The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-03 00:00:00

t.:l EN BUONAPAIiTE.

Mr. 1311017011AN1 wished ther it was true
that Sir C. Stuart had sirier; that neelaration Irip( the
residence ut Lucien Potoriaparte %which Oar' been pri4l,lied
With his 114111 C annexe'', and whether he itad done it uotler in-
structions!
Lord CAStLERFAGI-1 made atmver in so low a torte, that
We could not hear it in the Gallery.

SLAVE TRADE.
Mr. WILBEttFORCL•' .fied his motion on this snbject fcr
Wednesday next.

PETITION OF EVAN Si
Mr. BaaHAth, on I i,111:4 to make his promi,rd
mat ion on this Subject, begat) by declaring, that
he hardly knew a wan aquinst ct libin to be.ir any
kind of spleen or dl-wilt would be inure noinsti-
fitble or unjust than against the Noble Iteldtive
of the Right Han. Gentleman opposite. l'he
amiable character at the Noble Lord (Sill nouth)
was, indeed, univer.“4ly adm;to d. • lie was not
proMpted'to make tick motion by any party bias.
It had happened to him to have a seat in that
House for the long period of thirty years, and it,
during a great portion of that long course of time,
be had generally soppotted the. Inca:outs of
%eminent, in now holding an opposite course e

. •
was actuated only by consLientious rectitude. if
the subversion of all government, was but itnntlier•
phrase for the subversion of all liberty, he ‘yaa
sure that the subversion of liberty must end iu
the subversion of all government ; and, therefore,
by now supporting the hbet ties of the people, he
was sure be should render the hest service to the
Government. At this there things mmi not be
said which it was hitherto the pride and boist
the country could be agitated with freedom ; antl
when a Noble Lord lately said„ that he would ra.
titer encounter a revolution than see the country
enslaved, hi 7 sentiment was Wit with clamo,rs
of disapprobation by the Gentlemen o,ipnsite.
But, was this a new sentiment ? lie should
to hear any man in that I-louse expr:ss his feeling

to the effect that he would rather see his country
enslaved thanntidergo a revolution. Such man
must explain what was his opinion of the 0.6.'114
Revolution which expelled James il. and esia-
hlished the ancestors of the present Royal
mily on the "1 hrone, and he might be expected to
attribute that Revolution to the artifices ut seui-
don and treason; on such principles, theretore
he must regard the present Royal Fam.ly as
usurpers. The lion. lientlem,in then slightly al.;-
luded to the interruption he experienced on a
former evening front the opposite side, and ob-
served, that what the Right Hon. Getttleinari

(Mr. Addington) said on that occasion was pre;-
mint with a very important feature, for he seemed
to disclaim all practical responsibility on the seis
ject. But he would contend, that either the
Noble Lord, by himself, or by those in sellout he
confided, ought to know from day to day what
passed in those places in which persons were im-
prisoned by his warrant on mere suspicion ce
crime; and sorely neither the Noble Lord, near
;tight Hon. Reletive, could have a more honour-
able occupation. The persons so coefiued were
now deprived of all the protection they bed hee
fore, particularly that of being visited by Niagis-
crates, to examine into their treatment and
hear their complaints, us . well as being seen
by their friends. He was not inclined. to deny
that it might he improper for individuals to
be visited, by every person ; but this restriction
appeared to him to have been cat vied to an tome.
cessary length. When a Noble Lard (Folkstotie)
had visited one of those prisons as a Siegistsate,
for the purpose of an inquit y, he had hen re-
fused admittance to the very persons from whom
he might have obtained a verification of facts ;
and the same restriction had taken place towards
an Hon. Gentleman
.(Mr. Bennett) with respect
to the prison now it, question. It it were possible
that he could have been inclined to enter into any
conespondence with the prisoners, the presence,
of the jailor would have prevented it. But suet%
laws as had been passed rendered Digland worse
than any othet country ; for when the great phi-
lanthropist (Howard) devoted himself to the pur-
suit of benevolence, the prison doors, even
countries the most despotic, were thrown °pets
to bins. How would he feel, if now alive, out
finding that in Eciglend • the doors of our prie
sons, at the mete word of a jailor, were shut
in his face, and he was to be told, '' Ilere
are my orders that you shall not enter, and
they are the orders of a British Secretary of State.''
As to his motion, he was sore it could do no great
harm. Nothing was more opposite to season or
justice that; the grounds on which such persons
were.detained. They were said to be put in fur
repentance-e-(Elear, near!)—alai not for punish-
meot.• If they were pet ill for their security, it
was a great and crying act of injustice. Ile would
suppose a case. Suppose that one of those
per-
“nts- contused should be brought to trial and
acquitted, nut from any detect in tire evideeee,
but on the clearest demonstration • of his hues-
ceece. If. any
.person who had its that
sentiment of his having been pot in for repent-
ance were to meet such a loan, emaciated in body
and mind, who might say to hint, " you have pet
me on repentance, as you call it, and it is proved
that 1 have done nothing, but ant infinitely mere
innocent than you are : Go, now, and phce your,-
selt where I have been so long; count the
hours of melancholy and misery that I have
endured stretch yourself on the bed of the
felon, where 1 have lain So long ; think what
must be the agonised feelings of my wife and
family, missed by my confinement, because they
can no longer support themselves ;--gthen, whea
you want to put people on their repentance again,
you will perhaps qualify. that wish by some consi-
deration for their sufferings." The [loth Gentle-
man then proceeded to comment on the effects
which sect imprisonment would have, and decried
that they would intimidate, without thus affecting
the good as.well as the bad, which would be the
worst feeling that could take place with the people.
He commented on the retrograde progress that
must be made on the late laws, to the iron and
despotic ages of the Edwards and the Reorys, and
drew the inference, that any man who would so
sell his birthright tot. such a mess of pottage,

