North Wales Gazette

PHOC EEDIGS. IN the Home of Lords, on Monday, the Earl nf l ivcrpout brought down Bills origifinting" wiili _4 the Crown fas h. law s.icli Bills must) to reverse tile oi' itie h,art oj* Ifa-rr, skine., Esq.; of. the of the Earl iHrathaitan unci Perth, ancestor of James Druirituoud, Esq. and of Lord liaron .W.Kr. ancestor of William Naime. Esq.; and to r us tore the above-named living representatives of the at;:iinlfii'Peers to the honours forfeited by pre. censors. —To restorations, which the noble Karl described (and very properly so <\esciibeil ttu'fn) us spantsncous act-; of-mercy and grace. th»' Roval proposition added another, which with equal truth, the Ea'ri of-Liverpool called an act of strict justice, namely—the reversal of the attainder of the Earl uj Stafford, the innocent and gentle violin', of ¡hh' perjury, arid-wf- liint.rtto recall it, but such .is the effect. of faction-the ob- ject of Lord Russell'sbn\lh\ cruelty. The Earl Liverpool'* motion for the first reading gave rise to some observations frotn the Earls qf Radnor & Lauderdale, & Lord Belharen against which the noble mover remonstrated, as beinp* qlljte unprecedented upon a first leading in the House of Lords. The Bill was reaol a first time. The Marquis of La:i.uloxn then proposed two Bill, the objects of whkb were to confer upon the Roman Catholics-of England the elective franchise, and the same eligibility to the magis- tracy and to civil .ofiic.es enjoyed by the Roman Cathoiics of Ireland and to enable the Heredi- tary Earl Mar hal of England /'the Duke of Nor- folk) to exectite iii person the duties of iiis otpce, notwithstanding his being a Catholic. Lord Cole hater opposed the motion. He ob- jeued to granting to Catholic Dissenters what the laws withhold from Protestant Dissenters. Look- ing to the conduct of Cuihotics in Ireland (he aUvuled more particularly to the incendiary epistles of Doctor Doyle), in the Netherlands, and even iii Catholic France, iict-outd not think that ag- grandising spirit of the Church of Rome at all moderated and, regarding the present motion as a prelude to higher demands, he would oppose it. The Earl tJ lid -thought that what was proposed by the motion might be granted with safety, an i that therefore it could not be withheld without injustice. Lord Redesdale opposed the motion he main- tained that a Protesiaiit ascendancy in both the kingdoms of Great Britain was guaranteed by the Scottish and the Scottish and the Irish Unions. He knew of no security for that ascendancy, but the exclusive possession of political power, and thought the legislature had relaxed this principle in regard to the Irish Catholics, he did not admit that the ha v iug once done wrong was a reason for doing wrong again. The Bishop of Lite!field, in a short speech, sup- ported the motion as quite unattended with danger ofanykiati, The flishop t)j,* BatA and Wells (late Chester) opposed the motion, and detailed some instances of the inflexible adherence of the Catholic priest- hood to their ambitions and intolerant habits, even at this day, and in this country, as a reason for withholding from them all political power. The Lord Chancellor opposed the motion at great length, as repugnant to the principles of the Constitution,, which, without a. total change, could not adapt itself to the admission of Catholics to political power. The Earl of Liverpool professed to think that the objects of the bill might be effected without danger; in conceding so much however, he was desirous to avow his unaltered hostility to what is called Catholic emancipation. The House then divided, when the numbers wefe For the first bill (conferring the elective fran- chise). 101 against it, 139; 38. For the second hill, conferring eligibility to civil offices, )OJ; against it, 14:1 Majoiity, St. Oar notice of the House of Commons must be I extremely brief. The County Courts Bill was rva,i a third time and passed. I On the. bringing up the Report of the Alliance ¡ Insurance Company Bill Mr. Grenjell inquired what, would be the exact, operation of the clause enabling the Secretary to sue and he sued. I ltlr. Huskisson replied, that in the event of his not making good their engagements, and satisfying all just claims upon them, an individual so claim- in under the law was at liberty to select any on. member, or any body of members belonging to the Company, and levy his debt upon their goods. In order to ensure this security, it was the inten- tion of