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

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nTuctions of the 'eonte of irettwl,-I,e
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'pev.soaded it to enmMt!snicide,'and rot end to
their clafeuee by their own haml3. The, Report
" if any, of ,he higher Oftlers,"
were implicateil in these proecediogi. Wbo•are
those feW ? why are 1.1,1 not named'? ThiS
tence aloile was inflicieut to dainnify the %%thole.
11.-4crt. The Comtnittee, it was true, inchided
so.: e Members from his sate of th,e House ; bat
ooiy siich,of them asi.o'vere notorious, alarm-
rtts.---(1-.1ear,' hear !)—One of thern-was a Noble
Lord, who said that he could nut mention the
subject' of ieform.without his nerVes trembling:--=
'(Lauglittr.)---As to the proposal of gagg,i-og
it wouid. hi: better to propose at once that to speak
of reri;VlO in Parliament WAS treason.
Mr.
u W..Et.t.tirrt con-idered the present Mea-
•;res . Croveintarot the, consequence of being
placed In sttt tr a sililation, that they had but it
chojcv %Veen ttvo evils—they therefore chose to
coerce the feW for the sake of the peace and wel-
fare ot
.the Many. -
b11;0 LASIBE thonkbt, beginning 'with calling
names would prove a very unwise way of quietly
and calmly deciding upon a question of vital im-
portauce ; it was neither Wise, parliamentary, nor
acting like a gentleumn.—(Order,.order, !)
Mr, BENNETT rose to order, and said, such
language was nOt to be endured within that
fitithe,
Mr. LA MBE was willing to 'Trt).* any breach of
order, ,00l should content himself with safing,
that the wnrds spoken by the Honourable Baronet
tt r e not consistent with the good sense and good
spee-ches in general. \Vitat would that
Mon. Ktronet have thought of hint, had he called

him, as be might, with Perhaps more consistency,
and some shadow of truth, a notorious Jacobin ?
(Hear, hear ! from the Ministerial side of the
Itonse )--Whatever might have been considered
visionary in the projects of these .issociations,
there was nothing very visionary or yet soothing
in the projected division of property.
Sir FRANcts 130pETT consihred the term Ja-
cir;n implied a cut-t hi oat.
Loi'd MILTON disclaimed that he felt any terror
when the subject of Reform was agitated.
Sir S'AmuEr. RomILLY contended the laws were
sufficiently strong; provided they were put into
execution. He feared the utmost vigilance had
"lot been employed by Ministers; in fact, he had
heard of no prosecutions upon the subjects-com-
plained of, though some were of no vory recent
date.

The NiTOBNEY-UENERAL replied, that no pro-.
sedition certainly hail been institnted by him ;
the excessive licentiousness of the tinies had risen
to such 11 lOght, that, from all quarters he had
been inundated with matter for prosecution. And
the ww,t ‘VirS, these libellous atul KditiOUS ar-
ticles penned by siich adept students and
proficients, that it would lie found in most cases
difficult to pot ove's finger the sentence
iiinwinting-to libel, such was the legal caution
with which they were wordvd,
'file SorAct-roa-GaTstsvm, confirmed the state-

metit ut the,precerling Speaker..
LtaouGli.ot thought there were some cir-
cumstances that had transpired in that night's der
bate, sailirkllt, to make one s,,kSpicioa3 and inoui7
sitive as to the grounds 0 the Report. There
r.,sras..sotase—skiger4inve of opiitiott between his two
1-1011. Frienfts', who, in an i•vil hoar, had given
their concurrence to this Report. One bad said,
that• the impression produced upon his mind wits
stolleient to induce him to to to the ulterior
step. .This tsar Material, because the House Were
iu the d,iik respectiog the nature of the evidence,
And they ought to pause when they fount) that
two Members of the ContTittee did not agree
upon it.' But on what did they differ 't neither more
nor less than the amount of the danger that
treatened the Constitution ? Now, although. lie
did not know what the danger really Was, he saw
ewough to Make him pause, when he found that
t woof the most enlightened, if the 111()st di-tin-
guished Members, differed, fob ccelo, on that most
fundamental part of the inquiry, the amount of
the danger. Another reason was founded on the
•statenienr; the -utmost vigilance titntier the
existing ha ys was fonntl inadequate to check
,41iis
growing danger. Rat he now found that therc.
was no evidence to prove that the utmost vigilance
bad been
,exeited, or that any or What degree of
vigilance bad been sbewn. Only let the House
read that paisal.te iu the lteport which described
the degree aupwards that the treasonable persons
held in society. Every man had expectcii't i know
what • and who were die coAtTirators, and now
came the Report, which laid before the House
only the results, and instead of telling ifs that there
were either many, or few, or no persons of a de-
gree above the_lower orders, it stated that'there
were :either, tew or • none. " Wiry: the Com•
mittee were boond in ditty to say explicitly and
intelligibly syltethertirerc were citlieifew or none,
and not etrivocally, that there. were " few or
none," because they must have k ofiwti whether
there VilWe 4.4Ay at all. 1\74 it upon such an ex-
pokition'as this that 4,lie House arts to be called
alum to pay down the Constitutiou'by
meats ? h night...there waS to rbe
Full, co...aiorrove one for the "su3Ocitision the
Hateas Corpus Act, and were we_ to sanction these
measures upon such loose and vague oipressions, •
which signified comparatively -little if they were
only used iti evidence, but signified every thing.
who! time House were not permitted' to have a
sight of that 'evideoce P.ot t lierc.were ionic other
, .
parts of die Reptnt dCStl:Viag of notice. It was
extremely
,marvellous to find a rCoMmittee of '2l
gravely roittiriog the assent of the House to the
danger iki•isiog front the absurd and visionarylpe-cm.:
tutio,,, of the .writer mimed Spence 5 b.eeaa'sel'Orrie
men, who adopted such principles had becnineet.
ing numerous body cif persons in iiisire'ss iii it+
fields ; and becatlSC U WWI Was said to be its
tatiim to proceed from thence to pillage. time Bank',
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when their mill,ary ardour was
.to lead them a
step farther, to attack the Tower,
.withont any
thing like glmlls, th00:411 a Mall had ordered a few
hundred pike kink, Out it was' scarcely possillie
ghat at►y body could believe 'such an abstirdit)ll, as
,•1.1,„i these persons, unarmed, and "without a single
sapper or miner Amongst them, were to proceed
to destri.e.the bridges. Wiihout having ken lii
' any of those battles which irld immortalized the
Duke of Wellington anol his soldier,s, he did
tlkink the story was miracle a Fmk; tau` strong for