The Sun.
London, England, 1820-01-07 00:00:00

SPORTING IN 'I ELLIUENCE.

BETTING-ROONI. JANUARY 6.
DERBY.
104 to 1 agst Mr. Pierse's c. tt; to I agst c. out of Briseis
t to 1 agst Pindaree lOU to 4 agst Luck
1G to 1 agit Br. to Blucher WO to 4 agst Comus colt
16 to 1 art Duke 100 to 4 agst Br. to Whisker

OAKS.
9to agst D. of llutland's 113 to 1 agst Mr. Wyndham's
11 to 1 asst Bride

RIDDLES WORTH.-6 to 1 nest Pindarree.
Filly Class.-2 to I agst D. of Rutl-ind's, and Bto 1 agst
the filly winning Oaks and Riddlrsworth.

CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 7.—Although the ice in the River
is ewnsiderahlv diminished, yet so much still remains, that
barges can with difficulty get alongside the vessels, in conse-
quence of which very little business was done this morning,
and prices remain nominally as on Monday.
Smyrkie.ELD, JAN. 7.—The Market this morning, was
thinly supplied with cattle; in c,susequence, the prices are
higher than last Market-day.—Mutton, Veal, and Pork, are
also advanced in price.

Yesterday, at five o'clock, his Royal Highness
the PUNCH REIGENT arrived at Carlton•house
from Brighton.
The following intelligence comes from the
C►ty :—" The negociations be►ween this Govern-
ment and that of Spain, for the further supply of
10,000,000 of dollars from the South American
Colonies, are not yet terminated. It is stated,
in private letters from Madrid of the 22d nit.,
that FERDINAND hesitates to make the cession to
England, apprehending thit he will require large
amounts of specie for the use of the armaments
which are preparing for the subjugation• of the
revolted provinces of South America. We under-
stand, however, that Messrs. DICK and PARK, the
i Irish Commissioners at Vera Cruz, who were
engaged in transmitting silver trout Mexico to
this country last year, have received instructions
to continue there, under the expectation that the
Spanish Government will ultimately allow the
amount of specie sought for to be sent to Eng-
land. We hear that a large portion el the silver,
intended for the use of Government, and con-
tracted for by a u 4,11-known Jew boOse in the
City, is at present on board three vessels detained
io the Elbe by the ice."
HArtwtcu, JAN. 6.—Arrived the Castlereagh
packet with a mail from Holland. We learn, that
when she sailed the pilots, who came down to
take up the ships, returned next day, the frost
having recommenced, but several Hull vessels had
discharged their cargoes, among them the Prince
Leopold. There were about eighty sail of vessels
there.

COURT OF JUSTICIARY.—On Monday, the 3d
inst., the LORD ADVOCATE addressed the Court
at considerable length, relative to an article which
appeared in a Periodical Paper, published in
Glasgow (The Spirit of the Union), comment.
ing on the proceudings of the Court in the case of
Mr. Kinloch, of Kinloch. The article was in a
number dated the 25th of Dec. last, and Ise sub.
mitred that it contained a gross contempt of this
High Court., Our time cannot allow us to-day to
go into further particulars, but the issue was, that
three individuals in Glasgow, who, his Lordship
stated, he had good reason to believe were
the proprietors of the Paper alluded to, were
ordered to appear at the bar of the Court on
Saturday next.,--(Caledonian Iltercury).

THE SPEECH OF LORD GRENVILT,E,

DELIVERSD IN 'TI-S HOUSE OF LORDS ON THa
' 30TH v,)v. 1819.

