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DISTILLERY LAWS.
The Earl of CALIDON presented a Petition from
certain► inhabitants of tint comity of Derry, con►-
plaining of the severe immure of the laws rrheing
to distillation► from earn, and praying that they may
be repesled....-Loid on the table.
1' he House then adjourned.

HOUSE Of COMMONS, MOJIDAY, Mannal.
SCOTCH LUNATIC ASYLUMS.
Mr. littemsit. weeniest I retitle, from the Magistrates
of Ayr against the Scotch Lunatics &Ours Bill.
A Member, wham maim we could out ascertain, observed,
that it would he better to pcimposie any further prereedlago
ow the Bill, mail the sentiments of the Grand Juries at the
neat Amines could be berms eh it. He elm objected t. the
messtere, as it west to impost • cosisidendsle expense
as the ((malice fee the coulleemest of pawns perfectly
harmless.
Laird Hunts( said, that from the communicatiosis mask
to biro be deemed it 'swiftest to give the fullest time Ole
the cossideratiose of the 0.11 by those issterested. Us wield
pustpusse the 14 goading till the 31st March ; sad Abe U till
the Seth April. It was likely that all the meetings, at which
its propriety would be dienseed. would be held Infirm the
30th April, if wet. he wooed then ',tithe • farther pestpone-
sumac He had not the smaller* miretioa efeemlishig hammiest.
idiots: it mould be aboard. He found a mleeensepties had
arises no this head, from his song the wuestinffsess. The
first object of hie Bill was to stesilae mad pan whose
freedom was numerous to society. The Mime to
confine noes whose freedom might be dampness to thvis-
inters, or whose slate Greened Wen Greed a abeam of re.
coven of saws. In his Grimiest the asommilOP meld sot be
said to ecg on the prieeiple of enumubsey dimity. The
wunis
.frateese Artery hail has adopted ea being the
in-Menai terms is the destch law.
The Petition was ordered to lie ow the table.
Lord LaleELLits preemsted • Petitio• tram the tossers of
Ha liras, Vann* the additional emits es leather.
Similar Petitions were promoted frets the Covell of Bed-
ford, the Timm of Peterborough, Aleswirk, sad Noritsemp-
toss, and • certain 011ie in the West of Scotland.—Ordered
to lie eu the table.
A Petition was protested from Beth, option Gas Lights.
—.Ordered to lie err the table.
A Mill to aisesid cubic peels of lite Aet 55 Gee. 111. was
read a first how.
A Pentium was resealed frith • Couveystmer of South

events of the last fourteen or fifteen months, and
the measures adopted by l'arlisineut in come-
quence of them, sad the Bill sent down to this
House by the House of Lords for isidemnifjing
persons who have acted in apprehending. imprison-
ing, and detaining in custody persons suspected of
high treason, or treasonable practices. and in the
suppression of tumultuous and unlawful assemblies.
the more. I say, these things are considered to-
gether, the more will appear the expediency, the
plosive. the necessity of pausing this Bill. lu lay-
ing dooms the reasons fur it. I will not ile..
duce them from similar measures being wafted
before. nor will I ground the expediency of it
merely on precedent; but I shall recal the occa-
Pious and principles on which such Bills have beeu
formerly carried, ood *hew that the circumstances
calling for the measure at present, though different,
are completely within former principles. One or
two Members seem to have been under • miscon-
ception relative to the existence of former Indemn-
nil)* stated that the first insionce of such
was iu the year 1601. Nothing could be lame et.
✓oneous. Looking into the history of the country
from the Revolution, it will be timid abet in most in-
stasices suspensions of the Habeas Corpus Act. hose
been attended by Bills of ludentnity embracing
all the objects of the present. However, there was
necessary connection between them. Indemnity
Bills here passed when there has 'been no
snsprcn-
sion—and every suspension has not bees. followed
by • Bill of Indemnity! Butli have phased separate
at diterent times, according es circumstances 'hew-
ed the necessity of either. Frequently the muse
exigency that causes • suspensiou of the Habeas
Corpus Act, wilt cause the passing of a Bill of In-
demnity. I will filet refer the House to the period
at, or immediately after, the Revolution; end those
who now so vehemently condemn the suspetsolicn
and indemnity, will find that the turn who at that
era so firmly and boldly stood op in defence of our
constitution and liberties,:aymr, immediately after
parents the Bill or suspended the Ai_t

