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

his cordial ,:sent te, Their
hear, hear !)—Bi`it lac is'as Sorry to say there AvuS.
mother Bill to which he cOuld not assent, for the_
suspension of the-Habeas *Corpus Act ;.vOrild meet
with an opposition from hiM ns perfect ai'rifas firm
as his support to the others. .This measure however
he should not debate by anticipation, as it was not
likely to conic before the House on this night
• Wit h respect Co Theconiniunication which had been
made to Pal Iniment, it bad his pet teal approba.
rho). If he had been in the Cabinet, he would
have advised'a communication of the very* saute
kind.—(llear, heir, hear far its that Com-
munication went, he thought it right. But he
wished that the Noble Lipid (Castlereagh), had
exereised as chaste a forbearance in slating wha:
had been done .by individnals at !1t0'5..., societies.
• The Committee, as far as he- saw, had not invol-
ved the name ot any particular individual, and the
Naible Lord most pardon him when he said,
that he had ;;one beyond his du'y, in stating to
the House 'what seemed as if the Committee
had found that the names of some. individuals
of high rank were involved io the proceedings
of these Committees.—(Elear, bear, hear !)--
llt the Committee had traced these proceed,
logs to any person—however high his rank—
they would have had manliness and fisnmess
enough to have stated the name of any indi-
vidual so implicated. Ile might, perhaps, have
mistaken the meaning ot what tell from the
iNjoble Lord. 1-Ic did not know against whom
the Noble Lord non•lnt to excite suspicion, butt
certainly his words tended to excite suspicion
against sonic One, . Ort the whole; these were the
only parts of the Noble Lord's speech to which
lie could not-agree. As far its he molerstood the
meitsin es proposed by the Noble Lord, they met
with his approbation, excep!hig only that which
went to the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.
As to the last, from the very first proceedings of
the Committee, be was convinced that there was
nothing to call for such a remedy. It was a ;tower
ivith which he wankd not intrust tiny Ministry,
'although composed of his dearest friends, onlusi
he saw that without it there was no means suffi-
cient to protect the Gosernment and the Con-.
stitution.
Lord CASTLEREAGH explained.—As to the int-
, potations which the Hight Hon. Gentleman t hoaglit
he (Lord C.) hail cast upon any individosil, lie did
tint conceive that be bad argued - one iota more
than the Committee bad reported. It was stated
in the Report that a Committee of Public Safety
had been appointed, and that it contained the
gages of persons who probably never thonght of
participatiog in the desigoh of the agitators, but
whon), front the consideration due to them, al-,
forded a fur: tier ineans of deladiug the people.—
Ibis he thoaght there was fair ground to throw
out a caotion to those individuals, nod that was •
all that he liad done.
:Sir F. BentiETT said, that the impression made
upon his toind- by reading the Report was very
iliifelent from that on the mind of the Right lion.
Gentlemen (Mr. Poissoohy). • Ile complained that
the long and, multifarious Speech of the Noble
Lord (Castlereagh) had sexy touch consisted of
imputations against individuals not named in the
Report. He could not agree with those who
thought that Ministers had not made use of the
Report for the -purpose. of cleating alarm and
therefore he conceived lie would he neglecting his
ditty if he :did not raise his voice in liming against
those proposed measures, which originated in the
absurd and selfish alarms of those who repre-
sented the nation as a nation 'of thieies and cri-
minals, ready to perpetrate atrocities of even y kiml.
The lion. Bari:Met then went on at some length,
inveighing against the absurdity of those who be-
lieved.that the Spencean doctrines could be dis-
seminated. • He. contended, that if there
rally
Was- cause for alarm, that the only constitutional
measure which Government could adopt •}vas to
arnt,the proprietors of the country .in their own
defence, and quoted the atithority of Sir
,Wm.
Jones, in a pamphlet written by him on: the
legal mode of suppressing riots : :that as to the
seduction of the soldiery, it was quite against
the principles of • the Constitution to, have any •
Standing army. The Noble Lord talked of cons
apiracies. Were there no laws now in force to
punish conspiracies ? Were there no laws against
iliegal Oaths—against' treason ? 'lad not the At-
torney-Generall ;tower (and, as heatiought, Ille-
gal power) to prosecute .blasphemotis and se-
ditious writings on doctrines ? and were not all
these offi;tices triable before officers, and,
tie.might say, by juries appointed. by the Crown.
If there were' conspiracies, the Noble Lord must
intelitiown of them. long ago ; yet tlrere was no
mention of them in the speech from the Throne.
By: concealing ,these conspiracies so long the
Noble Lord had made himself a conspirator. As
to the 'Clubs which bad been so much talked of,
he did norsduple, in the faei of all that had begat
raid, to- acknowledge that he was a member of
Several of them. He was one of these traitors
and conspirators.—(Llear, bear !)—But as lie had
taken no oath of allegiance to the corruption of this
HOnse---,as had not bound liiinself to borough..
iiiongers,-',as lie owed allegiance to none hut to the '
hiug, he had yet to learn the nature of his
offeoce. The truth was, Hod all this conspiracy
originated in the dread Of Reform. Mitch was
said of the Saenceans7.-hut it seemed" that the
Noble Load was at the head of another society of
a tin--..niore formidable nature, namely-711+e' ex-
pencediii.- For his oWn part he was tta seen et'
conspiriitor. . He belonged to the Hampden Club
'mid to the Union Club, and be had no hesitation
.ai•nwhig it. But the Noble Lord Was ati old
Offender. The conduct of the Noble Lord in
Ireland was not forgotten, and'llie tonic bloody
'track which he had' followed there he wished
to *come on here. Was it not matter ot his-
tory, 'that at 'the time to which he alluded,
Ireland had
been idled with scenes of atro-
city which it cotilled the bloOd to think on—
wbiclt could not be named by any intuit of
coniolon feeling without shot:tiering, though
the Noble Lord could allude to thrill aS calm-
ly as if he Were taking a dish of tea ? He
therefore warned the [louse not to allow the
Noble Lurcl to lead them on in the saute path.-7
n this kingdom the Noble Lord-dealt in re ruling
tersts 1-44 Parliametw; in Ireland he hard acted tht
part wholesale meachant, and had bought tap
ch`e-Tatlialllent wholesale ; and then,: when -it had