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think it good or Inia,sre net isterestilieitorts about (Hear ! hear if-1 do trot tiohoe tosiissaeympiloy.... at this moment the voice o f t he people oes.nhottlatf.taollmfomrysearrelf j o e r s m t il o a f ym tl . nr i t hju , : .. ecbte t c2i j i kind' the sora r A odf :W h rer, c hi f r om the fide of other countries soot to tea ch us s pee dily to arropt, if we wish tai their e fate. For the countries ta re ourselves f rom fall front undertaking to reform :b f EuroPe did noty fell because all reform was re. the rieople, I ant convinced , 'sigh fur tpsat c i n Th o e f re . f oc i t en ut w .o l n ii . cli amends, not that which When 1 act. my Lords. subverts the Cons i ill be with other men than those in this entilel,Lt wi ll —it will be against these men ,ho now nee- p ri nc ip les.—(/hear ! hear !)—W ell sod ill their wo uld It lie were Go ve rnment to take up the ques tion,d mo derate discussion and r relief conduct an the discontent, which attileop.epoc;tee. whichocrtnlr crea tes c o much among the tl muchoo i d prevails. My am t arsi& at this mimeo, p o i n t, on which I sin Loofas there is B words. I allude to the goes inns to say • f ew d lower of both Houses t r cling the right an I s 3 inns') e of Parliament, now, unhappily. the subject of so Connected with these quell. to uch conversat t i. stands a case. on which I shall not enter into pni ti,ular discussion at preset . it, as it is under the ,te.minatrnn of soother tr .c i t h i znal. an d may even ly, for adjudscatim. ually come before your with the statement 01 a few stall content myself with . DI on which the question appears !Stegall p rinci r -el. • to toe to stand. The privi l eges of Parliament must „ pew d on general puleie utility. If they not, they ought not to exist, and the exercise of them anal w be proper. But one instance of almse does not go the length of proving that they are i n jurious, and unfit to remain. consisten t with the Constitution, and the l iberties of the subject. They mu st rest on their public utility ! and the neeessity of their esigenee, to preserve in parliament that freedom of discuesion , necessary alike to its exist suer, sod the rights of the p e op le . I t is on t h is broad principle that I form my judgment ; and i f , lice the common law. that invaluable source of all the people's blessinss. it is supported by long usage. me opinion is *te ng th' d en t! that is ed, and my nr at. c glitn""".nliered invincib l e. is the sary fur Parliament, then, conte nd. . power to protect themselves in the free oilcan ?routed discharge of their public duties. sod no thing more. They must have the power to protect themselves from insult, end they lutist have the poser to enforce their decisions. should any resist awe Ise made to their authority. They must en jar freedom of deliberation, so tedisperreably ur erasers' to the interest of the public. For, what. ever interferes with this freedom, must destroy th eir justice. and hiss their decisions, to the injury of the people. Parliament, them, es Neressifate, must base the power of enforcing obedience to their or. dera on this point, and whatever effett any pant. miler imitative, even to the extent of imprison ment. may product, I cannot ag ee with throe who would deduce from that, that a plirilege so utterly necessary ought to be altogether sholisha—But the ritsestionshres oat rest solely as betweeu Parliament and the People. Is there no other danger of interropting the freedom of diss r lissom in Patti intent bat by the Crown ? Yes ! Li the 'sultanas of populoi iadillaatien ; and s4arast that a, streogly as against the louden-nee ot the Crown. if ih 'y area Parliament at all, they nom he euarded—lie ardor rieiam prara johns- Stow is as dangerous as the influence of the Crown to the indetwndetice of Parliament. To meet either., Pablo-tent must have powers commensus rate; and all • the Ilierty of enforcing their elem. hog. mahout list i:n.; recourse to the aid of coy other Nortek of the leaistature. These, my Linda, are ll...doctrines of our anemones. These are the doe from which we enjoy alt our blessings. It is Imp:welds' to mention this topic. without recollect his the vett men to whom we are indebted for nit( glorious revolution, which secured to us all our all our enjoyments. Had not they, nor Lords, possessed throe ;inverts we would not new hav e had to debate about the extent of the privlre s of Parliament. or of the rights of the Pcl. l c. connected with and dependent upon those p•naleges. ( hear, h. ar In these tunes, when ti ere IS so touch anxiety to vivify all public men. s. l l it he said that the illustrious man. whose loss o- kite ever to