The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-05-16 00:00:00

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to lean habitat is the custody of the Collect,—
tustoms, Captain Woodruff., and the person
Shoat he bad before alleded to. A deputatieit
of five persons were sent from London, after kli
departure, to search this musical instrueseot; in
presence of the Collector of Customs and the penes,
alluded to, and they towed nothing in it to preselot
its being esporled, end Copt. Woodruffe wrote to
Mr Retort that be should speedily receive it. The
article In question was, however, brought teillis-
don, sod then examinek and theo a correspondesee
was foood which perhaps weeld astonish thr Hesse
—a correspondeace between the Irish Gaieties, the
Pope, and a Monk of the Order of Ea Trappe.—
Whes it was considered that the Noble Lord to
whom this correspondence was to be submitted, was
one who peculiarly dreaded any danger from that
quarter, there was too mach 'Pound() believe
that it was a forgery. Bat if there really was
a treasonable correspondence, of which the proofs
were in writing, the person, whether native or fo-
reigner, residing here, might be made to answer
it in a Court of Justice, giving him an opportunity
DI being heard in his owe defence. M. &fort's..
sorted, that the person whom he had named (hut
whose Dyne be (Mr. L.) did nut feel Monet( estitted
to repeat) had an interest in a forgery of that kind,
to osable him to upplepriate some hundreds of pounds
which was in this musical instrame..t. A linKular
'fact connected with this case was, that M &fort
stated that holed been the second time 40-nt our of
the country in 1814. The Return to the Noose
stated, that there was no person soot out in 1814.
It was improbable that M. Bef..rt would make an
assertion, if untrue, which could 10 readily be dis-
proved—yet this assertion would destroy the value
et all the Returns of Aliens transported which had
bees laid before the House. He would put it to the
otegoanimity of the House, whether they would go on
with such a system, and, instead of opening an asy lust
for foreigners, submit them to the merest, simplest
despotism ?
Mr. H. CLIVE supported the Bill. He could
cot account for the omission in the Return nee.
dotted by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Lyttelton).
A disision was again called for, and the Gallery
was about to be cleared, when
Lord FOLKESTONE said, that he could not
but express his astonishment that no arguments could
be advanced by Ministers, or by the Law Officers el
the Crown, for a measure in contrary to the custom
of oar ancestors, and so hostile to the boast of Fag.
liehmen.—( Hear, hear!)—Ue should be, indeed,
sowerthy of his descent, and of his fortune, if, do•
wended as he was of parents who had taken refuge iw
this coeetry, its order to exercise their faith with im-
punity, and nursed ander the proteltlin of English
laws, be did aot protest against the door of bospi•
talky being now-clued open persons in the situation
of his ancestors. The Bill was equally hostile to
the spirit of the Constitution, and to the policy of
our ancestors. The great bulwark of liberty, the,
trial by Law, was seperseded, and midi Mkoitt
ielots by
measans andA door was opened to all therielithlnutqwr
of secret spies and laforusers.—(Hear !!)—After allot
they had beard at the end of the last Session and at the
Winnebago( this Solid., of those respectable, and, u
it now appeared, much-esteemed characters, they
could not hews a doubt as to the mode in which the
Act would be carried into effect. The case of M.
Bohn strikingly showed how this measure opened a
door to all secret information and private malice,.
while it pat the foreigners who were the objects of
their machisations beyond the possibility of defend.
log themselves. An Hon. Member bad said, in this
face of Ilk that there had been no abase. Mose
did be know that there was no abuse? Each of the
three oust in the Return might be a case of great
abuse. In many other cases, measures might bare
been applied as the means of coercion with so much
success as to prevent the necessity of making a re-
turn. The Noble Lord had used a round-about argu-
ment to show that the measure was not intended for
other countries, but for internal tranquillity. Fo-
reigners would, in this country, excite war against
France, France would embroil Europe, and we must
take part in the general war. Bat, if this was true,
why should not the Act be perpetual? or why should
not a law be passed, declaring it high treason to at-
tempt to excite war against France? Another argu-
ment bad been used, the more dangerous as it was
very plausible, that it was better to have recourse to
prevention than to punishment. This was true ia mo-
rals and in politics, so far as prevention meant the
taking a way of temptation, as in the case of forgery last
night seder discassion.—[Some impatience mar here
ataehresen Imam Ministerial side of tke House.] He
.was awry that Gentlemen felt so unwilling to attend
to this abject. It was certainly of great importance.
The pigments he used were perhaps not good, or
perhaps, if good, not well put. As Gentlemen on.
the ether side showed great dispiessere,whea they'.
were sot attended to, they ought to exercienetome.'
thing like reciprocity.—(Hear, hear!) -,..,b,1 ,1
Mr. C. GRANT could not regard the measesens
an infringesest on the Constitution, nor as
for at this moment. He did not think oar
system of policy was marked by ally particular
sal
dilection for fereigners, except as merchants...
Statutes alluded to afforded them protection as.
chants. With respect to the prerogative of the,
venlig°, it aerial* was not the policy of the coll..),
siltation to preclude him from prohibiting the iglu-4
course of foreigners, should the safety of the *ate
require the esercise of such prohibition. He 44 not
.wish this ceentry to be the ruideece of Trejlon,and
Jacobins. It had been said that this Bill would is-
terfore with- hespitality••••oo sucktbiag. It would
• t operatoisibet way ; tier-+e (enigma who Easily
Bow (rem religiose gurisecotiou .lOoottl Still fled in
asylum in Ellialliad. But if we woos to look to iti‘Zary
doe a period when the persecased found refer) in this
.coontry, the Oast 25 years furnished most, ample
proof of the beaspitalities of, this' coeetry ; and at the '
present moment not less than 2%000 foreigners welly
etioying the prowaffion which &gland efforde4l
,• The Measurable Mr. DOUGLAS obserwetk. ffies
the question before the House, was cot, as the
speakOr had argued, with respect to the chosecice,ii
foreiguers who might choose to residels ibis costa-

