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The Petition was referred to the Committee.

Ihe Right Honourable Gentleman presented an-.
other Petition from the same place, in favour of the
Orders in Council. it so hippened, he observed,
that these two Petitions comprised his own seotr-
menisupon the subject: namely, that the Orders
were necessary for the proteCtion of the commerce
of the country; but that a,yariation from the origi-
nal intention, by the granting of licenses;was detri-
mental to the system.

The Petition was referred to the, same Com-
mittee.

THE FAIIILY•OF THE LATE MR. PORCEVAL.

On bringing up the Report of.the Commitiee, on
the Prince Regent's Message, for 'making provision
for the Family of the late Mr. Perceval,
Mr. WHITBRSID renewed his objectionst to the
third Resolution tor granting an income to Mr Per-
cev,ll's eldest son, as 'pledging the Hoirs.e to an ac-
knowledgment of the publicservices of the lamented
Minister, which services he denied to be benvticial
to the country. He contended, that sufficient coni-
pensation had been voted without this sum, and
stated that he should divide the House upon the
grant.

- Sir JOHN NICHOLL panegyrised, the • services of
his late Right Hon. Friend, and thought' this Vote
had nothing to do with his poliiical condua. His
public, virtues had been admitted on all hands; his
diligence in business, his temper in debate, his
manly integrity ; to which he mght add, that he
never knew a htiman being pcissessing so small
.a
-portion of the infirmities of human natufe. The
provision hardly, he conceived, came up to what
the nation owed to Mr. P.'s family, in cold justice.
The liberality of Parliament would have the effea of
making future Ministers zealous in' the discha'ge of
their public,duties, by shewing that their families
were, in the event of their decease, under the pro-
tedion of, and adopted, by the country.
[The Debate, which Continued for some time,
afforded nothing new.]
Sir. J. NEWPORT opposed the Grant on the same
ground as Mr. Whitbread.
Mr. BARHAM supported it, convinced that the
House were only. discharging a debt due from the
country to the family of the late Mr. Perceval, He
put the case, that a steward to a,,y one Gentleman
having lost his life in his service. whether that Gen-
tleman would not consider himself hound to provide
for his family ? He, trusted there was not a M,:mber
present who did not feel the claim.

- Sir' FRANCIS BVRDETT' Could not consent to vote
the public money in this cases because he' thought
the late Mr. Perceval had no claims, in his public
capacity, upon the country.
Lord JocEivN defended the grant on the basis of
public principles. •

Mr. HUSKISSON supported it, and re-stated his for-
mer arguments.

Mr.HoLmE SUMNER also supported it, arid con-
tended, that the family were entitled to 30001.-a
year, as the House had.come to a resolution lately,
providing that.sum for the benefit of any Minister
aftrw five years service, and Mr. Perceval had been
Minister that time.

The House then divided on the grant.
Ayes s 171
Noes

Msjority .

The House then went ii.to a Committee on lie
Poi' ions respe&ing the Orders in Council, and heard
evidence.—Adjourned.,

TnE LATE MR, PBRCEVAL..--It is a fa& which
ought •not to pass unnoticed, and which particularly
deserves the notice of those persons, if such there
really be, who have displayed exultation at the
tragical event which has plunged the nation at large
in horror and aflliaion ; that the late Mr, Perceval,
before.he came into administration,. while he was
labouring at the Bar for a numerous family, and
when be resided in Lincoln's Inn-fields, aaually
gave to Mr. AitiFitaitt, Clerk of the Parish, an
unlimited order to relieve all 'distressed families,
with a stria injunaion that the hand from which
-this boUnty proceeded should 'be unknown: Thus
did this 'truly' benevolent charaaer appropriate a'
large sum per annum, out of the earnings of a labo-
rious proftission, towards the relief of that class of
society, in which it is said, but who can believe the
assertion there are some individuals who rejoice at
this foul and atrocious murder.

So anxious were many persdns to possess some of
the relics of BellinBham, that the Executioner has
.sold the great coat in which the unhappy man I,Nrz,s
Jung for 101. The other parts of his dress ha►e,
we undetssand, been . bought .at a price equally ex.
orbitant.'