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NOOSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAtint announced to the House, the Royal
Assent to the Local Militia Bill, the Militia Completion
Bill, the 'this Silk Bill, and the Warehouse Duty Bull.
limes the motion of Mr. (..; ', the Irish Number*
Debtor: Bill *as mid a second time, mud ordered to he
animated. .

Upon the motion of &fr. LOCKE A KT, the Bill to tweed
no act of (lurks the Second, respectiii. the lot Sett lesur.i.l
Bill, was r..a.1 a first time, mud wdercd to lee rend a seeoud
tune, on this day three %cols.
Mr. Mauntim brought up the minutes of the erideure on
the Committee on the Loudon Dock Bull. After a discus-
sion had taleo place, tespectin; the re-cumtuittueut of the
Bill, between Mr Maiming, Sir T. Teuton, Mr. H. Smith,
Mr. Fitzgerald, Sir. H. Browne, Mr. Rose, Mr. H. Thorniou,
Mr. Marryist, and Mr. Wiring, the Bill was re-committed.
And the iepurt ordered to he printed.
Me. FUST PR ulnae for knee to bring in a bill to amend
as art respelling the liarbsow of Hooch —Leant given.
Mr. Bs vat. brought up the Fifihßeport of the Conisuit-
-1011 ON the Pablo: Expentlit ure.—t)reered to lie on the tah'.e.
Mr. DuNll•llll2toVed, "That the Douse, at its rasing, do
adj.mrn to llouday se'unight."—Agreed to.
account of the extrauirdinaty expenses of the Army,
from the v.-. 11. of December, is Al, to the loth of beceusber,
1809, was brusight up, mid ordered to i.e on the table.

AMERICAN PAPERS.
Mr. CANNING said, that, preparatory to the Grin-
tion which was to be brought forward, respecting
the campaign iu Spain and Portugal, bethought it
necessary to move fur certain additional papers,
lativt to that question. tie accordmgly gave no.
tice, that he would, insinediately after the recess,
move for the production r•f those palms. Mr. Can-
ning theu said, that he lied uquestinra to propose
to the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Whithri awl),
relative ro the Ainetitnii Papers, for which the
Hon. Gentleman bad loosed some time since.
Those Papers had been laid before the House. up-
wards of too months aeo ; and no motion had been
made with respect to them. He conceived that he
was jn•titi••d iii taking notice of midi a eircum-
stau•
character was concerned upon the oc•
0141011, stS the Hon. Gentleman had called an ques-
t ma the propriety of his conduct relative to the in-
structions givcia to Mr. Erskiue.—This insist appear
of importance to the House. as it certainly was to
him. The very serious business which had occu-
pied the House and the country, for seine close
past, might have prevented the Him. Geutlewtaw
from giving to those papers a due consideration ;
hut he begged to know, whether it was his (Mr.
Whitbread's) intention, to take any measures with
respect to them?
Mr. Wittrisanso said, that the Right Hon.
Gent. had very fairly accounted for the delay upon
the consideration of the papers, lay attributing it to
the weight of serious matter. with which the House
had been engaged, since the period of the produc.
lion of those papers, for a be had moved. He
ought to have apolo:!ised to Vie Right Hen. Gent.
for uut having ialverted to the subject before. and
conceived that be had acted with great propriety ao
introducing it at the present tame. It was Ilia in-
tention to read the Papers, and if he saw nothing
in them to occasion an alteration in his present opi-
nion. he ovoid. no the Monday after the recess,
submit a motion t•r the House concerning thew.
CORONERS' INQUEST.
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Lord Ossttsrua svd, that he lids question of
much importance to ask of the Right Hum Gent.
(Mr. Ryder) on the opposite side of the Rome.—
He hail observed, immediately after the late .iis.
turnances, that the most seine measures had bee,.
resorted to, by Ministers, for the apprehension of
the person who firrd at the Military Gentleman;
lie, of course, imagined, that measures equally vigi-
lant would be taken to find out the Lie Guards-
man, who murdered the per.ori in the neighbour-
of Piccadilly. It would not bit eery difficult in
his opinion, to arrest the murderer, as the guard
to which he heluoged consistrd of only MX men.
lie their asked shriller it was is the contemplation
of Ministers, to take such step, as id ould lead to
discovery of the murderer ?

