The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-10-18 00:00:00

•I I - ad been tarried on with the k non !edge awl support.' nil by the means of his Majesty's Ministers. He would of have troubled the House with the subject at all if ' that had not been his opinion. It was not easy in such I cases to prove the fact of agency, but as far as the IA- davits of individuals could go, he was flourished with proof. He was not satisfied with the testimony of four or five individuals, he had traced it to the person em ployed by Franklin, he had examiued the compositor who competed the bills, and the bill-stickers whom Franklin had accompanied in the middle of the night when they went to stick them up. The first affidavit he should pioduce contained the ground work of the whole —it was that of Arthur Seale, a printer, in Tottenbatn coart-road. The House would collect from that affida vit that the printer was employed and paid by Franklin, whom the Magistrate had allowed to escape. He would also prove to their satisfaction that Franklin was ar rested upon the warrant of one Magistrate and discharged by another, without being seen by that other who had so discharged him. Franklin was discharged on the Sonde . ,• and Mr. Vickery, the o ffi cer, had informed him (Mr. Hume) that he was discharged out of his custody by Sir Robert Baker, without e v en seein g him, —Bat there was another feature in the conduct of Sir Robert Baker worth observing. Franklin was arrested at seven o'clock in the morning, on Sunday, the Bth of October; he immediately requested Vickery, who ar rested him, to take him to Bow -street, where he was known. Mr. Pearson very properly determined to write to Mr. Birnie, stating that the charges against that in dividual were of sircfi a nature as to make it necessary! for him to be cautions as to the bail lie would take. • The letter added, that be should dement' the security of two persons in Mk each. It was fit lie should inform the House, that though the charge was for one hand bill, dated the kith of September, there were twenty others to be brought against him. Mr. liirnie, under thew eircumstances, refused to accept bail, and on his refusal Franklin desired to he taken before Sir Robert Baker, who, be said, would not reqnire hail for him. • lie did not know whether the letter of Mr. Pearson was *hewn to Sir R. Baker, and in justice to Sir Robert Baker he would say so, but the fact was, that the inii vidnal was discharged without bail, and allowed to make his escape. He was discharged singularly enough on the Sunday , and on the Monday following, it WAS found I that a man had obtained a passport at the Foreign Office, and proceeded to Dover; but whether this was done as a Wad or not, they had not vet ascertained. He charged Sir Robert Baker also. nith having told a' deliberate faishood in his own hearing, is bids was, that • he had taken bail. When application was Made at the Home (Mice, and the business was about to proem!, it was stated that the man had not come. T. that Sir Robert Baker replied, that he had te'esm bri l, and that the person would appear. It was aftrrwar.is tiald, that he had discharged him ea the word of Mr. Williams,i but Mr. Williams bad since denied that he gave his • word. At the Horne I )ffice they found Mr. Clive, who told them that they were there acquainted with all the • facto, and knew the man had escaped. The object of Hsi., motion was to know whether Sir R. Baker had receivedi any communication from his Majreti s government, and why he had permitted the escape of Frank lin. The affidavit stated that Mr. Clive said he was aware of the whole proceeding, and considered it a matter of no importance. He added, we know the suh ject, and will give you an answer if you c ill to-morrow. On being told in answer, that if they waited so lon=, the man would be out of the country, It was agreed that , they should retorts when Lord Sidmouth came from the House of Lords. When Lord Sidmouth came from the House of Lords, his determination was, that he did not Clink it worth the interference of government. He would not trouble the House by goinz through all the placards, having selected two or three to serve as specimens. In 1796, while the Duke of Portland was Secretary for the Home Department, all inflammatory ' hand-bill was issued, which did not amount to half the rtt'schief which those he had complained of were fraught with. The parr was found on the door of the Town Hail of Denbeigh, on the 3d of Fehru try, and on the lath of the same month government issued a proclaina- Con, offering a reward of lOU guineas for the principal offender, accompanied with a pardon to all the otter