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wilful perjurers. The Hon. Member then motel that the debate on the question should be adjourned till to-morrow. The question on the intendment having been pus, Mr. BATHURST said, that from ell be had heard from Hun. Members, and from the Chair, the amendment did sot ap pear to him to be a breach of privilege, but intended as au additional protection to the parties; be should tbsiefore oppose the amendment. • . After • few worth front Lord Carrot:lMAM 111111$r• 'Wynn the proposition for adjouromeut mem •Iped Mad negatived. DVXMAN then propose) to add the foneedigieleriaelo 'he Lords' entendnients !.. and that if any perms-AA be con victed of giving such information falsely, belied) hereby be subjected to such penalties as if be were fossid guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury." The amendments, will) the above clause, were then agreed to. DUKE OF KENT'S LOTTERY. Alderman WOOD brought up the Report of the Committee to which was referred the Ntition of 'the Doke of Kent, praying for leave to dispose of part of his property by lottery for the payment of his debta. It stated the facts net forth in the l'etis viol], that his Royal Highness'', when employed in .he service of his country many years op in 'Canada, had by some accident lost his all,. his bag gage, a rms, and equipitienta, its consequent-eel which be had been reduced to great embarrassments in his 'lei ten mstancts, and involved in large debts ever since that he had for a length of time submitted to great 'privations, and lived nu a very limited income, for the purpose of enabling him to discharge such 'tlebts—that notwithstanding having made every Pr3CliCaltle reottietinii in his establishment, he was still liable to debts to the ;amount of seventy thou sand pounds, and that lie therefore felt himself her an obligation to dispose of his property•iu order to liquidate it—that the only property re. maining in his hands was his mansian at Cost lebars with the fixtures and furnitnrr, which lie was willing to sell, rather than strhmit to any further delay in meeting the demands of his creditors, sub ject his Royal Consort to privations incondirteut with her birth or rank, or leave this try and reside its s foreign hind, by which means his daugh ter would he deprived of an education at home, and be necessarily brought up in ignorance of the maimera and cnstoms of Rimbaud, Ile therefore hoped the House would enable him to carry hit twialits into effect. and added, he could produce witwesstos of high respeetability to corroborate his etatements. Alderman Wools said, that perhaps it would be expected of him to say a few - words. lie had heard the property was not worth morsetloan t&,0001. He was a gre.ot enemy to lotteries, hut before having prep:surd The Petition. he had consulted an Hon. Friend (for whose opinion he had a high respect), and he wilt himself thought that this proposed lottery would sold soothing to the vices with which such things were attended, because this was to be managed by the lottery already in existence, and he trusted it sinnlil citable his Rnyal Highness to liquidate his debts. lie had been informed that the property cost one hundred and twenty thousnoul pounds. It might he supposed that the tickets would not he sold, but he could assure Honourable Gentle men opposite, that such was the popularity of the Duke of Kent in the City of London, that if she proposition had been assented to, they would have been all bought now ; and he knew one friend who hail offered to advance the whole sum wanted, seven?, thousand pounds. And why should it not be sn ? 11'hat other individual in the country 'hewed himself so active and zealous in originating and promoting designs of benevolence and charity ? Ilad lie not raised many new, and revived all the dormant charitable institutions in London ? Scarce a day passed ask he was not attending dinners and charity rmons.-14 lough.)—An Hon. Gentle man _might sneer, but he would say to lam, " GIP thou and do likewise;' for he knew that if his Royal -11ighne.s's example were more frequently imitated, the (smutty would be the hence fur Ile now came to the question of precedent, for it sn;gtit be said there was no precedent of such ti tro•rsore being countimmoced by the House ; but he sonnid adduce several, and these where no purpose cf public improvement was aided by the lottery. 