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therefore, wished that the discussion should be de. ferred. Mr. S. Dixon trusted the Court would agree to no such proposition—subjects of as much interest as this had often been entered upon without more preparation. He himself had qualified—he felt not the slightest objection to the system—but other men, as good as he was, entertained different opi nions, and he saw no necessity for wounding their feelings. Why should they he less tender of the opinions of others than the Legislature, which an nually passed a Qualification Itideinuity Bill ? Mr. Galoottsis , —`• I intended to he extremely liberet oa this oceasion.—( latigh.) It so, my wish that Gentlemen should have full time to con sider the measure necessary to be worsts:id. I think there is a bill and sufficient ground for some reso lution being adopted, wheu 1 state, that there are, helm:ghat , to this Court, 138 qualified, and 7 8 untpoulifi n ea MeinlitlN•rhere was aoact passed"— Mr. tat:in could not refrain from impiirmg of t'ir very worthy and liberal Crialeinan, w here he gt...,...red the document which he had just stuted to •tifficient foundation for the Court to sot upon ? NI.. Gat FEITH4—.. 1 OM not b•.1111d to answer the question ; li,wrver, the truth of my statement ran ea-ily be provril. I therefore move, • That the Clerk of the Peace do read the names of the Members, nualified and asuqualifietl."' Mr. WA I COM iv wo. titlflOhmtql that so illiberal a itteasure HtlOUld in the quarter it did— lite Court, he was happy to observe, had treated it with a very considerable degree of reprobation— But that was nut sufficient—they should reprobate it in a manner still more decided. Foe his own part, he could not sufficiently deprecate it. Had • motion been made to escpunge the names of those who had not qualified, it (voila have been mit ito a more direct manner, and set at rest; but the pre sent attempt was most insidious. It was very var..- ordinary th.it the Gentleman shoull inform the Court that he wished to defer the consideration, when, in troth, the notice was placed on the paper' in surly a ail uation, that Hone could avoid observing it, and, coneequently, the Court must be prepared fir the distipsion. The desire to have the names of Gentlemen publicly read, was invidious in the extreme. It went to hold them up to general ob servation. The Gentlemen had told the Court, that he intended to ort with //heredity, and, us he (Mr. W.) hid ninforinly found him a supporter of liberty, he certainly had 'some nght to have e x. pected„ that he could have verified the assertion— But where wps his liberality, when he t h is sought to lacerate the keliogs of other men ? He (Mr. %V.) had qualified—he was free from uny scruples on the subj. ct--but other Gentlemen, as respectable as soy in that Coact. were riot no. Although he did not agree with then*, he was not ashamed to say, he honoured them. Those who entertained such scruples, should he respected, as there needed no other proof to convince him, that they acted from conscientious motives—from principles of morality. Subjects of thin devription should never be intro duced ; they should be buried in oblivion—every liberal-iniuried man must revolt at. and execrate tbein. In truth, a lieneier he had heard tests of the description alluded to defended, it was always on the principle or their being Mantles.. as they were never acted upon; nor had the Gentlemen pointed out one instance in which the poii.confor. linty had been attended with tiny ill effect. He trusted the Court would see the hit-mews in the tame light as he did, and treat it accor4ingly. Mr. MAWNAN deprecated the interference in tended. An act of indemnity was passed in the month of March. mutually. The powers of that, fur instance, pawed in March. 1510, extended to Month, Mi. If measures were pursued contrary to the general practice of the Court. the words of such acts must. in future, be altered, to please them. Those words were. lie hereby di-charge soul tiepin. from all pains, penalties. cud forfeit ures. ell persons so neglecting to take the oaths aforesaid." If they disqualified a Member loth voting in that Court, he could enter his protest &emit every act done by the residue; and he wis very well convinced. Mot • higher power. the Cnnrt of King's Hew Is. would, upon the emphea. ton of such dompielitied Member, do him Justice, and illegoltse those acts against which lie lied pro tested. They would thus become liable to actions, aid be inrolvrd in a coli.aant scene of liagoion. It we'. therefore, the intert.4 of every Meath .1- of thet Court. to scout such a proceeding. Mr. Gairrltits said, he had kii.p.n a Gesitle mm skulk from the duty of Sheriff, ler the plea of not being of the Eatnlsl.nht•ti Plano h ; but the same Gentleincii had not refused, .11.41 niwor- eternity served, to heroine an Ale'cents, —all his scratples then vanished.. Many of those (ientleinen declined any office where there was a likelihood of ttoulde : but if there was a mutilation of honour, di •ested of moron, enrence, they were wet so fiestudionm. He li id stated Isis reasons for thinking as he ilia. There wits an established releguni en the country, reeisesaisr4 and 'annoyed by the law, and be the .tight the first Ceurporattois In the ktiourloni ou ght to be the last body of wen to t•ouuteminee any transgression. If the Court would grant him per ntession, he should be gle.l to a•k the properthficrr, Itlia Ltecnrder,) whether he was not legally correct to him col )i ## itn,?—(Criem of nu, mu, ma.) Me. Bus, after a few pmfainry otworrati #### s, !tweed the pr►vious Hurst , .,,, bull was carried. RIOTS IN THt• ITT. Mr. Quill pow '0 min.rr thr I.ord Msyor. in hip porolut cm- d serty. whether atop ine.torrep had leper, toitest, in •• n .segwrncr id • the Verdict Of "' Wilful Murd•r," asiren hr the. Corner. r'r fruitiest on the body of a person who Win, killed lit the City, for the purpose of 1)T-origin.% to isoinshmeof those concerned in that fool deed. Rewards had t o m. rill 'wen elven. In twee+ of much leas for one detection , ot corewitni. It had also twee, ,1 0 ,, e in the e rt -e of the nffic. r who was shot at tit We4tillinuiter. Itat, in London. 'Which should free fmni the learn , or t of the unlotare.oor of tin Ir telorw•estizetta. a pe.ireful and ninailiroding unb ridles'. had been killed ; arwl cert.iiiily 'trey exer tion sl Id I. • %rade to detect the switoriii. ilr trusted his I.ord.hip *mild glee them the utmost ssss om s subject in which they were all so d.i.dy roterepted. The Loan NI tenet *tiled, that an inquiry Will then on foot; butt rhrt toot t h ink he was jobb h..,l in disriOsing the pnieetdings in that stage. II ir s a few .fay.. to lw able to give them .ntriiiiiitpui on the lorbirct.--Adjonfurdr IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOESE OF LORDS, TIMIIIIDAY, Mai 3. The linikeepers Bill, and the Irish Roads' Bill, pen rd through Committers, and were reported without any amend ment. The I, ash Cllfoners Bill was read the second time. Mr. PIELIIAM, Mr. DickeNaos., Mr. LYGUY, Mr. BY NG. 4114 other Members from the Heine of Consomme, brought up several private fills, which were laid spot, the table, a n d Arrow& read the first time Mr. living, trout the Columns, presented an account of the Exportation of Corn, from Norfolk, for the last 30 years; which was milered to lie en the table. The Earl of Bucxt entity moved for eertain Pa pers relative to East hulls affairs —Avec(' to. Viscount MYLVILLE said, that, having previously loosed fur certain returns relative to armed ships employed as tisiwporta in the conveyance of troops, he now understood that 11eV.rat of those returns could not be made within two ur three months, though others would probably be laid he. fore the House in the course of n few days. The object fur which he desired those returns was the motion he intended to make relative to the effaii• of the navy ; and to delay, for want of such information, would defeat the purpose of that anutiou, which he was Induced to consider one At importance to the interests of the navy ; therefuie, he thought it expe dient to give notice, be should make his inteuiled tool itt on Tuesday se'nuight, and lie tooted, "That the Lords tor au alumna ."...-Ordere4. DUKE OF BRUNSWICK. Upon the Order of the Day tieing read— The Earl of latemomot. shortly addressed the House oil the suoject of His Majesty's Message,— He thought it unnecessary to state at length any arguments in favour of the Address he was about to move, because he WM% persuaded it would meet with no oppositioji. It would be considered that the Illustrious Personagenrelitioned in His Majes ty's Message, had strong claims upon the generosity of this country. The high rank which belonged to him, his near connexion, as a relation to His Mr je.tr, and the Royal Family, the misfortunes which hail befallen hint, amidst the eventful calamities of Europe, and the brave and glorious struggle which be and his father had made against the enemy, cud in behalf of their independence, peculiarly entitled him to the consideration of Parliament. It was not his intention to make any motion which could lead to a discussion, but lie should conclude by moriug— " That an humble Addreta be presented to His Maj►sty, thanking him for his most gracioos Strasser, and assuring him llial the HOW.e most readily concurred with Hi. Majesty', request, and would CORlViliff of awaits to enable Hi. hluesty to make sash provision fur his Serra' Highness the Duke of Brunswick, as would be suitable to his rank and air- follows.