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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 16. '
The cases of •' White •. Ballantyne," and of a Geddes v.
Prinnington," being taken into final consideration, their Lord.
ships' dm sion vra i, to Remit the former, and to Affirm the
latter, without casts.
In the cause of “ Duff ♦. Browne," Counsel were heard In
part-- F •nlier hearing postponed.
The Royal Assent was declared by Commission 'a the Poor's
Employment Bill, the Metropolis Paring. Owens' and Bailey's
Divorce Bills, the stone Bottles Dui, and the Glasgow Gas
Lights Bill..
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•• • The Lords Commissioners were, the 1.0113 the
Earl of WzriciteLscn, and the Earl of Suarrssaus v.
Their Lordships then adjourned for some time during pleasure.
On the resuming of the House, after snore routine business
• tad been diiiposed of, •
srrangement, as proposed by the Earl of LIVELPOOL, was
ordered accos dougly.
reitsoNs CONFINED UNDER THE HABEAS CORPUS
SUSPENSION.
tail GROSVENOR before their Lordships en-
tered upon the Order of the Day, moved for the pro-
duction of a List of the Names of the Persons con-
fined under the alysve authority, di ,tinguishing their
cases, &c. This information his Lordship conceived
proper to be afforded, as tending to give a clear idea
•.1 the actual state of the.conetry, with reference to
tshich, a measure of the most alarming importance
a Constitutional point of view was about to be pro.
pied. And he thought that the production would
evince that which he had aa aleng asserted to be
• well founded, namely, that no persons of any consi-
cheration wha.tever had been obnoxious to the execc-
fon of the Suspension Act.
Lord ROLLE argued against the desired produc.'
tints, as leading to T',9 advantage, and only tending
ta ilia ease the embarrassed state of the country. He
was satisfied of the necessity of the measure, and
with the administration of the Act by his Majesty's
Government. He had supported them in adopting
the measure, and • should continue so to •do, unleu
they sh mild abuse the power entrusted to them ; in
which case, he should be one of the first then to
stand up in his place in the House and oppose the
abuse. H: deprecated some of the discussions which
had team place on these subjects, and stattJ his opi-
nion, that the language held on- these occasions by
Noble Lords opposite, and by those who acted with
them, only tended to countenance and encourage the
disaffected in their misconduct, and was therefore

productive of the most injurious effects.
Ertl GREY sand he entetta'ned a very different
opinion AS to the expediency of the measures adverted
to frOm the Noble Lord on the cross bench (Rolle),
and he thought them rather calculated to increase
than remedy the evil complained of. He could not,
however, suffer a sentin.ent held by that Noble Lord
to pass without observation. He mutt, therefore, in
direct contradiction to the opinion of that Noble
Lord, aver, that there were no persons of considera.
• tien or of influence in the country in connection
with tl em, nor one who in any way afforded
them the least countenance, encouragement, or sup-
port. For his own part, he thqught worse of the
present than of the former measure ; but he must
censure what the Noble Lord kid said as to the mode
in which Noble Lords or othets tholiVit proper to es.
press theinselvesin the discharge of Voir Parlinmen-,
tary duties, as inconsistent with the freedom of de.
• .bate in that Hotise. Neither he nor any of hit Noble
Fiends were to be told, that in consequence of any
thing they might say to the discharge of their public
• --duties, they were to be field answerable for what
other persons may have done ; and he spoke to the
' Noble Lord's face and teeth, that the charge was
.!.falsnand unfounded, and he dared him to prove the
contrary. It was •unbecoming in any Member to
' make such an assertion. The Noble Lord who spoke
• of the indeperidence'of his own conduct, and of his
intention, whenever his Majesty's Government should
deviate froM whit bethought right, that he would
be the fist boldly to•tell them so. But frorA.what it
' 61l in Ins (Lord Grey's) lot to Optic, tlO- boldness
of the Noble Lord had been exerted duthig the long
. course of thirty years, alwa)s in support.,, ...power !
,L.,w
He never knew him to oppose a single Oe of
• the Government in all
.the multifarious con us of
. . lire Einpire„duriog that long interval. " With these
few observations 1: shall leave the Noble Peer, tiici
repealing, that when he says that eel tain Members()
this House, by their speeches in their places, coun-
tenance disaffection, or sedition, or treason, he says
not only what is a gross violation of the freedom of 1
discUision, but utterly, and in all its parts, false and
I
unfounded."
Lord KOLLE, in explanation, observed, that
• what he had said, respected the injurious influence
upon the minds of the public,' produced by certain
speeches in that - House. He made no particular al-
luston to the Noble Earl, but it the cap fitted him,
he was welc. me to wear it I—that was all the answer
be had to give uptin that point ; but he would repeat,
that sO long as lie thought his Majesty's Government
acted for tho good of the public, it should have his
support. He wanted nothing from it, nor did he,
like some others, expect rosy situation in the Govern-
ment ; and be was still of the opinion, that if ottani-
wit, prevailed in that House, in endeavouring to
settle the tumults which prevail in the country, tittle
danger need be apprehended from them. -
Earl GREY Slimily replied, that in answer to the
noble Lot d's elegant phraseolok of the cap fitting
him, as well as to the insinuation of his speeches, and
those of some who acted witn him, being calculated
to vottntenance and encourage the traitorous and dis-
affectsd, be had only to expless his positive and-
' UM/ Conte topt.
Viscount SIDMOUTH expressed his suprise that
the Noble L. rd had not given notice of his motion.
• . Lord GROYESNOR therefore agreed to postpone
it until to-m.srow.
SUSPENSION OP THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.
The Order of 'the Day, upon which their Lord-
ships were summoned, respecting the Bill for conti-
nuing the above measure, being lead, .
Viscount SI DMOUTH rose and addiessed their
Lordships upon the subject. He came forward to
piess'the adoption of the measure, on Its firm con-
viction of its positive and urgent t.ecessity. It was
not .110 We vet submitted to .Variiarnent without an.ade-'
quate examination as to the grounds upon which it
was proposed—tbe course adopted on a sunii..r tic-
easiest in lin early.jiart of the war,' when A Bat for
contimilog iiieSuspension Act was proposed without,
aiiy inevions inquiry, or nevi...facts being submitted to
Patliantent.. Not that be nteAtit to impugn the cunt

