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London, England, 1842-07-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 28.
ELECTION COMPROMISES. of
Mr. ROEBUCK rose to move the resolutionsio
which he had given notice on the previous day.
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said he should have been glad, if possible, to .1!_„;
avoided having to come forward on this occasil,
but it was absolutely necessary, afters. should
course that had been taken, that some steal),
be taken at the eitise of the session. "
en
first stated in the House that he had
n that House,
rumours respecting certain individuals ,
be so extiaor
• the House believed those statements to ,
their ow
dinary, so remarkable, and so impartant _ e
ratter, that it appointed a Committee of inquiry to ase
taro whether they were well founded or not. The Hott,
":lad further paSsed a Bill giving some "extraordill
• :powers to the Committee so appointed. He conceit/
Iward certain
"I.lleHOuse would not have taken that course unless
believed the inquiry was an important one, and he Lei
when they came to the close of the proceedings t'YI
he ought not to shrink from a necessary duty.
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ncrw came down to the House to ask it to say aye
no to the assertions he then made, to ask it whet
or not he had made out all the etatements he had I
in that House a few weeks since, ndv whether, if then
to
had been 'so made -out, the House was no* willing 11
.rest contented with those assertions, or to proceed Id
ther, and adopt measures to protect the honour 8.0
dignity of the HouSe.—(llear, hear.) When I'e hbf
made that statement, much surprise was expreaSe" 9
certain parties, and various exceptions were taken 0,1.0
the mode of proceeding.. It had been said that the Do
statement he made was scandalous on Hon. on bee
Some Hon. Members came down to the House
those words on their lips, that they were slandered.
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was now for the House to determine whether those hut,
Members were slandered or not.— (Hear, hear.)
on the other hand, it had been said, supPc's'ji
all this was true, yet all the world knew to
was a thing done every day ; there was no bli,,ty
in it. But the House did not take that view of the
ject. The House thought it was a very serious Ohio)
that its character was very much compromised by it, co
that it ought to be inquired into, and now it fold b,he
inquired into accordingly. Let him then recal to;,,
House, first, the statement he had made, then very
cinctly the proof that he had laid before them, and lifbi
that let him ask the House whether any course enw,:to
proposed better than he was about to submit to 1",.0J
with a due consideration for the parties implicated f
a deep sense of the honour and dignity of the 11'9
He stated that in one of those cases a compromise "s,
had been made, that a sum of money had been depositA
and that one of the Members bad agreed to-retire frtf
his seat. He recollected the indignant denial Madeo'
the Hon. and Gallant Member opposite (Major J3e:iied
ford). He (Mr. R.) was almost startled by the dig's,ofr
attitude of the Hon. and Gallant Member ; for, not la
teat with the simple negation which he ga`l,,,,,ei
began to make charges against others, chat
which were neglected at the time, as they 11,70 r,
to be, and which had now passed by.— 0,',(1,
hear.) Were not the charges he made substanfiaro,
L'id not one of the Hon. Members for Harwich—he
now obliged to distinguish them by their names-ct
not Attwood pay 2,500/., as he said, " out and o o',
in order Se withdraw from the consideration of the 0)
mince that
,disclosure which afterwards took place?"or
did lie not tril2(l. himself to retire from his seat 11),A)
cepting
the chuitern Hundreds?—(Hear, hear.) ne
facts had been tiro. pi, and they were the facts whir" ,0
had stated could be
/moved. He would now enter
the consideration of the; spirit in which the inquiry
c those charges, he was e'
made. When he first mat:
persevered, and he now. ral
by angry hostility; still he
lieved that many of the Hon. Gentlemen who eti,teo'
upon those compromises were unwittingly and opb
willingly the victims of a anCious systenlJ:
that they did well to lay la; re the sib„iie
and for himself he felt no enmity to those lion. Wrga.,)
men, but feelings of sympathy with them.—(Hear,`l' et,
He was glad to say that most of those Hon. Gentled
in
with slight exceptions, had come forward and state
a candid manner to the Committee, and volunt—t4
So given, that evidence which they could not obtain
any. :other source.—(Hear, hear.) For this thgY
served well of their country, and, if being made the jot°
tims 'of,a bad. system, they had done wrong to eJite r ifcS
those compromises, they more than justified tlyclogo,
by coining forward in the manner they had dorle'e
stating to the House and the country such eviden tbe
enabled them to have a perception of the mischief ot c din'
sy*tem. Therefore, as far as he was individuallf
cerned, lie had no feelings of hostility, and the resoln ,
which he would lay before the House were of a prosrcif
rive nature, not referring back to any proceedings duet,
had taken place, but directing their future COtluo".os
and casting no blame nor reflecting in anY-
on those who had been concerned in those cornpro,lneir,
but providing against future mischief.—(Hear, ncota'
Every word he had uttered with respect to those lie:
promises had been justified before the House. Lick
had not exaggerated in one tittle of what he had st_.''ore
—(Hear, hear)—and that he had fully proved.
_rf foc:
than provcd—all his assertions. The Hon. Meinbe:_ool
Oxford was particularly conspicuous in throwing a 7 of/
held over those practices which had come beforcho,
Committee, and had come forward as their first tot
pion.—(Cries of " Hear. hear.") He stated th.atices,
House had really nothing to do with those roaficusa
and that the dignity or character of the I'.oo/1
was not impugned by them. But what:,,s,-
the country say to hi ibing the poor constitne not
of thus discrracing, debauching, and destroylnEoag
afterwards shielding themselves by quibbling tu,'
themselves out of the difficulty ?—(Cheers. 1%:?
people—the thoughtful people—the really hone, 'L
of this country consider such conduct either hol?Qt,ilevecL,
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to themselves or beneficial to the country ?
did not OP°
aas the briber.—(Hear, hear.) They
utheir leaders'
the country would say that the grand and chief crinOl'i„
a virtuous morality in the peoples• unless
exalted n 0 d
and those who sat in high places, had tin it
those who represented high
exhtbtte
corrupt morality, they would have a,
rality and if those who represented learrsd,
;Bear, Ilear.) No natter how Pohl t.
how respectable the reputation I
man, he (Iktr.. Roebuck) would be the first first to brand to

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