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the people were always best expressed io their own
Mr. HUNT ntwerved, that a■ bill Lordship per.
slated in hi* ainew/niros. it WM. necemary to explain
whit viiiisl,l hr i7,r eollllWll.lriler of it. If it was
adostetrti, then the original Ite.olutiou could not be
propow.t.
Hmemborot was rejected, and the original
I.liipar

sjor CA wrwstiutat said he begird to propose
N Pri.l IIOIIIW of C mons, with a view
to cm-wet that which mope red to be very error's-
Ou• coniroset ou the p..rt of that House towards pie-
t owes.
Mr Cleary read the petition on the subject of
rep-rotor pentorsiso.
The Petition hewing broil resod. Major Cartwright
rn .ire I thio it lb...upped by the Chan mon. and mow-
teen bon eholitera of the city of IVrot iiiiii Ater, ors i
orilet to 13 being presented to the Douse ul Com-
mons.
Mr. IlusT mid, that whenever he felt on attempt
sot 'trivia wen going forward. he had always telt
at los dote, and shoold now, to lay it before his fel-
-I•sw-eto ry mess. lie hood ot.euded the meeporg
preperatory to -the present one. At that coveting
the several rosolutions which Major Cartwright pro-
sett rezrettl to. The previous meeting had
agreed to rill a no Going of the inhabitants of the
city or Wet. awl the person.. attesiJing it
sighed a erotic-, to he wive.. in the clerk ell the
peace, in which it we* sank, st We, the orridersigried,
do hereto), girl* notice. that a meeting of tbe house-
holden,. inhabitanta, qtr. will be railed at sorb a
day." Now gins 'more had been done -away with,
and a Ireeh notice, soot sighed is the foroter had
stiortell in its stead ; the coneequence was,
that as the notice at rweserot stood. noose but house-
holders 11.1s1 soy° business to he ',relent. Wor
e ineass to take glare to secert who were house-
boldest. and who were not ? Of all men the !muse-
holders of Westmineter had less reason to coin-
plain than ally in the country, for they were
repretroeil, end might /*torn to Parliament
whoosn they liked ; but the inhabitants of West-
tionieter were rant represented, mod therefore
'ail @moon to address a Pennon to Parliament :
seethe present Petition was worded, no one but a
I seholikr had a right to sign it. flowever. error
IN sic tiro-sent Amp.. he would support it fur 11 bet.
ter Petit .1515, or totter Resolutions, than those
loroosieht forward ON she present oceasion by Major
Carissogot, had Nutt, been expressed with a 11141.
/I: wool.' support sham rine and all. He only
Pa's'ted to submit 10 for M tior the propriety of ex-
truding the Prti'llsto Plitt lirrulrtiousto inhabitants;
for lots OWN 'Dart. it wtos of no contequenre to him
whether the Petition was presented to the House
°meow e or o.ot, for he was or oloni,n, that those
who lost year had had gait Petitions locked out of
the Douse, were mooch snore honoured slim, theme
whciload lout them received. The Major had bat-
tooted, th.it what he bronelot forward this limy
was lin bat legoo,y to the L- oldie, It was to be
locoed ihet would lint tr the case; lint that, if on-
alee to Ore his perronal attendance, 1w would con-
Insde to r*.ii4t the cause with his pets. If, however,
host wow his last legne), its value to the promoters
of Reform would prevent its being forgot. Upon
the sobject of Petitioos he would observe, that he
Jtappeised to be on the House of Crimmins. I oit
week, tool bad an opportunity of seeing the way in
which Pentiotes acre presented. I)ouhtlese. the
resent Petition would he treated on the Pause way.
rbr Cloak would see. this is the Petition of the in-
bahitents and householders of the city of WeSt-
iiii i liter; lie would then staff ot into his bag. onol
there. would be an rod of it. Ti,e only MC of a
Proem' wes. shot, toeing trod in Parliooluent, the
Emaciate might go forth into the country ; but if
they were shovelled over without being resit, and
then Muffed into a bag, they might as well not be
prevented at all.
Mr. Ciesithes PITT attempted to address the
electors, but they would lint hear him.
Maier CARTWRIGHT said, Ihatwith regard to the
6116,111(11.111 11014'0 by Mr. Hunt, he uuderstoocl
filet tier first form of the !revisits iiii hapisentd nut
to contort-sold with the Act of Parliamelit under
which they were assembled ; but Mr. Cleary would
retains' the alteration. He would just observe, that
es far is. his n collectirin went, in Middlesex it had
solways been the practice, emorsry to his opinion, to
convene the freeholders; lout in West iii i i osier lie..
Thad always understood it to have been the practice
if the inhabitant householders. Ile remessolwred a
few year. ago. when the Duke of Betiltirof signed a
Petition for a meeting in Nlitlilleiwx of the free-
holders, and three or four other toololeastrio sighed a •
tiotier for a meeting of the inloabitantrof Middlesex,
the Sheriff made such olijrclionS to the form, that
they were obliged to alter it to fierholders. Ile
had an recollection in Westminster of ary other
form thins inhabitant householders having been the
practice. Ile dill not think it a right practice; but
the reason given for it was this:—ls had been oh_
served, abet io aid near the metropolis, if, in with-
ticco to Iwitoseloolderr and frrelosoldees, the inhabitants
were nob :rimiesostly called together. mossy. who
were considered toy- some as improper persons, would
assemble under that general description. Upon the
preseet occasion, the form usually adopted had hteu
trainer' to,

M. CIA: that Mr. Hunt had charged
the Groticustil who cubed the Meeting with a
fount ; to topel that charge, he would c:ill the at-
of the M..rtiotT to the notice IrigllCll lit II pre
V10U,4 e, i 11;!.. It evonlil be observed, that they were
lIA is.sessibled is, a d.tierelit manner frian what they
hid liven. On roomer occasions it washy certain inha.
Itllaltt liou•eholilers c4lling upon the nigh Bailiff to
convene is meeting of the inhabitant houreholderr,
There Ltd liven no public meeting fur the last seven
ye.irs that had vat been culled iu the mime of the
Inhabitant how. holders; and for what reason there
rliotdd lw any siaii..ii froth that mode, be Coll.
fesaed he could mit see. The city of IVestininster
hail dour is great deal by thrir former meetings fur
the cruse of liberty ; mill they hail alwaes met He
the isittat,i;ant I ))))) selsulderr. At pre,etti they did
not meet. as they had formerly thine, nutter the
:indignity I.f she High hut under the audio.
illy of an Act of Parliatnent, upon the requisition
of weett limiseliolders. A notice hail been signed,
unlv the inhabitant, of Westminster to-
They had not than the Act of Parliament,
but mom into it afterwards, it was found
that the notice did not point the Imecise form of
the Act, mid as they did not wish to give that