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Ha also contrasted the conduct of IPA Government then with that of the present Administration; the excuse which was efrered at that time in defence of these violent scenes was, 'hat a body of the people had pasted a resolution declaring they would not pay taxes if they were refused Reform. whilst no notice was taken of the same resolution wiiic4 had been taken six months ago by the Birrnite!ham Poli tical Union. He could find no other language by which to describe the work of the 16th of August thou that of a " cold-blooded murder;" and so cold bloo:fed was it, that an Irishman of the name of Magher, who was one of them, was heard afterwards to declare, in an exulting tone, that he had to boast of having seen ttmre Saxon I ,od spilled on that day than he had ever before wit nessed. What was there off..red in defence of this 'outlier? Was there any proof off-red that the people came armed ? There was none. He had lived long enough ; however, to have forgotten all the personal injuries he had suffered by the conduct of the Manct,ester Yeomanry; be had lived to see the Nob!, Lord, the Paymast-r of the Forces, bring in a Bill for reforming the representation, which, although it did not go so far as he could wish it to do, yet went quite far enough to shew that the feeling of' Parliament itself was with the people on the subject of Reform, and that they themselves acknowledged that the Clouse of Commons was not such as it w.'s 4esired by the people to be. He had now no personal feelings tis indulge upon this question—twelve years had elapsed since these atrocities were committed, and in twelve years even:. haul occurred which, though they did not prevt.nt him from still demanding justice, had completely eradicated the de sire for revenge. Revenge on the authors and abettors of the outrages of that clay, he had already had • nough. He had lived to see the Noble Paymaster of the Forces bring a Bill into Palliatnent, which, though it might not give to the people the relief which he wished them to obtain, still admitted that all the allegations which he had at CH►)tEER3, MARCH 1, ISSC. VOTiCE is hereby given to all Persona de. 4 - !irons of contracting to supply the following Anti , eves fGr the Use of the Army, viz. tonments, Quarter:, oned Counties and BREAD, To his MajcAy's Land Forces in Can\ and. Barracks, in the under-menti , Wands:— /i cdford Gloucester Includ- Berks (including thel log the city of Britt town of Hunger-' tol) ford) ,Hereford Bucks Cambridge (i nclud-I Her ford ing the town of Hunts Newmarket) Isle of Man Chester Isle of Wight Cornwall (including Kent (including Til- Scilly) bury Fort, in the' Cumberland County of Essex) Derby Lancaster Devon il.eiceitcr Dorset I Lincoln Durham (including Middh-sex Holy Island) Monmouth Essex (exclusive of Norfolk Tilbury Fort) Northampton In the several Counties In North Britain, And in the islands of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey. A 4 also Bread to the Household Troops in London and its Vicinity. Northumberland (in. eluding Berwick. on-Tweed) Nottingham Oxford Rutland Salop Somerset Stafford Suffolk Surrey !Sussex Warwick NVestmorelemil Worcester ,York 'North and South ' Wale;, IMNDON. FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1832. (No. 11.2,327.) (PRICE 7D.) Published this day, in Syn. Third Edition, 7s. boards, .I‘"T of VALUING RENTS and TIL LAGES, and the Tenant's Right on Entering a•:d Quitting Farms Explained By J. S. BAYLDON, Land Agent and Appraiser. I.m:don : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Co. By the same Author, TREATISE en the VALUATION of PROPERTY for the POOR'S RATE. Svo. 7s. 6d. boards. many of the old settlers, brought on by improvidence, or h.Y having engaged in the timber business, will compel them to sell their farms, and commence again on woodlands. , t Joiners, stone-masons, saddlers, shoemakers, tailor,, blacksmiths, cart, mill, and wheelwrights, and (in the seaports) coopers, may always find employment. Brewers may succeed ; but in a few years there will be more en eouragement `or them. Butchers generally do well. For spinners, weavers, or those engaged in manufactures, there is not the smallest encouragement. " Active labouring men and women may always secure employment, kind treatment, and good wages. To gentlemen educated for the professions of law, divinity, or physic, British America offers no flattering prospects. There are already too many lawyers, as they are admitted as attorneys and barristers on serving an ap-, prenticeehip of four or five years in the colonies. There are, of the Established Church, notwithstanding the as tounding statement made some time ago by Archd e a con StrAchan, to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, fully more elargymen, in proportion to the members of the church, than.in England. The members of the Kirk of Scotland, as soon as a sufficient number to support a clergyman settle within a reasonable distance of each other, generally send for a minister to Scotland. Anti burghers, Baptists, and Methodists, have preachers in every settlement where they have members, or can gain hearers. The Roman Catholic Church is respectably established—its clergy is well supported; and no class in terferes less with other persuasions than they do, or are more peaceable, or better members of society. " Medical gentlemen generally secure a decent liveli hood, but, with few exceptions, seldom make money. The climate of British. America is too salubrious for doctors to make fortunes. Schoolmasters who emigrate, if they have not entered into engagements as to salary before leav ing home, will, nine out of ten, have to cultivate the soil for a subsistence, and they generally make indifferent farmers. Young men of education, clerks in mercantile houses, or shopmen, need not expect the least encourage ment, unless previously engaged by the merchants or shop keepers in America. Many young men, however, of per severing minds and industrious habits, have baffled every obstacle, and finally succeeded in establishing themselves in trade. Many of the richest merchants in the colonies were of this description. " Farmers or labourers going to America should carry ont with them, if their means will admit, as much cloth ing, bedding, and linen as may be necessary for four or tive years, some leather, one or two sets of light cart har ness, two or three spades or shovels, scythes, sickles, hoes, plough-traces, the iron work of a plough and harrow, of the common kind used in Scotland ; the cast machinery for a corn fan, co ,king utensils, a few door hinges, and a sm ill assortment of nails, Furniture, or any other kind of wooden work, will only incommode them, as what may be necessary can eaily be procured at moderate rates in America. That occurrence was by no means peculiar in Ire. land ; and the Noble Lord expressed his hope that the question of tithes would be spedily adjusted. An HON. MEMBER, whose name we did not hear, pi,- served a petition from the woollen manufacturers of the courry of Gloucester, against the Bill for regulating the hours of labour in factories.