The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-18 00:00:00

Ioi,wPATA - i r ' amity of breach of faitlrld these persona, that a Bill of Indemnity bad beet panted on all former occasions. , Vas 110 111, were Magni, to the ntegbitt for stiguiryg ft could lead to no satisfactory mesh. *oat thw Petitioners the Committee . Would receive genetal de, olkof their RoJit., sad assertions of tba •beadshipa they bad suffered. As to the bardeltips, : they had m ined, if these Wee any thing tebigX wag; werranied tower& persons in their eiteatiosteehe Indemnity Act would not prevent thedifiell tlnt their remedy. This .class of complaint Anti imeal Made theAsehject of misrepvesentatios House, and misrepresentation whitest. Illuttreils, tions had bete presented ondtat subjectlaii,Seesise some not signed by Maureen, whose Pathless they purported to VC; others complaining that the Peti. tioners had been immured ie dungeons, when it had been intidslialtedshat they were in rooms which MIND. here of the Heise would not think it a hardship tell dwell Jo. Preeisuly to every Bill of Indeessity 2 2 merit threamerceerse bed been pursued. In 1804. *a many Petitions had been presented, coheir:log es tied& asautiows as in the present year. He coiled so.: art; however, that never ware soy misrepresents. , *torso flagrant as lo the Petition of 'he Petitioner, Ward, wall first apprehended, POO Wu warrant from Lord Sidmoeth, bet by a warn* from the Megistratn, on suspcion of being cancers. elk the Luddite meragesin 1816. Derbigthe time he had been in Custody ender a charge of Many, it was not matter ofeereplaiet that be was dealt whit as other felons. He had an affidavit from the Jailer of Nottingham, Philip &hey, who stated ib at en itt which Ward was mafiosi!, was one of tee best the prison ; it bad a bed in it, a stone floor arderch ed roof ; the walls were dry, and the smell of which the Pedtinoer complained arose from the &mi. gation of the prison. Ward never made a cos. plaint to the Deponent, and apparently was not injured in his health; that no irons bad been pet on him. He was shortly after removed to Osford.— To show Ike temper in which the Petitions ware pre sented, be should mention that what he was at Osford, Ward wrote to the Secretary of•Stato to desire some chews to be made in his treatment, which were all granted; and be had written to Lord Sidmoutb to express bit gratitude. On the Ist of August, this person, in a letter which be wont* his wife, complained that he suffered much from being' deprived of the benefit of Divine Worship. Lord Sidetootb wrote to the Jailer to know the rsuon of this, who said that be should bare allowed the State Prisoners to attend Divine Worship, if they had desired it, at the chapel of the jail, in his own pew. They were then accordingly allowed to at. tend Public. Worship at the regular times.— Ward bad complained that he had been impro perly treated on his way to town. The two officers' denied any ill-treatment, and the man to whom he was fettered had *sprinted great gratitude to them 100 their treatment. Ward complained of solitary confinemest, and that the room was unsuitable In which he was confined. The incenvenieece of the' room was, that it smoked daring certain winds.— The jailer offered to make any alteration in the chim ney which should be mutated, and an alteration was node, end no complaint was afterwards made. Ile sea showed also, on Ms request, to live with another prisoner. He left prison appaseelly hi as good health es-he mitered It, though Ids constitution, especially as to his lenge, was defective. It was painful to say aoything against individual character, but the prisoner bad pot himself forward as a man of excellent repute.—(herd - Cmitierriegh here read some passiges of Ward's Petition.)