parsons concerned who might give information at the office of the Secretary of State. In a later instance, . when a treasonable paper, entitled " An Address to the People of England, Scotland, and Ireland," and pur porting to he jostled by a Committee of Organization, for forming a Provisional government, was affixed to , the walls in glaagove and other places, on the Ist of ' April, 1820, a proclamation was issued on the 11th, offering a reward of 3001. for the author or printer, and a pardon to the inferior agents, u in the former instance. The gentlemen who waited on Mr. Clive had requested that government should offer a reward in the present • Case. as an inducement to the officers to he on the alert. Every one knew the effect of inch proclamations in stimulating the vigilance of those persons, but Lord SAmouth was of opinion that Government ought not to i.:rerfere with that public-spirited Magistrate, Sir Robert Baker, who had done nothing—{Hear, hear!)--But (lo- Torment, it seemed, was determined to do less---(a 1 augh.) If such was to be the conduct of goverment in all such cases, he would ask in what situation must the country b- placed ? When he called to his recollection the use that had been made of the placards, and the fact of the individual being without means of his own, for he would pray, that he had no visible meansof support, if the House should think proper to afford him an opportunity, by the appointment of a Committee, he would Nether prove, that he had dined with the Ministers of the ( rown, at treat that be had left the house to do an. Ile would shew that he had been traced with one of the placards from Howland-street to Charing-cross, freer ('haring crow to St. James's, and from St. James's to the large house In Downing-street, where the sentry walks; (a laugh from the Ministerial side); that he entered that house, earl after some delay, came out and proceeded to tl.e house of Mr. Denis O'Bryen, in Craven -street, who now denies ens acquatntance with Franklin, though per haps, he would he convinced before long that be knew him as Fletcher. With those collateral, or as lie would call them conclusive grounds upon his mind, hr felt every confidence in proceeding with his case. He had selected three placards from the mass before bins. In the first place, he would lay before theta the affidavit of the printer : " Arthur £e•le, of No. 160, Tottenham-eanrt-road, In the county of alideleses. Printer, on his oath sent, thy in the lat.er end of June, or the beginaing of July. WS, a man of gentlemanly appearance, who was then a stranger, called at my elks and asked as If I would print untie bills, saying. if I would undertake to do Melo It would be very bene@elal, as there would bee great deal to do In the same war, and he then'procluced the manuscript ors bill. I read the bill, and perceiving that It was of as intlammators astute. I hesitated doing them, whereupon he said be would allow me time to make up my mind, sad seeordluely he went away end re- turned in abonttwo hoers, when I still scrupled, and he said I need sot fear, for that I should be protected In all I did. I then asked his name sad address; he enswered, that was of no consequenee, for I might rely, not only on being protected but gaol, reworded. I then printed MO. and he came end fetched tient away at might. OntheitthafJuly he again came mod brought me the manuscript of a bil heisting to the i Attlee! of Sic Francis Burdett, in the body of which are these worda—' Have we not ht out glorious Burdett a loader at to dlitorb the peace of all the world, and Mc it when ll.' ROOV sal also. Strike not at all, or strike home ; think of, oar preseht houpportable servitude: and siva) s remember that the alawaative le teal, or .a if *How grave.' And I ••• • . ti, itA . I, f t i , . ?..' i 4 , H 1 ' i 1 ( • ( ) 1 J 'i l t A ) I t . 1 . i i 1 t i , • ! ( s '1 l i ) 1 1 i ! l i . k i : 1 1 l i i *'4 1 t ( I i , ' l l t i i • 1 C k THE sTATEsMANI, further es oath depose, tball-a Me thee previous tellM this I pition dr eireuliting an AddreSs at Olafigbw, be was of Rir Francis Harden at Lelsostiv* the sane ettreato permitted to 'seeps% he could not help saying, by the brought me a mannseript letter, Whittled. 