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TO PF. t 01.1) RV PRIVATE CONTRACT, THE PERPETUAL ADVOWSON and Nei( Preaatation to • very eligible Living In time Cooney of Oxford.—For particulars apply to Mr. Tyndale, Selkitor, Us mattes lon Fields. PA RL IA MENTARr PBCCEED INGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH IT. in the Appeal from Scotland. Clara e. the Earl of Wernyfs. Ills.. Adam was hard oo behalf of the appellant—After whit* the further moilderatioo was pedponed till to-morrow. The farther Buren of the cafe, Eating • the 'aft India Com• pany, was, on the motion of Lord ELDON. Bred for Turfday Wod the further ecedderatioe of the appeal, the Counters Dowager of !Jacobs and others is the Dubs of Neweartlc and others, de terred till Wedneiday. The Amuican Treaty BM, the Wool Paportadon Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the linglifh and Irith Militia Bills, the Militia Su haiterris 818, the Militia Adjutants Bill, and the Scots Bankrupt were read a 41104 dew and paffed, and i Merrage ordered to the Houle decanters* to acquaint them therewith. *.t Mr. 67 vvvvv , frees she Pelt Mite, premed an Account or the Balsams In the bawls of Deputy Poll:natters, on the jth of . january, sloe, which was ordered to He on the table. " - I OICLARATOILV BILL. Lord ELDON rote to make tome obrerrat ions on the 8111 width callettlia Hoofs yetterdry. He laid, he bad clearly underling. , that Whig proolke Amid apt be adopted in that Bin, that mbar Ihnuid hiss hass Inhaltuted In their lead. He thought It winillhavo boon prelelard. that witneaks in all Common Law Calves might deer tes qpindikes aping. Which they could demur In a alert of Equity. lie was as much convinced a. cats, that a provider of that kind wart needkry. Tao LORD CHANCELLOR kid, he was fully perfuaded that thole provikes were wholly 'motet Cary. He contended, urethan wan no Stereos between the roles of ableace in Courts el Bemis and Courts of Common Law, and that the Judges in .the lausr Courts were bound to pros& witasEsto ererd evidence, in the Cann manlier as if they fat in DM* of E. r aer Lord ELDON, in reply. contended, drit Mpg were not able to determine what queftleaswitamille silk. Weal& Mot, to be compelled to anfwer ; beasts It tonstespolikk for them to know lb, private fecliolls of lek= sh ood o. hew far the anfwers th ey Mould sake might seed The LORD CHANClLLOllmateteed thst the Judges might veerede a difcretion which nest sewer the peer& II soy pew -vtfo. The 111 Is lestian woe oar In weather Hauferand it It was tons4eepp/isabp IhaLawspeilihtee to subs asp peados in It, their ,Larillhips wishh ban seethes oppseasaity a Mks& [lle rUbjta. Here the converfation ended • Lod ILDON Worsted the Heakthat he apeald deliver his opinion tektite Cubit& of s akin aspie by the Dube of Clarence to vetoes as togaPentr. whenever** ins thettli be 411cullba is R Ceselltese atPtielkette. ' • ' The Mama Ma bang tend la thele Ibies,the Heats mates. od till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS' A Return was pretested from the Pr*, Candi of the Ihnober of Men railed under the Defence Ai ~Ain dap who were deeharged, and alto tboCis who wineweeed for road hooks .—oettered to be ess the table, well to hi rod- Mr. DICKENS, In the Hon. !Mow!. Mr. C. Tole, took occufion to poftpoee lb l e aserp sae awls" of a motion relative to India, which tile Hon. Friend had onneeweed his inten tion of belniteei forward this day. Mr. BURD(O4 role, purfusnt to andee.la liehmh alprepeition ot grist and genera Importance. and parldedisly a tbit psmar elites of the community. It srusbnesiustla Ib tit arm neeellary to &Rentals, and to Sa se llai n a leads forsegoeses Madwoman of Cords, for In ar of t he Irma fs& an arrase Mt, the public, and . *din, wad Ignorant, were to the grace. frauds end Ite4pl. To remedy fuels i= ". :as the doled Ode mesfusetha had dem& It kW duty to brherfeeward. The Hon. Member Illialudedwith moving for leave a - rati is a RIR far tbabattarrespalkatogiassidanavr . of oak he ierne.—Leseci gees. . Mr. Boman reacted et the lier en Aeconnt er the Peeelpe and &Tonle the Pok Dike Deportment osi tbe stb of Jumerp, teed a end Mr. Vrank/yo probated ea Aeatuot treat the Coen demon of Came, of the Arrears sed Balance doe by Col were ordered to lie en the Table, and the latter . I.o 4:St e tw ir re Lords informed the Hoare of their ergot so the Seats Bankrupt Bill, the American TITSTiosi Amebas Wool Bills; the frith and Eighth MI- Ike oed gettillgi, and Adjutants and Subalterns Mew- Oi wiewl. qw the eaudea of Mr. VANSITTART, that an Ac count Ihedille big Wens the Hoek of the amount of Intereft asseidek yes huh I:chequer Dille as are to be paid off In the Yeer 14106. end the Right Hon. Gentleman gave notice, that be would wore a Vote upon this Mated in the Commie.. le Supply pon n S M ir JOIN ANDERSON prefented s Petidon from the Tra tees of Bethlem Hofpital, praying Parliamentary ald.