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, P. 1r . a Ronne, to• •as 'to midge it a more direct and controllable delegation bola tlw people, lie rliould call upon those who wi•hrd to re•andel its ranstitation, fir-t to refer to the orifice of history. and s r , whether a direct Ilelrem inn from the people w il y rye, tonnel long to tsi•l togellwr with s rrtonarclut• •nul aristocracy. History would shew that such a delegation was never long roesistrist we* eat other braorti el the I...Kislatute.. It windil 4nsiii the aristocracy, which would be too feeble 1., Irmo i•—it would 5..111 overthrow the monarchy. settle to a plan, dcmecrar•p, which sonic, evelitu. s b«•tam. • military iles i ao hound "pee. fort could awpgwv.. Wu so ah-nril sa to entertain all that surb an street would follow the trans• ter of the deriver franchise from Grampound to I .red■, or that such is measure would have soy other prre4o4l than es an injurious precedent. !tut see tv•ls that would follow were this once set. A t •re:lt a-toteness would prevail ( in the other large times to make tl iws by the exercise of every porn -1 le isigeottity, so as to induce a transfer of the elective f..atichise iron the mall boroughs to the urge towns. There were three precedents for Ink i•rg a different and an easy course. end at the same vine rlicrtualty removing the right from Gram poond. ShOrtherll. Aylesbury. and Cricklade ; pod when he proposed th it the hundreds of Powder ham and the adjoining one should have the franchise 13rteited by Gratupound, he begged distinctly to slide he spoke on public grounds alone. and without the smallest interest, save a single vote from • farm, in this mode of fixing the transfer. The transfer would thus give the elective franchise to above 1,000 freeholders, situated amid a population of 60,000 inhabitants. It was said that they were in the neighbourhood of six boroughs; but these were small, and confined to their corporations, 'while the hundreds contained populous towns, such as St. Col omb, Padstow, and others. He meant to tikreore that in carrying this proposition into effect, that though the freeholders of the particular bun dreds should enjoy the right of voting, yet that no freeholder within the jurisdiction or in the precincts of the corporate boroughs should have this tight in the present case. He had no pleasure in seeing so populous a town as Leeds un represented, on the contrary, he should rather the reverse was the fact, if circumstances had so ordain- ed it. Bot the great danger was, lest they should create a precedent for conceding what was called Parliamentary Reform, a measure which, if once taken, would ultimately lead to anarchy end confusion. It was the balanced scale of the popular with the aristocratical branch of the constitution that upheld the monarchy. If this balsnce were once lost, there would be an end to the happiness and famed liberties of this so long free and happy country. if any foreign power, emulous Of the institutions of this country, should attempt to give the additional force of • democratic body to an hereditary monarchy and vistocracy, the results of the experiment would soon be found in the ruin of the previously established orders. As to the small Cornish bo roughs, he, as a Cornishman, would in many in- Stances be glad to get rid of those that were open to corruption. Many indeed were very respectable fur instance, the borough of Truro, and that which he represented.—(A leugh.J—The floss. Member concluded by moving, as an instruction to the Committee, that they have power to extend the tight of the elective franchise fros the borough wf Grompound to the hundreds of Powderham and the adjoining hundred, and still to retain the name of thr disfranchised borough of Grompound, the 111.:yor still to remain the returning officer, and, with the twelve Aldermen, to have • vote. The f.l•ampound electors not disfranchised to retain their votes fur their lives but the votes afterwards to fall into the hundreds. When this instruction was about to be moved— ' ADJOURNMENT OF THE DEBATE. The cmaxceLLoa of the EICHEQUER rose to move, that the debate on this question be now ad j •urned. When he informed the Noble Lord op tio.ite that his Majesty's Ministers were this even• wit engaged upon urgent public business, he trust. ed he would accede to his request, to postpone the further cousiderotton of this question, in the un avoidable absence of his Majesty's Minister,. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in u very Law tone of voice, made some observations. as if he wished the um- Pon on Parliamentary Reform. which stands for to-morrow, to Iv. also postponed. Lord JUNE RUSSELL said, he was anxious to sfl,rd as much accommodation as possible to 141. d,-tors while engaged in public business. But if he port;mned his motion until to-morrow, he would itot sustain as much inconvenience as his Hun. Fro-i-d the Member for Durham (Mr. Lauibton). who had ■ very important motion tined fur that bine. Mr. LANIITOW Before I ought to be called upon to postpone a motion of such importance as that fixed for to-morrow, 1 am entitled to call for POIIIP public grounds, for as yet I know of none. to justify me in acceding to this postponement. I a.ider.tand that the embarkation of her Majesty Ow Queen hap placed Ministers in • delicate sits*. tibia, and rendered their immediine meeting in (.litriiiet Council necessary. That Ministers were placed in any situation of difficulty or delicacy with . their Suvereigo, formed no justificatory ground for the mtereuption of the public business. With every wish to aecommodate, I certainly caimot postpone my motion, which wands for 'to-morrow, Olden I have some more satisfactory reason than has yet been assigned." -The Cstasicett.oft or the EXCHEQUER said, it could not be expected or de.ired that lie was to mute the secret consultations of his Majesty's Mi siisters.—(4 laugh. rind cries of Order I—This was the first tame in which such an application hid beep made, and the propriety of acceding to it for a umment questioned iu Parliament. The usual practice teas to accede to the wish of Ministets in such a case. and under the circumstances he had stated. The application arose not from any per smal wish connected with. lois own convenience. WI for the purport. of discharging his duty to his Sur-reign said country, — (Dear, hear.)-1-1e pro. pose.l the adjournment of the debate to the earliest ionorible day, and then to hare it resumed in the utull course.—(Hearn hear.) • Lard Joint Ittisstu. said, that Wednesday would be s convenient day, he presnated. "Mr. BENS Err Pitt that the Mien' Bill stood fur IVeduestlay. CmAircsi,Lea of she Excaconts Ilest tlie Noble Lord's motion iraeld trite precedence. After a short conversation, the debate my dm Grim, 6•61 I)o.franclmensesst Bill was irostpostad until 11Iwoday next. ALIEN BILL. The Peepod reschog or the Alien Bill wee poet.. , gourd until Wedoesd..y next. THE BUDGET. The CH xttc►.t.t.ote of the ExclinittiEtt then said, that oil Friday next he would propose. II vote to pay the intesr.t on the Limn, rod on Wednesday, lite instant, would submit the Qudg•t, which Ise begged leave to itostitone from Friday next. INSOLVENT DEBTORS ACT. On the motion of Lord A LTHOIIe, the house resolved itself into • Committee upon the Insolvent Debtors' Act. Mr. DENMAN was quite unprepared to consider this question in the present evening. lie would, how. ever, take this opportunity of stating, that he had strong objections to the ougnsentirtion of the num• her of Commissioners from one to three, holding, as it were, three distinct Coeds, perhaps acting upon rldhgent rules. He doubted mach the .IE. cacy of the ion of appeal provi4ed, and thought the better course would be, to allow the present plan of the Court to be continued fur a little time longer, by way of experiment. Muth mischief had arisen from the iiiatteutiou !mid to the funds of debtors. Lord ALTHOIP said, in reply. that either the Commissioner must have out of doors other persons to inquire into the funds of the insolvents, or else the Court most be augmented to have that inquiry regularly conducted before Commissioners ap pointed for the purpose. Ile also argued, that as there were DO regular assets out of which to pay the expenses as in cases of backruptcy, therefore it would be necessary to affix salaries to the , * who had to perform the duty of examining the affairs of insolvent,. _ . Mr. ARERCROMBY thought that out of three Commissinuers, two should be clothed with the font bons of examiners, and one ought to be inverted with the power of determining. Mr. MAIGN Y said a few words to the same effect. Mr. D. W. HARVEY Meld not view the este. blishment of a new, distinct, expensive, cud irre sponsible officer with satisfaction ; but, if necessary, he thought the Commissioners ought to be three in member. At the same lime. considering that there were 70 C ommissioners of Baiikrwpt, 10 of whom might be spared, he thought that the insolvency commissions might he transacted by them. Mr. Antecoomaw admitted that the number of Commissioners night tie reduced with great advan tage to the administration of the laws ; et the same time the expense of those Commissioners was not paid out of the public parse, but eat of the foods of the bankrupts; and if the Hon. Member felt anxious to reduce the expanses of insolvency processes, he could not do it more effectoelly than by supporting she Bill, bemuse a measure could tend more effectually to reduce the prate of Book ruptcy Commissioners. Mr. Waoreasi.sir said a few weeds, sad