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London, England, 1803-03-17 00:00:00

NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.

AWKINS BROWNE, Chairman of the
Nottitsgham Eleetion Committee, read their Report
at the4Bar, which is long and special; and etnbraces
thanytopics, among which are the full' tvint ;
That Birch Esq. is .not duly. eleded ; that
Daniel Parker Coke, Esq. is nut duly eleded ; that
the.last Eletlion.for Nottingham is void ; 'that hei,,c.j
they orthe Petitions i 3 frivolons
.or Vexatious.;
That John Allen,. Esq. the, Returning Officer, ailed
contrary to his. duty, in opening the Von anti pro.
ceeding. to coke the votes of the Eleaors, and keep.
ing is-open for. one hour, and until forty-f Our Elec.
tors had polledduring the whole of Which period
no Candidate apecared; that after the first -day of
Eledion, the Freedom of Eleaion was grossly yin.
laced fly disturbances and-violent praCtices, during
the subsequent days of polling, and chat the-flett.
tioner, Daniel Parket' Coke, Esq. met personal in.
sults and violence, and was obliged,' from 'a just
apprehension of hazard to -his life, -.to leave the.
place of kieetioh,- and ccitild not rettyn,' net that a
great number of Eleetors were prevented trout ex-
ercising their:Ftanchiie that the hriagistraces of
the Corporation 'therein named, took no eireaual
means 'to preserve the-Peace' and"Fteedotrt.of
tion, or to ptinish the offenders.

That at a. Co'itunn.liall on the $d day of January
las!-,..held.at the s;•lid..l‘Own, after this Petition was
presented, a tesolution "was past .for defraying,- out
of, the Corporation money, the' legal-expenses of
the9ificers of the Town who had omitted to poilish
persons for their Inisbehaviour,and taking.tio'cifc_
luaL means to' preserve the peace' and freedom of
'rm to preserve the peace of the Cor-
poration and.the TOwn of Nottirighaiti,'and4o pre-
vent the, repetition of such'disgraeeful•seenes,• it
is of the Committee the' House should
be. moved for leave to bring in a 'Bill to give to the
'Magistrates. of the County a concurrent jurisdiaion
with those of the Corporation and -Town of Not-
tingham:, and further, that it is the opinion cat the
Committee, unless that or some other such mea,
sure be taken-previous to the next' Eleetion fur
Nottingham, there is no reasonable hope that the
lreedoni of Elettion can be preserved.
'hat the 'evidence giveh before the committee
should 'be laid before the House. That, a...person
named in the itCpOrt was employed to plo.,:ur;

ttires•to aPc ti (ion irregularly. That IVllistrates
namckl in the Report were riepcatedly applied to to
preserve the peace at this Elettiort, but that they
took no steps for that purpose, &c. &c.
The,Report was brought up and read. •
Mr. ii. Bt OWNE then moved, That this Report
be not taken into further consideration until the
2oth of. April Ilia,
Mr. FUX said, he..did not intend to oppose this
Motion., but le 'wished 'it -to- be understood, that
be 'was nortiilie'fifeeltideti- from moving, perhaps
next week,- that a rt•ew•Writ beissuedfor Notting.
bam, in order -to hay.e- another Eledion..
Mr. H. 13 RQTPNE said, he meant to propose.that
no Writ s‘Jould issue for Nottingham for a new
.ElOtion,- until after the subjea matter of-this Re_
port be considered, 'by the House. He could have
*billed an earlier day for tAking it into considera-
tion,
,but circumstances had rendered that impr.tdi.
cable.. .
The questton_was put. and carried. .
• Mr. H.,I3KowNE then.moved, That the Minutes
of the proceedings taken:before. the. Nottingham
Eledion Committee, --be laid bcfore. the Mouse.—
Ordered. . - . • .

'f he Minutes were then brought up, and ordered
to be lqiuted: „-
Mr. H. BRoiv'tta then moved, Thai no warrant
of the SPEAcER: be diretled to the Clerk of the
Crown toi,sue a new'Writ for Nottingham, until
after the said leptait„ shall have been taken into
consideration.

