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% Ow' . - 4 .'i it P*. tilt , • I '''' •I 7 • • 'ON4.. ' 'k , e , a i:. i .•‘. s . . Aufite- i ~ -,, , ~...„ • . , ~c leer that, as it was Ls, the majority that they were • ,, :` a ... ... , . ( p - . .., . int (, guilt hid been pored against the majority of the • 'it Oh n-----' ) ' /AV 'l "% . ya. , /, \ ought t o be punished. But his opinion was that them wet to • ~.• be any n:embers who owed their seats to the inflection hi. I , / f i elr*"' . •-.- - .1 1 ! 1 ''' 7 s oe . .. • ', ' \ • . 114 \s i '‘. diriduals ; and lie Lad heard that there skr: nutty hi that se '\\ ‘•- I • I I -- - ~,-1 " . ..-. ' \ 1 ' • who were .he mem nominrcs of noble lards. Let me the anstltu- Al don be talked et, if noble lords could, in vislatire of its prin. -, • • '-,- • , ------;,--• (-/ , . - --, tv, - ;,.. - 1 4P V ( .L. ciples, send in their oominces to Mamie to the real rereisentatives. The period had arrived when theposple odd selvage, be deceived. -` • r T a h istd e prhuilictaipkit was di v e oted mo b st y ittion niwomat was, th: ea no or Ineney as rese cold and he . • . 01l lITIT u. 2, , 0 00 stOrleur - 7,.7-......; ,:./ in point of principle, all who abetted such nomination wareguilte of TB% C 4 IV 441:;:::::1. ''' "a- d a fraud on the purple. With reference to the advice given not to interfere in this transaction because all bribery could net Its put an end to, he would say, suppers that the late snow had driven a own. • • .. • her of wolves—say 130—from the Pyrenees into the soothers parts • • . of France, end that one of them wits clumsy enough to get into a corner and %minded, what world be thought of any man who would N°' 13,396. FRIDAY EVEN G, FEB. 12, 1830. PRIcE 70. say, " Let us not kill him. for there are 119 others ? Acting upon this priocipk,„ he would extinguish Retford at once, and the oth er -.mew - rotten boroughs when they were caught. ' • . Lord Nutt Al ANDY agreed with his noble friend (Lord IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ' tared an st eps w er e taws towards the recall of Sir J. P. Gran t Rookie), tl:at the voters of East It.:.ford were not peculiarly or ex. s liudt a ? ' traordinarily guilt} ; but, as their guilt had been proved, he was PEEL said that nothing had been done ; and the right ho. desirous to nist an example of them. Should, however, the hon. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuuRsDAY. gentleman then gars notice that he would, on the lath member for Heriforthildre S Moiion pass, a new writ ought at once AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. ask leave to bring in a bill to abolish all payment of fees to be moved for, as nothing appeared to him so stupid as to give Viscount OODERICH presented a petition frzoo the n roprletore ow acquittal or discharge of say person from a criminal pro. double votes to the inhabitants of a district already represented. .It and occupiers of land at Stow on the Vold , and vici ty, in the ma.agn a , was time that the government should adopt a manly COMIC and THE aoaouon Or EAST RETTORD. county a Gloucester, complaining of the distress under which they - T .that they should no longer make the cempromise, that b;cause laboured, and suggesting, as a partial remedy, the repeal of the acts As. NICHOLSON CALVERT said he would bring forward Penryn was given to Manchester, East Retford should he given to which impose dnifes on malt and beer. The noble viscount said , his roidon with respect to this borough as briefly as possi n i ,,,,, edaw. that ma the subject of complaint urged by the petitioners would would sot go over the ground which had been so repeatedy debaht.cdh, Mr. HUSKISSON could not give a silent vote, but, recallectiw.: shortly come before their lordshirt for discussions be would not then but would reserve himself to answer any new observat ions w isl ic s hc t ) b w je t c 'e t w und i t at e l o li ns h il l era pas ticr, lie si s n h c i e nd i d ie Ilt d p stl aga ted in h o i re s v r i th ew e s grou of r t • l eis e enter into any statemrst, deprecating, as he did, all isolated discus- to be made. He could not understand Why the county of. Not. sions upon sub'ecte, considering them as leading to no bene fi dal re. ti was to be selected and fixed upon as an example, when it e ,,,, L__, ,_ suit.