The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-02-27 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLI.I.IIEXT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, Pas. ft

The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND presented Pe
titions from the Merchants and Shipowners of Norih
and Rtwith Shields, and Newcastle upon Tyne, is the
County of Ndrthumberland, and those of Hartiepoal,
i• the Beauty of Durham, which were anderseasa- to'
pray thit no alteration should be made in the regula-
tions respec:ing timber.--Laid on the table.
Mr. PALMER presented the Annual Report of the
Commissioners for the New Shoreham Harbour.—Laid
on the table.

Several private Bills were brought from the Com-
mons by Mr. Dtclausox and other Members.
FOkEIGN TRADE.
One of the Masters in Chancery attendant npon
their Lordships brought up from the othei House a
copy of the Report of the Committee of the House of
Commons upon Foreign Trade.—lt was laid on the
table, and, on the motion of the Marquess of LAND-
DOWN, referred to the Committee of Foreigti Trade.
IRISH St ANUFACFURES.
The Earl of LIMERICK presented a Petition from
the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, and other inhabitants
of the City and Liberty of Limerick, stating that great
distress was experienced in the agricultural and manu-
facturing interests in Ireland, which they conceived
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writ be removed if greater facilities were allowed to
the introduction of Irish produce and manufactures
into every part of the United Kingdom. They com-
plained particularly of the restrictions on the intro-
duction of Irish spirits, which the Noble Earl con-
curred with them in thinking most improper. The in-
dependent Parliament of Ireland was extinguished,
and the Petitionell had now no one to relieve them
save their Lordships. He had only to add, that the
Petition had been unanimously agreed to at a meeting
most nume-ousiy and respectably attended.—The Peti-
tion was then read and laid on the table.
Lord KING presented a Petition from the Town of
Guildford, in the County of Surrey, praying that the
Queen's name be restored to the Liturgy, and that a
Reform be effected in the other House of Parliament,
—Laid on the table.
Earl GREY presented a Petition from the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the Town of Stockton-
upon-Tees, praying fur some reform in the Penal Laws.
—Laid on the table,
NAPLES.

The Marqness of LANSDOWN felt great regret
at stating that he had received a communication from
the Noble Earl at the head of the Treasury, informing.
him that be was so. indisposed to day as to leave ►int
no reason to expect that he should be able to attend in
his plate to-morrow. Under these circumstances, he
(the Marquess of Lansdowne) could have no objection-
to pat off the motion of which he had given notice, he
should therefore move Plat the Order of the Day which
stood for to-morrow he discharged, and be fixed for
Friday next, as the Noble Earl stated in his communi-
cation that be should be able to come down in p few
days. Had that Noble Earl been present this evening
it was his intention to have asked him whether a De-
claration, supposed to bare been issued by Atistria„
had been received by his Majesty's Ministers. It was
not now necessary,however, for him to put the question,
as he understood that no official declaratiOn had yet
been received by qovernuient, but only the ground.
work or one. It rout
jesty's Ministers should
slow, but be "suggested
a Copy of the 'Authentic
should arrive upon the
might be printed without
session of their Lordships.
Order ►of the Da}
next.—Agreed to.