of Habeas Corpus no less it three soccer..
rive times, and afterwards grant& au ittieln-
nit, to those Who acted under them. The next
instance of iirspension was in the Ist George
1714; and this also was followed by a BM oaf In-
demuity, carried in the none Sessional,
,1,715, nearly
about the Oise of the expiration of the former, egen-
preheading Lords kiesamoinits of Cousdiel, Ms-
glottides, and other. conceriged iii apprehending
Dedetaioing. persons suepeeteel 01 it-assign. and to
dispersing Maas tartlisiv. in the year 1744 also,
Parliameat hod found it nee...sear( to enspend the
Habeas cssems• Act; suet on the 2901 Apia, 1746,
they weer ell natlesenity for all acts dune under the
Seopeselia Act .previous to that day-r-thot, how-
ever, tiVissdiail inhutlicient, for subotquent 'r-
ive* had been necesearily unsafe. AnAer indetu.
nay was, therefilie, voted lot all acts-44We tat
defence of_ the cisiititry, between the 80th April
and pith Jew. ..111. tt► thy year 1746, then,
au indeaseily . arm aglisoye an adindiut on n
peerless. Fees th.t ern to tile yaer 17 I, there
was no exampk sirs silstieusioin though of an lit-
dembity Bill there was; for oa the nee. &on of
the riots in the year 17d0, many Ati,ostratea Meanie
exceeded the eknct bounds of the ()ewers countered
. by the ordinary lowa. to proteetioni of the politic
peaces were itidettnittied ,lay an Act of the Legielo-
tore. From this In 1794, lam not aware of env
suspension or isideauitity. lu the lest veer the
heat Corpus Act Wes suspende.d. The .let replied in
1795. In 1798 a new empeuenti Mok place, and let
1801 a Bill was passed to luileintriFY all who tittrieg
Me period beteeeir 1794 slid , lied exerted theut-
seises in the suppresoion of trvaiem mill sedition.,
los the, same Pre limaeut windier ititleninity wits
granted to those who had 'wen igistromental in
crushing the kehrklion in lielaigil. I menfoti
these eases to chew that when our imeratoro found
it neceisary "to arrest and deta:o reams sospeuced
of high tresinott, they atlitisi's cousidertil theinglvia
bound to effOrd shelter to all alit. were act a4e na
carrying their Own inteistiona awl enaotialeuts iato
eteeutiou ; and not only thwe who had Ingested,
imprisoned, and detained, but also those who gate
information against the disaffected. The i'fivy
Council, the Magistrnies, laud other officers, who
heel conscientiously exercised the potters coelei and
by thestispensime are entitlttl to an igideititt;ty on
this giound, that if leonine ate brought against
than, they must give up the amines of' their
iu-
formation, and sicriliee the perso 1 who leol
volunteered iii the cause of public tramptilloy met
safety, and make public evalegice given in epoch,-
tints and belief ()febrile; concealed. 11' hoever Inks
to the transactiononf the last ye4r, Tel the it i •.:s
pf the Committee must a ckneoleilge ill*: a cud
'piracy wai formed to overthrow our t stenlislimegits,
hives; and, chstrtitution ; that errtnin. eensmis, tuk-
' tlng eh/V*4Wof the prisms-re mail 4firtress tf
' the basest bled .tiddrirosed themselves to theLlower
o•ders, ffiagoilied their *uttering!, iiii4l it flinty.'
tlhir position!, -and bad, livally, ruined 111111'
hers lrt the:t side lay the soreiteis pr t xt cf.
Parliamentary Reform. while the pur;:ose 1 f
their hearte the aim of ell their faeuine., „aw
rebellion tied treason. Thifi was clew ly itutiented
by the transact:lns that ink place ,iii this city iga
December 1816, and tie Jtatine,o and February
following. It was reins, ((table that, te•e of the ii.-
tentimis deteiled it. evidelice to the first Cummittie
was, that Petitions were to be ycsented tug Parlie-
meld for Reform, lay companies of ten each.
This had been stated in Jatsuaiy. It WAS needless
fur him to tell how Misstatement had beet, just& at
by the transactions at Manchester in Po cilia. 'lap-
paly for the country. the march of these bodita laud
been intercepted ; for their eutermist Oa: no eutl-
deo ebullition of passion—it war the I.laii of a c
deliberate artificer of treason.. who had studied eve; is
part of the Act against tumultuous petitioning. to
see how it Might he evaded; it was a lichee eta
create an organised multitude, to give ruck te-t1 rE
leader; and each hundred a centurion—to Dyeing% e
Pailianieut by Uterine mope:eft, awl arins. Wrenn
had thee been a more mischievous device—never a
project. more taletellers to the people concerned
juin. What would have been the necessary conse-
quences to ihein, if they had not been stopped in
outset ? Snatched (torn flair einploymeid (for
many of them hail elnplovinent)—froin their ftuli.
lies-son thout moley—without Inod—w.thout means
to satisfy the wants of nature—had there not treeo
a timely dis,lersion the result would have Leta ge-
nerel depredstiots, or &spoliation by famine. It
was the decided duty of the Magistrates—it was a
mercy in them to etop tied disperse few-
titude. For it had been tretertnined Out though
men were not actually regaged in unlawful
acts. yet if their purpose eta 111E14.1, wits
sufficient to render the dispersion !coal. Alter
the riots of 1730 reproaches of a severe native
were thru*n on the imilturities for suit hordes-nig
wbeu they oats the mob eseembled with demonstra:.
bons or criminal jeirposes. The same wool.' be
the reproaches tiftervii on the Magistrates of Lan-
cashire, and the places through which drone inch
had passed, if they bad beers "Offered to come up
to the doors of Parliament. No act welt guar=
take', against the disntli:cted in Alvechesti r without:
iufortnatian on ostis• the list Committee rsiingA
nixed this fact. IVhatever measures had bet u
adopted at Manchester Were otweletelf theeriAry
for the preservation of tea public peace. the Pei -
twill in favour of personaarresuted thge still at
co came only Isom -cosgssinam stet sctvm
The only explosiou teak place *is there ;
but in other places they were fa/event& only by
the exertions of Magibtrates. 1 Eno* it has been
said. that that explosion was the effect of insti-
gation. and that minieteriei agent was• the
prime tamer of the disturbances; lint the wiser-
tion is film in fact..-Had no agent bees. ern-
pldyedt the explesiOn would haift happened waiver.
sally (I mean in every place where begone existed).
With respect to the tramway-bons at Derby. I never
Mi. more surprierdthan at its heitig imagined
Oliver had been brought down there with stay tj w
to furnish evidence ou the trial, uttliell Jew for cif