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• ' . .. • . .. - _ .-- . ... 1 „)-).), , .. .., . .... t ..,) .. 3 , :. . , , ~.7 - ••-• • ( 4 "‘% , • • . • •/ ( S .. lh e i Flio,. Vp l ik ' • t Alh . J - _ /44,0441 • ___ ________ __ i I '~, • I ,1 TUESDAY EVENIAG, ;JUNE 3, • 1828. UMBER 121878.] [Pate - it SIMENItNeIt. • • the amoant,of any of bis predecessors. Sir J. NEWPORT bore tes timonY to ire truth of the statement, and the Petition was ordered to be printqd. Mr. LOIB brought in a Bill for the erection of a place to con tain Irish LA B a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on that day se'nnight. ADMIRALTY OFFICE, • May 7, 1828. VOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a SESSION 11 of OYER and TERMINER, and GAOL DELIVERY for the TrW of Offences committed on the High Seas, within the Jarisdiction of the Admiralty of England, will be held at Justice gait, in the Old Bailey, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 11th of Joe nett, at Eight o'clock in the morning: DIPERLIL PARLLOIENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 2. MISSAGE FROM TIM COMMONS. Sir A. GRANT and other Members brought up the Corn Bill, the Canning Family Pension Bill, the Stamp Distribetions Allowance Bill. the Law or Evidence Bill ; and some Private Bills. The Earl of ELDON presented Petitions against any further concession to the Roman Catholics, from Bolton, in Lancashire, from North Shields, from the Presbytery of Irvine, in Scotland, and horn the town of Saltash. And all Sheriffs, Gaolers, and Keepers of Prisons, in whose ta•tedy any Prisoners, charged with Offences committed on the high Seas, or within the &Lid Jurisdiction, may be. are hereby required to transmit a copy of the Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. CIIARLMS JONES, the Solicitor of the Admirdlty, at his Office, No. 10, Lancaster-place, Strand, London, itt order that The necessary measures may be taken, for removing all such Pri vows to his Majesty's Gaul of Newgate, for Trial, at the said in tended Session : and all Mayors, Justices, Coronets, and other Officers, before whom any Inquisitions, Informations, Examina tions, or Recognizances may have been taken, touching any such Offences, are required to transmit the same forthwith, to Mr. SHILTON, the Clerk of Arraigns to the High Court of Admiralty of England, at his Office, at the Sessions House, in the Old Bailey, London. J. W. CROKER. Lord FA L MOUTHpresented a similar Petition from the Con gregation of Zion Ohapel, Nottingham. Tne Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a Petition from the University of Cambridge, against the continuance of Slavery. Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE presented a similar Petition from a place in Curar►.U. Lord - WHA RNC L I FFE presented a Petition to the same effect horn 13r.tdford, in the county of York. The Marquis of BUTE presented a similar Petition from Swan sea. RICK CLOTHS. EACON AND ORCHARD beg to inform the No ll—, batty, Gentry' s and Agriculturists in general, they have been mating a large assortment of RICK CLOTHS with Poles. Ropes, Putties complete; the Cloths being made from the best Canvas, they can warrant them for their quality and durability superior to what are generally offered to the Public, and on the most advan tazeoos term.t. Also, New and Second-hand MARQUEES and TENTS for Pleasure Parties, CriCket Grounds, &c. &c. IM PERIAL WA TERPROOF CLOTHS, on a new principle, for Wapcons, Carts, &c. ake. warranted perfectly pliable, and not to erJek. Netting and Bunting for Fruit Trees. Marquees and airk Cloths let on hire for the Season. Orders, addressed by Post, to Deacon and Orchard, No, s,West Soutbfirld, London, will be punctually attended to. EVER ANXIOUS TO PREVENT IMPOSITION, DAY and MARTIN respectfully inform the Public they have, after much labour and at a very considerable ex pore, bmught to perfection a Label of sush singular construction and extreme difiLulty of execution, that they trust will effectually prevent the many Fraud. that are daily practised en the Public.... Anauentiou to the following description of the Label will ensure tae genuine Blacking prepred by them. A pattern like Lace of a pink colour cover: the principal part of the Label, the names of Day and Martin are printed in white letters edged with pink and Wei:, and placed on a White ground, the address, 97, HIGH-HOLBORN, as alto white letters edged with pink and black, but placed on the lace pattern, the signature and price at foot are black on a white ground, the preamble and directions for use are printed as before black letters on white grown -27, lligh-Holborn, Sept. 1823. FRENCH PAPERS. FROM THE MESSAGER DE3 CHASIDIM OF MAT 31. SECOND EDITION. The Pienna Court Gazette, of the 22d May, and the Austria* Observer of the same date, contain the follow ing official article: " In consequence of the system of strict neutrality adopted by his Imperial Apostolic Majesty, in the pre sent war between the Emperor of all the Russias and tee Sublime Porte, the Imperial Consuls and Agents of the Court of Austria have received orders, in case of