—The was then read, and laid on the table. • was rat that it had not more than an oder/sure representation. ior setition ne oau torn stated. But he must be allowed to say that every thing that had occurred within the last two months -indeed tsars , Their ships sat a few minutes only, there being no business A deal had been said upon the subject, and he scarcely ho thing thing that any man who ran might reed—pointed out to him the in. before the house. th y additional light would now be thrown upon It t bu tt armed importance of the necessity that the franchise of this borough should not fall to Bassedaw, but be transferred to the great corn. AU the ministers were present.' The opposition benches were th uld be an y new objection he would notice i v t e in to hisrepy, neatly unoccupied. and tent himself at present with nwrring for lave bring It mercial and manufacturing town of Birmingham. Following that a to prevent bribery and corruption in the borough of Last view, his conviction of the propriety of this course was atreagthened, —....sigeess..... HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. : • net Wilk the vrepo. bat ' The lintlWll.li thedithat four *Week. - . —..-- . the. n • trtlth A gendeman Urn the Court of Chancery presented a retort of amendment to 'the motion of ma honourab l e fri e nd , th at were entertained by himself and others who felt with him, upon the the number of persons at present in confinement, for contempt of fionchise be transferred from East Retford to Bi rm ingham. necessity that existed to guard against the dangers of abstract and court. la doing so Ise felt under_ some embarrassment, as, when .. he general frs --__orm. 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Myers, a prisoner, confined in the Castle of Carfisle, praying for an alters don in the regalatieno of that gaol. 111TE - WWZ LAWS. Lord GEORGE LENNOX moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the Relief of Parishes from the expense of maintaining the wives and families of persons convicted of smuggling, and sentenced to serve for a period in his Majesty's Navy.—Laive granted. TIM 4411 COUST4IMITIAL-AT Mr. KENNEDY said that as the subject of convictions for smug. &big had been brought before the House, he had a few remarki to make respecting the case of Wm. Miller. This man was convicted of smuggling in 1824, and, being unable to pay the heavy pecuniary penalty attached to his conviction, was sentenced to serve five years In the Navy, the man served the five years, and, a day or too after the expired= of the term, demanded of Captain Elliott his release from further service. It was blowing a gale at the time, and Captain Elliott remonstrated with the man, and or deredl him to return to his duty, which he did. On the arrival of the ship at Plymouth, Captain EUiott, who, in his (Mr. Kennedy's) opinion, had acted throughout with proper disaetion wrote to the Admiralty to know how he was to act. The ship af terwards sailed for Partsmouth, where ' five days afterwards, Miller again refused to work • and, by the orders of the Admiralty, he was put in from., and orde red to be tried by a court-martial ; the result of which was, as must be known to the house, the man bearing a good character, was reprimanded and afterwards discharged by order of Sir Robert Stopford. He (NIL Kennedy) wished to put one or two questions to the officers of the Admiralty upon this transaction, considering it was one deeply affecting the liberty of the subject. He wished to know whether the Admiralty had the power legally to enlarge the sentence of punishment pronounced in a court of law ; for, if It had, it would be necessary, by some legislative measure, to guard against such an occurrence for the future. It appeared somewhat extraotdinary to him that, where a court sentenced a man to five years' service, that the Admiralty should, of its own accord, direct the enlargement of that sentence to six, seven, or eight yeas' ser vitude. He, therefore, wished to know, first, upon what grounds the officers of the Admiralty refused to discharge William Miller? — And, secondly, why they had thought fit to put the man upon trial before a court-martial ? Sir G. CLERK observed that the hon. gent. hat! entered into a summary of the transaction, but was mistaken in some of the facts relating to it. Persons bring convicted of smuggling offences were, by several acts of parliament, subject to a heavy pecuniary penalty, and in default of payment were sentenced to serve on board one of his Majesty's ships. , The first mention of the space of time, five years, was, he believed, found in an act of parliament passed in the 6th year of the reign of his present Majesty. But by a previous act of parliament pawed In IM6, it was enacted that persons so con. sided were, la default of paying the fine, to serve in his Majesty's navy to the conclusioa of the war, or, in cases of emergency, so long as his Majesty's swim required. The asuman directed that any captain discharging a person so convicted before the expiration of his servitude should be liable to be cashiered. The subsequent act is silent as to the limitation of time, and consequently the former enactments remain unrepesied. (Hear.) The