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f zt „ z Oft 4 1 " - -i 0+ "" bt it tut 3 • =IR V.l! r NUMBER 5299. TNIRATRILROYA L. DRURY-LANS. THIS EVENING , WEDNESDAY. Dec. 1 , his blajmity's ft/mem. will net-form the Play of A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Lord Lo‘eti, Mr. Holland ; gir Giles Overreach, Mr. Irv); itellhorn, Mr. Russell; Allwortb, Mr. Prnley; Well .b,, Mr. route; Justice Greedy, Mr. °sherry ; Merrell, Mr. ?c in d er ,. Lady Allworth, Dirs. Glover; Margaret, Mrs. Outer. After which, a new Musical Farce, in two arts, called THE DISAGREEABLE SURPRISE; Or, TAKEN UP AND TAKEN IN. The principal Characters by Messrs. Russell, Hughes, Har ks, Farman, Knight, Boller, Ozberry, Mrs. Edwin, Miss Kelly. To-morrow, the Comedy of The Road to Rain. ------7 MEATRE.ROYAL. COVENT-GA it DEN. THIS EVENING. WEDNESDAY. Dec. 1, will be acted Shakspeare's Tragedy of CORIOLANUS; Or, THE ROMAN MATRON. g ole mos—faros Martins Csiviolantes, Mr. Macready (his Rii appro. sore is that character); Contistius. Mr. Lisp n,,,,; Menenins, Mr. Blanchard; Sirloins, Mr. Coonur ; Brutus, Mr. Corner. Velsmsuia, Mrs. Peewit ; Vtrgilin, Mos Foote; Veleta, Mrs. Yale.. Vo:.ciiiis—Tullus Mending, Mr. Egerton ; Volatiles, Mr. Clirctrwlt. After it hick 7111 time, a Petits Comeau. in two stets, milled A SHORT REIGN AND A MERRY ONE. Ile Public is respectfully iafinmed, that Miss Meeseley ~,,,gn:t.tl for a limited number of nighia, and will make her f.O arpes,ance in a new Tragedy. LAST WEEK OF MR. H. JOHNSTON'S ENGAGEM ENT. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE, Under the Patronage of their Royal Highoesies the Prince Rrgeut and Duke of York. THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, Decem ber 1, and during the Week, at Half-past Six **Clock precisely. 2d tune here, the highly popular Melo-Dramatic Talr of Enchantment, called ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES! HORSEMANSHIP, and PEASANT'S FROLIC! To conclude with the Equestrian Mein-Dramatic Spectacle of RICHARD TURPIN, THE HIGHWAYMAN. A DELPHI THEATRE, STRAND, LATE THE SANS PAREIL. THIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY, Dee. 1. will be presented (Ulises.) a New Barletta, tailed MORE WAYS THAN ONE; OR, IT'S WELL IF IT TAKES. After which, the New &Met. ratified EDGAR sad EFFIE; or, THE HIGHLAND ROBBER. To conclude with the New Comic Modena, called THE GREEN DRAGON; OR, LYE QUITE FORGOT! ROYAL COBURG THEATRE, Under the Patronage of his Royal Hieloess Prince LEOPOLD of SAME COBURG. VIS EVENING, WEDNESDAY. Dn. ela awl* No week, the Emote& llotedelossease to cesatiwoos with the outillodusleol Sella Ifilowileasint, composed Irak.. lit ism g .aaki LOVE IN THE VINTAGE. Atter which will be produce{ with envy partible dyers@ of apiredoemr„ der the third goe r s* 11Mtivels mew woad Xdo• dramatic Talent Enchantment, is two sets, called BEAUTY AND THE BEAST; OR, THE MAGIC ROSE. To conclude with, lbth time, the interesting MelaDesate, called, MARY THE MAID OF THE INN! 'DUBUC DINNER on FRIDAY NEXT, December 3, at the Cuma sad Allow Towers, Strand, is Honour of Mr. Cobbetes Refers to the Rehash Metropolis. HENRY HUNT, Esq. le the Male. Tickrle, at Ss. 6d. each, to be had at the shove Haase, and of 31r. Dolby, Strand; Mr. Calmat, Blaekmao•Nreet, Rommel.: Mr. Limbed, Wardour-street, Soho; sad Mr. Watlier l Strana r . _ _ - N.H.—Diener ow the Table at Four o'Clock. 15 K. N, Physician-A ccot:cbeor to the Middteses Hospital; and Dr. LEY. Physician. Acreuchear to the IVesiminster Lying.in-Huspital, will rononenre a COURSE of LECTURES on the THEORY and PRACTICE of MIDWIFERY, sad the DISEASES of WOMEN and CHILDREN, on MONDAY NEXT, the sth of DECEMBER, at Half-past Ten o'Clock. effritt We may be karat at Dr. Merriasaa's. No. 26, .lalf Mem-street. Piccadilly; at Dr. Ley's. It. South Asilley.strvet; sad alibi Middlesex Hospital, where the Liatui‘vi will be given. TO BE SOI.D BY AUCTION, BY MR. EVANS, Al his Haase, NO. 20, Pall-Mall, TO-MORROW, Thursday, Decent erg, and Four fullowiog Days (Seudry excepted), A RARE mind Value/1r Collection of POR. TRAMS •of Celebrated BRITISH PERSONAGES, 'lid II Lt'STH/OUS FOREIGKERS, monocled with the Eagli.li• Series, • the property of s Ilistiligteishett Collector; consisting of !be •eisuirast practise' ions of Hoses:berg, De. !nem. Entrookri the Passes, Wie•ix, Debry, tamps, Lam .srt; (;tuver,nfarithril I, Smith, Pit re, W. Faitborne, &e. 4 atuat the jailer see briSiaist I lapses:Hops of Ins Oliver ‘ 7 reiviwel-hetireen the Pillars, sr.d the Infanta Catharine. la She dress .ise caste from Porte( al ; many rare Historical dte. tG GENTLEMEN, "NURAIIIRT MEN, GARDENERS, IND OTH El IS. TINIENNOLD HY A.UCTION, AY MIL COCHI AN, on 'FRIDAY NEXT, the 3d of December, 18111, and following day, nu tbe I 'remises, T.HP. VA UUA BLE NURSERY AND KITCHEN (GARDEN ST OCK of Mr. HENRY NIALLIER, Little Chelsea; .eonsisting of fine dwarf, "^4lr.t, sad trained - Fru At Trees, of different ages and cra;•Gooseberry sod Cut rant Trees; strung transplanted 'fins and ether I ONC• ; a Ent : collection of Stools of Hoses, .