the cessation of the authority of the Hospodars of Mol davia and Wallachia, to whom they are accredited, immediately to suspend their fonctions. According to this order, having learned that. immediately on the arrival of the Russian troops in the two Principalities, afficial notice was given to the two Hospodars that their Government was at an end, the said Agents have inti mated to the Divans of Moldavia and Wallachia that their Consular 'unctions had ceased, and, thus quitted Jassy and Bucharest on the 9th or 10th of this month." The Austrian Observer of the nd May contains a letter, dated from the frontiers of Moldavia, 14th May, of the following tenour : " The principal pdint at which the Russian army en tered Moldavia was the village of Valadunidissac, two leagues from the quarantine post of Reni, in the night of 7th May, t writy•four hours later than their entrance by way of Skuleni into the capital of Moldavia. This delay was occasioned by the sudden rising of the Petah. which baffifd every atiempt to throw over a bridge at Tamorava, and it was necessary to find another point for that purpose ; as, immediately after passing, the Russians proceeded with the rapidity of lightning to the banks of the Sere!), which they occupied, and ad vanced with the same rapidity towards 6allacc; the Toptikt-clii commanding the Turkish detachment in tilt district had no means of retreating towards Braila, and he was taken prisoner, with about forty men. "Though a division of Turkish cavalry burnt on the morning of the Bth all the boats upon the Sereth, ne vertheless a corps of 10,000 men, 4,000 of whom were cavalry, with a considerable park of artillery, crossed the river the same day, and encamped opposite Braila. "Immediately after the passage at Valaduni-Issac, a Corps of 5,000 Cossack; was sent in a straight line to Bucharest. to take immediate possession of the capital of Wallachia, where they were to arrive on the 11th. "The column commanded by General Kleist did not arrive till the 10th at Tekutsch, which is two stages from Tockschany : 7 or 800 infantry, with 80 or 100 Cossacks, have remained at Jassy. " The Basch-beschli Aga. who was at first said to have been made prisoner, with his troops, at Jassy, had tan, in the night of the 6th of May, with 52 men, the totd to Bakoo, by way of Romano, and thence—sus- Fatting that the road to the south would be full of Cos lacks—he proceeded to the frontiers of Transylvania ; and on his way through Moldavia the Mussulman Chief caused his men to obtervawhe strictest discipline." This bulletin is translated from the Austrian Observer of the 2id of May, which gives it an official form. That Paper does not say any thing of the article copied by Vie Ait rcmburg Gazelle from that of Lemberg. Probably this news had'not been officially received at Vienna. Tanen Fuenss—Five per Cents. 103 f. Sc.—Three per Cents. 10f. 20c.—Ilank Stack, I.9ooE—Naples Iterates, 761,, 4Sc.—Royal Spanish Loan, 72if.—Haytian Lau, 6 551.—E:change on London, tift month, 251. 25c. three numtbs, 25f. 15c. The Berlin o,l7cial Gazelle asserts, that the reason vrhy the Russians arrested the Hospedar Stourdza on their entering Jassy, and subsequently sent him off to Bessarabia as a prisoner, was, that they had been ap prised of the Hospodar's intention not to give any ac_ tarots relative to his administration, and of his deter- Imnation to take refuge in the Austrian States—a Proceeding which must ha►e thrown some embarrass ment into the projected organization of the Principality by the Russian authorities. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a Petition from the Wool growers of a district in Yorkshire, against the importation of Foreign Wool, which, on the motion of the Noble Duke, was ordered to be referred to the Committee sitting upon that subject. Earl STANHOPE presented a Petition from Whitby, in Yorkshire, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a Petition from a place in Yoakshir ,e against any additional dirty on the importation of Foreign Weal. ' • The Marquis of EXETER presented a Petition from the owners arld occupiers of land in a parish in Lincolnshire, against any alter ation of the Corn Laws. The Earl of MAL DIESBURY had a Petition to present to their Lordships upon a subject of very great importance. It was from the inhabitants of Newport, in the Isle of Wight, and prayed for the repeal of the law prohibiting the circulation of small notes. i This measurf was soon to come into complete operation, and the Petitioners apprehended that every class of society would be se riou..ly affected by it. In this apprehension he (the Noble Earl) partook. Lord KENYON gave notice that be would move the second reading of the Lunatics' Estate Bill on Wednesday next. The Eat! of MA LIVESBURY gave notice that he would move the second reading of the Lunatics Asylum Bill on Wednesday next, and moved that their Lordships be summoned for that day. —Ordered. The Earl of ROSEBERRY postponed the second teading of the Scotch Settlement Bill until Thursday next. BILE MANUFACTURZIM Earl GROSVENOR had a Petition to present from the Silk Manufacturers of