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nonsigned to them, and they ushally said that the proper time would arrive for a statement of their conduct. Well, the day of reckoning was nearly at hand, when their own time of e xplanation would • arrive.—(Hear, hear.)—lndeed in private conver sation they said, st What signifies four voices against 600 ?" Well then, like Esop, let us light the candle, and see if we cannot get four others who will do their duty better.—(Cries of " Brava!") —The worthy Gentleman concluded by moving a string of Resolutions--(for teLich see Adeerrise meas. ) Mr. WAITIMAN rose to second this motion. This was not, he said, a question of argument, for no Dna% except the grossest and most corrupt dupe, doubted that Ministers took advantage of the situa tion of the people, in a season of great distress, to suspend their liberties, and in that manner stifle their irresistible complaints.—( Hear, hear.)—To justify this measure no arguments had been made, nor could any be anticipated ; none, therefore, were required from the advocates of the people in sup port of their natural rights. He considered that the law of the laud was fully sufficient for the iwe serestion of the public tunquillity, when the Mi nister* thought proper to call for fresh powers. If the Constitution were only to have existence when every thing was quiet, where was the necessity of calling on people to defend the rights it gave if they were refused the exercise of them in the only moment they could want them—a season of griev ance and complaint ?—(4pplaisse.)—The com plaint of the Livery last yeti' was against the Suspen sion Act : in addition to this, they had now to com plain of the conduct of Ministers during the suspen sion. They had to complain that Inindreds of their fellow-subjects were torn from their families—put in 4lutigeoess and in irous—aod kept so fur months, to their ruin, and then discharged untried and un heard. It mattered little that some of these men sere of a low station in life, or what their numbers were; the Ilial of the liberty of the subject was bruught to issue in the case of a single individual, like that of Mr. Jenks, as much as if 1,000 had suffered.—(//ear, hear.)-IVhat defence had Mi nisters in mike for such conduct ► The new edi tion of the Green Bag—(Larighterj—ltrl tome out last night in the House of Lords, and it did not disclose a single fact or circumstance that the pab lic not already in possession of. The plan of Ministers was entirely exploded by the discovery of the hired spies, on whose information so many beings had been incarcerated. This premature ex posure on the stage prevented the performers, who were intended to be kept behind the scenes, from afterwards being able to play their parts in the farce, or, indeed, rather in the tragedy, and thus -the business was entirely destroyed. If it had not been for the fortunate discovery of Oliver and his plot, pier men might have been put on tend upon their evidence, and perhaps convicted. The disco very, however, defeated this purpose. The same fa►ce had 'been played off twenty yeses ago, but then the actors were more skilful Buau . the present ones, for they kept the machinery wholly out of sight.—(lleur, hear, mid a langh.)—The late Sus pension Act passed certainly at ■n unprecedented period in every respect, and at no former period was so much► oppression and injustice exercised under it— it was exercised-ina millStitt as wanton air it was cruel, fur the unfortunate sdtferers were discharged when it Ivas foun&by the explosion of the spy system that they could not be brought to trial—nut as they ought 'to have be e ts discharged, in an unconditional m.rn t►er, but upon harassing recngssizances.—.(Hear.)— After this another Green Bag Committee was formed, which, even in the House of Commons itself, was called a humbug—(a laugh,l—for the persons composing it, to inquire into the conduct of Ministeis, consisted of Ministers themselves, their Placemen and Pensioners, with a few solitary exceptioiss.—(l/eur, hear.)—Ele had often been -argued away from pressing o question, by its bring paid, " 0! leave this to the judginent and wisdom of Pat {lament—fa lough)— F ur if you preen this point, the effect wol be to degrade Parliament in the public estimation." Ile would now ask. if Parliament was degraded iu the public "etiolation, by ninon bad that degradation been effected ? I Icor. )—W as it by the acts of Parliament itself, or by the people who complamed of them ?