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vied to any great extent. It deprived a foreigner who so in•ated his copital of the pentrer of diattos. inlr of it by will, because-it directed an equal di vision between his children or other velatives. with. out any regard to 'testamentary disposition. He then remarked. that two writers in dimwit quarters of the world, M. Cott'', in France, ■nd Mr. B►isted, in America. hail concurred in remarking, that the political greatness of Great Britain was mainly attributable to two laws, not acknowledged in France at the present day—the law of primo. geniture, and the law conferring the right of a tea. tatoentary diapaition of property. Mr. ELLICS replied to the observations of the Chancellor of the Exellyier. brat )eur he had cheeol that lie ems ;111%11 , 11.1 ~) fix the time of the iminiento by the Chancel;..; of the Eschequer to the Back and he had wit.hrti to do it without reference to any arrangements agreed to between the Bank and the Right Honourable Gentleman. Being told, however, that a payment of 1,200,000/. was effected, he declined any further interference in the subject. Rumours, however. were afloat as ') a method of paying the Batik, not at all creditable to the Government. It was stated that a sum of money due front abroad, and secured in the French fund•, was to be applied to the pay ment of the Batik. This might be a mistake. but it would be better far the Chancellor of the Ex chequer to explain the whole circumstances. There was another point on which he differed from the statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had mentioned as a proof of the prosperity of the re venue. that not above 152,0001. of the new taxes had been received, which were included in former returns. Now, what deduction could be had from this, blot that the country, already severely depress ed, hid still to undergo the pressure of three mil. bons of new taxes, with the abatement of 152,000/. Ile looked on that merely as something which flirt-Ilene(' more distress. It was the misfortune of the Right Hon. Gentleman always to state too little cr ten much. Being applied to for explanation, the Right lion. Gentleman had declined it, for fear of encouraging stock-jobbing. Nothiug could so etlictually encourage it as the latter part of the speech of the Right Flon. Gentleman. As to his argument of people being deterred from investing their money in French funds, because in case of their decease the property could only he divided according to the law of Frooce, it would be found to hare no effect. Mr. LVSIIINGTON defended the statement of his Right Hon. Friend. He would take as an exam ple of Ins accuracy the item of tea, the importation fir which had increased, bye comparison either with twit tear, or with the last quarter of each year. Ile thought it unfair to take the best year of finance and contrast it with the worst. It. was not right to expect a progressive payment of the new taxes commencing immediately after they were im posesl ; many modifications were necessary, and tune mnst be given for the accommodation of trades men before the first payments could be realised. Of the new melt tax, for example, not a single far. thing had been received ; and indeed from the whole of ihe new taxes not above i 60,0001. had been re ceived. But then this was all that was actually due, according to the arrangements entered into with re gard to those taxes. No account could shew the (lessee, in the progress of a quarter, the different amounts of the old and new taxes; thatcould only be alone at she quarter's rinse. No one could determine beforehand what amount of any tax might be resi.onably expected in any quarter; it was easy enough to do it prospectively, but the calculation could never be precisely made beforehand. He thought his Right Hon. Friend had ample grounsls for the cheering prospect which lie had held forth. Mr. EtAtce explained. Mr. GRBNIMLL had resisted the motion of his Hon. Friend for fixing the time of the payments to the Bank, and had been on that occasion the ally of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had thought as lie slid then, that any interference on the part of the (louse into the mode mid periods of payment, would be imprudent, as the measure was ultimately fixed. 