The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-23 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

A Petition was a!ro presented from the &Haan
Catholics of the County of Clare, by a • Member,
name we could unt learn' and flr. Bagwell
prO4•oted n similar ono
_from the comity of Carlow::
The lash Tobacco Bill !vas read a third time and
passed. •
• l'tis fiber Orders of the (try. were then disposed
of, obeli the horse odioilr4ttolol hall-psst seven.

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- HOUSE OF COMMONS, Aron.t.2.
The (Lorry wai.not open,-el for the ndthitAien of vtranaery
until six o'clock. in enatxmorore of the enroveetnetil of thed
CAll
oA un-
le the !Mow which orettokel tiro Mum. It vt.lt. p poor
til Tuesday next, nod the Dellialttrs were ordered to he called
over to-voortvw (tian flay).
EAST INDIA CHARTER.
On our admission we found Mr.IIIIOVaIIAM
ea his legs, making some enquiries of
.1 he Chancelfor
of the Exchequer, regarding the renewal' of the
Charter of the East India Company. After the DECIARATION OF THE PRINCE REGENT. •
numerous Petitions which had been laid upon the ta- The Government of France having, by an Official
hie from nil parts of the Empire, he thought the Report, communicated by its Minister for Foreign
Right lisn. Gentleman was. bounellto make some Affairs fa tie Contest-satire Senate on the 10th day of
communication to the House .astd to the Country, I
I March last, removed all doubts as to the perseverance
more pat ticularly since it was -understood that the i of that Government in the assertion of Principles, and
matter was to originate with him, and that the other i in the maintenance; 'of a system, not more hostile to
noose was its have no participation in the suggestion of: the maritieuerights and conimercial interests of the
the measures it would be right to adopt. He wished i British Empire, than Inconsistent with the rights and
to know whether, at this advanced period of thetindependence of Neutral Nations ; and having there-
Session, it was the determination to submit the sub- Iby plainly developed the lnordivate pretensions which
ject to the House during the present year. There that system, as promulgated in. the Decrees of Berlin
appeared to him •to ba three parties concerned in tide arid Milan, was from the first designed to enforce;
important question : 1. The East India Company: ' his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the
Q. Ihe manufacturers and merchants of the United name and on the behalf of his Majesty, deems it pro-
Kingdom : 3. The inhabitants of our Indian posses- per, upon this formal and authentic republication of
dons. Regarding the latter, the Marquis Wellesley, I the principles of those Decrees, thus publicly to de-
from his long residence in the Country, woe peen- 1 dare his Royal Highness's determination still firmly
liarly Weil-calculated to give information to Govern- `.to resist the introduction and establishment of this ars.
silent, and he (Mr. IL) begged to be, informed, whe- I bitrary Codes *kids- the Government of Fran& .
they Mittirsters hall thought it right to ask. his Lord-: openly avows its purpose, to impose by force eipiOns
ship's advice and assistance ? the world, as the TAw of Dilations.
• The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER re- From the time that the progressive injustice and'
plied very shortly, by observing, that unless some-iviolence of the French Government made it impos-
thing occurred to induce him to alter his determine sible for his Majesty any longer to restrain the exer-
tion, he was .convinced, under the anxious expectael cise of the rights of war within their ordinary limits,
tions that were indulged, that it would be right that I without submitting to consequences not less ruinous
the subject should be discussed during the present Ito the commerce of his dominions, than derogatory
Session. The question put to him regarding the to the rights of his Crown, his Majesty has endea-
communications Ministers had had with the Marquis Toured, by a restricted and moderate use of those
Wellesley, appeared somewhat extraordinary, espe- rights of retaliation, which the Berlin and Milan
daily when that Noble Lord, in a future stage of the Decrees necessarily called into action, to reconcile
proceedings, would have an opportunity of express- Neutral States to those measures, which the conduct
lug his opinion. . !of the enemy had rendered unavoidable : and
Mr. PONSONBY and Mr. 'TIERNEY impressed I which his Majesty has at all times professed his rea-
upon the Chancel:or of the Exchequer, the impro- 1 dines to revoke, so soon as the Decrees of the
priety of bringing•a question of such magnitude for. I enemy, which gave occasion to them, should be for-
ward by piecemeal. If the matter were discussed at Imally and unconditionally repealed, and the Com-
mit, it would be fit that it should be concluded, that 1 merce of Neutral Nations be restored to its accus.