—ln opposition to the praise of himself, he could not bring for. ward the information which had lately been lodged ; against him - cot oath, but he should bring the ; testimony of two individuals, who bad since suf." fired for their crimes, John Mitchell and noises Savlige. These men, previously Is their eaecutiou. bid Made a ion confession of the guilty scenes in v/hich'they had been engaged, part of which he should lead to the House. These men suffered for the etre. chins felonies committed at Loughborough, in 1816, by the persons who took the title of Luddites. Lord C. then read the deposition of Joho Mitchell, *hick he stated, that Francis Ward urged him to go to Lotighbortmgh to destroy the m3chities—that the' Loughborough men were to pay loot. if the business was done to • their mind. He received between 31.] and 41. from Werd, for his put in that besineli; l , that Ward paid 101. for the destruction of some' frames in Nottingham; the money wag not pad, bilweeer, by Ward himself. Ward plotted the Ou trage at Castle Donnington: Ward was Treasarer of one of the Luddite Committees. Some persons told him that Ward had given them 4f. to shoot a man—. bat they did mot know him, and wished to enquire who he was. The deponent (Mitchell) petweaded them not to do it. On one occasion when' men had been convicted at Leicester Ward had made great' efforts to persuade Mitchell and others to do oil (kill) the Judge. Thomas Savage also, the other person who bad suffered, aid that the plan of one of the operations of the Luddites was laid by Ward, and that Luddites; was connected with polities.—' Lord C. conflated, that though it might seem incre. dible, it was perfectly well authenticated, that among these persons a regular price bad been filed for us ussination. He bad said enough to preterit the louse from being run awry by any statements, which inlet be made se it by individuals, whose crimes bid theettrned thwetate. He conclued by oppesitig mitten. • • Mt. J. SMITH slid, when Ward's case was-folly k*oWu, no• individual coeld believe a' word con. tideedin hit( Petition. He then adverted to certain falithivedeennteitied in the Petition, and proceeded to state, that he had received information, which In visitl fdlly depend on, that Francis Ward was one ofithoett•whe plotted and perfected the borriblb ...trig/ that took place at Loughborough. One circeentence he wished to state, which the Noble Lord opposite had omitted, mutely, that previous td Mitchtdiss-triel, he lad disclosed to the Solicitor by whom be was defended, the pert he had taken is vedette .disterbeetes—whiek communication, after his erecenion, the &Mellor matte koewn to the proper setharity..—( Hear ) hear !)—Thilv disclosure agreed, In sebstance, with what the Noble Lord bed sated.—(hear!)—Tittt Gitetlegan then pldd a high compliment to Lord Slates* for his ho- Invnitivel suggested, that thanes his Lordship would hot antbutize !wittily. to' be hated toward! •- ~• r. say priblishir, seem dl 'these who acted endier 111111_i iN nundailib. aka Ktiepiesuef Prisons, ertaht tkp theme good • feeling*. N ow, sof Illtotingo of imProPir 0nT11 6 4, .f* :have takes place ender AS bliPagikOn. ;PI U. ought to enquiee - tit. it. HO opsl l not. • I tberelofe, oppose the niodois, iiihredivg. •s if tra; the cases of orreteCrpetsone whose childiclers **in 'net states! :to be similar to that at Meardt•- . Wdle respect to ; that gnat , crintinel, he newt,. that km bad not bleu rarglyibt to judice--sad, he hoped o'l. dense 5011 01 1111 wnild yet be found to Oriel him to condign . tilsiiishtneet. Me. GOLDING, in mend* lteillited Allegation coatained in the Perking of John 111414 iw.wbitdt he complaised of boring been staltreated chile Reading jail, by Mr. Elwell', the jailer, read a letm ter from that individual, in which be se forth, that the kindest attention was paid to Knight, and 'Kis compadioes, Nathaniel Hutton and Jam* Sellers, 'while they were ender his .care. Sellers mod Halton had written a letter to the Maelstrates of the county, in which they thanked Mr. roma& for his kind coo duct, which letter the Hon. Member also read. Sir W. LEMON said; that, although be beliersd neither the Noble Lord at the bead of the Home Department, nor any of his Majesty's Ministers, would use the powers granted to them, for s bad perpnae—yet it was a* so dear that others world act with the same propriety. And, as Petitions, complaining of grievance' were laid before the Reese—although one of !bens was . not berm out, aced perhap. none of thein' would