11r. RlcAlioo also thought it imprudent fur the House to interfere in the arrangements between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Bank, iu regard to the payments ordered ; at the same time he saw no danger in giving the House juror. minion. As to its increasing the transactions of stock jobbers, he rather thought it would have a contrary effect. Stock-jobbing depended on se. cresy and partial information for the most part ; now in case of the public beiug informed, as all would have the benefit of the information, there could be no particular advantage in stock jobbing. One ward on a mistaken argument of the Right Hoe. Gentleman with respect to the exchanges. He was wrong in taking that as the criterion for determining the amount of capitol transferred. Suppose fifty thousand pounds should be laid out in this country, the goods exported, the money paid and remitted ; it was clear, that to such a case the exchanges would only represent this es so ranch capital transferred. No just cal culation could be made without consulting the ex mats and imports, nor would these always deter mine. Not long ago, England and Ireland were called on to chew the amount of exports from each country to the other; whea they. were sent iu it appeared from them, that each exported more then the other; this was 4 course impos►ible. The only meant of oseertataing were to examine the exchanges, and exports and imports together. He world sup port the motion. Mr. KINNAIRD thought some explanation ne cessary, and would vote for the motion. • Mr. MARBOLY said, that the grant of five mil lions was mode to redeem the unfounded debt due to the Brok e in order chiefly to facilitate pay- melds in specie ; but the Right Honourable Gentleman had borrowed five other millions front the Coneolidatted Fund. Was that the may in which Parliament intended that the .payments *should be made T The Right Hon. Cientleautta had denied any real decrease of rennet. ha the July quarter there was a deficiency of 000,0001. Beittg convinced of the decoy of. that Comansy ha referred the House to the Excise, sod said :'°,Look at the les—there N mu Soma* of esi -mien rositle," The Right Hon. gestkoosi forgot Omit rildeil.oo red voioress duty.• There mo o iw forsto• .rismesse of duties on tea egsul..woits esiliturt. iu .the-liset quarter. Spirits bid deenessett'isi duties, es' bad malt ; there trete 100,000 barrels of beer less brew• .ed in last quarter. These were not dieering pros. peels. He did not charge the Government with this deficiencit;, they could not help it.; It was caused by ciewommancea which they could not change. He thought, however, that the Ittitlit Hou. Gentleman should be less sanguine in Isis cal culations. He ought to know that the people had . not the money to purchase commodities, and that the Exchequer could • not hive the same receipts from a decreased as from a larger expenditure. He ought not. in short, to be so tuitions to keep the accounts utT the table of the House. He would not press the motion to a division. The question was put. and negatived. Mr. MABERLY thew moved— " That an Account iihoold be bud before the Bones of the amount of Enettequrr Bills paid in fur Duties between the hi of July and the 21es September." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved,as nn amendment, to omit " September," and insert " October." Mr. Gamsyst.t. could not see what objection there could be to tl►e motion. Mr. Ttzatrue and Mr. ELLtce deprecated any attempts to &lignite the information required. Mr. Mat=Le felt himi.elf bound to press the motion, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer ingot know to 100/. what amount of Exchequer bills had been so received. Mr. IlusKiesoN said, the fact would he known on the sth of January : Ministers did not wish for any mystery in the case. The CiaacaLLOß of the EXCHEQUER said some. thing Dot perfectly audible. Mr. MABERLY s:►id, he was dissatisfied with the objection. The accounts, if then ordered, could not be had till they met again; if they were to wait till the sth of January, it would be very late before the papers could be produced. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the papers should be ready by the tune Parliament met Mr. CALCRAFT said, this was an ingenious way of putting off the reply to a question which could be answered instantly. Mr. HUSXIIISON, Mr. MABERLY, and Mr. Etttcs, said a few words each. The gallery was cleared, and the House divided— Far the Aneeedeiret 9O Ataimst it Majority 6O When we returned the SPEAKita was on his legs. We understood him as expressing his satisfaction at the loss of the original motion, as he could remem ber no precedent for it. Mr. MAMMY said, that as the amendment had been carried, he wished the motion to be withdrawn _ altogether. Mr. Hums gave notice, that he would to-morrow move for au account of all sumli paid by the