"duet of that Administrotion, or of the Illustrious
person then at its bead, in so doing, as doubtless the
circumstances of the country at the time justified that.
Course of proceeding. The. Noble Secretary of State
then entered upon a specification of the grounds oil
which be urged the adoption of the Continuation
Dill, in the course of which he . made frequent refe-
rence to thy Report of the Secret Committee, from
which he made various quotations. He exhibited
the leading and most important features-Of the. Re-
i port, and expatiated thereon with great clearness and
1 ability. He contended, from the beneficial tendency
and effect of the present suspension, to which much
of that portion of tranquillity which prevailed in
many parts of the kingdom, was chiefly to be ;Ma-
-1 bused. Much of the state of the country was well
known to their Lordships, as well as the undoubted
beneficial effects of the existing measure of Suspen-
sion. Tiny should take the benefit of their experi-
ence—they should not only feel the immediate salu-
tary consequence of the Suspension, but recollect the
great preventive ben it operated on former occa-
sions, especially in the cases of the years 1794 and
1795. From the consideration of all these circum-
stances, and with the knowledge he possessed of-the
actual and immediate state of the country, he felt it
his imperious duty, ender the firm conviction of the
necessity of the measure, to move that tie Bill be
now read the second time.
Lord ERSKINE was equally desirous with his
Noble Friend, who proposed this measure, to look
the dangers of the country full in the face; but he
was convinced the best way to avert these would be,
not by adopting the proposed measure, bet be
thoroughly and fearlestiv inquirirg into the causes
which led to the present .cheastrous state of the cottr-
try. The causes which induced the present unhappy
condition of the poor should be particularly inquired
into; but instead of sedulously turning their atten-
tion to that subject, it had been entirely passed over;
and a course of measures adopted, which, instead of
tending to relieve, only served to aggravate the evils
they had to complain of. What were the causes of
the present distress ? He believed it to arise froui the
-sudden•change ul circumstances after a long war,
from the check that had been given to commerce,
and the corresponding check to labour, by which
numbers were deprived of the means of making a
livelihood. The Committee in their Report admitted
the operation of these causes upon the minds of the
people. They produced, as it was natural they should,
a powerful degree of irritation. What direction had
that initation taken ? Its direction was this. The
people thought that all their evils and calamities
arose from not hiving a sufficient practical controul
in . both Houses of Parliameat. The people had a
right to hold this opinion. Men who reflected the
highest honour both on their age and country, enter-
tained the same. This was the main'direction taken
by the irregular spirit which influenced the country
at present. This spirit, however, or its direction was
not attended to. So far from taking the subject of
Parliamentary Reform into serious consideration, it
was got rid of by greater majorities than upon any
former occasion. He did net condemn Parliament
for this, he merely meant to state that he lucked upon
the public spirit thus directed, and thus disappointed,
as the source of the existing disturbances. Py-tler
refusal of emoting into the question, the people were
led, and would continue to be led more and more,
under thelnEuence of bad men. The Report itself
stated that one of the meetings which was represented
as most dangerous, assembled for the purpose of peti.
tinning ler a Reform in Parliament. It was the prin-
cipal cause of discontent. and yet a refusal was given
even to inquire into that source of irritation, and to
ascertain whether it might nut in some degree be re-
moved ? The Noble loord (Sidmouth) called upon
them to be guided by experience. He (Lord Erskine)
had experience enough upon the subject, and the re-
sult or it was, a conviction that the suspension of the
liberties at the people was not now, or at other pe.
riods alluded to, the remedy that should here been
applied. if the
.people soon into their _minds that
the distresses were connected with .the A.dministra-
lion, that feeling would every day grow stronger,
unless the subject was inquired into. The suspen-
sion of the Hanes. Corpus would not remove it. A
remedy for the stone or the gravel should not be
ministered to a person troubled only with a sore
throat. The cure applied to the country did not se-
move the disease. The patient then should either
.change his medicine or his physician—(4l laqh.)—
The report of the Committee allowed that the vigio
lance of the Magistrates, with the co-operation otthe
Yeomanry. had put down snitch of the evil. They
should continue to use the same means, .and be had
no clutibt they would be found' sufficient.
Th.: Doke of MONTROSE could not agree in
the principle laid down by the Noble Lord who bad
just sat down. He could ttmeniber the riots in the ii
year 1780. He then saw the tows: on fire in three
or four different places. In the evening it. was
thought necessary to put a stop to these riots, but it
-was put down with great loss of blood. But who
can venture to say that those rioti -should nor have
been prevented ? It was the *tiny of Ministers who're
prevented them if it was in their power. If the Mi.'
nisters bad felt themselves justified, the Whole of the
basineu would have been put an end to on the 2d.'
The suspension of the 1-I.lbeas Corpus Act, so tar
from its being a measure to save the Governines.t
and the Parliament, was in fact an act of humanity ;
it was to save the lives of the people and to prevent
their becoming the victims of certain individual., who
were leading them on -and endeavouring to rouse
diem to madness. It was•better to confine them fur
a term rather than sutler them to go on.
Lail GROSVENUIt contended, that the farther
suspension ot the Habeas Corpus Act wbUld increase
the spirit of resentment already. felt in thii country
towards its ruler. We were now in a state of puce,
the government of the cuonuy was in the possession
of a large military force—they had the happiness or
being upportesi by a large ni.juriii" in butt Woes.
of Peiliecuento theme coold be no necessity for having.
Moline to such. a measure. Wath regard to the
Report, he eclihowlidged it to be a mach inure can-
did one than had been presented on the former oc-
casion, but he saw no reason why , it bad nut been
given or the same evidenie, ood he must say, that
lie never saw a Report which contained sonitico 4.1-
inference and so little of fact. ' Little wits to be seen
that *did. not sprang Isom, tile spies employed by Go-
virnnicm. He .bowed, that occasionally reference,
I must be had to persons ot that description, but it had

