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n rented its n delegate Cam London's hut he
cessoily of. the powers they bad lLe opinions of ta
Conausittees—insontaitions, indeed, had been at- had not at that time been accredtted by 'Govern-
temp ed to be tlworess on them, but he woulabiren- l went. His was a wicked fraud, but it was the
tore to sey that sp. ego .1 numbs of geolleinen, was of had been jaravtired by the ieat,of, the Re-
distinguished by hibtli unto, is eittsc!olts—(!tear)— forollelN who went about the country eanAerefing
by high services to she country, could mit be 'lamed. Ireir %tremolo tool numbers. To terminate liarisrys-
He colleaged any one to shew him the list. The Ifni'. nits the sullen. „" cr the Hahne
and Learueil Gent. who, opened the debate raid lie Corpus infest necessary and most kW, clual.--.lflettr./
gave credit to the dying decl,.ration of is criminal • But With rrepect to Oliver, it *ass iiiat unite ern-
at Derby, because he was a religious tuan.—i.Sh• S. (kilt in the ojspouriste to the measure to push the
RororllY here 'said. he .had said no sue!. inference of their arguisieuts to the otariort. Oliver
Ile was clad to hear S. liotnilly insisted s nu' said to hare drc.ved Parl:sitoisttary li,forso, to
that he hail said nothing like it..)—(,l Mugh.)— i have recanionetideie ot recourse to p:syrieni streitAtla,
Well, he would seek the Hms. and Learned Mem- t aid ream the very violeer-t of Ills opinisc:s lie Ot-
her to lay hie haudon Ibis lieet itei•l say he believed stoutly became the idol, the gin it., and I. a uslvistr
of the pesolote.—(Elear, hear.)---117ith reppeet to
one material all:vino/I the Petitions; if he cool,'
pot, lie wee bound to give his support to the Bid.— 4 the story related on al faeiner Multi by the lino.
The lion elholest-to by the Ham. Baronet, .was like Member for Durham (11:-. Liiii!stop), than ()Nye].
the lion in Pyrenees sad .Thisbe-.-a very,lioeuiless Led Leen most aictioe is, jo•mato:atig die itirolt sin
hen. . Tbb qweatiericwascwhether the House would the person of the Priat,T Regent, it wits much to be
defend.those who lied committed or those who had iiigretteal tt!est the Min, alettiller's isifornmet had not
prevented Amason. stated it at an curler pert td. It wptild have
Buastowaus said, that the ditty of Md..; been a most desirable ciseiitmtance if the pr.-
giotratosteeiv:wicinfoinnition on oath, was pointed meter of tlist outrage could hare been discovered. •
out Loy *emend statutes—fins, to commit the acres- i This subject had given live to many opittiOns re-
ed—secondly, to bind over the accusers to prove- risect;nv, she propriety of using 'pies. Every gene-
oate—.tleirelly, to retorts the infisrmation to the pro- t coos feeliiig saf the beast ntilet cosichr in the ex-
peeCourts of Justice. The duty of the Secretary , prestion of the Hon. Member for BratiSlier, oat a
.of State .srais- thus same. Muds iisfurinati (((( . had former siigl.t, respect,ng it, but anions regard must
been alreaely &awkward oft the trials, yet tor attack I be had to the peculiar eiretmootimen of each porti-
ere avosussinatiou of witnesses lir knits hail been beard ctibor cane. Nothing was aro likely no give rise to
of—and if there wits no danger to thew, to whom the imputatidet of hypocrisy as to busy, domi priori-
doubt it be A' He thought the Bill, in most respect,, I jates of inotali:y in Honig; limn which it ;rill often
,tusgetary. and would vote against going into the be found necessary to dr slate in practice. Much
Coialusittore.:. i....• . iliftweisce should he edmitte4 between the informs-
Sir le. rtobto aid, thatloi rose not Lathe a 51.0.. i tins, received from accorroplleer, who rosy be deter-
cote• of either party; she. Oppiaioition Party sv:pi re,t from proceeding further its their linden 'kings,
touch .11hqiosslied--tlse nudge welt. hrohesa.—:(4 ash that ',revived ruins spies who had joined in the
laugh.)—One Nlember objected to the principle, crime merely fir the purpose. of diseovering •it.
thaegli the. Dill had been. twice oporosed by . With ?esprit to Ilse Ball laelore the; Horse. he was
titles of the House, the Lot& Spiritsuil and•Teiti- j of en that the Moose ought to go into the
poralatiredtif any-thing was wrong in she detail-, it Committee. Ile mould elOty coneeire-how illegal
aaressiebta us the Cuirossitiee. That Canso, st- 1 actions might have been ens 'aril, which siere. at
tional.Judge Sir IllackAmie load *sal, that tliereute tone also illbsoluttly necessary fur SrCating
it was necessary to airspeort the Cuortitist at Alve wifely of the tumor', but where, iii case aqui
Aimee. to preserve it for. ever. Ile ism% been an sonar, nut scoop's, of the intinigesnesit of the kw,
humble. Merubserifor moving die Speaker into the the Judge aspaii he Compelled to direct the Jury
Chair, to-night In was ready to vote him tout.— to Told a.;atiost the!Defemlasit. He could also
feel the (eager its which ikore who had given info*.
