most certain, that money to a great amount
bad been tent at various times to Spain from France, for
the Purpose of exciting and keeping up insurrections.
If this grim vance was complained of by Spain, and any
communication made to °mermen% on the subject, he
hoped it would be produced.
be Earl of LIVERPOOL assured the Noble Lord
that no such communicalon had been made. We Ma-
jesty's Government might be in possession of inf .rma-
lion sufficient to make them believe that the acts Blinded
to by the Noble Lord bad been done. But they bad re-
ceived no official communication on the subject.
Lord HOLLAND said what he wished for was, to get
at the ground of Mr. Canning's allegation in one of his
despatches, that the notions held mot to France relative
to the preservation of peace, were only for obtaining a
larger respite for the insurrections in Spain.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL did not deny that incite-
ments bad been made to insurrections in Spain ; but no
official communications were made respecting them.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH wished for the production
of some documents—te prove the assurances made by
Spain not to extend 'bele principles to other countries.
Lord LIVERPOOL—The Noble Lord will find that
information in the answers given by the Spanish Minis-
ter to the Notes of the Austrian, Russian, and Prussian
Ministers.

THE NAVY.
The Earl of DARNLEY gave noti, e that he wool(' on
blond's- next, move for an account of the state of the Na-
vs, at the different ports.
scovco APPEALS.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL gave notice that on this
day se`nnight, he should move that a Committee be ap-
pointed to take into consideration the state of Appeals to
that House.—Adjourned.

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SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1823.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMENTARY.
In the House of Leeds, in answer to certain question..
Lord Liverpool said that he did not mean to deny that
the French had employed money to encourage disaffec-
tion and dissensions in Spain. Lord Holland was sat' -
fled with this admission ; and we see not why he should
not. We took the liberty; that is to say, our Goverrs
meat took the liberty of empleyirg money enough in th;s
sort of way, and of boasting of it, too, in the case of
France. We may be very sure that the Bourbons it'll
do nothing that we shall have reason to liud fault with,
the like of which contra be cited in the conduct of our
own Government.
In the House of Commons, Lord Cranbourne broute t
up the Report of the Committee on the GAME LAWS.
We shall see what this Report is. It is to he taken into
consideration, it seems, on Thursday next. We have
heard an opinion expressed that these Game LUTE will
have a great hand in causing things to be proper!!! se -
tled in this country, at last. We are of the same opinion
and we are extremely curious to see, what new desire
this Committee has found out. Suppose there were to be
a scheme for imponnding the hares and pheasants, and
keep their. impounded 'till they paid the rent! We do
not know what scheme may be resorted to, by and by;
but this we are very sure of, that, let what will be done,
these Game Laws will do good at last. They mast be
hardened, or they mast be repealed altogether. They
have gone on growing with the Debt: it is all one con-
cern: Debt, Game Laws, Boroughs, Parson-magistrates:
it is all one and the same thing. All must go on ;
or all must stop. There was a little soft talk
Isetween Sir Charles Long and little Mr. Hobhons-,
*boot the King's library. This library will cost us some
money. That is the main point. To the nation, the li-
brary is not worth a pin ; and it is but a poor despicable
thing, after aIL It is not worth a farthing to the nation;
but we suspect that it will be made to cost it a pretty ma-
ny thousand pounds ; and, for our parts, we would as
leave see the money spent by sinecure-placemen and
pensioners as to see it spent in this sort of way. lact-
ate's. We are very sorry to see Ma. BROUGHAM, giving
notice of a motion for a bill to enable this sect to give
evidence to take away men's lives upon their simple affir-
mstion, and without being put on their oathe.—This sect
was, in the first place, encouraged by the despotic family
of STEUART, because it avowed and acted upon the
base doctrine of pasaire obedience and non-resist.
once. It is the slyest, cunningest, most malignant, and
most implacable sect that ever existed. We hear that
it has great influence iu the county of Westmoreland
but we trust that it has not yet influence enough, not.
withstanding its base political principles, to obtain slaw
to enable it to take away men's lives, without oath taken
in the usual farm.—This would be a privilege cast, in-
deed, if such a law were to be passed. We shoirld
like to know, too, how this meek, peace-loving sect,
that is alwas talking of its humanity; we should be gild
to know why it wants to have the pow er of taking away
men's lives at all. One would think that it would be glad ,
to he excluded from having such power. At any rate, it
is the most impudent thing ; this sect is famous for
cool impudence; but this is the most impudent thing
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that ever was done by any set of men in the world.—
Here is a handful' of a sect; notorious for their greedi-
ness, malignity and implacableness, who have the imp-
denee to come to the Parliament, and to ask to be per-
mitted to have their bare words pass for as witch as the
oaths of other men, even in the taking away of men's
lives.—lf such a law were to be passed, it would not be
safe to live in the same town with a Quaker. However.
we do not think there is much danger that such a mea-
sure as this will be adopted ; notwithstanding the base
politics of the Quakers are so highly esteemed by men in
power. They are a cunning crew. You always find
them on the side of the strongest.—As soon as
ever a party gets uppermost, they are with that party.
—lt is very mach the same with the Methodists,
but the English Quakers are much more base. These
two sects have rendered themselves hateful in the eyes of
all good men, by their base conduct in the ease of the
Queen. As soon as these canting hypocrites, saw a
fair opportunity, they could address the King. They
kept silent, with regard to the Queen; but, when the pre-
ple, in their exultation at her acquittal, broke some
windows of Quakers who would not illuminate, the sly
broad-brims took their revenge by setting Attorneys
to work to prosecute the Hundreds. A more molly
nant crew Gou never made, than the present set
of Quakers in England; and Mr. BROUGHAM would
appear to wish to relieve them from the obligstioa
of taking an osth, even in a case of life and death.—We
shall watch this measure in its progress; for instead of
granting further indulgence to this body, we are of
opinion that those that they already have, ought
to be taken away. It would not be amiss for great
masses of the community at large to turn Quakers.--
They Lave indulgences that nobody else have; sad the
only way to get them, is for us to rail ourselves Quakers.
We repeat that tney have been favoured, solely on me-
count of their base politics ; and we do hope that we we
not, after all, to see our very lives put in'o the bands of
this very sect, as they would be by the Bill proposed by
Mr. Beouctwit.—ln England, the Quakers are oot,in
fact, a religious sect ; they am a combination of nsonops-
lists. They are the princip dealers in the greet arti-
cks which are the necessaries of life, the price of which
they can fix, in aigreA measure, tinder certain crcus.
Stances. They are a Lody of men whose object i :Ash