Star. — London, England, 1824-02-28 00:00:00

\ L i 1 iI. . berry cases on Monday next. • }Whop of EXETER presented 4retttloallxina the Inha. bitalits,of Borough of Gr e a t .Torringtors„.liDit;tonshite. who prared for a Repeal of the Dull' on Chals carried tilastwise.— Read and ordered to he mien the table of the House. Visecinnt HEREFOR D presented a Petition from the Inhabit ants of Dereham and its vieinity, in NtSrfolk, praying for an ame lioration of Colonial .Slavery ; which Petition was Also read, but withdrayro,on account of sonic informalities in it. Wielder and others, from the •Houte of A Conuatons,' brought up the Town Of Leeds Vieavial Tithes and Easter Offer ings. Abolition MlL•vrhtch was afterwards read a .first time. The Earl of LI vrrtrool. said 'that he held in Isis hand cer tain Returns made pursuant to'clie moticinof a Noble Earl („Darts, 101) not .at preseot in Isis lace. They rel a ted to the operation of the Tillie composition A l t in Irl. rid, AIM were Mostly now be fore theother House. Ile should , therefore, lay them uptiti thei r Lordsleilis tablet. but .be must observe while .so doiog, that they were most 'eornpisi; and So 'defeetive in somelustances that the PubDit dazrtte was.the sole :tin-barite on which they rested: . LAN:WOWN'raid that pe•tbaps it 'might 4,•: fur ebe conyeuteuee of Ruble :Lords to kie apprised that the Noble . alluded toTpainley),,,wlio'happeiied toloe.in the country, did not intendto bring foie : full:the ;notion of which notice had beets given for Tuesday swat. lle understood the meantime that it syga the intention of his Noble Friend A. attend in his place on Tuesday, when he would Oltinother datfor bringing on his mo tion with regard to Irelabd. The Transferof. Aids Dill, the Exchequer Bins (15 millions) Bill, the Reciprocils' of Ditties Bill, and t h e Ireland Law Courts Regu lation Rill, were respectively read a second time. 'The' Iliehop of EXETER moved that their Lordships should re ceive ihe Report of the.NeW - MartiageAtt Amendment lidl k which was agreed to.—Adjourned till M onday.' HOUSE GE COMMONS. Mr. IL 'MARTIN said he held in his hand a Petition very nu meroufilrand 'respectably signed' by the inhabitants of Liverpool, which stated that the Petitioners Isad•with great pleasure seen the good effects of an Act , passed in the last Session of ParliaMent, which bad ,for its object the prevention of cruelty to certain ani mals therein specified, such as horses, &c. They now prayed that , the house would be pleased to extend its protection to dogs and others of the brute creation not included in that Act. They prayed especially that the cruel practices of hull and, bear-baiting might be abolished by law, the consequences of which the Petitioners depre cteil; not only as produCtive of the most cruel treatment to the in offensive animals tbernielites; but'as leatiiilg to the most shameful conduct on the part of the congregated ruffians who patronised such sports. The Honourable Member observed, that although the House had ryfqsed so sanction the abolition of bear-baittn, be was happy to say that bull-baiting was abolished by laW. He did not say this 'upon his sown authority, as he had that of the Attorney- General, the Common Serjeant, and other legal characters to bear him out. He, therefore, trusted that those who bad been in the habit of encouraging such sports heretpfore, would refrain from doing so in future, if they did not wiih to pay the penalty attached to the offence. The Petition was then read and ordered to be printed. Mr. Alderman WOOD, presented a Petition from Coombe,- market, in 'Devonshire, praying for a reduction of tfie•Duty on Coals., The I lonoutable Member observed, that the. case of tine Peti tioners was peculiarly hard, as they were obliged after landing their coats to wait for the arrival of the Custom-house Officers, in conse quence of which they experienced considerable inconvenkerice.