-would dot lonit. -enjoy the misetable :pittance ; fin
-lie did not think the people of this country were
vet prepared to leave; to their posterity nothing
;ur fettered hands. The only part of the Right
-Honourable Gentleman's statement which seemed
to be any thing tike an_answer, was that which re-,
jated to. the Petition : there teas, therefore, still
much that wanted exohnation. ,Either there had
been two Petitions, and one had been mislaid, or
"the Petitioner did not know; secluded as he was
inforiotiort.„ what:was the fate of the
Pc titimt that had hee.n. pi-clewed. :slow, as to
the point aboor .Evatilheiug put in irons, the
%a")l3,AKer.iva's trlltrlly onsatisfactory. " It ro the
practice of the prison to place p.‘qpi? in irons;"
Ten why wadi 11 Sin't to this pri'son ? No man
titight tobe put in irons till he was convicted, unless
lor.the purpose of se',7nri ig hint; and the persons
in question Were only committed Ott suspicion,
and' :wit hoot ally' posit Ile information against
`them, or at least without such as could- be got
Ne woUld not advert to the felon's bed, or the
fare,'or the otlrer privations which the Pe-
titioner experienced ; but there was one cir-
cumstattee that he • could not pa3s over, and
'that was, the robbing this poor man of [di
flute, which contributed to 'beguile his dreaty
boors: 'E'very body had read of a man con-
-fined in' the Bastillc, who had made an :as-
'odate of A spider, tvhich the jailer perceiv-
ing, • had killed ; and this was justly stigmatised
as an act of the most horrible cruelty that could
be committed. He would leave the House to de,
ride whether there was-not a great analogy be•
tweenthe two cases. The -Hon. Gentleman then
'rectipitula'teti his terittement of the severities he
'supposed to be eicreised, and argued,' that if any.
person so confined :Were to lose his life, the
I-louse would have grathed to Ministers, not :the
power • of confinement, hot that of life anti
death'. .Lit those- (said he) who have support-
it measure take care, then, that the blood
hf siteh persons does !sot lie on their headS.-,--
TO say that it was a libel on the Jailers to
doubt their good conduct, was straining at a gnat
and sWallowing a -camel. Those who had no
feeling' fur the public *ere all at once airaid lest
the character of vriaitt:r should suffer, and he be
taile4l to account fne his condUct. It had been
such prisoners.nsiglePetition hut hoW
teeyetlity to to abont if, when no person was
gd,ffere'd to conic near them ? Wer'e they to ad-
tress" the jailer, and desire him to write the Pe-
titions for them? BA he should trouble the
House n, further. further. At thuth remaine"(l iincott-
fradieted of this case a'S- he conceived to call for
ftsrther inquiry, and the House was bound to see
that the great poWerS entrusted. to ;Ministers were
tnildly exercised ; and they could do nothing more
t 6 satisfy the people, than to she* them that suds
powers were lift eierCis'ed with rigour Or abuse.
M should note more " That the • Petition of
alms. Evans -1e referred to a Select Committee."
Mr. Annit:bteiN said, that on offering himself'
the House to make a very few observations on
is-hat had fallen froth the Hon 'Gentleman, he
thOold treSpAss on their patience hut a short time,
he had yesterday gone into such particulars as
lie had hoped would have been satisfactory.
In what he was going to state, he should think