Government to have the names of all Share-holders enrolled at. the Stamp Office, and that no transaction done by the Company should I,e. legal until that obligation were discharged so thai the. public should know whom to pursue in case of a default in making good the engage- ments of the Company. Mr. Bronnlow gave notice that he would, on F next, present a Petition relating to the Ca- tholic Association, and tiiat he should move to refer the same to a Select Committee. Tuesday night, in the House of Lords, the Earl of read two resolutions respecting Tctnt. StocK Companies. The first requires proof of he subscriptions being actually advanced be- for a bill of incorporation for an unchartered (/<uiv>any be read a second time; the second re- of four-fifths being actually advanced txy chartered Companies, before a bill for addi- t,\ vdi powers be read a second time. I ne Marqii-is of Uutsdon ne then moved for the roduction of returns of all the Officers of Excise, u a within the last year, taken the oaths of VVttO Uau, • u lift cation enjoined by the acts Is* and lo of Charles the Second. this he said, was that Ministers had, in fact, exercis- ed i. dispensing power with respect to these oaths, ■which 'some of them wouid not permit to be re- The Earl cf Liverpool explained, that these oath; had been included in the annual indemnity act. Lords King and Holland bestowed much sar- casm upon the division upon various details of the Catholic question existing amongst Ministers, and contended, that though the act of indemnity might be admitted to protect, the Officers neglecting to take the qualification acts, it offi-rel no protection to the Commissioners appointing" or employing such unqualified officers. In the House of Commons the returns were ordered, Mr. Lanibton presented a long Petition from .11r, Uuckiajham, Editor and Proprietor of th: The Petition slated that the Marquis of Hastings had found a censorship in India, and abolished it. lie, however, was Ire. quently offended by Mr. Buckingham's political ciideism in the Calcula Journal, and as frequent- ly admonished him to he more careful, under pain of being sent oat of india. Mr. Aduni, the tem- porary Governor, soon after the Noble Marquis had left India, eXt,cuteJ tltc d/portation of \ír. Buckingham. This was the main point of com- plaint. Mr. Wy-nn, the President of the Board of Con- trol, contented himself with saving that Mr. Buck- ingham had, in January last, commenced proceed- ings, in order to bring the subject to a judicial issue, and that, therefore, Parliament ought not to interfere. Mr. flith-t-, gave an account of a proposition made by 23 out of 21 Directors to 1Hr. Canning. w hen President of the Board of Control, to rescind the Marquis, of Hasting's act, and restore the Censorship, which Mr. Canning kept looked up until he left office. He thought it a misfortune for India that Mr. Canning did not go to that country as Governor-General. Mr. Canning admitted the locking up of the proposal of the Directors, and withholding the as- sent of the Crown contrasted the regulations of the Marquisses of Wellesley and Hastings, and highly eulogized Lord Amherst. He said he would as soon believe that Lord Amherst had be- come a tiger, as that he had turned a tyrant. It would be the most exraordinary physical pheno- menon he had ever heard of. Mr. Denman maintained that an amiable private p te man might become an oppressor when he got into power. Mr. Adam had been his school-fellow, and a most gentle and amiable youth he had been, yet the act here charged against him, and made out by his own defence, was utterly unjustifiable. Mr. Buckingham had taken his advice profession- ally. His advice had been not to attempt judi- cial proceedings, and Mr. Buckingham had now abandoned all idea of bringing the case into a Court of Justice. Mr. Aslcll, Sir C. Forbes, and Sir Era nets I.'u r- dett, had spoken at length before Mr. Canning had risen. Sir Francis recommended a distinct inquiry into this subject, besides the more gene rat inquiry into the state of the press in India, which Mr. Lambton had given notice of his inten- tion to move early in the next Session. Mr. iAimbton declined moving for aa inquiry.— His object was publicity. There was no division after the discussion upon the presentation of Mr. Buckingham's petition. Sir John Newport moved a series of i-esoliitiolls upon the subject of the Irish First Fmíts Fund.