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TAUPFIRISII General G.VICOVCE lose and said, that he had a Petition in his hand, the object of which was no material to the best interests of the comm.', that he thonaht he shunt,' not do his dusty to it Or his comditlirllin, ilid he not call the Alen. Lion of the House to it fir a few momenta. He was well aware that at print nt one anti. et absin b d , in the interest which II created,almost I sr rc other, but, not withsiandinr, he thought that the stair of Ilterountry was sinew/hit+ al all times initeht to tereive thir attention of Parliament. •the Petition I acne from th , hewn of Liverpool, rind its roinplaiat was uf the iocrtase of -tont re. inn, there. The Petitioner• thonaht that the cause of that ularinine, circumstance wan the lirea7 of trade. 'I he incrisa.e %Re •Orb, ill it there w' re noni cup• ported by pa. i.h rate., in Liverpool, If .IMO persons, to pay wheel, their acre abuts' 2n.000 indivolna Is /fent j— 'rhe a hole population wet. :Omni 110,011; and this was the resat. tit' a gew ra! ineetior of the inhabitants, rail e d by Ike 811.1 s wn.lr,l ac nomeron-ly and respectably a• tiny meeting cress held there. Hot when it wile sent to him lie was informed, that out of the 20,000 he had merit toned, there were then a bon 7,1 1 00 1,..1119r to pay the whole of their animal , n 11141 1111. 14,009 psispres ors.tht he card to be anitimeted by ationi 13.0n0 permits. The Petitioners a/tet hered the consonertitt tbOrtaa to the prohibitions of the int.. parole 111 l ol 1be . 1111.11,0 , i•fhtlue r./111111,V1, 31111 to the leg Cum Laws—and they prayed that Partial's. iit would take the subject into theip imuedule coosideratton, and rrant twit taat4 no alight he found practicable. The gal. hint General then elated, that the Prith ion Ii id b.. so iiittoiled to be presented much cattier, hut that rirrum•ttr.res had reveille., it, and that it was signed by 20,5110 persoris,-. head, ordered to lie ou the table, and be printed. JOHN HATSELL, Mr. SPEAKER iuformid the Huit.e that JAI) flatsell , Esq. late k of the house, had died on Sunday nito wing last; and that his NI ajrsty would in a few days atilumit a pet luso to succeed him in that office. lAn CasTi.marAGll ',oil he was sore he should now speak in unison with the sentiments of the ; he should not .10 justice to his unto feu ling., did he out call to its *mil l. I t ion the high claims which their late s cry siterituriuus whine llt'Plils tutu heel. announced hum the Chair, .joisssswil upou ila gratitts•!e. The Vole of Thanks which had hien bestowed ttl.i.o bim iii the year 1797, strongly proved the great estimation in which lie had been held. It was accordingly his intention, al some grime period, to sub soil a ptoposit ton ulna, would citable Ilse House mare el ftrtmally mauiitsl the sense which they entertained of his lima owl faithful set vices. Mr. 1 MIN Fmk , said a few words, but in so low a lone of • wince as to be wholly lost to us. Mr. SPEAKER sugatatid that if any Number thinned . . proper to more that the stee of thanks to Mr. Ilato.ll, of 1797, should be read frum the Journals, it would then form poet of the minutes tattle present proceedins, who-re/tett nut. It was secorthugity, MI the motion of Lord CASTLZILEACIN, read to the following i tree' : tl Itrauhred—That Mr. Sin aker he requested In inform John 11, 1:441 of the bigh sense . Itch the Ilutsse ta realise of his frottfttl services, and of Ina great attention It, the duties of his &Hire during the lung pet toil of time which lie halt held the same." HILL OF PAiNS AND PENALTIES. 1...rtl CASTI.LIMACII thrii said, that troubling the Ilutete Miult any observations tic should al toice proceed to the business oat account of winch they were assembled, and move, that a Comoldtte be uppninted to inspect the Jouruals of the (buss of Lords, in • relation to the 'orient state of the ploct‘dings of that !louse respecting n Bill, •• An Act to Dissolve tho Alairriage of her Alttiesiy Quire., 011.0111 w Amelia Elisabeth," &c. &c. and io ins ke a repoit thereof to the !loupe. Mr. 'ft ERNEY said it did appei:r to him that the in, Ot {Oa should be lot .frantsd ea that the Brport ollt_oultt ioclutfe the whole a the proceedings a the • viper House respecting the Bill of Pitins slid Penal ties. including those of this day. Ile thought this of particular importance horn solottlino he laid la'sly heard. . Lord Casragessem said, that the station amp • formed generally as it tionatty LordoMip • added something if the chfbettity . or WO O% be. ,~-~. Wr. ~5.., ~...