--Referred tom Select Committee. The Ten and a Half Millions Exchequer Bills MI, wed the One and a Half Minim Embegaer Bills IMI. wire Overeat committed, and ti. Reports were ordered to be brought up on Mooday. The Excite Continuance Bill, the Cu Rome Continuance Bill,and the Felons Traufportatlon Bill, were reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Monday. DUBLIN PAVING AND LIGHTING JILL. The Houfe refolved into a Committee on the Dubile Ditl,lo whiehfome eonverfadeo took plate betwo is Mr.C. Mr. Vedittatt, Mr. J Loweebe. Lord de Disquiet% ask r. Ormiby. The two letter oppefed the BM as unjuft id weed( Lary, and the former &tenth:elk Lord DS BLAQUIERE was alarmed et the idea of a jab, GM of that deception he conceived ibis BBL The Noble Loden? no neceffity for granting t -03 col. to the Lord Lientenet Ihr Paving the Streets of Dahlia. is a Beller tom hod been pried ha Sefriena, not one OtlUing of which had yet been expand... thi the contrary, Lord Hardwicke refilled to grant any pert of that ram to the Paving Corporation, although repeatedly relladltd end Implored to do fo (e /we) But infield of nemplyieg Midi that requelt, the Noble Lord thought proper to furpend, and dery with malpradtkes, that rtipedtable Board, of which he (Len! D.) hid been e Member upwards of twenty years. Mr. joHN LATo OCHE jußibed the conded of Lord Hard "riche, who very properly declined to grant any part of the rublic money to the Paving Board, while it Rood charged with the moll ferlous rnalverfatioo—with having mifepplicd the funds u-,9, which they were cntrutted, and particularly while their ..11edied mifeenduet was undergoing an InyeftlgationP Upon that rviconduet be would not then make •ny remark, bat salt Til,tit the refute of the Inquiry refrain It ibould be laid been Parliament. The clasfes wire arced to—The Houle refueled, and the Re tort ordered to be received on Monday. SCOTS T .IIFYILTBD IST•TIS. Sir J. SINCLAIR moved that there be laid before the Houk 3{l Acc ount of all Grants already made out of the korfeited Eames _ . . to Sentland.--urocrcu. Alio for an Account of all Balances arifing from the fald Eftates, ~,th the intereft due thereon, and the werluns to whore hands the 'ante arc.—Ordered. - - - - I!IDIA• Mr. HUDLESTON was about to bring forward a motion for Payers, when Hie SPEAKER informed him, that he underftood it now to be fettled by the Houle, till they fbould Inftnict him othcrwifc, that notice of all motions for pro.tuction of Papers, meft be given, racer in the following cafes t—ift, Where annual or either Rory accounts were to be moved for; idly, Where any of his N 4 Miles Minifters moved (or papers on the public fereke; and, Idly. Where soy papers were moved for of which premonition had been made to the Department by which the produCtion was to be made, and noobjettinn was made. Beyond click be under lined it to be the role at the Houk that a notice was noeigary. Af - er tome explanation, Mr. HUDLESTON gave melee of • motion for Tseday, for Papers relative to the Affairs of Oude. Mr. W. SMITH brought up the Report of the Committee to whom the Petition of Merin. ChainVeft and Cowie was referred, v:•izh w , e ordered to lie on the table and to be printed. Commi 'molest or MILITARY lAQ:IR Y. t,t , rriv r Oflicer pretested the Flrft Report of the Commif ri nt I•l4nt.lry Inquiry, which was ordered to lie on tee table .1,1 to be 14:Lk:xi.. times or tar evootr. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCITECtVER gave notice, that on Fi iday next he would move for the Houfg refolving itfelf into a Committee. tu coo• Eider of the Ways and Means which he fhould fubroit I be them of providing the (applies neceffary for the fervice of The prefent year. Mr. ROSE confidered it as unufual to bring for ward the Ways and Means befpre all the climates of the ar had been voted by the Houfe. At prefen t ' the Houfe were fill ignorant of the military climates for the year. Mr. VANSITTART replied, that though the No. Isle Lord meant to bring forward his view of the, Ways and Means on that day, yet he would not move that they fhould be voted by the Houfe (till the elli• mates of the year were voted. . • Mr. ROSE lilt could not help thinking it irregu lar, that the Ways and Means fhould be lilted hefore the country knew what its expences would be. • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQVER. replied that the Hon. Member would hate it in his 'pewee to urge his oblation when his motion thonld be lubmitted to the Houle. TIRIATINO ACT •111/11117011111T 711.1.. Mr. TIERNEY then moved the order of the day for the (econd reading of the Bill for explain ing and amending . the Treating A& The speak= being put, Mr. FULLER role to opprsfe the Bill. Hellif approved of it entirely. beeaule it went to diefranchife many of.thofe eleetora who fent him to that Houfe. In the county of Suffer. which he had thelonoureo reprefent, Come of the elators were eighty miles dif tant from the place of elation, and it wae.not..to be ftippored, that many of the Smaller -freeholders could come from fah a Mance at their own expence.