The questipnbeitlgput,
Mr. FOX iaid; it tne House came to this deter.
'would "ad •
mination in .
w; they w'quld ad most precipitately.
The Hon. Gentle Man who moved this, and the
Committee' of Whi'elt he: si,aa the 'IN/timber knew the
circumstances of tAe.,ease,,and might; for aught be
knew, be justilletl id wishing 'that no new Eleftion
should tak&l;lace until after this RepOrt should be
considered ;• but the House collectively had no such
knowledgi.: He thought the Report ought to be
perused for a'few' ahys by -the Menthers of the
House, and zdlerwards, is would be time .enough
to hi ing forwiird 'lNlOtion of this fuiture'; he did
?lOC see there was at 'pistol' iuKcien't;gtound fj)r the.
House to detetinine'atiiriCe that the town of Not:
fingham should 'remain 'Unrepresented for all this
Arne. Fie
,said this; was' a good deal incon..
venience teiesUlt io'flie town ir this' MoliOn
should be adopted, because it would be,lieeping it
all that time"ds 'i4re•in a 'sfate..tCf for•
every, one knew that such would • be.,the pradical
efFed of keeping it for:tbat„time,,uoreptesented and
in a state of uncertainty.,as tp,itte slow a Poll may
recommence. For theie reasons this' Motion bad
his dieitied!negativeotfough he-did not,knois% that
he should • t ake-the Sense of the' House upon it.
'Mr. BOND that this 'Motion.was`made •in
foim and Manner • coni-ormably to.' parliamentary
usage and' establiSherrprecedeilt.' lt-appeated from'
she Report which had just been read to the House,
that it was the• opinion .of the •Coinmittee who had
investigated the, matter, there. wAs. no. reasonable
ground of hope of a peaceable iLledion for the. town
of Nottingham, unlessAome means. be taken fur its
preservation different from those which at present
exist.„ He submitted to the House .the propriety-of
giving to the Report of this Committee the same
confidence tl,at. had been renosed in tubers. ar)d if
Any. such cottudenee, was reposed, it wa manifest
from the Report itself that no new ElettiOn ought
to take place until after that Report should have
-been considered. • •

BRQWWE said, he should not have
made this Motion without- assigning reasons for it ;
'but,that he:tbOught the House would have heel) the
propriety of it-immediately. The evidence given
before the, Committee • wits now before the House,
and ordered to be printed for the use of:the-Members.
He thought .it therefOre disrespeillato the 1-louse,
to proceed to assign, td them reasons upon a•subjed
thellouseitad .agreed to take into consideration on
a- future day—a subjed at present known only to the
kw Members who-composed the Committee. The
House, I weVer,Would so far giveeredit to, the Report
io•the first instance, as' to say, that no new Ere4tion
should take place until this Matter:be cariidered;:fOr it
appeared on the face of :the...gerri'which bad been
read 'to the, Hdose, that the Fte'edoin
had been.grosslyviolatt:l„ by a systematic funitiit,
• obia watt di3graceint as Bribery and.(:Oiruption.
The Hz;use would' so far ctinfidi! in-the Committee
as to 'believe. they. ‘A:oolifont }lave rerirted These
serious matters •with,;ut foinidation ;• and if the •
House gave iba:.contitko'ce tt ,the Committee, the
case would teed nu further argument;
Fpx. he did riot mean to. refuse every
confidence to 'th
.COmmittt!,•Of. which thefion.
Gentleman lead "been speaking, any truiielhan he
should to any other, bia he wished iii know the,
subjed on wi.ich he was td confide, beforehe
that confideucl at present he 'had no ski) know..
ledge. This Was a measure similar to. a proceeding
against an Individnal. for CiimeJ, for depriVing 'the.
Eledors of the town of Nottingham of the exerciSe
of the fight of Elettion, wtis in the nature of a pu;
nishment, a course which he was not now going to .
debate ; be oily thought that the 1-lone ought to
take a little time to C,Ul.lSigef liCArr. it adopted it. ,
He did nu't want tiiuc to consider' t.,lietlier any con.'
fidente IN41:1 due to file'ComMit Au lie.iVas ready
to repose--but lie tv:inted time to consider wha,t
the Committee Inte repOrted:
• . _

