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PRICE TD.

tending to alienate from the House the respect an I confi-
dence of their fellow-subjects.
Sir R. GRESLEY seconded the motion, and com-
plained of an attack made by the press on himself.
fie did not speak unadvisedly or without due deliberation
on the subject, but he felt it was the bounden duty of that
House to check that course of abuse and invective, in
which almost the unanimous Press of the country had
joined. _

Lord ALTHORP rose merely to put it to the Hon.
Member whether it were advisable on the eve of such an
important discussion as pressed then upon the House to
propose such a resolution without giving previous notice
to the House.?
Sir R. INGLIS considered it was not usual to post-
pone the consideration of a question of libel.—(Hear, from
the Opposition.)
Mr. CALCRAFT did not believe that the paragraph
in question could at all have the tendency which the
Hon. Member for Oxford seemed to conceive. He
thought there was nothing so much calculated to lessen the
confidence of the people in that House, as any attemi t
on its part to infringe the liberty of the Press. He did
not believe that the paragraph in question was libellous,
but even if it were considered so, the Attorney-General
was the proper person to take notice of it.
Mr. BARING agreed, but on different grounds, with
the Honourable Member who had just sat down.
Ile hoped the subject would he left as it was, that what had
passed would operate as a notice, that while the liberty of
discussing what passed in that House with freedom, might
go on, yet that those discussions were to be with a little
more decency.
Mr. PERCEVAL rose with considerable difficulty, as
he had not intended addressing the House on the present
occasion. He certainly could not by any means agree with
the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, that the
subject having been brought before the House, ought to be
passed over. lie had not long ago given his opinion
upon the state of the press in this country, and it now
being mooted if the House of Commons got rid of it in
the way proposed by the gentleman who had last sat
down, that the House would lose its authority and lose
its character by such a proceeding more than by act of
violence the House could be guilty—l say (continued the
lion. Gentleman) the question having been brought before
the House, if we declined to proceed, if we declined
to visit this gross breach of privilege as we ought to do,
if we shrink from doing our duty:on this occasion, we give
an ascendancy to the press which it cannot obtain by
any other means.—(Cheers.)—lt may be a question
whether at this time the subject ought to have been
brought forward, but it having been brought forward I ap-
prehend there is but one course to pursue, namely, to vote it
a breach of privilege, and to follow that up in the usual way.
I was not present when the lion. Baronet brought forward
his motion, and I do not know, therefore, whether he
called the attention of the House or not to this being a
part of a long continued series of paragraphs, which could
only have been written for the purpose of preventing Hon.
Gentlemen front doing their• duty, to prevent them
from giving their votes against •the Reform Bill,
and for the purpose of libelling their characters
if they did vote for that Bill. The paragraph
to which my Hon. Friend has called the attention of the
House was the climax of these series; and it is impos-
sible to doubt that the writer meant thereby to deter men
from doing their duty—to hold them up to scorn
and reprobation if they did—to represent them as in-
famous Members for boroughs, who would not dare
to again face their constituents if a general election
took place—to render the whole discussion of the
House of Commons contemptible in the . eyes of the
country, and to promulgate a belief that that discussion
was conducted by men who bad no right to be
there, and to vote in the affairs of the country,
being only the slaves—the hired lackqueys of corrupt
Peers.—(Cheers.) This was the only intention with
which it could have been written. I thank my Honour-

able Friend for having brought forward this motion ;
for, having now brought it forward, the House cannot
shrink from voting it a breach of privilege—you cannot
suffer the press to be brought before the attention of the
House after this long series of attack on the privileges and
liberties of the House, you cannot pass over it in silence,
without, in my opinion, a great dereliction of the duty to
the country and Constitution.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT rose and said, I am not
exactly aware of the exact words that have been used, but
I agree with the Hon. Member who has just sat down, '
that the Press has with very great perseverance, with
very great integrity, and with very great ability advo-
cated the cause which is now at issue between the borough-
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to issue the opinion of the country upon the corrupt system
which has so long existed ; and I will trust to any Jury
—to any tribunal—to any collection of English-
men who have the slightest feeling ; in a word,
to any collection of men in England, except those
who I have now the honour of addressing within
these walls—(Hear, and a laugh)—the subject with more
than perfect confidence. I declare that I am perfectly
satisfied of the fate of this House, had the fiat not gone forth,
and as to their character being libelled by an honest
writer in a public paper stating that fact—( Hear, hear,
heir)—are they ashamed of it? The corruption of
returning Members to this House is as notorious
as the sun at noon-day; and when we are forced
to see Members get up because the privileges of the
House of Commons are violated forsooth—because the Press
states the exact state of the thing.—(Hear, hear,
hear.)—l should like to ask the Honourable Mem-
ber, who is so tender of those privileges, why
he overlooked the vital and fundamental privileges
of the country, that of Peers, or the Press, or any man,
however high, not being allowed to make a traffic
of the seats of that House, without its being
considered one of the greatest breaches. The Hon.
Member continued to debate the question at con •
siderable length. He was satisfied that the time
was now come when the ba'e and nefarious traffick-
ing in boroughs would be put an end to. Which-
ever course might be admitted, he considered that that
House was certainly not the proper forum to pronounce
a decision on the conduct that had been comploined of.
It was against reason to suppose that the House was
both accuser sod Judge. He himself had been consi-
dered: as a libeller of that House, and had suffered
what he considered its greatest punishment. He re-
membered the time when such a system as was at
present pursued would have to be spoken of with
the utmost tenderness; but since the year 1807, when
Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Perceval were detected
in this scandalously trafficking system, and when
they turned out an Hun. Member for not being
present to vote in favour of the measure they brought
in there, the public had taken notice of this corrup-
tion and handled it in a very -different style.—(Cneers.)
He agreed with the writer in the Times entirely, that !the
boroughmongers ought to have the decency to withdraw.
—(Cheers.)—He could hardly flatter himself they would
do so, but he thought that this was the right course.
He was perfectly
satisfied that if they voted against the
present question of Reform, their votes would have
no more effect than if they had whistled to the wind.
In his view of the case, it was a matter of perfect
indifference whatever course the Boroughmongers
pursued. He thought they would hardly be so indiscreet
as to adopt any proceedings against the writer of this pa-
ragraph at this period of fermentation ; but if they did,
he was quite sure that the damage or compensation
awarded for any infringement on their supposed virtue
would be extremely small.
Sir C. WETHERELL was surprised at the revolu-
speech which the Hon. Member for Westminster had
just delivered.—(Cheers.)—The Honourable Baronet,
who set himself up as a man of great popularity,
and the advocate of the most liberal measures, whose
advocacy had gone so far, as to induce him to pro-
claim himself in that house, a maintainer of
the doctrines of liberty and equality. Such was the
Man who had addressed the House in a speech
inoae dictatorial in language, more dictatorial in matter
and more dictatorial in principle than any which he (Sir
C. Wetherell) had ever heard since he became a Member
of that House. It surpassed in arrogance and dictatorship
of tone all the speeches which he had ever heard, es en
by the Hon. Baronet himself. According :to the Hon.
Baronet's propositions, such Members as represented
boroughs, such as he had the honour to represent, ought
not to vote on this question, and thus by one full
sweep, sweep out one hundred and sixty Members. To