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4P • singular enough, that owing to the imprisonment. at the suggestion of the then Recorder. of an ho nest linen-draper, • Liveryman of Loudon-okt testi/aril of bossiness between this patriot and Mr. trintherale drew forth repeated cheers i— for • hold, Isourst, English sprtch nso the hustings et Cuddled', Were the people of England indebted fur the .Habeas.-CrownsAn . . • - 6far.J--le •/....•4 1 ere-- niarkarle. still keeping one's eye •t the reign of Charles IS. fist, notivithnonding the turbulence and coralaut.aimplaints of dissaffection, this de.., ch i m ne y Act Auld., have been made. and no it .tempt Issuing/end t dreamt of.--(Hertr.)-sNoW.' s-dory• it seemed it was only onessaty for a Minister .10nm* dower with a green or yellow bog. tn. no.. m i no r. tea own Committee of Plantain and • De ponsdoste, select his own case, awl reject envy con.. inithetion to his facts and his reosouingert was only trecesoary to do thesauri then to call for placing et irk tower the liberty of every Hoehn Freeman. —(Hear, Anse.)—lt was thought a bold tarp te. have Recourse to. even while...rebellion raged in the coontry. while a Pretender claimer) the Crown,: nod even while Meabers of .P-arliainest were is insanely, for High Treason t and yet son it was to le dime just as it united a Minister to. bolster up • Plat--( Hear. beer)—it was rine to stone the public voice, ins' roused with indignation in coml.! plain of public grievence....(Hear).sit was den. to protect abuses against inquiry.-and the edfactnel wor fur the Minister to succeed was. es lied been well described in. Parliament. to send on his dreg- ; tort acmes the country.—(Heor.)-*The moment. of palthe &strews was taken 1, orestrao+the 'offerors; into deelnations which only aron.fron thew sap.: premed situation. It was strange to this& on the way in whirls the people of .England were tented; they were loyal. enthusiastically loyal, when they' wire to t the ermined d.fead their .tlre.eides, es the 11".orthy A likes's° expressed it (Sir. It'll limn Curt s) —the next moment, when the - Minister h std • 'onion to carry, they were represented as loving il:eaff-cted.-(iieer,hear.)—They were said to be in a state of prosperity at .8 manna when benevolent subscription beyond all example were vet silent ; when the +mawkish against gaols and workrltnisses were th at they were ton email to hold their victims. The loyalty of the people was sot to he thus maligned. •On a late Ananias,. the me tonclinly death af the Princess Charlotte, see the feeling which pervaded all ranks in the country from • eml to soother, ',feeling affectionate re gret, exclusive of the peculiar sitentou of the illustrious object of as much eyetwathy. one which irmee.from • the Recent and well-founded opinion that et, e tared the Constitution of her country, and • manse was hostile to every thing at variance with its genuine principles...-(Lead cries of Bear. leas./ —The ebeitacter of the people was therefore fixed for bang loyal and attached to the Coustito. tion. The laboimilig thaws were maleginol ,so long as their services in the field sided what was railed the deliverance ef.Eirreme (from such deli. vexenee nay good Lord deliver us !)—(Haw, intr.) —hilt the titoestept their essployisteat coaresl. then their whale character was changed. Their cow. viands by Petition to Parliament were not to be listened in, bemuse they were . disloyal. This re. insider, him of what be had once heard at the 0141 Bailey. where a complaint was made against a lemele prosecutor of her haring been herself tried for Nome offence, and be secousurended the attest. tio u .rof others to the. itheenatiou then made by the Learned J sedge" The,womao has then. been tried; she hot either beep .antoitterl,,er, if ceserieted. suf.- fever* the penalty. eC the kith end is, therefore, en. titled. lathe. protection of • the Court. unless her story he cauttedickeiroSomere the people otEng. land esuitkil. toting peateetian.. sakes . their story AT ere couttedicted; lost MO opperbasity tras.given of .verifyiog it, their Petition were rejimetsmi.—/ kat, bear. hear.)