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MALT DUTIES.

The Malt and Peti;inuDuiiesßill was read the third
time, asd passed.
SEDITIOUS MEETINGS. .

0 -the motion of Lord SIDMOUTHI, the Bill for the fore
effectual prevention and punishment of seditious meetings
was read a second time, and ordered to be ruminated to-
morrow. The debate will then take place nl the princi-
ple of the Bill, and the Lords were, t■ consequence, ordered
to be astmoune4l.—Ailjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, TRUILIDAY, DECEMBZI 18,

ESSEX QUARTER SESSIONS.

Colonel STRUrr bronchi in a WI to provide for the
holding f adit.iional Quarter Sessions fur the County of
Essex, at Colchester, which was resit a first lime.
NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.

Mr. Lusntsoroa moved the Order of the Day roe the
House resolving itself lulu a Committee on the Newspaper
Stamp Duty Bill.
The Sraatc►R. having left the Chair, the Bill was com-
mitted proformia.—The House being resumed,

Mr. BROODEN brought sip the Report, with the Amend-
ments, which was received, and ordered to he taken into
further consideration to.morrow, and the Bill, as amended,
to be printed.
POOR LAWS.

Mr. STURGE• BOURNES4id, that be bad last
night been asked by a iluble Lord (Lord F.
Osborne), whether lie intended to move fur the re-
vival of the Committee on the Poor Laws? He
'opposed it was m consegnence of the noise which
p►evailed in the Muse at the time, that a meal,-
prehension prevailed as to the answer which lie had
returned. It was distinctly " No," that he had no
such intention. It appeared, however, that that
little monosyllable " no" had been lost, and he ac-
cordingly now again raid, that he had no such in•
tention.

rIRICE 74.

wardens for refusing to admit the cot*, the' '
Hon. Gentleman, observed, that if the church..
yards of this metropolis were already so full that,
the dead could not be committed to their lost_
mansion without old and mouldering objecla of
mortality being tossed out of their graves to mac
room for new tenants, he thought toe subject well
calculated tri call for the intention of tie Legisla-•;
tam The Petitioner merely prayed, for such rodcos• .
as to the House might went meet, ioristsinch a he
bad not been able to obtain it in any of the arch.
nary Courts of Justice. At present lie didenot mean
to found any measure upon the Petition. because
he hoped that tlini notice of the affair would to-
dace the churchwardens to 'wind their weeirlfiseii
resolution ; but if some alteration did not take
nsiti,i.
itoliesturibenoitiittlutc,
otthl oh
the House
Honuost certainly
ed
some pfeel wa a att. .
*rimed) general•measure to remedy the - --

Dr. PEIILLIMORE s.id, that if lie understood the'
Hon. Member, the Petitioner had- adopted the pre-
seat course on the ground that he had no remedy
in • Court of Law ; now his opinion and belief .
(though he spoke with great diffidence) was, that
this question had originated in one of the Ecclesias.
tical Courts, and had Wien to the ground by the
death of one of the parties (the late Rector.) But
there was no doubt thot a remedy still lay open to
the complainant, in the same Court ; and if he
had not obt/ined it. it was to be imputed to his
own negligence. If the church-yard was not large
enough, the proper course was to ripply to the
Bishop of the diocese. The party had s remedy
in a Court of I.lw, and therefore his grievance was
not fit for the consideration of the House.

Mr. LAU! said, he was not aware what remedy
there was at common law, since the Court of King's
Bench had refused to issue a mandamus. on the
ground that the matter was not within their cogni-
zance. A suit had bo-eit commenced in the Eccle.
siastical Courts, but it rertitioly had abated by the
death of the Rector.—( Hear.)
. . . . . . _

Dr. PHILLIMORE said, that the decision of the
King's Bench did not shew that there was no re-
medy, but pointed oust how it was to be obtained.
Though the suit had abated in the Ecclesiastical
Courts, it might be renewed there.
Mr. LAMB said, the difficulty war, that there was
now no Rector.

