Star. — London, England, 1817-02-05 00:00:00

.., .. . ;;1 1 rn , uner 'oreasirin; Ansled to the eitiwn .. the Krotisli Petition.• The House, after ~, o ff :wee l-agnage, had no wey of animas!. .•,..; i:?,•n it but by reject in g the• Petition which ,;,,,,i ii,eq, 'l's. former practice had hen to ~.s,!.j c :o.:s to Ps titions on the question 'of h r i t , F. ... . ,; ra isii. It A. uld he a bubjezt of regret, if all taro fa he read as st matter of ceurse. H e - :.‘ t ,!..:eplv i: P,:itioes were. reject d merely . '• ; u.:7:taineL; pass:lnes whirl: exlsressiA %en . . ~ ..:. „ vary to t h e opiitithis of the maim ity of the .. 3 , ... if- ....aw nn yeti , tie 4:: , :lfectual for all desi. , c . ; .,,:pr.., ih in to ii.iri:re the opinien of a Mem is in tl.e ~:h ir K tt,r ct A l'eti::011; and it WAS the . tit„ J.• of ay( LS ~ rt the p. i.ifui necessity of rejection. ' r . I,9CE.l!l..it'i l h.v.l always thought the Mem- • rei,:,,t a petition bound to read it, hut not to r, MCI vouch for the propriety of the lan , I -rontai^::J, excepting in pirrticular cases, 7'll 1-!- , use having reason to believe the matter • :, • erensive, might require some assurance on H-zt The opinion he had formed ha .1 . been -.1 by what • ccerred a five days back. When ii - nour..blv Baronet had brought up his first ~,,t , no qiiestions had been asked ; but w'en mu had been rend, and found to be' disres -14 to the House, and couched in nearly the same s , !ie had properly been asked if those which he - , ^Cll 'ntly about to present were of t h e same . Wiwi. called to state what the character ;; L ein eiielit be, he thought the Member pre-, .4 it was bitssid to give a pledge, that it con- 1 eiething improper, but he did not think lael oiled upon to do this in the first instance. ';i• SPEA.KER apprehended the rule of the se to be what had been laid down on a former 1 .I what had been correctly stated by an 1i0..! , ..... Gznil..:::, in (Mr. Wynne) on this, that the .:!.,a0 a right to expect a Member presenting 'a 'l l4 would be prepared to declare the langu ige ; v: s: nut in his opinion intentionally disrespectful. e rel.:sea to give such a pledge, it seemed herd t the House should be expected to depart fromits bli.heil rules to receive the petition so presented. Nlember ought in the first instance to satisfy felf that the language of it was not improper: f i e.!CASTLEREAGH said, the feeling of the Ave must ever be in favour of receiving petitions, I it ;ever tould be their wish, in considering It was dug to their dignity, and what was their ', to throw any obstacles in the way of petitio- He thought the Honourable Gentleman pre .ting this petition had gone most unnecessarily out Lis . wity, and he hoped it would be felt, that if ! motion were opposed, it was nut from any wish that side of the House to get rid of the petition. . from a desire •to assert a principie which had tr: been brou;iht into discussion. He apprehended rule of the Howls to be• founded in true wisdom, .d true wisdom went' to throw open their doors to itionrs.in the largest sense, and doing this to be ;:itil not to &part from the established usage of l iliment. It was not necessary they should sub. ' in be wateJ with disrespect to secure to petitio. tf.::ir ry . hts. What degradation would be theirs, CV CICY to submit to every insult that the wicked, igihations of nesiAning men• might be pleased to. upon them...LO reed every petition that might• tented, and reading, to put it ott their jeers hmwaver idireusive cis . content...might be!- isle ' the Members of that House would not lend I.t. b. como the channels • insult, and to as the means oflibelling it. In a case where Member diutned what was toe course most proper tie pawed, he might with propriety 'sta.! Ins ibis, and then the potion could be read, that the Riot's tut the House might assist him incomin g To decision. But when the i-I , nourable Gentleman .f..."r r. W. Smith lei broadly maintained that the fuse was bound 1.