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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.,

the laws as they now *tool, Ile knew not, he confessed,
how all this difficulty had arisen; he only saw that sorb.
wait the feet. It hail, lie feared, reunited from the acquit•
ral of Mr Hone, for hlasehemuna libel., texpectiog the
mitirmi.y of which few differed in opinion (hear, heat,
iron* the Oiipmitiou)— at quittalti, too, that weir followed
by the rew nod. or public. 1.1)III.1.1 iplio.l.; %Well 1..5.1 raised
the individual firum humble via rllllll.illtICOS to a smog ior
'lunation in al,. With respect to olor Hill 110 W mule im-
mediately be fore the House; ill 011jtet was not to inter-
free *idolise public right 10 meet, taut to ',tricot tumid.
luaus, alai mi sag, and seditious meetings. Nothing but the
eimeial application of the Lill would inert the exigency
of alie es', ; and he COlllll not but express the Lope that
the Bill would have the suppout even of many of the ho-
00000rabb members 01.1.0.itC•
Mr. Ll T 1 LETO.N rap, closed his approbation of !lir
Bill, emitending, that it was emitintial to the atom!,
of the Como's:akin, and to put down Rebels . and
Traitot

Mr. COKE adverting to what had been said about the five
• magistrates, who might be found as consenting to calla meeting,
he said it was a possibility. but not one very likely to happen (a
laugh)... Surely this should put them a little on their guard. at
least, in considering such a measute as this. The untidy of
Norfolk. he was 'only to say, had wit:teased more contested
elections, perhaps, than any other—(a laugh), The cossequenee
• the excitement of an angry party spirit throughout all
classes, and the lord lieutenant ot that county not being on the
I °pular side of the question, exercised his lancer in the
nest un:antlemanly mariner—(Lond cries of hear, hear, end
order). lie begged leave to cull the attention .of the House.
while he stated dial this spirit was carried so high, that many
gentlemen of consequence in the county, but of different prin-
ciples, were excluded from the commission of the peace. A
friend of his wished bun to be put into the .commission, which
his lands anti properly in the county levee cumin: end to entitle
him to expect ; but when apt litutMn was male to hint, the
lord lieutenant refused to put hint into the commiasion. He
felt this to he a tire untstanee not worth noticing. Nur
did he speak to him again; for Cod knows that lie
never would ask any favour of that Lord Lieutenant ? (Cheers
and laughter.) What, then, did he do? lle did not apply to
the Lord Lieutenant of the county ot Norfolk ; not he, indeed :
but he went to tie Load Chancebor, (Curd Eldon) and repeated
I to him. personally, dint which had taken place in Nortiilk. And
what did the Chancellor do? Why, just what he expected lie would
—lie expreee,d himself in the most handsome manner, and said,
—6- It is not in the breast of the Lord Lieutenant. Sir
to exclude gentlemen Irvin being put into the commission
of the peace, lint in that of the Lord Chancellor. The
names you have given to rite, Mr.. Coke, are proper and
fit fing names, and I will take care to put theist in." He
proceeded to show, that the effect of the proposed bill
would lie to render the magistracy more directly subser-
vient to the ministers of the Crown—a system they were
getting more and more into day by day. He had always
°puttied it, and should still resist it till death. The lion.
gent. concluded by expo essing his total theeent from the
principle., extent, and lie, matient operation of the hill.
[An excessively lone, debate ensued. and we regret that
the limas tea weekly 'Nenspaper preclude the possibility of
our giving even an initiate of the ueequalled and wonderful
display of eloquence exhibited by Mr. J. Illeedeenuld and
Mr. Brougham dui in; the discussion 1 After loch
WOlt L 1101' SE said hr begged ...aye to put a quell-
him to his Honourable colleague te•pectiog the conduct of
it Nobie trieied .of bur that had been alluded to by toe
learned gentlemen. He begged to ask, w briber, wino after '
that Noble Lord's (Suffield's) becoming bid Lieutenant of
She county of Norfolk, it had not been prop Abed try the
Noble Lord to him (Mr. Coke) to give in a list of those gen-
tlemen whom he might think eh to be uonditated to the come
mieeion of the peace soil whelitt r, un his nomination. they
bad not been appointed. ( Cheers from the lei ial side. )
Mr. LUKE replied. that certainly soon after the Nome
Lord's appointment to the Lord Lieutennuey, such u pro-
pos di hod been in ides and that accordingly a list was drawn
up and presented lit the Noble Lord ; but that none ..f toe
gentlest.. n named iu the list had been appointed. (Loud
cheers firm the oppeisitieni). Ile (Mr. Coke), howev. r,
applied to the Lori( Chancellor. who, after obtei wing Ina.
he dal not think Mr. Coke would ttttttttttttt any prison whip
was not fit for the rommiariui, did appealed them all, with
the exception of one llonourable friend of his, a member oi
Ciat House.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and a division took
place on.thes•-•coml reading—
Poe it. 351.—Against it, 1,9 —Majority, 223.
The Dill was then real a wcood time and ordered to be com-
mitted. Adjourned at three o'clock.

CUMMI rree or SUPPLY.

Upon the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Committee of Supply was postponed to Monday next.
In answer to a question from Mr. Phillips,which we could
not distinctly hear, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said,
he should shortly call the attention of the House to the Du-
ties on Malt.