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TEN GUINEAS REWARD.

TO PRINTERS, ENGRAVERS, &e,—
Whereas it has been diaeorered that rectal.. Perfume nra
in Ike Wester Printiay sad Vendteng Wick, loin ropier or
imitations of 'hove affixes( to the tomb, tootas.ttoe the
GENUINE BLACKING prepared by DAV anti MARTIN,
thereby ersbliag unprincipled deals,* so 'mows on their fl!•1-
I...mers • bad and (Oneness' article; We hereby ofFer a IZe.
yard a TIM Guineas 10 ate? Peruses who shalt glee such to.
&matins SO seal lead N Ibe colovirtion of nay lIIIP rushy of
these illegal procikes., DAY AN I) MARTIN,
FeressAUSS, 17, Dolby's.
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narcotism cotta alFeed— no relief: 40, they considered'
that if a red ass rents would relieve their rits-
"fem.. tfytt 11Mervenoval of Nemirow would affect
them in a proidialesmate degree. He. therefore,
Ironed the Iloemlstiaseld direct • Muer most melons
attention to the subjeet, for it 'retold require not
one measure alone, but a coucetenatinn of measures
to give them the relief their situation required.
Mr. Julies supported the prayer of the Petition.
Ile did not think the measure proposed by hia Me-
jesty's Ministers went far enough. The pertial re-
lief of reducing one shilling a bushel upon malt;
could net operate as a remedy. He thought the ret
duction of the tax upon wilt would egad peat see
there was no article of snook universal consump-
tion. - Indeed he was at a loss to know how-the im-
position of such a tax was ever agreetite ; for, meat
to water and bread, he knew atm article more ere
seutial to substinence. Of the very exterreive dos-
trews that prevailed: they had aborident evidenee in
the miasmas weenie that had beinahrld through-
*en the eountay.Hrwmoi.opitrioo thot they spoke the
ancquirecal Pease olr.the counary. There was no
diesentiag.voiet that be could hear of, except in
those eases where the iatrielaction of Parliamentary
-Berferna had been reported to. A reduction in the
lir upon !ember would have the most beneficial
'met.. That commodity was sixpence per pound,
a poor labourer who had occastoo for a thick
heavy pair of shoes was taxed at spluigher rate than
those Gentlemen and Lacheorralm wore lighter
• alsoes.—(littar. henr.) •:1-urfr--
The Petition was ordered loiter printed.
Mr. Dairt•ro•T presented is Petition from the
city of Chester, complaining- of agricultural dis-
tress, - rood no doing an he took occasion to express
hope that before, they parted, the /louse would ex-
tend the recites, to which they were sa well entitled.
Sir WiLuAse Clittita laid before the House the
aftwaral retnens at .(;oaf Dutivarot Ma Oeptinso)
Fund.
Ma. BUNT.
Mr. hussy preseuted a Petition containing be-
tween 3 and 4,000 signatures friers the town of Pres-
ton stud its vicinity. praying the House to afford
some mitigation of the aentence trussed. upon Mr.
I lenry Hunt, How a prisoner in llchester goal. If
the allegations which the Petition contained were
true, the case of M r. Hula waits peruharly hard roe.
Upon receiving that Petition, he wrote to Mr. Hunt
in order to ascertain if the statements it contained
were true, and it appeared that as far as he- wee
concerned they were substantially correct. He
stated, that he had been several days iu solitary con-
finement ; that his solicitor was denied minataston ;
that the surgeou living in the town could not obtain
access to him at a time when be was afflicted wi:h
spasms in his stomach, and that he was obliged to
send five sinks off for a surgeon to atteud him. If
that statement were correct, it became- the duty of
the House to see that an individual should tint be
sacrificed by any set of persons, ito matter by what
motives they might be actuated! The Petitinners
stated that wheu the a-ntence was passed upon
Mr. Flout, its the Court of King's Bench,
lie asked Mr. Justice Bayley if the sentence
was to be solitary confiuensent. The Learned
Judge 'replied that the Court had passed its such
seta ence, and the petitioners could not micron
how, from any feelings of malice or caprice, the
Magittrates of Somersetshite could have acted with
such inhumanity. Mr. limit head been guilty of
no crime against the laws of his country. and they
considered imprisonment so a loathsome gaol suf.
florist puuialimrut without any further aggravation.
