The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-01-24 00:00:00

r I Il~r; . ST, l'e intended to move for th e peari t teti n ei of certain ;enotatit of One real state of the case, and lie wished s epee., which he coneeived absolutely n-- , -esary to a f or ine,,,.eation on the sobjeet. proper understanding of Lon! A. Hamlin, -•;. - motion. Air. It. BATHURST thanked the Honourahle Lord C A STL ER EAGII thought the. Honourable Member for a caution, which, if the case tiere as he l'i:vieher 'amid not make any motion of co• kind with- stated, would save, him 5001. But, bef re the lion., out ii.ifice. If he nislied for the prude •.•• n of any M em b er had manic the observation, lie ougint to have! pnat•re. he conk! avail himself of another opportunity made himself master of the feet. The act alluded 'to! oi'interiei fur them. said nothing of persons filling offices without salary] Mr. tVE lIIRRELL said, that provi-;rd he could Conimissioners of the Hoard of Contronl were ap *rain his object, the mode by which le !Id so, was i pointed without salary, lied the King afterwards qaite i•ematerial to him. He tens ready no bait/ to the granted a eei tain salary. The act alluded to did not will of tee Moose. The papers for whic:, inf. Was about compel sc. S.IIIIA appointed to offices without salary to .t., move were, in his opinion, absolutely necessary, in vacate their seats, and he was precisely in that pre-. tiler to remw to a proper utulerstantlin _f of the Noble dicarnent ; for, bolding the office of Chancellor of the I Lord's motion. Correver, in deferent.. io :111 . opinion Duchy l'f Lancaster at present, be received no saiary • of the Comer, lie was ready to reverse le proceeding, a s president of the Board of Controul —(lmughing). had to give notice fur a future day.-0 ries of " no, Mr. TI EItNEY said, that there was a salary of ' run, melee now.")--Ile would then ts , eve at once— i 1,5001. a.vear attached to the office of Commi ss ioner I l(linear. in ear)—for " Copies of all Coll. • - 4 taken froth of the Board of Controul ; that salary was afterwards the priteed Litureies of the Church, ", whirls the increased. The question was, whether the Itielit lion. ' alnico( •i.e Queen Consort has heel, flout time to time Member acted as a Supernumerary Connuissioner, or !write'.' trent the resign of James I. it ii in to the pre- :as President of tine Board of Control!! ? If be acted rent time. Aso t'opies of all Coliects cieded from a , p rei ,i i i r „ t of the Board of Cont;oul, as appeared by the Li..er_ - y a .netted t o th e A c t o f Unifiormi y, Passel the Gazette, then it would b•for him to Nay whettier intim reign inf Charles 11. (limn to C.e resent time, i that was not a phase of prolix and emolument, accord- ' with a spes•tiestion of the bl nks left n any of thet.'4sag to the meaning of the Act. seal I. eeleeletalleon rmy of the (Inter in Couticil of Mr. B. BATHURST repeated that the appointment Hs. I gib of Jr. hen ory, I'2o, by which her Majesty's of President of the Board of Controul was in the Crown; a tune had b eras exoluilcd from the Litur.-y." He th'i but that li -, holding another appointinenit, received nu t cis a ills avew of enabl ng the Heou•e to understand salary in this Ida second celice. fully the nat ire of the m .Con which Le Nob.c Lord Mr. TIER\ EY said, they had to congratulate tie had fixed for Friday. No doubt 1.u7 every Gristle- country on Isai-ing• the office (.1 President of tins Hoard nian's r eeeee eh had brought boom to Min the prater of Controol tilled by the Chancellor of the Hurley of i Information Iti this subject. Ile is used for those I Lancaster willo:mt any salary.