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7" I caned by the Whig interest of the Coot? of sent, and agricultural digress was the declared object.— Attention. till a late period of the Meeting, confined Itse lf that object, till an individual, who was presented as a Whig freeholder of the County, whe ther he *as so or not he could not tell, came forwar an d rroposed this clause for Reform; and contair a l so , mingled up with it, the recommendation break faith with the public creditor. Taking the g ett ing by surprise, this individual had succeeded in carrying his point. He regretted much that the g reat Whig headers had not been more confident of t heir own weight and influence, and at the time they di s avowed this part of the proceedings of the Meeting, t h a t they did not also resist its adoption. He must str ongly teprtshate the recommendation of this Peti tion to break faith with the public creditor, and must oow, on the part of his constituents, protest against ,hi s being taken as the Petition of the County of Kent. Mr. HONEYWOOD was ready to acknowledge, iiat at the time he disclaimed this proposition. He disclaimed it now ; but as to this not being the Peti tion o f t he County of Kent, he must be allowed to ay, that the Requisition was most numerously signed, and the Meeting numerously and respectably attended. Lord JOHN RUSSELL took this occasion to state that several applications had been made to him as tol his intention of renewing his motion on the subject of Parliamentary Reform. He should certainly bring it forward again the first convedient opportunity. He must also take this opportunity of declaring himself d e cidedly hostile to any attack upon public credit. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY would not op. pose this Petition being reeeived, however improper the clause mi;ht be which had found its way into it. He wished this Petition should remain recorded, to Irevent any other county, and even the county of I;ent, from being again betrayed into adopting a -curse so disgraceful as that taken by the Petitioners la this occasion. He had not been at all surprised a hearing the Noble Lord (Russell) disclaim the dcc- Tines of this Petition ; but lie regretted much the lorms used by the Noble Lord in his speech. The Nabit: Lord had said, he never would consent to a breach of public faith with the public creditor, but :hider the operation of overwhelming necessity. He mutt protest against the word consent in any case.— It over whelming necessity should come over us, then t h e: t! would be no consent. And he must also say, chat he did most sincerely regret, that the Gentlemen present at that Meeting did :tot oppose the clause. . Lord JOHN RU .t. bad no objection to re tract the word consent, if the Noble Lord wished it. As to the Gentry of the county if Kew, they had been betrayed into the conduct they bed adopted by the measures of the Noble Lord. CALCRAFT would not accept this apology :or use Gentry of that County. He was convinced :,ey had been betrayed into this step by the neglect the two Hon. Gentlemen who represented the Count .. If those Gentlemen had made the stand there, !hey had ~one now, he was convinced not 50 hands rvould have been held up in favour of the proposi !ion. Here was a person who had before this time never honGured the County of Kent with any visit; who, up to this time they did not know was a free iolder amongst them, coming down and getting a proposition adopted which was a disgrace to the County. He was convinced, had those two Hon.l Gentlemen explained then, as they had done now. the c.bject of this clause, the individual who proposed it would have been ordered to remount his horse, mid po back as he came—( Hear, hear). It was aaid, l Gentlemen .sere surprised into this measure. Gentle men, who undertook to call and manage these sort of Meetings, ought to be prepared against any surprise. 0.1 this occasion they must have been most negli or the most ignorant of their duty that ever eiisted, when they could suffer an individual to came among them and carry a .proposition, which, at the time he proposed it, he was not even certain he should find a seconder for. He was fully persuaded, if he had been there, humble as he was, be would have prevented that proposition being adopted. Mr. J. SMITH expressed the strongest regret that a Meeting of the enlightened County o. Kent should have becn the first to come forward and urge to the House a gross disgraceful breach of public faith.