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London, England, 1819-07-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. P. Moons presented a petition from the
Protestant Dissenters at Boston against certain
pro‘jsions in the Marriage Act.—Ordered to lie
on the Table.

On the motion of Str 'J. GRAHAM the House
went into Committee on Dunn's Divorce Bill,
which, after being; reported, was read a third time,
and passed.
Ou the motion of 'Sir H. PARNELL, the ad.
journed Debate on Public Finance was further
post poned. t ill Wednesday.
The CHANCELLOR of the EkCitftwEß said, he
was anxious to take the earliest opportunity of
satisfying the House with respect to the produce
of the Revenue in CuStoms and Excise, for the
<platter euling that day. As the' Exchequer was
kept. Open. to a later hoar on the last day of the
quarter, for the purpose 'of receiving,..paynients,
the accounts were not finally made tip; but he.
could state that there was an increase in the pro-
duce of the present quarter, amounting to 440,0001.
as compared wiih the correspOnding quarter in
the preceding year.—The House would recollect,
that in the corresponding quarter to which he
referred there was an increase beyond that of the
year 1817 amounting to eleven hundred thousand
pounds ; so that•the 'pre4ent quarter, above the
corresponding quarter in 1817, was near a million
and a halt.

Tire Adjourned Dehate on the Storekeepers
General's Department was postponed till Wed•,
ne.stlay.
The Eichever Bills Bill was read a thi.rd time
RIO passed.
The Two Millions Irish Exchequer Bills Bill,
the Spirits Countervailing Duties Bill, and the
Appropriation Bill; were each' read a third time
and passed.
On the question for the third reading of the
last of those Bills,
Mr. W. Wl'Nig took occasion to allude to the
great pfesiure of business at the close of the Ses-
sion, and intimated his intention of moving a
at nisaing order, to prevent a similar inconvenience
in the course of the next Session.

GRAMPOUND BRIBERY INDICTMENTS.

On the motion of Lord Jon N ItUs*PLL, the

House went into'COmMittee on the Grampound
Bribery Indictments, and proceeded to the ex-
amination of witnesses. The first witness was
Mr. \V., Pomeroy.
On a question ba.ving been pur.to him tending
to criminate himself, it was objected to by Mr.
Warren, and the witness having been ordered to
withdraw, a warm discussion took place, in which
Mr. Warren, Mr2Wytin, Sir J. Mackintosh, Mr.
R. Martin, IJ.N't. BrOughtun, &C. participated.—
ILventually, the question was withdrawn, and the
witness having been again called to the bar, was
questioned by Lord J. .Russell, Mr. Williams, Mr.
Primrose,
.&c. as to hii knowledge' of the exist-
ence of corrupt practices iu the Borough of Gram-
pmwd. The examination of Mr. Pomeroy yr as
followed by that of Mr.
.Medlicott, and Mr.
Joseph Childes.
The. House having resumed, the minutes of evi-
dence were laid before it, and ordered to be
printed.
Lord JoHtst RUSSELL. then rose and said, with
ret"pect to the case now before the House, as the
greater part of the evidence bad long, been printed,
and the remainder had just been beard by the
House, he had no difficulty in now submitting to
the House the two following resolutions : Ist.
That it appears to this House, that such a noto-
rious system of corruption has prevailed in the
Borough of Urampound, as to call for the serious
animadversion of this House. 2d. That this
House will take the same into consideration at an
early period in the next Session of Parliament.—
That a notorious system of corruption had pre-
vailed in the Borough of Grampound, nitist be
evident to every one ; indeed so strung a case was
hardly ever broUght before Parliament. On this
subject it gives tyciefore unnecessary' for bun to

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occupy the attention of the. House:- 'Birt. with
regard 'to second ItesolOtinn, ' pledging-the
House 10 take this case into their consideration
early next Session, he had a few words to say.—
Since the period of the Revolution, time had fnade
in our Constitution two great innovations. In
consequence of Parliament having become so
great a power, seats in this House had become
more valuable than-before, and a much greater
degree of competition for these naturally took
place, and hence some of the smaller Boroughs
had become the seats of corruption. This fact

had been acknowledg,ed by the Hotise in three
cases in different periods of ti e, in which the
House had thought proper to establish as the
principle, that the notorious existence of such
corruption was a sufficient ground for their inter-
ference, and had endeavoured to remedy the evil
by extending the right of voting to th►e adjoining

hundreds, The other innovation' was, that great
cities and towns had since grown op, in conse-
quence of the extension of our commerce and
manufactures,' which were not represented, but
which ought to be represented as well as the other
cities and towns thAt were represented before the
Revolution. Bu! the principle of admitting the
unrepresented large towns into a share of the•re-
presentation had not yet been adopted by the

House. What he should propose next Session,
would be founded on the two principles to which
he had alluded, namely, that of destroying cor-
ruption in the Boroughs in which it existed, and
giving 'he right of 'voting taken from theni
other bodies_of',aten, who possessed such a stake

in the country as to entitle them to a voice in 11111
naming of those who to watch over their in-

terests, and whose numbers- and intere3t the
general welfare of the country would seCt:re them
from corrupt influe I Ire udntittiug this pr
elide, he conceive.) the House would riot be a.'-
am dangerous Reform. When in former
cases the House had given the votes of the dis-
franchised Boroughs to the adjoining Houdreds,
it had always been said the freeholders had no
more right to this vote than any other persons •
who were nut represented in the House ; and this
argument was unanswerable; for the only ground
on which the tranchise could be'given to the ad-
joining hundreds was that of general expediency,
under the hope (which had turded out to be well
founded), that the measure would prove a remedy
for the evil. With the same hope heshoold pro.
pose that the elective franchise should be trans-
ferred to counties or towns in which there were

large- bodies of men possessed- of great wealth
who had hardly any representatives in that House.
So much he considered veceisary to say at pre-
Sent', but the other reasons on which he should
recommend this measure, he would reserve fur the
Occasion when be brought the subject before the
House. The Noble Lord concluded with moving
the two Resolutions already given -by us, which
were agreed to.

Mr. WILBEaFORCit gave notice,, that on Wed-
nesday next he should Submit a motion to. the
House; but the subject of it was stated in such a
manner as to be altogether inaudible in the
Gallery.
The Lords' Ameticlments to the Charitable
Foundations Bill were airetd to.'