The National Register. — London, England, 1815-03-12 00:00:00

161 of it inigtst be securott 1,, Moving; thirt he Chairman do rerun pro/trees, and ask leave to sit Aiello. when the motion of ailjaurninenumight be submitted to the House ; but before the Hor. Member took suth a step, he would do well :o intorin himself, whether the military force bid been ttrtiii ondrr the dtrectina of the sittitig magistrates (Hear, hear I) ii it had been hrtniAt in consequence of a tumultuous and in suiting mob, win had assembled to niPliate Parlianiel.t, (heat, hear !) and if ll a House could sjhmit to be itsfluenced in any measure by such an assembly, they would soon he degraded to ,a level with the mob it self. Before the Han. Gentleman would give his name to sanction the radii snly lt, lie hoped he would inquire into facts, and then he would ItothlT respect the Magistrate who had brought out such s force. to pv..teet P.rliaiiient rn the discharge of its iasportatit functions. Mr. L arum said, that in coming to do his duty in that House, he found the avenues of the II .use filled with so/niers, and lie thought the menace of a military torte was as bad as that nt a mob. Lord CAB r GIJ t h-erverl, the military force N 26 under the conduit of a civil officer, who was amenable for his conduct. Mr. Firzo ERA! D said. that he was insulted and abused outside the doors. Under these circumstances, he consmunicated with the Speaker, or the first authority in that House, who caused steps to be taken,. by which a military force was brought tinder a sitting Magistrate, upon the Mandate of the Speaker. Mr. WIIITIIRKAD said , it was certainly the duty of the civil power to protect the House, and the House would consult its dignity, by agireing that the Chairman should for a short time leave the chair, to inq ire how and under what circumstances the military force had been Collected. L ird CA STLEREAG u expressed his perfect acquiescence in this sug gestion. The Chairman of the Committee was then directed to report progress, and 9sk leave to sit again, and the Speaker rimmed the Chair. Mr. CROKEII said, that in coming w the House the doors of his car. tinge were forced open; he was seized by the collar, dragged away, and several blows struck at hint. He was then assured, that unless he told his name, and the side on which he intended voting, he would 11 , 4 be silo ser to enter the House alive. He refused, and after a long struggle, in which the mob finished by . hehting with each other, he escaped throthlt ,the Cotfee-room of the House of Lards, and at last reached the House of Commons. The SPP AKER said. it became him to put the House in possession of what had come t his knowledge, and of the steps I.e had pursued. Seeing the possibility of some popular tumult, he had sent to the Ma gistrates, to assist in the preservation of the peace. Be,ides that, he sent to the High Bailiff of Westminster, to be ready to discharge the duty enjoined upon by the resolutions of the Hume at the commeace ment of every Session of Parliament, in keeping the streets and avenues to and from the Howie free from interruption. He had also given in structions to the Serjeant and his messengers to dist:ibote themselves in the lobby and stone passage, that, with the.assistance of the officers, they might keep the approaches free. About an hour ago, a Noble Lord informed him he had been insulted by the mob, (rum whom he had e , capsd with the greatest difficulty, and had reached the House only by ceiniug through his (the Speaker's) house. Upon this he sent out to say, that if the peace officers were nut sufficient they must call in others, far that Parliament must be uninterrupted in its deliberations at all events. After that, Members had informed hint, what be was , very glad to hear, that a military force had joined its protection to Members coming to the discharge of their important duties in that House. (Hear, hear I) Mr. WHITIREAD thought enough had occurred to make it necessary to cull to the bar the civil officer, to render an account of the steps he had taken for the protection of Members, and he should accordingly move that the High Bailiff of Westminster do forthwith attend at the bar of the House. - The ATreeway-Gawenai said, he was the lost Member who had entered from without. He had thought the most convenient way, to dri , e was to the great. Hall door, and before he had reached it he found his - carriage pursued by a mob, insisting to know who he wits, and whether he was a friend to-the Corn Bill or rm. He toW them he had never been ashamed of his name, but he would nut deceive them upon the subject of his conduct in Parliament. He then remonstrated 'tad reasoned with thereon' the measure before the House, and at length extricated himself with the assistance of some of the populace. Mr. FiNtitate said, he had been assaulted with sticks; such an as st mb!age could'not have been dispersed withont a military force. (An Hon. Member here exhibited his coat, the skirts of which had been tern off, and which excited considerable