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London, England, 1812-07-11 00:00:00

'yet, ' the Material features of the ene, 'loge re.
mot . an essential difference. Such being the
Lease, overnment would still not be juptifikel In
ii
Al* for extraordinary 'power;, unless ' they,
,qduld shew, that Ore existing powers had. been;
fairly exerted witholit success, and that on extcaorilt.
' naryoceasions extraordinary powers were necessary.
The conduetofshe Magisttalptathe cristurbedAres-
trios heti beete bight), meritottous, but it might hap-
*,l frog aTerent carcumstancer...thatthe iatrates
agight not he.so efficient in.sqFps as o frif••
Mere were, 'hOwever, no taus off fait o duty on
. ~ ..4reid.
which any eicusatinh cattle! lie roun .- Arsiwon,g,
therefor' e, that they had done alraiit'conitlie.derte,
it was evident they had net been* abt 16 cc* with
the evil.' . Government had •been unremitting Fits
exertions. Very early a large milititY forte wa4nt
to the disturbed coonties: • besides this; that ebst,
constitutional body, the Local Militia, had been einiiii;
into service, and in every instance had perforthett
their duty with promptitude, zeal, and fiderepaei
Government also had given extraordinary eneoiie,
ragement to Gentlemen to form voluntary associii.;
tions, assuring them, that peace could only be elfec
tually restored by the interference of those who pos-
sessed propertyand interest within the county . and,.
lately, aWatch and Ward Bill had been enacted, fee,
the better maintenance of tranquillity in those die.!
tricts. The Noble Lord then said, he should in this.
,place wish to call, the attention of she House to such
precautionary measures as might tend to counteract
the evil which to his mind appeared.to have arrive.
to so alarming an height. The law .to be proposed/a
would be such as wools! apply.immediately to these,
particular districts, and he would wish to confine itsi
operation to Melia limited term as might, in the
wisdom of the House, be deemed barely necessary
for its. purposes. The measure would include three
points: the first was, more effectual proceedings with
regard to the army— the second, to provide more se-
curely against tumultuous meetings—and the third,
to give a, more extensive power to the Magistrates. I
The proCeedings of the rioters had arrived at a very I
alarming pitch, particularly in the artiele of seizing
;arms. Some arms bad boon
.;alcea sficarlpis the 1
month of Marcia, but at tbet.time tb,e instances were
fevi ; they bad lately been We numerous, and-as
the mischief seenied to be on,the increase, it hecame,
the more necessary to guard 'against ii. The Magi-
strates had declared themselves incapable of recover-
ing arms, taken in the manner alluded to, with the
powers with which they are at present invested by
the law; and it would therefore be necessary to ex.'
tend those powers. The first regulation he should
propose on this head would therefore be, to invest
the Magistrates with potver to seize not only_altlie
that were stolen, but secreted arms also. Many Of
those inhabitants in these tumultuous districts who
were actually *ell disposed, had refused to, ive up
their arms,unless they were forcibly taken from thtzn
by the Magistrates, for fear they should beexpo4l
to the resentment of the rioters ; he would therefore
propose to give. a power to the Magistrates to take
arms wherever they might be found, merely for the
purpose of keepihg them in safe custody, to be re.
delivered to their owners when an alteration in the
'circumstances of the country should warrant such. a
restoration of their property. This was the outlinell
'of the measure, so far as related to arms. With tell
Bard to the next point, the tumultuous meetings, IA
supposed the House would see the danger as. well as '
the impolicy of suffering a numerous army to be ini: I
sembled in the country, that wail' **raised under
and by the Controul of the King. 'lii nanny places in
Nottinghamshire, Lancashire, and, the 'yea Riding'
of Yorkshire, where these tumultuous proceeding!
prevailed, meetings -were held on a hill during ate
time of divine service. As soon as such ah assent.
blage was known, the Magistrates might proceed to
meet them, might rend the riot act—and then their
power was at an end ; for the tumultuous assemblage.
