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CORK lIARBOUR BHA,

1111.threetunson presented a Petition (sa we un-
dereamd)frows the Mayne, Corporation, and I respect-
able Aferchants of the City of eutk, praying for leave to
Wing in ■ Hill to improve the Harbour of their City. la
presenting ibis Petition, and moving that it be referred to
r: Committee, he thought it right to atilt., that it wa■ Me
i nreetron of some reaped rble merchants, and oilier inhabi-
-1 .i. 111.9 or Cork, to oppose the application now made by the
I'•Gtim r..
Plc FrIANTII remarked, that that intention nee+, not in-
t, rf.•re with the motion for referring this Petition to a Cum-
inettre, whieh was ordered accordingly.

COTTON FACTORIES AMENDMENT BILL.
ltd• the motion or Sir ROBERT TEFL, the Cotton recto-
via Amendment Bill eras read a second time, and ordered
Le committed on Alooday next.
PENRYN BRIBERY BILL
S;r Como-vs 01.;IOtet t. postponed the second reading of
the Pshryn Brasery Bill until Monday next.

sedition ind blapatj, Veit tirculott4 throughout
the country, is eshieh sielc»t llittguege was often
held of a political sendefeey; House had rat
cheerer to Mork tfiehotliefole of portico's? Weems
es promoliited, but in ether pieces effete,' Nevi
were taken to eitycit and put them down. The
Niue *Wirt .1 Mk+. publications were 'spored
to pesoishment. Them people complained that
they were lewdly. dealt by. in being selected as the
it olijeiti" With What tenfold Weight
*MA not that t apply, if when an /Ippon.
Uglily cheered getting at the author, that op.
pertonity of bringeog lira to punishment sensed
be oveelooked by the House. He need hardly refer
them Menses ofprecedente, in support of the course
he went to take on the present occasion, when-
ever the House thought proper to vindicete its own
\moue sod character. There were several instances
of precedents mode by time to whom the House
had bees accustomed to look up to as the guar-
dians of the cosetitutiocal liberty of the people.
Me. Foamed Mr. Sheridan had, on many occasions,
contended that the best way to assert mid maintein
the rights sod privileges of the people was to up-
hold the dignity sod character of that House.—
(Her,. hew, from the Opposition Benches.)—lt
was not only to uphold that dignity and character
that he now celled opals them. but also to p
their very existence, which was menaced by the lan-
singe to be found in the pamphlet he held in leis
hood. This was not the ordinary language distrust of
their acts—it was not the language of invective
against their proceedings, but the conveyance of •
direct threat, couched no the form of advice and
recommendation to those in whom the physical
power existed. of ottemplisig to enforce and exe-
cute it.—(/fear./—lle slid not know whether ally
Members were now pieserot also had not heard the
extracts front this pamphlet read hi, his flo-
namable and Learned Friend (s r. Stuart
Wortley) last night. If there were any. he would
state to them the nature of the libellous publication.
After saying a great deal of the reform which, ac-
cording to the writers was essential for the preserva-
tion of the people's rights, and after comioleinisig
of the departure from mimeof his former principles,
which had marked the recent conduct of the nob-
tidual (Lord Erskine) to shout the pamphlet was
addressed, th! writer expressed Murrell' as follows
on the sten of that House
“ What prevents the people from walking down to the
House of Commons mid prelim, oat the Members by the
ears,, locking up their doors, mad diagiag the key 1.1.. the
Themes ? Is it say majesty whirl. hedges let the Mem-
bers of that Assembly? Du we love them? Not at sll—
we have as inotioetive horror sod disgust si the very
abstract idea of • Derouglivamsger. Da we respect
them ? Not is the least Do we regard these as en.
slowed with say superior justifies ? On the contrary,
iadivids•lly there is scarcely • poorer creators than
your mere Member of Partairsimet though in his corpo-
rate taped/ dm earth feraisbra WM so absolute • belly.
