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have omitted to mention it. The reading of the , Riot Act was a most material circumstance in the consideration of that question, and it was abso lutely necessary that all inconsistency and doubt on that subject should he removed, and that the House should have a clear view of the transactions of the 16'h of August, at least so far as his Ma jesty's Ministers were acquainted with them.— Another act of the Manchester Magistrates, which called for explanation, and that in justice to the character of a most meritorious and respectable officer. was their conduct with► respect to Sir John W o g. Ile contended, that a regard to the good :faille of that worthy and high-spirited indivi t:ital. should induce Ministers to account for .what hail been done by the Magistrates in a proper• and authoritative manner. Very many persons were of opinion that if Sir Juliti Bvng bad been at 'Manchester himself on the 16th of August. much of the mischief which unfold's. r e e k was committed would have been preveuted. Ile (Lord Althorp) had heard many persons say, that it was his duty, as Commander of the district, to have been on the spot where the greatest danger prevailed. and blame him for his absence. But it had recetnly appeared that he was there shortly be fore that day, that lie had offered to the Magi*. irate, to staff• in the town, but that they had told lain it was unnecessary; it was strange that, not withstanding, Mr. Norris had written to the Govern ment on the 15th, that he hoped the peace would be preserved, but he could scarcely expect it. On the whole, however, the deduction was, that if bl a me was imputable in any quarter it was not im putable to Sir John Bvng. He thought it, how. ever, due to him to have more light thrown upon this part of the affair. Another observation which suggested itself to him on the papers on the table, was, that a very large proportion of them was anonymous. It might be 'sec sssss y for the safety of the individuals who supplied the information that their names should not he made public, but on the other hand he thought it plain, from the character cf the depositions themselves, that many of these persons had been acting as spies.—(llear.)—This was appirent, particularly from art account of the purchase of pikes from a smith by two of them ; and be was sure that after what the House had seen two tears before of the consequences of acting on the intelligence of such people, it would not pro ceed on it at present. %Vete they prepared at once to enact measures of vital importance, measures abridging the common rights and liberties of Eng lis;itneo, from a reliance placed by Msgistrates en the judgment, acuteness, and penetration of un known individuals. who had possibly in some in stauces sown the seeds of danger, and in others ex aggerated it beyond its reality ?—(Hear.)—These, it appeared to him, were reasons why a Committee should be appointed for the purpose of examitrin g the paper.. But to this course he knew that, in the tirst place, the delay would be objected, and in the second, what hail been insisted on the other eil,4llt. that it would be injurious to the Magistrates of Maimliester. As for the first, he said, that the Noble Lord had no right to avail himself of that argument, because Ire was aware of the transactions ill question almost at the beginning of August, and it was in his power to have had the blouse summoned through the whole interval.— Bit t he (Lord Altlinflp) was aware that this was an argument:4m ad hominent, and ought not alone to svi 101 with the House. He pressed the necessity of au inquiry, not because the Noble Lord had hero negligent iti his duty, but because without it the country would stiffer. To two of the new Bills lie did not ice any just cause for opposition. He had ro objection to the measure intended to prevent the drillu of the people—that practice could produce no goad, it might be p►oductive of evil. and, accord tingly, be did not perceive any necessity for delaying the progress°, that Bill; neither was he aware of any rea•oo fur desiring delay in carrying the Bill against traversitio in misdemeanors—that measure would not stfeciisidividuals till the next Assizes. With resiiect to the three other measures, intended to le galize the searching for arms—to guard against the holding of large tumultuous nieetiugs—and to impose restrictions on the liberty of the press. there was nothing in the papers which led to the opinion that the accumulation of sedition and riot was so great, that delay during the time an inquiry would occupy would be productive of danger?