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Wight, from Stockton-upon-Tces, Wakefield, and Craven, orbit
the punishment of death foe forgery. Also a similar petition from
the bankers of no less than 214 cities and towns in the kingdom. It
wee signed by 1,000 bankers, and was in his opinion decisive as to
the point, whether the punishment of death should or should not be
abolished in eases of torgery. A great many junior partners of firms
declined to sign the petition from motives of delicacy to senior part-
ners who had refused to do so. Others had declined it because they
had signed similar petitions before, and they thought it, therefore,
unfair to make their names tell twice. Others also had declined
because they thought the case so clear as to require no petitions to
support it.
Mr. Secretary PEEL &aid, he should, in the course of the even.
ing, state why he thought the punishment of death should not be
wholly abolished, and lie would therefore make no observation upon
the petition. The hon. gentleman then presented the following
petition:—

" To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
" The Petition of the undersigned Bankers establish.. 4
in the Chico and Towns of
" Edinburgh, Dublin, Glasgow, 31ancluster, Liverpool. Chester,
Belfast, Birmingham. Lich nesbury, Bilston, Dudley . NVol-
verhampton, Ilristol,llath,Leeds, Huddersfield, Ai urfield,Wakefield,
Dewsbury, Leith, Plymouth. Devonport, Tavistock, Portsmouth,
Norwich, .Shefileld, Rotherham, Nottingham, Sunderland, New-
castle-on-Tyne, Durham,Darlington, Stockton, Richmond, Ley burn,
Ripon, Knaresborough, Boroughbridge, Thirak, Aberdeen, Paisley,
Tiverton, Collumpton, Heniton, Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Bidde-
ford, Torrington, Totness, Newton-Abbott, Exeter, York, Var.
mouth, Backs, Stockport, Wigan, Worcester, Evesham, Ipswich,
Needham Market, Woodbridge, Hadley, Blanningtrce, Banbury,
Shipaton, Bicester, Oxford, Carlisle, Brighton, Lewes, Reading.
Maidenhead, Henley, Windsor, Lyinc-Regis, Canterbury, Lancas.
ter, Chelmsford, Winchester, Southampton, Bury St. Edmund's,
Guilford, Kendal, Chippenham, Salisbury, Ringwood, Poole, Bead.
ford, Halifax, Wakefield, Pontefract, Doncaster, Barnsley, Derby,
Inverness, Burton-on-Trent, Leighton-Buzzard, Newport Pagnel,
Bunglers; Hitchin, Bedford, Newbury, Abingdon, AVallingford.
Uxbridge, Wlsbeach, Truro, Falmouth, Penzance, Hinton,
PenrythiLisliti Sluice, Workington, Chesterfield, Teign.
„math, • ge, Dartmouth, Bridport, Yeovil, Dorchester,
Blandford, arwich, Saffron IValden, Tewkesbury, Chelteuhain,
Cirencester, Telbury, Parringdon, Bunford, Dorsky, Ramsey,
Basingstoke, (Milieus, Hereford, Ross, Dickenfield, Leominster,
Ledbury, Royston, Hemelhenspstead, Gloucester, Stroud, Ration!.
Ramsgate, Margate, Deal, Boston, Spalding, South Spilsby,
Homeastle, Staines, Newport (Monmouthshire). 31enimotith,
Chepstow, Diss, Northampton, Towcester, irellinhorough,
Daventry, Wellington (Salop), Shiffnal, Colebrookdale, Bridge-
north, Il'enlock, Trowbridge, Wells, Frome, Wireliscoombe.
IVeUington (Somerset), Taunton, Leek, Congleton, Haleswonh,
Sudbury, Stowmarket, Relgate, Croydon, Dorking, Rye, Hastings,
Kirkby-Lonsdale, Swindon, Blahnesbury, Marlbarough,
ham, Devisee, Stourbridge, Skipton, Settle, Selby, Howden,
Scarborough, Mahon, Whitby, Pontypool, Abergavenny, Brecon,
Carmarthen, Swansea, Neath, Haverford west, Annan, Cupar,
Auchtennichty, Dumbarton, Elgin, Forfar, Galsohiels, Jedburgh,
Kircaldy, and Wingtoun (Scotland),
SIIERETII,
" That your Petitioners, as Bankers, are deeply interested in the
protection of property from forgery, and in the conviction and pu-
nishment of persons guilty of that crime.
" That your Petitioners find by experience that the infliction of
death, or even the possibility of the infliction of death, prevents the
prosecution, conviction, and punishment of the criminal, and thus
endangers the property which it is intended to protect.
" That your Petitioners, therefore, earnestly pray that your Ho-
nourable House will not withhold from them that protection to their
property, which they could derive from a more lenient law."