might move off, and there would be an end of the
business for that time. He thought, therefore, the
Magistrates should have the power to disperse them;
and in doing so, that such persons as were taken
prisoners, should be deemed liable to be tried for a
misdemeanour. The Magistrates should also have
a power to arrest ell such persons as they found time
tumultuously assembled, and to hold them to bail,
so as to bring them to trial at the next Quarter Ses-
sions; and he would propose, that they should in all
such cases be brought to trial immediately, and rtiog
allowed the privilege of traversing the indictment ste
they now were, by which means they might defee,
their trial for two Sessions. Respecting the third:
part, viz. the enlarging the powers of Magistrateslits
the law and the circumstances of the country now
stood, the Magistracy were not sufficiently numerous
to do the duty in every part of asounty ; and an
offender, by removing from the verge or confine of
one county into another that adjoined it, was enabled
to escape from the Magistrate who pursued him, and
by that means to elude the law. He woald therefon
propose that there should be a concurrent jurisdictioe
between Magistrates of adjoining counties ; so that It
Magistrate in one county having pursued an offender
into another county, the limits of the county in which
'he committed the offence should not serve him as a
plea for not being brought to justice in the county
where he should be taken, though he had not in,that
county actually offended against the law. If these
disturbances should unhappily continue, such mea-
sures as these would, in his opinion, be absolutely
necessary. It might, however, be hoped that from
the spring which had lately been given 'to oni•ariatiul•
facturers, and from the prospect of an abundant
harvest, these disturbances might cease. It was nor
,his wish to resort to any measures farther thaninight.
he absolutely necessary for the peace and security of
the country. If the Parliament would give those
enlarged powers to the Magistrates, he thought much
rwould accrue from it. These deluded and un-
mrdnate men had, on all occasions, shewn great
respect to the judgment of Parliament, and he hoped
they would now bow to that opinion they had before i
done. It was the unanimous opmion of his 'Majesty's
Ministers, that measures of the nature he had de-1
scribed were absolutely necessary ; and having thus
explained their nature; and the extent to which theyl
were meant to go, he would not detain the Mire
longer at present, but would read the Motion wtth•
which he intended to_conclude. His .Idirdiship thee
moved-- ~ •', se .
64 That lean be given to bring In a Illiiitliirefert,..;
the °E.lbe public Pi_acct Al*: W. WNW easiesers of the
Masteresse in the disturbed Milltitel

Mr' WH/TBREATO term }tea speech Sy Ova
tang to the reason given by the Noble Lord, Est ;
having discharged the order for the call of the Flsoli
only a day or two before he gave notice of the
coo
municatlon which led to the measures he pro 1,-
bring forward at the present moment. Leav' ngt 1;
aside, he would, . however, proceed to c •i;
"tluistroit ;tie% which was the disturbed state of to
country. The• Noble Lord thought it most trdvsd,•
Able to look only at the state of the country, oak%
a#stesting to t,he • cause which placed it in that stye ;
,
on the contrary, he (Mr. Whitbread) was of
oli
jkik, that thonouse should first consider theca ao,-
allstibeitioOk to what. was the state of the country,
I,,elleptesent motnent. He begged the House to
,anporetTerr sttrhontig been
~ecllect, ti,iit ,since the time ihis matter had &rob:
irfroectnthuitecidcouedntrusy.,thwheiritnholtraices
and e
elusive evidence, that the disturbances in 41
timeiptdig no !neaps inereaaled. For hisqlsecit. ,ii
he felt st his duty to declare, he was by no medusa;
eisfied.:with thipresent triode of proceeding. -MU
Innutlite.lit.e4
U.*. stnative of tlinevidence laid before thecae,
mitts*, his mind was• by no means satisfied with ill
had: tlieaorthe74thettio4deatiovftonoreitittetshseese,
rocore.
