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SUPPLEMENT TO THE KINGSTON GAZETTE—-MAY 17, IS] 7. [.Vltlumgli some of (ho follow- ino-articles arc itfaiiatttcrior date, \ci tltcv will be found not alto«rctb£r inihilwv*!in& —TIiC) have been in type some time] FORE f ON. ■'t • * ■ w • • * KtUTtftl PARUASIENT. In (!»<• hoiiM! of Lords, February 4, after a ralm debate. Ihr addr. rs t\as voted to the Prhlfl! Unjrni, and the papers accompanying the mcsvfl^, re- hi red to a scurf GomnJtt*'e of eleven burr*, to be eho>cn bj ballot. tlorfSc of Qimr.wm*—On tin* ?.9lh Ja:iuar\ lord Cochrane rose, ant! ad¬ vert 'dtothntjmrt *>r tli** r^nts* peech VI bi. u noticed the disaffection ill the -. ivjuiti). il«- thru frtnti'd, tliftl In* he'd in his band a petition from Bristol,>is*u- ul b\ 20-700 person*. The nob!.- lord complained liiat in general no attention vas paid to petitions of this nature ; \»liile they were rending, nothing f.ai; apparent but elamour. The chancellor of the exchequer rose to nrd t. and repel If Hi the charge, as did the Sp«-nki r. who requested the Iiohle lf*rd to keep w ithin the line of Parliamentary usa.ee. IIi> loidship also presented a similar pr'iioi from a parish in York*hire, which, on account of the violence of its language*, was rejected by the hou^e, on a division. Several other petitions for reform were then presented k\ the noble lord, of which two were rejected On necount of their contend. On motion of Mr. Canting debate Wfl* then returned oi\ the n/ldres* of the Prii" e [iezepf (re-echoing hi> speech,) TVlli.'h became ver\ interesting. RTr. bur-cm could not a^ree to the add res* : no measure of leireuchment land been pro|H*fiod by minister** nt ln*t >e^ion- and H«vne ho NUpooM-n, would ftt p-epi • *(] ;if tin — ai.j notuini* ei^e could save the nation, 'the labourers in aj: i elture amounted to \>,.u);;.0(X) —fl.o'" employed in tiie manufactures to ^,(^0,000. He H oitld throw out of co-( (it ration 5UO.W00, and take the row id numberuf live, millions, allowing each individual to have the power of earning f&, n week : this would pro¬ duce annually l&MXXt&Xh Half the«e p r<ona> were out *f employ ; and wh *' elibrfs of individual benevolence cou'd relieve »ho di Irenes occasioned by f his circumstaue,*: r Mr. Jittyks supported t*V address— H • thoight rhetfe was no delusion in the firrssajje, and he Mas of opinion that to ; duee Taxes would not always give relief, a- !nd been jHOved last year, uhrn 17 millions were removed. This lif would say, and boldly, that a( the present moment, Ihe cu.mtr\ neither labored under taxation. (Inar^ hair, her.) forth" true causes of distress &re lar diHWout. Mr. iiru'ii'hcffft >f\\i]. that a Fpooch more calculated to mislead, lo blind thee^isof the profile, nnd to flutter them «iH'h vwin illusions of ;ill kin<U, tliaii that jnst delivered, had never been boa id in I ;:rliamcut, even from minis¬ ter- themselves. 1( was said, that the transition from the war to peace was flii! source* < f tl e national tni^eritm, and that tr&uaitiou Masequail) tnjuiiou» after tilt* Ameri¬ can war. It was true, at that p riod, then' was eons idi rabio d 'predion, par- tirularlj of the agricultural inu , t>__ but win ii examined, fin- favts* supplied cvMia ( ontr:«-t roo- .- pri-seift situation. —1 iu'm- di-a »icm beuan before the ter- mioutioji ot (he American war, and M'ei *i;i..d.iall\ all. vialidb\ th. p.a.e, and In the thiid yearafieritsostahlish- m< nt (tin- period paralii 1 with oni |>ic- seot if.iatiouj I he «overet$n tt^rd these condolatory exprtssrou — that his mu- je-fv ivarli!) eoo^rutulaletl the cowi- ti\ up. n tln-exteie-ion of its eornnu ree —the Hoari-hinii-lute of its niuimfnc* tur-> ind Che amount of its rev lines. (Uri/r. fin/r.) Could an\ Mich Ian- g'i-..