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THE BIBLE CLASS BOOK or, Scripture
goading* tor every Day in tf-e Year : being Three Nun
alre..l auJ siaty-five Lemmas edect-d front the toast neeruetive
and improving pane of the Sacred Seripturea. A4.ipted t the
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••• 'I h.: promiscuous and indiscriminate use of the fli:riptures,
or reading the Bible regularly through and through, as it is (Alta,
has been 11.1%rurrally and justly objtctrd to, that s judicious wire-
' noes of the tustructive, improving, and imps estire parts—preserv-
ing a perfect barmony through the whole, and °minisg such
portions only as are richer repetitions, or panne. dilli:utt to he
unitistarl by unintormed muds, is a work that in the present
enlightened practice of education, has been Inns cslied fur to
Schools and Families. It is the (Alert of this volume, to restore
Bible Reatilw; to us former dilly ode its Schools, and to tinpilix
not a.:y Citilarer, hut Parrots and Serrotts, with a book ad tuc.l
to common cap:it:des. Is is suited to every. dt.inminaton
eltristiatis; because it is the Bible, plsinly speaking tut itself,
without comment or remark. . _

1.4int1(4.: Primed kr Lackington and Co. Fineoury-fiquare;
Losllpya.: and Co. :•.iterrioskr.tow ; and 1.3 w and WhinAker,
Age

A NEW s rRAND GHOST.

AS pensive I sat in my evening chair,
In my musings my fancy was drawn
'Yu my Lalf worn eiut boots—they no looer would bear.
Wit w ere rough, and decayed. and hoofed
When s:.:delea briore me a Gnu:. r seemed to rise,
Arra)'d us sul•erlative Mom ;
And m hi!. 1 gaz'd round me in .dent turprize,
hr radiance enlibliteticd the moons.
Ih fcrai was a Boor, and its soft jetty hue
hi lustre surpassed the rich ray
Of the bright solar brans that Jodi dazzle the view
F.re it rzeeettt it, splendour away!
Twin, " Whence and what art thou, bright vision ?" I cried,
' Arai *liefetc.rt Thus ColStr3t thou beret"
V' he” the Choet of the Boot mildly speakiug re;•1Ie
'• That thy boom tray L•s beauty appear 1
" Once, like those thou wcarest, my form was decay%
No jet had my surface to boast;
My grain was destroy'd and no lustre diaplay'd,
Its polish—its beauty was lost
" Yet still I no censure attribute to you—
Ail the skill you possess'd yea had tried;
BLehm. ynu tisud cucld restore my lost hue,
'1 ho' with diligent labour applied.
" But thus to instruct you I come from the grave
Asray'dlny beau.y sli,noss;
To testis you the sloe. of.' my brethren •o save,
Aud to make their b!oorti equal to mice.
Theu baste thee to WA's a a N Maths: It is
'I hat •lave wilt suet lifitre display;
• .00 Bioaipz in goodness i; eq•;al to his
..bor such Hatless and jet can convey t'
'Po above truly inestimable BLACKING Is prepared by
•
• er,( e r
And NO by most Boot•r.:akers, r:rucers, ironmougerr, flrcsh-
makeiv, Pertumere, &c. us etcry I own to ese
. •in stone tsoetscs, tio. )(O. qud i t:.. a.
Ask. toe 11ei.K1CL 1113..kiiv

iliat in the lire disturbances in etme of the IVlanit'attniring
Districts, It isnot even pritrtiled char Any vrio•ss of wriitlit or
comerittrore in society have had the lease concern, and no :tat.
vitiu,4 of t unit powion, or eat .11.1 it inflotence, is even rocostid i•e
treason; hiit t':e few vitiatel persons concerned therein v..ouid.
on the ram!, appear to Lave nt.cos entrapped and coaed on to
at s of riot and outface, b. the artful machinations of iiir4
'pies and tilonntrs sys.em which we regret to see resorted 'v,
and which coign*: beauirmieutly held up to kntPc odium osi4
tis &don, a. abhorrent to and subveinve of ihr ptiticiples of the
Batt& el, • Est sit•tti. •

Your Petifiutiers. therefore, most respectfully but earnestly
implore and earreat your Honourable House uct to ttiffsr this
palladium of lkitlsb iihs•rty to be farther titspenitca on ..geb
weak and frivolous prime 114 but that a privilege so titllf to tho
feelings of "lusty Eugh.itotti.us, may ituniesiistely be rsstured t 3
Its t• fore, sna vigour.
Wo:or l'cri:looers thernore, must humbly pray your Honours
alder Huns., that the Hill stow piton% lit s'Ariostoutit for the for-
flier 311.1prMidto of ik.. Hal,cas 'orpu% may not he •uffen:d
to pa s tut.. a law ..n :My pretruce, or wider any m.,Jiftrarion what..
And your Petitioners, as tit duty bound, shal ever prity....ics
Itt-olvesl uniniotoutly— I hartbe Pet Won be sent to the Cur.
ittlititor, to wait on our itepressnratives. to euquire if
(hi y wall or will not support the Pethion of their Constituents;
311,1 ttia shotiLl they refuse to. do the same, that he initnesharety
rtiskir to Lord Ossuiston and -dor 1,10.14. Mr. Buonet, Tripes:mg
ditto to present the

•
Re.4llvr.l (isiksti a ihvision of tt: to 38)—That should our Re-
prroroit.vives think 1k tem to Slippf oft the above Peritiou that they
wUI hi Wore be cutwid_re4 uoworday thr rostfidence of their
t'oewrit ti:ttet.

R.-solved unanimously— rbat the Resolutions and Petbkn be
4.lvvri 1.4b1141,i1l Ler NlNUirAllt. l'yur Mrtcury
and licrwick Adveriawr.—by order of Ladd.
MARK JAMESON, lessen nork.

kit All PlldaYliNfED.
110 coonterict the min, attempts that are daily
itrutr rt. iglivise OA the on wary a spurious compo.K.ot
.f v 4 till. Gelllllllle Eli. s.ittg prepared by Day and Ntif ei.•l
art to adopt a iow I. awl, in which their addre.a„
;07, iiiill Holborn,
I+ ithred Cllll4l.irimitsti, that 'Ley trust an attention to OA,
.tint the dithrenee it the type, which is unlike all letter-peas,
wail enable purelsveri at once to detect the loscosirlon. The
heat 1....0t BLACKING, MA •C by DAY and MARTIN, 97,
high 11..tturii, will iu future b.: Buhl in Bottles at 64. ls. ash'
iq. ud...!seb, WIJ a espy of the t.atei left with a.I Venders,
DAY Ati MAR CDC High !labor&

11%A I.111"3 GENUINE CAIthIINAI'IVE is
cup.stior to all other remedies lot the witt.l, purutugs earn.
entsions auJ Iho>a .U.nt.lets In the etonrecla al 4 tAJWCII Of
intants which prove foal, to 4n niaoy tinder the 27. e of two years.
It is e,lualy et1ic.104.414 in cholies flutes att.& miter conspLunis in
the t:i eithtese ries is pi eons.

