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King (King William), secede to the proposed
Sespenesems and afterwards to the indemnity ?
If the Heti.. Baronet's (Burdett) mode of establish-
ing the 'boa of the powers listrasted .to Govern-
ment were to be followed, then all those who hod
iaren set at large, through mercy and clemency
to the accused, would be of Cootie c, mented. end
loosass.-ato, nut prowess. oath—no, but insert, that
they were very ill used. and their, case should he
. serried upon the Members of Concernment.—The
attempt to commit Government with the spies rested
on some facts, which though said were ready to be
now proved, stone had ever wititeseed any attempt
yet snide of this kind. But there were some very
respectable gentlemen, very well meaning gentle-
. suers, no doubt, but all anonymous, ready to prove
one thing end another at your bar. But the an-
swer to these gentlemen *as, why did not these
witnesses come forward, when they were ca-
pable of doing good, and reveal the .eonspirscies
cositided to them by traitors?—Whet ! were they
. traitors themselves?—klid they only wait to see whe-
ther treason would romper ?—or did they' only linger
because they were too greet cowards to attempt that
to which they were well disposed, se bad been
proved from their silent fidelity ?—All information,
in cases of conspiracy, most be derived from pot-
, luted sources. Government must resort; in their
• necessity, to these sources—and though they may
be millpond to he informers ouly; as long as they
give one information, but upon going !Till', animas
the conspirators, and bringing fresh inielligeocr,
they clomp their nature, like the bee who sting,
but ouce--

h Alamein la calmer. posit."
Still they must be deferred to over mid over again,
as long as they could serve the purpose of kiringing
to light that which might tend to serve the public
weld. • But the operations of Government i i this
mpect were not directed egainst the people of
England. as it had been said ; they were directed
against those whose object was to throw brand ► fter
brand into the flames. end who sought out the
sterviug artisan amongst his weeping and hopeli vs
family, not with • view to gage Ins distress fe•r
the purports of relieving their misery, but tee
ascertain bow far it might be subservient to the
purposes of in ischie fond rebellion.—( Loud cheering.)
The cause of Reform, it had been said, was about
to be successful. The table of the Commons groan-
, ed beneath the Petitions presented to this House
. upon the subject of Reform. This being the case,
• it was said by an Host. Baronet• the Government
were forced to alarm the public by fabricating plots
and sending forth their emissaries to create or to in-
veut disturbances and traitorous essociatimis. But
in reply. he would ask. whether any thinking men
surpo.ril that Governmen►. or even the Learned
Gentlemen opposite, could see in these fulsome
compositioars soy thing to alarm Government, or
shake the foundations of our Legislative Constitu-
tion by reiterating the cries of universal suffrage?
It was true .the sacred form of the Constitation had
. been fess moment veiled, but it was but for a ono-
limit, and that too for the indispensable interests of
society at large.
Mr. LAMISTON said. notwithstanding all the
odium which hail been thrown upon all the wit-
nesses °Wired to be produced at the bar, the grit-
. ileitis's of whom he had spoken was • mercantile
man of high character ; and he would pledge him-
self fur the veracity of any statement which he
might make, should the House afford him an op-
. port unity of giving evidence at the bar of the House.
Mr. W. CROILEIL supported the Bill.
Sir John Nawrotr replied at some length to
the erg ttttt ents.of the Right Hon. Gentleinass oppo-
site. He lamented that serious subjects should
hive been treated with so much raillery mid levity.
The crisis was one of great moment, end would
form a precedent for ever for iniquitous Ministers
-hereafter to act upon, iu all cases where they might
find the public sentiment decidedly against them.
Mr. BARNETT hoped that the House had still
enough of virtue and integrity left to refuse the
Bill to :Ministers, who hail acted with such cruelty
in taking up. ironing, and imprisoning in solitary
cells prison., for Ms, against whom they bad
lint dared to proceed.
The question being loudly called for, the Hoene
divided, when there appeared fur the House going
halo Committee—

Ayes
hues
Madorily ll3
The limn then went into Comtnitter upon the
Bill—the Chairman reported progress, and asked
leave to sit again to-morrow, which was granted.
The other Orders of the Duty were then disposed
of—mid the House adjourned at DALE-PAST ONE
O.CLOCII.

DOKE OF BEDFORD'S LETTER
To 1.
LORD GRANTHAM.

bur readers are aware that the Prince Regent's
111buisters halve lisooglit fit to depart from the ats-
'cient practice of the Retsina, and to appoint Lord
Grantham, otiose chief estate is in another County,
to be Lord Lieutenant of the County of Bedford,
in preference to the Noble Duke, whose extensive
property, and still more, whose unparalleled exer-
tions in promoting the agricultural prosperity of the
County (and indeed of the Kingdom), pointed I
out as the person who ought to have been distin-
guished as the Representative of his Sovereign in
this high civil office. The Noble Duke has acted
ou the occasion with the spirit which might he ex-
pected from a descendant of the immortal Russell.
He has resigned his commission of Deputy Lieute-
nant ; and we have received from a Correspondent
a copy of his Letter on the occasiou, addressed to
Lord Grantham.

Woobwrn Abbey, Feb. 17, 1818.
My Lotto—Perceiving, by the Gazette of Saturday last,
your Lordship has been appointed Lord Lieut.:maul of the
Comity of Bedford, 1 avail myself of the earliest opportuni-
ty to remora into your lordship's hands the Commission of
Deputy Lieutenam, which 1 Ind the honour lu receive
l*a /ay years ago, feints my valued arid laminated ft ien:l, Lunt
Gasory. In the motives which have urged me 1.1 this step,
, I twit leave distinctly to disclaim sly feelings persooal to
your Lisrdship; but there is a reasonable pride which forci-
bly admonishes 'wavy upright and intlepeistlent mitsil, when
n stig.ua is attempted, and unworthily, to be cast on IL mates
character, that it is a ditty which he owes to himself, to en-
deavour to stand clear in the Cahill/hint of the virtuous and
rirdieril patt of osatilind. •
thu the death of say grasedfather, Os 1771, Lord Ossory at-
pt‘il the Litotenaucy of this County, with an intcutiou of