—(Hear, /sear.)—Wmild the worthy Gentlemen behind him (soy Ai r roh e rs for the City—of course, excepting Mr. Able/man Wood) now complain of any thing cot of duo's? Would they, who night after night Art by Aliviisters, and voted fur all their acts, now come forwaid and tux the people with ottesupting to bring Parloonent into coutenipt ? No; they would uot venture to tread on spelt tender ground. —(Applaase.) -Wherever the people, goaded on by spies and sufferings, had beets driven to acts of violence, then the evil was louldly complained of; but the distresses which led to it were overlooked, and .of the !housefuls of Petitions presented to Par liameut, complaining of bitter mid heavy griev ances. not a single our had ever been refered to a Committee.—( Hear, hear.)—'the day of retribu tion for the men who did these acts was how sit head; it was for some persons, doubtless, an in couvenient moment, and like their parliamentary predecessors, who voted their term of sitting from three to seven year., he was sure the present good folks would, in a like manlier, be glad to make 1111 experiineut to prolong their duration irons seven to fourteen years.—( Hear, hear, and a laugh./ Ile had 'usually moved isistructions to their Retire 'misusers on occasions of this kind, but he would nut on the present leave it to the City Members to "y• it tin' pleased, what they meant to do on this sinestion. He would slot new expose the Livery to repetition of the insults some of their 'Members bad Barred them by a refusal to attend to their in mrt"'lmmiss (Hears) —These worthy men, 041 former oi caissons, had set their own judgments up against those of their entire constituents; they might ros sibly have more talrots, and its a certain place these wears were a marketable coinniodliv.—(A laugh.) —Let them at utice avow this opinion, and then the I.lvery must how in obedience to the feeling of their Representatives. This would ba a more candid course, tliaii• to treat their constituents with stale jokes Lid pantominucal grimaces, which, 'n though they ay provoke a laugh for the inontria, w yet unseal thy of any upright man in the dsischarge of ht. insh:ic duty. He concluded by seconding the Mot ( Applause.) Air. SCIIULTES 144144 dud the offended justiee anal viola's I vosilidence of the cosiotry, called for on smolt) into the conduct. of Ali:niters during the suspension a the Habeas cape, Act.— (Mir, hear.)—.The Great Choler secured to the people the exercise of their lilwrties—and a eiolatioa ,if this right, fi nless specially and clearly Mended, was in fact nothing else than, on the part of the Minister, a derlaration of war against the people. A anepension of the liberties of 13,000,000 of peo pte called for a clear and unequivocul justifica tion—(Hear, hear)—und an inquiry could alone effect this purpose. Let the Mowers act on the good maxim, " Do unto others us you would others should do unto yon."—(Hear, hear.)—He feared, however, that their plan" were devised in a con clave where female cowmen:as had the chief sway. He that as it may, the influence of the Livery of London in the expreasion of their Opinion, must have powerful weight all over the country, and he was glad there was this opportunity of manifesting it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WILLI Alll4 appeared in front of the hustings, and was received with much disapprobation. Ile entreated the Livery would pause and wait for the result of a patient inquiry before they passed a vote of censure on Ministers; before they decided they were wrong, let them first consider whether they were guilty. They were charged with hiring spies to -convict innocent men.—( Hear, hear.)—This was a great mid heiiious charge.—(Near, hear.) — Let tts 'consider their private characters.—(A isegh.)--They have passable characters —(A laugh) —and woulfl not be guilty of rush conduct. l.et any Gentleman come forward on oath and prove the allegations against the Ministers, and then he would consent to a motion of the present --[Here the up roar became so violent, that the worthy Gentlemen was obliged to desist.) Mr. WOOLEN though he came forward to move an amendment to the present motion ' begged to Ire considered as c on curring in the Resolutions that had been moved, so far us they went ; his only objection was, that they did nut go far enoegli— they were not commensurate with the important circunistancea of the case, or the loud and general condemnation which Ministers deserved for their conduct.