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that he should have troubled the House. had he
not received intelligence. within a very few days.
sod which he could not doubt, that at that moment
(while they were deliberating am 111111 11.11. Witter
discussion) there were many wicked deliberation%
carrying forward in irsriorts poet% of the comity .f
Durham and about Newcastle. He thought it their
duty to endeavour to rind out those who aimed at
the destruction olds, laws and constitution of the
country, and oho endangered all property. Ile
must disagree with those who entertained dislike au t
suspicion to the information which ors befo►e them,
beam* it appeared anonymous. He certainly was
to say, that he had received
from persons of the greatest respectability. whose
name) he would not .11 any account dim lose.—
There were some parts of the Bills which he might
not agree with ; but as far as the general tenor and
meaning of them went. he must say lie thought
them most riecessary.—( Hear, hear.)—Fle
not any that there were nut some parts which re-
quired alteration; but when he saw Onto passing
it) several parts of the country which lie could not
disbelieve unless he lost his rye-sight, he did think
it must necessary for his Majesty's Millisters to bring
forward some measures which should prevent any
such illegal proceedings. The question of Reform
'he considered to be to totally foreign to the subj•-ct
the■ under discussion, and though he might have
an opinion of reform, yet he would not go so far as
some persons did. He concluded lay stating, that
the whole tenor of the Bills met with his appro.
beim).

Tile Forl of STRATHMORE felt himself called
'mon to make a few observations on the subject.
A had been held in that part of the co ttttt ry
;irie lie resided, consisting of 500 men and about 35
women ; they bore several flags with death's heads
tool cross I es painted on them, and caps of liber-
ty ; uud, perhaps, it was not known that many of those
hrrsuns hod pistols concealed under their clothes.
lie bad received intelligence from Neacustle, from
a minister at that place, who stated that the Magi-
strates in the neighbouring districts had been corn-
peiled to seek refuge at Newcastle; and it must
he their unanimous opinion that if those Bills were
not carried, the safety of the country could no
longer be answered for ; and in justice to the inha-
bitants of the county of Durham, he must say,
that he firmly believed the greater part of the
people retie most loyally attached to the laws and
dominion tttt . lie was iolormed that the colliers had
divided themselves into 20 classes, each class having
a leader—they had nightly ineetinrs. where 7'he
iMack Dwarf and other seditious books were read
u!oed to them, and he was told that their number
was rapidly increasing. But he hoped that those
',emote would soon see the error of their ways, and
out give way to factious demagogues. He also un-
derstood, that t i present there were 15,000 men on
the banks of the Tyne almost in a slate of rebel-
tun, seed that unless some measures were speedily
ailopted, a greeral rising was expected to take
plate. On the other hand, he could bear testi-
mony to the excellent behaviour of the southern
ir on titles : the greater ;lan of that people were now
ready to come forward in support of the Constotu-
Pon and laws. It was under these circumstances he
bud thought it his duty to state to them the 'Our-
minim he had received.
'l•he Bills were then read a secoad time, and or-
dered to be committed to-morrow.

A conversation then took place across the table
between Lord HOLLAND, Earl Dxstsi.EY• and
Lord LIVERPOOL. from *lnch it was finally ar-
ranged that the second reading of the Traverse
Bid, which is fixed for to-morrow, should have the
precedence, with an understanding that they should
proceed afterwards in Committee on the Bills read
a second time this night.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed
bf, sad the House adjonrned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY, DICLIIIIER 2.

EAST INDIA PENSIONS.
Mr. Mason, from the East India Company, presented
conies ~f the Resolutions of the Directors, being warrants
Ice granting Penaitins under that Establishment.-4./rderrd
tv l!e uu the table.