man, therefore, was not justified in refusing to do duty, as he was receiving his food and pay whilst saving in his Majesty's ship. The Lords of the Admi ralty, however, had co wish to prevent the discharge of the men so serving, and with this feeling orders had been given to all the ad mirals on foreign stations to send borne the men in King's ships, where they would be maintained and paid whilst working their plu me borne. This man, Miller was serving on a foreign station, and, towards the expira t ion of his time, was sent home In a sloop of war. During their passage on the Yid of December they cocoon. tend a heavy gale, and be refused to work, on the ground that his five years' service were completed a day or two before. ( Hear.) Captain Elliott represented to him that he (Miller) was acting illegally, rinds a mistaken notion of the law. (Hear.) The man, who Dove a good character, expressed his contrition, and wee allowed to teturn to his duty. On the ship arriving at Ply. mouth, Captain Elliott communicated the man's conduct to the Admiralty, and the ship then sailed nand to Portsmouth, where the crew were to be paid off. A letter fresh the Admiralty was fir. warded to Portsmouth, diluting that, as the ship's canapesy wire on the eve of being paid off, AI iller should be disehtrrpi whit the rest. The man refused te obey the Guises of Ms esemnondi dew, although it was denial that he-did se ea the avert airtlsl, and ceasegasady the Leeds of the Admiralty felt that it' wield he highly Warless to the smitheneata el discipline, and deisionseml to the swiss, V this mash suiesithinet was passed over in silence ; and thirster* Masi the seart.thardal to be held, in order, from the publicity the weld obtain, to remove the erroneous oedema which night pews 11 among* men serving in the navy un depekesear ciramosteesse to Minim He (Sir (Merge Clerk) could wily repo. that these was no ilepesitioa en the part of the Admi. ralty to add ere the sentence et the smarts of kw. He trusted the esplanade, he had given yeah peeve satisfactory to the ben. gen. time" said to the home. After a law wads thews Mr. Hanauer. she subject Dr. PHILLIIIIO/L1 inquired has the Tight howinththarr4decre. • doing Made the same proposition last year, there was an average feel. log in the country in his favour, but he now f.tund that that warmth of concurrence had in a great degree abated. The dis tress under wiich the country laboured, the conviction which was entertained that partial relief did but little good, made the body of the people lukewarm on this particular subject, and he feared that be could not command their average support. StiU he persevered, and he thought that his proposition was fraught with decided advantage to the country, and with no benefit more dis tinctly than this, that it checked to a degree the wild and visionary schemes of paliamentary reform, and gave a certain and steady point to rest on. He observed that the noble lord (Lord Howick) was prepared with an amendment of a more comprehensive or sweeping nature, but he thought the course that he (Mr. Tennyson) was pursuing was more beneficial, inasmuch as it neither militated against parlismentary reform, nor did it range itself as a partisan at its side. It was that soft of safe and practicable measure which the house wur always disposed to adopt, and he trusted that in this instance thee was a disposition in his favour. He would not trouble the souse at length on a subject which had been so fro. queenly dimmed further than to remind it that in 1820 it was proved that, out of 169 votes, 165 were notorionsly bribed. He concluded by moving, as an amendment, that leave be given to bring in a bill to exclude the borough of East Retford, from electing burgesses to serve in parliament, and to enable the town of Birming ham to return two representatives in lieu thereof. Mr. MARSHALL was understood to be in favour of the propo sition, which would not add more members to a house already suffi ciently large. Mr. BATLEY said he would only give his consent to the motion when the case was distinctly proved against the borough. Lord HOWICK said he would submit the resolutions whic!, he had prepared, in case the amendment of the bon. member near him was adopted. He would communicate the purport of the resolu dons' in order to put the house in possession of his meaning, and then he would follow them up with a few brief remarks. His reso lutions tended to show that bribery and corruption were not confined to that town, but that they were prevalent in many parts of the united kingdom, and that it was expedient, instead of attacking par ticular instances in detail, to take such steps as would procure a general relief from these notorious evils. He would admit that be had last year supported the proposition of the hon. gentleman (Mr. Tennyson) for the curtailment of the privileges of East Retford, and the return of two members by Birmingham, but the experience of the last session had greatly changed his mind, and in the present situation of the country, a partial act of that description would be little short of a mockery and a delnsion--(Hear.) In eases like that of East Retford and Penryn, parliament assumed the tone of a severe judge, determined to punish the offender who was caught, though it well knew how general was the offence.