proper to pass by those general topics On which
the Hon. Member had dwelt at souse length, he
hoped he would not think that the least disrespect
was' intended towards him, but that they were not
answered, hec,ause he did not think 'them imme-
diately relevant to the subject, and bectaxse he
Considered the time of the Mute to be most va-
luable. He must return the Hon. Gent. his thanks
tor the compliments he had paid to his Noble Re-
lative, and he assured him, that he could not
bdt be the list persan to think lie had been
6ctuated by any motive
,of personal hostility. But
Certainly he had snot anticipated that he woidd
Inure had -any complaint to mite against the Se-
cretary of State for the Home Department, after
the explanation he had given last night. He had
proved, even to demonstration, that the petition
was not detained in the Home Department 24
0111.5 . He had informed the House yesterday,
that had received a receipt 'from Mr. Harmer,
the petitioner's solicitor, for the petition which was
kiven hack, and which was the only ()tie that had
vcr come to his office. This reeeipt he bath at that
'Moment in his hand. Whetherthis w-as the actual
lietition alluded to, be could not say. As to the
other point, that this Noble Relative ought daily
to inf9ent hitnselr of the interiot stitte of those
prisons, It did appear ty be a most extraordi
ifity charge against "a Secretary of State, who
was perfectly ready to receive 'at4 complaint, that
lie should not have made daily inquiries into the
COnd'tion of the prisoners. It was open to the
isrisoners to Make any complaint ; and none had
ever come but that Of the younger Mr. Evans, to
'tvhieb he bad alluded yesterday. There never bad
been any denial of pen, ink, and paper; and even
If a pris'oner could not Write, he might send ,any
complaint he had to make by the jailor : an in-
'stance had occurred of a verbal request having.
'been sent from prisoner by the jailor of Cold-
bath-fields. The Hon. Gentleman had adverted
to what he (Mr. Addington) had said- on a former
-Occasion, and, as be observed, with some degree
of warmth. He admitted he had felt warmly on
the occasion, hot if he had- not been interrupted;
'as he most properly was, by the Right Ho 7
nourahle Gentleman to whom he addressed hint-
self, he meant to have asked how it was pos-
'sible for 'the Secretary of State to know what
passed 'in the interior of the prison, when,
if any prisoner felt the smallest oppression, or
'conceived himself improperly treated, he had the
:right of complaining. As to the insinuations of
'the Hon. -Gentleman, that persons were sent to'
'prison with no charges against them, that could
'be got at, he would only say, that not one of
these persons was committed to prison without
previOus depositions being taken Ott oath before a
-Magistrate. It *as true, that in the Circular
Letter sent to the jailers, all persons not coin-
' witted 'on suspicion of High Treason were ex-
cluded. But it was open to any person Vo mike
application to the Secretary of State for perinission
to Visit a prisoner so committed, and he was sure
that 'the `House Would feel that it was right to
listit 'this permission under some restraint. He
'felt it his duty to exculpate the•individnals against
vltes'en ,such 'Charges 'Were. made ; antl-iworder to
investigate the foundation for them, he had thought