—lle deprecated ss mach .as asy man pyiuriple, of, eioleut liefortwhe had to their fates inoclaimad such mess as hejog surd, or else in the Vey of (ioveriansent. They had den• the most of fecguat injury to the teal cases of Reforin.,-(noe.) —lt was their acts which, it woo,said.• had • ten. .Ideney to-run dews the cbasacter of Parliament : thi-, hie •belitred, was set diocese; foe if •Parlia. meat had suffered ,in public .estimation, it 1 TM is down itself."-i Heir. leer. kess.)-OGII .4Dsts .bad been elude .in Parliament .to Tab,' tin a hearing for the people, but these eilfirk were unavailing—not. so thole of , their opponents, for they hod been heard. •That• man sf fustian (foe be could call him by .no • other nat). the Lord Advocate of Sestlaid, had. nude a great impres. soon in the Hesse, be his speech relative to the treason in- Glenne. bet when -he came to try the traitor, to make oft his assertion •by proof, thee) came A• the lame and impotent -conclusion," and no evidence could be effectively brought to verify the prerions statement. Then came -Mr. flone's trial. The poor etas was dragged from his poor shop, and his poor family. and persecuted by three trials for • Parodies. that the lateAttorney4ieneral (a man to be sure of delicate netwes)...(A kegh)— could set istempt to -reed in the Haase *rum stews. • When the trial nine on. every body saw that Old Begs. , Derrydown Triangle. and the Doctor, were meant as a little political squib. and not as as intestional parody on the forms or doctrine of • Scripture....flieee.)—They were intended to to *oppressed. and the made of doing so was mien. laird to give effective circolation to what nobody ehr would. perhaps, hove ever reed. If written for Ginernment, these•Paredies would hove ensured a pension for their 41111 w—bat, wrings at the ether stile, they only expend him to a pvuathti.s. He concluded by stating, • that the but • •of the Constitution were those who rallied round the Throne to protect it against abases, and its worst fnes those who struggled for abuses iu opposition to principles. He then made his motion (for which see Acker tisane*, . Mr. FaTitat. seconded the motion ' sod ably en• forced the constitutional topic s alluded to by the worthy Mover. The Hone of Commons of ARV refused a Bill of Indemnity to the Meister* of the" slay. and he hoped the Commons of 1818 wool4l ali v e the same patriotism and independence on the pressed oreession.—(Hear./ The motion was then put and carried on a their ' of bawls, there being only five or ex against it. • Petitions forthwith were ordered to both- lions:. of Parliament. On a Motion by Mr. Gammas, the Cerautittee far Letting the city and Bridgehome &mites were divided, amt TatechlY net. t' e amt orderell to be &merit tato two sepototo Colo4l. Ices et I=lo riot wheat. The ~peewlehrl a Co ur of • Bill Is feeli4. l mew, to f' Or preopot. lows, toeweroks.the Eirrikeit 401 one Parbeiontotel foe fort logiftiog ges., oalrrig.l ,0,10 Collysitt -Loafs So ~Mir sod eqopite-A4-: jammed. .ThIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF 111), TEIBROART 19. The Howe resolved itself into a Committee on the Excherporr Oahe 43arl Gamma's& looped he should not be consi .4lesedphtrassieis installing a few observetions on the .state of the fiummies of theeowatry. He had ex • proud. tufrerse blood in , the Speech from the florone some inteutiowon the part of the Government of . 1O I' • anaiffeetive system of essoriniy, bet he ..bod.bosahstiatad. •It had bulked been inti. .ailed tbutmetMolritemsehes of theemusee.twel been improving; hut it Was too utasifisilbat the *moire •in Veleta woe: i a most deplotoble Nate, and so •for arm :tilse.iummete .from Equalling 4be *unto dime of the eseaq, that in 'feet the expendi ,.tatre monads! .4111 e. -swam by several million.. He..bod bean off Aphiou..owd in • that opinion he miaimmuitlerable reduction might have been elleaMee•iss several departments, -Mit of .wbiob thesillisiletata bad not taken advantage. In is period Iblasifiss prism's, .when the •cotintry war at peace with ell the world, lie regretted that it plastid ,still be thought • tomtits,. to inliatain a standing army in this country of nearly 100,000 