Star.
London, England, 1819-02-17 00:00:00

lIOUSE OF COMMONS.

Sir GODFREY WEBSTER presented a Petition from the
Inhabitants of Brighton, praying for an alteration and amend-
ment of the I'oor Laws.—Ordered to lie on the table.

Sir Wlt ! 1.1.31 BCC: INCY !•.ad leave of absence for six weeks.

Mr. LIUMF, After some observations relative to the internal
government of the Scottish Burghs, presented a Petition from
the BurgLbses of Montrose, pra)ing to be restored to their Rights
and Privileges.—lt was read and ordered to lie on table.
Mr. CURW EN presented a Petition from the Inhabitants of
Car:isle, praying for an Amendment of the Poor Laws.—Or-
dered to lie on the table.

Sir C. MONCK, bolding in his hands a Petition from certain
Occupiers and Proprietors of Land in the County of Northum-
berland, wished for the indulgence of the House while he en-
deavoured to explain the particular merits of it. He then shortly
stated that the Petitioners gave it as their opinions, that our
native soil was sufficient to support our population, and that the
agricultural productions of other countries ought not to be al-
lowed to be imported into these kingdoms without extra duties.
Although such a measure might tend in sonic degree to a prohi-
bition of the articles alluded to, yet it would operate as a pro-
tection to the produce of our own country. The Hon. Member'
thought that persons of the description of the Petitioners, the
most valuable, perhaps, in the nation, deserved to be protected
in their industrious pursuits as well as those in the mercantile''
world.—The Petition was read, ordered to lie on the table, and
to be print Al.
Mr. HO WORTH presented a Petition from Mr. W. Gray,
Agent for the Petitioner in the Worcester Election, praying a
farther time to put in sureties under special circumstances.- I
Mr. Gray having verified the facts of the Petition, time was
allow ed until Saturday

The Zg0,000,000 I•.ich4quwer Bills' Bill WIS read a third time
and pissed.

• WINDSOR ESTABLJS/ISIENT.

Lord cAsT C.Elt EA Gil observed, that as he understood the
Committee yould pot be enabled to make their Report before
a late hour to-morrow evening,Ar perhaps on Thursday, it was
obvious, that the House would' desire some short time to con-
sider its contents prtvionaly to the intend.ed discussion. The
motion, therefore, which his Lordship announced for Thursday
next, be thought it iratmbent upon him to postpone till Mon-
day, in order to afford Gentlemen an opportunity of making
themselves better acquainted with the subject.
Mr. TIERNEY Mci no objection to the accommodation re-
quired by the Noble I ord for the postponement of his motion.
lint he hoped that both his Lordship and his Friends would
perfectly pnderstand, that he (Mr. Tierney) meant or the very
same day to take tbe'sense of the I louse on his announced mo-
tion for the additlmal payment of the ZlO,OOO to be in future
allowedlo the Duke of York (in his new office), to be paid out
of the Privy Purse, instead of being dtfrayed by the
INTarkTIONS TO THE MOUSY..
The SPEAKER thought it ificumbeut 011 him to state, that
the parties concerned in petitionicg agaList the Oxford Election
had neglected to complete their recoguizances in the time
elkswed.--(The return is therefore confirmed.)
The SPEAKER afterwards mentioned, that he had received
a letter from Edward Quist, Esq. clued Dublin, the 13th inst.
assuring him of his ur stool promptitude to obey the commanCs
of the House; but that from a serious indisposition he despaired
of being able to set out ott his journey before Sunday. lb
tberefore hoped for some further indulgence as to his time
of attendance.
Sir 11.0131.41 T WILAN, agreeably to this intimation,

