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vied to any great extent. It deprived a foreigner
who so in•ated his copital of the pentrer of diattos.
inlr of it by will, because-it directed an equal di-
vision between his children or other velatives. with.

out any regard to 'testamentary disposition. He
then remarked. that two writers in dimwit quarters
of the world, M. Cott'', in France, ■nd Mr.
B►isted, in America. hail concurred in remarking,
that the political greatness of Great Britain was
mainly attributable to two laws, not acknowledged
in France at the present day—the law of primo.
geniture, and the law conferring the right of a tea.

tatoentary diapaition of property.
Mr. ELLICS replied to the observations of the
Chancellor of the Exellyier. brat )eur he had
cheeol that lie ems ;111%11,11.1 ~) fix the time of the

iminiento by the Chancel;..; of the Eschequer to
the Back and he had wit.hrti to do it without

reference to any arrangements agreed to between
the Bank and the Right Honourable Gentleman.
Being told, however, that a payment of 1,200,000/.
was effected, he declined any further interference
in the subject. Rumours, however. were afloat as
') a method of paying the Batik, not at all creditable
to the Government. It was stated that a sum of
money due front abroad, and secured in the
French fund•, was to be applied to the pay-
ment of the Batik. This might be a mistake. but
it would be better far the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer to explain the whole circumstances. There
was another point on which he differed from the
statement of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had
mentioned as a proof of the prosperity of the re-
venue. that not above 152,0001. of the new taxes
had been received, which were included in former
returns. Now, what deduction could be had from
this, blot that the country, already severely depress-
ed, hid still to undergo the pressure of three mil.
bons of new taxes, with the abatement of 152,000/.
Ile looked on that merely as something which
flirt-Ilene(' more distress. It was the misfortune of

the Right Hon. Gentleman always to state too little
cr ten much. Being applied to for explanation,
the Right lion. Gentleman had declined it, for fear
of encouraging stock-jobbing. Nothiug could so
etlictually encourage it as the latter part of the
speech of the Right Flon. Gentleman. As to his
argument of people being deterred from investing
their money in French funds, because in case of
their decease the property could only he divided
according to the law of Frooce, it would be found

to hare no effect.
Mr. LVSIIINGTON defended the statement of his
Right Hon. Friend. He would take as an exam-
ple of Ins accuracy the item of tea, the importation
fir which had increased, bye comparison either with
twit tear, or with the last quarter of each year.
Ile thought it unfair to take the best year of
finance and contrast it with the worst. It. was not
right to expect a progressive payment of the new
taxes commencing immediately after they were
im-
posesl ; many modifications were necessary, and
tune mnst be given for the accommodation of trades-
men before the first payments could be realised.
Of the new melt tax, for example, not a single far.
thing had been received ; and indeed from the whole
of ihe new taxes not above i 60,0001. had been re-
ceived. But then this was all that was actually due,
according to the arrangements entered into with re-
gard to those taxes. No account could shew the
(lessee, in the progress of a quarter, the different
amounts of the old and new taxes; thatcould only be
alone at she quarter's rinse. No one could determine
beforehand what amount of any tax might be
resi.onably expected in any quarter; it was easy
enough to do it prospectively, but the calculation
could never be precisely made beforehand. He
thought his Right Hon. Friend had ample grounsls
for the cheering prospect which lie had held forth.
Mr. EtAtce explained.
Mr. GRBNIMLL had resisted the motion of his
Hon. Friend for fixing the time of the payments to
the Bank, and had been on that occasion the ally
of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He had thought
as lie slid then, that any interference on the part of
the (louse into the mode mid periods of payment,
would be imprudent, as the measure was ultimately