'Frlyste, tuba- really Intended to be sent to loran, mid desired me to iia ,,, 1 connivance of tlidee who ought to have prevented him. ill. which I did, end gave them to him. In the course of IHe thought be bad already stated enough to lay a conversation I understood from him that they were to be sent to the Jery who were to try Sir Francis Riirdett ; and t Law . ground for Parliamentary interference. No Court of could entertain the subject as it ought to be en afterwards saw by the newspaper reports that they were amid for that purpose. I further depose, that on the Stith of Jule, termite. lie would submit, in the first instance, that Intik the MUM person brought use the manuscript of anothivt they ght to have Sir R. Baker called before them. innammatore bill, drawing the attention of the public to the It was not the first time that a Magistrate had been Stnitheeld Meeting, which was to be held nett My, and headed, 'To the acas-rept created; and I printed under his called to their Bar; for though no such case had oc direction, near 800 of this last bill, and gave then to him. And caned since he had the honour of a seat in that House I further depose. that I have printed forthesame person many h e knew that there wen iblstauces of the kind, and he other iniammatory and seditious bills, and among others four separate editions of hand-bills respecting the Quesles could see no possible oviiiirbaeonvenience that could plate. and headed, 'Keil be to him who Eril thinks.' arise front it. Though fie irate aware that there were And I further depose, that on many occasions when I ex- t some persons who would ridicule the idea of treason pressed my reluctance to print such dangerous papers, and my fear of prosecuti o n, h e told me 1 hart aothiny to committed against the people, be would tall upon that House to defend the people against treason so corn apprehearl,for I should be perfectly safe if any dib covery took place, and he gave me to understand that he milted. It was their duty to do so, and they would was officially employed by the Executive. Rut having b e guilty o f a breach of that duty if they refused is some doubt of his assertion, I determined to watch him, and also employ others to do the sam e , And on on e occasion call the individual before them whose conduct he had described. He had endeavoured, as shortly as poesi when he left my °Mee I saw him get into a hackney -I-track whic:i I followed to Charing-eruss, where he got out, and We, to state the grounds on which he should move for be afterwards entered two other coaches, and went bye yin the attendance of this Magistrate. If any Hon. Mem circuitous route to Downing-street, and I watched him into her a large hous e n e xt to the sentry-but, I waited until he could suggest a better mode of proceeding, he MIS came out again, which was nearly two hours, and I then not so pertinaciously attached to his own motion as to traced him to the house of Mr. Denis O'llryen, in craven- I refuse to alter it ; but he should now conclnde with street, Strand. And I further depose that I have discovered tbe said person who so employed me to be Mr. WW. Fletcher. movie —" That Sir Robert Baker, the Chief Magis trate of Bow-street Office, should be ordered to attend otherwise Franklin. at the Bar of the House, in order to be examined with respect to his conduct in liberating Franklin, alias Forbes, alias Fletcher, without bail." Lord CASTLEllltaila declared, that lie was quite asto nished at the magi° n with shit+ the Honourable Mem ber concluded, as it was so incommensurate with the opening of his speech. But that motion itself was of a surprising character. For he believed it was the first time that an application was made to that House in the tint instance to take cognisance of the irregularity of any Magistrate, the usual way being to make an appli carton to the Court of King's Bench. Bat es to the opening of the Honourable Member's speech, he dis tinctly charged the existeoce of a conspiracy for the pur pose of fabricating and circulating seditious and tree gonable publications, of which he alleged that lit- Majesty's Ministers formed a party. What! that the Ministers should become a party to a ronfeler icy too exciting discontent, fur promoting sedition, for con triving the means of endangering the security of the tioverptuent, and of the Constitution of the country, in:rely with a view to defeat an endeavour to pro cure a service of plate for the Queen? There was not sorely such a lack of hubris in the country at td render the assistance of nov..roonient tiecilmiry to the mtinnfacture of such articles. Bet if Ministers wet. parliesk to the conspiracy which the Honourable Member alleged to esist, bow dismally must they hare proceeded accordinF to his description. They, indeed, if the Hon. Member a information were correct, lied selected an agent for the advancement of their end, who must neces sarily have been brought into public view ; for, as that Honourable Gentleman hail stated, Franklin, to ho had absconded, was the confidential friend of Ministers, with whom he dined on the one day, while on the other