Mr. 19: DUNDAS said, he am not see how th
}louse eonlirreftise char sort of credit to the Report
of this Conimit fee, which this Motion only required,
for the Mijitibrt—Wasatinest Of course, If the Report
of the Oothrtilitee was a =proper one. ','.he Report
stated, ailaohg ott.r .thihgs,'that:there was no rea.
sonahle ground to hope for a peaceable F.lolion in
the tow'n.of Nottinkh;nn; unless sortie ineaSnrts be
taken, which id .the present state of things in that
e;11'ino( be ; no w if that vas the opinion
of a Commit tee which had beenfor so many days
carefullexamioing the matter, What reason was
there lOr doni)tifig that such will be the opinion of
the I louse when they' come to peruse'the labours .of
that Conitnit tee dpun that subject, ; and if.such was
likely to L the ultimate opinion of the HOuse,
would it not be extremely improper to proceed to a'
rew Eletlidn at this pace,' before this matter' was
seriously aihsidered ? '
The ell l AtC • if i' lita' • -RXe: HEQUBK
raid, he was led to coccur in the proposition nosy

• before tare • House, on the 'ground stated by the
'Honourable Cat tattinar) who .spoke last. The Com-
mittee whose Report tite House had heard read, had
deela'red that a.Legislative provision will lie oeces.
sary to seettre'..tne.pzeedom ..or.Eleftion":,for. the
Town of Nottingham; The House would not
adopt any Legislative provision, except on-the
ground on which theCommittee.had formed their
Was
opiniOn. it not therefore fit, after an in.
quirt' had been carried on by the Committee, that the
same inquiry:should be carried can. b.y,;.the-Hpuse
examining the materials on which the Committee
had forthed its opinion, .a Committee composed of
honourable Members of that House, sworn to do
their ditty faithfully and impartially, anti who_ had
reld the House by their Report, that which was of
the highest importance to the Community,. and !the
security of the Constitution,. namely, the F.reedom
of .E.leftion, could nut be had at Nottingham, with.
out the interferer ce of Parliament. He would ask,
was it, .or.was, it not, fit to give credit to.the Com.
mittee, who had examined this matter, until the
Hottie drooki have an 'opportunity of considering
the. ground .on which their recommendation was
fOunded ? He-did not consider himself pledged to
follow:up their Resolution ; be shosid suspend his
opinion upon the .subject, until after he should have
read the Report ; but in the mean time he should
accosiesce in the.opioion expressed by the Committee.'
He .oould
,have lbne, to: consider the wounds, on
which that.opinion was founded.
The question was then put and carried.
Mr.. H. BROWNE resented a Petition on
behalf of 1 rederick Shuttleworth, of Nottingham,
Hosier, now,a :prisoner in •Netvgate, for prevari.
eating in his evidence .before •the Committee,
.stat. 7
ing the sorrow .peritence of the Petitioner,
his sense of the heinousness of his offenee,.,and of
the justice of, the House in committing jtiw, and
praying release from
.his confinement.
. The Petition
,being
Mr. H. BROWNE moved, that the Petitioner be
brought up to-morrow to be discharged.--Ordered:
Mr. D I CKEN S' 0 N Senior, after a few words on,
the subjeft;of Non.residenee of the Clergy and the
Penalties of the Statute of Hen, VIII. on that sob_
jest, which the Legislature had last year .agreed
to suspend ; and after observing that a Bill or a
general
.Late Upon that,subjeet, was under the care.
bf all Hon. alnd Learned Member of that House (Sir
W. ScotT) but which might not be matured be.
• fore the,expiration of. the present Suspending Law,
moved, '4? the, last -MI of Parliament for SU-
pendiog: the Stat Ute of Han: VIII, relative to the
Isron.resitlenee :of .the, Clergy, tie now
width being entered .
as read accordingly, .
Mr. DiCi;io;',l " That leave be given