French to the English Government, not intended for the purposes of English subjects. . . NEWSPAPEK STAMP DUTIES BILL. Lord CASTLSaSAGH then moved the order or the day for the third reading of the Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill. . . Mr. Bisset. said, that he had been in com munication with a respectable class of tradesmen, the country booksellers of small capital, who were, in his opiuion, • highly useful and meritorious body of men. From their representations, it would be destructive to a great number of persons engaged in those branches of the trade. He prayed Minis ters therefore to pause. Mr. G. Lama would not occupy the time of the House in offering any apologies for addressing them upon the present measure, for he did not think that his Hon. Friends had been fairly treated by the Hon. Gentlemen opposite, who suffered their arguments to pass wholly unanswered, except when any oppor tunity personally convenient to themselves occurred for uttering a few sentences. The Noble Lord op posite (Castlereagh) had apprised the House of his clemency in proposing the present measure, rather than an open and avowed previous censorship; but let the House mark the nature of this Bill, and they would see that the Noble Lord 4 , bad kept the word of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hope." Well, however, might it be asked, to what a state had the country fallen, when a Minister of the Crown would dare to avow that such a questioa had evev been entertained in a British Cabinet.— Hear. hear.)—The Member for Curie Castle (Mr. Banker) and otters had, to chew the extent of their constitutional lore, reverted to the times of Alfred to draw arguments to support the present measure ; but what had a modern House of Com mons to do with the law. of Alfred ? The rights enjoyed by the people of England were neither to be confirmed nor weakened by the events of past ages. The Member fur Corfe Castle, however, evinced more ingenuity in his comments upon Blackstone, when he attempted to thew, from that celebrated writer, that the measures now proposed were not inconsistent with the existing laws of England; but if the ingenuity of the flouottrable Member went for any thing, it livered only that Blackstone ought to be put upon the shelf. Mr. Lamb then eulogised the Constitution, for she pro tection it afforded to society, while it guarded the liberties of individuals, and asked what final code did the Ministers propose to substitute for it?—what institutes had the Attorney , and Solicitor-Gene nil prepared to rival its noble simplicity ?—what plan had they arranged to displace the veserible structure ? This, however, he ventured boldly to affirm, that the sheets containing their uevr-fangled ,doctrines would not be dry before a necessity would arise of altering their provisions. From the speci men of Ligislation already produced, lie could easily collect that the principle of their constitution would be the sic no/o. sic Aliso of Missisters.--(iimie, Leer, Azar.)—He avowed that he could not on• derstimit the distinction attempted to be drawn by some Gentlemen between the effects of the law, as they related to publishers. cud as they related to authors. or this Ise was quite vet tint', that nothing which Twisted to the one class could be indifferent to the other. and often the two characters thus attempted to be distinguished were found in one and the some person. He complain. ad of the Itertlehip imposed upon an 164411ne1:4 being compelled to find enewritim before Isesmuld seimbotti in trade, and 'to pewit, the seam of Suffering punishment before he could •obtaiss the iPtlitic. of coosoittisig. oiosgeoce. Noss but, rich anor could tel tow Atiemopooolatioo. sod the osethoro d cloture. times essehabo easy cut is their pecieslagy eireasistsits. front thew of whim tradition speaks. Lord Croke has enumerated five' occupations that must lewd to ruin, of which one. was that of' • poetaster but it was evident that its whatever way the poetaster of the future day mag close his career, he must at least commence by . being immersed of property.-..-(Hear, He could easily imagine a care iu which theory"... rity of this law might be severely felt. Ile could. I imagine a young man entering Intro life soimated by warm hopes, and destines of entering into this particular branch of commerce, but without the means of satisfying the provisions of this Bill. If he apply to his friends for security, thee will say, " We have every reliance upon your ins. I flour. abilities, end integrity, but uncertain as is the law to which you will be particularly exposed, we cannot become your sureties, unless you can prove yourself not only free from every human frailty, but even superior to the vicissitudes of chance."