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London, England, 1831-07-02 00:00:00

fall,n, as the author of the Republican had no
aonnection of a political nature with any of the
Unions, with the despotic Anti-Reform Tories, n
with the hypocritical double-dcalirws Whigs.—(Cheers
ind laughter from all parts of the House.) The write,_
if the letter proceeded to Fay that he could not imagine ot,
vhat authority Mr. Home had made his statement, as he
(Mr. Lorimer) was the supervisor of the Republican, and
its ostensible and responsible editor. The communication
concluded with a request that Mr. Hume would send bad;
the manusctipts of which he had possessed himself, ano
,vhich had been removed from Citiz ITetherington's
Ake without his consent; it was subscribed " Your re-
spectful .1. S. B. Lorimer." After rcadine
this communication, he (Mr. Hume) would add, that the
suspicion he had entertained that the writer of the Re
publican belonged to the enemy's camp was confir:ned.—
The Right Hon. Baronet and the Hon. Member for Dun-
dalk were decidedly in error in what they had advanced,
and he (Mr. Hume) had unquestionably traced the itithor•
ship of the Republican to the west end of the town.—
(Cheers and laughter.) This, be again said. was in itself
t ground of suspicion that the man who wrote the
Republican could not bean honest Ra, former. —( linghter.
Besides, what he wrote was so violent and offensive, that
it threw ridicule upon the Bill and its advocates, and can'd
not, in any way, advance the cause. He denied that ht
!Ind ever coup!, d the Bight Hon. Baronet with the ..yrite,
of the Republican; he could not do it; and it was unit
said that be had done so by those whose over zeal tt
:hem to catch at anything in the shape of a chargo. Ot
what be had said lie would not withdraw one word, for he
still entertained the suspicion he had at first expressed.

The question was put that the Speaker have the Chair,
;hat the House might reso!ve it>elf into a Committee oo
he Customs Acts. _ _ _

Sir H. HARDINGE thought that the fFuse wonV
ageee with him that a more important explanation ht
never been attempted. Hewa. at a loss to conceive how

the Hon. Member for Middlesex could, after deliberation.
came down to make such a statement, so unsupported b)
the real truth of the f,ct. On the former day the Hon
Member had complained also of the pompous haught\
tone of ridicule with which he had been treated by the
Right Hon. Baronet (Sir P.. Peel). After the letter he
had read, he (Sir H. Harilinge) had expected that the
Hon. Member would have frankly declared that he had
been mistaken, and wou!d nut hive res,tcd to such sub-
terfuges. When an att.ck of the kind was made by the
Press, he despised it ; hut coming from a Member of Par-
liament, who had weizia and influence out of doors, he
felt it necessat vto take notice of it. He hoped still that
the candour and manliness of the Hon. Member wool,'
induce him to admit that he had made an improper accu-

sation.—(Hear.)
Mr. HUME had only to say farther, that he had as
much respect for truth as tl'e Right Hon. and Gallant
Officer (Sir 11. Hardinge,) and that the assertion of the
one was worth as mach as that of the other. His (Mr.
Hume's) doubts were not removed : he still had his sus
picions.—(Laughter.) If the House wished to see Mr.
Lorimer, he :night be summoned, althcugh it was hardly
worth while t,) waste the time of the House upon b. uet.
nonsense.—(Cheers from all sides.) He repeated that he
was correct, and the Right Hon. and Gallant Officer en-

