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London, England, 1814-05-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

"OUSE OF COMMONS, I 'IIIYRSDAT, 'AIAt 19.
MAYO ELECTION.

The HonSe having ballotted for a Committee to try the Pe-
tition
.agajn,t- the Election for the County of Mayo, the
names of the following Gentlemen here afterwards read over,
having been ,appointed to that Committee
J.. 1. P.:;,ablon, Esq. fir C. Edmonstonei Bart.
T. lt. BezritOni, Era. W. Fitzligh, Esq.
A. H. 11old3worth, Esq. Sir Eyre Conte.
T. F. Heathcote, Eset. Sir C. Sa'xton, Bart.
Sir J. Cr ilippisley, Bart. „lion. E. Phipps.
.' Sir J.B.* lii idell. R. Shaw; Esq. and
. Lore Althorn.. % Sir J. Graham.
t. Allan, Esq. •
CORN LAWS.

Mr..PROTIIEROE said, lie held. in his bands a
petition signed by upward,s of 22,400 inhabitants
_ofthetown of Bristol, praying that no alteration
might take place in_the Corn. Laws. : He moved,
that the Petition do lie on the table.
Mr. HART DAVIs seconded the niotion.
IVIV. WESTERN Ortgratulated the Honounihle
Menthe on the :circumstance of his Constituents
baving so implicitly followed his advice. lie
ruiderstood that the 'Hon. gentleman had. thought
proper to write it letter to his Constituents, in-
torming theism that there was a:eon-thin:it-ion be-
twe,en the Irish Members and the Landed Interest
•• •
of the House, to bring in a Bill for the regula-
tion of the price of Corn, which would have a ne-
cessary tiintliney to enhance'that pike, and ad-
yjsiimg them to petition against the Bill. It would
seem, the, that they kid lost no ripe itt fdl-
loWing the advice of their Representative, by sub-
Milling and sending up the Petition to him.
PROTEtERoI.: observed, that the Hon. Mem-
ber. ought to have known what the contents of
flie letter were to which he had allUded belofe he
attempted to make so decided a quotation from it.
When the measure was first brought forward, -he
wrote, not to his Constituents, but to the• Mayor
of Bristol, informing him that/such a matter was
hefore time House, and that in his opittion,• if it
were .carried, it might tend. to raise the price of
Corn ; and he begged the Mayor that he would
submit time contents of the. letter to the people of
Bristol, for the purpose of Yearning their opinions.
As this letter had .been introduced to the atten-
tion of the House, he must beg .leave_to read an-
other letter, which he had lately written
Swer to that which he had'received from the Mayor
of Bristol along with the Petition. [Here the
1-166. - Member read a letter to the House, in
which, after stating his receipt of the Petition, he
expressed his satisfaction to find that his Consti-
tuents held the same opinion on the:subject With
laiitiself. At the same time he told them, that it
would be their duty, in case the House should pass
the measure, to submit to it with patioice.]
Sir.HENRY PARNELL said, he hoped this second
- letter would make as deep an impression on the
'minds of his, Constituents as the former evidently
La,n first letter the Hon.
1511:mher had said, that the Irish Members arid the
Lauded Interest hail combined together for the
"purpose of keeping up their rents-1(No;no ! from
Mr: pm otiteroe).--7-Theti if he bad not used the
.
.0-ord •" rents," he had employed that of " inte-
rests." Such expressions could not fail to excite
the passions of the people against the measure.—
For himself .he could only say, that in bringing
forward the measure be had, never had the • re-
motest idea of raising the price of Corn. He be-
lieved that the effect of the proPoSeA regulations
would be' to make the price more steady, Which
wi-nril he 'no less a benefit to the consumer than
to the grower.
Mr. NoTHertoE begged the Honourable Ba-
ronet, as-well as the Member for .Essex, would
take the trouble to make thiNnselves masters
of the expressions he_ had actually made fts
of, and not impute to him language 'whii:h
he had 'never held. He had never said that the
Irish Members and .the
,Landed Interest were
c.ornhined together ; but merely' that the union
of these two interests would, in.his opinion, cause
the measure to be carried. Viewing the measure
in the saore light aS he did last year, naniely,, that
it was likely to raise the prier of Corn, he thought
it thel*ly his duty .to inform the MaYar of his skin-
thnent's,, that through him they 'might colhe to the
luowledge of his Constituents.

Mr, ifouNErt could not help feeling that the
Gentleman Lad been rather too harshly
.treated'hy the Gentlemen on the other side of the
griestion. The lion. Baronet, and those who
tttreed' in opinion with him, not contented with
schooling.their OppOrien'ts as to the mode in which
they ought to state their argnments to the House,'
bad also thought proper to go a step farther, and
preScribe to them the manner in which they ought
to correspond with their Constituents,—(llear,
I;.—The conduct of the 116nourable %ember
'for Bristol had, in his opittion,
,been that of an
kottourable andpublic-spirited'Heinher of Parlia.:
nient. Nothing could be more beneficial than
the existence of a 'free and constant intercourse
aild Emiinhictiti6n I)t weer' altepresentative a'nd
his•. Constituents. .Thinking,..', the honourable
Member did, even if he had advised his Constitu-
ents tit. petitibti ag'aiiiSt• the measure, it would..
'have been good, and wholesome advice, nOtbing
could' be better judged when _the minds of men
Wereheated on the subject of 'any measure, than
to advi3e` them to state their sentiments to Partia-
nieut, and to leaAie it tit the wisdom of Parliament
do with it _ as .tnight be deemed nictst advisable
for the general interest.

Mr. HART DAVIS said a few words, whickwere
inatulible• in the Willery,
Mr. .V-ItrstctssoN_ Vetnembered 'having seen the
Jet ter of the Hon. Gentleman in the' public New's-
papers. It must have been :written 'before the
Hon. Baronet had brought forward his Resolu-
tiOns. If the lion. Member had. fillet) a little
more time, before he wrote the letter, it would-in
his opinion have,been fully better, in a matter of
such delicacy as that of the Corn Law's. That it'
was tv:itten before the Resolutions were bt•ought
forward, was obvious frorn the hand-bill, which
called Cie inhabitants o{ Bristol tc? petition against
the Bib of Sir I-I.Parnell, the object of which was
to raise the price of bread. Such a statement as
this would very naturally induce the people to pe-
tition against any Ilik!ASUre. The .fact was, that
there was no Bill of •s;r H. Parnell at the time'
b-fort: the 'House: A Bill hail lately been brought
in by the Chancelloriot the Exchegner; allotting
at all times the tree exportation of Grain, but as