The Sun. — London, England, 1807-02-14 00:00:00

N any part of the matter of the Petition. If an addi tion were to be wade to this influente, Which had in creased, was increasing, and must continue to in crease as long as the extent of the British Navy . .. • should he augmenting, it would give the Government a powerful itnerest in that Comity . . But . not con-: tent with that, the Administration bad inlisted the . whole Barrack Departnieteitito its 7-- seh'ice,-- and employed the persons engaged in that department, as its Agents, to promote the election of its favourite Caildidates. So that it was impossible for any pri ' vate individual to grapple witli the power of:Govern '. riient in that 'County, and the Executive' . possesSed the means of reducingit •to the . Coudition -ofa eloae Borough, for which they could "nominate the'Repre senfatives. But iii order to come nearer telthe'shb . jed, he should beg leave to read the documenti updn whiCh this proceediii: ,, rested ; ''and first,' the Taper which was the foondation Of - the whOle business-.-- (Heee'the Hon. Baronet -read - dn &laict from the jr'st • Letter of Sir • Wm. .Henthcote tá the 'Hampshire Club, stating the application - of Lord - Temple, OU thori.:ed ly bird . Grenville,' to himself, intimating to him; that -GAUCT7IIIIent wo uld not oppose his re-election; 1 in the' event n, , a• dissolution, if he did not coalesce With "Chute, 'against. whom • .anierninent propoied to set a 'Candidate; Mr. •Chiite having put himself in systematic opposition *to • Gonernizzent).---By' . this• it' would appear, that the, interference of the rzecinive in that - Coluity !walla Originated with the Secretary to the Treasury,Alor with the Comptroller of the•Navy,"bot wasa pre concerted, pretnedltated; and predigested plan of-the • Government; to didateßepresentatives to-the County of Southampton, and't'o 'ekchldea respe&able Gen tleman who'hadrepreSented that • Coutity for "sixteen years. Ilt . Wras, le:veeet, in 'candour, necessary fur him to sate, that the NOble Lord had given a snlase-• '•erittent explanation of aliat - transhetioil . •;• an-Without • at • all impuitug any wilful Misrepresentation to • 'either of 'these' persons, there appeared-to • hint contradietion in their statementse -It would' be for • the House to decide which. Was Most likely to be tor . reet,'Sir Wm. Heathatte,' Who'retiredeto his closet after the interview tio make a inemoranduin-of what passed, with a View to its :publidation, or the NOble • Lord, - who; 'Without the' aid of any memorandum whatever, three - weeks after gave an explanation of e it. • The next letter he Inid to nOtiee,•was one-dated • ' 5ept...22, from Wrri..FreeMantle;• Esq.•oneof the • 'Secretaries of the Treasury, to the . -Bat reek Master • General. ThiS letter had been . sent by the Barrack Master;Geiterat; Gen. He;vitt, inclosed in one from . hiMself •to Major Davies, Deputy Barrack - Master • General. Gen. Hewitt, in his letter; stated, that he could not better catry into effect the recommenda tion of Mr. Freemantle,lthan by inclosing his letter to 'Major Davies.' • • [The Hon. Baronet here read the letter from the Secretary to the - Treasury to the Barrack Master Ge: 7 . neral, recommending the Government Candidates, • the Hen. 'Mr.. Herbert and Mr. Thistlethwaite, to • his favourable influence, arid requesting of him to Mention the- same to the other Gentlemen - of the Departmertti , This letter had been marked, on his Majesty's eserviCeand the copy' Which he: had of- it had been ,taken froM the letter which had been in the posses -"'sien of Major Davies. In consequence of it every exertion had he'enmade, and - witli , sueCess: TO this -Major Davies had replied, that the Committee were ' of his Canvass would be more effectual at Ly- : mington and the Isle of Wight The next letter was from Gen. He...vitt to Major - Davies, informing hiM that he might, go to Lythington if he could obtain the • permission of the-Commander of the bistrid, but at. • the same time_that he could not be allowed anything' tai defray the expences of his journey-- , this•being a e''speCies of service which could not be inserted in the 'PubliC Aceotinfs. ' • - [Mr. JAME'S MARTIN here• rose to order,- observ lug, that .from the loud cries of hear! hear ! he was preventtid from 'hearing any :thing.] The 'Holieneible.Baronet .proceeded im pression` 00 his 'from this letter was, that 'thereo.vere'two Accounts kept in the :gatrack De partment, ovipublic i nd,the other private (No, this sheaved mere than anything else the necessity of going into the 'Committee; in order to ascertain whethr or not there - was any private Ac count. 