— With regard to the tone of those meetings which had been already held, he apprehended that there orter had been any appearance of opposition by who attended them on the interference of the constitutional authorities. He believed that, whenever they had been required by the Magi'. orates to di•perse, they had done so without at t,mpting any resistance. Notwithstanding, it iiii• A ht mit be right to permit the holding of such as.kniblies for the future ; but it struck him that ti was no cause for hurrying this on any more thin any of the others. He was also unable to dis cover shy proper motive for unseasonably urging forward the Bill directed against the press. He was aware, however, that in every political subject It .is. o n ly a balancing of evils; he was aware that 11- should be told from the opposite aide of the amor, that the success of the remedies would partly depend on the expedition with which they ' 1 "`" be applied ; but he also knew that coml. rh-r,toin and delibenttiou would not only contri bate to the wisdom and utility of the contemplated enactments, but were also due to the character of the House and its proceedings.—/Cheers.)—He recommended inquiry, sot with a view to chitlins. thm, but for the purpose of having imparted to the !louse such knowledge on this most important sub. pct. 111. it WAS absolutely necessary they should be po.sesseit of. Those Gentlemen who imagined that there was cause of alarm—who cried out that there was • conspiracy against our institutions — that the. Constitution was in danger•—tbst law and good order were threatened—that our property would be seized—and that every thing in this world and the next was at stake, surely would not say that they wou ld b e prevente d f r om instituting a bill. lair, sod impartial examination of the evi dence of all these dreadful things, because a pro secution might hereafter be oodertaken whist Mr. Norris, or some other of his brother Magis. hates, and during the inquiry into the papers something might come out which would be pre to his defence.—/flew, hear, hes/V— -.llm Magistrates, if innocent, had nothing to fear. Ile pressed on the House the necessity, in looking at the present state of the cowry. of calling fur l r 4)le_ It every information possi was difficult to ar rive at itatisfactory intelligence from the pipers. This, perhaps, would he rufficient for him to say, had he not heard the statement of the Noble Lord last iiight—(//eur)—hied he not heard the expo sition of his memo:rem with the deepest nstonisliment and regret.—(( Iteers front the Opposition)—The present was a subject which he scarcely dare torch. —(Cheers./—Wheuever the House had indulged him with its attention, lie had never attempted more than barely to state the arguments ou which he founded his opinion ; hut now, indeed, he regret. ted his want of eloquence—(Hear) —now, indeed, he lamented that he hail not the power to clothe his sentiments in appropriate language. But he be sought the House to pause and deliberate. if liberty was a blessing and slavery a cursr—f,Cheering)— if it was disgraceful in them to surrender those rights, sod sacrifice that constitution which had been bought by the blood of, slid hooded down from th e i r an c es t ors , no urrount of a temporary alarm.— Cheering. l—The Noble Lord then apologised for hayssig tresoassed so long on the patience of the. House, and concluded by moving, That the Papers laid before the House by command of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, be referred to • Select Committee to examine the same, and report their opinion and observations thereon to the Flouse. Colonel DAVIES, in rising to second the motion. said. that when he saw his Majesty's Ministers lik ing advantage of some slight mid temporary causes of apprehension to break in upon our most valuable rights, and make alarming inroads on our Consti holm). he should think himself, in common with every Member of that House, culpable if lie did n6t rise and enter his protest against their inessures. He was unwilling to impute to these gentlemen any direct intention a doing injury to the Constitution, but lie could not help thinking it extraordinary that leis Majesty's Ministers should have allowed the popular proceediigs they complained of to go on for such a length of time without endeavouring to repress them by the arm of the existing law, and now come down to the House, and ask for new powers, as if those they had before enjoyed had been tried and found insufficient ; arid he did say that this looked something like a design to over throw our free Constitution and establish a des potism. When the Hon. Member for Dublin (we presume Mr. Plunkett, Member for Dublin Uni versity) had the other night stated the meeting at Manchester to have been an illegal one, said that the Magistrates had a tight to disperse any meeting which from its numbers, or any other cause. threat ened the public peace. and when the Noble Lord had so warmly cheered these sentiments, did not he perceive that that opinion furnished an irrelragable argument against himself ? It was known that in certain parts of the country you could scarcely walk a road without meeting hundreds or thousands of persons proceedirg to public meetings, or for other objects connected with what they called reform. These things were suffered to go on for months ; one feeble attempt was made to restrain them, and now Ministers demanded to be armed with ad ditional powers ; and, as if these were insufficient, our military force was augmented. The Noble Lord said, this