Thi. itsvAltisbir C. 11.1 44 ta •Jleine, invented by the late Mr.
10-eph Bally, Apo Leary, ii mum prepared by his J.:tighter.
Aft 4 i'flllet.4 and her son.. to whom b4.4psearhest
thin , by kis will. It 14 Said only by F. New tt.ey and
Soto, tit the uldsestahlisc.l %Var. house, h 144.45, the Fast li.Ml of
9t. Paul' the third boo from price is. 9.1. a bottle;
but if pit/eared elsewhere. be aut.• to a.k tic " GcU's Dolby's
Carminative.? and see that the Mink' " NeWherb" is etiravcri
tia the smupe.

LOCK AND SUNDICAL DIii)ENSARY.
Hithneis the Duke cC l'Oßri, President.
Sutc Kialisan.A.t.msbes ui the:(oyal CoI es I Amdcm.
G4ll:llll4Jalli—Farl ui F. jrt•tett, s.st Leitrim. Hun. (.‘!unel
I. Pkrry. JeLst I:lunette. M.P.

THE Royal riiSl Noble P.tritsts Ot the above IN.
S fit UTION, ler the exelusi.• 42 Treatment ofVF.NEREAL
ejAipLAIN f'3, and tbeir dangerous cotnewittences, In ordvr to
nbattre the beneits that ft see t snaked from It, selected Mr. xt. r.
'ran as its Sureetm, (standing htyn on the Ust of the !loyal co:Itio
renal baying directed hiss:A:et Ittenticn to tkose diseases.
K:crnan contras. tt a part DI bla otlicial duty to caution el e
public, by pointing to the Liu ut the Royal Cancer, publis:nd
.rt February. !Mit!, as the only sure gate" and :hat no memos
of ammine nth tutee, and publtcly advertiling
Vrlll.(,Ut be'ng sa:::.tinned by this list, are to be credited. The
oust reports of tbe lack Dispenary prove :kat some of :he
mos: dargvsous VMS oi sorts:um*, Debtlity, and other stiprosti
I,:ntrable aTact 'min of the Genert.tve Organs have been here rt.
and succestfully treated.
Mr. I.:yr:tan may be cott.ulttal as usual. by ;mth Seers. at H.
liol.-e, =l, 1.1)Ort CkAT:tate•s:r:yt, Betl:prat-..iyarv, where
•_Er. From I own mid Cout4ry art: to be a441•r0.0i, and :he retT/-
w.ry a•lvtor antlmedictne attli he r yrn,.9r iwel“, to at.y pars o, the
United Kingdom.
r.tbutbed, pear to. ^.l Ey!'tfor, Pyre:kat flsestrastott ~s
:st,„yc b. 1-v:sus a^t raj be !at, b.:, ;
• la:stuossetou w, . v, ;:rurr.:scau:t, Soto.

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PARLI.I.4IEATAItr PROCI.E.DM4B.

HOUSE OP LORD 4, HINE 26.
The Order of the Day, respecting those !Blues upon whicli their
Lordships were sun .ed. b. ine read, •
The Earl of LAIrDLP. Us E eseressed Ids surprise at the',
thinness of the House, and his hope that the Noble Earl would
tint, m such an anemia, c pre.s the stcond reading of Bills,
fraught with such inapor aiii etinseiitiennes.
The Earl of LIVER •;101. calki to the recollectiam of the
House that it was the Noble Earl opposi.e mid some of his
friends that had Steil this very Jay for ihe di-ecs-ion of the
Bill !r. After the lone notice winch had bee,, given, he felt it
Its duty to propose the secosid read.lig th:s .vennq the discus-
•.nyi of the subject, !weever, it desired, may be postponed to
•!rol:er stage.
Lord ERSKINE regarded the ciliestion as one of great Inept-
r.o:te, as going to offset powers which bad been vested in add ea-
Erclsid by the Crown ter centuries. Would it be for tipo honour
of. the House to thseuss it in such an ale:lda:lse ? At any sate lie
thought the discusaion should take place oo a future stage, as on
the quest' for going to a Committee.
The Earl of "AVM( POOL regained it as a consideration o'
diity to urge rouse progress in the bill dye evening. tit eve,
perfectly wiling re torego, for the accommosheion of Noble
f.ortis, the delivery of any -perch on his pit that vVening, on
the understuding that the discussion el oust take place on a sub-
bNpient -rage,
Ihe Bill, were then severalty rea the second dole, and com-
mitted fur Monday as above.—Adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, 'EINE 25.
TaANSUSSraarrtav iota, lociLtTisous wusiseir.
General !HORN lON ruse, pursuant to nonce, to move for
leave to bring in a BiU to repeal such parts of the Acts of the
twrn. y fifth and thirtieth years of the reign of King Charles the
Second, as required declarations, in certain cues, to be made
against the belief of transubstantiation, anal asserting the vior,hip
of the Cbweh of Rhine to be idolatrous. He stated that the Acts
in questilas had beets made at the end of the rain of Charles
tt,t Second, when the Duke of York, the next heir to the Crown,
was a declared Omsk', and when 'the country was agnated by
nl9lOllO. us Popish plots Bishop Wooer, in the History of his
own rinses, stated, that while examination: were going use, and
peparvioti was making for the trial of the prisoner% a Bill was
brought into the House of Commons, requiring all Members
of ethics House, and all such as might come into the King's
Coe.rt, or pi esetice, to take a test against Popery, in which see
0:.ly ransubstautien was renounced, but the worship of the
Vs' gin Mary and the Saints, as it was practised in the Church of
benw, was declared to be WO:amour,. 1 Ilia passed in the I
this: of Commons without any dilh•ulty. Bat in the House of
Leads, Gunning, Bishop of Ely, maintained that the Church
ar kunte was out idolatrous. 'lle Lords did not much mind
Coiatiing's arguments, but passed the Bill. Am' though Guo-
hing bad raid that be could oot take that test with a gaud
storm:cher, )et as soon as she Bill was passed, he took it in
the crowd wish the rest. .1 he General said, his motion was
rot to interfere with the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and
shjuretion, which would remain in tiNCe, and which be tasougla
would be a sufficient security to the Protestant iuterew. The
in present seemed to la to be a proper tone for the repeal of
Inure laws, as there nu longer existed any political neces-
sity for them. He thought it was hard on Prowstams, to
make them declare the worship of the Church of kome to
be idolatrous, as most of those who were so called upon, he
coticeived, did mint know enough of the subject to be satisfied
of the truth of the di. claration, and some might know it to be
an unfounded eafumny. It was for another reason a proper time,
as there was at present no clamour amongst the Catholics, whits
had formerly been thought a sufficient fcaSoli for out putting
any thing to them.
Mr bLAKE.secwideil the motion.
Lord CAS I LEK EAGH was not disposed to provoke any dis-
cussiou then upon the ruhjsct. lie thought it would be more
expedient to postpone the consideration of the measure to ano-
ther Session, and should thertiore move the previous question,
which was carried. _