The Petition was then brought up and read. On
the question that it lie on the table—
Mr. HALFORD observed, that the real question
was at; to the right of hurting in iron coffin,.
Mr. BENNETT said, that this was a very serious
subject fur the consideration of the House. He did
not know whether the Howie was aware of the enor-
mous numbers of bodies winch were taken out of
the g for dissection. He was perfectly at.
quointed With the fact, minute details of it having
been laid before him as Chairman of the Police
Committee. lie thought, however, prudence re-
quired be should ;distant) from going into particu.
lars, as the statement would be sure to produce
terror and alarm in the country.—(lear.)--At
the same time he was of opinion that some general
remedy was quite necessary.
Mr. WYNN thought that the statement of the
transaction in a newspaper would have answered the
same purpose as petitioning the House.
Mr. LAMB said, if the l'etitinn had been intend.
ed merely to excite notoriety, which lie had dis•
tinctly stated not to be the eine, he should not
have presented it.
Mr. WYNN *Aid, it was Ittl.o!ittely necessary to
draw some line of disittiellitti .15 to tier Petitiotes
proper to he received by the !louse. If a grits..
•nce of the kind now comphiined of were lit for its-
, consideration, he saw nothing to prevent a common
assault being brought before it.
Dr. I'IIII.I.IMORE said, that there was no doubt
that it was a cave winds might be brought before
the Eccleaitistieul Courts.
The Petition was then ordered to lie on tie- t.!ltte„

The House was about to divide on for quratinn
for the printing, but it was afterwards agre•ed to
without a division.

DUTIES ON WINE.

Sir C. MONCE observed. that it lisd been very
strongly rumoured that it was the intention of tne
Chancellor of the Exchequer to propoNe :in eqpisfi.
z,ition of the duties on all foreign wine.. As it was
great object to all persons connected with that
trade to kilos whether he bad come in that deter-
mination, and at whit tone it was to he carried
into effect. lie should feel greatly °longed to the
Hight lion. Gentleman if he would favour him
with some information on the subject.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
that he was sure the House would admit that some
time should he allowed for consideration before
giving a deci,ive answer to this question.—(Herr,
hear.)—He could not mak-. a reduction to the du-
ties without an equivalent from the ecnintries sup-
plying the commodities, and a negnciation for that
purpose; he was not as yet prepared to state any
thing positive on the subject.
IRISH ELECTION PETITIONS.
Mr. WYNN, after a few prefatory observa-
tions, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the Irish Election Petitiou Act (42d Geo. 111.
c. 106.), as to re-assembling the Election Com.
millers.

GRAM POUND.

Lord J. RUSSELL stud, as he thought it would
be more convement to avoid any discussion at pre.
sent, he meant merely to move for leave to bring in
a Bill to exclude the borough of Grampound tram
sending burgesses to Pat li.duent, and to enable the
borough of Leeds to send Members io lieu thereof.
It was his object to have the Bill read a ;lust time,
and printed, hefi.re the recess.
Lord CASTLERF.AGM presurnr..d, that when the
Bill should be printed, the second reading would
be postponed till • day sufficiently distant, to give
time fur maturely examining its provisions.
Lord 3. itossELL said, his inteution was to
allow sufficient lime. and to let the second reading
lie over till after the holidays.
Mr. R. MAaTIN said he bad radical—(.4 laugh)