last step was necessary to stop the progress of discontent. But if 11 s ters were de sirous to appease the discontent of the people, in itteod of enlarging the military force, and adding to taxation, they would have taken measures for re ducing the burden of taxes which already pressed upon them, and cutting down the prodigal system of expenditure which prevailed in all the branches and dependaocies of the Executive. He had lately had occasion to look into that department where the affairs of the army were transacted, and he could assure the House, that his heart had been almost sickened by the discovery of the lavish and wasteful expense which was visible in every part of it. Now. in the fifth year of peace, the charges of it were nearly double what they hid been in 1806. He did not wish to raise any unmeaning cry of Parliamentary Reform, but he asked, did Ministers mean to ass . 'late this nation to those on the Con tinent ? If the French Government had not con tinued blind to the progress of public opinion, they might have saved that country from the dreadful scenes of blood and havoc fur which it was so unfortunately distinguished; and if our Minis ters were resolved to pursue a similar course, some terrible convulsion was inevitable. Fishy concur ring in the sentiments of his Noble Friend, lie thought it highly indecorous of the House hastily to pass measures subversive of the Constitution. He cordially supported the motion, convinced that a persevenince in measures similar to those pro posed by the Noble Lord, would lead to a des. potism.—(Hear. kettr.) The question haviug been put from the Chair— Mr. B. BATHURST e.;:presped his surprise at the sort of proceeding adopted on the present occasion by Hon. Gentlemen opposite. It was with great regret he had observed the course pursued by that most respectable body of men denominated the Opposition; he had hoped it would have been one not less consistent with the principles which they professed, but more so with the feelings and wishes of all the moderate, the prudent. and the loyal in the community. who is this alarming crisis looked up to the House for protection. The Right Hon. Gentleman %lieu quoted certain words of the Ad dress to the Prince Regent, and of the proposed Amendment to it, as evidence of the necessity of strong and repressive measures. He proceeded to advert to some of the transactions of the meeting, on the 16th August. to insist ou the existence of a dangerous spirit througlicut the country, and tu reply to the arguments of the two preceding Hon. Mem bers. He concluded by expressing his strong hope, that Ministers would now fulfil the pledge they had carried to the foot of the Throne; not, indeed, as had been said by Gentlemen opposite, to adopt measures both of law and of force, but of law to prevent force.—(Hear.) Sir M. W. RIDLEY said, that the motion of his Noble Friend (Lord Allison)) was to refer the papers brought dose's by his Majesty's Ministers to a Select Committee. The country un this occasion looked up to the Gentlemen of the Opposition to see justice done to them; they looked up to them to watch with jealousy the acts of the Government, and, above all. the measures they lIU V cuuteto plated, which were, in his opinion, the moat miss chievous that had ever been submitted to Pathos ment.—(Hersr.)—Let it not be supposed, that when they Came forward thus to oppose Minister,. they were at all inclined to favour the persons called nodicale, whose priuci pity • . gum the Gentlemen with whom he *coed *raw as little disposed to tolerate as any of the Ministers of the Crown—principles which were as contradictory to common sense es they were to the Constitution. Let no man ropoose that either he or his friend* were advocates for the duct lines of unteual Perlin ments, universal stitfroge, and eleition by ballot, all th e y cont en d e d for way, that an inquiry should precede the adoption of the coercive measures now its contemplation. This call for inquiry was Met by a reply of ' , You cast have it in the Courts of Jus tice." This remedy was now, he believed. recinced to that which would be afforded by the case of Mr. Hunt, who was to be tried for a conspiracy. This trial, he contended, oou Id involve no ptiiiit that could decide the reel facts of the case brtwern .the people and the Goverinuent, on the subject of the affairs of Mal.clirster. The Hon. Member then la mented that the Magistrates, if they considered the meeting of the 16th August illegal, did not prevent it, by a notification similar to that which they hail promulgated oil the gth, and to which the people hail paid implicit obedience. It was said that the Years 1 780 soil 1815 furnished precedents fur the coercive measure. now in agitation. This lie de. hied, for the circumstances of the present tunes were in no degree analogoas to those to which ailu lion had born made. It was a little too much to call for the approbation of Parliament to permanent laws, directed against evils in their nature local, and, he trusted, temporary.—(Ueile.)