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JINNI 26
Sr J. CHETWOOD withdrew hie IT di for the Better ate*.

very of Small Oasts.
Lord PALMERSTON brought up the Report of the Esti.
mates of the Expense of the Milii:a.—Ordered to be referred to
the Committee of supply.
Sir .1. NICHOL moved the third reading of the Clergy Resi-
dence Bill.
After a short objection from General THORNTON, the Bill
was Men read a third time and passed.
Mr. BROUGHAM res.:lla a Petition from a person named
&Olean. now a pauper in Mounratreet workhouse. who hut
been in his Majesty's Navy from a boy, and had suffered most
dreadfully front numerous wounds. It appeared that he could
not get the pension to which lie was entitled, on account of his
being unable to procure a anon ticket. He was sorry to say
that this poor man had bean treated in a very improper manner
by curtain persons at the Atittairahy, whom be should not name—
a manner which common humanity repuptd at.
Sir G. WARREN DLit wished the Honourable Member bad
informed him of hislutention to bring up this Petition. He was
rot aware of the particulars, but he would assert. that every at-
tention was paid to the cases at sick and hurt seamen by himself
and his eut.easues. when they applied at the Admiralty. He wait
quite certain this person had been guilty of some gross misrepre.
IbClPation. There was a rule Maven by the law, which it was nut
In the &attics of the Officers of that department to meet!.
The Petition was biougut up, read, and ordered to be on
the tale.
Mr. I IllilblEY wished to postpone his Financial Resolutions,
at the at the Right lion. Gentleman opposite. At presort
be maw Tueeday.• He then moved the substance of his
Resolutions, eontainimg, as musk the amount of the National
Debi, thedincome and charge, the deficiency. dtc. &c. as 'muslin
the Budget. He trusted the Right Hon. Gentleman would have
no objection to have them printed.
The Resolutions being read Irian the Chair,
CHANCELLOR of the EXCH4QUER thought the
bete* way could ice to move that the farther debate on these
Resolutions be ai:jouniril till Tuesday.—Agreed to.
rittes lifoNt.Y.
Mr. BENNETT, seeing the Noble Lord' in his
pl,cr, Was dedircus of receiving from him some ex-
planation of the reasons upon which it had been de.
ci:'cd that medical men who happened to be em-
pl,,yed in the duties of their profession at Brussels, or
other depots of solArs, sick an wounded,. in the
cdn,paign which led to the second capture of Paris,
were not entiaed to a share of the prize-money, re-
taking from that short campaign, although other,
persons who bad not been engaged, either directly or
indirectly, in the victory of Waterloo, or who had
only joined the army on its rook to the French capi.
tal. had been considered to be entitled under the
P:ise Acts. What could be the cause of this unjust
reference he could mit conceive, and he begged the
N ble Lord would of lige him by giving saint
moon to the House upon the subjEct. He had been',
surprised to filed that Officers serving and cu-ope.
rating in the operations of that campaign in the Ne-
therlands—such, for instance, as those gafrisoning
the city of Antwerp, and others in the neighbourhood
of the places where those decisive actions at Quatre
Bras and Waterloo, were found—were not permitted
to share, as it had been expected they should.
Lord PALMERSTON should have felt a plea-
sure in affording the information required, had he
been by any means made acquainted previously with
the intention of the Honouralsle Member, to put the
question in the course of this day. It now came upon
hfraphe confessed, altogether unawares; and he must
my he reluctantly withheld the desired information,
bemuse, in point of fact, he was not prepared to
speak decidedly upon the grounds upon which their
application had been refused.
CAST OF title. WI2OLEIL.
Sir F. I:II.IRDETI' said he rose for the purpose of
calling the attention of the House to a Petition which
be Ii in his hands, involving in it cuesiderations
Of the highest importance. The individual by whom