'rite worthy Alderman then cited the instances of the Adelphi lottery, to enable Ilw !injectors of the buildings there to proceed with their plan; shot of the Pig,ret diamond ; of the houses in Pic. icett-street ; of Tomkins's pictures (which he tins sierstood to have been granted through the ins fluence of a great personage, though the pictures were mete rubbish) ; and that relating to Sunder land Bridge. No man in England, he proceeded, load stronger claims on the House. on public grounds, than the Royal P. titioner. (l's claims had been ackionwle(lgsd by Mr. Pitt. He came to the (louse not to benefit himself, but to pay his debts, and -satisfy (pis creditors; acd he would be glad to see finch an example imitated. He trusted. therefore, that no opposition would be given to his bringing in a Bill to rouble his [toys! Highness to sell, by lottery, his house at Castlebar-bill, in the parish of Ealitie, county of Middlesex. Mr. GRENFELL expressed himself hostile to the measure, as Irwin% to establish an inconvenient precedent. Mr. IlUsiE complained of the course pursued by th e Ilan. Member who spoke Lint on the evening the Penn tttt was presented ; and said. the Chancel lor of the Exchequer load not stated on that °mi nion all that had passed on the subject. Having had the honour to be acquainted a ith his Royal Highness for ten years, he had been required to submit to the Chancellor of the Exchequer that his Royal Highness bad been advised to make such a proposition ; and accordingly he had taken the op portunity of doing so on the 10:h of last month. He replied, that it was necessary to have the sanc tion of his Majesty's Ministers. lle (Mr. Hume) said not, no such consent had ever been given. In compliance, however, with the suggestion, a solici tor was directed to attend at the Treasury to make isoquiiies, and was informed by Mr. &lank that no such step was necessary. Notwithstanding his Royal Highness had thought proper to memorial the Treasury, and the memorial was referred to his Majesty's Ministers. They disapproved of the measure, and in a written a n swer returned, stated •• there was no precedent." One of the individuals who load come to the decision was at the head of the legal department, therefore it became him to I. l **lc wish deference of it ; but be thought if that individual had searched, he would have fonitd many precedents, which induced him to think the te amo n s assigned were not the real ones. 11 is Roy.' Higlu cos. however, had a second memo rial presented. It was well known that his Royal Highness had not arrived in tins country tilreeiy lately, and the trustees had done every thing in their power to sell the property. Ile cons'- ; dered some circumstances important to the cha- ; racter of his Royal Ilighnese, and he therefore hoped the House would allow him to enter into a short detail. At the age of eighteen his Royal Highness left this country for Hanover, and joined the Hanoverian Guards. He afterwards was appointed at another place, and for five yearns that he spent in the army, Gentlemen would be stir- ' prised to hear, that his Royal I lighness did not re ceive more than two pisioles a-day. The House could not but feel. that this was a very wretched allowance. As a Prince of the Blood, he was, of course, obliged to keel) up the dignity of his high I rank, and was driven to hie alternative of borrow. ing money, and at the age of thirty he found him. self its debt to the anemia of thirty thnusand pounds. That debt was not incurred in extravagance, it was unavoidable, because the same conduct was not Served towards his Royal I ligliness Os was pursued ; towards his brother•. They received a Peril*. mentor,. allowance. Ilis Rile! Highness was soh eequently appointed to the command of a regiment in Canada ; here lie remained for four years, d e s I pending no his regimental allowance and a small sum for daily expensea. From tlw year 1790 to 1799. his Royal Highness !mid a sum of five thois sand smut/die the interest of his debts , . During this tun►, he was obliged to keep up the ex- 1 penes of his rank, an expensive table, and the I • numerous censor charity which are dirt (oral to per- sena its exalted stations ; of course, from 1790 to • 1799, the debts of his !loyal Highness increased. llu 1793, hr wasordered from Canada to Martinique,and lies Royal Highness passed from Canada through she Coifed States in the month of December. In this journey his Royal Higlinees suffered great losses— his whole eqiiipment was lost. In 13 years after thi.. his Royal Highness received an allowance of 2,000/. is year, when Lord Ilimry Petty was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and et a time when the interest of his debts alone amounted to e,OOO/.. He also re ceived a sum out of the Omits of the Admiralty. At Martiiiiqne and et Goadaloupe he served and distinguished himself under Sir Charles Grey. Instead of retiring from the service of his country, to look for that Parliamentary allowance to which, on a fair principle of impartiality, he was entitled. and which his brothers had received, his Royal Highness remained in the service until he was obliged to return horn. from ill health, brought on by an unfortunate accident. At the age of 3i, a Parliamentary allowance was granted to his Royal Highness of twelve thousand pounds. a-year— loaded as he was with debts, and charged ass he was with a homey sum for interest. The House would bear in mind how differently were the other members of the Royal Family treated.