aloe eti, 04 the time fur the attendaneolsf Edward Quin, Esq.
be extended to to-morrow einnight.-rOrdered, that Mr. QI2IU
do thou attend in his place.
B kNIC 91 IRELAND.
Mr. GRENFELL made some few remarks on the
conduct of the Bank of Ireland, in which his contrast
between that public body and the Bank of England
was in favour of the former. He, however, con-
demned the extraordinary increase of paper issues !iv
the Bank of Ireland. In the year 1797, the whole
amount did not exceed £600,000 ; in the January
1818, it had risen to the enormous sum of four mil-
lions and'a half. An inquiry into the cause Of such
a reprehensible augmentation of their paper currency
was a subject worthy of the consideration of Parlia-
ment. For his own satisfaction, and for the idol..
mation of the House, he had several motions to offer.
But however much he condemne3 this wonderful in-
crease of paper issues by the Bank of Ireland, he
thought the Governors and Directors of that firm de-
served every encomium for their liberality in the
management of the public debt. While the Bank of
England charged Government enormously for their
trouble in the management of the public debt, the
Bank of Ireland gave their time'and attention to the
same object without any expense to the public. Ile
concluded by several motions relative to the issues
of notes, &c. by the Bank of Ireland, and for the
weekly amount of posting bills, and amount of notes
under £5 now in circulation.
Mr. MANNING vindicated the Bank of England
from the insinuations of the I lonourable 11;eniber. lle
issured the House and the Public, that the charges
of the Bank of England were in every degree per-
'feed), reasonable.
The motions were then severally put and carried.
SURCHARGES.
Sir M. RIDLEY stated, that in several country
parts of England, farmers who had sold horses, had
been charged with fines for not taking out licences
as horse-dealers. He did not mean to impute blame
to official persons, when he stated that a system of
surchargieg upon the assessed taxes of the country
had been practised to an alarming extent.—(Hear,
hear.) He trusted, that the Right Hon. Gentleman
opposite (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would
take the subject into his most serious consideration
for the purpose of procuring some remedy to the
great evil. If no attempt, however, were made, he
would take an early opportunity, after the Easter re-
cess, to bring the matter before Parliament. He con-
cluded by moving, That Returns be laid before the
House of the number of Surcharges on farmers, who
sold horses without licences, and the judgment of
the Commissioners on every case, for the last six
Months ; also for a Return of the number of Sur-
charges on those who kept horses for the purposes of
game, not duly authorised, for the last six months.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
he was ready to lend his support to' remedy what-
ever evil might be found to exist in any branch of the
department to which he belonged. It was only very
lately that he had heard of the Surcharges upon the
specific subject alluded to by the Honourable Gen-
tleman, and he feared that the returns could not pos-
sibly be made for some time. During the interval,
perhaps, something might occur to prevent any fur-
ther interposition of the House.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN stated, that Sur-
charges were made to his knowledge to a very op-
pressive extent ; and he regretted much that they
should be made at a time when the state of the pub-
lic burdens rendered it so difficult for many persons
to endure their Surcharges.—These Returns were
then ordered.

PUBLIC OFFICES IN IRELAND.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said he rose to move for
leave to bring in a Bill to extend to Scotland and
Ireland the provisions of the 50th of the King, to
regulate the taking of Securities for the holders of
Public Offices, with respect to such offices as security
could be taken for. He apprehended that he need
only read the title of the Act to shew the justice and
necessity of the BilL In every Act of the Legislature
he had wished that the care of Parliament should be
equally displayed for one part of the United Kingdom
as for another; and if ever there were a case which
proved the policy of his wishes, beyond question, it
was that for which he now proposed the remedy.—
The Act alluded to was made in 1810; it was intro-
duced at the close of the Session, and carried through
its different stages in so-short a time, and so private
a manner, as to excite very little attention to the,
circumstance of Scotland and Ireland having been
left out of its operation. The Honourable Baronet
concluded by making his motion to the effect he had
already stated.
Sir G. HILL contended that this was not a Bill
to be extended to Ireland. The House knew that
ample security was provided by those 'n-ho hold
offices for receiving the revenue in Ireland. The Act
in England extended to all offices, civil and military,
and had no application to Ireland. The House had
also to remember, that the Act of the .72c1 of the
King to amend that of the 50th, in the second sec-
tion, expressly laid down that Ireland should be
exempted -from its operation ; and this was deter-
mined after a patient and deliberate discussion of the
claims which. Ireland might have had to be made a
party to it—(Hear, hear 1.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHF.QUER
assured the Right Hon. Baronet, that the Treasury
had taken every proper and necessary step for secur-
ing the public money.
Sir JOAN NEWPORT replied, that although the
Treasury might be taking such measures, it did not
follow that Parliament was not to adopt measures of
security. One person in Ireland had defalcated in his
payments; his securities died, and the money which
had been collected was entirely lost. He hoped,
therefore, that Parliament would do something by
which the public money should be taken proper care
of. In the case of a Mr. Hunter, who was Treasurer
of the Ordnance, no securities were taken, and the
money in his hands was entirely lost. Measures of
security, therefore, should not depend on any Board
of Treasury.
Sir G. HILL said, that the. Treasury of . Ireland
had taken every possible care. to make all Officers
who received public money to give full arid sufficient
securities for the safety of the same.
Sir JOAN NEWPORT then withdrew his motion.
SECURITY OF LIVES AGAINST SHIPWRECK.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT, pursuant to -his notice, '
rose to move for leave to bring in a 13i11 for securing
the lives of persons who might be shipwrecked. Ile