that Petition wits slentel, had exper!enced great suf.
ferings and privations, owing to the mar, to say the
least of it, of the Judge before whom he had latelybeen
tried.. It was from Mr. Thomas Woeler, the author
andelinter of the publication called The Marl Dwarf,
at present in confinement in the Kiag's Bench Prison.
The Petition stated the number of hardships which
this Mr. Wooler had undergone. In the first place,
he was taken up and committed to prison on an It
!fide information filed by the Attorney-General, and
he thus underwent a considerable punishment before
he was br aught to trial. In the next place the Pe-
titioner stetted that two ex eine Informar;ons had
been filed against him. - When he wa.; brought to
trial, it was impossible for him to know on which et
the infrumAttoub he was first to be tried ; of course he
mild not he so well prepared with his defence, as,
under other circumstances, he might have been.
And it so happened that on that information which
was km filed, fie was contrary to his expectation, first
brought to Erie'. In the trial again of this informa-
tion so much irregularity had taken place on the part
of the Judge, in voicing the verdict, that he had put
the individual tried in a very extratirclinery predica-
ment. The Judge had received the verdict before
the Jurymen were all us Court. He (Sir F. Burdett)
happened to be in Court at the time, and to be sitting
on the same Bench on which the Judge sat. He
could see only the Foreman of the 4ury. and it was
impossible not to see that there was some difficulty
with respect to the delivering of the verdict. The
Foreman, in answer to a question from Judge Abbott,
whether doe verdict was guilty or not ? smd, " The
verdict was guilt.; but some of us wished to say so
and so." The verdict. nevertheless, was recorded.
It was impossible that such a verdict could have been
legally received, as the Jury were not in vie* of the
Judge at the time, and nie a question was put to
them, whether they were all agreed as to the verdict?
The verdict was hastily taken without any question ;
and althoneli die Foreman did say guilty, yet he ac-
companied this with other words, which evidently
showed that there WAs a difference of opinion among
the Jurors. Some explen ation ough t to ha ve taken place.
There were such circumstancee attending the delivery
of the verdict, that it was impossible for any person
not to be aware that there was a difference of -opinion
among the Jurors. And under all circumstances, but
under those circumstances more particularly. it was
incumbent en a Judge to have had all the Jurymen
before him, and to have put the question _to them—
Are you agreed as to your verdict ? But the thing
was not done in that way, and the verdict of milky
was recorded. When the circumstance of a deer.
ence of opinion among the Jurors was first stated to
the Court, the Judge ought to have inquired if the
Jurors were or were not separated ?—and if not .se-
parated, they ought to have been sent back to consi-
der the verdict. It appeared that three of the Jury.
men were not agreed as to the verdict.--that special
reasons were given by them, on the condition that if
these reasons were not received they did not agree to
the verdict. .Of this they made affidavits, but the
affidavits were not received. And why were they not
received ? . After a great deal Of argument ha $ been
used, mush-ability had keen displayed by the Cote
sel employed on the occasion, and many peel:Oasts
had been quoted of the affidavits of Jurymen its
other times, having been received, it was decided
that they could not be received, atter a Rule for
a new trial had been gratsted.-.(Hear, hear, hear).—
Mr- Justice Holroyd, than whom he was sere a more
consciencious and independent Judge never sat on the
Bench, stated that the affidavits could not be received
atter such Rule. In this case Mr. Wooler had no
opportunity of urging reasons why the rule shiiiild
not be granted. But the Court made.the Ruleiti the
first instance, and then made the Rule a reason why
i he was deprived of that to which, according to every
principle of justice and equity, he was entitled. It
was very hard on Mr. Wooler that the affidavits of
the Jurymen could not be received, because the
court had made it a Rule, at the request of Ur, At.
torney-General,against the making of which Ride he
bad no means of urguing. But the circumstances
stated in these affidavits were heard by the bystanders
in Court. . One of the Jurymen expressed his disie
greement with the verdict loud enough to be beard
in Court. Mr.'Justice Abbott, however, foood that
he had got himself into considerable difficulty in this
Case. He had received a verdict on which sentence
could nut be passed, and at the same time lit. Woo-
ler was under confinement till he should be delivered
in due course of law ; and he could not be delivered,
till sentence was passed against him—and the verdict
at the same time was so vitiated, that no Conreeould
venture to pass a sentence on him. It wart some-
what singular that in an early part of our history the
same number of three Jurymen disagreed as to a
verdict, when the Judge proceeding to pass sen-
tence on it, he tad the misfortune to get flanged.—
This was fro be found stated in the Mirror °Elastic's.
But in this' ate the matter was carried stun farther
than was done by Justice Cambden—be put in other
three Jurors, and the case was tried ever again...bre
what was now doing in this cue ? Those twelve OM
only who first sat on Wooler Would try his came--
They were his only legal tribunal; and yet the Court
now rulpd that not three fresh men. but twelve fresh
men should betaken. Now this was a eidetic's) of
the first principle of common law, that a man could
not be twice in danger for the same offence. There
was another instance in the same invaluable book,
the Mirror, of a Judge who was so unfortunate as to
get banged—On/A—because he passed sentence in
a case where the Jury were doubtful; for, as the
I Mirror says, where there is any doubt there ought to
be an acquittal. You cannot, says Mr.Wooler, grant
a rule fur a new trial, because, if the verdict is re-
corded, no new trial can take place, thougle the ver-
dict were of such a nature that it set the Court at
-defiance. But Mr.WoOler had the indulgence of the
[
Court forced on him—(Hear, hear)—tbongh, in his
opinion, the word indulgence in a Colin of Law
ought never to be used ; for a Court could only
gent what was agreeable to justice, and they bad no
right to grant any thing that was got strictly just..
However, the Court, by way of indulgeace, 'Weevoured to impress on Mr. Wader how Ouch injury
he did himself, by allowing a verdict to• reatein
recorded against him. Mr. Wooler, however, wee
not to be shaken. Let the verdict be whnt-it wield,
lie was resolved not to accept the advice ei those' who
are said to be of Counsel fur the Psisonee—(Leezh).
Mr. Wader, however, wield not accept of the India.
Bence of the Court. The Court. however, like Squire

Western, who, when he locked his daughter tip, said,
I *ill break her heart but I will make her happy—
were resolved, notwithstanding his protesting agaihst
the indulgence, that he should have a new trial.—
'Suppose he were brought out to undergo again a new
trial before a new Jury, all his defence was already
known—he had laid himself • completely open to the
prosecutor, who might take. an unfair advantage of
it, and avail himself of circumstances which he had
formerly overlooked or neglected. Mr. Wooler was
not, therefore, standing in the same situation in Mach
he was when he Was tit st brought before the twelve
men who were sworn upon h.s trial. liader ih?se
circumstances, were he Mr. Wooler, he would posi-
tively refuse to submit tl a new trial, and leave the
Judges to act as they thought proper. lie conceived,
that standing on the verdict of contilmnation he stood
equally clear of them. These were strange and un-
usual proceedings. All this inconvenience arose to•
wards this Gentieman, and the Jastice of the Coun-
try, not from any false conduct on his part—he had
been precluded from a great many advantages from
circumstances over which he had no controul—his
affidavits had been refused in consequence of a rule
over which he had no controul—and the error in the
verdict was also owing to the ovee•hastiness of the
Judge, and not to any fault of his. It would become
the imperious duty of the House to take into conside-
ration the situation in which this subject was placed,
owing, to say the least of it, to the hasty proceeding
in the Judge ; and it would be incumbent on him to
make some farther proposal to the House on the sub-
ject, than merely moving the presentation of the Pe-
tition of Mr. Wooler. But the preliminary step was
to present the Petition of Mr. Woofer, stating these
facts. He had only further to state, t the Pets-
lion was expressed in a becoming and ighly proper
manner.

