The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-28 00:00:00

PETITION OF EVANS,

IIEiIsETT presented a Petition from Thn.
teas Evans, nun! in confinement under the Ha-
bras Corpus Sukpension Act. The Petitioner
set forth that he and hi, son had been art este(' on
the 9th day of February, and shut up inn prison
Ile had been several times ttitnnotied before thr
Privy Council, where be bad been asked it be kilt w

TlCstlewood, or Dr. W4son, rr I, a son.
l'i;:ii(je,tlsl' httl drawn up a p,..1it;00 to that
.lioiw4t.
to be for..varded .licinhers 1V est iturilterl,
in. 01 der to be I,,,reseod, ton, 1 tie 0 oder Arm? !tot:.
it to the,,secictary or State fol.. the Mute
partment, and the.pentiffli 'had ttevur. b r,nt torl
warded As peiitio-er ivlshed. Oo the 101 l April
petitioner hail applied (oral% audience ;bt:!.:3‘;:-
eretetty Of Si,ate, fur tb.• plirpole of re;tmitolg to
be hberaled On hail, that theT,whole of his business
might not .beititst, ; but on that evenine. he had
been removed ,to a-cou4ntned cell, mast sparinglo
awl tni,,etably. futnish,:d, its Horsem::loger•lAtte
gaol. lie raid, I,e,e been subjected to many pei4
eAt ions ; he had been put in irons. He:Can:pi itainf
of :hi; treatinent, bat three- Magistrates who 6-
o .ii ,
sited lin jsillieu it. ttpon ibis he hat) made it
oqii,etliation on the subject to this Secretary Of
t'itate tor the Uoine Department, who had in con*
~equence ordered them to be taken off. From the
fOth of April he had been confined to his aria-
mew, cut off from the cheering rays of the :oin,
and deprived of all opportunities of taking air and
exercise. Now, granting to the Go‘et natent that
it, was necessary,to confine this man, be thought;
the treatment be had rcceived could not be justi-,
lied ; he therefore trusted the Right Hon. Cs'en-
dentin 'opPosite would inquire into the circom-:
stances Of the case. The prayer of the petitioner
was, that the Ball for the Suspension of the
bens Corpus, Act might not pass jut() a law, or
that it' it did the House would graciously and mer-
cifully make some exception in his favour, nit
front continued imprisonment his life would bit
in danger.
Mr. H. ADD INGVA bad never beard till now
•olthe harsh treatment coreplained.of by this Pe«v
titioner, hut in' the instance of his having beets
put in irons, which bad been immediately ordered.
to be taken off. lie could not yet credit all the
derails of this Petition ; he could not believe that
the Petitioner had been treated with so much more
severity than had been experienced by any other.
:person confined under the Habeas Corpus Suspen
sion Act. In no, instance had, such rigour been
sanctioned by the Secretary of State, in the cases
of individuals cotifined.on charges of High Trea•-•
son.. He could
.give the 1-louse one proof of this;
by stating to the;;;, that Dr, ‘Vutson on,the day
after his acquittal had written to the Secretary ot
State a'very becoming letter, thanking him for the
attention which had been paid to wishes
from the first day. of his confinement down to the
period of his liberation, lie woold inquire into
the truth of the allegations contained in the Pe+
tition, but he thought it almost impossible that
they could turn out to he correct.
Mr. %V. SM 1111 believed such severities bad not
been sanctioned by the Secretary of State, hot at
the Sdrue time be was of 1411111 On they might hiked
occurred. While Lord' flardwicke.. was Lord
Lieutenant of many cruelties r had been
. practised in the Sister Kingdom, of. Which that
Noble Lord bad no more been a party to than he
(lle, IV. Smith) had. In the came wiry rite pe.s.
tit loner .In;glit have been• treated wizh undue
rigour; ;110110; it was not hnown or connte.
nance?el by the Noble Lord at the head of tied
HOine Department.
Mr. Baatt.tm said, there were two answers
usually given, in such cases 'rite one. was, that
thlt Secretary-of State was a very•good sort of it
man, which he could not de.my, and that, there-
fore, the thing could not be ; the other answet
was, that the Right lion. Gentleman knew no-
thing at al4 of the matter, and this, he was, sure,
he was, us little diltosed to deny, as the assertion
included in the former answer. lie wished to
know if the man had been put in irons ? If this
allegation in the Petition 'could not be refuted..•
if such all abuse had occurred-while that House
was sitting, he wanted nothing mote to 'nova
'What War, the trite character of that measure whielt
they were called upon to pass.
, • „.
Mr. I-fumy A DDINGTO24 begged to ask hct,,v lie
was to know What took plate in the interior of
a prison