— At the age of twenty-one his Royal Highness the Duke of York received a large allowance ; his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, at the age of twenty-four, received a large allowance ; but the Duke of Kent, though absent from his country upon the public service for ten or twelve year*, received no Parliamentary allowance sallower, ; denied that allowance, his Royal Highness was obliged to run in-debt—that debt was not incurred by debauchery or any wanton expense, his eco nomy and prudence equalled any Member who now heard him—the true rause of his minutes.- (rents was, that lie did not receive those allowance• to which lie was fairly entitled. Had he received those allowances, which at least would an ))))) lit to soon of 96,0001. his Royal Highness would not new owe a single shilling. But lie was not put same situation with his elder brothers—injustice had been done him; the same allowance which his brothers received hail been denied to him, and in hits early youth he was obliged to contract those debts which have since kept his affairs in embarrassment. At the time that his Royal Highness received the Parliamentary grant, he made a sacrifice to get the better of his debt.. lint lie was unable to get the better of them ; and why ? because at the tone of his removal from Canada, his Itilyel Highness lost property to the tonount of :23,000/. These losses plunged him into difficulties, from whence lie lies not been since tilde to emerge. He will exerted himself to get free of his delos. The tweety thousand pounds from the Droits of the Ad miralty went to the payment of his debts. After • service in foreign commies of eleven years, lie returned home, and his Majesty, in consideration of his public services, sent him a message that he should he appointed so the next vacancy. In 1802, lie Was appointed Governor of Gibraltar; not be cause lie was the son of the King, but as a mass who had long and faithfully served his country. The grounds of his removal from Gibraltar were not well understood by the panne--a charge was certainly brought against his Royal (highness; the mutiny at Gibraltar led toil* removel of the Duke of Kent.—(Cries of " hear !" ~ Order, order ."') Mr. CANNING ruse to order. Surely, said he, the discretion of the Hon. Member will smuggest to Min that the mutiny at Gibraltar can I►ave sniffling to do with she present subject, and can only lead to unpleaeinit retrospection. Mr. lIUME said, that if the Right Hon. erole man understood whet lie meant, he would i ♦t Say that a reference to Gibraltar was irrelevant. Mr. CANNING—" I alluded to the mutiny at Gibraltar," Ali-. Minx resumed. Ile said, that on the re turn of his Royal flightless from Gibraltar his al lowance as Governor i%.is stopt from him. though those allowances were ceitJitily remitted to England, but never appeared in any public necount.— The whole revenue which lie ought to have received went to some fund or other, lint did not appear on the face of any public account. Had that revenue, to which, by the practice of the army, he was entitled—had that allowance, to which, by the Fraetice of Parliament, lie was equally entitled, been paid to lily Royal Highness, far from being in debt, all his debts would have been dis charged, and lie would now have clear properly exceeding .50,000/. His Royal Ilighness had rea son to expect different treatment. Mr. l'itt promised to bring the question of his debts under the conside ration of the House, and the death of that nist.r alone prevented him from doing so. In 1815 his Royal Highness came to the determina tion of reducing his establishment to the lowest point —so touch so, indeed, that lie directed a bum of seventeen thousind pounds, to be up- \ • ,• propriated to the peptient of Iris tlehts. ll e now asks for permission to sell by lottery, as other subjects have clone, his property—not for his own benefit, but for thy benefit of his cretinous. Hsu! his Royal Highness received the allowances to which he was entitled, was* hr eves; put on the same footing with the Doke of Sussex, next to himself the least favoured of his brothers, lie would not be now distressed and embir rasool us lie is. To what fond the accumulatiots or the Gibraltar allowance went, whether to the Privy Purse, or to what other chancel, lie (Mr. Dunn.) could not eiy, but it does not certainly appear on the lace of any