(The fallowing Speech is taken from The Tirne:
Of the Ist Dect•tnbyr, 1819 ; and in j,; ice to
that Paper it is proper to state, that we have been
assured it was more accurately given in that
Journal than in any whet) :

" Lord GRIINVILLE agte ed that the present
situation of the country vets one of extreme dan-
ger. He had, as was well known, for many years
watched with the deepest apprebensi n the pro•
press of those evils which had now bronght the
kiegdom to a crisis of peril that could no longer
be denied or dissembled by those who were most
anxious to take the most favoureble views of its
sireerien and resources. He had been formerly
!hought a visionary alarmist ; Ii s fears were
treated as idle (originating, perhaps, ie too fond
an attachment to those ieterests %%hie], be be lieved
were menaced), and as not founded npon tiny fair
view of the present coraditioe of the country, or
a rational foresight of appreachiog. events. it
would have been to lem mistier of unspeakable
satisfaction, if he could now ha'e reason to de-
dare that his apprehensions had been futile, and
that the national security was unimpaired; but
directly the reverse forced i;sett upen terevice
tioo 110 fear he had imielgett doting a long and
active life, had remained onaceemplished ; and as
he had maaed the evils constantly, sueces•
and unremittingly augmenting, so he now felt
called upon to assert, that no apprehensions he
had ever entertained had equalled those which now
pressed upon his mind, and which induced him
once more to trouble the house, when he had
never expected again to address it. Nothing
could eqaal the it»mitience of the peril which at
this moment impended over his country, and which
arose trom causes vet y different from those to
which his Noble Friends had principally alleded.
It was nor no this day, nor within a few years,
that designs the most hostile to the frame and prin-
ciple of the Constitution had heeu openly avowed
and unremittingly pursued. 'Flee attention of the
House in the course of this debate had been called
to measures that it head been called upon to take
in the year 1795. It was about that time that
Mr. Burke had stated his conviction, registered in
one of his immortal works, that the evils of this
kingdom did not originate with the French Re-
volution, though that event had contributed to
increase them and to force them into notice.
It weedd be too long to state by what measures,
and by a co-operation of what favourable circum-
stances, the progress of those evils had been for
a season resisted ; it would be a waste of time to
enumerate the events of a war, which had afforded
the means of defeeting designs not less destruc-
tive, and as fondly cherished as' those which were
now ostentatiously promulgated. On the con-
clusion of the' peace they had been revived and
brought into greater activity, and he might ap-
peal to the observation of any mart to confirm
tel in the assertion, that in the interval between,
the conclusion of peace and the present day,
those designs had grown with a rapir;ity and a
strength which not only exceeded his feeble judg-
ment, bet exceeded all example on the fruitful
page of our history.—(Hear, hear !)—Could he
say, then, that the principal causes of the evils
complained of were to be found in the distresses
of the times, which, as they were local in their
extent, he trusted would he temporary in their
duration ? True it was that this situation of dis-
tress gave additional facilities to inch as pursued
these nefarious designs ; and thoe,h in his con-
science he was satisfied that the root of the evil
lay deeper, he believed, nevertheless, that it would
not have been pos!,ible to work a portion of the
population into the state of ferment in which the
papers presented proved them to be, but for the
concurrence of other ciremstances orientating in
pres, lit and pressing des, teas. He was therefore
convioced, that if it were possible by any mea-
sure Parliament could adopt—even departing on
the urgency of the occasion trore those principles
relating to commerce and maneretturter, which,
in ordinary times, ought to be held sacred and in-
violable
(because upon them depended the pro-
sperity and happiness of the State)—to alieviare
the existing distresses, without entering noo an
illimitable inquiiy, he should be most willing to
concur. Though Parliamentary relief, such as
the Nob! Marquess (Lansdown) had noticed, must
be encountered by many powerful objections,
still he (Lord Grenville) would give it the most
respectful and painful attention, and enter upon
the subject with a most sincere and heartfelt de-
site that the utmost should be done to remove or
mitigatectistresses which all most deeply deplore,
and which all must as deeply ;sympathize.
He was well persuaded that his Noble Friend en-
tertained too just notions of what helOnged to
his rank and place io the country to sate any
thing that might lead to a general and vague opi-
nico, that Parliament was to blame for not yet
having attempted any thing to Inodet ate the
miseries he bad so feelingly depicted. The Noble
Marquess bad dwelt priucipally upon three pro-
positions ; the first was the measere to which he
(Lord Grenville) hacl'already adverted, and which
the Noble Marquess had admitted that he would
not recommend, unless a sanguine hope could be
indulged that an amelioration of our condition
would ere long be experienced. If he (Lord
Grenville) could believe that the mass of distress
and misery now loading the people could be ma-
terially relieved within the period mentioned, he
should, look upon the state of the country in a light
much lessgloomy than that which he now entertain-
ed. The Noble Marquess had enumerated the cir-

stances out of which he conceived our difficulties
originated, in the language of a statesman, and
with the knowledge of a political thagmatist, and
even according to this statement they were much
as Parliament could not by any temporary grant
remove. Yet out of doors, the inability of Par•
liament to relieve distresses was not only not ad•
mitted, but it was urged by those who were Uriv.
ing the people to the most desperate measures by
which their miseries would be tenfold aggravated,
that it had refused with determination to inter.

