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years in behalf of the People—Obis former and pre- tibe House, In a way so clear aria intelligible, that no!
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sent privatitins arid abridgments' of his personal li- one could any longer doubt it. The case of the Con-1
berty, and to assure him of our unalterable support." sort of George the First could not be a precedent ; '
(Hear)).—This was put and carried unanimously. is although he understood it to have, been much relied
Mr. H. San Tori also moved; that ~ as a proof of on, on the side of his Majesty's Ministers. She had
our•attachmenl, we do-beretry-resolve-to raise, by been imprisoned and divorced long before.the.acces-
public subscription, the sum of two thousand pounds, sion of George the FirSt to the Throne of these realms;
the amount. of the fine -imposed up9n ,Sir Francis 'she had never been known as Queen Consort of these
Burdett, and 'to pay the saßie'tti the Officer of the countries ; she had never been known to the People of
Court appointed to receive it"—(Cheers). these countries in any capacity, and he slmuld therefore
Mr. WooLza, in a speech of some length, su. contend that the exclusion of her name from the Li-
gested that the words " two thousand pounds" should rurgy could form _no precedent in this case. From
be omitted in the Resolution ; and he thought it ought the passing of the Act of Uniformity, in the time of
to be an instruction to the Committee to apply the Charles the Second, down to the present time, there
excess to the use of those deserving persons who were could not be found one single instance of the omission
now lingering in jail for political offences. from the Liturgy of the name of the Queen Consort
, - This preposition, as "not being the object of the of these realms. No precedent could be found from
Meeting, was rather• ungraciously received, as was the reign of Charles the Second, • back to the time of
an Amendment to the same effect proposed by Mr. the Reformation; but he should call the attention of
Mtu.s, and it was at length withdrawn, with an un- the House to the Act of Uniformity itself. They
derstanding, however, that if there was any; surplus, would, on reference to that Act, find that the words
the Committee should apply it in the way suggested. of it gave no power to the King or Council to omit
An Address was then read, and agreed to be pre- the name of the Queen from the Liturgy. It took
rented to Sir F. BURDETT by Mr. klostiouss and the away all discretion on their parts, and limited the
Gentlemen of the Committee. King's prerogative to the " changing or altering from
Mr. Tilet.wat.r. voted Thanks to the Chairman, time to time, and fitting the names as occasion may
and Mr. HOBHOUSE having acknowledged the corn- require;" but the Act gave no authority to omit alto-
pliment, the Meeting gave three cheers and broke up. gether any of the names inserted, and therefore he
Above 1:100 was subscribed at the doors. should contend that it was quite cor.trary to the spirit
of the Act to omit the name of the Queen Consort.—
With respect to the question of a Reform in Parlia-
ment, for which the Petitioners had prayed, he was
of opinioii that a real Reform was necessary, and
hoped it should commence in the case of the Borough
of Grampound.—The Petition was then read, and
ordered to be printed.
MACHINERY IN FACTORIES.

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 12.

Mr. Jcronsan, from the Treasury of Ireland, presented at the
Bar of the House an Account of the Fisheries of that country.
Mr. Peactionsx presented the Seventeenth Report of the
Committee on.the Affalfs of the Carnatic.
Mr. ihroont.N brought up from the House of Commons the
Longitude Amendment Billovhith \was -read a first time.
AUSTRIA AN-D, ItAPLES.
The Earl of ROSSLY N said he row, in the absence of his
Noble Friend (Earl Grey), and by his desire, to move for the
discharge of the Order of the Day on a notice of a motion given 11
by his Noble Friend to move for further information relative
to the late Circular of the Allied Powers, and the answer given
by the British Government, because since then circumstances
had 'recurred which would render it necessary to postpone the
motion for a few days longer. He alluded to the intelligence
which. had been received of the Austrian army having crossed
the Po, for the purpose of commencing hostilities against Na-
ples. lie (the Earl of llosslyn) considered that act as one which
was not exceeded in oppression, injustice, and cruelty, by any
act that had ever been done by Napoleon Bonaparte. But his
Noble Friend, before he brought forward his motion, conceived
it necessary to be in postession of facts, which, if by possibility
they did exist, might lead to a justification of the extraordinary
and violent conduct of the Allied Powers. His Noble Friend
desired him to discharge the Order which 'stood for that day,
and to move that the Lords be summoned for Monday next, on
which day he should bring forward his motion.
Earl GROSVENOR said it would not be in his power to be
present at the discussion on Monday next ; therefore he should
take 'the present opportunity of expressing his disapprobation,
and the painful feelings excited in his mind, in consequence of
the events that were reported to have taken place in Italy. Tt
wai impossible for him to avoid expressing the horror he felt at
the blood-thirsty and infamous conduct of the Austrian Govern.
ment.—An order for the Lords to he summoned on Monday
was then made.