observed, that, it ccording to the present law, all
sons who saved the cargoes, or fart of the cariorL
belonging to ships wrecked or stranded, were enth4ti
to a certain reward; but there was no reward—
saving the lives of the persons on board. Therec;is
there!or.:. reason to apprehend, that while people st•lio
came to the a s..istance of *ships in distress were anxic4
to save the property on board, thermit;ht be c
less about the lives of the people. He Mould them fore propose that a reward %Lould be !jveri for say.
ing the lives as well as dieeargoes, evei, in a
proportion; and .that in cases where no cargo
saved, there should he a reward tor the saving
levery life Ik hoped this measure would apn,
'just and necessary, that the House would not ,
to the principle of it. He concluded with niflvin
leave to bring in a Bill for the security of thelir
seamen or passengers on board ships that
wrecked or stranded, or in danger of being lost.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sit
he fully agreed in the principle of the measure, a
being consonant to humanity and justice; althmet
there might be some differences of opinion bereft
Gentlemen as to some of its details.

Mr. DAVIES GILBERT observed, that
the last Session he had given notice of his into;;
to bring in a Bill on this subject; but he was glad
find that the business was now in so mach ,
hands. He wished, however, that the Honour,.,
Baronet would allow this Bill to lie by for some t!me,
as is might be necessary to make some better rep-
lotions with regard to salvage.
Sir J. NLW'I'ORT expressed his readiness to
so; and leave was then given to bring in the NIL
ELECTION PETITIONs.
Sir JAMES MACINTOSH rose, in ,
of the notice lie had given, to move for leave t.
large the time for entering into recognizauces in
case of the Galway Election Petition. Whatevt
strict letter of the law might be on this question,
however it might operate against the petitioner, he
should appeal to the equity and liberality of the
House, whe:her the Act did not vest it with a
tion to step beyond that letter in a case of particular
hardship, where a petition came from so very remote
a part of the kingdom as the county of Galway;
when it was considered that time might be los:
sending the necessary communications from
to London. There were two cases in which
indulgencies had already been granted Ity the House
those of Saltash and Dungarvon. He concluded -
moving, that the petitioner might be allowed
the 12th of March to enter into his recognizance&
Mr. B. BATHURST observed, that in all cases it
must be the wish of the House, that no form
stand in the way of equity ; but when an Act of Par-
liament had laid down aprecise rule, the House must
not break a positive law, however hard the obseiv-
ance of it might be upon the individual. In the two
cases refetred to by the Hon. and Learned _
man, some good reason was assigned for the indul-
gence required; but in the present case, no reason
whatever was given ; and therefore he considered the
Motion as one which the House could not entertain.
Mr. W. WYNNE said, he adhered to t!ie -
nion which he stated yesterday : because he .
vinced that the House ought always to discourage
applications of this kind, when sufficient ground 1,-
not laid for them ; and that it ought always to
strictly to precedents. The Honourable Memt
quoted several cases, to shew the caution the
had' always observed on applications of this
The question was then put and negatived.
asteouxo EtEcrtov.
Mr. BERNALL presented a Petition from
demon of the name of Teed, in which it was
that on that day the E::aminers appointed to
into the validity (if the securities for prosecana,
l'Grampound Election Petition, had objected
the sureties, on the ground of his being enga;
mercantile adventure, the failure of which mi
der him liable to all the debts and losses of the
it further set forth, that the Petitioner was
to his room by illness, and was, therefore, un
take the necessary steps for procuring evi
shew that this Gentleman, a most respectal
chant, was in a perfectly solvent state. The
tioner, therefore, prayed for a further enlargement
the time, in order to be enabled to effect this "

Witnesses were then called fo the Bar, who
that Mr. Teed was confined to his room by i.
Mr. DE MAN observed, that if Examiners
allowed to make such objection to sureties
which had now been stated, there was not a mere
in the country whose credit might not be inn-
Indeed, he thought it nimecessary to bring
case as this at all befpre the House.