the public might not be left in a state of anxious un- i tomed course.
certainty as to the result. I At a subsequent period of• the war, his Majesty,
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The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER : availing himself of the 'hen situation of Europe,
stated his concurrence with the suggestions just 4 without'abandoning the principle and object of the
made. If he broached the subject at all (which it was ' Orders in Council of November 1807, was induced
his full intention to do), he should complete it during ' so to limit their operation, as materially to alleviate
the present Session. I the restrictions thereby imposed upon Neutral Com-
Sir GEORGE HILL presented a Petition from the coerce. The Order in Council of April, 1809, was
Town of Belfast against the renewal of the Charter 'substituted in the room of those of November, 1807,
of the East India Company. It was laid upon the I and the retaliatory system of Great Britain acted no
table. - longer on every country in which the aggressive mea-
Mr. COOPER moved that the Copies of Present- sures of the enemy were in force, but was confined I
meats made during the year 1811, to the Grand Ju- i in its operation to France, and to the countries upon
ries of Ireland,. be refer:ad to a Select Committee, whic'i the French yoke was most strictly imposed;
for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Acts re- and which had become virtually a part of the &imi-
tating to Turnpike Roads in Ireland had been corn- nions of France.
plied with ? The United States of America remained neverthe.
After a discussion, in which Messrs. Perceval, less dissatisfied ' • and their dissatisfaction has been
Potisonby, Fitzgerald, W. Pole, Sir .1. New- greatly increased by an artifice too successfully em-
port, and Sir H. Montgomery took part, the motion ployea on the part of theenemy, who has pretended
was agreed to. that the. Decrees of Berlin and Milan were repealed,
Mr. SINCLAIR postponed until Monday his mo- although the Decree effecting such repeal has never
lion regarding the number of Electors for the Shires been pesmulgated ; although the notification of such
of Scotland, pretended repeal distinctly described it to be depen-
The Parish Register Bill was recommitted. The dent on conditions, in which the enemy knew Great
Report was brought up, received, audit was ordered Britain could never acquiesce ; and although abun-
that it be taken into further consideration on Wed- dant evidence bas since appeared of their subsequent
nesday next. execution.
Mr.,WALLACE presented some Supplementary But the enemy has at length laid aside all dissimu-
Papers regarding the Affairs of the East India Com- lation • he now publicly and solemnly declares, not
pany. only that those Decrees still continue in force, but
Mr. M. FITZGERALD presented a Petition from that they shall be rigidly executed until Great Bri-
the Catholics of the county of Kerry. taint shah comply with additional conditions, equally
Sir GEORGE HILL, on presenting a' Petition extravagant ; and he further announces the penalties
from the Catholics of Londonderry, said, it is my of those Decrees to bo in full force against all nations
duty to present a Petition to this House from the which shall suffer their flag to be, as it is termed in
Roman Catholics of the City and Liberties of Lon- this new Code, " denationalized."
donderry, and I beg leave to take this oppoetunity - In addition to the disavowal of tine blockade of
of correcting a mis-statement which has appeared in M 4, 1806, and of the principles on which that
the public Prints of yesterday, na.thely, that I had blockade was established, and in addition to the re-
declared it to be my intention to present a Petition peal of the British Orders in Council, he demands an
against the Roman Catholic Claims—on the con- admission of the principles, that the goods of an
trary—l said I had received a Roman Catholic Pe- enemy, carried under a neutral flag, shall be treated
tition to present from the City and Liberties of Len- is neutral;—that neutral property, under the flag of
donderry, and that Petition 1 now hold in my hand. an enemy, shall be treated as hostile ;—that arms
It is true, Mr. Speaker, that I have the honour to and warlike stores aloue (to the exclusion of ship
represent a constituent body there of nearly one timber and other articles of navalequipment) shall
thousand voters, exclusively Protestants—and it is be regarded as contraband of war; and that no ports
also true that I have not any Petition to present shall be considered as laWfully blockaded, 'leapt
from them against the Roman Catholic Claims, nor such as are invested and besieged, in the presomp- ;
do I wish to receive from the Protestants of the titan of their being taken [en & preverition etre pris]!
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City of Londonderry any such l'etition. I may land into which a merchant ship cannot enter without I
be permitted, however, to know well what are I danger.