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it necessary to send lot tli ragain
and •
e
mine him, that he might hear what he had to gaY
in I►is ji.stificaiicin again,t any of the charges al:
leged against • him. With respect to the allow-
ance of coals, the j,,iler was not permitted to depart
from the ordinary rides of the prison; but there was
in winter an unlimited allowance adieu' ; though
in summer the quantity for culinary purposes was
abridged. There was a re.zulation also respect-
ing candles. Evans certainly diL) complain of not
being allowed can4les:; and the jailer told him
that he could nut violate the rules of the, prison
tvithont higher authority, but he. might apply to
the Secretary of tate for an order to receive them.
As for the flute, the jailor said. it was an invari,
able role of tile prison pot- to allow musical- in-
struments in it. Ile regretted that this- rule.
caused the prisoner to be deprived of his flare,
bat whe'!irr the action deserved the epithets ap-
plied to it, seeing that it was the consequence of
a regulation, he must he permitted to douht.7--;
With respect to the bed furnished to Mr. Evans, it
was a perfectly new one, and of a better descrip-
tion than the others in the same prison. Mr.
Evans, he further remarked, might have had fur-
niture of his own• brought in to him, but no ap-
plication for permission to do so had ever been
made. He had asked the jailer if the Sheriff often
visited the prison ? and had been answered in the
affirmative. The Sheriff, when he visited Mr.
Evans, hail been accompanied by a most respect-
able Gentleman, a Member of that House, and the
statement whieb he (Mr. Evans) then made with
respect to his situation was such, that he knew not
bow to reconcile it with that contained in the Pe-
tition. The Honourable Member to whom he
had alltuled.could correct hint if what he had just
advanced was -in any respect incorrect. Upon the
whole of the facts he submitted, that -if the jailor
had exercised hite.thrty
„with any apparent rigour,
in, the case of a person of whom he heard nothing
but good—elle praises of whose humanity were in
every mouth—if such an individual had been more
strict than was absolutely necessary, would the
House feel he merited any severity of censure for
adhering to what be understood to he his instruc-
tions ? He had on Tuesday received two letters
from the
,other prisoners confined in the same
prison ueder similar circumstances, couched in
the strongest terms of gratitude for the extreme
kindness and•humanity with which they had:been
treated by the jailor. He felt it to be his duty to
oppose the motion.
Mr• B.:Straw spoke to the correctness of the
.
conduct•of the bead jailer, and of thtise employed
tinder him. He had been that day to the prison,
and had seen the, whole- of the persons confined
on suspicion of-High Treason. He had asked"
them, if, abstracting the cause of • their confine-:
meat, they had any objection to make to, Or ob-
servation to offer on, the treatment they bad ex-
perienced from the jailer, or the restrictions tin-
der which they had been placed by the Magi-
strates. .All declared, that so far as the Magis-
trates and. jailer svere concerned, they had no oh-
servati-Ons to:•-offt'r. The elder Evans said, that
'' Freedom was sweet, and he.wiAred to be
rated, but he had nothing to say against the
jailer." Piikington declared, that "-so far front
having any thing to, object to him, he should al.;
ways regard • 'ruin with • love and gratitude."—
Young Evans complained that be was riot allowed
catoges. This, he said, was of little importance
now, but it would be more seriously felt as the
nights grew longer. By that time the Hon.
Member had no doubt this subject rebtad be taken
into consideration. Ogden, with tears in his eyes,
had replied to the questions put to him, " So
long as Menuity- holds her seat, .so long shall 1
remember with gratitude the conduct of the jailer,
for be has been a friend to me it my distress."
Mr. BENNETT had known the jailor long, and
had known nothing of him but what redounded
to his credit. The question, however, was not
whether the jailor bad properly executed his Or-
ders, but whether the rules .and regulations in
themselves were proper. • Every thing material in
the ,Petition had been
.admitted. The statement
that pens, ink, and paper, tt ere not allowed to
the prisoners, he believed to be incorrect, but for
th.erest,what bad been stated appeaVed•to be (roe.
He proceeded to vindicate the principal allega-
tions in the Petition. He contended the prison-
ers bad been treated with wanton cruelty,, but he
considered the Goveroment alone were
,in fault.
When the prisons, in 'which the persons recently
taken tip were now confined, were built, the
country .was not under a government like the
present, and those places were only made fit for
the reception of felons. • If the eastern' iIOW acted
upon were persevered in, itavonld .he found neces-
sary to build special prisons for the reception of
those -who Were' t$ he deprived of their liberty
under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. He
should-give his vote for the motion of. his Hon.
Friend.
Mr. 11. SUMNER stated the prison to have been
visited by three Magistrates at the Conroy, sobse-
qoent to the committal of the prisoners ; Mr.
Young and Mr. Laing were of the number. They
visited the cells without any objection being mitre
to their doing so. Evans complained of having
been pot in irons, Which be said was grating to
his feelings. He bad been told this teas contrary
to the rule of the prison,- unless it was. ordered by
the Secretary of State. He (Mr. H. Sumner)
bad understood that the jailor, as he was accus-
tomed to put persons charged with felonies in
irons, had conceived himself bound to take the
same course with an
,individual who was charged
with a still higher offence. The Magistrates re-
commended the prisoner to present a memorial to
the Secretary of State; this was done, and the
memorial immediatelyproduced the desired effect.
He bore testimony to the generally unexception-
able character of the jailor, and was of opinion
the error into which he had fallen, from a mis-
construction of his orders, tinder all the circum-
stances, ought mist to lie noticed. He described
he dimensions of the prison; stated the prisoner to
have been at liberty to send for his own furniture,
arid added, this had been done "bv Mr. L.-Hunt,
who Was confined in .the same apartment, and
furnished as it -was by him, he (Mt. Sumner) had
never been in a more comfortable room iu his
life. Mr. Evans might. have made it the same.
With respect to_fira, the• prisotser bad been re-
stricted, not-as-to-quantity,.-but as to stime. -If
be bad been deprived of his flute, other enjoy-

