The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-07-15 00:00:00

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Member far th, purpose of-bringing forward a pa
cular motion, he had better proceed with that
tint', and not go into any other matter.
Mr. sal KRIDAN agreed that.he had been out
order, and then went on with his motion. The
he I.ad to state, like the last, was one of individi
loppresslott ; hut the House would see that thee..
a great dissimilari between thee,. In the begin-
ning, however, he begged to protest against,the di
trine laid down.by the Noble Lord, that the cc
planting s,,bject ought not to look to the House
redress. He allowed that abuses might arise fr
the habit of appealing to the House, but he asked,
the same time; mas the standing order of the How
m-eker%,—that order which appointed, at• the
ginning of every iession, a day in each week for
Leering of ividividnal• grievances? The Right HO4l.
Grittlemewthen pelmeeded to detail the particulars of
Mc. Masow's cesei a gentleman, who he could assure
the Hon*, bad nothing in view in the prosecution of
ti:is business, but the clearing of his character front
the imputations which had been throws open it by
the conduct of the Irish Government. • Ile mad a
letter from Mr. Hume, the Member for Wicklow,
to himself, and another. to. Mr. Gretna), givitte a
very high character lo Mr. Mason, and an riptnion
that he *scone of the most aggrieved men initis Ma-
jesty's dominion'. As to bar. Mason's introduction
to hinseelf, it uas not particular, but arose altogether
from a pamphlet by that Gentleman: which gave,an
account of -prison Onus in Ireland. It was that
pamphlet that iirst called his aitentiou to the Julie-
man sod detestable manner in which the gaois 'were
regulated in Ireland, and the perusal of it pad such
an edect on the instinctive hatred of oppression,
which he hoplel would to the end ()fills life mark his
character, that he made that motion for enquiry which
was so successful in inducing his Rt. Hon. Friend (the
late Sieeretery for Ireland) to bring in a Halt for the
Itioe -• Prisor he had alluded '

better regulation of the ins all, to.
As to the ease of Mr. Mason himself, the. Homo
would see, that he had sutlered au imprisonmen(
two )eaas in a dungeon ; and merely for thesitws
important reasons, that he had been' first cousinlw
the onforttnote Robert Emmett' and that he bad
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been One day 'two hours too at dinner: (4
!milk.] • The *Right lion. Gentleman they. stated,
that according to tile rote of the House, recommend*
ing an enquiry. into Mr. Mason's' case,. the Prince
A..gent Lal ordered tlu Lord Lieutenant to make
▪ iniui• y, and he now held hi his hand the report
of the Doke of Richmond. It stated, that a !Mari
was. written icy one JohnSely Townshend, who wet
employed by Government, wider Lord Hardwicke'S
ration,
,for the purpose, accounting for the
arrest of 4r. Mason. The causes assigned for that
arrest were merely those which he had just hinted.
Ile then proceeded to read a part of the letter cc-
• '.•"g Mr. Mason, which pretended to state *rims
;alio/limes in Mr. M.'s life and connections, and
in w r the names of persons and places were mark=
ea only by certain numbera of stars. Almost th 4

statements it contained Mr. Mason was ready to
prove fslse, he never having been at such places, nor
havii Mr. It mr ' for fir - His assistir

groo
their proceedings, and that there
reason given for the House to take them under re-
view. . . •
• Mr. TIGHE Kik gr. 1/I.ITCIIINiON supported
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the motion.
Mr. SHERIDAN Shortly replied, and i ditision
took place. •
nye, . It—Nees .
Pt.ETr it ERN PETITION.
Sir F. DUnDECT rose to make the legion of
which he had even notice. Ile statue that Mr.
Fletcher, the petitioner, hati been a petson in very
good circumstances in Westminstler, as i brewer
that from the malpruSices and injustice of Excise of-
ficers he bad been robbed of his property ;--that
when the claim of the Eiciee agaiirst him amounted
only to two hundred pounds, his whale premises bad ,
been seized, 04 which he bad expended between eve,'
, and sin thousand Pounds, and of which be had a
' lease for 61 years, by which he had hetn entirely'
ruined. The Hon. Baronet having stated the facts,
thought the matter deserving the consideration of
the Hausa, •if it were only to enquire into those es.
traordina!y-p6wers assumed by Excise Officers.,

concluded by moving—" That the Petition of Mr.
Fletcher be referied to a Committee to coosider the
natter thereof, and to report the same with their
opMr. WV n ila
wild, that penealties had been
directi the petitioaer to the amount, for ab-

ty laid on
solute frauds, of LIRA. for brewing strong peer, which
he represented to be only small beer ; and various
other malpractices had lamp laid to his charge, whirl
he had not been in any way able to repel. In short,
that, whatever injury he might have sustained, he
had brought on hiniself by own attempts to defraud
the revenue.
Sir F. BURDETT shortly replied, and the motion
was negatived without a disown.
PEACE PitniiatVATiol'f
-Lord CAS'I'LEREAGH moved the Order of the
Day for going into a Committee on the Peace Pr*
serration Bill. He proposed to go into the Cow
mittee merely for the puTpose of making some tech.
nkalAmendments, and that the Bill should beret
committed for to-morrow. '
Mr. RIERIDAN said, he haji hoped, that as

