The Statesman.
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lot Heil wills the privily:- of voting, b:,.i. in 1x.% no mare who were expectedl it would not be expedient to
riossiscoaaplein :am, ie.s.e Catholics of nohlin or ('ork, or dor„. the ,onsideratioe of the subject to 'Op e fas
a as, it er city or ism ae ho were not admitted to a participa- '`• '
)6..1, of cu privileges a the Corporatimi, and he denied that tune occasion. The House, indeed, was hardy pre-
the-act of 1793 ever pro;io..ed to interfere kt it Is the chartered pared to go into for of the '• ireturns, a't ,
rights cf any place oliateser. The Honourable Member con- (erred to by the Right Hon. Baronet, only one' he
tinned with moviiis aii amendment, that the Bill be read
:Isccond time on this day six months, which amendment was believed, that relating to the Court of King's Bench,
agrced to. was in the possession of Members. •
Mr. PEELE obtained leave and brought in a Bill to amend
fne Irish insolvent Debtors' Mill ; also a Bill to repeal and Mr. PONSONBY•said he was glad to hear the
amend the several Laws with revrtl.to the Recovery of Wages Honourable Gentleman say he had no objection to
doe iu Irelcud ; also a Lill to amend the Act of the s.)th of Fite the princip ,le. of the measure because such mOtions
flirg, with respect to Mail Cisache4 ; also a Bill to amend the
4 ,ii lathe Jilrfglor improving the City of Duhlinauil Its environs. as the present were of the utmost use to the public,
These Bills were 'rad a first, and ordered to be read a second by calling the attention of Parliament from time to
• tittles
time to the various abuses that existed. He had no
' • At r. L A MBTON presented a Petition against any change in
, the Cart, laws from the town of Sunderland, which was, he doubt his Right Honourable Friend would willingly
• 1„;.s. ..; .4. ;...i 11% 5,11.1 perso's. .
concur in the wish expressed by the Honourable
Sir l'. I' 1i1? it ELI. took this occasion of stating, that very ,
Irwmper means !In.! :tet•ii wed in obtain signatures to some of 1 t;entleman, for postponing the discusslon at present.
' the Petitions present',' • . !h.• !low.e upon this subject. In One Mr. PEELE explained, and begged Oat he might
' instance, that of the town .if '‘elso, he was &wowed by the most I
I not be understood as giving any pledge\to snipped
roe cetable authoriky, that the sizi re ettures of children were ac-
' :totally annexed to the Petition—nay, even French prisoners ! the principle of the motion. He had merely stated
seers resorted to in order to swell the lists of the Petitioners.— l that he did not object to the motion being discussed.
aseil, pr similar impositions upon the House ought, he felt, to . Sir
he folly exposed. 1 iJ. NEWPORT then withdrew his Resolutions,
, - :... gention was ordered to lie on the table. I and fixed them.for that day se'nnight.
FlihiS tpk.' TILL COURT Of JUSTICE. i Mr. HOME SUMNER moved for leave to bring
• Sir J. NEWPORT began, by declaring his our- !in a Bill to enable Magistrates to baild proper places
' prise to learn, that doubts were expressed by some jto preserve Public Records, &c.
I . lotions as to the right of that House to make any! Mr. Bankes, Sir C. Monck, and Mr. C. Wynne,
. ,uijelry reyeeting the Fees received in the Courts 9f , stated their objections to the object of the proposed
Jassice. For such doubts could not possibly be en. i gill.
testained by silt oit:'e acquainted with the recorils Mr. H. SUMNER said, that he had moved for
' or the doles of Parliament. In the 27th Report of , leave merely in consequence of instructions he had
' the Finance Committee, there was a distinct decla- received, but that as it appeared to be contrary to
ration of the right and duty of Parliament to enquire the sense of the House, he had no wish to push it.—
into, in older to check great abuses, and to regu- He therefore withdrew his motion.
' , latkihe fees or charges made by the officers of the : WOOL BILL.