The Petition watt brought up and read. it de-
tailed at some length the hardships and inconvenien-
cies to which. Mr. Woofer had been subjected, the
ram prominent of which have been alluded to in the
speech of the Honourable Baronet (Sir F. Burdett).
He had not been furnished with a copy of the infor-
mations Sled against him, though a promise to that
purpose had been made him by the Attorney-Gene-
ral. He complained of the hardship of being obliged,
contrary to his expectation, to enter on a second de-
fence on the same day.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT thenemoved, that the
Petition do lie on the Table.
The ATTORNEY C ENERAL declared he ne-
ver was more astonished in his life, than at hearing
the assertions it contained, particularly with respect
to some mattersrelating to himself, which he declared
were totally withoet foundation. The petitioner
stated. that some communication had taken place be-
tween him ant) the Attorney Genera!, w; o had pro-
misedihim some accommodation respecting the pro-
curing a capy of the informations against him, and
that this was afterwards refused. !de-would say.
that there never had been the smallest communica-
tion of any sort whatever between him and Mr.
Woofer, or with any agent on his behalf ;—that he
never saw him till he came- into Court to take his
trial; and it he had heard from him on the subject
of a copy of the informations. his answer would have
P been, that those proceedings, must go on as all others
bed done ; be would have told him, that his applica,
' tion must be made to the Solicitor to the Treasury-
who would do in this as in any other case where a
criminal information had been filed. lie would have
told him, that, if he had pleaded, he might have had
an official copy of the information. by paying the
usual charge to the officer of the Crown. In order
that Mr. Woofer might be brought to trial as speedily
as possible, he, the Attorney General, had pressed for
the trial to take place out of course, althatigh it was
a Special Jury Trial, and thus he was not kept till
the Sittings after Trinity Term, which lie otherwise
would have been. He received regular notice of the
trial, and so far from his being unwilling to be tried
, at the same time on the other indictment, he, or his
attorney on his behalf, handed up to him (the At-
torney General) in Court, a note, demanding a tale:,
in case a Special Jury could not be formed, that he
might be tried at that hour. And now this man
presumed to say, that be (the Attorney General)
forced on the trial— (Bear, Lear)—when he might
have had an impedance over till next Term. Nay,
he (Worrier) eyen made it a sort of triumph in the
Court. that so long a pause had occurred. He was
now standing forward, not merely to vindicate him-
aelf, but to justify the law of the country, and the
mode in which justice
,was administered, and he
trusted he should satisfy toe House, that nothing had
been done but what the law demanded. The Jury
were not always perfectly in view of the Judge. but
on this occasion he would take upon himself to say,
that shofar who were not in view were close to the
✓est, alai must have heard the question put. He
would also say, that twelve persons, or at least twelve
voices, answered when the names were called. The
Foreman said the verdict was Guiltji, but that three
of the Jury wished to give their reasons for agreeing
to the verdict. The Judge's answer I will,
receive any thing that comes unanimously from the
Jury; but I cannot receive particular reasons from
particular Jurymen. What is your answer ? "f he
Foreman said, Guilty. The JuJge asked him again,
• Is that the verdict of the Jury ?" Foreman, Yes."
On which it was recorded. The second then went
on for nearly three quarters of an hour, and then,
after the Jury had gone ;. and unless his eyes very
much deceived him, after the defendant had confer-
red at the door of the Court with one of them, no
man had come forward to say that they had not
agreed in their verdi&. It was then th it the Judge
said he could not relieve him there, and that he might
make his application elsewhere: This was the law,
as laid down by Lord Hale, Coke, and every lithe;
eminent judicial writer, that a Jury, after they have
'delivered a verdict, cannot retract it. Ile described
the course subsequently taken by the Learcei Judge,
and declared be (the Attorney General) under
peculiar circumstances of the case, had called for a
new trial, that the defendant might have no just
cause for complaint. He shewed that it had lit-tn
ided by the greatest law authcrnies, that in such a
. the verdict being recorded and the Jury separa-
ted, a- trial de min must necessarily take place. At
all events, he contended, there could be no grounds
for entering a verdict of acquittal, whiter was called
for by the defendant.
Mr. PONSONBY said, lie wished to know whether
the usual question had beets put w the Jul 9 —Who

shall say fir yot: whether ti•eq
that queEtkn !
The ATTORNEY GENERAL saint, 71,.
gnestkn had been me:, as to the 31swer t
speak to it.

- Mr. PCNS014:1W—"11:. ci:-....r-e.vnte. al
toniey•ut-aerat app....3"pelec!!,; ‘.-ero.:;."—r /fear. 1.,-er,o
Lord 0 P 1111!
Attorney Genetal were correct. I:e felt qui.e at a lots
to know why a new trial was grarted, as that Ho,.
and Learre.d Genterr.an would give them to belt...,
that every thing v. as perfectly regu!ar. liewr, /VII'. 3
He felt incompetent to argi e the question a.
lawyer, but it was exceedingly twtortunate, to va
the It asr, that any accident had occurred wli-.1
might be supposed by rotre to.have an tintAvetert;,:_•
bearing towards the prisoner, in a ,:axe la vtlit.tt tr. •
liberty of the press was concerned. VrIS inott ..e-
-p.mtant to take away even the shadow of susp.ctunia.
these cases.

Mr. LOCKHART thought the Honcurable Ba=
whet (Sir Francis Burdett) from his known candour
and manliness, should not have insinuated that the
Worthy Judge was disposed to catch at a verdict .t
Guilty. The Judge seemed to him to. have acted
with the greatest fairness.

Mr. PONSONBY asked again on what grouads
the new trial had beets granted ?
• The ATTORNEY GENERAL said. that Mr.
Wooller contended either for as acquittal,. or for briny. fried Ly
the t..tme Jury. 'Ube answer was, that the Jury not being
the view of the Judge, it was no verdict ; and iltretore ther:
should be a yew trial. Ibe application fur tee same Jun• was re.
fused, because nine of thein were for finding the defend.altg..:l;ty.
Mr. BROUGHAM wished to know whether there
was any truth in the statement, that when tt.e
man for the last time was asked whether Gt.o was
the verdict ? answered " Yes," and also that I.e wa-
ded " but," mad being about to proceed, I'," !Fitly!
was taken of it. He wished to know whether "
but." was the' expression
The ATTORNEY GENERAL said lie
'yes.'He did not he.•r any other wind.
The SOLICITOR GENE Red. also said tlat r.e
neverbead the word " but."

Mr. BIWUGHAM said, :':.at he' WAS satisfied
the word had not been used, or that it ct:llit
have .come to the hearing ct th.: Honourable al
Learned Gentlema.r. lieekoped it was not true that
such a word had been utteted. It vr:s paitaul is
him to be obliged to comment upon the priceedings
of a Judge in the Court with whoni he pr,,etked, and
from whom personally he had received nnthing
civility. But as a Men'tber of that House, he had a
pa-amount duty from which he cculd net shrink.—
lie should lay entirely aside the stcement et Wean-,
be:airse it h.r was to credit the assertion of the Attor-
ney Cereral, it seemed impossible that one of &e
facts mentioned by Wooler was net false. He sired,
that he had been hurried on to the second
against his will, aryl when he was fatigued, being
without the aid of Counstt ; whereas the Attsrner.
General stated, that he had himself begged a war.
rant from him tr pray a ialef.
The ArI'ORNZY GENERAL here said, that
lie (the Attorney General) had ireended to go on,
but while be paused, a note was sent him to thi.
„effect) from tl:e defendant, or his attorney—" I de-
mand your warrant to pray a tales." He repliell,
that he should use his own discretion.