..se
n over4uled,..tliough he hadin one instance sae
out of seventeen, and in another nine out of ten, i
favour of his ',pivotal. The -Noble Lord had solo
tithe House, that there was an army esistiog Is ,
. eountry_not raised by-ilts icing, nor at all ?WINN
,flee
• his controul. }fie caned- 'upon the Noble jag a
'thew on wirat4toiind lie tat•st.ited such an alai Is
'exist. He &mod ,positively that such was ibe as
—nay, solTsr lima an army, Le would andenake is
Any therosvas no evidente of there being a reginiesti
not Itsgropany.—nay,.not. even. Jialf a compel, 4 ,
such persona as the .Noble Lied- had so ernih.tuelb
-ilesceUd. Ile reef flrwli of the case win; chitA
;'had st 'very extentive 'ftianufacturittg populates
brought from rink of enoloyment,istio a scee.nitle
Most deplorable distress, out of which dreadfalote
all those assemblies had arisen. The evirker, it,
fare' the Conimittee-cletrly and fully sheweshiss
Illeic unhappy men lask.sio-loatiers—that dierisi
no settled plans nor any means-whatever of mai
`ttituid any standard again* the rpovetnment of*
!gib& Let the' Rosqe. g_Tri-; and dispisesitv
:list ale simple questroft.7-Whete did it originate l.
Mho answer was plaiss-w.ia•Nottinghanz : lad thee,
.though it had beets tarried-to a very great mess, S
arras
now well ktio,"tkibilitheplast was at plot,
-ftft!litad fox soy* Noe ,beit niferfectly quiet. It sat
lqu 7 ilia inevini.tbacist this very Nottiagber
men have been brought to trial according to.thei/
iliTaiirid eiial"fisledlatr.Of the land—that on
tank they havojbeeti eittreicted, and have ezpr*,
by their lives, theiiiftenies, against the law.
. lti it
these cases, the i'AbliAlteil .I'iw,§f theland
found thtyOtighli i --.-let:ily adeqice to *all*
porposca for 'obtains waisfeamed.. With respect to .
the Watch and Wardf-Bill, which sae
.*
katrOdkeli feil , .I.t. : ft. i4..40 laiig,s
toe. 4 . INA. '' able f 4 Willa notoetraile
toe racf.was, mint bad•rever,,cin any occasios,tesa
called Into execiition. Under tkruni I„.gs
wollrelltr-laTrifF.Tor :.stew, Taws is!'ee tie
old onesibaci rioobeep tried 1: He. itOsid-nnt, Hulk
fotte;aiteito anyttart of the proposition, except thl
(hotter pert of it:M.4We io lie concustentjurisdictit.g.
oftlte Maglitritei in adj'ornlng counties. ale drami 1
that at rna 4,4 bstatigitseti to toeamounuerated bytiv
Noble-lad i.ifttitter however, were the fact, it oil
:hewed that Magisgates, under the eitistieg lien
were filLy ehibled to gc't ai;tl;eni. He had bese.teids
there:Was a greatdepot of arms iis .a *nod. 11 it
were so, and the Magistrates knew of it, thew could
be no doubt, but; aided by the military, and ander tbe
....
guidance of the law as it how -'- • might *
tarn possession of the whole. adverted
the hurtling. of West Horton Mi shewed ''
the persons who had been guilty
been tried, convicted, and pal
lives for having offended against
their country. What occasion was
'new laws ? In the affair of Dean
'very large mob who assembled
blacked, and among them Were '
men who blacked their faces in
sent there as spies, and to act
those who might afterwards be t
sembling ; and yet in this very sr
was the leader, and whose name
his face blacked. One of these
'the effervescence of his zeal, p
that they should go and burn s
which one of the mob resoloi
and said, that by so doing they •
nocent and helpless persons ; ti
plied, no matter, so we carry on
—Here were men employed as '
citing the multitude to more
acts of violence ; and for all these
House was applied to for the pur
vemment with new laws, and t
traordinaiy powers hitherto um
tution., lt was here the. Noble
those extraordinary powers, wit
placidity, and softness, which he
to assume : but the House, would,
,lest that the ,Noble Lord had her
Oersted in measures of a similar
they should also consider that
;160'S forming the Government,
iii those transactions. Tht y -
Xerd Cmciden was a Member
'tration ; and"that during his
dful scenes were eihibnod, as
Ilion of them agonised and revolted
6a
'Englishmen merely co is art late
IdOndemned the systepi, AiP-
'were many instances in which
arms, had courageously and '
themselves and their property, t
ruin and devastation; and :.yet,
*m, you would deprive those of a
prc'posed by tlat Noble Lord.