---(A laueli). I papers as public records, which were absolweiy neces- Lord MILTON observed, that the question was net 'try to a proper unit, rstanding o f th e !motion of whether a mart actually received profit, but whether which notice bad leen 0-en. The Liturgy was a he' accepted a place from which lie had a riOit to re public record. under tier Royal sanction, as was the ceive it? Act of Uniformity. It would be st.am .e and absurd Mr. CIIEEVEY remarked, that tier eineation was, to come to a decision upon such a question without re- was it an ether of profit ntin:er Goverunient ? If en. ferencr to the recited', and the Statutes of us eie con- the Member of mettle vacated his seat. mooed with the subject. Ile maintained that the Mr. 11. BATHURST referred to the Art in question, House could not, with justice to themaelves—tae the whirls be contended, Cid not include Mt-Inhere boldinel ✓ountry--to the Eine-, or to her Majrs•y, enter upon ollieel whiten' scsineT• Time Hight Hom_ Helli_belt_ Ikea the Nolen Lord's motion, without havieg the duce- prone led to argue upon the question be f ore the H o use. Biennia fur is hick he woe Id, laid upon the tab!e. Ile 11.1 . 6N ... 41c 1' c r liti (U2 ' 41 ' 1111(9 hail no objecnon to the principle o f tine motion, lent lie rimeriveni some delay would also move for " Copies of ail Orders in Caen- welters., in order to procure the doruments called fur. ail fruit the reign of James I. down to the present si c .1: 31A1'Ktrrosil cou sin! not agree with the time, resaectiug any alterations in the Liturgy in the Kale Lord opposite. that the motion of his Honourable bawd a of the King, Queen, or Royal Family." and Learned Friend (Mr. Wetherell) would canoe a post- Lord CASTLEREAGH thought it noulil be more poneoe.. ol of the mutton ferret for l'.r.i'llY. It his Ma eloy a ministers were nut in possess o f tine ',rupee coins imient to give notice of the motion. Thc 11°n• Value:miens., then they acted illegally and uticonatitii-• Member was transgreseitii the rules and forms of the tionally, in erasing her Majesty's name from the Li.; 111/USC. Hl . was Ulm ing %tithed notice fur ductlineets ; av e c ; if, out the other hand, Rosy were in possessiow! which nobody understeoli. If the Honorable Me is- of ;hem where was the rause of an boar's delay her thought there was any reluctant eon his (Lord C. a) 'flue SOLICITOR-41F.NERA I, lertsged to oiler a few part to produce those document-, he was snitch mis- observations upon this question. His Honourable anil . sal,eii ; so far from it, t•lat his only objection has as • L eirined Friend must have known that the name !of her mild not horve bees excluded from she Liturgy i to the time and manner of makino the motion. Ile • Ma j es t y c * , without an express Order in Connell to that e ff ect. . 'lle ; Fut it to the House whether the country was lily I} l'otincil enlist of course have read the documents whirls to improve from the late reformations which had taken authorised them to make sorb ate order. lie should place in tine form of making motions in Parlietnteit.— vote fur the previous question, a , siii:l.ient ground had. (A laughs.)—lie was sorry that the inflitence of a err- not been made nut, either for the present serenity of , toils Gentleman on the other side ...as nut exer t e d.— the 'seniors or fur the stigma which was attest:pled to hr his M , ,jest•, 's ministers. (Loud Inueleing on the Opposition ei.le)—to prevent ; cas ir n P; n ... tittA .o ri , ; 0 • • - te:_ leerve.l, that it a to )Sash. illations ulsiels only tended teremeltt eilmoottr. For Gish that these doioninenta wi•re nere• • ity to consider whe-1 part he was nut aware in what office the informatioa I t i mer t h e „,.I„ i i on „f I n . 1 . 11 1 ~611JC.1IL ' l% name from the Li- ; ullcil fin by the Honorable Alentinen• could be lotted. to rg y wit-, Ise. WWI id 111.! ..;1r legally, but constitalloVel Ile hail no means of judging preeitelv at that moment . ally, and ni ids oroprict.. ,•,r, NA. That was to he die- whether he ought or ought not to I . lmetir in the nes- cusses! e. !why in,:ep. ii•i••• i of the dry question of law. lien. Under those eiremnstancen, l ie I,,, iw a the ~,o . ' The ealeind of delay ••q as not a sufficient realms, for his t lion would he for the present A. ithdrie ii.