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r 'o,3lllra 9359. • Tint GENE 9-HEMEMBERS together at t! I gee , Coveatrpetreet, .arty ai.pii .-ion for sail r: * 1 • • V. Areadel•s:ree C u .flay street, Feb. 26, NEX" The I.t of MARCI Olt Capitals of BiSH respec tic J. . whole of the Lou be all drawn on SRI !,“ whole tottery eta 4 :l.ling the number of '1 & in such' variety as t ta:es of I' BISI - 1, the I and at all the Ag ••• Persous wishing play have thtnt witlwot rriHE COURT 4 C(.2lfiteftinfil e! EAST ItVD as. .bat a Gen Tal-Court fieir heu.r in Leadeulta sea:, at Lieve t suit:limit% the consider* hat the Court of 1 c. .)..d ration the nature bar, , a •t 1 bp* far it itu piath to !newer thernds nem' t ourt of the ii&b opihitin, any SCMIO3I 7 a' nuw advisable fur the Essabtithmeut mole in should attend at stated Jae inforeement of ol weak not he preferable howtver, more especiall salts whether the ripen Collsge night nt,t with if,l stead of compelling sent nary, the Court of Itit ailed fur their civil fah my in snots lasiguag c. nary, the UMx to be dm: ability appointed It tate, it woad MK be ilk b ----%........, - .., 1y .. t -. ~;;,, - A4lsf . •1, .f(s- • t - ....:P:i4l . t air MEND .•...•••m.....wr.maide. • • 4; .4) (4 , - kr. 4,1 • '• • 4. • • 1 . 4 • • • _ 4,r 4 .410.t i ' . 1 4 2 4 , . 4" P R ICE S . ? - (Hirable. Member who spoke 145.. • to have been adduced of the nst the people, particularly as made the ground of such .art WAS that night to be proposrd ; , for one, should firmly Opine. ink from his ditty, n tr ever bjw any set of men whatever. He • Lets had resolved upon this step, 'ould petite before they attempted He.would wish to meal Jorn:nable scenes that had occur- • nary, where the people were de. • .coast of the laws, which wus limbic measures of a Nuble Lord, is cult:tory could exp.:ct but 41141 e n had betrayed his own. was firmly of opinion, that the A this country could boast of. war' Act. He was by no n:eans a. wit, and he knew that his consti. es extremely aggrieved on4eed at the opportunity of presenting a • e measure in contemplation, al• lty was indispotabee. The way nembrance, when there had been .4" rh a measure, was the-yew 1795, I produce. no parallel' to it at pre- od, therefore, t i me ought to be * THURSDAY, FEBRWARY 27. 1817'. viam• 0 ainiously, th..re being te ar hands held .up against them. The following i.; a Copy of the Petition : TO THE HONOURABLE. I'HE COMMONS OF Tim MC rim KINGDOM OP GREA I Oki VAIN AND IRE LAND, IN I'AR LI A .vi FNT ,idS em illlD. The humble PE riviori of the LORD MAYOR, Al.. - DERMEN, and COMMONS of the CI I Y of I.ON ii - IDUN, in Common Council asirmuld, !Newel n—that your Petitioners have learned, with deep sin. and appretimm on, 'that measures are in progress in, the Legislature for suspending the Habeas Collies Act, justly deemed the great bu!war► of the English Cemnitution; and also for imposing other Restrictions upon the Liberty of the Subject. That your Petitioners have at all timm been fur ward in evincing their ioyaky to their Sovereign, and their attazlimeot to the true pi isicipies of the Constitution. 1 hat whatever inrouls they have witnessed upon the Court,- Lotion, or whatever grievances they have felt, they have, in all caste of II:dorsal elatiip.r, when the safety of the Country has been threatened, ourtioissa to urge their complaints, in* the anxious expectation, that a hen they bad subsided, the attention of your Huuourable House would have beim directed towards a redress of their grievances,. _ _ _ PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS. 7greed with the How)* that evidence ought ' charges made again these charges were 7 alarming measure as a measure which he, He would never shrii to any Minister, or regretted that Nlinistt and he h'yed they wow co can y it int 7 execc their minds the aboi red in anothA7 coon! prived of the prozeel eausA by the abumi' itnd thought that t!:ii mercy from oue who BRAT. SERVICF CLUB. S of this CLUB intend DINING .'eraporary Llub•lL•inni, No. 6, Arundel• ott I'IMIUDAY, the cith of Match next. 