fixed.
11r. RlcAlioo also thought it imprudent fur the
House to interfere in the arrangements between the
Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Bank, iu
regard to the payments ordered ; at the same
time he saw no danger in giving the House juror.
minion. As to its increasing the transactions of
stock jobbers, he rather thought it would have a
contrary effect. Stock-jobbing depended on se.
cresy and partial information for the most part ;
now in case of the public beiug informed, as all
would have the benefit of the information, there
could be no particular advantage in stock jobbing.
One ward on a mistaken argument of the Right
Hoe. Gentleman with respect to the exchanges.
He was wrong in taking that as the criterion for
determining the amount of capitol transferred.
Suppose fifty thousand pounds should be laid
out in this country, the goods exported, the
money paid and remitted ; it was clear, that
to such a case the exchanges would only represent
this es so ranch capital transferred. No just cal-
culation could be made without consulting the ex-
mats and imports, nor would these always deter-
mine. Not long ago, England and Ireland were
called on to chew the amount of exports from each
country to the other; whea they. were sent iu it
appeared from them, that each exported more then
the other; this was 4 course impos►ible. The only
meant of oseertataing were to examine the exchanges,
and exports and imports together. He world sup-
port the motion.
Mr. KINNAIRD thought some explanation ne-
cessary, and would vote for the motion. •
Mr. MARBOLY said, that the grant of five mil-
lions was mode to redeem the unfounded debt due
to the Broke in order chiefly to facilitate pay-
melds in specie ; but the Right Honourable
Gentleman had borrowed five other millions front
the Coneolidatted Fund. Was that the may in
which Parliament intended that the .payments
*should be made T The Right Hon. Cientleautta
had denied any real decrease of rennet. ha the
July quarter there was a deficiency of 000,0001.
Beittg convinced of the decoy of. that Comansy ha
referred the House to the Excise, sod said :'°,Look
at the les—there N mu Soma* of esi -mien rositle,"
The Right Hon. gestkoosi forgot Omit rildeil.oo
red voioress duty.• There moo iw forsto• .rismesse
of duties on tea egsul..woits esiliturt. iu .the-liset
quarter. Spirits bid deenessett'isi duties, es' bad
malt ; there trete 100,000 barrels of beer less brew•

.ed in last quarter. These were not dieering pros.
peels. He did not charge the Government with
this deficiencit;, they could not help it.; It was
caused by ciewommancea which they could not
change. He thought, however, that the Ittitlit
Hou. Gentleman should be less sanguine in Isis cal-
culations. He ought to know that the people had.
not the money to purchase commodities, and that
the Exchequer could • not hive the same receipts
from a decreased as from a larger expenditure. He
ought not. in short, to be so tuitions to keep the
accounts utT the table of the House. He would
not press the motion to a division.
The question was put. and negatived.
Mr. MABERLY thew moved—

" That an Account iihoold be bud before the Bones of
the amount of Enettequrr Bills paid in fur Duties between
the hi of July and the 21es September."
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved,as
nn amendment, to omit " September," and insert
" October."

Mr. Gamsyst.t. could not see what objection
there could be to tl►e motion.

Mr. Ttzatrue and Mr. ELLtce deprecated any
attempts to &lignite the information required.
Mr. Mat=Le felt himi.elf bound to press the
motion, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer ingot
know to 100/. what amount of Exchequer bills had
been so received.

Mr. IlusKiesoN said, the fact would he known
on the sth of January : Ministers did not wish for
any mystery in the case.
The CiaacaLLOß of the EXCHEQUER said some.
thing Dot perfectly audible.
Mr. MABERLY s:►id, he was dissatisfied with the
objection. The accounts, if then ordered, could
not be had till they met again; if they were to wait
till the sth of January, it would be very late before
the papers could be produced.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the
papers should be ready by the tune Parliament met
Mr. CALCRAFT said, this was an ingenious way
of putting off the reply to a question which could
be answered instantly.
Mr. HUSXIIISON, Mr. MABERLY, and Mr.
Etttcs, said a few words each.
The gallery was cleared, and the House divided—
Far the Aneeedeiret 9O
Ataimst it

Majority 6O

When we returned the SPEAKita was on his legs.
We understood him as expressing his satisfaction at
the loss of the original motion, as he could remem-
ber no precedent for it.
Mr. MAMMY said, that as the amendment had
been carried, he wished the motion to be withdrawn

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altogether.
Mr. Hums gave notice, that he would to-morrow
move for au account of all sumli paid by the French
to the English Government, not intended for the
purposes of English subjects.

. .
NEWSPAPEK STAMP DUTIES BILL.
Lord CASTLSaSAGH then moved the order or the
day for the third reading of the Newspaper Stamp
Duties Bill. . .