—The more particularly when, even according to the statement of Magistrates, as given in the papers oil the table, distress was the real cause of the discontent which unhappily existed in the minds of numerous bodies of the people in the manufacturing dis tricts. It was too much to put the whole people under • system of persecution, in the manner in tended by Ministers ; far better would it be to hold out to them the hati , d of conciliation—that course would do much more towards tranquillising them, than could he effected by measures of se verity. Let the House convince the people, that while it will uphold the ascendancy of the laws, it will also receive their Petitions, redress their grievances, sympathise with their situation, and, lastly, to take into consideration the important question of Parliamentary Reform. During the last twelve months that question had made moment. oils way among the labouring classes of the coots try, whose opinion would not be shaken by all the eloquent speeches of Gentlemen opposite, until the House could convince the people, by its care of their isiterests. and commiseration for their suf ferings. that it really represented them.—(Hear.) Mr. Lotto WELLESLEY said, he had heard with the deepest regret the tone adopted by the Gentle men who opposed his Majesty's Ministers on the prevent occasion, with many of whom, notwith etoodir.g their difference of political sentiment, he was proud to live on terms of close intimacy. So far from agreeing with the Gentlemen who opposed the measures, in his opinion rendered necessary by the state of the country, he thought the docu ments now on the table set forth to all dispas sionate minds, abundant matter to establish the melancholy fact of the perturbed state of • large portion of the people.—(Cries of hear, hear.)— losteocl of listening with satisfaction to the general declamation of those who arraigned in liesixe the measures of Ministers, lie had rather expected, and so lie knew did other Magistrates, that the Gentlemen opposite would have at once come to the question of the !reality or illegality of the meeting at Manchester. They bad, however evaded that point, soil rather added to Ilea diminished th e of general intimmainin which so un happily prevailed in the manufacturing districts. He con demned altogether the mode of inquiry so repeatedly urged by the Gentlemen opposite, mid was fully of opinion that nothing would more tend n. bring that House into disrepute with the people titan its taking upon itself a species or judicial au• thority for which its numbers and usual avocanaus reader it se en fit.—(fiear, hear, bear.) . Mr. Dovetail Kintratau , rose at the same moment with several Members, but the courtesy of the House gave the precedence to the Hos. Gentleman as a new Member. lle said I.e was anxious to raise his voice ibis night in behalf of the suffering people of this country, while yet they hail a Constitution; for after this night, be feared, they would be without the shelter of such a blessing.—(f/ear.)—He was little acquainted with the forms of the House, but be thought, that when a commnuication like that lately made from the Throne came under their eolisideratioo, it ought to be discussed in the most forumsl neauer, and with that temper and deliberation which world at wee stew the best regard for the Crown, and become the character of the Re presentatives of the people. He felt that the Ministers of the Crown were in a most responsible situation—his alarm at the exuding state of affairs won great, and increased it must be, if by the events of this night he were driven to the melancholy conclusion that prejudice said passion got the better of the judgment of the House of Commons, and that they were wrested to take for granted the assertion of Mi. sisters as to the state of the country, though that assertion wu flatly contradicted by a variety of evideisee.—(Hear.)— He felt the utmost pain at bearing a sweeping charge of sedi tion and impiety levelled against the great mus of the peo ple of England. —(Crier of No, wo.)—From the best autho rities the House knew that the people were suffering under the weight of the severest distress ; it was singular then to think that isstend of seeking the mums toremove this distress, they should at once plunge into the abyss of impiety, and endeavour to subvert the whole moral order of social life. He could never believe the people capable of such fatal and useless misconduct, and he was the less inclined to believe it, now that be saw the propositioa utterly untenable from the evidence in the papers laid before the House. On the part of the people of England, therefore, be protested against those fearful accusations.