public account. Considering all the circumstances of his case, which was oise of hardship—considering the high and low isourable motives that induced Isis Royal Highness In come foriv.irul on this ()erasion —knowing, as the House did, the parity of his motives lie hoped the House would assist him. Fie would not ullsole to 11w private character of his Royal Higlimars; his private virtues streak far more eloquently than - le (Mr. H.) could describe divot. lie would stow sit down, leaving the subject tar the consideration and to the feeling of the House. Lord CASTERRIMOB said, he wit, lorry that this painful subject came before the House, li e did Wit see how the Hauer could iuterftre. it they gave permitaion to his Royal Highness to dispose of his ProlwriY by lottery, be did nut see how. io Soy oilier case, they could refuse that permission. It was !precisely because, it was the ease of a Prince of the Blood Royal. that the House could net ceuntenettee this application. The Hon. Member alluded to the acts of charity of his Royal High ties,. No one was more willing then he (Lord C.) to applaud the acts of grioclorsa and of charity per formed by that distinguished person. lie could slot help saying, that the present application bore too strongly of an elerinosyisary character. The motives of his Royal Highness in making this ap peal lie did tint tpiestion, he was willing to ap plaml, but the application itself was one which be regrettsil to see made. lie regretted In hear smne pests of the sta , einent of the Hon. &loniser— insinuations were thrown out which could not be tolerated in that House. The reproach at tempted to be cast on the parental character of the King, was not in unison with the feelings of that House, mid lie win proud to say, tiot in unison with the feelings of the country. A contrast was invidiously made between the treatment of his loyal Highness and brothers. Against those inainnations 1w (Lord Castlereagh) protest ed. An allusion had been mode to the adminis tration of Mr. Pitt. During the adotinistronni of Lord Grenville the claims of the Royal Princes were bronalit before the House; that was the time whew his (loyal Highness, if he had claims, should have brought them f o rward. The claims of the Royal Princes - were ulso hrfore Parliament (Write. the last Session. As for t lie intercourse between the somjsud the father iii cony life, that was a sub ject upon which Isis Ministers were not allowed to speak. His Majesty knew the titne when his children ought to receive provisions, and lie was always governed by his own opinions. As to the contrast that was made between the situation of his Royal Highness and hie brother the Duke of Clarence, if the one received parliatnentary allow ance sooner, the ether was advanced in Ins pro fvssioti. His Royal Highness was Governor of Gibraltar fur the last nineteen years, at 7,0001. a yter ; at the time of Isis marriage his whole allow ant e amounted to 31,0001. Of 32,0001 F-11,000(. o year more than his elder brother. He (Lord Castlereagh) could not tint regret that this applwa. • seas made; and he would ray that those Mem bers who were prepared to resist it were the best Isienclit of his (loyal Highness. Mr. Hush explained. Ile denied that he made a comparison between the Duke of Clarence and his Royal Highness; be spoke of all the three brothers generally. The Noble Lord misunderstood him with respect to the parental affection of his Ma jesty ; oo his Majesty's feelings I.e did not mean to cyst tiny us fleetion ; and lie stated without fear. that before lab lamented ilium it was the intention of his Majesty to provide for Isis Royal Highness Mr. FORBES said, he would support the motion. He thought a case had been made out that deserv ed the attention of the House. and would assuredly receive the public attention nut of doors. Ile hoped that the Hun. Gentleman who brought forward the subject, or some other Member. would early in the next Session take an opportunity of bring ing forward the claims of his Royal Highness; he thought those claims were strong indeed, awl they would snake a doe impression ost the house. %Vont.' the House, called upon as Jurors on their oaths, 51111/ that his Royal Ilighicess was treated with tin hell• tiality, and was placed as he ought to have been, oit a footistg with the other members or his family ? No candid toast would say that the embarrassments of los Roc il Highness proceeded from extrava gance, they were inseparable front his situation sharing the time that lie received no allowance front Parliament, and when that allowance was at length granted, his Royal Highness with an honourable anxiety that must reflect credit upon his character, made exertions foe the payment of his debts. lie gave an example which he (Mr. Forbes) would wish to see snore frequently imitated. He then adverted to the private • luct of his Il••yal Highness, nod of Isis Royal Consort. and concluded by saying, that he would support the confirm. Sir CHARLES BURRELL said, that on reference to the public ducnturuts , it appeared that his Royal Iliobnra the Doi, of Kew received— noun the Cttitstilitlairtl Fund As G../Vl,llllll. of Gibraltar .. 