* Lord HOI.LAND rose, nut to of any opposition to the motion of the Noble Secretary, but rather to state the reason of his concurrence, and to pie vent any future misapprehension. At the ssme time, he wished to be understood that the motion did not pledge him or the House as to the means of raising that provision. The Ciiil List had been greedy increased since His Majesty's accession to the Throne, and many hail been the appli cations of this nature to that and the other More of Parliament; but it would, in his opinion, be less invidious, in these times, if such provision could have been made from other sources. Although many calamities had arisen in Europe, which led to these particular misfortunes, yet it would br reiollected that the war which produced them, also increarrd those sources, the Drotts of the Admiralty. to which he particularly alluded. — Having said this, no loon more readily than himself concurred in giving his vote, that such provision ought to he made. for the reasons stated by the Noble Secretary, his very near alliance to His Ma jests. his own dignity. sod his misfortunes. the Earl of Ltvaatrout. observed, that it was not usual to make provisions of this description out of the Cmil List. Lord HOLLAND explained, that it was not to the Civil List he had particularly referred, though to persons of the Royal Family, such provision had been made from that fund, and this Illustrious Per son was so nearly allied as to stand in that situation, but it was more particularly to the Droits of the Admiralty, which were, to an extssordinary degree, increased by the war, and which, therefore, were the fittest source for providing for the extraordi nary calamities of the war ; and if the provision in the present instance were made from that sourer, it would have been le-s insidious, mid more pleasing to His Majesty. The Add►ess was agreed to, and ordered to be carried up in the usual form.—Adipurnerl. nousr. OF COMMONS. Mr BR • /I 0 gave notice that he would move fora Reform in Parliament un M lay, the gist 1 Is. Salt Regulation Act went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received to morrow. Mr. yVll•mroot wi seed, e 1 That the Horse sliriald resolve itself into a Committee, tomorrow, fur the 'impose of run sideritig the Act of the Mitts of George 111. 94)111 chapter, relative to oil of $ dried." Agreed to. Mr Joni; SIICL • I R moved for an account of the duties paid •pon ia England and Scotland, from taus to long. Agreed to. Mr. AR BU TTTTT brought ep the Report of the Coiamit. tee of Supply, contaiuiag the Resolutions 'moo the unmet haeueoseoveseti, ah eb acre read mad agreed to. I.4.•ttigGroie bronght up the Report upon Mt Judges' Salanes Bill, which, with amenileimuts, was agreed to ; ordered to be engrossed, sod to be lead a third time taiv Morrow The Bill for regulating the Scotch Commissariat, sod in ferior Courts in °timid, a Ai read a iseeistal time, and ordered to he committed to•inuri ow The Report of the Committee for granting compensations to the Clnks of Session, for the losses %ordained to C USW rieriwe of the sew orrangewsests, was brooeht up, the R. so lotions ern agreed to, and the Rill ordered to be bronchi in The Scotch theme Abiniguwat Bill went through a Committee, and the Report was ordered to be received Am Monday. Mr C•it oleo poupooeft motion upon the mhject of the Spintsii repels to unit week, as sutler of the papers, which had torn permuted in another place, had nut yet beea pi e moted to that House. • Mr. R.t• a au brought op the Estimates for the Ti inspirit actrice, which were entered to lie on the (alit.. MIDIJI.E4EIC I'ETIfION. Mr. It Autism moved the.l)r4ler of the Dar for repulsing t - .‘e adjourned deltaic moon the sulrjeet of floe liddltorx Petit TTTTT —W Int h in-; Agreed tn s • He again rose—He p.id, th.t in/nigh the attend since of the Members w o n not oat:, no he could wish, .