The SPEAK ER stated the course which the Hon,
Member was pursuing to be out of, order.
Mr. P. Moottr,•said, every do,zproved that the Se—
cretary of State had been imposed, upon aint misled
by those acting under him. In It eland, cruelties
had been committed without the knowicilge of
Lind Bardwicke, but dining his administration,
under u person of the name of Trevor, who, front
the evidente Afterwards. 'given, before n Commit.
tee, o,:ght to have been ,bangedrare, hanged a
hundred times over—i,instfall of being p!rteeit,
he:nnw was, on the Pension Lift. siitnilar abuses
were likely to occur under the Habeas. Corpus
Suspension ..‘ct. •

NI'DoNALn remarked, thattlie Tion,
had asked hint 'how he cotild
peeted to know *whit palttcl in n If he
'could not tell .that . passed there, ,vho cool('
Now that, contrary tQ lan', n 3 he most contend,
the iktigistrates wetecxcittded.front Vislting thOsc
in confinement, it seemed .that, deprived of theit°
otection,thev were. not to tneeeet: to that of the
Sveretary of Suite, swell ns it %val..

An iron, Alenther inquired how it hnfl hapi
pened, that the l'etitioner had tun been all,iwed,
like other persons in Cortfinement, to lea.e his
tipartment for. the sake of fresh air ? '
Mr. 11. Abnt....rCT*6l,4 Imew of no reason on earth
why he 41101)141 not be elloweci 'the sone intlttlA
genies :is- others.

Me. iip,Ntie,TtiTillarit,ll, this nnitt was in a
the regnialloos of which tiff ct I flout those of
the prisons to which other per.sons
.tolten op irndee
the Rifle Act hitil been tli was sate
gre;it attittionges WOlllll re,aft From bringing this
nuttiness tinder cye of th.• Secretncy of State.
Lord Fot.x.NToNs st kited to know' Witt) wits re-
sponsible for the treatment eNperienectl by pertotbs
thus cur ibied ? hey IOW lkteo lola on tt ittrafer
nil ttt, dint persons ehargtd 11'1411 TIT:IS:JO
ititre sttl).ket to solitary ttottli,“:101, ,
not to lit tleidt with ht the same way as ;lei sons
accused of. other critucs. howesee,
frotrt the res.earcites he nittzit
not appear to he the I:nt, Of the Lind. The Sette-
tary'of State, hi the insCrttutions-which be Litt(
sent ill the Keeper- of Iteatiing hail threctil
rtl pf.tsons to he es citified trom the priionf:riii..,:,f)
were not stithinisetl by hint tit set; t cm. lie had
Also directed thstu not to put theta iu irpas, uuaztcit

.06 1010iila b,e iletef.S;ll"y. ; Ittsillnetl
power lit plat log thew

. ,
iii,ll:ATini HST thought it teds too much to ex-
t 111:it o.lien a petition like thet now betoVe
them W3S, presented for tile fitst time, that those
connected with the deli:Jilt:wilt to which the case
belonged •shottld be able at since to speak to all
the ailegatio.ts whiali it contained. These'could
rug be Is hi to be proved to he true, till some in-
quit y had token place on the subject.
Lord 'COCIIIIANIt • tliouglit the subject called
for Intl-airy.. The parties taken tip bad not been
i,ottlitted in the strong Gaol of Ne4gate, merely
becanse, if placed there, the City 'Magistrates
eunld have access to them. lie deserihed the
oultuet of Ministers to he most despotic ;Ind
to:tiwatoed a inttn might' as well live tinder
the sway of one tyrant, as tinder the domi,
I,iun Of the Deys at the opposite side of the House.
Th,l h:td no right to plead ignorance of the-si-
toation of those they confined. This was no ex-
:lse for them ; and, for such conduct, they ought
to hr impeached at the Bar of that House.
The prition was then read, and ordered to lie
'on the Table.

liAttuast gave notiep; that, unless a satis-
factory explaoation should be previously•given,
he would, on Tuesday, move that the petition
'should he referred to u Committee.