— This Bill would therefore in drat. fay to fuch men, a You full not exercife that elellion franchife which you poffefs." It would place them in the fituation of 'cantatas, bind would 'dell from their' lipwl the' cup. though it were only of water, which they - enjoyed but once in (even years. Mr. MORRIS preifeffed the greatell refpat for the Honourable Mover of the Bill. He knew him to be intimately acquainted with the laws on the Allied of treating at elatiens. aad that the whole had engaged much of his attention. Burhis oblations to the pre. fent Bill were of fuch to radical nature, that they could not be removed by any amendment, and be thought this the proper Sage for listing them to the Hoare. So far as the prelim Bill was merely decla ratory of the meaning of the former AS. he thought it unneceffary,that appeared futficiently clear without any explanation—but be Rill more ablated to it, be. caufe it gave fah an extenfion to the Treating Aft, as appeared highly inexpedient and impolitic. To fuming money or refrefliment to decors, was contra dictory to the letter and the fpirit of the Statute, and under thefe might be included every thing given to bear their travelling expences. But it was propofed now, for the flat time, to prevent their mere con veyance by a carriage, at there:pence of the candi date, to the place of elation. He then took a review of the decitions of the Election Committees, and of the Courts of Lair, on cafes founded on the Treating Aft—from which he concluded that there was no need for additional regulations on the fubjee. So far as the Bill was declaratory, he confidered it as unneceffary, (ince no great doubts or uncertainty , had arifen on the Treating At; but in as far as it pre vented the conveyance of elators to the place of eke don at the expence of the candidate, he agreed with an Honourable Member who preceded him, that it awl go to disfranchife a great number of deem in the kingdom. The lots of votes to the country, it would be impoffible to appreciate. It waf Cutely enough that the (later Mould make certain fecrifices, fuels as the lots of time, and the defraying oflis own expences ; but it was on u 8 to prevent the poffibility of exceeding his right of elation, where you cannot afcribe to him any corrupt motive. He lamented, that he had not been prefent when the Honourable Mover advanced various arguments in rapport of the Bill ; but he bad read an account of them which ap peared intelligible and accurate. It had been Paid by the Hon. Member, that the exercife of the dative franchife was a matter of option with every elector. If be chofe to leave the place where he had a right to vote, he voluntarily fubmitted to the' lots of that vote. But to this it might be anfwered, that it may not be left to a man's choice whether he !hall refide in the place where he has a vote or not. He muft often follow the courfe of the market for his labour, fo that the lofs of his vote could not be aferibed to his own option, but to an unjuft neceffity introduced by the prefent Bill. With refpel to Count Elections, it had been propored, that Committees Ihould be held in every parifb, for the purpofe of receiving the votes of electors—but, for his part, he preferred greatly the publicity which attended the prefent mode of elation, where the eteaors and the candidate ap peared in the face of their country. It had alto been laid, that fuch a meafure would only be thing up to the fpirit of the at appointing the right of elec tion to be confined to thole polliffed of aacts. freehold, liace 401. at that period might be reckoned equal to 301. at prefent; and thus you preferved more corn pletely the independence of electors. But he contend ed that an elator, whole freehold was valued at only forty fhillings a year. might at prefent be as inde dendent as one whole freehold was valued at pl.