met it had on a . preceehysniglit been intimated by a Noble Earl, that the priuy ,now In France ,eight, goon be witlateaysn from thin coinntry. Ile sincerely hoped inch would, b e O r eve, ors it must have ple t illeucy toisiopeese the it-meted feelings of Ale FfeIICII nation, and therelif in a ff ect, coss.em the throne of the floarbons. vs4oose government over Twice wouhl, .be believes% be the most palutary for • that country and for F.nrope, provided they ob,erted the oaths they had taken to maintain its cOnstito tion. It was not consistent with the, policy that be longed to this country, to interfere so intinietely in the coot-erns of listeign nation.. Asa powevfol State, indeed, it became Rolland to ititeifere in the politics of the Continent ;. but to wets ,its ex tent as lies heerspesictissed. we. 'beard and ridicu lous. tie Wowed that at the moment the House was epilog *0 mijlious of Exchequer Bills, there should be mllliolis of Biyik noses in circulation, depreciating Use general einreocy of she country. and prottetting 014 system of restriction to an inju- Timis extent, of whirls it was impossible at present to ilieceris the termination. TYse• Earl of IJirceroot. did not rise to prolong the diseinsion, nor sjul he think the present moment the most proper foe ituiniriog about the propriety • of continuing or withilraiviiig the army in France, or about the possilde extension of the Bank restric. tion. But the Noble Lord had said, that the re. venue of the count y would be found by many mil -1 lions less than the expenditure. Ile knew not upon what authority the Noble Lord had expressed that opinion, but when the proper accounts should lie laid out the table of the House, he should,. he trust. ed. be able to stew, that•iswas altogether unfound. ed. 'He paw as little retools for the complaint of :The Noble Lord at the issue of Exchequer Bills, especially whess, by the premium they now bore its the market, money was obtained Isy Goverimient et little snore than two per cent. The Noble Earl expresaed his readiness sit any time to enter into a disemosion on the propriety of the present peace establishment. That establish ment had been lain year examined and ascertained by a Committee appohuted by the House of Com mons; and if there appeared in the estimates .of the present year a single item over that so ewer. tainesi by the Finance Committee, he pledged himself to explain it in a satisfactory manner to the House. The Noble Lord seemed to imagine, that a saving might . he effected if the army were with drawn from France. Hr should not consider that matter in npolitical point; but did not the Noble • Lord know; that if the British army pow its France wers withdrawn, there would be oo saving whet ewer. Earl GROSVENOR hoped the Noble Lord wou ld allow the matter was of sufficient importance to justify any ribiseryatiops lie.inig,lot urge respecting it. —.(fear.)—Fie had pipppOsed that the country hash incurred a certain expense by maintaining an army iu France. The Earl of LIVERrooL (across the table)— •' Not one shilling." The Earl of LAUDERDALE- 11 I understood the Noble Earl opposite to coy, that the revenue of the country, including the Consolidated Fund and the annual taxes, was sufficient to defray the whole amount of the peace establishment, together with the charge upon the Consolidated Fund— leaving, of course, the Sinking Fund in full operation. Such a statement most give the Mute infinite pleasure." —(Neer. hear.) •The Earl of Ltsrartronr." The Noble Earl must be sweleiently acquainted with the finances of the country to know shot such a representation world countenance • fallacy. All I mean to say is, that the whole revenue. including the Consoli dated Food, will be sufficient to cover all the charges. In this •I do not exclude the amount of the !Sinking' Fund:" The Earl of LAUDERDALE-4 , I have under. stood that the amount of the Sinking Fund for the present year is fifteen millions. which is charged ms the Conoolidated Fund ; and does the Noble Lord think it a matter of congratulation to inform .the , Howair that the .rpventie, .including this sum. will be . foeud sufficient to cover the charges 