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tilted front persons as little concerned with the dig-
olyeerepl, as either himself or the kitslit lion. Gen-
tleman opposite. 'Die Right Hon. Gentleman liatl
tend that no peramis were takes' out the iiifursuat'
of Oliver; this was perlieps. strictly *peeking, the
case—but might it not have so happened that he
was the cause, though not in is direct manner, of
the arrest of a great number of tle.se men whom
lie met in 1101i-relit parts of the country?—He
(Lord Milton) did not complain of the arrest or
these pereuns, though be tl ;;ht the time must
e when an inquiry into that eircionstanre omit
take place.—(later )—lt was a clear and niclisputn-
me fact, that WlleirVcr these 3111311.11 went, syinotoms
of isionorrection occurred; but where they del not
appear, every (Meg was quiet.—(hear.) —So it Weiss
the West lialing of Yorkshire—iliere staler ce
liteilUse the fomenter cur it alit ammig the
people—(hear)—so it was in Derbyshire.
Mr. 11A TIIt; KS r--4, Oliver was not there."—
(hear, bear.)
Lord LTON —" Does the Right lidisi. Gentle-
Melt 111C1111 to persist in that declaration ?"—(lreer.)
Mr. BATUURST—" lie Piss tint the part of
that county where the insurrection broke nut."
Lord Mt t.Too—lle might not have been nit the
identical spot, and yet lie might have mainly con-
tributed to what occurred there by his Laos in its
hrar.)—liiit let the !tight
Ifrinourable Gentleman refresh his recullectiou
little relative to the tour of Oliver—he rim re-
eulleet what occurred from Iwo to right o'clock,
but he is nut an 'precise at oulisequetit hours.—
The House would not do its duty sidnomtially and
4Fr-tonally for the country. if it did nut now in-
quire into the conduct of the men employed by
Goveninteut, and also into shut of their employers,
—(Hear.)—lt was a little too much to bold the
people of this country in such disesteem, as to be
I ostuoislied at their bidding its just aborrence mid
indignation the chanicters of spies and Mit 00000 ers.
It was evidently the object of Minieters to excite
alarm last Session, and they availed themselves of
every subsidiary menus to promote and extend that
alarm. The imprudenco of the people in litany
installers furnished them with a g lid for their
proceedings, atul of this they cordially availed
themselves.—(hear.)—Whistever obloquy he may
draw 011 himself by thus catirliilly stutiiig his 'mi-
nim), lie wits ready to meet. As a Member of the
Committee. he also begged to state, that lie re-
turned Isla hearty thanks to his lion. Frietid who
made the present 'outline for giving hi OOO tin impor-
tunity of seekitig further idiformation on the mut-
ter about which they were to ',supine. As one of
the Committer, lie of course ',toed only as an in-
ditidual, and hod but a single voice. The Com-
mittee were bound to obey de opinion of the
Douse, and lie earnestly hoped that by acceding to
the present minim', the path or the Committee
would be made clear, and its duties explicitly de-
tierd.—(/teur.)
Mr. C. C ILA NT, junior, thought the Don. Gentle-
man who made the present motion, called on the
Douse to adopt a very novel proceeding, with t
stating any iuflicient reason to.juviify their depar-
tore from the invariable course of parliamentary
(*urine. As to the declaration that Gover ttttt ego had
encouraged these who were said to have fomented
the disturbances, this was old, and on former occa-
sions had been alleged, nod as often refuted ; so it
was in 1793, soil was ill 1801 and the charge Wes
brought withal little eemblunce of proof then air
ma the present Rh:R.ll,4)l4—f Hear, Iteur.j-11 was a
little extriendlinary him Oliver could lie charged
with doing that which actually took place before lie
went into the country. The filet was, that lie found
the systetn in full operation when he joined in it.
The meetings on the loth and 3toli March lied pre-
ceded Isis arrival in the country. If it could lie
proved that Oliver was the instigator of the men at
Derby, would nut their able and Learned! Counerl
have attempted to substantiate that fact ? would it
suit have strongly operated upon the Jury, and in-
duced them in the event of conviction to leave ac-
companied their verdict with a recommendation of
mercy ?—(Hear, hear.)—The absence of any at-
tempt of this kind was. in his opinion, a powerful
presumption that sin such Statement could have
been sitipported. As no special case was made out,
hit should certainly oppose the motion.
