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London, England, 1818-06-08 00:00:00

the Nfetropolis with Water. He should also submit
t, the consideration of the Committee, if he obtained
in appointment, the propriety of obliging the Water
Companies so to construct their Steam-Engir.es, that
silo should consume their own smoke—{dear, hear.)
MISREPRESENTATION.
err. CANNING rose to call the attention of the
Woe to the circumstance of a misrepresentation,
w.f.:C:l he might say was unprecedented since he had
haneer of a seat in Parliament, and probably so
in the recollection of most Members who heard him.
Tes misrepresentation occurred in a statement pur-
ring to be an account of what took place in the
Hoot last night, in that part of the debate on the
consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Alien
Bill, where, after an Hon. and Learned Gentleman
t.st A. Piggott) had objected to those amendments,
es affecting the privileges of the House, he (Mr.
Urine) appealed to the Chair for an opinion on the
enettion. In a newspapc: of this morning there was
zot only a report of what then occurred, but a com-
ment of a nature which, as it affected a particular
Member, or the privileges of the House in general,
was most offereive, far exceeded the usual latitude
allowed in such cases, and could never be tolerated.
It would be in the recollection of the House, that
when this point of form arose, he (Mr. Canning),
after making a few observations, put a question to
the Chair, saying, he was willing to rest the issue on
its decision ; and it was in the description of the tone
and manner in which he was said to have delivered
.i sentiments on that occasion, and made this appeal,
teat he thought the House implicated, and he, indi-
v:duelly, had reason to complain. Ise the report itself
there was no unfairness or misrepresentation. It
stated the substance of what he said, and gave the
view that he took as correctly as such reports are
generally given, or as they can in all circumstances
it expected to be given ; but nothing could be more
:,::fair than the comment which followed, and which
eescribed him as treating the objection of the Hon.
cnd Learned Gentleman as absurd, and confidently
'd triumphantly appealing to the Chair for a con-
firmation of his opinion, and in expectation of a
diderent answer from that which he received.
The words to which he alluded, and of which he com-
plained, were these :—‘. It will be recollected that a
clause was introduced into it by the Lords, invalida-
ting the effect of a law derived originally from Scot-
land, whereby it was first enacted, that the purchasers
cf stock in the Bank of that country should be deemed
naturalized; and afterwards, by the Act of Union,
the naturalized subjects of one country were in future
to be admitted to equal rights in the other. This
law, we say, was by an express clause in the Alien
hal to be set aside ; but it was last night discovered
ar.d argued in the Commons, that such a clause, hav-
ing relation to money concerns—to the money-con-
cars of the subject—could only originate in that
House. A debate ensued, in which Mr. Canning
treated the idea, then first started, as absurd ; trium-
leanly and confidently declaring, that he should be
content to put the question to the Speaker, and to be
decided by him (being, as he is, the constitutional
eatchreee of the Commons' rights), whether the pre-
sun Was a money transaction at all, within the pur-
view of that law which makes it necessary to ongi-
tate all such is the Commons. There is such a thing
as' reckoning without your host; and here it ap-
pears that Mr. Canning did so reckon ; for the
speaker, thus appealed to, declared his opinion that
the clause in question was of such a nature as to ren-
thine the
Ri Lords dits irregular and illegal."
deNowr its
Sir, origination
said
paesnsedeminaan,Hwohuaset
passed on the occasion alluded toon,
as full as at present, and I can confidently and tri-
mphantly put it to your recollection, and that of the
.lembers who then attended, whether the manner in
-hick I stated any sentiments, the expressions which
I used, and the tone in which I made the appeal,
'ere not the very reverse of those here described ;
sail whether any man who heard me could, without
doing
it falsely, perversely, and malignantly, convey
to the public the representation which I have read.—
can not only rest the matter on the impression of
fee House, but I can appeal to you whether, from
Fie esas communication on the point at issue, I had
not good reason, at the time when I put the question,
forbelieving what was your opinion and whether, so
fax from entertaining a confident hope of eliciting
iittn the chair an answer contrary to what was given,
Ihelnot a perfect anticipation of what that answer
tonld be. It is not my intention to found any fur-
ther proceeding on this subject. I think it enough to
irk pointed out the misrepresentation, in order to
iodece greater caution in fu
that great good must and ddoese
result
from the publi-
am of opinion,
cation oif the proceedings of r
this. HI
oust:, in whatever
drape reported, or through whatever
channel ob-
tained; but it is not too muc to. require in those who
to the m
communicate thempublic, a respect for truth,
teanlderaatle., attentionto correctness ; and it is not to be
that they should impute motives or repre-
sent conduct without the least shadow of fact lor
their siammeets.
etulcacle
yStouPEchAKon Say thing tliat though he could not without great
in which he was personally con-
seined, lee owed it tothenliouse and the Right lion. Gentle-
r:4) o nb a
it st a aupzcal, w ben
ea:ifirm every thing which he (31r. Can-
er a question arose about the forms of the
lasi, on whi:h, f^
.situation, he might be supposed to
Lilinipver onpasir4tHe
..h7thigiougat it due from him to communicate
*of eith:r tide whoto the
h House, or to any individual Mein-
teeoliwx, 0:11„11rnak asked . e the appeal to him. He had,
the. Right lion. Gentleman his
o;entioleci kite him pr.- :ously to its being stated to the
,roactart,uteland.he waula hay, d, so to any other Member • coo-
',, by concealing his ,
pressions on niatters of form
4:le LI Member, Le druid be doing what was neither con-
txrat with cuunts• or r.ght---(llear, hear).
as the name of the Newspaper alluded to.
t _ Times.
.lal
rsU
e distant f
GillMeonctered in the statement, that nothing
„,:!!.°!t_ tease ram a tram representation of what had
ban t e conunent weice had been read. He had a
kt. realiettion the circumstances, and could say, that
the Right line. Gentleman delivered isle &en-
st en Sul, a&d in the appeal to the Chair, were
6:Teti ,
a-ted. was glad to hear from the Right' Hon.
h_nor_
discussion
admission of the benefit to be derived
;z7editillistke Tin and the unrestrained publication of what
House; but _comments of the sort alluded to
o'revr,
.inauc,curate, macs to be reprobated. He him,
son to be dissatisfied with similar comments on what.
47 ivtdi though he always felt reluctant to complain. On a
i:4r 11, be was slid to
rethave:d i made an attack on
r ?aid tben hav,. a great Law
; whereas it would be in
1%1 ..,‘‘4,Lect
_don of the Hoban, that what were called the attack
-.71.1f sLett. :tn.:lat.:l:act:reel to different things, and that neither
"t7,me4ltanno .r existed; he speaking of the Cour, in the
lx*tte'etce-. of
_thre character of the individual at the head of
tANNl,!seii,:itnhe converiltion dropt.
revicluGg
tht tiona.qustion put to turn by Lord
anza, m Papers relative to