>. ~-,ti, 4e-d miftwai ■r`r " r . - p. sidling Got of the !Matey Ate conspiracy by triads the fecte leave bees brought forward. (honoring, at the same time, or 'supposing one to exist), then send it to the other Moose of Parliament, and nest to receive the assent of big Majesty— the* begirt a sew inquiry, enter into the examination of those facts, and perhaps Gail it to be a foal conspiracy, and perhaps too, my Lords, whim his Majesty has owned an other woman.—(Loyal catetre)—Whew that should be shun if world be a great reposefun to hie Majesty, wile, give me leave to say, would be lajured by such • proceeding as well as the Queen. What character would you get? Whit - would you de if you Aimed that all these farts had forma their source is an orfassous, seas dalous, and corrupt cum piracy 1 Why, you mint divorce she new Quern, soul replace the Qomo whom yes have he. fore depose.' —(Ckeers) —which is the object of this pro ceeding ; bet the Ant and clear object of this proceeding ,hould be, ought she to hr deposed or nut?. What satisfac tioa can you giro to the country, what to the King. what to the Queen, what to yonrielves, if your should do that which I have suited' II is your duty, nay Lards, to isisurdi• gate from whet source the water has Aowrd which has knt dated us. Idu think, my lairds, that you are solemnly rail. 13 upon to hear what ran be proved with respect to the agents of this infamous procerding. On there grounds I GO bound tie vide for having the question pot to the willies* (wish all the respect I may fell for the ()potion of the Lean,- rd hiders), ots the special citcomstances of the case, for which there is no precedent, and I hope never will be here. after, for I .aimut fool any ass %logy between Ibis case and any ease in the Cutlets Iwluw. Such n the vote I shall give, and I should not satay my colleen-lice to give any other. After a few words from loos! King, which we could sot distinctly hear, the Juag. etso it to consult upon the tom put totters,' by bite Lord Chancellor, and roomed about a coaster past two, 'brooch the Lord Cho f Justice Te a/waling till to is. to consider of their decision, +hick was allowed and the !louse was rib tut to adjourn, 11114.0 The Earl of Cainnymi rose and said—The settling of points of law have no coon root with the linty their Lord ships had to Kiloton Neuss Ilse !Hewett question. The oh jrct of the prosecutors appears to be, Gut to get the howinii racriece for winch the y there', soil when 'lse, hive had their victim, these ruler into an inquiry as to what crimes that ir.caim may have beets guilty ot This, my Louis, IS the sutistinirr of the most extraordinary dictum is Mioniter Croton ever durd to 111!4•1'. 1 Itllllk 11 is a cuss plait, waste of tone that )011 sl lOl M.lll belure yoss proceed any further—till the dsri.ton of a point which is wholly irrelee a aut. 'Flo- proper discharge of tour duly would he, to sok the torsi sou at mice. ILind L.lkirre anggested, that it would be hest to pot riis apsestion to the JaJgva : " Sapirmag, that according to the rule. of Ixr , I valence of a Tamura(' to stlhOrn Olillefgrf 1 , 1 POI/poll of ally paruareutian ought nut to be admitted, i-seept such AY elm ctly applied to a proseeut.sr or an agent employed by him, a hether general evidence of such may but, in the fiist instance, he rvc•nerd as a pieliminary step us affsrinig the prosecutor or any agetit enieduyed by him The question trigs put by the InrJ Chnucellor end agreed In, slime whirls, at WIC past two o'clock, the Mese ad jouriled till to-morrow. uOCSE•. OF CONIAIONS, 11.11PDAlf , OCTOBER 17. The noose met thi4 day imriu mt. to a.:journmrnt. The Si...akcr took Ike et..tr aliJut five misstates Wore four o'clock. A petitn f.om the Conti of 11,que‘tr, in the borough of South.uuk, I, Ott up ■ Iteturo of Fees UlOllll4 rtteliCti In the b3mr Laid uu the itt'Ae o and ordered to he prattetl. f.re that fioem the Mate of s gustiest floottrif le. the other. - • - . ~ Mr. TistOttsi #Oll itssoielltbli '‘estilleilt . 