Their true practical proteciews, then, the real effieital Asti-
Reformers, are to be fogad at the Horse-Guards, sad at
limightsbridge barracks. As Wog as the House of CibIISIOUUS
majorities arm backed by the regisseatal waster-roll, so brag
may thme who have pt the tax power keep it, sad hang
theme who resist."—page 49.—(ifear, hoer.)
if the pamphlet had been only violently abusive.
he should not have adopted the forment course
towards it. Let the writer express himself us
strongly as it shalt risme hiss. condemning that
House as the enemy of his species of reform. let
him attack the conduct of Moisten, in antonyms
as straw and wavelet as he shall please, but let Inns
not deceive the people into a belief that by the as...
plicatioo of their physical strength. they can alone
seek a redress of their grievancer, owl that by forte
alone they cassock redraw. This pamphlet held out
to the people, that by violence alone could they oh.
lain • ream in the Commons House of Parliament.
There were many other passages in the pamphlet
which were equally abominable and equally sub-
versive of the rights sod privileges of the House.
For instance. after stating the unreasonable ex.
pectatimis of any persons who thought that
Parlia-
ment would reform itself, the writer makes use of
this expression Nothing but brute face. or the
pressing fear of it, will ever reform that House."—
(Hear. Aeor.)---Could this be construed into
any thing but a direct recommersdatiou to the
people to use force @plait that House ?—(Hear,
hear.)—If there were soother passage than that in
the publication. he would say the House would hot
discharge its duty he itself and to the public.
if it did mot satin mach a wee It.—( liear hear.)—
Let them trimeidor whet situation the house nod
the coestlyeelti be plead is. if they refrained
from rsolatiag le ielloineetory a publication.
What waedd be the red/Niers of any Member of
that lieges, if he lived to see each doctrines as
these psneeioally realised. sad knew that the thigi-
untwist" trboreemotaeottool them was suffered at
thefts's'', pose unnoticed, and his doctrine left to
work its own way. Sash doetrieso as these most
lead to all the scares of horror, anarchy. sod cola-
fusion, from the contemplates of which every
good mind mist shriek. The *pinions of such a
writer, his 'wild and miselsinvessa feelings, if not
curbed. meat heed to iuSnite calamities not oily
for those who valued the molested wicked advice,
but to all who wished well to their country. Such
opinions went al once to the utter thrstructim of
the Constitution of the osoutry.—(Hear. hear.)—
Might Not any iodieWool whom the Home may
hereafter punish for folleariog seek doctrines, turn
round and complain against their pairing down the
vengeance of the hoe apes him, whoa they left
unnoticed and empassialsed the veal author. whose
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the general disgust of the cohlutrp messures which bev against directing the Attoroey-Geueral to pro-
*hewed thet,lbis House had ars character with tiro itecute ; hut, notwitlistandisss, he saw Ho reason
peoples and we, coolPelleil to remit to force to slop- why lie should not 'spree. his indignation at such
port itselfy without the effect iof the people ? The . grata and emindaloue libel oh the House.—
amyl. of the pamphlet only swirl of thous what_ they ( I lenr.)—He did not know whether the Hun.
• led or thtrilitlirr. They avowed in their Bills Member (Mr, Wortley) hod two ossified iii input.
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that coercion and not respect induced the people to tug it to any particular pence; but he said, iliat
submit to their authority—a deference which other- whoever wes the ember of it, there was internal evi-
wise they would not sisimagly pay. The people &nee its the pamphlet itself, from the style end
were to hr kept Jowls by Gagging Bills. and what composition. that items the production of one whd
was list but the application of. force ? De should was very fur seised obarti the bass of them who,
now content himself with opposisig a motion for avowed similar seatieseoll; 'mad who „velum is be
I . ging a 'duster to the bar before the House bad 1 • worthy subject for the Hesse to strike.—(Bane,)
deiermined that any effence bail loam committed. i —lle was sot our ..y twee wha wink' give
s.
the
At the same time, until some other step were token, i exercise of their privileges. which had her08,444_
it would he mouser r a sss y mud improper for him to ed, he thought. rather iodiscreetly by the liiiii
,go any further into the question. lle should on all liaronet.—/Hew./—He ehmald supped the nib
occasions object in their converting that House into thin, because he thought that this was potpie time
a Court of Justice—a jurisdiction for which they when their rights nod privilege, werkto be ibendea::
were the most unfit. It was contrary to every min- rd.—(Glen*.)—me sae awartb.e.tiebee,,,eats
mai:m:o:
to
ciple of justice slid law, that men slimil.l be judges odium mad crilitdmy he .20(441 himself by the
in their own Cause—should protiouisce the law jolt course he was,now perusing.