Lord ALTMOMP replied. Mr. DZIIMAN withdrew his ameadmest. After some farther despisery couversation the `blanks were tlled up, and the Bill pared through •the Committee. The Report was brought up arid ordered to tbe received on Friday next. After which the other orders the day were dis posed of, and the House adjourned at tea minutes past Eleteu o'Clock. till to-morrow. MR. GRATTAN. • It is our painful duty I. record the death df the Right floss. HENRY GRATTAN. This melancholy event took place at a late hour on Sturdily night, at his house in Raker-sweet. It has been for some time expected with mournful anxiety by his family, the whole of whom watched, with the tendered soli citude, the death-bed of this distinguished character. Fur the lint five months Mr. GRATTAN laboured ander • severe dropsical affection in the chest, which, though attended with acute pain, he bore with the ammo revignatioo. The disorder had at. tamed so oppressive a height that Mr. GIATTAIL for the last Over months was obliged to seek rest its a sitting posture ; any attempt to sleep in en other manner brought ou an asthmatic "freed' s , which immediately threatened fatal 'coosecsems. Mr. GRATTAN, anticipating the fatal result of hie disorder, adopted. contrary to the advice of his friends, the determination of oisking one more effort on behalf of the civil sod religious liberties of his country. To use his own emphatic w•p4 in reply to the Addres, of the Catholics of Irelmod., presented to him in Dublin em many days age. be owed 6 ' Ins last breath to his country," use' • with interring haste has that melancholy wpr been fiddliest. Last Night it Moe the ideation of Mr. GRATTAN to have made the effort to bike' his seat in the House of C 0111110•1 1 .0, and closed hie, eminent career of public seerices, by laying on . the table of the (louse of Common, • series of Resolutiona declaratory of those' principlei of, civil and religiots liberty which he thoug i ht came the high moral itatiOit of Great 'Britain. and tie enlightened character of the ageln Which we .. , live. it bath pleased Providence in its all-wive dia., pensation of human destiny, to have withheld from Mr. (;RATTAN the opportunity of performing this last act of public duty on which he had set hi. mind, and to have made which he undertook his last j.rorney, and encountered that fatigue which, in his debilitated state of tieulth, no doubt sccrlerated his demise. Though it was not reserved for Mr. GRATTAN to have closed his public lire as 16 ear nestly desired, yet it is • consolation fur his fi mity sod friends to feel that he was not snitched Irons them and his cliuntry. es other statesmen have of late years unhappily Been. in the petite of life sod In the midit of the, tilteßAlNit'd energies for the prornetioo of the public in terests. It his beet' re served fur few men to have performed hiCh'esseidial is'ertrites forliis 'mortify ! ". to have Watched with iurh ielicitede . over its 'deal. est interees, and achieved ruder the Most slits rouraging circumstoores so essay solid advantages for his countrymen. If he did not live terminate. mate the complete success of the great cause to which his life of late ye:mini been devoted, he at least suc ceeded in placing it upon • basis of public opinion from which it cannot now be shaken, and left for successors the single task of recording the final settlement of a qiiestion, which his talents and do. smote had advaisced to the verge of Gold adjust. went. As a public character, the efforts of Mr. GRATTAN will be best understood by a reference to the history of his own country during the last half-century of its eventful annals. No man that ever preceded him filled a greater space in the pub. lic mind, 110 f were ever greater spestions more dependant on the patriotism and energies of a single iudividual. As an orator, Mr. Gaseerm stood in the first class. He was above grappling with the minor details of political questions. His view was that of a philosopher, and no statesman of modern times exceeded him in hit manlier of pressing his vignettists, or in the eloquence which he shed upon every subject that came before him. Theme was an indignant sarcasm, and severity in his lan guage when treating of the wrongs of his coun try which appalled his opponesits, and made him terrible iu the eyes of those minions of power who adhered with selfish eagerness to a system of go vernment happily since abandoned in administer ing the affairs of Ireland. Though Mr. GaAT- Tax remmanded a power of language almost be yond any other man of his time, yet his delivery, warns and impassioned as it was, was unmarked by the imposing graces of action. 