• several Courts; and the Interposition of that House Previously to committing this Bill,
aeon Otis subject in 1664 and 1693, was recorded i Mr. HUSKISSON, after a few observations, in
oa the Journals. Therefore'he felt that he was fol. which he painted out various vexatious proceedings
lowing various precedents mid pet forming his duty ; which prevailed under the law as it now stood, with
to the public, in moving this Session for a return of •:. regard to the retinuel of wool Irons one place to
' • the fees received by the several officers belonging to , another, moved that it should be an instruction to
the diffeteut Courts of Great Britain. The House ' the Committee to repeal so much of the said Act as
had thought proper to adopt his motion,and' among. related to the removal of wool.
the returns made in pursuance of its order, he was . The House resolved itself into the Committee, and
:
• concerned to say, because he must conceive it to the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow
proceed from error, that some of them were mani- (this day). •
fatale erroneous. For instance, the return from the , Mr. W. FITZGERALD brought- up the Irish
Clerk of the Rules of the Court of King's Bench ' Treasury Bills Bill for raising the sum of 1,716,6561.
stated, that there had been no additional fees in that' which was read a first time, and ordered to be read
department since the returns made in 1798, although a second time to-morrow (this day).
from a hill of costs which he held in his hand, there , APPRENTICE LAWS. •
had been a•considerable augmentation. In 1798, the Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW moved, that the Order of
: the Day should be read for the louse resolving itself
charge for a Rule was only 2s. 6d. whereas it now
amounted to 4s. and of this increase it appeared ex- : into a Committee to consider of the sth Elizabeth.
t:aordinary, that when the Legislature imposed a Mr. LOCKHART said that Counsel were waiting
tat of one shilling, the Clerk of the Rules thought to,be•beard at the bar in behalf of 'certain artificers
reper to add sixpence for his own profit. Thus an and journeymen who had petitioned that. noose
'•• otfice,whichlaccording to the report of 1793, yielded against any alteration of the law as it now stood.
• 29001. a year, had received as additional revenue of Mr. Alderman ATKINS wished that the discussion
: F 3 8. at the espence of the suitors for justice, and should tie postponed to a future day, considering the
this too in an office that was „saleable. The return great importance of the measure itself, and the very
ustu from the Maisha I of the Court of King's Bench . few Members who were present.
' waapqnsilly erroneous, forto the fees which amount- ' Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW objected to any delay.
el in 1198,10 131. 4d. to less than 7s. had been since Sufficient notice had been given of the whole measure,
ambled., Yet the return distinctly stated, that no and it had been deferred from day to day already,
cintoge whatever had taken place, and this it was to so often, that he thought himself warranted in press-
• be recollected was an office held by the son of the ing the consideration of it now. With regard to the
Chief Judge, and executed by Deputy. The return Petitions that had been presented, very., few of the
from the Clerk of Xisi Pries was also erroneous, for persons signing them were really affected by the pro-
there ton it was stated, that no change had taken posed alteration. He had looked into sixteen or
• place since 1798, although the fees which then seventeen of them, and found that to be the case with
amounto, to 15s. had been since augmented to 229. all of them. In one, the wool.conabers of Devon-
SA this office too was held by a son of the Chief shire prayed that no repeal might take place, when,
Judge. Upon loch extraordinary returns from these in fact, a repeal had actually taken place four years
offices, which were either saleable or held by the ago with respect to all the woollen manufacturers of
Chief Judge's own relatives, he (Sir J. N.) did not, England and Wales.
think fit to make any comment. With respect to the ; After a few words from General GASCOIGNE,
. who woke in favour of going into the discussion,
Court of Cnancery it was remakable, he said, that
no return whatever had, up to this hour, been made i the House resolved itself into the CiAnmittee.