lie was found in a carriagawith a usultitilde of seditious placards, arcomPanied by afterson almost without clothes, and who was employed to distribute these placarda iu such an its tentati“ master, that detection could sot be escaped. Ile assured the Honourable Member, that he fully concur red Militia in thinking, that if any one connected with Goveronffint mould take any part in such a conspiracy, as I he charged to raise, either as a principal or as an agent, such pencil should be consigned to uuiversal execration and contempt. The publications bore upon the face of them inch flagrant guilt, that be thought then; not unlikely to proceed from some Radical Committee, so peculiarly cal culated were they to favour the views of such a Commit tee, and so congenial were they with that abominable system which bad brought this conntry to the verge of a national convulsion.—(Hear, hear.)—Miniaters then. if they had promoted such publications, must in their wis dom have determined to second the views of the Radi cals; for such publications were those which the Nadi eats most naturally desire to circulate. But could any one of common sense or common justice suppose Minis ters guilty of lending their aid to such an infernal pur pose? ill a conspiracy existed as the Honourable Mem ber charged, for the charge of conspiracy was the fashionable cant of the present day--(t ',ln of hear, hear, from both Ades of the House),--would any man, whose mind was regulated by the principles of justice and the laws of the land, determine that instead of carrying the charge before tee ordinary and regular tribiinal, an inquiry should be instituted to that House, upon so grave a question, in the way proposed by the Honourable Member? Upon what ground was the Honourable Memlier's application made to that House ? Why, upon the affidavits of persons who depose that they were ac quainted with the existence and progress of th e a n ege d conspiracy time the month of April. Mr. liens said, No, from September last. Lord Cairmaaason maintained, that affidavits were produced by the Honourable Member from persons u ho stated that they bad a knowledge of the proceedings of this alleged conspiracy since ISIS, when the placard referring to Sir Francis Burdett was promulgated during the Westibinster Election. Did the llooourable Gentle man then really mean, that persons who were so long in possession of the character and condnrt of this plot, without making, until very lately, any disclosure upon the subject, were entitled to the credit which he appeared to assume t If upon such grounds any proceesing was founded, it was scarcely possible to imagine into what awkward situations the Man might be occasionally led. It meat, indeed, suggest itself to any one ac quainted with the laws of the ronntry, that that House was not the re*per place for such an inquiry as the Honourable Member desired to institute. Having said so much as to the folly and absurdity of the cisirse which the Honourable Member proposeti, with regard to a case already in a ronrite of legal proceediug— . Mr. Helix asked o Where?" Lord Cssmenrants replied, that a warrant had lino granted for the apprehension of Franklin, and, if po lice shonlil not appear to he duly silininistered, it would then be thus esough to can upon that House to inter fere. Hot, with restmet to the case of Franklin, he would now state to the House an outline of what he iiii derstood to be the particulars of that case, and what re mained. other Hentlemen were here, f oh.i to he ob tained his information, would he ready to supple. It was only this day that he was aware of 'the intention to bring the case before the House, and feeling it his dory to make every intoiry which the time afforded, he ohs Wised all the information in his power upon the subj But first he would assure the Hon. Member that antic this viree her night .o hrep okrhoic knew nothing th gw ro h ug ate h re i r of Franklin, me that he meld make th e same assur a nce twnoen:t,llPatigePthrtrs'ar it part all his tMlleagues, Aft er sav i ng ski s , he thought nec li s a ry to deny the convivial part of the lloomorahlll Meinher's charge (a laugh, and hear! on the Initiated Benches.) With respect to the other parts of the dews he con l4 sad*. 