Sir ROBERT WILSON said, he held in his hand
a Petition from the Joorneymen Ropemakers. The
Petition was signed by seven hundred persons, who
prayed-the House to make an inquiry into the dis-
tresses affecting trade in general, and their trade in
particular. They were fully aware of the overwhelm-
ing weight of taxation on exery portion of his Ma-
jesty's subjects. They tomplained of the almost uni-
versal employment of machinery, which had thrown
out of employment upwards of two-thirds of the
working classes in factories. In that particular
branch of trade to which the Petitioners belonged,
a machinchad been used which was called a Devil,
and by the aid of which six or seven men performed
the work which required no less than eighty-seven
hands before the introduction of that machinery. The
object of the Petition was to pray the House to re-
strain the too general use of machinery. The Devil
should be put in subjection to the Chancellor of the
Exchequer—(Al laugh). He then compared this coun-
try with others in respect of taxation, and said, that
industry ought to be, by all just means,. encouraged
in the working classes, for that the industry of these
classes was the best security for the stability of the
Throne and prosperity of the Kingdom.
Mr. CUR WEN said, he did not rise to oppose
the petition,_ and would have allowed the mat-
'ter to pass, if he were not of opinion that the recep-
tion of the present Petition would be giving coun-
tenance and encouragement to others of a similar
kind, a multitude of which would cover their table.
A Committee of that House had, on a former occa-
sion, given an opinion quite contrary to the prayer of
that Petition ; and the Petitioners, who had attended
that ComMittee, were obliged to confess, however re-
luctantly, that the restraining of machinery would be
injurious to the country.—Read, and to be printed.
PETITIONS.
Mr. BENNETT presented a Petition from the In-
, habitants of the town of Hinckley, in Sussex, praying
that the Queen's name might be. restored to the Li-
turgy, and that a Reform might be brought about
in that House. The Honourable Member added, that
he understood all the householder's, in fact, all the
inhabitants of the whole town, had signed the Peti-
tion. They deprecated the illegality of the late pro-
ceedings against her Majesty, from the very com-
mencement. He should not trouble the House far-
ther than to express his concurrence with their opi-
nion.—Ordereclio be printed.
Sir ROBERT HERON presented a Petition from
the Inhabitants of Albrugh, in Lincolnshire, praying
that her Majesty's name may be restored to the
iurgy. Those who had signed the Petition were
highly respectable; and he most fully concurred with,
them in the opinion that the erasure of her Majesty's
name from the Liturgy was impolitic, illegal, and un-1
just.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. BUTTERWORTH presented a Petition..from
the Barons and Inhabitants of the town of Dover,,
praying the restoration of her Majesty's name to the
Liturgy, and also for Parliamentary Reform. He
thought it necessary to observe on the gross .misre-
presentation of a few words which he thought pro-
per to deliver in that House some evenings ago. On
that occasion he did not say one nord on the ques-
tion of restoring the Queen's name to the Liturgy,
although he had been represented to have spoken in
very strong terms in its favour. The feeling in the
town of Dover was very strong takwards her Majesty.
The inhabitants sent round notice of their determi-
nation to Petition that House to have her name re-
stored to the Liturgy, and the Petition was . then
drawn up and signed without any public excitement.
The majority of 101 on a question lately discussed
in that House, the Petitioners assigned as a decided
reason, in their opinion, for the necessity of a Reform
of Parliament. To the commentaries in .the public
Papers, on both sides of the question regarding the
Queen, they felt the greatest repugnancy ; and they
prayed that House to unite in voting an Address to
the King, to insert her name in the Liturgy.
Mr. B. WILBRAPAM approved of the manner
in which the Petition was brought in, and of the:
spirit of conciliation which the Petitioners recom-
mended.—Laid on the table. •
BIRIHINGIIASI PETITION. •
Mr. LITTLETON said, that he also was misun-
derstood on a fOrmer night. In adverting to whet''
fell from him on the occasion of the Pinition from'
,I3irminghani,•he thought it only necessary to say,'
that what.he ventured to suggest then was,.a tax on
income arising out of landed and funded property.
He was anxious for the preservation of the national
faith as far as possible.
Mr. CURWEN was unwilling to trespais on the
time and attention of the House; but he trusted lie
might be excused if he should ask their indulgence,
for a few rucaneuts, as he was as anxious AS any oilier,