'l' he next letter Was from Major Davies to tiro NLiSter General, stating, that his destination h been fixed,for Lriaiogton and the Isle of Wight, • and that his route had been sketched by Lord car parvori," to that phint, - as not very fir from the resi-• deuce of fir. Rose.-=Now he could not see hoW this Noble Personage should appear in such a tram adion. He knew there was such a person' as' Earl ` . .Carttarvon, 'Who had tieena distingniShed Member of that flonse„;and who was a near connexion of one of` the Candidates, but he could not suppose that . th•at - Noltle Personage Would netke himself a party. to any . 'such uncenstitutional' 'proceeding. But he conld'teil hint that he {night hereafter spare himself ' the . trouble 'o'f' sending to canvass' that neighbour ' hood; beeate;e the experience and weight of • 'Right Hon. Friend's - chitrader' and public condud insured to him and to his connexions the support of his neighbours." The next-letter he had to notice was one in which MajOr Davies stated, that the Duke of Cumberland would not suffer him to depart for Lymington, till he should 'himself set out for Wales, 'which imputed to, fear lest his eiforts should produce all'effeca inimical to his political con nexions. This, lib doubt, was matter of conjecture only ; left, if he tiriderStood any thing of the charac 'ter of th.t Illustrious Personage, with whom he had the lionoor.of being _acquainted, he Was convinced, that he could not ii,fluenced by any such feelings. lastletter he haat° ootice.vas dat ed lan. 1, 1806, ~'Which ought evidently to be 1807, in which it was stated ,that Major Davies •vas prosecuted by Mr. , vetelt, tne Agent of the opposite party, and thus he had an offer mace to him by Oil, St. Jobe; on the part of one of the most resPedable men in the ty, of relieving hem front his embarras - iments if he would give. up the Treasury letters in hia - posseselion;, w•hich he had rejeded: He was as euriouS as ,any, man to find out who this most respedable man Was,. and though he had been 40 years' re ident in Hainp- Oire, if be werensked to. point such a person out, in ehould find it difficult. However, as this person who could so bully and bribe with the same breath —who was• so ready to.discharge Major Davies from ail his einharrassments---miglit also have the - means t injuring _him, he, was bound to state; that he had oeained copies of the letters from - "a person who ..ad them in his possession previous to the eledtion from this . written evidence they 'could sliew that the GoVernment had issued its maiidates to the Barracl; "Department, and that its dirediOns had, been. faith fu4lkXeciited... Ei4und disce vines." The same ZOufse laad - been adopted in theaker Departanents, ' and particularly by.the Corriptroller of the NevyH If they could prove the• faCt in. one instance, that trouts beasutfic tent . to- ro v e—their etttea-- - He. felt that in this instance aahe yineipleseof ..the. Con: stitution were inN'olvid, and ',that. there was no Borough to hermetiCallv sealed to which this in. Apeman "if countenanced, might nut C\ tend. This was a case that involved thebonour, the dignity, and , the independence of Parliament. -If the House were to suffer such pra6tices to pass nneensured—if it were to forfeit the solemn 'pledge 'contained in its "former Resolutions, it'avould forfeit its,(rNll charadter, lto nour, and authority.. Here he begged .leave to read the letter cafthe.Duke of Chandos, which had giVen• rise to the Resolution of 1779, and Which only re- - corrithended to some friendS, to 'attend • the County, Meeting at Southampton, in order to add to there - speaability of the assembly.. Yet the Duke of Chandos was a person who had considerable- pro perty