The Sun.
London, England, 1818-03-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Accounts were presented of the total number of Bank-notes
and Barth Post-hills in circulation weekly, from the of Fe-
broary.to the 3d of March ; the African Niel-chants' Annual
Account of Articles traded in to the Western Coast, &c.
Mr. lit.AcKify RN presented a Petition from the Tanners of
Warrington,
.against the Leather Tax as did 'Lard LAS-
CELLES from those of Halifax. A number of similar Peti-
tioirs were also presented in the course of the evening.
Mr. P. NlOOltE preseitted several Petitiohs from the Clock
and Watchmakers in various parts of the Country, against
the Silver Duty, which were ordered to lie on the table, and
to be printed.

SCOTCH LUNATIC ASYLUM BILL.
Mr. BOSWELL presented a Petition horn the Magistrates
and others of the County of Ayr, praying that the Scotch Lu-
natic Asylum Bill may not pass into a Law.
Mr. FORBES (we believe) wished the progress of the Bill
to be postponed. He said it had occasioned great alai in in
Scotland, from an idea that all persons afflicted wit h de--=
rangement of mind 'night be sent to that. Asylum. 'There
wefre a 'mother of Meetings about to he held OH the subject.
Lord BINNING conceived himself bound to give the fullest
oppurtuoiry for receiving the opinions of tie different 11/41)1IC
and would even postpone the measure till after
the 30th of April, provided all the Meetings might not Ist'
held till that time. The notion of.confiiiiiig harmless ide its
in that A.yluin was never in contemplation, as it would he
bi•th cruel aod absurd. His first object would be, to confine
Such mad paupers as would be dangerous; and the second
object, to confine those who, being at large, would be dan-
gerous to themselves, and a nuisance to the community..
The petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
The House of Correction Chaplains' Salaries Bill was read
a first time.
Central GASCOIGNE presented a petition from the Pro-
prietors of the Liverpool Exchange, against the Gas Ligl4
Bill.—Ord, red to lie on the table.
Leave was given for the Edinburgh Gas Light Bill.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY presented a petition from in persons
of Newcast lc-on-Tyne, prayiog for Reform in Parliament.
Sir E. BRYDGES moved for a return of all sums granted
by Parliament within the last ten years, in aid of the graots
to the British Museum, fur the purchase of Libraries.—Or-
dered.
HADDOCKS presented a Petition from •certain inha-
bitants of lloston-afainsi the Indemnity Bille—Ordered todie
on the table.
Leave was given for bringing in the Hammersmith Bridge

Mr. PROTHEROE'presente3 a Petition from Bristot,pray-
tit; fot Universal Suffrage.
Leave, was given to bring, in a Bill to amend tlte London
Dochs' Act.
Mr. LUSHINGTON brouttlit up various accounts of cot-
on-wool, leather, &e. expected during the last year.
Lord PALMERSTON moved the third reading of the Mu-
i.ny 13111. '

Mr. WYNNE wished to correct a mistake he had made re-
specting his opinion 'of the Lords having inserted a lesser
number of men in the Mutiny Bills of certain pet Ws than
what were fixed by the Commons, The Lords did not, it ap-
peared, talieinto their consideration the number of men em-
ployed as Marines.

• Lord FOLKESTONE asked a question respecting the
names of Officers of Corps that had been•reduced, remaining
with their Bill rack in the Army List.
Lord PALMERSTON replied, that the circumstance of the
names of certain General Officers remaining in that list was
intended as nothing inure than a compliment to them ; and
it wag not ill the power of the Commander-in-Chief to employ
them in consequence of their names remaining there.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY said a few words on, as far as could
he judged, the smallness of Lieutenants' Half-pay and their
Widows'' Pensions,

Mr. i
C F ALCRAT asked a question, respecting the employ-
ment of Officers of the'Brilish Legion in the army of Hanover.
Lord PALMERSTON said it was necessary that such Offi-
eers sho:4ld be employed to organize the Army of Hanover,
and no others were so fit; but our half-pay, without (Idly,
was better than full pay there with duty.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed, as was als.,
the Mill iny Amendment Bill.

