The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-11 00:00:00

TUE STATESMAN.

esti that it sl.oubi be rejeete.'; and, on his motion,
it veos rrj.•. t.J witbout a
'I h.• pr:ticip!es a•d lob.:,ects of the Noble. Untie, and!
►he tneainr•, he propose l for their attainment, will be'
hest explaine.l by the preamble ah,i the provh,ions ui
the Bill

sail Ssvritte.l to assemble in their r•spectiye parishes,
on tke 17t1& of June, to consider of the candidates
wh•o oiler, and to prop✓se any other they think
proper, provl,lo.l their pr..posal k ,itf,ned by not less
than unP hundred of the said inhabitants :

That on the lit of September, the senior officer in
each parish shall, at eight o'clock of the forenoon, at
the church of the said parish, take the polls, as is di•
rested, of all such ity..n as shall on that day be in the
pariah and offer themselves to vote ; and such poll
shall continue open until six o'clock in the afternoon
of the same day, ■ud no longer :
And that the House of Common. •o chosen, con-
tinue to be the Representatives of the Commons of
tireat Britain ter one year only, and no longer sad
that on the first day of September every year, or on
the second, when the first shall fall on a Sunday, all
the Commons shall proceed to the election of burgesses
for the year CJlStline.
The Bill, after pr,posing v.trions provisio-s fir the
attainment of the ends suggested, and directiog the
manner in which the votes of the Officers and privates
of the army, militia, and navy, should be collected
and applied, and establishing regulations for settling
contested elections, declaring returns of Members, and
enforcing penalties for violations of the Art, proceeds
to determine that the sixteen Pears of Scotland, w•ho
shall he fleeted on the Ist day of September fo:liw-
lug, and the heirs male of their peerage shall continue
to sit in Parliament without any new election; and
that when any vacancy shall happen by the extincti in
•t' the male line, the vacancy shall be filled up by a
P or of Scotland chosen ley his brethren; but that
some who are otherwise Peers of Patliament hare a
right to vote for the election of a Peer of Scotlan I,
thyough Peers of Scotland, not elected to sit in Parlia-
ment, should he made capable of being created Peers
of tireat Britain, and they and their eldest sons should
be made eligible to seat, in Parliament fur any boroughs
iu the realm.

P KEA M iota.
" WHIRS:AI the LUZ, LIRE IT. end PROPS/ITT of
Pr :ry man is, or nay be, r.:rect.-41 by the law of the
land in whit}, he fires, and every man is bound to
pay obedience to the same :
ANL, WIIEREVI, by the Constitution of this king-
dom, the Itteit.T oP MAkINI: JAWS is vested in three
estates, of King, Lorite, and t onintune, in Parliament
assembled, and the consent of Al tl.e three said estates,
conoprehetnling the whole community, is necessary to
snake laws which bin.i the w!,u!e community :
" NU Wllitel4s the House of Commons repr. gents
ALI. Com moss of the realm, and the consent of
the House of Commons binds the consent of all the
Commun. of Inc realm, in all cues on which the legi-
slature is able ta decile :

" AND W18E1111.0% mto DAN is, ur ran be actually
represented. who bath nut a vote in the le.tion of Lis
Represcntatis e :
" AND %.IsritMAi it the 1111:111* of every cog-
maxim of this realm (infants, persons of insane mind.,
tsnd criniiii.sls incapacitated by law, wily occepteit) fn
larc a rr,t, in the election of the Representative, •liti
is to Kite his consent to the Malting of laws by
which he is to be bountl :

