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London, England, 1819-12-22 00:00:00

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i':rd on to serve anew, unless he had served the
11111 three periods of service. He said, that mi.
,hmlitedly where a soldier received a wound which
ilk:Oiled him he was not lit to act. nor was he called
I I! ; hut it was a different case with a pensioner who
recovered from the effects of his wound, and
Was fit fur service. There irJg nothing its the Act
the regol.stion to prevent t•iirli person* from be-
i:os called mt. The Hon. Gentleman next alluded
the lee examinations of pen.iiitier., in which,
he said, they shrwed the grra'est slaciity for the
service, and in many caves attempted to conceal
:heir wounds.

Mr..l. P. GRANT said, he admitted that pen-
‘infierr, on the score of services. went bound to
!..1111' the ihrre full periodt. Imi vri4kres...4 to

‘"nonded pensioners, the co.. was different. The
Act s.ii.l with respect to them, they alight be ve.
Anired to be called isai to wry* sobl tin? cons.
pleted the period of service. that is, the ported for
which they had originally enlisted. Suppose that
period was seven years, by what argument could it
he miintained that that meant 21 years ? lle con.
fe•wd he raw no question whatever on the ineaning
of the Act.

Mr. CALCRATT comidered that the Art gave a
pension to ►oldtrrs who under that Act enlisted for
►even years, and during that time were wounded in
the service; he could not see by what means
inch pensioner could be compelled to serve again.
Ile regretted the obscurity in which the law• hui
been left, whoever were the author* of them. The
proper doditiciion appeared to him to lie between
those who were wouuded in their periods of !service,
who, of course, were entitled to the benefits of the
Act, without swing the whole time proposed, and
those who were not wounded, who of c•sut‘e must
be liable to serve their three full periods of seven
3 ear;.

A tnesssigo from the Lords was tent, stating that
their Lordships hod *greed to the Amendments in
the Bill to reveal the delay of justice it, cases
of migleitternor; and that their Lordships had
pssioql the Cotton Manufactories Regulation Bill,
said had also passed the Seditious Meetings Bill.
with amendmeitts, to which they required the con-
currence of the House.

Lord CAITLERBAGH moved that the Amend.
metals of the Seditious Meetings Bill. brought
hoe:: the Lord*. ►hould be taken into consideration
tu• morrow.— Ordered.
STA SIP DUTIES BILL._

Ills I.nrdthip then moved lh•t the Report on the
Stamp Untie. Bill be brought up.
After a ftw observations from Mr. BERNAL,
Mr. DENMAN, and Lord CASTLIIREAGIN, the Re-
port wars brought up accordingly.
It was then moved that the Amendments be read
• second time. _

Mr. DENMAN complained of the House not
beim; put into possesaiou of the Bill, with its
Amerolineuts printed, mud yet that the House
should be called on to proceed.
Lord Csses.entseo reminded the Home, that
it was petit-01y understood that Ike omen&
Menus should be read Owen ; the Bill misbt be
',rimed as soon as ever the House should order it.,
Mr. Painaoss complained of the want of safe
ticient opportunity to discuss the measure. The
Honourable Member commented on the import-
ance and .lancer of the measures tin progress. lie
come-soled that the liberty of the press hail been
she best safeguard of the constitution and of pri-
vate property. This he considered as en answer
to the Member for Corfe Castle, and those who,
like him, referred the House to the dark and ar-
bitrary precedents of our past histcry ; he would
have then considered that thine period* from
which they were so food of quoting, and in which,
as they boasted, there was nothiug like liberty for
the press, werepreeisely those in which the country
i
lied beau least mpatient and secure in its charac-
ter cud poeseseions. A contrast had beets drawn
between the present Merritt FM mad those of Charles
end a sort of set-off attempted so behalf of the
inmost Mini.try, by referring to that of William
I 11. Such Honourable Member* would de well to
remember, not what was done by that Ministry, but
what was done by the House of Commons of flu
same petit.% The Act of Charism II was re-ew.
mete.' for one year; a Committee, appointed to
it•quire into the expiring statutes, afterward,' re.
vommesided its continuance; the Ministers also
lienught down a Bill of the same kind yearly, for
emus time afterward'; but thist House of Corn-
mous rejected every attempt to revive any such
proeisiocs. Anions; numerous objectioos which
the Houourable Member teak against the pre-
sent Bill was the absolute power it gave to the
Attorney-General, as nu one could be sued fur
the offerices crested by it but through an applica-
faun to that officer. This was to put the whole
license of the press at the disposal of the Treuvury,
to allow and prohibit jest as it suited them. To
pass the Bill would, in his 'Mud, be rpm' to die-
charging the House of Commons from the three
brauches of the State, and taking the first step
towards actual revolution, by shuttle( out the cow.
mursication of popular *Menus with the measures
of Government. The Hournsrable Menthee con-
cluded a 'wig and argumentative sorrels, I.y press-
ing on the Mau the Necessity of allowing more
time for deliberation, especially as hot more than
two-thitils of the Members were in town.
Mr. MARTIN pledged himself not to speak as
long as the Hon. Gentleman who had jest sat down.
He hid hoped that after the dramatic procession
outside the House lust night, that the measures
would have pissed in silent uceptiesomuee. He was
•sorry to astute those who had expressed hopes of the '
qt.:Jill/sillily of !:eland, that their expectations would
roe" to rrati-t-d. He had a teller its his Land—(4
44. ugh ; he had nuthimg in his ligisd.l7.lie begged
4tattlon for :A -mall mistake ; he had taken his hand
+for Lis rock. t.—(Lusighter.)—Tile letter contained
'advice that .tratigers, imitating the accent of the
country, kid been actively engaged its **raring in
ti .e ioipulatitor. This, he thought, would be
tir•-11.ell quite sufficient to warrant the speediest
eilaciment of the new Bills.—(Laughter.)—As
to the necessity of the one before the House, he
would observe. that there was nothing so absurd,
a nick, if frequently eersisted in by periodical
e wets, the people would not believe. They would
believe, if it were enforced by sufficient repetition,
that the Hot,. Member who had spoken hot, had
spokeo for au hour and a half without edifyitig the