• the sentiments of my constituentsi and therefore, I By these and otheraleepatids the enerrseeitt fame--
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. isifhouirlirtreever'y *elite; of respecranirkindness 1 quires, that Great Britaite and all civilized nations,
towards the subscribers to the Petition I hold in my I shall renounce, at his arbitrary pleasure, the ordinary I
hand, I cannot support its prayer. Our system in my : and indisputable rights of maritime war; that Great I
part of the world has been, and I had hoped would ' Britain, in particular, shall forego the advantages of i
14ve'continued to be—to let our Roman- Catholic her naval superiority, and allow the commercial pro-
fellow-subjects urge their own claims, in their, own prty, as welt as the produce and manufactures of I • -.....
way, without any active interference against them France, and her confederates, to pass the ocean in : • .litt,d to
on our part, out of Parliament, and wishing that . security, whilst the subjects of Great Britain are to It is currently reported, and we are int t..
believe the fact, that a telegraphic dispatch has
these claims should he submitted to a full and impar- he in effect proscribed:Aroma!! commercial intercourse
tial discussion in Parliament, and be decided there with other nations e and the, produce and manuface been received at the Admiralty, conveying the
upon their own intrinsic merits.. I did, therefore, tares of these realms are to excluded from every important and interesting intelligence of the fall
on a former night, deprec:ite any assumption of fact country in the world, to which the arms or Alop_ jest
which lam convinced is unfounded, such as " that fluenCe of the enemy can extend. :- • • ,of Badajos, s which, it is stated, was taken by
a majority of the Protestants of the North of Ireland. Such are tine demands, to which the Britislesflise : storm on the 6th just. -The less on our side is re-
were favourable to the Roman Catholic Claims," and vcrnment is summoned to submit,---to the abandon..
oresented to be.
which statement, 1 feared, would have the effect of mere of' its most* ancient, essential, and undoubted •
promoting Protestantmeetings, to declare their sett- maritime rights. Such is the code by which Prance 1400 British killed and wounded.—
Should any further particulars transpire, we shall
aiments and petition on the subject, against the Ro- hopes, under the cover of a neutral flag, to render
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min Catholic 'Claims,: and thereby interrupt conci- her cotnmerre unassailable by sea ; whilst she pro- • give them in a Sewed Edition.
coeds to invade or to incorporate with her owe we. ....m.--.
• !lotion andAennouy between them and their Proses_ A 1
DISTURRANCES IN.THE OGUNTRY,
taut neigiMours, which ought to be objects with minions, all states that hesitate "'sacrificer their un- '
's date which we received
every good Men to encourage. That I have adopted tional interests at her eommaud, and, in abdication. A letter of yesterday
this principle in. my own persoii, with some.eileet, of their just rights, to adopt a aisle, by *kick they this morning . horn Wrinkligharns gates, that the
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I trust, will appear evident from this Petition having aro required to exclude, under the mask of munici- troubles there had been accelerated in consequence of
been entrusted to my care, although I premised to pal regulation, whatever is British, from that- do. the way in which Ministers treated their late Peti
the Petitioners that I could not support their claims. minions. . . lion. Those who Hissed it also feel very indignant
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I do, however, with confidence, assure the House The pretext for thew estmvagant demands *that
of Commons, that it is subscribed by a peaceable, some or these principles
as if 'a Treaty ... were adopted by votastiry at the Member who presented it to the House, for
industrious and loyal body of Roman Catholics, and compact in .the Treaty of Utrecht ; the light and" trilling manner in which he treated
is well intitled to a respectful reception froin.this once existing between ties . particular' countries, their grievances. 66 A troop of horse," continues i
geese. !omitted on special and reciprocetesgifikriai eessaeoes the triter,has all
" rcked, Oh .d from .hesee to
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keg only eel ,the contracting. parties, and which, in quiet some disturbances that have- broken oat at:
1 Litchfield. Riots also of an alarming as hare'
the hist treaty of peace between the same
,m m natmghaue, datedr" e
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imwers'
commeimeed at Wel verlairimptomm, Billiton, Rec."—
had tint been revivm•tl, were to be regarded as decla-
Another letter front P"
P. M. states as fallen.), ;_.o 0
an
Duringaccount
thoef yesterday,whole
o last
ratory of the public law of nations.