—( :ci, no.) Learned Friend (‘lr. II eulierell) o withdraw his motion. For Isis neva part, he believe I tli . whole of these do. 1f it was good for any thing it it mild en to postpone entnents (-mill le• l ir/Tat...A ill the 'muse of one morning. the motion which stood fur Friday—it would operate Mr. Serjeent o.Ssia 1I1•. aldinuEh he thought it a. an absolute bar Wit. If the motion was not 'sill,- would Is ive been better not tie have introduced the am- drawn he felt himself under the necesaiti of moviug Gon at the present moment, still contended that as it the play; Ur ; hail aloe heels discussed nearly an hour and ten minutes, , creation. ;or. lc RA ni(71151. seconded the A Tneinhneo. ' be thought it shotild be acceded to. The information • sought f ir, iron' the proilnetion of three 16ettittellta. ' Mr. TI ERN EY said, that as far as he untletnestil the • teas st necessary. It return.! to a subject, en which Noble Lord, he had no objection to the Hon. and Leant- S ievery man must admit the i•otintry was at this moment ell Member's motion, but only to the Gni. of mak- !fat a lly convii:stel—(lnear, hear, hear !). lie wishes! time ing 'it- It was most extraordinary that any objection • 'sense to consider hoe the retinal of any motion for in-' as ha time shetild lie made, when the documents moved formation would, under such eircionstarees, be received fee were those npon which the exclusion of her Ma- 1 wit of doors. To supply the Necessary information, lee ! 'multi then vote for nit :motion of his Learned Ft herd jestv's name from the Liturgy had been founded ; nut ; 'g lint he plerleerl hiaisel cur. rot ther.ileterioined as lie was , the Noble Lord had no idea is here those doeutiwnts so help him God, to discuss the question to which it could be .funnel. if that was the case, lee 51""1."I wish • referred, as a great legal question, whistle divested of to know e".ere the Noble Lord had laid hit lingers all political bias. upon them, when the Order in Council was made for ! 'rise CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER fully ' concurred in the observation of the. Learned Sedalia excluding her Majesty's name from the Liturgy-- (Ilean, hear!)—lle would not have added anoilier ' who last addressed the House—an observation on which eaery Member, he trusted, worldfeel it his ditty to act, word, were it not for an observation which had been namely, that the question to which the present motion made by the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) over the I ` .3 Y. i . referred, should be discussed as one of Constitutional his Lordship expressed a wish that he (Mr. Tierney) • tee without reference to party or partiality. Ilut, would exercise his infliteuce in preventite.r; certain . though he armed most fully with bins in that feeling, motions from being made. What did the Noble Lord •be still umst consider the present a must improper time swan by this? Did bit Lordship think. that lie (Mr. 1, for each a motion, calculated as it was to anticipate the 1 iertiey) could have the impudence, even it lie ha i , I disentssion of that grave consideration. Ilse House then divided on the previous question— the inclination. to say to any Honourable Member that Axes 2nto surfs a motion should or should not be made ? The i Noes lnn Noble Lord indeed knew what his influence IV:IS at his uon side of the House; he could turn round to any ul his party and say, "Sir, yon hold such a place, and you shall lose it if you do not do so and P laughing.)—But did the Noble Lord ima gine that by (Mr. T.) could do thi , ? Lord CASTLEREAUH rose to explain amidst low s d • cries of spoke, spoke." 311.11'ETHER ELL said, that her Majesty's name had been exclasle,i front the Liturgy by an Order in Coun cil of the 12th Febrtilrv, 12420. He presumed that the Noble Lord and the rest of the Council had read the documents fur which he moved before they made "tido order. If the Noble Lord said that the thing was done unadvisedly (and unadvisedly lie believed it was dour) it he meant to say that a Fen nits at oiler Ceawii across her Majesty's name without reference t.i the usage of former times, what a severe erasure did be pronounce upon his colleagues iu other. Mr. B. BATIICRST ruse, amidst cries of " tion.'"f he Right lion. Member was proceeding to address tie House when— Mr. HOME rose to order. The Right Honourable Member (Mr: Bathurst) was about to address the Howe, and, of course, as a Member of that House. Now, since Parliament had been prorogued. that Right lion. Member bad been promoted to a high office, BO it- (Mt. Hume) was not aware that he had, since his pronsuelun i , been re-elected as a Member of that Hoes*. . ' l sht conceit*. that the acceptance of an awe of 11 40 ". Wyear was, ender the act of Parliament, s just graded "coin a seat in Parliament. Ile awl others were LTF : g ••• ....i••• ........ trintnathi, to give a stimulus to that chitalry which de lighted ra the plumed steed and polished armour. It may be 'hill, linereeer, fur a Prince to estimate dilly all the 'lle of inch a Collf•O before he entered on a war. In d efy Ile net there was no alternative but. perm:- verancaintler 'eery peril, ur submission pith degrada tion. if a Monarch should hare gloriously adopted the former course ; if he should le .v done all that the safety aniPiglory of his people should have required, it was nu small drawback that mold-cancel such an ebb motion. — (Hear, hear, hear?)—But what if it should appear that at the moue time it was endeavoured to dispel the evils of ignorance, to extend instructio n , is here ignorance be fore prevailed, and that too frequently the um springs of knowledge ware endeavoured to be poisoned at their source, " That was the unkindest col of all." Ile ass reminded of the lines of the Poet, when he expreaaed the keea pangs of the bird, wounded by the arrow, feathered from his owe w in g o His was the lot, a teener pans to feel, Ile parsed tae pinion that could hear the stee'." It was no new thing for slander to arraign all that was high awl sokadn in the land. But it remained for the present times to see the extent to which it wonld pro ceed. The venerable institutions of the countrY may for a time repel ha approach--Blasplarmy way be repulses, from tit:actuary of the tesnple, but the effect of such p_tibli tien, unless repressed, the ruin touilsolat arlaat.—(llear,isear!)—The same shows, same pa grains, that characterised the present day, n-ere those of stir las: year. The music, the march, and the banner, were the order of that period. The same kind of meet itios, proceeding from the same origin, and profeasiog the same I.:Amato tendency ; with this difference, that the dermaciations of the last year were against tLe Aristocraty—of the present, ag ainst the ( ro n But that voice of (labour was wed kown ; it was the saute cry that called in- a Reform. which they' at the sante time odnaitttel to be iinprac:icahle ; it use the cry which refused that - protection to the agricialtitval interest, under which alone the agricultural laboutrr was. eu- i shied to obtain his daily bread. It aasby a firm 444 of resistance that such clamour was before repressed: whenever it reappeared, activity was a slut'; and the supineness of loyalty was cowardice. After continnitax this straits awhile, and • then advertina to the s everal topics in his Majesty's speech, the lloranarable tienth.- mass combatted by moving, that an innuhle .Valiess he presented to the king, tbauking his Majesty for his gr.-- dons condescension and fur the cononeddication :un tained in his speech to Partisans,. The Address was then read, which was, as usual, an echo of the speech. Sale Illt4lllM, the *swedes of the Address, time rose. lie brie in a tone of voice quite inaudible, and it ices only at Sidereal% that we could eutch his sue:suing. At first lie laboured nosier considerable etubarrasstnant, but WAS eticour.tgesl hy the House, anal enabled to proceed, though net with petifect confidence. As we uuderstood the !hoe tient lentafelie called the attention of the House to the different shap es in which party had lately appear el, to the manifest danger et all that was accost vssitothle ist society. lie would set wish to dwell on acet:es which such fartinus feelings bad produced; but be hailed their teratinatiott would hare a salutary elect ou duo's a Sao ha i been led RlThy, by the prevalence of false principles, ta lend their aid to mischievous projects. Ile could' not imaging on what aronnds any opposition conk' be offer ed! to elle present Address. ilse:e was one national to- Pic introduced by the address, which Hilt of sn mull lo ftiest, that though he might be accused of going- out of the course in nte.stimainr 41, still he could not refrain trimi noticing it hrictly. BY Dove• strange infatuation, the business of Irclatq, . lll &sal House, was raceittal ei ther' wites/111klitainees„ orat moat, decided after very short consnltatioos. That country had suffered ouch — :Intl what hail been her contlnct &Avg the late procecal i.l go It had been most (mitt and orderly. Not even tee most furious demagogue had raised his Yoke to apt p!aaal the scenes that were acting in this country.