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London, England, 1819-07-08 00:00:00

CLIMBING boys.

Mr. BENNET* permuted two Petitinns againbt
the ure of climbing boys in cleamaing
Read and la:d On the table.

CAPTAIN BLAKE.
Mr. BENNETT %aid, he had a Petition to present
from au individual of the Hustle of Blake, the Cap-
tain of a vessel called the th,ethutst, which had con-
veyed out about two hundred male convicts from
Ireland to Botany Bay in the year 1816. On the
voyage the convicts had nautiused—the crew hid-
been Obliged to are al than, and some of them wens
killed ; yet on their arrival at Botany Bay. Goya..
nor Nlacquarrie had thought proper to listen to are
accusation of Murder against the Petitioner, the
Surgeon. and a Captain of Marines, by the vilest
of mankind, and to send them home to be tried for
the offence. They ware acquitted.,--but be hum-
bly hoped the House would award him such coos*
pensation as might seem proper for the injury his
character had sustained, and his pecuniary lows
by impriionment, with its attendant espenses, and
suspension from all employment.
Mr. GOOLEURN said the evidetico . given to
Governor Macquarie was such as to induce him to
think he was bound to pursue the course he had.
Mr. BENNETT said a few words in reply. and the
Petition oar, teed, ordered to lie on the table, and
be printed.
Mr. P. MOORS presented a Petition from certain
inhabitants of Birmingham, praying the House to
repeal certain lows inimical to their interest*.
Bead and laid on the table.

re he CAM ELFOitp.
ieThe Mr. D. W. •avie. .tier some obtereatioms.'
de. II
mike J. moved— •
corn" That ibis lipase having been engsged fur some time M
be an Inquiry into corrupt iseantices reported by the CIIIDIIIIIiii.III
CV' Ult. latvre 1 brtenieer°nratht lecesitdimitherat.7o'7 (hrd3ewiu~n Is not snf.
liciesit le assorki• the ingssireo obeli take she sense into ate
consideration esrly init.* nest ilieseson of Parliament."
II MO. The quraliun litiviug been pot—.
M. Parasol's monde Ns Da amendment, them
iU.O. the Report now bike° into consideration.
had Mr. TREmseau expressed his opinion. that Mt.
Ilelleut ought lobe vosinined uow.
Mow-, Lord EDRINGTOII said, dist if over there roes •
„cues cue in which the House, eitlier from a regaml

its own consistency, or in carrying into effect that
species of reform which many Members of it had
expressed themselves anxious to see carried into
effect, he did not see how the House could get over
pursuing the grime course, in the Mat of Camel-
ford, -they had with respect to other boroughs,
',herein the same lorectices had been detected.
Lord NoßMats3T rose to protest against the
doctrine, that because other boroughs were equally
corrupt, the House was not therefore to ioquire
loin a 4r-rifle case of corruption, when it was, de-
veloped n particular borough. If that sort af
trirsorring were admitted, there would be an coil to
all inquiry ; and in fact, a perpetuity for all abuse.
near, /.ear./—lbis op' was, that where a
general and universal system or bribery was dere.
loped in any borough, the right remedy was fur the
Legislature to transfer the franchise to some other
tilace.—/ iiertr. hear.)
Mr. HVOioa GURN ET referred to the historical
state of the boroughs tit F.nglattd. It was sail that at
fro vennd did this country alone brighter !hair in the
reign of Plizsbeth, and yet that Queers summoned
twenty-eiy.ht boroughs (six of which were Cornish)
to send Nlembers to Parliament, and rommaude•l
their votes. The lion. Member was proceeding to
state several other histniical facto respecting the
practices that formerly prevailed in boroughs, when
he was called to order by
Lord CASTLEREAGH, who submitted In the !lon.
Member whether he was not iii fact inducing that
course of debate into the state of the boroughs ge-
nerally. which the House et this ((((( merit strewed
an isichisetuto to avoid.—/Hear, hear. I—Respect-
iirg the quest' really before the llotaw, he did
nut thick they cool,' stop where they were.—/Hear,
hear. —lir thought the iugmry iri Cairo-Kurd must
he followed up. In the preiwiit rule of the ties.
hoist it was clear they r•ooW trot follow op the in-
quiry ; the alteriattivr !Iwo was, whether they had
ion better adjourn at until the sleet Srs ill
the toterirn sloven(' the writ. This, he might sat•,
was the only subject which the Moose had not been
able ►ufficently to discus.; he should therefore
urge the propriety of post' ' g sitoil next Sea.
riots the iugoiry•—het the out be withheld until
then—and, above all, let the question not be one
discussed.—(4 laugh )
Mr. HUDSON GuitNET disclaimed airy wish to
anticipate the discussioss. . .

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The sistientlineut was negatived, the original
miteation carried, and the tent ordered tip he outs-
vended until ten flays after the inteting of the neat
Sessinti of Perhanient.