••••rgreens and Orwar .rental Shrubs of Sorts, Forest Trees, Flower Holdr , &.!..; Frames and Lights, Horse and " 1 1 "e 4 eY W larked Darden Stock; fine Delta of Pears, Ifwort es. aserries, Ac. he rivaled, -ar Cambric* hail, by applying to Mr. 41411 iees usthe V rein i Ilel ur to Mr. Cochran, Auctioneer , , ihthe-satin, mistime. square, where Curornisaioas will lirearrinetyatsess. lid to. OrIiWABLE LI;ASE/101.101 PREMISES, In Ay LiNE of the lIRCEIe,'S NEW.:;TREET. No• WA R iCK.graf .ET. GO La !EN SUVA I{ E. O BE bOld) BY AUCTTION, BY AIR. COCHRAN, ( .** yneviosuilv disposed of by Private Cootreet), Be MONDAY NEXT, the tith of Deceinher iskionut, at Cr. Witmon's, floes Compv•sen, Kier-street, Gehl's square, at tine o'rlock. toe the retreloter Term of Five evv• awl One tjenrter trots ebrnmos•• next of rlliiotiF, VA LU ABLE I'ItIOIISES. of i (mu Rooms on each Einar, at the Low reed of 100 f. I ' l to Under.teuratest rt vent Advance porticoiars sea to view apply to Mr. Spri•rdi, /3 1 44.1 ) .4 1011-. your; oc to the Ameliorate, 7, Doke-seed, i.Povcoor.square. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEIVT. HOUSE OF LORDS, TUMMY, Novenas' 30. CASH PAYMENTS. The Earl of LAllOiaD;ti — rem;rked, that some reports prevailed. intimating that it was the inten tion of the Ministers of the Crown to propose a suspension of tl:e plan agreed to in the last Session of Parliament, relative to the mode of resuming cash payments by the Bank of England. To give the Noble Lord opposite an opportunity of remov ing such rumours, lie sl i 141 now ask lout whether inch in intention was in contemplat ttttt ? Thr Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that he could not conceive f what circumstances or in what eiblit.ei, such a report could have originated ; but he had no difficulty in assuring the Noble Earl, that the Prince Regent's Government hail no intention of proposing any measure to Parliament for sus. pending or altering the plan of cash payments agreed to in the last SlO4l. STATE OF THE NATION. The Marquis of LAN SDOWN rose in pursuance of his notice, and in discharge of that duty which he sincerely believed was in compliance with the semi melds of • large portion of the community, to pro pose to their Lordships the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the grovel State of the Naiion, but more particularly into the causes of the dist moors and discontents that now prevail throughout • great part of our manufacturing populetion, and into the state and execution of the laws relating to public meetings. Although conscious of the diffi culty of the task he had undertaken, and on that account was obliged to claim the indulgence of their Lordships, he yet felt that a considerable por tion of the difficulty which usually attended such a motion on all preceding occasions did not attach to his present enterprise; for knowing how naturally it was ever imputed to Noble Lords on his side of the House, that they were disposed to consider in an exaggerated point of view the distresses of the coun try, while peril's), it had been with as much jujus. tice imputed to Noble Lords on the other side that they had regarded them with too much indifference, much difficulty had on that account previously exist led. which, in the present instance, was removed ; for *hen they considered the occurrences of the last few months, when they 'saw an addition made to the standing force of the country—this addition being in itself an army which, 100 years ago, was thought sufficient to maintain the security and tranquillity of the country—(Hear)—knowing that Parliament had been called avowedly for the put. pees .f *siring lute thir.seete of the country—. whees they saw ups, the 'We of this stud the ether Haw of Parliament. imemeres. if not otcoemiess, et least for regulating the liberty of the people —when they saw that these measures were attended ',Mb great anxiety es the pore of she people, in. diming