The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-14 00:00:00

LYALL'S PETITION.

Mr. BooTt.e,begged leave to present ti Petition
front Mr. Lynn, ;jinn. who loni been. accused, in
conjunction tvi.th,lds 'Uncle, of wi.ll44;blitig a fie-
titiotti'nteilded to be pr'esented.tO that House.—
rite •HottOurable Ge •t 1 -man stilted the substance
of theyetition,.and added, that the, utmost' extent
of his defence was,. in hiactpinion, an'overstrained
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zeal and error 4..dioffigiueni. ,
Mr. BR °UGH AU Could not admit this excuse, as
tfie nephew of. the.. Magistrate, being himself a
Special Constable, must. have known he !tad. no
right to take such a petition awazi to the house of
a Magistrate, where, it was demaqed, and could
not be obtained.

-The petition was then read. It complained of
his name and that of his relation being- brought
before the flarrate for-having removed. a petition
.on Parliamentary Iteform. This removal ,had
taken place without his knowledge ; and the at-
tack which bad been ni.,de upon him he-consider-
ed to be baSe; Mifounded, tunh dcalent,'rapid) false.
The petition hattheeu hhudeu about the toWn of
Warrington by some idle and obscure individuals,
and young boys were induced to sign their natnea
to it. On January 27, in the evening, there.w.s
a hue and ell, near his uncle's: bonse, and he ,went
out, when a respectable man, .named Burrows,
against whom the outcry-had heel) raised, was
given into his custody. He took him home, When
he said he had merely snatched the petition, out
Of a joke, and carried it away. lie then piffled
it from his pocket, and gave it to the petitioner,
who, let him go honie ; and afterwards several
persons who had put their mums to it, came and
asked permission to erase them. Ills relation
had no interference with the subject,' having been
'fur ten months laid up by a paralytic stroke. The
petition concluded with saying, that the petitioner
bad no conception that he had done any thing to
incur the displeasure of the Rouse.
Mr. BRotiqiiaxt desired to put it to any Gentle-
man its the House to say, whether what had been
done:by those who had brought the conduct of
this;.petitioper lOore the House, -deserved the epi-
thets that I.e bad' applied to it. The fact was,
that he detained the petition because lie was afraid
he should be blamed for giving it up:
Lord •SianLEY said, he had iityitred into the
character of the young mart, and had found it
very fair ; nor was there Boy thing to criminate
the person who, took the parchment, and was ac-
cused of stealing it, beyond the importance of
withholding any document -intended for that
1-louse.. It was altogether a mere trior oi judg-
tne9t. .

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'Mr. ,v tr 11:4Ne (nought tne conduct of the peti-
tioner very improper altogether. • lie ought ro
have.nppreheuded the person who kati said he hod
taken the petition out ot. a joke ; ,or else have
forced him to give it up to those to whom it be—
lort.ed. Ws petition was not 'one Of contrition,
butrlooked j‘istitieatiou or his 'conduct..
SirT. 11,uppErr. aiketi, whether the petition,
had yet been fiver back ? 12d61 could, say.
Tile petition-tiros finallyottileted to lie on the
table.. H. , 'ri

•;;u{ COI,IRT OF KING'S BENCII.
;
NNGs,snotiw„said, lie rose to move for- leave to
bringing Bino'. facilitating the course of pithlie
business, in the Coat ,of •• King's, Pend... The
House must be awaret that any sort of redress, on
'a subject of this nature, can nt present only be de-
rived from some internal arrangement by the Court
itself; or adopting n different mode of resorting
to business.----The business that generally owl
pied. the Court was of two sorts, either of a formal
nature, or substantial in iirinciple. It Might na-
turally be supposed that the former' would- often.
.be made ca give way to the latter, but the very
reverv,4, 4414)f:1:1ed to be the ease. Tite justiftea.
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