— The object of the Hon. Baronet's motion was to exhibit the inadequacy of the returns to this fund, and to recommend a new valuation. Mr. Goidburn and Mr. Plunkett opposed, and Mr. S. Rice supported the motion. On a division it was rejected by a majority of 85 to 71. The Earl of Liverpool, on Wednesday, in the House of Lords, moved the second reading of the bills for the restoration, in blood, of the repre- sentatives of the attainted Scotch Lords and tor the reversal of the attainder of the Eari of Stafford. The Earl of Lauderdale made some objections to the form of the Bill relating to the Scotch j Lords and Lord Redesdale intimated an opinion, j that the gentlemen in whose favour the measure wis intended to operate, ought to have been wis intended to operate, ought to have been ¡ called upon to prove their right of succession in the first place. I The Lord Chancellor explained that the King's < I sign manual, recommending a bill of the nature of those before the House, had always been held equivait-iit to any proof of facts because, in truth, according to the Constitution, the King, by tlw keeper of the Great Seal, did always de- termine questions of succession by the mere issuing. a writ of summons, which was never withheld but in a case of manifest difficulty and doubt. A conversation of some length followed, the final result of which was. that the Bill should be read a second time, with an understanding that, before it passed, a committee might be appointed to search for precedents. The proceedings of the House of Commons were of very little interest. Mr. Alderman HeyguLe obtained leave to bring in a Bill, to put on an equitable footing the penalties against Usury. The House of Lords did not sit Thursday night. In the House of Commons, several Petitions were presented; among them was one from a Jir, Blount, of Staffordshire, a Roman Catholic gentleman, complaining of the circulation, in his neighbourhood, by a Dr. Bell, of a theological work called The Protestant Catechism." in which were contained many unjust imputations upon Roman Catholics. The Petition added, that this work had first been drawn up for the Protestant Charter Schools in Ireland, but it was quickly suppressed on account of its illiberal tes- -imony;an(iii was now circulated under the sanc- tion of the Society for Promoting Christian Know- edge. Mr. Peel expressed regret that any thing cal- culated to wound the feelings of the Catholics had been disseminated,; and admitted the correct, n.-ss of the statement, that The Protestant's t chisin" had, on account of its offensive ten- dency, been discontinued in the Irish Schools. Mr. Hume then moved for Returns of all the Persons committed on criminal charges to the different Gaols of England and W ales, during ■he year i&:3, with the names Dr the commitiing Magistrates. He stated that his object was to warn Magistrates against such rash committals; and entered into a long calculation to show the disparity between the proportion of convic ions to committals in different districts, a disparity which coulll only beexplaiIled, hy the hypothesis that in the places where the proportion of con- victions to committals was least, Magistrates v,-ipre -somewhat careless of the grounds upon which I they committed. ■Mr. Pec! opposed ihe motion and tending to lower the Magistracy in the opinion of the, public. He vindicated. TH*; geueral IKUOU. and justice of the unpaid Magistracy, an.l made a specific defence for some of gistrates, w liom Mr. I fume had attacked on a former evening. Mr. Dvnrnun■supported P.lr. Ilnmtf'* Molion.— He ridiculed the practice of complimenting the Magistrates whenever anv al.lusion was made to them. Sir E. Knalchbidl, Mr. II. Sunnier, i>/r. Cunrm, Mr. Lockhart, opposed Ihe motion. Mr. Hume proposed to withdraw it for the pre- sent, but Mr. Peel refused to to any terms of compromise and on a division the motion was rejected by a majority of 81 to S Mr. Hume then moved for similar returns of committals in Ireland and in Scot laud. The i ii.