deplore. (sir. Fox)--ts 111 it he it'd if it he was not well acquainted with the nature of Eve Constitution? or that he s as not the friend If tile people? Yet Mr. Fox held opinions o f the subject of the Privileges of Piirliam*lP. on I deemed them neeessery for the riteits of the 1""p e. fur olowe protecitoir,iti protecting then etc { tt . tentlitive-, thry were intruded. IN it'cot Puli hcal opponent, Mr. rot, never controverted this c, Ilion, and it was cotigeirial with the seutinseuts another great deported Statesman, 51r. Burke. I i tnis they all combined ; and had we now sio c!!ier authority but theirs, aud seeing, et the sane haw, that no practical disadvantage accrues from 1-..ir exercise. it wroth" he sufficient to' toe to esoiblish these p ivileges. There is en old imams iu !'"r law-lmoks, whirls scions to me not emspidioalile cl this case. It is said, that the wisdom Gf many lass are never di. d. tie they are repealed, "'slettitertence chews what sucunveniencies mise. It would be the sane with the Privileges of PJflis• it, hirh, though they may I.e argued against, eon never perhaps 1w properly seined, except by ti:eir being Arnie away ; the evils resulting from that rash measure ao Ild prove the wisdom of our an ervo:. in claiming them. But, any Lords. I will ut rod my sir„minctit upon any authority. It shads upon the broad loans I have already stated (: c.ltetal utility, which clearly paints nut the nes re's.ty there is of every ,Meinlier of Parliament r:nin4 conjointly sod separately the same power a. i• (dom e d by the whole. I know. my Lords, all •e po,rul a r argu . rients t h at tan be alleged aga i nst 1 1 , , opinion, that no nee ought to be-judge in I.i* S i n n Nine. and that th e party having to determine, I,re no remedy or redress to be obtained else me. My answer is, that it mast be the same its • ewes where the extreme power is lodged. There 1 0 a point beyond which them is vies app•al. I • if the eeEntrieitt is earnest to its extern, it ntil men 4i ply +t: omit the pubis ptts..e bent.' en ,n the I louse of Corninroo—agsiest the •u --''.erne j•ohcal antlowity triton.; with your LW:. m eatn‘t the executive poser being sett :d 11' th t ler to His 31.ijesty 'a hating the coins , . Mimi' of the army. ft is, bower, la' suPpori of this proposition, that Sir Francis Burdett compares his to the cause for which Hampden died in the field. and Sydney ou the scaffold. No man, my Lords, can hare a more perfect veneration than' myself for the names of there patriots, who bled to secure or maintain their country's rights and liber ties ; but a more unfortunate allusion than this think could not well be made. Hampden and Sydney did not fall sacrifices to the tyranny and oppression of Parliament—they were sacrificed through that corruption which did net permit Par liament the power so necessary to controul one of the weakest and most wicked Governments that ever existed.—(Hear, hear.)-.4 have said so much, my Lords, to slew how snconclusive this spectra of argument is, and to call on your Lordships,by taking up. and calmly and impartially discussing the question, to dissipate the delusions which are sill: freed to prevail. Another of the popular argu ments is, by asking, Would you give a power to the Hauge of Commons not possessed by the it:Mg ?" To this I would answer. .4 Yes ! The King's functions do not require it. The King's functions ate chiefly thine of grace. of favour, and of mercy ; and it rs impossible to bring him into such a con flict with the people, as to render such a power re qu'site for Iris defence.' Besides he has either powers, such as the Supieme Executive, mid the command of the army, which would render it un safe to add this also. But *ills regard to l'as lir ment, the case is widely different—Parliament his oilers to originate hank measures—all their or dinances are restraints upon the people; And. as Mr. Burke mention., the very imposition of taxes brings them into conflict together ; yet, though severe, their measures were siecessury, and they ought to have the power to punish Mom who would excite popular discontent against them. Nor is this the only argument, though it in ► sutli cieut one. The Seale power may hereafter, as it has heretofore been, be necessary, to protect slue Parliament against the eucroschtueuts of the Crowe. Since the Itevoluton. as your Lordship , ' cell knew. at tummy times have mobs been ilmited against the. House of Commons ; not usifrequently have they been so excited by the Ministers of the 'Crown, and late occasions have sheen us, that even the holy muse of religion may Ire premed into the service. for the purposes of the moment. It is therefore absolutely required, in order to be prepar ed far inneilarcontiugencies in future,that the *Parha went should possess a power to theexteut I harespe cited. which the freedom of their own detberatini sod the interests of the people alike deniaud.