in the County, and wrote only to a private in dividual; whilst the .Secretary of the Treasury, who had written in. this case, had no property in the County, and had set a Whole Public Department in motion. He had done , his duty .in (promoting the application by Petition to that House, and, in tracing the :case .through its whole progress, and. should therefore, in this instance,. follow up :that duty by voting that . the Petition be referred 'to the Commit- - tee of Privileges.. . On the question being.put, • 'Mr. PREEMMVTLE, in rising to vindicate him.; self from the Charges that had been broiight against him,- felt considerable - tears; notitorn ant conscious; Hess at - guilt, but from the ditliculty which unavoida ably arose from his not having-been accustomed' to' Parliamentary speaking: r.dl3ue bow much treater anus' his ditliculty be when be refleited thathis own. ; charaCter and conduat, and. the charadter and even the very existence of. the Government under which .he acted, was.-committed inthe present charge.. ,He had only, therefore to throw himself upon the indul gence of the House, whilst he repelleci the charges to the best of his ability. From .the moment of the Dissolution of Parliament, rumours had been in cir culation up o n th e subject o f the interference-of Go , vernment in the County of SoUthampton." He trusted that he .should be -able "to show that theSe rumours had been magnified and exaggeratedbeyond what th e case would Warrant.. No wonder, therefore, that th e public mind :should : have been affeaed by such 'statements. He was confident, hOweVer, that he, , should be able to shew that he ,hid . riot .. either the Government or hiMs e ll upo n this occasion. When the charge was brought forward against him personally, he should have thought that he WaS en aided to the : same attention as any other individual who might happen to beaccused. He-could not ac count, therefore, for the condudt Ofttficse Who signed'and brought forwardthe Petition against him,' He. was satisfied with'the eXplanatien that had been' given by the - Hon. Gentler an presented it.— kle had long teen known to that Hon.' Gentleman„ .and was not sensible of .having. incurred either, his displeasure orammusity. As to Alio other Ger __calve that had signed the Petition, he bad been known to many . of them, and was equally jamorant of his haVingaip any one ahape, deserved trieir hostility,...... One of the H 011; Members that had signed the Peti tion, whom he did - not then. see in his place, bad; within a very feW days,-given him, as a OOP of the continuance of his forrner feeling towards an hospitable entertainment-at; his house. If h e could trifle either with the subje& or with the House,' he should say he had . beeninvited to be fatten . - ed and pampered for a public . ,speelacle. Hpwev er , he should acquit that Honourable Member of such .intentien, because he believed that he had signed the Petition ignorant and unconscious .of what it con . tallied ; and.he begged him, if in the. House, to be • persuaded that he felt no resuutment against. hiui. This - was not the Petition that had been sanctioned by- the Freeholders of the County., but a pert - ea:UT new one, that. had been fratned;avithin a tew.idaya. The Hon. Member to whom 'be had alluded had only lent his name to %chat le conceived a general charge against the Government. - The rumours that had been circulated respecting the tanconstitutional interference of the Government had been kept up with such industrf, thOugh riot founded in fact, and, he should' add, resting only upon falsehood, -that it was' no wonder they had made 'some impression upon .the public, mind. ,But' he was ready to answer for the faa, aa a he should be ashamed ever • to put his pen to paper if he, could shrink from a responsibility for every syllable `he had written. It was unnecessary for the Hon. Baronet to have taken so. much pains respecting the letter be had written, of. vThich, however, he had obtained' but a copy. It would - not be for him ik state; that no charge could be _substantiated against, any person on the bare g round of anunautbentiCat ed copy. He did not by any means intend to take that