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Pehlke, which was very long. aail esibeseed every topic
sosetated with the gantlets of Rebus. Alter which
M.j.w CMITWIIIGHT spin me. mad apolngi.ed
to thr stetting f.,e the length of the Petition. butt
the whole of the argustents appeared too hopefuls, to be
twinned et lees teoeth. He thew moved that the Petiole* be
a/ peril by the native, signed by each freeholder' as were
f•-"
=to aboold

be-agreed orms.
osid.lte Mlle to do himself the honour
r tleceafliAlF lbe oilitytiois or 14PeIPitn, . whit+,
lhistieb' eisAbined nothing which the most
eeisilleeetiestisit *Jett so. He whited sow
-tortured the easelbartoll, whir* tie pee*** of
P.isatiand had .gwas.ean asmigobliteg far sibs- last flee or eta
hlalNlF•dpiell. The Oat eldeet owners, he he with 'mem
to delude Ike pee*. and Earl tory, who, HO the
k, he held in tW highest estimation, had foraidied
'rrievolsorelios of that opinino.—(D/.opprebetitto roue
Here badly eepeassed.)—Mr. Mills.contianed mud observed,
rhed ha was sure the westing would hear Mem; be would
mit petite may thing bet facts, sod they might Hen judge for
themselves. Earl Grey, whom he considered as the leader
of the Whigs,' had, is I 791, co-operaterl with Mr. Pitt, to
the aims ea' Reforwt.• Is 1791, Pitt forsook that cause,
a soli Earl Gory wended to the Hesse of Commend • Petition
siMMar to the oat now before Oros; is that -Petition it was
stated Mast 100 Members while House were relearned by Perm,
feApt that lime it was whited by Male that the 11111111.0(1160011
$1111164,11 should be given ; hut my Lord Grey objected, that
it iiratild bit fib. chalking the doors Mlle. parties, and it was
roiMegteelltfy sot done. But when that Pelitioes was pre.
sewardoinal Lord Grey charged Mi. :Pitt with baring for.
merle *greed be the necessity of Reform, no true," replied
!)r.Pile,"l,6lßeform is a onristiere of State ex ped ivory, sod,
reimastieweed, the prestress should be gradual." At the
kenally emeallitag in Northemberlauel last week, Lord Grey,
off, otetiog that Reform was ~stint for the salvational
IM Coosethotion, had added, " bet any opinion of Reform
Itivenosedeemmee sense modelleation." His Lordship was still
of opissime thee Refuels would give se what we wanted, bet
it was a question of Mate expealieoe-y; however, be added,
the 'system, moat be changed. The system was, that the
Minister carried all his measures by his majorities in the
Honer, and the change alluded to by his Lordship probably
was, that es Lord Canlereveselt west oat Lord Grey should
rums in, and thus they would have the same men, and
rhown, ten, by the same system of bribery and corruption.
MI. Mill, here took a review of the causes and consequences
of the Reek Restriction Art, mot contended, that somethiag
must he done to pisee the inssofseisren of thie country oi
a par with &Friesen as to the price of labour, without
which it world be impossible to compete with them. Is
conclusion, be exhorted the meeting to unite in calling fur
Reform with the rune steadiness %hide they bad exhibited
on the ',abject of her Majesty's snoop, their voices would
thee be omnipotent, sod they most be heard.
Mr. Hint° ruse, and said, before the question
was put he thought it his duty to state, that lie
screed entirely with the porpoise of the meeting.
het towards the latter end of the Petition which had been
je•l read, some words were iutrodueid which he ronsidereel
improper and unsafe. The part he alluded to was where the
words " not legally" woe coupled with the House of C 0.,.
mans. He thought that as long as the Howie of Commons
r aisle', they were bound to consider the Members as the
I. gal repror nestivesof the people. Every gentleman hot a
right to judge for himself; the Petitioo hail been read ra.
pi.lly, and, as their representative, he had th ght it right
to pollee oat that such wowde were in it, and which, if they
remaired part of the Petition, he doubted whether the House
of Commons would receive it. He would addrese then •
few wools on the subject of Reform, when the husieress of
the day was a hate store advanced; but he could seat 'c-
limbs from yearning them against words which he feared
relied give the enemies of Ite from a handle against then,.
Ii was beefily desirable that on minor points too ninth tena-
ciousness of opinion should nut prevail, in order to ensure
the same soil, which the friends of power sod corruption
strays displayed.
ale. Moots then read the passage in the Petition to *hi*
t!:e last speaker heel alluded. It protested against the ao.
position of fa ou rr trues by the votes of elerrelsers who air
not legally snit constitutionally" Members of the House'ff
Comeoem..—Th. worthy Chairman wished to remark; Alai
he had houwo his Hoes. Friend (111 r. Byer') for a period •of
thirty years, and that every feeling of his mind was devoted
tu hie amain—that hr was ineapahle, that it was 1101 iu his
mind, is his heart, or his entire composition, that was out
fur their good. But, for his part, he could not think there
wet soy thing in the Petition that could Del be fairly de-
cided by No, or Yes. But their Representative (Mr. Byng)
lad dove his duty in slating his upiniuus, and be was sure
Ix- was retested by the best intentions.
