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tent an I di crosier in the ',Lees where Ili y pc ..
141 led tiIIIIIIIIIetiIIng peculiar to their eircurupted.c.* ?
1.11-y exulted priucipolly in the manufacturing do.-
meta. Let then any one look to the condition of
the majority of the lower orders there, and they
would Pre that it oresetoted strung points of diffi-r.
ruse fro:n ilea sit Vie mane class in any nlliri the-
Ind, Ile wootld bud that the relation be;tverit 111..* -
mod their atipt•r•Oe,, particularly the I ii.iita p..,.
!meta's, Wet eliffereut ; that triere was 0 %nater re.
stelarece in large towns; thut the people w err nese.
reluctant 'u fetid themselves ou emergencies for tios
preservations of :lie public !react on avrip,t of
the loose of tiitie, to theist so valuable; ;113 I hey
were stil.j-et to great alternations of advers,ty ar..l
prosperity ; tlist te:ien circutuslatices we e fst ire.r.
able to them, they were inaprovoletit, and iiii e
habituated to tic up from those persevi c.Liii* to
guard agitioo*t the period of (Inures". ; that w hen
the times were good, they would proloably, if tkot
were stilE iroot for ininiediute support, honour oo.iy
four or five days in the week. lie would flint then
thus situated, nod then suddenly Caine a wool— y
different state of things, occasioned by the tr.:: I-
lion from war to jwace, whirls state the I [ouse was
nut to suppose would be temporary. Nuw natio..,‘
of the Comillent h. it resumed their own peacelo.l
and industrious Willits, which drove hundreds and thunal..t.
or this mannfitetto lug populatiuu nut of rumples. sin DI, sst,gt
nation of inok Mysore general. 'lien the vici.sitsisir, ,t•
iodividuals of capital were to be taken into recoueri, awns--
times successful, but somelimes unfortunate, :mil then r.,
durisig multitudes In difficulties sad want. 'En these was or
be added the alteretion of fashions and Certain it.tich r. ,-1
produce craning to be generally used or sewn, whirls ter el
people out id their usual chauuels of inelus.ry and larari
of subsistence. Was it then extraordinary that people
SO circnnastanced should be more liable to delusion of
opinion and she' ralion of comfort, aud mote exposed
to the arts of insidious densamotas who were read!,-
to take advantage of their distress to iu-ail ono ter is
minds the principles of sedition! It was impeisilde vet to
come then to the conclusion, that the Legislature was im-
peratively called on to prevent these trailers hum peen--
erring his such plan.; if they wished to save the 'lei wet of
their arts from being plunged into irremediable rum
(Har, hear, hear)—Tlwre was one CirruinfitBncis this 's,
at the present moment might render the poor Inuit iriltabie
and iuflarnmable than they otherwise would be ; he nieJeit
the degree of information which had bees letterly diffused
amongst them, and the facilities they had aequired of op.
proaching the various sources of blasphemy and ardillud
published and dispersed through the country. He dist 1,4
mean to argue against general rducatiou, hut he said is was
the duty of the House to take care that this reltreatiou
should not be metes the means of evils infinitely greater
than ant which could result from igtiorance.-.11. Seers.,--
He wished to impress upon them the aloulaite necessity id'
sonic cautionary mid repressive measuees, similar. to ;hose
proposed, and applicable to the whole of the country ; for if
they confined their operation to the maaufacturiugdistructs,
they left the others open—if they shut out the poison frioti
one place holy, they pel hap. turned and forced at into 5..-
other. Seeing the amplitude of the evil to he overcome--
aware at the same time that the measures proposed desluee-
ed something from popular liberties—he should submit la
the latter iucouvenieuce iu order to remove the former
(Cheers )--lie should prefer the lesser of two evils, end
yield to a to-Tulin inflactitro on valuable rights awl Fit %-
lege', to escape the miseries of universal anarchy aud eon.
fusion.—(Loud (sad long-coatinwed theerirg)
Mr SIIIVTIM then ruse to address the House, but we
regret to say, that the noise was so great as to resider him
very frequently inaudible in the gallery. Knowing as he
did, that much mischief had been done by itinerant orators
going about the country and inflaming the people, lie was
willing to assent 1.1 any reasonable measures fur remedying
the evil ; but he thouzlit that the remedy cout•ined iu the
Bill DOW before the House, was ten thousand times worse
than the elistase.—(ieor.)--The Huts. Member then repro-
bated in strung terms, that clause I. the Bill, s loch reu-
deml persons who should preside at a public meetrug, at-
tended by treesOlill trout another parish, test retiring after
half an hour's notice, guilty of felony. There was woe ob-
servation which applied itself to all the coercive Ultaellialli
they did nut strike at the root of the evil—they only touched
the syisiplosne, but did not reach to the source of
the disease. The Honourable Member then mown.,
rated the following causes of the present discontent.—
I. The distress arising from want of employment sod stag-
nation of trade; 2. Seditious and blasphemous writings es..