^.' now be employ,-d ? Instead of ta; ii** On 17 millions of taves. new on^S-%u-re impo-ed ; and the llrst year after the peico the country wa< able to nav nesrly two millions more than had b en raided durins any year of 'he war. No new taxes were now neces- sarv, trol not only it ■/ ould bn nece^sa- r\ to impose new taxes but it would not be impossible to raisr them. There. Mas one point upon which ministers could not touch- -onr pale within w hich they dare not tread, and that was ad- Hirioiuil fa\ii ion—for the people had paid to their utmost farthing, and were equally destitute of money and hope. ( Ilrnt\ ll-'f/r.) 0tiring the Amerlcnn war the wholo amount of taxes did not ex eft d four millions, while, during the la*t war, the permanent taxes wore, more than 35 millions annually. And war taxes be¬ sides imuosrd to the amount of no less than ^f* millions a >ear. Was not this a frightful Contract ? and was not any rmn guilty of a irro«s,ofa wicked delu- m*o||. who toUl the proaniH^ people, they wore not burdened ; that the na¬ tional debt was nothing : that the pres¬ sure was merely temporary, and that relief would brmore speedy than even the most sanguine dared to hope ? The honorable gentleman who spoke last, was much in favor of the committee to be Heeled bv ministers, ngain*t which ■ he f.Mr. Urongham) protected most lirmlv. Minister^ had nothins: to do but in choose their old tried friends ; and near the end of the session, to pro¬ duce a report, w hich there was no time either to examine or debate, it wnfl the duM of the house to proceed with the utmost dispatch ; for, while it was delaying, the nation was -tiU'-rinn- In order at all eveuls, to pnvent proems* tinalion, he should sui>^i*Nt.that on the veiydaj when Ihe committee hailcome to a decision on a single point, it should be report* d to the hou<e for their con- sideration. (Hear.) A cotnmiltee so constituted^ might be productive ot be¬ nefit. Mr. Catling made a vary smooth, )oi;;I »;>./■« ji J'; f. -oiy . })r JJd/">' liJttf the seditieu^ temper displayed at the popular meeting*.— On reform in Par- liamenf, he delivered this opinion :— fc4 lie denied that the house was not to all usrfui purposes, an adequate re¬ presentation of the people. Jle deni¬ ed that there was in (lie history of thf9 Mv countr) an\ prai.fice, or any tlut>ry, which could p*iv* a sanction to the doc¬ trine of unit c-isal *fUiinij>e and annual parliaments. Our^ysten* had grown up with the grow th ot the nation, in str*W|fth, prosperity, and renown ; it hail adapted itseli to all oui institutions habits and wants. It wa» gAod lor ev¬ en practical object. \\ lieJlOVer it should be transformed into the mere agent of popular will, there might be some kind of constitution, some untri¬ ed being, watered with blood, and llou- rishingto destruction j hut from that moment the i>ritMi constitution was gone. (llctit\ luat\ In m\) Against ail Mich theor.e-* he was deter milled to lake his stand. (Hear, hear.) He warned those who listened to these doc¬ trines, that those who>et the atom rol¬ ling were not always able to control its impetus. •• The ruin of France hud been ac¬ complished b) despising the iirst iwdl- cations of mischiel as too contemptible to deserve notice. It was indisputable that the poison of doctrines,at once the most absurd, had been loug circulated through tin- bodj of eommuiiity." Alter some desultory comorsation tin re was a division. JK»r the amendment, I ll> Aguiii t it, 2C) I Majority in favorof the address, 159 A C omiiiitiec was appointed to pro- pun' the same. Fridayy January 31^—Lord Coch¬ rane gave notice, that on the oth of March new. he would submit a motion for leave to bring in a bill fur Ihe abo¬ lition of sinecures, and fur the reduc¬ tion of ihe salaries of those public ofli- eers which had been adrauced of late years. A petition for retrenehm-nt,^c. from the freeholders of Cornwall, Ma$ nn._ suited b\ ^ir WHIiam Lemon, n-id .up- ported