•nn.idering the irtipottatice of the 'object before them ; yet it was satisfactory to redeet, that any decipiPii to which they would stow cotae.must Carry • t!h it greater weight, I h.ii if it hail Irmo come to ou the forayer eight ; it could tint now be imputed to iirre:pttoury or heat % nor attacked as a proceed.. inc. ado,rteil without colander:Aim. and a mature aripiaiiitas)ce with the subject. Every masa oust feel himself morn happy in voting limier the present circumstances, than if be had been driven to a vote in the first instance, before his feelings bad time to cool, and 116 judgment to act. After the lapse of such time, and the advantage of the reflection which it permitted, lie was sorry to say, that he felt himself constrained to vote against the petition. lie did not wish to throw any obstacle in the way of petitioning, or to limit that right which he con. sidered so essential to the liberties of the people. On the control y, he was C 611410114 Of ILIIMWIII . 4 open the doors of the House, as wide as possible, to their complaints and applications; there was no argu ment to which he would nut listen, and there was . . scarcely any request to which he would not attend ; but this which was now before them, he felt it his duty to refuse; because it was nut a petition, but a protest ; not all application, but a menace. — ( Hear! hear 1) —He could not conceive what the object of it was, unless to try how far they could go in shoving and Militating the House of Commons. If their object was to procure the discharge of Mr. John Gale Jones, or the surrender of the principle upon which he was committed; or, if it was to bring shoot a Reform in Parliament, must it not have been plain to their understandings, that those objects would be best promoted by - language less menacing, and more respectful. With respect to the chargeot having assumed unlawful privileges, what, he would ask, were their privileges but the privileges of the people ? and what were they asserting, -by claiming and exercising them, but a portion of those rights upon which their liberties were founded and secured ? He could not consent that the dig nity of the people should he lessened, and, there fore, he would support the dignity of that House. ( Hear, Ater). The people would do well to re flect upon the hazard they were incurring, when they suffered themselves to he made the tools of those who were actuated by different motive,. and looking to other purposes, and by whom they would be swept away like chaff before the wind.— The people, it was to be feared, were not sufficient ly aware of this ; they did not look to the remote consequences. But those to whom they were un fortunately prevailed upon to lend themselves,. knew much better the effects of that struggle into which they had precipitated them; they knew, that, if they were successful in breaking down the privi leges of that House, the Government must become obsolete, or lie destroyed ; the Crown Must have all the power, or a republic must succeed the preseut happy constitution—a republic, which. like all other republics, ancient and modern, must end io a military despotism.—( Hear hear !)—Such was the consequence, itt ell ages ; it was inevitable. . The French revolution had taught no new lessons; it was but a recent illustration of what had often been illustrated before. and it was impossible to contemplate it, without feeling, in its hill force, the absurdity of any attempt at republican go verunieut, and the horror of any revolutionary spe culation. He could sot help thinking, that thase . : who supported such doctrines as had 'wen of late avowed, were either wilful deceivers, or volun tary dupes. He wished, if possible. that the House should express, by some resolution, the ground upon which it had thought proper to reject the. petition. It was desirable that its motives should not be liable to misrepresentation. which, he conceived. would be most effectually guard ed against, by a resolution, descriptive of the grounds 111i011 which it had acted. This Redo lution should state, that it was not in order to nano* the right of the subject, but to defeat] their own privileges, that they felt it necessary to reject the petition in question. At all events, with or without such a Resolution, he should vote against the reception of it ; this was not a time far a mere negative performance of duty; it was a time to speak out. and to act decisively. Illut while he felt himself justified in attaching blame to the ((tuners mud supporters of the petitiou, he did not think that all die blame was theirs ; much was also to he ascribed to another quarter, ,to M oister. themselves—(i/ear, hear.) They 1)4 , 1 often heen warned that they went ton much against the sense a n d feeling of the people; but the warn ing was in vain. They had resorted to similar expe dients, for the purpose of exciting a popular cry. (hear. hear,) when that popular cry, made iii favour of themselves, or of the narrow and higotterl principle upon which they wished to stand. No wonder that it was n ow turned against them. Their conduct, in every part of it, was calculated to produce the dissatirfaction which unhappily prevailed ; they had disregarded the voice of the people, they had mocked them with sham inquiries up to this very day, they had con tinued a system of contradiction to their prin ciples and their feelings, they had heaped honours and rewards upon an individual at the very moment that the public iudignation was raging against him. (Hear. Aear.)