course, though, if he were so:inclined, he ap-; pealed to the House whether he might not object tee such a foundation of a charge against him ; but be" did not deny the letter; 'on the contrary,' he had taken some pains to procure the original, for which he could appeal to his friends, in order to enable the House to form a judgment of the merits of the case. AS the Hon. Baronet had read that' letter, he trust. ed the Hotiae would permit him, to read it also - . [The Hon. Gentleman here read the letter, which had been read before -by Sir H. Mildtnay.] The letter" was dated TreaSury-Chathhers, Sept. sae, some tithe .previous to the Dissolution, acid Was 'narked, private. He should not say that many'letters on official - busi ness may not be sometimes marked in this manner, but certainly the Gentleman opposite, who had so much more experience in the business of Office than he had, must know, that letters so marked were never preserved b,' any official copies in the Office: He only recommended the Candidates whom •heaviThed succeed to .the favourable influence of the Barrack-. Master-General, and requested of him to recutn- mend them to the other Gentlemen in that Depart meat. ' These were the expressions he had made use of, .and he was ready both to claim and to justify then); Now as to the charge, that William Free mantle, Esq. one of the Secretaries to the Treasury, 1.4 . ho had no property the County - , had employed the, power of his ottice: to influence the Election," tae could easily disposeof that. It was one of the entbl tunate consequences of the Pz..tition' having - been , . brought forward without any communication being i not been a Freeliolderof the - Cotinfy - ,aualhad aa... made to him tin the subject, thaa suet a statement quently no right to interfere. The second grota. as that had tbLtrid-;its into the,P e titi ou , If ..the upon whi c h c h arges o f undue interference could. b, Mernber's who brought forward the PetitiOn a I made against Government, was the profligate-use or had informea him-of its "eon-tettasa he-could have their. power in the abuse of the disposal of the pub- , them the •trouble of presenting it at all—he s iic money. As far as his knoWledge went, no such would have sated them the disgrace they must feel. a pra,dice bad or could have taken place, though he -from a h (Lactation-4)f - 4 lie----i=4USei--4)r--110- - W 0, 1 1 4- . 4.4)4^heard. t bftta. °Ow. Qatargaiata.mentaalatrdareserted to . 4 a a. sa y e d the •H o us e the of listening to his jus a such Means of influence. -Fie cult-witlaaliegreate4 tification. The 1111 SW C r he had to make . to that confidence assert, that no money„ rota - single - slid- Cha N tage was, that he was a Freeholder Clibe:-Connt: : linti - liad - beenaiiiireill-Tom- the - Treasury; - direaly ar of Southa ay-ton ,- that lie liada peOperty in t hat Coun- odiredly, for a purposes of 'the late Ele6tion. ty, and tlatt be had .as good a i right as any otalle_Gen- . 1 -le wished this t(i .be well understood:-by‘ther-House, tlemen who had thought proper to sigo the and to go forth to the pu'olicalnd the - World, and la: to employ all the menus which his property, hifiu- would, not - pledge his credit - and •charaaer Upon the ence,nor connexions Lit - lorded, to proMotelthe',4iec- assertion, it he_ laal not the most positive cer :tion of those Candidates whom he wished to sac- taiuty of its. trofli. :there had .not been a single ceed m. He had for years possessed. a pr o perty - shilling issued; neither of secret service , money:, ;,in that county, .and his -,nearest .and :deaaestacon- . 'nor:'of' any' ether fund, levied UPon :the Ptiblie; flexions, those ,who• Were •in the habit of consulting, , for such an anfWorthy purpose. ,T,lteSe 'were the him,.and w ho would by ihtluericed ,by his,advice, r 4 only two points upon which charges --could be had properties in that, county, : equal to any, and 'bretight for undue_ interference' against a Govern , . larger than the properties of Most of those t.vhosp went. He had .ianswered the - charges - that had • names were to the Petition. Thtiugh he had been "been brought•against him to the best of his judg a settled at .the . .Treaaury„ it did not follow tht, he inent, and be took that -opportunity of protest should in consequence be 'deprived of that which ingaagainst the doEtrinea that the individuals who was, the birth-right of every Eiiglishrnaila - the right. : may corripose an-,AdMinistration had'net ;thp - Sarne of giving his support and.inflaence to the Candidate right as others: te give their individual infitterfce and - Whom he preferred.