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knew the, wool(' receive * rtiwand. 'lie Md.)le
Lord opposite (Castleresgb) was not pedants aware
of the extent to which this system had been car-
ried ; he probably did not know the value of the
emoluments received by such characters, or thtt a
Tyburn ticket was known to have been worth 300!.
The parties said, give us an opportunity of roils-
our own innocence, or the guilt of our
accuser,. How was it possible, without inquiry, to
kuow who were right, or who wrong ? He did not
look upon his Majesty's Ministers as entirely inno-
cent ; he would not accuse them with a design to
mate a pint ; hot unquestionably the plot being
created, was most convenient for them to withdraw
the public attention from the long-desired measures
of economy and retrenchment. So far the plot
served their purpose. Therefore as spies, in giving
cosi t i ttt sed life to the pilot, served Ministers, it was
natural Ministers should wish to protect spies. But
why should the Rouse wish it ? A retook' of nines.
ligation would establish this preposterous gouda.
Sion en their part, that a desire of inqniry implied
guilti receding from it, innocence. The Non.
Gentleman concluded by proposing the following
motion :--

a Thal this House' taking late stotisialtnelloo the wend
Deport of the Secret Cootinitlee of tie Ileum of Consinotte,
and the arena Report of the Innis' Consittoe, pentinfed to
ibis {Unseat the 23d Jane WI. so for es *beams refs, to
the viaduct of Spies sad Wormers, in the eneitestest of
trerausalble awl seditious practices; and also taking into
enotaideration the allegations contsined In eorttio Petitions,
Si of opaline Ilion it he the ding of this Plimise telly to in-
vestigate the vulture end extent of thew."
Mr. F. itoeterow said, that the peeves* meal
extraordinary • prooeednue mite had ever witnessed
iii Parliament. All must Reinert the grand
speech of the Non. Mower, on the night he had
presented she Petition ; butt what o utilisable ifoila
ing off was there now l The Fluei. Gentleman •ex-
premed himself as if that Petition, signed by the
overwhelming ameba of tatempsix individuals,
spoke the sentiments of all the inhabitants of the
town. The Prtitioniese did the Nosse•the fattens to
istftwas them, that they, sok-topless permits, hewing
instituted a rigid investigation into the Lets, were,
after such investigation, fully iespressed with the
conviction that no conspiracy existed, swept
what was predated by *pies mod infaresens. They
had out nuked ensidowesided to describe the mode
in which this rigid invesSigetiss wags condueted,stor
had they furnished any clue to Own the speeies of
evidence on which the conviction was grounded._
He was surprised et the How;Gentteinnt's coming
down to the House with so grew a face, es if only
to alter the mode of his intended p;oceeding—
when it was, in fact, a complete abandonment of
it. The Hotter had heard, the other night, a long
I detailed story of Doerhurst being seen m Sir John
Byng's carnage, at his gate—ando description of
I.Olll*X. as a hind spy and itiformer. With re-
spect to the first, the tale was utterly false. Go-
verntaent neither knew, nor had any comanuniea.
non with Dewhiarst ; awl as to Lomax, be Wirer
was a spy. Whatever wicked projects, whatever
atrocious designs he hid entered into, it was in
character of a conspirator. not sf a spy. On the
27th of Match he had addressed a letter to Lurd

Sulranuth ; on the 48th he was taken uµ mad, on
exaratuatiori, related. The shortness of the in-
terval pe.eerl that the arrest could not have been
in coneequenee of his addreasig tie °Secretary of
Siete. This statement could not lee overturned.—
Tints the two most material eases relied aspen had
broken down; end the fact was sulkiest to take
away all credit from the rest. The Potitionews al-
that nothing treasonable had been proposed
to the people of Lancaster, but by vim. This
was an admission that souls propeettitese hod bees
made. Oue doing allowed tinge scope for °beer-
lions on Loinies's character—that ke war dead..—.
1;111111,W asierted, that he was taken up on the
charges of Lomax. He was taken up on the 8711),
Lomax on the 28th. Not a question had been asked
the latter till hie arrest—so that Beisiford's asser-
tion was, nil the face of it, a falsehood. There
were two Petitions-more, that ought to tic consider.
eil together—those of Mitchell and Scholes. It
was ituporietble to believe the latter, without per-
ceiving that Mitchell suppressed a great part of his
connection with Oliver. with the deliberative view
of deceiving and imposing on the House. Then
came the immaculate Francis Ward—that much.
iojured, worthy, honest own. In Woof, all the
Petitions came from venous who bail a sauseifaret
interest in persuading the House of their' sin.
wary **ducting' into midi. There was ovideatly
a systematic eombination to this mid. Mr. ,Haynes
affected a greet regard fee religion, probably as '
strong as that felt by Mr. Ward. Hie Petition
wpw in the save hond.writiog us Ward's. thaw-
however. for Mr. Meyer., he was a
perjurer. A lan of She name of Slime and an-
other, were tried for robbery astnnaitted in toddiwn,
to the year 1816. The latter was eonvieted—
Slater was acquitted, en the evidence of l-lovnes,
aho swore an olelsi. Neet Sessions, however, Slater
11.11 i 'Well indicted fur the minor offence, frame-
breaking, and the result woe, that he pleaded
girlty, and falsified illynes's former evidence,
who deposed he had been seventeen miles distant
tin the night ineuliaried in the indietniciii. Thus,
a ith regard to this transaction. (Jaynes had been
sbewsi to he 1r jeerjetter. The hitegintOaf.telipeCtHlg
I..):esa% Lilo mere totally falser; and it We. Ituiros-s•
Nu to believe both Belittles mud Baisford. The
upstion„ therefore, groundieigaa it diet eue ts•Geseily
o' inquiry u.s the allegatioaecoutuitted in the k'rii-
tioos, most fall. In the sincerity of his Wart,
it honour and conscience, he Idol not he-
‘e the ailegationa of the Petitions-.-be thought
lhry Irtd nit fountlonwet—and all the beltell. of Is
cal 1111 l oiated Goseriiiiteut, in the name of truth arid
.11.110.. he Ciiied WI the House to reject • the
snottent,
Mr. F. DOUGLAS affirmed, that the Right Hon.
ithliobrr hail mrewere.l the allegation.* of the Peti-
tiona by declaring that Deivisurat had not breast
(;erwral gate. sued Lind Lama was demi
timittv was is spy on the evidence of twenty-as w im-
panel prr-uri- ; hiv immediate release omitiriried
their 'seller. The Right floss. Gentleman had ad.
dreuved bersavelt totally to the Moseschester retinue:.
no a general queetiori lisesinterL nu mosey relations
and decuaressis of *outlier nature, he had desired to
know the grousnd of the motion. Ile could not
tiwget that the Member fur llramber had pledged
liniself. cm the incontestable evidence produced by
the Member for Shrewsbury, to enter ions tuiptiry
uu this subject befine a rhvbrict Committee. T.:lss