Mr. .RVDItt said, that he had inquired to
pleticolarly into the tendert of the vildiery u. the
late disturb.inces, aud found. that it had never
brave tunre pestwororthy. than during the connoup
amore of those tumults, which they h.td been con•
ceroed in anpricming. Their moderation. as well
as spirit, had been Itatified opon the occasion, for
they bad not only been pelted with stones, hut loot
been hired at by the mob. 'll heir moderation, a,,.
der these circumstances of reril sal ireulers was le'.
solutely unprereilentxd ; and he thought it his nal.
to assure the House. that the military had been
tacked thus violently, before they fired • *hos.
Under thsse considerations. he hid not made any
_inquiry with mope 3 to the circumstance to %Inch
the Nolilv Lord adverted ; neither was it his intro.
t t # proceed any farther upon the °cession.
Mr. Witt ranee, agreed with the Rig'•t Flon.
Gentleman in the assertion, that the soldirry
hehavi d w th moderation. upon the oression alluded
to ; but he begged leave to risk the Right Rms.
Gentleman, hrther he thonglit himself coinnlet.ly
in rsvealing such doctrines as he hod just
stated to the House
The 01 %vest: OR of the Excneonea said. that
Isis Right Hon. Friend h..d frilry answered the
gre.tir.is 11-0;14...ed to him. Ite (the (•honeolve of
the Exchequer) had yo oii-eririn to any slissmsaien
concerning t:w ntiestion.uoreded at stood as
gofer mottos' befure the ; but se chat was

not the ease, ■ny person •ho understood the rules
of the lionise must see that discussion 11,611{ a violation
of those rules. _

The SPEAKCR said, that when a question was
put by any Member of that House to another, if
any thing arose out of the answer to that question,
vil,i4l had a tendency to occasion discuss um, the
regular inininer of procee..htig was, by giving no-
tice of a motion upon the 'object.

Mr. WHITBREAD said, that he had a right to
make a *notion at that moment, and would avail
himself of that right, in consequence of the intend-
ed adjournment of the House. The Right Hun.
(;eutleritaii (Mr. Ryder) had spoken in a strangely-
iticunsistent manner. lie had not denied that a
murder was committed : and yet he had refused to
search out the guihy person. Ile had known that
a jury had found a verdict of wilful murder against
a porson unknown, and yet he disregarded that
verdict, although given with true British impartia
lity. It had been stated by a Noble Lord (Lord
Ossulaton) that the murderer could be easily found
out ; the House should then iintuediately proceed
to an investigation ; the neglect of it would be un-
pardonable. The country loudly complaiired of
the supineness, or rather the insensibility of the
House upon this disastrous occasion. The military
lay under a stigma, which it was most anxious to
cast aside; awl, surely, the mode of wiping
array the disgrace attached to that body, was by a
trial by Jury, rather thou by declamatory speaking
•in that House. He ackuowledged that the mili-
tary had acted with gore moderation, but the ge-
tend good conduct of cis brother soldiers, could
not justify the horrid act committed by the un-
known miscreant. Justice ought to be done to the
country, to the army, and to the des& Upon
these grounds he would move, That a copy of the
r.fict of the coroner's inquest, in the care of --
Pledg, he laid before the House."
Tice SPEAKER having put the question—
Mr. CANNING said, as the Hou. Grin. had referred
to a motion made by him, far a preceiteut to his pre-
vent course of proceediug, he begged leave to suite
the extreme difference there was between the tar)
cases. The motion he had made without a previous
notice, arose out of a question immediately b, foie
the House, respecting their Speaker ; and, from the
circutnstances attending that discussion. way %hat
the !tinge called for unanimously on the occasion.
—(lleor.)—The Hon. Gent. had certainly an RD..
dwit)l • right to make his present motion, without
waxy . hut lie would vote against it merely on the
ground that it was taking the HoUse by surprise.
Mr. Wutratti.so said, that the importance of
the pr 4 sent question was such, that no occasion ever
leoi arisen, or could arise, which would render it

more ~.cessary to exercise the right possessed by a
Member, of moviiig upon it without soy prelimi.

