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PARLIAMENTARY

PARLIAMENTARY JOURNAL.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

March 1.

DIVORCE PETITION.

Lo ORD ERSKINE presented a petition, praying for a divorce from her husband, on the part of a Mrs. Anne Reid, for his repeated adultery and barbarous cruelty, which was read, and which his lordship moved should lie on the table.

The Duke of Norfolk observed, that he could not give his consent to divorces solicited by the wife on account of the adulterous intercourse of the husband. Whatever relief or punishment the law afforded in such cases was another consideration, to which he did not object. However hard and severe this opinion of his might appear, it was an opinion he held and his reason for it was, that if the principle was acted upon, their lordships would be opening such a door to divorces, that they would be beyond number, and their lordships would have nothing else to do but to grant them. The petition was ordered to lie on the table.

The Lord Chancellor left the wool-sack, and addressed the House in a few words, respecting his promised motion for a select committee to consider of adopting some improvements in the mode of hearing or expediting Appeals. His lordship signified his unwillingness, at this stage of the business, to enter into any discussion or examination of that system which it might be proper for their lordships to adopt. It was sufficient to state to the House, that, from the accumulation of business, some provision must be made to counteract it in future, as well as to discharge the arrear, which is now very heavy, and, if some new method be not adopted, is likely still to increase. He had in con templation the necessity of lessening the labours of the Court of Chancery in like manner; but as to the extent to which improvements might be carried in regulating the business of that court, he must be at present incompe tent to give an opinion: much would depend upon the resolutions which their lordships would come to respecting appeals, as by that would the business in the Chancery be regulated. After stating to their lordships the absolute necessity for considering this subject without delay, a necessity which must appear pretty strong, when he informed them, that there was an arrear of above 150 causes, he would abstain from any further observations, leaving it to the consideration of their lordships' committee to examine and recommend for the adoption of their lordships, whatsoever they might in their wisdom think most proper. His Lordship then moved, That a select committee be appointed for the purpose of considering and reporting what method might be adopted to expedite the hearing of causes in appeal.

Lord Liverpool rose, for the purpose of nominating the members of the committee, which consists of 21.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
March 4.

ARMY ESTIMATES.

Lord Palmerston, having risen to move a set of resolutions founded upon the army estimates which had been referred to a committee, and having gone

through

through the whole of the estimates, would have thought it necessary to sit down, but that he wished to notice the state of the regular army, and with regard to the amount of force necessary to be maintained. The object in view was not so much the means of raising the regular army as how it might be kept effective. Parliament had for some years past, by a succession of judicious regulations, laid the foundation for keeping up a very superior regular army, for the most part of it a disposable force of such magnitude as had never been known till of very late years. This he attributed in great measure to the means resorted to of supplying the army by drafts from the militia, which was a speedy and certain way of raising men, the good effects of which must be obvious to every one. We had, he said, 211,000 effective men, exclusive of the local militia. The casualties he estimated at from 25 to 30,000 men. The number produced by recruiting must vary, but may be estimated at 11,000 men, and that he thought a very low estimate. He thought the regular establishment of militia, which in effective men was 84,000, rather too great, and it would be advisable to reduce it to the old establishment,

which was about 70,000 men. He proposed, that 10,000 men should be permitted to volunteer from the militia into the line, which might be allowed without any detriment to the former, as had been proved in Ireland, where the militia were annually allowed to volunteer without injuring the militia. This method he thought most likely to recruit men, and it was his intention, when the House was resumed, to move for leave to bring in a bill to this effect.

March 5.

SLAVE-TRADE.

Mr. Brougham, after adducing various facts, proving that the slave-trade is still pursued, in defiance of an act of parliament abolishing the same, moved for leave to bring in a bill, the object of which was to make the trade felony, and to punish it by transportation. He remarked, that if the proposed bill should pass into a law, all foreigners trading with our colonies must comply with it, and that they could be punished for infringing it in the same manner as foreigners committing an offence in this country. He then moved, for leave to bring in a bill to amend and render more effectual the Act of the 46th of his Majesty, for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.'

The motion was put and carried nem. con. and the bill brought in and read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.

ORDERS AND NOTICES. >

The motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's, that on certain days in the week, the disposal of orders of the House should precede that of notices of motions, was this day carried.-For the motion, 82.-Against it, 30.— Majority, 52.

March 6.

MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES.

Mr.Wharton brought forward resolutions for Miscellaneous Services. The first sum was,

to.

9,2801. for Dissenting Ministers in England and Ireland, which was agreed

78,7001. for the confining and employment of convicts at home.

1,328. 5s. 4d. for the poor of the parish of St. Martin.

OEN. CHRON, VOL. III, NO. XII.

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[A resolution for granting 10177. 11s. 9d. to make good the deficiency of the grant for prosecutions, was postponed till Friday next.]

4000l. for prosecutions relative to the coin.

5,000l. for fees on passing public accounts.

175,000l. for foreign and other secret service money.

20,000l. for law charges.

12,000l. for expences of the Bow-street office.

Mr. M. A. Taylor objected to the magnitude of the sum, as the complainants at the office were always obliged to pay very liberal fees.