been the east in all tittles past as well as in all times'
**sent, that whin such persons were relied upon,
. the Government was despotic, and he had no hesita.
tion in saying, that the views of the Government of this
country were directed to despotism, because it was
clear that their conduct could not bear inspection.—
There could be no occasion to employ such wretches
if the powers of Government had not been occa-
sionally too much abused. If the Constitution were
properly administered it would be perfectly unneces-
sary to have recourse to such powers iti support of
it. As to the disturbances since the last Report,
however numerous they had been, they had been put
down without resorting to the application of the sus.
pension. The Committee had given it as their opi-
nion, that the spies of Government had been greatly
the means of exciting the disturbances : was this the
criterion of the state of the country ? It was said,
that the talk was no longer of reform but of revolu-
tion. But was it not probable, that those violent ex-
pressions—this cry of making Manchester another
Moscow, WAS to divert the attention of the Magi-
strates ; is it not extremely probable that their ex-
pressions might have emanated from the very spies
who made them known to the Government? (fletsr.)
—some alarm might have arisen in the minds of a
fey,. individuals, and they might have proposed this
Act as a partial security to themselves, but was that
a reason why a law should be passed so palpably
dangerous to the liberties of the country ? The
Noble Viscount (Sidmouth) had said, with a great
deal of emphasis, that in the present state or the
cminitr. it was impossible to 'educe the niiiit4ry
establ..hment with a proper view to its safety ; but
i it was idle to say, that all this military force was for
the purpose of keeping down this part;al dis..ffection,,
when we had seventeen or eighteen thousand Yeo-
manry Cavalry, and if that was not sufficient, so as
to secure any old woman from feeling alarm, let that
force he enlarged. He recollected that the Noble
Lord at the head of his Majesty's Councils, when the
Sinecure Bill was read, had proposed that it should
be again read that day three months ; but as to this
Bill—this monstrous and atrocious Bill, he ( Lord
Grosvenor) should propose that it be rejected. Was
the strenuous opposition of the Noble and Le erned
Lord to the former measure in conformity to the
wishes of his master—and it it was so upon that oc-
casion, was it so now when the object was despotism'
Was not the Insurrection Act strong enough ? Was
not the Sedition Act. strong enough ? Were there
not sufficient powers • when • the Government could
confine any person brought before them for publish-
ing a work ? He should move as an amendment in
the Committee—" That the present Bill shall not ex-
tend beyond the duration of the present Parliament."
This would prevent the Ministers from availing them
of the means of extending their present enormous
towers, and would put the opinion which he formed
of them to the test. They might say, that it dud not
enter into their minds, but let them beware of a re-
action, it they wish to save the country from impen-
ding horrors.
Lord REDESDALE said, that his views of the
subject were directly contrary to those of the Noble
Lord who had just sat down. So far from consider-
ing it as a dangerous ripechent, he was satisfied it
would create a p:-east and general confidence. He
would support the measure, not only because he.
thought it was necessary, but because he was con-
vinced it was necessary. It had been stated to their
Lordships, in this and the former Reports, that a
system of unexampled secrecy now prevetiled... In
the conspiracy of 1793, for such he should continue
Ito call it, the parties had fair correspondence, whereas
ntivtghe conspirators met privately in houses, which
they would nut do, were the affair so harmless as
some Noble Lords supposed it. It was said, that no
pet sons of property were concerned in the conspiracy.
Why, he Would be surprised if there were, when the
great object of the Societies was to take money from
those who had it. and give it to those wire had none.
He remembered the time when a Gentleman was
called on to cry up " Wilkes and Liberty !" in going
down the Strand : the gentleman addressed the mob,
telling them that he could not understand their re.
quest, as he had always taken the liberty of calling
things as, he pleased " 914? t, crieCthe mob, " here's
A rascal; down with lihn !" • The unfortunate gen-
tleman was then knocked down ; and this 'hewed
the name of the liberty •Which was wanted by such
men, namely, that of knocking down whatever stood.
.in their way. What had stopped the measures in
contemplation but the existence of the very Act
%hose continuation he now contended for ? The
Measure bad been adopted in the best of times, and; •
indeed, had once maintained the House of Hanover
on the Throne. Some people thought, however, that
the Writ of Habeas Corpus was wholly suspended
by the present Act, whereas it was suspended only in
particular eases. If their Lordships suffered. the rage
of some persons to be unconfined, they would speedily
bring ruin on their country. Not less mischievous
was the advice that had been given of yielding to
the Petitions of the People fur Universal Suffrage,
and Triennial Parliaments ; for if those were grant-
rd, the ruin of the Constitution would follow. Their
Lordships must be aware that something was intend-
ed to be obtained from the Government by force ;
and it was their duty to meet and prevent, instead
tit resisting such force, whose object was destruction.
It was under these circumstances, and in order to
prevent that overturning of the Government, which
must end, as such overuirows always did, to a mili-
tary despotism, that he gave his consent to the Bill
It was to enable their Lordships to deliberate, in;-
r.eack of being overawed by an infuriated assemblage,
as in. the year 1780, that they might deliberate and
determine with honour to themselves and advantage
tothe country.
Lord KING was surprised that the Noble Lord
should have so stigmatised Lord George Gordon's,
mob, which was a Nu, Popery mob. He did not
think that the present danger WAS such as to demand
the Suspension of die-Habeas Corpus Law. It there
had existed a plot, with preparations and leaders,
then Parliament might be called upon to suspend the
law ; but no such preparations were discovered, and,
indeed, be was convinced that informers were em
ployed by Government to take advantage of the
distresses qt the people. Ike was tetanall that the
• voting of the Suspension, was only a prelude to an
itislehinte vote to tlitriatne effect, and would increase
that discontent which it Was meant to reared).—
If, by continuing the Suspension Act, they taught
the Reelo.e tl.at law was thei: ccrinoo crery. ir. •

stead or its being their common
hended that the result would be a r
to the Laws and Institutions whic'l
prized. _ _

Earl GREY thought the subject
bate so portentous to the liberties of
under every disadvantage he most
favour of the Constitution. lie was ~sett dine
posed to counteract the designs-of thee,e'seo . • ,
%twos
to convert the present severe distress iiittratia oe,a.
tton of a measure which, never had b: en adore.. b: .t
under the most evident and cogent necessity-e 4
sure which sot rendered the liberties of the penele intts
the hands of Ministers. What was the li:unreel the
danger ? It arose from severe distress, which ttle
dered the minds of the sufferers liable to be ,ve rked
upon by artful and designing men. Bat Was r e
danger equal to what it was in any former time w.
a similar measure was adopted ? Healed ,sdia aaa
former occasion, that it was absurd and ridiculous to
compare the danger with that which existed at it,
anent periods of the last century, when the neat eat,.
siderabk personr in this and the other Huti
se tot can.
Hamelin took an active alert with the oisaffectot ?
Yet the Habeas Corpus Act was then only sespended
fcr six months, even when the con,airaosi s ru 171,3 save
assisted by a foreign force, when tl.e r« It: of the
Pretender was a favourite toast with public hcsQies
then he could conceive a dangar tc have aistra,
which might have given the Gn,eratllellt All trine
fcr a measure of such :igaur. Yet so strong ae as the
feeling, that it w.,s not carried without
tion. He would not deny that the coontay
great danger, laut in his conscienee he hell-v,.1 •
remedy proposed rather calculated to iecrease he ir-
ritation than to diminish it by its rigour. We 'out
triumphantly succeeded fie the result n! the war ant
the consequence was that we Were herthened tool A
taxation which we were scarcely able to goad esalsia
l'he war had disturbed all the elem. nib
and because there acre afi w disaffected n: Taa
country, who endeavoured to inflame the multioia,a
was the House to confide to Ministers a Hear wl
put the liberties of every man in the kingdom at their
mercy ? He would ask, whether those persons 100
the means of exciting such general distresances
they could be counteracted by no ether measures
than such as pieced the whole colliery out oh the pale
of the Constitution ? By tte: argument of paver.
tion being better than punishment, all the ineasups
of a despotic Government mi slit be rehear:llea and
justified. He was by no means sure that lie power
would not lead to great and dangerous abases. For
it was known that a Bill of Indemnity would protect
the Ministers for the most arbitrary acts, such as con-
fining men in distant prisons without any foendstiso
toe the c arges against them, and when they ace I
for justice, they were met by a Bill of Indemnity,
which prevented them from obtaining it. Eas tech
reasons, he would not suffer such a measure to ems
without firmly protesting against it ; partiteatay as
it had not been proved that a single case had Vet re-
curred which the existing laws were not aderoate
put down. He thought the former Repots woo ita-
peached in some of its most material parts, by a Oc-
aiberete and solemn proceeding at Norwich, and tar
;Astiwe evidence that heel been offered. It beet be-n
farther impeached by what hat 0ce.e....2 ...c t over,
where, amongst the whole population, not above Eta t
or sixty persons had been found to take the secret
Oaths, and which oaths, there was reason to Move,
were administered by persons who were erep'raea sr
spies on the pait of Governirent. The Neale
alluded to the charge against Mr. Niel Deugao or o
was tried for Sedition, but the evidence et the saarti
was so full of the grossest perjury, that t!.e Crease
Lawyers, upon the first decision, gave up Vas c' sr
prosecutions. The plan of the proposed instincts-
don it the Metropolis was so absurd as to be cisar lu-
dicrous ; such as the proposed attack on the 'Vesta:,
which two of the best regiments under the Duke of
Wellington could not take without the use of cancer.
The Noble Earl adverted to the proceedings of the
RiOters io the Minories and on Tower-hill, which, he
contended,' might have been put a stop to by the
'slightest sheviof military resistance. From such us-
sensate efforts was the House to be told,that the dan-
ger was any thing equal to what it had been at any
lotion; period He alluded to that part of the last
Report, which considered the 'intelligence U. rest in a
degree on theoestimony of persons who had in some
cases been guilty of exciting the people to act: of out-
rage. Such testimony, he contended, ought to he re-
jected altogether. Such a system—that of employ-
ing spies—was the odious character of a despotic Go-
vernment; but what state of society must we live to
if a practise repugnant to the feelings of every Eng-
lishman was to be resorted to Would they sanc-
tion the principle that spies should he employed, and
that, after they had been found out, be contineea is
favour and rewarded ? lle would say, that eveiy i
such miscreant should be brought to justico; and f
he was suffered to be borne upon society, he
say that every person who had been execatcd boa
been murdered. He next alluded to the memoir
character of a person who had lately given evidence.
atol commented with pointed severity ou hiecondu
ct.
Such unfortunate persons as lately rose in Detayshre,
who were the victims of distress and delesion, were
i
to be pitied. Who could read. the accoentoof the
.
black despair which seized them whet; they ((tree
they were not supported, uithoua believing they were
misled by such wretches as he hod spoken of to their
own destruction ?—(Loup' cries of Hear, Leer,
The Noble Earl read a letter from Sheffield, stat,rg
that a person named Oliver had gone to that natio,
bourhood and encouraged
people to aneurreceo -
re
(Hear, hear.)—A project was laid before tree aociete
at Leeds by a Mr. o:iver, who was a Goven to I
spy : he would ask Ministers it he was an a.C.-.w.:1••
ment spy ?—(Near, hear.)—lcs, Mr. Gayer, tee
Government spy ;he would rept:it his teem
Government
der that it might be made as public, ard held up rs
much to infamy as possible—Ca/car.) the
Noble Eat I read the extract from the Leeds 4Terer; ,
There was an evident coincidence between (1,;.:
a maa-‘
conduct -zed the evidence of Castle—Vireo)—%;?,
:
said he met Mr. Hunt in Cheapside, when be told h. • -
he had been in
possession of the Tower fcr cat hour.
In the some maaner, Mr. Oliver told the prop.
le ot
•'•S
Saeffield, that every thing was prepared for?.
isi London. He went abnut sounding the teraaat.'..
of toe people, and making the most fa7se
Lions to them. After reading the whsle oa.die ta.
bmeensot rileospeeeicji:engasl‘ii Oliver,,
c(n Ise asked
aanny. •