nary step.
Mr. W. Sum ro 'cowed in expreasing his old-
niou of the extreme importance of the present 'no-
tion, sod the occasion,• that existad of not suffering
the observatiens which fell from the Right lion.
Secretary, to pass unquestioned. He [sure testi-
mony to the excellent behaviour of the soldiery dur-
ing the late disturbances, which, from all lie had
berm able to observe or collect, had been most
temperate and moderate. But for the Secretary
of State to put himself in the stead of a jury. and a
Coroner's Inquest, and to say that hr had entered
tato an investigation of facts, which it was their
province to investigate, was going further than ever
lie had expected to hear in that House. He could
only impute it to the Right lion. Gentleman's be-
token unawares, and expressing his op. •
roller hastily in prin the 'object. A Coroner's
Inquest hail delivered a verdict of •' wilful
murder," and, however well the military in
general miy,6t have behaved, a jury was the
only tribUnal that could acquit the individual
unknown, charged with the commissiou of this
crime, and a private examination at the Secretary
of State's Office, could be of no avail. Ile wished
tp learn from the Right Hon. Gentleman, whether
he, being a Justice of the Peace, took the exami-
nations on thin subject on oath I But be that as it
might, nut being in open court, the question of
right or wrong could never thereby be determined.
Mr. Secretary RYDER, in reply to the question
put to him, stated, that mine of the examinations
were before the Privy Council, on oath, and others
were not. As for the idea that lea assertions were
hastily made from the feeling of the moment, it
was an excuse of which he would not avail himself.
Thi• moo ter having been terminated, had for several
days occupied the attention of Government, and his
attention inure panic:oil irly. What he had •aid was
therefore after mature deliberation, amid he would
he ready at any futu►e time to defend the hue of
conduct pursued by His Majesty's Advisers on this
trying occasion. The lion. Gent. opposi'e (Mr.
Whitbread), had entirely misrepresented what he

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said, he supposed from basing misunderstood him.
The lion Gentleman imputed so him an 'memo's,

that no inquiry had hien marl'.—The very reverse
• was the truth ; cud he had justified the advice
given to His Majesty. not to issue any Pr.relamit-
bon, on the grounds, that such a measure would
be highly blameable. pending the Inquiry alts-
'mely going on at this time. In the course of th:s
Inquiry. no evidence had yet been adduced tend-
ing to prove that the troops had acted in any man-
ner which could call for reproof from any Member
of the house. The Hon. Gentleman seemed to
think it must absolutely follow. of necessity, that
if Coroner's Inquest fouud a verdict of wilful
murder. a Proclamation should be issued by the
Crown.—No such thing was required. As for the
motion itself, he was bound to oppose it on the
ground stated by bis Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Can-
ning), that it was taking the House by surprise,
and was contrary to the invariably acted upon, and
eecoviized forms of the House.
Lord Maiit.srom spoke in praise of the gene►al
good conduct of the soldiers, but contended, that,
from the Coroner's verdict, ii ra. evident, that one
person among them hail cornesitted a hitch of the
peace.
Mr. W. SMITII pla i
Mr. Alderman Count: wished the motion to be
so shaped as to call fur further invesitgutsou into
this matter, in which case it should have his cur.
dt..l sisptsort.
CitaNcEttnn of The ExcHvuutit amid, the
Ilan. Cetstl,sisms sni.syo-ite (Mr. Whitbrood)'might
t•rink ll,m.elF right 1:s lite roar,- he had pitrastrils
and u..rd•A that he 'A 41 411. tillt.. as any other

Metnher would have alone, emifurnsably to the
usages of the !louse. But, iu his opinion, he was,
on the contrary, most irregular ; fur even allowiug
his right to lire.* a anotiou without any notice, yet
surely the uiotinus of other Gentlemen, which
stood on their books, were entailed to be first dis-

cussed. ( lirar.) In tie pretwut too, there
was no urgency, and the [notion. as fur as regarded
any pruceediugs upon it, might us well be made
utter the recess as this night. The truth was,
the honourable Gentleman rus- to make a speech,