— Ile. hoped the Chancellor of the Exchequer w.oold e take.this sub ! . j:ct into ,his consideration. lie was sure that riaglk lion. Gen-, tl:man would do all he could to relieve the distresses of the peo ple ; and although the Country Gentlemen and oilier". complainied that hg.had nut as yet aufficiently attended to their claims, he (Al derman Wood) was sure that he. had only put off the futther, retitle • - tion of taxation so the next Session,,when both the merchants and the aviculturists would row together against the CbAnAellor of t h e Exchequer, and he i .be trusted, irresistible. With respect to the Duty on Coals, however, the.people of • London had untels to tom-. plain, of . them (the Country Gentlemen), as where the latter-had. only to pay 15d. the former mustiiity was•eislered to lie on the table. . . Mr. H. SUMNER, in presentiag a Petition from Croydon, In • Surrey, against the duty on Coals, said that 'be could not support the er..".r of the Petition, as lie thought the Chancellor of the Ex chequer hadtione all that could be done ; and such .relfef, as t;lie Petitioners prayed for, a total repeal of the tax, it was impossible for the Right Honourable Gentleman in the circuinStapeeefif the rouqtry to afford.—Ordered to lie on the table. . . , Lord J. FITZROY presented a Petition from Bury; St:Ed.. niurid'a praying fur the abolition eif . I .Slavery,:hi the West W— ks, Ordered to lie on the table. . ••• s; -• • • • •• Sir W. IN GLEBY presented a Pe tition ' on Alto vprar• '• O ing for a more speedy mode of recovering Ssnall . ebu.- - -iOrdered. to lie on the table.. Mr: li EAT HCOTt presented a Petitioti.from thelieensfil 'Victuallers of Boston, in Lincolnshire; against the duty on tome Licenseserdered to lie on the table. . • • • S. RICE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to enable asCous to'iiiack.Mlnes in Ireland.—f-eai i e *ranted. . .Sir IT, PA (WELL postpened his motion relative to the'Com nw'relaflntcreinirse lietwe . m Great Ilritain and Ireland to %does daic•March 4. • CA.SEOYC,ZAItLES IrLiNt. Mr. DENNI g rose to cali.the attention of the House to a Petition which he considered tif the. highest . • im portance, as far as the du= adinittfstratlon of just ice and the conduct of the Magistracy of tliel:ciiiintry were cob-. tented. It was particularly deserving of attention: in the latter pOint - of view,- since Magistrates had lately as'umed to thediselvei - verylifgh powers, which in his Jr • (:tir. Denman's) ophAnn,cotali not bitoo speedily de fined. The facts :to which he should shortly calk.she attention of the House velatedto the conduet of ono of the .Magistrates of Sta-ffOid, who was alio_a Mernber Of that. House, in the trial of ,4 person of the name ofF . lint; lie (Mr. Denman) had communicated to that Honour able Member his intention , of presenting this Petition; and it was with feelings of reset he felt himself bound to say, that if th 4 stateme'n(Oinde by' the petitioner was found to be true,. the conduct of that Honourable and Learned Member was very far from being reconcile able either with the strict'principles of justice, or with the high Character 4. had hitherto maintained. The Petition was of great length, and as,it embraced .a nar rative of circurristances,which occupied - a considerable period of time; he•dicl not see how_it could well be compressed. With the reflections by which this narra tive was acco mpanied hel(Mr.D;nman) had nothing to do. • They were the language of. a man- who was, or conceived himstlf•to be, injured, and -might therefore be excused fog' a lithe ;iat nitt: Heiiotilsl how .proceed to lay. hefore the.Hot;e_.the. facts of tfielase a; detailed in the Petition. It was a matter of•notoriety that • the neighbourhood - of Stafford had !Ong bee.h thrown into a, . state - of agstation,lh — consequence . of The claim ola per, son of the name of-Cooke to ce.rtainproperty in the peas-. session of Sir George J,eriiingliarn. , - One of the.tenants cf Sir George bad Len ;nu omit ('f posses slim by a manof the iitnie of Wilks, who claimed under Mr. Cooke, and Teilk's—w:ts-lst&iquentlyoustecl of pos sessitlii himself by thoforntil occupier. The manner in , which this person obtatined possession