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. LEADER presented petitions from different parishes in Meath and Cork, against the tithe system in Ireland. The Hon. Member did not consider the Tithe Composition Act what it purported to be, as it was the means of increasing, instead of leseenine., the tithes. The conduct of many of the clergymen in Ireland, in order to enforce the payment of these tithes was very reprehensible. Mr. H. GRATTAN concurred entirely with what bad fallen from the Hon. Member for Kilkenny, that the Tithe Composition Act increased instead of lessening the tithes. Mr. SHAW lamented that in nine cases out of ten pe titions of this nature over-stated the facts detailed in them. He did not, however, think such observations applied to the petition presented by the Hon. Member, as he believed they stated only facts. Captain GORDON had, in many instances which had come before him, discovered petitions to contain a tissue of mis -statements. UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. This day was published, price 24., VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES USED for the FOOD of MAN ; being the 29th Part of the LIBRARY of ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE. The 30th Part, completing the Volume, will be published on the 31st ; price in chsth, 61 The previous Volume of VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES comprises TIMBER TREES and FRUITS. Charles Knight, 13, Pall-Mall East. OATS, Ti his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Canton tnents, and Quarters, in the under-mentioned Countirs : Bedford Glouce,ter 'itielutl.' Northumbei land Beaks (including the` ing the city of Br:; .' Nottingham town or Hunger- tot) Oxford ford), limits and Isle of Rutland Perwick Wight Salop Pucks Hereford Somerset Cambridge (includ-. H er tford Stafford ing the town oflHnats Suffolk Newmarket) 'Kent (including Til. Surrey Chester I bury Fort) Sussex Cornwall .ILancaster Warwick Cumberland :Leicester Westmorelsiid Derbr !Lincoln Wilts Devon -" • ''''" 71111kidle. -. .4,lVoreaster. Dorset ' • Monmoutlil "--. !York .. Durham 'Norfolk 'North and South Essex iNorthamptou ; Wales. FORAGE, viz. EMIGRATION. (Frog❑ 3l'Gregor's British America ) The SPEAKER here c.illed the Hon. Member to order. He was sure he would see the propriety of not comtnuni eating petitions of such a nature to the House when it was grossly imposed on. Captain GORDON felt obliged by the suggestions of the Right Hon. Gentleman, and would, in future, exercise his privilege and duty as a Member of that House by hold ing up such petitions in their true light. Oats, Hay, and Straw, to his Majesty's Cavalry and Artillery Horses in Barracks, in the under-mentioned Counties in South Britain : Clerks Kent Nottinghasn Cornwall Lancaster Somerset Devon Middlesex ,Sutlitik Dorset Norfolk Surrey Essex Northampton • Sussex Hants (including the Northumberland (in_ Warwick Isle of Wight) eluding Berwick- York, on-Tweed) And in the several Counties in North Britain. After some further observations from Mr. SUAW and Mr. LEAnEr., the petition was ordered to he printed. DORSETSIIIRE COMMITTEE. That the deliveries are to commence on and for the Ist day of May next ; that Proposals in writing, sealed tip, and marked " Tender for Army Supplies," will be re ceived at this Office en or before Thursday, the sth day of April next, but none will be received after Eleven o'clock on that day. Proposals must be made separately for each County and Island, except for the Counties comprising North and South Wales, all of which must be included in One `render; likewise the Islands of Alderney, Guernsey, and Jersey; as also the several Counties in North Britain; and each Proposal must have the Letter which is annexed to the Tender properly filled up by two per sons of known property engaging to become bound with the party tendering, in the amount stated in the printed Particulars, for the due Performance of the Con tract ; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed Tender, and the prices expressed in words at length ; and should it so happen that during the continuance of the Contract nu troops should be supplied by virtue of the same, the Amount of the Stamps on th• Contract and Bond, paid in the first instance by the Con si.actor, will be refunded to hire. N. B. It is particularly desired that Persons is jelling to Tender will not make use of any Forms but these recently printed, which may be had upon application at this Office, and to the Barrack Masters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Man. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 15. In the absence of the Loan CHANCELLOR, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY presided. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a petition from the county of Argyll, against the Scotch Reform Bill ; and one from the town of Kinnoul, in favour of it. The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from De vonport, in favour of the Factories Bill. Several petitinas were presented against the new system of Education in Ireland, by the Lords Rona:: and LORTON. BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. THE GALLERY for the EXHIBITION and SALE of the WORKS of BRITISH ARTISTS, is OPEN DAILY, from Ten in the Morning till Five in the Evening. Admission le.—Catalogue le. WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. THE UNITED KINGDOM. Published this day, Nev Edition, improved throuihout, with corrected Maps of eve!) , County, 3's. 6d. boards, ATOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY, or GAZETEER of ENGLAND, WALES, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND ; including accurate and officiil details relative to every County, District, City, Town, Borough, Parish, and Bitola, in the United Kingdom ; including above 20,000 Places. By BENJAMIN PITTS CAPPER, EN. Of the Secretary of State's Office. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phitlips and Co. A FAMILY BOOK. Published this day, New Ed:tion Rsvi-ed, price 10s. 6d. bd. FIVE THOUSAND RECEIPTS in all the Arts of Life, and in the various Branches of Social and Domestic Economy; being four times more in number than are contained in any similar book, and con stituting a work of indispensable hourly reference. By COLIN MACKENZIE, E..q. London : Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co. Of whom may he had, ONE THOUSAND EXPERIMENTS in CHEMIS TRY, applicable to the Arts and Manufactures of Great Britain. 