• receive any petition that might etfereJ, without requiring any pledge as to its gttage; he w Add say, that if they lent themselves stic:i doctrine, they lent themselves to thew own Aradatiott. and to the destruction of their own pri ieges and (10104. .As thr. subject had been forced lino:manly oaths Heine, Chad • no difficulty to wine to the established rule, aird•considering the gas anttifiihrrties &the subject involved in the 'Uig -11 of that litho., he thought they were bound in epresiditgaSe to reject the petatitai. tom FRANCIS aIURDET 1 . 41101)10 it was. rather en so it4ectable• a body 'at men ar; the peti. 'mt.! that.thew petition oboists: be rejecttd.laecause Member presenting it bad expres ed* in opinion a matter with' which they in the preient , *itsseanM ' nothing to do. After all it ceiiid not bedomitied every Member? would exercise I:1i OWII whenever a petition was brouitht tor him to' pieta andhe hoped the Noble Lord would nut pease :• is his oppos;ti»n:on the present occasion. • Mr. BATHURST observed, the Honniirdble:' mhcr (Mr. W. Smith) had nut been content to let' ie•tition stand on that ground which the Honour- 1 ilaiiinet was disposed to take. The contents of pvtition nobody knew but the flonourabie Gene IA (Mr. Smith), and he had r fused to say any ' l g 01 them, as he wishtd to raise a question on general principle. The principle ',hat lim itable Gentleman wished to be adopted, was one ,ich he (Mr. Bathurst) thought it right to oppose, !) must ci , tite , tl every Member ought to read a Itiun befole he presented it, that he might net be . innoccn, channel of insult to the House. \V. bM rri replied et some length, amid de tect he had not the slightest objection to read any ttion he mi,ziit be called upon to present, nor did think any Member ought to shrink from resp ' 4 4 for the contents of whet he might believe it he his dety to offer t• the Housp, if such a prio• Ie wele.and , rstood to be once adopted. T., what said of his having unnecessarily brought up on this o:casion, he would only answer, .c in this he had bat tmitated the conduct of a Right Gentleman (Mr. Canning) on a former nigh:. 'l"ing the question in debate to be, on - both sides Hoote, a in suer of principle rather than of ;le should be most ria.lf to box to the de '', tat the Mimic. He moved that the petition hroug‘t up. 34 r aid Mr.Wvatraseverallyexplained. CANNING begged to • set the Hotiourable seen tit h tgnt in Irma of fact with respect to•what tik.:n place tin a dormer evening, to whieb die Gentle:H.o44d just refinted• lle was the first who had °blotted 't° thc Petition then anted, nor /pod he pot any qucetiot to dm Hon. Baronet (Sir traneis Bolide) trn he 'mod to ti e House that be had not Ma the he was Actin to present. • . - Mr. BANKES said the Hononrablie 1 7.;i:•rlrtirn ainith)• had said he :oul:I. if so d:sp,isql., f4y there was glutting improper in the Petititel. I, Om dediratio %ecru repeated, he (Mr. Batike) wa 4.1 ot.inioo 66 , 41 rn;q:.t received. Mr. BROUGIiAM trusted hi; Hon. I':i.7nd (Mr. Smith) would not give the House the trouble of di, r;ding ; but he also trusted that be would not colt. ply with the request of the last speaker. It it ..sere telt that a Member osa,:ht t•• tea I a Poition bel.re he presented it, let a tale and honourahle order:tan.; ding be came to on the stOject on bath 5:,1.•%; but he I hoped that no Member, nor even the H lose its.l l , would get into the h.tbit of aJministeriug intettr*i tortes to every Honourable m Gentle an who migat present a Petition. Such a •course. he coo , eri.jeii was txtraordinary and unpuliamentary, and wratilJ lead to a coarse of examination that w:ail.l be very inconvenient. as. after the question, a :Imre you read vie Petition r' the nest question undiniliteslty would b:, 66 Is it fit to be presented r' and if a dntiht occur red here, it would then be asked, a What do you, think of it upon the whole P' To this he must object, And he hoped his Hon. Friend would not repeat what he had before stated; in compliance with the suggestion o: the last speaker. The CHANCELLOR of the EXC . iIEQUER said Vie Honourabl: Baronet (Sir Fr.to , :is Liu. Jett) htd been questioned on a fctmer night in consequence of his having said he lad not read one of the Teti units he presented. In the ptebent caw., no rine would have thought of asking the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Smith) Allocation. After a few words from Lord A. HAMILTON, the question was put and negatived. •,`"; Ps' i s !