Mr. M t.t.it wished to say one word. There are
retteld recur& in the Ifou4e of Contusions. called
Standing Orders and in the reign of Anne there was one,
sf mug, that it was a high lufringernest on the rijhls of
election fur any Peer to itilluenee the election of a Member.
The Temente them was, whether these Sdnodiog (Inters were
lose He thought not; b cause it required the there
blanches of the I.egislature to make a law. But the House
of Commons could t Mr. Herblionse; anti then they
shield be told it, the Court of King's Bench, that the
Hoeft" of Commons were enataissoleat.
• Mr.. Bye* übsetveal, that the Standing Orders of the
House of Commons were only laws for themselves, out the
lass of tbe•land.
Major CAKTWRIGUT wished to remark. Iltat lee
had larst.nied a Petition In the Flossie of Commons,
whArei it be stated, that 97 Peers, whose names he mentiensed,
Prof iutleseoeed the eleetioe of Members. He would son die:
*to y the House of Commons—be had not streogth to du Ifs
Ise would not resist paying the taxes--hee.ose be cooky out.
lirly it; but • lambing emelt' be mule unjust or illegal Hem
ilia, lOU Mantels eboold sit in that Horse, gasbag lbs.
aroma, alio had been elected by Peers.
Mr: ‘V ITOREAD rettiarked, that the word itself
vim itninsteri4l, bait it made all the tlitferetier *twit
they ea,ae to ennaider u briber it could be presented to the
Howe* of Commons or not. He flints' out contrive the.
propriety's( **kite; the louse of Anwotoos fur a fewest in
•#we seeter-ce, where in the mat they stated that it wails.
ruiupeteut to grails it.—(Elitert.)
titre Palen MOultt: had to 11140 k the Coluily
kleiniwr for the Mimi be It4d gieeu litts. The hole
word * legatte" twolesesprd his (settee, from the imperi-
l/rico of the peat one, " cessatitutomally;" and hers i.o
wtahrd to draw these aiiewiiew ita se important elornerersit,
the opinion of • man 'see respected, nun Misplace': he al.
lodsd.tu-so evasion of Mr. Pest, prom to the Ameracen
Mary sod io los conscience i.e believed that he itivesteed thes
lunatsy se list 0111,414, sae Ur get shut of the operation of
Peet arawatary Reform. The worthy Chialtlll3l6. slier some
silwesentions, pot this poetise ut its amended state, which
was nerried.
• Ma. ‘Kuot.ca said. that when lie keit last the
tele aetere of meeting the freeholders of Nliddlises
he did, not to rose 'avert to hove the pleasure of meeting
thern wok., suet. lies•pirielua (1111111•1111•18rell hie the Call-0 of
Hefuem. Es ety Jay brutes some sew oar that points Out
the leer ideals. sod lee believed that when his Venerable friend,
the Meijer, titan held forward the standard of Reform to
Isis teuetrysten lie tilde' respected Thatlie should ever
adverse* it ssed:r the nuelprees of a Miiii.derial
(I Rarer )—There was the leipbett ersdit due to that alas.
with. nielorolual fur culling teat meettrg. Thrie gist objett
Amulet he, to understand Ho Wee Ives, west Monelerstand their
regent/es and Hies their ratirries, if they bad any. And then
whets Mime 1/11)1•Can acre arcontpliwbed, and they had sheen
tut'W • forgoes that nothing in the shape of's sound argil.
meal, roller ug but rpeciese trginneutir• cotiM be-laddered
sops* t Wens such seas the
drat comer truer most susue. The worthy Geist's...as en-
treed 1140 a 11•4•11 sat the abases uf thr preatet system. It
was unceasing tok she eoinsitry, with asi uiiiiitlinnut to
neat enlblbe Wm.* of tfolanssolls iespettially, but dewily.
owe MO' Mono, time Wow, pidelse orpressem n. eoce•aretivit
fused dotlir peocee.tmga, abut .iketoete mmeeemmme sif Obellimmul
ties aeltoool e.m*d well tattoo she gromedg tee** Ilik*Olmr
beeeless fabric of a tome, leave wet a wreck behalf's....
(firms )e-ble cosesplaneell okdietadofriartildtly. ltbss
asorip lamentable that booted toes, onaierwo ber tattle fifer '