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IMPORTANT CAUTION. THE RECUMBENT CHAIR is the in genious invention of R. DAWS, 17, Margaret street, Cavendish-square. The recommendations of it, in _many Scientific 'Works, induced many unprincipled Up holsterers to sell an imitation of it, which, we find, does not afford the same extent of comfort to invalids, or as an or dinary Resting Chair as the original. We, therefore, ad vise the obtaining of it of Robert Dares."—Dr. Reece's Medical Annual, 1831. .• ROBERT DAWS respectfully states that no other prin ciple doe., or can, admit of half its variation or number of steady positions, comfort, simplicity, strength, or elegance, and he will p resent one to any respecta bl e p ers on chew i ng the contrary. The same Chair may be bad portable. also with wheels , by which a person can move themselves in a room, garden, or lawn. —May he bad on hire. INCORRODIBLE ARTIFICIAL TEETH FIXED ON THE PARISIAN PRINCIPLE , AND FILLI N G N DECAYED TEETH WITH MINERAL SUCCE DANEUM. ONSIEUR MALLAN and SONS, Sur geon Dentists, No. 9, HALF MOON-STREET, PICCADILLY, and 32, GREAT RUSSELL-STREET, BLOOMSBURY, grateful for the high and EXTENSIVE PATRONAGE which has so eminently distinguished their professional exertions since their arrival in the British Me tropolis, beg leave to announce to their Friends and the Public in general, that they still CONTINUE to RE-. R FORE DECAYED TEETH,with their CELEBRATED MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM, so universally recotn n'ended by the Faculty of London and Paris. The Ope ration is PERFORMED IN A FEW SECONDS, with out the SLIGHTEST PAIN, HEAT, or Presaure, and allays the most E XCRUCIATING PAIN, and lasting for many years ; they also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, WHETHER ARISING from AGE, NEGLECT, or DISEASE in the GUMS. INCORRODIBLE MI IggRAL end NATURAL TEETH, from one to a COM PLETE Set, Which are INCAPABLE of DISCO LOURATION or CORROSION, and fixed without the ',cumbrance of Wires or any other LIGAI URES and ans wer every PURPOSE of ARTICULATION , and STICATION. —Charges a.a in Perin. Ail Operations perforated on the Teeth. " With respect to the . „a4vantages which our North American possessions present, and the prospects they afford to new settlers, it may he observed that the upper or inland, and the maritime colonies, have each their res pective advantages. Canada, however, will likely continue to be the country that will absot I) the greatest ❑umber of emigrants. But from all I have been able to learn, and from the opinions of the most thinking men of practical experience and local knowledge, I conclude that from 2 to 300,000 settlers might be s nt at little more than half the expense, and witb equal if not greater advantage to the emierants, to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Ed ward bland, Cape Breton, and the district of Gaspe. The lower colonies are never subject to agues, nor lake fevers, while the climate of Upper Canada generates both. " The proximity of these countries to plentiful fisheries is of great benefit to new settlers, who are enabled to pro cure at an easy rate, or with little trouble, what may con stitute, for some tins e one of the principal articles of food. Herring, cod, salmon, mackerel, and many other varieties of fish, abound in the rivers and along the coasts. "In Upper Canada, it is true, the lands are equally fertile, and, in some respects, superior to those of the lower provinces; but the distance to the u❑occupied dis tricts', with the consequent expense of carriage and fatigue of travelling, ate much greater, while the inland parts, at the same time, want the benefit of fisheries, and the immediate markets for the productions of the soil, which the maritime colonies possess. " The last inconvenient objection will, however, in a great measure, soon disappear, as the canals now cutting to avoid the cataracts and rapids, and the roads which are gradually extending to the remote settlements, will faci litate the carriage of luggage and goods; and the produce of the soil will also, in consequence, find a readier market. " The emigrant who directs his course to Upper Ca nails, a country which has for some years afforded an asylum fir some thousands of poor settlers, necd not ap prehend the want of fertile land, nor, after two or three years ; the necessaries and many of the conveniences of life. Yet notwithstanding the vast tracts of unoccupied land, he will, in order to secure a desirable farm, have to pro ceed a great distance into the back country, apart from society, and without the conveniencies to be found only in a populous neighbourhood. He must not, however, he discouraged if he suffers much more, from the time he lands at Quebec or Montreal, until he plants himself in the woods, than he experienced in removing to America from the land of his forefathers. Every succeeding year will open more cheering prospects to him ; the emigrants who arrive after him will settle beyond him in the wilder ness, and he will soon observe houses, villages, a❑d corn fields, occupy ng the place of gleamy and boundless forests. " It has. unfortunately, been the fate of the majority of those who have emigrated to Can Ida, to encounter severe hardships after landing. It must, at the same time, be mentioned, in justice to the Government of the province, and to the gentlemen of Quebec and Mentreal, that the emigrants have not only received kind and liberal assist ance to enable them to proceed to the upper province, but that the greatest care has been taken of the sick poor among them at the hospitals. " The districts of land still unoccupied in Lower Ca nada will accommodate an immense population. On the lands through which the river Saguenay and its streams flow, Scotch Highlanders, from the upper parts of Perth, and the inland parts of Argyle, Inverness, Ross. Caithness, and Sutherlandshire, might be located to great individual advantage, and with importance to the political value of Canada. Such people are eminently qualified to colonize this district; and I almost concur in opinion with the Quebec gentleman who says, in a letter to Colonel Cockburn, " that it" (the basin of Saguenay) " is the arx et do. miciliunt amperii of North America, and should be settled with people of military habits." No man can more readily assume steady military habits, if necessary, than those I recommend to this country. Another tract, lying between the rear of the of the Canadian settlements on the south side of the St. Lawrence and the province of New- Brunswick, is cap tole of supporting many thousands. This tract should be settled either by the Canadians or Scotch Ilighlanders, for the purpose of forming a barrier of dis tinct people, near the frontiers of the United States. " There are other ti acts in