contrary to the fowls of the House, and:being
intertupted in this, he was determined to iiitro-
duce his speech in segue other way. But the
Honourable faentlemitei ought to recollect, that
ally other Member might do the same ali lie had,
nod, under the disguise of askiiig a question.
which was allowed by the, courte-y of the lio.se.
might shape it instantly into • mutiun, take the
Mouse by surprise, and procure the dismissal
of any subject. before the House was prepared
to go into it. On these groueds alone, he
would oppose the motion. But was there nothing
in the tinter, of the motion itself. which required
some previous consideration? Were the House,
without having time allowed them to thiuk on the
subject, to be celled ~,,, at a moment's notice, to
take all questions fruit before the juries, under
whose judgment they were, before a decision could
be come to, and thus become grand jurors upon
cases of every deer ription ? Were they to discuss
a verdict, before the ulterior proceedings thereon
were concluded, rod exercise their judicial capa-
city. before any abuse in the proper tribunal
could be stated, or supposed toemst Wear.) The
Right Hon. Gentleman then re-stated what had
Idlest from Mr. Secretary Ryder ; and contended,
that there was nothing, in tone sir matter, which,
en the first view, called on Government to issue a
Proclalistion in consequence of the Coroner's ver-
dict. They had discovered nothing but proofs of
moderation, and marked abstinence and forbear-
ance, on the part of the soldiers; and that it was
front this very unfortunate alley, where the person
was killed, that the most assault was made
on the wets. whose horses could not *deeper to it.
In this, not only stones sod brickbats, &c. were
employed. but shots were tired, and one sol-
dier, in fact, severely %scrawled. Was this, then,
a case which called on C'eacerament to interfere
with the common judicial course. They did not,
as the Honourable Gentlein In opposite would re-
present them as doing, interfere or stop others
in the ordinary mode of proceediug ? They only
stated, that, from the inquiry they had hitherto
beets tilde to make, they saw not Mug to induce
them to aid, by the offer of r public reward, those
who were more directly inter•sted in bringing the
matter to a trial. He called on an Hon. °direr
upposae; it' he had tuts-stub the case with. re-
spect to the behaviour of the •431.11ErN, to correct
him; but if he wee right, the (louse, by agreeing to
the present motion, would be departing troin their
own rules, which had ever hitherto been acted upon,
to theirogreat convenieoce. and the fuitherauce of
lust and temperate dermatitis.

Captain AGAR being appealed to, would state I
what fell under his own observation on this melon-
C;;Oly occasion, on which it was painful to his feel-
ings to be called oil to speak, and equally lamented
by the military and the civil powers. On the
twits), night, he was 9U duty near the sdot where
the fatal accident occurred, mid could positively
state, that previoua to a shot bring tired by the sol-
diers, they were repethdly fired at by the mob,
dud one man was actually shot through the jaw
bone. ( Hear, hear.) Even after that, they were
not allused to load their pistols; there wire from
10 10 20 shots fired at them, before they returned
a single shot. Hear. Lear.) Tins he could assert
boils lus own lulu,. ledge. The Wis.
(Mr. Whitbread) wars also mistaken in supposing
the party of soldier. to be a rearguard. Tli-y were
a detathisient of from 50 to 100 men when the
firing took place. These were all the particulars
he thought it necessary to state now, but would be
prepared to go more mitneely into detail, should
it he thought ',roper to discuss the pavatiod at any
future period.
Mr. Luce tuft acquitted the Noble Lord. who
rat rose to ask a question on this subject, of having
any wish to take the House by surprise. lie con-
demned very mach the introduction of iliamasatons,
like the present, during the carrying on of Inquiry.
They could not be beueticial ut soy point of view ;
and the effect of such is conversation as this might
be, to send a man to trial fur his life, under very
partial and unfavourable impressions.—(Hear./
Lord Ossui.sroa explained.
Mr. Witt raaeao rose to address the Howie,
when lie was called to order by
Mr. Causes, who, as the Hon. Gentleman stood
so strictly nu his right. objected to his being again
*milted to speak, as contrary to the forma of the
House.
The See AKRR decide(' that it was perfectly in
order for the Aletuber, who originated any question,
to deliver his sentiments a second time, after other
Gentlemen hod offered their observations.
Mr. WHITBREAD said. if the Hon. Gentleman
cent) have succeeded in preventing his speaking
now, he could easily have got over his objection, by
having the previous question moved, on which he
would lie entitled to speak. He knew nothing of
the Noble Lord's questions till he came into the
House. He never had accused the military of any
misconduct ; on the contrary, from all be could
learn on the subject. he believed they hod acted
throughout with the utmost moderation, for which
the country were greatly indebted to the Hon.
Officer behind FIN' (Captain Apr). and some
others, whom he could slime. With respect to his
present motiou, he had been provoked to make it.
for his own protection, when called to order and in-
tempted in the observations he was going to make.
He hid a right to make it without previous notice;
and, though an m occasion had never occurred to•hi
before, to mill for the exercise of this right, lie had
frequently contended for it, and could not now
suffer the speech of the Right lion. Secretary to
pass unnoticed, when this afforded him an oppor-
tunity of commenting upon it. He was accused of
having mistustlerstood the Hglit lion. Secretary;
but, with all •.;,1t- deference to hun,l.e was of opinion
that his scrim.' 411-1.01 matt risil,y itfr•rent from
Iris first. Ile us.* c.iiled usi ihsit Right lion. Crii.
Oman, if he knew, to tell them who the soldier
r was that fired the fatal shot, that he taught be sent

