The National Register.
London, England, 1817-03-03 00:00:00

Fltlll%V, FIR. 2ti.

Bills and petitions of dicer, kiods !gayly 1;.-en received
and read,
The CHAN:el:Lunt or tit. EV.C/FEQUER guo%el the third
reading of the lla.)easCoutsll4 susponsion hill.
Mr. Tar Lou opposed the measure in a very strong
and energetic speech of great lego;dg, oontend flirt the ex-
isgi.v.4 laws wore amply adequate to prevent any seg ions mis-
chief to be apprg trended to the country from fictions
,edi-
tions tuen. Ile said every to to wai suppo.ed to lie cone:f-
olio:tied who doubted of the igg •;1.1111-% of Cs iveritment, hit
toe had, not withitanditie:, reflostql thou, a, lie ;gust,' 6c e,nr
sht•old rein to lend his smit•tion to :IL. ripen' of on ,act
%vim+ was the hest lenwark of the constiturwir. over.
thruwmu which uoy rtimly ne dr•prived
upon whom they depended for support, without nny knov.
h•gltte of his offence, and %whom :.tny in;lsiniiity of re• 111,3.
Mr, W. 0: 'IN and Mr. PIZOT1161:1JC supported the bill, on
the ground of expediency.

Mr. I.s..ert.t:To% opposed it at tt: eat trntll, and he yhotzld
have been tii;i:teneil of kin. ..1( if he had not eNpresce,l
itltoot
.
men' oil tliim in•eit iinportvat .keeamioli; lie should not have dim•
fewil.e tiviloiti::ll.b:i;rairst 44 act which lie enthiti tba bn!zie, or to the country,
eresd to he
.0 niteonstitatioaal and unnecessary as was ever plopoze:1
uy :soy set of Ministets.

The Hun. Mr. LAMB, as a Member of the committee,
agreed, that Ministers would have dour better to have
lowed the precedent of him whom they so much :Admired,
and pretended to follow—that, in 1090, of Mr. Pitt—who
elt.ed parliament together, mid put these words into his
Majesty's mouth. "illy tender concern for the welfare of
my subjects, and a sense of the difficulties with which the
poorer CtiSiCS particularly have to struggle, front the present
high price Of provisions, have induced toe to call you to-
gether at an earlier period than I had otherwise intenled.
NO object can be nearer my heart than that, by your care
unit wisdom, all such oteasnres in ty be adopted Js may, upon
Bill consideration, appear hest calculated to alleviate tli:s
severe pressure, and to prevent the danger of its recurrence."
He Ind not, hoarser, conceive that the laws now in three
were inadequate to the dangers of the country; and where
were they look for security but to the measure which ails
now proposed? He sincerely believer! that, if the 11011,e
Ail lit it, they world hear very little more of any In
*unable praerees ; and, anatomic as lie fin• the peace and
prow erite of the country 4 he should be happy to bear his
share of the odium in consenting to the bill now before them.
Lord SoLiviroNE, anima& cited on the speech of the Hon.
Member who had jolt sat down, and strongly approved the
third reading.
After several very luminous speeches on both sides of the
Inesti dv, chiefly however, on points of law connected a ith
termer Acts tending to the same end as the bill before the
House.

Mr. BANKES rose to express his approbation of the mea-
sure; but he was so much interrupted by loud and long
yawns, and perpetual coughing from the Opposition ben:4les,
as to be nearly inaudible in the Gallery.
The House then divided—For the third reading---265.
Against it-103.—Majority-182.
Several additional clauses were afterwards proposed to be
anntited into the bill, which were all negatived, and on the
question that the bill do pass Hie cry of •• No," front the Op-
' position was so load as to shake the House : but there was no
division, and it was then passed to the Lords.—Adjourned at
half past two.