was any danger iti admitting
!her the proposed prohibition-
consistent with the Constitution
• Britain. The principle upon
its recommended by the Noble
Affairs, and the arguments by
aieh it was supported, could not, as he felt, be con.
tlisliplisted without alarm, by any ono solieitoos for
&adenosine@ of our constitutional rights or national
repeitalien.• These principles and arguments were
nee, he perceivod, recognized in the preamble to the
'Bill. Tbe mahafactorer of preambles for the Cabinet
?had not, it was remarkable, recited any of the reason.
whith the Noble Lord thought proper to ergo for
'ithat introduction of this extraordinary measure.—
[Thes it appeared the Noble Lord and his Colleagues
were more anxious for their own vitidication at pre.
sent than for that of the House with posterity ; for
they had not, in the preamble, recorded a single rea.
see for the cootinuanee of this law. Was the noose
aware of the inordinate power with which the Bill
proposed to invest the Secretary of State? It pur-
ported to authorise that Minister to send any Alien
tiomiciliated in this country to soy other country, not
excepting even that of an enemy, without any inti-

'ation to such Alien as to the nature of the accusa-
tion against him—without confronting him with his
accuser, or affording him any opportunity for espia-
natinn. The Bill did, to be sore, as the Noble
Lord (Castlereagh) stated, afford such Meagan op.
port unity for appeal. But, what was the natant of
this appeal ? Why, it was seek as to add maim",
and injustice : for, if an aggrieved Alien complained,
he had, forsooth, the opportunity of appealing against
the conduct of Lord Sidmouth to the judgment of the
Noble Lord (Castlereagh), and his Colleagues in office.
if it were meant to guard against Jacobites, we had
the Government of France, as well as all the Govern.
merits In Escape, in corobiriation with our own, in
opposition to any danger from thir quarter ; there,
fore, what necessity for this law ? But if it Were
proposed to guard against Bonapartist, for the' sito
of the French Government, that must be an idle
pretence, as that Government itself was mainly ad.
ministered by Bonapartist.. It was • notoriJos,
indeed, that Bnonspaltists were at the heed of the
Freach•King's Councils. But the Noble Lord (Cue.
tlereagh) affected to feel considerable alarm from some
French emigrants who were at.present in the Nether-
lands. ' This, however, must be quite a chimera.
For wh..t must be • the stability of the systeei which
thP Nnbie Lord and his diplomatic Colleagues bad
arro.need upon the Continent, if it could be Aitken
or alarmed by such poor wretches as were now io
the Netherlands ? Here the Hon. Gentleman entered
into an examination of the policy of the British Go.
vernment in pressing the appointment of a Monarchy
in the Netherlands, and sebjectiog the Deck to a
system of Government so alien to their habits and
principles. The Noble Loyd (Castlereagh) had, bow.
ever, appeared tweet foe a considerable time rather
!Hider the inflqenee of foreign Governments sod
than of the constitutional Government and
et! tabli,thed principles of Great Britain. The Noble
fjord had become so mach of an Ambassador, In which
alone he had obtained any character, that be seemed
absolutely unfit for the office of a British Statesman.
Beth the association of foreign Kings and Amtiss-
tide.% It might- be foams difficult to inaintein•ihe
sturdy ledependence end manly freedom of the Bri-
tish character. fie did not know that the Noble