was not 'only •ex.., trecuely violent, butiiirtristMr. Denman s) opinion, il••:! leg s as 'he atteir Lien' the:Magis, trate* were' auk 4utlsorksiesl- to. issue, The .Act upon• vthicbthey professedlo.be guided in restoring the pos, session usurped by Wilk, warrthat of the late King, commonly called the Wilful Trespass. Act. This Act, although it gave very high powers to Magistrates and. Constables, empowering them even in certain cases to arrest, did not, in his opinion, apply to cases of disputed r -~-. T. 4 ._ -• . s _ 's ~.. - . He wat .stite the •Hoeoutalele Membee,bst that Act was alit in 'Ad set intend it to ape co-inch.elsers, an ins supede tke pu4inark.tri. s9~iich it unveil y And orfpim4y.refereed. Th • rtio-toolcasosseesion in this inatakelaroke ope loors, and took off the locks which -had been af them; and jot content with this, he took into -Willis-and amber person- by wleam avas'ie and treated them with every species of indig ..ser thesecireu mai/aces, when the authority under . .1 this violent act was committed was in itself so sestioaable, and when the natural irritation of persons situated as Whirs and his friend were is considered, was it not to be expected that any resistance which they might offer would be considered as in some degree palliating the circumstancespf the case, and not made a reason for vindictive punishment? It was true that a huge body of men had assembled to oppose the execu tion of the decree, four or five huns'ved persons, per haps; but it was equally true, that although they might have used stir:mg expressions, they inflicted bodily in jury.upon nobod,y, and were not guilty of any act which, except in the legal' sense, could 7 be called an assault.— .This transaction took place in the neighbourhood of Stafford, where the Petitioner wars residing at the time. He thought it necessary to call the audition of the House te the situation in life of the Petitibner. He was the legal adviser of Wiiks, an articled clerk to his bro ther, who wits an admitted attorney, and with whom he had served an apprenticeship of six years. He was at the inn in Stafford, When he heard that his client was arrested, and with the feelings natural to a man so cir.. cumptanced, he hastened immediately to the scene of action, with a view of giving his professional advice. Upon his arrival hesew Mr. Wilks in the'hands of the constables, by whonehe wes not very courteously treated. Flint asked them for their authority, but they refused to produce it. It was in their pocket, they said. Re, re peated his demand a second and a third time, and upon the fourth application they produced it. It was a sim ple wai rant to the constables to keep the peace. Flint upon this, said that they' were not warranted in taking his client to prison, and added some words of encourage ment, such as any professional adviser would naturally use'to his client. This appeared to be all that Flint had 'done. 'This- was the_ extent of his offence, if offence it could be called. - If resistance was unlawful, the case was at least of a questionable nature, and those who had offered this resistance were guilty of no riotous act. beyond mere words, and the - ordioary conduct rif a multitude congregated together in consequence of some supposed or real grievance. But admitting that the multitude had been guilty of riotous or disorderly con duct, that of Flint was quite the contrary. He asked the constable for his authority, and when produced he took no other step than to deny its validity, and afford that encouragement to his client which every proles-• sional adviser 'would have done under similar circum'. stances. The Petitioner was brought to trial' at the Quarter Sessions of Stafford, and although he IMr. Denman) would not go the length of saying, • that the Chairman ought to have directed .the Jury to acquit' the prisoner, he still would say that the circumstances were such as to have prevented him from summing up, according to the legal phrase, against the prisoner.