Congkton, praying for an additional Duty on the Importation of Foreign Wrought Silk. He would at the same time advert to a subject upon which he had some time ago put a question to a Noble Earl, then a Member of his Majesty's Government. In doing so, he felt some difficulty, however, not from the nature of the subject itself, but from certain circumstances which had occurred since the period to which be referred. He bad asked the Noble Earl a question as to the intentions of his Majesty's thavernmcnt with respect to the slave population of the West Indies, which the Noble Earl had declined to answer until he should have had an opportunity of consulting certain individuals, some of them Members of the other House of Parliament. He had not now the opportunity of addressing a repetition of the question to the sante quarter, fur he found that the Noble Earl, as well as the esteemed individuals whom he meant to consult, had ceased to be Members of the Government. This was the cause of his difficulty. He did net know by whom he was to be answered. In the course of little more than a year they had had no kis than five different Adminis• trations, which was enough to produce great dissatisfaction, and great want of tcinfidence in the people. He might perhaps be told that the appointment of an Administration was the proper function of his Majesty, and this to a certain extent he admitted. But with out responsible atliisers his Majesty could not act. It might, in• deed, he said, that in appointing an Administration his Majesty had no responsible advisers. In some eases this was true. In the present case it was not so. He did not know whether the Noble Duke would think fit to eater into any explanations; if he did so think fit, lie trusted the explanations would be clearer sad more satisfactory than those to which Parliament had beets recently ac costumed. He begged now to call the attention or the Noble Duke I to the question, which on a former occasion he had proposed to the • Noble Earl. The Duke of WELLINGTON bad only just beard of the ques tion which the Noble Earl had put some time ago to his Noble Friend. He was sorry that he was not able tp answer it at the present moment. If the Noble Earl would have the goodness to put the question two (Lys hence, he bad no doubt he should be enabled to give him an answer. The Petition was then read. The Earl of MALMESBURY thought the Petition deserving of great attention. It was evident that the experiments which had been made upon the trade of the country had been productive of the greatest distress. Ile trusted the Noble Earl who presented the Petinon would move fur the appointment of a Committee, or pro pose some other measure upon the subject. Earl GROSVENOR presented a P.tition from a plase in Corn wall against the removal of the right of representation of l'enryn to any distant place. ' The Earl of CARNARVON, gave notice that he would move the second reading of the Peoryn. Disfranchisement Bill ou next Monday se'smight. On the motion of the Doke of Waitouccrox, the Pension to the Family of the late Mr. Canning Bill we; read a first time, and or dered to he read a second time on Thursday next. On the motion of the Duke of WILLINaTON, the Corn Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Friday se'onight. . On the motion of the Duke of Wrzwuarost, the Stamp Duties Regulation Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a se cond time on Thursday next. The Promissory Notes Stamp Compmition 13111, and the Pro. missory Notes (Ireland) Bill, were severilly read a third time and pawed. SCOTCH PIXL4QI RILL. Lord BELHAVEN moved, that this Bill be read a second time. He understood that it would suit the convenience of several Noble Lords to postpone any discussion of the subject until the motion for going into a Committee. The Earl of HADDIN GTON said, :hat it ought to be an in struction to the Committee to collect all the opinions and wishes of all the members of the Scotch Peerage. Lord REDEgDALEsaid, that tbit was a Bill which required the moat serious consideration. It infringed the solemn compact entered into in the Act of Union, and Parliament would not be justified in passing it, unless it had the approbation of every indi vidual of the Scotch Peerage.- For the maintenance of the Articles of Union, the Scotch nation had no guarantee but the faith of Par liament. They did not send a majority into either House of Parliament, and If the Act of Union was to be violated by a majo rity of the United Parliament, without the consent of all the parties interested, they would have no guarantee whatever. He ' would offer no opposition in the present stage of the Bill, but he entertained a strong expression against the measure. Lord BELHAVEN would at present offer only one remark in reply to the Noble Lord. The solemn compact, upon which he laid so much stress, had been violated before it was twelve months old.