—The Hon. Gentleman dwelt at some length upon this topic, and concluded by remark ing, that the arrival of every post tended to dissi pate the delusion on which the new measures were founded, and that before the Bill passed Ise should move a clause for the purpose of limiting its dura tion.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Puce cautioned the House against vitally 'fleeting the great barriers of the constitution, while they were merely legislating. to meet temporary s evils. It had hitherto been the glory and pride of English law, that it imposed no previous restriction upon the liberty of the prem. Before the House proceeded to tress new laws, he thought it important to ascertain how far Government had applied the old ones to meet the evil of which they complained. Montesquieu had said, that the right of petition and freedom of the press were the two great WO- Cities fur the preservation of the liberties of the people. Minister" bad new'hy their new measures affected each of those securities, and the spirit in which they brought forward their Bills shelved the view which they took of popular rights. Mr. JOHN SMITH contended, that no ssecessity had been at all made out to justify the enactnietit of this new measure; it was, on the contrary, quite clear, that the law., us they now stood. were ade quate to put down those blasphemous and seditious publications which all wished to have suppressed.— Nothing surprised him more than the indifference f Ministers to the violent speeches end des !orations made throughout the country during the last year. Whet could be more seditious than to hear, in the month of July last, a man in Smithfield proposing for the adoption of a meeting, certain Resolutions, which went to declare that the people would obey no laws, pay no taxes after a given period, unless certain conditions specified by them were complied with by the Legislature ? They described the public debt as a swindling concern, with *lnch the peo ple hail nothing to do. He thought at the time the laws would not have been suffered to sleep an hour, without bring applied to the punislimeut of persons of the description to which he alluded, and whose doctrines were inconsistent. with the existence of any regular goverunsent;„ , Sdcli persons were, however, suffered to • reMain .at large. and new laws were now called for before the experiment of trying the old ones was in guy manner adequately made. The effect of the present Bell would be to destroy the rising industry of a number of meri torious indviduals, who would inevitably be left in a situation in which it would be utterly impossible for them to pursue their avocations; their abso lute ruin would follow though they . were innocent and loyal persons. Such were his apprehensions of the effect of this Bill. A Member. whose name we could not learn, de fended the Bill, which he thought was actually neces eery to secure the tranquillity of the country. He fully concurred in the opinions of Gentlemen oppo site, respecting the inestimable value of a free press. This Bill would by no means affect that bulwark of' freedom—it would merely curb the licentious pert of the press, which was disseminating blas phemy end sedition throughout the country. The authors of such wickedness were the men whom Cobbett, in his better days, appropriately described as the parasites of the people. He denied that this Bill could in any fair way be deemed a restriction of the legitimate rights of the press. Mr. CALVYHT viewed the publication of bias. phenious and seditious writings with disgust and indignation; but the law, as now in force, was am. pile enough for the punishment of such offenders. Let it be .hewn where it had failed before Parlia ment was called upon to arm the public promos. tor with more vigorous power.. Under an active superintendence, he was comfit:l(A the laws, as they hail stood for 120 years, would be found every way edequitie to punish the licentiousness of the bed part of the press, without resorting to fresh measures, which involved the good and moral pert of the press in one common evil. From - a paper laid on their table, it appeared that in the year 1819, I which teemed, as it.dul, withthomoffeusive publi cations, not a single prosecution had been instituted. In 1819, • vest member of informations were laid. The first tried. that against the notorious:offender Carlile, had fully succeeded, fo . ,lostification