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o,:rf-crms at o r%:gcOntentmee and en:.011-
, inch a nun(Hear, ktar)—That villain,
• tram ceserving• encouragement, ought to be
1;1 ~nd brought to punishment. He repeated,
t;,is Wail was a spy of Government, and tie
j ,`:misters to deny it if they could—(Ncar,
)--"liie inhumation of Oliver had been believed
eJ van by some deluded persons in the neigh-
;,•,) Sheffield, but no fire arms or cartridges
ill the ptice where they were said to be
d by :hem. He stated these NCI! to spew
C,JVcrnment was bound to bring this man to pu-
r,.nt that such double treason might not pass
irepcaity— (Hew., luar,hear)-11eslid not charge
~:crs with any thing more than being deluded by
rsons ; but.he would ask whether such people's
did not shake the whole system on which the

I •

....u,s of the Report were founded, and whether it
•convey a strong suspicion. that this plot u:
i.,ir.tcy had beenfostered, pronit•ted, arid supported
i;ie agents ~i the Government themselves ? But
die laws "If the country were not sufficient to pro.
;.,,t us against Such miserable machinations, When
we expect to be Outfitted to enjoy them 1 `die
noon the representations of county Magill-,
t. with some suspicion, and • argued that they
vi be regarded with'the utmost caution; and,
: intending at considerable length, that, if the
rilinellt had done its duty, it possessed means
.:,2::,;11 to repress all such disturbances as had !et oc-
cunel without resorting to extraordmary measures,
tla• Itoble E descanted on that part of the R4iwt.
which described the great body of the people to be
sou-id and loyal, even in the disturbed districts.—
;mai this he inferred. that no case had been m4de
(..; lot susprulliog the liberti:s of the people, sad
them in the power or the Ministers of the
He trusted the Bill %vivid nut 'pass at 414'
it all events not without an anlendment that
li'nit its dur..fori.
Earl of LIVERPOOL considered the speech
Lord to call for an ai:swer from him,
e ;icountit of some of the special points it contained.
Mgree.l With the ?fable Lord that the nature of
11! danger was first to•Le considered ; and tha; there
,zs some danger, all weris•ready to admit. The
were not considering the riots as arising e.;ut of
t: %tresses in particular branches of iitanufacture.s—s
the question was, whether there was not an or-
, raised conspiracy for the purpose sf ovetshrowing
C!.overnnsent hna the Constitution of the country i
.., considering this question, he thought it a lawn-
t.:%le circumstance, as referred to in the Report, that
io many districts where these had been but little dis-
visa, the machinations had beavalitecteld amongst
time who were not in want of employment, and it
was here that the greatestatretch of sedition prevailed.
The principle ni the 40mph:icy had Fervaded no less
than seven or sight counties of the kingdom. acting
by affiliatioq an correapiandcnce.. The arguments 01
tie Noble (fiord seemed to be, that if no persons of
teasequence or influence were connected with the con-
:pincers, no-such measures• of precaution as those
vavr proposed terse necessary. But respecting the
paragraplim the Report relative to the employment
at spies, he could say that all times, and under all
pvernakoth in ancient or modern times, such per.
:.;:ts were ever. found necessary, and app the hialat
tualk this.country; ,hewed that they were founded
ca the information of such persons, without ~hich it
vas impossible that conspiracies ccitaldhediscaveved.
The House must be aware, that in the Civil List
Act, there was a clause which caabled the t!:cretary
t! State to employ secret service money, either for
emecting combinations abroad or conspiracies at
ita,ne. lisle, then, the principle of employing such
Fkr: ors was recognised hy.the Statute Books of the
60iise. In answer tollie observations id the Noble
and resoecting..the person who had lately given
st.:dence, tit COOL(' assure him that the person in ques-
never was employed in those ttansacttous as a
tip et Government. Respecting Oliver, he did not,
et!:y that he hail been employed—Vicar, bar)—but
hr was c•infident he w.is discouraged from sowing
the seeds of disaffection in any way whatever. The
statement, however, was an exports one, and ought
not to receive full credit on suet authority as had been
offered. Nothing had been said to invalidate the
poit,t, that a general rising was intended to take plate
after the question for a Retorm in Patliament and
taearranometus for it bad been made. betorcever this
_ _