►nettts were left to biol. Penis,
were. allowed, and also books, s hich he had the
liberty of ex'changi►►g as often as
could not sed that any blame attached" to those by,
1iC,1,1 those matters %vete regulated.
Mr. STUAIyr ‘VonTLEY, since he had. sat in that
House, had ►►ever heard a -case more completely
iffiswered, and'had never seen one more=eviden►ly
trumped up, for the purpose of impoiing on the
public. The first allegation---that respdeting the
Petition said to have. been withheld, was a direct
falseho►►d. The Petitioner might not have known
that it was`pres'et►ted by'tlte Hon. Ocioreman op-
posite: hot his Solicitor, Mr. Harmer, must have
known that it had been returned to hint from the
Office of the Secretary of State He, therefore,
in suffering this charge to stand, had allowed a
falsehodd to be stated, as it shonl&seein, that it

might be published iii all the Sunday newspapers
before it could he contradicted; He sliould have
expected the Hon. Gentlents') who presented the
former Petiti-on- to* have objected *to that ‘vhich
was now under conSideration. The present Pe-
tition he- believed- to have been only trumped up
to inflame the public-mind (male passing of the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Ace. The grievances
of which the Petitioner complained, he had more
direct means of getting redressed, had• he not pre-
ferred coaling to that House, with the views he
had. already imputed to him'. Instead of being
confined in a dungeon, it turned out the apart-
ment. allotted to blur was unusually large and: con-
venient : the arcade was well calculated for exer-
cise and air. To the rules of the prison the Peti-
tioner was bound to submit, and in no one in-
stance had a case of wanton cruelty been made
out. He could wish the prisoners were.admitted
to the garden, but if this were contrary to those
rules necessarily adopted for the security of other
prisoners, the Petitioner had no right to complain
that it had not been allowed him, He was frien&
ly to the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act,
because he loved the Constitution of his cotintry,
apd thought this measure necessary to preserve- it.
It was, however, the duty of that House to watch
carefully over those who might be confined under
it ; but at the same time, they ought to take care
that the House should not be made the vehicle of
unfounded accusations.

Mr. BENNETT arid Mr. S. WORTLEY mutually
explained. •
fir F. BURDETT said, the reasoning of the-Hon..
Gentleman who hail just sat down, and who', toy,
ing the Constitution of his country, that was,-the
liberty of the subject, could take ,the course 'he
had taken, was such that he could find-no ground
on which to raise an argument with him. If the
Petition on the table were,false, that was a strong
reason why the Hon. Gentleman should wish it
made the subject of-an inquiry. He remembered
having been much.opposed when he called the at-
tention of the House to certain abuses, which •af-