—The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday, the 12th inst. The Salmon Fishery (Scotland) Bill, on the motion of the Duke of Amor., was committed. Mr. Mumt, from the Bast India House, presented papers. Mr. CaArrsa, from the Treasury, presented an Account of the quantity of Woollen Goods exported during the last eight years. Mr. Seams presented the 24th Report of the Commissioners of the Caledonian CanaL—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. • The Ayr and Calder Navigation Bill wu passed. Mr. BY NG presented a Petition from Poplar against the New Commercial Road Bill. _ Petitions were also presented against the Friendly Societies Bill, from Bristol and Hull ; against an increased duty on cyder, from Wells, in Sonsessetshire ; from ShifneU, against further concessions to the Roman Catholics; from Ashton-under-Line, for a minimum rate of wages • from Huddersfield, Cirencester and three places in Suffolk. for the abolition of Negro Slavery ; a similar Petition from Ipswich, including also a reduction of duty on sugar; from C.arnsx von, Cardigan, Burford, Scarborough, and other places, in fattier of a small nom currency ; from the Chamber of Commerce at Dublin, for a repeal of the duty on coals entering that Port; from Kilmore Union Parishes in Alkyls, complaining of the increasing tithes levied by the incumbent, whom the Pentinnfrs represented as never visiting his pariah, and yet demanding tithes to four times •, EAST RETFORD. 'MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS. Mr. TENNISON said, that in. rising to move the Order Oahe Day for the House going into a Committee on the gust Rettord Disfranchisement Bill, he must ex press hiaiYegret that a Bill like this, which rested on grounds per fectly distinct from all party considerations, a Bill which he hoped could have been productive of nothing but unmixed good, should have given occasion to a chafge of Government, and to the removal from his Majesty's Councils of men in whom a great majority of the people placed confidence, and who enjoyed both their respect and their esteem. It must be felt by all as a great misfortune, that at a crisis like the present the Cabinet 'should be deprived of the services of men who were known to be the advocates of sound principles of policy, and on whom the country mainly depended for the measures most conducive to its best interests, both at home bad abroad. The House and the public has yet to Ireihn with whom rested the Maine of this change. He coon! *et believe that the Right Hon. Gentleman I lately at the 'head. of - tie 'Colonial* Department (Mr. Huskisson), after having joined the Administration of the Duke of Wellington, and after having so long formed an efficient part of it, would leave that Administration without very good reason, in the difficulties and em barrassment which must at any time, but particularly at the present, accompany any material change in his Majesty's Councils. He was unwilling, on the other hand, to believe that the Duke of Wellington, after hav ing called upon the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Hus kisson) to form part of his adthinistration, would seize on the first pretext that presented itself for throwing him off. There were only two modes in which, as it appealed to him, Ministers could retire from the public service :—the first mode was resignation ; and the second, the dismissal of his servants by the Soveteign. The Right Hon. Gentleman, therefore, either abandoned his post at a time of peculiar difficulty, when questions of the greatest moment, affecting bothLtheir domestic and foreign policy, were under consideration ; or else the Duke of Wellington advised his Majesty to dismiss the Right Hon. Gentleman from his Councils. He trusted, when the Order of the Day was read fOr going into a Committee on the East Retford Disfranchisement Bill, the Right Hon. Gentleman would take that opportunity of - communicating some information to the House on this high and important matter. He hoped it would turn out that this Bill was not in reality the foundation 'of a change which all must lament. However that might be, be should feel it his duty to t ersevere in the measure—(Hear). Having from the first taken it up on constitutional grounds, no consideration should iodise. him to abandon it. Having betute explained these grounds at length, he should not tie pass on the House by going into the sulsket again. The Order of the Day bating been read, Mr. H USK ISSO.N. said, the peculiar circumstahees under which he presented himself to the notice of the House, were such as he trusted wool: ii gain for him their patent indulgence. It was qui.e unnecessary &tsar he should make any more elaborate appeal than this in claiming sonic portion or attent'on. Notw ithstanjing the examples set in modern times—notwithstanding the explanation given by his Right Hon. Friend di- Home Secretary (Mr. Peel) of the motives which influenced him when he retired from office some time baak—and notwithstanding the appeal made to him by the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Tenuisr,n), he was not still prepared to subscribe to the doctrine that a Nlinister of the Crown, when he retired from the Counci's of his country, was necessarily bound to explain the grounds upon whirl) he ceased to hold office. For any thing he might have dune while in a responsible office, or for any thing he might have omitted to do, lie was fully prepared and willing to answer any questions that might be put to him, and to tender to the House, and to the country, as NI an account as any of his prede cessors. But while he denied the abstract right of being called upon to explain his motives in retiring from the public service, he admitted at the same time that there were in the present case peculiar circumstances, which rendered it a debt, as well to the public as to his own character, to state to the House what took place.