from that Court. Then as to the Irish Courts, there j Counsel was called in ; *heist •
had been no enquiry since the Union, although that' Mr. Alderman ATKINS said that if the Corn-
measure rendered 'enquiry more necessary. For the mittee persisted in hearing Counsel, on so important
House was not to learn that whenever abuse was , a measure, and with so small an attendance of Mem-
likely to occur it was most to be apprehended in.! bers, he should feel it his duty to move that the
places remote from the seat of Sovereignty, because , Committee be counted.
there it was less exposed to observa•ion. In referring A coaversation ensued, in which Sir F. Flood,
to the proceedie.;s of the several Colitis, its cense- Mr. Serjeaut Onslow, Sir J. Newport, and Mr. Pro-
. quence of the order respecting fees, a fact had beets . theroe participated, when Mr. Alderman Atkins
communicated to him, stsich was of a very peculiar' moved, that the Committee should be•counted. It
character indeed. The Chief Judge of one of these was accordingly done, and there being only 27 Mem-
• Courts ordered the officers connected with it :sot to . bers present, the House adjourned of course.
make any return to that House until previously re-
vised by him ; and this Judge, upon seeing a stale-
meet in one officer's return of a sum received for
a search, immediately expunged that, observing, that
this sum %pas a gratuity, and not a fee ; to another
ollicer also, this Judge observed, that a tee which
had been. received for twenty years was truly a new
fee, and, therefore, not within the view of the or-
der of the House, which referred only to the aug.
mentation of fees.—[.l lattgh.]—These officers had
in consequencs made no returns, from a proper feel-
ing of unwillingness to make any returns inconsistent
with the sense and spirit of the order of the House..
The Right Honourable Baronet here took a review
of t;!e conduct of the Scotch Courts, and observed,
that from the returns before the House it appeared j
that' the Lords of Sessions had thought proper, of
their own authority, to order a fee of 3s. to be ex-
acted for every-paper presented to their Clerks, al.'
though the Act of 1810 contained a schedule of fees,
with which schedule this order was quite inconsist-
ent. This additional fee, which served to put about
30001.8-year into the pockets of half a dozen Clerks,
and which, in fact, imposed a tax upon suitors, he
thought an extraordinary assumption, upon which it'
would be for Parliament to decide. Into these seve-
ral points he did not, ,at this late period of the Ses-
sion, prepese any specific enquiry, but he felt it ne-
cessary that the House should declare its opinion
upon the subject. The Right Honourable Baronet
then moved a series of Resolutions declaratory of
the various points urged in the course of his speech.
Upon the first Resolution being read by the
SPEAKER,
Mr. PEELE rose, and suggested to the Right Ho-
nourable Baronet the propriety of postponing the dis-
cussiott to some future period. Front the short no-
tice that had been given, it was impossible that the
House could have anticipated the nature of the Re-
solutions, the first of which he decidedly cr,:,,11 ;oiled.
He did not rise to oppose the motion, but only to
put it to the Right Honourable Baronet, w hether,
consisidering the thin state of the House, and the
absence of the Ministers of the Crown, necessarily
caused by the arrival of the illustrious personages

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1814.

The Moniteur of the sth inst. arrived this morn-
ing, containing the New French Constitution, which,
in some respects, will be found to resemble the
English. It is, however, in some of its features,
very different; and, particularly, in that which gives
the initiation of Laws to the King.
Ness, JUNE 4.—The King, with his suite, went
this day to the Palace of the Legislaive. Discharges
of artillery announced his arrival at half-past
two o'clock. The Marquis de Dreux-Brese, Grand
Master of the Ceremonies ; the Marquis de Roche-
more, Master of the Ceremonies ; preceded by 2tl
Deputies of the Departments, met his Majesty at
the foot of the great portico. The King, after hav-
ing rested a short time in his .apartment, proceeded
into the Hall of the Sitting. On his entrance, in-
cessant cries of Vive le Roi! Vivenl les Bourbons!
were heard, and uttered with an inexpressible and
indescribable energy. His Majesty was seated on
the Throne, having on his right hand the Duke
d'Angouleme; on his left the Duke de. Berri; on the
right of the Duke de Berri was the Duke d'Orleans ;
on the left of the Doke de Berri was the Prince de

Conde ;• the Chancellor was in his p.m chair,, the " Ile is far from entertaini
Gond
,Master and the Assistants of the Ceremonies ecutive power should not
mere in their usual station,: :Two the clerical manner as always existed
IPeers, and six of the lay- ones; ' the Ministers, himself provides an eats!