be—he conceited thn Members of that House were directly required to Baseline. Wick . Mr. GORDON spoke in defame of the keeper of Gloucester jail, Mr. Ceasinglsam, who bad been accused, by John Segoley, he his Petition, with baring caused him . to be placed in a cistern of cold, water, in consequence of which he contracted a fever The fact appeared to be, that be bad been placed, not in a cold, but in a wares-bath, to refresh him, after the fatigue of a long journey. He wasiimpri. coned in Gloucester jail, on the itth of April, and was not taken ill till the 20th of May, so that the warm-bath could not be supposed to be the cause of his indispositiou. &gutsy bad a sitting- , room and a sleeping-room. He was allowed a geiiiea ' par week for provisions. Aod Mr. Cunningham, who anxiously wished for enquiry, permitted, out merely the visiting Magistrates, bet any Megistratß of the county Pr. have free access to him. Stiff, however he conceived enquiry ought to be granted,. ' Sir W. GUISE corroborated the statement Of tbil last speaker, as to the care and atteatioo - bestowed . on &gutsy. Sir F. BURDETT regretted that he could not come to the di icessioe of this question with a mind quite so sabot...if and unprejudiced as thew Gentle. men bad professed who had delivered their teatime's before him. He could not but call to mind, that when he first drew the attention of the Heise to the coo. duct of the Governor of the Cold Bath-fields Prison, when be was charged with crimes of the blacket dle (of which be, Sir .Francis Burdett, possessed the fullest evidence, but was never permitted to bring it forward)—he repeated, he could never forget, that at that time, jest as on the present occasion, Cana lisation rose up in various parts of the House, some declaring on their own knowledge,.. ethers ea state" melds made by Aria himself, that btwas a. man of the most kindly and benevolent disposition ; that he bad never been guilty of any cruelty or oppression whatever, sod that the prison was conducted on a system of uniform mildness. The. - Hon. Member , for Yorkshire, in particular, had stated that nothing could equal the attention paid by Aris to the prison. ens; that be wit, a pattern of humanity, told indeed too good for his station : but the House would pro bably recollect that story, which at the limit was told seemed to seats very little Degauss, in the House—a story which was paralleled only by the history of the prisoner in the Beadle, and his com panion the spider: tat prisoner, in the cosine of a long and solitary confinement, by way of same . els. jest to divert his weary hoar', had attached to him , a large spider, which, by degrees, became so intimate. as to visit. Mm et regular Murals, and receive its food ; it served es a compa,lion t and gave an interest. iog occupation to the wretched prisoner. So (orlon and hopeless was this wretched man's condition, that when the spider perished, he declared he had lost the only tie that rendered existence supportable. The story he bed told of Ark was much of the same descriptiou: he had confined a prisoner for fifteen months in a solitary cell. In the course of a bard winter, a robin had flown into the window; it soots became a favourite with the prisoner, and his only solace. After a long interval, Aris, who very sel dom visited the cell, entered one morning, and seeing the bird, crushed it iii his hand, notwithstanding the Moat earnest entreaties on the part of the prisoner that its life t o night be spared. The agony the poor man suffered was that of one who had lost his dearest and most valuable friend; so bitter had bare the infliction of solitary - confinement. Aria neverthelesst represented himself as the most humane of mankind —a man whose foible was benevolence. .and ahem, fault always to relax the' discipline of the prison.. !leanly mentioned ,this to say that the House ought sot to be surprised if he was not quite so ready to believe whet Gentlemen or what Jailers themselves stated in proof of their own good qualities. Ile had no doubt that .the Gentlemen who made these statements meant well, and themselves believed all Ike? bad advanced; bet be could not avoid beim. himself a little more sceptical on the subject. With respect to the Hoe. Member for Nottingham, he begged pardon, bat he ("old not avoid sayieg, that. all Ms speech relating to tfie business of. Word , was .nothing to the peeps', The question whether be was a bed man or net was.nothitis to the Wyse • e the reel qesistios was, whether he bed been jostly. duniud with High '['rearms, whether be had,. ateamittsti. ard,PhotOr. 