as it pleased them, and preclude the accused from encounter it all, and if he were not, he should ems.
all the means of defence which the law of the land cider binisielf unworthy of his arat.—(('leers,/-..
allowed him. At present he should content himself The 4oestion mow was, not whether the Hoeft was
with impsonig this motion. well or ill-constitutedeesbet whether, while it ear
Nit.. Batters said, lie had listened with much • house of Commons. it wet to suffer langusge the
Twin to parts of the speech of the worthy Baronet. i most malicious and scurrilous to he appliediyo it
lle ki.ew the latitude and perfect freedom of de- 1 with impunity. He should wish, peshape. that
lour which was allowed ; yet 61111 in scone parts of some among them were sitting there on other terms,
what had Mien from him. he (Mr. Banker) felt a has as bug as they wet. thee, they wets dl mom
strong inclination to have interrupted the Honour- to support the dignity. mad defend the rights of the
able Baronet as he uttered them, stud taken the House of Comma's of Resisted. Ear his part. lie
tense of the Speaker on the point of order. It was was ready to take hie shore of the obloquy to which
not the that tissue the worthy Baronet had deuied the performance of that ditty would reliably sulo
their aut lion, y, and the ex tent of their privileges.-- ject the:n all.--(elreers.)
(Hear, hear.)—lie had argued, that because on Mr. COUISTIMAY mid. his object et Orient tee
is late occasion they had refused to exercise their to bring the printer to the bee—bat he did not say
powers, that therefore they had renounced them. what course he should afterwards adopt.
lie (.lr. Vosi.kes) would not now argues whether in , Mr. %V tutesioncn expressed his sentiments st
that refusal they acted right or wrong, but he some length, bat we regret having heard him hut
thought there was au obvious and material dif• imperfectly. lie said, that if lie had ever heard
fereoce between a refusal to exercise powers. and or cloy publication which
,cooveyed a most gross
ass obandonment of those pnwers.—(Hear, keen, 1 aunt k, he shrsield not soy os the cousttoction, hut
leer.)—fir slid not know what particular course
1 on the very existence .1 the Mom of Common..
tlw Hull. Member was prepared ii. take, hut that it was the extract in question.—(Hear.)—He was
which the worthy Baronet proscribed, es a departure I not much surprised at the feelings exhibited by the
from the principles of justice. was am undoubted I Hots. Member who hod spokes last hut one (Mr.
1 D. Ki iiii aird). There was an analogy between our
privilege, asserted and exercised in the best and
most Collilitllti ffff al times, and fur the essential pre- I moral end our natural faculties. Time producer'
nervation of the Constitution. It did not follow, as I wonderful effects ise both; and what at firat
the worthy Ilaro 'et insinuated, that the prosecution shocked a man's jedgmest and reason, was rems
of the inithor. if lie were prosecuted at all, was tent dered, by lung habits and familiarity, palatable
to take place in a Court of Law. The House might end not unplessing.--(Hesw.)—The Hon. Member
hereafter send the matter there. and order the explained the passage to signify that it was fear,
Attorney-General to prosecute. Surely that would rather than love, which protected the House from
sot be to act, and decide, and condemn in their own the people, and said, that. aen abstract 11,14,0.11.,
cause. The Hon. Member then condemned the con• firm, it was true of soy government. Now lie
taus of the pamphlet in the strongest terms, and said (Mr. Wilberforce) eecollected, that Mr. Haw, iii
that the publication was a direct invitation to the his Essay on Government. had said. that all Go-
people to enter upon actual rebellion. What else virutuents depeaded on opinion. It would have
could meals the direct encouragement to the people beets improper to brims Mr. Hume to the Isar for
le avail themselves of their physical force, to drag having published that opinion, Isecause the guilt or
Members of that House out of it by the errs, lock jemocence depended on the intenlion of the writer.,
up its dour, and throw the key into the Thames? He weevil' opiuion, that the passage a. some,
.4.:riuld any invitation be more atrocious or abnmi- thing wdrire than en allisibe to Culotte, Pride.
