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',its of Mr. Hunt on the subject had been discharged
with costs.
On the motion of Sir ROBERT WILSON' the Peti-
tion was then read, and it described the Keeper of
Ikhester Jail as an inhuman, cold-blooded, worthless
wretch. It further stated, that the Judges of the
Court of King's Bench had sent the Petitioner to that
jail, knowing tt to be the most pestilential and the
worst regulated in the kingdom. In condo/Jinn. it
prayed that the Judges might be impeached, if it
was found that their influence was exexcisekl against
the freedom of the People. The Petition being read,
the Honourable and gallant Member moved that it
do lie on the table; upon which
Mr. BRIGHT rose, and deprecated in forcible
aims the language it contained. He considered the
statements to be false, groundless, and unjustifiable.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY spoke briefly
to the same effect; and said, that if simple justice
was the object of the Petition, it would have been
presented at another time, and drawn up in different
terms. He hoped the House would net suffer such
a Petition to lie on the table.
The ArfORNEY-GENERAL considered the al-
legations in the Petition as false in the extreme. 11-
chester Jail had been purposely selected for the con-
finement of Mr. Hunt, because it had been under-
stood to be better regulated than most other jails in
the kingdom.
Mr. SCARLETT bad no idea, when this Petition
bad been first adverted to, that it contained a tissue
of the basest slander that had ever been put forth to
the world. If men were allowed to state from prison
everything they thought proper against the Judges
by whom their verdicts had been pronounced, then
all respect for public justice had better be given up
at once. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then
said, that Mr. Hunt had experienced such indulgence
on his trial as had been granted to no other individual
under similar circumstances; and the charge now
made with respect to the Judges of the Court of
King's Bench was false, foul, and calumnious (Hear).
Dr. LUSHINGTON did not think that the pre-
sent Petition could be received ; yet, at the same
time, he thought that an inquiry ought immediately
to- take place into all the circumstances relating to ll-
chester Jail. Five weeks had elapsed since a Resolu-
tion to that effect had been agreed to, yet nothing
bad yet been done. He hoped, however, that no
more time would be lost, as one hundred and fifty
British subjects ought not to be exposed to unneces-
sary severity a single instant longer than redress
could be afforded—(Hear, hear).
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was convinced that
no unnecessary delay had occurred in making the in-
quiries which the circumstances of the case required.
Dr. LUSHINGTON.—" Yes, but the Commis-
sioners appointed have not yet gone down."
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL. —" Very true, the
Commissioners have not yet gone down, and the rea-
son is, because certain forms must be previously com-
plied with ; there necessarily must be some delay."
Sir Rosser Wtmos offered to withdraw the Pe-
tition ; but the Marquis of LONDONDERRY objected to
this, as it would prevent the House from marking its
sense of the, merits of it.—The question that the Pe-
tition should lie on the table was then put. No voice
was raised for it; but the Noes were loud, and it was
of course rejected.
Mr. HUE presented Petitions from five indivi-
duals, three women and two men, complaining of
the violence with which they had been treated by the
Cavalry; and praying for inquiry into the transac-
tion.—Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.
Dr. LUSHINGTON said, he had a Petition to
present, complaining of the same outrage which had
formed the subject of the other Petitions. In the pre-
sent instance, the individual very fortunately escaped
with having his shoulder blade broken, while some
of his countrymen had been murdered. He prayed,
and his prayer was very reasonable, that, under the
atrocious circumstances of the case, the instigators
to the bloodshed that had taken place might be
brought to justice—(Hear, hear).—Yet he (Dr. Lush-
ington) had no hope, after what had passed in a for-
mer Parliament, that the decision of that night would
pr6ve satisfactory. On that occasion the complaints
of the people were treated with mockery; and he
could not help thinking that something of the same
kind was now intended. _ _ _

Mr. LAMBTON presented a Petition from Sa-
muel Jackson. He had been wounded in the knee
with a musket-ball—his leg was in consequence am-
putated—he had been fourteen weeks in the Infir-
rnaryand had never been able to work since.—Or-
dered to be printed.
Petitions to nearly the same effect were presented
from John Kershaw, James Smith, Owen► M'Cabe,
and John Bruce.—Read, and ordered to be printed.
Sir W. DE CILESPIGNY held in his hand four
similar Petitions. The first was from a person who

described the Cavalry as having rode over and cut at
all who fell in their way ; the Petitioner himself was
stabbed in the shoulder, and narrowly escaped being'
killed on the spot. The next was from James Leith,
who having received two tremendous wounds, was
carried to the Hospital: the Doctor asked him would
he promise never again to be found in such company ?
to which not having made a satislictory answer, he
was obliged to leave the Hospital—(Hear, hear).--
The next was from John Brooke, who, without having
given any provocation, had been attacked by the Ca-
valry and wpunded.—These Petitions were severally
rem', ordered to lie upon the table, and be printed.
Mr. MONCK presented a Petition from a woman
aged seventy-two. The Petition described the trans-
action as most bloody ; that, previous to the appear-
ance of the trocps, the Meeting was perfectly or-
derly ; that the Yeomanry were in a state of intoxi-
cation when they made-the charge, in' the midst of
which Petitioner was attacked by a trumpeter named
Meagher, who cut her down. After her recovery
from her wounds, Petitioner made application to the
Magistrates at Warrington, who refused to receive
her complaint : she therefore prayed the Honourable
House for redress, and inquiry into the transactions
of the 16th of August; and in this prayer he (Mr.
Moack)-most heartily concurred. The Hon. Mem-
ber also presented a similar Petition from James
Ogle, who having been rode over, got up, and was
pursued by a Yeoman; that, attempting to get over
a wall, to save his life, he fell, in consequence of the
wounds he had previously received, when another
Yeoman gave Itint a cut over the eye.—Both these