— ( Hear. hear.)—The most distant attetept had sot yet been made to introduce to that coontrythe new doctrine —that of allowing to femaleosanocra in the suited king dom the mow liceiete and latitude that were permitted in foreign lands.—(Langliter and hisses4—lt was nut necessary for him to quote various anthem% to show that national debauchery and national ruin wyntihand in hear.)—lle would pursue the subject nu fruitier. He sincerely Impel! Ministers would adopt a 'ours? of measures beneficial to the country, and worthy of the great glories they hail achieved fur the nation by the firmness and vigour of their councils. The question bring put from the Chair, Mr. Cl RIVEN rose, and admitted with the Mover and !Seconder of the Address, that tha Speech from th- 'throne did not contain any topic on which diets conA be any material difference of opinion; but al though what it contained was not likely to provoke discussion, yet lie could not hut remark upon what it heal omitted. When he looked to the state of agri cailtdire—(Hear, hear !)—lie would ask, conk' the Noble Lord hi really ignorant that the agricultural interests were in sn'wretched a condition, that even no abatement would after some tune induce the culti vators of the land to go on with their labours' This being the case, he was sorry to find that the Crown on tine present occasion had not express-al one solitary feeling of regret for the fallen prosperity of agricul ture, ant' the ruin of the spirited and har•iy race, whose labours had previously placed it in so flourish ing a condition (Loud cries of hear.)—He coati' d not tell why this topic had been passed over ; he did j not speak of it as an irritating subject, nor did he wish Majority of i to recal the events of past times. He had loug ago den our re-admission into the Gallery, see found told Ministers that they were leading the coulary t Mr. WETHERELL on his legs, giving notice of dais, ruin, and he saw that their measures were so partial intention to renew his motion on to- row• and confined, that in avoiding one evil they necessa- The rlandleatine Outlawry Rill was then read a first time pro forma. rily fell into anothar. Deeply did he lament, that KING'S SPEF.(II. ',mho' after session should be suffered to ;bass without The SPEAKEIt than reai his :Majesty's Speech, for . any attempt to discover a real and effectual remedy to which ride Corals. J such a state of things, yet he still hoped that it was Mr. B.tSKES said, that in proposing an Address to gone for that remedy to be app et which the House had some boors past heard from th e lied. The his Majesty in acknowledgment for that gracious Speedo i too . far Hon. Itentleman then adverted to the subject of Re- Throne, and which, at last, it had the opportunity of form is Parliament; he stated that a temperate Reform; taking into consideration, it was not his intention - to such a Reform as would make that House be respected trespass on the attention of the Home at any nnneces- b; the people, and further he would not go, was es say Ivy .el , sential to the re-establishment of internal peace, and sary length. As one of his Majesty s many, and devoted subjects, be raw g . eneral rotitidence and prosperity. As to Ministers, gal emotion,. should a pproach t rai r sTrar 's o e ne ill u a i t tl i t ils an fal a t d. "- s : had fully proved their inability to govern ; never dress, conveying, in the language of sincerity sina affect Ine Y lino, the loyalty of • people sound at heart, o f a people e ; was the community so universally impressed with the who, after the most successful triumphs of national re i -convietion of the incapacity of their responible rulers, uown during a long war, were not by that peace, which : ea at the present moment ; so general was that feeling those triumphs prornred, so lulled into a PhiernAtic I that all 'auks of men looked to their removal as their de apathy as to visit with iogratitu thee Sovereign, 'tinier only hope. Even the Loyal Addressers could not ap whose sway tboae deeds of renown were achieved, and eof the conduct of Administration. It was La p Ithe blessings of peace established. Folly may , no dou b t,: ossible that the country could go on and pay the j discharge its debt to such a Monarch by ingratitude; ' whilst the spirit of mischief, incapable of pnv gratitude, enormous taxes with which it was burtheneti ; how, would renew its hostility against the power that defeat. 