person had appeared amongst them. • The Noble
Lord continued to advert to historical facts to shew
that when our population was small and the power of
the Crown great (the times of Richard II.) a mob,
leaded by a blacksmith, had Committed alt manner
of outrages, and brought the country almost to the
lrink of ruin. Were he to say that the French Re-,
volution was led on by people of consequence, he was
sate be should libel such persons. It was a conspi-
racy of the mob against the Government, and such
were always the most atrocious--..(Hear, hear, hear.)J
Stleh a conspiracy would Soon find leaders; and if it
via: a conspiracy of the lower orders, be would say
much the worse; for it was nut the chiefs that led
the people, but the people that led- the chiefs. Oa
the whole, he considered the character of the distur-
bances totally different from the view taken of it by
the Noble Lord. If theyenuld make Manchester like
Poscow, and destroy all the sources of war prospe-
rity—if they osuld have done so, he would say they
Wlad—tin would have done so if they had not
Lech prevented. And it Manchester had assumed a
dierent character eioce March, it was thiongh the
operation of the measures that had been taken. It
tt,ere was any reason_ why he called on the House to
'4oi)t the measure now, it was because he considered
it essential to the preservation of property and mo-
re.lit-,
y and to afford protection against all the anat.-
` •Y and disorder that would arise from a revolution.
:le Marquis of LANSDOWN considered the
t-:=sure to rest on grounds entirely new, and going
introduce a new precedent. The House ought not
put with that which was given into their baud: to
prvect. lie had endeavoured to satisfy himself how
I,:r any ctencientious Member could reconcile it to
Li' mind to part with the liberties of his country, and
St he found that the Reports did not shew that any
c onected conspiracy existed, eitending its.ramtfica-
twirt throughout the country, he saw no reason to;
ttv macnre in question. The Noble Marquis pro-.
6"cdt.d to •argue, that opininns were net to be put
`assn by the personal detention cf the parties untor-
tl.33lPly concerned in it. With respect to the Re-
i Al. he sinns speak .ot it with respect and affection,
et he I Auld ifs hno data V-at justified him con-
••

eeating to this meattiie. Were tho..e Governments
I with whom such powers existed the most free ? In
the eccutrences of the French Revolution, the mob
had proceeded' to action, but
the Revoletioli had
been brought about by people of elfieence. Alter
many historical comparisons, the N•ihle Niercinis arre
gueJ, that the quality of the (Lang r was not such as ,
j a measure • f this kinu was calculated to remove. it 1
j was incumbent on every man to array Ali, the virtue
and morality in the land against the diealiectien, by
uniting the majority who were the well disposed. with
' the few who were d;safFected ; to appeal to their rest
son, and to convince teem that they had justice to
expect so long as they supported the laws, instead.of
endeavouring to overturn them. We shoulJ ask from
Ithe people of the whole country the preservation of
their laws; and he could not think so low of the
sound population of the country. as to suppose it was
not capable of crushing any rebellion that rnielit :hen*
itself amongst a part of the people of only five Conn.
ties. The Constitution might thereh.re safely be left
to the protection of the laws, which would unite with
public liberty the preservation of the pubic peace.
Lord GRENVILLE defeaded the measure oti the
ground of its necessity to protect the liberties of the
country, and that invaluable Cnnstit Acton from winch
the happiness and prosperey of the einem y were in-
separable. He contended It was the duty re Pallet-
meat to rest their final decision on such information
as they might receive as to wl:at had actually taken
place; and his opinion was, that the facts were I
such that proved.there existed a conspiracy, for pur-
poses
that had frequently been detailed in Mat House.
It had been said that the prevention of crimes was
infinitely better than puniehment ; and on this very
consideration he supported the measure. The Noble
L ,rd adverted to the excesses committed by the Rio.'
errs in 1780,' and was of opinion pot the same out-
rages might have ensued it the riot* of 2d December
hid not been checked at its commencement, and the
turbulent spirit kept down by the preventive men
stases that were subsequently adopted. He was not
bold enough to say, that•it these preventive measures
were suffered to expire, the same dangers might not
recur. He thought the dangers alluded to in the
last century beyond all comparison less than those
that now existed, and he had ne doubt the Suspen.
sion of the Habeas Corpus Act, in 1745, was a wise 1
and necessary measure, any entire than he had that it
was necessary at the present moment. On the whn:e,
he had'abutulant reasons for being satisfied that it was
his duty to give his earnest support to the measure.
Earl SPbNCER figured with the Noble Lards op-
posite, that the preventi n .vias better than the punish. j
meat of crimes ; but the measure tinder considers.
tion did not appear to him calculated to effect either.l
The experience cre'elie lest three rneaths, had induced
him to Are his opiltion at to the efikacy of the mea-
sure. Their Lordships should consider, in agreeing
to the B it, they would prolong arbitrary power in
this country. The principle of the Bill he held to be
wrong; and he was averse from leaving, for any
iregtit of time, an arbitrary power in the hands of
men, or at least longer than what was proved to be
absolutely necessary. There would be no responsi.
bility, he thought, annexed• to this power, for he
would venture to foretel, if this Bill were passed, a
thfl of indemnity would-in consequence be found ne-
cessary. In his view of the case, he should give his
negative to the Motion.
-

The Duke of SUSSEX said, that after the nume-
rous able arguments their Lordships had heard.
against the measure, he should beg leave only to sub-
mit one additional reflection, whicli hid forcibly
struck him in a moral point of vie*, was this :
It.- had witnessed the effects of 'arbitrart poiver :upon
the subjects of other countries, and he observed that
poison and assassination were prevalent among them.
Here, these dreadful practices were scarcely known.
But if the expressions of popular sentiment were Sup 7
pressed or circumscribed, os it might be by such' mea.
sures as that under consideration, it wis.much to be
feared, that it would endeavour to find. vent -sonic
other way. Should this measure pass into a laW, it
would be his duty to submit to it; bitt;'until it did,
he would oppose it in every stage.
The question being then pretty loadly• called for.
the House divided....
Contents .....100 Proxies et T0ta1."...196
• Non contents ief Proxist....4l- Total •50
Majority tot die second reading of the hilt ••••-•••140.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved to eischargi the Order of.
the Day for going into a Committee on the Mutiny bill, sod to
renew die tame for consorrovr.

The Earl of LAUDERDALE expressed his sadsTaction et
what was propose , and • adverted to some important alterations
'which appeared in the present froM former Mutiny Bi4l,
sand
which-he conceited' to be worthy.the setiouVetieutlon of then'
Lenlihips...
A leer Bills'of a prkiatter local furore were briought up from
the Commons, by Alr. Lenore Ind other Members, and severally
read% first tune; and several of the Bills: upon the MIAs wars
reepectiVely foiwarded. .
HdUSE OF COMMONS.

A •Petition was presented from Newport, In the 14e of Wight,
against the auntinuation of the Habeas Corpus Suspension.
head, and laid on the table.
air M. W. ll.WhitY presented a Petition front the Banker.,
Merchants, and Tradesmen of Newcssde epou Tyne, against
Elicits lit Aida.ltrad. and lid on the table.

Mr. BROGUE:4 brought ue the Report of the Exchequer
Consohdatieu SW. Agreed'to, and the SW ordered to be read
a third time alerrevs.