4616 able to holy tier possible io oto die wanner in Whieltthete Iloaredings .. The motion, amended according to Mr. iersety's suggestion. was then . carried, tin Committee VMS appointed, and immediately withdrew. ! PETITIONS. Lord J. Rung Lt. said, be had a Petition is pre. vent, signed by 2.040 inhabitants of the town of Plymouth. It was ou the subject of the Bill of Pains and Penalties. The petitioner* staled, that whether looking at the measure in • political,merale or judicial light, they could not view it without remiss apprehension and alarm, and considering that the enacteneut of such a. Bill would be a dm. germs, violation of the principles of die Coustitu. non, they prayel the House, if it should be pro posed to them, to reject it. The Nibble Lord ob. served, that he had nu hesitation in saying, that if ewer the Bill came down to that House, an event which lie hoped would server take place. he should be •Iwoys ;roily in Ins place to (ippon it by every primer means within his power. He trusted that without c • ilea any breach of order, he might be permitted to sty, that the result of the evi dence in the House of Lords wise nut ruch as to satisfy him of her Majesty's guilt.—( He/m.)— If the evidence were credible and sittisfactory, it would be a difficult matter for him to 'ay whether w 1111 l an who had to degraded herself ought not to be deprived of her place on the titroine. But happily no such difficulty was now to lie encoun tered.—(fieur, hear.)—The opinion of the people confirm:al unaffected hy the evidence ; it Was quite clear that they cote:nacre.' her Majetty to be a vie. moos, calumniated, persecuted female. But its iliumuntla of calumnies were thrown on her Majesty by means of the poem., which she had no means of refuting, lie hoped the people would lose no oppor y of expressing then rentiments on the ch.*• raiser of the prat rolinga against her. 'Flee Pe n non having beets resit -nn the question that it he nit the t aisle being put, Mr. Loc ti itT hoped the House would pardon him for a kw moments, while I.e expressed his sen bowed* on the subject of Mitt Petition. He could not but regard this Bill not only a. a wort II 'grant violation of the fuodaniental principle's of the Coo vtittioirti, hut as a measure most dangerous to the lowest nutria of society, Ity striking at the rights, the eh iracter, the life of those above them. Whew he said Mat the Bill was a violation of the fundamental principles of the Constitution. he ineatit that it was in contravention of the provisioses of the statute of High Treason. 25 Ed. 111.. and also of Magma tharia. The great charier satd, ' Nemo cipeator, out impriBonetar, ant rdirpro modo dear hater Nisi per legate .jediciam path:mBl'o;mm oat per legem terra." But this Bill was the oliquis modes destreremdi, without the legate judicious. or the lex terrre.—ll !ear, hear./—And now that he was justified in di awnig the attention of the House to the subject, he phoohl eonvedfl that in proposing this Bill to Pa.liament, his Majesty's GoVersolikeht load violated the statute of Edward ill., and that the Bill coarged that which was high treason under the: Act. tie understood that the wuy us which the framers of it a i.h..41 to take it out of that stn. lute was, by asserting that it was nut high treason if a Queen Consort committed adultery with a foreigner its a foreign country. But sows what would the House think when they were inform ed that the I itter of these very material cir cionstalices (to those, he meant. who held that the uhf-nee was not high trewn •) hail been oaittleti ahrvz,lber to the Dill ? It certainly al leged that the Quecie hail been cairyna4 sits an adul terous 'mere e with a foreig..er, but did 1101 add that it Was iii a foreign country. it was rely sm. prir , log that the Gentleman who had drawn up the 11111 could have bee., guilty of inch an oversignt ; but so it was. Nit-. Lockhart then glinted the we motile of the B:it, iii,i,ottiloing that though the in• tereourse wit! familiarity were di itwal to have hewn cartitil nu , used culitisilletl In earn. as places sod couistriet, yet it was not stated Illat these phcea nod countries were without the realm, or what time the °fierce was begun ; and though it was per fectly ael understood shut was meant, yet in all these higher species of accusations great certainty and easel seas were nem-silty, and required by the law in the description of the offence. lie was sure no Gentleman in the !ionic would say, that when a purty had committed high treason (for the dig tioctiou attempted to be drawn about a foreigner was 0111, and that that party was within our jurisdictiou, no prison, he maid. would effirin that any hotly had a right to change that crime lark, all inferior one, to soften dawn that Ring heinous olletice lino one of less magnitude, and under the pretence of fawoor to the accused, to bring it to one of more moderate extent and lighter