4 indeed, could it be erpeeted, that with au iucome so ! h., ma lignant designs. and endeavour to &smelt the decreased, catch au overgrown system of taxation could L tranquillity of the p'ace'maker. In war, shat spirit was a he discharged ? The Hon. Member cunciuded by seen anxiunslor diameter, with all its hone) Lent on evil tepeating his ea: - nest wish, that the agricult u ral state In peace, the„eame spltit wit. to Id' travel' More& acrr• !baud sad reatigaiii..pnwancisorthenuriusia dol o mitic, qf `of the , _u_ry would be seri onsly takes into consider ! earth," seeking to disturb and to destroy. Renown in at'ob• iota was too likely to create a restless desire for ribllY I Mr. TIERNEY observed, that he did not intend to j 11. I ~' . • w E- trouble the House pith any Amendment to the Ade dress which bad just been read. Viewing the Speec% as a whole, there was nes!oing in it whirls could be dis puted—nothing rideh was meant to invite discussion as a friend, or provoke it as an enemy--(A laegh). After referring to our foreign relations, and the stake of Italy especially, as %Tull as to 'the reduction tner.- tioned in oar military establishment, the Right ' lion. Gentleman observed there was use part of the Speech which was of a most extraordinary uature—..he meant that part which alluded to the state of the fina:sces. it stated that the Rerenne.ef the United kingdom for the last year, by which, he presumed, was tneant the year ending the :ith Jettuary le2l, exceeded that o . the preceding one, undoubtedly every one knew it, and every one was aware of the cause also, or else it would not bare been static!. The fact was, there were three millions of new taxes which came into operation last year. Three quarters of the preceding year had not the benefit of any part Of that su:n. 'l'be tax was 'ail on for the purpose of raising 3,200,000 f. but the in crease of the income of the last yeer over thA preced ing one, was only 2,200,1•001. ' Thus it sped Appear •gm instead of am improvement in our revenues; we .. had 10,4 a million.—(Hear, hfar.) The 'rerenne arising from articles of coesusuptios also, whieli hail been relied on as showing an improvement in the last Iquarter, compered with the corresponding quarter of tl:e preceding year, proved nothing, because it did not paove that the consumption of the whole rear w. 4% improved. What a regular delusion ih's was! Ile had now to t etch upol a drikate 1111kien. !Mutes:lt the provision for her Majesty. The Speech stated, that tl:e separate provision of 33,1WD'. which was made for the Queen as Princess of Wales, in the year I tt 14, terminat ed with - the itemise of his late :oajesty; Ida Majesty hal in the mean tin's) directed niivaneee, as authorize.' I by law, mill under present cirenressaiwes,. it would be for Parliament to consider what new arilutenivo a abonlil he math. on the subjrct. Ile (Mr. Verne, ) thought t!.at when the Crown recommended a ; ro iCsien tut any brands of the Royal Family, it o.ls usual to state the suns required, or something near it. Ile di I nut like the novel tisk of tile word arrange ' meet inatead of provision; I. the adoption of a new word in such a te..., he was afraid that ow:oohing more was meitia than hoot the ear. There was stil. another sooLject cf g Leto importance to the country. jon which it would not he neeeseary for hint to sad Imoth, because it had been already to ably commented upon by is Honourable Friend under the , gallery (Mr. Centro:). It certeinly did appear Very strange that in a speech from doe Throne, professing to retietr the state ()fall natioo.al interests, no notice hail been taken of the existence of agricultural distriss, whirls was preesing on the country from all quarters. There was a 'miler topic it hick the speech did not omit to notice : it was that which spoke of the satisfaction which his Majesty load reed ell fro:n the loyal ad dresses which hail been voted to the Throne Lotto di: . - &tent parts of the kingdom. He was glad that !lime things had given his 3lajesty satisfaction ; but it was very remarkable that the Loyal Addietamr did not express affection or attachment to any thing in the shape of a man in this country but his Ma)ertv.