The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-03 00:00:00

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110CSE OP LORDlK—Wouser, Aeon 2.
• Visrosnit HAMPDEN presented a Petition from the
Corners awl ()tenpins of Laud in the parish of Christ.
esarrh and others in the Comity of Sasser. complaining
L Agricultnral Distross.—Read and laid on the table.
Mr. IRTINo, from the Costomahmese, presented an
AL- count of all Ootels, the produee of the Feat Indiet
sad China, imported. into Great Britain during the
. tear ending the sth of January, 1821.—Laid on the
table.
Mr. Bever, from the Offiee of the Clerk of the
Fware for Middlesex, informed the Howie, that perm-
1..ct0 its order, search bad been made for the records
r) the conviction of Sir Manaseh Lopes and others,
L.A. that they had not been found, having been re-
v, ;red by Certiorari into the Court of King's Bench.
Sir M. %% Ramer, and other Members, renamed
the Grampoand Witnesses Indemnity Bill, and in-
famed their Lordsliips that it had been agreed to by
the Commons.
Mr. Agave Soren, and Sir E. Hanece, then
brought up from the Commons several Bills. which
w-!re read•a first time.
Lori tiRANVILLE presented a Petition from the
Attorneys of the County of Stafford, praying that
some alteration might be made in the law for the
Recovery of Small Debts.—Lurid on the table,
WOOL. TAX.
Tilre Marquees of LANSDOWNE held various
' Petitions from the Clothiers in the Woollen trade, of
several towns in the West of England. praying for
the removal of the Wool Tax. As far as he had been
able to collect information on that subject, it appeared
to hint that the Wool Tax, though intended for the
protection of Agriculture, hail not answered its object;
taLilat it had proved injurious to the manufacturing
inreieets, by making foreign countries indisposed to
' to receive our foods. He admitted, therefore, that
theisanufacturing interests ramp to the House with a
fair claim for relief, but he wished that they would
take a more enlightened viewer the subject themselves
and agree to the free exportation of Wool. If they
andeistond their real intere.ts properly, they would not
object to the opening of our ports, and he had no
tionht that both their Lordships and the other house
would enter into the saute 'view, and would consent to
withdraw a Tax which, without being productive, was
deeply itsjutions to the trade, and aeriously affected the
policy of the country.
The Petitions were then read, and laial on the table.
The Bishop of CHESTER presented a Petition
from the Archdeacoary and Chapter of Chester against
the Citholic nn the table.
The Earl of FORTESCUE presented a Pet:tion
from the Borough of Plymouth, praying for a revision
ut the Criminal Laws.—Laid on the table.
The Irish Witchcraft Law Repeal Bill went through
a Committee, and the Report tras received.
The Earl of CARNARVON, fooling that the Re-
cords of Convictions, for which he had moved, had
been removed by certiorari into the Court of King's
Bench, moved, that :he proper Officer be directed to
search for them—Agreed to—Adjourned.

OfILIRFS ON THE NORTH BANK OF THE

REASONS
AGAINST THE PROPOSED REPEAL OF so 141:01 OF AN
ACT Or TUE TONNTY•SECONI) vrsr. tor RING IDARLts
TOR RECORD, AS RESTRAINS IDE PROPRIETORS OF
Loxtoox-aninca AND TILE TEN-
'LE, rains ERECTING ANT BUILDINGS OR INCLOSCRES
TIIRAEON. •
First—Because it is* Bill for the exclusive bt•nefit
of Individual., to the prefreirt of the Public Bight.
Secondly—Becanse it will sanction the Building
over the remaining Open Spaces on the Side of the
P.;ver, which have existed since the Fire of London.
'flairdly—Because the proprietors of wharfs and
round taken to form the key or public and open
o hart pitestiant to the Act of 23d Charles 11. cap. I I.
r•ceivesi an equivalent in money, or by the ienvr,ove-
o ^nt.or exchange of their property, under decrees of the
Couitof Jntlicature erecteol for that purpose ; by which
an area of forty feet of open quay was purchased on
hi half of the pnMic, and confirmed to them for ever
Ly divers Arts of Parliament, and by the Royal antilop-
vitv, as recorded in his Majesty's Court of Exchequer,
and by. other Acts of the State.
Footrthly—llecause any attempted justification of
C.o.' Bill, on the plea that invasions of the Act of 2.4 d
u; Charles 11. cap. I I, have taken place to a great ex-
tent, and therefore the remaining open spaces should
be allowed to be inclosed and built on, is not to be
justly tolerated in further breach of the Act.
Fifthly—llecause, for the like reason, the alledging
that buildings of great value have been erected, in
contravention of the said Art of Parliament, is no
just gronnti for permitting further wrong in building
over toe remaining open spaces.
Sixthly—ltecause it is not just for the proprietors
.f tho soil of the said open nonce' to airtime to them-
selves n further property and right of ei-positiun in
u.e Saute, so as to prevent the enjOvulent of those pub-
lic and importaht nice for which they were origln4li
itteadeti, awl fur Which the proprietors of the arOawir
received compensation after the fire of London, ya
agreeably to the said Act of Parliament of Cherie;
&Xt. Second; otherwise sorb proprietors of gr,onsid
would now be receiving a benefit of considerable ,mag-
mitude itkaddition to the said indemnification, and
direct violation of those public tights, so coustituted
by thaviegislatu re.
Seifiltthly—Beeinte the Bill now pending is eti-
tt.ntTintrodqeorl#:prevent the interposition of the
law, ;sit g0tv.04%, in favour of the Wylie, .End to
Aar ••••%n al resisting further encroach-
' artfully Contrived' to-oto-
' legislative injunction,
of law.

