Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-01-12
From the New.Ysrk American, Januarys.

From the New-Yo rk American, January y.
BY the Corisshiab. we have London papers
to the 26,b Nov. They are chiefly filed with
debates IN Parliament On the oath Nov! Mr.
Husklsson moved, as wiifbe seen BY our ex.
tracts, certain resolutions respec ting the orders
in council, whereby foreign grain had bren adj
mi,ted into England. Those, however did not
touch the principle of the corn laws, BUT mere
ly went to grant indemniryto the minister for
an exercise of power, uni1N4bRsA fsseif, bas
called for by ,he exisenei<s of he sta,e, and to
soaiiBue the duties on importation, prescribed
in those orders, until l5,h Feb. Both Mr.. Can
ming however, and Mr.. Huskisson had pledged
themselves 10 bring the whole subject Of the
corn laws under the notice Of Parliament, soon
after the holidays.
The address 40 the throne was moved in the
House Of Lords by Earl Cornwalks, and Sc.
conced bs Lord Colville. The amendment
was moved by Lord King, who in censuring his
maesty's ministers, said that for ten years past,
in respect to the corn laws,
"They had been in state of doubt; or. ra-
Their, they had been learning a lesson Of paus.
ing. "If," said his Lordship, "you see man.
sion in state Of dilapida,ion, the land covered
with water, the fences broken down, gates I'm.
hung, and the whole scene looking like no
mans land, with folorn and diseonsolate as.
pect, you may be sure that the estate is in
Chancery, and the Chancellor 10 doubling. So,
IT you see nation fraught with distress and
ruin, and reduced to the very brink of starva-
tion by misrule, you may be sure thar the king
dom IS then, as ii were, in Chancery, and that
the ministers, like the Chancellor are douLliss,'
The Lord Chance'lor-"rhat was when Lord
King was Chancellor" Much laugh,er.)
Lord King certainly woulG not insist upon
contining his observations to Lord Chancellor
Eidon; ne was willing it should apply TO any
other Lord Chancellor; but be still maintained
that all the evils he had detailed were visited
upon the country because the ministers were
Pausing and doubling, whether food of this
kind and that kind should be let out Of bond. or
ministerial Chancery. When the chancellor
doubted, the consequences fell only upon the
suit'rs inhis court but when the mini tiers doub..
ed, ltwas the nation at large that suffered
ihe amendment was rejected, and the oriei
nal address was carried without a division
In the Commons, the address was moved nv
the Hon. /. Liddell, & seconded by Mr.. VIM.
Mr.. Brougham commented much on The mea.
gre and unmeaning speech from the throne. anc
upon its omission Of many important topics,
particularly that Of ireland, the name Of which
did no. appear in the speech. Thereupon Mr..
B. took occasion to refer 10 the fact, thar in the
last royal speech previous to the late war with
this country, the name Of America, "wbich,"
said MIR. 3. "was on the quiveriny liz Of every
man here who thought Of the condition, or fe,
tor the welfare Of his country" was no, "ei,ber
boy specific mention, nor implied alusion TO be
found. Upon the fact thus slated, Mr.. Broue.
ham went on TO add the following marvellous
specimen Of his ignorance of the institutions Of
our country, and Of the inaccuracy of the infor-
NATION upon which even such man relies:
$50 far was the omission of America from
being eongenial to the hopes or the expecta.
tons OF men, on either side Of thu Atlantic,
that most remarkable circumstance (as he had
heard but few minutes before from gentle
man who was in America at the ,ime) took
place in one Of her cities on the arrival of
copy Of the Royal Speech there. 1t was thought
in America TO be bitter satire upon the Mo-
march and the Parliament of this country; inso>
much, tina, the man who FIRST yentured to pro.
mulga,e it, was cas-, into prison Is a gross Ii.
teller, and was kept confined there until his yis