Mr. Bisset. said, that he had been in com-
munication with a respectable class of tradesmen,
the country booksellers of small capital, who were,
in his opiuion, • highly useful and meritorious body
of men. From their representations, it would be
destructive to a great number of persons engaged
in those branches of the trade. He prayed Minis-
ters therefore to pause.
Mr. G. Lama would not occupy the time of the
House in offering any apologies for addressing them
upon the present measure, for he did not think that
his Hon. Friends had been fairly treated by the Hon.
Gentlemen opposite, who suffered their arguments
to pass wholly unanswered, except when any oppor-
tunity personally convenient to themselves occurred
for uttering a few sentences. The Noble Lord op-
posite (Castlereagh) had apprised the House of his
clemency in proposing the present measure, rather
than an open and avowed previous censorship; but
let the House mark the nature of this Bill, and they
would see that the Noble Lord 4, bad kept the word
of promise to the ear, but broke it to the hope."
Well, however, might it be asked, to what a state
had the country fallen, when a Minister of the
Crown would dare to avow that such a questioa
had evev been entertained in a British Cabinet.—
Hear. hear.)—The Member for Curie Castle
(Mr. Banker) and otters had, to chew the extent of
their constitutional lore, reverted to the times of
Alfred to draw arguments to support the present
measure ; but what had a modern House of Com-
mons to do with the law. of Alfred ? The rights
enjoyed by the people of England were neither
to be confirmed nor weakened by the events of
past ages. The Member fur Corfe Castle, however,
evinced more ingenuity in his comments upon
Blackstone, when he attempted to thew, from that
celebrated writer, that the measures now proposed
were not inconsistent with the existing laws of
England; but if the ingenuity of the flouottrable
Member went for any thing, it livered only that
Blackstone ought to be put upon the shelf. Mr.
Lamb then eulogised the Constitution, for she pro-
tection it afforded to society, while it guarded the
liberties of individuals, and asked what final code
did the Ministers propose to substitute for it?—what
institutes had the Attorney, and Solicitor-Gene-
nil prepared to rival its noble simplicity ?—what
plan had they arranged to displace the veserible
structure ? This, however, he ventured boldly to
affirm, that the sheets containing their uevr-fangled
,doctrines would not be dry before a necessity would
arise of altering their provisions. From the speci-
men of Ligislation already produced, lie could easily
collect that the principle of their constitution would
be the sic no/o. sic Aliso of Missisters.--(iimie,
Leer, Azar.)—He avowed that he could not on•
derstimit the distinction attempted to be drawn
by some Gentlemen between the effects of the
law, as they related to publishers. cud as they
related to authors. or this Ise was quite vet-
tint', that nothing which Twisted to the one class
could be indifferent to the other. and often the two
characters thus attempted to be distinguished were
found in one and the some person. He complain.
ad of the Itertlehip imposed upon an 164411ne1:4
being compelled to find enewritim before Isesmuld
seimbotti in trade, and 'to pewit, the seam of
Suffering punishment before he could •obtaiss the
iPtlitic. of coosoittisig. oiosgeoce. Noss but, rich
anor could tel tow Atiemopooolatioo. sod the
osethoro d cloture. times essehabo easy cut is
their pecieslagy eireasistsits. front thew of whim