After some observations from Mr. ÜBE, on tbe expediency
of relieving the Trnde from certain duties, the West India
Indemnity Bill was read the third time and passed.
The Madder Duties Bill was tend a third time, and passed.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL postponed the farther pro-
gress of the Surgery Re:filiation Bill to the 7th of April.

INDEMNITY BILL.
The. IrTTORNIRY-PF.NPRAL, having moved the
Order of the Day for the first reading of the in-
demnity Bill, began by observing, that on the
present occasion he trusted it might be thought
better, that before going into any debate upon it
the Bill should be printed, in order that every
Member might have an opportunity of perusing
it before the third reading. On considering the
events that had taken place in this country within
the last thirteen or fourteen months, and the mea-
sures which Parliament had found it necessary to
adopt, as also the proceedings in time IT-loose of
Lords, he was certain that the more the contents
of this Bill were reflected on, the stronger would

appear the justice and necessity of passing rt. Ite
wished to call the recollection of the House to
previous pioceedings of this nature, not for the
purpose of saying, that because in former times
Indemnity Bills had passed, that therefore the
present Bill ought to pass ; but in order to show
the occasions on which Such Bills had been pro-
duced and sanctioned by both Houses. And he
would point out to the recollection of the House,
that though, in certain circumstances, these Bills
bad differed, yet the circumstances which called
for the present Bill ftll completely within the
scope of those which jostified similar Bills on
former occasions. It seemed, however, that some
misconception had prevailed as to the facts which
led to the piosing of the former Bills; for he be-
lieved it had been supposed by some Gentlemen,
that the year. MI was tile first time that an In-
demnity Bill had passed subsequeutly to the Sits-
pension of the Habeas Corpus Act. But it would
be found, that io most instance* in which tile
Legislature (tad deemed it necessary to suspend
the Habeas Corpus Act—indeed in all instances
excepting one, no Indemnity Bill had passed after
the -Suspension of that Act. There had also been
instances of Indemnity Bills in cases where there
had been no Suspension of the Habeas Corpus
Act. The fact was, that with respect to both
classes of die Bills, they had been passed at dif-
ferent times sioce the Revolution, according as
the necessity of the tittles rendered tlfetts indispett-
slide. But the same exigency that created the
Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act made it ne-
cessary that Bills of Indemnity should he carried,
for the protections of the guardians of the public
trangoillity, as well as for the protection of those
who had furnished thens with intto rot a t onthe au-
thority of which they had roomd it necessary to take
the steps that had beet' resorted to. If Gentlemen
would take she trouble to refer back to the time
of the Revolution, they would find,-that the per-
sons who were the greatest supporters of that
memorable proceeding, and the means of preserv-
ing the laws and liberties of the people of
this conotry,—that these persons, intim:di-
!tidy after passing the 13i11 of Rights, found
it necessary to pass three several Acts for
the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act ;
and as they expired, there were passed In-
dentoity trills to protect the persons who had in-
formed against and apprehended those guilty of
conspiracies against the reigning Monarch.. At
a subsequent period an Indetniety Bill was passed
wilds was not preceded by a suspension of the
Habeas Corpus Act. It was its the year 1;14,
and the. Act was the Ist of George 1., cap. 39, and
it recited, that as several Lords-Lieutenants and
other officers had apprehended certain persons,
who might have excited riots and distm bailees, it
was deemed necessary by Parliament to indato-
nify thefts for their conduct its the preservation of
the public peace. Its the year 1744, the Act for
the Suspension of the Writ of 11aheas Corpus teas
not immediately followed up by an Indemnity Bill ;
but in 1746, ale' yAct was produced, t o pro-
tect all persons in the situation of. Magistrates, &c.
for theirconduet its the preceding year,aud for what
they might have done subsequent to the expirae
thou of that Act. This, however, was not thought
sufficiettt ; for as that Act only indemnified them
to the 30th of April, and as the Magistrates had
been under the necessity of_taking IT several per-
sons subset/item td that „day, another Act was
passed, indemnifying them for all setinos (fine
between the 30th of April and the 25th of July,
1746. Thus an Indemnity Bill bad its all in-
stances followed the other. Front that time till
the year 1792, there was no Suspension of the
Ilaheas Corpus Act ; but there was an Indem-
nity Bill for the circumstances that took place its
the yerir 1780 ; as the Magistrates and other had
acted on their own responsibility for the security
of the
,public peace, at a time when it was
absolutely necessary for them (0 interfere, and
when it teas difficult, if they had been prosecuted,
to bring home the offence to the persons they had
secured, so as to justify their apprehension. From