— It seemed to act with bad temper and passion, and not with justice or consideration. Severity had been used in more than one instance, but be begged to know with what effect. Had bribery and cm. riga* stopped elsewhere ? or did not the last election show as Mill corruption as was evinced on any former occasion ? It was, thuefore, idle to pursue those particular cases, unless some general benefit was produced, as it was evident to every capacity that they bad altogether failed. The very remedy was worse than the disease, and the course which it was necessary to pursue, in order to develope the bribery and corruption of an offending borough, was as tortuous as unsatisfactory, and as expensive as a Chancery suit. The case was, undoubtedly, matte out against East Retford, but it was equally notorious against several others. Why was this borough alone t 3 be punished ? It must be not for the sin, but because the Parties suffered it to be discovered ; and he was certain many mem. ben supported the disfranchisement, not from any horror .of the Aimee, but for the clumsiness with which it was conducted. It was to meet this sort of opposition or support that he proposed to make the measure general. He could not forget the observations of the honourable member for Liverpool (Mr. Huskisson) last year, vies this question was before the House. He did not hear these observations, but he toad read them, and they certainly, in him, ex ited a great deal of surprise, and, at the same time, afforded him no slight degree of information. That right. hon gentleman, on that occasion, said, " that what remained behind was parliamentary edam% sod he hoped the House would resist it firmly ; and if the Ream adopted the resolution of the hon. member for Bleehingly (Mr. Tennyson), the chance for resisting it would be inereased."— He bad no difficulty of understanding the meaning of the right hon. poideman. He, and these hon. members who voted with him, seemed to think that a particular ease might be punished, but that doe general body in which the evil lay was to be preserved from all =h. It w sufficient for them that, while the system worked as y well, it was to be kept apart from every operation of reason and common sense. Orampound and Pcnryn and Ent Retfurd were to be thrown to the fury of the reformers, as, in Spain, the mantle was held up to catch the attention of the bull, and then abandoned Is its rage, while the assailant escaped behind it. (Hear, hear.) — Were the public ignorant of the means by which many members oh. laid their seats in that house, they might well declaim against dun venality of East Reacted ; but, it being notorious how matters Was in that respect, it would be more judicious in the house to preserve silence. If they were determined to maintain ancient abuses, silence would be better than insincerity and hypocrisy hypocrisy too clumsy to deceive even a child. lf, however, they led p red plan to propose for the effectual prevention of bribery and corruption, he hoped at least that the bill offered tonight would be rejected. Having said thus much, as he was not able to follow up his resolutions by a motion, he would merely read them. They were to the effect that bribery and corruption were used as instru ments to influence the return of representatives to parliament. That this fact, often established and never denied, had been recently proved in the cases of Penryn and East keened. That similar practices were prevalent in other boroughs ; and that the house, finding bills of disfranchisement not to have the effect either of putting an end to or arresting the progress of such practices, thought it better to abandon such expensive proceedings, and adopt some gene. gal mode of attaining that object. It was not, the noble lord thought, necessary for him to say that, if there were any members disposed to rote for his resolutions, they might vote fur the motion of the hon. member for Blecningly. Mr. I MON N ELL could not persuade himself on this occasion, to gives silent vote. Being himself a radical rdwaser, and dolmens to extinguish every thing corrupt in the itrallat of replotted*, he must be anxious to make an example of such pied** emelbut came within the scope of that general Me. Be