or the previoss-restuction lobe impound by: this Bills a Learned Gentleness. (the Atteoney.Geoeral) bad quoted the precedent of •the severity given by victuallers; but that borw no resemblance to the present cue. The victualler was required to give a security to do that, which was defined* jihad he lied power to do ; nernely d to keep. his home in order; and the security was also smell (10), and therefore was easy, and within any roan's reach. The present Bill required two or 3upl, prtuity s in the first instance, stud fae•llinpurpatte of,pssvesiting the commilainn of a veigu, and undefined °fleece. The booksellers. (it most respectable and. "diluent body) Complained. of the, principle. • of ,thst..meiss rium.; , end. the laws did not reqoire. it. Hope, acquittal, it was mid, deterred the Law Oflisiws from further prosecutions; bat that „srcqosttal erpse from the, full settle entertained '4,9* jy . ry t that the, parodies Were.isot iatetidaa.tu revile the Christie* religion—they thought the pmercaties was a hypocriticel tone.--they knew that posse, high in station eadvower hod written sucla , pairadim errth irispunjty., .rid thig cven i:CsOnift M i nister DIVA 4344. to tkoup.....ioeciurge. cow. whigii ddlesses.eampleniesio meaviesima. worimeardiately obssiatel. The .preseee be tbengin '•qesee men necessary.; there could be no pretest* tints lion ins pernmsently inosettedififewrq Ow the question that Ow viii M. Mot the 41641 time, : • *h. DtlitsiL roes to propose Clean far liatite• ins ' IM Bill toe tettWoritr7 dame lion. • CASTLtigauft said, tholf cable l ie made id tree ay thin; in thepristelple'ra pruleinis of Olds Bill In iny destruellie of the freedom of the press, be should readily admit this a venial Las then laid for readeriag its ojeration temporitry instead of perninnent. Bid it 'Cies on the convictions that this Bill did sot touch that guest sad 'suede' debt—that It, on the coufnien protected the freedoms of the press, of the rainivial, mu. nil, and religions pert of the press, that he prOpuid it as a tleirinasent IMPIIIMPC. 15 did mot interfere with the pin citric that allowed all mew to publish their seatimeats without previous coattail. 11se law of libel eras, therefore, must reeessary to the freedom of the prom. It merely pro tected the *object from the baneful inanenee of a Migrant abuse of so valuable a privilege. With respect to the bruits of the Bill imposing staiatiriumni the grislier publi cations, it merely went to ',nabbed. to equitable rule for the whole of the periodical press, the better part of which paid this els*, duty—and why exempt • the lower, which, in the hands of evil.disposed persons, had been productive of so much miechief The nest broach Of Bill was that imposing a respossibility, to pretext evasion evhia which was sow practised, by putileg fords perms in a garret se responsible to the law, but where el tultion rendered she obligation tiogatory. He denied that this Bill would affect literatdre and injitre ulknis— That. class of useful peruse would never feet any rutty is getting a printer or publisher to circulate works which were nut of a seditious and blasphemous tendeory.— There would be always *sty of capital in IMI comae% ready to he applied to the purposes of literstore ; arid the Hill world only operate to pot doing the vette if deem whose only object was to sap the foundation of the relies* awl morale or society. It would est tow& the gamine led legitimate freedom of the press, use *is it new in its priori ple, fur it was soaloginis to that system Of responsibility which required the printer's name to be althea to his week. It was GO restriction of the pressOlsough it may, to a certain decree, restrain the application of capital for illegal purposes. The principle of requiring this previous security wen udo- Volt to the, practice prevailiog, between! merchant aid neer- Chant in she daily transactions of their trade, where the party was preparatorily bound to Ile saborqout hlilmetf 4.f hie credit. Ti, deter the guilty A', persevering la their demoralizing career, the Bill was accessary, and, to be effectual, it ought to be enacted pernialiesitly. The enlarged *spa this necessity to soothe the of the loyal and religious porthole of the enaunitnlty,s= that if Slinisiers bed not spoken Much era thee@ is was because they felt the Impulse et the H with the feeling* of the country, in Wadding the propriety; of putting down she sedition and blasphemy which well. inculcated by desperate characters nut of doors. With tee' street to the punishment of hanishineat foe a secreted offarece; be dewiest