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ling freeholders. He did not wish to vex the Haase, but was
anxious to give his reasons fur dissenting at once, AN if the saceed
reading were curried, he would give it no further op 'don.
There was nothing in the evidence which had been addu sup-
port of this Bill to justify them in depriving so large • portion of
the poor ancidefenceleas of their Constitutional rights. or, even
admitting there was &OWe ground for change, had the admestes of
the measure agreed upon the amount which it would be expedient
to adopt; some sale M., but that it was answered would he as bee
as 405.; some said let, 'rant was open to oomph= ; and even if
they v:et with others so high as 261., what an inimens: sacrifice
they must make of popular right to accomplish this doubtfel good.
The Hon. Al ember. then argue. , that it they acceded to the webs; of
that highly
talented kir. Blake made the goulitictMor
20/., they would do what the Constitution had never cin template
—make the Government a represeutsti•.o of property, teemed of
blembers--a principle under which co frsichisc;n Euglend would
be wife, and which lie thought they would hsrdly, althrovh they
had as good grounds for it as in Ireland, venture to ; ibpose, The
only reason lie had heard for disflaachisiug tht•se trec'n,lti -rs was,
beciuse they were peter, but the same ergurnent might apply in
quite as many cases in Engist,d with equal btu:cols. If they
wished to prevent the subdivisions of land, anal put an end
to corruption among freeholders, let then: put an end to
the bribery of the landlords--let them put an end to the rewards
they obtain by their votes—let them grant Catholic Eniat,rloation ;
and the want of temptation in the first case, with the capital which
would be vested in Irish interests in the second, voold soca
terminate both poverty and corruption. This Rill stood without a
shadow of necessity. The Protestant thought it no sccurity—the Co.
tholic complained that it took away his whole political ennseeitenee,
without giving him anything in return: eli parties iv,
and indeed he only looked 11:•011 it so a ineatmre like aln 43, and
the oaths brought in by the enemies of I:mancile.::ort t:: retard or
cripple the efforts of its ativoc:.tes, t.is 1311 teimiettd a (imager
which does not exist, and tbr which, i: it did it provides
security; and as a measure, therertne, iajutions add la.-creaser,.
introduced only for party purp.:ses, net! when tb. st-r•e item the
point of carrying all their olpce;s trionithantly wi;hont lie for
one would glee it a decided opposition.
Mr. ABERCRt33IBY ruse entidst loud cries• of "
He thought this one of the create.; 1,^7,34 es- • bcrn eon.
(erred upon the people of Ircland, an ! l had of iv been i'..etained
from saying so before, because he a ',le d it to oczO:To %3::r
Emancipation. It would put an eni to the contes:s b•-tween the
landlord and the priests, destroy the pctricious olignr :by of power,
and finally contribute to the pertnane:•; sccari:y of Jr. .and. Tier
Hon.lientlernan, after seine outer observations, a bi :h were listened
to with extreme impatience, concluded by obsernng„ that no ore
who had seen the middlemen macaw their poser in the south of
Ireland, could doubt of the propriety and policy of the measure
now before the House.

air. 31ABLRLY then rose aznitlatgr,:m opposii! ,n. Tine Hor..
Member objected to the Bill, and steed it to 'oe his opinion, that
it was not the original conception or the lionourable Mainber for
Staffordshire (11r. Littleton) quoting the line
Timeo Danaos et dono frrentes.
Hewed he looked upon it as a deceitful prJposi intended to ds-
feat views of another kind, and that L; fur une, trust rcruse it his
support.
LiTTLETON, in explanation, pledged 111 A honour thot
the Bill was his own conception, and that he avid never mentioned
it to any man living before he gave notice of his inte.:tion in thst
House.

The cries of " Question" becoming now vehement and general,
strangers were then ordered to witl4:rair, and the House divided.
when the numbers appeared—
For the Motion . 233 Against it
Majority for the second reading

- 185

- an

The Bill was o;dertcd to be coonniaed on friday nest,
The other Orders of the Day were then diTe•od of, and the
House adjourned at a QUARTER seronr: THREE O'CLOCK.

HOUSE OF COMMONS THIS DAY.

NOTICES OF MOTIONS.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland—Bill to rcsnict the punishment
of Leasing.making and Sedition in Sentlard.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland—Dill to amend an Act of the
Scottish Parliament (A.D. 1696, c. 31). the Att of Brace.
Mr. Hume—Return of the past and present expense of Sierra
Leone, and the liberated Negroes tl.ere ; of the Cror:3 Estates in
Essequibo and Berbicc, and of the expenaz for cal...turn! Negroes;
and of sums paid on account of the Slave Trade.
Mr. Spring Rice—Blll to regulate Petty Ses..ions in IrCand.
111 r. Hume—Commission to inquire into Expenditure on the
Cobb at Lyme Regis.

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