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almost or his owl lilt,. Iv" to give
that lint,. Member the 01410filliiitY In! had wished
1..1% loqiiiry twos a necessary preliminary to S ?Jill
of Indemnity. He was not for nikitig a narrow Vier,
of that question, or for shifting on Ministers the
responsibildy incurred by the House in gtallting
the late great pewit?' to them. The 'Moonily
Bill was a memoir of coididerme in. Ministers
fur the mode of exercising those pnwers
confidence, if girth, ought to be sive., oil too
groundo. First, that the state or the country for
the last eight months was melt.
that extraordinavy
powers were necessary for the safety of the comnr*:
secondly. whet the Administration had acted with
ends temper as to justify the House in repusieg
these powers in their leintia.• die to the first. the
cemparacy, olaatever of it had existed. Po* Pro"
diced by 'pies.
TIM lied hero proved by the
Petition signed by
twenty-six respectable per-
sons, but principally •be the Reports of the:Com-
mittees of both Homo.. 'F'or this toe email also
Eike to that miserable coltectitia of er pe-
rogrootoi lately presented to the neweptip
House iu the naom
or a *port, Ministers theonielves must allow the
employment of anises mid that some evil* had
grows out of this. He hoped this inference week, be
drawn, that therecentitation of the country eonld not
be suspended without establishing osystens of etints
He protested egeiust the coufasion mode bosom
spies and nativeness. No clotewmatent could Ake.'
tually protect the country wilbswit veßiviag in.'
'ovulation deem the• latter ,any Government was
plttiltyr of eneouniging abandoned man; and. fotter-
ing crime by employing the farmer. It was to be
lomeuted Nast the Secretary State, a •Nobionsait•
with auchileep principles of oeligion, had imposed
on leinsoirlf the task of defending men who had
thrown off the tie that usually binds even the
guilty—the principle of nut betrayiug their as-
iceisites. .Ic was Mama *envie of deep regret to see a
eletriseter such as -Gemmel •Ityrog, mining every
I thing brave in the soldier, with every thing con-
I alit atioind in the citizen, named io these trnissactious.
The police officer would. leave !Disown Oliver. sod
would defend I self by the coneltiet.persieed in
the ,Ideme liscristaryleOffiee. ANA been
talked of—could it be mentioned by those who bad
sent down spots-Through the country to instigate
to the commissiou of crime ?-44tar, hiar.j—He
accused Ministers uot-of eacitiag a conspiracy. bat
of blowing it into flame—of throwing a firibrand
into • heap of couthiastihba../hosierhase/..ellisteli-
ing to partial evidence--.4mipagolarm.-of hyper-
bolical exaggeration—of producing letters when
they served their purpose. mod stropeeinitig others
from the some persosarwheu
Mr. Ekacatsuaws asserted, that the member of
names subscribed to the Petition .from Matches-
ter. and those of the same sentisiwuts. bore uo pro-
portion to the number who thonebt diametrically
opposite at Minchester. four hoer,. after the
accemit a the renewal of measures ins the Petition
at that place, a parer had been eignea by 258 re.
spectable inhabitants dieavuwiug the matter of the
Petitiou. mud he hail this day received a letter from
sits late Bartiughteem au,l Coomoides. requesting it
might be had before the Home. The Hon. Member
here reed the paper elheded to. It stated that re-
quisitiews signed by many husidreds of the loon'
order of the timer to take into cousideration most
itimPoeswitt usaftwis the Moles hod aproo.on different
acclaims. referred •to the mobil *voltaic. and
their lute predecessors—that they had been refused
—that isatiees of a very ineountiatory nature had
been disseminated—Due stating that the present
state of things would not lout 100 dap—others
jwitifying the French Reeolutisis, and that they had
held midnight consultations for attacks on the
town, arc. The Hon. slsaiher did slot see any
ground or necessity for inquiry.
Mr. T. COURTIN AT said, it now appeared that
the real object of the emboli was to catch the Mem-
ber for .Wansher, and• procure his respectable
support to that side of the House. Ou whet was
the .motion founded ? The allegations of the Pe-
titions were sheltie to be unfounded. The quo..
tier was, whether more bed been done than
was isecaliery for precession. It was not correct
to say that Oliver was/tied oat for his expeditioti.—
P‘ Hear, hear,"/rout Lord it was ttue
that Oliver had inveigled men into conspiracy, why
had he not been crass-exotnined by Mr. Denman ?
He had indeed pot a question to one witness, but
the answer was littlirfacsumble. The Petition from
Manchester was disproved by the Magistrates of
that place. It Ivy upon Gentlemen to state oil
what
.specific facts they grounded this motion.
What was the object ?—was it to inquire into every
individual case 111 not. he did not know the
practical object of it. The Report furnished
evi-
dence that tie individual hod been arrested but upon
oath. He was not one of thole who thought than-
selves mud the House deceived ea the necessity of
,eaapending the Hoboes Goren.. It could net be
said that criwes bud not been prevented ; the
powers bestowed had been used for prevention. He
would oppose the motion; he saw no parliamentary
ground, for it.
Lord Lascrt.t.ss had no scruple in stating that
the Hon. tletitlemaii had abandoned Isis case, pro-
bably het:muse he was not likely to he well support.
rd. 'He was desirous to say a few words of *Gen-
Alpine's alluded to in the debate. It was not pos.
',tide to act with greater propriety than General
Byng hail. through the whole transactions in which
lie had been engaged. The Hon. Mover had said,
that he combined- the General with the citizen.
Knowing this, he thought he. ought to have sus.
pearled his judgment concerning the story in Titer+
his name had Item introrinced. What he had
stated was the opininti of the oliole district,. pro.
tected by hie vigilantes.. armlet. thiegreatert 'hooks
were-dee to bins bows the &hided mei. whom he
had 'lived from mime comarmicietv ; ha was entitled
to the gratitude of Meth prelim, OW he could af-
firm this of his own klionledge. Ile disepprov..
ed of the. employment of spies, though it might
sosnehines be siecessary. It was possible that
such persons might have excited what they were
only to report ; but is did not believe that Co.
VC, iiiii rot knew that—neither war it the opinion
of the people. There was no evidence on which to
round the motion. hid that of persons themselves
interested in iniorrprerentation.-- (Hear.) —He
would rote *genic the motion.
Mr. Pommes, io eephotetom, said, he had been
told by a Member now near I , that I)ewhorst
heti hem seen in a carriage with (lettere' Ilyng,
that he had heard this from a man whom they