3"— (Hear, hear.) • The Earl of LIVERPOOL-44'1 have already stat ed. that the mew, collectively taken. if placed ass one sideof the account. will cover the expendi. lore if placed on the oth er ." Cord Knee—•" The Sinking Fund, then, is imarely. nominal." The Rail of Lsvcaroou The Noble Lord •is mistaken 0 be .supposes that the Sinking Fund is merely nominal. It catraot indeed he operative to•the. amount of 16 millions; bet when the cab. ject Phew, to , ARDSRS• 4W :nt E HOUSC. Earl COlllo;ll24lSiiiiit the Ilttuse• hisesome time since made an order for the so-odor- .tisito pf _an.sceossut of the tuunher•ofplaces granted'. in reversion, but that the. return had notes &et Ap peared the ;aisle. Ije begged to be .infortued! -lay the Noble Lord opposite, whether any instruc tion, had been issued respecting them The Ayr! of Ltit.smooos. replksl.• that the Howe alone should see that its orders had Leen.execated.: I lad an Address been sent to the Crown, .praying !qr. ke *rod tart ion af cystoid paper.. the 'Executive should, that ease, provisle for the fulfilment of • the Adder's., or the •Ministers of the Crown should explain to the •Hoom.the remorse for not complying vitth it. flutist this cape the order of the [louse did uot,eifect the Peaeury ; thesefore he was not •ssare 'whether any imaructions had been issued. The tart of LA %MDR!, AL N thought it had been asps!, when ass order vase made by the • House for L'SPers. that the Cluverionetst should take care that 01 be •Peadured. ,Tice coaidout practice of sh e House, when papers were not produced, Mel, first to eviler that they be produced forthwith, and should that order be ineffectual, a Committee be formed to inquire lute she osatter, sod report shy the orders yf thy Howe were not complied with. 'The Earl of •Ltvettroot. protested against the doctrine that the Crown should see the execution of the orders of the House. Should a belief he en tertained that papers required by the House were in she possession of the Crown, an Address. was the only way of obtaining them, and in that the House acted by entreaty ; - but should the documessts so requi •r& be in any of the public offices, the House ht Abets order their production,ated thus act by authority. The LORD Crtsocet.tost urged the same points as lathe practice of the pollee, and coluerved, that return each es that deeired by the Noble Earl had beets formerly laid on the table, and might he en unite in preparing !umber. Lord Doti.. ND contended for the right of the House to hare papers brought before it at its own order, and moved. That the Iletsarn required by his Noble - Friend should he presented forthwith. The Earl of Lsamtpuor. said, that such a me. tion.was unusual until the House had previously as. certainty' •whether the delay had been improper. Lord HOLLAND did not assent to what hod fatten frosts the Noble Earl, but its the hope that .the Re taken would immediately be laid ou the table, lie should not press his motion. The motion was then withdrawn. MALT DUTIES. The Malt Duty hill went tjuptagls,a Committee of the ,whole flour, stud •was ordered to be re. ported. SUSPENSION OF THE ACT OF HABEAS CORPUS. ' Lord HoLLAND rose for the totirtuwestf present iug two l'ettliona to their Lordships; and he ex pressed Isis anxiety that they 441 141 precede the Order of the ()ay. because they were similar is. sobstaoce to that Which eras to jte the. groo Ud-o oi k of the motto's shunt In he mode to the Hun e. One was from a 011111 named Knight, whom. he laid never heard of before; the other was from a num 1131,41 •Mitchel, of whom indeed his Lordship had previously Iseanl, but it was net to • the irdvantege of the individual. The Petitions were then severally read. They were similar in substance. and comPleitted that the Petitioners had been arbitrarily. seized and imri soned on suspicion of high treason, but notwith standing their earnest ropiest, they had • beets re fused a trial. They were confined in aolitary and close imprisonmesit for,several mouths, and finally liberated On thcie.owp recoguizances. Knight, in addition, stated that he had been told hythe.gertier of Cold Bath-arida prison, that if lie wished to write to any friends.in•town, his. letters should lie safely delivered. He had, in consequence, weitten letters to Sir Francis Burdett, and lienry (mosey Bennett, Esq. hut he was surprised to see his lei ter:, on the evening of the same day, in the hands of the SecrOiry, of 4late. The•Perdions conclndcd, with praying their Lonlikips,pekto.grant a Bill. of Indemnity to the INiiiisters, and ',hereby close the door against the manifestation of the Petitioners' innocence, and their chance of redress.