The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-04 00:00:00

postponed till Frick

passed.

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Several Road and InclOsure Bills•wertiwapght up
from the Commons.
The Bill providing for Regular Retrim of Cons.
mitments for Crimes was cominittedina_reported.
Adjourned till Friday.

HOUSE OF cOmmols.
111 r. Serjeant 117:'T brnught in a Bill to alter and amend the
3 r I.4,olveat Debtors' Art.
.3.! Pillory Abolition Rill was read a tbird tlase,.fin the ans•
f Mr. y. A. TA.YLOR.
AND P4yLHAbi PACKLTS.
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passed'eb2 Hi' • and which distinctly related to the f Lord NUGEN•T rose to bring under the consi.
Bill itself ; and yet; after all, they would be obliged deration of the House a tase as he conceived not
to erneectt open evidenCe taken for a different pur- j only of indieicioal injustice and oppression, hut of
pose from thut for Which the evidence was taken in great public misconduct.. He referred.to the enquiry
the Reese of Cntemens, and the parties, too, must instituted by the. Post-office into the conduct of Capt.
be deft-era. This might answer when they had tol Watkins, of the Montague, and (;apt. Purring, of
coieiic.,,r merely the public convenience; but when it i the Pelham packets, in an notion fought by them stilt
waSX-residered Mit this Was a Bill of pains and penal. 4 au American.privateer, and in which the former lost
ties, the difficulty was apparent. If they were to 'her mail.. He was sorry that he eoeld nut verify the
take evidence at the her, and sufficient grounds were.; prediction of an Hon. Gentleman opposite, that when
laid for passing the Bill, still they might be sending - he should have examined the evidence, hid opinions
back to the Commons the Bill passed upon grounds would undergo a complete alteration. That evi-
altogether different from those on which the Coln- deuce he had examined, and bed derived ifolll it OS'
mons petsed it. He fairly confessed he did not see' fullest confirmation. of every propeisseseion. he had
how they could get out of these difficulties; and yet eutertained. In defiance of 4e, report their-sown
in a measure of this 'importance they ought utiques- t Committee, by.which it appeared:teat Captain. Wet.
tionably to *proceed with extreme caution.; andl kips had falsified his official -report of theaction, as
though 'witnesses had been ordered to attend, yet it I well as his evidence afterwards; to the prejudice of
appeared to him that before they went on to call evi- the character awl honour o Capt. Peering. upon the
dance, they ought to settle the preliminary question, !.recommendation of.Mr...Freelitsg, the Post-othie had
whether, supposing the facts alleged in the preamble promoted Capt. Watkine, and pronounced his con.
of the Bill to be true, they ought to pass the Bill? duct to,be quite unquestionable. The Captain of this
It was to be observed, too, that in a case of pains Pelham, who, he would- venture to say, had been the
and penalties, the Charge megittto be made and proved means not only of saving his own ship, but the Mon.
against each individually before they could jnstly he tegue also, was left traduced in his character, and his
disfranchised. Being clear, therefore, that the Peti.. crew depriv.ed of the hesitemuseey. they Were entitled
loner could not be heard, he should on Friday to. It was certainly difficult to conceive what co.uld
bring forward a motion with a view to settle the pre- be the cause or motive with the Post-office to depart
liminery question whether, supposing the matter el. from their duty of.dispentiog evereihatideojustice, but
leged to be.true, this was a Bill which ought to-be it was solely for.the purpose of vindicating his own
passed ? character as well as the jest rights of Ms crew, that
red sTANIIOPE observed, that this ought pro- Captain Perring:niade the present-application to the
piety to be divided into two Bills. It was impossible Noose. He should move, therefore, that the Pa-
their Lordships could pass it in its present stile. It pees before the. Houle relative to an action fought
was a 13111 tcepunish the innocent along with the by the Montagne aud. Pelham -packets with an
guilty ; and as the Nettle rind Learned Lord had Ametican prerateer be referred • to a Select Com-
acutely stated', even if they 'were to go into evidence ". • - • --
and see melon to pass the Bill, they might be passing Mr. LLSHINGTON opposed the motion, and
it on different grounds from those which had induced contended-03L $ evidence proved Capt. Watkins
the Heine of Commons 'to pass it. Though his had to have hehavede:with thesistmost gallantry, to have
made the motion (tilt the Petitioner should be heard,:. lost haft his crew, to, have .been wounded, and tre
it was merely to raise the question, his own opinion haie lost the-mail by the-inadvertence of one of his •
being against the prayer.' of the Petition. • The best crew Uting without: His ontleme- •There was no
plan wield be to Wee it to the Comnions to seed. potatiotsonahetenduct of Umpteen Parting beyond
up a new Bill of a proper description. • timed a want of skill! which reeljered him incapable
Lord GkENVILLE.--It appeared clear that the of affording tee requisite assistance. The character
Petitioner In this case could not be heard, and he of the Post-offices at well me of Mr.Vreeling, verb
should therefore say nothing further on that point; too high awl respectable .to warrant aspersions for
but with respectio the Bill itself, he had come to the which there was not a:shadow of feoneletien.
consideration of it with a general impression in Idr..PlLESTON.worsoliettolled flie-skes' plain of
your of Bills—he wild not accurately say of this the Pelham, and .aseerted -that .the •repert of their
description—bet df such Bills es had formerly passed sewn Committee had beerrgerbted test* Vost-Ofecti,
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with an object partly similar. His- general
.imPres. and all the evidence favourable to Copula: Peeseag
elan was favourable to truth Bills u the Cricklade suppressed. • a ite
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