tradition speaks. Lord Croke has enumerated five'
occupations that must lewd to ruin, of which one.
was that of' • poetaster but it was evident that its
whatever way the poetaster of the future day mag
close his career, he must at least commence by.
being immersed of property.-..-(Hear,
He could easily imagine a care iu which theory"...
rity of this law might be severely felt. Ile could. I
imagine a young man entering Intro life soimated
by warm hopes, and destines of entering into this
particular branch of commerce, but without the
means of satisfying the provisions of this Bill. If
he apply to his friends for security, thee will
say, " We have every reliance upon your ins. I
flour. abilities, end integrity, but uncertain as is
the law to which you will be particularly exposed,
we cannot become your sureties, unless you can
prove yourself not only free from every human
frailty, but even superior to the vicissitudes of
chance."—The Hon. Gentleman dwelt at some
length upon this topic, and concluded by remark-
ing, that the arrival of every post tended to dissi-
pate the delusion on which the new measures were
founded, and that before the Bill passed Ise should
move a clause for the purpose of limiting its dura-
tion.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Puce cautioned the House against vitally
'fleeting the great barriers of the constitution, while
they were merely legislating. to meet temporary s
evils. It had hitherto been the glory and pride of
English law, that it imposed no previous restriction
upon the liberty of the prem. Before the House
proceeded to tress new laws, he thought it important
to ascertain how far Government had applied the
old ones to meet the evil of which they complained.
Montesquieu had said, that the right of petition
and freedom of the press were the two great WO-
Cities fur the preservation of the liberties of the
people. Minister" bad new'hy their new measures
affected each of those securities, and the spirit in
which they brought forward their Bills shelved the
view which they took of popular rights.
Mr. JOHN SMITH contended, that no ssecessity
had been at all made out to justify the enactnietit
of this new measure; it was, on the contrary, quite
clear, that the law., us they now stood. were ade-
quate to put down those blasphemous and seditious
publications which all wished to have suppressed.—
Nothing surprised him more than the indifference
f Ministers to the violent speeches end des !orations
made throughout the country during the last year.
Whet could be more seditious than to hear, in the
month of July last, a man in Smithfield proposing
for the adoption of a meeting, certain Resolutions,
which went to declare that the people would obey
no laws, pay no taxes after a given period, unless
certain conditions specified by them were complied
with by the Legislature ? They described the public
debt as a swindling concern, with *lnch the peo-
ple hail nothing to do. He thought at the time
the laws would not have been suffered to sleep an
hour, without bring applied to the punislimeut of
persons of the description to which he alluded, and
whose doctrines were inconsistent. with the existence
of any regular goverunsent;„, Sdcli persons were,
however, suffered to • reMain .at large. and new
laws were now called for before the experiment of
trying the old ones was in guy manner adequately
made. The effect of the present Bell would be to
destroy the rising industry of a number of meri-
torious indviduals, who would inevitably be left in
a situation in which it would be utterly impossible
for them to pursue their avocations; their abso-
lute ruin would follow though they. were innocent
and loyal persons. Such were his apprehensions
of the effect of this Bill.
A Member. whose name we could not learn, de-
fended the Bill, which he thought was actually neces-
eery to secure the tranquillity of the country. He
fully concurred in the opinions of Gentlemen oppo-
site, respecting the inestimable value of a free press.
This Bill would by no means affect that bulwark
of' freedom—it would merely curb the licentious
pert of the press, which was disseminating blas-
phemy end sedition throughout the country. The
authors of such wickedness were the men whom
Cobbett, in his better days, appropriately described
as the parasites of the people. He denied that this
Bill could in any fair way be deemed a restriction
of the legitimate rights of the press.
Mr. CALVYHT viewed the publication of bias.
phenious and seditious writings with disgust and
indignation; but the law, as now in force, was am.
pile enough for the punishment of such offenders.
Let it be .hewn where it had failed before Parlia-
ment was called upon to arm the public promos.
tor with more vigorous power.. Under an active
superintendence, he was comfit:l(A the laws, as
they hail stood for 120 years, would be found every
way edequitie to punish the licentiousness of the
bed part of the press, without resorting to fresh
measures, which involved the good and moral pert
of the press in one common evil. From -a paper
laid on their table, it appeared that in the year 1819,
I which teemed, as it.dul, withthomoffeusive publi-
cations, not a single prosecution had been instituted.
In 1819, • vest member of informations were laid.
The first tried. that against the notorious:offender
Carlile, had fully succeeded, fo.,lostification or
the previoss-restuction lobe impound by: this Bills
a Learned Gentleness. (the Atteoney.Geoeral)
bad quoted the precedent of •the severity given by
victuallers; but that borw no resemblance to the
present cue. The victualler was required to give
a security to do that, which was defined* jihad he
lied power to do ; nernelyd to keep. his home in
order; and the security was also smell (10), and
therefore was easy, and within any roan's reach.
The present Bill required two or 3upl, prtuitys in
the first instance, stud fae•llinpurpatte of,pssvesiting
the commilainn of a veigu, and undefined °fleece.
The booksellers. (it most respectable and. "diluent
body) Complained. of the, principle. • of
,thst..meiss
rium.;, end. the laws did not reqoire. it. Hope,
acquittal, it was mid, deterred the Law Oflisiws
from further prosecutions; bat that „srcqosttal
erpse from the, full settle entertained '4,9* jy.ryt
that the, parodies Were.isot iatetidaa.tu revile the
Christie* religion—they thought the pmercaties
was a hypocriticel tone.--they knew that posse, high
in station eadvower hod written sucla,pairadim errth
irispunjty., .rid thig cven i:CsOnift Minister DIVA
4344. to tkoup.....ioeciurge. cow. whigii
ddlesses.eampleniesio meaviesima. worimeardiately
obssiatel. The .preseee be tbengin '•qesee men
necessary.; there could be no pretest* tints lion
ins pernmsently inosettedififewrq
Ow the question that Ow viii M. Mot the 41641
time, : •