to brill; in 'a Din to' continue the said At fur a
time to be limned."
Sir. ROOE riBUKTO IV said,: he was in hopes
that he should not have heard any more of this
Bill to dispense with,the LaW of 'the Country. lie
wished some,permaecnt measure to be adopted, if the
Old Law was unfit to be con'tinoed; if something of
that nature was not,d6ne, hp 'should tfrlide it
,his
duty to opPOSe the progress of these measures of a
temporary 'nature, fur the suspension of
Mr. H. BROWNE observed, that a Measure of a
permanent nature Was stow 'under the consideration
of the Hon. and Learoti tlentleman. who had steep
alluded to to.ntght (Sir Wsr.'Storr), and it could
not he in better hands ; but in the mean time, the
present measure might he proper ; for at present
there was no 'choice between the Suspension of the
MI -of 'Henry. VIII. and .the endurance of those
evils which. had been thought so great when .this
subjeft was formerly discussed. in Parliament. .
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
served, that the lion. and Learned Gentleman (Sir
W. SCOTT), in whose hands the Billallodett to was,
had been prevented by .the state of his health Imo
bringing the subject ftirwered hitherto tliiS Session
but he had the pleasure of informing the Huusb, that
he was solnuch improved in health; as to be.expe:t.
eel in a short time to. be able to attend his duty is
Parliament. He was' aware of the evils of the fete.
titian of Motions'of this kind, he should therefore
be glad to see some permanent measure adopted, 'hit
would soon be brought forward. He could not say-
there would. be no objetlion to it ; but he hoped,
the objeftitins would neither be so strong Or so
inerous as they were the last Session.
POLE CAREW said a few words; expres
sive Gf a hokie, that the..l3ill abdut to be brought:
forward upon this subject, would make better pro./
gress than it did last Session.'
• The question was then put, and carried.
Sllt.' 1740th31tItte3E.
captain MAAKIIAM Said, 'he was under the
idisareealqe necessity of obtruding Upon the House
on a 'subject of a very delicate nature. When the
character of an individual [41011043g et) the Iltiuse•
was attacked, he thought it wasabsolutely necessaryi
tha,'t some investigation or: ingtiitY should take place
into t,he cTretnnstaoces,:so that either the honour.of
•the individual shoold be cleared, or if he ld. been
4;ailti of what had bren itnputcd to him, that the
stigma. might Ctirly rest upon his chaiader. He
Was very sorry that be was 'under the necessity'ef
talcing this course, particularly as the Hon. Gentleman
to.syhom he alluded Was a friend of his ; -but as he
was also high in general, estimation anti-at the Board .
to which he belonged, he thought it the more necii_
nary to bring this matter forward. It was now some
days since an Hws. Gentlemani now in the House,
stated,. that, some improper transactions had taken
plate on the St'ock Exchange. He did not mean to
that he alluded to any one person in particular;
I ;le meant to say,. that it seethed to have a re-
icrt,'l,;:e to some part of His Majesty's Government.
'He Ohl not 'bean to state particular words—but
since the statement he alluded to Was- ,made in the
House, a number of reports had been circulateduto
the 'prejudice lof his Honourable Friend—he meant
Sir THor,rAs TROUBRI,D6F, Of whom he might
speak since he voSas, not .piesent; Upon the state.
. -mem- to which he had already referred, a Letter ap.
pearcd in the NeWspapers,.from an Agent. He
wished to stare, as nearly as, he'could; what the. na:.
tare of the transaction was.•• It` was this.:—in the
month of June, or last, Sir TROM AS Thou.
a Kings rvi diir,g to purchase 'an E's6o:te, and having
ANL oat theptace, the name. ()f virhit,:h lit brtived was
'Sutsex; Ire erittre;.Lin'to a tft!:qy for:
that Estate, and in consequence sit it wio, very

