The Sun.
London, England, 1819-12-28 00:00:00

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'he was with the sanction of so large a Majority
giving ..a vote strictly dictated by- his conscience.
fle• Earl of Dottooonmotts professed, - if the
Noble Lord looked to him for a di:,claimer, he
was not in the habit of denying any thing he had
once said, and should therefore-disclaim oothing.,
If, however, • in arguing a general principle upon
general grounds any. Noble Lord in that House
thought fit only to take so much as was capable
Of b,ing converted into a personal offence, no
doubt there must be some reason for entertaining
the feeling, and he should wish, in such a case,
that what-had been..said shonld -be • felt with its
foil force. He could not think it was' possible
for any one, who knew• what the nature of an ar-
gument was, to be deceived as to the meaning of
his •observatiocs. As he never svilliot lv, in pub-
lic, offered an offence, he felt it the wore impe:
Hens on hint that he should never retract any ex-
_
pression.
•The Earl of 41Aartowny could not see that any
unparliamentary rcflectionhad been cast, or in-
tended to be -cast,_on the Noble Dtike's condoet'
in particular, by-the assertion on the part cif the
Noble Earl; that these overwhelmittg majorities
had -been iustrumentsin Ministers'' bands- oir de.
'eating' the liberties of the -subject. It was en-
tirely
by majorities alone that tbe object :of Go-
vernment, be it goad or waa to -1k effected.
woold appear to many of their Lordships, -that
-the Noble Earl laboored-doder some:defect of in-
telligence,as to the opinion ewes-rained. rby Go-.
.crnment of the state of the country previous to.
the prorogatiooof Parliament. The speech of the
Prince Regent, on the irorogatiou, contaioed
no very consolatory view of the disaffctiorr
then prevalent In the .manufactoring, districts,
under the- preteXt of- Reform, which Was
but too strongly corroborated by the waroiugs
given to GQVertiMent by the Lords Lienteonnts
in those counties. - Had the Noble Earl then been
aware of these circnnotgnces, he lutist have come
rather to the•interende that his Majesty's Mioistets
had determined to trust to the laws'as they stood,
whilst there was no very•inoninenodanger.
these measures then been proposed, no doubt a
strong opposition would have been made on the
ground that there existed no necessity for any •
such enavments to provide agaiust
nary dangers. He greatly feal•ed. for • the ar-
guments of the Noble Earl, that these overwhelm-
ing majorities comprised not only almost ail
the..rwo [louses. of Parliamloit, but also most of
the CoMnitlllity at large. What remon.triinreS ctn
the subject cif tbese enactments. bad been made
from places-which generally, flow the hitelligence-'
of its inhabittosts .and stake in the country, were
foremost, to lay Petitions .on such subjecs before
the House whenever they.lhought. their interests
likely to be- affected. Attempts had beets made
in Lonilots; Middlesex, aitti ;South was k alone, 4
of 'sad) a stature as to render•strikosoly
pliciable!he Latin Provesb---Dum lacent. clapeant:.

Lora DoNouottmoUß cva Sony that his obsc:lice'
from Parliament -had deprived hint of being per•
'reedy aware of this information. It still -only
proved that Minist,rs had suffered the evils to H.
crease four foor :months, antl..titos lost so
time in preventing the growth of (lisati-c!ction..

lite LORD CHANCELLIM slid, be really could
not sit still and hear,the accosts/lunit made by the
Noble
.Carl against be entluet of his Majesty's
Ministers in abstaining from.:passing tites laws
last slimmer._ He•was ntr less anxious- to reprl'the
attark..made on the ii,mses ot, Parbanter,
charging them; by ..pas•iig these. en,crinearrs,
wi:b. a disposition 16-separate thetnsolves
the, lower orders.- Ile -contesSed he never would
feel happy again if lie was,conSciims he hail beets.
made an' instrument is, inVade the int crests or
liberties of the people;, and. it was strictly and
solely because be believed these" measures wet e
according tit law, and for the true protection of
the peoples liberty, as by law establiShed, 'bat
he supported them. Had no such measures been
brought into the House, he'cotild.not help pto-
nouueing the inec;ing of Pailiament ro-be a pub-
lic blessing to the coinffly, more especially for
this reason, that no one now presnmed eiiher
House tcrirranottrree- these-. late alarrning
ings legal, though many persns, who should
have known better, had primOuneed t hein.st rictly
lexal'nreetings. Such nrinitnrS tbrbaile. any, thing.
like deliberation, Military.traitting should he put
down,. and both the .meetings atßirtningbam and
Manchester, and meetings i ke them thronghotit
the country, were intended to subvert idle Con-
stitution. No man could possibly doubt it ; andH
he asked, under these circumstances, if it were
not better to putt a stop to them at once
Every man, , though entitled to keep arms as
a general 'principle, had, no right to ,ktep them
for any improper purpose. Although no Whig„
he was roverned by the principles that guided
those men who effected the !revolution. Not
would he go one Aingle inch beyond them. With
regard to the Bill regulating the Liberty of the
Press, he, could not give a •.silent vote. The li-:
herty of the press did much for-the preservation,
of the Constitution, and thence it eras that
hehe-
came the wore anxious should riot ,be,abosed.'
iiitert be had the honour of being Attorney-Ge-
neral, he never heard of waggon load's of sedition
being distributed in evei y cottage, and on
every highway,••No there was no such thing, and
the !present Law Officers would be conoletely
able io cheek the prevailing blasphemy wit iiOut the
aid of those measures. Blasphemy was made 6te
-vehicle of sedition, and sedition the vehicle of
blasphemy. Those who were ;acquainted with the
events of the last fitly years must know that
blasphemy and sedition were 1/tumidly made (he
vehicles of destruction: lie would wish to St=
parate the, diffetent classes of the pie's' from the
,operation of the Bill, but he' was:fittnly of opinion
it could not be safelydone. Ile faceted ninth on '
the transactions of the last four months., and ife
gave it .as his decided opinion, thait those mea, -
stiles should pass in order tO secure the tranquillity
of the people, whowere ever ready to
.tio 'justice -
to those, •and which would obtain -their—Conti-

Bence, •Hoovitbstanding all Ihat bad I),ecti said:
apiost Isis Alt;jusiy:s I,l:blisters by i be Noble Lorilt,

tit the ()chef side ot.,be flonse.

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Thearl •)f expected iu LOW4I ill a fizv
cloys, from his scat it, Scotland.