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sny other tweeti!!e• orlien they were eqt.eml.led..
evioced ion to ferocity. lie be-
lievedthe Lor•I C jit.st.ce feared nothing ftiont
thew, cud jristh mach reason, for he base-d through
the hall to hi. carrirAe, wild wan treated with l'oir to-
rn at respect by the v:se.ub•v—.(./ hiugh),—,ll 11.41
been stated that the pettliee ni the city of Lou low
wain declamatory iiteult to the Howie. lie ileisied
thee it contained anzthiag ollitneier to that Houw.
As to the petition bong signed by ho few a outiiner.
it war sloop the carton) of the Livery to obaLrve
that forint said taint cireuin•tence could surely be
no 'ground apse which. to form a rej(e.tioe. The
Livery had hot insulttd the Howe. they did not
coudescend to iuwilt- the Hasa. He celled it a

condesceusion, because• if they offered any ottetici•
to the Honse, they did so to thessielves. As to [h,
complaint of the Gals of seats its" the House, did
not a measure of such iniquity call loudly for ani-
madversion? He would not ask, Where was the
dignity and justice of the House ? but he beg4ed to
kuow where those hoisted qualities were iii the last
Session, when an lion. Friend of his had stated, that
he could prove that the criminal measure of seat-
selling was carried on most estensively..The people
earnestly prayed for Reform ; it was only the cor-
rupted mid unsound part of the Representation
which they were anxious to reform. lie did not
conceive that the pt °plc were hostile to Parliament ;
but that they directed all their comploitits against,
and opposed all their Strength to those who had
dishonour:4 their country,and degraded the house
of Representatives of the people.
Mr. JACUZ explaiued. liis observation did not
apply to the Livery of London—than whim. a more
sillier, resist ctable, and loyal holy did not exist ;
—bit to the persons introduced into the Hall,
where the petition was clamorously carried.

Mr. WILBERFORCE re-stated his reassess for
moving the adjournment last night. It was his
wish to encourage the subject to petition, because,
when there was ally grievance to complain of, this
was the most proper focus by which elf bud Ma-
moors could be discharged. But when he %ilw au
attempt made to bring the House of Cc,lnman
into hatred and contempt, he could not sutf:r the
insertion of certain words, by way of gilding the
pill they were asked to swallow, to induce hint to
receive say production so offensive as the present.
—When Gentlemeii spoke of the petition r. as
coming to the House for redress, they (lid not
state the fact fairly ; for the petitioners told them
they were not surprised at soy thing a House
so castructed did, and that they Hid no. ex-
pect any redress from them. It was not, there-
fore, to do theiuselves good, but to do the
House evil that they came.—/Hear, iteer.)—They
tole them that they distrusted their
T 16., indeed. was coming to fundamentals, and
shake% t .:e Constitution of the country, and of the
'House, to its base. It was not to be rerhareithy the
`House, and if they expected respect elsewhere for
the iirivileges they claimed, and which belonged
to them, they must respect them theioselves, and.
reject 15,14 petition. They' must not be deceived
by a f w fliittern words, expressions of respect
or of orinon. Wg
hen they siw every offensive
passage :het could be raked from the Jour-
nals of Parliament, mustered and 'placed in
the most unworthy point of view; and +thee
therssw every decision of theirs on which *doubt
could hang. aserioed to motives of the foulest
corruption, it was not a little art that could in-
duce them to place a record of this upon their
Jouruals. Ile regretted that An alter
questions had I een decided, shetild stand up, and
say, " this arose from such decisions:" If Gentle-
men dealt fairly by themselves, they might think
that on many questions honest tneWniight enter-
tam very different views. Weie he incliued to nor
liate, he might well do it on this topic ; but, utiles,
corrupt motives were known, or could with anyim-,
pearaoce of justice be imputed, it was unlash to
speak of the decisions of others, in a manner as
destitute of candour as it was of sound sense.—
(Hear, !star.)—He corroborated this opinion from
U. Purley, who had observed, that it was astonish-
ing so much could be said ou either side of any ,
great national question, sod how differently
honest men might view the same measure. He
made these remelts to inculcate more candour
to these Gentlemen, which was now the more re-
quisite, seeing what bad use had been made of suck
expressions in misleading the public—(Bear, Attar.)
The Hon. Gentleman exemplified his statement
from his own opinions on the Walcheren question ;
for though he condemned the Expedition, hewn not
prepared to go the length of the Gentlemen on the
other side, of imputing failure to the incapacity
and want of integrity in Ministers. As for these
phrases, he had heard them imputed to all ad *-
stratiiiiis for the last 30 years, and it would be
well for Gentlemea to consider the effect they had
on the public. They would either from their re-
petition be disregarded, or they might, es at pre-
sent, be taken up by artful, desigetng, dangerous
demegngues, sod employed for the purpose of
infwang into the minds of the people a die.
trust of all Government. He was not blind to
abuses, which he *jetted to be reformed; but he
was also s-uable cf the iitestsiiiable benefits of
the Constitution. 'That Constitution had been
the 114111filii0t1 of all great into, for blending, with
such coussiuniate wisdom, practical liberty with ,
the exercise of the executive powers At its exqui-
site construction, strangers had been wrapt in as-
tonishment and wonder, and, from admiration, had
tamed to develm* the sources of its perfection.
Should be then be taught to d- spine so glorious a
fabric, by the tow tongue of vulgar idiom? At a time,
when. alter bring long engaged in one of the most
perilous wars that ever was wage .1.- war ill which
the pillars of the earth had been shaken—at this
time. when, though burdened with taxes, the tie-
ceoeitv for which he lamented, we ell ,};aged .o much,
should not lie, as a good subject, rather try to re-
concile the, people to du se burtLits, than to i.iflanie
their moods and delude their sense. Such conduct
was not that of men who, in their hearts, loved their
country-e-tive lest refuge of liberty in the would.
It was not to injure the rights of the people that
ever he would be fouud to stand op in his piece
in Parliament, but, he conceived, the best measure
the House could pursue, for securing the liberties
of the subject, would be, by rejecting this pail ion.
He would never repel honest warmth; or even in-
temptenice iu a petition he would not he ton cal.-
, tious ie taking notice of, butwheu mcesu red phrases