I nearly heemuitig the purchaser to complete which
pufchase heacild out all his Stock, with the exception
oF tool. or 3C41. more or less. The person who
lived an the
.estate and rented it, had_l4sl out a
.great aka' of money on it, and fromattachment'to
it, or from'pride, or some other motive, chose to
give a. great -deal more money for the estate than Sir
THOMAS had agreed to give, so that Sir TimmAs
had not the estate, aild therefore he replaced the
money again , immediately in the Funds. He still
wished to lay. out 0.4 otenereo, tht,firscopportu-.
nity in the perchase. of:an .eseate,7o
view he,gave general orders-td.his Agent, that he
should, on the very first diiiireci'ation Of the Funsts,
. sell out for him, in order. that when he wanted the
use of his money, .he might not' be •'Olifiged to.l
.relinquiskitis; objea,- or sell out at a great. dis-
advantage.- This -Agent,' so dime:led, found sdme
depreciation ,of. the Funds on the Saturday ;. on
the Menday there was a greater depreciation, and
then the Agent, Without communicating- with. Sit
THomAs,-sold this money out of the Funds for Sir
Tnottas, and he now begged leave to read .to the
House an Affidavit, 'stating,: that WM. E. Coale,
an Agent for Sir THOMAS, had, for sever3l weeks 1
past, had particular instructions to sell out Steck flit
Sir Tito.. Titoinotiooe, when it might appear :to
him to be prudent to do so.:--Thar he did sellout
for Si( THOMAS wheh he :so judged, and that Sir
THOMAS TROLTURTDGE did not know-of that Sale
of Stock, 'um it he,' the 'Agent, had reportc4--it=to
Sir Tnomas ; and-that he always had power to sell
oet for him without further communication.. Now,
C..iptain.MAßKfi eat :said, he did not know iiew any
inan was to .att, if this was to subjea Sir Itinm" As
VROUIIICIDC.E :to any suspicion., How,,.was:Sit"
ThomAs to. ail with his Agent ?-•-•4•He.gai:',e diree-
lions to, sell out,, when, in the opiimin of the
Agent, Stock was likely .to fall ; and
,that Agent
sells out ..--Now,,,
wished to have made any -advantage- of .his Of-
ficial Sitnation, Woeld net have done this; for
hilted money besides: this ;n the Ste&s—rbesides'
that'of which he is trustee
.for his children, over
whieb he has the entire control, and 'he Would 'nor
have'cOnfined himself to..the sale of the Sto.ck, that
happened to: be, thus - sold cut by the agenn—but
none of44Stocik, he ,lead just mentioned had. beep
sold:---neither did the agent, Mr. Cool:, know of
What was going ; forward, for lie had .of. his own
30001. worth .of Stock, and which, if he'hiid been.
let into 'the secret, he would have sold out.,
der these ittlpteSSiOnS, car. I\4ItKHANI. wilt, anti'
feeling, as he did, for the honour and long and valuable'
services of his thin. Collearie, S 1 TnomAs Titou-
aitinoe, it was imposible that he 'could remain
quiet while any imputation rested on such a Cha.
rater. He believed. every men in Licht tioUsekti!W
the Of 'Sir; T. feottuttißGE:. as an .q9no.
Member, and every man in the service knew'hitn as._
a -gallant meritorinusOffieer,and a Man of Honour.
He felt so much for ,his .honour and integrity, for,
the 'unsullied purity of mind, that .he .declared.
Upon.his -honour,' and Would utter it jr he ;%iva's
going to stand before his, Creator at: this. tiihment,
that-he believed Sir THOMAS' TROURRIDGeWP
41,359,1*1y, Fotiqs
.With regard, to
,the reference
which had been supposed to have been made .
and of his having amle Wie of his Official- Siruatitna
rn vail hint h 4 ut the
.6ilte of ruiperty 'the
Under this impression, there was but one thing he
could desire the House to do foi the satisfiiaitio of
Sie.-THOMAs TROVBRIVGFi trod that v6;iis;-in go
into .a fell and minute investigation (if:This:matter'.
He hoped that ate investigatiee, ,for
that purpose;:Wautd•kmmediately take effea, and
therefore he should moie, ,That a 'Committee be %.
appointed to inquire. into this matter.
Mr. DENT deelated.thiit any allnsitin which he
made in, the Home on this subjeel was. not in. the
least de3ree to Capt. Teoir a RIDC E. The al uston
he made was as general as possible, and tie be ;eyed
as'generallytaken.as it was made. That very-ctin-
- s.iderable soars Of money hatt,been sold out of the
Funds previous to. the event of the - Message
being publicly ,announced, -Was beyond' doubt'; and
When he took notice of it in the House,: he wok
care to acquit the. Right -lon. .Gentleman (Mr.
ADDINGTON)•'OL being a party to it, for that he
believed hirli tote as immaculate es his Predecessor.
The .statemerrt he Made was on this• ground : that
haVing given credit to Administration'for tlie. time
it waS known, and 'having considered when it Was
made known to the Lord IVlayoe in,the City, it did
appear somewhat unlottuhate that It should have
got before: that tinie to the knowledge of Soil e-Other.
persons in the City, not within the knowledie 'of
'any' one in'Administratinh, but something of that:
sort had got out from what quarter he did not know;,
he did' not insinuate that it came' from any individual
in Government, but "that something was known.in
1-the-city-no one would deny. He made no accusation
on any man, he only Made a general allusion: era*
man knew it a swell as he did, that he mentioned it as
'a repOrt, and nothing else ; .but upon his' honour he
never meant to insinuate any thing against the
. rafter of Sir T.."' koult-RIDGri, for whom, from the
accdunt of others,
.without 'being looWti to him, he
had gieat esteem,.,--He lamented that any affidavit
hai been made upon this occasion on ,behalf of Sir ,
T. TM:ail') 11.1poE, because lie considered his charac.
ter 'above al4 suspicion.—He begged particnof the
House for stating so much---He could have wished
that-. His Majesty's Goverornent had sent down to
the Lord Mayor at nine o'clock in the morning of
'that day, that Press Warrants were to be issued, all
inconvenience Wotild have been avoided ; for lie
verily believed that nothing .ef this kind would
have happened.'