Lower C made worthy of much attention. That lying north of the St. Lawrence, in the rear of the seigniories, is particularly adapted for Scotch Highlanders,—that is, if this tract be not reserved for the increasing Canadian• French population. Another excellent tract, pointed out by Lord Dalhousie, for Low land Scotch, lies on the Ottawa, below Hull. " As respects New Brunswick—as the soil is, at a short distance from the sea-ceast, eye] to that of Canada, it is, at the same time, accessible at little more than half the expense ; but, bordering on the United States, great care should be observed in sending to it only emigrants of correct, industrious, and, if possible, at the same time of military habits. The capahilitiefs of this valuable, exten sive, but little known province, will be observed where the colony is described in the second volume of this work. " In Nola Scotia, although there are not now remain ing extensive tracts of good lands ungernted, yet farmers of frugal and industrious habits, and with some means, are sure to succeed ; and such is the state of society in and improved condition of, this province, that a man does not feel that he is very far removed from ail that he has form , rly been accustomed to. " Cape Breton, with its eminent advantages for the fisheries, and for grwing, and also, in most parts, for agiculture, is admirably adapted for families trona the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, from the Isle of Man, or front Wales. Last year, about 2,000 emigrants arrived in this island from the Hebrides, in a state of wretched poverty, and would have suffered great miseries, had not several of their relations or acquaintances previously settled in the colony. " In Prince Edward Island, families fr,m the inland counties of England, and front the agricultural shires of Scotland, to the number of 10 or 20,000 individuals, would find farms to suit them, on terms fully as liberal as in any of the other coloni, a where lands are equally well situated ; and in this colony, also, the state of society, and local advantages, are superior. This island has lung been considered the most beautiful of our American colonies. It is thriving rapidly in agricultural improvement; and, for its extent, will become a productive grain country. " The Island of Newfoundland—the lands of which are so imperfectly known in the United Kingdom, and which, like those of Nova Scotia formerly, seem still, ac cording to the generally received opinion, condemned, as if doomed by nature to everlasting barrenness—affords, not withstanding, situati9ns for an additional population of ten or twelve thousand families. It now, at the same time, be considered, that settlers adapted for Newfoundland, should be men brought up along a sea-coast. Families irom the Shetland and Orkney Ishnds, the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, the shores of Wales, Cornwall, and the west and south of Ireland, would succeed best. " As to tfe classes to which British America offers in ducements to emigrate, much will depend upon individual character ; but it may, however, be observed, that in con *equence of the high price of labour, gentlemen-farmers do not generally succeed, and the condition of new countries does not admit of extensive e stablishments. The settlers who thrive soonest, are men of steady habits, and accus tomed to labour. " Practical farmers, possessing from 2001. to 6001., may purchase, in any of the colonies, far ma with from twenty to thirty acres cleared, which may he cultivattid ~rpeably to the system of husbandry practised in the United Kingdom- The embarrassed circumstances of On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Mu tiny Btll, and the Marine Mutiny Bill, were read a third tune, and paned. On the suggestion of the Earl of RODEN, the Com !ciliate on the Irish Juries Bill was postponed till Thurs day next. . _ * Tae Earl of WICKLOW asked whether there would be any objection to the production of two papers which had been laid before the other House—he meant Mr. Stanley's letter to the Duke of Leinster on the subject of Irish education and the report thereon ? Viscount MELBOURNE said dome would be uo ob jection. The NOBLE EARL then gave notice that he would bring the subject before the House on Thursday next. Lords KING and CLONCURRY presented petitions against tithes in Ireland. The E.irl of RODEN presented petitions from Stan bourne, in Essex, and Tipperary, against the new system of education in Ireland. Lord CLONCURRY had not been aware that so touch opposition would have been given to the benevolent inten tions of his Majesty's Government, or he would have pre sented as runty petitions as would have broken down their Lordships' table, in opposition to those which had ben presented by the Noble Lord for some evenings past. The petitioners were a mere faction. Lord LORTON could not sit and hear those who had entrusted him with their petitions, called a faction. Did the Noble Lord include Archbishops and Bishops, and almost all the Clergy in Ireland, in his accusation? Their Lordships then adjourned till to-morrow, at ten o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mmes 15. On the motion of Mr. PENDARVES, the Bndmin Rail road Bill was read a second time, and ordered to b: com mitted. Lord A. LENNOX obtained leave to bring in a Bill for establishing the new church of St. Bartholomew, at Chichester, in the county of Sussex. • Mr. RUTHVEN brought up the report of the Com mittee upon the Belfast Rail-road Bill. LONDON BRIDGE APPROACHES BILL. Mr. WILKS had a petition to present, which, although it nlated to a private Bill now before the House, was of some importance, as regarded the approaches to the me tropolis. It was from those citizens who resided in Grace church-street and its vicinity, who expressed themselves deeply impressed with the necessity of improving the thoroughfares in the city of London, and they were of opinion that a very great improvement would be made if the spot of ground, now vacant, in front of the Monu ment, were permitted to remain vacant ; and that it would form a most elegant embellishment by making a square, and ornamenting it with the statues of the King and Queen, by which the approach from London.hridge into the city would he greatly improved. The petitioners stated that the cspence of effecting such improvements would be very trivial, when compared with the improved appearance of the approach to the City ; and they prayed that the op portunity of the Bill being now before the House would not be lost, but that provision might be made in that Bill to effect that plan. Mr. Alderman WOOD had no doubt that the pro posed alteration would be a very important one ; but he did not know how it was to be carried into effect. The petitioners had bad an opportunity, if they thought proper to avail themselves of it, of going before the Committee, and pointing out the advantages of the plan, and also of informing the Corporation where they were to obtain the money necessary to expend in its accomplishment. Sure he was that the public would give them no more money ; and as the street was intended to be 60 feet wide, it would be sufficiently commodious for those citizens who resided at Peckham and the other places on the Surrey side of the water. The petition was read, and ordered to be referred to the Committee. Mr. BYNG obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regu late and improve the united parishes cf St. Andrews, Hol born, above the Bars, and St. George the Martyr, Blooms bury. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Mr. Edward Green against the Bill now before the House for quak ing the Ecclesiastical Funds of the New Church at Islington. Lord KILLEEN presented a petition from W. Smart, the keeper of a gaol in Ireland, complaining that in the Bill for regulating the Grand Juries in Ireland, no pro vision was made for superannuated keepers of gaols ; also two petitions from places in the county of Galway, pray ing the House to preserve the rights of the Galway freemen. The NOBLE LORD next presented a petition from the parish of Killmesser in the County of Meath, praying that Ireland might have an additional number of representatives by the Irish Reform Bill, beyond those already promised. The Noble Lord was afraid that there was now no chance of obtaining an accession of Members for Ireland. The petition was read and ordered to he printed. The NORM! LORD then presented two petitions from pa rishes in the county of Meath, praying for a total abolition of tithas. One of the petitions contained a complaint that the p,titioners should be required to pay tithes when there u t ither church nor chu rc h s erv i ce i n that portal, Mr. CLIVE gave notice that on Tuesday next he should move the adjournment of the Committee from Tuesday, the 20th, to Thursday, the 22d. Colonel ROCHFORD presented a petition from West meath, signed by fifty-one Magistrates, all the Roman Catholic and Protestant Clergymen, and by the Reformers and Anti-Reformers, stating that that county was in a state of open rebellion ; in consequence of the resistance to the payment of tithes, and praying the House to adopt some measures whereby peace might be restored. Mr. CHAPMAN expressed his surprise at the presenta tion of a petition from Westmeath. He was willing to admit that great disturbances did exist in parts of that county, but he could not think the other parts of it were in that state of things described in the petition. He attri buted to the affair at Castle Pollard the ground work of of all the disturbances that had taken place in that county. Mr. HANCOCK supported the petition. Mr. STANLEY was very far from denying the respectability and unanimity of those who had signed this Petition, for the purpose of asking from Parliament ex traordinary powers to preserve the peace of the county of Westmeath. He did not, however, feel justified, as at present advised, to accede to their request ; be looked upon it as one of the most mischievous courses that could, perhaps, by a possibility be adopted, upon any occasion where local or partial disturbances took place in Ireland, for the Magistrates of the county, instead of looking for their security to a firm administration of the existing laws, to apply for extraordinary powers, as by the Insurrection Act, to coerce the county. The disturbance might be put down by extraordinary means, but it was only at the expence of a violation of Consitutional principle, and keeping up between the Magistrates and people. The magistracy and the people were thereby encouraged to look upon the ordinary course of law as in sufficient. Mere insurrection acts were applied,—before extraordinary remedies were furnished by Parliament, it ought to appear that the existing laws had been carried to their full extent. He might refer to the ease of Clare last year, in illustration of this. Could any thing be more pressing than on that occasion, when the enforcement of the Insurrection Act was demanded,—these demands, however, were resisted, and the landholders and gentry find ing their demands unattended tu, net the case and suppressed the disturbance. They pointed out baronies that were disturbed they put them under proclamation ; and ad ditional means of enforcing the law being at their request and expellee, the remedies succeeded. He did say that the cases specifically pointed out in the petition, urging the paying, were the most ex traordinary he had ever heard, and by no means justified the demand of the petitioners.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. H. GRATTAN did not see how the petition merited much notice from the House. The meeting had not been called by advertisement, and the Magistrates had not applied for additional forces of police If it was, how ever, any consolation to the Gallant Colonel opposite, he would read an extract from a Paper which he had that morning received :_« The police throughout Ireland are undergoing a thorough revision. We are extremely pleased at this, and in the county of Westmeath they are in the best state of discipline. They are all dead shots at the bull's eye." Mr. MOORE O'FARRELL was extremely happy to hear the statemeut that had been made by the Right Hon. Secretary for Ireland. If the gentry of Westmeath did their duty, there would be no occasion for the extraordi nary powers they now demanded. Mr. BLACKNEY said the unhappy excitation in the County of Westmeath was altogether to be attributed to the circulation there of religious tracts. _ _ Mr. SHAW wished to know whether the observa tions of the Right Honourable Secretary for Ireland were to be understood as having reference generally to Ireland, or only to Westmeath ? He agreed with him that nothing but imperious necessity could jus tify,' a departure from the ordinary law, but in the county of Kilkenny, he had reason to believe the ordi nary law of the land could not be executed, and unless extraordinary powers were given to Government, violence and outrage would go unbridled. Mr. STANLEY said, as the only case at present before the House was that of the county of West meath, ,his observations should be understood as ap plying- to it only. At the same time he could not too strongly repeat his conviction that nothing hut the last necessity, and the failure of every other means with which the law armed the Magistrates, would justify them to ask from Parliament extraordinary powers for the co 'rcion of any county whatever. BLACKNEY said ai the Honourable and Learned Member I,r the City of Dublin had referred to the state of Kilkenny, be would take that opportunity of stating, that from a letter which he