My. BuouG`ttam said, one of the allegations of
the Petitimp t.et forth, that a Petition to that

:tiuu..ie had been detained at the Office of the Se-
cretary of State. It this charge were not un-
founded, a great breach of the privileges of the
'h Ouse haul been committed. It would he re-
suernhered the House had so determined on the.
Withholding of a Petition which had .heen intend-
ed tr) he presented early in the present Session,
anal he hoped it would not he seen that they were
worig to maintain their privileges agaiust the
hitt not to defend them against tt Secre-
tary of State.
PoNsoNnY euine'ded in all that had'fallen
front hti Hon. and Learned Priem!. In the first
institute it was proper that they should wait for
an explanation from the office of the Secretary of
State,' and if this should not be perfectly satihfae-
tot y, ihe'zithjecrought to be ingnired into by a
Committee.

Lfird CAkTLEKEAGIT said, it was dear there was
11.) on the part of the Secretary of
State to redress any grievance of which the indi-
vidt`tal might justly Complain. This hii.condoct
towards the Petitioner had already proved: tie
ukhed the first application for relief to he made
to the- Executive Om-eminent by the prisoners
themelves, and not by Gentkuel, who acted by
inspiration. TiOd WJS reversing the course that
hid alwmyslcenadoped.

Lord.FOLKSTONIi. slid trot know. bow .his Honourable
Friend received the Petition; !rut he knew that the pri-
soners at Reading were not ;Mowed to receiVe•Or to send any.
letter but through the• Secretary of State. Ilow then came
this Petition to pass through his band, without his paying at-
tention to its footsie'
Mr. HURST was-glad to initlerstand". from what hail been
said thi., evening, that no order had been made to prevent
ales from visiting the prisoners.
Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Bennett mutually explained.
Sc, ti. IiOMILLY co,,tended, that the Suspension-Bill did
not give any discretionary power respecting the manner in
Whii7li prisoners were to be treated.
Afteim few words from Sir W. Burroughs and the Attor-
tivi4;viieral, the Petition was 'ordered to 'or...printed,
it-istiLsTON presented a Petition from the Mayor,
C. cv,rat i,pn, anitborgesses She Borough of Berwick-14.m-
-;l4,linst the St.ipeohion of the H areas Corpus AeL.—
Iteath•lato on.thr.iabiet ntdereki to be.prioteo.
BURlWlT.presented a. Petition from—the Toliatri.,
tautS of tin, .Towo of aodalmilig,' in the County of SuiTpy,
tie Suspension of the f.talwas Corpus Act.—Kzatli
laid mulls(' table, aod ordereiLto he printed. •
SUSPESION OF' 'MS. 11:111EAS CORPUS.

T,t,rd. CASTLEREAGH moved, 'that the !llabetio
Corpus Susi,endon Bill 1 rend a third time.
Mr: BguNiirri- contended, that the best means
of t epressing distnrbances would he to provide
rvork for the industrious. and 'food for the imottry;
Ici,tt•;td of that, his Nlaje,,,ty's Ministers had pre•
red adopt ing meastit es of severity, extending to
the loot-won as well Rs the guilty. lie blamed
tudi ii line of policy. If severe mealoires Were
iteeez,;iry, let them be loyal but let not the
wholo Constitution be taken away IrOni England