.=but not unconstitutional objections to the mess
'Pure. 'He should not oppose the first reading,
but it was his intention to do so at every future
Leave was then given. and the Bill ordered to
he brought Us by Lord Joint RUSig LI., Mr.
and Lord NostissllY•
4.4/1041SsteTIOSIS !AT' ESTE& *- • :
..Boasuustaist he had in his hand • Peei•
'Seat. which he felt it his duty, as a Member of
PSpjiarmeNt... to presewt to. the Home: :'Hielless'vo--
` olele toe vouch for.the correctuess of the facts •dis.
'044 itl it, but he could pledge liiassekf that dhe
hpliaage of it was respect lot, It was. Irma oo.Us-
pitstliiiil of the game of Thomas. Bedford, who vows
ewit at the.unforisitaielv .nteet.
•INfiaMancheater.pit the 16,1 i August. He,stated
-119'he was not a party to any tloog- illegal ierlhe
roceediUge, if,agy. thing illegal there was, but was
1440 in the esercise of the right of preparing •
Vttiiion, when he was interrupted in the slimmer
already sufficiently described. lle narrated •the
• charge of the yeomanry, and allege 4 that be wits
• .given by them into au enclosed place, from which
411'imise was prevented, by means of logs of timber
14404 there, end that while
.in that place he was
'‘Vvirely wounded with a sword, by u Wall of the
Vairie of Oliver, who separated his shoulder blade,
tint penetrated deeply into his hack, by the
w. The Petitioner prated the House to take
iheciicunistanices of his cute into consideration, and
'Jerald him suitable relief, since lie had not beeu able
sioObtain it elsewhere, because the local Magistrates
'hart refused his depositions. The Petition was
mad. ordered to lie on the table, and he printed.
iJre LANBTON presented n similar Petition from
rn individual of the name of Thomas Booker. also
au attendant at the Manchester meeting. He al-
leged, that he was pursued down a lane by a sol-
dier, whims he brlieveno belong to the 88th regi-
Meng. who inflicted a wound in his belly ; and that
to endeavouring to escape Gout him, he received
.
onotner wound from another person, under the ef-
•fects of both which he was for a length of time la-
bouriug, and as he had received no indemnifica-
tion, he threw himself oil the consideratiou of the
Hews..
Head. and ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. 1,A111.111T011 aid, abet he was now compelled
to trouble the House with a few observations or: ■
subjeCt rather of• personal iinture—hut as the tont.
ter had been originally mentioned in the House by
the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), he hoped the House
wotitill favour him with its attention a few minutes.
The Noble Lord had stated ■ few nights ago ti•st
".11,,Prr600.• denominated, he believed, classineo,
had beet' &dinged front his employ in the coolly
rd• Durham, by !Ailment. Ile (Alt. Lambton) had
written to the country for information by return of
and had remised an answer this day. The
Hon. Gentleman their read as extract, in which the
writer assured him that no radical or clansman had
'Men dismissed from ht. einployinent—Meurl—
his artoisishment how such reports got into
tr:i,•ulatiuu.—and remarked, that as the term for
~*l/111t the workmen had been engaged did not ex-
piie till April, none of them could have been tits-
inisred, even if a 11141)04111011 to that effect were
was very glad, lie continued. to fie able
to make this comnsiinicati in the House, he-
s'.lllllC, lathe:oho., be would have looked on the hull-
vdual to whom he intrusted the management of his
vilairs in that county in the mining way to be guilty
or rery serious misconduct.

. • _
Sir ft WILSON pre-sewed a similar Petition from
• person canted Thomas Barlow, who alleged, that
voirliant any provocation, or receiving any indica-
tion of the violence. he was suddenly attacked by
• corps of }eomasiry—that he entreated the same
to,bearance which they would exercise towards an
v.:etity in the field of battle—that lie was answered
".;111 n severe blow ma the heed—and that having no
weapon he parried off another Weer directed against
1•• m with his arm. He therefore implored the
mercy of the Howie. _ _

The Petition wee reed, laid en the table, and
ordered to be piloted.
MALT DITTIES. . . .

A message from the Lords ■unosneed that their
Loaf+hitrs had ogrerd to the Malt Duties Bill for
IVO, without ally aniendmettis.
OLDHAM INQUEST.

Sir FRANCIS Buapitrr presented a Petition
from Robert Lees, the father of John Lees, who
41:ed in consequence of the wounds lie had received
wt the Mancheater meeting, and was the subject of
the far-famed inqoest at Oldham. It set forth the
various facts which have so repeatedly come under
t 1 r induce of the public. relative to the tramiaciions
tlw of August. the unsuccessful application
1., the litisg's Bench, the subeerineat conduct of
ti.e Coroner, fitc. and prayed that the House would
in its wisdom grant that redress which was not to be
ototaintil elsewhere.

Mr. V. BLAIIM said, that the Petitioners had not
stated tl at they had tried all possible means of
redresi tilreo here, which they ought to have done
before corning to the bar of the House.
Mr. BCOUGIUM said, on behalf of the Peti-
tioners, that the Hon. Gentleman was guile mu—
oaken. The Hun. and Learned Gentleman then
complained in warm language of ife conduct ul
she Coroner, after the dismissal of the rule bc the
ii.„eh Bench. in jumping at the excuse of the
oiegularity of his own proceedings, to hush up iu-
swirl. tie should always speak respectfully of
Ci,urts of Justice. when they deserved it. but
*.f!rti lie saw such collusion, or what so strongly
bore the appearance of collusion in their pro-
eraniings. he did lint thick they merited it.—
Ile did taut approve of the trantacriono of the 16th
A 'most at !Manchester, but st:II less could be ap-
•t• •1.11,• of the transactions wince' followed that day.
'1 ter fist of Meese was the uoilappy lability; and in
se%erig the expression he meseet blame to nobody,
of the rejection of the bills of indicttnetit by the
Wand Jury of Lancaster. If the result had been
that they returned bills which would have come to
issue before a Jury and a regular Judge of the
lied. then the public mind might hive been allay-
eel upon the matter. Uoforturnetely this course was
ore: adopted. Neither were the proceedings before
the Mar.cliester Magistrates calculated to allay the
fevers'', feeling—still less was the adjournment of
ttre'erequest at Oldham. The proceedings which
uriherturostely followed the *vents of the 16th of
.gust crowned every thing...and created a feeling
wisecio, if riot irremediable, was at least most wafer-
turret.. It Created, be feared. a breach between the