—(Hear.)—For a time last year some men (he was not of the number) gave credence to the language of Ministers; yet now, when their whole story was out, was there any in tention to be paid to such declarations ? The Ministers had boldly set out with declaring that the existing laws were insufficient to maintain the inter nal tranquillity of the country. They were right to say that these laws were not strong enough —not, indeed, for the people, as against their external enemies—but for the people, as against their Minis ters.—(Hear.)—There was danger, there was trea son in the country—but the danger was in the continuance of his Majesty's Ministers in office, and the treason was in the effort to keep them there.—(Hear.)—The Ministers were determined to preserve their emoluments, and they could not do this withont a sacrifice of the Constitution,— (flear.)—lt was true that disaffection did exist iu parts of the country—the sufferings of the people created it—yet their complaints were not directed alpinist the Constittnion, but against the evils tinder which they groaned.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—After all, what hail Ministers done to substantiate • the charges they lied brought against the whole nation ? Even the evidence on which their Green Bag Report was to he founded, though got up by themselves, they could not venture to let open to the public eye.—(Hear, hear.)—What man of rank, or tolent, or connection, had ,Ministers attempted to imprison or impeach ? They confined their attacks and imprisonments to the humblest individuals, whom they thought were unable to de fend themselves.— (hear.)—Their whole proceed ings would disgrace, in petty malignity, the acts of any Algerine State. The case of the unfortunate Riley had been alluded to, and lie knew from is fellow prisoner of that unfertaluste man, that he mid another were ordered iu to clean away the blood iii the dungeon where the suicide had been just committed.--( Cries of" Shame:")—On the sub ject of any thing to he expected at the ensuing elec tion, he had only to say, that he altered from those who looked forwaid to such a mowed ; the nature of theve.elections was too well known to be a fal lacy for the people to indulge any expectation of their interest being consulted in the general result. The Resolutions with which lie meant to conclude were intended rather to rouse the public feeling than to make any impression us. the opinion of Parliament. The worthy Gentleman concluded by moving a series of Resolutions, as an Amendment to the ori ginal ones. They were to the nine effect, but couched in much stronger terms. Mr. HUNT came forward to second the Amend ment, and was received with great applause. He said that be was induced to second them from a necessity of using the strongest terms that could possibly be applied to the conduct of Ministers. The language of the original Resolutions was that which had been used in vain for the last twenty years,-it was now high time to speak out. — (Hear.)--What would they say of a physician who continued to apply only common palliatives as the disorder of Inv patient increseied ?—why, they would say, that, instead of connoting the deaculum plans ter, he should put on a blister, and if that would not do, the patient should be bled. Now, these amended Resolutions were intended to blister the Ministers.—(Loud loughter.)— [Mr. Haut here took occasion to advert in detail to a transac tion alluded to in the Amendment, namely, the conduct of the Court, and all the parties en ' gaged in the trials at Derby. Ile animadverted UllOll them in the severest terms, and alined the. charges against the individuals, on which he ground ed his strong censure.l—lle said that the people alluded to should not have been tried at Derby, where their riots had created a strong impression against them. He recollected that Lord Kenyon removed the case of Mr. ‘Vtiddington, fora trans action relative to hops, front Kent, where the far mers were coueeived prriodiced, to London, where no such opinion was pre.formed on the merits of the case. Why not have wives the Defendants the same advantages at Derby ?