pose, The other two points dwelt upon by the
Noble Marquess were not matters to engage the
attention at a Select Committee, but the serious

det oiled ateentioo oI Parlieme est ; h was a
ritiestiou not wily of ereet importauce, but of the
otmoer nicety to decide, whetimsr tine, and what
elterations should he made in the laws relating to
te Revenue---whether, while they were rendered
less burdensome they could he merle equally pro-
ductive i God forbiderhat he (Lord Grenville)
shoelo restrain the House froin such examine•
Lions ; bet if done at all, it must be effected by
the specification of pattienletrs, by balancing
against each other the amooot of the dories
im-
posed, and the probability whether if those, for
instance, on wine ti ere reduced, those on spirits
%%meld be eqeally oductive Each most betaken
disthooly, and distinctly viewed ; and it lie thought
that there was the smallest doubt that they would
engage the constant attention of Parliament, he
would not oppose, as far as respected them, the
motion of to•oight. He most take the lib,..rty,
however, of saying, ehet qoestione of Finance
were not lightly to be entertained or cursorily to
he dismissed : no sohjects of greeter dificulty
could occupy the attention of a Sate-man than
those which (Hose out of doubts, whether the pro-
dere of cereit, imposts would not be lessened if
the qer-orsit of ditties on other articles were leseen-
ed : above till, it was west unwise to make sudden
clieugtot., to accommodate some loose uncettain
theory, some vague and dubious speculatiore—
(ilear.)—Ueon the-oilier point adverted to by the
Noble Nlarquese, they were ligrued in principle: by
(food Grenville) had no hesitation in saying, that
it refotild be material to make a change in our com-
mercial regelitions, as they tespected the impor-
tetion of timber from the north of Europe. But
this, and other matters of the like trture, must be
separately and mit iens'ysestet). He was far in-
deed iron) egteeiog, that even if it should torn
"tint that nothing could he accomplished by the
Committee, it ought still to be appointed, that a
pleitge might be held out to the country of the
desire of Parliament to do the utmost for its re-
lief. If a pledge were then given that Parliament
were disposed to do something, would the dis-
tressed be satisfied if something were not actually
done ?—(Hear, hear, hear ?)—ln his view the
Ilouse must not entertain the subject at all in the
way proposed, unless a confident expectation ex-
isted that an inquiry would lead to the discovery
of sonic impel' tent relief.—(Cheers )—Upon this
point he would not further detain their Lord-
ships, but would proceed to the most 'moor-
tent branch of the present question—the real si-
tuation of the country. He eutreated the House
to consider, if it were trite that evil tnen had
availed themselves of existing distlessee to do evil,
what duty devolved upon Parliament ? %Vas it not
to wield the peaceable and welltlisposed inha-
bitants of time kingdom, who had taken no share
in recent transactions--(Cheers)—to guard the
Constitution itself from those who were bent upon
its destructiou )—(Cheers.)— For the accom-
plishmeot of that destruction, look at the mesas
employed, not within the iact few -.years only, but
as a system in a connecte•, uninterrupted, and ae-
relereted march ; see how closely it followed iu
every particular, that event Which the promoters
of confusion audaciously held out as the object
of their imitation. (low was it that so long a
series of calamities had been In ought upon France?
In the first instance, by covering the whole soil
of the country, by inundating it with a torrept of
every species of blasphemy evil sedition, ley a pro-
fusion of libels, the whole object of which was to
vilify, in the estimation of the people, all that they
Lad been accustomed to love and venerate, to
render despicable, more especially in the eyes of
the ignorant, who were most liable to be led
away by ungoverned passions, the institutions
their forefathers had established, and tinder which
they themselves had flourished. How closely this
system had been pursued here, its long standing,
and the height it had attained, he %voila not at-
tempt to describe ; their Lordships had this
night heard at the table, ft om one of those
publications, words at which the blood of every
man would shudder. Yet not from that only, nor
trom meny such as that, lead he collected an im-
preasem 'hat some more firm and efficient conduct
on the part Government end Parliament was
elo.ohoely necessary to put• a stop to the progress
cif :hiL sowing evil—the real source of all the na-
tional peal', and which openly boasted that it
would overwhelm every thing now standing in
this country.—(Cheers.)—lt would be a most
treeless waste of time to employ it upon useless
imieatioes or recriminations of individuals. A
system was established, and had long been esta-
blished on this- subject, most grateful to•the feel-
ings of every man,es long as it could exist with safe-
ty to his most valeiLble rights ; the time had arrived
when that system could not be continued in its
first freedom without the most imminent danger•
s from the Ministerial benches.)— He
spoke it with the deepest affliction, lamenting the
change he had witnessed, and deploring tint less
that that ehatige in the practice must be met by
a con e,p,)tiding change in the law.—(llear,
)tear.)—Let the House look at the yeurs 179 J and
1794 ; let them observe the next step that Was
taken in France, tied compare it with the wets-
sures adopted here. Unions were established for
the 'impose of more effectually disseminating the
odious doctrines of rbe libels, and of iresiuuatiog
the poison into the boson) of every family. Villre'n,
this evil bad grown to 'rich a meguitude as to
work. time eff4ct proposed, meetings were conAro-
get ed. 'l' lie uninformed and deluded classes were
to—ditiously assembled fer the express purpose of
teaching the people to estimate their physicaltorce,
tmtit° spew how easily they might overcoats all
resist anceopposed to them.—(Continued cheers.)—
lie this situation Great Britain now stood, and the
question at the present crisis was twilling less than
this—whether Parlietnent would further acquiesce
in the progress of these designs, of -whether they
.were now at length to be resisted ? It not resiated
'slow, all resistance in future would be vain, unless
indeed Some taint reliance could be placed upon
the deadly opposition, at- the very thought of
• whielo Englieh. hearts ran cold, coniisting in the
• ..7dretio-ful contests of
.open insurrection, and the
• 'Bloody efforts of civil warfare—(Cheers.)—The
-Secoud part of the proposition of tile Noble Mar-
. teo,se in hiis
(Lord Grenville's) judgment, though
he was weli cousenced that the Noble INlaiquess
wee fee, soey far, icon), such an intention, would
ne ceetribute to counteract and de-
l". , !et' dDS I venteilmiug a the heads of

