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London, England, 1826-11-25 00:00:00

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!teeny arrived--(ffatr). He. was connected with a
county- which was as usuctsafilicted by the late distresses
is any other; and those distresses were felt quite as
severely among the agricultural as any other classes;
end he besought the House to guard, against the
delthion that- the distress was by any means con-
fined to the manufacturing interests. He would not nevertheless
anticipate, by any expression of his sentiments at present, the opinion
which be should feel it his duty to lay before the House when the
great.questiouslieuld came before them after the holidays; but be
)ioped the Government would not conceive themselves entitled to
crowd further than they have done. • liet the contingency arrive
6fore the remedy should be adopted. .
Mr. W. WHITMORE thought there could not be a
greater proof of thestrangeness of the laws in question,
than the necessity which now occurred, for the third
time, of suspending them; nor a severer censure on the spirit in
which they were framed, than the general. feeling of approbation
'which that suspension in the present instance appeared to excite in
the House.
Colonel WOOD wished the Hon. Member who had
just sat down, had followed the example of the Hon.
Member for Kent, and refrained from those. sweeping
enndemnstions of the law which was to come before the
House after the holidays. And it would be well too
t the Hon: Member would endeavour, in the mean
time, to learn the true nature of that Isw ; for among
he numberless publications whiCh the subject had called
iorth, he found one pamphlet written by (he believed)
sis Hon. Friend, which made the necessity for a little'
inquiry very apparent. The Hon. Member then en-
:ered into a chain of argument on the subject of the
pamphlet, which called for the occasional demonstration
f impatience from the House. The Hon. Member had
:alien into the track which had been followed by the
public press-for the last year, than which nothing could
ore mere erroneous and delusive. He regretted-the pro-
position for prolonging the indemnification of Ministers,
and thought it would be better a great deal the wholt
questi n should be .decided at once—(Hear). Or, if it

were to he hung up until after Christmas, he hoped,
some measure would be taken to put down those aggravating efforts
an the part of the press, to persuade the people that the repeal of
bete laws. would remedy all the evils.
Mr. WESTERN was entirely of opinion that Ministers were
usthorised by eircum,tances in the course they bad followed.
Mr.. WODEHOUSE expressed the same opinion.
Mt. CALCRAF r had just two words to say. Mi-
nisters, he thought, had acted wisely, and could not
with propriety have xcted otherwise than they.did. He,
in common with others, felt great inconvenience in the
postponement of the question ; but as he hoped Govern-
ment for good reasons had made up their minds on the
subject, be would not say any tking to provoke a discussion--( Hear,
bear).—They were all united in a wish to allay animosities, and
they were sincere in tbat feast's, they would not meddle with the
topic until it was finally and fully discussed.
Mr. BMW and tdr. Luria both spoke in favour of the Re-1

WAITJ-IMAN said that every Member

repreient the whole community, and not
class or interest. It was even his duty

the welfare of posterity. Such was his
and these sentiments he had expressed to
He would riot -pay Ministers anything in
compliment—indeed they had received so much eu-
thought they must nauseate any addition to it; but be
had they not acted as they did. they would have
dereliction of duty.
wished to know why the question was
lwever satisfied Gentlemen might be in that
doors unanimously the voice prevailed
~question at once. • Ministers simply said,

ig the subject forward at a distant day,
• to have stated their reasons for deferring
imerous Petitions which would pour in from
immediate discussion. could not fail to came repeated
question corrtrary to the recommendation of the
r Kent. He had heard much 4111,011 t agricultural
interests; but no one spoke of the interests of

was then put from the ChM?, and mad.

measly agreed to.
blr. HUSKISSON next proposed a Resolution respecting the
amount of duties Wise imposed on certain species of grain, which
was also carried unanimously.
The House then resumed, and the Report of tbe Conunittee
*as ordered to be received on Monday next.

The Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Com-
mittee of Supply having been moved, when the questiosa was put
from the Chair, •

Mr. BROGDEN rose. Before the Speaker left the
Chair, he said he felt bound to say a few words in refe-
rence to the attacks which had been made on his cha-
racter. He was not conscious of having done any thing
which could detract from the credit he had maintained
in two successive Parliaments. He was, he knew, the
marked object of calumnies, and he was placed in the
unfortunate situation of having his character taken from
him by anonymous publications. He tendered himself
to examination, and he hoped the House would dp him justice.
He bowed to the storm, but be was confident that the fair weaiser
would come. He had promised the worthy Alde(man who had
alluded to his conduct that be would not shrink frog( boestillation-
On man occasions bad be received the indulgence of Parliament ;
all be asked Dow was justice.
Mr. Secretary CANNING said there could be.but
one (cling in the House as to the appeal which had
been made to their justice.* For his own pan, though
he availed himself of the Hon. Gentleman's withdrawing
his pretensions to the Chair for the present, yet shOuld
become out with unblemished character from the in-
vestigation which he challenged, he was sure the House
would be sorry to have made such arrangements as
would preclude him from occupying the same place
among them which he bad before held with so much
ability. in the ordinary course of the House, there
would ceitainly be a thousand opportunities, when the
day.rumours, which reached them, would inevitably
prove inconvenient to the House and disagreeable to the
Hon. Gentleman himself, of discharging the duty of
Chairman. He fe't that the worthy Alderman opposite,
who had meilaced a charge, was bound to afford the
Hon. Gentleman an opportunity of justifying his cha-
racter, and it was only after a full exculpatilis that he
proposed to restore him tp ,ble
.formet situation. Mil the proper
opportunity arrived, he Vaned propose a Gentleman for their Chair-
man, who was an old Member of the House; and who, though be
regarded the Chais as a worthy object of ambition, would yet rejoice
in the occasion which would render it necessary for him to resign it
to Ili original possessor.
Mv. Aldesman WAITH MAN disclaimed all personal
feeling towards the Hon. Member; but even if the Rt.
Hon. Speaker himself had had his name by any means'
as,ociated with so many, and such ruinous speculations,
it would have been the duty of the House to institute a severe en.
vary before it bad elected him to the place he now filled.
Mr. Secretary CANNING then proposed that Sir Alexandtr
Grant do tate the Club, which was unanimously agreed to.
Sir A. GRANT, in complying with die wishes of the
House, said a few words in a low tone, expressive of his
entire and heartfelt concurrence in the s.ittiments of the
Right Hon. Secretary. Nothing would give him greater pleasure
than the finding himself obliged to resign the situation with which
they had honoured, him, to the Hon. Gentleman who had for so
long a period occupied it with so much ability.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee, when the
motion "that a Supply be granted tO his Majesty," was put and
carried unanimously.
The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be
received' on Monday.--Adjourned at boor o'CLocit to Monday..

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