'l'Lkets is reque,ted to be made to the r of the Committee, a'. p • . HALL, Capt. and Sec. IS:1. HOUSE OF LORD 3, FEBRUARY 26. Counsel were fully beard respecting the Irish Ayr ea! Can*, " Barrett v. Burke. Consideration'of judgment postponed ttl: Monday• In the Irish cause of " Hamilton. v. Sweeny and Ni. 00," Counsel were partly heard. To proceed again on Mouldy. Earl BATHURST presented, by Command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, a number of • Papers, whith wet's taken by the Nobie Secretary out of a sealed bag, acid laid upon the table. The titles were net read. ExT SATURDAY. \RcH, all the Lottery will be Drawn. Only 3,01.0 Tickets. • of stit.;,cstro, Z>.',ool), &c &c :csfully remincls the Public, that the Lottery, lead shut wog ever harum), SMITRDA MIX r eunsms Lac of 3,000 Pickets, yet netwith . of Tickets is so film, it contains Capitals of &c. &c. Tickets and Shares are now to be • as the limited number will allow, at the , the Contractor, 4, Combat; and 9, Chasing ,be Agents' in the Country. tshing for partigular and favourite Numbers, .itiwot any extra elpenee (if wet preyieady told) The Malta and Gibraltar 'Trade Regulation was read a third time and pas.O. Vi.cotteit sIDNIOVEH presented two Report-. which he stated were respecting the management and application of the Sinking Fund. Laid upon the table. The Msk and Pensions Duty 818 was read a second time. Lord Rd:Wit:DA I.P. took the opportunity to, state his prone disapprobation of that part of the Bill which respected volantary Contrilmtious from the proceeds of Public Offices or loeusione.— In thP'Committee he should regularly state kis objection, and prosiest against the adoption of such a provision. The Coals Duty Regulation Bill was read a second time. Tha Annual Accounts from the Coannitseioners of Shoreham 1 hat your Petitioners, and the Nation at large, have lung been. and still are, anifering. under unezunpied ddliculdev. arising front a long course of improvident expenditure and enormous and itatuferabk taitat'em its common with their , they have made downl represeanations!of their grievieners and sufferings to the ihrutie and tuiParl arisen', pra)itig, tor a redress of tb same. Abet your Petitiotiers gave opseilved with peculiar satisfac-- tie% that whatever dilfertmws of opinion may have prevailed in ' regard to the mode of reoef, the ;Ovary( order and vet testify have generally aypeared in the procersdings of the dinerent Meet tugs of Petaluma. in various pats of the kingJont, and that their grievances., in the nature and ratent of which they have been unanimous, Lave been stated in a manner that coed neither be disputed nor denied; and although in some Instances acts of violence and tumult base taken place, which your Petitiourrs deeply deplore, they believe them to have arisen solely front the unparalleled distress of the country, and not to be at aU connec ted with the great body of Petitioners, 'Chat your Penn/macro. therefore, feel the most Serious regret and alarm, that at a nutmeat ut such general and uotiampkd Mores, when the Peoph ere petitioning fur a Redreis of great and acknowledged Ciri.:vances, and at a season of profound Peace, any measures should be proposed or aslopted which must necessarily deprave the, Nation of the great barrier of - perm' al Liberty—impesle the exercise of the uudoubted right of Peti tioning—and reader the Liberty of the Subject es,iosed to the arbitrary will of the Islinisters of the Crown-and that other measures are iu agitation stillltrtber to deprive the People of the eeneht of the sirkish Cans:notion. Harboar, were prearated at th e Bar, mod laid upon the Table.— Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Accounts were presented of the Receipts of all Money by the Keeper of his Maje4l's Records in the Tower, for See years, , coding the Ist of January last. Sir IHOMAS BARING presented die Report of the Ro chester Election Committee, which declared that James Bar nett, Esq. had not been duly elected, and that -his diction was consequently void. A Writ was immediately issued for the dec. don of another Member. Lord W. RUSSELL presented a Petition from T. Jeffeey, a pawls who had been committed to Newgate by the Wootton. dassku Election Committee. It stated, that he was so extras:tidy alarmed when under his examination, that he was totally igmm -rant of having given offence to the Coatutittee; that be had so intention of so doing, exiiressing his contrition. and Fraying the House to take his case into consideration, he having a wife and three children depending on him for support. On the Motion of Mr. GORDON, the Petition was received, and the Petitioner was ordered to be brought up tomorrow, in