punishment. Th:s was one of Lis ohjec toms, but be had other and Stroller oars to the Iltll. In the course of the smelliest.' which hod beers lowd by those who oppnsed the iwoceeding by impeachment, it had been urged, if you proceed by on iieachment this difficulty will occur. It might doutufill whether the offeesce could he courider id high treason, and then the impeachment would lath to the ground. Now this very donlit he (Mr. Lockhart) cootemled took the matter out of their cogire nice. lie would insist that it was extremity doubtful' in cur law whether a ()meat Consort or Lady Companion of the liiug, its committing adul tery, was guilty of high tree-on. lie knew that Lord Cnke laid it dawn to be high treason, list with all the deference tine to the authority of los great tisane, he should hold that lie had been in error. Load Coke was the first who gave au exposition of the statute in that respect since it had linseed. Anil let the House look to the authorities on which 1,;• sail that this dictont b of been hounded. They were two : The tir-t mai that or Allllll Boleyn. which sire lie (Lord Cukr) said be found reports! lit a Judge tiptlenan ; the aecoad was that of Quern liatharine. who taut been divorced. Now he was viirprised at Lord Cole's grounding ail (pi inior sin t ither of these cases. At all scents, his authority was the Act of Poiliament, while that of Lord Coke's was the report of a dodge of the mune of Spell's in, the same who tiled Altos &lel*, and ecru (iv war Itttie to Lis treald) Sir Thomas Mitre. it Lid AKII(CIiCa for illikeetiort, cud due Dilly 'owe lue,could had of it Aiwa isalarsseii, said he had wed a irepart.of she *see is wire& wh,,e the leatfts ,ef title ittilttare 'Ore WO, eel nut see thought the*. reforriliti cesid dM hero bees' of Aosta InitZallfuse-kers low parer i tried for *g reads f NstM*at the Archlbiall,4tOoftfatbOry I dtroMfsenced divorce hairiest* ales mod Anna Boleyn fla the ground of pre .contract. The marriage then was -void ash Wile. And Anna Boleyn could not have committed ed uhery, therefore she could not hare heels tried adoliery, and therefoie Lewd Coke had been incorrect in saying that she had been found guilty of it, aiatin consequence attainted of high treason. But there was extant an Act of Par. liourent, which accused Anna Boleyn of another crime, as the cause of her weediest, viz. that she, inflamed with evil lust and passion— (A largh)— had confederated with divers other persons sigainst the King's safety. Lord Coke then cited the case of Quern Katharine, and asserted that she was at tainted for adultery: us said Coke. Now it was not true that Queen Katharine hail been attainted for adultery, and lie had goad evidence of that ; he had lately been furnished with a book from the Presi dent of Magdalene (a Getitleinau who could direct any body to new sources of information, even re rpecting his own profession). written by one Tho. ills., who had been • Ckrk of the Council to lieory VIII. and his sou, Edward VI. This person was in foreign countries. and there heard a multitude of charge* made against his late Sove reign. Henry being detested in these places.— The book professed to give, in the way of conver sation, distinct answers to all the charges lie had heard brought. rod when he csine to the King's conduct to Queen Katliorine, lie says that she was attainted fur the dissoluteness of her life previous to her marriage, and that she had afterwards either committed adultery, or thought of the means of committing it. Now, after the evidence of this book in the Cotton Library, he asked if Queen Ka tharine had been attainted for adultery ?- lint this was followed up by ao Act of Parliament, which recited the accusations against her : first, that she hail been guilty oh fornication before marriage ; and, secondly, that she hail devised the means of committing adultery during her marriage. There fore, from :ill this he inferred, that Lord Coke hail no authority whatever for saying that • Queen Consort was guilty of high treasons fur co. - ting adultery. though tlw opinion had been adopted by all the lawyer. who wrote since, lie conletul ed that the distiuction as to the degree of guilt be tween the commis • or adultery with a subject and a foreigner ass untrue and frivolous; and they might suppose that if the exalted persons in another place, had been sitting in another place in their le gislative caoicity, this would have suggested itself to them, as it had been felt now that they were act ing their judicial. The very calling it' of the Judges to sok whether the offence charged was high 'retool), was enough to skew any reasonable mold that if it had been such the mode of proceed ing would have been different. It would not here been by a Bill of Pains and Penalties, affect tog compassi 1111 l and pretending to diminish the ptioishiricat winch w is properly due to the offence. 