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heard at the Bar in support of the Petitioe
The House then divided upon this motion—
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Adjourned until to-morrow (this day).
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
At half past three, the House was summoned to the House
of Lords, to hear the Royal As.ent by Commission given to
sundry Bills.
A 'Message from the Lords announced their Lordships assent
to the British Fishery Bill, the Alien Bill, Tomkines Lottery
Bill, Scotch Distillery Bill, Spirits Intercourse Bill, Post Horse
Duties Bill, Irish Insolvent Debtors' Bill, and other Bills.
A new Writ was ordered to be Issued for Heytesbury, in the
room of Colonel A'Court, who has accepted the office of Stew-
ard of the Chiltern Hundreds.

The Lords' Amendments to the Ells for altering the Penal
Laws were agreed to.
Mr. Woonaoors, from the Fleet Prison, laid certain Accounts
betbre the House. '

ADJOVRNMENT.
Lord CASTLEREAGH gave notice, that on the rising of
the House to-morrow, he should move that it adjourn to Mon-
day, the 41st of August.

LIBEL UPON THE QUEEN.

. Mr. WETHERELL rose to call the attention of
the House to a paragraph in Flyndelfs Western Lu-
'-minary. Hetvould read the massage to which he al-
luded to the House :—" Shall a woman, who is as
notoriously devoted to Bacchus as to Venus—shall
such a woman as Would, if found .on our pavement,
be committed to Bridewell and.whipped, be held up
in the light of suffering innocence?" He thought it his
duty to take this step, because it was impossible for
the House to pretend to be ignorant of the nature of
the Bill which had recently been introduced in an-
other place, or of the severe punimeft whikh, if it
were passed into law, it would inßict upon.her Ma-
jesty. The paragraph to which he alluded was one
cf the most gross attempts which he had ever wit-
nessed to pervert the course of justice, as itdeclared,
in the most offensive terms, that the Queen was actu-
ally guilty of the charges which had recently been
preferred against her. It was true that the proceed-
ing pending elsewhere was not in strictness a judicial
proceeding ; but it could not be denied that it was
an act of one branch of the Legislature connected
with a most solemn and extraordinary judicial in-
quiry. Being such, it might also be brought before
them : and therefore the House was,. as far as re-
garded it, to all intents and purposes a Court of Law.
Now, if a paragraph had appeared in any publication,
reflecting upon the lowest and most subordinate sub-
ject in the realm, in the same manner that this shame-
less paragraph did reflect uppn the most exalted sub-
ject in it, the lower Courts would deem it their duty,
supposing that the honour and character of the indi-
vidual thus assailed were to be on trial before them,
to punish the author of such paragraph for wickedly
attempting to bias the minds of the Jury and to de-
stroy the freedom and impartiality of justice. Would
then that House, acting as the High Court of Parlia-
ment, fail to exercise those judicial duties which its
situation entailed upon-it, and which every other
-Court would feel itself imperiously called upon to
exercise under similar circumstances ? Would they
allow those insinuations, which would be severely
punished if made against the meanest individual in
the country whilst under trial, to remain unnoticed
when uttered against the highest ? If they did, they
would not be acting with that even-handed justice
which it became them, above all others, to observe
upon this particular occasion. It was impossible for
him to put the motion which he intended to make
upon this subject into proper form by to-morrow;—
but he trusted that the House would not suffer this
attack upon her Majesty, which he conceived to be
equally an attack upon the privileges of Parliament,
to pass without severe animadversion when it should
meet again after the adjournment. Indeed he could
wish that what he had just been paying should be
considered, and stand as a notice of motion upon this
subjects for he should certainly move, after the ad-
journment, " That the House do give instructions to
his Majesty's Attorney and Solicitor-General to file a
criminal information against the Proprietor and Edi-
tor of Flyndelts Western Luminary, for the gross and
scandalous paragraph Which it had lately contained
against her most gracious Majesty Queen Caroline—
(The Hon. Gentleman sat down amid loud cheering).
Mr. TIERNEY asked the Honourable Member,
whether he could not lay the.paragraph in question
upon the table that evening, and afterwards give notice
of such motion as he contemplated for to-morrow ?
Mr. WETHERELL was not prepared to take this
step : he had not a copy of the Paper in question at
that time in his possession.
Dr. LUSHINGTON suggested, that the Paper
could be procured either in the coursref that evening
or of to-morrow.