Secretaries' of State; the Maribals of France, and offers equally a guarantee
the First Inspectors-General ; a Deputation of the guard to royalty. He or
Grand Cordon, and great Officers of the Legion.of chief of the great famil,
Honour; a Deputation of the Lieutenant-Generals He himself will give to
OW Field-Marshals were seated upon benches un- Charter conformable to
tierneath and on each side of the Throne ; the ; and the respective situation
Senators, the Members of the House of Lords, who enthissiasm with which the
had received sealed letters from his Majesty ; and the -the spontaneous eagerness
Departmental Deputies Were seated in the form of a taryanthorities, have cony
crescent, fronting the throne. I truth, that France was
The Assembly stood uncovered. The King was I
and regarded the power
seated and covered ; by a motion he invited all to be power necessary to its hal
seated ;—a profound silence ensued. 44 His Majesty, therefni
His Majesty spoke as follows : tween him and his people
" When, for the first time, I am amongst you, the ties of love, mutual
surrounded by the Great Authorities of the State, their engagements. France
I the Representatives of a Nation, which is continir- tecting power, without
!ally showing me the most affecting proofs of its love, ing oppressive ; the King
I congratulate myself for having become the dis- subjects—always free and
penser of the blessings which Divine Providence rity should
.have .I;ficienk
deigns to grant to my people. ! ties, compress all factions,
" I have made peace with Austria, Russia, Eng- mies which may threaten
land, and Prussia, in which all their Allies are corn- ness. The nation may,
prehended, that is to say, all the Princes of Chris- rantee against all those
tendon'. As the war was universal, so will -be the of which she has so long
peace. The rank which France has always held amongst situation of the kirsgdot
nations, is still preserved. undisputed. The security !storms, requires some precau
which tither States enjoy is equally her own, and,. mosities—to prevent all
consequently, adds to her.power.• The conquests of interests—to induce all F
France, which have been given up, do not diminish lirion of the past, and a
her real strength. Theglory, of the French armies "•Such; Gentlemen,
is untarnished; the monuments of their valour ex- with which has been revisA
ist; and the master-pieces of art in future belong to ter, which the'King hays of
us, by rights more stable and more sacred than those old Senate and the last
of victory. : first authority has ceased
" The ways of commerce so long closed are about which bad established it,
to be opened.' The French market will no longer be enjoy with the King's as*
confined to produce of her own soil and industry.—' and already done away *
Those which habit have rendered necessary to her, (members ire, nevertheless;
or which the exercise of her arts requires, will be iof the kingdom. This Ki
provided by her restored territories. She will no them by chusing from am,
longer be reduced to their privation, or the procur- ; their confidence, and mei
ing of them by ruinous conditions. Our manatee- the public esteem.
tures are about to revive ; our sea-ports to have new their wisdom ; tied+. ow
life ; and every thing promises us a long state of trap- vat iota' many impoont of
quillity abroad, and a durable felicity at home, will ; "It is the enanieitoWs
be the happy fruits of peace. A painful retrospect of which they were a t
always troubles my joy. I was born, and I flatter- going to be laid before yo‘.
ed myself to remain ull my life, the most devdted to the two [louses created
subject of the best of King ; and I now fill his jto all the Tribune's, as wel
'place! But, however, he is not wholly dead; he doubt not, Gentlemen* to
still lives in the testamentary legacy which he be:. enthusiastic gratitude, w!
queathed for the instruction of that august and un- 'Capital, will be 'felt "to tl
fortonatcaild, whose successor i was destined to dom."