—The Peti tions were Qulrred to lie on the table. SECRET COIIIIIITTEE. The Order of the Day being read, The Earl of CARNSIITOW rose and said—" Two days ago it was my intention•to move that die Pe. • tition of Samuel Drummond shonld be referred immediately to the Secret Committee: but I rea dily acceded to the wish expressed by his Alaiesly's Ministers. of postponing my snotiou him later (lay, that if they imaginedadebate cosh! arise on so sim ple a proposition, they might be eitabled to inert it. I think it now necessary to premise, dist I oin.wholly ignorant of the person whose name is siguril to the Petition I had the honour of presenting, and that I mu not aware of the truth of the allegations which that Petition contained. I know, howe►er.. . that if I had to submit a proposition fur a specific jog it try, it,would pare been irupeistive nit me to have under taken in inquiry into both these considerations. to justify my motion; but that is not the case at pre sent. We have already gone into an inquiry, et the suggestion of his Majesty's Ministers; we have agreed to the tionnuation of a Committee, and that Committee is now employed in prom-costing the object of its appointment. The Ministers, its lay-• inn their green I►ag before the House. have apprised us that the object of the Committee was to inquire into the state of the natioti, and the mole its which they have exercised the powers invested. in them by I'a►liemewt. I. therefore, may (ably conclude that' the quest ion of inquiry is already decided. Hear.). The only question. therefore, before. the House is,: whedwr this inquity Atoll be limited to. throw points which it might Ocoee Site Ministers to lay demo, and. to those documents which they might think • proper to present, amid extend to such motet' rti might• ' tend ill elicit the truth. The inquiry is sotd:l to be for the purpose of investigating the clsa-s racier a►ul conduct or the Ministers. mad 1 tritst that the more they art examined, the more clear Cmittasittee wo, . load nut been previously found in 'those-lists; but-eren to thii - Comotittoe..sochass it' ityL.desire that these Petiti ons s h ou ld b e re f erre d. Twill suppose it possible, but I atoll not say pro battle that , the moil of an inquiry might be that the blioioletkidlould be found reprehensible; eppld yen expect diet they would facilitate such a result against thetwelves, by producing doctusents pregnant with' beail of their own ill conduct? at vishatever-enty its result, we may presume that the production or more information thou that now . bef ore the Com mittee aright enable them to forma mum correct . judgment. Scarcely had two days elapsed when -the -Ml.oisters themselves felt that the doeuments . • cootained in the first green bag were not S u ffi c i eo t , stud they brought down a second. .Athlrd, peso; limo, blight lie required; and it certainly was: the general imps:piton. that if .More i,iikorgiation; were nut to be found is the Noble Secretory's. other. much ;Rohl not be .eollected Oil Sri it. The object of the. Ministers in this prpeeedingl . has not yet been openly avowed; Pot. they could I trot deny that they desired •it might tend to a Rill: of Indemnity. Itmes cruel,. then. if Ave intend to' ahut the.doors of the courts of Law against the unfortunate men, who either have been, or think they have Iwo injured, .to deny them also a pre. vious inquiry by a Committee of Parliament. If, howev.r, such he really our intention, let us man- folly avow it to the world—let us say to these men, You have been injured. but it is not expedient your cases should lie heard, or your sufferings re dressed. If, my Lords, you ire reedy to go this