—(Hear)—lt was singular that if the people, as bad been stated, were ready fur plunder, and only wanted the opportunity of carrying their intentions into effect, the gentlemen of the country should leave their homes, around which, if the danger were real, they world assemble their friends anal tenants, to save their fa milies and property from ruin and devastation. The Huu. Member then proceeded to enforce his opinion, that no such danger was apprehended, by alluding to the Earl of Derby's inability, according to his letter to Lord Siihnouth, to arm a banshee of yeomanry from the gentry of the county, even though the letter was dated one month after the uccurresice at Manchester. He had every reason for skinkiag that much exaggeration prevaikd respecting the designs of the people, even *here the highest irritation prevailed. Pikes had beer spoken of, but oat authority that he thought questiouble, because it was anonymous.—(Nor, hear.) — He wookl presume to suggest to Ministers the adoption of conciliatory rather than coercive measures, and to appease rather than exasperate the people by sowing mutual distrust among the different classes of society. The people, he be lieved, held together and relied mach on each other's sup. port at the present crisies.-(ffesre,harrfrost the ifirtistirtuf Betrehes.)--Geattestiew might cheer, but were the people less likely to coolie is ~bother when they were placed out of the pole afire law? He larch feared that Niiristess relied too moat on spiesaad bed created& system which was calculated to delude them. Ow ahnotter weenies they had heed told that a dreadful toast WI hems given Is • company of the di.. alfelledb Dreadful indeed it was- 0 May the last of Kings be eleargied with the matrons of the last of Prime ...and yet it ultimately appeared that this toast was given by Costly the spy, sail received with &egret by the tompuy ups. whom N,•iese obleweleel..-4/rette.}.-This wsit the mpY oh• I was deshod out in good clothes sad prodoerd lea Geri of honks, in the hope of his imposist upon a Joey. The Hum. Member then commented arm the Noble Lod% (Cmasim resell's) speech is. rapport of the Unroofed asesseers —e speech which was well described sa Wackiest km apes the piivileeee that the new Hi& was* le take away, than upon those which they left.—(Hair, The Noble Lord lind rather unfairly attacked the female reformers when he described their political isteetrermat as unprecedented in the history of this comm.,. Did me the Noble bird know that daring the elections for Memoir stn. the Ladies were always promisent--(A that even in the lost election a Ladies' Committee had ac tually been formed in favour of a petit-solar canaille*? Petitions bad frequently been permuted .0 that linear /mem Ladies, mid dilly answered hy Parliament. Laid Clarendon described the circumstance of a Refill 0000 being presentallao the House of CM:OIIMM by flee thousand of the wives 14' the citizens of London, Soatherafk. and the issljoblieg suburbs, nod couched is very remarkable words. The petitioner% addressed the House in Iselialf of their bus hoods, who were taken from them and imps inward, sad their estates seized in the most arbitrary manner. They prayed to be eased of their grievances, and protested is their frail conilition.—(A lowoh).—Theme females, in em phatic worth., exclaimed, " See our keyhole& ini f .riymied Goofs us, our children dashed against the stoney. anal our in fante' blood Rowing in the streets.."—(//tat.)—'Phis Petilisto was answered by Mr. Pyrn—the females premed up theories of the House, and as they were importenate, the trained bards were at length called out and ordered to fire upon them, which they did, and the women, in the words of the Histo rian. nothing desisted, cried oat, " Peace, peas-e!"—( Year ) ,- 7 -He hoped by slimming this peecedent, sad allsidiouves others, be had divested the Noble Lord's speech of say link portions which attached to it from his obsernlions respect log the novelty of the acts of the female reformer..—(Esier He was ready.to admit, that the state of the country was in wally parts alarming, but the evil he feared would be aggra vated by coercive measures; a relaxation from taxation would alone allay the irritation which unfortunately pre vailed &nose the labouring classes. On the subject of Par liamentary Reform many opinions may prevail, without the holders of them being liable to any imputation of criasina lily. The Duke of Richmond's plan of reforms had received the sasetion of Mr. Sheridan, and though Mr. Fox did ant go the manse length of supporting it, he yet admitted it to be the ground-work of a better system than the then existing one. There was certainly a prevailing erns., that only one mode of Reform ought to be adopted ; though he might dissent from such an opinion, he yet saw nothing criminal tt in those who held it, nor any reason why they should be held out as seditious and disaffected to the country— nod he also thought that although the people pot theirclaims forth in a certain shape, it was by no mime a corollary that they would be satisfied with less than they asked. If they saw a disposition to coos:side, there was no doubt they would not he iiii!exibk in their demands—(Naar)—The Hon. Member quoted in support of this °pinnate, a resolution paused at one of the late popular meetings, which expressly called upon the higher orders to join the lower, and avowed that as sliene.tion of the rich from the poor woald be the rais of both. The lion. Member concluded by earnestly conjuring the House to adopt a system of conciliation as the mode best calculated to allay the existing ferment among the people, and that most cousoasul to the feelings of humanity and justice.