The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the
Barilla Duties Bill, the Registry of Vessels Bill, the
Brimstone Drawback Bill, the Recognizance, Bill, the
Scotch Linen Manufactures Bill, the Irish Commercial
Credit Bill. the Irish Law Officers Compensation Bill,
the Irish Grand Juries Presentments Bill, the Irish Joint
Tenancy Bill, and several Private Bills. The Commis-
sioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury,
and the Earl Bathurst.
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.
Lord DACRE presented a petition from several per-
sons, forming a society for promoting the interest of
agricultural labourers in the Counties of Middlesex and
Surrey, in which the petitioners prayed that they might
be allowed to give evidence at the bar of the House, in
order to show the utility of a plan formed by them fur
supplying small portions of ground to the poor, who
should cultivate the same. The petitioners also prayed
that during the recess their Lordships would turd their
attention to exciseable articles consumed by the poor.
MESSAGE FROM THE KING.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented the following
Message from his Majesty, which was read by the LORD
CHANCELLOR—
" His Majesty having taken notice of the Act of Par-
liament for settling a pension on the late Earl of St.
Vincent, and the heirs male of leis body lawfully be-.
gotten; and being desirous that the seine should
be
extended to the present Viscount St. Vincent, his Ma-.
jestv recommends to this House the consideration of the
sithiect."
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved, that the Message
be taken into consideration on Mishday next, and that
the Lords be summoned for that .lay.—Orderetl.
CHEAP BEER.
On the motion of the Earl of LIVERPOOL, the Se-
cond Reading of the Beer Bill was put off to Tuesday.
IR ISII DISTILLERIES.
The Marquess of LANSDOWNE said, he thought fit
to take that opportunity of calling the attention of their
Lordships to a Bill, which was now before the other
House of Parliatnesit, and the.eifect of which would he,
to render spirits distilled in Ireland very cheap. This
measure had crested a great alarm among the brewers of
Ireland, who considered that their trade would he injur-
ed by it ; and he conceived that the best plan their Lord-
ships could pursue, in order to prevent the brewers from
suffering any injury, would be to lower the Duties on
Malt.—Adjourned to Monday.
HOUSE OF COMMONS--FRIDAY.
The House was summoned to the House of Lords to
heir the Royal Assent given, by Commission, to cer-
tain private and public Bills. On his return, the SPEAKER
communicated their names to the House (for which see
Lords' report.)
SLAVERY,
• Mr. WILBERFORCE presented petitions from vari-
ons Religious Associations against Slavery.—Ordered to
be printed.
Mr. GRA !TAN presented a petition from the House-
holders of Dublin, expressing their regret that no pro-
r-edings were originated by Government with respect to
the Report of the Commissioners of inquiry relating to
the Accounts of the Corporation of Dublin.--Ordered to

be printed.
SPECIAL JURIES.
Mr. BORHOUSE presented a petition from an indivi-
dusi named Jones, of Water-lane, Fleet-street, who had
been prosecuted by one of the Societies for a libel, com-
plaining of the mode of striking Special Juries.—Order-
ed to be printed.
MESSAGE FROM THE KING.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
ought
rap a Message from the King, which *was read by the
SPEAKER. It was to the following effect:—
" His Majesty taking notice of an Act of Parliament
granting a pension to the late Earl of St. Vincent, and
anxious that the same should be extended to the present
Viscount St. Vincent, recommends it to the consideration
of Parliament."
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CIIEQU Ell, the Message was ordered to be further con•
sidered on 31onday next.
Mr. EVANS presented two petitions from the Asso-
ciated Congregations of Edinburgh anti Inverkeithiog,
upinst Stavrry.—Both ordered to be printed.
Mr. F. PALMER presented a petition from the Inha-
bitants of Reading, praying for a Free' Trade in Beer.
and a similar petition from the Labourers of Waltham.'
Stowe.
After a few words from Mr. MOXCK, who concurred
in the prayer of the petitions, the petition was ordered
to lie printed.
RECIPROCITY OF DUTIES' BILL.
Mr. RU LI) presented a petition from the Ship.
owners of Great Yarmouth against the Reciprocity of
Duties' Bill.
Mr. ROBERTSON said he would feel it his duty
tn oppose the Bill as injurious to the mercantile interest
Mr. ill/ ME advocated the policy of the Bill. and eon
ten led that it would serve rather to increase than ditnin
'sit the nierc-mtile navy.
After a few words from Sir ISAAC COFFIN and
Mr. BERN AL, the petition was laid on the Table and
ordered to be printed.
POOR LAWS.
Mr. HUME moved that a petition, which he had pre-
sented a few days ago, on the Poor Laws be printed, as
it contained some important facts.—Agreed to.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
QUER. for going into a Committee on the East India Half-
pay Bill,
Sir C. BURRELL moved. as an amendment, that the
Moose now, go into a Committee on the Poor Laws
Bill.—
This Bill was so long before the House, it ought to be no
loneer postponed.
Toe House divided on the amendment—For the amend-
ment, au—Against it, 32—Majority,
01 our re-ndmiision into the gallery, we found the House
in t Committee on the Bill.
'rasa amendment being agreed to, the House resumed. The
Report, was then brought up, and ordered to be taken into
teener consideration that day three months.
PETITION OF MR. ROWAN.
Mr. BROUGHAM called the attention of the House to a
petition, which he had presented yesterday, from Mr. Rowan,
reflecting on the conduct of an Hon. Member of that House.
He had, upon that occasion, consented to the petition being
withdrawn, in consequence of the representation of the facts
made by the lion. Gentleman in question. Ilowever, from
what he had learned since yesterday. he was disposed to take
gaits a different view of the subject, as It assumed altoge-
ther a new character. The Petitioner had referred him to
an Hon. Member of that House for all the circumstances of
the case, rind that Gentleman, in a letter which he had ad-
dressed to him (Mr. Brougham), spoke of Mr. Rowan in the
following termst—" I know Mr. George Rowan intimately ;
he is related to me, and otherwise respectably connected. I
have never heard any imputation on his character tillthese
chargeewere urged against him, which, whether the
true or false, were most basely and treacherously prosecuted.
Ile is a clever and cautious man."—(Here Mr. Brougham
was called upon to name the writer Of the letandter.) Hed thee beg-
ged to be excused from giving the name, hop
House would be satisfied when he declared on his word and
honour, that he had received it from an Honourable Mem-
ber. At present it was not his intention to submit any mo-
tion on the subject. He wished to take two or three days to
consider what course it might be b. st to pursue • but he cer-
tainly meant to bring the subject again under the considera-
tion of the House.
IRISH TITHES.
Mr. GOULBURN moved the Order of the Day for the
House to relve itself into a Committee on the furthe
consideration so
of the Report on the Irish Tithes Comprosi -
tion B U.