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Hon. Member, why
.not at least endeavour to get one conviction
and then come to 'Perham:in, then yen would get
•redress. Why if they had dime so what would be
the consequence? They would Immediately turn
'rotted and ray. " Why do you come to Parliament ?
Alive you not the law olthe land tode you justice ?
We never interfere except in cases where there is
mo redress to he had elsewhere,"—,(Hear, hear)—
if they hod dose so, if they had obtained one eon-
.vici wms. they would hate him the" 'vaiii:T.ground"
they _hold at rereeit.—(liear, hear.)-, nue Hon.
mod gailant Gentleman then proceeded to argue on
the illegality ut the diopersion of the ineeissig. He
maid Miniaters and their adherents contend that the

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dist.ersion of the wetting was • legal set, and
therelore the Mbgistr•tes were not responsible for
■ny of the conk quences that ensued. But even
if that meeting had been illegal, the dispersion of it
by violence was liable to attiinel p.■skies. Why

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a Committee. It appeared that by atlemptier to Increase
die tax no Irish windows, it had already beer reduced one.
'third. The Right Hon. Gentleasio wished things to eon.
Bone sa they were; but the tax was going bark every year.
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It would be a proper inquiry to make to see if by laying on
• is. where there were Ss. laid before, and making the tax
- I more general, they could not fluty increase the revenue, but
impart relief to the people. Taxation could be carried only
i to a certain exteut in its progortjgges herlesllolreb it wankl.
iiila;q-iiteitiei diednutivi. Ttrlltlitg- MI bit& and titan
I • were roolls of this, as they bad defeated the objects of the
4 . Picchi-lute' ib anctiteethig them The inquiry would he
.. .1 sitgamet um applitildtb.llllllii-dWnielete-mil imindow. He
ihntlitid That great ndeerlialles. wooldiMillilrella the Cows-
__. •*. iti'llt4, not only to !Miami bet to *4 country.r ' . General HART made a few obosevatimis wMeh were
ilialiditile.pi the gallery. ..
• 7!ti, Pl. DS CRRllol(firle trompkaittorl of the loss the
pihtie •suirtained by the of eolieetiag the taxes.
The Illorquil of LONDON URRItY said be was aware of
and text for the diatom of the City of Dublin; but he
tlitighl'llte principle of relieving one part of the country or
wee eit:', to the exclusion of the other, was pregesat with
rail. (in the whole, he thought the Hon Gentleman (Mem-
ber for the City) would hest consult the interests of his
Wirnatittionts, sort the wisher of the House, by withdrawing
his motion fur the present.
Mr. 111ONCK supported the motion of the Hon. Member
failbirlifin (Mr. Rhaw). Ile perfeette agreed with the
Noble Lori that the principle of relieving one part of the
empire milli exclosion of the other, was our that should
never be enc:Mrsicd, bet it would be well to consider whe.
the, there weft! not peculiar rift-armistices in the present
ease that wont.] st..rennt 111 llCVintigla from this principle.
.publiti has stift-rell must mateciatly by the removal of the
Perlirment, in consequence of which rental have been re.
(bored 50 per rent. while the taxes are increased. Dublin
rairoured under great local difficulties, and be should there.
t tore ruipport4he motion.
Mr MIA raid, that noxious at be kit that the Hoene
• "boob! mime to a sterisinn on • question tint so deeply if
reeled the interest* of his constitute:4s, yet as it seem. tl le
be the general wish of the House, he should withdraw it fat
the present, Loins so doing he %tidied to give notice, that al
. i direarly period ttexiliessgon beillionid swath beg leave to call
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' lthe attention or the Hause to il.—r Hear„ Sur.)
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s The mutton wee then withdrawn.
I lONIAN ISLANDS.
Mr. HUM P. wialied to know from the Noble Lord, whether
II 91:12MMCIIII he had beard were correct, namely, that swim'
lee.-erns, inhabitants of the testae Islands, had beer erreatet
and imprisoned for I,igaing in Address fr the Kiog of Geer