well as te;hoical Aimed Mints, tae Bill -wonle have
been divided. Some parts of the eW, be help-

the
secimd

ith
had not been

given
Some conversation ensued on this point, after
lebich leave was given to withdraw it.
The House then resumed, the Chairman reported
pregress, and asked leave to sit agaiw this day, wilt*
wet granted.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the per..',
$Oll6 appointed to enquire into the fees taken in the
West Indies, to make enquiry also into the property
of the Crown in the Island of 13erbice,; which was
read a first, andordered to be lead a second time on
Thursday, and to be printed.
Lord ALMEIttI"TON obtained leave to bring in
a Bill for amending and eatendiltg the Act of last
Seeslon relative, to half-pay, and for allowie; the
"sane advantages to foreign. officers, as to those ct
Britain, which was read a first, and ordered to be
read a second time this day.
Adjourned at Two o'Clock to this day.
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i ojelcutp,tivi,edo pierepriorr;rt;
vesand,o,atthgethiihsianTl:e,taimude,mtandee flycials:iv..:Lakr,i:„:,t,it
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I upon taro Turks.
" Nevereisim the systems of Fmgland was tsiiimphaut. Tier
Orders in Council thre.arned to produce the most important r • I
Isults ; and the tribute, which was to furnish the means of so,:
;meting the perpetual war which she had declared; efts per. 1,
ti
l. cafitio..,:ii:itirt,ciiiit:hnlepr)cgiaornriluneitus‘ollidpowttiernsan7oider:ebeietsed:cieatt.rtslitaisitochi.
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dieubtlioritendice:!:nem?trdjuieteare.ehse:lleeyyziofelecrufrax.:eresus'tsenitemsitoriseitnlietinc,iliiet:laft.l.:l,;)icis;;;:::l4leil:leitarpluyal;
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vigilant Adminictration. Unexposed tit the
.influence of ..,,,,
eaeiny, llolland and the Hanseatic Towns, it was niT,lszr,
should he united. But while the sentimentidrarest to the hr.....;
lof his.!tfajesty yielded to the interest of Ws people and Cir. of
the Continent, great changes were taking place. Rusin al:a.,
dotted the principle to which she had pledged herself all ihit,
viz, to make common cause with France, which she had pro,
claimed in her Declaration of War against Englaad, and n hick
I had dictated• the Decrees of Devlin sad Milan. They were
evaded by the Ukase which opened the ports of Rusiia to au
English ships laden with. colonial produce, English property,
provided that they were under a foreigo flag. This unexpected
`blow annulled the Treaty of Tilsit, and those important trans.
actions which bad pat as cad to the struggle between the two
, greatest Empires of the world, and which had afforded to Ea.
rope a probability of obtaining a markime peace. Approatit.
ing conunotions and bloody was were, of coarse, to be name.
i diately expected.
11 The conduct of Russia at this that was constantly directed
towards tbeiteTatal results. The salting of.the Duchy of Older.
burg, dovetailed, as it were, iota the countries recently brag i
under the same principles of glomerate as Frame, yes tf, ur.
ceoary coosequerice of the insides of thellauseatie Towns. At
indemnity was offered. This object was easy to regulate with
reciprocal advantage. Dot your Cabinet made an affair or
State of it; and, for the first time, was sees a Miurfeim of as
ally against an ally. The reception of English vessels in Russian
. ,parts, sad the regulations of the Ukase of 1810, had made it
- blows that the treaties were dissolved. The Manifesto showed
that net only the bonds which had united the two Ouvernments
were broken, but that Russia had publicly thrown the gamtlet
to France, for a difficalty which was foreign to her, mei which
~ could tiot be.sebred but by the method which his Majesty hid
proposed. It was not to be concealed that the refasal of this o'er
, disclosed the pr j,ect of a rupture already 'formed. Ressia pre-
pared for it at the very time that see was dictating terms of peace
to Turkey; she soddenly recalled five divisloos of the army of
Moldavia; nod, la the month of February, IFII, it was knowe
at Paris that the army of the Duchy of Warsaw had bee-. ob.
Ikea to repays the yigui la, in order to fell back upon the Cen.
federation, because the Russian armies. on the frontier, were se
numerous, and hod award so menacing a posture.
" When Russia had resolved on measurer contrary to the late.
rests of the active war which she had to support —w frn :he had
imparted to bee armies a development b ,rdessoin•- to Is.r
haaaces, and without any object, la the sithaticia io which ..ii
the Paters of the Coodnewt wore ibp placed, alt the &omit
troops were within the Phisse,-exeePt a corps of OAP mem,
Walloped at Haaburgh for the dellesee of the eseas,a of the North
Sea, and foe the maintenance of traailatnitY to ti..' eouhrtet re-
cently netted; the reserved iplaree la! Print& were occiriied
only by the Allied troops. A orris's, of sally four th—nol
men had remised at Duthie ; and the 00.04 °r 1h- Duchy of
Warsaw were as the peace eatablishmea, a part of them even
was is Spain. The preparations of Russia sea were without
object, Palms the entertained as expeetapian to Impose upon
France by a grand array of forces,. and to Obilile her to Pot au
end to the dismission; respectina Oldenburg, to sacrificing the
exlatasee ef the Derby of Warsaw; perhaps, alai. Russia, not
befog able to digitise from herself the fast of her hes jog violated
the Treaty of Tilsit, had recourse to force, for so aker purpose
bat to seek le justify eleiatioam 'Well could not be &emitted.—
ilia Mateetp_ermetheism remised orimmeed (impaellskl. Re '
permeated is his desire of an amusgemeat : he was of opeloo,
that it any period it would be time es oegh to resort to suits; be
required oily that powers should be sent to Prince Kuwaiti, and
that. megetiestion should be ops-eel with respect to tbeselftlrcr-
ewes, *bleb might thus be easily terailaithld, and whielswene
.by to means of a name to sail for U.S Illishisig lifisd: Ift4
Were reducible to the four following pelmet—
" Ist. The existence of the Duchy of Warmly, which tad
heft a coadition of the peace of Tilsit, and which, since tat
closets( 1809, gave Resta occasion to manifest those balances of
deduce to which bit Majesty answered with condescension,
carried as far as the most exacting friendship could desire, and
honour could allow.
' "M. The at:aeration of Oldenburg, which-the war illealist In.
gland had resisted seceseery, and which heist conformable to I
the spirit at She Treaty of Tihit. t
" M: The Legislation respecting trade- IF English metehan•
dims and denationalised vessels, which ought to be regulated
according to the spirit Mid the terms of diborreety of Tibit. '.
"4th. Lady, the dispositions of the Vitae of 1818, which,
by destroying all the commercial relations of France with .
Russia, sad opening her ports to simulated nags freighted With
English property, were contrary to the litter of the Treaty of
Tilsit.
" Seth Mould lave been the objects of the argociatioa. As
to what' tawniest the Duchy of Warsaw; his Mildly woad
have hems forward to adopt a C.etereedins, by which he would.
'pledge himself sot to ,enewastge any 'relteprise wild( might
have a tendency, directly or iodirectil, tskisad to the re-estse
Witham* of Poland. As to Olderbarg. he efihred to accept the
latefteation of Bessie, which, aeverthellese, had DU right to in-
metre le what Involved a Prince of the Coafederatios of the
thine; lad-40 agreed to give that Peace as indemnity Wilk
regard to cennieree I. English asereftsedises and to deestiotal•
lied ship, lib Majesty desired. to come to setae eaderstatedieg.
'in orderto recomile dmaaato if Nadia with the principle of
the Coatineetellystest, apd deteoptit of the Treaty of Tiltit
And lastly, es tribe Ukase, hisMajoilasaseeted to concholos
'freely of Dampteee, which, la seem-lag the commercial. roles