and Scotland. lie then referred to the period of
1812; at which greater dangers and move insur-
rectionary movements had threatened the tran-
quillity of the State, and at which, however, no
auspension of the best liberties of the natiOn had
been proposed. He contended that the Matches-
ter plOt ‘vas the work of 'Spies and Informers,
• t hough nor of the saute class as Oliver and Com-
pany. In 1512, it was preyed before the coin-
laiitee, that. the Militiamen- employed to repress
the itsturbinces, had themselves proposed to burn
, the Poor I:louses. The intended conflagration at
Alanehoter might proceed from. quarters equally
.unconnected with the conspirators, Lie then read
a conommication trom, a Gentleman of high re-
. apectability at Manchester, who Stated that Oliver
bad been sent on three missions to that town, in
April, May, and June ; that h 1
,! hard represented
. himself as intimate with Sir F. Bittdett, Major
Cartwright, and others. lint had never seen more
than tire perstens to whom liehatlpropw,ed a plot,
stuting the great ntnniier of: people. ready to
.engage in it, and advising them to send a
Delegate .to Yorkshire; ; that on their refusal be
hug actually sent two ntesseugcro, to Yorkshire to
tie x day tor a rising, and that. MO 9th of
Jane that he pretepded to be employed by the
people of Liverpool, Pet by,, Nottingham„ and
Birmingham. Those fil/4e persons, whoin Oliver
ivol,attylnpted to seduce- into clintr, implored to
he hearth at the bar of the !louse on the facts
loich he had mentioned. Oliver had seen none
but them ; be alway 3 had plenty of motley, of
Which lie was tint sparlog, and the quarter fron4
hence it Ca= was not doliblfAlL tie then re-

to the evidence of Mr. 11; taken
Lefore the Alagistrates at 'Wakefield on. Mon.
,Liy, June 16, by which it :appeared that
Oliver had used the tame art,,: to seduce him arid
sower-Hi others into acts of rebellion. The Noble
irordopluritt had that ()liver had kr,ked for
Ito r_ewirrd., He hoped that lie..uhoold have "c
tfie t'ewrird which he deserved ; that he hoof(' be
given over to those ltiw r which he had broken,
,ttnti rower which he Ought to suffer.
wretehel had been► lying urtd4r sentence of death
for se, en montiti.for %ring wiliteed ignorant men
to erminlit felonies. t..)liver had done Worse i
lie
d the starving 111*ilifge sarrs 1109.rehglijon•
trale'4l;:kainisters bronght forward` better .grortrls
ttepott tef the Secret COUlttlittee, Mid