—The question then arises in this shape, what danger is there of this mover being abused, and ha. it been abused ? I do not mean to clustered that int rimless/ I times it never was exercised in a mushier which cannot be defended, or that in lat. r isistatict • it i might not have been more prudent to forego than to exercise it. But I will ask without fear, if. in dbo recollection of any one who hears me. it rver was used oppremively to the people ? I am lio•iiid in justice to all the administrations that hum existed since public affairs engage:l mtention, to say. thetas great a latitude of free discussion and Evan of, erasure of parliamentary procrediugs has Irma allowed, as was coosistent with the safety of the State iu tunes of the greatest freedom and limos'-. Then, are these pewees trimly to degenerate into abuse? I envier 00: for they are not in the poise, won of one individual, but of numbers, who, itsi:ropier habit., uvula combine in a scheme to oppress the people. The more improbable. indeed, as the House of Commons emanated from, and returned to. the people, and the Members the rustlers its ulrl be liable to the penalty, and, therefore, had an up. posite interest to incli.,e them the oilier way. Bu:, even supposing, that. 11l spite of all these natter: I reason. to the contrary, they should enter into th • conspiracy, were there hut pr.wers of cootruol in the coecurrent branches of the IL^gislastare ? —'n their Lordships and its the Hr•ad ad the Lae cults e Government ? In this view I am of opinion, and every man who will inquire into thl t mutt be of the seine; that the, e are as many checks and secucties imp os:4J against the danger of abu e fuom these privileges. as the nature of human affairs will admit of.—Maar.)—Much more. my Lords. might I say, ha them the theory slid general prin ciples connected with thus sithie.l, but I -II ill Cull tent myself with boring said enough to call y , ,ur attentiou to it, and I trust a moderate consid,rat:on will eti•me, which may diverse the illimoos now um prevalent. I rim aware. shat, in delivering my mot:- meats as I have dune. I have not courted applause. sin scare that I might have taken a more popular catarrh., anal hare o - staiiscil the sounding of miry name with praise at all those public meetings where it is now irrsarrl with centrum—lint I know, at tbe setae time. that this •ppl 'rise is gained by arts iu which neither warm nor talent louses a part. Hear, 'tear, hear.)-1 know it is heaped upon those whs. hare renounced good faith ; who have stars aunts a the deceneics of life ; who have forgotten the dictate. of honour end of troth—Ail in eau wore despise them than Ida—/Bear, Lear, hear.)—ytt popu larity is a demalile tlimg, and I am not asliame.l to say. that I sin sorry I should he deprived of it by calumny and mirirrpresosittauois. But it is a sacrifice 1 sin comp:4kt] to make, in common with men i• all ages, much greater than ever I can be. I had no *hematite. bat this atone. or the sacrifice of my priiicip!es to those arts which raise the basest and most de• graded of mankind to he the idols of the mob:— Between popularity and duty the path was before me; I have chosen to ho'd fa,t my integrity. I never could endure that wrist horrid of all slate, that most despicable of all degradations—that most abandoned of all pueeuits--the deep and iirespialde guilt of flattering, to delude the varying sod cape:- pas-ions of the multitud-. I hate dose soy dote.— Hear. hear.)--Manytopir. connecter! with • say!•llhje..t yet remain unto-wised. 1 say • *loch or, the State of the army, and the departure : from that system *hick was the work of that most • i slut , mud acute statesman, wh se loss we so lately lztitiente,i. 1 sni,ert say much on the d.sisstrous • esiiiirai , .l.—as mit sin the affa rs of Ilia:a—hot hav . I,z nor • thy gone into other Waiters at greater I shat. filAy lie agreeal.le to your • fOrbtlir you w ith any further re- Tlie result of all I have said. is to tibial.' oe.acr on the br-t terms the exigens ma of the limes iiegint If war is liiillepei.,3llle.let it- have no re ittiotn the fat:lthe of OUT rtialliceS; ct.t.t. , hats all -. • flee remaining re . here frith *hop,* tiny eimineeen In. tereotinie inay be Order, do give a free circular two .tu Specie ; assuage the cliicdutents of the pets : pie, imrbcularly in Ireland ; adopt a moderate rr form in offices paid with public money ; and, lastly, restore the constitution, by • practical and r:.tionel ref of those errors or decays whirls