'flit force and originality of his diction, the concise and yet coat. prehensive form of his arguments, and copious splen. dour of his illustrations, threw a commanding in terest ever his speeches, inn which some peculiarities of manner and phraseology were entirely over looked and forgotten. The ardent and impassioned character of Mr. GaArrcer eloquence, when, glowing with youth and hope and patriotism, he first bent the mighty energies of his great mind to rouse the dormant spirit of his country, could not be esdficiently ap preciated by those who witnessed only the occa sional exercise of his talents in the British House of Commons. In Ireland, his object was to infuse a spirit of proud independence into his auditors, to inflame their minds with a sense of the injuries their country had sustained, and to contrast their degraded cooditiou with the lofty state to which it was their duty to aspire. He had the countless wrongs of ages to enumerate—he had to wade through annals of oppression and crime—and feeling with warm sensibility for the sufferings of his country, he poured forth the torrent of his indigna tion with an overpowering force. But in England, there was neither scope nor necessity for this vivid eloquence. The temperament of the people and the circinuitauces of the country alike forbade it ; mid it was no inconsiderable proof of Mr. GRAT• Tales strength of mind and correctness of discre tion, that, accustomed as he had ever bees to ad. the imaginations, of men characteristically weweptible, practised, if the expression may be Awed, to carry the feelings of his auditory by Warm, lie could, when circumstances rendered it isecessery, so far temper his fire and alter the habits 4 his mind, a to sacrifice Isis peculiar means of I Wiumph, mod confine himself solely and exclusively M tbedispley of good sense and sound judgment. The condition of the two countries respectively was also essentially different. Ireland was, due. ingthictmlinuance of Mr. Garrean's rapid career, a new al fierce and unrelenting political contest, imbittered with every angry feeling that could be excited by a sense of insult and injury on the one hand, and of disappointed power on the other, and animated throughout with alternate triumphs sod defeats. In England every thing was compa. leatively tranquil, the princitika of civil and puli iticel liberty were fully recognised, and the 'constitution was permitted to act for the wel fare of the community, uncontrolled by open :enmity or ill.concealed treachery. In England "there was no systematic oppression to inflame the Iludigoation, nor were the energies of the people ; Patrolled by the jealous interference of a more Ipisverfel neighbour. Ireland was in a state similar to that of • province recently subsisted by a via., dictirre and injudicionrerioqueror her t ra d e pr.. hibited, her domestic industry discouraged. her EmP le oppressed , and her interest' betrayed. Frees this degraded conditioo it was the glory of Mr. GRATTAN to elevate his country. By the electric fire of hi. eloquence he shook off 'the bondage of ages—he taught the people a know. ledge of their rights, and from the state of a de. *gilded and degraded province. he raised Ireland to . the rank and poet of an independent kingdom. The death of this distinguished patriot will be long mourned, by his costars'. Ile was the last survivor of that great Waxy of talent which shed such a lustre upon the annals of this coos. try since the time of Lord CHATIIAIL. GRATTAN. was in the 74th year of his age.— fie was first returned a Member of the Irish Par. liament through the interest of theists Lord CHAR. LIIMONT iu the year 1773. In 1790 he was se. turned for the City. of Dublin, in the repre sentation 4 . which • vacancy is now caus e d by•lis deoth. Whether, the electors will fill it up by the .son of the late patriot, as was some time ago talked of, we are ignorant ; but if a debt , of gratitude were ever paid .to • sou for the setvkcss performed by . 4 porrlit, we .tlquk this one of . those case" in Isjtieb midi • debt should be 11111TRIK' bered. ' THE B ITISH PRESS. LONDON, TUESDAY. Jinni 6, Isto. 11l E QUEEN. The embarkation of she QuEre at Calais was noticed list night in the House of C moss, whe►e the intelligence of this eirut caused such conster nation among the Ministers of the Crown as to prevent them from attending to the ordinary 'no siness of the country. The CHsucet.Lot of the EXCHEQUER threw himself upon the indul gence of the House, and expressed a hope that no subjects calculated to produce discussion would be brought forward for a few days, sod in consequence of this request, the discussion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Bill for the disfrenchise mut of Grampound was interrupted in the midst of it, se sadden and unexpected was the necessity for the Ministers to leave the House of Commons to attend to the more urgent affairs that required