— The Learned Chait man told . the Jury that the case was made out, and not distinguishing; as any euthbrity on the Bench would have done, between the conduct of the multitude who were upon the spot and did make resist ance, although in - no_ aggraveted7Manner, and without doing any bodily harire and that of a young man who 'teas totally unconnected with the riot, and went down prompted only by anxiety for_his client, be directed them m bring in the same verdict against all. The Jury did ea, iind without turning-round in the box, found all the pri soners guilty. The question dien was as to the sentence, and fresh evidence was adduced in mitigation of punish ment; by which it appeared that Flint was at the inn when the • riot :took place, a fact which the Learned Chairman himself afterwards admitted. It Was asserted that the responsibility of the sentence did.not rest alto gether on theLearnedChairinan, as he . had 'consulted his brother Magistrate s.. He might have done so sub sequently, but not at the time the, sentence was- passed. Their opinion, therefore,. although it might afterwards ,agree with that of the Learned Chairman,. could not well be said to have affected a sentence pronounced be fore they were consulted. The Learned Chairman and one - of his fellow Magistrates—a Reverend Magistrate— jointly pronounced sentence on the Petitioner, and in so doing they stewed no respect'Of persons, as they core. demned an Attorney who. had been accustomed to move in a reputable-sphere - of life, - whose only fault were that he was at hand to remonstrate against an injustice "done to his client—to the same punishment with persons. of a very inferiot class convicted of a riot—they con demned this individual to three months' imprisonment= and to hard' labour-..(Near, ham) —they seat a person . Who had been accustomed to far different .society, who bad received tjte education and profession of a Gentle man, to the tread-mill—to herd with- felons and male factors of the vilest desctiption,-(Hear, hear). This was a statement , which,: he could not help saying, ,_Quitilte if proved, to draw-down the inclignatiou of that Hoese r ree The Petition entered a good • deal into the law of the case. With this he (Mr. Denman) would' not trouble the House. There was one observation in it to , which he would; however, - allude, as it proved that the con duct of the Magistrates was illegal in sentencing the prisoner to hard labour. The Chairman, in his sum ming up, said that the prisoner had been guilty of at tending an unlawful assembly. Now, the lew did not say that hard:labeur wae-to be the punishment of such an offence. The Petitioner therefore contended that the. Chairman was not warranted in inflicting that. punish ment on him. The punishment was, however, inflicted, and the Petitioner was made to take his turn - at the mill like the rest. -In a short time, however, his health gave way, and he procured a certificate from the surgeon of the jail,deelating that he was not a fit object for labour. l The punishment•was then remitted; bur. was the pri soner on that account indebted to the Visiting Magie traces, or did they relax their severity till necessity corn diem ? There was another statement in the Pe tition, to which he (Mr. Denman) thought it necessary' to call the attention of the House. The Petitionerlad prepared a Memorial to the Right Honotu able Secre tory for the. Home Department, -detailing tbe facts of his case, and praying that it might be taken into consi 4exation. • This Memorial was, however, 'withheld by the jailer, who, atter some time, gave it to the Honour ' able Member for Stafford, by whoM it' . was trans• reined to the Right Honourable Secretary, but net until 'a considerable time had elapsed. He-(Mr. Dour 'man) confessed that it struck- him with some surpsite l that when this Petition was at last presented, the' "tight Honourable Secretary had not theught proper to have the case of this individual inquired into----7 'Allowing that nu distinction ought to he made. betweett r rtrirMW47 - "i't "4M' :~ -, . . ; s ilst4 jiWejliers, he was sure that if4llii individual I,se3 icI•ISOM promptly inquired int% tlieresult would re - been his-immediate liberation. Tr return to bis Oesturteht in prison; he was, as before remarked,'couS 1.114 to hard labour, and, not sittisfied . with this, he wai made to wear the jail dross, thus identifying him with the malefactors and felons with :whom he was forced 'to Agsvcia te. •'"lfe•oughtlhomerer - tu ii,oy.