116,. had bas 004 'treated under that commiteseet; tut wa:4lo F end not 00 1 3": 11 . 6 16 4YfeCOt. ithsod4. W OW , 1r .41patismen. who .said they lerilmed these P ' sin d ;et celled fee a 4 fletefeY44 l 44 sack 444 I)°.inotPoto,(l4 "'ANA goelllep ifitiligrigotitpublic, es z ee tr for gtieviisceevied yet refuse to cise was breoght forward? The Noble polite had left very .. .lktW.6u bits today.. _ • , •V 07 • - -- . oirrn 1T1T. 7- 4 INTIII :431 , 11T OSA ,UPt 1 1 111 ReftfirfigiPt QUAMPlMittiiitof-EM - li! agents of the Noble Mager; aad though :kw, cant - - - - Ig&WA that it wasidAussibiaisauglidisaacia ntol ist?;ftlert„ Myt e richk tpril lu s t to rgi*i 70' ,P lid` 411 Wir AMP. _ into lolit thltuiliwas, • _which note ;PyClattli • lever be ,wmallip;itlf krwtf lite:p9elycinao *VA' to thp appip candoor of tinft . ,,LlAte t , and he would ask' could any p erson be biusell • lirtlefillitellitednif a jailer lb' ors .. - It bad. bees amid, and it might be treor,that a great needier of jailers had not even been ac cused of harshness; if . so, the expression cr . f. ;Ger Foots, that " the steeled jailer was ieldriiii the friend of man," silohld be now applied to the steeped Minister; and W. any misoondact had bees committed by any under the Noble Lord's an thoritm, be should . tiny that the Nohle Lord was • lie*, even though h e was not prity . to such saiscria dict. ft was a maiiiii of the tommois lite; Wet edit feet per ethos fad! per se, tend the 'Noble' m . d wee aosweiabie for the act, au ail who wart placed aadevAlts. The Noble *ora l .' cltaractesiethe !tilde's: and beaevolence had bete used air Am ar. l gemeot for obtaining eatraordinaiy power, and the same character was new thrust forward as a grout for atilliog all enquiry : so that thir individial chi. rester WU to supersede the principles of the Ciw stitotioe, and sat at o Might the ordinary coarse of jostle*, when the power granted to Wm badbeets so slmeaddlly, disgracefully, cruelly, and illegally, applied.. Some of the jailers b a d themseleds Jutted, ~ that they were sorry they riete ordered to precept more harshly Ilan was necessary, and that they ' 1 .thotegket there mild be so use of irons to snare tho.ll. whet mere isamored la .11 solitary cell. A Giallo+ I man bad said, that many of the statements made were false; they might be so, but there were many of them which called loudly for enquiry.— He should be glad to be informed why Ogdees case was not is 'be investigated-a as 74 year. old, es fad suffer. d musk, severely, and like wavy e th ers. tranef eras from owe jail kr' another. mg exposed as a spectacle to their coustryoreu. it ' oaseseerted, e.nd was sot cootrudieted. that two eta had bees 4 *liaised tugeber. eves in bed, mad were besides, leaded with heavy item, wacre there mold exist no pretesice of ssfe cus tody -why was ant this to betnquire.] iota? Sam o.gs from raid :tad Monser made bet little are ups* paper , het they were great eateries to eadure, and whethey they had !.een jealy fee aajtutiyeseered, it became the Home to ascertain. Wus k ' any mower to the racial class, for a Menthe, to produce ie his place, a letter from a jailer, who stated :hut the waiter is oh ch the bad bees plumed we warm, and . au It 1 iw e as eery I r and comfortable. when th e prisoner himself defied i water was cold. nod .but the consequence of It ti wos a fever. Innis which he with ditlicalty recevered 1 'nit fact showed that enquiry was necessary; and though in one or two cases it had ***admitted that lie keepers of the prime had belayed with buemanity and Modest, yet there were seer ethers where complaists were least of a treatment diet* the ream. Nis doubt. however. the House womb decide ageism tbe motion, and many Members would bottlihst the siate meets lo the Pelages were all fake. Wirs ?