— This he afcribed to the means of induttry having multiplied around him, by which he might be placed in a complete independence. He feared, that if the prefent Bill paffed into a law, it would excite very general dircontent in the country. It would introduce a langour and indifference with regard to the dative franchifeovhich ought ever to be deprecated. At pre fent all ranks of people, on the occafton of an election, were Peen crowding to the hullings, and a popular enthufiafm took place, which tended to preferve the eleaive franchife in due estimation. But the prefent Bill went to put down all fuch enthufiafm, and ren ' der men indifferent about the exercife of their mot important right. No man could object to the pre vention of tumult and Itcendoufilefs ; but this would be fufficiently accomplifhed by permitting the candi date to defray only the eapence of conveyance by carriage to the place of elation ; and this to be done not by giving money to the voter himfelf, but by the candidate, or his f lend, who fhould bargain for the conveyance. On the whole, he confidered the law as it flood at prefent, as perfectly sufficient, and gave his decided negative to any farther extension of the provifions of the Treating A& Mr. .FRANCIS began with biting what had taken place fi.s? ration on the Treating Aft before Lord Kenyese, in which he had been a party, and which had been alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman who preceded him. Hs alfo would take that opportunity of delivering to the 'Houle his fentiments on the pre (int Bill. It had been brought in by an H,n. Friend of his, for whom he felt a high refpeft, but if it thould appear to have the effeft of disfranchifing any ember of eleltors, it fhould meet with his decided reprobation. If that were the purple for which it had been introduced, a material change mull have taken place in the fentimenteand conduft of his 14O nourable Friend. He had fought in company with him many a battle in fupport of. Parliamentary Re. form. They had both belonged to the Society called The Friends of the People, aod had on that account during the violence of the times, been the fubjeas of obloquy. He recolleaed a frequent featiment of that Society, " May we never forget our princiPles in profperity ;" and it could not be Paid that either he or his Honourable Friend were driven to fuck de reliftibn by Profperity. One principlihr which they had both then contended wavto extend the right •of young to every kind of propirty. He binsfelf had, Ater wised to reparate.power front property. He had never entertained the idea of univerfal fuffrage, i ev 14. givin g the power of voting to ivory man who ' s the fireete.. §ueb ideas he had always cot fi d as . leading to anarchy and diforder, and bad never been aftd opott even iffdicrieett repnblies.— ;yen at Rome, there Were two . elaliea of men who Were excluded rim all right of voting at &aims, or of making laws. He had elwayaaptfidered maker. fal fuffrage as a chimera thlit toad not be need won, and that the right of +onion lbould never be fiparated from property.. Bits it had been the great objet of their endeavours to extend the right.of fur. frage to every kind ef,property ; aid be could not hppofe that his•Honodrible Friend would do and thing now to contradia thofe fundamental prim*. pies on which they then need, fo as to 6s/rattail& many of thofe very eleaors, whore number he wesl once in the habit of thinking too (mall. This feem ing.contradiftion of conduf, he wined him to ex. plain, and reconcile the principle of the prefent Bill with chore on which he formerly afted. Mr. MORRIS explained, that he took his nate meat of Mr. Francis's cafe from the Reports of the Court of King's Bench, which were generally allow ed 't to be accurate. Mr. TIERNEY rote to fay, that he never had', it in deign to propofe any alteration in the qua lification of voters, that might tend to diminith their number. On the contrary, he rejoiced that there were loch linen freeholds, and that they had iti created coafiderably of late years. Mr. W.• DUNDAS laid, that be thould find him. felf under the neceffity of oppofing the prefent Bill, as its operation would be found very inconvenient in Scotland. . Mr. JOHNSTONE could not fee that any great benefit was likely to arife from the alterations that this Bill propofed. As to the praaical part of the Conftitution, he thought it would be hard to point out any confiderabk improvement. He might quote the words of Dr. Paley, who would be allowed to be a good authority on the rubjea. He might, like him, ant, Who is this Hoare compofed of 1 It is of men which come from every clefs of heiety, which produces confiderable talent and information. In that Houle ( there were not only reprefentatives of the landed interefts, but of the commercial intereft alto ; there were men, who were the molt diflin. pilled in every liberal profelEon and honoorabk fituation. He could not fee what fort of men were kites to fit in that Houfe, than thofe who affinity bad feats under the prefent mode of reprefentation. As he therefore did not perceive any praftical good that was to refult from changing either the mode of reprefentation, or the