• ~.,-. CUMStanCei of the case having become a subject of con versation in Staff3rd, theleartied.Chairman thogski i proper to take the opinion of" his brother Magistratesies to the :legality of what • he•ltad - done—(lttarr): • They met accordingly, and 'came to•a tesolation .not to make, any inquiry into the case, and in this respect he would say that they had been.imitated by that -House, , which- the other night, when a Noble Friend of his-(Lord Nugent) had brought forward a .motion for inquiring . into-the conduct of .Mittisters relative to the war in Spain, wisely came to a resolution not only not to institute. any inquiry, but to, pass a vote of thanks to those very Ministers whose Constacs. they were called upon to in vestigate—(l-leer, nil - 4.0 laugh). This was the course which the. Stafford Magistrates pursued. They met for' the ostensible• purpose of investigating the legality of an act of a brother Magistrate: without inquiry or consi deration; they proceed to pass a panegyric upon their Learned Chairman, and throw their shield over a Gen tleman, who on otdinary occasions he • was willing to allow stood in need or nb such prOtectinn. He would now notice an-objection which-he knew would be made to the reception of.Aliit,Petition4 An application had it appeared been nrade.upon the part of the Honourable and Learned Meriaber fora criminal information against. a London Newspaper l . ...and it had been said that the petitioner ought to wan until the result of the inquiry in the Court of. King:is-13=6. was known. He (Mr. Den man) however:thought-differently. He contended that .he had a right to pram his Petition and deMaad :l.1) investigation into his*Casi whenever he had an opportu nity. If the petitioner were compelled to wait the re sult of this application the period of redress would be ley distant, and he should in fact be obliged to with-. hop iis Petition until the next Session of Parliament. Tlie. ourable and 'Learnicl Member bat it is true applied t a rule, but having made his application- at the end of the Term had not got it made absolute, which he would have done had he applied earlier. Thus the trial could not take place before the next Summer Assizes, until which time the petitioner would have to wait, before he could obtain redress. This was the peti tionees reason for not waiting the result of that trial. Besides the case Of the Petitioner was very different fiom that of the Newspaper Editor. The Newspaper para graph might have been a gross and infamous libel, and the petitioner be not at all affected by it. Besides the Honourable Member's case was already before the public. Every circumstance that was favourable to him was of course set forth in his affidavit, and why not hear the petitioner's casein his turn? He (Mi-. Denman) had now done his duty, and allowing that resistance had been offered to authority, which authority was at least but questionable, yet if i as the Petitioner asserted, he had no partinit, even admitting that he had taken the part of his client top warmly, he was sure that under all the eircu.mstangeftliellouse would Agr e e with him that such a punishment as-the tread-mill was too severe for such an offence. The Hon. Member then proceeded to read some extracts from the Petition, in which the petitioner ex pressed his hope that the House would proiride 'against so gross an abuse of magisterial authority as that of -which he complained, and which - could not be so effectu ally redressed through any other channel. The Ho nourable and Learned Member proceeded to state, that he should not act fairly if he did not mention the Cho- Oyes by which the petitioner.asserted the Learned Chair- Man was actuated in