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IMPERIAL PARLIAMEIVT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUMMY, Novenas' 30.

CASH PAYMENTS.

The Earl of LAllOiaD;ti—rem;rked, that some
reports prevailed. intimating that it was the inten-
tion of the Ministers of the Crown to propose a
suspension of tl:e plan agreed to in the last Session
of Parliament, relative to the mode of resuming
cash payments by the Bank of England. To give
the Noble Lord opposite an opportunity of remov-
ing such rumours, lie sl i 141 now ask lout whether
inch in intention was in contemplat ttttt ?
Thr Earl of LIVERPOOL replied, that he could
not conceive f what circumstances or in what
eiblit.ei, such a report could have originated ; but he
had no difficulty in assuring the Noble Earl, that
the Prince Regent's Government hail no intention
of proposing any measure to Parliament for sus.
pending or altering the plan of cash payments
agreed to in the last SlO4l.
STATE OF THE NATION.

The Marquis of LAN SDOWN rose in pursuance of
his notice, and in discharge of that duty which he
sincerely believed was in compliance with the semi-
melds of • large portion of the community, to pro-
pose to their Lordships the appointment of a Select
Committee to inquire into the grovel State of the
Naiion, but more particularly into the causes of the
dist moors and discontents that now prevail throughout
• great part of our manufacturing populetion, and
into the state and execution of the laws relating to
public meetings. Although conscious of the diffi-
culty of the task he had undertaken, and on that
account was obliged to claim the indulgence of
their Lordships, he yet felt that a considerable por-
tion of the difficulty which usually attended such
a motion on all preceding occasions did not attach
to his present enterprise; for knowing how naturally
it was ever imputed to Noble Lords on his side of
the House, that they were disposed to consider in an
exaggerated point of view the distresses of the coun-
try, while peril's), it had been with as much jujus.
tice imputed to Noble Lords on the other side that
they had regarded them with too much indifference,
much difficulty had on that account previously exist-
led. which, in the present instance, was removed ; for
*hen they considered the occurrences of the last
few months, when they 'saw an addition made to
the standing force of the country—this addition
being in itself an army which, 100 years ago, was
thought sufficient to maintain the security and
tranquillity of the country—(Hear)—knowing that
Parliament had been called avowedly for the put.
pees .f *siring lute thir.seete of the country—.
whees they saw ups, the 'We of this stud the ether
Haw of Parliament. imemeres. if not otcoemiess,
et
least for regulating the liberty of the people
—when they saw that these measures were attended
',Mb great anxiety es the pore of she people, in.
diming some to surrender up their judgment into
the bands of Mittisten, operating in some degree
upon all, and even upon himself at that very
moment, it was their duty to themselves and
to their country to institute • strict examination
into the causes in which such circumstances origi-
nated. It would be a waste of time were he to
comment or argue upon the extent of the existing
danger, and possibly they could find no man in
the House who would be disposed to enter into such
an argument with bias; but from this he must con-
clude, that such a concession of the existence of a
danger formed a primd facie case, culling upon
the House to inquire into the nature of that dais.
ger. Was it of a nature so comprehensible? Did
it lie so much nu the surface of society, that no
difficulty existed in ascertaining its character or ex-
tent, that the House, without any previous investi-
gation. which was customary in matters of far less
importance, were ready to make up their minds
upon the point, pass the Bills now prepared for
thews by the Ministers of the Crown, and return to
their several hotwes satisfied with having honestly
discharged their duty ? It was in itself no trifling
danger to look at danger partially, to observe the
workings of sedition in one or two of its parts, with-
out embracing a view of the whole system. and of the
measures which led to it. There was ',omen capable
of looking at the present state of the country, who
would not allow that violence ought to be repressed
—that sedition ought to be subdued ; but Parlia-
ment would be guilty of a fatal error, were they to
suppose that if violence were repressed, and sedi-
tion subdued, the evil in which they had origi-
_meted would be removed.—(Hear.)—lt was the
duty of Parliament to look to the whole subject,
to ascertain why the increase of the military force
was necessary—to examine if sedition was made
ssubhc, why it found so many to read it ?—(llear,
aeor.)—Should they be content with knowing that
atinerant demagogues traversed the country, and
not inquire why so many ears were ready to im-
bibe their treasonable harangues, and so many
tongues were ready to retail them ? If the prin-
ciple which gave birth to such circumstances con-
tinned to operate, in vain would the Government
ask for new laws, in vain would they raise new
levies of troop*. the evil principle would still live,
and show itself in some more formidable shape,
as time and circumstances would offer.—(Hear.)—

There did not seem to be among the people any
desire to change the form or government—there
appeared No intention to introduce a new dynasty;
but there existed • vague desire for some change.
founded on feeling* of uneasiness. arising from
distress sod poverty.--( Hear, hear.)—Looking
therefore to this distress, which to his mind seemed
M be the foundation of the change unhappily effect-
or' in the public mind, it was necessary to cast
their eyes a point farther. and investigate the
causes of this distress. A dissatisfaction seemed
to prevail among the people, which he did
sat hesitate to ray was in some degree Justi-
fied. by the arts of Parliament. but however
I this feeling may be. it was not to this
referred as the source of danger, bus to the
system of radicalism which existed in fliffereut
parts of the country, in au exact proportion to the