their presence is Council. The timber trade with the British Colonies, and the intentions of relieving the trade with the Baltic from some of its present burdens, were noticed in the House last night. Several petitions were pre tented upon this subject. A Select Committee, si milar to that which was appointed in the House of Lords, upon the motion of the Marquis of Laois- DOWN, was appointed last night in the House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. BARING, to con sider the best means of maintaining and extending the foreign trade of the empire. An account of her MASK/Tea journey, up to her arrival at Calais, is given in soother part of ou► Paper. If the proposition made by Lord HUTCH INSON at St. Onser's be correctly stated. we are not surprised at its rejection. Fifty thou sand pounds a-year was the provision offered to her when only Princess of WALES, although yielding to the advice of Mr. WHITBREAD, and consulting the distressed state of the country, she was content with 36.0001. The sum now offered is slot therefore mere than she had a right to expect, and the conditions annexed to it a►e such as could out be accepted without an sdmiuiou of guilt. At balf-past two o'clock yesterday a ca►ricle and pair, with two gentlemen, attended by a strong detachment of lancers, crossed Blackheath, on the Dover road. Rammer immediately connected them with the expected wind of her MAJZSTY at that place. All the towns on that line of road were in a state of auxious expectation. The telegraph on the Kent road was basely at work etween owe sod two o'clock yesterday. It is stop pered to bare communicated to Ministers the em barkation of her MAJESTY at Calais, or hei arrival at Dover. The notice of • Loan was given at the Stock Ex change. at twenty minutes !nest three yesterday. The Ctuticitzt.ox of the EXCHEQUER wishes to see the parties to-morrow morning, to state parti. cubits. the amount not to ezceed 5,000,0001. The above notice made Cuowlv nee from 70n to 701 71. _____ We have received a series of New York Papers, front the 30th April to the lOth of May. The Ta riff Bill, to increase the duties ou certain articles of importation, has hero rejected is the Senate by a majority of one. The intelligence fiorn South America in these Papers assonances an important aud decided vic tory obtained by the Patriot.. The Message communicated by the Pan/DINT of the United States of America on the gth of May to the Congress, respecting the state of the negocia. Lions with Spain, will be found in another part of this Paper ; it reached town yesterday in a Balti more Paper of the 10th of last moeth. Mr. Maxine expresses himself with considerable aspe. rity upon the conduct pursued by the Spanish Go. vernment and its agents with regard to the cession of the Florida., and complaiusthat General Viva., instead of ratifying the Treaty, had only sought pretexts for delay, and finally refused, in coase. • quence of the recent events in the Peninsula to affix his signature to the Act for ceding tie Florid*, The Passiosme, however, slew, himself (homed to proceed with moderation towards Spain, and he therefore recommends to the Congress to suspend the operation of the Act of the Legislature of the Lot Session, empowering the PIaIifIDENT to lake possession of the Florida.. until the tranquillity of Spain shall be established, and the sense of the Government of Spain shall he understood withs►ti gard to some points of diffirence started in the re. cent negocietions. This Message is accompanied to the Congress by a copy of the correspondence between Genets! Viva.. the Spaniel' Minister, and the American Se. entity of State. General Vices states, that the cause of site interruption of the negociations at Ms. drill, and conseroent rejection of the Treaty, was. the intemperate conduct of Mr. FORiTTH, and the very offensive language of his official notes. That in consequence of these th&ressces he was ordered I to proceed to IVaalungton, with representations us t the subject, sad to negeciate respecting certain die. ' ' pitted Points, able'', from the offensive language of ft , Mr. FORIITTIi t could not he discuroed with that diplomatist. After several communication+ the Spanish Minister concludes with saying, that his in. 'tractions will not admit hos ratifying the Treaty, but that, if sent to Mad►id, he thinks it probsble the KING, his master, will finally ratify it, after the explanations being given. Paris Papers of Friday last have arrived at nur office. In the Sitting of the Chamber of Ile. Intim on Thuraday, the discus.. was resitnitd upon the first article of the law of tlectlini. 