—lf he xvere to be deprived of Supp or t to such Carididalesang - they; may Prefer.— , that right by his effice, heshould not hold that of- The Hon. Gentleman he-re 'briefly recapitulated his fine five minutes.—Se far he : had considered the former statements, anc.l declared that tite . tkitise of question on the ground of private faelings.- He any uncodstitutiopzd iniluieni:(l. was as repdgnant to should next 'i.k - the lion. liaronet, by what law it (i til lii . s-o:t (e t).snfewelittih ~gsais)oi,l;t-v,: lie eulti v - ,. b a L sf I c io: n ti n le c,a to cd tl , ie a w n - d ish b e y s W )as that he was deprived of his right,' merely be cause'he•beld the .ittaitrien• of Secretary to thelrea- Whom he had . heeii Placed in the . sitiaith;O heahen -Wry? - - The Resolution of the House 41 . .1779, ex- held It lie bad , beer.guilly.of Si,ch , oundua it *Would' tended only to. persons :whe'shOnld use tho,power, of have deprived / him ; , of the. good oPecirtairthose . their Official Situatinna to, infitieuce_Lledions, but: whose ilpprobStiohlie most til'apprea ail did not, prelude persous ,hol ding. otlices- from giving liension of what-he most valued was, next to his their votes mud interest to whatever 6indidate .own'prindipt43,r4k:btsr*tlidly Ta_tzaittgtisucti no , pleased. Fie .Was not aware of imy law to that, et- constitaity . rial iihaael aa d a l l op fea, and he begge d [ the House to look a at the':gitua-• pOrtunity igtr o tlaiia ": e . l :r ,- ges' - ola'raf t rota more, tion it would : leave every MeMber of the :Govern-„ ,-;4 dangerous teUaeilcy than those: ptat at iiazia, - a i ns t mutt of this CountrY in, - whatever' might 0'16114' nini, l but be - would have been ashamed .of.:iiimself talentS, their .wealth; their conSequ'ence; Or 'ftiar.. it he could deScench - taasuch .other clahns to be high in the estimation of their • he"WAS - in - the matAktatPuted, countrymer ; - they would be deprived of all the ina lie should with Contideuce rit""v='hit 3 )de4 , upon dui - fittence natural to su,:h qualifications, solely becaus e .-jUstice of tFte H ows e ; a: 4 2' they . faiPpened t o fill an " - office -in the :Gawerrl: Sir H: . ./liiDALI/Y; in eiPaßation,; . st. , ,id; that merit. Wag th a t a dparitie that Could be supp o rt e d -. he had--iiot asse r ted that the Petition.ifftd the'saneiion in that •House, '• or tolerated in this -Coantry.la r of a County 'Meeting: - • 7 :" Having thus stated that lie was not restricted by an y t allaal3Bo/),..i.,/c expressed Ili shrprise at the last from tmi-aling the course he had followed„,that . ofahe Hon. Secretary of the. Treasury, and his .property -- gave .hitzi the .. right i aa n a — th a t t h at right had never' heaad - senitiments as/6 fhl i iiii•ohieht so was strengthened by the, ,Cpusideration of the pro direcFtry in the teeth of the riteselntions - :fafathe petti possessed' the - cloUnty: by .nearest imck said that he tlpdpropetty . in the Coor dearest - cohnekions, he had next to state anOtN - et , ,.. ;ty, pno2 . he believed fact. ta-as a o, a hnt:his ' 3l " motive Which- b.:( induced him to take an interest f .. tuatioh in the Tredsury weald be more attaaided to in 'the 'Eleetion- for Hampshire. -Mr. Thistlethwaite, Bat - rack Masters and. Others; user win threTrea oneoiklie•Candidates, Was his cousin by inarria gei ; L sury might- be Supposed' to have . 