that time till theyear:lBol, was not aware of
any Bill of -tl►is kind having !teen passel; hut in that
year there were two such Acts, for indetnn►fying

persons for having apprehemied and detained in-

dividuals suspected of High Tteason, and for hav-
ing been active in suppre•sing tumults and riots
in Ireland. lie merely mention,d this to skew
that our predecessors thought it necessary to in-
demnify public officers for apprehending persons
who had assembled- as auxiliaries for treasonable
purposes On all those occasions it must have
been for the. consideration of the House whether
the exigencies of the times had been stic,ll as to
justify those particular Bills. Now, it was seen
that twice during the period he had mentioned,
and after the fullest discussion, Parliament had
thought it necessary for the peace of the country
to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, and to give
certain powers to the-Secretary of State and the
Privy Council, for the purpose of detention. If
the House would recollect the circumstances which
bad taken place within the last fourteen months,
they must he convinced that it was absolutely ne-
cessary for those who were the guardians of the
peace of the country to take the steps they done,
and that they would have been guilty of a gross
dereliction of their duty if they had acted other-
wise. They were therefore fully entitled to the
Indemnity of Parliament, in order that if any
proceedings should be instituted against them in
Courts of Law, they might not be tinder the ne-
cessity of disclosing the testimonies they had re-
ceived, and thereby marking out those persons as
object of vengeance, or be put in the situation
of violating the confidence reposed in them.•--
Without such a protection, they would be put in
the situation of sacrificing those persons, by mak-
ing public their names, who bad given informa-
tion on condition that they should not be
disclosed. It was impossible not to see that

there had been conspiracies formed for the pur-
pose of overthrowing the Government of this

kingdom in Church and State, as established by
law. Plans had been formed by persons taking
advantages of the distresses of the lower orders

of the people, to get them to assemble un-

. .
der the false pretence of petitioning that House
for a Refoi►n in Parliament, while th,eir real

objects, undisguised amongst them,elves, was
to effect an entire revolulion ; so that at
the very time they were speaking of Reform,
they had iu view nothing but destruction