" AND Milt:I:EV: the number of persons who are
an rered to rote fur elect nl. the M 'ushers of the ilustac
of Commons, do not at this time amount to onr-ei.rth
part of the o hole ess. 1111 l out ',idols realm, %thereby far
the greater part of the •:ii.l t' ....stions ars. deprit ed yf
their right to elect their Representatives ; and tie
consent of the majority of the whole commuuity to the
passing of I ma is given by persons whom they have
not delegated for such purpose ; and the majority sat
the said c 11111 l nullity are governed by laws made by a
very small part of the said . u 1111 l utility, and to which
the said majority have nut, in f:et, consented, is:
themselves, or by their Representatives:
" Astu WHEREAS the state of elect. of Members
of the House of Commons, bath, in poem of time, so
grossly deviated from its simple and natural princi-
ples of representation and eqnalitv, that in several
places the Members are returned by the property of
Orr ohm: that th.s smallest boroughs 'end as many
.(embers as the largest counties ; and that a majority
of the Representatives of the whole nation are chits n
by a number of voters not es, ceding twelre tlgorralod:
Now Ft Mt REMEDY of such partial and unequal LONDON:
representation, anal of the many mischiefs which have 7141::'%DAT ILVENING, MAT 11, I9::0.
arises. therefloto ; and for restoring, asserting, anti ' ssserews--.
maintaining the RIGHTS or TIIK 4'4)31310NR of this We have this mornihr reerived Paris Papers to
realm, be it sled aril and enacted, and it is hereby de- !Tuesday. Those of Monday are unusually uninterest-
dared` &r. A I 'cc'', ewwissNrs. of this st.ithis (4.11- A•6' Letters f 3letx speak of a slight disturbance
cepting only infants, persons of insaue mind, and cri- i
w.sicis took place in the Theatre of that place ; it ap-
mina's incapacitated by law), bath a natorral, stmali.N-
aW, oad roma right to rule is the ctertioa of his peat* nut to have originated in any political.dilrer-
itepresentretiee in l'ailiameot: . enters: the reason assigned is, that notice had been
" AND WHF:REAS it was aceorded by statute in the. given for the performances to commence at six o'clock;
bomb
year of the reign of King Editaid the Thirst,
1
hat, for the accommodation of several families, a peat-
' 't bat a P.irliament should be holden every year ()nee,
and more often, if need I e ;' whirls statute was con-
ponensent of one hour occurred, and the 'persons as-
firmed by another statute passed is. the 361 b year of s .mbled, disappointed at this delay, began to thew
the reign of the said King Edward the Third; and their displeasnre by tumultuous noises, and were pro-
the practice in ancient times was fer writs to issue for certlin; to arts of chat-nee, when the civil authorities,
the election of a new Parliament every year:
a..companie.l by a body of soldiers, made their appear-
" AND WDEKEAS FREQUENI' ELECTIONS are
indispensably necessary to rnabii, the (',„„no„, to al. ance in the pit, and sneceetlei in restoring quiet.
ter and amend the choice of their Representatives as Si. Dar %%XS has nit arrived at Etiole, according to a
they may see occasion ; and such election% as may be report of the Jorraal etre Dc6ate: his residence is
consistent with the use of a representative hdy ; and atoll at Libourne. Oa Sunday night a person was
the ancient practice of elections is well calculated for
arrested by six p slice officers, while in the act of
such purpose:
" ANts a lIIREAS T ;earliest and Septennial Portia_ placing a rocket, containing two pounds of powder,
meat-, by reudrring the exercise of the rig. e. . for explosion in a frequented part of the liajlery of the
tint' less frequent, tend to wake the Rep Louvre. 'I he Persian Ambassador was present on
les:: dependant on their constituents, that. t • Manilas. evening at a brilliant fete given by a 31.
ought to be; and also deprive the 4' .mm s •
~,... '
Boom.. His Excellency is accompanied by a young
yearn after they come of age, of their
Persian, who is a great admirer of the French man-
electing their owl. Representatives: lie I 16.
and enacted, That the ELKCTION of . f. fa ners. A Frankfort article, dated May 3, mentions a
*Erre e.a the Howse of Commons 0a,41 to be iferihrlL. report current at Rome, that the Queen of Engl..n I,
By this Bill it was proposed— -, . • after being Oceived in London, and recognized by
That the number of Members sbullWllantinue, as
the various Courts, will return and fix her resi-
they then were, at 554:
dence at Heine. On Saturday, in the Chamber of
That to ascertain the whole number of Commoners
in the kingdom having a right to vote, therniuistor of Deputies, the report was made on the new Electiou
each parish should read the Act proposed in his pr.frt, after much opposition from the Liberal party.
parish church. every Sunday in the oeselng moath of The printing and distribiciou of the projet was agreed
November: to, and Monday, the lath iushutt, was fixed fur its
That on the Ist of December the minister and
•littenssion.
churchward-
make out -ordiug to 50121 e Papers. no less that $4, bat, ai-
usual resilience to others, 79, Deputies inscribed their names
upwards, against the projet. anti 33 in favour of it.
parishes, •
prospect to an anxious eager public ! Oue
Members
and seventeen written speeches or essays, of
they swore
Great Britain, and of the age of 41 years: various lengths, to be delivered in an assembly, which
That these lists should be transmitted to the twelve allows only three or four hours' time fur each day's
Judges, who shonld divide the total number of per- sitting!!
sons so returned by the number 555, beiag the num-
FustYru Fumns—(SATURDAY). Five per Cents.
her of Members to be el... Pen; and the quotient found
should be adjudged to the number of persons having 73 f. 6U c.•, Bunk Actions, 151)3 E Mc.
a right to elect one Member of Parliament:
That the Judges preceeel to compute the number of
persons who have a right to vote in each county, and
to determine the number of Members to be elected by
it ; and the Wand Jury of every county, according to
the population, proceed to distribute into districts the
a .reran parishes of their county, and that these several
districts he adjudged to be, and be called Soreness,
an.: that to each borough be affixed the name df the
principal parch in such borough :
That each of the said boroughs be entitled to elect
one Member to serve in the Commons House of Parlia-
ment, and no more ; and no county, city, or borough,
other than directed by this Art, be in future entitled
to send any knight, eitlien, or burgess to Parliansebt :
That tie returning officer of cads borough cause
proclamation to he toude, -n the 15th of May, in each
parish within his borough, that the day axed for
eitoos.ne a new Parliament is that of September fal-
lowing ; and that every person intending to otter blew
self as a candidate for the said borough. and dilly
sinalitied, is to send him a deelaratims of his raid inten-
tion ; and t!.at it be lawful for the inhabitants of tbe