. Mr. Bhbili6l4. presented a Petition from certain persons
confined Jo the Martz lien Prisan, cuthplaintrg that the Pumis
appropriated by Parliament for the support of the poorer eau of
Prisoners, were nearly' eznaested, on aceolint of t'e number of
individuals to bi relieved' try-thern, and praying for • further re;
het —itead, and laid on the table.
' Mr. J. Smrrri presented a Petition from Nottingham against
the Poor Laws.' Arad, and referred to chi Committee 'on the
Poor Laws. _ I

The Memo Balt Bapertation, and the leparrection Act COl-
*maw Bills, were read a third time and paad.
A Petition was presented Irons thrminghani against Extents.
Is Aids. Read, and referred to the Committee on that subject.
Mr. PEEL presentedcopies Of all letters'betefreen the Lord ,
• Lieutenant and the Loci Chancel/or of botany'. Tainciffill
appointment of Sheriff in Iredand. Loidoo the table.
l'he iteporbof Lord Colchester's Annuity Bill was received,'
and the 13ill ordered to be read a third time tomorrow.
The Sugar bum Bill was avail a third time; and passed.
The Small Debts hilt wet read is sectiod• thite,Auter a few-
words,from Mr. LOOK,HART, and ordered to be commkted,
on Wednesday.
The Unary Laws Bill went through a Committee'. The Reports!
Was rec'elved, arid ordered to ht taken into further tonsidera!
moo ten Monday next.- And
Mr. BROoiJEN•brought up the Report of the Committee of
Supply. Agreed to, and Bills ordered accordingly.
Mr. IietWIDEN then brought up the Report of the West
India Me Port BM, which was ordered f further considera.'
Licwto,nacirrow, . . •

IMPORTS OF GRAIN.

Mr. CUtIVEM asovedlorap Account of the Es.
ports of Chain twos the Ist of Mirth to the 4th

June of the present year, distinguishing bArczu
nti-
tish and Foreign Grain.
Lord CAS I'LEREAGH had no ohje:ti•in to the
motion, btu wislie,l the w•'rd imported t bz 4,lJed
Lard MILTON also wished that the pr )111.1
be inserted.

After a few words from Mr. Romsow, hr CII AN-
cau...it of the EXCIIEQUFR, and Mr. Po • .K 111", t.ie
motion, thus worded, was agreed to, also t ie motio*
for the accounts of the qu.intity of grai t exported
trom the Port of London, from the Ist it larch to
of June of the pieseat year. of the qamatity
~t Grain and Flour imported during the same period,
with the prices, as tar As they could be iiscatained.

LATE OCCURRENCES AT LEEb3.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, t iat he had
seen an account in the Lee& Mercury, st iting. that a
person of.the name of C.,`liver had been in the N4rtli
England, trying to excite the distreshel people to
acts cf sedition, fur the purpose of betraying them
afterwards to Government. He then read the state-
ment, which was given in the STAR of yesterday.—
It was impossible. to say that Oliver was posi-
tively a spy employed by Governmet.t, but it seemed
from the Repeit picseltred in another place, that it
was ackrowlrdged such were the procuedings of Go.
verunfent, drl that they sent wretches to the country
'to esme men to ant of sedition and insurrection
which would not' otherwise take place, but which
now cou:d nor tail. because if the informers acid not
succeed three woad be no hire for them. What
,could be more atrocicus than this, •to.send spies and
informers to take advantage of cie general distress
and misery—(Hear, Hear, Hear)—and organise Re-
hellion among the deluded sufferers—(//ear, hear)?
This was so infamous that one WAS almost ashanivd
.to say that he credited that any set of Ministers could
be guilty of such transactions. Yet was at not known
in this very town that a tnost notorious and atrocious
spy, Me. Reynolds, was under ttie auspices of Go.
vernment.2 It was the same course that Oliver pur-
sued, anJ, like hi. predecessor, be would no doubt
be rewarded. For had not the infamous Reynolds
ben raised' Ihrougla his.treshery 'from indigence to
wealth and ipfen.dour ? Ii td he not becoine a man
of public trust? Had he not been elected a Grand
Juror —*at Member of that Grand Jdry impatinalled
agaitst • the unfortunate men whose lives wire de-
pending at this mdment?—(lferfr, hear)
Mr: C. WYNNE rose.—He Slid not deny that
the speech of the Honourable Baronet' was in or-
der ; but he (Mr. Wynne) was ups:illy in order in
moving that the Standing Order be enforced, and
that strangers. do withdraw. •
Mr. BROUGHAM—Then 1 • move that' this
House do now adjourn. (Repaid rounds of local
peers from the.QNsorition,)
Mr. BENNE Cl' seconded the Motion.. • .
The Gallery and all the lobbies nod passages were
then cleared of strangers, . . .
During the exclusion of strangers the three follovi-
ing divisions took place on the questionof adjourn-
ment s

Far Adjourning, !V.-Against tt, •Majority igalpst it,
For Atijourisisi, 2b—Against IL 157—Majority against It, 131
For Adjourning, 26-sultaiiist it, 13o—Majority against it, 104
- SIR. liftY MOLDS.
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On being re-admitted;• we four the• House resol-,
into a•Commitiee of Supply on the Army
Extraordinaries.

On the Resolution that 1 ,40(),00() be grimed for
the service of the Army los the present yeas :
Mr. BENNETT rose to ask the Noble Lord op.
pollee. whether the infamous Mr. Reynolds was not
appointed to be hi. Majesty's Coosul•General at Malta?'

Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that if hating ap•.
peared in a Court of Justice and given evidence
against traitors rendered a man infamous in the opi-‘
Dion at the Honourable Member, then he might con-
sider Mr. Reynolds infamous. This individual had,
however, since been employed in Portugal, and in
the Putt Office at Dublin, and as he had .pertorine3
his.diaties well in both cases, he (Lord CistlereaFti)
had no objection to recommend him as a fit
KM to fill the office of his Majesty'► C:insiil-G:.uoral
at Malta.

Mr. BENNETT did not consider.giAlig evidence
in a Court of JustiCe any cause of discredit to a man;
but when it was an accomplice, who for lucre.; sake
.betrayed his accomplice, thee socb a 'person was de-
graded and infamous.
LOrd CAS rLERE4GH saw no degradation for
an individitafin giving evidence in a Conn of Law.
As itsistr. Reynolds, he kneve of no flaw in his cha-
racter, except that he had been engaged in the Irish,
Rebellion, for which, however, he had made the
amplest atonement, by giving information and bring-
ing 'the traitors to puniahment.
Sit FRANCIS BURDET r understood that Mr.
Reynolds was not only a spy and an informer, but a
man of a most infamous • and notorious draracter.—
Persons had been brought forward in several trials,
who had sworn that he had commuted the most atro-
cious acts. His own relations, Captain Witherifigton
and his brother, had sworn that he had poisoned their.
mother, brokefl open private dravrivs, and rubbed
them of several hundred pounds: All this was re-
-1 corded in several trials, and he had been declared'
unworthy to be believed on his oath. But this Rey-
nolds had now become a man of importance ! He.
was the prow of the Noble Lord ! This was a de-
gree •Of'infamy which the Noble Lord And his Ad
!ministration would nevei render leasibia: He should
endeavour to-bring the subject before the House, to
""see whether's' man, who, like Reynolds, tab-Aired
under Nab heavy imputations, oughtlobe-empioyed
by Government.
Lord CASTL EREAGaleft the Hon. Member
to follow the course which be thought proper. As
to the assertions 'made in various trials to invalidate
Mr. Reynolds' evidence, tory had had little eff:Ct, since
,successive juries; and Parlianient itself, had believed
him. He did not consider Mr. Reynolds' chauicter
tainted, but byhaving 'been concerned iterebtillion.
and that taint had been wiped away by: hot its;dwing
the truth, and bringing the traitors ti punish fiat. .
Sir FRANCIS ISURDE .was• not • ialtddished
that the Noble 'Lord should hold up .the character of
informers as high and respectable. He Might to
knots, however, that informers were only credited by
juries when theirevideoce was corroborated.
Mr. C. W.• WYNNE asked • that the question be-'
*we' the anise Irphould: be read.