to a'tl the adistired anti revered ibilitutioris of the
country. The transactions that had.taken place
in February last year, and the December preced-
ing, manifested the intention of getting together
large-nuatbers of people, for the purpose of per-
suading them to acts of insurrection and revolt.—
It therefore became the absolute duty of the Ma-
gistracy to interfere, and they performed that
duty in a manner highly creditable to themselves,
and beneficial to the country. Here he could not
help observing, that amongst the intentions de-
tailed to the Committee of that house which %vas
appointed last year, one scheme of those who
were endeavouring to• disturb the public peace,
was the plan of coming to Parliament with peti-
tions. signed by ten persons -each ; but in large
bodies of several thousands, every tenth person
having a petition in his hand. This was stated in
February, and its truth was established by the
attempt to carry the daring project into effect at
Manchester in the fol:owing month. Who were
the projectors or instigators of this bold scheme
he could not say ; but it was a cool and deliberate
plan of some persons who had studied every head
and section of the law against tionaltuous assem-
blies, in order to see if they could not he evaded ;
and there was no watt but must be convinced,
that instead of these being large assemblies of Pe-
titioners, their object was io have a sort of army,
every ten men having a leader, and every hundred
a centurion, that they might come to overawe
Pat liantent, not by petitioning, but by threats and
terror. He would say, there never was a more
mischievous or a more atrocious project than this
was intended to be, if. it had not been circumvent-
ed. Poor persons were persoaded to leave their
labours, and tomareh without provisions, cloth-
ing, or any means of supporting nature, so
that their very necessities must have led them
to violate the laws as they proceeded, if+ order
to prevent themselves from starving. It was,
therefore, the imperative duty of the Magis-
trates to stop them in all the p'arts through
which they passed, as being unlawfully assembled,
in the danger of the public peace. When the
evils took place in the year 1780, the reproach
against the guardians of the public peace was,
that they had nut done their duty, as the situa-
tion in which they stood called oft them to stop
those outrageous proceerliugs, instead of letting
them go on till they burst into an explosion.—
What would they have said to the Magistrates of
those counties, if they had found the insurgents
of last year at the doors of that House, or even
in the Metropolis, with their Petitions amongst
every tell men ? Would it not have been said,
that they had been guilty of a gross dereliction of
their ditty ? The House also would recollect the
proceedings that had taken place at Manchester,
that information of these proceedings had been
given upon oath, and that on this information
the Government had acted. The Committee had
reported last year on the state of the country,
anti the Committee to whom the papers were
lately referred had reported their opinions on its
present .state, all founded on the oaths of persons
who ,had deposed to the circumstances that had
taken place. Those facts must prove that distur-
bances had occurred, and that it was absolutely
necessaty to proceed to the trials of the most ac-
tive conspirators at Derby, by which step the in-
surrection was put down. As he had spoken of
the trials at Derby, he woidd add, that it was
clearly proved, front the testimony of persons
whom it was impassible to doubt, that this was
the branch Of a large conspiracy which was in-
tended to extend to (natty parts of the country,
amd which was only prevented front taking full
effect by the activity of the Magistrates. The
trials in question had fully satisfied hint that a
deep laid conspiracy had existed, and that it- would
have gone on and led to a universal explosion.
What he meant to say was, that it would have
been go far general as to have taken place where-
ever an assembly of misguided people had been
collected. With respect to what bad been said
about Oliver, he wouhl counteract an important
impression that had been made on the public wind
respecting his appearance at Derby during those
trials. Oliver was not brought there to give his
evidence ; he was brought there for a very dif-
ferent purpose. Ile had no hesitation in saying,
that he (the Attorney-General) had been the
man who had caused hint to be brought down,
and he would state for what purpose. There was
a mart who had been at Derby, and said he had
seen Oliver amongst the conspirators, and he was
to appear as a witness, and was to have proved
that the man he was speaking of was Oliver.—
Oliver was therefore'sent for to Derby, not that
he might be examined as a witness, but as an
auxiliary, that those on their trials might have an
opportunity of saying whether he was the man;
but the Jury were perfectly satisfied that lie was
not the man. This was the reason for Oliver
being at Derby, and it was a good reason ; not
for the purpose of having any thing communicated
by him, but that he might he confronted with
persons who might have said that he was present
at many of those meetings ; and thus the base
fraud abed on that occasion would have been de-
tected. Ile might to apologise, as this was the
first opportunity he had had of waking the state-
ment, and he (lid it for the purpose, that if any
blame was to be attached for having Oliver at
Derby, it nnglit rest upon him. Now it had been
proved that there had been an intention to bring
about a revolution, and if there were such an in-
tention, whether this
,conspiracy existed only
amongst the lower orders, or was secretly iusti-

gated by persons of a higher rank in society, was
of no importance—it was the duly of Govern-
ment to prevent it from taking place. It could
not be denied that means wore used to work upon
the passions of the misguided people in the most

atrocious way, and this was by an attempt to de-
stroy their religions feelings. He would venture
to say, that the tendency of those bla.vhentous
publications that had been so widely disseminated,
was to undermine and destroy all the principles of
religion amongst the lower orders, who had hi-
therto regarded them with reverence and venera-
tion. There !mist be few persons who could not

see that this %Os one of the objects of such pub-
licatiocs ; and theft he heard it'asserted that they
had nor‘had much circulation, and that persons