— Ile could not consider this Petition,with such a clause i it, a, the Petition of the County of Kent, who, at large, Ivould be as much surprised to find this pro position in the Petition as the individual who proposed :t Lad been at carrying it. Mr.BROOG II A M defended tbeleading individuals a: the Meeting in question, who had done all in their power to oppose this proposition ; but, as he under stood, from the individuals present, they thought the opinion of the Meeting to be so decidedly in favour of the proposition, that to have opposed it any other 'way would have been useless. Such was the opinion of some of the best informed as to Kent Meetings. Ile was ready to acknowledge that he entertained a diTerent opinion, though, not being present, he spoke • with great diffidence; but his opinion was, that it 'was adopted for want of fuller explanation. At all 'events, he trusted and hoped the conclusion would :not be drawn, that because at one Meeting in parti .ttllar such a circumstance as this had occurred, that :: - !o credit was to he given to such Meetings in future. .As to the proposition, it was one which be was con inxed the County of Kent would not have adopted an reflection. For himself, he must declare unequi vocally his opinion, that this breach of faith ought never to be made with the public credit& till the ir.cst dire, the most overwhelming necessity, rendered them incapable any longer of fulfilling the engage ments they had contracted—(Hear, hear). Sir E. KNATCHBULL said he exerted himself to point out the tendency of the proposition in question; but the Meeting would not listen to him—(A laugh). Iklr. HONEYWOOD observed that a Noble Friend of his would also have explained the consequence of the proposal, had it not been that he was fatigued by being squeezed up in a waggon at the Meet ing -0 laugh)' The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, he be lieved the Whig leaders would be little thankful for the defence which had been made for them by the lion. and Learned Gentleman. But he (the Mar quis) was in the judgment of the House, whether he bad said anything to discourage the holding of County Meetings? Mr.BROUGHAIVI said, that however objectionable or unjust the proposal of the Petitioners miht he, it as not more so than the policy of the N oble Mar 'lll4 respecting the restriction of cash payment* and fight . (Hatt', should certainly have ward himself, humbleis he was, to object to this proposition, had it not been for the able speech of his near relation.. He hoped, however, notwithstanding this disgraceful rider to the Petition, it would still be considered as the Meeting of the County of Kent in other respects. He could not but express surprise at the influence which Mr. Cobbeit kad gained over the Meeting. Mr. PEEL said, the manly confession of the Noble Lord had done more in defence of the Whig leaders than all which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Brougham) had said for them—(Hear, hear).—As to the influence which Mr. Cobbett had obtained over the Meeting, the Noble Lord need not be surprised at it. Why, Mr. Cobbett derived his influence from the pusillanimity of those whose duty it was to oppose him. Mr. BENNET said, that if the moral feelings of the People were corrupted, they were so by the acts of the Government and the Parliament--(Hear, hear). Mr. WESTERN concurred in the opinion of his Hon. Friend. For the last 22 years the Gentlemen opposite had defrauded both the public creditor and the public debtor. The Meeting appeared to him a most respectable one. Some seemed to think that faith was to be kept with the public creditor alone.. The obnoxious sentiment did not proceed from the influence of Mr. Cobbett, but from the general feeling of distress. That opinion was daily gaining ground in the country—(Hear, hear). Mr. lIUME said, that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer had reduced the interest of the public debt from five to four per cent. The Petition complained that adequate retrenchments had net been made. He would maintain that such was the case, as no mate rial retrenchments had been made. If the men of Kent had been betrayed into a hasty expression, the Hon. Baronet (Knatchbull) was to blame. The Ho nourable Gentlemen opposite were the real enemies of public credit. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, it was very hard to blame indiviJuals for being overborne by their feelings at Public Meetings. No man could be safe if he was to be attacked in the way that his Ho nourable Friend (Mr. Honeywood) had been by his friends. It seemed that the Right Honourable Se cretary for the Home Department liked plain dealing. He liked the plain dealing of Cobbett s proposition better than the insinuations of same Members of that House. If the Right Honourable Gentleman was so fond of plain dealing, it was well that himself and his colleagues were pursuing a course which would pro cure them enough of it; and he had no doubt that from the abundance of examples they would learn to practise. As far as he had observed, Whigs and Tories were so much alike that when they changed sides he could not distinguish them from each other—(Hear, hear). He thought the Tory Member fully as much to blame as the Whig. The question had not been stated to the Meeting as it had been in that House. Many were of the same opinion as the Petitioners, on the subject in question; and conceived, that instead of twenty shillings in the pound, they were called on to pay thirty,shillings. He was happy that the subject had been discussed ; and if it was made manifest, that the proposition was unjust, the people of the country would at once reject it. The Noble Lord should beware how he engaged the House in hosti lity with the country. Under the mock pretence of sham economy, the expenses of the country had greatly increased—(Hear, hear).—When the Govern. ment looked at their own schemes, and at the results to which those schemes had led, they had no great cause to find fault with or to brand any man (Cheers). Mr. MONCK would go as far as any man in the payment of a just debt ; but the first breach of faith had taken place in 1797. The public creditor before 1797, was entitled to tardy justice ; but between him and the public creditor after 1797, there was a wide distinction, as he had only lent in depreciated paper. Mr. T. WILSON thought that the speeches of many Hon. Members went to stultify the pruceedingr which they had adopted in 1819. If a fraud had been committed, the Gentlemen opposite were fully as responsible as Ministers. Mr. PHILLIPS said, that because a great fraud bad been committed in the first instance, in 1797, it did not follow that a second should be committed, I by continuing a depreciated currency. He regretted the clause in question had got into the Petition. Mr. LOCKHART said, that when Oliver Crom well had no provisions for his army, be proclaimed a general fast; in like manner the British Parliament voted paper to be equivalent to gold, when there was no gold in the country. Mr. J. MARTIN believed the clause in the Peti tion came from persons ignorant of its full import. Mr. BROUGHAM said that the Government of this country had taken similar steps with the Bank note as the French Convention had with the assig nees, though they had not proceeded so far. But the Convention had never gone the length of voting the assignee to be equal in value to the louis-d'or, though the Chancellor of the Exchequer had voted the £1 note and a shilling . to be equal to the guinea. The interest of the National Debt should be paid as long as the country was able, and he had no doubt of the ability of the country to pay by a judicious system of retrenchment. But another plan had been adopted, of which the people alone should bare reaped the fruits, but which were fatally reaped by the country. Mr. PEEL referred to the opinions avowed by Mr. Brougham and Mr. Bennet before the recess, on the subject of the National Debt. A violation of public faith ought no more to be contemplated than the commission of a robbery—(Hear, hear). Mr. BENNET said, that he charged Ministers in the first instance with having cheated the public cre ditor and then the public debtor. If a man had only borrowed 20s. it was an act of injustice to compel him to pay SOs. He would pay the public creditor. what was due to him, and no more. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, that if the Member for Shrewsbury wished for Revolution, he must find better pretexts than those lie had brought forward. He (Mr. Bennet) had no right to deter mine the extent of the debt slue to the public credi tor. By the Act of the Legislature, the creditor was to be paid in starling Monty, at the end of the war. e 'onstage , The • anlied te the Member far Shrewsbury. dentto measures of the Noble Lord Wahl stronger ten t' pfoduce revolution than anything that had fallen from his side of t h e H ouse . Mr. H 0 NeeEid7tbirt there D, seas onmov not one ingthat rerteein the Petition be printed,the County who Wes aware of the intention to introduce' the c* objectedin theiNtition.---The Petition was tbeo la* so ordered to he printed. ALM IlltlX. I Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH said, that .the legis lation with respett to Aliens had assonsed a new shape. At first the Bill had been introduced as al necessary consequence of th e t rans i t i on f rom war to l peace ; but these Bills bad the merit of being tem-1 porary. The p resent Bill was a l so temporary i n its , enactments, but perpetual in its 'principle. The first' objection to the Bill was, that it reduced 25,000 tem porary subjects of Great Britain to the state of pond. cal slavery—{H eat , hear)..