‘) mink of r, 1 , • - cm .. • : 1-! ..; •••• :* • hl nom, ti •,1, oil ai to thi r•• s, ha ,4 it ye:, action tr., c iied U Ize SPI ta be wl . . 7 . • G: wet e rctiisek 6 , t the Ho r ~.4 Menthe a.nself that listve must asi it ilet? Wilt WAS di daty, to dio nets. He t :rang this of Lis way, motion Ca that side bet froma a ww: been b rule of od true ssi pcitionus. cattdul not Pat . ..i:iment nit En be u urn 14:::r were tact' imioginatur heap upon be presente nat., trusted the ' tticrnselves be used as Menihier ) be pan 'oats, .491 'edam 01 decision. (Mr. W. .ouse was • • otfere.:, ..;•.gtiage sec:, .1 d • • 'egradatiei - „lege* and miscessari tl ~ 1 -of tea' • pie e ate 1' nd ea so i-tiers,: •••• Med), • ei 4 matte i•d nuthin :it every • 1 11whenc -s and.! N, in his Mr. B ( • pt•titio hie 11.. i pvtitic (!oi " ni genera (durable Lich he tows • 'itiun , aide Z4r. \V ;i 14ied fit !itlon h e think : be his , pie deli •nt be.,, .2 '• , t in th Ce •••eVift g • • ice. • :Ai,. 3, Ur. C, t it the I ▪ edented SEDITIOUS PRACTICES. Lord CASTLEZILAPH appeared at the bar witlePa pers from the Prince Regent. The Papers being brote;lit up, v:ere ordered to lie on the rable. Lard CASTLEREA.GH, in rising on the pre sent occasion to submit a motion to the House, was happy to think the proposition he had, to offer to night was one on which he could not apprehend the slighter difference of opinion would elist, as it Weeif went to ack nowledge the receipt of the Prince Regent's most gracious Message, .ind ti assure his .Royal Highness that that II nise'woeld take Intl its most serious consideration the !Japers he had ordered to be euruthunicated et them uk.hout delay. What ever the situation of things might he at present, tiling could be further from his wish Owl to say one sold th.it noglit on this occasion lead to a.debete on the present state of the country, as the very nature. of the cc memsnication whicle had been made indicated secrecy to be demable, As the House %vete not yet in possession of what Ministers coesitlered to be neces -sair to give them a proper knowledge of the present state of the country. it would Cause great emb irrais6 *mot to and ta the' House itself were this subs jest now to entered iipon. All he requested a: prey beet was, that they should keep their minds free end, unembarrassed, that they nieglit act as should be net 'ceseare' on thee Repert of the Committee. There wal l oily one other point on venich he would fifer a *single' word, He itiou.,ot it n, cessary to oppose the idea that had. Kc.ne abroad, that tlas out e:f the late air,c;oits attact on tde p rs m of the Proce Regei t, no which he has sure but rineop;nigtl emitd be entertained by every Moldier of th it House and by every friend to the Btiti,h CoLstitinion. He begged distinctly to state, that t'.e pri•serd proceed. ings did not Mite in any shape out of that ontr,ge. The cOmmunication which had been made was feu& ded on information which he thought k would be felt•that.the Government, without Amid , ning their duty to the country tind to the Constitutior, could not but advise his Royal Highness to whore Jo ;1;01 House. Having said this much, lie hoped it. world be: most consonant with e:e feelings of the Rinse not I to enter upon the views which any Gentleman in'ig;it take of the present situ aim, of the country, froM the knowledge which they already possessed. He hoped they would keep their minds tree and unhis i s.ece teat they might act on the information which the Panel Regent had caused to be communicated, as eireiima, stances might require. He concluded by movieg— t it Tien an humble Address be presented