to trial on the Coroner's verdict, stliich rendered it
uationaisary to have recourse to a Grand Jury.—
The llou. Gentleman then adverted to. the different
verdicts given isi the City and in Westminster; the
one of justifiable homicide. the other of wilful
murder; and argued that'there was uo parallel be-
tweeu the cases. It might torn out that the man
was unknown ; but whatever might be the result,
he would not withdraw his motion.
Mr. TAYLOR rose to speak to facts within his
own knowledge.—On Saturday night, he was coin-
ing down Suckville-street, in the carriage of a No-
ble Friend of his ;—the carriage was stopped by the
mihtars ; and he was informed, that orders had
been given to fire on the mob, which would render
it dangerous for him to proceed any further. Af-
ter this, he heard pistols tired; which, from the
sound, he judged to be loaded only with powder.
He was going to the opera,—(a largh,) and pro-
ceeded, when a shot *as fired from a window ; upon
which, not thinking he could do any good, he ran
down the alley as fast as he could.—/Much laugh-
ter.)—fie spoke highly in Lennie of the good von-
. duct of the soldieiy, and advised the individual to
surrender himself to trial, as he was sure be would
be acquitted.
Captain AGAR stated, that none of the Ministers
could know who the man was that fired the shot.
The man could not know it himself. for be could
take upon him to assert that several shots were
fired into the alley at the saint momeut, under the
direction of the Lied Magistrate. This he thought
might induce the Hon. Gentleman to withdraw has
motion.

The question being put, the motion was negatived
without a division.

DUKE Or CUMBERLAND.