had received, that county was in a state of restored peace, and several stand of arms had been given in. Lord ALTHORP.hrought up a report respecting the slave populition. Lord MILTON postponed his motion relating to the Corn Laws, to Tuesday, the Bth of Miy next. MANCHESTER MASSACRE. Mr. HUNT stated that before he proceeded with his motion respecting the Maachester massacre, of which he had given Notice, he would take the liberty of present ing a few petitions which he held in his hand, relating to the subject of his motion. The first petition was from the Paisley New Town Reading Rooms, praying for an inquiry into the conduct of the Magistrates in re spect of what took place at Manchester in 1819. Another was from the inhabitants of Halifax, in the county of York, to the same effect. Another was from the inhabi tants of Hull to the same effect ; and several others of a similar nature from places in that neighbourhood. The petitions were read and ordered to he printed. Mr. HUNT, in bringing forward his motion, did not think it was necessary to apologise for what he was about to submit to the consideration of the House, notwith standing he felt it to be incumbent to claim the indul gence of Hon. Members, while he submitted the statements of his motion to the House. He regarded it as having been a great misfortune to the country, that at the time the extraordinary circumstances occurred at Manchester to which he was about to advert, no Member of the then House of Commons was present in Manchester. He had a personal knowledge of the whole of the transactions; and all that had taken place in the House of Commons sub sequently, he could assure the House, arose from gross, infa mous, and false statements, sent up from the neighbourhood of Manchester to individual Members, and to the House. The Noble Lord on the Treasury Bench undoubtedly took a very active part in endeavouring to get an inquiry insti tuted soon after the melancholy occasion, It was his (Mr. Hunt's) misfortune to have been present in Man chester in the year 1819., and to have witnessed suck a seene of h orror an d di sgust as was never w i tnesse d in this country before. The statements he was about to make he would very much confine to what hsl coin; within his owu personal knowledge, and he would make no statement, nor any insinuation that lie was not pre- Pared, seen at this late hour, to prove, should tit* House, with the consent of his Majesty's Ministers, consent to tie appointment of a Committee to inquire into tl e transactions. He was aware in a measure of the argu ments that would be raised against his motion, became he had had a short specimen of them since he had come into the House of Commons. It was utterly itnpossihle to have expected that at any time while the last Go vernment were in office, (who had ;n point of fact sane. tioned the proceedings), they would have consented to such an enquiry as was now soueht. Since the formation of the present Parliament however, and the appointment of the present Members of his Majesty's Government, great and sincere hopes were entertained, that Govern ment and the House would not resist the appointment of this Committee. He believed his constituents never would hare sent him into Parliament had it not beer under a firm conviction that he would make the motion he was now about to submit, and that from time to time be would continue to agitate the question s session after ses sion, until something like an inquiry seas instituted. The transactions he was about to advert to were so intimately eonnected with himself, that it would be impossible fer him to enter into the details he felt called upon to make, and lay before the House the documents had to submit, without mixing himself up with its de tails. However unpleasant and painful such &circumstance would be to himself ; still he hoped the Hon. Secretary for the Home Department would not, therefore, get up and satisfy himself in saying, as he had done before, that he (Mr. Hunt) had been making a long statement of the history of transactions in which he himself was con cerned. It would be recollected that this was a question of Reform, and that for some time previous to the year 1819, throughout England, and particularly in the north, there was great discontent, breaking of machinery, and severe distress among the labouring and manufacturing classes—this more particularly in 1816, 1817, and 1818. It would be recollected that at that time extreme distress prevailed, and the people were led to believe their sufferings were brought on them by the farmers, butchers, bakers, and others who supplied the necessities of life at enormous prices. The inhabitants of Spitalhelds suffered great dis tress, all of which was attributed by the Press to the high price of provisions. At that period a meeting was called in Spafields to petition the House of Commons for relief by means of a Reform in Parliament, at which meeting he presided. An address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent was agreed upon, stating the extreme distress which prevailed in Spital-fields, which they at• tributed to the want of Reform in Parliament. The day after that address was presented, the Regent sent an order for 10001. to the silk-weaver's committee in Spitalfielde. A very short time afterwards, a large meeting was held in Smithfield, at which he was also called on to preside. And a similar resolu tion was there agreed to to that which had lately been proposed at the Birmiegham Meeting, namely, that unless the people obtained redress by a repeal of the Corn Laws, and a Reform in Parliament, they would not voluntarily pay any taxes. A few weeks afterwards he was invited to attend a large public meeting to be held on the 9th of August, 1819. He should, however, state that immediately previous to that date, there had been a large meeting at Birmingham, at which they had elected a legislatorial attorney, Sir Charles Wolseley. and intended to send him to that House to represent Birmingham.