6,517 A. Culttarl the Army . ..... 6311 Aiiuwauce settled on his timeline.. 6,1100 • Making Mr. fIUME said, the marriage allowance was wily fur the last year. Lord Luw•rnea said, he hoped the f lon. Alder man would withdraw the tion. lie wav indeed rurprised to hear the worthy Alderman this night the advocate of lotteries, having known him mu a late occasion to condemn them.—(A iarsh.j— It only proved what, perhaps, was not very uncom mon iu puttlic men, that he preached one doctrine and practised another.---(4 tino.)-111 1801 i, a roan of 14,000/. was grouted to his Royal fligh tless*, he tioderstoutl fur compensation fur the loss of haytfage-- [" No, so," from Mr. HUMS ; that was a stint • ta" •.• from Moils of the Admiralty he rectiree - iiith the other Princes.] • Lord Lowcuiat:resitiniol. lie said, lie 'Mired the mot . would be withdrawn, hut of the Rill should he brought in, he would offer other obser vations in a future i.tiege of it. Alderman %Vona said, tier islet of a lottery was not entertained by his Rapti Ilighnes4„ but was soggested to hint by other persons—trier.. tome occurred in the body of the llouse.l— Weems , ' Wool swirl he w ttt anxious to save the tow. , of the !low-, and the hest way of or.,vroting the loss of time weir not to interrupt lion—he Was runt to b e t o t enu pieil—never would lie he prevented in that Hume by any intrrrioption from pgforining leis duty as the Representative of the pi-4.We,—. Hear, heir.)—Hr repeated, that the subject was' pressed upon his (Loyal Ilh_ t heiess by I n co friends, and if the metre was arraii4eil, persons Ito were its the habit of getting rid of such iliffietilti,—(4 laugh)---would immediately mratige the viyinent of the 11111•Bery. He woUlsi, m delei.roce to the feel ing of the Hiestae, withdraw the motion. Lord CASTLItttIIACII Slid, he we. glall to hear the rieelArtstion a the worthy Alderman, for it re.- cue 4 hi. K Highoei.s not of this m stter. Mr. GIIKIIVELL .aill, Shut in what fell from hint lie certainly norawt un perimml therrlTeet. PENRTN ELECTION. Mr. C. 114kVEV pre-enter! a Petition from Mr. H. Swami, privily; for the interference •r the I luu.e. Mr. Swann was returned fur Penryst. and hos elec tion was sulerequently declared void by a Commit tee of the and the AttnntryGrteral was ordered to prosecute him fo► twittery at the A•siz•a of Cornwall. Mr. Serjeatit Dell wa. counsel for Mr. Swann du►iog the urogres+ of the Committee. and Was ectinaiteterl with all the circumstances of Isis arse, but hr was now retained by the Attorney. General to midget the 'wool:titian against Mr. Swains. Au applicatiotrar 111 made to the Solicitor. General to release Mr. Dell from the engagement of the Attorney-General, but he did not think Itim,elf authorised to do so without the directions of the House. The SOLICITORZWIRRAL slid, the proceed. ing was not nisprecedestril—it even occurred at the last pro.ecution roe Priori. There Mr. Serjemut Bell was counsel oh the Committee fur the Member, and afterwards conducted the prose cution for the Crown. .1111 the prevent ease he hod only to observe. that Mr. Bell was retained by the• Attorney-General—that he sabsequeatly attended cutioultations oa the subject of the prosecation.— Ile conld leave no personal wish to act with harsh. seal towards the Petitioner; he would be noxious to receive owl to observe the directions or the House. • _ Mr. %V. %VYNN said, lie saw no relief dist could be given to the Petitioner. The House ordes'ed the Attorney-General to institute anti to conduct the pro , ectition.and they left the inciter in his btu& The Petition wag rejected. Mr. F. DouGLAI raid, he wished to know from the Hen. Gentleman opposite whether any step, had been taken by his Majesty's Govern:twit to prevent the recurrence or the sanguinary and out rageous proceedings that took place its the case of Lord Selkirk and the North I%'est C !tasty ? Mr. GOULBURN Mild, that every means le n t been taken, that pawn were uow b.:fore the Privy Council waiting their decision. Mr. BemmEre wiahetl to know if any steps had been taken respecting the murder of Major Semple ? Mr. GouLcuaN said. that in this case lie had seen a repast of a trial. but had uui yet received au official report. CA II E LFORD ELECTION , Mr. D. W. 14,111 V SY meld, that m the CAM of this borough, every man who read the Report mast be sensible tbat some