Patliament to et-tercet Ilitse great abuses. lr he
were asked to What. he looked Kt this fearful hoer
tar succour and preservetioo, he should answer,
without hesitation, to the attachment of the middle
and higher orders cowards the individual with
whom rested the executiou of the laws, on whom
depended their defence, and by whom be was sa-
tisfied tb,y would be firmly and effectually de-
feu eled---e(Heer, bear!)—Tumultuous, hostile, and
menacing assemblies had beets held, which, in his
conscience, he bettered were designed
to intimi-
date the peaceable inhabitants, and to prevent
their ro-operation for the maintenance ot tran-
quilthy, and the support of the Constitution ; and
his Noble Friend had inquired why some of them
had been tolerated and suffered to disperse,
while against others the arm ot the law had been
raised, and where that had not possessed sufficient
sit ength, a milita‘l force had been called in to
the aid of the civil po,tter. In reply, be (Lord
Grenville) should say that there may have beet'
too meet) forbearance. Perhaps he thought so ;
and besides the assembly at Manchester, otticr
meetings had been held, to which at present,
without hesitation, (peaking always with that
doubt which beceine a man not possessed of full
intelligence of the subject,) he shoulftapplv the
pi•bet of illegal—(Hear !)—Notions prevailed in
some querters, absurd and childish nations, that
meetings, however constituted, and in whatever
manner courlucted, were legsl until the people as-
sembled arrived at the actual point of open vio-
leuce. la the first place, without having any deep
skill in the laws of the country, lie might say,
that if such were the law, it was different tram
any knowledge he had acquirtd in his youth, or
had since imbibed from any author. On the con-
trary, he had learut that, independent of open
violence, another circumstance would constitute
an illegal meeting, viz. that it was its terrorem
poptili, that it was calculated to- inspire fear into
the mi„e of a firm a lid constant mats, and that it
did actually produce that apprehensioth
this
Lordship assorted that these meetings did inspire
that fear, and consequently that they were de-
cidedly illegal—(Herre, hear, hear !)—After
what the House had beard that night, it was
unnecessary for him to impress upon it the paintid
end arduous situation in which Magistrates
thistrate
were placed who geese compelled to act upon
legal inciple—(Cheers )—lf. indeed, the subject
were so plain and simple, that any man could take
the book down from his shell', sod say, " here
is the line of your duty—here is the clear distier-
lion you are to observe—here legality begins, and
here it ends—thus far may a meeting go, and no
further ;" then there might indeed be great rea-
son to ask why assemblies had been in some eases
tolerated that ought not to have been endured
hut the qu'estion was, whether the public aSSCIII.
bly was to the terror of the peaceable, and that
was surrounded with difficulties. If an individual
presented himself' before a Magistrate, to swear
the peace against another, no work could be
pointed out that could show that thus high only
a man might raise bis arm withoet a violation of
the law, or that danger to lite might be (headed
if a man were threatened by a dagger, but not
if a clasp knife were only presented. The law
drew no such distinctions ; but if, in the case of
often meetings, just and reasonable fear were pro-
duced, Magistrates were bound to grant all the
security they had the power to give. If alai in
were generated in the minds of a large mass of the
population, it was not a matter of option with
Magistrates, they were compelled.to afford that
protection with which the laws invested them.—
Magistrates in some parts of the kingdom might
have allowed their forbearance to influence them
too much—by their imprudent delay they might
have put to hazard the public peace, per
tor
ever ; but it would be a strange perversion of all
reasoning to assert, that because too much had
been tolerated, every thing onght to be permit-
ted --(Continued cheers.)—lt
would be singular,
indeed, to maintain, that because much that was
wrong had been allowed in certain situetions,
that therefore wo degree of alarm, no menace, no
dreaded hostility, no danger, however imminent,
could justify Magistrates in greeting that protec-
tion which the law called upon theca to afford.—
Therufore, he insisted that not even a prima facie
case had been made out for enquiry ; and it was
not to be imputed to Magistrates, because they
had not been called upon to interferes that they
meant to abandon one of the first principles,of
the Constitution, and in consequence, that in toe
tore, the King's Commission of the Peace was
unaccompenied by any power or arty duty to af-
fold protection. Whether, upon ts principle,
the Alattchester Meeting was or Was not illegal,
his Lordship did nas know how to discuss, on a
fornacr night, by his vote (for he was unable
to speak) he had expressed his opinion, that
it would be most unfit that !rich an enquiry
bbould he conducted by Parliament,
and it he
thought so theft, was it possible for hint to shot
his wars to what was floating in the minds 'of ell
who heard hint i When called upon to act, upon
arcsonstences, could he limit his views to the
sues e statement of pereous engaged on that day
in the painful scene ? lie dole( not be ignoraat
of many facts to which no formal inquiry, no
tlicial proof, cnahl give- a contradiction ; hnt
as
the esse now stand before the world, upon the
asst.:thin of persons best calculated to glee cor-
rect information, he was satisfied that the con-
duct of the Magistrates was not only free front all
blame, hut was most highly meritorious —(Con-
tinued cheers front the Ministerial benches.)---
They deserved that, which in the result, he trust-
ed they would receive—a complete and authorita-
tive approbation of their conduct,—(Cheers.)—
Ile raid, a complete and authoritative approba-
tion, because he could not peisuade himself, that
the Letter of the Noble Secretary of State,. on
which so much bad been said, was at all calculated
to prejudge this question.. lie had, indeed,
thought, that w !tile proceedings were pending,
while (be Courts of Law were open to all who
bad complaints to prefer, nettling could be more
injudicioas than the conduct f
o.,persons assembled
at Coenty meetings, at a great distance front the
sceoe where a fair (Tinton might be twilled, bad
thonght fit to pursue.—(Cheers.)—lie made this
asset lion, because at thw.e meetings, thooen oo
woof was given, no authentic information detail-
ed, and no jurisoictiou to pionounce conferred,
the parties had taken upon themselves to decide