xbo wanted to buy them out of curiosity could
not obtaitt them, he was Absolutely astonished.—
It was impossible to walk through the streets

wit host seeing the:n at every
were hawked about in the country, and must in-
dustriously circulated ; and the persons were
stopped, from the circumstance -of their belt)
liable to the penalty outlet. the Hawkers' Act,
for having no license ; then these infamous
productions were given away ; they saying they-
could Dot be prosecuted for giving away what
they pleased. Thus no man who knew what
had been lately passing in this country could deny
that this was a principal means by which the peo-
ple had been corropted. Then it the coospira-
des had, been formed for the purpose of producing
insurrection, surely it was necessary for the guar-
dians of the public peace to act as they had done ;
and it must also be admitted, that they tt wild
have been guilty of a' gross derelictiOn of their
duty if they had acted otherwise. If then. they
were warranted in apprehending those persons,
they were also warranted in doing other acts.—
Now when, under the warrants that were issued
for apprehendiag- certain iuelividualQ, they also
seized their papers, it appeared to him that they
did right, for they thus prevented infiirmation
being conveyed to their coadjutors. Another part
of this,Act was to indemnify persons for the sei-
zure of -arms. It there was no desite to stir tip
insurrection, then every thing that had been done
in this way was wrong; but it' otherwise, be
would say that those who searched for arms were
bound to do so for the preservation of the trait-
quitlity of the country. One of the petitions that
had been laid on the :able of that House—he be-
lieved it was that from Francis Ward, complain-
ed that some persons entered into his house at
Nottingham, for the parpose of searching far
arms, but none were found, lie begged the House
to recollect what was proved to have occurred at
the time. It was on the 10th of June, just at the
moment that the insurgents of Derby were march-
ing from thence to Nottingham, at which place
the apprehensions had occurred a day or two be-
fore ; yet the search took place when the whole
town was in alarm, and when there was a body
of meu.in that town ready to receive those who
should arrive from Derby, to take possession of
that place. Would it not occur, then, that at
such a time it was the duty of Magistrates to
make a strict search, iu order to see•whether the
suspected persons had arms, at a period when
those they were combined with had assembled,
and were preparing to join them ? ire would say,
they would have been most negligent of their
duty, if they had not taken all such proper steps
to take away arms front every snspected person.
In short, nothing whatever had been done that
was not absolutely necessaty for the preservation
of the peace. Then, surely, it was fit that those
who had so properly and actively conducted them-
selves should be indemnified for their acts : or if
they' were to have actions brought against them
they would have no means of defending themselves
but by disclosing the names of those who had
given theta the intortnation ; though lie must re-
peat that those names should not he exposed.
For if once it were tw be laid down, that Parlia-
weut should act upon the principle that those
who have given information to Government of
treasonable conspiracies were to he exposed, no
such information would in future he obtained, for
every person would he afraid of affording it.—
(Hear, heat !)—lf the House did not think them-
selkes called on to pass such a Bill, he would say
that they encouraged future conspiracies, which
would be carried on to a dreadful extent, and
there would be no possibility of preventing them,
or securing the kingdom from the danger which
threatened it. There was a passage in the Re-
port of die last Committee, to the effect, that it
was hoped the minds of the people were restored
to a just' state, but that it would require the ut-
most vigilance of the Magistracy, and all well-
intentioned people, to preVeot the sante sort of
disturbances from being renewed. This was the
purport 01 the passage ; his IlleftWly did not serve
him to quote it correctly ; butt he most conscien-
tiously believed that the spirit which. had given
rise to the late disturbances was by Ito means ex-
tinct ; and that in many quarters attempts were
still going out to keep tip and expand this spirit,
and to get large bodies of people together for the
pretence of petitioning fur reform, but with the
real object of producing new insurrections. But,
let no man suppose that he was of opinion that
any thing in the shape of a reform was an Out-
rage upon the constitution. He thought no such
thing : but the Reformers of the class to which
he alluded were daring and desperate enthu-
siasts, who said in their speeches that the people
had a right to carry their petitions to that Howse

in one hand, and their swords in the other.—
(Cries of no, no, from the Opposition side.)—