pursuing that conduct to - via Hahn of whichhe complained. The motive which the Petitioner assigneci,then, arose out of altercations which he stated to .have frequently taken place between his elder.hrother, AbrahaurElint, and the Honourable and Learned Mem- her,. not irr his•capacity.of Chairman, but - while offi-1 timing in another capacity, that 'of a CommisliOner :Of I Bankrupts. He (Mll.ri Denman) did not by any meant assume that any imputation attached to the I- knowable Member on account, of these • allegations : on the cqn trary, it was the misfortuniofpersons Vested 'With au thority to be fiequetitly the object of ,undeserved:odiarn, and karma-very hard, eadei such Circiamstane' es i to-giivi• satisfaction to all parties---(flear, hear). —The petitioner further stated another cause of dispute between the pe pitiossee's- brother and the 'Learned Chairman.. Mir: ',Ahrahaerf Mt, ablaut three years ago, harl' been .con !Acted of an assault upon a woman. I'he assault, it was iwatea, avaa tritild-in its nature; and yet for this offence. the Learned Chairman had. sentenced the prisoner to six months' imprisansuent and a fine of 1001. the tread-mill t being then in existence . - Applicailion was made to pot rd Sidmouth for i remission of the sentence, but that le Lord just then went out of office, and was suc weeded by the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite; pne of the first acts of whose authority was to liberate Mr. Flint,and to remit the fine which had been imposed' upon hiM. This was a circumstance Which woad tia-' mall* lead the House to suppose that the original seri; tence had not been - merited ; and the fact of the Honour. able and Learned Gentleman to whom he had so often • luded having hisnSelf interfered to procure a.remission Of the sentence, went to prole that he also had thought -4 too severe, arid had in consequence exerted his influence to have it remitted. The Learned Gentleman apolegisedi for having detained the House so long, and moved that The Petition be brought up.' Mr. lIOLME SUMNER opposed the bringing up of the Petition, and declared that no Gehtlentau could act as. a Magistrate if he was to be subjected illegally to ealumny and attack. He doubted not that the Honour able Member for Staffoid Cotild give the fullest answer to every charge that'. the Petition contained ; but the' proper mode of proceeding, if any proceeding were ne cessary, was iv the Court of King's Bench ; and he Cer tainly Would divide the lionsehefore he saw the Peti tion brought up. ' .. _ . . • Mr: CHET%VYND' Offered 'his' prayer to the House that the Petition inighVbFlatisTight up, iinreiery ,aiSer. xion in it investiiate.d. 'He should - feel fiimself unwor thy to sit"in Parliament, tir 7 ever again to . aeras a Ma gistrate, if he consented to.itsitiection on any point of iform. If . he 'did not, to the•very-letter, refute every :charge•that it. contained, he would be-Contame alit. the 'House should eipel•htus; arid' that the Lord Chancellor should strike•ifistatte out of tke.Corniitigsltaf. - ..,7 • • . The ATTORAY.O•ENERAIa had no'deilitit that the. Honoura4le and Learned Member for Stafford was ,well prepared to answer alt thsstatements of Mr. Flint' in his. Petition; but tho question was, whether the HOuSe Would alloW hint - to answer those statements'? and lie (tlie. Attorney-Geneial) hoped that it would tot. At the same time, however, that he tholi;lit the Flonotir- ! 'able nernber for St .fford ought to 1): precluded from :?71!!! . -.% . - . 0 , • • . , , , . • - noiicing the Petition presented', there were some de• el:mations in it, and imputations, so- transparently at variance with truth, that be could not himself consettal to pass over them in silence. With respect to Mr. Abra ,,, ham Flint, against whom the Hon. Member for Staf.. ford was supposed to entertain a prejudice, it wet to' the interference.of that Hon. Mcmber (first,, - with Lord ,:, •;... .... eieraoheisehattight 4 .."etiaer, ;it itecnolsoassiad-foe the exercise of mercy, and next with tlx piesint 'Right Hp. Secretary, who had been' of a%cliffetent opittroq. t at IW. Trint iisFed , :the Mitigation of a sentence 414ga had..heen-passeltrpon. hint -under the vecelict of a Jetty.