*h. DtlitsiL roes to propose Clean far liatite•
ins ' IM Bill toe tettWoritr7 dame
lion. •
CASTLtigauft said, tholf cable lie
made id tree ay thin; in thepristelple'ra pruleinis of Olds
Bill In iny destruellie of the freedom of the press,
be should readily admit this a venial Las then laid for
readeriag its ojeration temporitry instead of perninnent.
Bid it 'Cies on the convictions that this Bill did sot touch
that guest sad 'suede' debt—that It, on the coufnien
protected the freedoms of the press, of the rainivial, mu.
nil, and religions pert of the press, that he prOpuid it
as a tleirinasent IMPIIIMPC. 15 did mot interfere with the pin-
citric that allowed all mew to publish their seatimeats
without previous coattail. 11se law of libel eras, therefore,
must reeessary to the freedom of the prom. It merely pro-
tected the *object from the baneful inanenee of a Migrant
abuse of so valuable a privilege. With respect to the
bruits of the Bill imposing staiatiriumni the grislier publi-
cations, it merely went to ',nabbed. to equitable rule
for the whole of the periodical press, the better part
of which paid this els*, duty—and why exempt • the
lower, which, in the hands of evil.disposed persons,
had been productive of so much miechief The nest broach
Of Bill was that imposing a respossibility, to pretext
evasion evhia which was sow practised, by putileg fords
perms in a garret se responsible to the law, but where el-
tultion rendered she obligation tiogatory. He denied that
this Bill would affect literatdre and injitre
ulknis—
That. class of useful peruse would never feet any
rutty is getting a printer or publisher to circulate works
which were nut of a seditious and blasphemous tendeory.—
There would be always *sty of capital in IMI comae%
ready to he applied to the purposes of literstore ; arid the
Hill world only operate to pot doing the vette if deem
whose only object was to sap the foundation of the relies*
awl morale or society. It would est tow& the gamine led
legitimate freedom of the press, use *is it new in its priori-
ple, fur it was soaloginis to that system Of responsibility
which required the printer's name to be althea to his week.
It was GO restriction of the pressOlsough it may, to a certain
decree, restrain the application of capital for illegal purposes.
The principle of requiring this previous security wen udo-
Volt to the, practice prevailiog, between! merchant aid neer-
Chant in she daily transactions of their trade, where the
party was preparatorily bound to Ile saborqout hlilmetf
4.f hie credit. Ti, deter the guilty A', persevering la their
demoralizing career, the Bill was accessary, and, to be
effectual, it ought to be enacted pernialiesitly. The
enlarged *spa this necessity to soothe the
of the loyal and religious porthole of the enaunitnlty,s=
that if Slinisiers bed not spoken Much era thee@
is was because they felt the Impulse et the H
with the feeling* of the country, in Wadding the propriety;
of putting down she sedition and blasphemy which well.
inculcated by desperate characters nut of doors. With tee'
street to the punishment of hanishineat foe a secreted offarece;
be dewiest that It was a new principle in the law. It
was enacted, and, together with traosp etloo. which was
now abandoned, in the Act of 1796. It was, be thought,
the natural ponisbniest for such antisocial doctrines as
were inculcated against the well being of society. They
had beard a great deal of supposititious eases, wherein book-
sellers of the first respectability were underthe wood saltigatiog
circumstances to be exposed to the severest posishment. If
such a mode of argue cut were to be tolerated, there would
be an lead to legielatioe of any kited. The Noble Lewd
pressed ups she Howie the necessity of enacting this Bill.
As fur what bad been slid of the booksellers, be would as.
sort that they could not be affected by the Bill, unless it
should be said that thou who administered the law woold not
allow those fair elaims of indulgence which they bad always
shrive. lie hoped- the House were there/see prepared to
follow up the bold measures of Government—measures
width, in their regulations, did nut affect the fair liberty of
thg pYo e, they only regulated the law as it stood. He
that the tegnletions were a restraint an the era
ployment of capital and industry to a certaia extent, and
if he knew what way that objection could be cored with:
out et the same time taking away the entire efficacy of the
proposed measure, he would be glad to remove it. The
measure was one substantially for the press, for if the pia-
ciple of tlw liberty of oho press in 'biscuit/dry sboold be Neff