order to be discharged. Mr. M. Fl VZSERALD postponed his motion, on the sub ject of tLe Tithes System is Ireland, sine die; the Honourable Member understanding that the important subject or Tithes would be taken up, generally, iu another quarter. Mr. GORE LANGTON presented a Petition from the Ciothworkeis of the County of Gloucester, complaining of the injury sustained by the introduc tion of sheeting. INDIA 'HOMES, Iskvary g 5, 1817. .DIREMORS tithe UNITED 4011611 CHANTS ANGLAN.ll,tradiNg hash give sake, 1-al-Court of dip bald Company will be held at Leadessitall Atreet,oll FU ESDAY, the 41k Mutt' o'ClOck in. the Forenoon, for the precise of consideration°, the following Proposition, viz. • of Directors be requested to take into their tore of the Company's institution at hailer h ost , has answered, or is likely, on its present rims, itt gnawer the - ends proposed by the Resolution of the Ge neral t court of the Mb February, 1805? And whether, its their opihien, any Seminary at the Company's espense in England be new advieable fur the Civil Service? and, if so, whether ao Erabasbmeut mote in the oaten of a School, where Masters should mend at stated hours, having proper authority for the, Jae inforceinent of obedience, learning, and 100011 conduct, weak not he preferable to a Usiversity or College ? ibis Court, however, snore especially requests the Court of Directors to Con s:do whether the espenor at present incurred in maintaining the College might nut with great propriety be almost vithoUy i savedp il,l stead of compelling parent* to send their sons to a panlielat son nary, the Court of Directors were to require of the youths int aded fur their Civil Service in India, a certain degree ut pro to. trey en suck languages and sciences as shuuki be deemed ow sary, the same to be certified by Gentleineoot known learning dm: aLitity appointed for that purpose ? And whether, in such ass, it would nit be highly expedient and ecooonucal to remove leer Aluitary be 1111 l isry item Addiscombe„ to the more comma cvs and spacious building at tisileybuty And Oat the Comet ti Directors be mob': seqtested to report their upinions on the siffereut points herein ref. reed to them as soon as COOVelliellt, :cd call an early and Special General Court to receive and con ti :et the same."' . rALTIAIG OF THE COMMON COUNCIL'. . Yestei day, a Court t? 1 Common Council was hel for the purpose of considering the propriety of peti tioning Parliameut against the Suspension of the • H abeas Cot pus Act. The Court was numerous and respectable, and the Lostw MAYOR took the Chair at one o'clock.—Mr. WAITHUAN spoke with. consider- able animation for some time, and concluded by pro. posing the tollossing Resolutions should be adopted : • WOOD, MAYOR. At a COMMON COV NCIL, hoiden is the Chamber of the Cuildlull of the City of London, on Wednesday; the 26th day et February, Ibl7. Resolved, 'I bat this Court has learnt, with deep alarm end ap.. pthenstioo, that measures see in progress in the Legislature for impeding the Habeas Curpes Act, jurly deemed them= Bul wark of the English Constitution; and also for Imposing other seat ictions upon the liberty of the eubject. Resolved, I bat this Court, and the Nation at large, have long been, and still are, suffering under unexampled difficulties, ari da/ from a long course of improvident txpeuditure, and mor aines and intolerable. Tuition ; and, in common With their fellow subjects, they have made &Omit representations of their Griev ances mid Sufferings to the Throne, and to Parliament, praying • bra Red• ess of the WO& • Absolved, Hut the Court, therefore, feel the most serious met end alum that at a moment of such general and unexaue. pad tie rest, when die People are petitioning for a Redress of Brest and acheayskdged Grievances, any measure should be pro posed, or Moped, which must necessarily deprive the Natio, of the rep Barrier or personal Liberty, horde the exercise of the toudoeletd Right of Petitioning, and- render the Liberty of the rubj.ttespestil to the arbitrary o ill of the Ministers of the Crown; and that other measures are in agitation mill further to deprive the People of the bent& of the British Constitution. • • Resolved, 'I bat i: is, in the opinion of this Court, au unavoid. *Lk coompence of tke present circumrances of the Country, • that thete should ix* great disquietude andirritadon in the pub