—( Haar.)—As to the Peti tion they were shout to vole, it would be of no use ; it might be put into the green bag, where, peshaps, the worthy Alderman (Curti , ) would have to decide upon it.—( Laughter.) Mr. FATELI. hoped this Amendment would not by pres,,Al, thon ;; li he admitted it had been twilight lorward in an io:len and regular manner. The original ltutulutions nett: strong enough, and the (lien& cif liberty slionfd not encoarege division for a choice of words. lie believed lie was the old est Ulm present who hail been engsged in the cause of Reform—he was ; more than 40 years in that pu r suit, and had entered it with that great and en. lightened man, the late Sir Win. Jones.—( Hear.) —The original Itesolutious had enough of firmness for any constitutional purpose. " True Fortitude coosistis in ways that Justice warrants and Wisdom love b. " ••••• (Hear, hear) Mr. WAITIIMAN contended, that the friends freedom, when met together, should act on one principle and as one tniiii.—(Hear.)—He hoped the original Resolutions would he deemed quite strong enough fur the occasion, and flint die Amentlineot would be withdrawn.—(Cries of " Withdraw it."! Mr. WOOLEIt would not consent to withdraw it. Ile should leave his Resolutions to be disposed of by the Livery. The question was then put, and the amended Resolutions were rejecred by a great majority. The original outs were ihett put and carried, with only five or six hands held up against theni. A Petition was then agreed to, founded upon these Resolutions Mr. FAVELL then moved, that the Petition he presented to the Hones of Commons by Mr. Al dermen Wood.--.(Crles of " Breen 1") Instructions were then moved to the other Mein bers of the City of London, to give it, to the ut most of their power, the best support. Sir WILLIAM CURTIS came forward, and was received with a great uproar. He said that he had always thought it his duty to attend the meetings of the Livery, to support their proceedings when he thought them right, to oppose them when wrong. As regarded instructions from his consti tuents, they knew his opinion well on that point— be lied often told them that lie should be II freeman who represented a free people.—(Cuntiented larsrn ter.)-1-le bad always done his duty—(il bough) and the time would shortly arrive when It would be fur them to say if he deserved a continuance of their sufirages.—(.l bagii.)—lfie supported a sus pension of the Habeas Corpus Act, because he thought it better to give up a part of their liberties to secure the rest. _ _ _ Sir JAMES SIIAW congratulated the Meeting on the moderation which marked their proceedings this day, and for having rejected an Amendment which it would have disgraced them to adopt.—( //cur. Ile had voted Wilt the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, ito•Bllllls7ient events had confirmed him in the vote he doe givr.—( Hear, hear.)—The same Motive that inneented him in objecting to the condemnation of the people on ex-parts evidence, now operated with I • when Ministers were the defendants, and he would not, in the first instance, cond e mn them until lie heard their case.—(Hear.) —lle would attend in Isis place in Parliament, hear all would be said on both sides, and then give. ac cording to his own opinion, he was sure, an unbiass ed, and lie hoped to the Livery a satisfactory vote.— (hear.) Mr. Alderman ATKINS was always anxious to maintain the honour of the City and Country.—(4 laugh.)—When he ceased to do so, then it would be tor them to cease to return him. He was sorry- assistance of his worthy Colleague", some of whom were nutleCidea ; and he hayed the visirming greets hag would render thins still more so.—(4 laugh.) There w „.. however. the greasiest ully in per suading Gentlemen in the flosise of Commons ; he had 3eell e,l*,tri demonstratively proved, and yet wisest the thvistoss (*ollie, only Is or I 9 seemed to have been convincesl.—(4 lairgh.)