The SPEAKER observed, that there were
things prayed for in the Petition. The one
give the Petitioner time to produce the proper
reties; the other was to give him time with
to himself.

Mr. W. WYNNE said, he was ready to agree
the prayer of the Petition.
Mr. B. BATIIURST conceived that the
ought to give the Petitioner the time he pra
in order that he might be enabled to procui
dent evidence respecting the validity of his s•
Mr. WARD conceived that it was the rata
pasty himself in not giving due notice.
The SPEAKER said it was necessary
House should come to some decision, for the
of giving a clear interpretation to the Act of
the King.—The Motion was then agreed to.
Mr. BERNALL moved that the Petitioner
be allowed till the 16th of March to enter hi.
nizances, conceiving that a shorter time wool,
duce inconvenience under all t!:e cireumstanc,
Mr. W. WYNNE could see no reason Sr.
House should agree to the motion cf the
Member, and suggested that the opinieu of
men ought to be taken as to the time which
titioner could reasonably solicit.
The SPEAKER.observed that it was not
usual course for the recognicances to be eni
the Speaker at another place, when the 1),
was unable to attend the !louse, whether frol
position or any other sufficient cruse.
Mr. W. NVYNNE concurred in what had b.
pressed from the Chair; and on the suggestioa C
SPEAKER, it was finally agreed to allow the
tioner till to-morrow week for himself, and till fr.
day %sea for his recognizances.
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1.,t,. to resolve itself into a Committee on the As.
5,.1,1 Tax on Horses,
gr. CCRIV.EN rose, and observed, that consider.
2* hardship was experience.l in different parts of
:he country, from the unequal operation of this tax,
sccording to the present system.
Afer a few other observations, the Home resolved
:,-
• ..lf into a Committee, and the Report was ordered
obe brought up on Monday next.
gr. 13:10G DEN brought up the Report of the Committee
„Nile to the ,offering of Rewards fur the apprehension of
livigie;Ortlered to lie on the table.
ct s respecting
Vt. LORING'S/SI brought up certain Pa?
0 &brio of the °Meets of the House of Commoas.—Ov-
iird to lie on the table.
lb. LOSIlltiG roN brought up other Papers, relative to
kit:Taber of Ships employed in the Nlrba!e Fishery.—Ordered
ele go the table!--Adjournesi L. a quarter before Eight.
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Tjl E EVENING STAR

LONDON.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1819.
THE FUNDS.
?nice OT STOCKS TlitS DAT AT OWE 13.CLCCIC
brA Stock 267 B—Exch. Bills (2d.)12 IQ 11 IS pr.
3Ter Cent. Reduced 77at_c....161 7 614
ens. for Acc. 61-31 -?er Cent. 861 it
4 9er Cent. 961 5}—.5 per Ceht. Navy 1061 7 6f
N. 14. Ans. 20i 5-161—India Stook 2291, 9
tdia Bonds 71 63 pr.—Omnium Far,

Fosiness commenced very heavy this morning, and
little done. Consols cper.ed at 76-1, but several
zeificial buyers mado their appearance, and ran
tMal up to 77t. An immense quantity of the pawned
;:cck was then thrown upon the market, and Con
fell to 76:;:. The Commissioners
were serred by the JGbbers generally, in Reduced,
It

Lord C.V.IT.7REAGII stated last night, in the House
of Common, that the Report of the Select Com-
mittee on the t7indscir Establishment would be pre-
sented to-day, and postponed his motion on the sub-
ject to Monday; when there will probably be an
animated di.cussion, Mr. TIERNEY having given
totice that he should divide the House upon the
proposed grant to the Duke of YORK of 10,0001. a-
7car, on his undertaking the custody of the KING'S
person; or rather, upon this question—whether, if
Cie sum of MOM. a-year is to be assigned to his
Poyal Highness, it ought not to be taken out of the
•
Privy Purse?