length, and scoruftilly reject all the complsints of the people, it is no more than saying, that in trying Minister, you will hear every thing for them, hut nothing against them. If we shall not extend our protection to the people, and teach them to look to Parliament with confidence as their na tural and beisiguant guardians, bow can we hope that they will be (wind proof *Oast the seductive blandishments of those who seek to pervert indivi dual distress to public disturbance. or seek to gain the favour of Ministers by stimulating that they might detect conspiracies? The friends of the Go.. rernmeut assert, that hy the rigour and activity of .4hinisters the country has been preserved from the danyers of intestiue disturbances; others, on the contrary, declare that the vigour and activity of Ministers tended rather to itellatne the martial dis content. Which opinion it; correct ? Is not flyleaf's!". tin., worth examioing? Rut whether the Noble Vi scount oppositt /Lord Sadmouth) broke the peace. or kept the peace, it is only certain that he swore the peace.—/ Hear, hear, read a langh.)—lt mat ters I;tae szto t'..... Prummoucl may lee, or who the other petiticusers, our only consideration is, whether, as we are going into an inquiry, that ito j quiry shall not be its satisfactory as possible. The •Ministers desire to be tried,. but it is not by. God sod their country; they establish a tribunal of themselves. mid thereby give occasion to every im- Oration, that they iii fact shrink loon every in quiry. —(Hem', hear.)—l think, therefore, my ' Lords, that as far amour own character is conceroed, as frr us the satisfochan of the couutry is regarded, as far is the trial of:Ministers becomes a matter of importance, Parliament ought not to spurn the yomplotiots of the people. If o Road Bill. or any matter of still less consequence were before you ; you would, es . .a stouter of course, refer to • C-ounnittee every Petition connected .wetli the sub ject; mid will you now refuse a right-to these Poi. , • tiros, that state such Fiiinotis hardships, and such taviolation of the ordinary principled Of our institu tions ?"—(Hear./—Tiie Noble Lord concluded Ira' moving. duo the Petitions of Samuel Drum mond, John Knight, sisal Joseph blotting, be refer red to the Secret C ttttt mittee. Lord Stntsourn—i' The Noble Lord has ab stained from entering into the twills of the Petitions htfore your Lordships. mod confused himself to a strung weal on the general propriety of referring, as a matter of course, all Petottoos to Committees. This is a large and Sweeping iirotiositicui; for, were it admitted,' every l'ilition, no matter bow libel lous its words, or how frivolous its mailer. hut must come in for its share aif the general indulgence, and the attention of your Lordship s mus t b employed in examining its contents. I defy the Noble Lord to find. in the whole loistory, of Secret Committee", a similar proposition; it would be incoushoteed stills the very motor and object of a evict inquiry. The Noble l,orif would net more comommtly to the usual practice of the House, were he, on the allegation of a private injury, to move that the Petition containitog it be referred to a Select Committee. The Noble • Lord, however, neglects the Petitioners altogether. Has he read Drummond's Petition ? I hope yoor. Lofdthips have read it. in it the Petitioner speaks of his having been at a very orderly meeting when be was arrested. Of the .order and decorum of the meeting held at Manchester on the loth of March. we hereon heard, even from the Newspapers; and however some Noble Lords miglit•deapise such authority, I have no Imitation in• referring the House to what has appeared on that point in the Report of your Se cret Comtnittee. -At that meeting Drummond ' says toe boil been s attacked by a violent, not to say a drunken soldiery.' My Lords, the Magi,- trades hail heard that a riotons• meeting was bated ad, far the purpose of proceeding in a body to the metropolis, under the pretence of petitioning, while they meant to demand ; and footling the civil power insofficieut to protect the country from the consequences of such illegal proceedi n g s , they very