a lapse of time may have introduced. From such measure, alone, can we escape from the dtialiers that sur round us; and, in happiness at hoist-. and honour abroad, bonier, unimpaired, the upturns which de solated nations. I will trouble your Lo.,lshipa no further. but by reeding. the address, which, under these considequious, I have tit Ought it necessary to pi °imam for your adoption." "That an Address be presented to His Illnicsty, earnestly to entreat His Majesty's attention to the advice stitch, Im p" mcd with a sleep webs of the increasing dangers of the rooms', His Majesty's faithful suk;rets, the Lords tiputael and Temporal in Parliament essensblert, have felt it to ba their indispensable ditty humbly to submit lonia HaJest)'S royal consist, ration. To ..ate to Ilii Majesty that we eaunot doubt His Ma• jesty's rradiurss to embrace the hist opportunity of courlud ing a ptlal.t on just and reasonable terms; but that, 14.016,1 to the nature of the conteNt in ohicb we are engaged, to the power of Flamer, inns unhappily establi.hed over Ike gir.itir pail of Lwrope, and to the spoil awl character of the Gottrunti tit of that c.eintry, we sic cunt ineed that this twat, so aul,iiiusly dratted by His M:ojtsty and Iris loyal people, u ill be bi st promoted by prising to the would that, while lilt Slajrst) . is actuated by the most just nod modtrale twits, we pi...es, the means of permanently supporting the honour sod inds psaideuee of our country against every species of attack by which the enemy tuay hope to mod do M. " That, for this purpose, it is ind:.pctisaltly necessary (bat Ills Majesty's Government should henceforth adopt a wiss sort systematic policy, regulated not only by a just c.tsuaate of oar prim ot difficulties, but hy ■ pru dent foirsi‘lit of the probable esittencies of s Pro truded warfare; that we have deeply to lament dial ille.(111 , 1110 Of His Maje My's MiuMters his berm, is this respect, directly the reverse of what the interests sod the safety of His Majesty's domiuions required; that they have 'slimily invitlyeal themselves an schemes of couti neutal operation*, whew they could limb. to no power capable of all'utdiug them as witty:it. support; sad rashly mord its eapedit toot, so ckfec•ive in their plan, so impolitic is their oWeets, awl so ill emo'sineil„ as to the time at which they acre aadertaisint, that 'hay could ttratisatit cosily in an ea prefitahla oriole of the fruitiest., aad the blood of His Ma. jrsty's hittWal subjects. " That whilst the war has hems thus ussfortunately coodect ed, and our failure meow of demure thereby materially im paired, the conduct of His 311.6• *ty*. torerament, with re spirt to Neutral! Posers, Isa% te"de.l to ;amid an amicable arrangement with dome whom it was must our interest to conciliate., and suite with as in opposition to the simastues of Fusee. " That for the priefesed purpose of counteracting th. we inesporrs, a system has beet. to:opted, ender abet au nide pemilent power could be expected to acquiiisee; and tee and •is:oliary prnjetts in legislation burr been resorted to, which have brought almost every brunch of our trade to depend on the permissive, sad to le . exeir i-ed under the contioal, of the reeept iv e Goverameut ; whilst a vor.i.lerattle portion of that trade Las been tsaueleried to • foreign navigation, thereby inaprornhistly reapplying the entity isah a Sew ndoseete fat - the improrrincid id his teary. "'that W *hat name lain. di .tcly conekrr.• one domestic policy, we hum equally to complain of the total want of a is. dons and of (inveighs to the Courcils of His Majesty. 1 hat Matead deny irate oustilered and permenent system adiumme, adapted to the tlligtliClClD of a protracted carfare, the expeusivir and inspriendeut operations of the List three Tema have bee■ supplied by temporary mot impolitic eerie. divots ; that oar paprr cin elation, from winch the rest. ictiou ionpused un the Bank bad removed the only adequate and effectual limitatius, haa been extended to a degree highly dangerous to the pecuniary Waists of the country ; 'diet uo attempt has hers made, by wise and equitable arrange ments, to allay the dAeonteols arising from, religious dif- ferences amongst His Majmly's falafel subjects, more par ticularly in Ireland ; and that, soder the unexampkd pres sure of • taxation, necessarily burdensome is its ausoure, and revere I. its collection, no measere has hems taken ta remove the causes of just complaint, tiller by introdeciog an effective economy into the great breeches of the public service, ur by the due consideration of such timely reforms, as may, in any iostaure, be found requisite, For restating is oar Guveroneent that practical recelleuce, which 