The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-25 00:00:00

l'ere.liPilitY;iv ton it was tatd the Spenceans were to
tle-str`Aft-Isniii immense piles of Which
conneetedlitith sides of the river:- He would not
deny that the ntrewst:vigilanee was necessary to
Meet the tVi.e'onteptt,or the people, who were at
this moment state of unparalleled distress
through being thrown! out employment at the
donCinsidn- of the War ;° but it believed iniluirin
whether the Constitutinn, as- it now stOoil,
was not sufficient to meet the eVil,`Land whether
the Executive 'Government was' not. armed With
adeipone, power, considering the•military 'Mike at
Its disposal, to ward off daliger even initeh
greater than this ? It ought •to be' considered
whetber)td alarm was not wished to be Millie tor
polling-es of another des•Cription. The Learned
Oentlentall then commented on the importance
attached in the Report to the' Watch-ribbons
of thi•ee colours, and on the rioters having uo
norre'ammunition than what was contained in art
old stloeking.• He ridiculed the Speecean. doe:
trines.. There were, to be sure, afferent classes
of Spenceans; and:some .who reduced to practice'
*bat the originall(irose4.tes had only promo Ig dell
in theory. Thetiefiiractical Spenceans were to be
found in St. 011ets's,•-,cin the highways, and in
our TheatteS ; tireyi.!typropriated, Without cere-
mony, other people's 'pfoOerty to themselves.
He had no objection to binding them Over
to his Majesty's Law Offiecrs, or the Se-
cular Power. But as to the miserable wri-
ters, he would. let them alone, as lung Its
they confined themselves. to stating their own
ideas, without endeavonring to'excite the tetlue7
tiOR of them to pettetice. 'These Spencean
am they were called, Were written in the
most miserable prose that ever issued from the
press ; but that they might not lose tiseir effect,
they hail beetylrainatizedond turned ihro poetry.
and the person who had so metamorphosed throe
had had his labours rewarded by a pension ! 1r.,.
was rather singular that the Attorney-.General'
should have shuniPerett over the works of the poe-
tical Gentleman l'the present Poet Lanreat), who
twenty years agia 'preache' up in verse the uni:-
versa) destruetion'of all•peoperty and laws, this
Church, the Bishops; us useless lumber, -while the
poor prose writers should be singled out for pro-',
seen:ion. lie then adverted to the observations'
of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh), who, he said,
had made the greateit mis-statements of the na-
ture of the law of the 39th of the
,King. The
Noble Lam) had alshlatinclied out into an insinua-
tion, which was mock- woese,than.a direct charge,'
hut by which, he conceived, he' meant neither
more nor less Jhan that some Members of that '
Douse, in the discharge of their public duty, gave
countenance and encouragement to the disaffee-
tioti of the multitude out of doors. He helieeil
that one half of this insinuation was one half it
blunder; for after Ifaving admitted that they had
done nothing whit') could "cause' them in he
brought to the bar of their country, he added,
that sdch -persons were r,sponsible for their too-
duet in rite eves of God and man I Now the re-
sult of such an insinuation or charif! was, that It
ire (Mr. B.) in the Ills-charge of his dirty, adopted
a parricidal- line of condact, and if those persons
(the Reftirmer,) ant of floors, chose to look to hire
torprotei tiott and support, that he etas responsible
in the eyes of (ion and man, not for whilt rr:.tllZ sears
hip conthict hot [Of •ivlll,t they wonlir2U ishit to he'.
tVhco he considered the power WIII-Ch the swipe', •
SIMS of the- Habeas Corpus Act and the Trial try
Jury Would give to env Ministers', it became the'l
llOnse to pause Well before they ewisetited to ,
arm such Ministers' as the present with powers
that might he 'devoted to -the worst of party pnr-
poses. It tree: imlao‘,lhie not til.believe that ilk
11/e;istire did not or in parry motives, aml
that its object was rri diStract and divide those,
who now ',nog toOttier,' 'But he would tell the
Noble Lord dot the:lt(ipe was vain, for the at
tension of the people was not to be diverted fetish
those salutary unit necessary objects, retrench-
ment and, reduction, and tioallye Reform in the
Represcliption of tine People. Before he sat
thiSsVll, bet'Anid not help saying it word or two on
the case of the unfortunate persons in the Tower.
It fit`ls `Act pass, it trtridltl he ifnpossible to soy
whether they would be tried or not ; butt if it did
not pass, he Irttieted that every person, whether in
that Houce or out of doers, whose duty might
auk hint to be connected whhillose tri.ris, wr;tild
allow no influence whatever to Operate ilium his
mind, etinseepien*t•e- of what had oceurred,.any;
mire then if the , . ;hose ullottnnate Ter-,
sons liantnevet•
burst etrell KAN a, 41,), if .;I:e people of Efr:,lond
were to -be- denied `ti' trial • by their Peeri, if" they
were to be cleprivefrafheir 'list rights under tke
Constitutiini,- on no better groueds 'than thos,
faid down in the Report of the Committee, he
considered the course taken to he illegal .and
un-
fair. It the 'Bills now abbot 'tfit be brour,,l;t in•
shotild be ',offset!' lute law*, the-people deprived of
the means of IneTeling pekeekibly, as they Iraqbeen
fi eettSinnled to do, to petition for relief from their
grievances, Would have no resource' int tin Sip Peal
to physical foree--q.eries'of. " tirder.").-L.whieh
God forbid shetild ever be attempted is this coon- •
try ; or that tacit resistance Which they might
have it in. their power to offer, by withholding
those taxes Which it Might be attempted to brats
from 'their pockets --,-(Cries'of " Order.")

'The SPE.Atc.Bn said the'Noble Liird 'was deci-
dedly out of tinier: 'lt could never be'endured in
that tionse that iiityltTemberr should hold language
which went directl)''''to encourage the veople to
disobey the laws,
liord coctinAtie declared nothing was farther
_ front hii 'intention than fo aileizle the PeOple to
offer any active resistance tei*the laws. He only
Avisheil them t 6 aort the pas,sive conduct of the'
quietest people in the world—iii.e anthers.' AIL
lie desitefl was, ti6t should he kept
It'oM getting to the: Thuthe, which enabled the
Throne'.to fn lvert the littirtes of th 't he
Si%eneean !Aims he fiescriheired he the most abinid
and the most wicked that'64l/IWhe imagined, as
they went not to 'divine, Vitt twvitntboure pro.
!telly. He conld'see'uo reason-IW.the stispensiou
the liaheits Corpos Act. .
Air. ,CstsNING did hp; 'intend AO:lining the
tb,„selong from thot'vote‘, on 'vehicr; to-night it
ori,„red there was 'little titetVttee of
olonion, and he thoo'vhei -argot6-ents were
lit tie tranted in aid of was atre'atly
c}n)pletely tritnnpltanC Thrii were, boweii ,