d. finitively on the qu,rstion, 'to pretutieate the
whole case, and to influence, anti distract
'the public mind,--(Repeatcd cheors.)—The situ-
ation of the Executive Government was widely
different. Ministers had a duty to perform, and
it would not only'haie been base and'univarthy
of men of honour, but a direct 'dereliction of offi-
cial duty, if they had refused to give what the
Magistrates bad a right to ask, if they had with-
heti! The view the King's Ministers took of
the conduct pursued at Manchester. He •en-
treated the House to consider the reverse of
the proposition. Suppose there had been
the most baretaced interference with an ac-
knowledged right ; that there had been the
most wanton employment of the military; that
the Magistrates bad abandoned every duty they
were -called upon to perform ; in such a case
would the House have borne, that .the King's Se-
cretary of State should have remained silent ?
Would it not have iw,isted that be should have
told the Magistrates that they had violated the
Constitution ; that they had infringed that law
they were hound to preserve, and that they bad
employed the King's troops aviust those it wits
their duty to protect ?—(Cheers.)-If, then, it
would have been fit for them to censure, it was

not easy to argue that it %vas not their duty to
perform the wore grateful task of expressing Ap-
probation. The question, as related to this
brattch of the enquiry, in a great degree identified
itett- with the decision of a impact. night : it was,
whether on the hers tis they existed, there was

sufficient presumption of misconduct on the part
of the Magistrates as to induce Parliament to in-
terpose between them and the ordinary tribunals
of justice, on a Charge of SilppOSCO delinquency.
And here he must o6erve, that it there was one

ins:itution iu this country which could with snore
confidence ti.nn any other be presented to foreign
nati.nis as a matter of exclusive triumph to she
L►iiiisl► name, it was the tnanner in which i►+s-
lice was administered in this kingdom, especially
in counties,- by persons hearing the Kint.t's Com-
mission of the Peace.—(Vlcar, hear !)—For that
leason, not only every c‘indid and liberal man
gave the presumption in favour of Magistrates,
but the law of the land itself had laid down for
WIC construction Of their cowhict, rides more fa-
vourable than were applied to other individuals
who had not similar claims npon the Government
and the public. The Magistrates of Manchester
were, however, not to rely entitled to that gene.
rill presumption, lb that construction ; but
be entreated the House to look at the peculiar st-