DISTRESSES OF TM COUNTRY.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN said, that as a Committee
was to be appointed, on Friday next, ►o take into consideration
the state of our foreign trade, he should move that the Lords be
summoned for that day.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he did not rise to make
any opposition to the motion; but he thought it very material
that some circumstances relative to the internal state of the
country should be laid before the House. When, on the day
the Birmingham Petition was presented to the House, be made
some observations respecting the agricultural distresses of tke
country, he did not ascribe those distresses to any one particular
cause. He bad indeed stated, that they were chiefly occasioned
by an excess of production ; and the Noble Marquis expressed
his belief that they were owing to a diminished consumptiftn.
They must be occasioned by one or other of these causes; and it
was his intention to make a motion on Friday next, the object
of which would be, to have documents laid before the House,
that should serve to throw considerable light on the subject.
The Earl of DARN LF.Y hoped that the Noble Earl would
have no objection to lay before the House an account of ail the
sums of money that had been incurre4by the proceedings against
her Majesty the Queen.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said he had no objection to lay
before the House the accounts since the year 1817.—The House
then adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Mr. JOHNSON appeared at the Bar of the House with certain
Papers from the Office of the Chief Secretary of &ate for Ire-
land, connected with the Commissioners of Irish Fisheries.—
Laid on the table.

A person, from the Bank of England, brought up the Papers
moved for en a former day, containing an account of the total
weekly amount of Bank Notes in circulation. Laid ou the table.
PAREHOUSL brought up from the proper Office, the 17th
Report of the Carnatie Commissioners.-4-Laid on the table.
Mr. BEA UMONT postponed his motion on the conduct of
Sheriffs, to.Thunday, the 22d inst.
The LORD ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND gave notice,
that on Thursday next he should move for a Committee of the
whole House, on the subject of the Regulation of Courts of
Law in Scotland.
Mr. N. A. TAYLOR wished to know if the Court of Ex-
chequer was to be referred to their consideration?
The LORD ADVOCATE replied in the negative.
On the motion of Sir G. CLk.RK, the Longitude Bill was
read a third time.

Mr. GOOCII gave notice that he would, on the Ist of March
next, move for a Committee to inquire into the Distresses of the
Agriculturalists.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT expressed ►is dissatisfaction with
the conduct of certain persons in office, who were so dilatory in
producing before that House, papers which bad been ordered by
the House. He alluded to Papers connected with the First
Fruits' Office, and with the Account of the Supply of Stationary
to the Public Offiees in Ireland. He moved, that a Return of
the same be made forthwith.—Ordered.

Lord J. RUSSELL postponed to the 27th March his motion
relative to the Military Oar*: on the Meeting at Kilmainham.
Mr. WESTERN moved, that there be, laid before the House
an Account of the Quantities of Corn-wash distilled in this Coun-
try, from the Sthof July, 1789, to the Sth of July, 1820. Qrdered.

THE QUEEN.

Sir WILLIAM LEMON presented a Petition from
the Inhabitants of the Parish of Lydiard, in the
County of Cornwall, praying that the Queen's name
might be restored to the Liturgy.--To be printed.
Mr. Sergeant ONSLOW presented a Petition from
the Inhabitants of the Town of Griildford, in the
County of Surrey. The Petitioners declared their in-
violable attachment to the House.of Brunswick, and
to the Constitution and fundamental laws of the
realm, and prayed the House to institute an inquiry
into the causes of the present depressed state of Trade
and Agriculture. They also prayed for the restora-
tion of- her Majesty's name t,o the Liturgy, and for
Parliamentary Reform. The Hon. Member could
not understand the arguments which had been used
by his Majesty's Ministers, in defence of theirlonduct,
in erasing her Majesty's name from the Liturgy. He
was always of opinion that the erasure of the name
could not be justified on any grounds;and he now
thought, after all that had passed, that the continuance
,of the omission of it was highly culpable. The ille-
gality of the measure had been already proved before