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HALit PL
PRICE SIXPENC

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Mr.
DAVIES Gion Y. rose to second the rnotilon.
I He said, when he
,voted against sending the
gh t it Hon.
HOUSE OP PEERS, Baronet to the. Tower, it was because he thou
TUESDAY, APRIL t U.Letter, in the first instance, not to proceed oo
• trernity, ashe thought he would persevere until he
The House Was for some time occupied in a Corn-
called down the censure of the House and thesconns
mittec of Privileges on the Banbury Peerag-t.... ;' after try, The conduat of the Hon. Baronet:was most
which the Conamittee was ordered to sit agaip oh ! atrocious. He did not know what epithet to apply
Tuesday next.
to this letter ; but he was of opinion that the better.
On the admission of strangers after prayers were way would be to suffer it to pass unnoticed, as the
read, we found
best means of frustrating his objea.
number of Bills, mostly private • ,
A Message from the Commons, htloginthe gup a Mr. ADAM was of opinion, that such a mode nf
I one •ofm was treating the letter was as advisable as any other.
a Bill for incorporating a Gas Light Company.-- The letter was of that sort, that whatever other
These Bills were read of course a first time. steps might be take n, would not alter the situation
On the first reading of the Gas Light andlnflam- in which the HOD. Baronet was now plan to bindaced. For
enable Air Bill, the :Marquis of BUCKINGHAM hu- his Own part, he was. as ready as any m
mourously alluded to the title of the Bill. He did
himself to the support of Government in. times of
not conceive that, in the present temper of some difficulty. and danger, and in the support of the oft...
men's mind, any new contrivance to
produce in- vileges of the House ; but When he made this pledge,
flammable matter was necessary. With regard to 'he could not bu, declare that what had recently ILT.
the ohjeat of the Bill itself, lie could only say, that 'petted was not difficult to foresee. He thought ttass
for three years be bad been subjed to a purgatory
,conduct -of his Majesty's Ministers eXceedingly cal.
from the experiment, and that if it was to be per- pable. The scene which took place in the metro-
listed in, most of the houses where the experi-
polis for the last four days was of a most affliain
ment was to be made would be rendered unin-
-nature, and for which, in his opinion, his Majestg y's
habitable.
Ministers were answerable. They had, with respett
to the Hon. Baronet, full a fortnight to look into
all the laws of the country for the papose of pro-
j ceeding according to the pure principle of the law,
and to search for precedents. An adjournment was
moved to give them time to deliberate, during which
they should have considered the state of the coun-
try. It was the bounden duty of the Secretary
of State for the Home Department to have
known the state of the public mind, and as a
great ati was to be done, he was bound , most'
emphatically to provide the means to. carry it
into effed.,7 .What was the consequence ? Minis-
tent, until a late hour on Saturday night, doubted the
efficacy of the warrant, or whether it ought to be
carried into effeEt or not. There were doubts and_
difficulties in the minds of Ministers as to the
ture and extent of the warrant, and to their imbe-
cAity and indecisiou. he attributed all the unischfef,
As to the nature of the warrant, he had himself no
doubt. It was a, warrant for Committing a- person
in execution adjudged guilty of a crime: The case
stood on the law of Parliament, which was founded
on reason. The privileges of the house of Com-
mons were far the proteetrOn of the rights and the
security of the subject, and a warrant of the Speak-
er entitled the House to the as istance of all ihe
Sheriffs, Magistrates, and Officers, in every coun-
ty and every part of the country. The w arrant,
therefore, when founded en ;eason, was as effica--
cious at ‘7-7irnbledon as in town, in K in Surry,
or any pall, of the kingdom. It war e duty of
those who cny. view In Shen IDCd3Ures to come
down to the House with their muds stored with
every ihing necessary for their accomplishment.
But how could it be accounted for in Ministers,
that twentysfetar hours before the execution they
were not certain of their right to break open a '
door ? He did not blame the Attorney-General
for advis:ng the mode of carry ing the warrant into
execution, but if it had been done in the first instance
the HouSe would not now have on its Journals the
doubts and apprehensions entertained of the legality
of the warrant. He had no objection to the'mo-
tion, but he could nor refrain from expressing his
sentiments. He was of opinion that the privileges
of the House of Commons stood as high and as un- ,
impeached, as if their vindication had been pro-
perly executed, and he tlionght the failure was int-
putabie to Ministers.
Sir J.. ANSTRUTHER said, he never entertained a
doubt as to the rights and privileges of the Hoarse
for issuing a warrant, tier did he think - that any
doubt remained as to the mode of executing it.. He
did not think any imputation could be applied' to
Ministers, in whose hands Government must now be
supported ; though their measures were nut the
best, yet since the question was, whether we shall
have a Government or not, the most unanimous
support should be .afforded, however improper it
was to bring things to such a pass. Did the Hon.
Gentleman mean, because the mezures pursued .
were not right, that the Constitution of the coun-
try should be sacrificed ? -However he disliked Mi-
nisters, be would rather their places were heredita-
ry, than that the Constitution of the country should
be overthrown. For the Right lion. 9entlemen
opposite, he entertained the greatest respea; end
believed they were not incompetent in point .of ta-
lent to a certain extent ; at present they should not
be deserted. With respea to the motion, he did
not think it consistent with the dignity of the
House to notice such a letter; he was Of opinion
it would be better to get rid of The question en-
tirely, and to pass it by with the silent Contempt it
merited.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER S3id, he
could-not-abstain from adverting to what he con-
ceived a most unjust and impolitic view which had
been taken by some Gentlemen of the proceedings
which, for the last four days, disturbed the metro-
polis. The outrages which took .place were attri-
buted, in the course of the evening, to his Majes-
ty's Ministers, but such assertion, he must say, was
as impolitic as it was umust. That Gentlemen
ghould be so perverted in their minds, as to ascribe
the disturbances which Occurred, to Ministers; truly
astonished him. In any view of any transaaion,
such injustice and such impolicy was never witness-
ed. Ministers were accused of not being suffici-
ently prompt in interfering to enforce the execution
the warrant of the House of Commons. But what
would have been the opinion of these Gentlensen-uf
Ministers; if, at the time that one of the Sheriff's of
London was proclaiming to the mob that it was
wrong to permit the interferenbe of the Military,
the Executive Government had taken the warrant
out_ of the hands of the Officer legally executing it
at hiS own peril, and executed it theniseiVes. \ Had

REVERSION- BILL.
Lord HOLLAND wished to call the attention of
their Lordships to a Bill now on their table, respea-
ing the granting of Places in Reversion. In the
absence of the Noble Earl (Grosvenor) who had so
ably taken up the question on a former occasion,
he should make no motion respeCting the Bill.
This only he should think it proper to observe, that
as some Noble Lords seemed on that occasion to
feel some embarrassment and scruples in proceeding
in the Bill till a Message had been received from
his Majesty,' signifying his assent to it, he would
warn such Noble Lords to take an early oppor-
tunity of knowing his Majesty's pleasure on the
subjeCi, and not again come down to offer so strange
an excuse for not proceeding in the Bill.
Adjourned.