• The dIIANCELLOR• of the EXCIIEQUEIi
.said, he kneW the irregularity of getting into a
conversatitin4rthis sort, but he hoped it would be
excused by the House on account of its 'extraordi-
'nary-nature. The•Hcon. Gentleman hac:l said truly,
_that what he had said on a former riightwas couch-
ed in general terms ; bdt it went forth•to the Coun-
try as a stigma uponiomebody, The.HO:n. Gentle-
man whose character had been brought forward to.
night, was a distinguished Officer, and who was
now, he' maintained ii; :wittiont the least hazird
of contradietion, absolutely and. entirely exculpated
from all possible sospicinn of rolsrol,thia. He was
in a situation which the Housc could not fall:to feel,
and it must be matter of comatiseratiOn.end regret~
to every one who knew hint, and to.every one who

knew what were the feelings of wounded honour,
to think that any suspicion should have attached on:
.him. That gallant Officer and honourable man had
had recourse to what the Honourable Gentlethan
, who spoke last lamented, namely, the oath of his
• Agent, which proved ineontestibly his retie& inno-
cence. That Agent had sworn positively that Sir
TROUEKIDGE had no communication with Liu!
respeeting -money in."the Funds, for' several weeks
previous to the sale of this'Stock, 'and it was not
until after the_ period-; he Stock was wil; the Agent.
`tworrnnuTt:iatlg api;ll-iniro-liim' op-moe subject of
it ; a circumstance so material, that it was absolutely
conclusive upon the case, and no doubt could remain
upon - it.—He was ,sure, there was not one •Membel
in -the House who did not 'believe that- the charade(
of this Officer Was pute. He was sure there was
not one man in.that House, ur any considtratelnan
our Of that House, attentive to'whar. was' said in it,
who did not feel how impbrtant and essent;al it was ,
to tl!'e welfare' 01-the 4autttry itself; to support the
chataelers of men of station, and. Officers of distin-
guished merit—The People Of this Country were a
steady in krelletting.people,-"and they would not be
very ready to sec .up any, presumptions. whatever,
without proof, against the chariEter tof a man whbs;
life had been one conit4nt scene of.public'sqvico,
adorned' by unbiemishod--honour.—lf there was any
distinakon-of good qtAlities to-he made, where all ale.
(191itics-were good,.he would say of Sir T. Taov-
II RIDG E, that he WaS most. renorkable.for a sturdy
purity and unimpeaehed teg't i ty.- The Hon. Gentle.:
man had said, that his allusion was in genefal terms ;
Itlat ,Iva 3 the very ttiin
:13.,-;,,*l.lajne.t.or', •
led•.on.the lion; Gentlematt.to :speak. out.-10 late •
any circumstance that attached the Inokr.mialtrtc., or
the most remote d•egree svapieirin, nut °PlY,t)a
Sir •"l'por.tAs TR 0 ITZ RI D CIF i but on any.inclivi,nra
connefted
.wich. Ob.yetrupe.nti
:,t.to;_nl. _the 4t11).i54 t°'
which his allusionlviti math.... These- ambit-HA were,
• •.
not to be hastily and" nennsiderately
6tcrs had secrets toresive, and, le hoped they. w"la-
preserve:them, when it Wais proper ther;shoirld-tilo
T
so: They Ilad secretS. j)..keter Ve at the. time. of t.lq
Signature of the late,',Prelinlinaries Of,Peace ;-slc!'
thuittr.inspired previonst otha,t; event, but after
it
liapeened, there "was no : delay.
.c°llununicatinn of it, • But, they. did • rot . magile*
- they would have been accused of. making an
ercetlatk 7144- verY PrY's*, •
,
:a don on,. :Loa. might:"
r
likve.hail the effeli of which "the Honottrable,Gen-
tlernan spoke, for .that was a matter which coal,'
'nun known exclusisreiy- to 'Government ; uiany
Meicliants. in the City` might known,
lead no doubt many Merl:hints did knOw of Owe,
preparations, so that' this was* 'not 'Matter confinec
to persons in an.Acialsituation. The, lion.
tlinianmentiOned the Circumstance. -of infortnatio '
to the Lord,MaYOr, at nine-o'clock in the mdroinl•
:Upon this it naturally occurred to --.,Observe, there
ryas' no" magic-in anyscrinimunicatiort Jo the 1:04
Mayor
ybr of LOndOri. No.indiViduals litve
prevented by this from speculation.:
.The Lief vv4"l,
thitta:diathetrically .oppositecondua was ohsere
until the time. came; when' (became necessary
apply •to.the:Chief Magistrate....of. the City of, Lp.(l-
- to back.:Ptesi Warrants,' and ,then it could 14 6i)
longer conCealed ; and. this. was....not.':.l“)9wn
the Stool; E*change.bminess was over, and
?tic bud
left Ole.flouse ; it was ~the de.perui him-
self, and:. all the Miniiters of His Majesti'?• G"`1177-
ment, not to disclose:-.any-Atilng-ut.OR this
House for Saying
until the-last moment. He begged,spard
thought what lie was anxious:upon way
sk this .6::-caa,si,x°61111.1p,:i:,'„.e.1•", •'•
for the charaClee of sirtu.vim A's THO tr. R ,ha
maintained, was pot_ fatly.:-Vear .spotios.. A''`l
lie called on ihe'rfOrt..-Getirreman. nearly man
.41° . •
out of that House, to dollar duty-,for. it wati.tkeir
duty to state, an.-
dividual'tennettect witl'i-Guvernment, who had bcC"
guilty Of such a breaCh Of'trust, • as-that of Itirniq;
to his own' personal advantage,
:against •the
ariYl992..v.ledge which his Officialiituation gave. him'
He meant this: not only ai,applicable to everylVieT"Y'
her of Government, but to every individual in 11,1 e
remotest degree'conneaed with. it. • .
:Mr. DENT said a *few yor& in explanation..
The CHANG E 1;0 Of the Ea c I! ett observt'e
fhat -if the'communicatc;n• had been. made 'to
Lord Maytir, as the .Hon, Gentkinart seemed 1(5
wish, the Whole ptirpose.of secrecy wpuld:have`hGa
defeated.