;te.ter trid hre that; Oise blrsted 4,?stiton,tv of
Utter, Cosiles,atio Co,, lie wonot us,ssr
to place the power weieo toey demanded ioto their
hands; for he maiffiained, that there did not exist
a people mare .attached to their institutions; aad
.more determined to keep" their coostitattion than
the British people.---(Hear, hear !)
kir. C. GRANT was of opinion that the dangers
which threatened tire State were real, and that the
emergency was come, when, to save the Giusti-,
union, it Wes necessary to,suspend some of its
provisions. lie should never be found -the advo-
cate of men whri had abused their nowerss• but
whatever might have been the conduct of Oliver,
it Was proved that it was not the intention of Go,
eminent that he should act in the manner which
he was. represented to have done, He complained
that incredulity countenanced conspiracies until
they broke out into open acts. Could it be denied
that conspiracies-existed ? Were there not Com-
mittees, Delegates, anti all the materials of a re•
volution It was true that the original cause of
the disturbances be distress, for distress
made "the .people more liable to be minced hy
temptation ; ought not thosetemptatiosts to
be repressed, owl put oust of the way ? This would
be the effect of the present Bill. It would pre-
vent, not punish crimes, whilst the existing laws
could oulv punish without preventing them
Local measores would be insufficient; they would
only compd the .evil to diffuse itself to other
places--at propensity which 'already belonged to
it. They would only serve to render the dia.
order general. As to she absence of persons
of rank and talents front the conspiracy, he
appealed to the memorable- %vitiating of the
French Revolution. Were not its first doctrines
and agents most contemptible ; and, as such, had
they not been despised, till they broke every bond,
awl wrote on the roinS -of Europe this great
truth, that it is impossible to escape front -poeti-
cal enormities arising from theoretical absurdi-
ties.---(blear, hear l)—It was•saidihart the ittea-
sure had produced no good. If it had not anni-
hilated chic evil, it bad checked its worse. •It haft
struck terror into the disaffected, and inspired the
loyal with hope and coefidence. If it were ills-
eontintied, the chief authors and promoters of in-
serrectiou must be set at liberty, to renew with
fresh audacity their doogerons machinations dur-
ing the recess of Parliament. Because the main
body of the people was sound, and ready and
'anxious to stand by the Constitution, was it to be
left Without any other poteetion than the COlll-
- law When life and property were .eqnelly
Ihreatened, was it to he deprived tsf the•potiree of
repressing and punishing the offenders. He then:
took a view of the dreadful situation to which the
country would be reduced if it becante-subjectetl
to the role of it lawless rabble, anti concluded by
.giving his firm support to the measure,
Me. Wanae should now give bis,deCided oppoS
skims to a measure which he had supported three
months ago, because he had overrated.the dangers
of the country. What had become of the Spell.
ceans ? They were nut even mentioned in- the
Report of the lost Secret Committee. Where was
the will-sic plan for the destruction Of 'the' Bank
and the storming of the Tower ? It hail almost
%swished from the recollection of the HOuse. Brit
now there was a plot frir taking London by an
army lento the country ? Convinced, es all titer;
of sense must now be, that there was no dauger
in the Spa-- fields meeting; they must think the
Manchester expedition erpodly harinless."Vesht
ridiculed the terrors excited by that expeditioo,
lion the details of which he entered, and I:cliv:vted,
thAt he slitmld vote against the continuation of the
Ci'y'rptts.
PitoTnimoE was no one of those whose
incredulity had countenanced exibting evils;-for
be hall consented to the first suspension of the
habeas Corpus, botch account of the ttnanhnity
of the Report, and of private information which
he then possessed. The time that had elapied
since that petior.l had, however, 4itorded an op.
portunity to inquire into the nature, and Auer.
tain the reality of the supposed dangers. Be
Relieved the disposition of the people of Bristol,
whom he had the honour to represent, was, upon
the whole, loyal and well affected. Upon a View
of the whole circumstances of thee case, lie'cotild•
not see any adequate reason for this measure, and
he should therefore sote,against it.
11th ILVRT DXVis, although be agreed with his
Honourable Colleague, as, to the disposition tit
the people of Bristol, yet could not
,reconcile it
to los duty to vote against this 'measure, when it
appeared that in other parts of the kingdom traitor.
°us proceedings were in progress.
117 r, BA,Ntees., juu. spoke shortly In favour of
the Bill.

Mr. BARHAM' repented 'he arguments which he
bad, already adduced., lied which he descri3)ed as
unan'swered and utilw,%verobie. The effects of the
Bill, be thought, would be most pernicious.
Dr. Putti.t.tmotta thought the IDCaSare wise,
just, and eveu.,
he would aay, humane. The ex-
traordinary nature of the danger required this ex-
traordinary remedy. As to the einidayinvut of
Spies, he contended, that it might, often be neces-
sary for co% ern menu to make u4e of them..

Lord Nuoet.iT.roie to oppose a measure which
be thought struck at the very,root of the Consti-
tittion. lie thought that the evidence submitted
t‘o the Committee had been selected and prepared
.by Ministers, and, could not betcomidervil as fair.
For his own part he. would rather the country
should be agitated by popular commOtioris than
deprited of its, liberties. lie would rather the
country should be revolutionised th;4114 that it
should, be eushryed.—(Lontl cries of lit Bear!)
The lion. Mr. L 4 sae that he
concurred in the sentiment of his Noble Mend,
that he would rat her'see the country revolutionized
than enslaved. lintott the *How time, he was of
opinion that the state of the cottruty was such as
to require the nteaSure now nutlet. discus4oll. lie
INKS one of those who supported this, measure at
the commencement of the Sevliotr, but he had not
done so, so Intictt.from what was 4lat,ed.in the first
Report of the *4!. m ct cumitt6e, 03 ft,m, what he
knew of'the itate of the country. lle theti drew
a masterly picture of the.state,of the conntry.,---
01 the eff,,iti ;mole by so many means, nut in so
tottoy tpwltili to debauch the tniod.s “f the lower
elaittes, advo tcd, in pinticular, to the system
which had chatietet hied the management of si;;ite
Newspapt3s, especially ot those called Sunday

