Star.
London, England, 1817-05-30 00:00:00

into the pernicious Revnlinion ry W r. woe-- emit
had been previoinly devised tot prevenen Veil voice
from being, heard. However ..e • mild clime J iwn
to the present time.—Let us t r t mom nt see vhat
pretence the present Ministers could have for c ening.
dawn to Parliament to propose A Susoensi n of the
Habeas Corpus Act, and for Parliament to Adept
their recommendatinn ? He believ d wen t• e Ser.-
pension Act pecked, the country •as lab-urine end. r
a degree of oppression greater than arty • ver hefore
known. With diminished means--with iviperelleled
agriculttirel, e.anitfactueng and commercial distre's
--under the *limes' degree of general sulfeting—at
this time the t'enpic laid a statement of then griev.
antes before Parliament, with the view i obtaining
redress; but his Majesty's Ministers, eta..ig aettan-
Lige of a few excesses committed by a few onethiese.
ed individuals, instead o' impsiring intti and redrers-
ing their grievances, thought proper ti. erepere the
suspension of the great privilerte of Emalislimen.—
It was impossible not to see that the sole object of
his Majesty's Ministers was to pereetitate and protect
existing abuses. to screen their '.o. n delinquency; to
stifle the voice of tee people, and to resist .11 inquiry
into abuses, instead of redressing them— (Hear, hear).
—But notwitletantling the sufferings of the people
at the manner in whit:, their complaints had been
treated, what had happened ? potty had witnessed
acts passed in a most indecent haste, and in a man-
ner voice bad never before heel' Ice wn - the Act,
which was the very hie hl iod of the Constitution,
Was snspvnded hi such haste, that lie individual in
the remote per tt of tne kingdom could even under-
stand what wac ;;sing an, and those who had time
to be infer-reed ot what was going on, had not time
ze Petition Perl'erilesst on the subject'. The measure
Was not only hurried through Pauli emetic in the
manner which lie led detcubte.—a tau sa well
known to all the Members, that it would be absurd
'in him to say any tl:ing more on what was se nra
torime to them--lint it was passed on such evidence
as ne me:times of importance ever before were pasted
on—'t was ;seised on evidevce selected by Ministers,
aged submitted to *Committee of their atm .intment—.
it wits reared on cr -parte evidence, en evidence eleick
could suit be known, and thereto re could not be re.
tottd—and yet II .e only statements which these Par.
liamentury Comtnittees ventured to make in their
Reports wete ribliely centradicted, and persons
came forrverd or: tie, to disprove Otero. Ors such
evidence did these Representatives of
,the People, as
'bey chose to call themselves, thiek prober tit suspend
the Liberties of the I', olds. Whet had been done
ence ? He would ask if one measure bud been
taken by Goveinment since the'sttspeteem had taken
place, which could net have been taktei under Um
existing laws? Had any individuals been taken op
and brought to owl, the matter et accusation against
whom was net as well known as any thing in the
Lewspapt t. ? He had read some of the indictments
against the persona now about to be tried, and cf .
cumbered as they were with all manner of I,gal gar,.
Wee, he could not perceive any thing in them whicla
was not perfectly well kr.own before the Sespen-don
Act passed. Thrice in.evidnals, acting under the
assumed character of Rewrote:alive' of the People,
and who stated all Reels in to he unneci seity,iiiree.:d
of lending an ear to the Petitions of the People, sup-
ported Ministers by large majorities in all these in.
roads on the Centel:mien. And yet the Peopleetme
der all there chestnittences, were to be insulted on
account of the proceedieigs of a few individuals, with
the character of ditlayal and disaffected. Who were
tie individeals in queatioti?—a few miserable indivie
duals, without property and without cennection, or
influence of any kind. And yet, for the ofctaces of
these heeseetees, the whole of a prOtte, Who k4:rilit
1 ..
the lonor of con uption ltd se:matted to the mu,t
e sear
oppressive lasetion, were aloe to be libelled a: dia.
Arch sl, am! stated mu he Ittideset yang of beioe met-
ed with the privileges of the Const tteion. He ceell
i not fhlp pnitiong their attention to the manner in.
1 which the people were insulted in the House by some
young Statesmen. When the people complained of
the bottles, of the Property Tax, they were charged
with an ignorant impatience of taxation; but there
were some young Statesmen now in the House, wl:o
charged the people with displaying an ignorant im-
patience of the Constitution—they did net know Wen
we !good for thernseives, what was or their own ad-
vantage-- (Mar, liear).-lle surfeited that he Moved
be told that he was reviling his Majesty's fstinisters
now, when they %vete doing every thing creditablle—.
now when they had appninted a Cinanitter ler Pei
purpose of inquiring into uselev: Place: and Expenei.
tore—and yet, now tubed Ministers Isere in the I. e.
MOM' to indulge, :hey wile sti7l eeliting against the.,
ganmdteenr
benevolent men— ( Hear, b-tt ).•--Ln order to sari-'7
; the people, Ministers 1 ene.lete Ltd nominated a
Corainittee, composed of Plact•men, Pensionese, ard
I:not-el dependents--they Lad :tamed a Commitery
who fete peieted out a few us-!..-; plaees, the aboli-
-1 tien of which; woukd gitte tie :a no J:ntinotion of
texatiun. They wren :old 1.7 some of the yours
Statesmen to whom to led le.tere alluded, that. if.
was nue...easy the Pelblie nosey should be so 5q,,,,..
tiered—itaiib:ir.itit:rigier(eao:::::4)oe......the purpose of educatiee-
young Statesmen
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at
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the Constitution, the management of the affairs of
1 the country allele to be in the hands of those witese
fortune -and ~ti: ss 'edge twat q.seheee them to ce,
dect its concerns in an able, herecierable, and ieec-
-1 pendent manner. Bet row they were tat or. et
once to de.card all there antiquated notions— w1.'...e
the people were insulted arid their opinions treate,i
eith cuntempt, they were told that these hungry
and mercenary tools were to be fed at the phi::
cherge— (Hear, hear).—At the moment of severe,'
pats-arc, when the two 1.*:..,0,es of Parliament w
inundated with Petitions, to be wtd that these ref.
ruptions were mcesitary, we-, iii his oetition, inr.A.
is the reeve in a most hatetecte". etweecv.itereetep
as :hey all did, that bode row .e..s :v tee :ete. ~...