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summoned to tlie Comity Courts,. and others.
were entitled to vote for Buirgeseei In Parliament."
The words " surf others," clearly referred to the
" freeholders," sod meant those who
might not have received tionsmonses.—(f/ear.)—
A• for Mr. F 0,04 name •ppeitritig at the foot of
!ovl a Petition as that stared. it could not prove
that he approved of the principles or resolution•
e•stit toned therein, as lie acted in the calarcity of
eiloirtnon ; it wits :Axed merely to authenticate
torch a writing as the resolution of the Com-
mittee of which he had brim the Chairman.
Ili reply to an objection Ristiripated, lest this sp..
tern should be considered likely to lie productive
of riot and torbtoleisee if acted on, it had been said,
" Look at Westminster, where, it was raid, indeed,
tlw electors proceeded constitutionalli—every elec-
tion is carried 011 there as qtrietly uv at a vestry."
Now, for his part, be could Hot an much siiprove of
this nice quiet way of twilling au election ; lie
▪ rather see them conducted with a kite more
of the turbulence natural to on English election
time nit of mind. Ile was happy, howls% er, that Wert-
minster had elected, on a late occasion, the Noble
1,..e I aho had Iwo sery feelingly just now addressed
the Howie. Ile was perm tiled the citizens of West-
minster had elected him because they considered
him an oppressed viol iejured man, mid that their
sympothe vrai strongly awakened sit his favour, by
having that most infamous and disgraceful sentence
of the pillory, which had been pronounced seilitist
him, rung to their ram But this pattern of per-
(edam, ‘Verttniiister, had only allowed to resident
him's-holders the pet'. iese of slain., for Alessi!). Ira, of
Parliament. Whether they were Of this dr scriptiou
or limited to pay-rs of (tweet taxes, or conform-
' able to the priudide of laird Grey, on his Inmost*
in 1797, still there was a lice drawn, and some were
thereby disfranchised, which was what ilw 110 r.
Baronet, and the smile of reform, an much apse
prehended. But Isere they were both equally
' for they disfranchised those under NI
' years of age. flow nofair was this excloa",na.as a
genets!' sow. How snooty exeellent speeches had
brim made there and elsewhere, by persons under
that age. flow its. y eallant *actions and ex-
ploits in the 11..1.1 pert...roiled by these &afoul-
ehiseil and disgraced individuals; yet they 1'4141 in
person nod poise to the recessilies of the State.
fie approved rather of the Islwraloy esen of Mr.
Bentham, whom lie eulogized for his philosophy
sod philanthropy ; he had not hesitated to admit
Cyril women to sore, lest the lit.e of exclusion should
be drawn may ; hot the ins fortune was, it
must the drawn smote lar had, iii cam.
mrni with the Alembrr for Ariu.L l last Si.ssion,
only regretted that Mr. fleuthain should have
ever published his last work, when he had only
drawn his lisle of exelosion on this side of the dour
of Bedlam. The fate of those who should support
these %eat...teats *mild lie like that of Mr. Fox, as
described by Mr. Burke, when hr saw him at the
head of the reformers.who wished fir annual Par-
liamelos. Mr. Burke said, `4 Take eare, Fox, you
are now tit the head of those annual Parliament-
town ; take care you are not outdoor hy the often-
alluding to the old Charter for
summoning Parliaments. - (A I,ugh, und hear.)--
lle profts.td himself an adviie;.te for moderate
Reform, o tarn latterly fallen into disrepute; but
too constilutiotral gromois he could nit go fuither ;
for he still professed lie was equally opposed iii
+mirk to 'hose who 01111)00,(1 Reform altogether.
Ile considered Ilse motion of the 1100. Baronet was
ineonsistent with the spirit of the Constitution in
the present state of things.
Alr. PARNELL supported the motion of the Hon.
Baroiwt. _ . .

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Mf. CANNING, iu a speech of ronsidershle
length, repinb.ited the opinions which list, at last
been propound. d its form by the 11.111. Bartnitt, and
concluded by ))))) itssig the prrvinus question.
Mr. W. SMITH expret,eed Mimed' the decided
enemy of annual Parliaments mud universal suffrage.
Sir F. IltrtinErr replied.
The I louse then tlitidttl on the previous ques-
tion, when the numbers lyric—
Fsr the revisits question 1011
A ptiasst it o

klakirity 106
A kleisne frees the 1..tr.1e nonnutireit that their 1)041-
ships lied ?leered t.• the Convirtiou lirwat.ll BM, the Chen-
trry Clerks Hill, end the Poor l'Alocat• ll.ll, with the
erneadmente, le which they desired the t °netts I env': of the
(7ornii.otee. .

The Regency Art Amendment flit) ear committed. con-
sidered in the Committee, reported, read the third time, and
passed.
Lord etututuom presented a Petition from Wm. Cithbett,
praying fur Aunt's' Parliaments and Universal Suffrage.
The Clerk having read a eunsiderible part of the Petition.
Mr. FAZAILTRI.II moved that the Iluseie hr rimmed, suit
the nonther of Struthers present being less than forty, the
Non-e sojourned at TwrLvir.