—The next o bj ect i on was ,' that it tended to accustom the subject and the ruler' to acts of arbitr ar y p ower , an d ten d e d to d i m i nish ' the love of liberty. The third Objection was, that I was a power which might b e use d t o t h e r ui n of ins*. ti viduals, and tho s e to o t h e most h e l p less of the cones munity. It was a power that was not only liable le be abused, but that museacessarily be abused. 4t was also a power wholly without responsibility. Whether the power was abused or not, it would deter many virtuous and venerable men from honouring this country with their presence, as they had in for mer times. The Alien was now received with a brand in his forehead. The increase of the number of fugitives, which had been stated by the Righ t; Honeurable Gentleman as one if the reasons of the' Bill, only proved the number of the sufferers.— The Noble Lord had argued in fivour of the Bill, from the agitations that prevailed in Europe; but he thought the present state of Europe was rather an argument against, and net in favour of an Alien Bill ; as the want of an asylum would make the weaker party sell their lives as dearly as possible. To collect arguments in favour of the Bill, its friends had been compelled to degrade Magna Charta, and to vilify the most sacred institutions of their ancestors. The Statute de Mediate Lingua had been passed in 'the time of Edward 111. for the express purpose, in the words of the Statute, to give foreigners " greater, courage and desire to visit this country. If it was the duty of a friendly Government to prevent conspira cies against other Powers, then it was the duty of that Government to detect conspiracies also ; and for that purpose spies must be employed to detect conspiracies against Russia, Austria, and, above all, Turkey, as being the most peculiarly threatened.— But if this principle was adopted, we must be at the mercy of foreign Powers, with respect to every Alien in the kingdom. The Bill was a war against the oppressed, as against the powerful it was unavailing. It was directed against the unfortunate men who had fled from fire and sword, from scaffold and dungeon, but had no operation in the case of those who had driven them from their homes—(Hear, hear, hear). —The Bill, as now proposed to be renewed, arose from the calamities which had befallen the fairest portion of .Europe--,the oppression, domestic and foreign, which crushed and desolated Italy, and drove her patriotic youth to seek a hospitable asylum on our shore, relying on the former character of Eng land—trusting to her ancient fame, and the very re putation of her soil. which offered of old, emancipa tion to the slave and security to the fugitive—(Loud cheers). But instead of this generous policy, we were now planting menacing sentinels at the gates of this country, to deter the victims of foreign oppression, and drive them back from our land of freedom upon the mercy of their tyrants—(Loud cheers). If this measure were founded in any popular prejudice, such as that whose watchword was--" No Popery !" or " Down with Foreigners !" or any other prejudice which was falsely asserted to represent the national feeling of England, he would resist it, and in such a case be would oppose even the greatest master of moral elo quence that ever lived; but how much was his cause strengthened when that authority was on his side ? It was said by Cicero—" Qui autem ctvium rationeni habendam este dicunt, externorum negant ; hi dirlinunt humani generic societatem, qua sublata bonitos, libera litas, humanitas, justitia, funditus tollitur." But we were told, as a ground for this Bill, that this was an age of revolutions. He differed in opinion. It was therefore a time not for exasperating, but for soften ing the rage of faction —(Hear, hear).—lt was a time for introducing lenity and forbearance among parties, that the defeated party might not be goaded to de spair, and that the successful one might not indulge in the excesses of revenge—(Cheers).—He should have thought that measure which gave the conquer ing party exclusive possession of the country, would lead to the most sanguinary consequences, and verify the maxim "una talus vietis, nullam sperare salutem. The Circular of the Noble Marquis went so far as to say, that if the system proposed by the Holy Alliance was acted upon, it would destroy the rights of Na tions and establish the rights of Sovereigns. This was, in fact, what was understood by the Circular•of ,the Noble Marquis. But he would go still further. Against their own subjects it was that those Powers called for our assistance. Take the case of Italy.