-became the Kohn, Larii bed se esseestel. Ale Sable Lord had real ceeddeme (far too great and sea well founded. for the interests of the Nee pie) hi the dieceepanot Of Partiaaseat, at least wife , us respect eil is. .ewe anapests apd weenies. Hg. (Lord Castleresdh) was sere Hon. Weathers would think with bias that all Wrests ; gatim was seedless; and is He even conlideace Cleat all be rigid would be implicitly credited, be lead gate ou to state, t h at mi nisters rte Med Ito Bing lodesouity, sad required no protection. The House Meld ant fail to recollect la what slaw ribs Noble Lord lied ialltedat the time the Habeas Corpus Sosperisiou was Irst hesewat Seward s he had spokes of the heavy respeasibi- My awguites be throe e upset Ministers, as.. be tad the, had ap peared show Si lament that so riesoes a burden was about o 0 t ie eztitymo dom. Of course he (Set F. Burdett) never be t word d it t be knew it was a mere pretence, and he had plaphied wend asotioto to lighter the weights dm that it shield be followed by it, Bill of bedewed, ; and next to ob 'Mkt sOrelarstlea by the House, that it was out Its intentioa salet sager ea Bill torture stiould be inflicted by loading the with Wavy Irmo, tie cusanhig thee 111 seistery disavow What was the metier given on me other sldet The charaelet of the Noble Secretary ut State fur the Home Depart ment. Is was istparible to suppose these** 11nd-hearted can asLord Stamm* weed consent to such practices, and the leo. lion was an unnecessary imputation upon hit character. Matey Gaallairee thought that it was impossible that Such things could have 4 ea doped but had do" , Rut been done? or if the as-, beaked of the seiterers were disputed, why was en enquiry to be meet TM Majority of the Hume undoubtedly ewers:used high notions of Miamters ; they could be guilty of no misers& due as bog al they were bliwiesen; and because they weed Meister), untied sot hese (Gilley of any misconduct in this Whence ; the bare swathe of 'misconduct ott their part, was ,emsega to &gait them, in the House. bat sot out of it ; formed" notions did tent extend beyond the walls of the place %nee they werissupetese. The queer* wet, tithe ba th e the law I - Mat- . r th„„,,,,,, aalw ar e d, she Noble Lord had hes friends; bat esti satires would sot satisfy the Country, sad the jailer of Oleo. coact himselfwitched serestigatiun: the eleaden. if swill they were. were anxious fur trial. even at the risk of their ,direr. iliaisten alone resisted it, sisakitaialog that the timed' di f now wool by waded, sesliesidearames.degraded. Me (Sir ' F. Burdett) should be &Aden know what a flame of 4. woman, was to do, if not to enquire. The Nook Lord bat said, that it could not take evideucs upon oath, and so forth; anal wee for completely destroying it. iugaisitorial Method*, formerly esteemed of such value mad imturiaoie• Tits Noble Lord sees a perfect Protests in argument ; he could .• confute, change *Wei, and still confute." When he wished to shield his owe arts and those of his colleague. rheer and be. stolsSisi a CZ mittee ; but a Committee of his own selection, or which he blieelf a !teethe' I where Waivers sat to be heir own judged,, and who were aided by those swim would ask fur nothing ai l Oat the Noble Lord was pleased to show them. But, midi the Noble Lord, it is a geotsaimake to suppose that Ministers want an indemnity ; what they wish Is, to cover their Meths. Oliver, hi- fellow spies, - net accomplice eaforseen ; in sheik the Bill of hideosity was admitted on the other side to be fur the pretectiou ut those secret sad iefainous sources if Ogee steamiest, whose parpose was to destroy -the pities and reputation of every booest sea. Was is that at this dee of day arab as avowal should be raldle-. ;that in England it ;head be professed that ineetest men should be solitarily emitted, trielly teetered, and unjustly greased. and should never hareem pseporspoity of discovering se whole: , they were Indebted for all Blest delineations and sufferings I - ;The ilfegallity elate' Mere itafortseale aura out of prisoh with