Ile therefore entreated the Utilise to take that Pe-
tition into their corioideration. He was himself ig-
tiorant of the crime Mr. Hunt had .cornmitted. Ile
had attended minutely to the legal arguments on
bath sides of the questiort. He considered the ar-
guments of his honourable Friend the Member for
Nottingham (Mr. Detirsaii) perfectly coriclutive
as to the legality of il.e meeting; and he considered
the doctrines laid down: by me Solicitor-General
woolly inapplicable to the case. Anti he (Air.
titlar) would never alter the opinion he had
then forined, that the meeting at Manchester
was legally arternbled.— (Hear, hear, hear.)—
He, therefore, blamed the Judges fur passing that
>einem:is, the severity of which was without piece-
dent sinee the days of Jelfnes. It was a sentence
calculated to bring discredit on Courts of Justice,
and to destroy the happiness and prosperity of the
country.. He would beg to ask the Learned Sulici-
tur-Getieral, whom lie then *ow in his place, if an
indiridua: was sentenced to imptisonnient, whether
it was its the power of the Magistrates of the
comity in which she gaol was situated, to doom that
to solitary emitiiitmient If so, they
super.eded the treittet.ce of the Court ; nod if they
could do that, hr .aw ou reason why they might not
hang a matt that was only sentenced to Imprison-
tarot.— (I Isar.)—He cotiiidered that sentence one of
the most cruel, tyrannical, and disgeactlol that had
been passed within his reeollectiutr. He, therefore,

The Hon. GREY Betrirerr observed, that Mr.
liont had not made what in the ordinary sense of
the term could be called an application to the
Court of King's Bench, He hid tint morning
►eceived a letter horn Mr. Hunt ; he was not
the habit of cornet/mting with dint gentleman,
but he should not be **honied if he were, and that
letter stated the treatment he had received. He
believed the case of Mr. hunt was the fiat in
which a parson imprisoned for a politicul misde-
meanor 4.. s treated like a common felon and ale•
stied access to his friends. It had fallen to his
'jr.( Besioeit's) lot to have visited most of the
pots in the kingdom, and he did not believe there
was our which could adduce • single instance of
similar treatment. The House would find that
petrol), inapt-wooed fur the very worst. and most

net Iss feeling •,
ercit t Learned Oen-
Miura, as iT Mt were sitting its his Magisterial chair.'
rt the Old Bailey. lecturing some pons atiorrosys..
He (Mr. Bennett) was Hot 'acquainted with the Lau.
ow or ~canners of the Courts helow. but there
' were eeriest' phrases which it was neither prude ni-
sta, becoming to make at of in that 'Hotta. He
did not understand what the Leo-nest (iessilemart
limas by applying the term "iscandistous !ober.' to
Aka Helm-Prlaes* t Mr. Httare.) Where •
Gentleman) had learned that lasigirage lie nospersiV
knew nor card. but iu that House he' coal/
tell hien that language was r xtr,r,snily mak-
bear.)—lt gave' great Fora.
• to ay *soy thing harsh of the Count of Kissg's
Bench, and more especially of that venerable Judge
whose name hid been mentioned to-slight, he meant
Mr. Justice Bayley, for whose character mil con-
duct he had always eistertrioest tile highest rratio.
and every day's experience confirmed biro uwre •
strongly in thesopinora that he was fully essitled to
the veneration and esteem in whiCla he woo held
chscnighout the country—(Loud chters)--boy he
never could admit that Parliameut had DP Tight to
investigate the conduct of the-Courts below—for,
he thought with my Lord Coke, " That Perlis-
'omit should keep Judges inorder si well es abet;
men ;" and if any Member of Pernausent was of..
Opinion that they had, upon the decieicis of a great,.
legal question, conducted thetas:else* ha a manlier •
that was not borne out by prudence or by laws he
would not be an honest titan if be did not
rise up and say so.