— That unfortunate country presented a most afflicting' spectacle of cruelty and suffering (Hear, hear); and this was the work of those in whose favour this Bill was now called for. The Noble Marquis (London derry) knew this; he was aware of the murders, the rapine, the devastations which had been made, and therefore he called upon the House to pass the Alien Bill—(Cheers). Let the House consider what wadithe fate of those who had been unable to escape the cruelty of their persecutors. They were plunged into dungeons;• they were to be found in the prisons ofl Hungary, surrounded by loathsome and pestilential marshes, where " They die so slowly none can caU it warder !" There the tyrant might look with delight upon the H sufferings of his captive. He should mention one in stance of cruelty which came to his knowledge. A Nobleman of distinguished rank was seized by the Austrian troops in the territories of the Ecclesiastical State (and this oilfired how far Aintraliry wits e shore ries by death, rather than doom him tet such it pro.: iosgasion of punishment? Let any man' listen to thd MONISM Of travellers who have lately passed through Italy. There were to be found men of rank, and tea lint% and character, chained . and working on the reads. This was to be frequently seen, both in Lom *hardy and Piedmont. Was this not disgraceful to may country, which pretended even to the name of immtiom ? And .yet the Noble Marquis called for ail Alien Bill, to enable him to support the objects of the authors of such an outrage upon altliberty ! (Heer, hear).--It was not his intention to geinto a -history of the system of espionage, which this Bill would necessarily introduce. He disliked, more thatt anything, adopting a foreign word, but he rejoioed that on this occasion he was obliged to do so, because there was not a word to be found in the language et true-born freemen which would ezprest the nature of this abominable •system—(areera).—He thin pro. eroded to advert to the conduct of France tower* -Switzerland, and to that of Austria towards Geneva, • on account of the spirited refusal of that State to give up certain refugees. Yei' for these Govern ments it was that the Noble Marquis now called on the British Pispliament to passahe Alien Bill—( Hear). He begged pardon - of she House for having taken up so much of their time upon a su bj ect w hi c h exc i ted little or no atteetion, and which only elicited the contemptuous smiles of those Gentlemen who were determined to pass the Bill—(Hear, hear, finer both sides of the House).—When this question was before agitated, they were challenged to oppose it, as if the onus of the argument lay upon them, and not upon those who supported its necessity. Let him for a moment suppose a case. Suppose the Emperor Alexander were to entertain a suspicion that his ancient and valuable subjects of Poland—upon whom, in imitation of his pious and humane grandmother, of glorious and Messed memory—(A laugh)—he had been distributing the comforts of religion and moray lity—suppose that great Monarch entertained a sus picion that Poland, a civilised kingdom before Musa covy emerged from its gross barbarism, entertained an opinion that it might dispense with the protecting care of the Czar, who was himself at one period tno butary to Poland, was there any Englishman who would not pray to GOD to grant them success (Hear, /ear).—Was there any man who would nut pray that justice, late, but retributive justice, should overtake those spoilers who originally made a breach in the system of Europe ?—(Hear, hear).—lf they passed this bill they would not only oppose them• selves to those noble spirits who were struggling for freedom, but they would cast a stigma upon their laws, and on the memory of their ancestors. They would strip Magna Charm of its glories, and arraign those by whom it was procured of rebellion and crimea-(Heor): What were they to be told in a country like this— whose laws, whose Constitution had been strength• ened by resistance—a country, the Monarchy of which had arisen out of, and been established by resistance, that resistance was a crime? Were they to be told, that they must oppose every resistance, however just, against evety Government, however tyrannical and oppressive ?—( Cheers ).