the ridicujossnesesmery of their owe recognisance, was as ' eat as the Ukgeity al their Ent commitment. He (Sir F. 40 did am rent Ore (pest)s spas the Merits or dedierkie. tenie bard; t had bees already answered. at least as far as `was ' or a fair dseifi-si upon _a swim which diesel' Impel Ms, foe meter"; and he could ma help espies. that when Gieleinen eahtidered the Melee serittikly (more especial. IY those who bad WWI far the dosfeetioa), wises they saw what hod been doe* under it. world feel themselves *mad in husasui, and for their own mike, to vole for an esquirs. Tlwy ought to recollect, that this eery subject of aritithen latiltwoo meet on susplci(ss of troikas, had occasimeed some of theliventod dietetic struggies this conatryitai ever known; they eight to erialkei-theibe wordsjil the great Charter were. luau **fedi- ' num asitti et yi firmness fautiliam ; yet now the answer was, rergetoir, 'afar, *dm was delayed sad &wird to . Mote who, sa the c e of Whir own innocence, had clamoured id a 'Coat" Jounce for trial by the Uwe of their oustry.—Thollajared men were refused a trial. apt I , firom the seeder mereimAst Movers:ace. bet because they knew that the evqtrittal of the henocest would leder 4:sweetie...at ' the guilts. Magna Meta had begrime obsolete of laltheo-- , It alight not' be mess if Geodes= woad refresh their itimie: F ries. anteaters' their minds a little. lay eecostiag to the olooleri !some laws of Henry N. and Edward 111.. by all of which it, eras provided. that seem greed -be imprisiaell *Whom kraals' dslrbesigbe OVAL ThaaAh Pat quite so old. the Petitionsof Bights seemed equally to have esceped refollection : it consists of Meese - k ei:taa shalt , • ireeemil without toenail _ _ ... u the qp- roer.pans--iii* bas dealt loyeeed without i gemmed kapti De. eord t t woot,ling o oelub i ttn a t2 ir ke i p i r id iestemeab d -.1116 :aiiptly. thetthe so; Pe gegersed by. shalalktw ; etetembstli s , feett,h precision he did not retabither, but they had al bees % at % ing"itikti hwlty 61°16'4'1 1 1 ,1p, g4i 4 L ' lfie c iaill re ail a r a'''" itio.l.l " t4 l4 .od " ; P tit it it Were wbe karingre; r ew.ter wield it Mist k I gat p f dripi be skew ths 'Uhl thee H o m e n. ries T oo l Mae the this film te e npoa whentveg: "Pia irtescMdu tto :if the Mott: IlPitla le Lord Oft. the kiNd, the Cesemitits uniol be retorted to, bet is anal be e s r Imam he uptkrty to sprit' ta the cummeas ?PP forme tiptoes Its obta • . '7'"7 l ^7 to Airy it lemsce,e; • . . . . . 'cc" of lb. penance', ko„ste t ted, .00, if sins: ric-+ ,timilar potut contained - 10 them lied been prepatly Jon vestige* ,by anp.Gautienies. he foe onfeeil pee bent . 4 Imo it refeenea,4 a Coteglitiee.. ..00094 ;tie iuge r ailopet *upend!!! 'or the liObees. ifiantActi o wtucli -iteeliaraiteeiteti,aa the means o r. %m o w* n / swipe the,s.afeLy of the Oo , nstitutien • Siorit. R0M114./t elisperil, tintte. N 11,44. pamn, ,city being idiom tolse std, tlysqooAnn.p9lg,irip„ ugeether it blutyld, be, tni . ivleill . ffe, l '.!""P i rit• l en ' toss Ouse of the Rog 1114044, wait,Apipte to t Illiniiters? Us begged 68011041 e fp reepi44l OM , though anti orintleemity had Inciforebeen agre ed ,to after theSespensien of the Habeas Corpus - Ap r Isie, never, is any outer iestaoce tint, the presenc,;effee In, ICommittee shoeia lienegitoued made ltelisponib the notoriety lithe facts was tiiiiefese put oot old* ease v awd a ler& of Grain' ,barz .. (most eatietordineißP- - constituted, having power to examitie atilt'q eylit”ile for the accused, and oone for tbe accuse!) wee two, - • pointed,to make some sort of inteitigelion. )1/;,Kfrs, then, should not these . Petitions go before le , tit some other tribenallantfer selected "[Lem olaseta that people' had been drugged about the cookitgy.ip., fetters, as . proofs to the iithebiteuts of an NOS* plot; and the question was, whether unneceiser Ref; verity bad not been employed, and there cot si ppi jo s tm., boa sohjecfmore requiring the interpositiOn of f lianient. fill principal olqect in rising wail to refs a statement made by the Noble Lord, in the heestfil,, hope of inheicing some few rotes, viz. that Wank feels slated in the Petitions were true, the eefferein would not be deprived of their remedy by the Bill. of indemnity. Hsi unfounded this assertion. was, was ev,dent from'his L rdship's nest sentence, i,, which he observed, that the Bill of Ind !lily now required wotill be the same as, that of . j * I,,,w.hicht. isthe kit clime eat Mai:, enacted,- - . 