tervel pay to. iptrotioce ototli:,1 4.4.4 ility, end the,
mu4t orfei,Nive c•,ooe 11140.. r the mask of
irielob•hiii, he hiti,,t etand forth to reitct bud:3 pro-
ductions.

_ . .
-hie. P.INMONUY h oiegi delivered his opinion
f.stfollr of rectivioli; Illr two former petitions..
thought in.wnyld appear strunge, if he did not do'
the saute with regard to the ',resent. if he could
ir4ree w tit the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last,
that it was a studied insii:t, he would come to the
omit conclusion—to reject it. lint he wind not
believe tin., as it would be mustoutiwisein petition-
ers wishing topbtaiii re ire.. of their grievapers, is
he believed these petitnmers did,-to offer insult to
that authority from which 'they expected the ingress
to come. Were such a belief well-founded, • then
the House ought to reject the petition. Aud besides,
the petitioners would be in this situation. that. wider
the mask of persuading, they had done every thing
iL their power to dissuade; and, iineead of tr,riug to
obtain what they pretended 'to be is pursitit of,
they hail takes every means to make the evils per-
petual. What be rose for, how: err, was from beoig
provoked by the, observation of an lion, Gent. be-
hind him (Mr. tVarille). That Hots. Gent. after
making where was their dignity and justice in the
cases of the Right Hon. gent. opposite, 'and a late
Noble Sectetary (Mr. Perceval and Lord Castle-
reagli) said, he dirk not so much bliune theta as the
House fur covering then.. and particularly {he
Gentlemen on his (Nlr. Poutionfq side. This
observation was no novelty; it wee pert of a studied
plan to eal um mate all those Ott side of the House,
It was part of a plan, supported by rnisrepreseata.
fawn, end perversion of , facts. they were sc.
awed of screening, these delinquents ; whereas, at
the vei y time that motion wits made, there was in (bet
House,' bill for the more effectual preventing of such
practices in future, to which they hail given every
support, and done all in their power to render effi-
cient. If it was uot, when p issed, competent for
the purpose proposed, it was not the fiult of Gen-
tlemen on his side of the House. They reprobated
the practice as a great scandal, cud they had endea-
voured to destroy it. Thine was, then, neither
justice nor truth in ibis misrepresemstion ; but it
wes part of that plan, pursued is, speeches here, sod
at public mee!ings,- to establish this darling dies
trine of this set of men, that all public men
were alike devoid of public virtue', That they
were all peculators, come to that Win ro House to b
and plunder the,p,Ublic. To make it he believed
that a meeting of so many 'Gindleinen of greet. pro-
perty, of thi 'first families in ti4"kingiluiti3Of
Cation, and or the numelitietal professions, who.
bad spent all their lirCo..witiniut reproach of any
man witb whom they had.in{prFoursie, could come
there, with no other object but to destroy all their
fair fame, 'ruin their characters,.and become plod-.
deters of that politic of .farmed so pro-
minent •sk part.—(Hear At4.1,,t-r.lVlnit an un-,
happy people they • moo .he, oho•coulat ..be 1114;
deluded!—(Hear !J—Whit. fools ! could they
believe such impginatione as these ! But' he
did not believe that the people could be so im-
posed upon: He never thought a men, if guilty
of no dishonourable action, base merely because
he differed from him in political opinions. Lord
Somers. the head of the Whig*. had, in a former
reign, when parties ran very high.. even bees, lin-
peached ; but would any one now pronounce that
he was euriapt ? It was the same with Lord Clarets.
dots, the head of the Tories, in die reign of Charles
[ the S,icosad ; hut would any one at this time say that
he was bsseP Though that great man went further in
his view' to what extent the prerogative might go.
thannianY of the other opiuion, yet he had rendered
a ,greliterriervice to his country than ever ally other
man did. After the convulsions which had torn
the country, and all those miseries brought on the
people by persons pretending to ell the virtue in
:the country—(hear, hear)—toe House of Com-
mons, picket* such horrors, were ready to greet. the
'King an income forlife, by which he would have
been made tudependent of Parliament. and would
have done so. had they not been prevented try Lord
Clarendon. For this he was never forgives ; rod af-
terwardsacrificed tolls political enemies by tlielifing.
He (Mr. P.) was never loud of indiscriminate abuse,
bat if he entertained suspicions of coy party, it was
of those who claimed sill polticel virtue. A, far 4,11
his experience in life went, he never knew Men
claiming to bra great deal better then other people,
but at some raters iwnod they turned'out to be
worse.—aurenalit Steering.,
• Mr. Waitoilx explained. He hal not accused
them of shiehrafg the persons accused. but of the
defence sieriiipe that the practice was will known..
The oiler,' Witt no, cleared, and ei division took
place. •
'Fee the petititia hinges ike table.... 46
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CRIMINAL. LAW.