Mr. LT:reel:roe held in his hand a petition
from an Officer in the 15th light dragoons, com-
plaining of tyranny and oppression, On the part of
the Colonel of that regiment, his Royal nightie's
the Duke of Cumberland. The petitioner had in
vain attempted to obtain redress through the usual
and legal channel ; and, in his case, the Com-
mander-in-Ober, iu direct violation of one of the
Articles of War, under which the army was go-
vented, had refused to transmit his representations
to the King. It was not his intention• to move the
further consideration of the contents of this peti-
tion till a few days after the Isulidays. Then, it
was far from his wish to put the [louse in the muta-
tion of a military tribunal, but merely to move for
an Address to His Majesty, to compel hi• Officers
to anend to the laws framed for their Govern-
ment. After this, he would acquiesce in any mode
of proceeding the House thought most consisteut
with their forms, and the merits of the case.
General CRAUFURD was of opinion that the pe-
tition could slot be received, as it would afford a
most dangerous precedent to the army. As for
the article of war alluded to, it was inter under-
stood to be imperative raid positively obligatory on
the Commsnder-in•Chief. If it were so, at would
give nse to greet confusion, and on ever► maginary.
grievance of officers being ou dispoora of. there
would be3o or 40 Courts-Martial sod Courts of In-
quiry in a month, utterly subversive of all snilitnry
di.cipliite, and ruinous to the sruiy. it was, there-
fore, necessary that the Commander-in-Chief
should have a discretionary power to resist, in his
own person. all such nugatory applications as this
wits. He would pledge himself to prove that the
complaint of this Officer was ant only nugatory,
bat vexatious.; and, like many other cases of cons-
plata, procerdert from our of the usual remiss
Officer* of the Regiment against hi*Colotel.
Mr. Wnernastau, to order. The question was
upon bnuging up the petition, end it was out of
orde► to enter Wpm' a dawn. l.f the petition it-
fell; with which, not yet being• before the House,
Members were itisacquaiwied.
General CILAVVOID said, he would abstain from
dial, and oppose the receiving of the petition, on
the broad ground of the inexpediency of interined-
din% with proruutiuiis in the army, which sta. put of
the prerogative of the Crows. It would he wresting
from the Crown the ininmand of the army, and de-
stroying that discipline and subordinatiou which
was its attesigth, mid the result of unity of com-
mand. They 'night take stint her step. and promed
still further, by taking the command of the army
on themselves, ditirling it into parties and factions,
looking to this or that set of n.en in the House for
support. By this means they would have what he
trusted they should never again see in this country ;
a petitioning Parliainentail *tiny. thrown into irre-
gular convulsions, subversive of its welfare, and
tending to throw the epuntry into a state of anarchy
and confusion. Under these circumstances, be gave
his decided opposition to the motion.
Mr. WHITISIMAD COUVIO.ted of the Hon. Gen-
tleman's going into the petite:v.. to ►hew grounds
for rejecting its bring read. He stated the prece-
dents of the 11011,e ititerferiag its military questions
in the imtance of the promotion of Lord Burg-
hersh, and the petition from Colo•iel Cochrane
Johnston, presented by him in 1806, which was a
case exactly similar • to the present.—From there
being not JO or 40 applications (indeed not even
one) in consequence of the House receiving these,
lie contended that the fears of the gallant Genres!
on this bead were imaginary. and that this petitiop
might be received without injury to the service.—
With the gallant General he agreed in theory, that
nothing could be more dangerons than tot eke the
command of the army from the Crown—Lot thi.
was not to do so. The discipline of the army de-
pended on prosl justice being done from the, drum•
mer to the General. The soldier complained, when
sggrieved. to the non-commissioned officer—the
min-mmmiseinned officer to the officer, and so on
by gradatnes till it came to the Comineutler-in.
Chief, who eat hound, by the article of war alluded
to, to lay the matter before the King...Vete the
lion. Gentl►man read the article in question, which
bore him nit in his description of it.j—There was
no option left to the Commandev-in-Lhii f; he yetis
to determine and rganrt to the King. not to-deter-
mine and decide. From thi- it appeared. that Sir
David Dmida. had olethileted the goldiere legal
reee-a hi the King, awl refic-4.1 tar obey the order
by which he ought to have been guided. The
Ilonotireble Geoeral might say. that Cawain Foe.
knit's grievances were imaginary ; rant
Fosl.et:, who felt it. was the ben indite where the
shoe 'cliched him- And so different an istipieteCon
might be made on the minds of different men, by
Ist same eiteutunlanect, that to hint at aerate-I

so for were they front being irnatenary, they w.,r,
grievances of toe itio4 erynu4 notate. but ,h 4
proof of their bring imaginary, %sr. what hr elinl„
longed the lion. Gentleman to ; and, for that put.
pose, it was neeetwiry th-y should be put in pm..
session of the Petition. The lloirourable Gelle .
ral had gone Ftlii tuntier, and asserted,
these complainta were involute; and v. tattoos
yet what would lie gay to the fact, that the
Commander-in-Chief had tittered a majority in it.
other regiment, to the very person guilty of bei„K.
ing such frivolowi and vexatious charges against his
Colonel. lie also hinted that Captain Foskei,
had not dime his du y ; but there were testimonial.
to the contrary, and one of the pipwanard
!dinned of was, that he was prevented doing la.
duly abroad in the turn to which be was retake,
as senior olliccr of the regiment. But if all that
was urged against him wt re trite. then Sir Dios!
Donnas was the more to blame wafer to nialtesuch
a 'NMI, a field-officer, mud therehy exteuil hna
sphere of mischief in the sedition', pracncto nit
which he was accused. To prevent the coin iihiois
in the army, dreaded by the lion. Gvi•oral, the
lust way was to do justice.
Mr. M. Surto N use of opinion, that no ill ect:-.

—.—
sequence would result from receiving the petition.
He entered into ndefetiee of toe cowls:ct of the

Cominandrr-in-Chief, who. in acting isshtl;47l
done. had complied with triu understood rad 1.,-
variably followed construction of the struck of qp,

alludeti to. That article eutilid not be thotizht im-
perative in every instance, mid in fact, it had er,r
been known and underAtotiti by the whole artily to
apply, in that 10.116 r, only to pe4 notary cotapluno,,
As lwr the otter of the toty,trit%, an far was Sir D.
Loud„ to bi,itto., it was 11. high demonstrouio of
private regard, and a frieiw:ly wish to serve the b.st
interests of the individual to whom be gave the
advice.