Mr.- Lasts mid.. it had been held that the monist .Is, tioverenneut most lie irlacoole should
rounds-ea which the Howse acted lest 3 car were ma. ' their mimeo lie rendeteil loathe. lie believed ttkat
trinity allowed try what Caine out ail we. They bad no ilegimilvm had been committed or centerfold:Pled •
acted as general grounds ; these grounds were by 3littisteia ; that they bail exercised the peewees
toot in any degree effected by 'that had iraewell is, intritriesl to thein moiler the Act of the last Svssion
Courts of Justice. There laid !seers fair appeerissiceg •with propriety nod loony; mail that they were in •
eft defter to justify what they lad done last year. • 'every respect deserving or the indemnity • which •
He remarked on the severity •of sloe vide by which lied been proposed for the' congideratiosi :of the •
civil services el/Tr were estimated. They were Its Hours.—(l7.. Honourable Centleampt se.t dOron
tlios respect unlike military arercices. which wore per- undid:a 'wed cheering fruits the Treasicry be.,ches.)
formed in the face of day. its eireeittore of the army, t -Mr. BUOUGUA St was not surprised at the cordial
and itistuntly received front ati odsuilino,• grateful receptiost which the speelrlr of his lion. Primal had
people, the full turfed of reward and glory ; but • experiesiced from Ainstlenieis at the other aisle of •
cisil services suust. Irma their inoure, be Iserformed the House. It tool guile so far in nprolasidinglioe
to secrel,,uhereloy their effect could lever be cleanly conduct of Ministers, that it richly deserved the
discovered ' • they more frequently bolded to pp.- Breed of their approbation. -It vriti• a matter of •
vent evil than to correct it—ilienr. hive, front ihe deep regro•t to himself sod thine around him, who
Afirtielerief beviehesi—and what eye could •insirk houlgunially the geoid fortune to etii,ay:the sOpport
ibeir value ? And it too frequently !hymned that olio's Flout. Faielidir eloquence, t list one of his
they were subsequently to Ire taunted wills the very
,weig,ltt,figitit. its the !brow anal is. the- country,
tranquillity they were the mmHg of- preperving, and should give hie a inction to such measures. • But it•
in the very sweatily they. had themselves created. was tI 1 antotnetdt. mid slot Rite anthority of his
—(Land cheering front the Tie:awry- kenelsto.)-..- Ilium Friend that. lie had to deo'. with; end in ati-•
:Übe country had now resat-iota .to the enjoyment of sweitior.thow aiguionite.he• might ermine himself
the Constitution niiirepoired, ex:•ept indeed by the to the few I est sentences of his Hun. Friend%
precedent now rituislisised. —1 (ear, hear, fs •the i speech—(:ll.4r, hear, I' we the Opposition)—for
woold *flow liottevety ands pre- rich IN the other parity- of it there in specious elo-
cedent must tend to .itmon.ar li.e Constitution in queues! mid in general remarks{ it bore lit ee-
some degree, but that led luau bark to tile question rues t noon tile inuriedirte question before the
of the preciosity, and they who loud been guilty of flame, nosh wits rapidly tunic(-to any other point
the crimes which created.that necessity, were ren- Oast might chance to crane under diseussion.—
amebic for the breach us the Constitutium awl not (, leer, heor)—The ioss!: argienents—then in soo-
the Ministers who had endeavoured to protect it.— 1 post of the thosorrre. were, that, Outline the late
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f Hem, from ilsealimisiers.)—Ele, with those who hail
supported the memoirs. of the last Sessioto, Lot eon-
'littered then" temporsrv, ',ecotone_ he hatlielt tlrii the
distress iw which they had originated was usriporirr.
He could not, however, disguise from lame if, ;,r
frosts his conviction that, there airs in
this country an active spirit of ditattetiois--11,141-
tered by circumstances, uninfliersitvil . eves.l,
Which was not to be exesperated by suisfortusw,- law
soothed by prosperity, on which no plentri or se sr-
city produced the slightest impressims, . might
sometimes relax in its exertions, it 'night yield a
temporary submission to the energies of power, or lie
dormantin thelseasoll of public good fortsolie,but it
only lay watching for the first appearance pia suitable
opportunity to feu the flame of public discontent,
This, he feared, was during the late disturlAatirs;s
taahappily too successful in the manufactiorinr dis-
tricts, but it waeone (tithe strongest p.orbs of the
CV! which it was impossible. fur those who sup:
ported the late mesisuree to bring forward.— (Urn',
!deur, frosty ase They could not speak
of the probable rousequences ariri,n from' this
spirit, because their prophecies might fail, nod
they should then hues t bear the..weight their
defeated prognostics with the weight of the public
distress. While the horizon of-the Stste looked
fair cud unclouded, it was easy to persevere in the
ordinary course, boss when. it began to tones, rt
%co fit shut they oisieald be superseded by ,more
active measures- It was ioupoeuirble to look.at the
internist Mate country, at the immerse mill-
tory establishmesits which-now exist in every country
in Eusope,• sod which • arose .out •of the cisme-.