61t - fe inti t ience. and their families - , were con - nee - led by all the tics of .I. TheHon. - Secretary had Old; 'fhat this Was -hot tha • affinity -Ito& Under such .cirauinstancas, ri.patatioeaof the ConlityCe 'nattily IP:I.LL-hilad.i)c . lie-should haae,hee t i wanting iu the properAelings.. E. s r beep presa,nted Load!. 13:tit it ;vas not ais,hu of ,attachtuciit, it lie had not - exert e d hicaigif say bow the Voter . s who a i,,haa to a l aki t ioo, t a promote. the success of ,a :ate in. whom were, to assemble; - 1t; (Mr. B.) it aS not i n the-hl - nearest and : dearest connexion:; had such an ..bit of attending nothi-ng prat theft interest,. provided that in. so, d; " iii did i not.i mode Of proceaaailiaa Eat the. Saxra.tary' s Friends oil employ the power of , his official situation_ Ike ; the Bench near hiinriiiglit give - hiin.any iniermation b e gged hero to bring back the anenti,;ti of (:;'en- 1" on thiwirend i i - Etinle'infeit're q ui r e. ,A,s to the, eight tlettiett to, th e lett e r, duct he K ould then nit; whether of Government to intel-let,e iti 7 EleCtioLiiik.;thil . Hon. t " there was a single eXpr . ession in it whichcould b e ~ ;rit_lentan had saki,..th aLtio threat, no impropaar in construedto'conveY the . command of office. Frehad flueuce, could have: been used. by. die-G- without his ktieskledge--:so extenive•ws _iiiS con ioverittnet4 that writtedin PreeiSely a ; : 4 th o e tc n i n a e l. t: it r l n l i a S tion‘i :i o n u y id G ...t e o nt t l i e :e . , -. man not holding Hon. Secretary' S pro- pexion with --all its i‘l.enibers. This circuinstanee , than ally :consideration of the 'uld inuCh more with the 11' ' Nlaslr with Wheal he was acquainted..; ,vo , }prevail , .,, arraci, , head ot. a4lepartment - He had 'known General' Hewitt r and had. understood ' party, in the County ; - - that - Majoi , Davies 'wasa-- Freelfokler of the County , , . . , of SOuiliamplon, and had:applied to.General,Hewitt - .ilfr. 11E1iBL firf expressed'his satisiliaion that the. for the pt.t‘rOose of o 66lniii g - o a t vote. Whether he . stream of calbmny which - had:been so i n d ustr i o usly ha-fa beenfi g btly i n f . or/lle d as to .7Nlajor D av i es hat:-" sp - teacl ... all over the Cotintry---Whiai bad been SWell -- ing a vote he could 'not tell,, but lie hacl' Tea-, ed by every possible -means abioad; and nourished ,son to believe that he had .. not voted either: . by insinuations even in that House--- , had been a t ilo t for Mr. . Herbert or . Mr. Thistlethwaite.- ,7 filtz;-: breughtto the test of public investigtttion. But, how" Honourible -Baronet had stated, that.t he whole Rif , ' ' ever - - much be felt satisfied at this he.tnnst sn3 r 'rack Department h a d ben put m motion, and:that something respeAing. the . C311C11.161 of those- who pre' considerable influence had... been thereby created in- sentedthe Petition , . 'Viet , ought tti - ha ire presented the decision of the Ele&ion. ,But he challenged t it at an-earlier period-. But•-aii fiCm: - Geritlemen had the .1-lon. Baronet, or any of the Gentlemen by hid; said that they had been' delillotls 61.'preseriting, it :it • to prove the influence thus charged.. If he was ,well 1 toe opening of the SC:SSiOII, but that they hathhought informed, •not, a single inditidual eonne6ted \V ith the - proper to d e lay thernatter ti:l a full.attendant._' of the Barrack Dtpartll,lvot- had, given vote at the, .Y,lee- County Meinhers 'inight be expeJted'... J3 , it a'li't tion, and even Alajor panes had not voted :either t could he say to justify•.frimself ; it it Ahould appear to fur :A,lr. Herbert or Mr. Th istlethWaite.Tae I - lon. be true that - the Petition did not tAist:'-ai the .of Baronet liad.likewise brough t - 'forward seeral let:-. -ing . ofthe Se4ision,,nOr,ll,been,eytNi:hi Ctittiefri)li'' tern which had been . written dn'''ilie,'sUbje, - 1 of the -tion t but 11-nit.-another,Petition,•diiferent freth titis, ~ one originally written by 149 - 1 .4 :But he trusted tire ' And containing ncr distinct' cffaitcf:pgiiiii his Hon. House would not think him responsible for anAptter , Friend , wastfiailintentiPdtobepresetitedh i 'd ‘;;asafter but that of which he Inid -himself -been-the-author, •wards abandoned from,:want of -L - .7r01i-nds-? ; -,, H e did and which, he trustei.l, he liat.lsliewiy . could neithel• not say tOo lightly ; 4.10 d he'tout: th'e Ilbt.itv - 61 ad implicate bhn,': 1101 - the GOVernxneut. under,' N . Viiick ; , vetting to . it li t /;r:!er in ',. , 1]..ib1 e :the'' . f-Li onse , ti h u dge he creel. - lime Hon.