lic mind, as well as great anxiety, as to the measures that may be adopted for the Redrew et Grievances; and were it otherwise, • the mime* character must have been degraded beyond any foe aim example, and every sense of Liberty extinguished, if the Milli Nation could, in die present state of the Country, bate . mated to feel. and with freedoms rapes* their Grievances. , Resolved, That it appears to us, that to adopt measures of so much importance, foendeg epos) experts ',Wet cc, selected by Isivasters themselves, wiffiout any means having been afforded to !imam or mime the same, woqtd be, in our °peen, ince*. Mum with the ordinarp riles of justice, especially when treble* been informed that some of the, most important facts upon which the union is fiatided,ltave been affrred to be disproved at the Bar of the Heusei of Parliament. Resolved, that tLis Court have seen, with the deepest con cern, that attempts bare been made to confound the numerous bodies cf his Mrjesty's loyal Subjects, who have peaceably and coestitudonally .petitioned for Reform and Retreinhment, with some obscure end hicooliderable Societies, who have advanced theoretical orojeets with regard to Property and Land, with w lilt Is , the body of the Friends of Reform never had any connection whatever, of .which the greater part of the People, we telieve, Lever beard the name previous to the Reports or the Secret Com • 'Muses of the Hoossiof Parliament, and with which they do not appear to have had any feeliug,with, or trinciple in common. itmoted, That this Court is of opinion, that any measure in dicative of Ose determination of Patlianieut to search into and to redress the National Grievances—to abolish useless and wine ca\lotiteuses ions, and t a o n ta d t Est e a in b t l o isli co me v i s it d s— e to ion red u uc ie e tshrtagN tienat e of the Representation, withal view of rendtrins; what, in tact, it ought to be, a real organ of the People —and a coittroulliog power Mer the Ministers of the Crown, would tend mere to appease the public mind, to tranquil ize the feelings of the People, and login the conlidenee of the Nation, ti t any Laws that can be devised for restricting the People in the Iliterclse of their Cousti ttthnal rights. Resolved, l'hat Petitions be presented to Parliament, praying OM previously to pauing.any Jaw, fur suspending the great Chester of Petiottal liberty, the Habeas Corpus Act, and thereby plating the hves,liberty, and prOperty of the People, at theeperey of his Majesty's IYUttistelt, or adopthig any other nteasurEs cal talated to dimitrahthe ripe of the Suitject, they will be pleased to proceed to it further iniestigation, when an accused People Nay be allowed to adduct; other evidence, and to vitubtate their conduct and their Onostittitional rights, at the Bar of. the Houses Or Parliament. WOODTHORPE. Mr. Favail seconded the Resolutions, which were nppoted by Messrs. Dizots and JACKS, and Alderman Cuectis. Sir JAMSSHisWw., Maternal Goolonithinlii. ettcl Aldermen Havusta, suppottesl the Resolutions, vlich.wire *cattail) , put, and carried almost una fluty are the unix. siattnal that such extraordinary mason" should be proposed to be passed into t law with such precipita tion, that the People at large can scarcely !mow they are iu con trandattuo, much left be able to appeal to yolir Hotiouranle noose against client. That tour Petattouers do not presume to question the motives of the Committer of your Honourabte Nowt', but they cannot but lautem that a measure so deeply affecting the Zonstituttonal IL:ghts at every Jade Mould br proposed upon ex parte evi dence, or documents se:ecrett by Munster., sevtral a whom were themselves upou the Commuter. .1 hat it aware to your Petitioner', that to adopt meseares of to touch unpin-, owe, founded on such evidence, without any mean. living been afforded to examine or refute the ante, world be, in tile humble opinion of your Petitioners, Inconsistent with the ordinary rules of justice; especially when they have been informed that some of theme's imputtant facts %sou which the Report is founded, have beau offered to be disproved at the ear of year HomisrableHouse. '1 bat yolk Petitiorters conceive, without meaning to offend your Hesouratle House, that they are warranted in presuming 'bat the said Committee may have been deceived, or misin hooted, by stateme n ts in other instances equally erroneous, and which, if evidence were allowed to be produced, might be disproved, Thar your Petitioners have meets ' with the deepest concern, that attempts have been made to cotifotrud the numerous bodies of his Maks y's loyal Subject., who have peaceably and cot.