4 littan the authority of the Name print, meat, what hall ettelormd npon the snhject: A warilflif was grante.i, for the apprehousloa of Prat/lAm by Miesholl, the ham iraitistrate. spin as allidarit • Mr. Pearson. Irldclaallidatit certainly atatalnel: IA "ARTHUR SF,II,E. " Sworn before me, at the Justice Room. Sundial', London, the lith day of Oct. Isit:o, Nl. Wood." That a line was sufficient to shew the importance of di-- cowering the Individual, of whom he was afruld tlint the Some Office knew more than they ought. The newt 11.)ett mem to as Writhe would call their attention was the following. addressed to the Non-reprrsented, dated, the Silt of Jul), 11119: I ~. I I I loose charge* against the accused. Franklin was; Tet i a iti t irt even arrested, and upon his arrest was carried he . Mr. Birnie, to whom application was nisi, for his lease. But the ground of the application being ti unsatisfactory by Mr. Birnie, with whotu he (Lord • b) th h e ad ap li p ad lic n a o t es io p n po w rt as un r it e y fu o se. fen jest, taken to the house of Sir Robt. Raker, in Berner's-o w: The Hon. Meagher, in the sanruine manner in which he coloured the case, and in his zeal to connect leis ty's Ministers n ith the transaction, he had asked h" it could Isere been known so soon in the liome-offirel_ He (Lord Castlereagh) was not now going to speak Sir Robert Baker, or to judge of his conduct. lle ka.ir hint not but by sight; but from his Noble Friend at tla Lead of the Home Department he learnt that a mor e nonrable cuss, or more distinguished individu a l for Pt lit)] in his office, could not be named. Sir Robert Baker, in his exercise of that sort of feeling whi c h cou ld be it,. dnlged when there was reason to rely on the testimoti of a respectable individual, had lilierated him , This was not till five o'clock is the evening of Suuday. k. formation was not received at the Home office from Si r Robert Raker, who had bailed him, but from Mr. Ilin. shull, who came to inquire whether any steps coti!d be taken for arresting the individual in questi.in at th. , oat. ports. Therefore, it was Mr. not Pearson who tire rtz ge .i. ed that the Howe-once should take some steps, b4t Mr. Minshull, who arrived to consider whether steps ruthtl be taken to remedy any evil that might arise from Sir Robert Baker's conduct. Therefore, he hoped h e j iij satisfied the House that the liotne-office hall no• h,„. 4 of the transaction antecedently to Sir Ruben itah e e s liberation of Franklin. The character of Sir hea rt Baker was too high, as he understood, to Le sesli e d,; of being a party to any fraud. Therefore, all no.i i n 0 . the Houle-office having connived at the liberation ot . this person was removed, for it had become knot ' , only at the Home-office next day, anti front Mr. Afterwards it was submitted to Lord Sithoouth that it would be better to issue an order fur closing the on:- ports. The application, as he utile:stood it, was not a regular retrest of a proclamation for the apprehension of the individual accused, but for au order t, stop hint at the out-ports. Now the House would be aware, that *itch orders were never issuerd but upon very impottant occasions, in eases of treason or felony ; and it wa s most essential *the iiherty of the subject that such on tiers should most cautiously he issued; fur, as sure as the Secretary of State issued his Sarraut for stopping Mr. A, Mr. fi, or Mr. Franklin, so sure it haPpened that '2U Mr. Franklin*, no matter of what cies*, er from shat distant part of the country, were apprehended and brought to town. lie would put a ease to the candour of the Hon. Bent. (Mr. Hume). If the thing had been the other way ; if the offender, instead of being a sup posed friend to government, had been an apostle of li berty ; and if Lord Sidmouth, then, determined to panne* upon his prey, had issued such an order, what would have been said ? Why the Host. Members oppo. site had attacked Lord SiJmouth's circular letter, merely authorizing the taking bail under such circumstances; the mere demand of bail was a heavy offence ia the eves of those gentlemen. If Lord Sidusuuth had Istned the order applied for, and if, is consequence of that order, twenty individuals had been arrested, the House windt have had motion after motion, 'complaining of the act; and motions, he believed,of a far more formidable nature than that which the Honourable Member had submitted to their attention. After all, what was the natnre of the offence, Is it appeared in the warrant?? He had in his hand the adidarit of Mr. Pearson, upon w hid, the war rant had been issued; and be would sae, that Mr. Min shall bad pushed the exercise of his authority, as a magis trate, quite as far as the law would bear Lim out, is is suing a warrant at all upon such an information. There was no such word as treason or felony in any part of the affidavit. There was indeed the weird" treasonably" mixed up with the word "sedition ;" but that the of. fence, as it stood, was 'bailable offence, was clear, because the whole charge against Sir Robert Baker was, that Le had not regularly retptired bail. It was hardly necessary to trouble the house with reading the papers, because all Mr. Pearson had sworn was, that lie had reason to be lieve (upon grounds which he did not deign to describe) that the person who had delivered the placards to the boy was a person named Franklin, but whose Christian name he did nut know. tie (Lord Castlereagh) bad no designito lessen the weight, the magnitude, of the charge; the act imputed was an act equally profligate and tad; but he did think that, under the circumstances, Lord " TO TIIE NON-REPR EiENT " May that Do!, of Trial, whir , : nor intrepid lealer. in his answer to our Requisition, said e.ould not h. far .1141prit. be Tint' DIY.