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town any more than as there were connected with It
Clergymen belonging to his diocese. He could assure
the House that the Governors of that College would be
extremely well pleased to be released from the charge
of those books altogether; hut, as they had been
ruined to them by a deed of mist. in the observance of
which they Isere guided by no personal or priva:e in-
terest whatever. to such was to be attributed their
earnest desire to retain those *moments, without which
COW** they would be guilty of the Don-fhlalment of
their original agreement. There was one point at Issue
between the Kirk of Scotland and Sion College. which
was the identity of those records. The College con-
tended that they were on!, copies of the original.—
With regard to d e deed of trust there was nothing
contained in it by which the Kirk could claim
them. The engagement, to use the words of that
deed, ramifies, " if it should at any time please Gun
to establish Episcopacy is Scotland, the College
shall then resign the hest, the General Assembly paying
all the expenses that may be incurred." A letter was
written from the College to Mr. CamplaeU, some time
after be had placed them in their custody. -asking if
they should resign the records in case the Kirk de.
mended them, to which that Gentleman replied that
they should not be guided by them. He therefore
thought that the Piovost and Fellows of Sion College
were seally called upon not to give up those papers. 14.
uld take the liberty of reading an extract from de
opinion of the Solicitor General upon the subject.'
(The Right Rev. Prelate here read theestract. in which
it was stated that the papers appeared only to be 'atheistic.
copies, and not the original records. To bias (the
Solicitor General) it seemed that the Kirk of Soloed
had no effectual claim by tibia they could take them
oe legal grounds, but be thought they would bejustilled
ie giving copies of them ; upon which point, however,
they might exercise their own discretion). Thus, con-
tinued the Right Reverend Prelate, stood the case at
present; and he could inform the Noble Rail that the
Goveraors of the College were now perfectly willing
' to give up copies of those docomenta, the General Aso
sembly paying, agreeably to the original contract, the
expeoses consequent thereupon.
The Eel of HADDINGTON thanked the Right
Reverend Prelate for the explanation he hatt.ntered
into. At the same time he should move that th- Peti-
tion be laid upon their Lordships' table, *serving to
himself the opportunity, if he should hereafter see fit,
to bring the subject again beim the House.
The Bishop of LONDON took the opportunity of
supplying an omissionwhich be had unintentionillymade
—it was to thank the Noble Rail for the kind manner
in which he had spoken of the heads of Sion College.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE conceived, if the Ge-
neral Assemly of the Kit k of Scotland could prove that
these documents were their property. there was nothing
which could prevent them from having recourse to legal
proceedings. and forcing the Governors of Sion College
to deliver them up. It was his opinion that they west,
the original records, and Dot copies; and be thooght it
was only by fraud that the individuals became pos-
sessed of them in mhos' bands they were at present.
After a few words from the Eel of ELDON, the Pe.
titbit was laid upon the table.
The Earl-of MALMESSURY presented Petitions
from the neighbourhood of Salisbury. frortsWai
and Shaftesbury, praying for additional duty on the
importation of foreign wool. The Noble Eat I adverted
to the fact that those districts were almost solely bap-
ported by the wool they produced, and that the staple
commodity of those pans of the country was now sold
for half the price which bad been given during the last
40 years.—The Petitions were laid on the table.

DlRMlnutAli Pe
The Earl of CARNARVON said, he had the ho.
nose to present to the House a Petition (of which he
-hod given notice a few days before) from a different
body of people. and upon a very different subject to
that which had been first occupying the attention of the*
Lordships. The Petition he then held in his band wits
signed by 8,000 individuals, consisting of merchants,
bankers, tradesmen, and other inhabitants of Miming.
ham, upon the subject of the present appalling distress
of that town, and, he feared, of the great proportion of
the manufacturing towns in the Empire. The pets•
afters had ventured to stare what they conceived to be
the cause of the general distress. and in their prayer
bad stated what they looked upon as the only remedy.
In presestiug their petition he did not, however, think
himself Mend to support the petitioners' prayer in its
whole eztont; but certainly it contained much matter
of great moment, and referred to important truths
which would lead the Governmerit, it they were dia.
posed to fulfil their duty to the comets y.to a serious con-
sideration of the subject. He would, therefore, beg to
draw the attention of the House to the petitioner.'
prayer, while he recommended to the Noble Duke
at the bead of his Marjesty's Government, who bad
already contended successfully with two enemies of his
country—first, with an external enemy, and next with
an enemy who. at one time, seemed to threaten as if he
would undermine all the hopes of the nation, to COD•
sidet did matter attentively. and try if he could not
enable them to cope with a still greater enemy than
either—be meant the Nation.' Debt. Those petitions
ascribed the whole of the commercial distress to a re-
gulation made by Parliament for the alteration of the
curs ency. He could sot agree with them that that was
all the cause of the commercial distress. He believed
it was also owing to the financial distresses, and the re•
gulations consequent thereon. This be believed to be
the principal cause of the present appaling distress es•
perieaced through the commercial interests of the coon-
try.. The prayer of the petitioners included two propco
sitions of this nature (and be was afraid that one of the
two was the only alternative which could be resorted to)
either to enter into a complete revision of the currency'
arrangement, or else to relieve the nation from a por-
tion if the present taxation. On a former occasion
be had stated his opinion of the difficulties which
wooed be likely to arise front the passing of the cur.
rency question,and oldie great distress which /mimed _
would be felt by the agricolttiral and ornanefacturint
interests of the country ; and now he too plainly saw
that the distress bad arrived which he then anticipated.
He would not behold enough to state that this distress
was completely owing to the currency regulation; but
he did think that their Lordships would regret the cis.
ambiance of their not bevies deliberated more than
they did when that question was brought au in the
sear 1819. Oa the merit of thin question he salad
andel take to stale that the Bed at that time passed was
neither Ass nor a politis ens. it was set s poliiie oee

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