•
I Pa p
Itrs . tie sAid 1)0 w:l5 as firm a friend to the Li-
' lietly ot the l'res as any men in I h'e country, and
• he would be the last to think of any measure to
:etter it, Even in the circionstances -of the
present' -times;-danuerous as they were, thyre
Wati nothing to justify the imposing_any re-
straint on It. But when it was considered
how rapidly the power and influence 'of the
press had increased, he •thought the conduc-
tors of Newspapers shoal(' recollect that
►. , .
maxlion w wen they so often applied to public men,
• namely, that. where power was given, it was al-
ways liable to be abuied,—(Hear,
,hear !)--The.
COmliictors of the Daily Papyri stood in a high
,and .bad very extensive powers over
,the public, and it was there incumbent on them
duly to exercise ouch power. He tlien went on
to show that the truth of every thing stated in the
first Report bad been. confirmed and established
by what had subsequently happenedby the trans-
actions at Manehester, which were long before
F any interference. was alleged on the part of the
► person named Oliver, as well us by what had taken
place at Derby arid other parts of the kingdom.
lie was flintily of opinion, that for the security of
the public, for,the safety of the State, it was ne.
Cessary toagree to this measure, But he qualified
Iris approbation of it, by hoping that its duration
• would be so limited as to ensure the early meet-
ing of Parliament.
Mr. MscooNALDstrongly opposed the measure.
It would )),e a mockery not to soy that a Bill of
Indemnity must be the necessary result of such a
revolting innovation.. 'The House was now called
upon nut to follow a precedent, but 'to establish
ooe. He.coutended that there was.no.emergeocy
to require such- a restriction, which tended to dis-
grace and degrade the people of England in the:
eyes of all foreign Powers. If this power were,,
entrusted to Ministers, he did not believe they.
would be' ix bit more disposed to surrender it in
the next• Session of Parliament than they would.
:the Propeity,Tax, it' they. had gained-its oontinu-,
ance. They who had promoted this report of in--
surreetion were the same %elm were not ashamed
to raise the cry of the Chpreh being in danger—
, (Hear !)----a he same who put into the mouth of
•- the Prince" Regent,: at the comtheneethent of the
last Session, a full 'picture of the prosperity and
happiness of the country. If such a Bill were to
pass, it might raise such a flame 11l England, as.
who coal(' undertake to say could be extinguish.'
ed ? Executive violence ought never Jo,be mis-
taken fur executive vigour, and instead of play.
big tricks witn the Cnnstitution' let it be held
up to the people itt all its purity. You may create
(said he) your Waterloo,Bridges, and other mu-
nutrients and trophies,. hut the spirit that con-
Tiered them "will be no more.
Cieneyel
.STANnueu, as a friend of freedom,
woultrvote for the measure. He had sufficient
confi'cleiice In the Committee to give his support
to the Bill on their Report alone. fn ridiculed
the application of the tear!! alarmist to those who.
saw the necessity of the precautionary measures,
and attribuied the disturbances Which had occurred
to the jacobinic4 princieles that Oi iginated
the French Revolution.. He conceived itthe duty
of Parliament to interfere and save the people from
the consequences of their own phrenzy; he be-
lieved the Bill to be as humane as, it was 'politic,
and that ,under its intlitenee, national prosperity
would 'citistgitish 'th'e torch of civil discord.
Sir BURDETT would contend for the rights
of the people as long as lie had a voice. He owed
iur allegiance to the borough4notigers, because' he
thought theirlyStem was the cause of all the cis-
tresses the people laboured tinder. The real mu-
tive was to persuade the people, that they had no
right to be fairlyrepreseuted in Parliament, and
then, if they denied the tenth of this, they were
liable to be taken ap, and imprisoned for an utili»
mited time :tvithunt 'trial. But the great body of
the people were.per3umled of the abidlute neces-
sity of a Reform. He proceeded to censure the Go.
vernmentior the employMentof spies,a nd condemn-
ed the cohdnet of Oliver. He contrasted t he conduct
at the Ameriean GOvernnient with that of all others
who employed spies, and inferred that the system
of the letter was a proof of despotism, or govern-
ing by fear, rather Orlin freedom. 13'y going on in
this way severity would beget discontent , this
Would furnish a reason fur additional severity,.and
system would end in scenes of horrpr, misery,
and blood, similar to those which had taken place
in Ireland and in-Prance, He wistio.ir the House
to retrace the'bldenly steps ut the Government in
Ireland, and to recollect, that one -ot the Noble
Lord's agents (Mr. Reynolds), had been brought
over to this country. This Person, whose
name every leislinian shuddered at, had found
his way into the Grand Juries of this coun-
try, and ''tie could not be deetneda person tit
to find an indictment. Other spits were pro-
duced at the late trial; lint this 'was the first
'time he had ever heard of Government dressing up
- spies to deceive the Court bZ evidence. This was
not Ike mode of governing -England, and he did
nut think the Gentlemen of Eugland would long
endure it. The Act was a great deal more than
ontifar the Suspension of the I-labeas Corpus Art,
as it. -gave Ministers greater .power than if the
Habeas Corpus Act had never existed at all: He
would almost rather that Ministeis should' have the
'timer. of puttilig men to tte-utli" without trial, than
to giVe them the power of ini'prisOning persons
and keeping them till they were forgotten by them.
The Measure was anti-eltristicin, and he was aSto-
nished to- hear the opinion of a religious and re-
spected Member of the lionsein favour' of it.—
lc was to woi k ion, by punishing. men
who hild emninitted nO offence. How 'was it that
the religioirs Mealber, Who hall. so Much halms-
pity towards •ilar.es, W aS!lot at :seeing
Englislitirep.fbroukht up from all parts of the
country in Chains ?, adVirted -to the Magis-
trates' being prevented from si•eing the prisoners,
and considered it to bean arbitrary act of limbo.
rity. And atter repeating the various priints
urged- I>y efi.&.diifcrent Speakers against thetnea.
sitre,he cbrichided uith`declaring it to be tt.sys-
.
tem of as vitc, detestable, and :wicked torture, as
conk' possibly be devised,
Mr. Litvin'exPlained.
Mr. Wu-Atm:Duce obier.ved, that be had pain- -
,fully.aud reluctantly brooght himself to consent •
to the ineaure, but he "hail felt fur
of the country, and deemed it nree.iiiii y. lire
thought it hardly pls3ible that the Honourable