amble ?--(Ikor, hear)—and yet this was the pub. Nothing was more likely to iulleme the people
locution of which the worthy Baronet spoke so against the House, and to produce a disposition is.
slightingly. The privileges of the House were those who should reed it, to curry the ideas it cause, -
coisferred upon them for the goal of the people, ed into execution by force, and ha thought notion
and he should he ever ready to put doers, all at- more unwise than apeakies on meth an uccasisio
tempts to subvert them--tin place, no Court could with the sort of milduese the Hon. Member dust.
meiutuin its dignity, air exercise its functions He frankly confessed he hod not formed guy noiiirois
if the public mind were worked upon against it by i us to the propriety of bringing this pamphlet before
such flagitious incitements as this pamphlet cots- 11w House, but it was quite • different thing when
seined. He trusted, therefore. that the House lit had been brought before it. aud he believed
would do its duty as the guardians and defenders 4 that the forbearing now to take notice of the work
of the people, 'spinet that oew sect which had of I would produce bad effects in the country. He hint
late years so unfortunately sprung up in this always preferred. where it could be adopted. that
country, and winds courted desolation aud starchy course in which they avoided taking the ezecatioe
in their train.— f Hear, hear.) of the law into their own hands, by cellists on eels
Lord JOHN RUSsELL thought the present mo- Attorney. General to bring the criminal into a Curia
Lion the worst advised and the least prudent he of Justice. For when they proceeded against
had ever witnessed since lie sat in that House.— I criminals themselves, it might be imputed to them
(Hear, leer.)—They had for many days upon I that they united together Jim which ought to
their table, pipers of a imich inure inflammato,y continue distinct. sod became executors as well as
diweviPti ffff • Dme of which actually contained a makers of the law, which, it wee apprehended, had
enseletion, that from the lst of January, 1820, I a tendency to tyranuy, and if that mode of pro-
file people should pay no obedience to the ex- t ceeihrig were upplocuble to the present case, he
isting laws or Acts of Parliament. The should certainly give it the preference. He was
House insist take une of two nietlinds to mails- convinced that the people of this country were
fain its own dignity and punish the offenders, deeply interested in preserving the privileges of
either to call ou the Attorney-General to preak.ute, their representatives. and forming a judgmeist front
of to summon them itself to their Bar to answer I all he had ever observed, he should west. iti opts°.
cur their misconduct, or to toes the coercive Bills sition to the iloisourable Baronet (Sir E. Burdett).
to restrain these abuses in future ; but he dial Hut that they were persuaded of this themselves. lie.
think it befitting their justice or clemency to bare thought it right to remark. that though the Hon.
recourse to both. He thought that libels pro- Member (Mr. D. Kmuaird) had said, that if the
uounced on the House within their own doors, whole context were taken it would crate a differeot
should be punished with severity—(Hear)—but impression from that which seemed to be enter-
this libel having been published out of doors. in taisied of the part read. he howl oat read ..y-
-coinmois with many others of the seine description, other passage to prove this, which he thought lie
which had escaped uncensored. he could scarcely would have done, had his opinion of the tendency
consider the incidental reading of a passage from it, of the publication been different from that of the
by a Member, as a sufficient ground to justify the House. He could almost porde. any other thing
proceeding uow recommended. The Noble Lord more readily, than a cold, mean attempt to kerp
then moved as elm amendment, that Robert Sto. within the bounds of danger, sod at the some time
dart he imanmoned to attend at the Bar 011 the 18th trifle with the security of the coostitutiou, aud the
of January next. greatness and glory of the century. which he howl,
The question on the amendment having been put, and whose greatness end glory he hoped would be
' . Mr. DOUGLAS KIN NAIRD said, as only au isms transmitted. notwithstanding ell the malice of its
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Rated passage had been read from the pamphlet. enemies, unimpaired to posterity.—(Cheeriag.)
doubts might reasonably arise in the minds of Hou. Mr. D. KINKAIRD said. that the reason be liad.
.tembers, who had not read the tract front which it abstained from reading any of the paetplilet ass.
hid bee. shether it oe • - because he would have tieserinsed to read the
libellous.,
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