terwards turned out to be true, and he. was, then
met try precisely the same sort of arguments and
assertions which had been med on the present oc-
casion. ile could not think the prv:]ent Petitioner
deserved to be stigmatised Jinving ;
..now.ng.y
stated shat was false. A pavane' had be.en.drawn
between the-circumstance of Mr. Evans being de-
prived of his flUte, and the story told of a_person
confined irithe Bastille, and a spider. The pre-
sent case, however, was not so -similar to that
which had been alltided to, as one which occurred
some years ago in Cotltitith-fields prison. . Mr.
Ark, it would be remembered, was at that time

spoken of by many respectable Menthe's of that
House as a person who only deviated from the
rules by which his conduct ought to be regulated,
through his excessive humanity. In every other
respect his Conduct wa'• said to be excellent. An
Hon. and-Religious Member of that House, whose
opinions had great weight—
Mr. STUART WORTLEY appealed to the Speaker
if the Hon. Baloact was not out of order.

The SPEAKEI: Wat sure that, any epithet applied
ironically or disrespectfully to any Member of that
House, personally, could not be other than dis-
orderly ; and the lion. Ili..ronet had not to learn,
that the expression he had used was not common-
ly made use of to indicate any particular-Member.
Sir F. BURDETT bad not used the expression in
question f ironically, but distinctively.. That Hon.
Member, whose opinions bad great weight in that
House, had been so fai-itnposed upon, that he had
declared the House of Correction, in Cold Bath

Fields, to resemble an hospital rather alai a pri-
son. He (Sir F. Burdett) knew better at the time,
but an Hon. Gentleman,"then a Member of that
House (Mr. Wilberforce Bird) had told them of a
man who was confined in a solitary cell for 11 or
15 -months between 4 wails, inclosing a space of
8 feet by 6, and heavily ironed. During a severe
winter, a robin carne into the cell of tins unfortu-
nate person. 'The man fed the robin with crumbs,
and the bird grew faniiliar with him, and- at
last became so much"so, that even the entrance
Pt the turnkey did not disttsrb him. Aris'did not
~tten look Ow his prisoners,lfimself, but one
morning going into tl►is cell, and perceiving the.
robin, he immediately took it from the, man, and
squeezed it to death in his hand. The prisoner was
so shocked at this act of cruelty, that he declared
he could not have endured a greater pang if all
the relations he-had in the world'had been sacri-
ficed before his face. Till! story had been, told
of that jailer, whose only fault %vas' his excessive
humanity., lie hoped the Hbuse would put•sue
the same course now which was taken -then, fun{
inquire into the merits of the case now brought
before them. It had been said by a celebrated
writer, that " the steeled jailer was seldom the
friend of man." The keoer of Horsemonger-
lane prison might be a man of humanity, hut still
he contended the case was one tvidich called for

inquiry. He argued at somilengrp on the hard-
ships to which the prisoner had been subjected,
and showed, on the authority of Lord Coke, and
also on the authority of the old bOok called "'Tie
Mirror," that a man confined under such circum-
stances ought not to be put in irrins. 1 it were
wished to create dissatisfaction in the country, he
did not think a better course could be taken than
that which -Ministers had judged it advisable to
tak.c. He supported the motion.
Lord CASTLEREAGH thought mitch of .what had
been said would have been better offered on the
Habeas Corpus Suspension 33111, than on the pre-
sent occasion. With. respect N./the:special titles-
(ion before the House, he did not see any thins

to t,,11 rot ing.iiry. 11 in zliicease it mere ti;,;,;._.Lt
nece'sstor'y, they might be lea to i,n4pii.re imo it he
state of all the prisons fn the country., or they t►nigl.t

, .
he ten to construct hew prisons for the reciption
of such pet icUts as were nor confined under the
Suspension Act. It had not beets shewn that an
teal grievance had been complained of _which the
proper anthoritics had not exerted themselves
to 'redies.s. It MI such groundS' .intptiries
were to—take, place., the Honse would have
nothing else to do. it, had been seep t 44
the otficer3 of the jail had done their duty,
and that Goveriment had stepped fOrWard ttr
ictieve• the•prittoners,. as- tar as they could with
propriety, and, tinder such circumstances, be
could hardly think the Hon. Gentleman would
persevere in his motion. If the-case referted- to
by the Honourable Baronet were held -to he an ar--;
gument intavour of-the present motion, it might
be regarded as a standing reason for going into
an inquiry. on every petition of the kind that might
be presented': He was of opinion• no case 'had
been made out—that no cause for complaint bad
been illOWn to exist, which steps bad not already
been taken to. remove.