- stitudonally petitioned fur Remora and Rettenchmetit, with some obscure and incdosiderable Soc:eti.s who have advibeeti theore tical projects with regard to Ptopecty and Land, with wh eh the body of the Etienne or Reform barer had any con:section what ever; of wheals the aerie, part of the People, your Petitlotiers believe, never heard the /MOW previous in the Reports of do Secret Committee of your Honourable House, and wilt whack' they do nut appear to have had any feeling, wish, or princip:e iN cummon. That under the'preseot difficulties and disappointments of he Country, there should exist great di-quietude and irritation isl the public naiad, as well as great atudety as to the measures that may be adopied for the redress of erievences, your Petitions* commie. to be an unavoidable cousequence; and that, were it I otherwise. the national character ititi3t have been degraded be. youd any former example; and every sense of liberty extinguish ed, if the British Nation could, under such circumstances, have ceased to feel, lied with freedom express their grievances. 'that they humbly beg leave to impress (Von your Honourable Honk, the any measures indicative of your determination to search into awl redress the National Grievances—to abolish melees and unnecessary Places, Plosions, acid Eetablishnients— to reduce the National Expenditure—and to take Into conaidee ration the state of the Representatives, with a view of rendering it what, In lac., it ought to be, a real organ of the Peop'e, and a *wroth ng power over the Alinisters of the Crown.—oeuid told metre to appease the public mind—to tranquase the feel jper d use People—and inspire the confidence of the Radom -SOS Ng Laves that Can be devised tor restricting the People in the reality of their Constitutional Rights. • lout Petitioners, thereto:a praf your Honourable House, that previously to passing any Law for suspending the great. Charter of Personal Liberty, the Habeas Corpus Act, and! thereby placing the Lives, I.iberty, and Property of the People at the mercy of his Majesty's Ministers, or adopting any other measures calculated to diminish the Rights of the Subject, your Honourable ilou,e will proceed to a Weser Investigation; when an accused P. ople .iuy be allowed to adduce other evidence, and to vindicate their conduct and their Constitutienal Rights at the liar of your Honourable HOJSC. Signed (by order of Court) • ALL IN One DAY.—On Saturday vest, the whole of the State Lottery Drawn. It consists of fewerTicketb than any preceding Lottery (only 9,000) yet contains Sixteen Capital Pried,. among which aro te15,1/00, 5e2,000, £l,OOO, sec. a large proportion of ' which it is ezrected will be distributed among those who parchaic At ether of When's Fortunate Vice:, 9, Combat, or 17, Ludgate-sheet. where Na. 325,tir last Money Prise art 040,000. ever drawn, was sold in Shares; also No: 6,677, a Prize of 1;000 Gui• nets, on Thursday, the 6th inst. RICHARDSON.' GOoDLOCK. area co. respectfully solicit the favours of their Friends and the Pnblic at their bruins!. Offices, Cornhill and Charing Cron, in the present Lottery of only sneo Tickets. Tile Scheme contains Capitals of 445,000, £2OOO, Xiooo, Ste. Ste. which must ail be drawn in Owe Day, Saturday the iota March. Ma. Bool'll.-11 appears that this Gentleman, who might have proved hosluable to one or other of the Theatres, is batty, by Ms owe, and their mismanagement; to be conJentoed I to " waste his sWeetnesslo the den* air," or crow the tech of Lhaeseee barn-dew fowl in the country; that both Houses s h o uld vs beim maim le get Wan Is very natural, as be world err• tidally boob beets a capital pies. We can readily *receive that their aridity upon this Kars is not less than is the crudity of all slayeeto Oft UT men el the Capiud Prima in the Lottery i • Wheel, which must come fent Nati bail:attar, when this wheieLettety most be &ma H• WOOD MORPE. PETITION !Reif WORCOTER. Lord DEERHURST,' nu rising to present a Pe tition from Worcester, apologized for thii being the first time of his having the honour of addreasing the House. It was now, he said, his duty to present a