Mr. BROUGHAM proceeded. He also under.
stood, that in the course of the trial the defendant
rather took credit to himself that he was more ready
to proceed than his prosecutor: he saw nu possibility
of reconciling this statemeet with that of the akeot-
[ley General, and he should therefore leave it out rf
the question, and confine himself to those accounts re,
which nu suspicion had been thrown—he meant that
of the Judge, and that of the Honourable Baronet,
(Sir Francis Burdett) which seemed to agree wit:
it. The conduct of the Judge, after the objectica
had been made to the verdict, was exceedingly pro-
per ; but there was one part of his previous cendirt:
which he lamented, though the facts did not warrant
any charge of a corrupt motive. When there was a
difiiculty in the returning of the verdict, why did he
not take the obvious course to satisfy hirrEell that is
was heard by all ? He knew that all the enuns
were not in his sight, that it was possible all did not
&tear. He afterwards admitted that pnssibil:ty, and
the Court concurred in his view ut it. When he liii
heard that the Foremen v.iseed to give a (palled
verdict, he should have called all the Jury lets tee
Court, and should have satisfied himself that they had
all made up their minds, or have ordered them to sa-
tire, to come to that determinaeoa As to tleraitets-
tion—Who shall speak to yoe ? it WAS a mere mat-
ter of form ; it was always answered by the
who put it—ii Wire shell speak fur you ? your Free-
man ?" To which the Fetene.te gernraLy nodded
assent. It he had been satittied at the time, Ii ne
he put two qeceiocs (rertaitily :tot an usael toed:
of proceeding) ? Why did he not put the second
vestion in their hearing ? He might have Pl-1
twenty questions without any effect, it he did not
tisfy hirns.ell that :hey heard it. There was zeotle•
reason for supposing that the Juke was cot stlisfiel
with what had been done ; before any nraiec was
made, lie begen to er.scuss time me:ter in Coe::.
It
then appeared that there war serztea:g of doubt in
his mind. It was matt neve:mew uccu:•
rence had taken place in e. ea • e in which ;'.l
ty's Ministers might he soppine.: to have rote inte-
rest than the community et lv-ge ; end i: v. inec-
to he desired in rich cases, that the reette: sheatld be
fully and openly canvassed :r. rarliarree.:—:Le
fit place for such a disci:mon.
Th sowcrroit GENERA the dot':
had occurred to the mind or the •edze t: ern v.!:
1 passed subsequently, vi:. die ste:ereait 'Jr. a 0111 :
of the disagreemeat of the Jurie
Sir FRANCIS BURD:.:9:-: 'rid; rrpl:ed- I •
Attorney-General had said, th:it t!,e 10.; aQUM
brought on with no ()tiler ietente)n then to di,ere,.:
the administration of joreace. Tke Atterrey-Getee:,
had a right to rx--f.:o informations ter Leee., te•
he had no right to ebel.the Members of 4, Wl' • •
The new trill, he egain contended, was nu heeled t.O
Mr. Woofer, a-m e- .reing to Mr.
to whose :41.:thn•i•7 every man would bow, he had
that judgmert c.),;:d rot he given on 0,4
He uodetstood thet en offer had beenrtd.: to : . •
rate Mr. Wooler, if he cense to owe:
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..:..e.izance, to appeat to Veceive inclgenene• if
0., Hid he ernvicted on the new trial.
sir TRA NCH; BURDETT said this tondnet on
of the Attorney-General was very handsome,
~ro silt, V....i01er he thought should accept the offer.
Tto m• tem was agreed to.
• l'r "MON OF THE HABEAS CORVI:3 ACT.
:,1 CASTLEREAGH moved the Order of the
•io t r a Committee on this Bill.
• Ole rintiim that the Speaker do leave th.: Chair,
• .. WOK NEY said, that lie had voted for the
13,11, because he thooght that it was necessary
vest the Government with the power of detain-
. ...lie pus iaa in custody, item whose machine-
., htte was reason lo apprehend danger to the
; but in so voting, lie never meant that any
threild be consigned to solitary confinement,
!se tinder-tood was the case with regard to
vho were imprisoned under this Act. He was
*Ltd the more adverse to this system of Altai},
~tfinement, because he had the assurance of a gen-
..msn so confined, some years since, in France, that
• confinement had a great tendency to affect the
But from an attentive review of the Reports
al tie Committees of both Houses, he could not feel
utistiol in supporting the proposition of the Noble
LerJ. The people were, no doubt, from the pres-
soe of di.tress, still very discontented; but the power
influence of the local Magistraerfemmished the
brit eld against the operation of that discontent.
Li. Bill, however, ptoposed to take away sill efficient
Nor arom the local Magistracy and cam:entre it in
I!: Gc,vernment. What then was the tendency of
i•:ch a measure When the people saw the Govern-
roe confining all power to itself, and connected
:ill such men as Castle and Oliver, while it ap-
p .toted such a person as Reynolds upon a Grand
.ry, to find a bill against those whom it thought
::epee to accuse, it was natural to apprehend that
t.e popular discontent would be considerably aggra-
Tat .d by such unjustifiable proceedings.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought, that however in-
aisposed the House might fed, in common with him-
suit, to impose any undue restriction upon the prero-
ptive of the Crown with respect to the prorogation,
the convention, or the dissolution of Parliament, still
i would be conceived necessary to provide that the
iteration of a Measure suspending the liberties of the
neople, should not depend upon the discretion of the
Crown, or its Ministers. Admitting even the neces-
esty of this measure at present, it was not to be dis-
puted that it ought not to continue for one moment
beyond the existence of that necessity, and therefore
be proposed to limit its duration to a particular pew
nod. It. however, it became necessary afterwards,
it would be competent to the Crown to assemble Par-
liament, in order to consider the propriety of the fur-
err continuance of such a measure, and from what
pissed previous to the meeting of the present Parlia-
ment, it was obvious the House could not rely upon
the proper exercise of Ministerial discretion on this
'object. For, although the danger was alledged by
Ministers themselves to be so imminent as to endan-
sor the security of the Cmistitution, and to disturb
oe peace of the country,/ they never thought of ton-
...mg the *visit= of Parliament until an unusually
chanced peiiod of the year. He would not, there-
're, trust cc the discretion of mach man as to the du-
-lion of a Bill which suspended the constitutional
i:erties ot the people, and tt would depend entirely
,p,:n that discretion if its duration should be limited
only to six weeks after the commencement or the
neat Session of l'arliament—(Hear, Hear, !wary—
It should be recollected that the Habeas Corpus Act
was originally enacted as a protection for the liber-
ties of the People against the power of the Crown or
its Ministers ;
.and therefore it was obviously incum-
bent upon the House to provide that the continuance
of the suspension of such an Act should not depend
e?on thrice/ of the Crown. 'From the year 1794 to
laul, the continuance of the suspension of this Act
was fixed by Parliament for some definite day. lii
for the first time, the duration of. the aspen-
von was limited to six weeks after the meeting of the
next Session of Parliament. But would the House
way imitate that example, and thus allow the dune-
him of such an extraordinary law to depend upon the
will and-pleasure of the Crown, for with that will and
pleasure it remained to decide when Parliament
should meet: besides, a rumour had gone abroad.
upon the authority of one of the Ministers of 0:4
Crown, that it was hi contemplation to dissolve Par-
liament after the present Session; and if so, an ex-
tended recess was naturally to be expected. This,
then, furnished an additional reason for the Motion
which he was about to submit. The prospect too of
%favourable hardest, to the failure of which last year
the Committees of" both Houses had attributed so
mach of that disturbance of public tranquillity,
which originally called for this measure, justified the
limitation which he meant to propose tb
,the House.
—But if, unfortunately loathe country, any causes
should arise tot the further continuance of this men-
are, Parliament might be convened to consider the
*abject, and to decide what was proper to be done.
After the harvest began, and the people should be
employed, he, for himself, thought that the reasons
assigned fee this measure would cease; and among
those who were the most strenuous advocates for the
measure, he never found a difference of opinion upon
this point, namely, that such a measure should ter-
minate as soon as possible. Upon those grounds he
Propesed, that it be an instruction to the Committee
Vi fit the duration of this Act for the first of Decem-
ber ne.a. Some Gentlemen who pleaded for this
znee:ure had, he observed, complimented the Consti-
lotion fur the flexibility of its character ; and be was
'Asp to find that Ministers had found it very easy. to
lend it to their peeps, occasionally. But he should
other see that Codinstution more firm and unbending
•-tor fravas sums *etas would, in his opinion, be a
4.':,re ;appropriate characteristic of that noble system.
he motion bating read, Lord CASTLEREAGH
• o and said, that the Honourable Baronet had very
orly stated bis view of the subject, but that accord-
, o to the regular order of Parliamentary proceeding,
the motion was altogether unnecessary, because it
aat competent to the Committee, without the pro-
posed instruction, to fix the duration of the Bill at
any period it thought proper. Such an instruction
seas indeed called for, only where it was deemed
Proper to introduce in the Committee some matter
:let strictly relevant. But waving the point of form,
he must object to the motion upon principles-for if
eie note of the country should be such at the period
!rated to the motion, as to fequirc the [unlit; wail-