lOW, it would be through the show of the perm, and not
through the arbitrary principles el /he Crown or the Par-
liament.
Sir Jedge ItilAcittirroirs said, be would not, like the Noble
Lord, go at large lute the priaelples of the measure, the
lime far delay so with ail prospect of advantage was past,
amid Hiatus preveated hies from attending in that House.
Had the Noble Lord cooined himself to the questiou before
the Home, moiety, whether the measure should beef a tem.
porary rattle, be would have moaned himself to that point
else. He would not dissent from the proposition of doe
Noble lord, that the criminal law was capable of auseodniest ;
such auseadamot bad remedy been mule is another plate at
the suggestion of a Noble Friend of his (Lord Hollatad) is
the Bill for limiting the power attic Attorney• General with
respect to criminal lisforvisetions. He considered that 818
the greatest anieedasent in the Criminal Code gime the libel
bill of Mr. Fox; a measure the moat important as respect.
lug the freedom of the presa, that took place since the co.
mural of the censorship is 1604. 15 was • gratification
him that those osculate were brought forward by two per.
sous, for the memory of oat aid fur the person of the
other be entertained the Tamest affection. With re-
spect to certain publicatioes to which alleaime had hem
made, he acknowledged with shame and sorrow that they
were poblications of - a Ilagitleas and detestable Nature,
that they could not be read without abiseneoce,anitainia&
as they did, attacks on civil society, sad iostigating as they
did to every species. of crime. If the object of she pireetet
!erasure were so put dews these poblications, little obser-
vation could be made on she subject ; but be would my, that
it would be easy to densonstrate that these publiestioss mid
the mural poises they mataised was not aimed from any
inadequacy in the existing law and the pieoishmeot it pre.
arribed. if it could be Arra that the authors of them rob-
Wiliam had hem peeseepted. and had still persisted is
their career, that indeed would be a ease to hew the tar
&query of the law, and lw shot 'cam the nature of the evil
would mast out the 'Wore of the remedy ; has where sai
attempts had bees used'. to pet the law labs executlon, he
slid sit me how the proposition that the law was imdequate
could he ismiateleed. If the painielmeat for libel were that
of death, that puoialtianit would be of mu avail where ae pro.
weeklies were carried go. It was Set threats but iNflictiou
that deterred offesders. Helmut* far the este of ergo:
meat, somas that Jostles 'Mire imlispeeed to Sad verdicts
fur the Crows; be world ask, would she increase of pa:
eishmeats make them -mete disposed 1 He wooed awl
pose that it was difficult to brier forward proof, whuld
the increa.e of the maishmeet remove that +Meshy ?
HE thought that the lamellae cat piahhiaert, sci fir from re.
maim. the setts eautplibeed foe, would have a troderscy to
Mamma them. He would rot complain of • sairasom to
!beck 'the progress of lalisphitsiy emit oeditioo • and it was
hie Weeder to mist out the eigitiltibei of thee; mimeo, mad
by liesitiog the hien:motif pew posighlaset to the new is.
cream of evil, to make the immerge therms. effectual for
the myyresaiuts of bleaphlkatebialedieVlllehle librla;mod et
du some time to euelpilroas ihrte soft -peeiehmeem calm
where individusla might be hetrapd by iodiscretim
aid 'srat—seid' mist
win et boldness amliodepitseleme, sod Ho chief virtual
of • ?obi's writer. Hes delluitiou would spare the press,
it • period:else* it ma tdtt heldielledged that the 'Nil
peseeseed.great pnrity; mien it was amdeetalloith mks.
did talents, and had perfaresed vest services. His delliai.
Ilea 'Would spare the press 'the eisdeseried lefiatsyaf befit
costfituaded•oblo lemphemeuraml the pirpetaisers• of atiati
clam mimes. Melees sight be the fate of his
.petiposi.
Gets, hi Muddattempt lb coolie the °permitst if the
Sill ' to idiot cam of eirik' the ktieMiede te wild' Molt
fOOO mails lb. wiessierse jostiflahlia. . . .
He would sow proceed to the question before the Honer.
The MAIO Lad ersaW IMAM 'die ewe* se hale* Hitt
they err moltarg o...amillitetv Is was amempary thpy ablessid
eaderstaed theme/ware they were *boot to adopt. It might
eolsMifer*d'ooi. dfltLotfMiff ;'llsit 'theNdtehellietilthiari
martiimul grosibla • reetrimiguo us „the libe.rlymf lbw Vague
He could um see as olklectio• toiwtZrztioriar.z:
&oier 'Di ty; were"h hot "fah
of the 11014 &Mich daeleraiittmethrtorregoomNeelme tlh
Ihaperpgag of rernme. pot Istommt the
seillikerielUdffielithlif. (Wee ht Snag