to hit Royr Highness the Prince Regent, to return his R Highnesethe Thanks of this House for his most gra4 clots% -Messrge-,••and 'en assure his Royal H Ones, that this House svill proceed to take the information laid by ffis.Royal Highness's command before this House,into its immediate and most serious conside4 rationt".. Mrs PQNSONBY did not rise to Tose the Mo. turn ; lot he wialie I to ask the Noble Lord if he in tended to► froceedito the ineriTy immediately, as this appeared to him of all others me tibia would almit of no delay ? • Lord CAATLEREAGH certainty intended to proceed im'mertiiately to the appointment of a Com mittee Of Arerrcy. The questio;► was then pit and carried north's con- trot/law. • The Noble Lard then submitted the following !do , tiorii to the House : Thu a Committee bf Secrecy be appointed. Thu the umiak: of its N►cmbers be twenty-one. That they be chosen by w i y of bdiot. That the Metni.ers of the House ftheit to =flume prepare lists of Weathers, ft.tuVivitie:s atinty•otte atm 1 tte taken to ham the ! Committee. That the glass shall; to4IIOITOW, be placed oat table of the Bosse, from seta& tin mates of dm: Metnhe betaken, &c. That the rapers brouffit down this day sha r. main, as they now are, in the posieisitbd of the Clerk of the House, ti:l after the Committee that/ be chi:meat:* • These Resolutions were ieveritlly.put and carri:d, asmiaitoistradicents. TitoxfAS , lr - Goort. • kirAid4DDING FON„.'ailierting to the . Petition kirogght•forward by a Noble Lord'(Foikestoi:e) la%t night, eraviplaitting at the coochiet-of s Magittr.ite to am this dm :Petitioner, s4id..th4e in 'compliance with dirt atssarante he had :giten .the 4 Floase, he had in torstte.t his•Noble•lAteve at the Mead of the Home Depertateet of Witt had Occuri ed. The 11 , ,b1e Se cretary. in eentequente, hat e.thcil the Police Ms 'gistrates, MSC, imptired two the circurnstaoces, wilco he learned, *4 it was not a Pi lice Magistrate that signed. the warrant 'tor cotuniitment, end agairtt whom the coMplaidt taws of tourfe.mnie, but An or dinary Magiswate. Over the l'alitellagistrates the Home Depattatat eacttised st coctroal, bat over .• ' • •Ot I lft it ggiktfo..es l e nail no thlo..4ertri The Right ifrin. Cen t. email %ea* proLeeetng„ Mr. PON3ONB7 to** ht ..:der. Tom- t:o qn,fstinn belore the Howe, 41.1.tiogi: hr 1:1•1 no dr*ire to in!rett,pt the Right Hon. Gewh.taan making eel , ' in itious, he kit hirua it n oat t allow obsci :rations to be made tit tr!::cis N Jille I Lori hviiiisd h n. (Folkeston-) coot.' nti4 con*istentl; with the form* nt the Holue, re pry. Mr. H. ADDINGTON Wris only Co4moitt:ng to HMI the engagement he had mill-, in rc porting to the House the reinit of his inqu:ry, anal. Is 4.1 no to tretpass on it. patience. —(4o 4n, gi !atom liefrnt parsers.) Lori FULL.L3TO:IE slid. that he did not re ttuest the Rig:•t Hon. Secretary to inqu;re i 'h' ha.l oirert..l l :;s services. He did think last night that the G:)v.onmeot WAS it:tilt:iced. Oac of causes of complaint was, however, removed, in find ing that the Police Magistrate:, were not the M igi *votes who had s;gneti the e•ontnitrnent. Hu. sviot of the same opiolon still wi b regard an the to whomsoever it was traceJ.—Here the canton rttica MR. HUNT'S PCIITION. Lori COCHRANE rose to present a Petiti. r. from a Gentleman who complained of boior ttre ject of much oppression an .1 misrepreaentation it the petition contairted ailagations that were ono ue, let tlivm be cararovertrd ; ce the contrary, tl.ey w: re true, let the Wield:tat ItAre tvi oprr unity of. m iinnouing them. Weer.) The Noble Lord then stand, that the in titior w!ich he 11.. id, wa, I ram rvlr. Henry Hunt, who coniolained of a libel having be-n sent forth upon his character. He s:ated, that he coaid prove it to have been vtinted at the office of hr police printer ; to have ittrn i• sued from a police otßce ; ire have been, when of iced to thif:rent walls of vie melt polls, watched by officers of the police,. stationed for vie purpose; .tn..!, I.istly, that