ciliated *moot the lower orders, and the speeches of the
1 itinerant orators; 3. A notion that that House did not pro-
party represent the people; 4. The iwiquituus and vexatious
%piton of Government pursued by the existing Admirsistra-
tion. The best methud, if not to surest the progress, yet to
lessen the force of the first cause was, that the House should
manifest a sincere disposition to remove or alleviate the
sufferings of the people. He was willing to meet any tare
measure fur repressing the second, the circulation of dal.-
gerous publications. With respect to the opheiou of the in-
adequacy of the present representation, he thought it be..
came the House to go into a serious inquiry oii that subject
in the course of the Station. And lastly, the only remedy
for the fourth was a general change iu the system of Ad-
ministration
Ms. daxaceonult said, be was of that class who. admit.
thug the %weer:3lly of certsiu coercive immures at the present
juncture, did nut yet think themselves justified in competes.
tug to their Isnug made either general or permanent; and
%Junking dots, Ins vote would be couditiural till the House
went into a Committee, where be could adore fully discover
the object of the Noble Lord mud ha colleagues. It was im-
possible, looking at the papers out the table, to say, that
discontent prevailed beyond the manufacturing districts,
and was it out unreasonable and unjust to impose restric-
tions un the whole of the population fur the errors of a part f
The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then argued, that the
rollaf cot nre of the Bill before the House would be, to ren-
der the right of nteetiug iu all the counties to which its
operation esieuried, dependant on the will of the Lord Lieu-
tensut, nr the Sheriff, sir Magistrates, for the exercise of the
eight of inciting; mad the dismissal of Earl Fitzwillians
was a signal Ise a:l such individuals what they hail to ex.
'meet if they should dare to oppose the wishes of Ministers—
sad lie considered this a paramount objectioa.—(Hear.)--
He !homed the consequence of exteuding the operation of
the B;hl to the whole country, would be to excite jealousy,
soul ill-will iu those who were now peaceable, loyal, and
ussoffendiug. The present. state of thins was as anxious
and difficult one, hut it became the House to esaiidaiu its
own dignity and the authority of the law. Thiiiking so,
he would go into the Committee with the Noble Lend,
hoping that lie would there consent to limit the exmot all
. (Juliana of the inflames.
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Lord A. Haul 1.7014 said, he was about to tender bis rote.
sot soma, io Ina Majesty's Minis:els, Lilt frt.:li
uculte demos lion of the actual necessity of t!:e in-issuers
cinch were uow submitted to the cuusideratom of toe
(Urns', ',cur.)—lf he were tusked the C 1116.11 of the
state of thine, and of the dissatisfaction untfur...:j in; %mi.-
itig among the people, he would state, dittress—lhe Ist,
$ll, and 4th cause was thstre.ss, awl the utter inalt,l;iy of the
people to obtain tricquele solisistence fawn any application
ut their labour. lie bad, however, the strongest objection to
pr, miment Pleasures of coercion, or to their applmattun be-
yond the local necessity of the CASC.—(Hear).
Mr. Coat (uf Notfulk) lamented the cuur►e of the pro-
pose! Bill, rit for as it applied In the. alagistrit y, anti la-
mented the occasional exercise of a power un the p .rt of
Lord Lieuteinint.—a power which be was te'j notified 111
gulag. To .hew the length to which tliß power bad been
earrial, Lie named an instance iu which ge irrcamineott-
ed the Imams of some gentlemen. to be ptield the cumulus-
/km of the peace, beat tbe Lord Lieutettatif 'timed the lire
He (Mr. Coke) 'subsequently submitted 11 to Mc present Lo
Chancellor, who, sit the bantlestioest manner, put the zentle-
men who were rejected by this Lord Lieutenant in tbw eons-
otiisiou of the peace,. and observer! that" was in tic
breast, out io ties Lieeleoeurs, that the dlscietion of sp-
. ppotabent roo:4,—(llear—iiirdislikcd.illittttlier 16c ths.

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