The Sun.
London, England, 1817-03-15 00:00:00

Mon of the Holt. Geuttemen, for instance (Mr.
•Calereft), the meeting of the 2d of 'December
'railed for no such measures.as had been adopted.
'I. hat meeting' was called professedly to discuss
grievances, bet was by others turned to open in-
-sfirrection and rebellion:. The Hon. Gentle-
man attempted to ridicule these proceedings. Ile
'tens hartl.to be satisfied on the store Of rebellion !
To him it was not sufficient that the Tower- had
been summoned, it ought to have been taken ;
the Metropolis should not have been merely agi-
tated, bur in flames. lie was 'so difficult with re-
gard to proof, that he would continue to doubt
mail all the certainty of mischief brought him. to
conelitsion. For his pert, however, he was
content to see the march, and not wait the contest :
he was content to see the torch lightetl, and would
trot wait to seethe Bank and the Mausion-hottsc
in 'fiernes.(tlear, hear !)—To hint it appeared
better to provide for security after an abortive
attempt had been made.; better for the country
and tor the deluders and the deluded themselVes to
Atop short of the consummation by which it seem--
a the lion. Gentleman could alone reach coif-
victianthe consummation of irretrievable ruin.
(Ilear!)—But was it tothe-merropolis only that the
mischief. was confined? Certainly not. If any thing
in the Report laid before the House was more dis-
tinctly prOved than another, it was the connexion
end con espondence between the agitators in the
metropolis and the country.. This was demon-
strated by that expectation of evil which hone
upon the public mind ; which crowded the high-
War leading from certain towns to the metro-
'polls, at the time the intelligence of the memor-
able 2d of December Was antiCipated to if.
-rive': that there were ramifications gone far mid,
widely through the country no otie who read the
Report could doubt, unless distinguished by the
mostdet ermined incredulit y and hardened mistrust.
lint even. were it not so : were there only a single
instance of tumult, would it .riot be charity to
resew its spreadiug, when this too could be dope
without touching on the permanent privileges of
the people. It was not against legitimate peti-
tioning that they were providing, or the constitu-
tional promulgation of opinions-, however absurd ;
'but they called, on the country to at-ray itself
ageinst that " physical
,force" which was at hand
to enforce the most mischievous of delusions.
It was against the insidious course which was
permed, that it was necessary to guard against
petitions, which said one thing but meant another.
'He liked not the attitude of supplication with the
lirmed houtl.—(llear, !)—The voice was the voice
of Jacob, but the hand was the hand of Egati--
(Cheering.) -44 was prepared .to take his stand
`here. The eVil 'might be averted by temporary
Measin es, and it had been she Wil that 'they bad
Ito tendency to injure the rights of petitioning;.
'these rights had before been so restrained, end
they bad survived in unimpaired vigour. The
a':)4ordity of the argument, that Ministers
desired this painful authority' from Parlia-
ment for its own sake, carried 'refutation along
with it. In all tree counties it was -Ambit -
in:usable that there should exist the power
resorting to some such measure as that of the sus=
pension of the Habeas Corpus Net, anti laws simi-
lar to that now 'proposed. It was thus that its
Wine the dietutotship followed within 12 years,
the estatiliThinent of the consulship. There must
be granted to every State a means of consetva-
Om. It was in this sense °illy that he and his
colleagues had asked 'for the ,Suspension of the
lighteis Corpus. It was in that sense only the
Hon-col Commons had granted, or ought to grant,
such it patter to Ministers. hey could only con-
sent to it that petitiott itself' might preserve its
sitictity eflicasy, and` not be mixed with r..
hellion and tar s.datl on.—(toed cheers.)
Mr. Bet:won:oe said, what those on his side of
the Home conteotted against was the power given
to a single magistrate to arrest told sebsequently
disperse a meeting on words being spoken, which
in that Magistrate's opinion tended 'to bring; into
contempt the Government or Constitution. And
yet it was contended that this power was one th-
ready vested in our magistrates. There was no
!etch power—there was no law, written or un-
wt keen., to senetiou it. The Right Honourable
Ceittletnare (Mr. Canning;) seemed to claim credit
to himself and his colleagues, as feeling rather
eneaey under the powers Mkh had bee‘n intrust-
ed to them by Parliament in the suspension of
the Ilabeas Corpus Act. He begged to state
what -he conceived to be the true motives Which
ioduced Ministers to call for that measure.—
The first was' to embody the alahn,witicli it was so
tonvenient for his Majesty's. Ministers to spread„--
to divert the attention of Parliament from reform,
economy and 'retrenchment, and to make this
Session pass away like the last, and at the same
time to draw 'away' the attention of the people
from Parliamentary Reform, and to stifle their
complaints.--This rf great degree succeeded,
;ell its success ought to liesomesoleo to the Right
lion. Gent., under the weight of responsibility
thrown into') him and leis Colleagues by Parliament.
It had also succeeded in influencing the press.—
Did be differ from- the Right Hon. Gentleman in
the abstract doctrine, that in :I free 'Constitetion

there must be power to apply extraordinary re-
'nettles for the preservation of its libertieß ? Cer.

t ainly not ; when an extraordinary crisis oc-
rorred, extraordinary reinetlieS were requir-
ed. On the whole, he asserted, that in
1 Sl2 there was as" touch cause of alarm—as

'much re.,l danger as tberelyiut now; anti there.
fort. he tvas HOW tor purruing no stronger Inca-
snres tiro' those which had been tonna sufficient

ni that. rime. There •tvas,no war in Fritnee--,
thiTc •were no :societies is iliated with those' in a

hnsple uitry or a hostile Government.

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peop,e, 11141eil( of Ie.OS, Of, to apply to L'arnament,

filoWands anti tem ofilkintsatid3 to state

their complaint,. Ire concluded by declaring
tioa his most hearty vote Would be given itgainst

the 11, from n firm conviction that there was

neithiotz !o call for smelt n menanre.

CASNINCS find Mr. BROUGHAM mutually
txplAihttl.
Lotd CocunAne'rnse amid land and continued
rile.; for •the Questton, uu I was interropt-e4l by
toulikr cries awl much coughing during the whole
of the bholt time that he en9titmed speakiitg.—
Ify said that the eff'e*et of the tVas to convect

elery Magistrate into a petty tyrant; and he read