That was the dictum of, these set of Reformers. But

those who talked of Universal Suffrage and An-
runt! Parliaments Ineallt nothing but a Revolution.
Annual Parliaments were an absurdity even to
tl►itik of: they would not last a year, or more
than a year, and every reasonable man must feel
• his mind revolt at such opinions and such projects,
which would overturn the constitution of any
country upon earth that had a particle of civil li-
berty worth preserving. If the House decided, by
rejecting this Bill, •that Ministers should be. con►-
pelled to disclose the information on which they
had acted, the consequence would be, Treason
might again.rear its head without check or con-
troul and a repetition of the transactions of last
year, at Derby and other places, which lead to
insurrection, to revolution, and to every thing
from the contemplation of which the mind re-
ironed, was to be expected. He then described
tl►e provisions and the object of the Bill. Ile
spewed that it was not formed exactly on the pre-
cedent of that of 1801. The circumstances of
the last year had been different, and tl►e provisions

of the Bill were necessarily varied in some mea-
sure. Those Magistr:Ates, for instance, he con-
tended, were entitled to protection who ha►l dis-
persed tumultuous assemolies in a manner not
strictly conformable to the law. The case of the
Blanketeers he particularly adverted to. It no
law lityl existed that exactly applied to them, the

Magistrates would hay; been culpable, if, in some
way or other, they had not dispersed so tumul-
tuous an assembly ; for, from its numbers, it
must necessarily have been tumultuous, and what

ever the avowed object, the attempt to execute
the plan which had been formed for proceeding to
London with one petition put on 10,000 slips of