copies of t' e paper so placarded, were deposited at a police QS ;e s far the purpose of enabling the parties who detected othats %emu% town the bills to identity the torn part from the whole copy so deposited. He (Lord Cochrane) hoped, that if such facts woe proved a: the Bar e,f that House, they would feel the necessity of addressing his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, entreating that he would dismiss from the Cnnvuissioa nf the Pence, and from his employment. a Magistrate itri.o would be found to have so violated his duty. He concluded by moving, that the petition ire brought Mr. Fierjeaut BEST felt it right to object to the extraordinary court.: nhich was atsout to be taken , a ; this occasion. Let the Hoest: reflect for a moment ori the sitnatton i,i nitich it would be placed, by re ceivirtg this P.l•tion. It would stand in a situation to pronounce upon an inquiry, without having the power of investigating or.fiscertaining *pots oath the truth or falseitreni of tee allegation at issue—(lleer, L:cr)..—The Peti6or.er hal tptite using's his course. 5r01.4) papers had' it appearesl, stuck up, re. fleeting upon his 'char, teter, counterparts of which were found at a P,:itce Office. They might have ',been there without the koowledge or privity of the bisgistratez but if they were with his consent. then the remedy lay in a judicial proceeding against the Magistrate ifs due course Of Inw, where the whole evirience on facts may . be* taken upon otth. The lioisseluennistnot surely 'convert inlet! into it Court t .king c l ignizence iq the outset of charges brought agaima infant r Officers.--(firar,imar).—He would, thertitote,.oppose this Pet;tron, as it prayed nothing which mild not be put in a regular coarse of redress me the ordinary way of , roceedirg.—(lleer, bear). Lord COCUR.ANE, in reply to Vie course of ja dicial inquiry pointed,.ont by the Learned Sarjeant, begged to say, that he 40 no intention of inn oducing 1 into the Manse of Commons the practice of the Court of King's Bench, where petitions were rejected un heard. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT begged to observe, that the Noble Lord had stated the coptenti of the pe tition, and, Is so doing, had satisfied all the forms con tended for in the_ priortation of petitions —(Hrer.) Mr. PONSONBT would not conceive a worse ground of objection 'to the reception of a petition, titan the prob ibility that its prayer would, in an ulte rior stage, be rej.,cted —( Year, hear.) Mr. Serjeant BEST disclaimed any wish to oh. eruct the presentation of the petition, or that it should lie on the table. His obiervattons applied to the in troduction of an measure upon it—(flear.) Mr. CANNING was certainly of opinion that no objection could he iaterpoied to prevent the petition being laid on the table. It as ulterior measure were intrUdeced, it would then be competent for the:n to take their own course. The Petition was then brought up and read : it set forth, that Henry Hunt lead the brut means of knowing that a conspiracy hail been formed against him : That he bad ever been 4 true Li.,l loyal rutiee:—(4 laugh) —and when his country wa4 thrrLteriel wi.ti invasion in 1;97, he had embarked his whole inluer:y it: deknee of his country. On that occa sion, he wrote to the Earl of Pembroke (the Lord Lieutenant of the county in wt.:di be re,:led), a letter, containing an offer of a very large quat.iity of elk-cc., Jaen, waggons, driver, and ids own person beside— (if the pubic service. In tens, he was equally Itrom!neat with a tenda tar the public service, and had received the achnowLdgeracrts of the Lord Lieutenant for leis efficiency. The Petitioner then proceeded to sate the et. *Mons be had been la ely makftig at politic meetings, In a consti tutional, le„-al, and liia.zeable manner—(A lough)--to serve his country. He &wined the Meeting at Bristol ; the posting-lA, which lesely stated, that Ise bad been blued out of that town; and the circumstance of the boy, llontas Dugood, being corn io dunyeuo, fur tearing it from a wall, and prayed fur redress from the House under such 'imam:enc.'