111 e gra dual corruptions of time only hate oliicureil or diminished. " That we should ill discharge cur duly to His !Majesty and the Public, if we were to disputer from Lim our welt founded apprehensious, that, emir', to these, sod other causes, dis couteut and distrust use tweinninz to diffuse themselves amongst H u Majesty's faithful people. " That we eatreat His Majesty not to listen to those who world permed* hiss, that such discoutent and disbar', in whatever deim they may exist, are sololy to be attributed to the evil arts of men, hostile to the inteiests of their cues- ti y, sod seeking to recite the people to an imitato■ ut those iumitutions, ow *Lich the freedom and happiness mien. witty .:.peed - That ae are Sealy convinced, such designs have as yet found an favour so the hearts of His Majesty's loyal tiihiteto, and that nothing ran afford to these slur it teitaiu them, any hope If success, bat that impolitic and offeus.ve ivatleuto w to the real inferiors, and just cum pLiots of the I eepe, that &Itemised resistance of eery proposed cornittieu of ateis s, which, in ocr ova times, at hurt sic. ',iodise, such fatal efl. cm in other n. To s e we Lum'oly pray, that His Majesty will he pleased to tale this, our dutiful representation, Mt. his minediate and us. id sv floss tv...lli4Vltat . That he will see the necessity of ad p:Mit loth measures as may deprive the enemy of all Lots. of sum's, fr a white of our stational resources: 11 h., It all, them tote, actively asiscut with his Piseiassient, sew siv.ag dice to wcosossical and systeisate arrangements , for the s oodeit of tic war, so providing for a rt , urieltre to the trot pfu.c,ple• of a free commerce sod cireillotiou, both at Louie and abioad is endeavouring, by a *me and liberal p o licy, to unite the bonds of a common interest all dames of H,s Majesty s selects, of wleaterer re littioaa persuasion : and, lastly, that lit a le gaar,cusly pleased to countenance the t. rip. rate cone.dciatisn, aid deliberate ado p tions of such two iy iifonsat.ous, both attiteotent al aid pollen • , as may loyal people, that the sacrifices required of them are 50... tly limited, and faithfully &pelted to the real attic rti.tt and write of the Pulite. and that, Loth for prerenting i e.. ;i ced, of ally eLngerous abuses, and foe • outrouliug the m.,c.udufl 64 His Mail.l) . l, adr 041, sl.r.tsnue • StC l.‘ ,• passers those etars.t.ry , o Lot brio t hi home ist Ito lirttirjs tlaveriatinfolaill ati natellafty lebeeene triers film konstitutids. ~ • • That we entreat Hie blejestv to be oisor . !B, that in eve**. mending them n:eastires with all the earnestness whit+ • ruovictiun that . they ate iodispremetde fur the salVallon of • tbe country iunpiren, we Geyer ran knie 'sight of title oblige. lion to soppurt the just pretoeatires wad earful splendour Pt the Crown , the veuetable estibliebniert of oar HuryHili. glen ; and the ancient and ementia(Riglits and Privilev 4.1 In Our giru rt so:alien to maintain these, nutlet all eireumstarces, and with all our antlaotity nrd rover, we are well at,u.rd that we shall sot fail to reco .. .s• the nett,* rue.enert nee wad support of all raols of His Maj. idea fnitito people, consist . ..las tl.e) n.,4 he tlnd it is on km their ante. rest than their duty, Initiation) , to 'Where to those fondants : its tat principles of our Got moment, aloe', assigning to ila Va rious inststuti,,ns tights pecu:iar to emit, and recessing for . the prem.:ration of all, secure, by their brim, combinatioll and harmony, to the Earcut Ile Puwet, aufficrat strength, le ' the Legislature, its accessary indeprookuce, and to the shako . , community, the likasings of a ell-regeisted treedam.r The E.ri of Ltvcaroot.. rove; when Earl STAMMOPE roar nearly it the tame Gault and spoke to order. He observed, that liarint oA amendment to propose, A was the Inactive of the House he should have the preference, unless tits Noble Secretary it.tended In inner one of prior its• wrestle.- to the motion of his Noble Friend. The Earl of LArtawoot. said, that, without ad* vertiog to the irregular interruption be hid jest re. creed from the Noble Earl opposite, he should proceed to make his non obserratioub owl!. 11. e motion of the Noble Earl who intiodtu:ed this subject to their prevent conaideration. "%Vining the doubt which existed in his mind upon the pro. Witty of the manner in which the motion had been submitted to their deliherotion, he should proceed to defiers. his sentiments upon all those pro; ids most materially connected wit h the mevit of the duo uw ion. It mule, at the stone time, he noticed, that each cf the many subjects adverted to by the Noble Eatl, was. of itself. sufficient to occupy the considernion