hhonce or the Art. Le did not know that to calf
Noblemen and Gentlemen to attend Pirliamenh
front the several distrirzs in which their local in-
thieoce and personal aut!lority might be so usefully
exercised u) restore tranquillity, would not be a greater
than the cessation of the Act itselt—(Hear).—
As to the rumour of an intended dissolution at the
dux Of the Session, to which the Right H•inonrable
Baronet had alluded, he could not think it probable
that any of his Majesty's Ministers would have made
such a declaration as the Right Honourable Baronet
had stated, for such a declaration would imply an
intenerence with the prerogative of the Crown. But
this had nothing to do with the question before the
It would be obviously inconvenient to as-
semble Parliament before Christmas, and especially
so for the It ish Members ; and yet such a proceeding
might be necessary if the motion of the Right Hon.
Baronet were adopted. The provision of the sup-
plies, and the re-enactment of the Mutiny Bill, would
of course render it necessary for Path:meat In re-
assemble at such time as to render the Right Hon.
Baronet's apprehensions groundless, With regard to
the indefinite duration of the B:11. But yet he (Lord
Castlereagh) proposed to fix in the Committee 4 cle•
finite period for the duration of the Bill, not so early,
however, as the Right Hon. Baronet desired.
Sir J. NEWPORT stated, that the Minister, who
was generally regarded as the first in the Admini-
stration, had declared, that it was intended to dissolve
Parliament at the close of the present Session, and
that this declaration was made to more than vise
Noble Lord.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said that he could not
answer for the declaration of any other Minister than
himself ; but he could say, that he was not aware of
auy such declaration as the Right Honourable Bar%
net had stated.

Mr.'C. W. WYNN supported the motion,conceiv-
ing it probable that the cause of disaffection and po-
pular disturbance would cease by the Ist of Decem-
ber, and denying, that if the fat 'her continuance of
the measure became necessary, it would be either in-
convenient or unusual to assetnble Parliament before
Christmas.

Mr. BATHURST vindicated the objection urged
by Lord Castlereagh.
Sir W. BURROUGHS observed, that the oppo.
sition of the Noble Lord, and the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman to the motion of his Right Hon. Friend was
of a most extraordinary nature. They resisted the
motion on the ground that it would be desirable that
those Members who resided in the disaffected dis.
tricts should remain in the country as long as possi-
ble. Now, the country would either continue in a'
disturbed state or not. If the machinations of the dis-
affectedceased, then there would be no occasion for the
Bill beyond the time proposed—if they did not cease,
' what stronger ground could there be for calling Par-
tiament together. With 'regard to the Bill it placed
the country in a worse state than it would have been
had the Habeas Corpus A,Ct never been enacted. For
previously to the passing of that law, every man had
a right to expect that he should be bailed, if there
were any unnecessary delay in the prosecution. If'
the Bill should go into a Committee, it was his inten-
tion to propose two amendments; one, to prevent
eappersoa fires ring taken up by the warrant of
single Secretary of State. They had seen enough.
from what passed in that House, to justify theirjea-
lousy of any Secretary of State; but with respect to'
the tioble Lord at the head of the Home Depart-
meat, he could nottelp thinking that that jealousy
ought to be felt in a still stronger degree. His
amendment, therefore, would enact, that the warrant
should be signed by six Privy Counsellors, two of
whom should be the Lord High Chancellor, and ooe
of the Secretaries of State. His other amendmentsl
would be founded upon the preoedent of the suspen-'
sion of the Habeas Corpus during the American war,
when its operation was confined to treasons commit-
ted in America. In like manner he should propose
that the present law should be limited to the dis.
turbed districts, namely, the counties of Lancashire,
Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leicestershire,
with a part of Yorkshire, and the towns of Binning.
ham and Stockport.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT replied, and • strongly
condemned the unconstitutional arguments by whit
his motion had been met. In the better times of the'
country, the existence of treasonable and seditious
practices would have been thought a sufficient reason
to maim it the imperative duty of a Minister to cal 'I
Parliament together at the earliest possible period.—
Instead of looking to the advice and counsel of PAe-
liatnent under such alarming circumstances, the doc-
trine now was, that every thing was to be left to the
Executive. He maintained, however, that such a
principle was highly unconstitutional.
The motion was then negatived without a division.
After a few observations from Lord Atationr and
Mr. W. Salm, the House resolved itself into the
Committee on the Hibeas Corpus Suspension.
Sir W. BURROUGHS moved the two Amend-
ments mentioned above, both of which were negativ-
ed without a division.