—A Noble Lord proposed to refer a number of Petitions to it Com mittee. " 0 ! no," sly his oppossents, " this is too general, come to particulars, and let its hear your f.tets--loing forward a sin 4 le car;." Well, then, the case of tau periog Wills witnesses iss Scot land cone forward. !" say they, 1‘ this is only * single ease. and the I,ord Ad.:orate contradicts it !" —As to the measure of suspension, all be would Say was this, he opposed it at the time, and every thing since convinced him that the existing laws we're sufficient far the sisaintatance of tranquillity its the country. The poor Sailor alluded to (the only con viction in the suetropuhs) was tried in the regular course of law. With reference to his parliamen- I Lary duties , . he would be always ready to receive the instructions of his constitueots. lie Intended in Parliament, though he might have claimed a longer delay from his tellow.cittzens from public dillies, on the very first night of the Session—he was iii his place on every succeeding niuht until the pub lic business was disposed of.— (f:reat applamie ) Thanks were then moved to Mr. 1: avell, Mr. il'aithouni, nod the Lord Altsvor, who severally ack vletigell thew, and the :11..etsoug, which was extremely numerous, Witaidissolved at half-past four o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, Feint:Arty 24. ACCOUNTS. Mr. Johnson, from the Office of the Irish Steil tary, pre seliteil the A I Al cusutP. Also, an Account of the Number of Persons Tornio:ltch to the ditirrent Prisons of Ireton , ' in the Millie of the seas 1517, lotrhuant to an order of the (Insole. The impels were laid on the table. CHIMNEY SIVEEPEUS. Mr. Bennett and others, front the Commons, brought up u Bull fur regulating mid restricting the employment of boys in the sweeping of Chios tiles, to which they desired their Lordships' con cu►rence.—The Bill was read a first time, and or dered to be read a second time to-morrow. Lard HOLLAND presesited a Pelitina from the Inhabitant liou4siteepers of the City of Molt, pray nib their Lordships to pass u Bill fur preventiog the employment of buys. under the age of ftrurteen years. itt the sweeping of chiuwies.—•Laid ou the table. The Hoare then adjourned. 110VSE OF CONIMONS, TUESDAY, FEISRUART 24. Mr. Johnpnn, from the Office of the Secretary for Ireland, presesented Papers cunt: • • x a Return of the of Persons confined in the different Gaols in Ireland. Also a Return of the 'Number of Persons enjoying. Civil and Min der! Employmenis in Ireland at the present iwrio4l. Lord A Irs , LEI preßnted a Petition from a number of Persons in trade resident in Gloucester, !wapiti!: for an to-day to see among them that man at whose door amendment in the present sr tem of Bankrupt Laws—which the blood of the poor sailor Cashman was to be was read nod laid up the table. Isid.—(Here a violent uproar took place for several &viral Petitions were presented, pealing fur the Repeal minutes, and the Alderman was loudly called upon of the present eacessive Duties uu Leat he r. AIM) a Petition to name the individual to whom he alluded.) from certain Attorney., for regulating the practice of GM- The LORD MAYOR at length succeeded in oh- Ivy:man—which were severally read, and laid on the table. Wining a hearing for the worthy Alderman. CLERGYMEN OFFICIATING IN GAOLS RILL. Mr. Alderman ATKIN!' resumed, and said he al- The Report of the Bill respecting Clergymen hided to the fate of Cashman, as having been officiating in Gaols was then brought up. induced by the inflammatory language that lie had Mr. CUItIVEN moved, that a clause should be heard at the Spa-fields Meeting. That (Meeting whirl' thereto, which would nt once retire SS tme had drawn together east numbers of the lower i cessary expense throng liont the different co ttttt ies, classes, who by deception were driven to violence— and put some restraint upon the exercise of a pa (Cries of " !")--and the men who so deceived tronage most derogatory In the clerical profession, them he should ever consider as answerable for the and prejudicial to the interests of the public. Ile fate of these poor deluded people.—(Great uproar.) would not detain the House with its expediency, —As regards instructions, lie would exercise his with winch most Members must be already too well acquainted. The i c i l u i , i , i t ise no wh ( illi ei l n ie yi s n h o o n ul s r i l iu liz i own judgment. — (Cries of " Oft', or") Mr. HUNT hoped, that, after the attack which pose wt.