iteoorao. ft Is with a fixed regard for that immortal After this discourse; ti
WOOL"; penetrated with the sentiments which dictated Ferranti, Minister' of Ev
Aaided by the experience, and seconded by the court- I the King respecting the C
la of many amongst you, I have revised the Consti- I dressed to the French mitt
tetional Charter which is about to be read to you, and The King informs them,
which fixes upon solid bases the prosperity of the called for by the actual at
state. My Chancellor will detail the particulars of -then stites, that having rec,
my paternal intentions." b in the King, he appro'
It would be difficult to describe the effect of this says, that his ancestors
speech. Cries of Vice k Rol!. resounded frOm all acted upon this principle.
's I ides. . • reformations due to the pi

The King then commanded his Chancellor to lay
before them the Constitutional Charter.
The Chancellor spoke as follows
66 GENTLEMEN, SENATORS !—You have just heard
the most affecting words, and the paternal inten-
tions of his Majesty ; it is for his Ministers to make
the necessary subsequent important communications.
What a magnificent and affecting spectacle of a King
ho needs our respect only by the aid of his virtues :
who displays the imposing aspect of royalty for the
purpose of bringing to his people, exhausted by 25
years of misfortunes, the so much desired blessings
of an honourable peace, and the not less procious
one of a reforming ordinance, by which he extin-
guishes all parties at the same time that he supports
all rights.
" Many years have passed since Di►ine Provi-
dence called our Monarch to the throne of his fathers.

The rights and prerogative
sary to the welfare of t
the Deputies is replaced .b.
i the Champ de Mars and le
I thus :—" Firm in our per
science, we pledge (nisei
be faithful to this Cons
ling to ourselves to take th
is new solemnity on the all
, in his hands the destinies
i 4‘ For these reasoniwe.haye
i free exercise of our Royal
! do decree, concede and ,
i well for us us for our auL
following Constitutional Chart
THE PUBLIC RIGHTS '
1 Art. 1. The French are all eq,
I ever may he their titles or their

At the epoch of this itent, France, led astray by
false theories, distracted by the spirit of intrigue,
blinded by the shadowy forms of liberty, was be•
' come the prey of all factions, the theatre of all ex-
cesses, and a prey to the most horrible convulsions
of anarchy. She has successively made experiments
of different forms of Government, till at last the
weight of her evils has brought back that paternal
Government, which, for fourteen ages, has consti-
tuted her glory and her happiness.
" The breath of God has overthrown that colos-
sus of, power which has oppressed all Europe ; but,
under the ruins of a gigantic 'edifice, more speedily
destroyed thin raised, France has discovered the
immoveable foundations of her ancient monarchy. It.
Is upon this sacred basis that we must now erect a du-
rable edifice, which time, nor the hands of man shall
be able to destroy. It is the King who becomes,
more than ever, the corner-stone, round whom all
Frenchmen ought to rally. And what King ever
'merited better their obedience and their. fidelity?
Recalled to his states by the unanimous wishes of
the people, he has conquered them without arms,
he has subjugated them by love, and united all minds
and all hearts..
" In full possession of his hereditary rights over
this beautiful kingdom, be wishes to exercise the au-
thority which he holds from God and his father only
by salutary restraints upon his power.

2. They contribute without
property to the Fstates.
S. They are all equally admiral'
ployments.
4. Individual liberty is. equally
prosecuted and arrested but .ia ►`
and the forms it prescribes.
5. Every profession of religion

protection.
6. The Apostolic and Roman
the religion of the State.
7. The Ministers of the Catholic
Persuasions", are paid •ut of the
8. Frenchmen to have the right
their sentiments, conformable to•
abuse of this liberty.
9. All property is inviolable;
which is cdled national, the law
10. The State may require the
the public interest, legally expressed
conditional indemnity.
11. All disquisitions and °pint
the time of the'ltcstoration, a're
is enjoined on the tribunals and the citizens.