interference was demanded from Ptah/molt. De could not see any reason for excepting Camelford front the principle adopted in the me of Grompnonsl, and other tilaces. Mr. WYN N, sifter slitting the absence of • maw feria! witness, 3lr. Haiku, moved that the further consideration of the Report on the Catuelford Elec tion be adjourned to Nlonday next. Mr. M. &TAYLOR opposed the motion. De would move that the Report Use taken into cnmideration now. In this borough there were hut firer persons convicted of bribery—there were tweisty.nine elec tors—and was it to he held that those individuals were to their rights for the misconduct of four ? lie could not see nu what ground this question was twilight to be postponed : the absence of Ilallett, the witness, was stated—Flallett, who absconded from the authority of the 1-lorise, and who now enures forword under the suspicious ciiciinistancea of promising the most wonderful discoveries against this borough. concluded by moving as an amendment, that the consideration of the Report be now proceeded on. Nlr. I). Vt. 11 A [MET Commenced by saying, that the state of the borough of Cr:impound was that of the most shameless and profligate corruption. Vas or was not that corruption- to he ended Gen tlemen on the last night opposed the motion or the Hon. Baronet who sat next him (Sir Francis Burdett), because, as they were pleased to say, his plan was luu•e and impracticable; but they at the some time avowed their willingness to grapple with co►rut wherever it would appear, •nd would grapple with it for the liorpose of destroy. tog it. lie 1.114 d that Ito soon and so strik. illt4 an (1111)(Itt II It 17 was affnrded in those Gen.. liriiirli fur redeeming the pledge they had given. There was grnuild i*ufficient to the evidence given liefore the Committee on the Camelford Election, of which hr ft:el been a Member, to warrant the most serious attention of every Getttlernan who was sincere in wishing to correct the abuses of the borough system. The circumstances of the care were, in effect, these :—The borough of Camel ford comprised 29 voters. and had fur some years hero the subject of Influent and active barter. It had latterly Innen within the power of a Noble Lard, whom lie would not name, but who, by a reference to the minutes of evidence, would be at on c e known. In the month of May or June last, a meet's% of some of the electors of Came'ford, anti a Reverend Divine at their head, who, to use his own woreli, au 11106011* to return two Mem bets to Parlitnnvilt. took plane at the Allworthy lon. A litt:e ibtlicolty. however, stood in the oily of the proje:d.—ee the electors wanted a depor•it of lition-y iteimediately, - and this he was un able to produce. Ma et iiiii exion with the corrupt trausactions of the borough being discovered, the • kr,. Gentleman absconded, in order 11 avoid ihe service of the order of that Ho3se, end it was to he hewed. his flock was now derivinf the benefit of In, ppm. instruction. A few days afterward., lire or six of the electors met at a place called Five near Came%ford, when they came to ■ resolutio n that they would agree to the terms prorosed by Mr. James Harvey. The letter from Harvey, to which this resolution referred, the Committee cool.' hint procure; but they traced out circuaistaw. ia which showed the proposition that must have h e ,.,, einita;iieri in that letter. Mr. Selby, the partner of 'Mr. Hallett, stated, in evidence, that lie had hcra told, by Mr. Hallett, that be eras intrusted sit?, stain of 6.000/. which was to he employed in tioneering purposes. Indeed, so little mindful dill Mr. 111411ett seem to be of the seemly which sa, generally observed in such cases, that he said, de ns , ling the purse, in which the notes were coni a i a ,..7l , " Don't you think the Carvelrond electors will hire Pt this?" At this declaration, it was to be observed, Mr.J , ames Ilarvoy, the writer of the letter, with the terms of which certain of the electors had agreed, was present. The sum of 6.000/. was., tt appeared, to be oairl, in equal shares, to 1 i of pure and virtuosos electors, about whose frarcii;,.. the Learned Member was so anxious, as the price of their votes. Fifteen cotistimied a ma . jority of the whole number, and they had form. ed themselers into a club, emplottcally called " The Bundle of Slicks." The halves of six oug tlimmold p.•nmd notes were accordingly tratoaintett to a Mr. King, at Launceston, and deluded in his I m o, as t h e age nt, to lie given by him to ti,., electors, when the business was complete. plates, however, who were to be returned for that sum were thrown out—and some difficulty occurred in getting back the halves of the six one thomisoil pound notes. So midi, indeed, that one of th e parties concerned exclaimed, 6 , What a t!