—UNIVERMAL SUFFB 114:, ANNUAL ELF:MONS and VOTING BY 1111.1.0 T, if possible without breach of peace: but, at ku:ards, those to frets. No riot • no blondahed by choir.. hot blond-thirsts De monis must grant our Rights. lithe over-grown pauper :if the puppet of C—. of 1. , and ti—„ 101',be vil lainous impudence at his late prorogation of the lluu.e of Corruptinti could mock the miseries of the Nnn-remrrsented by jargoning about our • happy Constitution ke ran he p•.it down a ithuat breach of peace, let peace be pre served. If that ecompotind of Villainy and Fraud, the L.% of Err•"d—if those who deserve the punishment they Indict upon their fellow couuterfeits. and wrtit halters wore thou the forgers the) hang. can be annihilated without breach of the pew.., let all he peaceful. Pear, i, our wish • het us never forget that RESISTANCE TO OPPRESSION IR THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRI% lI.ME OF EVERY BRITON. In London. Westminster, and Smiths:irk. there mai be perhaps about Twenty Thousand Voters: shall a MILLION of stout non-franchised Hearts, reclined to the ishi.et con dition of :slaves, lick the feet of such a comparative handful of rascals, who trample upon us, ai Oleg are Lorded over by superior sconndrels Shall ten times tenfold the whole body of Electors in infamors Westminster crouch to those who. in Fifteen Days' Poll insulted the Venerable C iRr -11.11 'WIT with alt Voices t None hat the Borough thieves of both the factions can maintain that any practical Liberty remains to once free England. If the work can be clone without Fasting, Praying. or Peace-breaking, good ; but If the enspeakable grievances of Non-representation cannot be redressed without Vedgeence, 'tis better to break our Chains upon the Heads of our common Tyrants. teen longer to ',dere our eon Rude. And, oh! if the day of trial is come, recollect that the Corrupt Knores of the D ILLY LONDON PlMNS,reith their Hellish Types, knee erre our GRILITF:ST OPPRESSOR.'. July 41, 1519." He had a paper in his posses.ion which he con sidered of great importance to the ince.tization of the ease. It was the only one that had been pre. served in the hand-writing of Franklin. Having found that he was prosecuted for (Win. Cos. by Admiral Goodall, he (11r. Hume) had succeeded in procuring one of his letters to the Ludy, and on a comparison of the hand-writing with that of the pl ward, by two persons of skill and ingenuity in such matters, the hand-writing in both was pronounced to be the same. Another address was dated the 7th of Sept. lel IK, and was of a nature peculiarly malignant. The object of such publications generally, was to excite the lower and middling classes against the higher o but this was an appeal to the lower classes only against the mid dling and the higher. " Let us. In this mighty eerie, bear In mind. that 'berme are got our only foes. Those middle ranks who mate us hew sod draw ; and dole their pittance to as according to their humour—these are our eves( grinding enemies. What Is the constituent body bat the tyrtnes of the I me. re p reien t.4 What are the ten thousand wretches who, in Westminster, voted against Mr. Butz, but oppressors of their non-fren ehise.l fellow citizens—content to crawl before the higher orders that we way continue slaves to nOTII. Alike then, end equal, be their consume denting. The breve, though starving outstanders of Manchester should be avenged In London. Shall non-represented Britons in each a cause. be stared by the fete of gibbets or bayonets? Be our remon strance to the Crown decorous. and let us, in one heroic day, eonvinee mankind that the grievances of non-representation are now become insupportable. "ONE OF THE NON-REPRESENTED. " September 7, ISIS." There was a small chasm which be expected shortly to fill up; he alluded to the origin of the Oloncester Address, for the purpose of completing the connection of the proceedings from the middle of Is l.! 1 , down to the present time. Having stated what he hail of the conduct of the Home Department, he could not sepa rate it from a cliar t re of connivance at the escape of Franklin. lie understood, that on the Wednesday fol lowing a passport was granted to a person employed to fillow him; until he was brought hark the case could not be so well made out. Hut enough had been stated already to show, that a Committee should be appointed who should examine witnesses upon oath, and who monk! not be bound by those technical rules, which, in other places, had kept out important evi dence. The prosecution of such an inquiry was ne ressary to the peace of the country. What was the object of Government?