12. The Conscription is abolis'vel.
the army and navy is determined by a la'
FORMS of the GO VERNMEN'
13. The person of the King is inviol
Mini•ters are responsible. To the King
cotive Power.
14. The King is the head of the Estate
the Forces by sea and land : declares
peacei alliance, and commerce; appin
administration.; and makes the regulat,
the execution of the laws and the surety _
15;lbc Legislative .Puwer is exercised

rtaining the iden,pothwnadet.tba
ittebd ei
twi ioseulryccohrenctkiteudt,joi gin. now I
set: btlois ht
the
nation,
toi
ofn
, aonly wishes to be the to
etaii
r: ick
ily of which he is the fattier.
to Fraric6 a Constitutiowst
o their wishes, their wantei,
ion of men and things. T.
the King has been recel,&
less of all the civirattd
onrinced his Majesty of this
s monarchical by sentimenti
r of the crown as a tutelly
appiness.
.efore, fears no distrust be.'
?pie ; inseparably united!),
confidence will cement di
°once requires a Royal pro.
the possibility of its been.
•
tig requires free and twilit
id equal in his eyes. Ands.'
°
ent power to crush all par. 1
Dos, and confound the eat.
:en iter repose and hap*
require a •goe.
, on its part,
s.
kinds of. abuses, the evils
ig experienced. The pretest
)m, after so. many years of ,
recant ions to appease rill ani,
reactions—to consolidate all
Frenchmen to a gonerousobs
a general reconciliation. •
is the truly. peternal spire
ised the Constitutional Char,
ordered me to lay before tho
t Logisletiee Body. If the
?d to-exist with the power
it ; if -the wood can oily
authority uncertain powers,
with in many respects, these
95, chosen from the notables
King hii:Jfitewise consulted'
nougat thein the members ofj
Ore than once pointed oat to
hail thus -.Celled to his hid'
Wed4.o their Trofeund oboe.
additions! •
labourof the tommisslen,
constituent part, which. is -
ou, and.: which will be sent
ed by the ConstituthMiund
.veil as the linuicipilltleis. I .
but it will excite in you an
-hid, front the bosom of the
the extremities of the king.
the Chancellor gave to M.
ilstate, the Proclamation of
'Constitutional Charter, ad•
den, which he read. k
or, that a Constitution wet
state of the kingdom. He
recognized all enthority to
ayes of its modifications, and
at ditfe.teitt periods have
e: He has appreciated the
arescnt statelef knowledge.
tett of the 'Crown are
the people. The Of 1,
by the ancient assemblies of
fe Mai. lie then concludes
worposel strong in our con.
Ives before this Assemhlyto
;titutional Charter, resew.
he oath for its rapport vvith_
(tars of that Being who has •
of Kings and Nations.
have voltratari,y, and of Of
LI Authority, dicreea, set
grant' to '.our iitibjectsr as
kccessors, 'and for eser, the
Charter :
TS OF FRENCtIMEN,
qual in the eye of the law, what
r rank.
distinction their proportion of
missible to civil and military c*
ally guaranteed ; nobody can be
the cases designated by the laW, •
m enjoys equal liberty and,eqttal '
a Catholic religion is, bowevet,
olle Religion, and those of other
to Royal Treasury.•
tilt of printing and publi hine
to- tile laws which represi the
; without any • everptioo to that
w making no distinction-.
he sacrifice of property, should
pressed, demand it ; but with a
pions of the state of things up to ~•
e ft:Bidden. The saws ()Widest
the citizens. • •
The Mode of rectal:sot
dbyalaw.,
. .
RN NI ENT of the ICING'.
is inviolatile and sacred. • Tits_
the King solely belongs the Eli.-
the Estate ; he , is Commapder•rf
eclares war; mikes treatir (•f •
!; appoints to all 011{V1 • I
!. regulations ai;d ordinance.
he surety of itte
is sserciscd conjointly by the
•
• _ •-
,