could be serions in treating such a sub-
yet with levity. He would urge the Govern-
meta to go all lengths for the preservation of the
laws and liberties of the coantry. The measure
was absolutely necessary' to prevent the revival o't
proceedings during the separation of Parliament,
which, by corrupting the mnrais and principles of
the country did an injury to society which could
never be repaired. In his opinion the BR
woidd prevent mischief, bloodshed, and misery.
Religion taught .us the, lesson, that the ble,ssings
we enjoyed we should endeavour to hand down,
' unimpaired to posterity..
Sir GooraaVWl3iTEß entered his soleitin pro'.
test, on behalf of his constituents, against the
measure. He alluded to the sentiments of the
late Lord Chatham in 1770, who said the people
could' not, nor ought not to be tranquil under Or
pression anti expressed his conviction that the
measure was unnecessary and unconstitutional.•
The 'doer) NEYOR said, lie had seen in a paper
this day what wasp Called' a corrected iteporraf
the speech of .a Right Hon. Genileman'opposite,
in which it was said, that every fact contained in
his (the Lind' Mayor's) speech of drat evening,
was refitted. He recapitulated the points in the
Report in question, amidst loud and continiteil
laughter in 'the House, and observed, that if was
in evidencee-that no Life-Guards 'were in tlte eh!
In
on that occasion.' He would prove that the "
was in the Minories—(loud laughter) p---aoti
io
his application for military power, -only forty oleo
were sent to him, and in ten minutes they were
sentior back again. The 'laughter continuing,
his Lordship observed, with apparent warmth,
tha't his statement of facts might be unpleasant to
the gentlemen opposite ; but though a new Mem'
her, he was determined he ‘voidd not ne put (100'011'
such treatment. What might have been the Ino"
tive for introducing this speech be could not ima-
gine, truless it was to impress the House with the
necessity of the measure, and thus to get an adds`
tional vote or two in support of it.
The LORD ADVOCATE said he came all the mil
from Scotland to meet the charges against
'When throngh him the administration of the 14w
had beets arraigned, be deemed it his dilly to stile
the proceedings that had taken place. He entered
intoa refutation of the charge of havinghad per.
sons' put in :separate prisons, against what)) the",
were no specific charges ; and stated the law or
Scotland respecting persons charged with a F3Pi.
tal felony. The public prosecutor had acted
throughout with a view to the benefit of the. 0'
dividuals, instead of for oppresaion. ably de-
fended the line of conduct taken with. respect to
the persons confined in Scdtland, and shoved 'l'l
every attention had been paid to their health,
att
every facility -afforded to them for seeing
friends. What had taken place was perfectly cane
sonant to the Law of Scotland, and the langoati
which en Hon. and Learned Gentleman had he'
in that House, on the. subject of the proceedings'
y
:opnvn•eirie:lia,itstctititieetoltgin)Lsoe.teti arraign the Administration Of
House; drils:perieirteisciinci:e(ittit;tteg:ksimier;olatotguln,fillei(d:lti:vitaelisibatotillitelettrhteteop,ciiabiol:seeitit,
iracittesottla:oirc;lloll,
er !0:1t
Sir S. It o u. v thoughtHo ti3atbPewia.)olsYuCit'al"tbillietetsiii;istgriie,tiiticedrell:'r
c;lll,:eTttripitioucesel:Aol:trivtai.trlsieweiox.ri Iteonalst,;ilnlinitt trh.cf,:irlc7;:::cll,ll:e
u
on a Petition againat the Sitspension of the at'
aear,
ADVOCATE resumed Stettiulls
and refuted, in SOCCtiSSiOD, the various O,Vc-,
which had 'been urged against the proCeulilisoja
Scotland. Having vindicated his character was
the attacks which' had been made on it, be •
proceeding to further comments, when-- ken
The SiiEAXEE intimated., that the course
by the Learned Lord was not in order, and 'le
tar
scantly concluded. ker by
Sir S. Rosittt.LY replied to the last spes
f rata
recounting what had A fallen from him "" the
occasiOn, which; from the. observations
Noble Lord, be thought must have beeti "ro,
n•o
correctly reported to him. A case tit-01V' ider
as he conceived it to be, had been brought n'
his Consideration, and hi thought it hi' ,dntYd
offer that 'statement which be hail sit ho,
the House. ' Notwithstanding ail that l'e,
heard from the Learned Lord on the Scottish to