by .Mr. Brand, Mr. KHioi entreated senth-men to llewar* how they touched the ** veucr- nble frame of the constitution." Sir b\ Burdett ro<e to present <i Pe¬ tition upon the subject of parliamenta¬ ry reform, from the inhabitants of Wakefield mid its vicinity, fl* had several others from the same part of the country, upon the same Mibject, and he took that opportunity of pre- testillg against n doctrine with respect to tile presenting petitions which had recently been urged. lie considered It as throwing an unfair onus upon the shoulders of members of that ho««e, who in tlieexerciseof theirduty. recei¬ ved petitions from the people, and pre¬ sent, d them there: it formed, like¬ wise, an impediment to the exercise of that riirht of petitioning which every Kn^lfchman possessed, lie begged have di-tiuctiv to state, that he had not thought it hi> dutv to read the pe¬ tition he then held in his hand, lie had mercl) looked to what was its pray¬ er, and its general purport; he had not examined whether the language w&9 such a* the house might deem offensive; nor. indeed, did he think he should be acting lairlv, if he presnnu d to inter¬ cept, In an exercise oi his private judg¬ ment and discretion, the right of the petitioners to appeal to that house ill whatever wa| they thought moi$t likely to obtain their end. it was the <\nty of members to present petitions when their fellow subjects requested at, mid to leave, it 10 the house to determine w hetht. a anv should be receifi d or not. At the same time, however, he must ob.scrve.lhat he thought the right of re¬ jecting a petition, a* exercised bv the house, a very questionable privilege. The Speaker stated it tr>lw the es- tablbhfd custom of the house that the member should read the petition they presented, and see that their language was respectful. Sir F. Burdett said he had read the prayer of the petition, and was not a- W'lreilfiili) tliillg (li^iespecllul In tiie laiiguage of it. the Speaker—u The Hon. Iiaronet has scid every thing required b^ the house. He has stato'd that he ha? read the substance of the petition, and that, to the be«t of his judgment, it contains nothing disrespectful/*' Sir F. Burdett—" J ilo not mean to sny that I have read all these petitions; that would, indeed be a severe task ; for so many of thern hare been intrust¬ ed to my care, that the reading of them till would occupy the wiole time of the session." Mr. Canning requested to know if the Hon. Haroaiet read the petition. Sir F. Burdett replied that he should answer no -uch nor any other question from the hist speaker. But he would, broadly put it to the house, would they feel it their duty in reject the prayer of hall a million of distressed and suf¬ fering worth} people, merely upon an unascertained point of form : or would they endure, amidst the united sorrows ofau alliicted population, that a few Crown Lawyers, or newly made Miu- lAier.s >houd catechise the presenter of such a petition upon tiie most absurd point of order ever contended for ? At the request of Mr. Canning, tire speaker repeated the rule he had be¬ fore laid down. Mr. Canning repeated his determin¬ ation, acting under the sanction of the huh authority oft he chair, in which he considered embodied the authority of Parliament, to oppo.se the reading of the confessedly unread petition. - Mr. Brougham rose, with great warmth, to reprobate the zeal, he would -ay the pre^umptiou of the last speaker, in endeavoring to close the doors of that house against the recep¬ tion of a petition echoed b\ the groans and sufferings of the people. He con¬ sidered the opinion of the speaker as a mere dictum, and one not sanctioned b) the vote of that house. When pe¬ titions were Hocking into the hou.se from all parts of the kingdom, complaining thai that they were the author* of all the mischiefi which had been brought Oil