---(Hear.) Lord Laseetzes rose to state a circumstance which had been communicated to him by General Slog, to chew the grit intention of the Magistrates at Manchester respecting the intruded Meeting of the 9th August. The Georral had sailed upon the Magistrates when that meeting was an. wavered, to inquire if they wanted his assistance or Mit of the military for the occasion. The Maziatratra answered, that they did not apprehend any danger, and wool(' not require the proffered •id. The G I appris ed them, that he would remain in hie own house, anal not quit the immediate neighbourhood until after the meeting of the 16t11, in case that the Magistrates rboald, if accessary, have an opportunity of sending for him. Now no 'message came to the General, and the fair conclusion was, that the Magistrates had uo intention of dispersieg the meeting wail the eneweiag of the day when they saw the en trance of the concourse of people into Mauebester, and their number and nature. So much for the general intentional"( the Magistrates prior to the Meeting. The present question was, however, whether the House could enter into the consideration of ulterior measure* without • Select Corn. mittre. Of the Manchester transactions, and the acts that occurred on the 16th of August, lie knew nothing.— (Hear, hem, front the Oppositio* Reacher.)—W hen he said this, be begged not to be understood as coudensising duns, he meant to pronounce no opinion whatever. He was ready to believe that the origin of the disorgenilation in the country wan in the distresses of the people.—(llear.) When Parliament last broke up, the menufacturieg part of the community were in a state of unexampled distress. Ad. vantage was taken of their situation by dei.igoing sues, and the idle people attracted by the force of novelty front one meeting to another, were unfortunately led step by step to the habit of listening to the doctrines of itinerant ora tors, who gave them neither rest nor repose.—(Hear.)— What he most lamented was, that among those &hided ch.- racters there serest:may honest well-meaning wow, who were artfully draws into the schemes of otherr, and redwood into the sacrifice of their characters and their safety. fled mew were, be knew, not ripe for rebellion, though he knew there were others of a different description, and who formed SS immense class in the scale, who were ripe for insurrectiem. A sort of infatuation appeared to prevail, and there was on chalice of ever gettiegrid of the difficulty ao lung as lilt.. rant orators were suffered to perambulate distant parts of the country, and excite that idle curiosity which every one acquainted with the manufacturing districts most know prevails to an extraordinary degree. If this system were suffered to continue, the manufactures of the country would be routed out—end the wretched pa. potation who now complained wmild consequently become the first victims. He was willing to admit that, even if the proposed laws were enacted, still a number of heavy prism- Lions oust remain to be eutlund by the people. Though their trade most revive, and though the) must always have au ample portion in the mercantile traffic of Europe, still he feared that a number would remain unemployed, or at best but inadequately paid for their labour.— It therefore required all the calmness and early of the country to enable the people to work up against their dif ficulties, and meet them in the manner which was heat cal. ciliated to retrieve their situation. He denied that Minister{ had groanded their proposed measures on the general disiff feetiou of the people • en the contrary, they hail declared than 'necessary for Ilse protection of the airmail and loyal part of the *coassinenity.—(lleme.)—• diStemper had cer tainly grown in the State, which most be eradicated or else it would infect the whole of the communitr—(Heor.)— It was agreed on all sides that something must be done to prevent the growth of disaffection and impiety. When this admission was generally made, he lamented that the Gen tlenseu opposite should confine their views to Gee side alone of the questioh.—(Hersr.)—With reference to the difficulty alluded to of arming amerriations in particular places, it must be remembered that the jealousy with whirl they were viewed in many places by deluded people, was Nub as on some occasions to deter individuals from amylase Ile invidious task ► lest they might lose their customers. As to the feritile reformers, he retained his oriels's' opinion, not. withstandiag what had been said by the lion. Gentle. nun opposite respecting the Ladies who interfered at elec tions. If the latter bad formed union societies for the pur pose of bringing up their children, without intuit:slime into their minds the truths and lessons of religiou and I•a, then he should lamest their interference upon uccasioas so fo. ✓►igu to their nature. The Noble Lbrd then pedalled out the evil tendency of t►e irreligions tracts Which were circulated in the county of York, and pit in grathi. mealy into the dwellings of the poor people, whose want of employment gave theta tithe to ►ead ard study sorb publications. It would be well if a line could be drawn Whims ease Who attended Ms meetings is the miusitey, and who were actually disadlected, tad those who wen minty attracted by admits and catiosily. By proems mesas In thought many night be withdraws (rum the hsbits they bed engrained at those aseetioge.