* one enacting had been made upon him, he would be heard in be appointed as Chaplain to any Gaol or Muse of reply. He claimed this privilege in justice to them- Correcti tttt a herein the persons confined had not, selves, in justice to the Lord Mayor, who called upon an average throughout the last three years, for u patient heariug for all, and in common justice amounted to twenty prisoners. to humanity. A charge so unprovoked, and so Lord FotarroNE thought, that although all foul as that of murder, deserved a full answer—he persons must be anxiously desirous that crimes would give that answer, a n d appe a l to the Meeting should decrease, and as a coosequeirce thereon that as his judges, and abide by their verdict.—(dp. the number of prisoners should proportio n ally di plause.) —Perhaps the execration which they had munch, still, if there were, as there naturally most 'hewn at hearing this charge made, ought to in- be, gaols and places of cosifirieirceiit fur offences duce him to treat it with the contempt it d e . against society, although the number might not served. But what must be the feelings of the amount to twenty upon an average of three years, man who made it, and who himself had sat in it would be very illiberal, us well as attended with Court during the trial of Cashman, and beard the the worst moral consequences, if the persons so 1, 00 , man in hi s l as t m o men t s d ec l a r e th a t li e w as a confined could not avail themselves of that spiritual discharged sailor, whose father hurl died in the ser- advice and consolation of which persons in their si vice of his country, and who had himself received tuution stood so eminently in need.—(/tear.)—He nine wounds in her service—who came to town and felt, upon these grounds, insuperable objections to in vain sought his arrears of pay and prize -money, the clause proposed. amounting, he believed, to nearly %!00/.—who Will Mr. HARVEY felt his own objections to the clause driven to desperation by bring left fur daysstarving, I strengthened by what had fallen Own this Noble and refused the payment of what was his due—who, Lord, and should therefore oppose the motio n ., while in this state, met a friend, got drunk, went to I The disuse was then put, and a division called Spa-fields, and had actually quitted it with the I for. During the attempt to clear the gallery, the rioters en that day two hours before he (Mr. H.) clause was negatived without a division. had made his app earan ce there at all ?—(Lord cries Papers were presented, containing a retort) of of Hear, hear.) —But this was not all, the unfortii. the number of Coutractors for Post Horse Duties, nate man near him (Mr. Alderman Atkins) knew which were laid on the table. at the time lie had the hardihood to make this ST EA MAO/XIS. charge, that he had uniformly supported the system Mr. lIARYRY made his promised motion, relative of Ministers who actually produced the death of to the providing increased security to passengers in the pour sailor, by inflicting upon him the treat- steam-boats. He felt it necessary, *mosso other ment which drove hitu to eesperation.—(Hear.)— improvements, to suggest that all sham-packets When he talked of blood being spilled, a Gentle- should, in future, be registered. Also that, for man near him (Mr. Hunt) said, 44 What does he better protection, the boilers is the steam-eligines mean—does lie allude to the blood that flowed i should, in future, be constructed of wrought iron from his poor apprentice's back ?"— (Cries of i alone: and that there should be, during the work- Hear, Aear.)—He could assure the Meeting, that ing of the engine, a competent engineer always on he did nut at first think the allusion could have board to superintend its management. He hoped been directed at himself—as it was, he had only to these amid other regulations of the Bill would provide say, be never saw Cashman in the course of his life. I complete security to passengers in future by steam- The associates of the worthy Alderman had seen I packets, and moved for leave to bring in u Bill, him, arid .driven him to the desperation that led to adopting in its provisions the improvements he had hit fate. He boldly challenged any being alive to I mentioned, which was agreed to, and the Bill in prove against him any act of cruelty against man troduced and read a first time. or beast. if they could, he would never sheer Isis I Mr. CALUNAIT brought up the Report of the face in the Livery again.