Sir FRANCIS BLIRDELT said, that in a Cititn-
*km of Supply. As was hey to put any quistidn
which he might think ploper. He then asked whtther

Me. rttlnoldt did test receive a pension From
ceroment I- • No answer w is returned;
Mr. B.t °VONA Mth aught the • I qnclut Gen.,
Orman (Mr. Wpine 1 1.. r once mist..ken in the appeal
which he had made Chair Ever) question of
supply was necessarily connected with tile grievances
or the c iu•itry. As otitn a.; the Ctown came to the
Commons to ask for money, the Commons. had a
riAtit to ask f..r the redress of their grievances. And
war wit this a zitrievance, when spies I:he Reynolds
were quartered upon them I Was it not a still
greatet one. to !sear i: avowed, that Ministers had
it in contempt sti• it to s and 4 person or so degrlded
a cast, as tha Representative of bis Msjesty—Ps
his Consul.Gen.!ral in foreign parts I—(Near, bar.)
Was a person with ill.• character of a spy and infors
mer a fit man to lac chthed .ith such authority ?—.
(Thar, hear. hear.) The Noble Lord said, and that
was the first time the apology of an informer had
b:en made in that fi 'use, that Iteyn ilds
.had ber's
believed. Vts; het net on his own testimony. h
could not have been presented to a Jury without a
sufficient co-rnboration to give it weight. [`here was
no Judo in England, nor in Ireland either. who
would dare to recommend the uncorroborated turi-
many of an informer to a Jury. Toe man who b.-
trayed an asscciate for the sake of lucre, who sw,
against those wl..qin he bad been connected is
clime. and degraded himself into a spy and an infnv.
mer, kw.- all that sta.np of infamy with which, in
spite of the Noble palliativev, the whole world
would brand him. He (Mr. Brougham). had listened
with disgust to the apoi->gtes /nide for such a charac-
ter, and the declaration that he Was Et for the high
functions about to be entrusted to him.

.......
Lord CASTLEREAGH appealed to the House
whether lie had passed any eulogium en Yr. Rey-
nolds. He had only stated that he knew nothing
against him, except li;s having been engaged in rebel,
lion, and that•he had given evidence which had been
b.lieved by a Jury.. .• • •
Mr. C. W. %VYP:NG said that on the question
that the House reseilveltselt into a Cofnmittee of
Safply;rother sukiects unconnected with th'e Supplies
might be introduced, but not Ow the Houle had re-
solved itself into the Commute%
Mr. CC MEIN/ thought, it crignestiocabiy disk
graceful to employ sttch a mm. as Mr. Reynolds in
.epuhlic sitization: Ilestrusted the Noble L',rd would
be fine of the firseto undo what had been a:khe. We
agreed that the individual who gave such evidence
ought to tle rewarded tor it in.a particular way, bat
he never coulJ be; char,trter 4t to be held up, Or to
be sent out in ostensible situations.
'The iteetheion• for gilnting ae1,4115,i/ho *as tilen
agreed to. Oaher Resolutions were moved and agteed
'o, and the House .haaing resumed; the RI-p.at ..vas
orderedtnbe presented to-morrow.

_ .
The Tithes Leasing went through a Commit-
tee of the whule H.,use, in which Various. emend-
inenti in the hill wiTe proposed and adoptell—Tr.e
was bhioght up, ordered to, he proited, aid ,o
be tal.ellioto..furaher Monday.
The FAle Wt.ipping Abolition .tea: ccrir
mitted.--•Report 1010741.• •
The Suspension Bill res. read a
second time, ana conitniited for Wednesday.
The Yeomanry Corps Bill. was read a third time
sand pasied. •• • • • • . - •.••••

• C.I.2IIILSINIF OF THE mover. SIC. IN 'Watt A tO.
,Mc. DAVIES Gll.l3Ettr, in consequence of
snme objection to the Bill thro before, thp House for
regulating the oases of Clerk of the Signet and Clerk
of the Privy• Seal in Scotland, 'moved that lig Order
of Vie Day for that Bill be discharged; for the pun.
pose of bringing in a new Bill. 'fire -bider ot. the
D,ty was thendischarged, and.. new Billot the same
kind brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be
read a second't!me to-morrow.
wavent.on &minor. PROCESSION.
Mr. LOC K H 'ART %ished to know' if any arrange.
meet bad beets made relative to the Procestion on
Wednesday, with• the view of admitting dip Public
on Wateilno Bridge ?,
Mr. H. AODINGTON said he was not possessed
•. • • •
of any inform:loon on the inojeet..
Mr. LOCKHART thoup,ht some precaution was
necessary to prevent accidents from itienittinre of
the crowd it rough the norrow pe3sagea. leading to
the Bridge. Adjourned,. . • .

.1110aGats's 7Fit NCE.--An• erroderius itl^a
havitigbeset formed by some persons refpecttng tile
nature of Lady MottonN's' Kew (VoiL, we are re-
cluts:ed to stale that it Contains not a particle of Fie.
• ;ion, but is the result of observations title during her
residence in France•in the 'year .1816:. ft is•divided
,into eight BooksT,Tlls first treats of the Peasantry.
the 2.1 and :LI of Society. The three next are entitled
Paris. The 7th t-tok is consecrated aux Spec:arks --
The Bth and last comprises Skbichei of m•tst of the
eminent and literary . characters of • Franc-.• 1.-he ie
are 4. Appendices,by Ea. Csms. gottoatc,_ on the stare
of Law, Finances. Politicalppitticn, rlimu!t
every page, we understand, teems With aUttientic and
original aaecdotes.
itINAL EXAMINATVINI OF M 12.4. HAP.RtOT mor y-
NEUX, t 0.4 CHILD ti I'EALING.MAaz •
oRounn.:.TREE r.—We do net re cyliect, her tars rro,
a case ish,cli has excited more inicieet than the present. Every
avenue tri the Office was blocked up at an early liar in the
morning, and the cats in the (Mee were occupied.by the Duke
of !.seas, Mr. SELLON. and other Members of Parliament;
Armlet a number of we l•dresseel fe•rna.les,
Switheowm:scdurir.vo.ody
ihnada
broi.ght thither. The prisi..ner wit brought from Cold Bath-
andfteivseeiedimlid:r:siop:citg-I:ititnerwanccomniipanied by a female friend, escorted by Plank,
el;eni7deceniutln;ellins'se".yrU,ilr:hcialeFic'rench bonnet and black
the Oil:co-keeper s apartments, where she
and age is SS. She Mere(' tie °See by the back door,
had a conference with Mr. Axnetews, her Counsel. On her
anweici,in; the -xamination room, through the long passar,
Mr. Purace, 13,r Solicitor, asked her if she had nue better p
her sea, to avoid Impertiew.nt cut imity? to which she repine...,
....a.eritlianii;ktimuuzxsaniri.obautit I
orllovecto
k ,nthleer.if t
asbai6„egirsees.
pc? On
the infant child, who at close to the prisoner during tire
hearing. 'I he particulars of Chi; case have been already ;taut.
the prisoner summed in gaud spirits during the etaiMaativn.
The chill tit one instance *seemed to know her, and held ow his
arms. It wss allowed that the had paid gre a• attention to the
infant. She ;iota not w.nt for friends; but her object hi.stealing
the child did nortome out fa evidence. 'f*:,e I.t e...iier ha: a Itan4-
swim lace; but is rather past the hey-day tit lite. On quitting
theulice, Mr. and Mrs.. Putter were surruunelc.l by the mend,
who expressed their sympathetic feelinis w th r:.e cough, but
honest, freedom of Englishmen ; wben str John Sebright. per.
ceiving the agitated sate 01 tilt unhappy parents, humanely
escorted theta. to has fume, in the neightsuurli.ind, anti having
supplied them with every r..eces....ry ,resershinetit..atiii. solaced
their minds by all the intsi:s which liiimatelly mil/. :4 te,...., they
*paned know. The prisoner hisgt:ed tn. be c. rt..niuitie./ to
prison, inste .)• toprit the
I M ales einuol•••.1 with.

