The Sun.
London, England, 1817-05-13 00:00:00

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Mr. ROBERT GoRDON aslie 1 whether ttoy ift..'
tette(ei,c,c had tgken place o,i the part of the Se-.
crettuy of State.for the Home o,,par,tiient on the
sobject pf the treatrokut of the Sttte I.',:.itit:et3
confiaeri at Reatling ?
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BILEY APpvioros replied, that torte week.,
ago.a.communication hati been made the Nl}t.
giscrates of Reading cm the ►thject to which the
question of the lionoitrAl>ie (it:oilman ret,i-rctl.
In conscquenee.of tt Circtilar Letter from the Se-
cretary of State, a string of questions l!mi !scot
sent to the Secretary of State on the 221.1 of April,
to which answers were sent on the following day.
Among these questions were those referte I to by
the Honourable Ueotleman (Mr. Gordon) on.
Friday, and 'to thent, as we:l as to tiv:! others,.
answers were given. It was now open for au,
11onourable Gent lentan to take that course on the
subject which be thoughl most proper.; but he
(Mr. Addington) .would only observe thht he vre%s,
a loss to linnw how any.sort of imputation couli
he cast upon the Secretary of State. At, the sarnci
time be did not wish to he understood In say BUT
thing with the view of deterring the
Oman from adopting any course which he might
.deem proper. in the matteralluded to, his Noh!e.
Relatlon bad been guided by the most untloubttql
precedents, and where any dolCut arose as to a
more rigorous or more leitien,t cours4l the more.
lenient, was alwayi adopted.
Mr.,llnouGnAm wished to know, whether, in
consequence of any inquiries which the Hon.
Gentleman opposite had made as to those pri-
sonet, be had heard that a petition which one of
tlitise prisoners had -given to the jaildr to be for-
.warded for the purpose 'of Awing presented to this
I.lotise, bad never reached.the quarter for which
it was addresset4 or whether this
,petition bait
since been heard Of ? ,

Mr. Aborso.rotsr nnders nd that a petition
had bs.r.eu directed to the Honourable and Learned
Member (Mr. Brouglom), but had been teceived'
by hint:
Mr. 'Mono tiAld said, that the petition in tines.'
lion hail been given to the jailor, directed to him
(Mr. B.), iir-intleed, in imstice to, the jailor of
116ditig, he-ought to say, that he undetstood- it
,was before the prisoners arrived at Reading (while
they were at Nlanthesttr) theft-this took place;
Lord FoLit.sToNr.-vvished to know whether the'
Circular Letttr, Mentioned by the Hon. Gentle-
man (M r:1-1. Addington), was that on the subject
bLisphettions and itditiouslmblicatirols, or some
other different letter. He understood that County
,Tails nem, atirely under the management tif
County Magistrates, and conic' not undersTand
what tight the Secretary of State had to interfere
upon that subject Ile hored the Circular Ltiter
referred,to by the Hon. Gentleman wOuld be pro.
tined.
111 x. B. BiIIIVR3T said, that it was easy to see
ihe'Circular reterred to' by Ilia n Fried.
was ILA that on the subject efleditiotts and bias—
phemous TobliCations. The Noble Lord wits
completely mistaken in supposing that-the Seere-
tar/. of State had no right to interfere as to. the
nietilagetnent of the Jail, As he Would find by ye-
lo ring to the Act, of rarlitiMeht die subject;