tirely in error. Hetherington was not the writer of the
Republican, but a person at the west end of the town,
who probably belonged to the enemy's camp.
Sir R. PEEL cbserved, that sated with the eloquence
of the Hun. Member for Middlesex, he had left town, and
had derived his knowledge of what passed on the last oc-
casion chiefly from the ordinary channels of such infor-
mation. He had been informed, also, that during his ab-
sence the Hon. Member had made something like an at-
tack upon hint (Sir Robert Peel), although when he was
present the Hon. Member had complimented him on his
good humour, which lie professed he would endeavour to
imitate. From the charge of connection, whether it was
or was not intended to be made, he (Sir R. Peel) could
not condescend to vindicate himself—(Hear, hear)—and
he would rather a thousand times be the object of such a
suspicion than the author of it.—(Much cheering.) That
any man of eominon honesty or common sense would resort
to such an infamous prone ding, it was impossible to be-
lieve.— (Hear, heir.) The accusation was so extravagant
us to contradict and refute itself. He (Sir R. Peel) ad-
mitted that he had sti ong fact.; against him, and one of
them was, the conclusive piece of evidence that Mr. Lo-
rimer belonged to the enemy's camp because he lived at
the west end of the town.—(Cheers and laughter.) Of
course he could not be a true and sincere friend of the Re-
form Bill if he !iced west of Temple-bar.—(Cheers.) But
notwithstanding this fact, he (Sir Robert Peel) would not
condescend to vindicate himself. It was too much to
wake anv set of men answerable for the misconduct of
others, even of persons who might happen to take part
with thew, much less of those to wi.om they were
opposed.—(Hear, bear,
.hear.) Tae riots in Paris were
attributed to those who were desirous to brine-' back
Chat lea N. By the same sort of inference, the break-
ing of the windows during the recent illuminations was
said to have been committed at the instigation of the
Tories.—(Hear, and laughter). As to the citizen Hether-
ington, be (Sir R. Peel) never heard of that citizen, until
his name was mentioned in the House by the Hon. Member
for Middlesex himself. If the Hon. Member supposed
that he (Sir R. Peel) alluded to Hetherington is his reply
to the Han. Baronet opposite (Sir F. Burdett), lie was
entirely mistaken. On the contrary, he thought that the
Hun. Baronet was alluding to Carlile, and other persons
of that description, whose names were more generally
known than Ilethering,ton's. What he then said was, that
when the Hon. Baronet recommended that those writers
should not be punished by the arm of the law, he ought
not at the same time to shield them from the only other
punishment which could reach them, that is, public indig-
nation—(Near)—to which they could not be insensible,
if they were not destitute of every particle of good feeling.
—(Hear.) He would mention another instance of that
kind of imputation of which he had complained. Ile
found that there had, some how or other, crept into the
new Reform Bill a clause which becatne the subject of
much animadversion, because it disqualified from voting
all householders paying their rent quarterly.—( Hear.)—
Well, he found that that unfortunate clause was also seid
to be the production of the secret enemy. But be had not
been prepared to find any one going se far as to impute to
any friend of his, or of those gentlemen who generally act
with him, a connection with the authors of the infamous
writings alluded to by the Hon. Baronet.
Mr. FERGUSON could never think that the impres-
sion had been left for a moment upon the mind of any
Hon. Member that the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite
had been connected with those base publications.—
(Hear.) But at the same time he was bound to admit
that the Hon. Member for Middlesex had not made out his
case.—(Hear.) Imputations such as those complained of
by the Hon. Baronet had not always been so groundless
as on the occasions to which lie referred. It was well
known, that iu the year 1794, the most atrocious pro-
ductions were put forth, purporting to come from the
party friendly to the French revolution, for the purpose of
bringing that party into disrepute.--( Hear, hear.) It
was also well known that spies were sent on other occa-
sions amongst the people, with instructions to use trea-
sonable language for the purpose of entrapping those
whom they could draw into conversation. But one of
these fellows was caught in his own snare and was hanged
at Edinburgh for treason.—(Hear.) Notwithstanding
the explanation which had been made, he (Mr. F.) could
not help thinking that the direct inference to lie drawn
from the remarks of the Hon. Member for Dundalk was,
that the Hon. Gentleman endeavoured to identify Mr.
Iltinie's opinions with those of the Political Union, and to
identify that Association with the seditious publications
which he said were the recoeMzed organs of the Union.
Mr GORDON rose amidst cries of " Oh, oh !" and
Question, question!" which subsiding, he explained
that he had not charged the Hoonf: Member
o participantfor dtib'eesxe
with having been cognizant
writings.
After a few words from Mr. C. Pr.oioran-aint,,itttheee
ucpoonn-
versation dropped ; and on time motion of Lord Ar.
Tuottr, the House resolved itself into a c
THE CUSTOMS ACT.
Lord ALTHORP did not anticipate any Opposition to
the resolutions which he had to propose to the Committee,
as similar resolutions had been agreed to in a Committee
in the last Parliament. He thought that it was impos-
sible for the Committee to reject the first resolution, Which
was to the tffect that " it was the opinion of the Com-
mittee that all Duties and Customs now payable upon
Coals and Slates, carried coastwise from one part of Great
eaketh.at
time
duties
Britain and Ireland to another, be abolished, from the lot
of March, 1831."
d .t te place of
Mr. GOULBURN would not oppose the resolution
after the expectations which had beer.bald out to the
which the
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those repealed would not be sufficiently productive utttivett?sup-
dl
intendeda pp rehe nt so nt-
y the deficiency, and that the consequent defalcation of
Cie revenue would be detrimental to t public service and
IleieLworati
the national credit.—(Hear.)
Lord ALTHORP (who spoke in a
audible that we could not be certainhad been
redan
auc act uof
al
otfonae
sseonitmeopcte!r)fecwtaly4
understood to say, that although there
deficiency in the revenue, occasioned by
some duties, yet that there
was at thesame t th
time
compa-
rative increase, by the greater productiveness of those
which were retained. Thus, in the first half-y
ear of 1830,
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