Mr. WETHERELL then gave notice of the above
motion for to-morrow.

1.--attempie4 to make a speech, was fordbly seized
,aiigied 'so hliiigate„ , The Petition in cons*.
of these charges, called an the House to in-
.: into the conduct of the High S'leriff, of tl'e
igistrates of Police, and of the Horse Police, v..1.0‘e
-frrence was hostile to the freedom of Electier.,
as hurtful to the feelings of the Roman Ca.
population.
the motion that this Petition be laid on the table,
ABERCROMBIE expressed a doubt whetil(3.
of its allegations did not bring- ir within the de.
'scription of an Election Petition, such as ought to
be referred to the Committee to. whom Mr. Grattan's
Petition had been sent.

Sir GEORGE HILL, on behalf of the Govern.
ment of Ireland, affirmed that the alleged grievances
had not been brought under its notice, which, if they
had, would imnrediately have been legally investi-
gated, and if found true, redressed. He larnentei!
the bitter party-spirit which had prevailed at thi.
Election, and which this Petition seemed frArned to
perpetuate, while every good man must wish them
consigned to oblivion. A Right Zion. Baronet bad r',l
a former occasion brought forward a statement un-2ed
on what appeared in. the Dublin Evening Post, into
whichinquiry had since been made, and the male;
was ascertained to be entirely a fabrication.
presumed, might he some of the outrages des::ibM
in this Petition; and he cautioned the House ag:iiiist
attaching the same credit to them a• if they haJ ben
sustained by an offer of proof to support them. 'flier
might have been can ied before the proper tribunal,.,
and if redress had been refused, then the House uvula
have had reason to interfere, but this course had not
been taken, and he viewed the Petition as an Elu-
tion ebullition, calculated to keep alive animosities
that had far better he buried.
Mi. CALCII.AI7T said, that the Honourable Gen.
tleman's mode of getting rid of this Petition, arid the
transaction upon v.-hich it was founded. would not
succeed ; for there was an Election Petition already
before the House, which would bring the s
ter to light. The Honourable Baronet had laihented
the existence of party-spirit in this Election, and
seemed to have forgotten that it existed the mou vio-
lently amongst those with whom he was connected—
he meant that violent faction, the Orange faction
(Hear). The Honourable lilaronet had likewise said,
that no communication of these outrages had beia
made to the Irish Government ; but it was not tp.i!e
clear that, that Government did cot take an arti7e
part in exciting them. Party violence certainly
existed more on the side with which the Honourable
Baronet wasconnected than on that of the Petitioners,
whom he had blamed for it.

Sir GEORGE HILL explained. He neither w.l;,
nor ever had been, an Oiange-man. He was
to allow, that there had been very great and unia::-
fiable party-spirit on both sides.
Mr. BERNAL should move that the Petition be
printed, in order that Honourable Members might be
able to judge of its merits, which they could not
otherwise do, on account of its extreme length. Ile
shOuld do this, because if any Military had Intel ferod
in the Election, the House was bound to proceed im-
mediately with the Petition, and not to wait for the
result of that presented against the Election.
Sir GEORGE HILL said, that no Mili.ary had
been employed except the Horse Police, and for no
other purpose than that of preserving the peace.
Mr. TIERNEY said, that in the present state of
the House and of the Session, it was quite clear that
this matter could not be taken into consideration. He
trusted, however, that the House would turn its at-
tention to it on a future occasion, as it Was of great
importance to know which party was right and v. hid)
was wrong.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
wished this Petition to be consideted as an Electioa
Petition, and to be referred to the Committee on the
Dublin Election.

