The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-11 00:00:00

Si„ R. IL INGLIS then rose to move that the writ for
Noetizieleam should issue.
Sir U. GREY wished to know whether the Hon.
Baronet intended to press this motion, as there was
an nnileretandieig in the-House with respect to petitions
a this sort that notice should be given of them, and his
fun. Friend had acceded to that by placing the notice
tin the paper for yesterday. Ile was ready to admit that
if his Hon. Friend insisted on his right, it was com-
petent for him to Ering it on, but he would put it to him
whether it would be advisable for him to do so.—(Cheers.)
Sir R. H. INGLIS observed that the application of
his Right Hon. Friend had not so much surprised him,
as the cheers that had come from the Hon. Member
fur 'Montgnmeryshire, because he knew very. well that
'when a vacancy occurred it was a matter of course that
a writ should issue. If it was the opinion of the House
that he should not proceed, lie would withdraw his
motion.—(hear, bear, and cries of " Go on.")
He believed the impression of the House was that he
• • should at once proceed with his motion. —(No, and Hear.)
He could not indulge the hope that his motions would be
unopposed, as were those of the Hon. Member for Mon-
trose, after the interruption which had taken pace. The
inotheres of the Hon. Member for Montrose were pre-
ciee.V.' of the same nature.
Air G. GREY—But there was a general consent of the
'blouse with respect to those rnotions.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir H. INGLIS (in continuation) said he was totally
unconnected with the persons from whom the petition
proceeded, and he presumed the petition was intrusted
to him from the opinion he expressed upon the issuing of
• writs in general. He did not mean by his motion to stud •
tiey the decision the House came to respecting the
motion of the Hon. Member • for Bath, or any rules of
the House irrespective of that motion. He was not
cal'ing on the House to take any proceedings
to. baffle the decision it had come to respecting
the motion of the Honourable Member for
Bath, and he begged• to call the particular attention
of, the Hon. and -Learned Member to that point.
It was only a happy accident which had placed the
borough of Nottingham in a different position from
Beading, .Penryn, and the other boroughs. There
was nothing, therefbre, he should contend,
which was essential to the object of the Honourable
Member for Bath's Bill to exclude Nottingham from
having a representative in the Commons'. House of
Parliament.
Mr. ROEBUCK--I have proved nothing yet.
• Sir L. INGLIS—The lion. Member saki that he
had pored nothing yet. He (Sir R. Inglis) thanked
him r that. Ile %voted say, then, that they were proceeding
to the disfranehismetit of Nottingham, not only on no proof,
un no Report of the Committee, on no sworn evidence
alleging guilt on the part of Nottingham ; but
the Honourable Member himself, who had brought
in a. Bill fur the purpose of inquiring into the alleged prac-
e:tcee of bribery and corruption at Nottingham, said at
once, very honestly and candidly, and he (Sir R. Inglis)
• thanked him fir it, that he had proved nothing against
Nottingham. then he ( Sir R. highs) would say that Notting-
ham was entitled to the general rule of the law, which was to
allow the franchise to every corporation not proved to be
. gailty. He would call on the Hon. Member for Bath to die-
prove this, that there was no evidence in history in which a
writ had been suspended, except on the Report of some Com-
mittee whose attention had been specially directed to the subject.
In the present instance, not only was there no such report,
but there was nothing but the representation of one
Honourable Member rising in his place and very
dramatically pointing with his finger to his friends
on that side, or his enemies on this. They had nothing
but his own ipse dinit declaring that the borough had
been the scene of bribery and corruption. He would now call
the attention of the House to the proceedings with regard to
Nottingham which were matters of history, as far as being en-
tered on the Journals of that House would render them so.
On the 4th of May a Committee of that House was appointed
to try the merits of the. Nottingham election, and that Corn-
. mittee declared that the Right Honourable Sir John Cam •
Hobhuuse and Sir G. de H. Larpent were duly elected.
From the proctedings which subsequently took place, it ap-
beared that those individuals were bona fide elected. He
ail received yesterday, while in the House, a letter addressed
to him by the individual whose name he last mentioned in
Connection with the borough, Sir George de Larpent. He felt
it to be but justice to hi, Hon. Friend, Sir George de Larpent,
to produce this letter to the House. He hoped that it was not
supposed by the majority, or by any, that Sir George de Lars.
pent hail withdrawn his presence from that House for the pur-
pose of avoiding any proceedings which the Hon. and Learned
Member for Bath might think fit to take. The fact was,
which he dial know till 'that communication was made to him,
that five weeks before the date of the Report of that Committee,
Sir George de Larpent had been confined by a severe medical
and surgical malady, and. that he had not been able during the
whole of that time to leave his room. Now, he (Sir R. Inglis)
begged the House, and he begged the Hon. and Learned
Gendeman, to understand that he did not mean to assert or in-
sinua,e. on the contrary, he repudiated the idea that Sir G. de
Larpent was induced tel accept the Chiltern Hundreds in con-
.sequence of the s'a'e of his health. He did not assert that—
be did riot wi'h the Hun. Member for Bath to believe h. He
did n, t require that elequent look from the Hon and Learned.
Member for Bath. He asserted that Sir G. de Larpent ac-
cented the Chiltern Hundreds with no such motive, but he
(Sir R. Inglis) appeaied to the Hou e to rescue him from any
imputation of having left the House in order to avoid that
question, when he told the House that, for five weeks before that
time, to the present time, he had been almost wholly confined to
his room. • lint his ( Sir IL Inglis's) ease was as strong, if such
were the tact. He had a perfect right to accept the Chiltern
Hundreds even with that view.
Mr. ROEBUCK.—No.
Sir R. INGLIS denied this. He did not in?inuate that he
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds oil account of ill health. He
denied the Right of the Hon. Member to put the question
which he had, and he believed that many Hon. Members who
at the time had most. .unwillingly listened to the questions
which he then had asked, had since seen reason to think the
House ought not to have 'sanctioned the course the Hon.
Men-her thought fit to pursue. Nottingham did not stand
alone.—( near, hear.) Nor did even the other boroughs to
which the Ilon. Member had alluded ; because there were many
other boroughs equally deserving of the attention of the Hon.
Member fur Rath with the boroughs of Penryn and Falmouth,
Lewes. Harwich, Reading, and Nottingham ; the seven other
boroughs front which petitions bad been presented against
the sitting Members on the score of bribery,-- in which the
question of bribery had not been at ail gone io; and the Hon.
e eveuld be justified, according to his theory, in insti.-
into theneirecrir
wastae,
ly attending these elec-
lier9C---(1-kmr, hear.)
a list of other
brovghs„similarly sittiated.—(Ll"r hear.) He ought to
lielfast--(" Hear, hear,"
fro;4ifiaoll Great Marlow, Cliiheree,
-Mee Roebuck)-to the -list. He meant lielfas't under
,thoroid.lielition:_( Hear,: hear.) In Weymouth there was a
peiition against the,sitting Member
_on the score of bribery.
FAL.‘. RNA L--In the, ease of V, elmouth there. was noe.orne
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