properly called to the assistance of the . military, under Sir John thing. Drummond was one of those peroons against whom I had some time previously issued a warrant to arrest him; canal the meeting Isaviog taken place, to th e trundler of 11,000 persons. Drummond was seine d, while ac- Aridly haranguing the mob io a violent and tu- Aoultuary manner. The Riot Act was read by Mr. Hothind wahine., the lo s em ol y ai sper . e d, awl two. hundred persona taken pijloiwrs. With •:4 lo the condoct of the military o n th a t , 1 hive blind .Poisvitucvv. not 00y from Air, k _. to Ilippg. but from a ll th e Alogiiarstos s h let Mitschesier • that it seas exemplary. Dram. ;Med, in his Petitiott, states, that be had hem' takon-to the - New Bayley, sucl.recites a number ef iiIMINO Riai=l grievances and injuries ; lint it is remarkable tile. when on his arrival in London he was examih rd before me, and in presence of the Attorney 141141 So licitor-Geueral„he never complained army ill usage at the time or his arrest, or of env injuries sols.r quently suffered. If, however, his complaints on this point were well-founded, there is nothing in the Petition to justify the interference of this House; the Courts of Law are open to turn for redress. And here I may be permitted to observe. that with regard to Bill of Indemnity. Ins Majesty's Ministers would disclaim any clsti-e in one, which -nii,ght protect them, or.any swots, officers, gaolers, •or srther . persous, from •I be coax , qoences of violent or -rigorous treatment tow a rds the Prisoners ; and the paly object is ellave in de siring • Bill of Indemnity is, to prevent the wild:- city of our sources of intelligence, which miAlit be prejudicial to individuals, and iujn , tous to the best hider sus of the country.—(Hear, Oar, from the Treatityy fkuchs.)—Witli respect,to the other .Petitions, it is impartible for me to go through all the. matter contained in them, lint I have no lieita tion in asserting generally filet they abound in un truths the mom gross, and allegations the most iiii ,fpandend if I hadeknapportunity of referring to dneurearts which I helve in my office, I coulet astiefactorily prove the general falsity of .tliese.V.e. *ions. 'Whits been declared that attempts have been amide at Reading gaol to exclude all hot the .visiting Magistrates ; ' but this is niiinunded. opd the most satisfactory refutation to the ealuspiny has been given in another place. I remember that Mitchel, in his Petition, asserts that his imprison ment was attributable solely to Oliver : row the fact is, I had issued a warrant for Mitchel'. arr rs t long before I had ever beard the name of Oliver._ (Near, bear)—Bat it was not on that warniiii lie was 'finally arrested, he was seized by order of the Magistrates, who had watched his practice., and wisely resolved to prevent his disgust I reaching maturity. In the mine mariner has .the general tendency to insurrection been attributed to the employment of Oliver; bat, my Lords. I sit dare to you, dust I had never heard the mime of Oliver until some time after the introduction or the First Report of the Secret Committee, in which the existence of the conspiracy waisclestrly eseeetained, and its progress mid character developed. I tru.r your Lordships will egme avid' me, that these i. 1,0 ground for the present motion, and give it jour de cided negative." Earl C:soseetroe observed, in allusion to what had occurred on a preceding night, that should he on this eubject express himself with warmth, lie might be told that his judgment was wit snQi_ ciently temperate to examine such question., hot he trusted that if he expressed himself with th e most perfect coolness, he might claim their Lord ships' indulgence. He remarked, that noteith. standing the loud tone of menace contained .in the Reports of the Secret Committees, notwith standing the terrifying allegations icnotaitied in !bent, and the mass of evidence mn which they were said to have been founded, this evi dence. when brought before the country, cp. !wired contemptibly deficient iii supporting the charges that were framed on it ; sod in only one solitary instance. that of Derby, had the. Crown