—What he complanied of most was, that they (the Ministers of the country) should be the men to furnish langii•ge to those demagogues, and supply them with weapreis against the Consti tution. It was they who hail list adopted the ex pedient of running down public men it was they who had fist said that all the Opposition desired was the places of the Ministers ; it was they who had begun the system. mid who were responsible for all that follow/ed.—(llear, Aear.)—For his part, he could net think that ally man would he so absurd, not to say corrupt, as to wish for place at the pre sent moment, merely from personal 011011“11. In offering those sentiments. he heti discharged a duty which he would rather have avoided ; he hoped that a person more able world take up the subj-tt. which, f its importance to that House, amid to the country in general, called for the most simple investigation. Ile concluded with moving the fol lowing Resolution. explanatory of the around* upon which the petition should lie rejeeteil .6 That the House was at all times willing to rec4. , ve the petitions 44 the people; hat that it could sat rsreirc that whirl,, under the name tor i iwitittrs, yes • protest against the proceediugs al the House " Mr. Gast raid. seconded the motion. He cared less about whit would be the couseqnetices of re jecting the petition, than he did about tile interest and dignity of that House. If the petition was re ceived, they might expect to have their table bold ed. in a short time, with every species of insult and altuse--(Hcar).--There were, it, ape tsl. dissatis factions in the country ; and he must sae, that they were not entirely without reason. The sere 'test *ounce of ill•sati.lac , toti a.lpsareel to him to hr the vexstiaus and tyrannical 0111110ef is which :lie taxes were collected—(Mar). If ever a revolui to take place to tins country. he was Celliill would be brought, about more by the min which the taxes were collected, than by the mid pressure of the taxes themselves. Ile apprehensive from the proceedings to Pala, than from the more silent, but inure *triton the Board of Taxes. The Hon. Mr. WAnD requested that th minster Petition should be r, ail. It was iterol.llligl) read by the Clerk. Mr. WARD then proeert'eli to state, should hot have troubled thy House upon sent oc, asion, even with one word, if he been placed in the particular situation ol opposed the reception of the ‘Vertinitister He had then thought, and he thought still was couched in indecent language, and s stilt the House in the discharge of its autY. upon the present occasion, he felt himself hoo l ,„; to adopt a different conduct, he felt it necessary T., state the motive by which he wit. actuated. l o t h, present, as in the former, instance, his object oi l . to preserve the dignity of the House, no mall per of which dignity sus consistency—/ year, hear)._ With a view to flits part of their character, tow could they, after having suffered the langua g e o f the Westminster petitiou, object to this? Hns, after having received the'one, could they r. fuse t h, other ? Ile had not heard a single argument Logi it against this, which was not more applicable to the Westminster petitiou. Decision!' upon such rah. jects should be made upon broad grounds, sad trot adopted, because, in one case, they bad found quibble vrisieh would explain away the offence ;sod then abandoned, because in another no such mul e ble existed. The forms and practices of that House were li a bl e t o change with the opinions and stmt. melds of the times; it was evident from a coin. 11411701141 of the present practices with the prachees of our ancestors. But. though they might change from age t.. age, let them not change from week to week, becaii.e a Chancellor p o o f li t t h ic e al E k x , c ie hilu d e e r , h o s e p e . hear.)r P li e t l,ed than te hoahrvee a thesec o l u il could muster reasons,im i i u n r s e t r h a e t h hit i t h.,r—/year,uty is though he hail voted tOr the rejection of the former petition, to vote for the reception of this. Mr. Deans rod, that he concurred with i the Hon. Gent. who huil opened the debate, in ma n y • things, but, with the Hon. Geuiltmau who ,p eke last. he could not agree ; his ideas of consi:tency wi were m a d s i d t a o t . g l :or s ro • r d e n i a j g so n i n o ti i t n g: e t e oYa s y t i a t , h u t oe h h e . is t • they bad tt.loieemyyn• connection • t doneotdolounibetween wrong. according to the Hun.