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'ENI.7-"G STAR

I,OND)N.

TUESDAY, JUNE 17. !WT.
PRICE OF STOCK` THIS DAY AT TWFLYE O'CIOCIC I
litseuce4 VI; —Consols shu, —Olson!, fnr Org. 74
4 rer ecnt. 914-mNawy, shut —Batik Long Arms....
ktslis boa& if 546 pre.— h Ils 134, r.

WATsON, T.;;;',PER, PRESTON, AND
TIEST.LEWOOD,
DECLARED Nol' GUILTY.

The Dist of the STA•rx Tatau terminated yester-
day with a Verdict of CvVILTY, as we announced
last night in a part of our Impression. We have.
therefore, with this, published an additional sheet,
which those who file the arAft 10.1 place before this.
as if a Supplement to the STAB of yesterday.
Tn consrquenal (if the: acquittal of WATSON, the
proterutioss of du otkr Misenveed, PreNte.'l
and hooter, tuts. THIS DAY. 1111 EN ABOIDANED.
These individuals were conducted' into Court at
one o'clock, when a Jury was sworn in with the usual
forms; on which the Arroatfitr:Grnanat. rune, and,
stated that he laid to inform. the Crodt th't it was
not his intention to call any witnesses to the charges
that:. had been exhibited against the prisoners mai'
'l'heJury of course instantly pionounced their verdict.
of GUILTY and the -prisoners were lihe-
'rated t %ad. on thOnggestion of the Court, retired
thrOfigh,the back entrance of Westminster-hall..

Although the prisoners retired by the back avenue
of *the Cr:thrt 'they were soon traced out by the' mel.
iitudi. a cos was procured, the-horses were taken
cut. and 'the prisoners havirgg ascended, they were
drarged in proeessiOn up ibirliantent-street..Nhite-'
hall, and' slang the Strand into Wycif-street, amid
loud and continued "cheering*.
No: the slightest tumult. or approach to it, occur.
red; as tar is we' oUld hear, doting last night.
The priittlice. happily had not, upenks occasion,
lay of thoed Otitis" alsinottat • them. was language
condUct,in lailieOnstiaces, " have had else. efict
amairdifii 44# isftiy, /*VA yet Wailed Al
stlistaial imay be At maw 4f dam."

' A Motion of Ent Ganavasos is tba Homo of
peen last night. lei a list of the-nan►'s, thr Ages,
galas conditions'oV die peeions at prrsent confined
oa charges of a pntitiCal nature, brought on same
angry expersaim beim" Lord Rot ba and Lan
Cm

The Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill was then die.
cussed on.: it •Motion tr us second reading. In the
engine of the &bite some circumstances were slated,
which, hi oar mind, go • far to ieweSdate all dm
reatate chat have been alleged he chie enconstite.l
thins! mestere. As might bay* been espected, the
base conduct of Mr. Ogvans detailed in the maw•
bent which we yesterday laid Wiwi our Readers,
frees the Zoe Noterry, was duly animedented on.

In the Collo3ool..aiso, the conduct of Government
hi employing such agents was loudly censured; and
is our mind it is not easy to justify the meet of the
rewards cooferved en the basest of Manidad for the
battle Mts. Sir luau loom leveiglimt biterly
iigihiet 005 *slide, who had been beretefer• a spy
and isisissa in Ireland, so wise' evidence move
map, once his friends air itecempliees, it was assert.
ed, had beat boogied f,whe had been charged with
revokiag to humanity ; iota who bad,
netwoduitandink sitthis, been returned a Grand Jury-
man epos Walabi's Bill et Indicant
send been
recently ofiniasted Beitisb Consul to
Nr leitmar to imilloset sw those tisple.. The bare
stalemate speaks volmaess awl w miiiilloge
yet literate moue Itiplasasias in (Ma* their
cool And &liberate itodgMat is Myelin the M.
dune on which. it has been reposed to suspend the
Coeseitetiee•of the Country. Evidence rewiag on
Ike waskilosi of men capable of eadeavouring, for
the hope of reward, to incite poor ate:Ting mechanics
and labourers to the commiseios of crimes which
may lead to the 'reek of their lives, is w.nas than
no evidence whatever. •
True, an honest Jury may sometimes deliver the
victims from the snares laid for them.a cool-and
suirupasolusai Jury May put ont of their asiad• the
whole evidence drawn from sources %Mentally of
credit, as in the ease of Warsaw who was yesterday
acquitted ; but is it itoinjury to bare men's lives pm
in jeopardy on such evidence ? Might it not happei
that 10,11 C villain might shroud his crimes and have
Lis testimony left unimpeached till long after. the vie.
tins had suffered I—ls there no danger of the
very evils. for the prevention of which the Habeas
Corps. Act is proposed to be suspended, being
produced by the active agency of spies and infor-
meri, lab Oaring in their vocation for blood-money?
There is a great danger of this ; sand were it true, as
asserted by some, that the great Mu. of the people is
disaffected to the Governmeni, we thick the zeal of
thew wretches would actually have been the means of
producing a most formidable general insurrection
within these last three or four weeks. But it is not
true—and the assertion is a foul calumny on the great
and loyal majority of the people of Eugland I

AstuteA.--Froat the Baltimore Fears! Gazette of
,Mgy 17 •
I. We understand, says the Cratritilllllll Mew/sr, of May •,
that a ship teed of stock's, yams and belies wearers, mired at
p obi:Nose s Sew day. dace, where they purpose to term ass
establsdeneet, Mikis $s ter ks object the manufactory of cot.
ton 04 woollen hosiery. knit pantaloons, petticoats, mules
Waistcoats. and Salm Moo end tell for Ladies' dresses:

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