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LAW OF TRW,O`I IN IRELAND.
jilii HOLLAND, before presenting the Bill of
spffillish lin bad given notise, moved that an Act for Re-
cast", Trials for Treason in England be read.
nit Let baring been reed,
Lord HOLLAND said that the Act which had just
'bead reL4 contained many wise provisions which did
nokesteinsd to Ireland, because the Act bad been read
infirm the union of the two kingdoms. Most of those
provisions, however, with the exception of two, had
mince beta introduced into the Irish Legislative code,
by an An of the Independent Parliament of Ireland.
The tete excepted provisions were those which made
two 11101 witnesses necessary for conviction in
ehargee of Treason, and which limited the right of
ution to the wont three years after the alkyd
AWE* Mid beFFilimmitted. The last of these rested
astiltely on the authority of the Act which had just
lanaitteid. The history of the former was more cons-
pffititted. An Act passed in the time of Edward VI.
rendered two witnesses in cases of treason necessary,
btat the operation of that Act did not extend to Ire-
UMW. Another Act, of Philip and Mary, directed
that all proceedings for treason should be recorded by
the emmtnon law, and dciubts bad arisen whether by
this stew regulation, the Act of Edward VI. stood re-
pealed. Tice Act of William and Mary however,
paused in the yes'r one thoused six hundred and ninety-
fitrk without alluding to any former Act, declared
that two witnesses were necessary for conviction in
eases of treason. In the 'Bill which he should not.
propose, he should merely, recite the words used in the
preamble to the Act of William and Mary, extending
thews to Ireland for, as the law now stood in that
country, the evidence of one witness alone was suffi-
cient to establish a charge of treason. lie now there-
fore moved the first reading of a Bill for extendins
certain provisions of the Law of Treason to Ireland.
He did not anticipate any opposition to this measure ;
bet after the Bill bad been read a first time he should
then move that it be printed, and should then take an
early opportunity to propose the second reading, which
would be probably on Friday or Monday next, unless
he should bear that it was likely some difference of
opining would arise on the subject ; in that case he
would leave it on the table some days booger.
The Earl of LIMERICK expressed his concurrence
with the measure. It was his most earnest oish that
the laws of the two countries should be placed upon
the same footing; for he conceived that nothing would
more powerfully tend to civilise and harmonize Ireland
than such a similarity.

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The Bill was then read a first tinse.—Adjourned.
HOCSE OF COMMOhlik—ifionotw.

The House met at about four o'clock, and was en-
gaged *considerable time in transacting business re-
teeing to Private Bills.

VARIOUS PETITIONS.

Mr. DICKENSON presented a Petition from eer-
tain inhabitants of Wells, in Somenetshire, praying
for an Amenchnent of the Penal Code.

Sir T. LETHBRIIMM presented a Petition from
the Landholders of the same County, praying for a
relief of the distress generally suffered by the Agricul-
tural Interest. The Petitioners stated, that without
such relief they would be compelled to withdraw their
capital frog the County.
Sir C. COLE presented a Petition from a place, the
name of which we could oat hear, condemning the
proceedings against her Majesty by hlinistecs, and
praying for an Inquiry into their conduct. The Hon.
Member stated, that he felt himself bound in candour
to inform the Petitioners he could not support their
Petition, though he felt it his duty to present it.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented two Pe-
titicms from certain Landholders of the County of
Kent, praying that the House would take into consi-
deration the present Agricultural Distress.
Similar Petitions on the same subject were pre-
sented—By Lord (litany, 1.1. a SolilleßeET, from Mon-
mouth ; by Mr. LAMM, from Royston and Broad-
water, in Hertfordshire (praying also for Parliamen-
tary Reform); by Mr. Rice, from Limerick; and by
Sir T. AvLsisp, from Devonshire,—All the foregoing
petitions were read, and ordered to lie on the table,
and to be printed.
Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a Petition from car.
tain Inhabitants of London, against the Loudon
Bridge Bill.—Ordered to lie en the table, and be
printed.
Mr. ANSON presented a Petition from certain
Shipowners of Yarmouth, in Norfolk, praying that
no alteration might be made in the existing laws re-
specting Foreign TraGe. The Hon. Member said,
that it was not his intention to enter into an examina-
tion of the general policy of those laws ; but he con-
sidered that the benefits held est by those who pro-
posed what was called a free trade, to be very doubt-
ful and precarious.
Mr. MARRYATT presented a similar Petition
from the Ship Owners of London. The Petitioners
stated, at some length, the distress to which they
wonid be reduced by an alteration of the present law.

Mr. GREY BES;NETT said, that the Petitions
came from interested persons. He thought their
prayer was inconsistent with the soundest principles
of political economy.

Sir M. W. RIDLEY conceived that the Petitioner,
bad an andoubted right to come to that House and
state their case. He was nvt prepared to give an
opinion en the subject until it had undergone a full
discussion in the Committee above stairs. The Ship
Owners were a class of the highest respectability ;
and their present Petitions were offered in order to
save themselves from total rain.

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