• Gem.) h ItLerefluoreherdlisigan-irtnyuagmiiiitahielect.h}t te e ,:is ?T in h: i of the House he did not mean to depute: but the consistency which was likely to heliumr it. could scarcely he u i s , steticy Ir,:r! hen! hear!) Hr was one of threw, ti.• wnold ailos, who, ou first leading the petition alluded tr, considered it to le- au insult to the House ; but, !mon further coneideration, lie found that • it was liable to an ri terprrudion vi hi h would remove the ck.ree ef in sult, and therefore he thought it wrong t• Ft fri't it. —(Hear 0 7 —Tile question was now, could the present petition be sent in with any other imentum than that of premeditated insult ? is his opinitin .t Gould not, and he agreed perfectly that it win so strong, that it was time to put as end to such ro cs's:dings. If, in a doublul case, they lied, tr. ,a an aextety to discharge their duty to the propir of England, received one pt Mimi, ass that • retool., why, in a ease of no doubt, in a case of direct sod palpable insult, thee should pursue int s..cne conduct ? Ao Honourable Gentleman had spoken of dissatisfaction in .the country ; hr must br per. milted to questiOn the dissat isfaction.—(Hear, Aear, frost the Opposition.)-11e had said that it arose front sham inquiries--(llese, hear, friar tke Opposition.) ; but he (Mr. D.) must der, the fact. The House had not lost the confidence of the emu try ; it was useless, therefore. to go in search of the cause, when the effect did not exist.—Such lanipiage as this was commonly resorted to by persons who had very different purposes in views from them which should actuate either the Parliament or the people. An objection had been made to the ho. mum which w er e conferred upon an individual, not now present ; but if His Majesty's advisers had been deterred, by the existence of a popular fry, from advising whet they conceived to he right, then indeed would they deserve the contempt of the country.—( Hear.)—Anot her Hon. Gentleman had ascribed the diesatiofeetion to the operation of the Board of Times: this was unjost ; that Board was costituandili by the Legislature to collect thoraxes, in a way pointed out ly the Legislature itself. They, therefore, should tint he blemed for doing what their duty obliged them to. to the Rem lotion, he could not see the necessity of it: it was sot the usual anode ; besides, as the House was always. in the habit of lending an attentive ear to the petitions of the people, the rejection of the pee. sent would easily be attributed to its proper move. Mr. GaErs ra t .:, Mr. BALKAN, and Mr. DUP. DAS, explained. Mr. Poesoenu said, that, with regard to the ob servations of his Hon. Friend (Mr. tiarlisio) upon the appointment of Mr. N'orke to he First Lord of the Admiralty, it was perfectly emistituntio.l. The way in winch they were to meet-hue the ' ,Odic opinion, upon any of the Meinbere of the Howie, w a s, by notieing the reception which they met from their Constituents, when they returns ... l to them. ( Hear, hear.) tVhen, therefore, his Ilan. Friend affirmed that the Teller of the Exchequer had lost the confidence of the recede, he faired the declare of Cambridge • pretty rod to whir for the uth of his observation.. .411 m.! bear!) —But while lie agreed with his Hon. endr la thus particular, he must differ from birn enely wishrespect to the petition. He would Dot petition te o v iust it. He could not egret, that a t should lie rejected, beasuo• it •co ntained langi nt e e winch the House might the prop'' , had a right to petiiinn Spitrol: mesourrs tC.ry surely must bate a righ t to c erns such measures ; the fact was + that they were in the Coo slant habit of exercising such • right. The Hem . e would not receive petitions against taxes during Me ar scion in which they were imposed, butt in all soh serpient sessions they wott:d. T he y had eint"e" 11. 4 Itions against the manne r in *filch the niece were collected, and their Journal., if referred to. would be foetid to cool.a. arch epithets as par. . L1111.117 11:1, 1 : 1 ( 1 1:11111pr he weight 141. t .) dtd, as t. 44 the Wtat. tl.4t the Int. had 11,,t of 1 , 3‘,,. 4 . ii, pttiti;,:h ti , at it .rut to 'lli. lutv. A