Mr. TIERNEY said, it could not be disposed of as
an Election Petition, except on the present occasion.
The Act provided that an Election Petition should
be presented within fourteen days after the return,
and that time would have elapsed before the House
met after the adjournment.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD said, that the Petition
could not even be received now as an Election Peti-
tion, since the fourteen days had elapsed. The
House might still entertain it at any future per:c.d.:l
a question of privilege—( Hear, ken r).
The Petition was then laid on the table, and or-
dered to be printed.
Hr. HODGSON presented a Petition from the Inhabiratus
of Wigan, Lancashire, for the removal of Restricdons on F.
reign Trade.—Laid on the table.
The Report of the London Bridge Committee was presented,
laid on the table, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Alderman WOOD ruse to present a Reform retit!ov,
signed by several persons of Birmiagbarn, in bebali of a lame
body of the people. He said it had come so recently into Ms
lands and was so long, that he had not been able to certais
whether ra
it was so correct in language as to be uneacerionble.
All that he could say was, that be had seen nothing in it width
should cause it to be rejected. It complained generally cf the
want of Reform, and rather referred to the last Parliameat that
to the present. When read by the Clerk, however, the Bowe
would better able than be wait to judge whether it should at
should not be received.

The CHANCELLOR cf the EXCIIRQUEkt called the at-
tention of the Honourable Aldernmn to the inr.onvenient
of the paper he held in his hand, and suggested the prophesy of
his not presenting it till tomorrow' by which tittle be might
have examined its language, so as tobe able to sive the Hoar
the satisfactory assurances-el:aired from Membersinhisaimatiso.
Mr. Alderman WOOD stated, that he had only just come
into the House, and that he did not know. when be pranged
the Petition, that the House would sit to-morrow. lie WAS.
therefore, anxious to present it before the adjournment. lit
would ask leave to withdraw the Petition for the psesent, as be
should have an opportunity of reading It before the How afr
senthled etition withdrawn.
-INSOLVENT DEBTORS' SILL.
The ATTORNF.Y-GENER AL moved, « That the nowt
do agree to this Bill, as amended by the Lords."
Mr. ADVICRCIMIT, Mr. Cassette, and Mr. Caccamprobjected
to agreeing to those Amendments without knowing their "awn.
Mr. COMM:PAY and Mr. Waserrasury stated, that the Amend-
ments did not affect the principle of the IJW, but only its detain.
The machinery of the Bill was much improved by them.
The CHANCELLOR at the EXCIIEQJUItIi loped dot
the Honourable Gentlemen on the tuber side of the House aroma
(fallen not object to the passing of the at present, after what' hail
front the two Learnrd Gentlemen.
The Amensinicats wen then agreed to, and de Mg •
4,uicildted, was passel
Sir W. DE CUESPUMY asked the Chancellor of the
chequer, whether be had any lineation of acceding to anyof the
plans whicA had been suggested to him for a better mode of of.
feeling a sonsposhion ache Asunmel-Tasies?
The CHANCELLOR of the llMCiiKQUitit weadd net
pledge himself to any suc'a intention,
Sir W. DE CILESPIGhItir bend Wive le ask the nigh(
ametaabis efts asaba smosice. roadies it war So

charge was brought forward; and bow was it' who MI
de that the accused should be 'able to meet. and ael
Ogee tif evidence which "night be4dvabced quence
circumstances occurr,ipg during that,. 'pug quire ii
?' In every ether case some pa,!ticulit act Magisti
dinged. Here die aciusatlon was altogether. interier
and general. It'eould, therefore, only * met as well
ridence of gear' al conduct, which 'evidence tholic p
be brought from beyond the seas. As he there- Oat!
lid not see that the accusing witnesses could be Mr.
back, and as the charge was of that general some 01