--to protect that peace, to de fend the interests of the many against the violence of a few ? When it abandoned that duty. and relaxed the efforts which were required to perform it, the Mi nisters who did so, proved themselves, by such omis sion, unworthy of the situations which they held. His opinion as to the criminality of the Olivernmeat was further confirmed, when he remembered how Edwards was permitted to escape, how Castles was defended by .aa Hon. and loaned Gentleman (the Solid tor-lienrral) "ions be was happy to see in his plane, and Imo; Oliver I s stated by Lord Sidnanutis himself to be a marh injused individual. Application had been made at the Home °See so sal Mu-netts toO, but though the In dividuals an linsiiisr hod been Imprisoned, on sas :rs..E.:3li '• Sithuoath had exercised a most sound discretion in de- dining to issue the warrant whiob had been applied for. The lion. Member opposite had stated, and nab great candour, to the house, that Mr. Pearson had found no indisposition in any department of government to assist him in pursuing Mr. Franklin, and • following up his charge ; that passports had been immediately granted and facility afforded. lie (the Noble Lord) believed that passports were unnecessary; but he was free to state that every step bat been !alien to in. duce the foreign authorities to assist the c !Nis of Mr. Pearson ; and that his Majesty's Ministers were most anxious that those efforts should be successful—that Mr. Franklin should be produced—that the charge should be brought forward, and the offence, if prove!, punished with the utmost ity of the law. There was only one more observation with which lie would trespass upon the time of the House. The Foreign-office, he scarcely knew why, did very often tind its way into the month of the Honourable Nfember opposite ; and it had been introduced, he hardly knew how, upon the present occasion : it bad been said that the individual, Franklin, had been traced to a house in Downitig.wreet, tb e • were 2 soldiers at the door. Now lie begged rte.. clearly and directly to state, without evasion, equi vocation, or mental reservation, his firm belief that noes , dividual connected with government ism' any eounexios of any kind with Mr. Franklin. The Noble Lord dies c.'ntended that the House ought not, at all events in the present stage of the business, to ipterfere ; that the matter, which 'night now, it was to be hoped, be roost de.-ed in a train of legal investigation. would he wore properly examined in a court of justice. where testi mony upon oath would be substituted for assertion ; and concluded his address by characterising the case pre sented by the Hon. Member (Mr. flume) as the most se consisten t, inconceivable, and incomprehensible romance that ever had been invented for the annoyance of a go verntnent. The lion. 11. G. Berl NETT knew not nhirh Was nye: to be aJtuired, the lofty tone which the Noble Loril hri maintained throughout his speech, or the "Lame and iiu potent coucinsiun" in which that speech had terminated. Surely it might have been ex?ccied that persons se anvions to prove their innocence lodine the liou4e and the country aoeld wile the first opportunity tibia pre sented itself for investigation: hot the Noble Lord ob jected to *lamination even in liusiwe ; he would not se fer the Noose i 46 look at the suliject—and why ? Bemuse, forsooth, a criminal information might be tiled against the magistrate in the Court of King's Bench. bat be would tell the Noble Lord, that, b-fore any thiq roeW be &be in a court of jnstice, t orriii.tion must 1e proved; awl, although he did not mean t.. arena. Sir It. Raker of corruption, he bad no limitation in saying that the coadact of that gentleman had been UP' irregular and extra-judicial, anal that ha itsght 'lse caned grub et the bar of that House. to explain Nallset which, In ejaite of the rlefence of the Noble 101 ,4 Iskeinit*,-4111/retwalned Involved in suspicion. Was therm la, instance—he would put the question to any es,''