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glf 414,1eiillrear psios.ove.l4lnis da she. 44 14.2
sale "frig AIINI 'WO* et .whip.yam Hoe.
Irisud (Mr. CWaliaff) *es M Alit a siii-
pitar task, bat he never kid algid sea. oppeetisallits moo t
Itis.pnius and him elogomtee soiert tie Whorl; eeeewr-
lreery niaiiiiyert'et fee the IN roister of • Mote ,if the
of iffestswick-thst Herm which the Whigs had.
upon the Legfish atop Such istrettilme spites(
the Whip world in that Horne of Cosiniond 'he eon.
eidered little short of tresses silty
.pars ego, when
es his Right lionearable Primed had said, it had &soot
God to put a. mid to their relgs-he wield oat cry
who pet an mid to it-they were preaerve4 whilst Hwy we. e
coessidered necessary-.they remained Inn to the House of
lianover ire dilksity and danger--they were boiled by the;i:
principles to the tiros., but the priactples that made Skein
oecessary fur the defeece of the theory, made them minis •
segrable with respect to the 'mistime of Its preruesiiiie-
the example few the preset esearisre ought he dram, (rum
Mews congenial sources. These Tory measures is. re ik.
ported by Tory writers. Swift suggested 4 stamp duty 19011
• view to prevent pablicatioor spinet the Government. •ii•l
the very day of the expedsios of Sir Helmet- Walpole n.
Itl2, • Message came from the Throw, eamplaheing tithe
progress of blasphemous sad seolltiesis libels ;. Ibli hfsage
was delivered by s person of greet talents cud
who never was respected of smell piety--te
m▪
ew Mr. Secretary St. John--wad the measure of
poslog a stamp duty was originally coistrieed by So .rt
against his ors brethren of the press. He it us•
who list made this remittal smirk a the Pees. I',
which be owed much of his fortune and sU his fame ;
heel the measure at the time did sot produce the effect
leaded. He was astonished to bear the Noble Lard my that
the eseesere did got fetter the press-it Daly affect. J the
primers and publishers. He always thought that the liberty
of 'triodes sod of publishing were synosisseas with the
liberty of the press, such was the delloition of John Maio,'
-" A Speech is favour of unlimited Printing." He "wolf
ask the Noble Lord, if he knew the vicissitude' of I
young nese of genies, making his way without the
aid of fries& or fortune-bad verb s sri, of fewer.
ons dispositioss, of briniest fairish, of humble tont..
ties, would he Gad so difficulty in lisilieg
ties-be whose ardest imam and stroog oraribilitiis
would ever drive bite to approach the very barriers of the
liberty of the press, mid eves to pees that Maier ? The very
(Heade of such as individual would dissuade him from the
perosit-they world say, " We will not he year secreity, we
wi l not be responsible for errors whirls yes most siressesii'y
commit." He might put it to the Illmute, whether any twelve
in the publications of the day, who felt warmly, sad oho
spoke independently es public raisin, could remise the
limits of the libel law, that was not likely to be betray.
Into as offence spinet that law-there were uses, bet the
tame and cowardly sycophants, who might detainer, imam a,
their conteson-place and base adulation; bet those who a..
sleeted the hold principles of liberty could Dot wipe th•
danger. But the Noble ilia had said that the measure woutl
only have the effect of rephiting the trade of printiug. The
printing-office was the road through which she mother 0.,r,
•to travel-if you diminish it pm affect the author-the
printer is his issterniest; if you injure the printer you
abridge the liberty of the writer. Wu there an consider,.
lion for the printers and publishers ? How were those •h 9
were poceelo be distinguished from those who were eminent
in trade? He had it from the most respectable audios ity,
that the wawa world have the effect of .poottile our
sixth of the twisters of Larkin oat of employment-
would reduce diem to the tradition of journeymen. The
Noble Lord had said with great nor, that this 1111111.1 be racy
a clump from one mitiditioe to soother; but little is it
seemed to affect his, it was owe which would carry angiii.li
to the hearts of that body of men; it would reduce them to
the &Rondos of journeymen, at • time when there would he
ee demand for laboar-o-it would drive them to poverty,
sad cut offal( their rising hopes. He believed that of s,l
glasses la the ememenity the booksellers were as respectable
for purity and integrity in all their transactionio-for great
and generous attacheneats to liberty-for adheres.* to the
GllrefllONS9—for devotion, to their mieutcy mail loyally to
the liag. In their isterfemsce on the present occasion. the
terniseat booksellers were entirely dohs...rested. Most
of them ware sea of vest formers, bo.ourab'y acquired ;
bet they wee forward to give their testimony injustice to
this, who were labsariag to emerge from rivers*, and by
their exertions to procure ea loosest livelihood for their
faraiffee• sad themselves'. The °Duthiet of those re.
speetaidaAmiiwidmals was the more twairestorthn be-
cause it wee driaierested; and as ea Hormsorairk thieso. t
had declared, 'Shea be had brought is a Bill for the
reenlatiors of Coates Manufactories, that it was the brat r--
tore he could make to ierlivideals tbrisgh whose means his
fort sae was saqpid red-•-eo the rimier' egointeflers of London
implored the House to spree the risiag cruder. and Dot put
oat of employment the isdastrimm sod the deserving...-
Stagy of three individsals ribs thus came forward or behalf
of the less fortssate tradernams, sass of them at leave,
wield havespeeng from se 'ltmeble *testier, hut sure he
was, that they bed the good serge to fact that as hostuurahle
iallipendente, pined by lisle hsworribie industry.
worm of owe tribe pride Ass fortress or Wow
from a keg Inse of ancestors. It was Mere that the
measure wee a restrictios co • the press, ilea the ores_
ties was, whether it should be made permanent or tem-
porary? Was the Holm prepared to pet a permanent
restriegioet os the Bageols• pear ? Hw Implored theta
Reconsider the serious import of done few weeds-, perm*.
nest restriction es the English prem. Nagy. amend-
meats of the etroalitatios were Ant istroduced as temporary
measures. The Grenville Act, the greatest species of Pio-
liaineetarirliefores aim! the Kevoistieei wag Ant • tem-
porary elessaile: Will se Ineseiimon thetwastititioribe made
pemosoest Did the Hosea of Essillnese forget the very
screed of ftb liberty of the petwoorthet prom M which they
owed their rigitli--thrie which aliened their country,
whkb "

