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TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1323.

• PARLIAMENTARY COMM ENTA RV.
Last night the Papers relatire tty the late Negotiations
with France, touching the affairs of Spain, were, by order
of the KINO, laid before the two Houses of Parliament.
But, before I proceed further with this subject, 14 me

notice. or rather insert, a Petition presented from Sir
CHARLES WOLESLEY, by Mr. HUAIE, of which Petition
the following is a copy; and very well worthy it is of

the public attention.
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KING-
DOM OT GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, IN PARLIAMENT.
ASSEMBLED.
The Petition of Sir Charles Wolseley, of th. County of

Stafford,

Most humbly sheweth.
That your Petitioner i's a proprietor and occupier of land
in the parish of Colwich, in the county aforesaid, in which
parish he has several farms let out to tenants ; that John
Pitchford is the Vicar of the said parish of Colwich ; that
said Pitchford was inducted into the said vicarage about
fourteen years ago ; that he immediately raised his annual
demand for tithes to three times the amount of what had
been paid to the late Vicar; that said Pitchford, so far from
lowering the price of his tithes with the fall in the price of
produce, has continued, upon any change of occupant, to
raise the price of his tithes, even up to the present time.
That your Petitioner, finding the said Pitchford proceed-
ing in this way, gave him notice to take his tithes in kind,
beginning at Lady-day just past; that a few days previous
to that time, your Petitioner applied to the said Vicar to
know whether he would come to some arrangement on the
subject; but that this Pastor of your Petitioner answered
the application by referring your Petitioner to his, the Pas-
tor's, Attorney, ordering your Petitioner, at the same time,
to set out his tithes.
That, at this time of the year, milk is the only article the
tithe of which can be set out ; that tale law, or custom, al-
lots to the tithe-owner, not the tenth part of the milk of each
milking, or of each day, but all the milk of every tenth day ;
that many of the cows of your Petitioner's tenants have
calves; that your Petitioner adVised his tenants to let the
calves suck their fill on the tenth days, and then to milk out
the remainder of the milk and render it to the said Vicar;
but that the said Vicar has insisted upon having all the milk
of the tenth day, to tlieutter exclusion and deprivation of
the calves ; and, the Attorney of the said Pitchford, has in-
formed your Petitioner, that, in case any of the milk be
given for the calves on the said tenth days, the said Pitch-
ford will proceed against the parties in the Court which is
the most expensive.
That, thus, if such be the law of tithes in this now un-
happy country, the calves of your Petitioner's tenants mast
go without food during every tenth twenty-four hours, to
the great deterioration of inch calves, and the great Injury
of the said tenants.
That the burden sod vexation of tithes form one of the
great causes of Agricultural distress in England, while the
absence of tithes in France is one of the great causes of that
prosperity there, which makes it impossible for English
agriculture to carry on a competition against that of France;
and that, therefore, your Petitioner, who has seen your Ho-
nourable House vote, during the last thirty years, so many
hundreds of millions of English money to carry on a war
for the restoration of the Bourbons,most ardently hopes, and
most humbly. prays, that your Ilonourable House will, in
your great justice and wisdom, be pleased so to alter the
' laws with regard to tithes, that the people of England may,
In this one respect, at any rate, be as free and as happy as
the subjects of the said Bourbons.
And pour Petitioner will ever pray,
CHARLES WOLSELEY.
Only think of the Parson insisting upon having the
whole of the milk, and making the calves fast fur the
twenty-four hours! Upon the face of the earth there is
not such another set of men as this. Sir CHARLES
%VOLUM( did well to remind the Collective of the hap-
piness of the French people in this respect. It was
mpoted as a crime to Sir CHARLES, when be was
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tried before WARRIN at Chester, that he (Sir Charles,'