General Loser opposed receiving the petifinn.
on the ground (Wits being an infringement ou the
prerogative of the Crown.
A Mertilwr. whose wanie was unknown to us, fol-
lowed on the same toide.

Mr. LOCKHART alma opposed the petition; NO re.
ceiving petitions frthli the tinny would.in his n.i
trod to be highly injurious to its irritate end effici-
ency. Thellouse ought net to be applies to but when
there was no other source of redress op.a to the
subject. In the prest at instance. he had nut male
up his mind, whether a Court of Law would unt
have afforded relief against the Commander-in-
Chief, for not obeyn ig au article of war cote:cid
by an officer to he to his injury.
Mr. LETTELTOM made IA few remarks in replv to
the precediug speakers. The Conimender-in•Chirt,
in his simmer to Captain Foskett's had
stated no grounds for his. refusal to submit the
complaint ti His Majesty. He lied tuksu ti.e
s•ruight.lorwarti official course, and this being .hat
te,oinst him, he now applied to that House a' hi,
only resource. It sees, therefore, not only due In
the petibwier, but it was necessary to clear up the
character of the. Must.' Person charged with
these oppressions, to receive the petition, and hog
the whole matter openly investigated and cbsrus....l.
It would be. highly improver to irate a Prince of
the lihiod liable to obscure surpicions of 4nevolo
tyranny. and it would be'highly ia.proper to slut
their gates upon a lirttish subject, cumptaining ..1
injury, and c:aiming from them that justice, of
which he was elsewhere deprived
Mr. M. ScTroN, cud (general LOFT, severiliy
explained.
Mr. Secretary Henan defended Sir D. Dumb,.
from every eherge, arid stated, that the tovarishle
construction of the articleof war, had been precisely
laid down by lis flow Friend IM. Suttsni.j Le
had no objection to receiving the petition.
The queation wag then put mud carried.
The petition 1.1,•-ing,brtnittlit up, was read by the
Clerk. It was jointed, the petition of Caption
Henry Foakett, of the 15th Light Merlons. It
colipleined of a junior officers being loom*"
over the head of the Petitioner, coming to the
rules of the.sersice. Also, of his bring left at home
on the recruiting eeiviee, though senior Captain
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the regiment, when the regiment went to Portugal.
It also enumerated other grievances. such a- 1101
being promoted, &e. and concluded with • drt Wed
account of the Petitioner's application for redress
to the Comnisoder-M.Chief, as stated by Mr.
Lytteltnn. and Mr. W hitbreed.
On the motion fur its being laid on the table,
Sir fl. Moseciontar objected to this; 114 the
Petition was a complaint for not being promoted.
according to the expectations of the individual.
the Majesty bad a right to promote whom he
thought tit ; and it would be improper fur the
House to interfere. The person promoted met
Captain Foskett, was not a junior, but a senior Of-
ficer to huts. The reason why ho was not pent sith
the regiment to Portugal was, because h., trot p
was the worst M the regiment, and thetai're
olic
fittest to be left on the recruitisig service. When
the House knew the cause of his not being mi
ri-
puny promoted as he expected, they would atqw-
race in the justice of hi. Colonel. The etulvsks
this :—Coptain Foskett, an old officer, had tro"
out as a 'mond in a duel, w th two boys of Id anti
17 years of age, and suffered them to try in wird, r
each other, by firing no fewer than six stint'. Ir.
was great grace and indulgence in the Duke o;
t7wasberland, that this was wowed over at the um. ;
for had it heen reported to His Majeety, Captain
roakett's name would have been struck U" of the
Army List.
Mr. 11 NITIRLAD said, be had not eov knoieled:e.
and Dryer had heard any thing of Cept...Friekett, tit
what lie had heard from km Hots. Friend. H- IsP"1.1
misdeed. if that was true, which was stated by !krt.
(lent lemenopposite, his name 11r -erred to be .1.11. k
Or the military list, he ought not to bare bee"' "t-
-feted Aloynny in another regimen*. Ile i'sd
fared to produce ree. inmenthitions, in lotions
Ins character, as an officer, and th• •11' '''''
snitcher sitlen'sl to elite. they 41 Dot 1""
credit. 1/1“ler these considsrationw he mold 1.4
owe en objection to the petition being bed sill t''
tuft.. .

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