L.,rd was ever very tenacious of that character; but
from the present measure, and other circumstances,
he feared that very dangerous concessions had been
made to' the. Society to which he had Minded; and
that, when these concessions were 'malted, the Con.
tineoltal S.lvreeigns were not told, as they should have
been, that these laws were not our laws, and that the
People of England were resolutely tenacious of liberty.
He would ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whe.
ther it was not for the interest of Enelind to encou-
rage foreigners? and whether that Right Hon. Gen.
vermin had not found them materially useful for some
of the most important operations of Government ?
Would any *tional man, then, discourage foreigners
from coming here, or send enterprising speculators to
settle •in other, perhaps in hostile, countries.—
[Hear, hear:]—He would not confide in Lord Sid.
mouth, nor any Minister, whatever the Constitutiee
forbad him to do so.—The Hon. Member set does
amidst loud and continued cheers.

A division being called for, the numbers were—
Far the mmina 97
Agalost it
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Alajoi ity - —62
On our re-admission to the gallery, we found Mr.
BENNETT putting a question to Lord CASTLEREAGH,
for the purpose of knowing in what stage Ministers
meant in discuss the Bill?

Mr. BA'til MIST rose to order, and contended,
that a Member hid no right, by petting a patios,
to revive a conversation •on a subject after the rep.,
Jes;proceediog on the particular stage had closed.
Mr. BENNETT.—" The question is, ' that this,
,Bill be committed on
yuesday nest;' there is, there-
lure, a subject before tbe Mese on which I have a
'right to speak, and of this the Right Hon. Gentle-
man ought to have beers aware, if his ear was as
quick to bear the question as his tongue wes to call
we to order. I have a right to proceed, if I please, in
the shape of interrogatory; and I now ask; if at all,
and ',heft, It is the intention of Ministers to debate
this gondol' ? Not one syllable has been yet said
on this Importing .object by any one of hit
Majesty's Ministers, or any of thtitt alopeutlants
and expectants, or the Law Officisra,,.o)o hi.ave not
heard one word in justification of Alm greill!e;!ind
I ttk the Noble Lord when Miniaters mean toliroik
silence on the subject ? Au bb entered into int
engagement with the Kings of Vl* Continent, or Me
Rely Alliance, to say nothing on a (osition which
is the spirit of the Constitatiou of the land„,and
,tha personal liberty of the subjects of the Conticenhi
whose Sovereigns had associatpd, leaped, armed, nod
combined to carry into effect measures here which
they edupted in their own conelito? I will nbt,
entatiltritot. eta merits of question, odd
She wo *her •of speeches which have bees already
.trOlussWerml. ,411 I.s4ptli ask is, when their
Mightieita.m. the
,ginister, arposite7tLaugluer}rt
will deign to say -Lott!• .seat they have to 'oppose tat
cogent ereatdeots't Ala been iiiiiihrrdagnlnit eh,
.Bist Po—(Heer, heir t5',.,r; ,r ea re t•• ail.. •
LardsOASTLEltireared the riosoareblqi
Member that the silence proceeciet:-.1 tool the disia-1

clinatien on the other side to hear.
no objection to their opinions, and ci
promise that they would receive an
wltild come forth.
Mr. LYTTELTON asked some
spewing M. &fort, who was sent oul
•as before alluded to. •
• Mr. BATHURST was net prepared
swer, but wield make enquiries. The
ordered to be committed for Tuesday,
The Report of

late farther Consideration, and the ,
witted. , The &pert was brought up,
reeding '6 ted for *mill next.
CHANC:O4Oft of die.
brought ie Ike Irhh Assessed Taxes
reed • first rim, sad ordered-ter- b
time on Monday nest.
Mr. PEEL deetbsedptopetert*
sion with the Irish Prisons Fees Bil
tkeeibms, that -