frpt ettp tattOntait.
INC ISSITISIII sTATES/111.?... 1. INCoRPOISAILD WITH "
FATtslisol.”

We received this usorning American Papers to the
13th April.
(room TNII MiIMARTHA ADVIRTISIIII)
The Wsshington C'i►y arzette gives a report that
Oetieral Five' is the bearer of the ratified treaty ceding
the Florida', and that the explanations required are
unimportant.
en/gauss, /Mtn 7.

NtVICIATION L1...--The Senate resumed the COS-
sifter-ado% of the Bill sappletaentary to tke Act eon-
erraing navigation. M. Pane, after a kie rentarks,
to shew the propriety of his motion, proposed so to
amend the Bill as to extend its provisions to all ports
and places in Upper or Lower Canada ; bat sahse-
quently rhauged it so as to apply as Lower Canada
only. The Bill was Het postponed to Monday.
WAsatxr; eon, Man 11.—n* Clary d'Affain of
th• King of the Netherlatids has left Wasltingtes, and
will embark at New York on his wane to Narepe.
(roan 11111 aoaeon PAP/ Rale Tx. I STII o► *PIM.)
The French frigate, Cleopatra, has sailed from Oaa-
dalospe for Margaretta, to demand the reketse of two

Hens and over4eers of each parish shook! difensmot
a list of the names, ajto: Accost
of the men of cording I
who shall on that to Frt.::
and eilllta 'ill Ina( a
of Parliameot, and take an oath Ityl.lswlg
.e goat they were natnral born subjects of I bested
- • 1 parions I!