4 to which M. CAMILLE JORDAN proposed as so amendment, that " Every department shall he di. sided into as many electoral district, es three 4 0 01 Ise deputies chosen ; that each of these divin e r, shall have an electoral college, consisting of all the inhabitants who. having their fixed domicile shall he thirty years of age, and pity 390 fr. lit direct contrifeution ; and that each electoral college shall name its deputy directly." The object of this amendment was decidedly opposed to the whole principle of the ministerial project, as it would increase the power of the democracy, where , . the object of the Ministers is to create a kind of aristocracy. The amendment was supported he M. LAME DB VILLIVEQUIC, and also by Getter Foy. whose speech was delivered extempore. lit nerol FOY vehemently attacked what he called the aristocratic influence of 1815, and its actions at that period, when " it extended between the throne nod the people its arum, strengthened by foreign stru t, and stained with blood the sceptre of the Monarch." This sentence excited very violent commosimis the right side of the Clamle►, mid called up M. De LA BOUIDONNAYE, the great champion nr Ukra-lloyalisane, to complain of the expression ; !nit the tumult having subsided, General Foy coolly proceeded to defend his words, and referent to ii.. KING'S Proclamations on his Majesty's worn,. " But you know," he added, " what happened • hen the powers of the state were in the hands ofs party. Yes, Gentlemen, the fury of the aristo. cracy was at that period but the mask of party corn. binatious--(Nete tuntahl—for the sristneracy is always conspiring—it never rests.--( The to. milt increased, and prevailed even ORION; the spectators is the triftenes).—General Foy was interrupted by a contused debate upon the point of order, but being at length persamtrd to proceed, he undertook to justify his words by large quotations horn M. Cuaxitainsattion's swank. " La illoaarchie mhos Ia Cherie." The amendment being put to the vote it was re. jected by a majority of only ten, there being for It 123, against it 133. Every Member of the Cheat. ber was present, with the exception of only one. whose absence was caused by severe illness. This • decision was received by the left side, and by tie liberal party in Paris, with consternation. Some oilier amendments remain yet,to be determined be- J fore the decision of the Chamber can be token upon the first article. The Mcnriiewr captains • copy of the ode of sr. eusation against Looted. The assossiii has confessed his crime, sod exults in it. He acknowledges, that from the return of the Boollioyil lie entertained the intention of murdering them all. and that he had followed them to all places of public resort, aid even to the churches, for that purpose. Nut even the awful solemnity of the altar would have pre vented him from killing any of them. had the op portunity offered, or his courage not failed him. He had dews wised to murder Mon strut' at Lynn.. if he could have met him there at the time of Ho- NAPAItTIes return from Elba; and hail he rlicapeil after the murder of the Duke of Britar, he hail resolved nett to assassinate the Duke of A vcou- LIME, then Motility'', and finally the KING him self. Upwards of 1,200 witnesses have been exa mined in this proceeding, bat it has been fully , shorn that Lousel had no accomplice whatever. The Five per Cents. are 74 f. 90 c.—Bask Stock. 1,335 f. We have received German Papeiv, but their contents am animportant. Yesterday the Duke of You transacted militavy business with his MAJESTY, at his Palace in P.lt. Yesterday the Ear{ of Lioasroot, and Count klussraa had audsenees of Isis MAJESTY. The Duke of CLAIIIIICZ visited the Kinn yes. terday. Yesterday, at waist, a Messenger strived at Lard Liveitroot.'s °ace. with dispatches from XII. Banuastar, at Si. Oster. The Messenger bidets audience with his Lordship, and was desired to keep himself ready to return at a moment's notice. Extreme of a letter hoes Forragossoof such alt.-- 16 Some ill-dirpased pergolas here Inure made an at telovt spinet our conatitation. but it has cost them deer—tiesrly all Ow town united with the troops. attacked the mob, killed two, and made sifts worm.. amongst whom are three friars and too priest'. The Archbishop is suspected, sad ar( sdrJ in consequence; none of the good people bare se mived any injury, sad the had will be inept., ly punished. We are all armed as a initional guard, and every thing will go on well." Mr. tiIIATTAN. we understand, will he requested to stand for Dublin in the room of his lamented father. Mr. &Baur is the new Fellow of Trinity College. Au Agregale Catholic Meeting woo held in Dublin on Thursday last, when a series of Resole- Isom , , and a Petition founded thereon, praying to be admitted to the full enjoyment of the commie. Were•sagremi,to. and. it was imailaml that Abe Earl of Doti OUGUIIIOIIII and Mr. GRATTAIIII•be • ico quested to present said Petition.