that It was a new principle in the law. It was enacted, and, together with traosp etloo. which was now abandoned, in the Act of 1796. It was, be thought, the natural ponisbniest for such antisocial doctrines as were inculcated against the well being of society. They had beard a great deal of supposititious eases, wherein book sellers of the first respectability were underthe wood saltigatiog circumstances to be exposed to the severest posishment. If such a mode of argue cut were to be tolerated, there would be an lead to legielatioe of any kited. The Noble Lewd pressed ups she Howie the necessity of enacting this Bill. As fur what bad been slid of the booksellers, be would as. sort that they could not be affected by the Bill, unless it should be said that thou who administered the law woold not allow t h ose fair elaims of indulgence which they bad always shrive. lie hoped- the House were there/see prepared to follow up the bold measures of Government—measures width, in their regulations, did nut affect the fair liberty of thg pYo e, they only regulated the law as it stood. He that the tegnletions were a restraint an the era ployment of capital and industry to a certaia extent, and if he knew what way that objection could be cored with: out et the same time taking away the entire efficacy of the proposed measure, he would be glad to remove it. The measure was one substantially for the press, for if the pia ciple of tlw liberty of oho press in 'biscuit/dry sboold be Neff lOW, it would be through the show of the perm, and not through the arbitrary principles el /he Crown or the Par liament. Sir Jedge ItilAcittirroirs said, be would not, like the Noble Lord, go at large lute the priaelples of the measure, the lime far delay so with ail prospect of advantage was past, amid Hiatus preveated hies from attending in that House. Had the Noble Lord cooined himself to the questiou before the Home, moiety, whether the measure should beef a tem. porary rattle, be would have moaned himself to that point else. He would not dissent from the proposition of doe Noble lord, that the criminal law was capable of auseodniest ; such auseadamot bad remedy been mule is another plate at the suggestion of a Noble Friend of his (Lord Hollatad) is the Bill for limiting the power attic Attorney• General with respect to criminal lisforvisetions. He considered that 818 the greatest anieedasent in the Criminal Code gime the libel bill of Mr. Fox; a measure the moat important as respect. lug the freedom of the presa, that took place since the co. mural of the censorship is 1604. 15 was • gratification him that those osculate were brought forward by two per. sous, for the memory of oat aid fur the person of the other be entertained the Tamest affection. With re spect to certain publicatioes to which alleaime had hem made, he acknowledged with shame and sorrow that they were poblications of - a Ilagitleas and detestable Nature, that they could not be read without abiseneoce,anitainia& as they did, attacks on civil society, sad iostigating as they did to every species . of crime. If the object of she pireetet !erasure were so put dews these poblications, little obser vation could be made on she subject ; but be would my, that it would be easy to densonstrate that these publiestioss mid the mural poises they mataised was not aimed from any inadequacy in the existing law and the pieoishmeot it pre . arribed. if it could be Arra that the authors of them rob- Wiliam had hem peeseepted. and had still persisted is their career, that indeed would be a ease to hew the tar &query of the law, and lw shot 'cam the nature of the evil would mast out the 'Wore of the remedy ; has where sai attempts had bees used'. to pet the law labs executlon, he slid sit me how the proposition that the law was imdequate could he ismiateleed. If the painielmeat for libel were that of death, that puoialtianit would be of mu avail where ae pro. weeklies were carried go. It was Set threats but iNflictiou that deterred offesders. Helmut* far the este of ergo: meat, somas that Jostles 'Mire imlispeeed to Sad verdicts fur the Crows; be world ask, would she increase of pa: eishmeats make them - mete disposed 1 He wooed awl pose that it was difficult to brier forward proof, whuld the increa.e of the maishmeet remove that +Meshy ? HE thought that the lamellae cat piahhiaert, sci fir from re. maim. the setts eautplibeed foe, would have a troderscy to Mamma them. He would rot complain of • sairasom to !beck 'the progress of lalisphitsiy emit oeditioo • and it was hie Weeder to mist out the eigitiltibei of