tuation in which they stood, By atrocious and
flagitious machinations, that part of the kingdom,
Laucashire and Cheshire, was involved in most
itntninent peril : the papers on the table, scanty
as they were, were sufficient to prove that
the danger was not confined to one spot
in either of those Counties, but embraced a
large portion of both. .j he individuals who
bad thus parr distingeithed them,-
seltes were jut crested in preserving the peace
of their immediate neighhourhoo(l—in guarding
their own houses, their own properties, and their
own families, WHO) might require their imme-
diate presence and exertion yet these they aban-
doned—they discarded private cousiderations
—they left their property and their families to the
protection of their country, and assembled at
Manchester, the i
rh,ef seat of the evil, and where
they could most elf,!ctttally and beneficially apply
their exertions.—(Continued cheering.)—Their
least thought was personal danger ; Bud did the
House think for a moment that the Magistrates
were ignorant of the responsibility they were
about to incur ? Did they not foresee that it the
moment should arrive when they must act for the
public safety, every engine of calamity would.he
set at work to asperse their motives 611(1 tevile
their actions, to prejudice the feelines of the gea
nerons people of England, and to direct low ani-
mosity and vadar abuse against them for mos: ane-
ritorious and disinterested services ? (Hear,
hear !)—lt might be and he, perhaps thought it
was in some degree questionable whether the for-
bearance of Magistrates had-not been too long,
too patient, and too indulgent !-7--(Hear l) —Had
they neglected to act on the Ifith of August as
they had acted, they would, in the grossest man-
ner, have violated their duty, and it wotild have
been a matter extremely questionable whether
the unfortunate error they would that day !iaVe
committed could ever have beets retrieved,
Had they refused to listen to the tears of the
inhabitants 00 that day, his Lordship was
not bold enough to • assert that any sub-
sequent opportunity would have been af-
forded' for remedying „that fatal mistake. The
slaps taken by the Magistrates, however merito-
rious, not proving sufficient (and who could hope
they would be) to allay the turbulent anti insur-
rectionary spirit fotneuting in so Wide a district,
it became necessary to assemble Parliament to
provide the means of future safety ; and lie put
it to the "louse what appearance it would have
exhibited to the country and to Europe, if at this
moment of danger and alarm, its first suspi-
cion had been turned aside from those who
had disturbed the public peace, and direct-
ed against those who had preserved it 1--
(Uear, hear, hear !)—Were the first persons
to
be denounced, not the savage depredatois of the
flock, but its faithful guardians, St ho (lad defend-
ed it at every hazard ? He had heir(' oi many in•
stances of public ingratitatde-ffhistory was tall of
services unrequited ; but its extended page conld
not exhibit au instance parallel to that which
would have stained it, had Parliament listened to
the suggestions .of those, who, while the wiclirti
disturbers escaped with implied epprohation,woold
have compelled upright and Houourable Gentle-
men to defend that conduct which thrir ditty
commanded, and their honour excied.—(Chee;::
rota all sides.)—lf they bad committed any
etrnr, the experience of the last 24 hours proved
that Courts of Justice '-%a're open to tilt: aggrieved)
and that Magistrates might he called upon tt,
justify the steps they hall taken. The Courts
were open in every lotm : every sum, et of the
realm night resort to them, anti might be sine
that his, complaints would be beard, ,tentif moved,
would be redressed. If Parliament conteutcd, he
would tell the Housr: what would be the reatit.---
It would teach the Magistracy that its times of
trial they tumid not rely either on the Government