—(liear.) Nut indeed by any enotessioso at this portiasior wawa% but by • patrol avowal %hitt he had hoped would have egissaled fin both sides of Ibe litteete, of the fated pikes which 'oust neve to the propktrosn an adlieseeee to the is dividuals sad doetrieee under wheat iollemove they had so unhappily laboured. If this exprreeive of honest indite ✓odeo were given by the lieese,sseel would he dime to pare theway is that rereliciliation of the people with o u s t oho bad their best totem's as heart, an event so dearahle tot very geod man in the conenennity.—(Hear.) Mr. IltfArrt (of Wiltshire). in an eloquent spore+, ar estigocd the naeasures of Governmeat as partaking of a t ha tatter so coercive, that they mess eventually ettrauge the pee* from any confidence in those so whom they ought to he taught to look up for preatreti.on. The Minitters it tie Crows, 'coed on this areation, he thought, em - writs who prepared • remedy without taktiog any paOisi to not retain the real ramie of the disease. The people ens% he thought, emitted to a better consideration and sympathy than they bad yet recess:ed. In Otirohme. opteithstandong Him heavy tstrestes, mi principle of Madaral Reform had found its way with sitreoks. tVlsy they were she people at large, be woad ask, coerced, ear. ly lease the iobaLitsrts e f pars:color it r 1• sear isA•meol kg persons who look parentage of their Inner slitirtmes to Mate niflnomation ammo them '—(l/ear, lenr ) Lord MILTON said, that the seitemeut of the Nuhle Lord (Loscellea) might well It• liable to the ram, otsj morn as that browieht agaiu.t flee oarch of his flues. Feiend, Innately, that tee Noble lord looked loot at one aide of the question He was simian for the naves. of Ike present en two because Ike Smoky, • kith would in that case be gone ono, would Necessarily embrace a a full way the Ifitab•llo/14 of Mau- Homier, • transaction which appeared to hem above •!: other conies 'hat load taken plaice in ihe country, to be of Ilia greatest importance, asol to call loudly for the lake poison, of Parliantrot. He was some that much ohloou y via attach ed to him and his (newts in use pare they took 114 that trans action. Tay deeply felt that a blow was sketch at the ea.- itueion of sbetomatoyton that corasion ; bad he nut Matelot • no earthly consideralion would induce am to act as i.e did. It was not from any iaterest he fell for she person engaged at Site Mancitesier meeting—it was teat from may opinion he had of the virtues of Mt. liont—tito, tour was it from any sympathy he felt (melte blood 'hat war spilled shut day which indoiced him to take the part lie took out of that House, but it was that be felt shut the conduct of stir yeomanry and the Magistrates, sanctioned as that cooduct was by the public thanks of the Government, appeared to him ot hat e toren en attack Oil the prim:jolt* of the Constitutome and the rights of the people. Whether the merlins at Almschrotor was legal or illegal, had 'title to du wide star quentoa be fore the House. He knew lan a meeting which was In the first instance perfectly kcal, ewight afterward., from ifs proceedings, become illegal; but it wee also clear That time dispersion of that meeting should be made according to law. Wheis violence was consmotecel us our side, it was but us. rural, for the sake of resisiance, that violence should Le committed ou the other. It remained to be proved whether violence was committed by the people. Ile would beg on this point to advert to she political letter of Mr. Hay. wril ten the day of the merlin(. If any thing ni ce ..anted to confirm bis worst Biopic on the subject, if soy thirc were neeemary to justify the part be took outside that House, this letter was amply sufficient. Mr. Hay slated is that letter, that on the charge of the rivalry, floor appealed a marked defiance on the part of the people : • marked defiance at the charge of the casaity ! But what provoked that charge was not skint. It was clear from she statement of Flay, that in the Grst in stance there was an attack made on the yeomanry by she people, or if this did not appear wo clear to ot ttttt•• Gentle seen, was it nut at all eyelets due 10 the House and the coun try, that that unexplained transaclion shoul.l be explained to the couptry. It was stated that Alf. Eliminate, whiltt reading she Hint Act from • window, was attacked; ol.y„ he asked, was not that fact stated regularly to the House Mr. Hay did loot venture 10 state that she people was dis persed in cousetpience of the violence of the mob. It was of importance to shear that the yeomanry were attacked by the mob; and if there were any ground fur such au emersion. it would so doubt be put forth by Mr. Hay. Then if the yeomanry were not attacked by the mob, the inference ass, that the mob was attacked by she yeomanry ; and else fact was stiongly proved by the asenber who suffered nI the uccasinu. • Ile amid owl. help sayieg that us Wed falai day the Magee. trades diaptayed 100 moth of what they 'culled 'atom.; they saw with rimy. perhaps with admiralties, the triumph of the Lord Mayor of London in the arrest of Heirloom, at Smith field, and ate, seemed snot tttt s to prove that she 'mew vigour at Stanchesier would produce she tense clrert.