-- I lough.)—it was said, indeed, that 10s Majesty had received witls satisfaction those assurances of at taelouseat to his Persists and thavernment ; if by 60- vei 'mama tv.et meant Constitution, they would all agree upon flee subject, but if by Oovermuent was meant Ministers, lie would be glad to be shewn the single Address it hick declared any attachment to them or expressed an approbation of their cundnct. No, the Addressers coolies-II themselves to general expressions of Loyalty, and observations upon the ex istence of blasphemy and sedition along with the old story of the licentioomowes of the frets. But it was very remarkable that there was nothing in the op, eels hum the Throne • about either the press, blasphemy or sedition, vet those subjects had been for some time agitating the country and made the pretext for con vening tounteruots meetings. It i; as evident therefore from the Loyal Addresses themselvee, that all men were beateilv tired of Ministers, and wished to get rid of them. These Aclolresmet, however, were easily got up. Fur their own convenience, and to recruit their shattered resources, Ministers load Parliament pro rogued, and employed two months in prevailing tet certain Ilornughs anal Corporate Bodies to vote whit they called Loyal Addresses, while in the mean time, in many instances, where a respectable County Meet ing was demanded, to atointaolvert upon the late mea sures of the liovereinent, the Sheriff interposed obsta cles in the way, and did all in his powerto prevent it. He (Mr. Tierney) dill nut forget that in the discussion on the Bills for Regulating Public Meetings Judie; last Session, the advocates of Ministers had lowed that it would add a dignity to.the right of Petition, to I put Meetings for that purpose under the control of the ' Sheriff; but now it appeared to be equivalent to oh- I I structing the right of Petition. Ile must say, that i in souse instances the conduct of the Sheriff bad bees/ o quite outrageous. But whenever Meetings had beets allowed to be convened, whether in Whig or Tory counties, as they were called, to sole Addresses ex pressive of loyalty. they could not refrain from tackier, to them Amendments, condemnatory of the conduct of Ministers, to wi the country was aware that it was ' l ndebted for more evils than to the licentiousness of the press. These Addressee, however, we were told, had contributed to the happiness of his Majesty, although lie (Mr. Tierney) must he allowed to state that they had not contributed to the happiness, honor, o ur security of any other Wan in the kingdont.—(Hear, I and laughter.) Lord CASTI,EILEAOH mill, he did not rise on sic ; coent of any thing which la td fallen from the lientleman who had spoken last ; he thought he had gone through the several topics of Isis speech with much candour, and a great deal of good temper : but he wished to observe I upon some points which might fheilitate their adjust ' ment. A potions's- en the third bends opposite (Mr. O Comm) lied keengist befete the notice et the 110:14•t the agrkultural interests ; but Government did out leaky with indifference on them or any of the interests in which she prosperity of the country was bound up; but Ise believed that Oentlemen would find the distress of which.hr spoke, arose more frosts the Intetwal . eitrum. stances of the country titan the state Of the Kai as they affected agriculture, and Illipfttibre of the hind ; but Ifinisters would lid alvisylr Witty koltestr bons that fioll'orabir tientlenkti; or thy otber,lkilr olsta . to, se lief as could ban a practical result. Such 'ogre- i • 1.