• - CIVIL
CMINCELLOR of tly EXC_ILEQUEI
said, he rose in pursuance of the_ notice he h:ht
gik6Pk to move for a Committee to inquire into thr:
•Charges upon the Civil List Revenue, and to re.
pOrt the same, with their opinion. thereon., He
said; this measure was founded upon His Majesty's
Message delivered to the House last Sessions`: ;le
was glad, however, that it -had not been ItoughC
fcirward:soo..er, and that a certain degree•of (kisy
had taken place, because it would put theJ:k*
possession of the Charges upon the Civil List,. olt
merely in time of War, but also in time of Peace
and also enable the House to' form a correa idea .01
the nature of the Chaiges with which it was burthen.
ed. lie then moved," That His Majesty's.lVlessae
to that HouSe, of the I.sth Februarj', jSo2, should
be read," ' •

Tfle Message hiving been read,
" The Ct,t Asc LLoBof the &cis RQUE it continued)
he said, that in -consequence of that LVlessage'r 'the
HoUse had, thought proper to relieve His MitiMY
from the burthen of a debt contihtled ~upon the
Civil List during a period.of sixteen years. But the
House liacl;jita ;Overfed to that part of the Message
which Atareii, that the-Civil List had not been.► found,
atiesluate the Charges which were to be paid out
of lt ; .he tilerefore-%sished, that the - 'House 0001
inquire into the nature and extent :of :the Charges
upon the Civil List. If the House.should instilu.te
.
an inquiry of -that kind, -it Might be lialod neces—*
nary, perhaps, that a ne‘v-rnodeof distribution wide
regard to the Charges be adopted ; is might
be found expedient that snore Charges which were
now paid out of the,,Civil List, should fall in futuu.
upon the Consolidated It might be expeilient
that some measures should
.be adopted. to prevent. 0,1
accumulation of Charges in lon C sze,Opon the. 'Vin
List; it might be expedient that, Within -04ive
alter evcry
Account of all the additional Charges upon,,

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