—(//ear4— The tratoaaceion, in every pouts in Which it could he versed. considering the statements that had been made, verified as they were by affidavits, and cousidering the keine( of the country, called fur • full agility. He slid eat see bow au inquiry in • Court or Law could embrace the true ends which that House should hare rot view. The trials mow pealing, namely, that of Alr. Hua i that of Mr. Owen, and the trial on information' of an Hon. Baronet, a meinime of 'hat House, would by uo means it,. ride the question, nor satisfy the public. Nothing to • can • where the dearest prioeiplea of the constitutows apperort.l to have been violates(, could give satisfaction to she people. but ma inquiry, sanctioned and ruittlaco d by the Parties. at. An Hote.Gentleasau (the Member for Devon) had said that the Magistrates were askeirons fur inquiry ; but soaking satisfactory. it was said, could proceed from an notary before • Committee up stairs. He diffeled with those who said so. (fold not the inquiry by such a ('treat. neittee lay grounds ur a stsbeequeut and oaken inspoiov, if such should be deemed necessary? If, um tlw usher hand, the Cummins* found that the coseleet or the Alava trates did not demand an inquiry, they week! ot.-te that fat t to the Honor • and such thelti•tios frl.l. SUFIS • COM. milk, would have greet weight with the comity. —That inquiry, he 'boogies, was due to pahlte tea k( as well as to public jnatice, the more w *hru he considered .he nature of theme measures which erre last Night introduced by the Noble Lard—measures ninth, in his mind, were sufficient to abolish she Constitution. He agreed with an lion.Geolleman oho bad that night ad dressed the HMISe fur the first time, that sr tame etwartnes were made the persaaseut law of the laud, it was inquiet ble that public liberty should tureen. Those 110•81110/011, it appeared, were intended mot merely to pest dowot what were called dangerorea opisoons in this couniry, but others— they were not intended foe England skuw r but ter labor countries—fur Germany, fur Italy, and fur From e. Ile con fessed he felt alarmed tsar the liberties of England, when to, yaw an endeavour mask to shape her Comatose soot her laws to the views of Foreign facomrsimeset.—_,,j iirmnie d beads, who rule their I.IIIIjeCIS by 011114., OisSon• °MI6 those of liberty—of Paeans who promoted a Coatitotinou to her people, and then bloke that promise in Cm loom of ttror,,y with the same facility with whieli it was made an she tosser ot nerd—(Naar, hoer, hear)—uf Hiksia, who gonno all with an absolute and unresisting aV/1111.—Of Spam, for a hoer pollutes au Act was brought iu last SeO4OlS, probibiling the people of ibis ciontery from isiteefering in the coo lest betweru her end the people of her 'loam,- Att.:one dismittions—tkominiona which she had holeited by misrule and oppression. He trusted, however, that Ho re was • spi rit reeininiog in Eirelsnd, and Holt she mold nut be governed by the maxims of foreign States. This cow:nitration, however, seemed to escape the attention of Almost. ra, mod they brought forward measures which filled tom with the most scream •pprelienainne for the libeilltS tit hit to y. His Nhhle Friend (Lord Lemeellea)alto old re collet that they were called on to legiskee, sot merely to put Morn the demo rigors of Ilse country, but to street the pimple at large. He hoped bit Noble Friend would ate bin iosturoce •ith she Go vernment to 'odor" the* to hides to the prayer* of she pope. to induce them to hear the story of their ootfrrivis sod their gee. vase**, nod to posse those reiro.ures sat wisdom aid coomiliateten, which smili operate more powtotilly than coircion--csierriim and severity would only memos, discon tent, mid perhaps resistance. Fur proof et this, he urea poly refer his Noble Fo lead so the saertiser that hash 10411 lately held at Leeds. After the attack at Manchester sod the thinks of the Government, the norettag held on the 31/kle Sepleseher was four or live times MOM 1101111•1111110 Maw uff sif the pre views isectiags. This feet sloes wee eivetigh to slow that the people of linglaimi, cheered by the cueseiwomeres of act ing sightly, mild sot be sobileed. He staid not help think ing, tie(, if the Hones refused tat go We aft Words y teal this trunesetims--of they reread to Mined he the payer" or she petitioas prevented al their hat 61111111 a gp. prs a the csisetry, they ovoid teed to Armies di: Medi d the >' _n #1 1.1