'rise law allowed neither aci•usaiton nor punishment to be changed. Ile put then this : was it doubt ful whether high Beason had been quitted by her Majesty ? If it was, then the Judges ought not to have been intrusted a ith the isiterpregalion of its nature. The law of the laud till i.o! intrust them with the solution of &tilos in a case of vu high It nature nit to affect life and limb. Mr. Lockhart Isere quoted Coke'. second Juslifsfe, where, after describing the ifff-rent "mercies of high tress 1111 l that Learned Judg-, laying down the made use of 'hear expre-siotsi : It is ordered. tart if any oilier rase of high treas-in occur tigssiii, the Judges, before giiiig jilt° as examination of it, shall terry, unril tlsr care shall go before the Klux ni lu.his lieu t "—( newt. j—lle haul looked over the liouks.itioi h id toond tote r•ise in which the Judges did tarry—it wus the ‘Vretirts' case. Au itiformatioit hid bren filed sga at eeitllll weavers, fir goof ' : iit),isit and b raking lo %; it was doubt ed wheii.er Iltitotiotett tO high tret.on, and therettoe the Judges sa4l, "we ought to tarry. and sit:emit the case to the King iu Pali.,. uncut." And the Attorney-General bearing that it was a ease fit to be submitted to the King iii Par liatitesit, declined proceediug nine further.—(llene.) —ln like manlier he maintained that lore the pro ceeding ought to have been by impeachment. and if when brought on in dirt shape doubts arose as to the extent of the offence included in the nos allaged, then he said that Pet Ititstent w.,s the place where that doubt should have been considered, and that nothing could solve it but another set. de claring that there acts found were or were not high treaso.i. If this Bull then passed it would shake to the roots the constitution rod law of this country, established by Magna Charm, :mil the :.!5111 lidtvard 111. and besides these the whole fibric of society. Such procetdiugs by them would be sp pleated to in future times, to justify other illegal sin! uncoost►tutiousl iitirrupis, just us the false dictum .1 Coke had been followed by sill the wrileis of Isiw ►inavr. Ile thought that this House had peculiar reason to guard libel! . in its Conduct with regard to this Bill —(hear/—which was tam dragging itself slung like a wounded ser pent, wait to lire, and yet unwilling to die.— ( Hear, Iteer.)—Parliament haul been guilty of great laches io permitting her Majesty to go out of this country, nod he was sorry that he Im.l to in clude in the charge. He well recollected when Mr. Whitbread. who was very unwilling that the Princess HI __ld leave the country. had put a question to the Noble Lord opposite (Castlereagh-. respectilig the intentio.s of Government on that head ; that the answer coldly wits, " It was not meant to imprimis her Royal Ilightsess."—(Hear.j —And were these the !mamma, then so careless, so negligent of her Royal litglitirso, who were now so met, to precise about her honour and fair fame, to terse a particular purpose ?—( Hear, hear.)- 11e affirmed that it was extremely doubtful whe ther any crime had been committed Ly her Mo lnar, but tern if it were satisfactorily esta blished that there bad, lie asked them for the sale of the cochtitutien, of the morals, the tran quillity. the softly of the country, fur the . . atistroi oworicusatian rod exculpation, whe- therit weutd trot br butter to alrststen this Bill. and C. deal with tbe' idieure iu any other way. If lit were 1 right Is his opinion. the uuky proper suede of treat ing Alm caae Was by itattettobateut ; but *limped raiser kletrobroa strimht tato Mr avoid boost la be- *oil* u* let rose tbir ' lefarttutrity . : . pridiribeir Notion& Ss toritaiie sir WM. *at it might hirtbuilit" Ilisioasti did aid smile...if Hear. 111". f ' The Petition was this lid pa di table, sad ordered ii be printed. _ . - • - Lord J. Ra isers. then presented another Petition to the same effect as the preceding. bat we were unable to ascertain the place from whence it come. Mr. Hume presented a Petition from the Guild. Burghers, and other Inhabitants a the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, praying the House not to pass the Bill of Pains and Penalties.