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hearing that any nee tkorg of the Borough wee IA
contemplation. So those when they did actuality
meet, he was Imo* the Coeitinenti and was on ewe
day of their meeting it IVO less a distant... than 4040
miles from them. He Understood that at that
meeting a question was meant to have been put to
him had hr been present to the following effect
om Why hewer absent from his plice its Parliament
on the SW July, when Sir F. Burdett brought lee-
ward his mritiori ?" Before he answered the question.
he begged distinctly to remind theist that it wits not a
toottho of Reform, es perhaps tliry slip:dwarfed—
it was ally • prospective motion pledging the House
to enter upon the subject in the renown% Sewn".
This was a motion to which, hid he been preerrie,
lie should have moved an 'amendment—fur so pore.
mount and important did the question of Reform
appear to limo, that be would have moved, nor for
its discussion ea the faPoraing Session bat on thpt
parrieolor siii‘ba.—faANWlJ—The rearms of his
absence was, he had been called away to the coma-
try on some business ou the snorniiig of the ed Jolly,
intending to roams in time fur the debate, asiiici-
pitting • long night, but on kis retina, lie rtalllid the
doors of the lobby of the House lucked aid the
Members dividing within ; so that he was .by that
accident precluded f beilig preseht at that de-
bate.-4 liter, hear.j—Witli reference to the pru-
reeding, at Mimi heater, no man contemplated
I hem with greater horror than lie did—no roan
felt more disgust at the refusal of !Ointment to in-
quire into the conduct of ilie Magistrates and yeu-
wintry. Ile still hoped that such inquiry afoul.*
take place—lie still hoped that the guilty woulil
nut escape panitlinierit.—('rpphiese.)—With re-
ference to the Bill• nun before Parliament, lie had
-regarded his opinion of thesis by his votes. These
measures *imam; from an tilvowrif determmation nit
'tlie part of Ministers to usideriniat the Cs-darts
Constitutiiiii and rah the people of their ro'glits.—
On the subject of reform, in Ins upiniori it o,*l. 11.3 W
more lie crows+ titan at any former petit.!. He ri I
not mean on the visionary prit.einle of amoral
.Pris-
bainents, universal suflaage, and election by baba' ~,
for such plans, he thought, would be subs,ersive tit
I liberty: But the reform of which lie was the adv..-
cite. was use that would onto the right of suffrav
toall persons contributing direct taxes. to the state-..-
was one which should abolish i lie rot tr ii burouxhi,
transfer the rt;ht of representatiosi from ths or
sonic of the large maistaactusiag towns, SUCti at
Birinisigham, :Manchester, and other placers it
was quite a slur on the constitution .to ter owe
county (Cornwall) 'retina more Rev• sentoitivrs to
Parliament than the whole of Scotto, cl. Hr w titl-
ed, in fact, to see the electi‘e franchise as fol y. as
freely, and as independeutly evirciseil all over tile
kingdom 89 it *45 in the brit neigh of Soutinvaih..-
(.4ppluuse.)—The Hon. Member declared ht. ot •
jecouir to the Bth Resultat t's'. and raid he could
not see the good that would result Irons the
absence of the independent Members if Parlia.
mint, and he saw much harm from pennant%
such Ministers as tier present to remain uiscoistrolkd
in the progress of their despotic acts. Much as lie
respected Sir F. Burdett, he could not are why lie
alone should receive their thanks, obeli sentiments
of reform were also avowed My the Russells, the
Cavesidislits, rood the rather distinguished Menthe,*
who comrsed the Oppositiou in Parlinineat. t!e
hoped the one Resolution Ore Bth) would Le wilt.
draw'', and the other amended ny embracing wiin
that of the worthy Baronet the urines of the titter
Gentlemen who supported the question of Reform.
—/ tippling:, J
Sir Rosear WILSON came forward, and was re-
ceived with the most enthusiastic applause. Ile
commenced his spcech by recallnig to their reculz
!emeriti that in their first meeting after the great utte
iti boost of the Town Hall, he had exercised' his
deep apprehension that P•rlisment was then about to
meet, with the knowledge that Ministers were nut
only determined to refuse all inquiry into the Iroise-
actions which had cccurred at Manchester, but
by • perversion of all truth and justice, to make
the necessary demand fur inquiry a pretest 1. r in•
flictisig Natter oppression, and for enacting new
and more formidable penal line. He lamented
but too sincerely that his prediction had bee., is (-
filled. Parliament had sitter met•--hast refused all
inquiry—had arraigned the peoplw instead of
their oppressors—arraigned them. too. on anony-
mous evidence, and on the assertions of the parties
who were themselves impugned, and followed op
those unjust proceedings by adjudging the people
to be condemned. and by then punishing them wilts
unheard-of penalties among a free pimple, which
utterly lntuited the rights sad peffitileges they
had immemorially enjoyed coder 11* solicsion and
sanctuary of the British Countitution.—(Grad
appleuse.l—These rights the people hod from lido-
Vlllllllrlllo6lll.—thill were recognised is the records of
trsditioual history. The people even enjoyed them
from a higher source—from the Deity himself: for
when God gave them life, he pee then the liberty
of enjoying it.—(Chem.)—They were now told by
Ministers that those rights were worthless...they
were now told that the prerilevs for which their su-
mmors bled were petfacioue..not advaotingeous to
them. The perfeeihro of the emistittstigo, it now
seemed, lay in its laming peculiar elements fair it.
aholitioo.—(Laspilrl.l...The Btits. now pending
tit Parliament were Mot, forwent% to be declare.:
peniesswnt—they wt.* only for fine year% Better
would it have been Oat their !iglus went it olnhed
altogether, foe then Eaglitibutes womidtmater relax
in their efforts to • Pin them. They *alibi Mr ..
t ad for the re of sneseuren tali* far the
time. anutihilaterl treat freedom. *Us thm_ wits:
which belonged Imes vdta •Itmt miumarus
of the acquisiti Mid dom.' Re feared-/teat
temporary weaaillßS recoimilvid may aiiiipiwomi-
memory taigas& aho woold.rlartimalljint.tmmise
question, and yet did it toot • sulAa imams
thing; rev the souse we that MGM''' " sow •
1 porary, could at my nem prultratiftsutmsstaillls 't
a virtual permanency. Zit NOW .11114• •lIVII PO 9
1 dud Lott. Litratetisot ft* 06111.31 stest-
lug., bat it wontelbit estrmaitierry if they did so