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LONDON.
WEDNEiDAI*. Dremsett 9, 1819.

11Nitrify against sitimentiounst 110
On our reoultuissems to tlw gallery wr found Sir. I ...
BROUGHAM lamentime that the sletrrinienoinst of 1 The LORD citANf.uLtort.s Hill for expediting
11w Noble Lord, lucked by the opinion of Ilse nil- I. e ... .
je
of
the committee.
preeinited the possitolity . th to 1. ol misdemeanors, went thorn:Si a Coot-
of farther disetioriou this slight tiros the de- 1 miller yr...ler/Jay evening in the House of Lords,
tails of this ntonsentous nwasores It sus: 11.111 V : VOA 111 W ItritOri Wll4 ordered to lw lorought up on
The Bills for empowering Justices to
dear that all discussion was prechsde and ' T1,,,,,,e,y.
that it only .rrmaiised for those who thought ; 'earth for arms, aml to prevent &Ohms and train-
with him upon the subject of the Bill to hear
` , .
the ch„iii„„„. „lid ~ Mg. were severally read a third time, and sent to
in silence the questions put by
while they refrained, as this night they most rho : liar Howe of Col 1111 l oii4 fur its approbation. The
from argument. to adopt the 01117 course (mesh to * 11.06104. Of 1.01.10 will not meet this afternoon.
them for the mainfestation of their sentitnessts,-- i Tile Seditious Meetings Bill was again anxionsly
(Hear, hear.) . and warmly discussed last night in the House of
Lora CAOTLEREAGII 541(1, tli•il it W4sitopmsibie ,
,'inittrioris. When the House had resolved itself
to ntistisider4tanol the course which the llon. tool
Learned Gentleman now meant to take. There , into a Committee upon the Bill. Lord Comecon
were in the present stage two courses which might proposed a clause, rendering it imperative upon
he taken in the Committee so as to impede for. High Sheriffs and other proper authorities to con-
ther progress; One, that which was trormatrd clearly ; vette public meetings, upon a requisition to that
enotoell, a renewed proli.e.ition of the question •
try . effect signed by '2O freeholders, each possessed or
of adjmuntnetit—the other, a deterrniiiatioto
letigth of speaking, so ma to occope the time of , lune a-year. This clause was warmly opposed by
the Committee as to prevent the real advance- ; Lord CA,TLEREAGH and hi, friends. 111,011 the
mutt of the business at the present Iwowd- ' ground that as there could be iso`difficulty, upon
'6ll:leallealtearn cur:::
ritilii,ed 1-toloti
jsi
kl I lefliwl LI
ren 'lint .1,011:::: i wh :41 i any ovev,ino. in tirnoiring such a requisition, the
" 1 clause would its effect destroy the operation of the
purpose. Ile knew hen sin is recent rwension,
much later hour than the present, address the '. measure. This opposition, as might lw anticipated,
Imo- ! on the division, for
House for full two boors, without considering the ' was eventuelly successful. the mindsets appearing
fatigue of any portion of his auditors. If. the amendment, al—against
ever, the Gentlemen opposite were Co Coign, 41 as to ' 1. '261. •I• he alterations which even Lord CAS-
be unable at this hour to bear any further discos. II 1
1 TLEREAGH admitted to be necessary
sion without feeling that ineouveitirlice which Ise in this Bill
did not mean to press upon them, then of course 1 for rewriting seditious meetings, .hew very
he would not press further mem their 1* fort, or j clearly the isiconsiderate haste with which the
interfere with that repose which their sittsition may 'i Bill wits framed, and afford an additional proof of
require.--( Hear.) the services rendered to the country by the Opposi-
Mr. Beourai AM claimed the indulgence of the
Committee while 1w matte a few remarks to the I tion in Parliament. Had not the Whigs—the cos
expressions which had just fallen from the Noble 1 lurinsintrd and illsrequited Whigs, advauced on this
Lord. It was true, indeed, that a few night* ago ; important occasion with m firm u (root in defence Of
he (Mr. B.) had to undergo the Pain of nnubli"g i the Constitution. sod bad sot their efforts been so
the House for the space of two hours
lit a Wee ; well seconded by the independent part of the public
hour than the present. He did so (aiirl such fes I- i
ings lie expressed at the time) with great lola sm. , Press. but little mercy would hove been sheen to the
feigned reluctance. When lie had as stated hi. la. liberties iii England. The powerful minorities of
luetance, it was not that he felt lie hod rocas' tttt to 1 Ilse Oopooition have made the !Ministers tremble
feel any for dischargisig what lie deritiril Ili Ise Isis ; for their places, and have compelled them to con-
duty towards his consitry, bat because 1w knew, I
cede
wine i of the most pro ttt itt era parts of their
as lie had so expressed billow'''. that be wso ad-
dressing a great number of Gentlemen, its rtifurcitig I forcultilo aselmmre• Thus Bill is not to be perms-
arguments utterly different and irreconcilable with Dent, is not to affect fleeting. held within doors,
their own. In addition to this reluctance, lie felt also
shame at fouitt' a House of Commons not averse I and the intrusion of a stranger at a meeting held in
a
0 1 the open air will not expose an innocent man un-
to passing such measares as these. and yet redder- I
c°11":"'"slY to a crime 1 as it will be liecerisary to
untied to refuse a hearing to the remote-sits of I
prove a criminal and seditious intent on the part
their opponents. His shame was the tome re- j
markable when he recollected that tile very person. j of every inhabitant of the place for which the
who manifested such a disinclination to bear :hel Wee llii g ~,+
y be held, to subject him to punish-
opinions of their opponents. were those who talked I mem, for continuing in the assembly after prods-
iibout and contemned flue proceedings of the rdOile- I
1114iillIl made for the departure of strangers. These
rout of the mob, who disclaimed lotions, those at lo- I
pular meetings. who clamorously refined le hear- I ate considerable improvements in the frame amid
ing to the individuals from whom they differed. i spirit or the Bill, and will, we trust, be a prelude
and who were so ittipressed, as it were, with Ow ' to
site:.dions still
more
extensive in this
and the
necessity of full and free discussion.—(Henn.)— .