thee; mimeo, mad by liesitiog the hien:motif pew posighlaset to the new is. cream of evil, to make the immerge therms. effectual for the myyresaiuts of bleaphlkatebialedieVlllehle librla;mod et du some time to euelpilroas ihrte soft -peeiehmeem calm where individusla might be hetrapd by iodiscretim aid 'srat—seid' mist win et boldness amliodepitseleme, sod Ho chief virtual of • ?obi's writer. Hes delluitiou would spare the press, it • period : else* it ma tdtt heldielledged that the 'Nil peseeseed.great pnrity; mien it was amdeetalloith mks. did talents, and had perfaresed vest services. His delliai. Ilea 'Would spare the press 'the eisdeseried lefiatsyaf befit costfituaded•oblo lemphemeuraml the pirpetaisers• of atiati clam mimes. Melees sight be the fate of his .petiposi. Gets, hi Muddattempt lb coolie the °permitst if the Sill ' to idiot cam of eirik' the ktieMiede te wild' Molt fOOO mails lb. wiessierse jostiflahlia. . . . He would sow proceed to the question before the Honer. The MAIO Lad ersaW IMAM 'die ewe* se hale* Hitt they err moltarg o...amillitetv Is was amempary thpy ab l essid eaderstaed theme/ware they were *boot to adopt. It might eolsMifer*d'ooi . dfltLotfMiff ;'llsit 'theNdtehellietilthiari martiimul grosibla • reetrimiguo us „the libe.rlymf lbw Vague He could um see as olklectio• to iw tZrztior i ar . z: &oier 'Di ty; were"h hot "fah of the 1101 4 &Mich daeleraiittmethrtorregoomNeelme tlh Ihaperpgag of rernme. pot I s tommt the seillikerielUdffielithlif. (Wee ht Snag . •• • glf 414,1eiillrear psios.ove.l4lnis da she. 44 1 4.2 sale "fr i g AIINI 'WO* et .whip. yam Hoe. Irisud (Mr. CWaliaff) *es M Alit a siii pitar task, bat he never kid algid sea. oppeetisallits moo t Itis.pnius and him elogomtee soiert tie Whorl; eeeewr lreery niaiiiiyert'et fee the IN roister of • Mote ,if the of iffestswick-thst Herm which the Whigs had. upon the Legfish atop Such istrettilme spites( the Whip world in that Horne of Cosiniond 'he eon. eidered little short of tresses silty . pars ego, when es his Right lionearable Primed had said, it had &soot God to put a. mid to their relgs-he wield oat cry who pet an mid to it-they were preaerve4 whilst Hwy we. e coessidered necessary-.they remained Inn to the House of lianover ire dilksity and danger--they were boiled by the;i: principles to the tiros., but the priactples that made Skein oecessary fur the defeece of the theory, made them minis • segrable with respect to the 'mistime o f Its preruesiiiie the example few the preset esearisre ought he dram, (rum Mews congenial sources. These Tory measures is. re ik. ported by Tory writers. Swift suggested 4 stamp duty 19011 • view to prevent pablicatioor spinet the Government. •ii•l the very day of the expedsios of Sir Helmet- Walpole n. Itl2, • Message came from the Throw, eamplaheing tithe progress of blasphemous sad seolltiesis libels ;. Ibli hfsage was delivered by s person of greet talents cud who never was respected of smell piety--te m▪ ew Mr. Secretary St. John--wad the measure of poslog a stamp duty was originally coistrieed by So .rt against his ors brethren of the press. He it us• who list made this remittal smirk a the Pees. I' , which be owed much of his fortune and sU his fame ; heel the measure at the time did sot produce the effect leaded. He was astonished to bear the Noble Lard my that the eseesere did got fetter the press-it Daly affect. J the primers and publishers. He always thought that the liberty of 'triodes sod of publishing were synosisseas with the liberty of the press, such was the delloition of John Maio , ' -" A Speech is favour of unlimited Printing." He "wolf ask the Noble Lord, if he knew the vicissitude' of I young nese of genies, making his way without the aid of fries& or fortune-bad verb s sri, of fewer. ons dispositioss, of briniest fairish, of humble tont.. ties, would he Gad so difficulty in lisilieg ties-be whose ardest imam and stroog oraribilitiis would ever drive bite to approach the very barriers of the liberty of the press, mid eves to pees that Maier ? The very (Heade of such as individual would dissuade him from the perosit-they world say, " We will not he year secreity, we wi l not be responsible for errors whirls yes most siressesii'y commit." He might put it to the Illmute, whether any twelve in the publications of the day, who felt warmly, sad oho spoke independently es public raisin, could remise the limits of the libel law, that was not likely to be betray. Into as offence spinet that law-there were uses, bet the tame and cowardly sycophants, who might detainer, imam a, their conteson-place and