— Mean) Upon_ Abraham - Flint's ill.sitirament, ay e . woad say .no more. .Nnw, what were .the .case anti the charges of ifle petitioner ? A ceriiiii. individual. having comritittedstlieach of the peaeat, and being ins the custndy of a constable, Mr. Flint had been one of a mob of ,500, -who endeavoured tb rescue him. The petition suggested, that when he had been brought first before a Magistrate forsthis offence, that Magistrate had' refiised to bind him ores to the • Sessions. ' That -statt mentiwas id the petition, although the Honourable and Leathed Member for 'Nottingham 'had not mentioned it; and, like many other 'statements in the Petition, it is untrue..*: Another suggestion in 'the Petition; that i ' . e Petition - el-had not originally been meant to be in cted, but had sithselneiltly been prosecuted at the in itaqce of the Hon. Member foe'Stafford—this sugges tion was contradicted uPon okhi by the Hon. Member for Stafford, in theCoiiretif :King'ifiencli, and also by the agent who had managed tht prosecution on thepart of Sir George Jerninghain. If he(the Attorney-Gene. nil) opposed thi bringing up of the Petlion, it was be cause it contained statements false and calumnious. How could the Honourable Member for Stafford' act but as lie had dune? Ile was . Chairman of the Res. slims. The case was tried before a Jut y. In oinimitts up, he repeated every Oita of evidence to the Jury ; and in his law, as he laid it down, all the Magit- L trines , on-the Bench made affidavits that they - hat *greed.—(Hear, hear). Then, a sentence was to bt pronounced. In that matter the Bench had. not relied phone upon itself. Magistrates in atiendance—(this fact was proved by Sir Oswald-bloaley)—Magistrates Of tilt' highest respectability, who were in attendance, had been Consulted, and the sentence pronounced had bet% the result of their united opinion—(Near, heat). With re spect to the sentence, then, if the Honourable Member for Stafford had been wrong, how a ere the test of the Magistrates situated ? With respect to the punishment, it would not have been possible to sentence the persons indicted with Mr. Flint to hard labour, with,lut includ: ing him in the same degree of penalty—(Cheers). Otte word, however, upon the-mode in which the punish ment of " hard labour" had 'been inflicted. The Ho nourable Meniber for Nottingham had talked of the tread-mill, and' had spoken of .hard labour for three months.: Now, in thewho:le•three months, the Petitioner had worked in the treicloial five hours—(Near). ' *, Mr. DNMAN.7 . -.lsitlatlie Honoutahle and Learned- Gentlemen mean five hotirtonly in all? The ATTORNELG . ENERAL meant no more— ' (Hear,hear). After _that,oi! a representation , he bad' been employed-in carding wool and. spinning it- , -(Fleur, and laughler)—affd after that, upon a second represen tation, he had been allowed to do , nothing.. The story of his having been shut up fur forty days- 7 0f his hav ing been fed on bread and .water, &c.—of these mutters and others in the Petition, the Attorney-General'would say nothing, because the llononi able' Attorney fneNnt tingbam had not touched upon them. The cd4e statements of the Petition had beer contradicted upon, oath in the Court Of Kieg's Bench, by the affidavits - of. Mr. Clare, the agent of Sir .Geinge . jerninghatn, the' surgeon of the prison, the tack-master of the Oscan; and the Honourable Member for 'Stafford himself —(f lear,• hear). The delay of which the Honourable Member:- for Nottingham had spoken, in the King's Bencli . pri • ceedings, arose out of the application cii.thealefendants for time to answer the affidavits filed agaiti4t , them; but the Petitioner.probably found it moscconseident to make . his.statements in the shape at d' Petition; w*re, if they happened not to be .true, they •carreed.no legal consequences along with then—(Cheers). , . Mr. WETHERELL opposed the bringing up of the- Petition, consideting