Petition, numerously and respectably s.gned, from the Freemen and Inhabitants of the City of Wor cester. It contained , three thousand names, and prayed for a Reform in the Representation, the Abo lition of Sinecure Places and Pensions, and Eco nomy in the Public Expenditure. On these subjects, he would avail himself of the present occasion to state how far he gave thou his sanction. He should feel it his duty to support any plan, the object of which was to obtain a salutary Reform in Parliament, and to discover and , correct abuses; but he would lend himself to no delusive scheme, which, under the pretence of Reform, sought to infringe upon or-touch one iota of our glorious Constitution, the pride of I England. and the glory and admiration of the-world. ' On tl:e contrary, he 'would do his utmost to protect this great birthright of Englishmen tiom all innova. lion. The House defied open Revolution, and he, as a Member of it, would never sanction any thing that had this object in view. He was born and edu cated in loyalty, and abhorred whatever .had a Re volutionary tendency; and he would advise those who advocated sentiments which had such a tendency, to reflect, that their own greatness was not likely to be benefited by the change. Let them torn to the hotrible acts of the French Revolution, and they would tind that nearly all the actors who had figured in those sanguinary scenes, had fallen victims to the outrages they bad sanctioned. Such an example, he hoped would nit be lost at a crisis like the .present. With respect to one part of the Petition, which went to the abolition of Sinecures, he agreed with the Pe titioners, that all ought to be Abolished, except those granted to persons who deserved them. Those who had long -held large Sinecures had now, in his opi, nion, a proper opportunity of shelling that they had deserved them, by voluntarily givisig them up. Re specting Retrenchment in the Public Expenditure, he felt convinced that the distresses of the People had reached the ears of Ministers, and that they would do every thing in their power to alleviate their suf fer ings—(Hear, Ittar).—The Petition was then pre sented, read, and ordered to lie on the Table.. PeTiUoNa )most Nurrittutfotii. Mr. JOHN SMI CH, en offering a Petition from the Corporation of-Nottingham, descanted 'on the, arduous duty which the petitioners had bad to per form for theilast ten years in preserving the public peace. .They stated, that the wont of .Parliamentary Reform had, in their opinion, been productive of most of the evils that now menaced the country. The petitioners had supported their distress with much fortitude; but he could state, from the best attthority, that without the liberal relief that had been received from individuals, many of the inhabi tants would lately have perished. The Petition was read and laid on the Table. The same Honourable Gentleman then said, he. had a very different Petition to offcr from the people of the same places it was Spina the S Jammu:in of. the Habeas Corpus Act. 'I he petitioners said that they were grossly calumniated in a Report they had seen in the public papers, as coming from a Seceet Committee of that House, and which represented them as. seditious, disaffected, and treasonably dis posed. He did think it might have bees possible to give /tome of the evidence before that -Committee without the names, in order that it might be seen what proofs were offered of such charges being ap plicable to the people of that or any other part of the country. The petitioners, however, distinctly de nied,the charge against them. Lord RANCLIFFE wisbcd to say only a few worths-before this petition was rcseoosd. He fully ----: Mr. MADOCKS only practical ben fit the Habeas Corpus tisfied with"thet Repot , tuents felt themselves being deprived of Petition agaidst the thotigff them loyalty time within our remembrance, when there had been any necessity for such a measure, was theirar 1785, and Ministers could produce. no parallel' to it at. pre sent. At this period, therefore, time ought to be allowed for the people to express their sentiments; and, with this view, even if the Islll should be read a first time this evening, he hoped the second read ing would be postponed -at least a week. He should even wish that time might be allowed for the whole kingdom to petition against the measure, as, whether it were necessary or