defcription of perfons who were to be reprefentatives, he fhould oppok the Bah Mr. LEIGH expreffed his difapprobation of the principle of the Bill, which would go to the virtual disfranchifement of a confiderahle number of eleflors, and particularly of thole who had gained the right of franchife in borough towns. He fhould fuppore the cafe of an elation for Coventry. In that borough, the eleftive franchife was only gained by an appren ticetbip for (even years, and after it had been fa gained, the perfon entitled to it often went to other places for the convenience of following his trade. They could not afford to go to the elation at their 'own expence, and would therefore be disfranchifed. No man refpefted more than he did the landed in terell, but there were other interetts in the country! which were equally entitled to be reprefented. The commercial men had taken as great a part in the dircuffions of that Houfe, and had brought as much information with them upon thofe rubjeas as the re.' prefentatives of the landed interell I'o examine this Bill upon principle, he thould ark, was a man to be disfranchifed on account of his poverty ? It would' be going too far to fay, •hat wealth was always a criterion of independence : it was often found, on the contrary, thit very wealthy men were induced, as well as poorer men, by Come felfith confideration to as contrary to their duty. He therefore oppofed i the Bill. Sir ROBERT BUXTON hoped the Houfe would not difimifs the Bill without the moll ferinus confider vim). He did not fee how it could he laid to dif h-anchife a tingle eleetor. The true conllituiiiinal principle was, that the reprefentative fhould come in free and independent, and that he fhould not expend money for the purpofe of being returned. In the better times of our hiltory the reprefentatives were paid for their attendance, and he hoped that that time would come again. (A laugh). He thought the Houle and the Country fhottloireel much obliged to the Honourable Gentleman foT bringing that bu finefs before them. Mr. ROSE did not agree with the diflinairin taken by the Learned Gentleman (Mr. Morris), that if any thing more was given than merely the price of con veyance to the place of eleCtion, it mull be confidered bribery. If freemen were to be conveyed to a dittant town, fuppole, for initance, Coventry, it was evi dent, that there mull he cnnfiderable expences be fides the mere price of the carriage. The calich,3a , es were now in a very dita;J-ecable fituation, as they could not tcl:, in the manner the law now Itood, what was, or what was not, to be confidered in that light. He thought it was thertbare tight that the law thould be made explicit on chi; point. Mr. COU RTNEY couiplitnetsted the Hon. Baron e on the purity of his notions, and thanked him for e.. deavouting to make that Houle In angelic an audience. No man, according . to the Hon. Baronet. fhotild vote but from pure patrtotifin. If he go in a mail coach, at the Candidate's expence, he muff be corrupt; but it that were really the cafe, he feared there would, at that mOrnent, he very few immaculate members prefent. He faid he was glad the Right Hon. Mover did not mean to alter the qualification of the Voters from aoe. to 301. He had been informed otherwife. As to the objeftions of the noife and coulnfion which thefe voters occ**, who were carriedfr oat diftant parts. they alarl4%im nbt. • Cockades, and the liberty of buzz ai ng, tirOltidgewhich every Englillsman admires. and contribute tintive him en idea of the rights he enjoys, and on thapoffeffion of which be ;mites him- Mf. This was well expreffed by one of our celebrated Poets, he believed Dryden, who (peaks thus of an eledtiew 4* Wheel every awe enjoys. • a 111.-ebsrty sad property:oc busk.'' Captain HERBERT objected to the bill, on, tie ground of its disfrauchifing a number, of claim, and alfo becaufe be did not think that it, could faitly pro duce the object which wm..the avowed intention of it. Inftead of , bringing in dos, defcription of Gen tlemen which the Honourable mover fecl, he did not fee that they would have any tsge, un lefs their refideoce and conneetionn happened to be very near the :county town, and in fuels cafe they would have an,advantage over ftlell of mach better pretenfions.withlived at a diftaoce ; but if the Gen tleman of (mall fortune Scald refide in a part of the county that was diftant from the "place where th elation WAS to be held, be did not fee how he wont be helped by the prefent bill. Mr. Secretary FOX faid, that he Ihould only a few words. He willsed it not to be underac. that by voting for the bill going into a Cemmittc he on that account meant to expels any approbation of the principle of the bill : he merely thought that it was neeeffatf , that lay