—He should now repeat a few lines, written not long since, by a modern Poet of great celebrity, as they applied to a part of this subject: " While European Freedom still withstands " Th' encroaching flood which drowns her lessening lands; " And views far off, with an indignant groan, " Fier native plains and empires once her own !" The Hon. Member proceeded to comment on the present profound state of 'peace in which Europe was. No wars, no rebellions—except, indeed, the resist ance of the Greeks to the Turk was to be so charac terized—and therefore against the Greeks in particu lar-this measure must be considered as directed. The Hon. and Learned Member concluded by saying— " The Greeks implore your compassion in the name of Socrates; they beseech your assistance in the lan guage of CHRIST !"—(Loud and repeated cheers).--. He then moved as an Amendment, " That this Bill be read a second time this day six months." Mr. PLUNKETT said, he should not attempt to follow his Hon. Friend through his very eloquent speech, as great part of it was, in his opinion, wholly irrelevant to the subject. The question was, not as to what was the state of Europe, or of England, as regarded Russia, or France, er Switzerland, or Austria, or Prussia? but whether the Alien Bill should be continued for two years longer?—But the course Which had been adopted by Gentlemen on the other side, had made it necessary for every man who sup . ported it to defend himself—(Loud cheering). He was hardly able to understand that cheer ; but he must say, that he, and those who defended the Bill, could not expect very courteous treatment—(Cheer ing). • If by these loud and continued cheerings, Gentlemen thought to interrupt him in his argument, they were mistaken. He should still go on ; arid, great as was the talent of his Honourable and Learned Friend, he should not be afraid of meeting him, since he felt assured that he had Parliament and the People of England on his side—(Hear, hear). He would repeat that the People were on his side— (Hear). — He had heard it said that there was an apathy in the minds of the People on the subject of foreigners: he denied that assertion. The noble, the generous, the free-hearted People of England never would sink into apathy when the liberty of a fellow-creature was con cerned smile', om some Members oftheOppositien). He was at a loss to sec how describing the People of this country as noble and free hearted could excite a sneer from any Englishman. But he would repeat it, and he was convinced that if any cases of oppression had existed under it, the country would have rung with it from one end to the other. An act which was approved by Englishmen could not deserve the cha racter given to it by his lion. and Learned Friend.— The Right Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to defend the Bill on constitutional and legal, as well as political grounds; and contended that even without a Bill at all the Crown bad the power of sending foreigners out of the country; and to thew his aremnsent was well founded, cited cases in the time of Elizabeth and other Sovereigns. The RightHon.Gentleman then proceeded to defend the introduction of this measure in 1795.--k Te the wisdom and energy of the measures of that Isar h e b e li e ved oge owed it that we were now isle caned by the Will and agricultural d Attention. till a lat itself to that objf_ct pr esented as a Whi ther he *as so or n an d r roposed this c also, Iniogidd up break faith with t Meeting by surpris in carrying hi s p o g reat Whig 'leaders their own weight at di sav owed this part that they did not ; strongly t ertibate tion t° break faith now, on the part c ,his being taken as t Mr. HONEYWI "hat at the time he disclaimed it now ; of the County say, that the Requis and the Meeting nui Lord JOHN RC that several applica ;:is intention of ten Parliamentary Refs forward again the m ost also take this decidedly hostile tt The Marquis of: pose this Petition b the clause mi;ht He wished this Pe prevent any other Kent, from being course so disgrace) on this occasion. at hearing the Nob; trines of this Petit tormi used by the Noble Lord had sa breach of public f :hider the operatim roust protest again lf ovei whelming n t h e: t ! would be no that he did most si present at that Met Lord JOHN R tract the word cos As to the Gentry. been betrayed into the measures of th Mr. CALCRAF ;or the Gentry of they had been bet the two Hon. Count, . If those Go rliey had done nov would have been Son. Here was a never honoured tl rho, up to this holder amongst tl proposition adopt Comity. He was Gentlemen explail the cbject of this c it would have beet Fo back as be ct Gentlemen ere si men, who underto Meetings, ought ti o,t this occasion or the most existed, when they among them and time he proposed i find a seconder fo had been there, I prevented that pia