On our re-adasisssou---itUTo7;:r;liery, we folind Sir
S. Hositt.t.e on his legs, twilling his promised
motion relative to the transportation of couvicti.
.11e entered at grest !yowls iuto thip PUbit ct, and
earnestly recommended the reformation of the
criminal should be outfit more the object of the
law thus had heretofore been attended to. For
this °purpose, he ploposed no new law, 'but only
the enforcement of the law as it ilresrly existed.—
He that intend in a details(' hiatory of the first
practice of transportation to America; the puniah-
meat being changed to the hulks; and lastly, to
Botany Bay. 'An these modes, he contended,
served only to harden end confirm offenders in
guilt; and, instead of the two latter. be enforced.
with much energy and feeling, the greater henefits
that would accrue from sending criminals to earful
labour in penitentiary houses. With this iu view,
he concluded by moving :
" That au busubls adJrcas be persested to Hi Majesty,
prayisg. that he grouts' be copiously pleased to under to be
carried into exec:Amu, so womb of am Act sit' the 19tIt of Isis
nig., as rusted to the erection of pesitostisry houses, tax."
Mr. RYDEN concurred in many of the übserva.
tions of the preceding speaker. and would contri-
bute all in Ms power to forward cur amelioration of
the law that could be suggested. Ile spoke highly
in favour of the present system obtersed in the
Hulks; and es the subject deserved much atten-
ti tin, r.quested that a notice might be given of dis-
cussion for a future dry.
Mr. FRANKLIN° recommend-d to inlrept altera-
tions to existing neaterials—i• ini• the tadt systems
as far as consisted with the ',oink good, and not
overturn one to build up aautlitr.

4 'lt . 70! 4026
Mr. WlTlltilltniet spobe In Atom,
tention, Of the lion. and Learned
tliciu:hisfull :rapport. it it *foil Id be the
lending coney:tr to religion and morality,
MX. Wt 11 DII A at, after some sarcastic,
cidony of thievea, supported the witroure.
W. Pima passed• a panegyric itpc
penitentiaries to Ireland, itod recryiumendrd
laud t:i follow the example.
SirUiLigi. Rani t. tor liirti withdrew
until Friday the oth of 'May.
• COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY—AR/SF
ORDINARIES.
. Mi. Lone proposed, that the min of ~5171.
13s. sKuld be griiiited.for the Army Extraortlio.
ivies front the 24th of l)eeetnber, 1808. to the 241-111
December, 1809. they not being proiidell fur by
Parliament.
After a conversation between Mr. Tierney, Mr.
Calcrafr, Mr. Long, Mr. W. Pole, Mr. ti. Roar.
Sir Chalks Pole, Admiral Markham, Mr. Mter-
ton. Mr. Aliercrombiii, Lord P•ileseraten, Mr. Per-
cevak.'?lr. Lainibr, and Sir Itiehi•nt thelorsioss,
the resolution was agreed to—and the
derail to be received thisilar.
!NAVY EIeFINIATES.
Mr. Citoara said, that, from the lateness
hour, he would move •• That they should I
potted." which was agreed to.
The House resumed, aad the Chiirmsn
progress. and asked leave to ass again ,
Sir Cttsatss PoLlt inured. o That
be laid before the House, certain papers,
forth the different 'ennui which had been
by the Deputy. Treasurers of Chelsea
from Army Prize Agents, on accoatit
not appearing."—Agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then
of, and the House adjourned at HALI-PACT
O'CLOCK to thus day.
FOREIGN INT.ELL.It.:ENCIL
FRENCH PAPERS.
,
• rays.
A Decree bas been insect at Compiegne.,
'Oa the i4th, by whither) amnesty is granted
subjects. of His Imperial Majesty, who have
in thcarmies of foreign poiersjunce 4 !WC