some to surrender up their judgment into the bands of Mittisten, operating in some degree upon all, and even upon himself at that very moment, it was their duty to themselves and to their country to institute • strict examination into the causes in which such circumstances origi nated. It would be a waste of time were he to comment or argue upon the extent of the existing danger, and possibly they could find no man in the House who would be disposed to enter into such an argument with bias; but from this he must con clude, that such a concession of the existence of a danger formed a primd facie case, culling upon the House to inquire into the nature of that dais. ger. Was it of a nature so comprehensible? Did it lie so much nu the surface of society, that no difficulty existed in ascertaining its character or ex tent, that the House, without any previous investi gation. which was customary in matters of far less importance, were ready to make up their minds upon the point, pass the Bills now prepared for thews by the Ministers of the Crown, and return to their several hotwes satisfied with having honestly discharged their duty ? It was in itself no trifling danger to look at danger partially, to observe the workings of sedition in one or two of its parts, with out embracing a view of the whole system. and of the measures which led to it. There was ',omen capable of looking at the present state of the country, who would not allow that violence ought to be repressed —that sedition ought to be subdued ; but Parlia ment would be guilty of a fatal error, were they to suppose that if violence were repressed, and sedi tion subdued, the evil in which they had origi _meted would be removed.—(Hear.) —lt was the duty of Parliament to look to the whole subject, to ascertain why the increase of the military force was necessary—to examine if sedition was made ssubhc, why it found so many to read it ?—(llear, aeor.)—Should they be content with knowing that atinerant demagogues traversed the country, and not inquire why so many ears were ready to im bibe their treasonable harangues, and so many tongues were ready to retail them ? If the prin ciple which gave birth to such circumstances con tinned to operate, in vain would the Government ask for new laws, in vain would they raise new levies of troop*. the evil principle would still live, and show itself in some more formidable shape, as time and circumstances would offer.—(Hear.)— There did not seem to be among the people any desire to change the form or government—there appeared No intention to introduce a new dynasty; but there existed • vague desire for some change. founded on feeling* of uneasiness. arising from distress sod poverty.--( Hear, hear.)—Looking therefore to this distr e ss, which to his mind seemed M be th e f o u n dation of the change unhappily effect or' in the public mind, it was necessary to cast th e i r e y es a point farther. and investigate the causes of this distress. A dissatisfaction seemed to prevail among the people, which he did sat hesitate to ray was in some degree Justi fied. by the arts of Parliament. but however I this feeling may be. it was not to this referred as the source of danger, bus to the system of radicalism which existed in fliffereut parts of the country, in au exact proportion to the LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1819. state of public distress.—(Hear, /rear.)r•Although the agriculture of the country was for from being in that flourishing condition which their Lordships could desire, yet the person■ e n gage d i n it b r i ng comparatively happier than those engaged in ma nufactures, the discontent was exclusively confined to the latter. If they went farther, and asked in which of the tuanufactu►ing districts disaffection most prevailed, they would find he war justified saying that it prevailed chiefly among those per -11011.1 who were dependant neon that manufacture which was most depressed, namely, the cotton manufacture. Fie had sdatemetits on the table fur ensiled by the Item authority, to whew the distresses •to which the cotton manufacturers were reduced in Manchester, Glasgow, arid Pai►ley. and their In those places the overage amount of wages was ss. a week, awl iu many other places where the master inanticacturer was from circum moues* unable to carry on the graph• iu the usnal manner, the average antr•uut was so law as Q.. 6.1. • week; front which a man was to support himself and his boniily.—(flear, hear.)