knet

Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved his Amendment,
to limit the duration of the measure to the first of
December next.
Mr.WYNN wished to know from the Noble Lord
(Castlereagh), whether it was his intention to fix any
definite period ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH had no objection, iss he
wished not to give any pledge respecting the assem-
bling of Parliament without necessity, to have the
period of duration fixed to the Ist of Much next.
Mr. GURNEY wished to be inform-d whether
the persons now imprisoned under the Suspension,
were to remain in solitary confinement for nine
months more ?

Lord C AS TLE REAGH assured the Honourable
Gentleman, that every reasonable indulgence would
be extended ; but though an unlimited' access was
not allowed, their relatives or friends, either on busi-
ness or otherwise, were not now denied admission.
General GASCOIGNE. though a friend to the
measure from the conviction of its necessity, still eon-
, sidered that the lst of December, when there were
hopes of the distresses of the people being mitigated
by a favourable harvest, the best time to 6z tbe (tura-
don of the Bill. He should therefore vote for the
.Amendnient of the Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Newport).
The Committee then divided.—For the Amend,
nsent of Sir JOIAII Ntwport—Aye; 45 ; Noes, 78.
Itsjority. 33.
On our re•Adsnission, we found the Honourable

Mr. bat*. is objecting to the eitention of the Sus-
pens;on to &Inland.
Lehi FOLKESTONE observed, that as doubts
existed in the ositils of very learned and able Gentle-
men, respecting the operatioo of the M:asure, he,
who was no lawyer, wished to know whether it was
intended to extend it to Scotland; in the opinion of
his Majesty's Ministers
After a pause for some min Otes—:
Sit SAMUEL ROMILLY declared it a most ex-
traordinary proceeding, that, on so serious a measure,
his Majesty's Ministers refused to give an answer to
the question of his Noble Friffid.
Lord CASTLEREAGH did not ttink Ministers
bound to discuss the legal question, whether the late
could be executed or not in Scotlard ? From the
frame of the Bill, it was plain that it was meant to
ex• end to Scotland.
Mr. PONSONBY reviewed the reasons which in-
duced his Majesty's Ministers to ground the renewal
of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus on a Parlia-
mentary proceeding, by the appointment of a Com-
mittee of Secrecy. WAS their Report to be consi-
dered a mockery and mere form ? Was it intended
AS an expedient, to hold out to the country the ap-
pearance of a deliberative inquiry into the actual
state of the public disorders ? Or was it meant fairly
to obtain a true and candid statement for the consi-
deration of Parliament ? If the latter was its object,
then he mutt aye without fear of contradiction, that
there was not a syllable of evidence on which to im-
peach the loyalty and tressieillity of Scotland—.
llear.)—And yet the Noble -Lord new called upon
the House to suspend the liberties of the Scottish na-
tion, without fault and without crime—(Hear, hear).
lie must say, that if the Noble Lard (Castlereagh)
succeeds in his object? it will be one of the most vio-
lent measures se which an acquiescing Parliament
ever gave its assent. What avails good conduct,
freedom from crime, unimpeached loyalty, patient
resignation under aggravated dimes% it the return
which the Government shall bestow is a violation of
the dearest and most valuable rights of the subject,
and an equal punishment with the most disordered
districts of the country—(Hear, hear)?—He hoped
the House would pause before it passed that most
violent measure. _ _ _

Mr. BATHURST said it would render the inea•
sure altogether illusory, if any privileged place was
left, to which the authors of these hostile machina-
tions might retire. He perfectly concurred in the
Opinion, that there was no evidence art any disaffec-
tion existing infacotland.
Sir R. FERGUSSON rose as a Scotsman to pro-
test against this injustice of extending the measure to
his country. He defied the Noble Lord to instance
'even a solitary case of disaffection. With respect to
the apprehension that the Right Honourable Mem
bee (Mr. Bathurst) expressed as to emigration, he
believed there was little fear of the Londoners select.
ing Scotland—(New', hear):
-Lord GEORGE CAVENDISH traced the recent
disorders in Dahl/shire to the spirit of Luddism.—
To meet these disorders the present measure was not
necessary, as the jurisdiction of the Magistrates was
full; competent. In consequence of the measures of
his Majesty's Government, the' people who before
in public Meetings, assembled secretly in barns
and Methodist chapels, where they hatched their
plans of outrage. The district where the disorder
principally prevailed in Derbyshire did not extend
more than ten miles north and south, and five east
ani4 west—(Near. hear).—lt was not alone the work
of the inhabitants of this district, they had had a little
assistance from another quarter—Mr. Oliver had
been with them—(Grief of Hear, hear). —Or, as be
could not say positively it was that identical person,
at all events a person of his name, and probably pros
Cession, was active in instigating the discontent. lie
thought the Magistrates had plenty of power without
any such infamous assistance.
Mr. BATHURST egplained, and said no com-
plaint had come from Scotland against the loyalty
of the people there.
Lord FOLKESTONE condemned the system
which Ministers had adopted of including Scotland
when there was no
_ground against it, because no
single person had been taken up under the Act. Ile
reprobated the system of espionage.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw and
while excluded from the Gallery, Sir W. BUKROWIIIS
condemned the proposed measure. If it was to be
carried by clamour, then the fate of the country was
decided. _ _ _

Mr. BROUGHAM reprobated the measure; as
did also Mr. PONSONBY ; while Mr. CANNING
made a few observations in its support. A warm
discussion took place between Mr. BROIT.IIA2I, Mr.
CANNING, and Mr. PONSONBT, when, alter much con-
fusion iu the House, a division took place—
Far eausilisa; it to scotbm, 129—Against It, 48.
Lord CASTLLIMAGEI—" sir, atter what has
occurred, I think it proper to say, that I shall, to.
morrow, move the third reading of this Bah
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY brought up a Bill re.
specting Vexatious. arrests, which was read a first
time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
Mr. BROUGHAM postponed tin next Session hi: moduli fur
a repeal of the liepasoial Act.
The House having disposed of the other Orders of
the Day, adjourned at Twelve o'Clock.