Mr. 11ENNETT—" Sir, I fuel myself in a great
dilenime on the present °creakily, for I beer this
objection to the motion—that it cells to have busi-
Isellb referred to a Committee in which I cannot place
the slightest confiderice— (hear, hen,)—nor the
couistry, when it recollects the persons appointisig
the Committee, the Members of which it is coin-
limed, and the inquiry they have to make. 'Flue
Ilouse cannot put out of its tilted that the perry
appointing the Committee is tho party on trial,
and also the party to furaiiph the evidd lice winch is
to inset their own case.—(hear.)-1 then use the
mildest lunguege, when 1 say, that I look at least
with suspiciosi on the proceedings of such a COlll
11131M—(//ear, Lear.)-1 am induced, however,
to vote for the motion. because I wish to bring the
!louse to a test of its principles ; and I shall, before
1 sit down, lay such a case before it as will, I thick.
antisfy every independent man who bevy me, shut
this Cotninittre is, what it Iles been well deicribed,
the grossest juggle that has ever been played off
upon the country—( Hear. 1-111 the course of lost
Session, it will lie Recollected, that his Nl:ejesty'e
Gaivertiment drew up a bill of indictment moment a
majority of the ',triple of England. They laid the
case of the Cruwu before at Committee, but they
never presented the case of the people. I ate nut
for doing to the Crown whet the Crown did to the
locol,llC--.1 am not for excluding its case, bat 131111
fur Irttilig in that of the people.—(lJeur.)—The
people had hero visited by Government wilts a suit
of 00000 rid plague; spies were seta ; ttttt eig them to
star them up to acts if violence. As to the use of
apses, and defence of them, l shall say but little ;
I shall leave them to the guardianship of the Right
Donouruble Gentleman opposite (Nit.. Bathurst),
who is the common voucher fur character at that side
of the Crouse. I, for one, think the Itirelit I lois.
Gentlemati's argument was worthy of Isis cause—it
fonsiished the hest answer and usiiiihite eel hits own
ststeinent—(//ear)—tor he said that the natural
consequence of the employment of these people
(these were his very winds), was to foment the
noschief they were soma to repres..—(
He shuilied (off, as his Majesty's Government ge-
nerally did, the reel question. and left these wretch-
ed beings, flue Sales, to shift for themselves—tai lie
employed by country 3lagiatretes wheretcr tlikir

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scnicei appeared In be tainted. On the employ-
ment of spies, I shall nut note 1;44 it teener's! opi-
nion ; I Itiorw the difficulty there moat be lit draw-
ing a strict line on such a subject, but I know that
with reference to the late disturbances, spies em-
ployer' lit' Government hive done acts which I can-
recollect without shame, or speak or will t
indignation. They travelled throagli Laheiishire
and other 'tarts or the country in orgaiiised bo-
thers; they were fostered i oul encouraged ; mill
tl gli I shall not hume partitailar Nlagiatrines,
yet 1 may 'ray that at 801 t,,,,, 'serious who wrie
ready to work sixteen I rs a day, at the rate of
seven shillings a week VrolgoS, were found to prefer
turnstile that sum in the eimiloarnent of Pettit% the
blood or their neighbours. Captaiii Kantes has villa-
lislaril a bank relative to these "moles, dud he touches
on the c tact of a gallant o!liCer now no mitre,
and wham I shall nut 114111 e, because lie no longer
lives to answer the charge biologist against I • .
I le states the instructions given to tlleSe characters,
And here I will appeal to the Aleitilter for Bratulter
(Slr. Wilbei rower) near me, and usk lii• opinion of
the responsibility untamed by the emplovers iii
wretches who could go al t the country adminis-
tering ant oath of secresy, the terms of which com-
mitted their bodies to slestritution, 01111 threw back
their *olds to their Creator in die event of :toy via-
Worn rif their pledges. I do not pretend to aity
particular regard figs the sanctity of religinii Ime
that Which any hottest man ought to feel, but I do
say it is shocking to hear the insintlation !Haile., shat
ru English Officer sll Id have eiseituragell men to
enlist under such art oble,;aill9l for the Sole purpose
of :Ifterwarils breaking it. Noire but the basest of
lie i 1145 COY hl lend the least colour or ciountenalice
to suck nteastates ars thieve, and, us it was said, for
the support of a legitimate (iumvertmutmetit—that 1., to
support the laws, as they are termed, by a 1/1r 40:1 of
ettery thing that is 18W1.111. eVt'ly 1111114 1114 t is
gtloll. .I.IIC Right Gentleman opposite has
given a character to Oliver, the emissary of ( ;ocean-
mem. Here I beg the Morse to recollect, that
the owner:than between this spy and the ulisuttectrul
haul arisen incideinally, or accidentally, iii the hist
lost:nice, and before his c 11111 l ection wills Goveria•
merit. NOW when the I louse shall have Ireard the
ease I about to lay before it—whets it shall have
heard the matter lam :shout to adduce—l say it
dare not refuse the instilhut is which lire tom
eu for.—(Cries qf hear, hear, hear.) --I use
the expression that it dare wit, lieciiitse I
know it c t, by refusing the motion, einisetit to
sink its character with the country ut lari4e. The
Right Hoin Gent. pairegytiaes Oliver this year, us
lie would Castle last year. who was believed by the
Attorney with Solicitor-General, b• lieved by the
Judges, but, thank God, not by a British Jury !
