Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-19


five o'clock in the afternoon, without exposing
ourselves To be assassinated or beat. Our
complaints to the French commandant are
Intellectual"
The bands OF dispersed soldiers and Of rob
bers IN Catalonia become more numerous in
proportion as the distress in that province in
oreases
The Priyy Council it is said, have come Ia
the determination Of getting full and unre
served pardon for Hunt, one OF the murjriers
of Weare, from a conviction that il would b,
dangerous to try him, and to convict HIM oi
crime of which he had previously confessed
himself gully under an implied pardon. =
Prebert, The accomplish of ThurtelI and Hunt
mad the impudence to appear on the Royal
Exchange, and 10 address wine merchant,
whom he hadknown before his late exposure
Ii is scarcely necessary 10 say that his salute
was received with contempt
John Hunt, Publisher of the Examiner, and
brother OF Leigh Hunt. tile poet, has been tried
hy special jury. for the publication of Don
Juan, and the Liberal. Leigh Hunt was
concerned with Byron in getting up the 1.-The
raj The jury found him guilty
A dreadful explosion occurred at PooIgooth
Mine, on Thursday, the 18th of January. &C.
casloned by the bursting sc the boiler The
explosion was so terrific, that one man was
thrown over the engine house to the distance
of so feet, and killed, and another named
Martin dreadfnlly hurt, since dead. Pieces
of the boiler of 600 weight were carried TO
the distance of six hundred feet, and tor.
down whole houses. Not v.siige of the
house which contained the boiler remains :;
and two adjoining houses were literally dash
ed In pieces by the explosion.
BY TIE EMERALD.
we continue to make abridged extracts
from such papers as we have been able to pro-
cure. IBosfou C-ourier
In the House of Commons, on the 18th
Feb the order of the day for the second
reading ofthe Usury Laws Repeal Bills being
read, discussion on the measure ensued Ii
was opposed by Mr.. Davenport, MIR. B.
Cooper, Sir ]. Wrottesly, and Mr.. Colcraft.
chiefly on the grounds that the Usury Laws
were devised by the wisdom of our ancestors
that they were consistent with those laws re-
ferrIng to emplOyments where chance was
concerned, as in assurances that they did not
check the accumulation OF capital, which had
increased under them; and that their repeal
would depress the landed interests, staree the
manufacturers, and ruin the Governments
rms view of the measure was secuted hy Mr.
Hume, Mr.. John Smith, Mr. Grenfell Mr..
HuskssoD, the Chancellor of the ExcheoIer.
Mr. Serjeant Onslow, Mr.. Barring, and Capt.
Maberley.-Mr. Hume thought the political
economy of our ancestors not absolutely per-
iect, and MIR. Barring was surprised that the
measure was opposed by the country gentle
men, whom II would most benefit Underline
usury laws, while the rate ofinterest had, with
other capital seldom exceeded from 5 TO @
per cent. during the war, it had passed from s
10 Id per cent. on landed security. 1t was
good policy to give the greatest freedom 10 all
sorts OF money transactions. Ii was said capt.
tai had accumulated under the usury laws
nut me reason was, the moneyed interests
could easily eyade them.-Mr Huskissop
thought the present laws are calculated TO adj,
To the difficulties of borrowing money, to in
crease litigation. and TO encourage fraud
The House divided, and the motion passed by
l29 To %.
debate of considerable length follow ed
upon proposed increase of 1000 men in the
naval establishment of the year. After some
very severe anlmadyersions from Mr.. Hume
on Inc present system of manning and officer
ing our SHIPS oil war, the augmentation was
sereen 10 upon the following representation |
from Mr.. Canning: Undoubtedly there
never was a time at which Government were
more completely justified, by the assurances
ni our foreign relations, In looking for con-
'lnuance of peace, than at the present mo-
nent. But II is equally true, that there never
was a Time IN which so many points of impor-
lance were agiated and in which it became
more viglantly to take care that the
continuance Of peace should depend. not only
On the assurances we receive from foreign
countries, but on the conviction impressed on
AZ parts OF the world, that we were able and
ready 10 maintain war"
bill was brought in by Mr.. Goulbourn for
compelling more general residence among the
Irish clergy.
Though but little business was transacted
asst night in the House of Commons, that little
was by no means uDimportant. In answer tn
\ complaint made in a petition presented bv
Sir Francis Burdett, Mr.. Peel admitted that
I was not illegal, it was decidedly impolitic.
% compel untried prisoners to undergo the
abeur of the treadmil Whether in this case
hr Peel has followed the dictates of his own
or has acquiesced in the excellent
recommendations of the last Report of the
Prison Discipline Committee, he is esually
entitled TO praise. There has been no pro-
Feeding OF late years more subyersiye of the
egal principle of distinction between an accu-
'ed and convicted person, than the conpuIso-
~ application Old degrading aud painful spe-
cies of labOur TO persons before trial. MIR.
Peel seems 10 promise the introduction If
bill which shall remove This grievance. The
p'"e. "Hp"Ildnt feature Oh fhe evening was
the discussion on MIR. Hume's motion for
Committee to consider the laws relative 10
The continuation of wOfkmep, the expurta-
ton of machinery, and the emigration Of arti-
sans. Mr.. Huskisson assented IN the appoint
nent Of Committee for the thorough inycs-
legation Of the policy Of these regulations and
admitted that as far as regarded the eXporta-
lion of machinery and The emigration of arti |
sans, The laws were not only imperative, but |
productive of constant fraud and perjury
Whenever the question comes to be- argued. |
we trust that The scientific men will not ohsij |
lalelY adhnrn 10 ahsiraci nrincinlns r., III. |