-ii returns were refused by a majority of il to and the Scotch by a majority of ¡.j Jo 33. Me. Hume then moved that the house should adopt as a standing order the follrw jug" that no member shall vote on any question where he is personally concerned, as in Dock Companies; Ca., nal Companies, Joint Stock Companies, fee. or In any measure which may bring Mm any pecuniary advantage, or secure him against a pecuniary loss and that these Committees shall be regulated in the same manner as accords with the declarations in the House with regard to questions where the members have a direct, pecuniary interest." The honourable member enforced his proposi i ion by the allusions to the notorious partiality of members of committees to particular interests; and by the scandalous practice of tanvasshvg and so- liciting such members, which was equally noto- rious. tt'/M/u'wj confessed the existence of the evil complained of. arid avowed his wisii ihat some re- medy for II could be found. The proposition of the lion, member did not however, seem to him to promise that remedy, and he therefore moved the previous question. A Debate of some lengih followed, in w hicb Mr. S. Worthy, Lord Stanley, Mr. G-mjcU, aii-i Sir M. IF. Ridley coincided in Mr. Canning's view of j the matter. Sir » tie Crcspigny opposed Mr. Hume's moth generaiiy; and Messrs. Wileruham, IloOliutisc, ait Scarlet supported it.. ( Mr. Cunning the previous question, and the sub. ject was "erredtoasedectcoinmitt.ee. J Mr. Dennis Broime'divided the house upon the third reading of the Customs' bills, on the ground I th it this repeal of the Linen bounties was a breach of faith with the people of Ireland. The bills, were, however, carried by a majority of 93 to 20. I Upon the bringing ll, the report of the Irish clergy residence bill", Sir J. Newport moved an I amendment, prohibiting clergymen in the enjoy- ment of benefices of £ 4.0,>, a year value from; taking any additional ecclesiastical preferments. Mr. PlunkeU contended that it would be im- possible to enforce such an arrangement in practice and the amendmeiltwas rejected by a majority of 78 to 3"). RoBREfl Dt:TECTED- GUT l.DHALL-A stnnr yonng fellow, very decently dressed, who gave his name Joseph Johnson, was brought up on Friday be- fore Mr. Alderman Ainsley on a charge of felony under the following circumstances :— About half past eight o'clock onTues lay morn- ing a large bale of cotton prints, value nenriy HUI. had been placed in the passage of the wan house of Messrs. Dudley & Pattirtson, 115, Cheapside in less than teu minutes it had disappeared, with- out a trace or suspicion who were the thieves, or which way the property had gone. Herds'ield, the officer, started to find some clue to the thieves. Though the bale was too large: to have been con- veyed away by one, none of the neighbours to whom his inquiries were directed,had observed anything that could furnish him with the slightest clue. A little boy, however, who was passing near the spot, to whom he next addressed himself told him he had seen a bale lifted into a curt at the corner of Milk-street, which is within two doors of Messrs. Dudley and Co.'s premises, about a quarter of an hour before but he could not tell which way the cart went. Shortly afterwards Herds field, in pursuing his inquiries on towards Barbican, met a man running apparently wi th some hurry and confusion he halted him directly and inquired if any thing was the matter? The man recognising him as an officer replied- Y es; you are the very person I want to see,— J fear I have becn doing something wrong and in a short conversation the officer learned from him that he was that instant returning from having delivered the very package he (Herds-field) was in search of, a' a house in French Horn court. Beech-street B,ti I)icall thithei- they both rep-iii-c-tlimiiie(ii,,ttely; the house, however, was closed, and all admission denied. Herdsfield, threatened to break in the parlour sash, and seeing him resolute, the door was at length reluctantly opened to him by a fornale, who affected great surprise, and denied all knowledge of any such bale having been brought there. Herdsfield, however, proceeded to the house, and in one of the garrets found the prisoner coolly sorting out the contents of the lost bale, and secured him and the booty. Before the magistrate, Bignold, theman whose p o e information had led to the discovery, recognised the prisoner as having hired him and his cart from the stand in Bread-street, and with the assistance of another fellow, hoisted the bale into it, at the corner of Milk-street, whence they proceeded, the prisoner ridciing in the cart to Beech-street, where he paid him. The whole time, from the moment j of the robbery to the apprehension of the thief and the recovery of all the property, with the ex- cepiion of the wrappers, did not exceed three quarters of an hour. The prisoner, by the advice Mr. Humphreys, who attended for him5 made 110 defence, and was committed for trial,