Mr. Wharton observed, that the sum proposed was the regular annual grant to the establishment.

After some further conversation, the vote was agreed to. 21,000l. for printing the Lords' Journals.

300l. for incidental printing expences.

1,660/. for salaries to certain officers of both Houses.

March 7.

COURT OF CHANCERY AND APPEAL CAUSES.

Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor, pursuant to notice, called the attention of the House to the great delay which attends the decision of causes in the Court of Chancery, and of cases of appeal in the House of Peers. He concluded by moving, that a Committee be appointed to inspect the Journals of the Lords, respecting the number of appeal cases now pending, and to report thereon to the House. He should not then state what measure he might think it proper afterwards to adopt; but this measure, in the mean time, he considered to be parliamentary and necessary.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer thought the motion unnecessary, as the object of the Honourable Gentleman would be accomplished by the proceedings begun in the House of Lords. With the Honourable Gentleman, he attached every possible importance to the subject; but it was certainly at the same time more competent for the other House to take it up. The Honourable Gentleman said that nothing had been yet done, though in the month of May the measure had been announced; but he would remind the Honourable Member, that Parliament sat only a very short time after May; and that with respect to this session, little opportunity had yet been given of entering on the subject. He complained, that the Honourable Gentleman had made the other courts also the objects of his animadversion, but complimented him on the decorous and delicate manner in which, on the whole, he had treated the distinguished person at the head of the Court of Chancery, and the subject in general, that he had submitted to their attention. He trusted a feeling of delicacy would prevent the House from interfering, till it should be ascer tained what would be the result of the proceedings elsewhere.

MR. SECRETARY POLE'S CIRCULAR LETTER IN IRELAND.

Mr. Ponsonby, in rising to make the motion which he should have the honour to submit to the House, felt great satisfaction at seeing in his place, the Right Honnourable Gentleman (Mr. W. Pole) whose letter lying upon their table was the cause of the motion with which he meant to conclude. Whether he should succeed or not in this motion, it would have the effect of giving the Right Honourable Gentleman an opportunity of declaring to the House the motives which actuated the Irish government in resorting to the measures which formed the subject of that letter. The letter of that Right Honourable Gentleman he considered a most important document-it directed the entire Magistracy of Ireland, under certain circumstances therein

mentioned,

mentioned, to arrest three-fourths of the population of that country. He wished to know from that Right Honourable Gentleman, what was the occasion which called upon the Irish government to interfere in such a mannerwhat were the circumstances that induced the Right Honourable Gentleman to produce that circular communication to which he was calling the attention of the House. He was very anxious to hear from that gentleman himself the grounds upon which he had acted, because he could conceive such a proceeding to spring only from something extremely important to the interests— something highly dangerous to the peace and tranquillity of the country-from something very alarming in its nature, but which was at that moment unknown to the members of that House. He was the more anxious to be informed upon this point, because the assembly, which had been described as an unlawful meeting in the circular letter, had been for many years in existence, and in the habit of meeting for the purpose of promoting the object for which it was originally appointed; and because it had taken measures for augmenting its numbers twenty-four days before the promulgation of the circular letter of the Right Honourable Gentleman. He concluded by moving, 'That an humble address should be presented to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent ; praying that he would order to be laid upon the table, copies of all proclamations issued in the year 1811, by his Grace the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, relative to the enforcement of the 33d of the King, in that country; and also copies of all cases on that subject referred to his Majesty's attorney or solicitor-general in Ireland, or to either of them, with their opinions thereupon; and also copies of all despatches between his Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and the government of this country, relative to the assembling of the Catholic Committee.'

Mr. Wellesley Pole was ready to admit, in the fullest extent, the justice of the appeal of the Right Honourable Gentleman, and also his perfect right to demand from him an explanation of the measures to which his speech alluded. The Right Honourable Gentleman's charges he should divide into two parts. The first was, that the Irish government had not executed the law in time, and that if the Catholic Committee was really an illegal assembly, their deliberations should have been earlier terminated. He should abstain altogether from the question, whether that committee was in its origin legally constituted; but should state to the House, why from May, 1809, no step had been taken to pieclude what then appeared to be their sole object—a full and free access to the throne. In 1809, the committee entered into a resolution, which shewed they were aware that their meeting might be considered as a violation of the Convention Act. The Catholic Committee of 1809 expressed themselves like warm, honest, and constitutional Catholics; but ended by declaring their liability to the convention law, and their determination not to transgress it by attempting any thing like a delegation. They finished their deliberations, which were solely confined to their petition, and had framed that petition within the first fortnight after the meeting of parliament. This committee was composed of 36 delegates, from the 36 parishes of Dublin, and with them he understood some of the honourable gentlemen opposite, when in power, had communication:-if he rightly was informed, they had warned them not to delegate, lest they should violate the Convention Act! That committee in 1809 was also composed of the remnants of the committee in 1807, and of those members who survived of the ancient committee in 1799. That committee was an an honest, ardent meeting; deliberating sometimes violently, it was true, but always constitutionally, and constantly confining themselves to their petition. The committee in 1810, he was sorry to say, acted upon very different principles. He should reserve his justification of the letter till he had done with this committee. They met as the committee in 1809 had met, but