4elairs. inottillethireseowgn defence,roundstie and
ing supported hirliftmejr. it wss s,
them was any fluid to fustier and SOW
tem. One reason for the discouterfteloi„-w:l,_
,ilidiill lie attribbted to the dPiriess'acOemsli
Oilers io Coluial ; and ;loft thou !bit.
sireii likely to tic . set to.wed, Ind *at -..silli
prospect of a plentiful tarrestt he saw isia u 73:
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Ixtaby thilelitqlsobli)eele Lora ly *dip'
treasures heLperoarrdmg
tit to I
der for the call of the Ho ing
he gave notice of the co Ira
eat
all
et, proceed toeonsider ik* ws
as the disturbed state of till tug
ord tbottght it most Moist, be
tate of the country, with bre
hich placed it in that nate, sp
(4r. Whitbread) was of
cif
old first consider the
as the state of the country
ie begged the House to sp
ne this matter had &tabs*
trice, no report had been., _
was a pretty strong andqpb
.he diSturbanses is ;44
scre,aaed. Fee Isis con can'
ate, he was by no means% du
node of proceeding. -$
tvidence laid before thee*
Aso means satisfied with
roared in the Committals
is of.wheesses, but he. 40
he had:ist one ins's/Kesel'
another nine out of ten, i
The -Noble Lord had soli tit
was an army existing as daI,
nor at all liditir
a- 'Upon the Nt,ble lard u di
!ta'etstated such an such apri
that such was ibt cas gn
rrny, Le would undertake to cot
e of there being a tegitnesti
even-half a comPssf 4 ate
le Lord-had so soiihtlititk
nr, of the case was; that sir In
:manufacturing populatics,
isj)loyment,intoo state4th
out of which dreadhlass
d arisen. The evidence 10.
!AO), an' fully shel'etihs V'
kaders--that shortly r
means-whatever of algid
An* the rpovernment of,*
coorfi lad dispas!icessi,
_Whew did it origusawi. N
I:42,Nouinghain : and dott
if d-tis a very gnat excess it Fri
bsi die place was at pup sbc
beisaiperfectly quiet. it sax /1(
lacia this very Nottiagbe
to trial according lo.lbtzsa
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military, and unGer Mr p
stood, they might 06 t
.He then adverted to i
Mill, and sheaved 1141 a
Ity of that offenCeing i
aid the forfeit of ints 1
ist the violated lawn, I
was there, therefore, fat, I
)ean Moor, there ins I
bled with their tam 1
re ten Local !dirt,r i
i a similar way,6oo, . 1
t as witnesses teal;
taken up for its at
r meeting, the marimba
ne was Hurst, hadlte
e Local Militiamen, it
proposed, it scrod*
a the workhouse r-te
,olutely t,bjecned, alti
y would burn many is.
to which the other re.
on the grind.misciiid
is spies, abettinfe= •
daring and
these acts together, ti
purpose of arming cot
to invest them witill..
mknown to the ~.'
e I.nrd had spr.gitt
with all that. In.' .
i he knew so. wel.
vould, he howl.
d been intimately. .1.0
ilar nature in l!ert.:
t there were
.:
j=
:, nho were
would. not laid
r of tlfe rektillt 4er
is wit IA Ireland, "a
I, as that.* br*
revolted • tilt, .ii,i,'t
'plate in idek ,-; ~
;lain fur ii ....
ch persons, 14. •
d • eirectuallY.
~:' . ~
, and, saved 'bota. : .-
r;t, by *Proilc.ii or.
,of arms whotolu
and in soppn!!,
should oppose.Plg •
As to theti94
ras'eldiiitioui.tialllw
.......11 ...srusetttis.