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tarti- that purpose last year. lie had undrirtakeri lbw.
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_^esilttf. dia not Itiew the clause in U. 'Ne light as he
mo-.• nearly the whole of the circumstances stated Ili Ow would -ithdraw it for the p. ',"tt, and pro-
charges aptinit him to be 'norm., and if ',,he fail tleiWit in other modified form on the report.
ut of that proof, the peril ,could fen on his (slot is 3,1 -., r. Aber mby, Mr. W. Stnithosed Mr. Bennet
case He (Mr. W. S.) admitted Government wait right. ' epoke,agei the clause.
idual detaining him when they knew of his efforts to foci Mr. B. HURST defended it.
`vas tat: the escape of prisoners, but that had nothing t Mr. TCHINSON insisted, it was tel;leg the
egiu- !Ato with the original cominifbarne: It appeatall t - Howe surprise to introduce/51kb a clubse in the
doc- . the persons emreaseted with the gaol were most mat • CoM , after the Bill having been-read a second
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com- rOlty.coatradieirt varique mie.of.lbeir evideu - time and many Members were gape ou't of town who
,d for ilk thought Nfii. ~ttn injored7nsil; and wished tk had otea for the Bill, without havinz an idea such a
from, li4holeinatteriphoticikandtai;n. wia eo hetaken we, f s trbuli clause would be attempted to be intro-
al, at • tensiileralion. - . . ) 444.. He was sorry the Noble Lord had been al-
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use a : Mr. BATHURSt spike against the motion, a i idwed to Withdraw his clause without meeting with
be- by a variety of:elements maintained that ,lire the censure of having it negatived.
r the ' did appear grounds to justify the Government in Mr.,TtER,NEY observed; that leave had not been
,ion. their proceedings, and that there was no sufficient given by the Committee to withdraw it.