It is needless for his Royal Ifightiess to demon- li
street. the injustice of such pretensions. He might ' nesday, two o'clock,
otherwise appeal to the practice of Feence herself, in i "yTnhoe riotingmeans Isga:ii:s•eidye'dou.
theycariousadeal:sr.:tat.
bitight, parties went over different parts of the
this and in former wars ; and to her own established li
codes of maritime law ; it is sufficient that these new
I breaking windows and committing
demands of the enemy form a wide departure from
1 lions. The few Scotch Greys
those conditions on which the alleged repeal of the j town,
racks were kept on the alert, and
French Decrees was accepted by America; and upon
which alone, erroneously assuming that repeal to be]that are in the bar.
complete, America has claimed a revocation of the i this day
by a troop of the Warwickshire Y
British Orders in Council. I Yeomanry.
Birmingham may be considered as one of the
His Royal Highness, upon a review of all these ' most
;loyal towns in the kingdom. Several thousand
circumstances, feels persuaded, that so soon as this
formal declaration, by the Government of France,
i pounds are paid into it monthly by Government for
of its unabated adherence to the principlei and pro• i the manufacture of arms; but such is
visions of the Berlin and Milan Dadrees, shall be ,of every kind of b • ustness, except that of making
made known in America, the Government of the
, guns, swords, &c. that poverty Mily is ' the income
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United States, actuated not less by a sense of justiceinjury
of every other. No serious
to Great Britain, than by what is due to its own dig- has yet beeu
nity, will be disposed to real those measures of done, except breaking the windows of several oie
hostile exclusion, which, under a misconception of noxious individuals, and insulting the military. It i,
the real views and conduct of the French Govern- understood, that the same practices are in full force
meat, America has exclusively applied to the corn- ' at Wolverhampton [Lad Weisel—
two neighbouring
merce and ships of war of Great Britain. : populous towns. At this moment the greatest con-
To accelerate a resift so advantageous to the true t
fusion prevails in the centre of the t ir
interests of both countriel,, and so conducive to the o n ; dead rats,
filth, and
re-establishment of perfect friendship between them; • dirt,
, rags, such things, are throe ing
and to give a decisive pivot :of his Royal Highness's about with great protuston. It is- much feare! that
disposition to perform- the engagements .of his Ma., night will again be attended with bic .
tesnaequeaces:
jesty'S Government, by'revoking the Orders in peat Conn. The Greys are now (half- two) scoitiing-•the
cil, whenever the French Decrees 'shall be actually i streets, assisted by recruiting parties of Marines.
and unconditionally repealed; his Royal Highness i The 4 •
Magistrates constables, &c.heading and directing
the Prince Regent has been this day pleased, in
the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, and by them.
I ae4with the advice of his Majesty's Privyl
Council, By the fell Owing letter, it will be seen, that
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to der and declare: lin addition to the five persons who were killed at
That if it at anytime hereafter the Berlin and Mi- ' Middleton on Monday, three others were shot oe
lay Decrees shall, by some authentic act of the French :
Tuesday at the same place.
Government, puhlicly promulgated, be expressly and
MANCHESTER, Aran .21, IRl'2, 9P. N.
uuconditionally repealed : then and from thence- I have the painful task to inform yon, that de-
faith, the Order in Council of the 7th day of Jauu- •
turba.nces were revived yesterday here, owing to a
I ary, 1/307, and the Order in Council of the 2Gth day
of April, 1809, shall, without any further order, be, , number of persons, principally women, seizing a
and the same hereby are declared from thenceforth to , quantity of meat from a cart, and forcibly carrying
be wholly and absolutely revoked : and further, that it away. About 46 or 50 of the cavalry were called
the full benefit of this Order shall be extended to any in,when Riot Act
ship or vessel captured subsequent to such authentic ' were dispersed without further injury. Several o
act of repeal of the French Decrees, although autece. ,
the women are committed. The shops in that pars
dent to such repeal, such ship or vessel shall have corn- i
menced, and shall be in the prosecution of a voyage, :of the town (Ancoats) were closed the greater part
which, under the said Orders in Council, or one of ,of the day. It had a truly awful appearance. But
them, would live subjected her to capture and con- ', the most melancholy circumstance has been at Mid.
