The Sun.
London, England, 1817-02-27 00:00:00

!lament, but to sortie other persons..--(Loud cries
tit older, order Chair, 011'401'
The SritAK-Ha.—" I certainly itoprelielid it to be
the a ak to consider all speeches delivered in this
I loose as addressed only to the House."
Lord CA,sil.hite,sott said that the decision ot
the Chair tuti.4 of course regulate his conclitet•-r"
Ile etin!tl only sav that the general feeling of the
11,iii‘e seemed to tic, that the [lon. Baronet's
tqieecit was he had described it. Irlie
sulisiance ot that speech, the attempt hi it to treat
with ridicule th. present alariniog state of the
comory was wily consistent %till, the 1-Itm• 13,1-
' room, %el:0 had many years ago, during the war,
ciut (Hired to ridicule those treasons; which it
they had been treated as lightly by Parliaincut
as by the !Immovable Baronet, 'the Constitution
would long ago have heel' overturned, and that
!loose would now have . lain prostrate the vic-
tim of treason stud rebellioti, under the mask
of Reforni.---(llettr, heilr I).—But in.leed, if they
were to look to the proceedings of the Honour.
able Baronet himself with his electors, and if such
svlts the porky of election which the Reformers
wished to intiorluce, their motives c'ould not be
mote objectionable than their metisiircS—Olear,
hear begged pardoti for hat'ing detained
the Ilottse so Twig on a subject foreign to the
ipiestion before the floiite. But, really,'il was
very serious 'matter for colisideration to find the
dangers which now threatetied the country Ittik-
ett lightly of—to hear even etideavonred to
be throw it ou 'hose attempts against
rhe person
of his Royal iligliness the Prince Regent—
attempts of a oat ore si; criminal---so abhorrent to
bottom maitre, as scar, ly to he credited as Davit,;;
beet, nuide in any civilised cottut re—ao hear
those plots attempted to he made the sob-
jt et-of 1 ito..;hier which threatened the subversion
of the Coustitlition, anti is hick had threatened
tl.e Vet., ;old properties of the people of En-
! Hl.--(11. dr, !)—Aud ibis was done too,
whi,n the lull Ii tef till th t•t WAlCoriflCHilteil in the
ilmet..—renetillie exisocire fiititti- the alarminv
turre ot was
every Ali tither id that ; Nod telool the Corn.
millet heoare whom the evidence had been laid--a
Committee compo:ieit of Paleniherii from both sides
of the (louse, Kati 1111411i111011,,1y agreed that the
danger v so great, that Ole existing laws
were insutticielit Ito the safety of the Consti-
tution lie Octiii'd that the Bill now before
the 110.1. e was itneliOed as a measure for the
punishment of any of those iih4!orf iota-
virloal: now in coN)llement. The grounds on
which the nieasnie was called ftir was the exist.
core of it Coll,piriley, the members of which were
booty' Ogether, and firmly bent on the destruc-
tion of The Constitution. That conspiracy had
riire,dy made titre partial attempt in December last,
v. hick had heel' happily suppressed without timell
mischief. Mitt whet) pot.doten at that thne, they.
had by no means tub:M(l/111Md their design on the
contrary, it was proved that they had fixed npun
the 10th day of ,Pebruary, as the day on which
they were to renew' their desperate attempt .-
11 was well known that ' the criminal law of
this country was of stich a nature, that evi-
dence which in other en .es would be morally
colt vincing, was not stiflicient for legal convic-
tisot. Ile would therefore ask, whether, by ie.
fusing this melisure the' House Was prepared to
',HMV bland to flow, and the conspirators again to
take the field, or whether they eionld Dot ive
Govertintent the means of effectually quelling it
lie again disclaimed this measure as one of pu-
nishment. Jt was solely as one of precaution ;
awl if it teas refused, be believed, on his conscience,
that and disastrous calamity would be the
consetriettee(llear, hear !)

Mr. Postsovav said, he felt himself in a very
siogtilar situation, being not only obliged to an-
swer
,the, arguments from the, other side of the
Muse, but also to • defend himself against the
Chat ge of inthecil,tylottlititotey made against him
fun') his own side. Ilianterer streak his intellee-
111'4 helillieS might e, such as they were, lie WAS
in 1."11 pOSSCSSioII or them *hen he .attended the
Committee, and he 'consented to be a Member of
that COmMittee becaase he thought it his thify.—
(llear, hour !)--i-As to what was said of its being
impos,ilde for any zeusible man to believe that
such designs were really Immed by the individuals
to whom the report ascribed them,'lle could only
sae, that before he read the proofs, be thought
it Si) absurd that it was almost impossible. Bat it
tad licett completely proved to the Committee;
and ei cry thing asserted in the Report of the
Cotont.ttee was eettainly bear !).
%11/14 for hitt) to deny that there was
pla•M da!)gcr, it,it then lite :remetly proposed by.
the Noble Lord, with liespect to the Suspensiou
of the Hallett; Corpus Act, was irate improper.—
If there, was any additional proof of this required,
it was en he found in what had been that Div(
totateti by the Lora Advocate or 5C01141,4, name-
ly, that the Central Committee of U ain't). at
tilaslow had bi'r'o seized,--(Hear, hear !)—if the
meas,tre now proposed Will 4 agreed to, the stoTen.
sion oft titellabeas Corpus Act
.vvotati bccopte it
ire ~f the ordinary legislation of the country...
roi that. Act he bad HO 41411,05 t atuperstitirous reve •
-
Telsce ; for he considered it the bulwark of British
freedom, 1111 the present .CHIC Ilse conspiracy was
one of fintine acted upon by mischief, lie never
kook, the power now sought for to have befit
krauted, that it hitd not been abused by the Oct.
verninent to which it was entrusted. I.ltwat the
Larne time, he wished it to be understood by the
people, that when the question was about
6W:ha's tltuac under the consideration of the House,
the perpetrators of then' would not t) its the least
&g lee supported •by thot4 in that llowa who
rt,tially opposed the Admittistritt ; hot that, nn
the contrary, they wotiht be as cattcr to put ti,c
Jows an force againatt _them as any of the
ctt lit er“tvri , Brit he though' that a dRe and
vigtooos esccittiOtt of the laws tie existettce, with
the il;.64.9l,WliAt'kkere !imposed, was finite suffi-
cient for the ~Aictttf the-count ry, without 1)4 viug
yc.,Yitil tie to t.ae, ineasnte now twoposed.--Olear,
hear !)

Lfirti 1,,,A.405t,Les euttv`!ileeil that the great
IPtfly tir 1 kir'ptopie were 'soundly tliiposetl, bat
t1.0,11",ht, kttt,tcr 10 the "cireirtilStilliCeS. the men.
hilti• !tow ii6,llosed it a 5 tteeelesAry.
woo ~,i.,i,s4o,:ttkt
• .I.Am! cocillt.4l4lk oppo4ed the 13;i1 and said, he