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Gentlemen had promised to repair to such a Com•
,mittee free from all party animosities, in order to in,
vestige* thnsubject, and arrive at the truth ; and
that he saw in the list some names of the first re-
spectability, and from whom the country might
entertain the.besrhopes.
111 r. TIERNEY took that opportunity, in allusion
the list in eirculation, to earnestly recommend the
omission of a single name, in order to introduce that
of. hit Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham),
whose time and tacit: would be valuable to such a
Committee. He iris convinced that were his Learned
Friend chosen as a Member for such a Committee,
he would be indefatigable in his search of truth. If
the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
were to favour him (Mr. Tierney) with his consent,
it would at once prove that he was resolved to meet
the Committee on those principles of candour and fair
dealing which he so earnestly recommended.
Mr. LAWSON acknowledged, that he had seen
the list now mentioned, and to prove that he did not
entirely igree.to such a list, he thought that several
more Members from the Opposition side of the. House
might be added, by withdrawing an equal number
of names. He pretested his independence,and said
that no man should dietate to him the lineofsonduct
which he should follow. In the full exercise therel.
fort, of his parliamentary privilege, as boasted of
last night by an Honourable Member, a Bank' Di-
rectal., he would earnestly recornmend.the withdraw-
ing of one name, in order to make room fhi a Noble
Friend of his (Lord Lascelles), who possessed. virtues.
and. abilities idmirably, adapted for such' an enquiry:"
is that list he saw the name of a Learned Gentle-
man belongineto.Doctors Commons (Sir /oho Ni.el:Sol.) What service such a Gentleman could be of to
the-Costusilitee of Finance, he could not coropre,
Acad. His Noble Friend, conversant with the sub-
ject, • and hell accustomed to the rules of Parlia-
ment, would be much more preferable. Such a Com-
mittee did not went the assistance of a Learned Ci-
vilian from Doctors' Commons—unless it were in-
tended to institute au action for Criminal Conversa-
tion .With a certain Old Lady of Threadneedle-street !
(Loud Laughter.' •
Mr. H. DAVIS returned to the subject of the Pe-
tition against the resumption of Cash-payments by
the Bank of England. He again wished for leave to
bring it.up.
Mr. TIERNEY said be had no dOubt of the respec-
tability of the signatures, but he oLjected to it on ac-
count' of the manner in which those signatures had
been obtained. He would put a question to the Ho-
nourable Gentleman.—Was it, or was it not, a fact,
that at a meeting of a club, of which Mr. Alderman
DaniA was chahauan, that petition was put (whether
by accident or not he should not enquire) into the
hands of the Chairman, in order to obtain the signa-
tures of the Members?—(hear.) He understood that
all the signatures affixed to it, with the exception of
one, were obtained in that club ; and now it was
brought forward purporting to be the Petition of the
Inhabitants of Bristol. The fact was, that one half
of the persons who had signed it did not know what
the object of die Petition was.
. Mr. H. DAVIS was happy that the Right Hon.
Gentleman had given him an opportunity of assuring
the House, that he was entirely ignut.itit of the pro-
ceedings which were alleged to have taken place.—
What the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated was
wholly new to him. for he had not even heard that
the Petition had -been given to Alderman Daniel.
' Of all those who had signed it, there was not one,
connected with a Ranking-hcuse. It was true, indeed,
as he had before stated, that some of them were both
' bankers and merchants; but it was in the Tatter ca-
pacity that they had signed the petition—(iea?.)
' Mr. TIERNEY said they signed in one capacity,
and acted in another-44: .7.augA.-.)