doubts or rnifunderaandfugs which now exitted amid be removed. Mr. BULLER laid, that when loch high audio. rides Is the Chief juaices of the two Supreme Courts differ ; and the Committees of that Haifa alfo ; it was neceffary thole doubts amid be removed ; tsatyi he withed, therefore, the bill amid go into a Com mittee. He approved alfo of the poll being taken in large couaties, in different places, as it would Surd much to leffen the expences, and enable men, of mo derate fortunes, to offer themfelves as candidates, without the riot of being ruined. Mr. LEYCESTER confidered the words of the Statute of King William fbfficiently clear. The de. cifion of the Court of Common Pleas, which had Wen alluded to, was not upon this astute, but upon fame vague words introduced into she Statute of George 11. which, after mentioning that the candidate an* not give " meat or drink," adds, or "any other thiag by way of reward." The ATTORNEY GENERAL (Mr. Ptoorr), raid, that notwithaanding the decifion of the Court of Common Pleas, he could fay, from an experience of sear twenty years in eleaion cafes, that the Commit tees of the Houle of Commons generally decided the other way. If they confidered the funs given al Ow losable, they allowed them—if not, the elcaiou waft declared void. The Candidates were now in smiler. ,•able Gate for, want of any certain rule upon thistfab jea. They' Might find one Committee which would readily allow thole expences, which another Com asittee would declare &add vacate the eleetion..-.. Whatever alterations it might be neceffary to maim im she prefent Bill, yet 'helve mould be clearly fes• 'tied upon the fubjeft. Mr. TIERNEY faid, he should find it very difficult to reply to all the objeaions that had been made, as . they were fo oppnfite to each other. One Gentleman found fault with it, as coofideriag it a fort of Parlia mentary Reform. Another objetted to it, becaufe k was not a Parliamentary Reform, and thought that he (Mr. Tierney) bad defcrted that principle. which he had fo often piddled that he adhered to. In the firs place, he would far, this meafure was not cenneaed with what is generally called a Parliamen tary Reform. But at the fame time, no perfoo aught to confider his introducing it, any dereliftion of the principles and opinions he had formerly prefeffed.— A wife and prudent lover of reform would get what he could towards his objea, when circumaances pre• vented him from getting what be willed. He was a little a flonifhed at what had fallen from another Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Courtenay), who had been a long time, a warm advocate for Parliamentary Reform. and who (till confidered the uoife and tumult amend ing popular tie/Hons. as the genuine fymptom of the fpirit of Britilh liberty. He could allure that Hon. Gentleman, that if he bad ever been at the Borough elation, about thrwor four o'clock in the day, when the poll was call up, he would have witneffed as much of thole indications of the fpirit of Britifh liberty, and heard as much noife, (hooting, and tumult. as his heart could will (a laugh). He could not con ceive, how it could be faid to be risfranchifin a any body, to declare " that no man mould be permitted to exercife his eleflive franchife at the expence of the candidate." Would any Gentleman contend. that the franchife included a right of being carried, free of expence, to and from the place of eleaion ? As nobody could argue that fuch a right exitted in the eleaor, there would be no right taken away by the prefent Bill. But while this pratice was allowed, it was impoilible for Gentlemen of moderate fortune. whatever might be their talents, or the efleem is which they were held, to sand before men of much fuperior wealth. They could not afford to bring the freeholders in their interell from the dittance of fifty or fixty miles to the county toss n. It was not fo much his objea to proteft candidates from expence, as to protelt Parliament, and to throw its doors open to that defcription of men, whole introduElion he con fidered a moll deferable thing ; be did not with that wealth (hould be deprived of its proper influ ence, but he mull objell t't its being the only qua. lification—he always withed to fee men of large fortunes in that Houfe, but he altar withed to fee Members of another defcription. As long as the candidate was expelled to pay the expences of Wing ing the freeholders to the place of eledinn, fi long as great wealth molt carry every thing before id, for no man of moderate fortune, whatever might be his talents, or the diem in which he was held, couhd ever venture to incur the expellee of being a candid ate fur .t county. He could fee no better reafon for a candi date being expefled to be at the expence of coqee7ing l i kr