if passed. will in par-
(Me therorglijetsr !slung
r. and the sernat streets
tOtich will be eten-
, depreciation in the va-
.ty., and to. the tatcr inruabc-
inasmuch as natiee-street.
(N9POilisnt.t4est to the.riririt.
'e the, PORI -of sans and
Ws, ceedinedsinte of the thy.
the Weida& in.ineatien oaf orfate to 'biti p. th,
curhe4.'sad ennyentet t.lf
tOeLlitieSifar,ts 4/1411.'
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Ninthly--.Beesiee, if hereettee it sbonlsl be ms'
Ortirasin7 by Parliament to preserve sad catty is*
clfect say pan of the original design of a pee&
alit epee wharf ea the north bank of the Tbamea,4llli
*feu Laudon Bridge and the linasple, seal objeet
will be greatly counteracted by the permiesissw elf
firther bailable and erections, and the several pi/se
ow laid glow the whirr f a for the mien/two of water
eel he ithetreeted, sad which, us ease efflre, may I.
productive of etasaidi.re&k ineeavesieafre.
Tenthly—Because the introduction of the Bill now
peadiag, seems to be solely in cenrequence of an effort
on the part of the public to resist a considerable en-
eroachment, near the South End of an -eminent
Brewery.
Bleventhly—Because a Ries access to the Waterside.
and the maintenance of a public and open water, as in-
'tended by the Act of 2241 Charles 11. cap. 11, instead
lof not having been found kteficial to trade and com-
Imerce, as alledged by the Bill now pending, were, for
a considerable spare of time after the passing of the
Act, and until they were impeded by bu'itlings and
obstructions, highly advantageous ; and if preserved,
would still be found to be of great benefit to the trade
and commerce, comfort and convenieuce of this city
I and its inhabitants.
Twelfthly—liecatt,e the Bill ,now pending is not a
Bill of Indemnity for past erections, Litt for the entire
repeal of so much of a beneficial Act, as would, if ad-
hered to, prevent further buildings and encroachments,
and avowedly founded upon the fact of past transgres.
sions of the law.
Thirteenthly—Because, under any possible circum-
stances, the present is, of all other times, the most
unfit, for the introduction of such a Bill, alien so stu-
pendous an improvement as the alteration or rebuilding
of Lon.lon-bridge is in a course of consideration be-
fore a Select Coomnittee of the House of Commons.
whose plan of improvements may require the very
Scite in question, which if now taken away by an Act
of the Legislature, will not be to be again obtained
but by a breach of Parliamentary faith, or at an
enormous expense in the purchase of the New Rights
thus sought to be eunstituled by Art of NOLL:tient.

Con NW.-lI,L ASSIZES.
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Michael Amdrese l ar»pahire was indicted for high-
way robbery.—Catherine Vivian, wife of William
Vivian, resides in the parish of Constantine. within
fire miles of Fai th. On the 24th of list Decem-
ber she was retnruing from Fahnouth on horseback,
then site was overtaken by the prisoner, who passed
her, mining. :thortly after she saw him leaninlr
against a beds:a, and lier“ming alarmed she pnt her
horse to a gang,. hut after ridint a short distance she
saw the prisoner dose beside her ; she s-reamed feisto
terror, and called out " Stephen Spargor' V, induce
the prisoner to believe that some person was a short
distance before her. 'I hr prisoner asked her what
Stephen she. wanted, and on her replying a neighliour
who was before her, be snatched a basket she hr' 41 in
her band, which he threw in the di:ch, and thrusting
his hand under her petticoats, polled her fr
tlr
horse by the legs. She screamed ; hut he said if
she made a noise he would du for iv-r. lie put his
arms round her, and pressed he: towards him, ,then
she put her hand in her pocket, and taking out a half-
crown, told him to take ber money and not to ill-treat
her. lle took the half-crown, but did not appear
disposed to tiesist, when she took another half-crush
out of a market-box she had with her, and oXered it
to hint, saving, " here is all the money 1 has,-.'"lle
isoner said, " Give it roe," and putt it in his mouth.;
Ire then let her go. and ran off. Ile never asked her
for floury ; she otrered the money to hint to induce
him to desist from 1i purpose. Site did not think
Ite meant to rub her. hot feared he was about to
ill-
treat her, and use violence towards her. The prisoner
declined asking the witness any questions, mud made
no defence. this Lordship, in charging the Jury, said
the case was one of
await as to the nature of the crimes which the pri-
se ter had committed. lloweter improperly he hail
oehaved, if hr did not take the money from the wo-
man against her will, his offence was not highway
robbery. Such a rase as the present had hardly ever
happened before : hut he should leave it to the jury
to determine whether the manner in which the pri-
soner treated the woman was a feint to extort naan•-v,
or whether he had intended to offer violence to her
person. lie confessed Ire had himself serious doubts
and if the Jury thou:tilt with hint, perhaps the sa;(st
way would be to acquit tee pris•oter.—The Jury re-
turned a verdict of Lordship told
the prisoner that he had had a mama. escape : for as
he knew him to be an old offender, if he had been con-
victed on clear evidence of the robbery, he should bare
left him for execution ; and lie warned him that if he
should hereafter be c .pitally convicted, he would cer-
tainly be executed.—The prisoner was det.ained to
take his Ilial for an assault.

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