theft* die Imo. member for Beverley was mistaken whin be mid thee the beaseWas now to decide whether East Retfoed was ge=sf Asset The )ton. member said that the house was i 1 but t t~ he thought so, he did not go far enough tas br Me, oppose the moiled of the honourable member ter Nesibiddlut, Weems his bill presupposed that bribery and ecangydera bud been peeved (bear, bear). Another argument urged 'eras, that it had net bees preyed t he (Mr. O'Connell) had, however, mad de evi. pease alionthely, and from it, his troneekatime• easvieden was, that Nast Itetford had been a sink d WOW shies *1 kllikstog. It wee Ilse that it had not been peeved Wit ' bitanite Ibe pine had set beariatually paid. There was die itilainetia tire! !ley did nor /et tie moor, beforehand, but bad Se air" ° P ea " IMP O M.. *Sr la stye than the twenty auhrso. Ile maid not tabs le ebbs • "•lark° Pat br tga (netwki) 'wig. Webb 'Se Wailed, and be bid r e sew for h u wain wee *se Bea Itaind abeald vat bare ti fraischise that it did net de. vim w ant t un le the bal Ileks me fa " may ea e e gum alio, be lowa to read . general reform. He called upon ill who felt with him to take up a defensive petition against the evil of aggression threatened ; and if, by the conduct of his majesty's ministers, be was defect' from that, he might, with reluctance, fall back upon another but still a defensive position, and one in opposition to what tic so much dreaded--abstract reform. His principle was to deal with the evil before him, and to confine himself to apply ing a remedy to each individual case. Wrien he put the matte: hypothetically he would say that if the member for Blech. ingly's motion was lost by the influence which might be lcgi. theately exercised by an administration, and which he under• stood would be exercised that night to the utmost extent it le gitimately could, he should endeavour to try some other pro ceeding; and he said so because, when that influence had not been exercised, the decision of the house was to transfer the franchise from a miserable place like East Itetford to the flourishing town of Leeds. By this the house went as far as it could ; and it also went as far as it could to transfer the franchise of Penryn to Manchester; and, therefore, when a greater neuesity existed for showing to the productive classes a sympathy, amid a desire of giving them the means of laying their sufferings before the house, the greater should be their desire to transfer these franchises to the great manufacturing population. (Hear.) From the bottom of his heart, and from what was passing in the minds of the people of the country—rot the ignorant rabble, but men of education, competent to form a sound judgment--he would say, looking to the disquiet state of the minds of men, not only with reference to their own concerns, but to institutions long dear to the country, it would be a gratification to him if there existed a sense that the Housed Comtuons was what it ought to he In the practical administration of the country. The experienced last yearm4ht have taught not a little practical wisdom. He rejoiced at the repeal of the corporation and test acts. He was as happy as any one that every vestige of the penal code was el. hoed, and that the spirit of the age had wrung great concessions, favourable to the liberty of intellect, to the freedom of religion, and M the liberty of commerce. Those who had witnessed these things should ask themselves, did It belong to the character and eflicience at bedecks only to grant when prudence would no loupe permit them Mardis to be withheld ? He had every wish that the admi. Wand= shield awns to the consideration of these subjects in ac. anima with the spirit of the country, and he did nut despair when he bird the noble hied who had moved the address assign his noses why he, who had been for seventeen years a member of that house, had undertaken a task usually assigned to younger members, and taken a position upon the ministerial benches.— The noble lord had told them that during the seventeen years of his parliamentary life he had been a constant friend and supporter of liberal principles; that, witnessing with satisfaction how his Illejes. ty's government had curled into effect many measures which had bass always recommended by his aide of the house, he had now Mow their supporter, because they were, as he expressed it, a mey government acting upon whig principles. When he heard these sattiments cheered, he supposed it was the intention so to act, aed he believed so, and rejoiced when he found that they had appointed to MI the first law office of the crown the same gentleman who had been appointed to it in the time of his right hon. friend, Mr. Can ning. He was again confirmed in this idea on the nomination of another