Star.
London, England, 1817-05-30 00:00:00

&volution. Acts f Parliament had been passed for
eacluding irdirdnals in place from a seat in Parlia
anent. If a man if fined his sou to o••• lla thr
Chute'', or to any it o. , he was at ill • ~ease et
justrUCtirilhirp 352 41 in fit bun (or his profession or
he
trade, aud washem-for
latter caie, to sup.
ply him with a•stak in trade, But tl etc young
are Vt. only to triainatencied at our Up
pence. but we are in furnish them over and above
with a stock in trade. and they themselves only find
p stock of irn,aidence and corruption—Weer, flew).
It did not mailer if npression had not been e'er.
fused against a single individual. ft was
stso
smuch
the Worse if the power entrusted to- Minier was
not- ",,ei,ed at all, or only exercised with mode.
ration ; hrcause the abuse of power had a ten
dew-. to ate •en inquire into their rights, and
wianfolly to aunt 111.--(Near, hear, hear)
With;wt taking np more of the lime of the Court,
he would fairly put it to them, whether, under all
the circumstances which had taken place—looking
at the situation in the country—the grievances which
were untedressed and unenquired into—the calmness,
rvtietness, and resign:total which were displayed
1„ they cauld stand still and see his M
jesty's Ministers, with the view of screening their de.
linqueocy, perpetuating abuses and corruption, and
insuring to themselves the same corrupt support front
another Parliament which they had received from the
'nese it—whether they could stand still and see them
commit suicide on that Constitution which had so
long been the boast of Englishmen. and for which
Our ancestors had fought and bled—(lt'ar, hear)?
The worthy Member then moved a series of ltesolu-
tions, for which see Advettisement.
Mr. Busisreao seconded the motion. It was un-
necessary, after the luminous speech which they had
just heard, to enter at any length into the subject ;
but he could not sit down without expressing his
hearty assent to the motion of his worthy Friend.
Became a lew desperate individuals had bee., guilty
of outrages, that WAS no CaUSe for suspending that
which was the greatest boon we had derived from
our ancestors.
Mr. SAwJxr. DIXON opposed the motion. The
Habeas Corpus Act was our of the greatest impart-
ante, and ought not to be auspend.d without
strongest reasons for so doing ; vino he had a la tree opi-
nion of 'ti nk I id in general t totheve the present
Minisito s be actuated by ti,otives to base as
those w ech had been ascribed to them. They must
know that even if they carried the measure at the
present .00ment, svithour it were juatifiea by good
grounds, they must appear in all succeeding times
the most- foolish, if nut the most wicked men that
ever existed. He considered it both unjust and im.
politic to throw out such gross imputations against
his Majesty's Ministers and bath Houses of Parlia.
newt—fur it was to them that not only they vein-
selves, but all Europe were indebted for all the pri.
'lieges trey enjoyed at t. at moment. Every Mem-
ber of the two Houses of Parliament hod shewn the
utmost desire to attend to the existing distresses of
the country. When he heard the "Talents" making
'so many declarations of what ought to be done for
the country, he confessed he would be very glad if
they were in power for a short time only, to see how
far they would carry their professions of economy
into practice. It would thus afford the country an
opp"rtunity of judging whether they felt as they spoke.
He did not deny that distresses existed in the country,
for on the contrary, no man was more disposed to
feel for and relieve these distresses, yet he did not
consider them owing to any political circumstances,
but merely to the want of that monopoly of trade
Which we enjoyed exclusively daring the war. This,
in the opinion of every unbiassed mind, was the prin-
cipal. it not the only cause of our present calamity.
He had heard with some but-prize, that as the crimi.
'lid outrages which had lately taken place were con-
fined' to a few obscure and indigent wretches, there-
fore the Habeas Corpus Suspension was unnecessary;
and he. was equally astonished to witness the levity
with which such outrages had been treated. It was
so far well, that the outrages were the acts of a few,
but was it at all credible that they would always he
the doings of a few ? Had not the sad experience of
all these mighty revolutions which had occurred in
Empires, shewn that the acts which led to them often
proceeded froth the most trifling causes ? The be-
p'toning of strife was as water let out, and therefore
st could not be too promptly checked. A snow-bill,
to use a vulgar phrase, never lost any thing by rolling,
bat on the contrary gathered. The inflammatory
publications which were issued at a cheap rate, had
now, thank GOD, been checked in their progress, and
those political ignorant demagogues, who had so long
distracted the country, were now silenced. But the
principles ahich actuated them were still the carne,
acd were only kept down by the salutary restrictions
imposed by this Act. Viewing then the matter in
this light, he begged to say, that ezoold he even
trend alone, he would hold up his hand against the
proposed Resolutions.
Alder man GOoI*BEHERZ--The speech of the
Worthy Gentleman who had just sat_ down, had
Dwelt occupied the time of die Court, without his
baying one thing to the point. He had done every
thing in fact but spoken to the question, and while
he had congratulated himaelf on the personal safety
be enjoyed, he had entered into the severest censures
on the weak and illiterate part of society. The
worthy Gentleman seemed to have entirely forgot that
the object of the Court was not to throw any stigma
on the ignorant and infatuated, but to enquire whe-
ther it was proper that Ministers should insult the
good sense of the country by. proposing a measure
Jar which there existed not the slightest necessity.
The Worthy Gentleman had praised the Ministry:
_ and had advocated the cause of every administration,
the "talents" excepted, whom he chose to grapple
with as men of no talents. It would have been much
better for him, instead of so doing, to have shewn
who were the Ministers who were best entitled to
their country's praise. Certainly the best Govern-
, silent on earth was that which defended the righti of
the people, whisk with a jealous eye watched over
every attack on their rights, and resisted every mea-
sure calculated to impair them. But could any man,
w laid his haud on his heart, say with a good con-
'sane that, the present administration had acted in
this matintr, for onthe contrary had they not shown
their little attention to the ince:lsta of the people by
tut measure they had lately accomplished, and the
ohe wit.i.h they uuw proposed At the arguments