(hear, hear ) reference tit the trial rot wltieit
this fellow appeared, I slit not wisle to b. understood
as wholly miclumittiemm; the persons therein cootwcteil
—on the contrary, I believe they were guilty of a
serious oftener ; hut that offence was tint high
treason.—(('ries if hear, hear.)--It wAs ant the
crime in which Government elutlieul it by the testi-
mony,,uf the bully of a brothel. the passer of forged
notes, the spy of the Transport Oilier, the wretch
who was thrust into the witness's box iii time sliest. of
a gentleman, procured for him no the occasion to
give a colour It, his appearance by the Police of
Bow-street.—(Bear)—On the subject of Oliver,
whose excellent moral character hail liven 1.11 praise,'
by the 1-tiglit Hint. Gentleman, I eland say some..
thing to the I louse—l shall ilim•clu.se Wilke circum-
stances relative to it, without ilisetosirog the source
of my inform:glom although I have permisaion, if
necessary, to state my authority fur whet I MR now
about to declare. This 1./liver, sit far as his geireral
reptitati 111 l is known, begat' his career by the com-
mission of it tile offs:lice, mid has since gone on
step by step until lie reached the present acute of
• his fame. Like his great and good coadjutor, Cas-
tle, he begun his career by committing the crime of
bigamy ; lie married one wife N hile the other was
alive ; and us to other parts of his diameter, I
have to declare, that whenever he shalt be put ilium a
witness's box, I shall skew that he owes the life lie
holds to the surrey and forbeasance of others.
have taken pains to inquire Suit., his history, and this
I believe to be the fart : —lie was first introduced lit'
a person named Pendia!! (since guar to Aniertc.i),
to some of these societies in the metropolis, lair,
stunted li.rtitscusetng the qiiestion of Ileb,rlll. Ile
I %tatted from London with lei the -24th of
Alm!, fur Lives pool—tin the way, they became
acquainted with our tin their animal
either there or at Birmingham, it ee is drrme;l
proper to introduce the. Lirielon IN-legate, for
by that Millie Oliver wits easel!, to the Itivials
of Itrfolin in the country. I rail prove, hy
credible witnesses, that Oliver said at tins meet-
ing he was commissioned by the liefortlersl of
I/1111110N teaming at the same tone some 111.0111 e
of mirk, to visit on duty Nottingham, Mama:ester,
Liverpool, and oilier places. Ile said It was II
great object to usseuilde dtleg4trs together ; and
lie at rongly tirs,:eil them to 111/poisit persons for it
subseiptent meeting, which lie appointed to be held
at Liver, I. %fliers. is the use. ',Mill these people,
sit live men like us appoititing a defecate to gum to
Liverpool to repiesent the people of Birrniegionii
• 0 !' said lie, 'me you so green as to publish the
sin:dims" of your 11111111ters a`, a reason for tint
sending u delegate ? Who will know, if you send
him forward, the ounitier by whom lie has been
elected ? Come, let tie hive du-It-gates !' A few
slays after. Oliver wrote u letter from Itartnitighnin
to Jones, stating, that a mevuug would be held at
Liverpool (Ili the sth May, tool raging lino to get
as 15011 IV l'e""l"lnitellier as lie could. Oliver *emit
In I.re;im, ;ma Nlencliester, mud /11 bush places culled
111:1 the tined respectable Chat/Otters, and stated
the ciaifirlence placed in hint by the people
in London. Ile stinfidaied them as much as
possible to attend private and puhlit meetings—
hr represented I 1111 l self as being uclnvrly engaged
its the work of said Ile had beets con-
remelt in the (•oniniittesx of 179 i and I7)3—that he
was deeply implicated in the affair of Col. Des-
pard—that lie assisted in the escape of Thistle wood
and young %l'utson—mud be erwuriitly pressed the
'tensile in the rummy to concur with him in the
adoption of strung awl violent measures against the
Goveritsueirt of the slay. They resisted the solici-
tation, awl were too wise to Toll 11110 ins snare.—
aus jostled by a companion of the
saute cast as I tel Wlllllll he had, by is sort
01314;141e, arrested wt Huddersfield. What I stave
is Irvin itiformatiou on which I yeti rely ; I bate it