— When IN Right Lim. Friend ( Mr. Secretary Peel) re tired some time back, he explained at length s and with this usual force, the motives which induced him to re linquish an office in which he had done such efficient and valuable service to the public. The duty lie (Mr. Huskisson) had now to perform was of a nature some what different. He bad not to state the motives which led to his resignation, for he did not resign ; but he had to state the circumstances which led to his removal.— Of the motives which induced others to act upon such circumstances he would say nothing ; but he was wil ling to believe that the circumstances wete such as made it appear to them that theywere called upon to act as they had done,in the discharge of a public duty. If it should be suspected, or represented in any quarter, that he lightly and trivially withdrew from the public service, they who had such an impression on their minds would be enabled to form a more correct judgment if he proceeded to ex plain the whole of the circumstances from the outset. If he could be so far forgetful of the duty he owed to his Sovereign, of what was due to the situation of great public trust in which he was placed, as to relinquish office upon trivial considerations, he would indeed merit the most serious condemnation. Knowing the difficul ties and embarrassments that must necessarily arise from the change of public men in the midst of a Session, the derangement and delay of the public business in all its departments, the inconvenience of suspending mea sures which were in a state of preparation; knowing besides that the present was perhaps a most critical and delicate conjuncture in their foreign relations, and that in the present situation of Europe the country might possibly be called upon to take some decisive step; in such a state of things, to have resigned lightly would be criminal ; and to be removed, as he must contend he had been, without adequate cause, was a circum stance to be lamented. He should endeavour, with the permission of the House, to unravel the affair. In a case where the consequences resulting from this change were of so serious a nature, and might possibly become still more serious, he was bound to take care that the blame did not rest at his door. At an early period of the present Session there were two Bills under the consideration of the House, founded upon certain improper practices which occurred in two boroughs. One of these Bills regarded 'die bOrongh of Penryn; and it was proposed that the elective franchise of that borou,e,h should be transferred to Manchester. In another Bill it was proposed that the franchise should be transferred to Birmingham. On the 21st of March last a very long and able discussion of the latter Bill, that for transferring the franchise to Birmingham, took place. His Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Secretary Peel) upon that occasion said, that as there were two Bills before the House, he thought it desirable to give the franchise in one case to a good commercial town— and in the other, to open it to the adjoining Hundred. His Right Honourable Friend enforced the propriety of this course with his usual force and ability. It was con. tended on the other side, that the franchise in one case should be transferred to some large town, whatever might be the fate of the other. He should not now enter into the particular arguments which were brought to support both sides of the . question. He 'rose at a late period of the debate, and saw, as he thought, good reasons for supporting that view o( the question taken by his Right Honourable Friend. It would appear that, as reported, he then made Use of the following .words—o , If the present case stood alone, I should sup- port the propelition for transferring the franchise of East Retford to some great.commercial town.* At that Nine it* felt assured, from what had previously tioitt urgedliy eis Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Secretary Peel), Om he d l id not outstep the line of a rgu meat which had been adopted by his Right Honourable Frieird.