demnation ' • and the Claimant of any ship or cargo . dleton, about five miles from
hence :—A large body
which shall be capture7d at any time subsequent to • -
.of men, women, and boys attacked the weaving
such authentic act of repeal by 'the French Govern
ment, shall, without any further order or declara: factory, in the evening of yesterday, belonging
moat, shall, without any further order or declara-
tion on the part of his Majesty's Government on this ito Messrs. Buttress, in consequence of those Gen-
subject, be at liberty to give in evidence in the High ;Hemen weaving by steam, a mode highly obnoxious
Court of Admiralty or any Court of Vice-Admiralty, I to the workmen ; the assailants attacked the factory
before which such ship or vessel, or its cargo, shall
with a volley of stones, when, at length, a paid
be brought for adjudication, that such repeal by
havinge been placed therein, musketry wee fired
the French Government had been by Lech au. I:.
thentic act promulgated' prior to such capture; i with ball, and, sorry am I to say, five men
and upon proof thereof, the voyage shall be deem-' were killed, amid sixteen or eighteen wound-
ed and taken to have been as lawful, as it' the 'ed. The consequence was, that the elms
said Orders in Council had never been made; saving ' gents assembled in vast bodies this day, armed
nevertheless to the Captors, such protection and in- -
with guns, scythes, and other offensive weapons:—
demnity as they may be equitably entitled to, in the
a party of the military (horse and foot), was sent
judgment of the said Court, by reason of their ig-
from hence with all possible dispatch. The cavalry
norance or uncertainty as to the repeal of the French ,
Decrees, or of the recognition of such repeal by his are just returned, after dispersing those misguided
. Majesty's Government, at the time of such capture. y.eople, killing three, and wounding several others,
His Royal Highness however' deems it proper to ; Lamentable to add; the mob have wreaked their yen-
'declare, that, should the repeal of the French De- igeance on Mr. E. BURTON'S house and furniture,
cress, thus anticipated and 1 provided for, afterwards'
which are burnt to the ground. These are awful
peeve to have been illusory out the part of the enemy ; t .
land should the restrictions thereof be still practically I events!
:enforced, or revived by the enemy, Great Britain 1 Our Correspondent at Bury, after giving the par-
will be obliged, however reluctantly, after reason- i ticulars of the fatal affair at Middleton, adds, that
able notice to Neutral Powers, to have recourse to j three of the rioters who were wounded on Monday
such measures of retaliation as may then appear to be . had
Idied of their wounds. This makes the number
just and necessary.. ' killed at this place eleven. Oa Tuesday, he adds,
Wcstmiuster, April 21, 1812. 1
" all was confusion at Bolton, in Lancashire, and
a :
!thousands were assembled, distributing potatoes at Bd.
'I a load. The Scotch Greys are patroling the 'streets,
and report says, that they have rode over an old man,
and his life is despaired of. Every stranger was or-
dered out of town at seven o'clock, but the approach
- of night was much dreaded. Time Bolton Volunteer
Cavalry were called out to relieve the Scotch Greys,
who had been on duty the whole of Monday night.—
The extent between Oldham and Bolton is 17 miles,
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and nearly all the weavers are out of work. The
~ Whole country is in the greatest consternation."
' 'lt 'appears from the Glasgow Papers, that similar
depredations have also been committed in the neigh-
' "bweriseettot- that city. • 'On Tuesday, 'kilt 'week, the
ipopulace, chiefly women and boys, perceiving an
onirillingness on the part of the farmers to brief
'valet's.. newt to market, attacked the bousesoftettain
idealers in that commodity in that place, laying open
4 their repositories, breaking their windows,and he
jur
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beg their turnable. They wtirs however, g
uel-
led, and order was restored by the interferepcc of the.
Magistrates. The Irish rapers alse•gontinee to ple
. . e
us accounts of the riotous pro • ceedings of the pope.
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i lace on account of the want of employaveel, and the
high price of previous. On N eduo. 1. y
V st a • se'nnight; I
rford
i boat laden with potatoes was seized at -Wate #
' and brought to market, where the cargo was dispceed
It AVIS
of nt such prices as the mob chose to fix.
rd and
found expedient to call out a military gua ,
the •poitit
the potatoes have since been sold at
stubborn
of the bayonet. Notwithstanding these
brought
proofs of the ruinous state of the country,
have
on by commercial restrictions which Ministers
imposed, they have had the hardihood to issue an
0111
cial Declaration, which, in effect, perpetuates the
Or-
ders in Council, the foundamental cause of all the
evils under which the people of this country Pea
This extraordinary document will be found in our per'
d
ceding colemns. It merits a serious perusal,
an
, __...0,;0g theweshsli
probably take au early opportunity of ear

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