—Read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. 14 E W WRIT. 4. iw Ay, r fr••• ..rxr 41.4.1e11, ....1111111111111.1112 • MOIL* On the motion of Sir W. CORTIS, I new writ was ordered to be i•sued for the election of a Knight to serve in Porliararot for the courtly of IVarwick, iu the mom of Sir Charl.s Mordsont, who has accepted the office of the Clul , eris Hun dred.. '• : s :. Charing -Nom awl theist* to the itostte next that where the sentinel stands in Dnwroing-strert, and from thence to Mr. Denis 0' !Seven's. in Craven. street. Mr. Home then staled, that he had sine bill no the hand-writing of Franklin himself, the writ ing agreeing exactly with that of a letter of reduced. vata trial of Grimm. Coo. that ...persou'it. where hw had been defendant. and a Mr. G 0 0,10; plaintiff ; he described ifto contents of other lief. sonibk puffers traced to Franklin. alluded to How conduct of Camille. the circumstance of 'Davit% been called mods injured and of Edwards having been allowed to royalty ; anti contended that coupling thew forts and the n eat( .. of Franklin with the apparent onconerrn of lb.! Hume Office on this last ofglitell. It Wa• riot preen. hie to acquit it of connivance mod eollu.ion. The House wee the only place where the tartie could be properly investigated, arid the bringing a Magistrate to their bar was not without loccoient. The noti-e could stic6fice ell t h e resinti..istg ease& deuce which the people hail no them if they not insist upon poitOoK the intbjeet to the hots win He had 'hewn that it parry. sheltered by Govern. inent. had been in the habit if 'hafting placards a d i n : i s endangered the peace of the country ; he had read over 3 ont cf 19 whirls were itt hue psis. minion; he lied laid rowdy 'vinyls Clearly e d she right of Parli.itnerst to inn-ave. lie would! therefore move (leriettig Ins prol.titlon °ion to any suggettion either of ailitooloirts/ to a. to the *dup.. tom of a better course winch [nights be offered by 1 bit Host. Foetid.)—.. " That Sir R Hatter, • Shcistrate of Roo-street Office, Ire called to the bar of the !louse, and •xaariord se to t h e ►reeoae winds indoors., hens to discharge out of custody William nankin', oleos Fletcher. Wine Fo'b a. oho WA, ar. ►eelerl au she $ h e thetober, moiler a warrant charging lons *sib wriiiing and i•satng treasonable and sedition, healhole and nieces ob, and ceasing theta to be posted mid scattered abrnsl the access of Loodoo." Mr. G. BEN N ETT mu:nulled the motinn. Lord CAI ILEREAGII, 111 tssos4 to object to t;;, f motto'', begot' by commenting on the strairgeneir of the proposition bolobitted tit the namely. that they should go into inquiry whether a Nlegistrat,e, who bad liberated on his owls rrosmi sibility a persni charged with an offence wh ic h it w as w it pretended was riot a bailable ii&nee, lied cw bird nut exercised a just el . ocretimiii. Surely the i•uhiret *hid' it way the has lie,* or pirlisoktri.t to inquire iota, was the cosoliiet of the Nla s tistretes, th rotax i i th e proffered forme of su extra ludo sal examination. litr Lord.lrip tithestird the Pillow,. sinus, of a govertimeitt, which, tint limbo : : it a very easy thing to guide the alLoirs of Slate tented soil seditious times, ammo! engage i•t the purpose of exciting arid vtirritig up to se• dittos, arid rebellion, by printing and ivemitm.; to uligneut and infleininatory bend-lolls to 'hike 111 e Ware of the kingdom, and eililmin:er their own authority—that they shoold vet retly join in a pro jret in deg,ade the throne, by aiding the purposes of the Plate Committer, calculated. as they were, to vilify cod lower its the estimation of the world the doe( persemagre in the State. The Hon. Mem ber had frequently drawn largely on the credwity of she but lie did think that so huge a drab. payable at sight, had never yet twos prevented to them. That ever it should toe 'spawned that Its a con tory like this, where there was sot heck of 'diet., where, if coy where in the world, a pleoteous Libre. cation of that commodity might ire ly re. lied if Mr. Carlile arid Mr. Wooler had ceased from their industrious occupations yet flirt there could not be enongle procured without 'II l s tns them...rives etigisguig in the inainsfactiate—thet they could be tooceired to have airy adequste uw iire for doing this, or that ilmalig it. they ationid he lotelieveal to execute their purpose an happify, that to order to conceal their exploits they should have this Mr. Fraliklin frequeutly to diluter with them! Awl not only sit, but that (rota tits imlescribahle obscurity they should throw this iudiridusl 051 puts. he ohoetrelimt, one day causing him in dine 11101 M tooter of State, the next lear.lig hint in a hick ttey C.sach aimust without chithey, and a hull ) witismit visible means to execute their alleged port', se with the geraleet f olsi!ble secrecy ! Why really, except a 181811 had made himself, as the 1 , .11. AI cull-Per • 1 141) dour for many years past, the teady imti unwed of every .tatethetst, Whether will or *he. ilirt eiiilllC or orrion.