• Mr. LPCILHANT 118'1.1, if his conception of the.
Solicitor General's answer were corrocs,„ itspasougted
to this, that it was in the power of the leagiscrsstesi,
to exercise' the •authority they had assumed wit*.
respect to Mr. Hunt, mad if that were 60. it *do
trid state of the jaw,' and the sooner at was altered
the better, for upon investigation it would Je rOOO4
a scourge to the country. When he had tirS4
gone to the bar, as well as lie could recollect.
there was no encrsentence as solitary coalleensour.
Under such a nysteM it was highly potable that,
an individual might perish in giol ; and bdt,thonght
the Petition well worthy of attention.
Sir I'. LETititaiDag explained.
Mr. Hume then usoved that the Petition be teed.
open which
The goidctiOa-Geualtat. pose. Ha felt him-.
sett culled arta ay exelsia agaia Oh*Aed solowd
in tte Court of iiing's Bench, Tor as it hod 'best%
misunderstood by the Hots. Member for Shrew.-
bury (Mr. Bennett), it was possible it might 'have
also been miscoliceived by the Ham: A delLet
had been directed by Mr. Hunt to the COurt of.
King's Bench complaining of certain grievances,
umsingst the rest thut his surgeon and solicitor were
excluded from him. The Court instantly sent
down an order that his surgeon and solicitor should
hare access to him. In the other charged they
could nit iisterfere.; The Hon. Member for Shrews-
bury (Mr. Bennett) had thought fit to charge hint
with making use of unbecoming language. not as
applied to himself, but to the Hou. Member tor
Aberdeen. It would, however, be remembered by
the House; that the Member for Aberdeen had
expressed his opinion that there was wit a More in-
famous sentence passed since the time of Jeffries,
than that passed upon Me. Hunt. He would risk
the House if, in discribitig what he thought of Vint
statement, he had used unbecoming language or
transgressed the orders of the Housie.—(liesic)-7,
But at the lion. Gentleman (Mr. Bennett) sup-.
posed that he (the Solicitor-General) would turns
his manners or adapt his language to his laste, he
was greatly deceived, and he could assure him that
whatefrer opinion he delivered respectiug him (Mr.
Betrarti) air any other Member, he was prepared tii
justify so that House or in soy other place.—(Cries
ut Order ! order !")
The SPIAILER, Paid, he most presume that hose.
ere, mysterious that language might appear.. be
was to conclude the words bore no °then ii. ssiss.p
than their distinct and literul interprmatinss ; 11171
he was sure the Hutt. sod Leaped Galitlr-icisis
would himself feel the necessity of disclaiming ally
further intention.
The SoLterros-Gmesem. said, that his only
object was to justify himself agaiust the insputationa
that bad beets cast upon him.
Too Petition was then rend.
Mr. Hume said, that the House sumitt
every expression in it was correct and proper ; thri.
wail nothing ilia). the nsost fastidious Meinber cotskl
object to. He had Iwo obsertosions to make. Thu
Honourable Baronet deeded that Mr. II lutist 1.4
sul-
freed solitary confinement. Let the House remem-
ber what had 'seen the conduct of the Honourable
Baronet on a former occasion when Enquiry was
moved into she state of Ilchester gaol. The Ho-
nourable Baronet had directly denied all the Ole.
gations then made, although subsequently they
proved to be perfectly well founded. After that
the House ought to be cautious iii receiving stay
counter asseverations of the Honourable Baroiser.
At least the Ifoisourable Baronet ought on state
the grounds of his contradiction. and what means
lie hod for disproving the statement of the
Petition. He (Mr. Hume) had o nitro to Mr.
Hunt to ask him if. it was true, as lee had heard,
that he (Mr. Hunt) hod been kept hi solitary con-
finement. Mr. Hunt's sw-wer was, "It is true that
I have been in solitary confinemeut fur eight days
joist." In the absence of the Hots. Baronet's praof
he mint beiiert that the allegatiobs were all properly