The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1819-11-27 00:00:00

PAPERS RELATING TO THE STATE OF THE
COUNTRY.

Lord A LTuonw—;lNisb to ask the Noble
Lord opposite, who has given notice of a motion
for this evening to take into consideration the
Papers relating to the state of the country, whether
it is hie intention to refer those papers, or any part
of them, to a Select Committee, with the usual
powers of sporting for papers, persons, and re-
cords?"—(lfear. &gar.)
Lord CASTIALMAGH—a I thought I eluted ou

former evening, that it was not the intention of his
Majesty's \bolsters to refer the papers laid on the
table of the House to a Committee. as they con.
ceived that the grounds upon which they meant to
proceed to recommend further measures, rested on
a sufficient notoriety of the state of the country,
together with the confirmatory accounts in the
documents in possession of the House. As the
House did not meet yesterday, it is not my inten-
tion to proceed with my notice fur this evening,
lest it should interfere with the delivery of the sen-
timents of Gentlemen on the Report of the Address.
I beg, therefore, to postpone my notice until Mon-
day next, when I mean to take an opening view of
the measures which his Majesty's Ministers intend
to submit for the consideration of Parliament, and
of the ground. upon which they rest the necessity
of those measures."

Lord ALTHORP--." Then I give notice, that on
Tuesday next I shall submit a motion, the precise
terms of which I sin at present unable to state, to
refer to a Select Committee the papers the Noble
Lord has alluded to, for the purpose of inquiring
into the particulars they contain."—((fear, hear.)
REFORM OF THF. BOROUGHS.
Lord Joins RussEll.r.—" It will be in the recol-
lection of the House, that at the close of last Ses.
sum I gave a lattice, which arose out of the proceed-
ings that had been had respecting the Grampound
election. I now rise for the purpose of giving a
fresh notice, as I intend to propose Resolutions
which go rather further than than those I contem-
plated last Session. Perhaps the House will allow
me now to give an outline of my intention. I
mean, first, to propose a Resolution to the effect,
that it is expedient the lacnough of Grampouod be
disfranchised—secondly, that the right of electing
the two Members for that borough be transferred
to some one of the populous sorers-seated towns
—thirdly, that it is the duty of this (louse to con-
sider of further means to expedite the conviction of
persons guilty of bribery and corruption in the
smaller boroughs—fourthly, that wherever a ma-
jority of the electors of any borough he convicted
of t7orrioptinti, the borough shall be disfranchised—
and fifthly, that addition he made to the repre-
sentative body from some of the large popu-
lous unrepresented towns in this country. I
think it right to give this outline of my propovi-
skin's, to prevent tile further circulation of a ru-
mour that I am going to bring forward what is
called a regular plan of Parliamentary Reform,
and to shorten the duration of Parliament+. lam
not going to tlo tiny such thing. My motion arises
out of the inquiry of the Committee appointed by
this House on the last election for Grampouod.
On this side of the House I know 'I shall have an
impartial conside►ation of my plan, and I trust it
will receive equal attention from Gentlemen oppo-
site. I now give notice that I shall bring it for-
ward on Tuesday the 14th December next."
REPORT OF THE ADDRESS.
The /lon. SOMERS COCKS brought up the Re-
port of the Address to his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent.
On the question that it be read.* second time,
Sir Router WiLsox rose.—He said he Mt the