„ Ho lustier what 111, astute of circumstances, he would hod et utterly isispussilile to believe sue), u representation as he bad dc scribed. He could assure the. limn Gentleman. that if lie thought any individual belooging to his Mtijewy, whether his station in the Goveriameitt were high or low, was capable of doing an net of ouch silly and 1114111gIlLtitt baseness, he would tea duly lend his aid and use his best tffotts to pursue that individual to justice, and cause the tit st rigour of the law to be "iiiiictrd Ott low. lu that part of the Hun. Member's proposition he readily joined, and it was the 0111 y p e rt in which he could join with hunt—he meant hie earnestness to bring to condigis punishniesit, the individual whose base nese could lead Intel to the perpetration of his act an horrible and loathsome. He would not lot% demon the House on a d.scussion which was 641 di)g - raceful to its elevated dignity, and so nolo cowing to its character dud high functions.— The only polut ou which he found it necessary to opptoe the proposition of the lion. Gentleman was the inamer in which he proposed to carry his par pme into effect. The whole business appeared to Diu reasonable enough, considered as the. stratagem of a Radical Committee, quick in the conception of iniquity, end ready its the preparation of a glut to lay the guilt at the door of bottle honest and desert big mail. list hones's, that might be, was the me. thud proposed the best of any fur arriving at the truth ? Suppose it to be • conspiracy, that having become time fashionable term of the preaeut day Mew, hear,fi om the Ministerial side, /sadly cheered by the Oppusition I.—ares that the best mode, was it conaisterit with the wisdom of the House to take up au inquiry which had airratly bceowe the subject of • criminal proceeding, arid which would, if there were guilt, he pursued to conviction and punish smut iu ir Court of Justice ? Wes it consonsid with coming's sense, or agreeable to justice ? lhl what grotto& were they waked to do this ? an dwrits wade by penons who by their Diva vanfassioi , s ..laid possessed their guilty kuowledge - ever store April. How was thee douse to drat with such affi davits?, Could soy pup suppose that • luau with such is smart its his breast. arid tagged teen coosi deridste period in such preeliers as were demised to. pregnant as they welt with villein , Ind mintier, SEDITIOUS PLACARDS. Mr. Hum E ruse andante!, lie should venture tonal the attention of the House to a subject which sit 'seared to himself, and to many others to whom he had mentioned it, to be woe of very considerable importance. Ile wished to expose a practie e which had been attended with mischief* great, indeed in calculable. He proposed making a tout 000 to cell the Chief Magistrate of Bow.street, Sir Robert Baker, to the her. to answer for his conduct in a case which was How become in some measure matter of notoriety. The system of circulating seditious placards and hood-bills, the practice to which he had alluded, had been carried to an extent Pearce- If credible to those who had not bestowed some pains its investigating it.—(lleue, law, htur.)— It had been going on for a smasher r.l years, but at prevent he should only ;.(41 back to the year 1818, since which time lie had the means of proving that • manufactory or trio-usable pia. cards had been constantly carrying on by an null 'ulna', who pa.sed under the satious 'lames of Fletcher. Forbes, and Franklin; but the n one ' under which lie had been 'wrested, after this of'. fence had been clearly traced I. limn, wars Williams Franklin. He considered the discovery of the prom's who had acted is confederacy with this man, as a thing of very great consequence. He could out think otherwise, when lie recollected the language of the Noble Lod in ininalocing the sex Bills, which had abridged, accordilig to his opt- ohm, the liberties of the coutitry.