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wfri7l7l;l:P.Wl•;l7
sail 'grish foreign mama ogre tow attempting to ropy
Thellim. Member ant *Mika to she Bill of 11104, fur the
preleattoo of emlitions mmHg*, awe amarattet the mild
Maritret at ltfr Vtai. Gault ea tiat onethilas- with the toa-
dies of the Hark Lori on OW He 'thee tgat a 'try eh -
vilest 'least the priatipiee if be ltralletioi. He took a
review of the Bill of Rights, Litleit he 'debt has sorry 10
heartland air Hon. Haittessimeargriit Welk (lir. Binslies)
attired ie Istiritr tht Piltile'eareta. Vita -Mk be
woo lb. rerigabor of'Om ertligittesiesi' age as a
grestritairdof frorima,-lo despise of the "Irreeidihry oho
Mani it a Mil of Wriiiiit." 'The tepid if %he Licata Act.
whit% folloiree tit BM Ist tai war Naar Pm mudse
of lievoldlito, of phi libaty of
' Callititt replied ht tltiiiJeldla leapt' •
Kr:Biotwtutr strengly Mimed ria the nemesity of prow.
Mg that the castles kw were,hiailattsate, i5l at magi.
ins I. time Lost place, te. Oat whisk alpha So muse INC—
He geloted ad tha *fees lof. (maim* .He • eery happily
satirised' the argosies& bays hem Mr. Meere• UM' bY
Crealleamea opposite, maw wow art Om Ad the kW. Sri-
tin digertece of that east from otbats, orsosely, that Mr.
Hose watt as. aegolited perms. • Mampeeletrefed the at-
temptof 1.„_61 Mi•Oirf .sad 0110-041Orim AM Crown
to ag wwwn ..,tars.* ea arbitrary . vim the merit
of beam reagleetedi the telhootailist of ty 111,110."' twee
years: TIM hapanity tR shp pidlairme • pass wars to Total
of dl possible strimmillthsAte: mei era aliewitio•-rit 41no
Coostitatiim He witeMpeat MM. pkw sprearews% as he
had dose before, (MEI sholleeill. lie almaid leas Oserwm;
mei Ad lbws mpg ma Wpm •tipswe woo, Mead, • whirla
iafieidl .cessfaistioa .f dam. ilo•han mostanns• very re.
= p7res,agea of legimeemberd
and as Milli /t✓.l the adiritallea of she
11•Pls.- 004 lia4 :Mite /- •Strotrpatioo -of
" Waft.
Telt -Ilk with obi atiblece *aka
aim pabliebed she AsekiaefehaMmeaerreeeemeai
saiikki hew Paw elbow wetater-
ralf A• shaiLisig, hit byes =eromeri•is thea.bendts.
• Irtg animal Mom so• *nit impolletit hieur pwtd
ill bk aeliad ill. Oat Ikaata. awl iba seer- MOO Imo she
MAI* e‘Miett4MOMMileil triasOilametarlifooftiso whale
ef Op himatietta • lbw vow mile( wet! *Piro• was
imieeviaat ire ,11.914Saissare==eawk
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