—(Great applause.) I Committee to whom had been referred the claim Mr. Alderman Woon came forward amid great I of the High Bailiff fur compensators'', stating that applause. He said, that, next to the honour of he- lit was the opinion of the Committee there did ing their Representative, he felt that WlllOll they not appear to them any just ground fur 'grant hart this day mato-red upon into, by intrusting tog to the nigh Bailiff any timber compensation their Petition to his care. Ile hoped still for the her losses he might sustain at elections, than such at it hail been the practice of the House to gran hint rrom tittle to time. The Report being rend, 'yam laid on the table. FEES ON PARDONS. Mr. F. I)ouGr.as fumed for an account of the fees, taxes, and durs t poyable by offenders upon ie cei%ing pardons granted miderthe Cre,it Seal, wit the names of the persoint Staving rtceived sue, pardons within a certain period.—Ordered, Lord MILTON moved fur St return tor the number of faculties issued for the elielosive of pews in ti, parish churches of England awl Wisles.—Ordaret, Mr. PtAtt. brought nit the Report of the Cots : miner opus, the Irish Royal Canal Pelition.—ltrat I laid on the table—as was also the Report upoi the Callers' Petition, presented by Lord MILTON . . _ . Mr. C 'MEN presented a Petition front th caulkers and labouring manufacturers in the Dock. yard at Chatham, praying that means might be created, by stoppages of firl. per week out of their salary, to increase the allowance granted to the( when allowed to retire upon the superannuated list De thought the Douse would feel disposed to acre to a propositiott so remarkable fur its prudent fore sight mud self-denial. The Petition was read, sad ordered to he ['rioted. General (;astieturix pteseitted a Petition from the leather dealers and trisistrs of the town of 1.1. veritiesl and its vicinity, prayill for a repeal of tin present high duties on leather, and stating do since die late Act increasio4 the duty" had beets passed, the num, ier of It-oilier dealers and tonne,• in that place had decreased to le .s than two-tiou of their former smuttier, °a tog to the prejudicia effects of the tax. After a few words from Mr. BENSON, coml.-WI in; of its injurious e&ctst upon In% constituents i Stafford, aril hoping the general voice of the troll, expressed in noineroici Petitions, would be dui. appreciated by the Douse. the Petition was read and laid Ott the tab!e. Mr. BEN NET V presented Petitions front tiehjaif thin Whiteley, of Ilorbury, in Yorkshire, ao , ' Rich:nil Lee, of Dolotfrith, in the saute cowl' who hail hero kith confined on suspiciois of I.i treason, in porsisance of the power 14r:tided to :1; :listen by the suspension of the If ,hens Corp Act. That of the bitter stated a cote of unprece dented hardship, the Petitioner hating been vomi t) , its heavy irons, Isla twenty weeks, its Yoik Cao and coiniselled to sleep in the saute bell for steel nights with a person charged with mauler, I which he war afterwards executed. De was siih• (pettily confined its a similarle close way willi prisoner, whose consciousness of his atrocious crini induced him to cat his own throat, whilst in cur finement in the same cell together. The Petitions were read, laid on the table, at then ordered 111 lie printed. Mr. BEN N ETT then postponed his motion for r pealing so much of the Acts SS granted rewal upon conviction of felony, eonsmonly known the significant epithet of Blood-Money, until itex\ Monday. Sir Jolts NEwtoaT presented Petitions front the Inhabitants of the Cities of Waterind at Linierick against the Tax on IVintlow Light. stated, that the Petitioners complained grievous/ of havii ' e , been deprived of the advantages light and air by this "l'ax; and that to a want the latter the alarming progress of the late rpm inic diseases in that counts!, had beets principall attributable; and that, finally, his I.ijesty's M *sisters were now no longer entitled to make use this; Tax as a source of revenue, it haring bcei granted expressly as a War Tux alone. The Petitions were read and laid on the table. 