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ttinveli and seconded this Address, or to those who
had adviiwil the Speech from the Throrie, I cannot
uvool riayirig, that to my mind they would have
hest gratified their own feelings, moth I may add,
those of the country, had they separated the dis-
tressing subject on which we have all felt such deep
regret f the otl►ers alluded to ; and had
that melancholy event, which had is this active
•soul industrious community interrupted the stream►
of publi;• life, in its business and its pleasures,
a•lliuled the undivided attention of the House.
I une aware tied rrecerferit might be idraileil for the
couise adopted. but can our feelings be influenced
iireoritriiii.? 1 am, however, aware, that anxious
as your Lordships must he to testify yore esteem
and iiiirrniv,it could only follow the expression of the
public ferling. That feeling .lid -beirour to the
people or this country, forif 'there ever had beers
an occasion 111 which 'the atiatinnous feeling of the
treople had found language and voice, it was in the
late sorrowful event. There has bees. a burst of
public feeling from every quarter which was borne
to the foot of the Throne, where it 'sought to carry,
and to the foot of the altar, 'where it soright.tro pro-
cure consolatioir.—(l lear, /rear.)—ln this feeling

it was also easy to discern the sincere and warm at-
tachment of the country to those principles which
had placed the House of lirmisivick upon the
Throne, disproving the allegations that had been
urged against their loyalty. On inch points of
the Speech there can be no difference d' opinion ;
but there are others which it will be necessary for
one to notice more shortly, indeed, didn't had in-
tended, in coosetinence of the notice given by the
Noble Forl opposite (Liverpool). Ido not intend
to Move any 'amendment, but I must observe that
the ovoids of the Speech which spoke of the efficacy
of the Altigistnocy to maintain the tranquillity of
the coutatty, seem to imply a doubt whether the
same torsos would not have attained ike same ob-
ject without having recourse to any harsher
measures. The time is now arrived when
your Lordships may ask, whether, from all
that has appeared, and all that has not app eored—
and in such a close even negative evidence is of high
istocwitrace—whether thee existed in the country
a conspiracy to the extent that has been stated ?
You have witnessed the trials in vas ions parts of the
c try, of which only in one instance has there
been a conviction for high treason, and have you,
from the evidence there adduced, seen any conspi-
racy that ..tight not have beet' suppressed by the
existing laws ? I wish to know where any such con-
spiracy has been discovered. It has tdways been said,
ulna the conspiracy that threatened us was not cot.
mitlable sm much by the power or talents of the per.
toils engaged as by their numbers; but if such
numbers had really been engaged, is it passable
that so many trials could lave taken place wipeout
affording one tittle of evidence to prove an union
or concert its the measures of an extended conspi-
racy ? At the trials of Derby, it was evidently the
object of the Attorney-General to prove this union,
but 1w could only skew that the miserable rioters
at Derby had had some slight connection with those
at Nottioghans, where their outrages had been sup-
'crow,' by 18 dragoons. lam aware it might he
bold, 'lust but for the suspension of the Delores Cor-
pus Act, num), conspiracies might have broken out;
but if the conspiracy had been so gravel as to have
embraced the greater part of the community, how
could the seizure of a few poor individuals have
prevented the breaking out of the conspiracy ? It
littl liven said to the rioters of Derby, by their
Captain, that all England, Ireland, and France,
Were to rise at once in insurrection ; and he added,
that the clouds of the North were to crone to
their as.istance. If such, or any thing like it,
were the cove, could it be believed that the suspen-
sion of the Habeas Corpus Act could have exercised
so powerful an influence, as not only to restrain
England, where alone it was operative. but also
Ireland and Frame, and that it should also have
imprisoned the clouds of the North ? 11'haterer
ltutl been done was achieved by the existing laws.
by the gsth of Edward 1111., and by a constitu-
tional .fury—and so far were the great body of the
people bunt bring tainted with the sentiments of
the rioters, that in the few villages through which
they had passed, the people•looked upon their pro-
reetliowe with terror told detestation. This was nu
iota that the people in general were hostile to the
King's authority. Against the principle of the
Suspension Act, I, therefore, again take this up.
portunity of entering my protest, and of expressing
toy saitslaetinti that it will be immediately repealed."
With trAnect to tlir other topics in the Speech, be
seoul.l not flow enter nth) 4 detail upon their merits.
lie was centrally ready to admit that there was an
appearance of prosperity in the couutry, and, lie
Wooed, the increase of advantages would be such
a- wool,' enable it in bier the great burdens with
which at was encountered, and which rather hail the
effect of giving au oppurt 0000 ii y to hope than to
expert. He had no amen:" if opposing any part
of.the Address, except nit winch, by tilletener,
apprOverl of the rounds on which the Il.theos
Corlett. Art had been suspended. Upon that sub-
ject los I was lomg ramie up, lint lie did not
111,1111 SO go to tilt extent Opp.),i lig the sentiment
winch upon this occasoun shcuid pitvail in the de•
woe of uoisisituity. _

•hhe Earl of LIVERPOOL did not intend to ed..
lire.. their 11.,,rilubsia. at any Irtl,th, poticularlyas
the callous topics alluded in thr ',weeding Apecelie•
would irrishohly he 'subject to discitioaou opens other
ureasturo, to which the attest or their Lordships
'flight shostll• lie diuwin There was. br.ldrs, 1155
evident indiums.. cotswileting the stature of the
Address, to sheen's those questions at the 'ne-
west or 444444 rot. He would. however. *stone their
Lordships. that if this was au occasion soloptell
to their coutadenstion, he should not ooh• prove
Ilia' she conduct, of Msailitera was borne out
by ell the circushatauces which cattle before
l'ailisostitt. but by Miser:. %loch occurred slur-
iug the recess, that the precautionary itteabities
adopted, after a slue inve.iikrtrion, welt for
104 May by Mn sarquate isretnity, limit shut they
oviuslly procusell tor the country the :security she
ropyrol. Th. was to he prove.l Hot only by
• wiath stared brfine the Comainittire oI their Liar4l.
►lops, taut by occurrences that took place since.
'nod Is danger was isupeudisig. from which the
sir oat il-cistve spasms of protrciisq; the co rt• was
IlkeSis.pirsolosi of the Habeas Corpus, there was now
4101111 It ; and when the lives Dud properties of los
olursty's ►ubjects were so • eittlaugeted, it dui nut
list:owe their Lordships to calculate how much