Sir JOHN NEWPOPlebqoistscelt
ty of deferring furtber proceedil
from experience, that titsvpriestati..
this description, in Itelsodirelthnegh
present, would stretch any provision for
interests which Parliament, in the want •
' lion, might adopt.
. The motion was then carried.
The other Orders of the Day were
of, and the kloase adijoorsied to Monday
THE INSURRECTION
11XTRAct OF A imuz noir 'nut
imacu 19.
" A shocking circumstance ncrerred,
east coast of. this coloey a few days
dealers of which, as far as they. '
are these Several of Mr. Van
havingabsconded from his 'slit,
ind the Bush, Mr. Torre, brothel
Vah and Wu engineer workiL
veto/fleeted 'their • services to go hack
with, thirteen of the frostiest of .the.
to enfleavuor to secure some of the r'
travelled a abort way together into
they met a party, with whom they
took nine Prisoners. They dispatched
own negroes to carry these *IAA home
and with the remainder of tbeit pertly.
consisted now of six, they determined
imprudently) to penetrate deeper i
and, a short time afterwards, they
mote, among whom were some of
own people. With these the whites
and advised them to return home,
he pardoned. In this they appeared
quiesce, and were beginning to shape their
' homeward, when one of the runaway:-
stopped, and said to Mr. Torre, Massa,
a way, go and me sail show yes plenty
here.' They agreed to go. This-erne '
and in a short time ceedected these t-
of a camp, composed, it is said, of
negroes. Their unlucky fate was no
Mr. Torre seeing a blot* Man dressed
and epoislets,' immediately aimed -am!', tit lifts
but +bit wee& sitddenty stoop* atattlimaket
him, bit killed another who stood
was wounded immediately by a shot
camp negroes, when, to complete hie
man in red ran up, and, with one sir'
nearly severed his head from his body
tieing the fate of his compinlon, endeavor
fact an escape, but did not seemed, for
back instantly sod mord/reit piece-,
osuirtered and otherwise shamefully
port 'says, that a large fire was then
butchery clo.sed with a song, and dal
murdered-remains of these two en!
mien. An expedition of the East Coast
ruing to proceed into shatossit, oad
are entertained of successk ,whalt aosnothinik
will, no desist, be done." „ ,

EiTtletcT OF ANOMIE'? ifirtltlt, tol
" Since the murder of the two wi
of March, another murder has takk
whites in one .of the cony boats,
sailors. The heads of the two former
were stock upon poles, and placed
of the estate they belonged to, as a Mal
" On the &let of March no meir
adopted, or espedition soot oat, ae
oeedinp of the bash negroes or rune,
so few troops here, that the Militia
constantly on guard. We hale no seem
fur oar property ; it would require
to give protection to these colonies.
charm which held the negroes in subjection
pletely broken asunder. The Depots
doubt their own superiority."

LAW

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COURT OF K 1 NG'6 RENCIIip Nair

lIIITCHEK V. SiCi6ABooo'
Tb• Viva is a journeyman brick!
Defendant the owner of a recently
Spa-fields, adjoining two other hoes
a person of the name of Powell. 'rho
brought to recover damages for an injory

of received from a springegan, while
the roof of the house of the Defendant. acts
of the esse were these :—The
.Plaintiff Ired
by his 'employer to point some dipinß open one of
tbe homes belonging to Pontiff having oolong le&
der he we, ender the necessity of going through ,
trap-door on the roof, and in order to obtain some
mortar, be passed along the gutter of the parapet of
goo pefendant'shour:.: ist this gutter a spring-gun
itas set,. upon the wire of which the.Pleintiff trod,
rind thi contenti lodged in his sight Mod, and in
both his legs.
After headset the etidenett, Mir. Jetties Asset' re-
fshassended that the matter 'should be amicably mt.
And; and
Mr. SCAOLETT, On the part of the Defendant, pro.
timed that a JurOr'shou4l be withdrawn, and that the
Plaintiff should receive M. as a Compensation, each
party paying his town coat.
Mr; Jastico Annoy thought the provisal fair, and
14 "pi accepted.
The case of COSTER V. MANSERoccupied the Cow

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deals was a pfawt *Wog his goods, which' hattbstets of seek residence was coil
alter searciiedVdMfir*llei tiring% bet for which he god 00 and character a G reit E
yes of: a permit ofimportatioe, sad was therefore, ebligibk !giblet* Ibis sioasare wa!
bjece to lean behind is the custody of the Collector of ',Atieretary for Foreign A
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fr.-in:lan lit Mr. i
ciiig oh theseiittai
lick, well' armed;
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runaways, 'Peg'
the wooiTi, 'whets
had 'WO, and
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amiss to Wilhite; I.
Patty. ;thick may i
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into the ((last
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fell' in with eft* t
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tee reammetrasedi ti
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a' palirdearOtbil.Flos"dahei,
thaw their coinq
'newsy. suddenly
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plenty stick negro
hign led the ways
tpithe re., metre ;
.f spwsrds 01'. 80
now sooq.deatind:
eared In 'a 'red coat - I,
wit- Seed Etilib., till .
isti4hsettet- , 1.
I kr.tim. "Sow* 1
(ruin one 41; 4
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is destructio4, ! '
Croke nllO6lll/ 4
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nderroored *weft ,
h)r he was broogbt
e.mesi.. tag. wig
' mutilated, Rem 1
n (node, and the
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danCe round thti
nfortniitit. ping i, t!
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'bites on the 16th
sken place of two
its, by. the negro . -
ter lien murdered •
at 'the back dams . ,1"
riellanCe. w I t
eisureit bad been A
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tways. We, bars
is is obliged to be
lecurity whatever '
about 1,000 Men, ~
I much fear tha
'objection is coal. ,
000 will 00 longer
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cklaver., and lb}
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uses belonging to rs
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