his opinions remained unchanged.
Mr. -BROUGnAII entered into a (11$0" --
itnn,b
Scotch
cul•e law,
intoand ridicule,'on twhile
ete
er°schiaeraPiinYg
h e
the conduct of the Lord Adiorate. •
The LORD Anvockra and Mr. Baciu.o tfitg
veraThey ll explained. -
House divided, ufen. the. numbers .were"-
For third trading of the B'll '
.........try
Against it
sQ
Majority in favour of the 1501 . ...... '
The Bill was then read a third time..
yssf sr,
On the question dint the Bvv i 4
Bill shouhl po
Amendment was moved, the object of vvi"Cil
to limit the duration of the Bill to a definite !lief:
rind. The 25th December, Watt by
,WyNNA,—The.lst of Match was proposed tressed
STUART WOitTLEy.---LarilCASTLEllcaon es:pn
himself willing. to support an Anie.ndment going
to litnit the tlnral inn of the Bill to the last men"
tiuned Period.—Mr. STUART WORTI.CY then nil
ed his Amendment. The House again divide
when the numbers were--
152
AyesbU
140 es ' ...... . .... ..... ... . . ....... ..
lajority in faour of-the Bid in
the itt;adstitr.haeipna vpfoatsuseettis.tui:Niatch, 1818
gorging.
Adjoaraed at TlikEß

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