them, was it right or *afr on their part, to add fuel to the Hume, by as¬ senting that to bo the rule of thi» house. in order to defeat th*> rigfltt of petitiouf not one trace or rtoijjC of which is any whereto be found amongst the stand¬ ing orders or regulations of the house i Sir Francis Burdett informed Ujo House that he had since read the peti¬ tions, during tin* debate. Lord Cochrane supported the recep¬ tion of the petitions, notwithstanding they were unpleasant to the feeling tin doubt, of placemen and sjuecurists. The petition was then brought up, read, and ordered to lie on the table,as were aUo four others from the tcwo and neighbourhood of Halifax, iq the county of \ ork. Mr. Brougham applied that the peo¬ ple should rather be enlightened bvthc temper*re discussions of that House, ou points e—ential to (heir information, than irritated by the rejection of their petitions on such slight grounds. LONDON, Jan. 2(f, We (the Conner) have the fati-fii£& on to announce the adoption of a very proper meafure indeed The following letter has been fent by the Secretary" of State for the home departmeut to the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Leicester, and we behevc to the Lords Lieutenants of fevcral othci countive. (copr) Whitehall* January II, 1817. My Lord—it being deemed expedient, under prefeot circumttanccs, that th£ Civa'l Power fhoidd be ftrengthened id the County under your Grace'b charge, 1 have to requrft that you will recom¬ mend it to the Magistrate* in the prin¬ ciple towns with.'n the fame (in which the meature u already adopted) to encourarrethe enrolment of retoertablc honfeholderR to aA» ae occafion may require, as Special Coil (tabic*, 6«r a rixed period of tin»e, nor kfs than 3 months ; and I have further to requelt thnt your Grace will communicate to "the Com¬ manding Ofn>er« of the feveral Yeoman¬ ry Corps within the county of Lciccller, the with of hi» Majcfty'fl Government, that they would hold themfelvc;* and the Corps under their refpeftive commands* in a Hate of preparation to afford prompt affiMance to the Civil Authorities in cafe of nccefTity. I have, &c, SIDMOUTH. The Lor J Lt. oj'the county of Leicester. m BOSTOW, MARCH tQ. The Belvfderaf Hudfon, has arrived at Baltimore, from Liverpool, bringing London dates to the 27th, and Liver¬ pool to the 29th January. The follow¬ ing fummary and extra&s, embrace the principal articles, of any interctL The dillicfTea of the people in various parts of the country Mill continued among the lower clafTea. A reduction ef the allied army in France has bcert effedted—'it now conGfts of 30,000 m^a but 6,ooo of whom arc Biiiiih. The French government, unable to difchargc the inftalment which became due on her debt to England,has procured a loan from the 'attcrof 300,000,000 francs, more than ^12,000.000 (Itrltug ; one half to be paid in money the remainder it» proviliong, clothing Sec. for the allied troops. The negociators of the loan were MeflYs. Barings, Hope and Parifh, of London and v/mllerdam. The late harvcli in England was very unproductive ; and the Agricultural Report for January, fay«, a grent nati¬ onal lofs ha* accrued from the general nccrflity of fending new wheats to market, in fuch an unfit ftate, and is fup- pofed that our chief dependence in the fpving mull be on imports from A.ncr- ica atid the Baltic. * The Englilh papers contain accounts of ravages by gak-s in different paitsof the coalls» particularly in Irciand. // hurricane was experienced i'» the city pf Dublin on the 25th December, which did Considerable i.jnry. ORDER IN COUNCIL. The London Gazette of January iR, 1R17, com41113 an Order 111 Council, Continuing for (ix months, from the 1 Jtlj of February, the prohibition a^ninft traniporting, without leave fn»m the Privy Council, gunpowder, faltpctrc, or auytjttof arms or amiiun/tion, to flip 14