obtaitied a verdict—//afar, from Lord Li v erpool./ —Was this u proof of the extatence of MICA it no. !piracy as required . the ansprosion of the Constitu tion ? •No one was more likely than the No ble Viscount opposite to conduct with propriety the diusgreeaWe business consequent tin th e A c t i.l Suspension ; but the purity of his nnhtutual character was Ho guarantee for an equal pi ii priety in the conduct of his officers nod i•ervaut-. lie contended for the right of the Pctittotteis to litite -their VAMP referred for exanititation to she Committee ; and the obeervatiotis of the Noble Viscount with regard to Drummond. seem .1 to render that still more incoutestaldr. The Nnb: e iLorel slid Vol coutradict one ii.sertion contented its that Petitiou. It teas uot dewed that the WWI kid been seized, and perhaps violently, by soldiers, at the moment he was eddressing a large assembly. The object of that address might indeed reod. r it ~uogpmpic.p( to the Noble Secretary's ears, for it teas an addressagainst the suspension of the ll•beas Coi pus. It might be disagreeable, but it was 1111 treason. It was not denied that he had been drav,ged a bo ut from one.prisen to another ; that lie had liven fined for three quarters sof a year ; wt.l till/11,, !butt hue lead s without trial, been discharged out Isis t wit re. cognizance. The people might and fad otailtitaken a wild stash ridiculous design ; but it could mot I , e contended that it was treason. He expressed a wish that the case of the country were tried openly at the Bar of the House, that the country might s t ir who was right and who wes.wroug, and why the people iii gesserel had been slainlvord.--(Heor,fi ono Ibe ters.)—How well such a slander was ',seined, might appear from the general burst of grief %illicit had followed the !metaled death of the Priticets Urn lotte—ihat grief was not a mere atteeliment to the trappiegs of power, nor a convenient kind of sor row ; but ..arose front a conviction that the !twirl% had suffered in her death a loss which it would be impassible to repair—that it had sects vanish from Wise its eyes one who was the ornament of her sex, the pride of her country; and oue who. had Providence,spoired her esistroce, bade fair to re ,:- lure the vision of a patriot Sovereign.—/ fleas., bear.) His Lordship concluded by stating. that, lust heard bathing from the Noble Viscount opposite, which removed his feelings on this question—con sidering the defence set .up as supporting Tillie thins operating against the motion--he should cei. tainly vote for it. Lord Kiwo looked upon the proposition now b.-. fore the House as most just and proper. Theis was, at that moment, a Committee sitting to ic iplire into the circumstances which had called for the inapeueion of the Habeas Corpus Act, and to report thereon to the •House—to state, in fir, those grounds on which Minister. meant to call for the puling of a Bill or Indemnity. It was, then. fore..a greet deal too.much for the Noble Viscount to call that " a sweeping proposition," which ()oily required that those Petitions. connected as they were with the conduct of Ministers. should he before this Committee. It was an infinitely more sweeping aropmition s when persona caste forward with naniplainta of grievances, to meet them with:! Declaration, that they would not be inquired i n t... 'Here a Committee was appointed—to considc what ? Evidence prepared by those who nominal -44 that Coommittat.-by the parties interested ) anti ject comes laefuge the Haw, I shell Andertake to ill .(her he fauna o s l ; but if-Metr *gnu NI shew. that we Ault have an e ff ective Sirkhins Fyittl. -really desired. it cusp be matiefeee!llt under- to • emieW•teble onsount..caturly. the elfgrrence ! Aitken she • Committee nominated and peeked hm„,„„,the ,who. **tent . Ipf sh e i nce p t ~,,a ti le .i,ity the Ministers thetuselvev. Lifts; we know, had whole amonot of the expeekditure." t I berkwiscrilated by the .Ministeci on the nomination The Mit.then went tlitpttith the Committee, an d I of that Committer, nor was there one name in the was ordered f or a third reading. 1 Committee which had nut been previously found in t • I •