. Lord COCHRANE then moved, that the Petition do lie on the table. Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that the same course had oolv been pursued which was aced upon by the Noble I.o:.1 opposite last night (Lord Folk ston*). It was now evident that the House could not allow itself to be made the instrument of deciding and investigating matters en Voir early stage, which more properly belonged to other tribunals —(1-fear.) There could certain.y he no obj - :ctinn to receive, in the I , st instattce, a Petition properly couched, al though the matter would assume quite a diffe,ent 'complexion, if a formal inqutty were afterwards *ought for, merely because the House consented to allow the Petition to remain on its table—(istar, hear.) If a Petitioner hui acy gri 'v.inces to complain o', for which the due course of the administration of jusbce afforded no redress, then. indeed. the House might eotnider itself as not impropedy called upon to inter poo. 'He ( Lord Castlereagh) would net oijecl to the t...in s Liu pp the table but he webld • 1 ; t_ cert.:a:ll7 rt i po A inA oritrotiOrtor4 of Say iurtn•r ,_2 • pos.it.on the COC I AR:1.•; t.': repred, that 17e wa nit pr-- !Are ; iss ' d 9W t!i) the te:e.2 . l.ltt of the w, vs.; I E ., e - Its •ticst• ( ' c..t;•.n w.r. 01 . L :40 crt 11P. 1.,' CIOH, i•Fl.'F.Str:.:, IC:. f;:r F. LC; .t l'T intse.:suti a • rettnan frnm t! . .* 'Film of I..ice-ter. and anots , t:r 11071 i tit? I:ol.lb:MitS L.e; z e.:, in Laccashir% in Id von, of I'm liannitary itrftnm, which were Ifia (14,1 un!e. Au.ccen GINTRUCTV4/ TO TIIR RtGIIT OF PrITTIOtt. Mr. BROUGHetni rose to present a Petition to the House, am! to make stuue ohmvations, which arose out of the peoienlar subject, that would. he %.:t perstreded, in iihe them with no snt oil degree ef aonmishmeet. B.fore he entered ern a st iternect of Itch. which, ii seleetittiethi, celled for the o e se ht en e v e ; in n I ne.heled expre.sion ie hid; minion, he w.>.11.1 sty, t'..t In Ohosiem had berg treesmitted tr, hint, aecornpaeied by :so effeneeits virifyiiig the facts i: disclosed. I irre he w !;,::.1 f rV, rant: it senold ne weil tor the Chre.nrat!e of :hen:co i.e.-metros; to look into such facts ae this Petinen ‘. e fir h, and se:tidier uiethio• act. of thet campli eine wine not stroeoly calculezed to create the stein a remedy fir whicli they were eheet to consider? He Nell it tulle perfectly indulihebi-. th a if, on the oae hand, it was the buttiaden duty of the Erern:tire Goshrument to see that the peace ni the country e.,: s 'let broken, A nn as well the die) , af brat H.0.:.e LA Stlrpnr: the elovercraent is the eontervetion ut :ha: pe..ce ; so. as the ruder hand, the i:hlse was more peculi 'fly call ...I open (and niched es a poeurou.it duty) to see the real grievances of the rhos!? redressed, before they were driven into acts of violente mot euirage, which when committed. were not easily to he remedied. —lf at a time eih.:n a sufficiency of universal stiffer. lug prevailed ha eulliout the comitty, the Kids wine to be prevented tram exercising their undoubted tight, what coot tie die consequence?. Nothing but Oneontent, nisonien„ it not something worse.... (Hear, Herr).—Were the House even determined to enact rigid measures at such a crisis, and to reject the opinion that overwhelming distress prevailed out of dotes, be (Mr. Brougham) would still conjure them at least to :mat the statement of those grievances which they would runt believe, and if they would sot 'throw their doors widely open to receive Petition), and to protect the legal right of the subject, in t o exercise 4.1 his privilege, he hoped, at all events, they wettld prevent any open obstruction being given to hiarin the progrios of petitioning.