- (Hear). This he now stated boldly. He thought at the time that in what had fallen from him, he confined h;m self within the view taken by his Right Hon. Friend,. However, after the explanation subsequently gives by his Right Hon. Friend, he found that he had gone beyond the line to which his Right Hon. Friend com mitted himself. On the Ist ofApril, ten days after the Bill for disfranchising the borough of Penryn passed that House, from that until the 19th of May, ,no further proceeding took place on the East Retford Bill. ilk Right Honourable Friend (Mr. : Sectetary Peel), sag gested eiat it might be made what was called a wait ing Billiontil it should be known what was the fate of the Penryn Bill in the other House of Parliament. On the 19th of May, however, it was proposed to take a further proceeding on the East Retford Bill. It was then known to every Member in that House, that the Penryn Bill was so circumstanced in the other House, that, either the franchise should be transferred to the Hundred, or the Bill reje:ted altogether. Under these circumstances he felt all the difficulty of the situation in which he was:placed. He could not now aliude'to what occurred in another place, 'of which he was' no longer a member (in the Cabinet). This, however, he must say, that his Right Honourable Friend (Mr.. S ecretary Peel) on the 19th of May. was fell) , aware to *bat extent be (Mr. Huskisson) had Committed his opinion 00 the question• in the debate which pre. viously took place. It was perfectly well known to all his Colleagues That Members rot the Government, In cases of this kind, were at liberty to pursue the course which appeared to each the mot elo,oble. He was not -at liberty therefore to :4 more upon this point. The flonse would recollect that the Member for Hertford shire (Mr. N. Calvert) moved an . amendmeo• ` 4 . preamble of Ifs'.2..st Dot, watch went to admit , tae Hundred of Bassetlaw into the elective franchiSe, but - went to annihilate courletely the franchi,e of aka Retford, and to create in Bassetlaw an en , irely new mode of election, making the qualification a rate cf 201. for each elector, and of 401. for the Mayor. He ob served at the time that this would be quite an anomp':y in their system of representation. He did not believe that the Member for Hertfordshire himself (Mr. N. Cal vert) was able to show how his machinery could work.• how many there si ere in the Ilundred of Bassetl rw that could be rated at 201. how the Mayor was to be elected, or how it was to be ascertained that he paid rate to the amount of 401. On the whole, it appealed to him a must extraordinary proceeding to erect in one corner of the county of Nottingham a principle of representa tion which existed no where else, and which, at the same time, went to annihilate all the franchises of East Retford. His lt , ght Hon. Fi iend (Mr. Secretary Peel), when this amendment was proposed by the Member for Herttotshite, showed, and es he thought, showed suc cessfully, that in the form:-r proceedings on the Bill he had taken such aline as had left him perfettly.sit lit betty to adopt the amendment. But the very argu ments which hi, Right Hon; Friend used in proof of his consi,ttn:y, would, it he (Mr. Huskisson) were to sty port the amendment, militate with equal „force • against hini in the opposite direction. He said it fear lessly, that his Right Hon. Friend took a pound on %filch it was impossible that he (Mr. Huskisson) could maintain himself. Every cord by Which his Right Honourable Friend supported his view of the question, left his position vulnerable and open to attack. It was order these circumstances that his Noble Friend fl‘ , rd Sandon) said, " if the Secretary for Home Affairs op poses the transfer of the franchise of Eist Retford to - Birmingham, I call for the vote of the Colonial Secre tary in support of it." Thus publicly calved upon to redeem a pledge, what course had he pursue? As a public man, and a man of honour, was there any other alternative left him than to rise in his place and acknow ledge the pledge? He did so rise, and avow the pledge he gave. But at the same time he endeavoured to show the Member for Hertfordshire (Mr. N. Calvert) that his proposition for transferring the fracchjses to the hun dred of Bassetlaw, and requiring such qualification in the electors, was quite a novel proposition, that it in, troduced a new pi inciple in the system of representation, and therefore required mature and serious considera tion. lie endeavoured to prevail upon him to adjourn the proceedings, that time might be given for consider. ing what might be the possible effect of the new species of machinery which he proposed to set up. His Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Secretary Peel) no doubt must have observed the difficulty in which he (Mr. Huskisson) was placed. He admitted that his Right Hon. Friend's course was a straight-forward one—but were he (Mr. Huskisson) to pursue the same course, it was impossible he could maintain his consistency. He could not vote with his Right Hon. Friend, alter what had fallen from him in a former stage of the Bill. Such having been the case, he proposed that no vote should be proceeded to that evening. It this course, so natural and so obvious, had been adopted, when they came to the fur ther discusiion of the subject afterwards, no inconve nience could arise to theExecutiveGovernment,whatever line he might take. He proposed the postponement of the discussion. The House, however, having been pressed to a division, it was utterly impossible that be A. Roc ,tw tW kr rdi iv ...... tar