111 r. CooRTENAY presented a Petition from eel twin Solicitors and Attorneys of London and IVes: milliner, praying, that some enactments might passed to provide against improper persons pile, tising as Conveyancers in future, which was read and laid on the table. REPORT or TIIE, SECRET COM P Mr. PHILLIPS—" l Iwg leave to ask of t. Right lion. Gentleman opposite, whether the Re port of the Secret Committee will be presented di' night in Tile CHANCELLOR of the Excurcorrt—i' N it will not. Lint it is inure than probable that will be to-morrow." MANCHESTER PETITION. Mr. Piiii.t.tPs—" Ai Noble I I 11_or_ (2a.inet , ..on has give') notice that lie will bring forward •" Ariny Estimates, on Friday, I wish to ististimne , notice, for referring the Manchester 'legion to Committee, which stood for that day, until Thurs day se'insight." CITY ACCT )VNTg, Mr. fl. SUM NE,, ill ...ju g to move for Itreoit of the loconar and Expenditure of the Corpora,' of the City of London, rib:wired, that the uccoun he watt about to call fi►r were very d tiereot tam: those connected with a private estate, although t Corporation, it appeared, thought otherwise. T' property which had come into their hands, eith by bequest or otherwise, was intended for pubic puipuses—and it was the duly of the Mouse to st that the uses for which those grants were mail were perfectly fulfilfed, befOre they permitted thei to be appropriated to extraneous imposts. TI nature of the application which had unlaced lei to come forward was one of a very catruortintic description. By the 53:1 of the King the City 01 tained leave to raise 96,000/. for the purpose building a hew prison —and, when that Act u•, culled for, the City did not plead poverty at 0 reason for having recourse to it. Undoubtedly, erection of prisons was a matter of great intim; ance—and, if the City had proceeded to btu them, with their own funds, instead of lasisto those feuds in acts of magnificence and mum crime, no person could have quarelltyl aith the But they had not ouly done this, they had dently made away with the sum which had alread. been grunted. The prison, when built, was foul quite inadequate to its object—and Ciro the Corps• ratio'', without ally parliamentary sauctiuo whites on their own mere authority, added 34,000/. debt to the sum of 96,000/. previously ea l trod: If there were no other ground than this, tier N o: he thought, would consider it to be quite, suflic, , to induce them to refuse the grant which the C . now called for, natal they had satisfactorily at cool rd for the money they had already expended. 'l - 1 , were charged by a very active Member of their Court we believe Mr. Waithnuml with Ia: threat: away 20,0001. in the purchase uf.5%5(44.1: a. • lit gold ente was emir lie to 4 Geo MI el Cil in h . euiar er for t lie them (I. cnrre 37 ye all ]u the Ott Gulp Statue he Iwo k- tot be and Colour air Public • Donliti St. ale re- If the many I nn consid • when t :he their Jut They 1.10,00 t rot; t if they had for :jai j have ha without i at ale. •meglit ;sly their fut tad their hi from or!) 1 . 10 their nit rod inuttenti ise to k. a. : 11 bipated Nli- to the 111111 11:11 , (1 it pt tit - II their ace t in the 6 crat were the for snecific ;sr- Estitte I; it buildt ties this flint rowed 33, cents Cm and that if Lo they had again ;mid ads the only by tended Si, mat ancient CI in the Bor. rout iTibie for a and passed th e tle yeurs—bu Ludy pm*? lit Alderrdett. t of Did the a want of e : e of new e s gtrt a lly Justice s of 'N held th. Courts still acing—;Ltd war to; pro est.- establitdimet be the Bridge- rtt C - malversatiou tad • spect to the or worse colt F. • E. on it—for tl Council thei the tuns thing tit Re- trust them w this of the liticke by the law o L No. own distric it that they Middltaint, not Sell Par three were v tit would not my interfere ni t :0 a exclusive Ito ors- mark the out civet!. In II called en sot 'nil of whom. it non the duties of tuts These fitter, o u t to 9.400/. —lt the ihrOdeCtil 80 like rpprellsirteti her they might I Wlc building the see proper that I ['Jr. counts, that lop granted to lit rite plied tor that That Mere ;try Areoutit of the üb.. hale Levi, ream of Years, co di ng the Allint 1V35 stu d brqueets—l) tie fines for oak,— the be pectoritits Sir W. C olda ;made beVt`l.ll lug Int= part, he ii _ course of 111 , tilt. ' 11.141 been 111 ,, S obliged, to .0 tidy tile counties unit a most moonlit diesex. Last vcr. rnatnernalice at Loads u from led. to support its Lase, • have beets tit , trot they were to were olillig-ed tut- them-11r coat • hey be tefosed to were roily carry nos Hail previtoislY and had iito vljt •.•1 • •