—Was it outwitting that amidst such distreta . the riposte of sedition should find apt motetilds to work on ; and did not persons who, under such privations, erred from the strict line of duty, deserve. in their Lordships' opi nion, to be distinguished from others who might lie equally guilty without having the same excuse to offer ?—(1 - /ear, hear.)—Duri ng the last 20 years of our history, the (xi-moony of the country was of a 'more to lead to such a result. It was o n e of the misfortunes of an advanced state of society. al though a necessary consequence of west improve ments iu trade, that there should be much fixed capital in a country, the worst and most mintediaie effect of which was the difficulty of threcting it to other employments, when occasions might retitler it necessary. That very division of labour wile!) was the attendant of an advanced state of society, mud which iu its operation produced the best and most happy results, tended to iticrease this dills culty, by rendering each particular workman part of the fixed capital of the try, and no less diffi cult to be governed by circumstances than any part of the machinery, or turned into new channels of industry. In proportion to the length of time that trade had continued in the same channels, so would this emba • ent be found to increase ; for toe workmen would continue their accustomed em ployment as long as possible, they would thereby increase the stock oil hands at the moment in which the markets were most encumbered, the stock would return upon them. rod their difficulties would every moment become greater. %Voir had created artificial mein, of employment, its unusual length had confirmed them, • population was brought up to certain habits, and when the means of their employment, s artificially created, had ceased to exist, they were thrown for support upon the cominenity, which was to • state very different from the time when that population was ties' vested. The commercial population of the country was to the agricultural as 900,000 families to 700,000 Bel lies, and the disproportion was too great to prevent the former from feeling much distress on the cessa tion of their wonted sources of industry. The evils arising from this 14011 f CC were mate. rially aggravated by two circume. ices--one, the of the • laws ; the - the extension system . ft poor ; other, of our paper currency; the effect of both being to offer a bounty and encouragement to artificial spe culation. The state of the country had materially changed since the comm.ncement of the war— hum a revenue and expenditure of 16 millions, to a revenue of from 50 to Go tailbone ; and so large a portion of the population thrown out of employ ment, was driven u; the remainder fur support, when every individual paying taxes to the Govern ment was subject to a burden in this respect treble what had been paid previous to the war, double the amount paid by every individual in the wealthiest country in Europe, and more then double what was paid by any tlitrß country.— Exposed to such distresses, was it surprising that a large portion of the people should have recourse to projects which in their minds might be productive of some remedy, that a population struggling fur so long a I line between life and misery, should not have patience to watch the slow gradations between po verty and crime, and feeling the burden 48 should shake their encumbered backs and fling it off?" But the corruption had not affected the whole body of the people, it was admitted even by those whittle interest it was to represent the public in the worst possible state, that but an inconsiderable portion of the people were infected by the " poison" of sedition and infidelity. A large portion enjoying the advantages uF educatiou, which even under existing circumstances lie certainly should out la ment, only shewed an active and eager curiosity about events, and the means that might be adopted for remedying the general evils. Alr. Hay, the principal Magistrate at Manchester, acknow ledges that all the people assembled there on the 16th were not reformers, but that at least one half of them was led there by curiosity— a natural curiosity about his own interests and the situation of the country. Such • state of the public mind called for the particular consideration of their Lordships fur an indulgent attention to the distresses of the people., which was imperiously required, if not by humanity, which was no stranger to their Lordships' bosoms, at least by a principle of policy. For if by ally