1 ' ,opal actions heretofore brought, or which may be - 1 hereafter commenced or brought, sgeinst any persok. lon accoeit orally iCt,• matter, or.tliAg done, recoils* , • i mended, dire, ted, ()Wired, or etlVieinl to be does, Ifor eppnbeeding, impri , oitiok ,or detelning in en. it* any person suspected of nigh Titss.un, shall be discharged end made void." It was cle ar, therefor, that the parties who bud so severely isolfe O recl !en* be deprived of all redress, if the Bill of indemnity ita question were adopted. Be woul4 . now say a fey , words as tit the Petitions. There were, he believed, 11 of diem, from differeot pei sow. ie different pans of the kingdom, and cantaining different allegations. Suppose truce of these shoultibe,f.iuhul to contain false charges, was it consistent with joitice, would his Hon. Friend (Mr. Wilberforce) assert, that film other eight Petitions should be rejected sinesamioed, . on acpsent of the hollowness of those three ? Whet answer 710 been give. • to the corn:dein; of pat wretched man, Ogden, who, at the age of 7 4; and la a state of lamentable disease, had been loaded with fetters like a common felon? There was at least some ground far supposing that his Petition con. tuned truth ; for he had referred to 'he surgeon, Mr. Distils, who had attended, and cured him of the complaint produced by the weight of his fetters? There were seven other Petitions which stood on the same footing, against the truth of which not one syl. leble had been uttered; and,wheu he considered Out eitreordinery rails had been • taken to retitle the statements contained in some of the Petitions, he coeld.iot but tbsok that those which had not beets i m p e *ic.Ved,wero, on thatvery secooot, unimpeachable. , As to the denial given by a jailer to the statement of ' a 'Petitioner, he conceited that nothing could . be more absurd ass the prodiction of such testimopy. The lion. Bonnet had founded a very just arguillent on the condact of • the House with respect to Aria, oe a former occasion ; and his Hon. Frie n d (Mr. %Vll berforce) had, instead of giving sit answer, corn• pletely mistaken the object of the honourable Bart.'s observation. Aril, notwithstanding the testimonies to his character, was afterwards convicted of the grossest delinquency ; and it was not impossible that' similar results might follow, if the proper enquiries were to be instituted on the present occaoion. It teas .laid, filet previous to the Suspension Act, Ward had been in jail on a charge of felony ; if this were the case, be should like to know why he bad not been tried---why his life, if the case required it, had nog beep saki-Weed to justice? But this haul nothing to cis with the allegations in the Petition, some of 10.1 i; notwithstanding the great preparations which bad been made by the Noble Lord, for the purpose 'of . codthidiction, had been left completely un answered. He shaded particularly to the statement of Ward's havfog been every ei term te four days, threat into a loathsome cell, from - wh ich be was only taken bectsse it. was Impassible for him to emit is it more than four days at a time ; and y.:i for all this, and for similar abuses of pore, an indemnity was to be -obtained ;slid the Report which was to warrant this iudenutity was to come from a Committee, before which the accused brought only such evideitte acthey pleased, while the Nasser, were not allowed to bring any at all. What tool-1 be a greater mockery and insult than the parading thege men from town to town in Open daylight, and loaded with chains ; and what possible objects could be answered by such a wretch. ed triumplissecept to comities some miserable minds 'that someextraorditiary plot *listed agNiiist the State? •—[Chefetin.]--His lion. 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