not, there did not appear to him to be that pressing call for it that it should be thus hurried into operation. He should, therefore, when the petition was disposed of„move that the House be called over this.day week, that the Firople may hare an opportunity of expressing, in firm and respec f cal language, their anxiety not to be deprived of the laws for the secticity of their persons and the trial bYJurr. Mr. BROUGHAM agreed with his Honour...bit Friend, that nothing was more shameful and flagi tious than this attempt to hurry the measure through the House on the grounds of such a vague Report. Ministers bad. no right to complain of undue advan tage being taken of them by the delay now demanded, when only last week they thou,tht proper to sacrifice two whole days, which were lost to Parliament and the country, one from party motives, and the other for their own accommodation. It was therefore in vain for them to say that time was pressing ; and he would recommend his Honourable Friend to make the motion he had intimated. Mr. JOHN SMITH only wished to say, that he was sure, if it had been supposed that there WAS time, the Petition he held in his hand would, instead of bearing 30 or 40 signatures, have contained as many huudreds.—The. Petition was then read and ordered to lie on the-Table. CITY OF LONDON -PETITION. Mr. Sheriff Ilavrical appeared at the Bit, with the Petition of the Lard Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, against the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. It was received, read, and ordered to lie on the table. Sir W. CURTIS did not rise to oppose the Peti tion lying upon the tabk, but only to say in his place what he had declared a new hours ago, when it was agitated, that he totally dissented from all the ex• pressions and sentiments contained in it. Sir JAM.E.S SHAW was of opinion, that she three measures already introduced were called t,r by the situation or the country. He was likewis.t of opinion, that such meetings as had lately been held were improper. He should listen to the arguments on both sides with the utmost. attention ; but with re spect to that grave measure, the Surpensien of the Habeas Corpus Act, he must own, that :tier giving 111 the attention in his power to ilie opening speech in which it was intimated, he solemnly and conscien tiously did not believe there was any ground laid for it. There was nothing similar in our present situa tion and that cf 179.5. At that time we were at war with disorganized France, and with public opinion ; the people were in active correspoude ice with those of diat country, who were labourihg to overturn all established Governments, and were receiving,maney from them. Could it be said that there ea:4s any comparison between that time and this ?• Hehelteved that this country would remain perfectly tranquil and safe, without such a measure being adopted at all (Near, Hear,)—and he should therefore oppose ir. Mr..W. SMITH said, he•was the other night in advertently under a misapprehension. He shougeit l that. the Bill for the Suspension of the HabeisteC,,i pus Act was amongst the others, •and meanoto give his support to . it, not supposing it was to 1* intro. duce.' as a separate measure. . But he believed, with the Worthy Baronet, that there was no ground for it in its present shape, and he thought it his duty If) express his disapprobation of it. IVith respeceto the other three Bills, he did not think that any cle.ir ground WAS' made out for one of them—he meant the Seeition Bill ; the other two he thought extremely proper. That for punishing the . seduction lot tl e Military he should have no objection to at any pet He wished the Bills proposed to be nseasure , l by their own merits ; but he was qu;te surprised. to hear the Worthy Alderman declare that, with every ex. oression and sentiment in' hat petition from London, he totally disagreed.: He hoped he had mistioder. sto al the Honourable Baronet; and that he would set him right if he had. . Sir W: CUR rlSTeplied the HonourableCenee men was perfectly right. Mr. W. SMITH added, he.was wiry his• inter pretation was correct. • Mr. CUR WEN found it impossible, after having 4at inahat House for thirty years, to remain silent can such an important occasion as the present.. had heard measures similar to •those dactissed ia that House by the greatest men Who had ever figured iu • I - I I