The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-27 00:00:00

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jects of the Society had received the eulogy of many
distinguished characters. The late Lord Ellenborougla
in particular, had expressed his conviction of its utility.
There watt not in his opinion, any undue severity exer-
cised in the case immediately before the Howe. If the
parties will go on, determined to repeat their offences,
strong means were necessary to restrain them. It wag
not to be expected, that when one party refused to con-
cede that the Government should give way. Cartile
boasted that he was stronger than the law. Re said'eo,
because he relied on the clemency of British law. He
(Ur. W.) entreated the House to protect the blessing*
which religion gave to society, and which, he as the ta.
ther of a family, so we 1 hoew the value. The House
wodld'aevir, in'his opinion, discharge its duty better to
the country and to itself, than by preserving the religiod
of the State.
The petition Wal then laid upon the table.
Mr. HUME then moved that the petition he printed,
and'thok that occasion to ohserve some snrprise at the
;speech of the Honourable Gentleman who hat just vat-
down. How he could derlare his hatred of religions
,persecution, and an approtation of prosecution fur reli;
litmus opinions at the same moment, was to hint astoni.h.
ling. if lie appealed to the House as the fatherof a fa-
mily, lie should have considered that the peace of his
;family was to be endangered by the spreading of those
opinions which prosecution was certain to effect. These
opinions were elevated into importance by prosecution'
ralone; they should be treated, as a celebrated writer re-
commended, with neglect. and he allowed to sink into
ObsCurity. Blackstone said that all prosecufous for re.
ottl Ist) tearftautrihy
ietno
Societygd for the Sluipep‘resn-vas-
some instancee, but it
Honourable Gentleman here read the charge of the Bi-
shop of London, in January, IS2'2, and took the liberty
lint
13gotii:uuonsfw opinions Nil Ililcnehtaod were contrary
barn useful
was against the principle generally lie contended. The
of recommending it strongly to the attention of the Hon.
Gentleman who bad last spoken, and to the House
genet ally.
me. W. W. WYNN supported tho necessity of mea-
Imes to restrict the circulation of immoral or irreligious
Iprt &tenons.
The petition was then ordered to be printed.
FOREIGN POLICY.
1 Mr. CANNING said, with reln-enee to the meets:-
tien of the previons staring, that lie wished to state, that
on Monday, the 1-Ith of Ap•il. he would lay the papers
alluded to on the table, and call the attention of the
House to the
.general policy of the country, with respect
to foreign affairs. He took that opportunity of repeating
the assertion which he made on the previoas evening.—
Upon an exdruina,ion of all the treaties by which this
country was bound to any stave in cowinental policy, he
found, that there was no treaty of that nature which had;
not been already laid l-fore the House. One of those
treaties contained a stipulation, by which this country'
was bound to swim in preventing It ranee from again fall-
-1 ing into the hands of the Bonaparte family
; this should
Ihe considered rather as a negative than a podtive stiles:
I team). The other treaty contained a stipulation, by
which the Allies were bound to consult upon measures of
expediency in cage of another revolution in France.
Mfr. BbANET inquired to what mattes the Bight
lion. Gentleman allotted.
Mr, CANNING replied, the treaty signed in November,
1515, at Paris.
51r. WARRE wished to ask if any treaty took place in
1813, at Aix la Chapelle, further than a confirm awl of
the treaty of 1615. The papers laid on the table were
.merely confirmatory of that treaty.
Mr. CANNING had no hesitation in saving, that the
treaty of ISIS, at Aix la Chapelle, was exacily conforms-
-I,ble to that of Paris in MIS. The only reason why lie
bad made any statement at present was, that he ;
express-
ed himself on the day befare with come reserve, which
every man had a right to do who to as obliged to tax his
4ecoMection on the instant.
Lord A. HAMILTON said that he understool it was
the intention of the Right Hon. Secretary to move the
adjournntent of the Rouse from to-morrow (this day)
to that day fortnight. As he considered that so long a
recess at the present moment objectionable, he would
oppose it if such were the Right Hun. Secretary's in-
tention.
Mr. CANNING said that he would certainly propose
an adjournment to Thursday fortnight.
A MEMBER, whose came we could not learn, asked
the Right Hon. Secretary (Mr. Peel) -if any steps were
taken to correct the abuses existing in cotton factories ?
If nothing had been done, it was his intention to subunit
a motion on the subject.
Mr. PEEL replied that he could not say any thing at
present for the purpose of dissuading the Honourable
Gentleman from submitting toy motion be thought
proper.

COMMISSARS COURTS OP SCOTLAND.
Lord A. HAMILTON moved, after a few remarks, for
leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the inferior Commis-
sary Courts in Scotland.
The LORD ADVOCATE said that he had been
engaged fur months past in preparing a Bill on the
subject, and the Bill was at that moment in the hands of
the Clerks.
Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
Lord A. HAMILTON wished to have the Lord Advo-
cate joined with him in preparing the Bill.
The LORI) ADVOCATE refused to lend his name
to it, upon the ground that he might possibly oppose
some of its enactments daring its progress.
The SPEAKER said it was the invariable custom
of the House not to intrust the Bill to one Member.
The name of Mr. J. Macdonald was then added to
that of Lord Archibald Hamilton for bringing in the
Bill.

BURGH OF INVERNESS.
Lord A. HABILLTON regretted the thin state of
the
the
House on the present occasion, when, pursuant to
notice he had given, he had to bring forward a !po-
llen which lie considered of great importance, both on
account of the number of individuals it affected and the
'principles which it involved. He proceeded to call the
attention of the House to the ca'e of the Rural Burgh
of Inverness. An election of hlagistrates had talutt
place in that Burgh in the year 1817. Three of the per-
sons elected were ineligible to 'sit as Counsellors. In
consequence of this legal proceedings were instituted,
and the election was set aside by legal process. As soon
as the election had been declared void, managers were
appointed, as was the custom, and subsequently a Crown
warrant was issued, by which the same persons were re-
turned to the Magistracy who had previously boos turn-
ed out. He did not **tin to say that under this warrant
precisely the same individuals were nerminsted who hail
been improperly elected before, bait the bulk of them
were the same. The principle thus acted upon he
thought most injurious, and one that ought nut to be
countenanced. What he complained of wits, that no
sooner did the inhabitants of the Burgh gain a legal
triumph, then the Crown warrant undid all .diet had
been &Me, and reinstated the parties objetted to iu the
situations from which they had hems removed. He coo.
plumed 6f the 'hardship of the case that the Royal
Burghs of Scotland, when they gained legal redresfro
had to pay first their own law espenses, then those of
their opponents, and after tit& paying for befit aides.
the Crown warrent came to make a 1 they had done use
He supported his view of the-Object by:retetriet
to the authorities of Mr. Witite,LOYd Callender (*dodge)
and Lord ArOittbn (a J edge also), and proved for `Tutu
that the. practice of which he complained wat MVO, or,
if not illegal, uneonstitutioaal. lie thought heltid net,
to eek Why the Actof the 16:h kleorge tie Second wbwit
had been famed to .e.liord the •Rnak DIN
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