base adulation; bet those who a.. sleeted the hold principles of liberty could Dot wipe th• danger. But the Noble ilia had said that the measure woutl only have the effect of rephiting the trade of printiug. The printing-office was the road through which she mother 0.,r, •to travel-if you diminish it pm affect the author-the printer is his issterniest; if you injure the printer you abridge the liberty of the writer. Wu there an consider , . lion for the printers and publishers ? How were those •h 9 were poceelo be distinguished from those who were eminent in trade? He had it from the most respectable audios ity, that the wawa world have the effect of .poottile our sixth of the twisters of Larkin oat of employment would reduce diem to the tradition of journeymen. The Noble Lord had said with great nor, that this 1111111.1 be racy a clump from one mitiditioe to soother; but little is it seemed to affect his, it was owe which would carry angiii.li to the hearts of that body of men; it would reduce them to the &Rondos of journeymen, at • time when there would he ee demand for laboar-o-it would drive them to poverty, sad cut offal( their rising hopes. He believed that of s , l glasses la the ememenity the booksellers were as respectable for purity and integrity in all their transactionio-for great and generous attacheneats to liberty-for adheres.* to the GllrefllONS9—for devotion, to their mieutcy mail loyally to the liag. In their isterfemsce on the present occasion. the terniseat booksellers were entirely dohs...rested. Most of them ware sea of vest formers, bo.ourab'y acquired ; bet they wee forward to give their testimony injustice to this, who were labsariag to emerge from rivers*, and by their exertions to procure ea loosest livelihood for their faraiffee• sad themselves'. The °Duthiet of those re. speetaidaAmiiwidmals was the more twairestorthn be cause it wee driaierested; and as ea Hormsorairk thieso. t had declared, 'Shea be had brought is a Bill for the reenlatiors of Coates Manufactories, that it was the brat r-- tore he could make to ierlivideals tbrisgh whose means his fort sae was sa q pid red-•-eo the rimier' egointeflers of London implored the House to spree the risiag cruder. and Dot put oat of employment the isdastrimm sod the deserving...- Stagy of three individsals ribs thus came forward or behalf of the less fortssate tradernams, sass of them at leave, wield havespeeng from se 'ltmeble *testier, hut sure he was, that they bed the good serge to fact that as hostuurahle iallipendente, pined by lisle hsworribie industry. worm of owe tribe pride Ass fortress or Wow from a keg Inse of ancestors. It was Mere that the measure wee a restrictios co • the press, ilea the ores_ ties was, whether it should be made permanent or tem porary? Was the Holm prepared to pet a permanent restriegioet os the Bageols• pear ? Hw Implored theta Reconsider the serious import of done few weeds-, perm*. nest restriction es the English prem. Nagy . amend meats of the etroalitatios were Ant istroduced as temporary measures. The Grenville Act, the greatest species of Pio liaineetarirliefores aim! the Kevoistieei wag Ant • tem porary elessaile: Will se Ineseiimon thetwastititioribe made pemosoest Did the Hosea of Essillnese forget the very screed of ftb liberty of the petwoorthet prom M which they owed their rigitli--thrie which aliened their country, whkb " Wall • • wfri7l7l;l:P.Wl•;l 7 sail 'grish foreign mama ogre tow attempting to ropy Thellim. Member ant *Mika to she Bill of 11104, fur the preleattoo of emlitions mmHg*, awe amarattet the mild Maritret at ltfr Vtai. Gault ea tiat onethilas - with the toa- dies of the Hark Lori on OW He 'thee tgat a 'try eh - vilest 'least the priatipiee if be ltralletioi. He took a review of the Bill of Rights, Litleit he 'debt has sorry 10 heartland air Hon. Haittessimeargriit Welk (lir. Binslies) attired ie Istiritr tht Piltile'eareta. Vita - Mk be woo lb. rerigabor of'Om ertligittesiesi' age as a grestritairdof frorima, - lo despise of the "Irreeidihry oho Mani it a Mil of Wriiiiit." 'The tepid if %he Licata Act. whit% folloiree tit BM Ist tai war Naar Pm mudse of lievoldlito, of phi libaty of ' Callititt replied ht tltiiiJeldla leapt' • Kr:Biotwtutr strengly Mimed ria the nemesity of prow. Mg that the castles kw were,hiailattsate, i5l at magi. ins I. time Lost place, te. Oat whisk alpha So muse INC— He geloted ad tha *fees lof. (maim* .He • eery happily satirised' the argosies& bays hem Mr. Meere• UM' bY Crealleamea opposite, maw wow art Om Ad the kW. 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