hon. member, who had been promoted to a high situation by Mr. Canning, to a still higher dignity. He rejoiced that the government had done so, for he had a long ac q uaintance with the character of that honourable gentleman, and he would say with. out fear of contradiction, what he would not say in his pre. pence, the being deprived of which for ever was the only regret he felt at his appointment, that a man of stronger sense, and of more incomparable seal and spirit in the reform of abuses, in whatever department he should preside over, could not be recommendedto his Majesty. But when he recolle cted,l further, that not three years ago the appointments of these very pereons were wailed by those who now praise the declaration made by the noble lord, that the present is a Tory government acting on Whig principle', he should come to the reason, while he adverted to them, because they showed that the designs of his friend (Mr. Canning) were not forgotten. He hoped that they would be extended to ate present question, the more so because these individuals strongly supported the vies 4 taken by him (lie. he H.) on the subject. if did not mistake. a friend and connection of the noble lord who had moved the address, and who was then member for Durham, not only gave the aid of his vote, but of a speech on the same side. If, however, they were now to vote for Bassetlaw, he should regret it, as tending to cause an unfavourable impression with Teepee r to parliament. It was in.possible fur any one like him, tile representative of a town equally important with Birmingham, Man chester, or Leeds--a town which bad rapidly grown up to wealth and importance—not daily to ask this question, •• Would it be pos sible fur the member for Liverpool to say that Birmingham, Man. skeeter, and Leeds, ought not to be represented in Parliament He was well aware how humbly his constituents estimated Li. powers, but he also knew that the communications which pewit b. - tween shim pioved how extremely beneficial it vas to have repress I . wives In Poliement. For instance : last night it was nut tome any compliment to himselfthat his name appeared on the committee : but it was as the representative of a great town, and he thereiere asked himstlfb if Birmingham or Manchester ihould be ex:Jutted fain being beard on such an occasion, had they representatives in Parliament ? Luting the lest summer he had spent a fortnight amongst his constituents, and had an opportunity of a short visit to Manchester; and he was proud to say that, fresco his intercourse with the intelligent nianufacturet , s of Manchester and merchants of Liverpool, he derived information which could never be acquired bees any formal deputation that might attend the Board of Trade. For, by the difference of opinions, and the collision of acute minds, he was able to arrive at results which would serve thelbest interns a of the country. When he moved that the name of Mr. Mar shall, of Yorkshire, should be put upon the India. Committee instead of that oethe honourable member for Sussex, he tiol se because he krk w that Mr. Marshall would direct his met: Lion to India, and that his other bonoufable Wald would not. But what did his right hum friend, the Secretary of State say—thet it was true the committee was already very numerous; that he hod endeavoured io have upon it something like a representation cf every separate interest of the country; and then, out of this Modelle anxiety, he had put the member for Sussex en as the representative of die wool interest. (:t laugh.) Ile confessed that his own gravity was almost upset by that of his right hem. friend shen he Wood this rents*. Was there any member, he would ask, who was sot. in some way, the representative of the wool interest ? He would beg to ask whether his hoer. friend, the member for liPafferdoshin, was nos. Altisough he was, in additioD, the representative of the iron mod the hard wars, and the universal intact, the mut of which is they had no direct representation in that.housevbteau.e the 7 l e ar up since the representation had been adjusted and mauled. • Tim immtibmi d Bassetlaw was already represented in wool by the Number tot ihmesx, and by the members fur the county of uttingbare ; and be must say, that to compare ii to the interest of Birmintm, was to armpit things net capable et couparian. (Hear„ hear.) And dos, whet he tented to another' ants sidomeisin as between Ilinainghiss and Basorlaw, is was WA* asmilimati that la shoe was now as Asseolmbia *mud es the typo of the High Catholic Arsociniew with tai* with Mods, and with peat agitation too, (*.bash) to all the mean, to johali raising a indailmereejf If rehonn o • by mane at esteggeratoirldrilitte lit tits of the am cry. 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