omission upon their parts, by any disregard to the calamities which oppress the tuition, or an apparent waist of feeling, the middle chose, were induced to think that they were likely to gain any thing by experi mental reform, not all the levies of soldiers, nut all the terrors of law, could save the country from the dreadful effects of such an impreesiota. They would And the aria that really supported the constitution wa• withered, and that those frehogs of respect mid esteem nit which the political institutions of the country hail hitherto rested, and which had arisen from content and enjoy ment. were stink under the kiting i'tflueoce a apathy or couteimpts•-•( heir, hehe.)— The Noble Marquis, alluding then to the tweets sny of investigating the causes of the existiag distress, remarked that there west- three points of view in which the question of applyiug a remedy 'night be considered. One had Farris suggested, but in which he himself !dared no great cessfidence. whirh was a Parliamentary grant for the temporary subsistence of those who now laboured tinder die tress. Fir, however. was fur from thinking the suggestion altogether undeserving of attention, rl. tl 411 It was a principle of relisf which should be adopted with caution, re it tills drew capital front note part of the country to assist mother quarter. But if, with the Noble Lords opposite, lie conceived this? the present distress we. Duly temporary. lie weislil he disposed to look to it with inure atten tion. The two other views he proposed for their consideration were of a which he thought were well worthy the titivation Government and of the House. Asesomisig for • e. ment, what believer he was not diets.-eel to concede, that it was impossible to make any reduction in the amount of our rxruitiltire, yet when they coosider eil the means of raising the revenue, lie thought much advantsge unght he derived from looking to the mode of its distribution, and carefully ascer taining what saiviegs might there be effected. He could not here enter into prrticulars,which, however, nn a proper inquiry, he wools, be prepared to do. The other point to which he begged to call their attention was. the possibility of reducing certain duties, which. from their present amount. diminish ed the consumption of the article, and which, if lightened, would probably, by permitting the con sumption to be increased. not affect the revenue. The only article he should now particularize was tea, one that had become so universal in its use as to be considered an article of primary necer say. The amount of the duties. lie was credibly informed, had caused a considerable diminution in the consumption of tee, and if to this were added the consideration, that from Ainetice tea was smuggled to this country to the extent of a million and a half of pounds annually, the reduction of the duty, at least on the low-priced teas, would pro bably at the same timedimiuish the crime of smug glisig. mid increase the consumption of the article. The Noble Marquis then urged the neceseity of instituting • careful review of the commercial system of the country. It was well know'?, that to the present moment Ministers had not concluded any treaty of commerce with any of the nations composing the Continent of Eu rope ; but edmittisig the difficulty of this, much good might be divvied by so simplifi. ing our own system, as to conduce to the exports. tiou of much of our manufactures. the this point he should allude only to the ease of Norway, the timber trade of which we had sacrificed for what appeared to him an inferior consideration, namely, the promotion of the timber trade of Canada. Far One object we had deprived ourselves of a cheap instrument for building. mid our merchants of all the advantages to be derived from exporting our manufactures to that country. Not to this point, however, alone, or to any other isolated considera tion. did he wish to direct their attention—what he desired to induce them to adopt was, the general principle of an extensive review of the entire system. With this subject was connected the advantages of endeavouring by our countenance to consolidate those governments in South America which must eventually be cuissolidatet, and to establish cont. weren't relations with that part of the world, which must eventually prove the best market for British produce.—( Hear, hear, hear.)