Lord COCHRANE was of opinion,lhat the House
would be better occupied by inquiries like that
now suggested, than it had.been of late, for bad
they not been employed through a considerable
part of the present Session in destroying; 4fit
liberties of England ?—(Cries of ‘• Order,"
" hear," &c.)
The SPEAKER appealed to" the House anyi
thing more disorderly could be said at any timic:,
than that they were occupied in destroying the li-
berties of the country:
Lord COCHRANE snid, it might be better that
he diotrld say, they had been suspending the liber-
ties of the country : but suspended as he believed
them to be in perpetuity, he could hot bUt
ceasi-
der, that under such circumstances the Constitn:
don of the country was subverted, where liberties
like those of Englishin'en had ever existed. Ht:
spoke at some length against the
.SuspemiOn of
the HabeaS.Corptis Act, and supporting the motion
before the House.;`. he stated fifteatLallegazonS
be contained in the petition, had received
DO answer, and Which
,set iot'th the most niateriat
facts of the case. .

General HOPE stated, the ailioation in the F''-
tition
which.represented the petitlooer to
off froin the rays Of the sun, was wholly tinfo::-
ed. Ti)-ereacle, he described to he an airy p4s-
sage, about six fVet four inches broad, with win
dogs, through which, by Ricans of'a stool, Me:
Evans &ilea amused himself wit 4 a telescope view-
ing the Surrey 'hills.. Ppdt!. tile' whole, he bad,
never hooWoof a person, having.the inisfortan,t,to
be confined at all, Who had less 'cause fut cain-

plaint. '
•rcplied, after which the nottour
ky,ai negatived wittiout a division.
Thr Electron Laws Amendment Bill WilS committA, ar
the Report ordered to. be receired to-mot row.
Lord BINNING nstirekt that the Order'of the Day for the
Report on the DIA India Navigation Laws be read. Till
tiont,e tl;ern went into a Committee nit toe ab s& Ord.er„xrber4
th:.. Report was considered, and the Bill octleret! e 1-,eaot
third time to-ntorpoW.,
Vratne-brealting...Psevention ,wa6 . read a 5e.:414
time, and oracred to lie e.omruitted to-moir_ow.
Sir .1. C HIPPISLEN b u;ht in the Cc4liers' raytacr.;
Bill, which, was read a first. time, and order:ed to be reed
second tine to-morrow..
The Extents in..40.8M .went througts
• the lteport was retA red, and'Oraerod to In talseo rota

foniuT, . ..,eport was receives', aoo
-
further cohsideration to-naorrow ; and the Bill as awen.dett
was ordered to be printed. •
The Iti,b Grand,
.Juiy,Presentment Bill went through a
Committee; the Report was received and iigreed- to, au id the
Bill was ordered to he reuk a third time in Friday.
- The cottage Window Tax EKemption Bill, She Prize-money
Bill, and the Navy Pay Office Regulation Bill, were read a st.•
cond time, and ordered to be committed to-tuoirow.
Mr. Brogilen brought up the Report- of the Sal& Rentss
Distress Bill, which was agreed to, and the Bill •ordered, to he
read a third time to-roorriv.
The FricOhitis Arrests. Bill went through a Committee, the
Report of which %%las ordered to he received to-trcorrow.
The 'visit Fairs Regulation Bill was
.Pead . a second time.
and ordered to he cominitteitto-morrow.,
The IriShl.unatic Poor Dill was read a second time, and or-
dered to hestanmittect.to-morrow. . • •
The Bank Token Stoppage Bill w:It; read, a second time,
and ordered to be committed ta-ntorrow.
The. Coal and Calm Bill was read a third time and pasc•tii.
fu r.-Brugden brooght up the Report of the Land-tax iteL
dentition Bill, which was agreed ;o, bud the pill vc..s
to he read a third time to,rnorrow,
The Irish Distilh-ry Bill went through a Committee, the
Report of which was ordered to be received to-morrow:
The Hackney Coach Licenses Bill went. through a Com-
mitiee, the Report of which was ordered to he received tse•
morrow.
Adjourned at Twelve o'clock.
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