—(Hear.) He should state also, that at Spa-fields it was proposeil to sleet a legislatorial attorney to represent the Metropolis. But he resisted it, thinking be might be the person elected, and if so, he should cer tainly have come to the door of that House, when he most probably would have got, what he did afterwards get, for his audacity. However, the meeting at Manchester was called for the 9th day of August, for the purpose of taking into consideration the necessity of Radical Reform, and the propriety of the unrepresented inhabitants of . Manchester electing a legislatorial attorney to represent them in Parliament. He then wrote to Manchester declining to take the chair, if any such person were to be elected. The Magistrates put forth a placard, cautioning all persons against attending that meeting. He set off towards Man chester, and was met on the road by a deputation of gentlemen, who told him they had taken Counsel's opinion, and found it was illegal to elect a Legislatorial • attorney, and that they had issued placards, stating, that the meeting was post poned. Adding, however, that a requisition would be irn • medietely prepared to calla meeting for the 16th August. A requisition was prepared, calling a meeting for that day. When he had got to Manchester he found the public mind in a state of great irritation, in consequence of the meeting being put off, and having business requiring his attention elsewhere, be proposed to return home, when he was surrounded by men of property and influence in Manchester, requesting him to remain there for a week, to superintend the public meeeting to be held on the following Monday. He yielded to that request with great reluctance being aware that if the Magistrates who had put down one meeting attempted to put down the other, it might he attended with most serious consequences. During the week he remained in Manchester the then Government thought proper to send down one Mr. Oliver.—(Laughter.)— No doubt, with the intention of preserving the peace of the country, but instead of doing so, he got ac quainted with several of the most violent men in that part of the country and travelled to the surrounding districts, exciting the people to commit acts of violence. In confirmation of this, he (Mr. lent) day alter day, received communications that these spies were getting the people to commit acts of violence. In this state of things common prudence suggested to him the awkward situation in which he was placed, as he, as Chairman of the Meeting, if any acts of violence were committed, must be accountable, (Hear, hear.) He therefore wrote a public letter, urging the people who intended to attend that meeting to come there in the most peaceful manner, and cautioning them against any thing that had been said to them by Government spies. When the Saturday previous to the meeting arrived, some of the very gentlemen who had urged him to remain in Manchester, cone to kim and stated that they had been given to understand that it certainly was the intention of the Magistrates to pot a stop to the meeting, and to issue a warrant against him (Mr. Hunt). Being determined to know whether this report was true or not, he immediately went to the New Bailey at Manchester, where the Magistrates were sitting in con clave, and desired to know from them whether the ru mours were true ? It was immediately stated to him that the whole report was a falsehood, and that no warrant whatever was intended to he issued against him. The Monday arrived—a very large body of persons from all parts of the country, to the amount of about 140,000 or 130,000 attended the meeting. They came in the most peaceable manner, and, as he (Mr. Hunt) firmly believed, with the sincere intention of doing their duty towards their country, and for the purpose of obtaining a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament. The Honourable Member then proceeded to detail the circumstances of the meeting, which he affirmed was perfectly peaceable, when a yeomanry force rode through the unarmed and unoffending multitude, and cut them down right and left with their sabres, which he should be able to prove had been ground and sharpened within th week, Amongst other instances of the excesses committed by the yeomanry, he stated that about thirty or forty per sona, men, women, and children, having fled for refuge into a court, from which there was but one egress, two yeomen stationed themselves at that point, and compelled the poor people to come out, the one holding in his hand a pistol, with which he th r e a t ene d to blow their brains out if they did not obey, and the other with his drawn sword, cutting at every one of them as they passed out. There were fourteen persons killed on that day, and 424 wounded, of whom one hundred and eight were females. (Hear.) The Honourable Member produced frorn his waistcoat pocket, and exhibited to the House, a piece of bone, which had been completely cut out from a man's forehead by a sabre stroke. He also mentioned that one young woman, who was rode over, fell down a hill in such a position that her person was exposed, and a yeo man, whose attention was called to the circumstance by some persons who had witnessed it from a window, went to her, and, instead of rendering her any assistance, cut her across both thighs to the hone. And vet into all the dreadful events that happened on that day, there had as yet been no inquiry. The recollections of that bloody ( ay were rankling in the hearts of thousands, and they would continue to fester th e r e unt il an i n v es tigation was insti toted by the House of Commons into the atrocities which were committed. The Hon. Member then referred to the evidence which was called in vindication of the conduct of the yeomanry, and alluded partieu!arly to that oft as (Mr. Hulton), who was repreaentpd to have stand that the multitude were armed with sticks as later, as muskets, though, added the Hon. Member, las that time male were correct,—namely, that the House of Commons did not represent the people, but only a corrupt portion of placeholders and boreughniongere. He repeated that, if he had been vindictive, Le had alieady witnessed enough of the diecomfirure of his adversaries, to sate even the keenest appe•ite of rsvenee. Who was the Prime Minister of that day? Lord Liv-t reed—where was he? Who were the twoSeeretaries cf S . ate ? Mr. Canning and Lord Castlereagh—where were they ? Mr, Canning had fallen a victim to the fictions art icks of the very party which at that time he supported with ell the power of his versatile talents ; and on the morning of the anniversary of the 16th of August, two years, afterwards, the first thing that greeted h.s eyes in his cell at Letiestee on reading the papers, was the intelligence that Lord Castlereagh had committed suicide. Kink George IV.—he who had thanked the Magistrates with such breathleee haste—where now was he ?