Beltran, one of whom he understood hid made his escape ape
fled to England? Me also swished to know, whether an jolts
' nitaut of the limier, 1-lends could be cuosidered an alien It
this corm/es?
Sir. O01:1LOVIIINI mid, that without hewing the name o
tie person, it sioutti be 411Resh to give a positive answer
-•• '- -• • . *rind no heritrilium to ssy, that a Petition 'imam in the
.united by the flmf.Xlentlettnan had been received. iVitl
respect to Vim sr eitod quedidn, Ile 'could only 'ray be was nu
• larstriebtfiletient to give in Mower.
(Mr.- Vitt**, Mentioned the Same, but we could nut lice
it in die gsnery.]
i , . TitAr4ISACTIONS AT MANCHESTER.
1 ' t)it the motion of Sir it. WlLson the Order o
-the Day woos read for resuming the ritijoa rned debate
o•• 1 the motto.) of Sir Francis Mullett, for a Com
inittee to inquire into the TraosaCtions that tool
i. place at Manchester ou the 16th of August.
, ~,Syr H., WILSON then rose. He said the las
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lletkriser who addressed the House on that qeestiot
• wits his hlajesty's Solicitor-General, and it *as per
fscllticensuoteot wills his official situation that hi
) Shalt *fetid the conduct of the Magistrates •
blasiehmiter; it was also quite consistent with thi
office winch he held to defend the Immures o
ltioverumetit with all that talent and ability ohl
which he was so_fam.ltsr. It had been triumph
*oily asked, why the bills had not been found a
j..ancothire ? or why en attempt had been made to
Impugn the Joey, of which the Noble Lord on the
e;4le of the Noose (Lord Stanley) wds the foreman .
• With respect to that he must ray, that there "wir
i,riniatt to whom he was more ready to intrust hi
Own honour dud interest than to that Noble Lord
and it by -no means followed that because he we
forenoon of that Jury, lie therefore approved al
their ploceeedings. A Petition had been presenter
to that House from • person who had beet
severely wounded, end who went before the
. : Grand Joey. He stated, Hint he wished to she,.
his wounds to the Jury, but wss'prevented—the]
declined to examine the substantiel ei'idence the
. , , was offered. From this it was evident that it wal
. pot for want of sufficient proof that they rejecter
: i aliaiiiilis, but because they had other views, whirl
a 'Pete of.is political character, rather than with a viet
too - jUstice. It had also been asked, why, if thi
faults with Which the yeoineury were charged coult
be substantiated, that no Coroner's Inquest hat
been had ? It was not for him to enter into all tin
particulars asf the Oldham Inquest, but it two
-I {art-well known, that Seven or eight of that Jur
otatetl.. that if they had been taloned to find a ver
di‘umjewould hove been Morrder..—/Hear, hoar.
...wriest's' a little too bard then to say, that•they Idol
not aaliblialied their ease ; end was it possible the
any Coroner should have acted in this manner, un
less lie felt persuaded that lie should receive pro
it
.tection? But again, it had been said, if the;
.could not 9 get the Coroner's verdict, they he
their Briton at civil law. It was very ea*
-for Gentlemen, particularly lawyers, to epeai
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' of going to law. They really talk as if i
were quite a cheap commodity, and could be ha
for nothing.—(B, hear.)—Now he should la
as statement before the Howie that would sheo
• 'whether this were the fact. Shortly after the nil
-foritinate treaaactious at Ilauchester, a.oubscriptio
was entered into in London, and various parts a
..Englaud, to relieve the unhappy sufferers, on
firruish means to seek redress. The whole sum col
!,i -leered amounted to 3,4081. The law ripens(
at -Oldham mud Manchester amounted to 1,077
The trial 'at ,York cost 7101., soot iucluding th
law *slimier& of *Jr. Harmer, who generously ten
1 -tiered its tervices to the public ,sratoitously—s
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that there remained 1,621/. to be derided among;
' the wounded. But, .aid nu Hon. Member, :to
.not at 'emit endeavour to get one convietio
cud then COMP to 'Pasrliems•sit. then rm. moolil ns

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