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an epee that the Court of Parliament could alSne
properly sift it—so that their ordeal, like the de-
• phsut's transit, could expand In embrace every
t lone, and contract to reisr the smallest atom. It
was said that if the Msgistrates were insocent,
they could puffer nn itijory from. a Parliamen-
bre inquiry—Whal ! woul•I it be no punish-
ment to be exposed to a Perleamentary invetti-
gat ion, and all the obloquy that must be excited
pending it* process? lie could never cotaserst to
put an innocent men mom his trial, least of all in
that House, where, whether actrinted or cots-
eicted, he was *till open for trial in the Courts of
Law. Not withetandino the ordeal, he• might
psis through before Parliament—(Near, hear.)—
Ile then alluded to the 874g4 and devices at the
Manchester meeting, and asked whether they really
did not announce revolution ? Suppose in the
Whig Administrution of 1715, 40,000 Jacobites had
:trembled in Lancashire with white cockades and
vittos of " Legitimate .Alowarehy," would not the
ircoo be construed to mean the exiled Stuarts, and
-the cockade he designated their signal, and the
irietjpg lw considered as traitorons?—elieee.)--
lie then eulogised in glowing terms the nettle
insti-
tution of the unpaid magistniey of this c.ssintry„
and enlarged 'woe its high c:s.racter atid Import-
ance in losserving the peace of the country. The
Eight Him. Gentleman then pronour.eed a severe
a' wive! pliolhotlic soon the question of Par-
tiamentary Reform, and said that before he could
:Omit a stogie step to be taken towards the scrum-
p'asliment of that project, he must know to what
period of the history of the Constitution it was
meant to assimilate the proposed alteration, slid
chat the benefit in contemplation. He disbelieved
that the period part of the community Were friendly
to any of the novel cliassues in the theory of the
Constituti ))))) the necessity of which was in lousily
proclaimed—and he called upon them at this junc-
ture to preserve a Constitution which had shed
around them an many blessiegs.
Mr. BROLGIIANI replied, in one of the most are
gumentaiive speeches he ever delivered, but which
the latetiess of the hour (it bring past four o'clock
before 1w lii ished) prevents us from nit.nipting to
delineate. Ile expressed his admiration of die ma-
gistracy cf the culinary, and his greater anxiety
from that feeling, that their general character
should stand high and unimpaired, -and that those
among them (if ant) should be separated 'froth
the rest who had offended against justice and law.
He quoted in a clear and perspicuous manner, the
various precedent, for Parliamentary' inquiries, in
Cilia of this kind. and expressed his astonishment
that his Learned Friend (Mr. Wpm) should
have taken the course he had done.—a man
who was its ass liolex to their Jourtialr, rho
was an oracle of constitutional law, and the full
master of Parliamentary forms in. all their extant
—a man whose studies so resembled those of his
ancestor, who, upon fiiiiring in the twat of de-
bate, and receiving from his servant some aromatic
restorer, exclaimed. " No. Beimett, let me smell
to an Act of Parliament !" So he should hate
thought in a similar minetion, so strong were his
Learned Friend', peculiar habits of study rivetted
in his mind, that he would have exclaimed, " Brittg
Ise a volume of the Juistual*."—/ Load laughter).—
Mr. Brougham proceeded with uncommon energy
to implore the House to adopt a spirit of concilia-
tion. lie insisted that many of the charges pub-
lished against the yeomanry had been corroborated
before the Coroner's inquest—the sharpeiiiiig •f
swords to which his Hop. Friend the Member for
York alluded. here
Mr. L. [)cocas rose nod said, that, on inquiry,
he had ascertained the swords had beets sent to the
cutler's, but at the usual stated period, and not fur
any purpose whatever connected with the meeting
of the Will August.'
Mr. littoucosm resumed mid said, that it was
in evidence before the Coroner, the swords had
been sent to the cutler's. after the Magistrates had
been apprised of the day for itch the meet-
ing was fixed. He then renewed to the strongest
manner his appeal to the [louse to institute
an inquiry into the proceeding. It could be drew,
if they pleural, by a Secret Committee tip stairs;
but in some shape or another they were bound in
justice to the traitors, to take upset themselves the
task of this itiesii ry. Ills last solstice was conciliation,
uod by the adoption or. rejection of. at they sealed
their fate with the country.
Mr. STUART WORTLIIT, Lord !WILTON, Mr..
GLADSTONE. Mr. Baoaasima. and Mr. CANNING
severally explained.
At ten minutes befnre five o'clock this morning
the House divided, when the numbers were—
For the Amendment
Against it 3Bl

111sjurtly against it 231 •
The Ad(ker. ill itA orttonal form was then car-
ried, •nd the Nou•e My/timed at TWENTY
MINUTES PAST FIVE O'CLOCK this
Morning.

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