, „ ,
paper-, mast nave leo to `tire commission of crone.
He %erotic! suppose the multitude which had been
called together had accomplished their professed,
ject--had proceeded to London and besieget."
the door of that House. He would ask, in that
case, what would have been said of the 111,30'
Rates ? They tvould assuredly have been cetr
sured as guilty of a gross dereliction of their dug.
In a case of great and urgent necessity, it. ho
been thought wise to arm the Magistrates wit!:
extraordinary powers, atultrow the present BO!
became necessary to protect them for having e%,'
ercised the powers which had been so confided t!
then]. Un these grounds he hoped the 1.1005
would see the necessity, time propriety, and tll4
justice of passing the Bill.
Air. LAMBTON proposed to apply himself tO the
consideration of tie question generally—whethe
any Indemnity Bill, without farther inquiry, ought
to be passed in favour of Ministers, whose cool
duct had, in his judgment, been such as wool°
justify au impeachment. The time was at lenatl!
come for winding up the transactions of the la
year, and the Attorney-General now came to cal,
upon the House to dm )p an impenetrable veil over,
the acts of tyranny and injustice which had beel
committed, that the voice of complaint might bj
stilled, and that cruelties worse than those whic!
had been perpetrated in the French Bastile might
be for ever concealed from public view. It tli
[louse did not repel this Bill with indignation, it
could no louger be denied that they were aecony
'dices in the acts which it wets framed to cover.—"
Parliament had committed to the erre of Aliois'
tens sharp anti dangerous aunt deadly weapons, bo‘
they had done this in time coldpieta expectatino
that, they would be used with forbearance and lot'
Inanity. Now, they had before them complaints/
preferred throngh the'sacred tight of petitiouiugs
of the most abominable cruelties having- been coat;
mitted tinder the warrant of the Secretary 49'
State. The only answer given to these charges
was contained in time assertion of the distioguishea
humanity of the Noble Secretary of Mate for the
Home Department. The Inonattity of. the Noble
Lord might be great, or it might not be great.--'
But, at all events, this did not appear front 1,0
public acts, and if it did, still his personal clia•
racier was no ans,ver to the charge. His sue'
censor mieht not he a matt of the same his'
mane feelings, and therefore to him it wag
clear that a bather inquiry was necessary.--1
lie htmll.- heard of an inquisitor iu anciiolt
times, `whoa.. sensibility was such that be
could not refrain from sheddiiig tears at tviT'
nessing the tortures he thotteht it his dory to
Timis, however, was not sntlicient to relieve lImL
victims, any more ditto the humanity of the Se
cretary of State was to satisfy those who loolsolf"
fered under time late Solmension of the Ilab"g
Corpus Act, The country he described to 100
been cheated out of its liberties by the Susf,c'y
sin of the habeas Corpus Act, en false pretenctl
fie censured time former Secret Committee, wl"
its Report, in which he stated, all matters of tact
;
had been disregatded, and the, contory•asse.rtet
to be in great danger, from time macliortions of
bankrupt apothecary and a starving colder. r'
more improbable tale had never !well framed Id
impose upon the incredulity of man. The pri''')
cipal witness brommeht t<nw,,rd to prove what hi'
been stated in that Report turned oot to hel:
Government Spy, and such was the evidence of
Jury. The Report„ however, such as it was, "'l4
fered, that the prisoners were acquitted by the
seized upoo by that House, and the Great Cleat.,
ter of time Liberties of the Country %vas suspel“.l'
ed• lie took a vie-t• of the situation of the coH►t' ~
try in 1639 and 1745, and contended, that till th`
last year, the Habeas Corpus Act bad never bee('
founded on such friVolous grounds as bad them,
been thought sufficient to justify its Sitspeosic",
It was reserved for modern times to make it 34,
engine in the • hands of .Govermnent to keep.
their jobs and places, and gag the soffering
pie, that they might not complelin of the IP'lll
gacy and misconduct of their rulers. The cont
doct_of the Government had been similar to (I'3o
of Robespierre, when he found his power otr
decline. lie, when lie found himself in daogerill3;,4l
announced dreadful plots and conspiracies agate
the public peace, which lie himself had fahricate`'
He differed from time 'resent Ministers front 91:.;
!And in this, that his attacks were directed ardint
persons of time highest rank and importance,
those of tins Government had been directed I)"
against starting manufacturers and distressed 1.14e1
chanics. Povetty, misery, amid starvation, Itae
been every tvhere felt, but these did not make I",
people sufficiently discomented to answer the.po.l
pose of Ministers. The country was. loyal, a"'a
the people were foolish enough to look tuft
that House for protection, and extrav4gal,
enough to expect those tvho were called their •'
presentatives would afford them relief.
'l he ti°l
vernment had then, ns.he believed, tholtsgbiltel,
denied time fact, sent down Mr. Oliver auto"?'
than, and front that time the standard of disall;cc:
tion was unfurled, and dist orbances occurred e
to
various parts of the country. The matt
law, ,mQui facit per facit per se," 11;1-,
been strongly insisted upon during the late rria':i
Ii the prosecution ,of his design Brandreth 130
committed murder, and ail connected with blie;
had been held to participate in the crill3
Why was not this principle extended to Oliver`
who had set them on, and the GOVerninelie
by whom he had been sent among them ? 1-j
01
ought to have been proceeded against, Bng
those Crete it subjects for an impeaciArter-
who had sent him on that expedition. Yet „
acting the part they ha:!acted, instead of an 11/.1
peacionent they expected a Bill of Indemnity, 910
this not so much for themselves as for those frt)
tilt
it born they derived their infot oration. And ‘S.-0,
were these persons ? The witnesses on whose Iv
telligence they acted, were not such as those %iv of
furs spec! intelligence in other times. listen
obtaining information from uteri of rank and c.le„
racter before they proceeded fr
to such extremitioo
they bad now none but what they received .e 5,
their own hired mercenary blood-thirsty- sPithe
Against one of these a fact had been given mother
public in n Morning Paper, which he from of
sources- could state to be true, and could prucebet
their bar.-- Front this statement it appeared !id
Oliver, on the 26th January, 1817, had be3:s,
the mob who insulted time Prince Regent. Re .t
seen near the Horse Guards, where he' had go