—An. other duty incumbent un the House was, to inquire into the administration of the laws, with respect to public meetings and seditious publics tics's*. On these points they were bound to its quire how far the execution of the laws had been just, and uniform, and efficacious. He said " uni form," because nothing was wore calculated to produce an unfavourrble impression upon the pub lic mind, than any thing like capriciousuess in the administration of justice. With respect to the law of libel and sedition, he had to inquire from what circurnstauces it liappessed that sedition was suffered to stalk abroad, without any attempt being made to arrest its progress. Libels hail now for more than two years been constantly publishing, which lie had no doubt would be condemned by any twelve men in the country ; they had now grown into • system, which he feared had been too efficacious with many in subverting the respect they once entertained fur the institutions of the country, which openly assailed the sacrednere of property, and even held up the illustrious individual at the :seed of the empire to a nation. The Noble Merqui. read two extracts from a publication, en titled The Medusa, calling upon the people to punish the House of Brunswick, as they had before punished the House of Stuart end requiring them to deprive the Nobility and Gentry of the country of their property.-..[Here Lord Liverpool took note of the dote of title public-at' .]—Although in ordinary times it was no doubt the beet policy to suffer occasioual errors to pass interstices!, yet when such libelloine puldicatinor assumed the appearance of • system framed for the dtstuemberment of Ili. tinny, the country had a right to emptier how it happened that the Lisa Officers of the Crown per. milted them to escape unitottred. Such an sp. parent neglect Might possibly to. accounted fur; but until explained it should j.istily the +lmage m refacing their sanction to any new measures.— (Hear, hear, f te r or. ne h w ear i f aw — s. lt b r e l c i . c a l us i e lot some d a dli ny curt; might have beeis fliund iis obtaining the eOlibleiiiiii of a milt for toning that " the reign of the Regent would Ise name glorious than that of ids father," is very fselten sibservroi 111 l —or that " Lord Castlereagh had brined Mr. C g." or " Canning had bribed God Ce-tleie.igit," he lOrgist which, and looked whichever it Wm., was of very Ills Ile cooarquelice to the country. jiiit Atliough a Jury might snit be disposed, for such expresorour, to consign au hefts:Mori to putiirl.lneills Ito twthls respectable househuldcrs in the country would but clouds dint Paws indifferent to a system which tn.- nty of property, sod the existence es. (Hear.)—He thee commented upon the abets, of publ.c meeting* beton eonaulered 'egad in sows part of the country and illegal in •nother„ 111 , (1 ett pressed ■ wish to know what ica.ructious had been transmitted upon this point from the flame Office to the Magistrates in ►everal parts of the Aluctry. If e►er " coming events had sent their shadows before them," the discontent of the country acne these numerous meetings had been shewn by the seditious publication*, nod it was the duty of the Government to Bove formed some opinion concern ing them, particularly if. from the certainty of their occurrence, they (mild have contemplated such an unhappy event as the employment of mar tory force to disperse the people. In such cs•es, tr. was advisable that violence. if it occurred, should appear to love commenced on the part of the pro ple, that tttwldliesld be given to them of the ger thwrOseessad. sod that pousipboaciat @Mold GM on the leaders. and sot on the body of the people. By what fatality did it happen, that all these cit. cumstances were overlooked in the uulairtunnte occurrences at Manchester f Why was not Hunt mooed, when the Magistrates first understood the illegality of the meeting. and before the leader had reached the ground; or, having omitted that °ppm tunity. why might he not have been urre►ted after the meeting? lie remarked, that the people having desisted from a meeting, summoned fur the 9tl , of August, in consequence of a placard from the gistrates forbidding the meeting, they had a right to presume, from the absence of such notice, that the meeting of the 16th was perfectly legs!, and that they assembled under the protection of the law*. The Noble Marquis again ad►erted to the necessity of inquiry, and urged that such proceechags were not new in that (louse. In 1717, a riot occur ed at Oxford in which no lives were lost; it no.. indeed, only a belittle between some of the et udeils of the University, who were at