--d itt of blackguards these Camelford fellows are-4 could not get the halves of my notes back, tiU I made a composition with them." Under tlie.e circumstances, he conceived that Mr. Hallett ought to he examined at the bar, in order that the limos might learn from whom he received the suns of 6,0001, Bat Mr.Hallett did not confine himself toCassielfard. He was at Fowey, at Carrington, and at ether ha roughs, dabbling in the politics of those places. In his mind, of the 6,000/. made use of on this occasion, it was rot improbable 3,0001. hvd Ikea furnished by the Treasu►y—and thus a liait wait abroad to hook a Member into that Ile hoped the House would not; at the heel of th e motion of the Hon. Baronet (Sir F. Burdett), let it go forth to the country, that, whets is case of coo %piracy to return a Member to that House was dis covered. thev refused to proceed to its investigi. tines. Ile ditl not coincide in that part of the Hun. Baronet's speech, in which lie condemned, as sk ies", the develapement and exposure of Palates! case" of corruption. He conceived that, next ta an immediate Reform, the proceeding on cases of this kind was the siamt effectual moire of iusuria; purity of election.—(Hear, hea►.) Mr. M. A. TAYOR explained. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, when there was an individual who professed that lie was able to give evidence on the subject of a corrupt election artion, and to extend the information much furth e r than the Committee had done, the House wunl•l not perform its duty if it closed its doors ageissOt it. —(1-fear, hear.)—He had not argued that the House should not bear further evidence hat he thought that it would be better to postpone the de. bate till Monday. _ . Mr. D. W. HARVEY Said. he had not, in allui ing to the. Treasury, intended to refer personally to auv indivithlal. ...... Lord CASTLEREAGH did not suppose that tt;•• /lon. Member hall done so. But it seemed to 11:111 that he argued the question as if he (Lord Castle reagh) wished to do away with inquiry altogether, whereas he only spoke in favour of postponement. Mr. PRIMROSE thought that the best course to be pursued was, to take the Report into consider:o. tion now, and to direct the Attorney-General to prosecute the corrupt parties, as had been done with success and propriety in other cases. An Hon. Member sad, the Hon. Gentleman who oprike near him (Mr. Harvey) had spoken 'stler lightly of a Noble Lord who was said to he cot:- se cted with the borough of Camellued. Caroni- Mums, it must be felt, prevented him from making away observations with respect to that Noble Land —but this he would say. that the Hon. Member was not justified in using some of the expressions which he had indulged. Mr. BATHURST said, that most of those who rtiml spoken on this subject, bad confined themselves a detail of the circumstencts, but had not poitiled out any ulterior course of proceeding. A 1 1.1 4.lZrretit course had been pursued by the Hon. 111 i tither under the gallery (Mr. Primrose), who advised one Report to be taken into cousideration, and that the Attorney-General should be ordered to prostcute particular persons. In his opinion, when it an peered that strong circumstance, were adduced. which led to the conclusion that other person. hail taken an attire part in those corrupt proceethaVs it would he well not to proceed with 1.11411 Keel tion. He believed the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Harvey) had stated the case without any private or party views —(Hear)—and he was inclined to think with him that the moat eligible course would lw, to put off the consideration of the Report W ith Monday, when Mr. Hallett might be essmiettl touching his knowledge of these corrupt peacrcie. Sir C. BURRELL wished that the justice of the case, and that alone, should be kept na view. A* it :at present stood, the evidence was wi mncia narrowed in another place, that he conceived/ further investigation was necessary before the House came to any final proceeding. Mr. BROUGHAM hoped the Learned Member would withdraw his motion for considering the It , - port, at present, and give the House an opportu nity for the examination of witnesses. Mr. I-I it was said, could give information of the inmost Importance, as he was implicated in those corrupt practices. His situation was, however, very ',vio list.. Ile was reported by the Committee, and the House would do well to attend to the fact, that lie had absconded, when called on to give evide lice oil oath ; whereas, lie would, if examined at tl:e deliver his evidence without that sanction. 11 , 1' this. in his opinion s did not disqualify him as A witness—it only rendered it necessary that he shell ,1 be examined with scrupulous exactuess eli co