or the Legislatute (cuntiaucd eheets) : that alter

Laving made many sacrifices to discharge a rrAffo.
flit duty, they wereJewarded at last by unjust ittka.
potations and harrassing
The influence of that CXdinpie would tend to,
disarm that branch of the publiri authority,
that arm of public power, on which maitaly,
perhaps more than any other, at this mo-
ment rested OM peace and security of the
realm. If on such an occasion Parliament
could so conduct itself, he hoped that spirit
would be.found iu the ":,lagist racy to appeal against
the injustice cf that decision, even to Parliament
itself—to call upon it to review its vote ;to ap-
peal to the common law of the land, to which
the Magistrat'l and Parliament were alike subject.
Still ht did not doubt., that even under this re-
proach, honest and tearless men might be found
to fill the office, and discharge its painful func-
tions, though they might be compelled to act
under circumittances of doubt, dismay, and depres-
sion. Ile could not help remarking on the dan-
gerous attempts.that were made to throw 1)111)14'
odium on another most valuable branch of the pub-
lic service, and to which he looked as most im-
portant—the preservation of the public peace of
the Country. Their Lei dshipi knew with what
per severance every, thing that was calltd blame-
able it, these eircumstunces was charged against
the Armed Yeomanry, and the object of those
who at tempted to make this impression on
the mind of the public could not be doubt,
ed. . The very same' spirit (ruin which had
proceeded the attempts to intimidate the Ma-
gistrates, was endeavouring to intimidate the yro,
Inanity also; but those attempts, he truved,
would not prove successful, because much of the
safety of the country depended, iu his opinion,
upon the conduct of the yeomanry. It was, in-
deed, one of the cireumitences to which he look-
ed back with the greatest satisfaction, now, when
he had arrived at the close of his political life, that
no exertion had been remitted on his part in pre.-
(noting the establishment of such armed associa-
tions. lie conceived that these persons were
armed for the defence of their own property, as
well as the protection of the public safety, under
the sanction of the fundamental principles of the
Constitution. He conceived) they were armed for
' purposes which every good man lutist approve,
and for which every loyal man, ought to be ready
to come forward. if there were any petsons
against arming the yeomanry, it eras those who
endeavoured to iuffame. the public against thwe
to whom it could best look for relief in its
distress. He would ask their Lordships, if they
were solicitous, as he_ believed them to ,be,
to relieve the distress of the suffering popula-
tion, whether tha firs; thing to be done for that
purpose was not to secure the, public peace, tyith-
out which that b,nvfi;. of time, to which he look-
ed forward with confidence, although be did not
expect it to arrive so soon as the Noble Lord an-
ticipated, could never be realized. It there were
any persons who endeavoured to inflame the pub-
lic, and to seduce the' people from habits of peace
land industry, as appeared to be the case, trout
the number of persons who were, trout appre-
hension of danger, retiring trout trade, and quit,.
'lug the places where they could no longer ern-
ploy their industry in peace and seetni:y.; if ther,e
were such persons, :here could he no doubt that:
their object was to dcrive advantage trout the
sufFerings which they endeavoured. to aggravate.
lie bad cont:cived-it to be his Outy to offer these
remarks at this eventful crisis, when attempts
were making to subvert the Constitution of the
(:),IntrY• That Constitution. had grown op to
its present excellence under events and circum-
stances far beyond the power of man to controul
and he must be wise, iodeed, who thought he
mild amend it by any pre-conceived theories."