of their Lordship., during a whole night's debate. I u proceeding to answer thearguisients of the N oble • Earl. he should first proceed to those obsetratioas which would be most recent in their Lordship,' re- • collection. and which were made towards the coca clunon of the Noble Earl's speech. He most roe. dirtily agreed with the remarks made as to th it question which had of late very much agitated the public mind, he meant the privilege of P.rliiino tit. • The Noble Earl had shard most posierfu!l) flows authorities which sheared incontrovertibly that Par. leametit had immemorahly claimed such feivileg-.. the uuiversalacknowled 4 ment of which clam, for so long • period, less of itself no small pr sof of thi it. existence. But, independent of the. seri able a:.. guments which had h. eta lobed, and the emsue .t. authorities which had Letts appealed to, the s mots. enceof events w hit+ had transpired iii t he recollechrog of all their Lordships, talon convince weer)• coodiss deride individual. that an assembly of the people would at all tames Lie more liable to be oreiaced by the clamourof the populace thou the rower of it monarchy : NO nose could forget the Revolution of France ; that assem b ly. ollichaves termed die Ciao. 'Murat Assembly of the People. coinposiA of wise s well intentioned. and the most virtuous unfortunately, through fear bud jealousy of ILO " Csowo oath e ode lOW, sad oreaaar.d..4the pips, lace of Pars sod Cie adjacent to 4 us on the orb. r e were !weed from the thifstut siT their country t welfare. From this clamour and threat of those out of doors. they dar e d net to act opus pritteiplet of justice; fur none ventured to wrest the stiaiutenance of moberate ideas, awl hoe were those who studettouk to recomuteod them. It was this terror of the populace, eier dosa ge:owe to the independence of a popular assem bly. that frustrated tall the wishes of the first pos . polar asseinlibes its the revolution of France. By that clamour or popular favour of the day; the members became oliiiiiatous, sod one assembly". Folly succeeded the other; for neither were capable of satisfying the umeasimable dem:Hole of the po palace. It was a race of patriots in their cora. u senceineut, but coosagned to common destrucii.d in the end. The rapid amuses which shook the revolution in its early stages. owed their origin to the drtud of popular opinion. Ile• also eyelid with the /Cottle Earl. that the cases of &deity and Russell had been unfortunately referred to Ipy those who endeavoured to delude the public. misid. It would be remembered, the times its which thyy lived were those when every attempt was wade ,to int oduce arbitrary power. They suffered i a reigc when despotism might be said to aid; bet 'till' there were many parts of the eouatitutieo cwt of thorned. They retained the trial by jury; sod Ly a jury, udder the influence of corrupt power nod terror, were those great men mode martyrs le • the ca as of liberty. That, unluckily for those who quoted these tuatauces to support of their argument, it was evident, that is times when the constitution Of this country was most in clanger, it was not juries. no nor - even courts of judicature. which alone could maiutain the liberties andsights of the people. On the contrary, the chief defect which it • • opprars . led to the ealonswy, woo the overthrow of the authority and the povrer of the two Houses of Legi*lature. In times like thee', the only che c k orn the opprestiosof the Crown was the priv i l eges Parliament. It was Parliament only wino h mulct have preveuted the destruction of those two variety. Still he was far from 416r:bitting by these observe. tient, that he had not the highest veneration for the Trial by Jury and for the Common Lae of the land. But be would venture to say, that the tin• vileges of Parliament had been the Lest and the only support of the people's liberties, in all the reigos when arbitrary power threateued the exi*- trace of the constitution. Se far We sentiments were in unison with those of the Noble Earl ; but in respect to the other parts of his voluminous speech, he had to express a driltled &terrace of opinion. Tie Noble Earl had manifested •n anxiety to go sway that misrepetsentstosi which had gone abroad, a.,d to express those $ sit . mews, on Parliamentary Reform. which would convey to Poe public a correct statement of his opinior. Still he use not sure the: Noble Va.l wou'd be gratified in his expectation. lie dvrecated the general notien which subsisted, re. I fire to abuses to the state, and declared that he did nut think any of the objects aimed at by the p eo pl e , if attained , would produce the smalk , t ad tan•• With respect to soy reform in the tvo.