her Bills which have yet to undergo discussion
But vet it was with shone he felt that in the two jal o •
hours address which lie made 011 the former reglit 1 its the House of Commons.
Ise meta reception front the ourlsei.ce which he had I
Paris Papers of Saturday last have arrived at our
the honour of addressing. which GelliltlllCll were I
not often in the habit of hiding in the midst of office. The Chamber of Deputies was occupied on
F
popular assemblies, on the most stormy hustings ofriday in verifying the powers of the newly-elected
which lie had ever heard, and which were so often ; mrinhers. The case of the Abbe GREGOIRE, how-
the objects of the contempt and of the attack of I
ever, slid slot come into discussion, as the bureau
the Gentlemen opposite, who 11441 manifested that
dwineinistion to hear hint. The co„,„,„,„ Ito which the operations of the Departinent of the
would do him the justice to recollects that the reit- ; Isere were referred, had not completed its le-
sion he had on the former night presumed to address ; port. Sew discussion arose on the election of
them for so long a space its two hours, was in reply General SEBASTIAN! and M. Wounds() for the
to a speech or no Iris than three hours in length. 1 il
ritattinent of Corsica. It was mated that the
made by a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ca 111 l i l ig) !
Electoral College of Corsica did not consist of
not now in his place—lll/ear, bear)—a Right Hon. '
Gentleman who, if Ise bad lived for 100 yews, ! inure than thirty-five Electors, which excited mei-
; versa laughter in the Chamber on account of
would not have made the same remark upon the
matter that had beets just now made by the Noble I
Lord opposite.—f Hear.) —lt would live been in- the Pane." of i" Member"' and gave "ea'
slot' to several Deputies to exclaim against it,
deed very convenient fur the Noble Lord and his ;
friends that that speech should have passed titian- ! as threatening a commencement of a system of
sward—(Hear)—aid for the offence of having at- I rotten &Inveighs, which must throw France into that
tempted to answer it, he (ulr. B.) was indebted tel I slate of coausion which they said had long deso-
the Noble Lord for liis recruit obserention.— i t i v i
This obsersvation was received
But he could assure loin that when he con- 1 ade" "ag.aw"
with tumultuous applause. A year or two since
curved in the suggestion to postpone at this un-
seasonable hour any further debate in this Coin- 1 England amid her Constitution were familiar topics
!Hitter, it was not with any
view i" °l)l)°se 011. 1 in the mouths of the French legislators and states-
necessary obstruction to public business; on the :men, as exhilliting the perfection of well-organised
contrary, his only reason sprung from a mere 1 e
freedom;
but when they allude to the same sub-
matter of fact, which was the utter impossibility at I a
they only offer them as negative exam-
such an hour as this of going into, with any 1 jects now,
chance of ittlequate discussion. the multifarious I ples,• to deter France from admitting like errors
details of so important a question. His assistance, I
into her system.
mid that of the Gentlemen with whom he 'acted, I The Five per Cents. are 6d 1. 40 e.—Bank Ac-
would not be wanting at any hour of the ,
night to square the plan of this Bill with its I
real purpose. It was not therefore with soy feel- Clout 1,460 f.
*nig of ill-temper that they objected to go further 1
into it at thus moment, but because they had no i
real physical strength at socit sot hour to enter, as
became them, into the discussions that were ae- .
tnally necessary upon the remelting; clauses of the
Bill.—(Hears hear.', ;
On the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the
CHAIRMAN reported progress, mid obtained leave j
to sit again this day. The Noble Lord hoped that
then the Bill could be sufficiently considered in the
Committee.
The House then adjourned at a Qt.:Art.l'Es Br,
CORE TWO O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.

An Evening Treasury Print communicates to its
readers as an article. of NM'S, that an insurrection
of the natives had taken place at Palembang, on
the south-rust coast of Sumatra, and that all the
Dutch settlers had been murdered. with the ex-
ception of Mr. MUNTINGHE. the Superintendent.
It will probably be remembered that a very park-
color secnuist of this occurrence was publu‘hed in
THE BRITISH PRESS so long since as Monday the
,211th of November last. The number of the Dutch
killed and wounded exceeded 100 men, but not
tonly M►. MuNTINGHE but a considerable body of
troops succeeded in escaping from the power of the
SULTAN Ana reached Banta, where it was under-
stood a large force was to be immediately prepared
for the pori,o.e or re-establishing' the Dutch power
in Palembang.