that a 'Petition Was .not . .the cotiris by which the party, if aggriefi,ed.sliptilditaee pfotieeded; Mr. PEEL, who considered hinitel(in fo.,,,q,rne,iitui as' sintilesly situated with the Honourable blemberfor Staff:44l,4o6ld riot detain the Huhse moire than a very few moments upon the question. The remission of sen tence which he tad thought.himself entitled to make in the case of "Abraham Flint, "bid proceeded (k wk's the' seeikisi application) upon the interference of "the'Histi. Member for Stafford. The-ground-of that Himont-Ale Membeer application had beta, - that a witness who-had gitien evidence on the trial-of Mr, Abraham Flinv . had had his credibility 14100 lippn. a, shitsetthint oeCitclUni. and the letter Of time Hon. Menibet had Cos: 44d its these terms—" l' feel-fully. justified, under suchlireirm stancea, in impkiting 'theithy'at etemerieZfor this un- , fortunate person ;. and as heis now siteiting from caw. finement, and his family;ate in disktess;,l beg leave tot. sitlicit your earliest attention to his case"--(1-kne,lime). This was the person against whorh Abe Hon, Member for Staffard was said to ..hijaixe.j.itliiedil:Withiti a week, a warrant had been issued for his li6eratitin4 7 4„fiinri. Now 'to . the case of the Petitioner ; and. first, to 'the charge,' against hintself; at ftdelay. 'Theo Petitioner hat been convicted in Octobie.Thst, it isris,said ,—`-it was not until December that he ( ti - ; I r ma) ever . .heaid of his trial—(Hear). . • • Mr:DENMAN said, that' he Lad - not been. Matt when the case had reached the liondurable Sai'vrary, Mr. PEEL—Then why did the Hon. and-Learned Gentleman make the charge without knowing? Mf.-DENMAN had suited thecemplaint as - he found it. in the Petition. ' .. . , Mr: Secretary PEEL proceedtal4o state;•th at he ha , first received the 'Petitione& Mernoiiii. on, the ; fith December. Ile . had applied- for information to tin Honourable Member for Stafford; as the Judge before' whom the iitaiciment had been tried, and he should bar felt 'a s hamed of referring to any other authority. The: Honourable Member had nritlacetitontent with sending Up his opiuisn; he had sent u' the whole case, withthe evidence, and had'said, '..! Do ~... hat you thi:'k fit." IC (Mr. Peas) opinion had been that mercy could not coa -1 sistently be recommended. Into the- reasons tor tly. - opinion, lie should not now detain the House by enter ilig : but he thought it right to say..that;in his view; die ; sentence was• i• lenient one ; and.he posipened furiser detail untillie saw what became of the Petition. AIr:IITTUTON' ihnught ' the complaints of the' `petitioner groundless. There could not be a more zeal. out, able, and intelligent .Magistrate than his-Hon.-and Learned Friend, against whose conduct they. Petitioner complained. Ile had some right to find fault with manner in which the Honourable and Learned Member . -- --. :.-- PII IIIIIIIII . ' . . [I . --------.,-----1---_ possession. a...---....--. PARLIAMENI'ARV PROCEEDINGS. whom that I ' 1 1 1 4';'44:' • •••••;111111":•-• notTSR OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 27. pit to itsch. , bunals to vi '('leis morning the Loup estaNctl.t.on sat foe' the winding up of ,persoji writ,. stare minor eases in the Queensberry Appealiastsen the ease of severa l d oor Greenhill v. Alain, of Iktudie v, Aitkin, and of Mutt V. I'otts, uk eggAgy.wallyAgad o ur,, r; AAjourvasil dorling.p/mure. , fixed to the ..„ ThcatOit t) Mil Net DittOß, ora ttlrrenttninref •thr Untie, taped )" , i'l stated that as be understood that their Lordships would not akit on companied, weanesdnp.sst.-it beim Afh.Wednexyweionlogjaritly:ol4l, att.,Lhuktri tiojuTgaeat. could is; moved on iSt7 ay of the delays vihith had intervened , to give tutignpi.ktii'.o..n. accoun ve icli this • he Queens! - ° questionable ilPrrV cases on 51ondav neat. _ - .._ . . . . ; ... ...-.1- ... I . • hl 111 4:1 na X 111 1 1 1 . . F.• • • • e I; I A. ie Q. If d 1. iis a- lq. et' k Feb • at lot Ir ed nd ad of the Ira 'her ng the oni- nos the her the and aeT the bar