. •
Ibis said that the- city.a Paris intends
her.Mayesty the Empress a toilette of t'
600,000' (flinch,
It is stipposecith.ti -their Majesties
their .tour to Breda ..iftiddlois-le.Doc;
will he met by the King of Holliiitd.
the King of 'Westphalia accompanies
Their Majesties reached Gambray at three
18th. "Al 'eigW they inane their
iii the-hiak.hrly;7iiotido the.thonta of the.
...t;bl.-:Cretrico-the.'paritele..editi *Maenad a Paticeallaan
filled-with :thou.:. reattilta elegantly draped.
According to sit aucirei•easige, tlrs procession •
wsys takes place in the tost4MCCanshray
Sovereign pays its.visst, Their Majesties'
pee uu.livuce to the civil God milit.iry a
A letter from Florence +ay% that, tae
the Grand Duchy base ordered the t
;minors of dwelt, dioceses to cultivate, Ispetts
canon. in their disconnew, that sd ens
enet which subjects one

The arrival of Their Majesties is
30th. The Duke of Reggio and Gen.
one of tis • Emperor's Aides-de-camp,
and also the equipage of the Frquie of
A handsome cutter has hum Ludt here,
His Msjesty the Emperor will. it is said,
to Flushing. Four of the seven 'hitt,
laid up fur the winter in the canal of ,
returning tippo•tte to this city, and idol
that were .tutioned off Lillie. Thew ail
pletely armed, and newly painted. Th••
Scheldt is winking up the riree, on de -
will disnlay its colours, and illuminate
viii of Their Majesties.
Colts /IT,
The two frigates; Vereorandtielfasei
•act• in the Bay. of Beugal.,urith tiro'
rit.s the Piedmontoisit 'and Fbx,..and
They took the twu,rnigliskfirjrtes,
was lkodght to ?fel York s ins EsAt . huhu
which ikrived the-4o &I've ;the departure
Scrourrqt/; arrive-1 at L'OrT•t: •.

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I)CaL/IV; MAT 5.
COMMON COUNCIL.

• •
A variety of routine touaMess was
the COOO illlOll Council yeaterday: 'the
g w,i. a momin by Mr. Gtrita•to, rue
a former reeulution of the Cunt.icil in 1
Catitolies. Mr. (;irrtao supported
with argument 4, W6lOl. bel;t,
rare," we du tiot ibiuk worth the .trou
porting.
Merles. [Si. lICTTOK. N EV.
poorer the motion with warmth.
Mr. AtecrititJ.ir on-4 very tin .res, re
iag to the spirit of the gtori,wt
which Hampden died in %he held.
on the acAtt.ll.l—he *air th..t t ben-
inergrile iteorin to set.nort that Unto.
refuting a Puller Petition. II .•
for liberty, and liken ttry oug•it—tte
bleed to rewire inviolote- Ihr tight•
net of that Howie. which W. 141 Ske•ille,
by ogitntors, tome tardier
ballot was demanded :
For Mr. Gidurers

*pima it
Majority in favour dia. Cabals' ..
Mr. WILI.ti the.i walla h.s
a Repeal of the LTniutti iie
colours, the unser*, •f that isi...su
with snitch form to the prewn. alarm
credit, and concluded IA r.iiibi,e the I
Ne was fullow,4 by As. M•ii:.ssn
he ma instruct..! by :16 a+mtuu. ate
the Petitions, but ebj.•errd aaau..t the.
which Mr. Willis's was &AMU. lie wou,
a Committee.

Mr. KINa scerdei to the g...0;.ti ty
Imams ; whm. alter t i s! ;e, specch
Mr. WiLidi ,nithdrew i.ia )1
moved for • Committee.
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