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there, should be indiCied and stand a trial for
life ; so that if sere poor girl got a pair of shoes, aid
went Au -ay evict them, ehe would he liable to the
uperation of this clause. Another went to empower
the oyetteeti to out children, Of certein afire,
or other persons, from the said workhouse, during
hay-making or harvest time, for the beneit of the
pee tit the pet ish ; said such persons, so Wired, Ale
to repine wlwo ti eir work is dome, to the workhouse,
with their implements ; aod, I suppose, said the
Hon. Gem. with an over.ter to whip them home.
method of providing for the poor, reminds
one of Deaa Swift's suggestion to the poor of lie-
lend,—when oppressed with wart, to fatten their
their children, and eat then). lie concluded by
hoping, that the jnsticc of the House would not
suffer the petitioners to go unheard. If they were
tefused that bon, he would consider it one of the
harshest measures ever adopted by the I louse.
V:. HILLIARD explained.
Mr. 'SYNC said, he had been called upon to
state hi, reasons in favour of the Rill: he would
state, dee the great proprietors wore for it. It is
true 1 log persons signed a petition against it ; but
a greet number of these were not to be found ; and
a great number mere paid no rates ; so that they
vet.: riterceted in opposing it. It was impossible
tor the colleaers to gather in the rates with suc-
cess, r the system which at piesent prevails—
The parish was so exlensive, and places which were
some time since occupied by tarns-houses and fields,
being now entirely knit upon. lie sheaved the
Hon. Gentleman an emended Bill, from which he
might have selected his clauses. He would state,
lon] hurself, that a great majority of the people of
property and respeCtability were for it ; and as they
were left the power uf electing their own officers,
inspecting accounts, and appealing to magistrates,
he saw no one right or pi ivilege which they were
deprived of.
Nlr. SHEBID.IN said, the Hon Geed:nein
snewed him an amended Bill, but did not user it
to him ; having but one himself he could not part
with it.
Mr. FOX would not enter much upon this busi-
ness at present ; he should barely remark on the
nomination of the Guardians. The I ion. Gentle-
man seys, the majority (lithe parish are for the rnea-
slue ; then let the parish name the guardians, and
not make it an aet of the legislature ; they should
name them, and not the representatives of the people
at large. And ought not couniel to he heard, bet
sixty persons ;are put over their heeds ? Out of this
sixty, he understood, thirty were to be appointed by
one party ; but it seenis the gentlemen and trades-
men could not be classed under one head, with any
degree of satisfaetion. lie wished to avoid any
party appearance which thie might give a colour to,
happening so soon after a contested eleaion ; ice be-
lieved a Clergyman who was against this Bill, voted
against the sitting member ; he thereibre hoped that
every idea vf party woitid lee excluded from it.
Sir ICULI.IAM PI LTENEY was for the peti-
tion.

Mr. HOBLIOUSE said, as the Bill was totally
a tered, it ninst therefore be presumed that counsel
were nut heard respthing it ; the palish appeared to
have been hitlieito well governed ; he was thLrcfore
for complying A% ith the prayer of the Petition.
\lr. BALDWIN said, he had attended the com-
mittee regularly for five days ; he conceived that
I,7ounsel having been heard once, notwithstanding
aay alterations, was quite sufficient; and he never
saw so much attention paid to any private Bill as
was paid to this M the Committee.
Sir FRANCIS 111;R1)14..TT said, no counsel had
yet opened his lips on the amended clauses, which
thtirely altered the Giil, so much as to make it a
t ew one.

Mr. bYNG earl tilled.
Strangers Nvcre ors!et ed to rithdraw, and a divi-
sion wok place ; w•i:cn the numbers were,
Against the Pe:ition 111
Tor it
Majority against it —66
When strangers were re-admitted, after the

bir FRANCIS BURDETT was arguing against
the unprecedented measure of parish gn • rdians no-
minating themselves. It was evident, he said, that
the majority of the parish were against the Bill, and
were extremely desirous that these guardians should
themselves be guarded ; whereas at present there
would be no contront *itatever over their expendi-
ture. This would be tvetcling a kind of Parish Tri-
bune, without any proof that there was any occasion
tOr it, or so much as an allegation that there had
been any tumultuons proceedings in the yes :y.
ile tonid nut but distrust a set of persons, pu ready
to take upon them a duty, for which it did nut ap-
pear that any one would be obliged to them. On
Looking over the list, he observed that there were
some independent Members amongst them ; not-
withstanding which, he conceived several others to
be objedionable ;• as he was informed that amongst
them were some who not long .ince had even re-
ceived parish assianice. He raid, that should he
wit succeed, and inked be saw no great chance of
it in opposing the Bill generally, he should at least
endeavour to qualify it by introducing an Amend-
ment hi one of the main Clauses.
Mr. FOX also urged the propriety of giving
further time for examining and nuking alterations
in the names upon the list.
The motion for the third reading of die Bill was
then put and carried, without a division.
sir F. BURDETT nett proposed an alteration
in the names, and began be mainlining that of
75.. Xmas Wilkinson.; which being negatived without
a ilVision, he declined offering any others.
Mr. 511F.RIDAN gave his Hon. Friend (Mr.
Byng) credit for the purity of his motives; but
could scare;le believe that his political education
would allow him to be the stedfast advocate of self-
elations. To spew the eagerness with which the plan
was punted, he could assure the House, on the
authorty of such information as he could rely
that Mr Fleming, a person of irreproachable ruin
dna and charasier, who had been collator of the.
taxes in the parish of Pancras for sixteen yens past,
was dismissed this very day for no other reason than
that was not a friend td) this Bill. Seeing the
tonne the House was 144 to talw on the present
occasion, what he bast chiefly to press upon the
House was that in.,oreat :Jr.d improsie:.; palish,
stieP a principle /Asyirie self-elecliva ci sixty-one
gvariliaiut shouhl not *continued in perpetuity. By
a clause in ifre-as provided, that if any of
the guardians the -'d be preyented, or Legied, ur
refo.e, to a5l, from Jeath, illness. removal tO another
parish, Sec. a suseral useenog ut tise reolaii.ios

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