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'constituted authorities and the people. *inch would.
take ilium tinu!*heal..,Ths,Hqrs. Mrpher (Mr.
81akt,... . )01"finstonotetkthat *teat euisualtsralbtiwo
prevai.upon . this juhirse—so indeed, onfortu-
natrly., there did.. ilt had been sajd elsewhere that.
100,000 men were up in arms in the narrow country
between the Tyne and Weir. This number, con-
diftering-the-pinielatinn of that part of the country,
was extraordinary ; it most have included men,
women, and children. It had been said, in a place
*IOW ha dared riot name, but where a proteet was
lately entered (the Ware of -Lords) that 16,000
colliers were is arms in Nest part of the country.
By way. of .being more partieuler as to the fact,
another personage who heard the assertion fixed the
numbers at 16.600. They theft followed each
other in a happy responsive tone upon the extent as
well as danger of this armed body ; yet the Mem-
ber for Newcastle (Sir NI. Milky) strewed the im-
possibility of the correctness of this statement from
his demonstration of the state of the male popula-
tion in the particular spot. And again, his Hon.
Friend, the Member fur Durham (Mr. lambtoti),
clearly proved that none of his colliers (from 1 to
2,000 in number) had arms at all. Really this
avidity to create alarm was moat extraordinary—it
reminded hint of the teen lines in udibrastie verse—
" Cutts, Inc pleasure is as great,
In being cheated as to cheat."
Mr. V. BLAKE explained.
Mr. RICHARD MARTIN said, he should have
called the Hun. Nlrmber to order, if be meant to
be strict in point of form, fur travelling so much
out of ille question. He begged to ask the Gen-
tletuen opposite one question, and it was—what
proceedings they meant to (aural on this Petition'
If any desire were expressed to print it, he must
protest against the gratification of that desire.
He would remonstrate against the practice of print-
ing of two or three hundred editious of these Pe-
titions at the public expense. If they must be
printed, let a subscription be set on foot by the
Gentlemen opposite, to give them cheap circula-
ttuit.—(4 laugh.)
The Petition was then laid on the table.
Sir F. BURDRTT, now that the Petition was
laid on the table, moved that it be printed.
Mr. R. MARTIN again rose and said, he offered
himself to the !louse as the protector of the public
revenue.—(.4 Pregh.J—lle would never consent to
have the public money squandered away in this
manner. The Gentlemen opposite were deter.
missed enough against the expense of two Lords of
the Admiralty, and yet they had no abjection in
I ill% petitions of this sort to incur au expense
lour times as much as the additional Admiralty
amount. A great noise had been often made about
the expense if inserting Government Proclama-
tions in the newspapers, and Set thousands were
to be spent upou the !multi% of this vague non-
sensical stuff.

The Petition was ordered to be printed.
IRISH ELECTION BILL.

Mr. WYNN brought in his Bill for amending a
verbal error in the Irish Election Bill passed 11114
Session.

'I hr Bill was read a first and second time, order•
cd to hr committed to•morraw, and printed.

BARNSTAPLE ELECTION.

Mr. WYNN brought up the Report of the COM.
mittee appointed to inspect the Ll/11111' Journals on
the Barnstaple Election.
The Report was kid on the table, end the issuing
of the writ for the Borough of Barnstaple was fur-
ther postponed until the 15th February.
Ou the motion of Mr. L. FOSTER, an humble
Address to his Royal 1-I,gliness the Prince Regent
was ordered, for u copy of the Seventh' Report of
the Committee of inquiry into the fees of the Ec-
clesiastical Courts in Ireland.