‘Thironet had/also read aloe •": , whether this Petiti,n w;l5 presented tram partlf mo letter of. the, puke :of glandes, which had--,given lives, 'Cr with . :r Yi\‘.• t() tijt hitef6 ; 4(s of . i,Tlstice , .'. ge rise to the'Res?ltition OfParfiament in the year 1 779,.... .t.hen :ii..,erteS td the asiertioiis t'lhn.ll,:i"lbecti 'made It would ,be recolleaed that; ibe Duke of Chandos I respeCtingAti • ilit,c,4 4 euce of Governn il t in the had . been •a- Peer o f P ar li amen t, an d consequentlyi ,Dock- yards, anti-denied that.anv-ini)Tst or traftroper diSqualified, by a Resolution of that )_louse, fox inter ; ; • intetfereniV , :liad tal , :eir nlacethorel fi'of tlii,i - faa Ile tering v,•itli Elei.iions." ; He..was a'figliolder. or the had the auth or i t y of: the C.Oti:inisilon;4ll-Y,ot her county, and,possessed as-- gooda right as any of the„ 01--lio„--rs of the. awl,: -yards. : Tiireals::ap t d .: :: . iltlin- Petitietiers tii'6'ititass la; tenants, - or his friends, in'. Dies had: been used •on the other sidek:chowever, favour of the : Candid;iie s I, e , p re fe rre d. ,So. - far he . even by some invested With iwieisterlai , at - i,tlrority. trnsted the'House Would f e el.thathe: was illititid in Such threats bad been basil, 'o'6t, •Ottly--4' .. pro going. Having said thus much of; - - tained in the Petition, he s h ou ld now beg to state - .pledges. After.the able and . cuatily7 et-Ten:Col hi.; the only two grounds' of critnination against Mi- Hon. Frend," ... litt!e` remained'fot him to say on the Ili6terti,f tbr. an exercise of. undue influence.__ - Thili- .riierits of. the . 'eliarge ;' but"-he"wbisild-ISk:flle'Hon first was, when they abuSed their: patrimage, c Bart; (Sir H, Niildinay) how he couht produce pa ther by hulling out o i. : ,,,iae or re „,-,,,,),,. 3 to persons: pers; thete-,that'llad• been diss.voWett: b 1;?, anoth e r ,133- - employed in : the, public departments, with a vi e w to ronet, pho had first made the statements "COntaillea influence their-voices at-au Eledion„ On this iheatthe tin them ? That. Hon. Baronet-Hd coriftis.;ed that lA' could 01113 , Say, that neither a menaceiofpunishment could net pledge himself i.rs le_theit Y tic&in.cfy, as ltd nor - a - promise. of reward had been held out by the was -doll Of hearing.. , These had been already dis 7 'Fteitsury, at the last Ele(tion, to any person in any proved. I-le insisted on the right 'of tfie'itidividuals .department of the State ; and if airy such proceedings compo s in g the 00-verntnent' to in terf.:re il'itleEtiol4 had taken place, they must' ha?epaSsed through his : like any other individuals, and.'expressed his hope hands. There had been DO abuse of the,patronage ' that the House' would juin with him in censtirinS of Government in any department in, the kingdom. i the condo& of i hose who - had presented this frivo ' But the allegatiOns'of this Petition were not e xp res -. n ions and unfounded Petition. • . . sive of the-sense o f the County 'of S.outhampton.-- Mr . . JEFFERY could n ot ,it silent iltet the state.- The Petition had been. surreptitiously, privately, and inent of the Hon. Secretary "I' -• ' jest of rite Treasury,, clandeStincly brought fi)rward, - and was signed .only his silence sliojoa b : ~,, . .. . , _ . e construeu into all sacirmsion 0 ' by 112 persons, .who Co * ''' * ** aid not be said to express the the corret...iness of those statartr.nts; . i-fc had otter sense of .a County in which there were 6000 EleiEto - r3'; skin to k n 0,,,, somet i i i,, - t . , • . .. • i . .., eu eu g - or the implopei•...inter Lr • the Petition thCiefore did not contain the sense of the i of Government its Boroughs.. The Ht.in'. l l3ecrentrY County. j` as .there a fad bronght forward to. prot,e. himself had told him, that he' need _,nOt ' 4itea tit''' its. allegations, or was it supported by an charge patronage of Government in • - his CaIIVA.S6 for Pooh' , from any• other part of the kingdom ? ~, I t - rested , , because lie was in OppolitionPrvion+tni the c' , solely upon the cr e dit o f the 112. Gentle Men wh° had solution of Parliament, hi onhad told li'l , '• signed it, .and who had signed on a belief that h e h a d ' pont...nt • ! F,' t ti.• a. at a) 4 t e 8 Ms In ba th, grl