VIRFS.--.Yesterday morning, at two-o'clock, a
fire broke out in the in emises.of Messrs. Gray and
Hull, chair and bedstead manufacturers, ot No. 2,
Newman-street, Oxtord-street, which commenced
by some shavings catching fire in the wolkshop ;
It
was discovered
witai telt! itil)rfed!f'lcaYm'easnwderbeypirlieuevuns;:rft
atrogr°ll" sex'tTri;(llYinogf, but a consideraybelceLfit
stetle,t,llll,el
premises and
3
e outl)t s
tlt o chke odfesAilnr). Wright, linen-
draper, of Foley•place, Maryiebune, about eleven,
o'clock on Wednesday night, in consequence of kt
spark having caught some of the light furnitute
in the shop. The flames had spread to a Coosi..
.:Icr able eAteilt before the fire was discovered.
Several engines arrived on the spot very apt eddy.
Bud it was owing to the active exertions of the
firemen that the whole premises were not de-
stroyed; Considerable damage was-done to the
lower part of the house and property.
The following., circumstance should operate with
persons as a caution against the careless discharge-
of fire-anus, in the vicinity of houses or gardens:
—On Wednesday last, as Mt Hurst, ot
Eliza-
beth-place, Kennington, was amusing himself in
his guider), the back part of which adjoins s -
open field, a person passing by discharged e fowl- '
ing•picce carelessly against the garden-fence,.*
great part of the charge passed over the paling*.
and several of the shots struck Mr. Hurst in the
leg ; fortunately, howevr, their force was so fat
exhausted that they barely penetrated the skin,
and tint him no material injury. 'file person who
had acted thus incautiously, in thrf mean time (14..
'l)peared, wholly unconscious how by his crimi-
nally careless conduct he had rhus endangered
the personal safety, if not the life, of a Jellow-
. creature.

On the 4th inst. at his house in Fitzrov-scpaare, the Lad,
of Charles Snell Chauncey, Esq. of a still-burn

liiAßtlt ED.
Yeterclav, at St. Nlarg-Lret'3, ‘Vestaiint:ter, Mr. Samuel
sl,,phercl, of Clielsta Colleice, eldest son of the Iler. 11,
SioVierd, of Randagh Chapel, Chelsea," to Mary, cities&
daughter of J. Esq. of,Sloaite-square.

DIED.
Or the 31st tilt. Mrs. lary 2tlahe, relict of the late Mr.
Philip Blalie, Of Queen-street, Cheapiide, wine-merchant.
O Tuesday, the 41h inst. in her 70th year, Mrs. Jan`
her, at her son's house, in Savage-gardens.

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Ormond -stroA, Quutln-siinare; aiad published lid W. (1'
SCRIVI'S, of No. 7, South Nlolton-street, at THF 'if
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