Star.
London, England, 1819-03-17 00:00:00

QUALIFICATION OF NIEMRFRE.

Sir G. WARRENDER said, by the Act of gate'
Anne, 9th, ch. 5. it was enacted, that to enable
person to sit for an English County, he should pos-
sess 6001. a-year ; and to sit fer a City or Bare
300/. a-year, in land in England er.Wales. • Snts
the Union wifh Ireland, property in that Count!)
was taken as a qualification for Members in the'sanx
manner as property in England, so that now the mil?
part of the United Kingdom, in which property W3'
not admitted as a qualification for representing Et&
lish Counties and Boroughs, was Scotland. his L. -
ject was to extend to property in that country tht
same privilege. His object was not to interfereviat
the general law respecting qualifications, which WA:
deemed by some to be capable of amendment, but
, merely to correct an anomaly, viz. by making pro
petty in. Scotland available as a qualification tot
Members to represent English Counties or Boroughs.
He moved for leave to bring in a Bill " further to
regulate the Qualification of Members serving is the
United Parliament." _ _

Mr. BROUGII,VM said, that though he did sot
mean to dissent from the principle of the Bill, he
should suggest one obvious pri*a Ade objection.
with which, no doubt, the Honourable Mover wool,'
be met, but which
,it lay in his power to obviate.
There was an obvious reason why, as the law at pit.
sent stood, landed property in Ireland was receivabit
at a qualification for Members to represent places is
_England. .Between England and Ireland there w.ii
a reciprocity; not only did land in Ireland qualify its
possessors to represent 'places in England, but pro
perty in England qualified the proprietors to repre-
sent places in Ireland. But if the measure now pt"
posed were carried in the ,shape in which the lica
Member brought it forward, the possessor of pr.
petty in Scotland wauld be qualified to represent as
'English County, while the,i,ossessor of prnpertY
England would not be qualified to represent a Sect;
Shire—(hear, hear!)
Sir GEORGE WARRENDEII said, he did nc:
overlook the objection stated by the Honourable au-
J.earned Gentleman (Mr. I.lrougham);.but the qua:
fication was required in Scotland under a particulx
law, by which every Representative of a Shire so
to be an enrolled Freeholder.: To-represent a SW
Burgh, to qualification whatever was requisite. k"
representing particular plates-in England. (he. L. 21
understood)—some Boivuglis.in Yorkshire, for i 5
stance, and the Cinque-Ports-aparticular qualifies'
Lions were 110C#111ary.—Itliei .9ff " lioi") The qualk
fication necessary to represent a Scots County might
be purdiasedSor 4 small .sum.;fne hoped at leis' tic
objection would•belnado trt iheiringing in his K.
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