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Mr. CIIA PLIN dk fended the conduct of the gaoler. As a proof
that no political motive influenced the gaoler, he 11,0 only to
advert to the satisfaction expressed by Mr. Drakard at the man-
ner hi which he had been treated.

Mr. BitouunAst said that no answer had been given to the
charge of solitary conf:nen►cut. He knew that Mc. Drakard '
had been well treated; but this only piaci d in a stronger light
the injustice One to Mr. Finnerty. '1 he sentences were the
same, and why should the punishmea he oifferent ?
Mr. RYDER utterly denied the chirge i f soiitary confinement,
which was not even alleged in Mr. F.'s petition. As to the
gaoler having thirteen rooms in his house, they took that (loin
Mr. Finnerty's petition. But supposirg it to b:• so, the gaol( r's
Louse was his freehold, and he- was not bound to. give up any
part of it to the prisoners.
The Petition was then laid on the table.

NATION,

assassination of Louis
that ever wielded a
all suspicion of parti-
cipation in such abominable principles, he trusted he should hear
a fuil and frank di- ,al.
Mr. PER,,
necessary for
he thanked
them. Du!

imagined fc

slightest
not the smal:,

no circumstances
they who resent Ind __
their objects or interests one step by such means. Whoever
esta!ll:shed so infernal a system would involve the world in a
Calamity far worse than any from which it could in this way be
relieved. He agreed with the Hon. Gentleman, that when
events were decreed by Providence, no attempts of short-
sighted mortals could alter their destined course • bit when a
se; itiment of that kind was introduced, care ought to isee,taken
that it should not be mis,inderstood. He did not, Ito ever,
imaeine that the Hon. Gentleman intended to adopt a system of
fatalism, or to say that designs were not to be resisted bt cause
entertained, and carried into execution, not by Providence, but
by the ruler of France. He was satisfied the Hon. Gentleman
meant, that where resistance appeared proper it ought to be
made, for Providence wrought by means. Ai to the doctrine of
assassination, he again declare d his disavowal and utter abhor-
rence of such abominable principles.
Mr. Win lineal) was glad that the Right Hon. Gentleman
had given so full and frank a disavowal, and thanked him for
the justice he had done him in not affixing a sense to his words
which thought no human being could have snpposed they in-
tended to convey. He was no fatalist, nor did he say that 13o-
naparte was irresP,tible; and he must have been a fool if he had
said ao, since he was now more resisted than he had been at
any time since the commencement of the war. He was happy
that the abominable doctrines which-had called hint up on this
Occasion, had been so openly di.avowed.—Adjourned.

420 THE NATIO
last twenty years, every Sovereign would have been assassinated
The doctrine wouli have justified the assassination of Louis
XIV. of France. and indeed of every man that ever wielded a
sceptre. To dear the Government from all suspicion of parti-
_ _

Frank d;,avowal. .
LCEVAL said, that if the Ben. Gentleman thought it
or the Governmept to disavow such principals as those,
d him for affordine the opportunity of disclaiming
he should rather Attic that it never could have been
cr a nioment that thetriti,h Government gave the
,untenanct: to the doctrine of assassination. He had
al:est hesitation in declaring, that he could conceive
;tames in which assassination could be justified, and
esoi ted to it would find thatthey were not advancing