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' ing.)—llad the third reading been carried by as
considerable a number of Peers as the second,
he and his Noble Colleagues would have felt it
.their duty to' persevere with the Bill, and to
send it down to the other branch of the Legisla-
ture. In tha!Present state of 'the country, 7h05-
ever, and with the division of sentiment, so nearly
balanced, just evinced 'by their Lordships, they
had come to the determination not to proceed
farther with it. It was his intention, accord-
ingly, to more that the question that the Bill do
pass be put on this day six months. (The most
vehement cheering took place at this unexpected
declaration.)
Earl GREY rose as soon as the Earl of Liver-
pool had resumed his seat, but the confusion did
not subside until after his
.Lordship had been for
some time on his legs. His Lordship complained
of the whole course Ministers had ptirsued with
regard to. the Bill, which; after the declaration of
the Noble Earl, could scarcely be said to be be-
' fore the House, but which was still before the
Country, and would long live in its. memory.—
(Hear !)—He charged the-servants of the Crown
with the grossest neglect of duty, in the first in-
stance, in listening to ex-parte evidence, and
giving a wiiiiit, credence to the most exaggerated
and unfounded calumnies.—(Loud cheers.)—
They had thus for many months agitated the
Nation—the,, had produced a general stagna-
tion of 'public ' and private business—and
they had given , a, most favourable opportu-
nity, were it desired, to the enemies of in-
ternal peace and tranquillity. They had betray-
ed their King, insulted their Queen,
.(continued
cries of hear7from. sides,) and had given a
shock to the morals of society by the promul-
gation of the detestable and disgusting evidence,
in the hearing-of which the House had been so
long occupli;cl.—(hear!)--His Lordship also re-
probated in the severest terms the conduct of the
Milan CoMmissiOners, who having been appointed
not to investigate truth, but to obtain testimony
of guilt, had found in this country` but too great
an inclination to. put faith in all the stories their
agents and witnesses might invent:against the ho-
nour and reputation of the Queen or Great Britain.
The result had been that, after inquiries, secret
and open---.-after the grosSest calumnies and the
foulest libels had been made the subject of detail
and debate for 50 days—after all, the injury that
it was possible to do the Queen had been accom-
plished, the Bill was abandoned, not without
reason, but assuredly without apology. His
Lordship concluded by assuring Noble Lords on
the other side, that the people of Great Britain
would not be satisfied with the mere withdraw-
ing of the measure, but would demand a strict
inquiry into its foundation
.and origin.—(Great
cheering.) '
Lord ERSKINE then said, that he could not
find words to express the delight he felt at the'
destruction of the Bill now expiring before them,
and in the consequent renovation of the law, in
the administration of which he had spent his
life,; and he could not help therefore borrowing
from the eloquent Hooker, speaking of law, from
the uniformity of its character a stranger to such
anomalies as the present :—" Of law there can
be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the,
bosom of God.; her voice the harmony of the
viorld; all things in heaven and earth do her
homage; the very least as feeling her care, and
the greatest as not exempted from her power.
Both angels and men, and creatures of what con-
dition soever, though each in different sort and
manner, yet all with one consent admiring her
as the mother of their joy and peace."—May the
pure and uniform system of law be never more
disturbed !

The question was then put by the Lonn CHAN.
CELLOR, that the Bill be read this day six months,
which was carried without a division.

Loud
,cheers resounded throughout the House.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL then/moved that the
House do adjourn to the 23d instant, which was
agreed to.—Adjourned.

- When the Earl of Liverpool had signified his
intention to withdraw the Bill, the intelligence
was immediately communicated to the strangers
in the lobby, who could not be restrained from
testifying their joy by thu loudest shouts. The
strangers immediately rushed out into. Old Pa-
lace-yard, where tier Majesty was just at that
moment stepping into her carriage. The joy
manifested by the people who assembled to wit-
ness her Majesty's departure when the fate of the
Bill was made known, is indescribable.

RIGHT ov ELECTION.—The inhabitants ol
Coventry, who have Freehold Estates within the limits a

that City, claim a right to vote fur Members. for the County
of Warwick. If they succeed in establishing this right, the
Freeholders within the following places
_will have the right
to vote for the respective Counties in which they are situated:
—Bristol, Chester; York, Gloucester; Lincoln, London, Nor-
wich, Canterbury,. Exeter, Litchfield, Worcester, Nutt ing-
ha tu, Hull, Southampton, and Newcastle. upon-Tyne; though.
with. respect •to the'Vix last nientisned places, . a doubt has
been raU •d, from their being c. Counties of themselves;"
but this doubt. appears to .us ,to have been most satlsfactorily
removed in a recent learned and, well written Treatise•by Mr
Beckett, of NeWcastle•on-Tyne, to which with great satis-
faction we lefer'otir-Readerg. On what legal. 'groom: the
Freeholders in these places hare of late years been prevented
voting for their Counties, we have never been able ,to ascer•
min. The discus-semi, however, of this important question,
as it affects the Right of Election, cannot fail to prove inte-
resting to the people; for the more these puititsßee:discossed
• before the competent Tribunals, the greater, will appear. the
necessity of correoting the abuses which • haVe crept into t.lltt
Representative System of the Country. . For many years thy
Customary Freeholders of the County Palatine -of Durham
were nut permitted to vote, butin 1790 fhe point was raised
by Sir Ralph Milbanke, now Sir Ralph Noel, and by the
powerful and convincing reasoning of Lord Glonhervie the
right of this numerous and respectable class of Voters was
admitted and'estahlished. So we think, from the opinions we.
have heard on the present case, that the Freeholders in these
great Cities and Towns will, he restored to their ancient right
of voting fur Members for tbeir.resvective Counties.

Joux Wlse, E'sq. Is the Mayor of Maidstone for the en,

,
• The births within the bills of mortality, in October, exceeded
the deaths by Bt9,
and the largest number of deaths in propor-
tion-to age 126, of between 50 and 60 years ; 397 died under two
yehrs of age Doting the four past weeks, the casual small-
pox has carried off 39, of whom four died at the hospital at•
Pancrasi•-; and there are sonic of the severest cases in the hos-
pital not included in the hills of mortality, the termination of
whose disease is .very doubtful. The Medical Report has al-
ready stated the condition of the Metropolis, its health, its
air; and imprnyements, 'which, with the continual flux and
r Aux of the tide, •combine to constitute a:principal cause of
the public health in the Metropolis and its vicinities, -