Star.
London, England, 1831-10-13 00:00:00

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With respect to the letters of the two noble lords, he did
sot think that letters addressing thanks to an assemblage of
150,00 I men tended to discourage large meetings. (Hear.)
He did not believe Government wished to encourage these
proc;edings, though it was really extraordinary that they
should have let the press pursue its course without uttering
ooe :tend of disapprubation.—(Hear.) He did not think it
prudent to allow a vast assemblage of people to go in a body
to the Ring. (Hear.) He had discouraged a similar pro.
reeding several years back. if Ministers allowed the disturb-
ances to go en. the only means of putting a stop to them in
tile cud voted he. to call out the military, and then who
would be responsible for the bloodshed ? He had told the peo-
ple not to be made the insuuments of party ; to let the ten.
Found householders refuse the payment of taxes if they
pleeled, hut that they who were radical reformers should not
meddle with their proceedings. Since he had entered the
!•ouee, he had heard that another accident—to use the expres-
s ea of the member for Middlesex—had occurred ; lie had
heard that a policeman ha l been killed.
Mr. LAMB said the report was not true.
Mr. HUNT was glad of it. He considered the attacks on
in ividitala to be cowardly and Windy (flair.) The people
of England would never he guilty of them, unless they were
I jil:«1 by some persons interested in the promotion of such
d;turbances. He meted ministers would prevent the recur-
rence of these proceee,iegs.
Mr. LAMB had been somewhat wounded by what had
CT,. a from Honourable Gentlemen. He knew not on what
grounds the Honourable Member for Boroughbridge
Ministers of conniving with the disturbers. He chal-
lenged inquiry on this subject. The learned Member had
alluded to the burning of Nottingham Castle ; but had Go-
vernment had time to prevent the occurrence of so sudden
and unexpected an event ? Holding out to the public that
3liristere connived at the disturbances, was not a way
et' putting them down. (Hear.) With respect to the
report of a policeman having been murdered that evening,
it was unfounded. He admitted that great losses had been
occasioned, but decisive measures would be taken to prevent
the recurrence of further outrages. (Hear, hear.) He re-
p toed exceedingly the attack made on the house of the
Doke of Wellington, together with the outrage offeted
to a noble lord, hut he did nit regret that the people
should have been allowed to go in a body to the King.
( liver, hear.)
Mr. WRANGH A M deprecated the language made use
of by the member for Middlesex, with respect to the Op-
position, as it tended to excite the people against them.
Sir G. WA RRENDER entirely acquitted Govern-
nt of any connivance at the disturbances He deeply re-
gret.ed the sp. ech of the member for Middlesex, who
talked of the attack made on a peer of the realm, in which
he hail been almost assassinated, as of an accident. He
hopal. if the excesses continued, government would resort to
.t legal commission.

Mr. HUNT explained.
I'4 TRENCH had been a witness to the proceedings of
the triumphant procession of the Hon. Member for Middle.
sex. He had seen it escort the carriage of the hon. member
for .nme time, and then proceeded to the house of the Duke
of IVellington, and committed on it a regularly organized
attack. The respectably dressed persons, of whom the hon.
member had boasted as assisting at the procession, were pre-
cisely those who encouraged the proceeding. He thought
these great assemblages should be discouraged, as they corn.
promised the independence of the Legislature. It would have
been more to the credit of the hon. member had he requested
the procession to entrust him with their petition, and to
disperse,
, 'Mr. HUME begged to explain. There was not a word
of truth in the statement. (Order, order.) He (NIL II.)
said the statement was all a mistake as regarded himself ;
he had nothing to do with the procession, except receiving
from it a petition to be presented by him to the King. He
hind not meant in eish,g the word " accident," with respect
zn the attack made on a noble lord, to denominate the cir-
ct mstance as trilling.
Colonel TRENCH was understood to say, that he would
hate an opportunity of returning his thanks to the honourable
member. for his very rem courtesy.
Mr. HUME had said that the statement as regarded him-
self was unfounded.

Sir G. WA RR ENDER could assure his gallant friend
that he, together with all those around him, had understood
the hon. member for NI iddlcsex to mean nothing offensive.—
( Heat, hear.)
Lord STORMONT said the hon. member should be
called nn to rctract the expression.
The SPEAKER said he had given a complete satisfactory
explanation.
Colonel TRRNCH expressed himself satisfied.
Colonel SI ATHORPE deprecated the outrages which had
been committed.
Mr. MA RERLY said the great meeting which had taken
place that day, entertained only peaceable intentions. The
people bad a right to go and express their sentiments to the
Kind, and he thought Government had acted very pru•
dently in not preventing them from doing so. (Hear.)
Mr. PAGET considered the persons composing the meet-
ings to have been much calusnr iated.
The petition presented by Mr. Ruthven was then read,
and ordered to be printed.