Mr. J. SMITH a Meeting of the ► have been the firs' }louse a gross dis lle could not cow in it, as the Petitil large, would be a position in the Pet it Lad been at car Mr.BROOG II at the Meeting in power to oppose stood, from the it opinion of the M of the proposition way would have of some of the b Ile was ready to different opinion, 'with great difEde 'was adopted for 'events, he truster :not be drawn, th .llar such a circ :7o credit was to .As to the propos inced the Count 'an reflection. F TDcally his opinil never to be mach Inca dire, the m( thorn inr2n2hle 2 . . , . .. , , . . . , • . • . . t • ' . .. . . . - . rit4st.' 4l .ll6osent tistuointoo of that... Mom there' atr. e.44s am sit aka km slissaws tie was tat:to heat *Sea* %test at c 041).. - 1 lies* general cry Spars, spoke r and the Hon. leketkiliildic Orditot er mo o ,. cal Oe WAS secretly tried and secretly conviceedi mfinted and Learned Gentleman sat down.) "psi Marquis of LONDONDERItt—The terfkii but by a pretended mercy be **s sentenced to twenty. Nils re- , Lord CLIFDEN expressed his regret that he was of the tgreesse s t neere k nan n, s o b ot h rirt ; es . years imprisonment in a place sortcbnded by swami ~ who- I oblige d ,. on this occasion, to ;accu s e him s elf ; hut he Mr. ittICAItDO thought, it dosibtful if she public nofriend was allowed to v i s i t hi m . Would nit the sea& reward ; must say, that the l ea di ng Whi gs on th i s occas i on had cre di tor had derived muth'benefit f r oM the contract. fold have been mercy compared to such a pbnishmentt raining; not exerted themselves as they ought to have done— Mr. HUbfll censured the language of the Noble Would it not have been better to cut shim his Misc.:. ion to' (Hear, hear).—H e should certainly have stood for- Marquis as app li ed to the Member for ghrewsbary. ties by death, rather than doom him to such a pro& ` f ir rig the ward himself, humbless he was, to object to this The measures of t h e N o bl e Lord bed-ii stronger ten: longation of punishment? L et any mart listen to thd ceeded proposition, h a d i t not b een f or the able speech of his dency to pfixiuce revolution than anything that had accounts Of travellers who have lately passed through tat the near relation.. He hoped, however, notwithstanding fallen from his side of the House. Italy. There were to be found men . of rank, and ta4 lent of this disgraceful rider to the Petition, it would still be Mr. HONEYWOOD, on moving that the Petition lents, and character, chained . and working on the le they considered as the Meeting of the County of Kent in be printed, sa id, that there was not one person in the roads. This was to be frequently seen, both in Lom- eet other respects. He could not but express surprise at County who 4as aware of the intention to introduce hardy and Piedmont . Was this not disgraceful to must the influence which Mr. Cobbett kad gained over the dem was so in thoredtioa.—.The Petition any country, which pretended even to the name of s Peti- the 14eeting. was thee ordered to be jprinttd. freedom? And .yet the Noble Marquis called for Mt d must Mr. PEEL said, the manly confession of the Noble A MINI ultra.. Alien Bill, to enable him to support the_objects of tgainst Lord had done more in defence of the Whir, leaders Sir JAhißs af • rstaxrretaNN • .‘, ''i,,'""-., ' -::•'' c. ',',_ • , ' • : , . . . ..•. . • . . . . . . - „.. ... . • ' . . . . - VA , 460.0 1 8nt riesaprtoo of chain .4(114* . titer(' it , . aillige..ll4B ow 4 aim to allows ri,th. tie was tailin Waft O&M* TAW at 1,16* general cry of 41 Space, spoke!" and the Hon. led le4 pilldic Mediu** alto,. venicsi he WAS secretly tried and secretly conviceedt . fined and Learned Gentleman sat down.) . The i s of LONDONDER.RIL'fbe term but by a pretended mercy be tats sentenced to twinitr is re- , Lord CLIFDEN expressed his regret that he was of the treoug a t were k nov n i s o b os h ran k & years imprisonment in a place sortc•noded by waif i whe- ! oblige d , on this occasion, to a ccu se him s elf ; b u s be Mr. ittICAIIDO thought it dotibtful if the . public no friend was allowed to visit him. Would ntit tisii sae& ward ; must say, that the leading Whigs on this occasion had creditor had derieed muchtenefir froin the contract. fold have been mercy compared to such a pitnishmentt ining • not exerted themselves as they ought to have done— Mr. HUME censured the language of the Noble Would it not have been better to cut shin hh raise: In to the a tIN I (Hear, hear).—He sho u ld certainly have stood for- Marquis as applied -- —entlier Ike Shrowatmerir_ rime hv death. rathisr eh.... ..a...___ t_— ....... ____t. .•k .......A L:____tr , ..mmeiMßlol