The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-03-24 00:00:00

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orb telerestea in air continuance ur tittle we, ,triluks.

Ift:or tGui• neat brought l'orward-liiii
third Resolution, whielt• lir tilotigist it treremetry ti.
draw up 'di. atttduit Pr the Ilinuue of Vuotti ttttt
tuning bolt year rejeetest 4tH Pvtitiwta g•ir (Naha_
utentilry iitirtiem; tuetbly beruitse they
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for Parlippeutary Itrforwa, fiecau., the mitt
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ma:illegal suit indecent ulArit'rtuutl,f the rarrel right of
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garb SO outrage uric or were wit Lire, ffiiolutts, absurd,
sirJ scrodslows.

Lord COCIIaA NE said; he idwuld coney; ce that lie
Oes guilty of 41 dereliction of his dutp if 1w ab-
stained limn giving alt opinion on ;he itiliject of tit.
Revolution, which opinion waatlifferent from that
of the worthy Major. It sometimes happened, that.
persons on whose judgthent he generally piked the
utmost rebottles., were on particular Occasions In alt
error. In Isis place In the House of Columbus, he
had already given it as his opinion, thst printed
Petitions ought niit to he presented, betaisse he
did not consider them to b 6 the spontaneous opinions
Of those who signed thetti. It was a had system of
petitionim ; and, on that account, lie thought the-
present Resolution might not to be adtipteit. Fle
had a- Resolution iu his hand which lie thought
might be substituted fur it, and which he would
read. A Morning Paper, which so seldom publish-
ed any thing that was good Or favourable to liberty,
contained, a paragraph which might be considered
as a ptranke departure from its usual princip!es. It
gave au amount of the ileath,of the tyrant of Al-
vertu aria) observed; that Herten had thus inter-
&redlyr the benefit of mankind. and swept the
despot to his grave. The Resolution he had now
to propose was founded nit that puragoipli.—tlvre
the Noble Lord read the Resolution, the object of
which was to express un opinion, that the employ..
meat of hired rulEatot.to watch after persons who
were endeavouring to obtain a Reforni in Naha.
meat, add a redress oforievancese 44111 under pre-
trate of their coimiiiiting eels of treason, to take
away their lives, wits an act more strut inns (kin spy
that had ever beets committed by the tyraut rif
glees, whore death had been joyfully aumiunced to
the Paper is questions this Iliaeoltrion be
prOpant fb substituti, as bins% more exprestesiol
the sentiments of the Meeting.

Mr. Paexass ereouded the Revolution.
Mr. Here, who lied been iplaced at- rime dim.;
lance from the speakers, now made att ',tint to get
into that Part of the hustings be which tbry were
enclosed by separate railings. He observed, that
he was not fortunate enough to be one of the elect;
but lie should soon be among them ; and he at
length succeeded in getting over the railiuk unit
coming close to where Lord Cochrane, Sir Frani:is
Burdett, and Ms/Or Cartwright -stood. lie then
addressed the Meeting with his hetet cotifidroce.—
He said he came forward- for the purpose of
suggesting to. the Noble Lord the propriety of
suffering the Electors, dr more properly speaking,
the inhabitants of Wiaitminster, to decide tar them-
serves; It might be cofniderril obtrUsive in any
person to submit, in that place, any proposition
which had riot been previously assented to eta pd.
rate meeting of a Conuitittee. This he knew to have
been a practice; and in cosiserpience of that pram,
tier, the opinions of the citizens at large hail ge-.
nettilly been treated with cositempt.--fetits r!,
" No, no ! Of off !" and hisser, ntised girl rose
applarse.l—Mr. Hunt Proceeded. He said lie
contended that any prtiticin to the House of Coin
mono, whether printed or not, if Wen put their.
names to it, must be considered as the Petition of
those who signed if; end that, therefore; it ought
to be received. It des as much the Petition of
those who signed it: rs if it were written by their
own Banda; but, according to the dbetriue of the
Noble Lord, and of the House over the way, it was
laid down that no Petition should be printel. But
he maintained, that it was at once ctintniry to right;
to laws and to precedent; tO kick fictitious nut of
the Hone CA's that account. He therefore hoped
the • proposition of the Noble Lord would fie with-
drawn, and that the Major'. liesOlutWil would be
putand carried:
Major CARTWRIGii said, the Roble Lord
took the object he tied in view by his Resolution.
All petiiiimers haul a right to print or write, just us
they Platted. Five or six. years ago, the late
Speaker of the House of Conithoiii, who laid ar
sharp an eye and as loug a Sight ea coy wan; knew
that hundreds of petitioo'd were intruded to he pre-
sented to the House, roil that they were all print-
ed. lie then thought it would he a gOinf opportu-
nity to put an end to Elwin all, said therefore lie
said it was contrary to the rules of the floosie to re-
ceive them. file therefore (Major C.) wrote to the
Speaker, in &der to get his dpinion right on ilie.
subject. The nest timed petition of die kind
came forward, the Speaker vomit it was contrary
the practice of the fisaaie. That egpiessiiiii was
also initirreet, and was contradicted him epee .foiirnulai
of Parliament. He bud no.Ohjection to agree to
the liesolution of the Noble Lord ; b tt it (login.
not to be tubstiitited for Ms, Which' he also hoped
would be agreed to.

WaLtati said; that tiniest h mild he wiry.:
ed that a petition M print Wes lees intrlligil,te than
a petiliou in nientb.Cript, rt might be received. He
there/Me would mint eoinceist flint 3lisjur Cartwright
atioutri give arp his HeSolution.
Lord COCIIRAIIIE ag Aar said, that printed peti-
tions did not appear to convet tlie
Anse who signed thew. The local gtievancea ct

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