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into the'ermntry for formal adoption, and returner) hack
the, vet y *tune 'form and words; and it may judged -
tiler or not the Iloilo!) Society in town was at the bottom of
these nrorreilinis.—(rienr, hear !)
I, rrd If(ILLAND Strictly argued that everything which had
to-Inspired chewed II a oecessity of going,into an examination
of the important India at issue.
Lord EINKINE argued there was very little, if any simili-
tude peewee') the present ease and that of 1795. To the pro-
osed ine,istire and suspension he would agree, but.nut until
he had atoms materials for forming. a judgment.
The Petition being then ordered to lie on the tithle,
Earl (MEI( proposed that it should he ►eferred to the con-
sideration of a Committee of their Lordships to report tlitir
opiittions of its merits to the House. flaying moved to this
etfeet, their Los ()ship; immediately olivided—
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Mulish') against referring the Petition to a-CoMmittee-51
Oit our.re-adotissiori intot•the flouse, we found ,the Clerk
engaged in reading a Petition Irian Mr. Hunt, which al,-
reared similar to that presented to the Hooke of Commons.
The Petition being read, waeordereol:to lie on the tahle.
SI 'SPENSION,OF TIIFAIABEAS CORPUS AcT, &c.
Viscount SIDMOUTH rope to move the Order of
the Day for the Sc.contl reading of the Bill for
suspending the operation of an Act.for the more
lb:dually securing the Liberty of the Subject,
commonly called the Habeas Corpus Act. The
Noble Viscount. said, that if Owl! Lordships cx
nit itied and considered the Report which had beet
presented, instead of 'being censured as it hat
been, it must be highly iipplauded. It was not
for that Committee to produce. documents ha
zert.lims to individuals, from whom informatiot
had been tl,rived, but to state facts which hat
come to their kno‘t ledge, and to reconfiviert pro),
eetdoigs upon them accoidiugly. In the Repia
there were three prominent 'pi °positions :-
Ist, That th,te is evidence of a traitorous conspiracy it
the Metropolis, for overthrowing the Constitutitm by a gene,
ral insnrreet
?d, That designs of this nature are not confined to the Ca

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purl.
No! 'Fit it the Noble forth: eampo‘itig the Committee, aml
who hat the hest means of judging' oti the subject, are of
elooi,m some further provisious are lieeesary I u 1; the prtser-
vat) at of the public paNtee), • •It is impossible, eontitmed the No!de Visc •otmt,
to have read dolt statement in the Report, with-
out eeling ..lottne that fact's shoild have 'stifled
stult an opinion ; but t:l4 I'e had been iu this coun-
try an active spirit of m dignity operating through
a long period. " In war, it had beet, busy in dis-
torting the facts and tat nishiog the glory of our
triton' htl ;" and upon the return of peace, it
son,,4ht to turn the distress consequent upon that
event to its own (lagitioes pnrposes. Those put--
poses were to allocate the mimis of the people,
and to accumulate physical force against the Go-
scrounnt of the country. The meens were ea-.
!minty and sedition in alittoq. every 41hape. It had
1), en made a ;timer of complaiut against the (o-
-t veiniman, that. prosecutions had not been insti-
tuted against the offending parties ; but the ser-
vants of the Crown had not failed in their duty in
,this respect. They had sent to the law-officers
all ohnosioes publications; but Mint of then) had
keen Iramed with such ingenuity as to escape the
technical' visitation of the law. Informations,
however, had been directed to be filed, and ninny
prosecutions were Pow pending. Hugh ions pub-
lications had been spread in a way beyond ex-
ut»ple. ,Persons had been employed to curry the
poison not merely to every town in the king-
dom, but into every cottage in the country.—
Clubs had been established with Reform in
their mouths, but lie really believed with Re-
vohnion to their heads and in their hearts. The
Noble Viscount said be had not failed in his duty
nn the oecasicm of the Spra.fields Aleetingi ; the
firsi disturbance that took place was on the 2d of
:I),cetriher, and though he would never lend hint-
elf to the substituting of 'a military fn' a civil.
polio,, the urgency of the oreuSitin called upon
Lilo to do what he did do., which was to station
troop; in every part of the town, tol, without
the ai,thlwily of the. Lord Mayor, he' ordered a
trout of Life Guard's into the Citiy. The rioters
were 9,,e11ed in a few niments. lie was not
at; .rile wale fotinstitutingtrials.for high treason ;
unless st elear.case could be 11114ild out, he should
prefer proceeding on a charge of minor offence.
Their Lords' ips' Ishii been told that Ministers
knew of the treasonable conspiracy heroic it wits
ticted4pipork in Spa-fields and Skinner-street, hut:
this Was not the. fact: The designs of that day
did not come to the knowledge of
.Government
thice weeks hefiwe the meeting of Parliament.
Proceedings, as the Report sided *were still going
on for the furtherance of treasonable purposes,
tool as the Committee had distinctly slerlared that
farther measures were necessary for the protee•
t ion of the. I;,4lblie poice, it was for their Lord.;
ships and the House of. Parliament consider
wk.( those Inceirres 31tould be. [ l'he Noble
Vilseoitnt hear proposed the same measures ti will
b' found, in our Report of the !louse of Corn-
mmts, to have been silbMitted there, viz. to ex-
teed tit site l'i ince Regent the same protection as
wait afforded to the King by the 3ti Geo. 3. c. 7.
to provide for the puilishment of attenipts to se-
three /midi nit and sailors, to more effectually pre-
vent seditious mettings,and to suspend the ilitbeas
Corpus Act,] TheNatile Viscount bird the
greatest satisfaction its stating that the extension
of this Bill to Ireland was not culled for hp the
cs.ktio4 eireolostimees of that country.--'(dear,
be4l I.)—The meta, however, on this side: the
wine engaged in proceedings against
widen the Logislature in its wisdom had to'pro-
virle, were men who, whatever else they might
want, poss.'ssed great activity,.grent perseverance, ,
guru: energy. The Noble Lord here quoted at,
some, lei,gth " 13urke on a Regicide Peace,"
vk here the author says, that I'VV0111(.1011
on by men, not of talent, of credit and Jaipur-
la nee, IPA of energy; end concluded with hoping,
thin to provide against the dange'rous energy of
bitch' melt, u,eit Lor6hips would concur, in. the
Miele lte now moved Should be read a second
time. .

Tit is,Niargois of WEI,LESI,EY condemned ih general terms
the conduct of lfiuiatrri, :yid voted Avinst the question.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL anskkvred tho Noble Ninrquis;
Dirt wa4 I Alowed by fiord Gla.f, on the othev side of the
Tho 1)ol,e tof SUSSPA also voted Against the
tue..oN.

1-" rd i'at-ENVILLE supported, the Bill in it constitutional
siwco, ; 40.3 I 114. flukea 61'injeL‘4.."1/*
Lord 1110LIAND opposed the no,,isure.
Their Lohlthipt than divided on the question of tio.• second
ot the Bill.

t'amtelJts, Not euntamits.
Pr4,1e111....
Proxitra VA PI oroes ....1... 24
—ltiu —35
Majority in birontr of Milli. tei , ll5.
The 11.'1 %log then colmniitrtl, after which it was read a
;lin ,I flow, pai.v.l, and ..r,leivil to the eoiumutis.
.ttkiqurised wt 111111-vast Tau v'Clock.