time thought to be deeply imbued with Jacobatism and the troops, rod yet the Lords then went --' Ov - subsequent event at Edinburgh. would mo►e Seel' •bout requiring ..._ Provost of Edinburgh, was urged by such a aneasu eminent iudividi bate to be suspended, Doke of Newcastl log that there motion for inquiry it be &teed ' the Country less i the 'tartly of forcibly commented try before they sary they ins, give them _ receive them count, on a former evening, with • great 'hew of courage, declared his determination to make no concessions. It would be right to under.. stand the meaning of this term. if the Noble Lord meant that he would, permit no vague desires. Ito wandering thoughts, no depraved ambition to effect the integrity of the Constitution, he should agree with him that nu such concessions should be made. but he trusted that Parliament would, at all times be disposed to concede to the people the full blessings of the Constitution, among the first of o hick Was the benefit of a full inquiry by Parlis 'tient into the grievances or distresses that nosy af feet the country.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Marquis concluded by moving— " That a Select Comiailtee be appointed to itiqu:re into the state of the Nation. More particularly into the casises of the present distress and discontent that prevail is the Ala- nalactaring Districts; and also Min the adaisinistratium of the Laws affectiu; Public Merlins." The motion being read— Marquis WELLEaLEY said. the Noble Lord who bad just sat down had told them, ill • spirit of eloquence and manliness, that violence Inuit be subdued by force—sedition by law. Coul,l it be denied that sedition had existed ? Ilad it been put down by law ? The question was, when at the time country was in distress, in what way they were to put closet' violence and suppress Bed,. tion ? Why had they assembled ?—ohy was their vitriol& called to this business ? Parliament was called for its own preservation, and also to consider how they should execute that first and important duty ttf maintaining the Constitution from violence. The Noble Lord had said, that the cause of the discon tent was the distress of the country ; and t'et it could llot be denied that many persons had wickedly taken advantage of that distress, and that • well ()roomed mob was seeking to subvert the Govern ment—whose intention was to effect such • &straw lion oldie Constitution as should give them vote by ballot. Annual Parliaments, and Universal Suff rage. Had their intention been disguised, or had there not hero a distinct and positive avowal of it ? They all said that nothing short of that projet t would redress their grievances, aqui that until that scheme was accomplished, their grievances would remain unredresoed. It was impossitsii.prit to trace the conuexion of all parts of the eyatem—all the parts of it were compact—all the persons boncerned in it were closely eoisticted—all of them were closely united in the value metiers! plan. and all ticir poses were to be tarried into effect by one and the sante means. What engines were employed to carry this into rff.ct I Their great itlon 005 hiingthese inertings—they declared their great put- IN 44e to br. that or ellectiug ttttt verve, starer. and the 10141 euhvlrsiom el the coisatitutieu. But they *nil. We • con du all this quietly ; so—trot if not. then we will evert the phrical force of the cow.- If y.—( Hear. hear.)—l'itey come, w4li ttyt mutation, that they could lustre enemata suffrage. and if th e y eglilid 0111111t1 it no other way. thou they would have it by force. No sue lissiord- amuse at *, • of wall • t o 4 bow suillwilftszir. Is then went into au inquiry. Oa a vent. the murder of Captain Portein„ ;11, Lord Carteret gave notice that he for an inquiry. A question then arose' ring the Judges of Scotland, and the :dinburgh, to attend at the bar, amtit ly several Lords from Scotland. lint ' ire would be very disrespectful to %hos, viduals. This objection caused the de.. twenties!, but ou the following dq , the !weestle coining to the Heuar i peetS or. re was no weight in the eiiimptien, the nquiry passed ananimosslyi Weald that the present circuntelancee of the imperatively required a vivlicatien tit the laws, and the dissipating of on; may affect it ? The Noble Marquis mewed upon the necessity of shelving to inquire into the aimat of the ey agreed to any hews, however new.. iy be. Such a disposition could alone grace, and i ttt iuce the public to ' it with respect. The Noble Via. 4