risibility.) Sir B. Heeota rose to show visible marks of the treatment he had suet with. Ha had sot met so mild a mob as that which was fascinated with the eloquence of the Atiorney-Generat. After being roughly buf tatted like a shuttlecock between two battledores for five miaUtes, he teethed the goal watt ircatest difficulty. Ile bad sot lateudetl to II • ... ••. s peak, bet when rev his approbation pf tl►e Bill-. Sir F. Ftoon said, he had been hoisted en men's shoulders, and car• tied like mackerel from Billingsgate; lie thought himself quartered. {Loud laughing, and cries 11011:kr I ) The High Bailiff being now called in, was examined, as well as Mr. rßiride and Mr. Kinnai►d, the Magistrates, as to the tiumbers of the civil force employed to keep the peace, and how they had been distributed. At the conk union, it was agreed to by Mr. Larubton,, Mr.lVhitbread, and the House generally, that a military force had been properly called iu ; and these proceedings were ordered to be further considered on Monday next. The House again went into a Committee on the Corn Law., and se veral Members spoke, including Lon, Castlereagh, who supported the highest price. The House divided—Fur the Amendnseut 77—agaiutt it t 08—Al ajo ri y 131. After some further conversation, it was agreed to receive the report on Wednesday.— Adjourned at tour o'clock. TVISDAY, 'LARCH 7. Petitions were presented from a great number of places against the C..rn Bell ; arid from Newport in the Isle of %Tight, the counties of Suf folk and Norfolk, and Dudley. in its favour.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. BENNZTT moved for the appointment of a Select Committee. to inquire into the state of the King's Bench, Fleet, and Warshalsca Prisons —Agreed to. Tim Bank Restriction Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. • The Mutiny Bill passed through a Counuittce.—Adjourned. WILDNUDAY, ~ARC/1 8. Petitions against any alteration in the Corn Laws were presented ' from IVisbeach ; from Donley by Mr. H. Sumner ; from Margate, Drr- Isston, Christchurch, Durafernoline, Lewes ; tiora Ealing and Old Brentford, by Mr. Mellish ; from St. Mary, Islington, and St. Paul, 'Sbadwell; the Ward of Farringdun Within, signed by 9,000 persons in a few hours; from the borough of St. Alban's, by Alderman Christo pher Smith, who stated nine out of ten of the inhabitants of the place • were against any alteration in the Corn Laws ; from St. Mary Mag dalen, fivrmorlsey; the Ward of Walbreok; signed by .1,700 persons, by Mr. Alderman Atkins, who expressed Isis wish that the attention . of the House should itie particularly directed to the !mother wt petitions against the Curn Bill, and the immense numbers, amounting probably to little short of 500,800 persons,. by whom they were signed ; from Worcester, signed by 6,000 persons, by Mr. Tierney ; front Ather stone. and from Horsham, by Mr. Hurst. These petitions were laid ou the table. Mr. BA n 'NO presented.. petition against the Corn Bill, from Carlisle, signed by Shoot 6,000 persons, forming about two-thirds of the whole population of the place. The petition, he ought to state, in additiors to the prayer against the bill, contained also a prayer against any fur ther advances to the board of agriculture, which the notitionera eocsi dered only as a public nuisance. The petition lik.ewise, though it did not directly pray lot a Reform in Parliament, yet mentioned the opi• nion of the petitioners, that if this bill were to pass in opposition to the decided—to the known wishes of the great body of the nation, it would then clearly appemr, that the state of the representation was such as in be altogether insufficient to afford protection to the great bulk of the people: Sir JAMES Gn.s II Asr said, he had spoken to many persons connected. with agriculture in most parts of the country ; and this he would state to the House, that (ruin the greatest proprietor. of land downward!, he found they would be satisfied with no average price of 72e. the quarter, so as to have 30s. ov 83s. for the best wheat at mai ket. Be had heard, from the best• Surveyors, that if the average pi ice was 7'2a. the best : market wisest would he 80s. or 855.; and he was astonished that Par. Hareem should think of fixing 80► as the importation prke. This was nut only the language of honest Surveyor, throtighont the country, but , of the greatest landed proprietors, persons who possessed more landed propetty than most cousumers. On the Order of the Day for bringing up the Report on the Corn Bill, a long debate again took place, in which Sir GILBERT HE•TtIiCOTE misted, that it be broUght up this day six months. On a division, the numbers were—For the Amendment, 50; Against it, 168,--Majority, 118. The Report •iras brought tip. Mr. BA ZING then moved, that the farther consideration of the Re port be postponed till the first Monday after the Easter recess. The House divided—Fur postponing the bringing up of the Report,. 57; Auninst it, t206.--Majority, 149. The Berra 'so tits* brought up. loam .14 41114 acit