stances of the Frencir Revolution 4. it was impossi-
ble to loolvat the extensiou of our Ctilefile• cup-
bracing .withits theicihosom. every species of (Ow
vertimesit, every ciretunstatice of society,. every
modifications of her town distracter ; it woos 'amass.
ble to segard their vicinage, 'sad Abe stiongers.tost '
from every quarter threateiled their existence, with-
out feelinge of• awe, doubt, and. appreAiension,
or
without a seine of the stitheuices slot 'notes:, , the
'Attrition of Ministers—of the increased liberility
with which their actions should be reasiiiised--ar of
the confidence that ought 10 he reposed iwthein.—
Much hest been said respecting the use of 'spies
awl informal., .but on this rubjeet two points were
to lie considered :—First, what. was the character
which it was pooahle alleh men s&glit ciontinitiiiciste
to a country—and, sec Ile, that Parlianse sit should
not become the dupeotif throe who, on the ihKovery
of their offeloces, meal of the character of the men
whom they load regarded as their accomplice, were
to throw sill the Islonie of their serioto, no this
lwr*Ol4l. With re9Prelt be Olitlef, of whon, so mach
had been opekvii, it was srid that he iirtl

sayesision. persons tt:i.4lit hove infringed . the. law
fur a salutary potpie!, who were well deserving of
iiidentisity—unit that, u certain deregeti, but of whet
mature was rug moth/ might attend the informants
of Goverimierit, shhald their alialltb he made pull-
Lc. In the furore avitnent he !nutty concurred.
The legality Magistrates inigl.r, under certain
eirciintstances.'ba deemed meritoi ious, 'but the iris.
dersaiiity mow. sivaglit was, ant for them mile. It
confounded M steistratto,. who alviwrved well Of their
country, with Oliver, and Welt iniacreants as Oliver,
mid held oat, to bolt en equul pi otectiois. Hut
with rel.pret to tile douger attending informants, lie
besought the House•to reflect, whether, in +circum-
stances sh.nsore altionsing.,thuto tames of thet pre-
sent times. unyslanger Irwl.astteu,leal the producing
mid poke esoinininion ur. witnesses.. lie instanced
the (Aar, of 181,2, awl the trials ut Derby, in both
of which hundreds of witnesses had been pro-
duced,- and hurl sworn away the lives, iiithefor-
mer, Atf SW kers. than .16 .irresottoi ands ill the fatter,
of three. • •But whist alaitger hail•itriaea to-the wit-
ness, 1.4 ? us .one thremeited ? Yes, one was threat-
col, and this very cUcisinstance rendered his ergo-
anent the stronger ; I'm the person supposed to' lane
threatened win brought to trial, and acquitted; solely •
on account of the difficulty, of identifying hilts.
The case occurred in 1612. and watAlailt• tie wive
it on his own ositholity, louring been Conroe! for
all the prisoner. at York. At that µeriod the crints-
ire 'will infested with li.spirit of ittHdism, 46ch as
hail lately hero 'magnified into rebellion, and ensue
persons in the deed of night called upon moan,
who, it wits anderstood,. intimated tit-give evidence
against some of the prisoners. Oise person kept
'hint in coot-en:talon. while another tired is pistol ut
him, whereby the lost the use of one eye. This twin,
however. .subsetpterialy 'appeared at . the trials', and
gove,et.ttiortee .ottaisest the prisintersb its did many
others. although their tihjett wits to endanger the
of the most /cherished members of the existing,
consitiruc, whom the country fill.; I lam taught tocell
reled.. The "aerie fAcility of 'lrsingilsg forward eel-
deuce appeared at Derby viand with such examples
it WAS idle to speak as segue generalities of dangers,
which, us mom. agitated timesonitt under less 6.4
valuable orruntst.in,es, was, not sound to have
oci.terl.—(Hear, hear, Aeniq—His Ron; Friend
tweeted to triumph in the otiservolloo he had made
on the* sileitceintlisrto ob",erved ritipteeling the re-
cog itiota of Oliver at the Park on the day when.
the Pr.mee Reg-it's perilitt wt.. insulted. Roe
it rhtalid be iciiiemliertd, that not Tote theft
three or four vet Los hate elitpsed since it would
lie safe t.. have teen informition.—w(A
tough front ihr ill inislrri.ef hrtsches.)—Gesellemen
ai)t think tLis reartnt valid therefore lie

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