bad boasted of having been present at the demolition of the
Bastile in Paris. That was, nevertheless, a thing to
boast of. That was the signal for the real Revolution of
Frame; and to that Revolution the French people owe
the absence of Tithes, and all those other circumstances
which makes them so much better off than the people of
England are. Sia Commas reminded the Collective of
' the many hundreds of millions of English money that it
'bad voted away in order to get the Bourbons placed
again upon the Thrones of France; and it does seem
bard, if the Collective will not endeavour to make the
people of England, in this ono respect at any rate, as free
and as happy as the people of France.,
To return now to the Papers before mentioned, they
are great in bulk. They woad require more time to
read than we can possibly have this morning. The de-
bates on them, or rather, the speeches of the Ministers
contain .r(i much matter, and that matter of too much
impor once, to be noticed in any thing like detail in a
commentary like this. 1 must, therefore, content myself
with it mere description of the sort of speeches that were
made apon this occaston.TheParue Minima was doing
in the House of Lords, what Mr... Comm was doing
in the House of Commons, at the same moment. They
laid the Papers upon the 'fable, and made a speech in ex-
planation of their conduct. The motion of each of them
was for permission to lay the Papers upon the Table ;
and the object of the Speech of each was to smooth over
the intolerable disgrace; I may say the everlasting infa-
my now brought upon. England.— I n the House of Lords,
LORD GRIM and LORD KING. LORD GRRT expressed
his disapprobation of the conduct of the filinisters ; and
Loan KING raid that the Prime Minister had duped him-
self: • His Lordship might have put the alternative;
namely, that. if the Ministers were not dupes, the earth
never before bore upon it such hypocrites.—ln the
Honse of Calmness, Mr. Brougham made a speech
after • that of .Mr. Canning ; and as far as it
went, it was in- most respects,, a very good
speech-m-IAL CANNING professed great anger against
the French for the invasion of Spain • he spoke
in a very friendly tone of the Spaniards ; he expressed
hisbope that Spain might come triumphant out of the
struggle;' but he iniristed that it was sound policy in the
Ministers not logo la War.---Urpon this subject lie oh-
served, that there were some persons who were of opi-
nion, that, if we did not actually go to War, we should
at, least have menaced France with an inteptiun to do it.
Bat be could never. consent to threaten to do that which
'helium-he did not mean to do, or, which he knew lie
had soot the power io do. Mr.llllol/GRAIR said that he
had never heard of any person to advise the meet' threats
ise menaces which we dared not execute. The parties do
inft know bow to get on here at all. Mr. Canning dues
noltay that he could not have gone to War; and Mr.

Brougham does not sarthat he could have gone to War.

Mr. Brougham knows that he could not, without the put-
ting out of Assignats; and Mr. Canning does not say that

hecould. The Prime Minister, however, so famous for

his 4* stern path of duty;" dais bold man says, that he
should have been able to go to war. Let us take his words:

" if either the honour or essential interests of England re-
" qttired that we should go to War, we have the means
" of doing so. I say this not loosely, as many persons
" may with truth, presuming that a country like this can
" never want the means in case of necessity; I speak
" from the positive intelligence which toy situation ena-
tt bles me to acquire, when I say, that, under su cir-
" cumstances, I should have no difliculy in finding the
" means.'"f he stern path gentleman does not tell us hoe, he
could find the means : he does not say that be would not re-
peal Peel's Bill : he does not say that he would not make
two prices in a fortnight : be does not sav, in short, that he
would not blow up the whole paper fabric; but little as
be does know about any thing, this he does know very
well that he must do if he attempted to ge to War.—
Strict neutrality is the path we are to march in • and I
was particularly struck with the pain: which both the
Ministers took to prepare us for the humiliation which
we are about to 'Mare. Both of them harped upon
the words real neutrality. Honest neutrality ; whatever
might he the consequence, strict neutrality. Mr. Can-.
ning expressly said that we are to t dre the decisions and ,
doctrines of Air William Scott as the measure of our
conduct ! A great deal of pains was taken by both
Ministers to prepare us for. such humiliation.; inch
kicking.; such cranes on the part .of the French,
that we may expect to be as letirretol„; at lest, as the hero
mentioned in Heclibras, whose hauriclia' could distin-
guish the different sorts of. leather ky which they were
saluted ! We may prepare ourselves, therefore, for be-
ing the vilest crowd of seamping traders that Ryer inha-
bited any part of Europe. Mr. Brougham drew a good
picture of the torments of the ship-visiting system ; and
he very well rallied the House upon the doctrines of Sir
Win. Scott. He clearly antietuated all the disgrace
that was about to befall us; but he did not think proper
to observe bow melancholy a sight it would be to see all
this kicking and curling quietly received by those who,
onlyB years ago, tailed themselves the congnerors of
France. It is very clear that it is intended to make our
merchantmen submit to he searched upon all occasions ;
so that we shall not be able to supply the Spaniards with
arms; and we shall be able to carry on no trade with
them, worth speaking of. This will be a pretty state for
the Bourbons to place us in; but it will be precisely the
state in which we deserve to be placed. it appears that
the other part of the Cabinet, and the greater part of the
Ministerial side of the House kept silence, while the op-
position was cheering what Mr. Canning said against
the French and in favour of the Spaniards ; so tnat It
world seem that the greater part of the Cabinet
does not appear of the Shield-man's " liberal politics."
Mr. BROUGHAM ridiculed Mr. CANNING IL good deal on
I account of his having been duped by the French Go-
Tenement. Is Mr. BROUGHAM quite sure that be hists-
self is not the dupe of Mr. CANNING now? lie said, at
the beginning of his speech, that he was eager to " ssol
tiify the country which cannot understand why so
" much-abstinence has been practised on this side the
" House." Yes, I wish Mr. Brougham would, satisfy
ME upon that score. Never mind THE COUNTRY, Mr.
BROUGHAM. Satisfy me, if von can; and then I
will warrant it you will not have meek to do to sa-
tisfy the country.—Charity bids me believe, that,
abstinence arose from your having been duped; but it
does require the whole of the charity which my nature
Wards, to make nee believe that such a man could have
been, and in so gross a manner, too, duped by a group,
composed, in part, of a VANsITTART, a WYNN, sod a
Jams:sew. To believe that you could be outwitted by
thetn,does require all the charity that I have at my com-
mand, even when lamin my hest of humours. Dot, if
doped then, ought you not to be on your guard now?
Ought not you to be careful bow von applaud the Shield
gardenia*? Ought you not to be careful how you say
What is calculated to make as believe that all this talk
of Mr. CANNING'S in favour of Spain and against
France comes from the bottom of his heart, and "does
"him the .highest honour ?" Is it possible, Mr.
BROUGHAM, that there can be any body to make you be-
lieve that Mr. CANNING and somebody else in the Cabi-
net are quarrelling every day of their lives; and that this
quirrellang may be improved so as to produce a new mo-
delling of the Cabinet ; do you imagine this to be the
ease? if Ton do, it is yon who are the dupe; and no.
Mr. Canning, and not his colleagues, and not the French
Government ! It requires but a very little of common
sense to see with what view this flashy clap-trap lan-
guage is put forth. It hurts not the Bourbons; and, what
is more, it does mot offend them. The reason why it
does not offend them might be stated, but the
statement might displease Mr. CANNING, and to
my readers, it is wholly unnecessary. Give the Spa-
niards your praise, say the Bourbons ; but give them
nothing else; and we are quite sure of the worthlessness
of that.—l have not time for further comments on this
subject, at present ; but it is a subject, to which I most
do justice. That Political Register, which contains so
large a portion of the history of the wickedness, the ty-
ranny, the degrading and enslaving influence of the PITT
system; that Register it is that must take this stern-path
of duty man, and that must take this child and champion
of Anti-Jacobinism, and nail them on upon this pillory
erected to England by the Bourbon war. Here we stand
while the Bourbons are marching ipto Spain ; here we
stand with one hands and our heals through the hole.,
uttering curses (as in the speech of Mr. Brougham);
uttering execrations upon the Bourbens, and
_answered
by the scorn of the whole world, those Bourbons taking
the lead. '

The Paris papers to the 1341 :Olt. wijich have -reached
'us, state that the Duke d'Aogoulersur hail, oh tfie 7th,
fixed his head quarters at' Irticlantl that the: Duke of
Reggie had advanced to Oyarsatt on the road to Tolosa,
and his advanced guard had pushed' forward to Ernani.
According to private accounts, the former is expected to
i fix his head quarters at Tolosa ; awd after taking St, Se-
bastian and Tolosa, wait to mei:a/kat effect the news of
his invasion will have on' the otter parts of Spain.
THE FUNDS ON FRIDAT.HAVS per Cents. opened at
95f. 90c.; highest, 851.50 e.; closed at.B6f. Rank Stock,
1530 f. Spanish Loan, 341-35. Reston of Naples,
opened 72if.; closed al 74.

fly Lisbon papers to the 121ith ult. which have arrived
this morning, we learn that an action had taken place on
the 23d in front of Aramaute. The factioits, it is stated,
attacked with their whole force, but were completely
routed, and obliged to flee in the direction of Delhi*.
They left 16 killed, and 40 wounded on the field; 250
prisoners were takert.—A detachment of 60 men of the
2d Regiment of cavalry on theirsmareb to Elvas,
gated by the clergy of Villa Vieosa, where they had
been quartered, ran away, but were all re-takers. In the
sitting of the Cortes, on the.2oth, a project of law was
'passed to punish those 'districts which.should join the
rebels. • The Deputation who promoted it nest day to the
,King, having explened their regret at the necessity
which required it, were sainted by his lifajeity of his
unqualified adherence to the constitutional system.