---(A slight laugh.) Where, too, were the yeomanry ? Two of them had committed suicide on the anniversary of the day on which trey hail been guilty of these cold-blooded murders. Thee, though the House of Commons had refused to do justice be tween the people and their oppreosors on this melan choly occasion, the hand of Providence had already in flicted justice, where justice was due. Old as he was, he yet trusted to live to see the day in which that tide s il personage would he brought to justice who had sent a Castles, an Edwards, and an Oliver, into the country to instigate the people to acts of violence, in order to throw discredit upon Reform. He had lived to see the members of that Government which had gone to war with Fiance to stifle the cause of Reform, compelled to sit night after night in weak and ineffectual struggles against the pros e.erres of a measure which in itself was nothing but the commencement of Reform. He might even now say, " the Lord's will he done; I have lived long enough, fur 1 have lived to see the boroughtuongere brought upon their knees before the people whom they have so bag insulted;" but he trusted to live still longer, and if he did live a few years more, he should live to see justice inflicted on all who committed and abetted the murder at Manchester. in vain had that arrogant and insolent party sent Reformer after Reformer to prison—in vain had they gagged the Press by acts as alien to the practice as novel to the theory of the British Constitution—in vain bad they passed Bills to prevent public meetings, and to put down the right of petis tious ; for in spite of the menaces of the law, and the terrors of the dungeon, the cause of Reform hail proved a giant too powerful for them to cope with. Traces of their defeat were visible in all parts of the country. If the people did not now display that toad feeling h e ir Re form which they had displayed souse months ago, it must. not be supposed that they were on that account indifferent either to its progress or its success. They were now silent, and sullen, and suffering ; but if they had not a re form—ay, and a better reform than that which the .Noble Lord was now offering to them,—England would ere lung be one of the worst places for any lover of peace and com fort to live in. After some further observations to the same effect, the Hon. Member proceeded to express, his hopes that Ministers would not oppose this inquiry. He hoped that they would grant the prayer of the petition which he had that night presented. If they refused it, he should feel it to be his duty, if he Lad a seat in the Re formed Parliament, to bring this question annually oefore it, until he obtained the Committee of Inquiry for which he was now going to move. His motion was, " that a Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the military execution infl cted on a peaceable and unarmed multitude assembled at Manchester on the 16th of August, 1819, to petition for Parliamentary Reform." On this question be stood by himself ; he had not communicated his reeolutiou to any member, and he did not know whether any Member would second it. He, therefore, called upon the Chane cellor of the Exchequer to second his motion. That Noble Lord had distinguished himself at the time by the zeal with which he demanded inquiry. If inquiry wets. necessary in 1819, it was not less necessary now ; for, if he understood any thing of the laws of England, no lap e of years could extinguish the crime of murder. He charged the parties in this else with the commission t f deliberate and cold-blooded murd-r. It was nothing less, and he would not employ a milder term to convey his opi nion of the crime which was then committed. The Hon. Member, after apologizing to the House for the length of time which he had intruded himself upon its notice, con cluded by formally moving his resolution. _ _ li r l a l tk or in er,,n, the een ‘ h ‘ rn * maild, :l tet r h xb . ecai li drpea U dt ME seconded the motion. He recollected the feengs of ro h uef e essem e tni v oot e sn n t. t Memberslen o en f . t ; t s t a e in, oe l df 6 hh r t h eha edr o e f cG: A e) 01 recently Govern ment egcnrtutenisd; h h tr i hn e ee h d spl t heard from them that their feelings were not altered, and that their refusal to grant a Parliamentary inquiry into the matter was founded on motives of policy, he must con fess he did not coincide in their notions of policy, tor be was yet to learn that the guilt of murder was expiable from the circumstance that years had elapsed since it was incurred. He could not, from any personal knowledge, say any thing as to the correctness of the statement of facts by the Hon. Member for Preston ; but, if this were a case in which there had been gross injustice and vvanten cruelty inflicted upon the King's peaceable subjects—in which, too, many bad been wounded and 15 killed in cold blood—how could the House answer it to themselves tt ti) their constituents that a motion like this, even at this late period, s hould be successfully resisted, arid all inquiry refused? It was true, as the Hon. Member for Preston had said, that, as he himself had been tried fur the shame he had then taken in the Manchester affair, they who tried, or caused him to be tried, should also be put upon their trial upon the charges brought against them of having wantonly taken away the lives of several of his Majeaty - e subjects by the interposition of the military. He had felt equal indignation with the Hon. INl.mber for Preston against that base character, Oliver, and had done all in his power to bring him to justice. He had gone even so far as to assist in seizing him, and personally hit:d ing him over to the Plome.office; but Lord Siduiuth, who was at the bead of it, he was sorry to say, permitted him to escape, and be was never heard of after, except as a pensioner of Government in one of the colonies. In every other country he had visited, this transaction had been spoken of with indignation proportionate to the reandalotie and shameful misconduct of the Ministry of that day. He hoped the motion would be successful, herons:: it would put the fact on record that the House of Commons of Eng land would never, although late the inquiry might be in. stituted, allow such misconduct on the part of even the highest and most confidential Minister of the Crown to pass uncensured, or at least unexamined. It was fit that. Minister should be put on hie guard, and told, as he would be wets this inquiry granted, that however he might. abuse his authority whilst in office, by the o li p te ,.,„i„, the Rink's subjects, or sacrificing by military force the lives of defenceless men, rather than allow them peaceably to meet on their grievances, with t view to address the the King or the House of Parliament, the day wool i arrive, when stripped of his brief authority, he would be brought before the bar of his country, and caned to a strict account for his excesses of authority, and every art of injustice committed under colour of his office. It was the bounden duty of all Governinentet to attend to alleged cases of grievance on the part of Close committed to their care, instead of obstructing the subjects of the realm in the of a high constitutional privilege of Euglislimen.—c Hear.) He Loped, if the motion Were unferunate t 5 ntlht, that the House would hear of it, year after year, mini sons Go vernment should be Nits! which` Vutild rtfitlCsiraleit in ililiry felt wss in lcrtelly cttilc 1 e for. have pref.ricd thoositre; itnette - r tin*C.of hanging on this itiOtton, as almost day ether would have