—(Hear. hear). In the present chie (if the statement merle to nitre were true) this subj-ct had been most grossly and unjustifiably ohstsucted rit the perforinence of nis legal right. The fut. were these :-- A Petition had been prepared at the town of Wartiogion, in Lerma shite, and it was quickly signed by fat or 9Y) persona. Tire subjdet matter of it was fer a Reform in Pailie two, not one dictated in the spirit el some Petitions, but homed' in guarded at: temperate lenguage, such t a s tee most too:h.:hue Pnioriner could not of te. —lt stated, with forboatence and caution, the grie. trances of the people ; it accompanied that stetenieet with no specific plea, but merely itnri!nred the emo tion and consideration of Parliament to such urn:- sures of retrenchment and Constitutional Reform as the House, in its wisdom, might deem expedient at this• important crisis. Such a petition, he sheen have thought, would have raised free from chstret -1:311 in its cot Ti . a instead cf which, however, a o r. sou named Richard Berrowr forcibly seized it in if,. while it wes convce•so , puiAic street of Warrington, About for signatures ($6O tiaving then siened it) and carried it to a person named Edward Coates, wih •delivered it over to Thomas Lyda, junior, a oeueo pan Gentleman diogir re e s a i n d y in p g with c h it is her u w nc a l y eo . t . l fri le accliNia .priticir . ii Magistrate of the town . (Hear, hear.) The peti romise tioners, after in vein attempting to recover their pe tition, at length a edressed a respectful letter (a copy of which he h id) to the untie of Mr. Lyall, stating the circumstances that had occurred, and deman ding back their peution, which, they understood, was deposited in Lis house. (Hear.) Alter waiting a reasonable time, they received no answer, and two days after were under the necessity of framing another petition of a similar nature with the former one.— 'Of the former he was not, of course, possessed, for it had never been recovered, but he was tar nished wit an attestectcopy of it. and with one sheet notitainieo 560 signatures that was to be attached to the het et signatures on the Petition sheet, together wi th two effidavhs explenatory. of the whole affair, It the result of an inquiry into this matter should prove un. nleas:int to those concerned in provoking it, the rent • would attach to their unjustifiable obstruction of el undoubted legal right, and not to the conduct oi etiose who were necessarily coMpelled to seek redress a grievous wrong inflicted upon them. He cop eluded by moving, that the Petition he held in ho hand be brought up. The SPEA K ER.—re Has it any signat u res;" Mr. BROUG hi A 4.—" CertailAy." The Petition was therf brought up and read. Mr. BROUGHAM stated, that in the present stage of the business, he conceives it to be of greet importance that the Petition should merely lie on the table—not with a view of allowing it to rest there, but that the parties affected by it should talus hare an opportunity of prep a ring themselves to meet tee inquiry which the i'etitioners had a right to demrd , from that House. (Hear, hear.)—He would cell for this inquiry in about ten days, when he hoped the House would possess some (other information upon the subject.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. WILBRAHAM BOOTLE suggested to tne Hon. and Learned Member the propriety of out ha. - thy pressing the matter beyond where it now t o J. lestead ol being, perhaps, what he deem e d a v i e n :e. outrage, it might turn out, if hut eer steps , oee e taken, to be nothing more than a stupid mad j , liCe lif acme boy in the country— (lieeedieer, from Me VA4cii five: Bender)—by which the petition e r , l ost h e t t a sket.t of paper— (Cri er of hear.) He begged not to be :a dela n ,d as insinuating t h a t if th e a ct were nelioe. rately committed, it o ught not to be lolked on as a deliberate ouirage, and the party c ommitting it pro i nished ; but if it were a silly freak th e case would be different It would, ptiltaps, be as we:l if the lion. and Learne d Gentleman would not pledge himself to teeny the rii tutee tuition Mr. M Mr. BROUGHA replied, that he was not pre.' ut I cell, mild the facts came full] before h i m, lit Quell