Dr. LUSHINGTON presented similar petitions from Bristol,
Spelding, and various other places.
Mr. LEONARD presented nine similar petitions from Mahlon,
Coggleshall, Wellington, the Quakers of Manchester, and four other

Mr. BENETT presented a petition from Bradford against t!.c
truck system.
Mr. PROTHEROE presented a petition from Leith, against the
punishment of death for forgery.
Mr. PENDARVIS presented a similar petition from Redrutli.
CROWN SUGARS.
Mr. HUME moved for a return of a copy of the amount of sugars
chargeable with the four and a half per cent, duty, (and the au-
thority by which the sugar, the property of the aown, had that
duty remitted) for the last ten years.
Sir J. GRAHAM seconded the motion, and said the hon. men:.
ber for Aberdeen deserved great credit for his vigilance and perse.
ITTIIIICC, in thus endeavouring to prevent Ministers from keeping up
a fund for the payment of pensions, indepndent of the control or
Parliament. Unless ministers would pledge themselves to bring in
a bill to aboli.h this privilege of importing goods for sale without
payment of duty, he should- take the sense of the house upon the
subject. If the hon. member for Aberdeen would entrust him with
It he would do his utmost, but if not be would do his utmost to sup-
port him. This he would do the fiat time the house was called
upon to go intosCommittee of Supply.
Mr. HUDIE, in moving for other returns connected with the
same subject, said he would gladly consign the matter to his hon.
friend, to whom be felt indebted, for really his hands were so full
that be could scarcely attend to every thing.—(A laugh.)
Mr. F. BUXTON presented several petiticas from various towns
against the punishment of death for forgery.

SUPPLY.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the order
of the day for the house resolving itself into a committee of supply.
Jo answer to a question Irolll Sir JAMES Ottairax,
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, that on Friday next he should mom
that the house should adjourn until the Thursday following.
Sir &WILSON, in reference to the debate on the affairs of Mex-
ico, which took place on Friday last, said, that he had several docu-
ntents which he should produce to the house, which, though they
did not contravene the tone held by Mr. Canning, yet he thought
they would go so far as to induce the right honourable gentleman
opposite to perceive that there was good ground for affording protec-
tion to the South American states. The papers were from the
Chancery Archives in Mexico, and they showed that the Se-
nate bad actually withdrawn from the executive the authority to in-
vade Cuba, solely from an apprehension that by giving offence to
England, it might lead to great embarrassment. Mr. Canning object d
to an expedition formed principally of blacks, under the Impression
that it would lead to an insurrection amongst the blacks at Cubs, to
massacre the whites. This was tantamount to the prohibition of
the expedition, for the expedition could not be fined out from
Mexico, unless the greater part of ft were composed of blacks.
At that time Cuba had only 1,400 European troops, all dbaf.
fated, and had only one ship.of-war, so that there could have
been little doubt of the success of the expedition, which was
prevented from sailing, solely because of the apprehended
displeasure of this country. It was true that they were subsequehtly
undeceived, and informed, that they might attack either Cuba or
Porto Rico; but this came too late—circtrastances were changed,
and it was no longer practicable. The boo. member quoted edict
papers to chew, not only that the impression that England wouli
be displeased at the expedition which pervaded the minds of the
authorities in South America, but that the British Minister, at
Mexico, also eatertained the same idea. Under these circumstances
be thought those states had a claim upon the promotion of this
country, and be took that opportunity of placing the matter fairly
before the house.

Mr. PLANTA said he could not call to his mind any one sir.
cumstance that passed in reference to these states which could lead
to the impression which the hon. member represented to be enter.
tamed in that hemisphere.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said he regretted that Colombia and Mex.
leo were thus endeavouring to fasten a defensive alliance upon this
country without the slightest ground for doing so. He could not see
the necessity of reviving the discussions upon this subject, but
since the former debate he had referred to the correspondence with
the British Minister at Mesita), and from that correspondence
he could gather no sort of clue which could lead him to sup.
pew that any interdict was ever given against an invasion of
Cuba by Mexico. Mr. Coming, it was true, might have pro.
tested against the proclamation of General Santa Anna, who
called upon the black slaves to the against their masters. Had be
Jesse so, he would have been justilled hi doing so, and that without
incurring any obligation to protect the South American states from
Spain. This country bad colonies with slaves in the neighbourhood
of Cubs, and she could not see such a proclamation issued with in.
difference. She had aright to protest against it, and that without
incurring any respeadMiity or oblivion whatever. Mr. Canning,
when subs -uently weitseal• by the British minister for ins e.
duns as to what he abeald do in the event of the blockade of Cuba,
writes, in reply, giving instruc-ens for the preservation of British
ptepeety, but utter net one syllable of an interdict. agAnst such a
He eisseht, therefete.dtoy that any obligation whatever,
metal a seised upon this cowry, to protect Mexico against
an in
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indiction isbeliverbet wee) the documents produced by the pt
Mks (1k and the ease a. it wee represented en the
past of Mr. Camino It appeared rPw these States sera Wised to
give greater defratee to the wishem of this awn than to those f
any other, aad'hod, lit their desire to phew is, aletabad Hews in.
vading the liW of Calla. Under these etrestosteacie wa Swett to
stake "my exessies sot only with '4 pals. bet with sin other
esestef, to put el did to therisen: owe if things in that
sae be toy at sled with the speech of his right
hon.
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