—alear.i— Every our recollected what sires% had been laid by the Noble Lord, us' that occasion, on she dan gerous language of the placards at that time circu lated through different parts of the country.— ( hear, hear.)—lo the last meeting also of the House but one, the Noble Lord had complained that the Queen's friends had placarded the streets with inflammatory Addresses.—( Hear, hear.) — He (11r. Hume) who hid heard all this langi.age could 1111 i help thinking that the detecting acid es:- post:lg the source of all these and a thousand similar productions was a matter of high consequence indeed, for he would lily, that 'somber* of lives had been sacrificed to such hirimous arts. The let of April, 1818, a plaeard hail appeared in Glas gow, calling on all artisans ant their masters to give up work. mid shut up their shops, till they had off•cied parhatnentary reform, if not by peaceable, by any means. '(he consequence was, that it reward was offered by the local Magistrates for the detec tion mill apprehension of the persons concerned it the transaction, and another of SOUL by his Ma jesty's Government, wi!lo the Caine object, to any Re/1111/1 whatever except the authors. The 1t0... Gentleman then described the severities and hind slims il/ which twenty or thirty faindses had heroes posed at Glasgow on suspicion of being connected with the transaction. This was the first installer l ie j o t, a l li e d to mention, and it was his belief that the posting up there bills at Glallow aind i'msley had led to the Nulirequent riots in the former than and a t B onn y_ m U jr. slid ill the blood shed in eon. sequ• nee. Ile described the :rely , - part which NI r. C. Pearson had taken in tracing the hills. a•trilint ed to the Queets'a Plate Committee to Franklm, and trusted that all the iIidIVIIIIIiik l'ollett 114.11 lil t'7.e plot would be brought to jusitce. lie believed it would be shewn that this coospirile) had been carried on whit the kiloaledge and under the sanc'inis of his Aliqesty's Governmeot. Ile had traced the trans action to the person who hid received the bills Gent Franklin, the compositor who !Muted them, end the bill-sticker, whom he accumpani,ll at s,igld through all parts of Loudon. Nlr. Hume then de tailed the circumstauces of the discharge mid 'me son of Franklin. as they have appeured tit the news. papers, and animadverted in severe terms on the rooduct or Sir It. Baker. From the uustser of the II Office to the applications triode thereat, he also argued that they must have b. en well acquaint ed with all the circumstances of the plot there. The last hand-bill in his possession was dated the hitli September, and there were fifteen tithe's. ti e 'clewed to the Royal Proclatnation, and reward offered of one hundred guineas, when the Duke of Nutt:mil was at the head of the Ad - *. triitinti, in Frh. 1796, for the detection of the individuals cote crowd in posting up seditiOUS iriiirril at Denbigh, and to rewards for a similar purpose offered since. When he said that the author of the inflammatory paper*, distributed so assiduously for the last two years, held the rank of a gentleman, anti was in thee habit or lilti n g with u Minister of the CUIWII, lie hoped that the thing would be probed to the bottom. Mr. litime then read the affidavit of a printer. tr ending, we believe, to the neighbourhood of Poet. land-road, which stated, that at the cud of June, or the begitioing of July, 1818, a geode-Man called at 111.4 office with the manuscript of a trdi- Illita baud-Lill, and asked linn (depo n ent) if l ie would engage to print sonic front ii, observing that it would he a very beneficial employment, and that lie should waist a great number more, aid that the deponent might out he afraid, as lie should be pro tected and simply repaid ; that lie struck ell' SUO cupier.which were paid for mid taken away. The u 4 davit proceeded todescribentidret forth a great many other papers of a similar description, !Milted at the. office of the deponent, at the request of the same iudividuol, inautliug the letter seta to the .48 Jurors at Warwick previous to the trial of: Ste-F. Burdett; a planed of the thilt July tin% srirritfrifti . the people to procure Parliamentary Reforirrista . 4ll hazarepp ;" four placards out the subject cif the.Quertes Vhatetud many other popery eta WOWS/ Sitaarltb4.ll. ' pasei4 further stood, that :he Waged , the I person who' employed him from Hew Ini+itrett Itt - .46. ■r. _