The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-02-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, FILIBRUART S.

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At a quaiti r before four o'clock the S look the
The Leicester anal Hiocklry Road Bill was read a second
time, es was also the Leilaller and Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Road Bill. _ _ _

Mr. CURWEN moved fur reluraq of the quaniiiira of
inspe:ied law Great Britain, front the sth January
MO, to the fith January 1821, with the antouut of dad
duties paid thereon; Moo, for an amnia of the ■ember of
routers of foreign oat. imported into Great Britain daring

were is their opinion to be altribettcd not so mutts to the
state of the laws regulating the importation of curs, as to
circumstance, of as internal nature, to which they were
nut aware of any operific remedy which rout(' be applied.
It was rant the intention of his Majesty's Government to
move fur any inquiry on the subject, hut it the Hun.
Gentleman or the Noble Lord should bring forward auy
motian cakulated to produce an inquiry of that cool, divas-
siouate, and grave character which saitei a suhjeet of lhos
nature, although he could not himself undertake a leading
part, yet he should taut object to go Min it with the
utmost possible attention which he could give it. But ha
felt it to he necessary to guard himself by orating, dist it
would he first of all necessary to come to an istidersimading
ou general principles, in order that ueither Gentlemeu in
that House nor the country might be misled into an
erro-
veous opinion of the nature ■ad objects of the inquiry.
These might be more particularly eiptniurd whenever auy
motion of the kind should be made; but he t►ought it lie.
cemary now to explain that his Majesty's Government could
not consent to the adoption of auy 111P4011118 of relief which
height is say way aff.ct public credit, either by a diminu-
tion of the , or by any alteraticu of the measierea for
regulating the circulation which Parliament had mlopled,
after the most deliberate and mature inquiry. With these
exception', conceiving that an ioqwiry into the musette( the
distress with a view to the adoption of some measure for

trillions he proposed to himself to make, he designed
to make no allusions or reference to any thing whirls
hail transpired in the course of the late proceedings
in the Manse of Lords; lie intended to confinehis
remarks solely to the conduct of Ministers, who
were by every class of iierpour, in every place as
yet heard of in every quarter of the country, coo-
demoted for the injustice and guilty impolicy of
initiating those proceedings.— ( Hear.)—lt around
be seen once for all, if the feelings of that House
were or were not, or could on any occasion,
however emergent, be brought into unison
with the sentiments of the country at large; and
if that House was or was not calumniated by the
Refurmeis, io their maintenance of the negative as-
sertion. He would not go at length into the his-
tory and difficulties of the Queeo. She bad suf-
fered much, and had borne all wiih patience and
firmness; he would not even contrast she conduct
of her present persecutors with that which she had
received at their hands in the days of her prosperity,
when she had a protector sitting on the thioee o:
these realms.—( Hear, hear.)—That condoct was
with the public, and their decision had passed upon
utiqnestioised reprobation. The act of omitting
her Majesty's name front the Liturgy had bees
discussed and decided on by the House. Ile *wild
not therefore agitate that question at present, espe-
cially after the very able expo,ition of the subj.e_
be an Honourable and Leortied Member opposite.
the unanswerable arguments of whose speech ne
was nut disposed to weaken by any additions of
own. But that golden rule of justice cinch iliree•-
ed that the accused should have the benefit of
doubts, and be held innocent till proved gnilty.
hiving been broken in • case where it ought t..
have been most strictly preserved, he must consider
that act as our of not wily creel injustice, bit cs!.
unqualified mischief. But unjust as he must ev,
' consider it, he did not allogethir regret Os
perpetratiin of it ; he was inclined to hail
it as the first bright moment of hope for tin
introduction of that reform—(Cheers)—which bait
by the country been so long and so loudly called
fur.—( Hear, hear.)—He hoped to see Petitions •-1
that subject come from every parish ill every cor-
ner of the country, that the table would be o.er-
laid with them, and a convietion at length ;no-
duced on the minds of his Majesty's Ministers a-f
the gettesal impropriety and impolicy of their
measures, and the impossibility of their being
suffered to persevere its them. He would come
to the next stage in those measures which
it was the object of his motion to censure. Esi-
deuce being duly prepared, green bags full of
it were brought down and laid upon the tables
in either House. And here he would ask Ali-
nisters, when they brought down these bags, and
deposited their filthy and disgusting conk:too
in the face of Parliament, did they or dial they
not believe in the truth and value of the
contained in them ? if they had no faith in those
contents, they hal been guilty of the direst iejus-
lice iu the Queen, and of little short of treason to
the King. If they did believe in the tenth of that
evidence, they had ,hewn themselves sheoseiclty
regardless of the honour of the Crown, and of
the interests of the country. What was the natuie
of their celebrated offer (at St. Omer's) but this,
" %Ve have heard and belicte that yi).l fi;,ve
graced your rank, slid sullied the honour a.,1 %oar
Sovereign by the indulgence of an adultrruns saa
tescaoree with a inediah servant. But if you will
consent to remains abroad, pet shall have 50,UJOi.
which will be granted to you to assist you in bring-
ing il.sltoilour on the British nation, and if.sgrace
on the British Parliautent."—(Cheers.) —I le castle
tiekt to the Bill of Prins and Pen 'hies, where the
llCCUrrfil acre Seel, SWOIK iu judgment—those Who
had vigroatizetl her Majesty acting in the opaci-
ties of Jurors and Judges as well as prosecutor.—
some of them riot only having a deep inttrvst et stake
in the question, but being themselves by the boy
character of the proceedlog actually put epees ilv•ir
Our &fr. ce. If this were or were not a fair mode
of trial, such us the constitution required fur a very
individual iu the State, he would Ireve it to ail