The Paris Papers of Sunday arrived this morning,
tot they contain little else than the report of another
day's debate on the Bill for altering the term of the I
bancial year. The proposition is, to make it run
from July to July, instead as at present, from Feb-
raary to February ; connected with which is another,
arising more conveniently than necessarily out of it,
that the Chamber shall this Session vote the taxes for
eighteen months, instead of twelve—that is, till July,
1820..-so as to get rid of the odd time between this
sad the Ist of Jely next. The opposition Membees
contend, that by the Charter the duration of the taxes
r,3l.cteti to twelve months, and that it is there-
apt constitutionally in the power of the Chamber
to vote them for a day beyond that period ; and that
ffen were they to vote them for 18 months, as• proposed,
,:teLieges would not be bound to submit to the De-
rn of the Legislature, but might legally contest its
ilidity. In illustration of this principle, M. DE
SAINT ALMA IRE made a happy reference to the case
cf oar I lAMPDES, whose patriotic conduct, in obsti-
tately refusing, at the hazard of his whole fortune,
pay an illegal tax of ten shillings, would, he said,
be the noble example which all good Frenchmen
might be expected to pursue. The debate having
:gain continued till the usual hour of rising, was a
Li:d time adjourned till Monday, when, it will pro•
be concl-ded, as only five more Members have
their names to speak upon it. The Funds
keep llorly stationary. On Saturday they left off
• 70 f.

A Flanders Mail arrived this day and brings us
Brussels Papers to the 11th instaiit. They are chiefly
ccelPied with the Sittings of the Second Chamber.
On the 10th, many Petitions relative to Customs
and I:xcise wete referred to Committees. Like our
'ra Manufacturers, the different branches keep re.
Itcrstrating against taxes on their respective pro-
Lects: the Scap-makers oppose a Tax on Soap, and
Popcse one on Potash ; which the Glass-makers op-
itte as calculated to injure the manufacture of Flint
Vass. The Committee to whom this question had
bra referred propose 15 per cent. and inferior rates
0: day on Flint and other Glass imported.
On the 15th, Treaties concluded by his Majesty
• the King of PIUMSIA ; the King of the Two St-
irs ; and two German Princes, on the reciprocal
i':"l.ltion of the Droits d'Aubaine in their respective
I.ites, were communicated to the Chamber. The
Order of the Day was the discussion of the Project
• Law, respecting sea letters and Turkish passes.—
!Vart 1/onEsmonr made along and eloquent speech,
1 •vhich he entered into historical details of the for-
splendour of the Marine; the Navigation and
, • ramerce of the Netheilands:; and the best means
restoring its former splendour, and extending the
prnreerce of the counti y ; and augured much for
f'ture prosperity from the foreign branches being
• '-ginger confined to privileged and charmed com-
ranks, but open to the Citizens at lane.

According to the latex oif:cial accounts to Go.
'emnrzet, now publi,lted from the Council Office,
tie Plague is raging with gnat violence at Algiers
ttlt: Tunis, A letter from Minorca or the 28th of
`''comber, says, that a vessol had arrived there from
7-nis, after a passage of eight days, bringing ac-
tozr.s that the deaths in that City amounted to above

four hundred doily. The Master of the Vessel re.: of which was drawn out, and a hook put through it,
ported that just before he sailed the deaths hadl whilst round the neck were the labels,
." Whig,"
increased to upwards of six hundred per disszi.. " Tory," and " Carlton House bred." It was car-
ried about in great state among the crowd in front of
A Dutch frigate, arrived at Mahon from Algiers, the hustings for some time, and excited " thunders
brings dispatchesup to the 13th of December, stating of applause."
that fresh attacks of the plague had taken place in At last four o'clock arrived, and the poll was
that city. The contagion was supposed to have been struck for the day, when the total numbers were—
Alr. Hobhotue . 469
re-introducedsby the persons who accompanied the
Mr. Lamb - -
BEY of Constantinas with. the quarterly payments Major Cirtwright - 26
for the Algerine Government. It is added, that the This was received with another general shout, and
deaths by the plague at Tunis, according to the offi- Mr. HODHOUSE stepped forward.
cial returns from the Ist of November to the Ist of He began by again congratulating his friends that
December, amounted to 1'2,117. their cause was still at the head of the poll; and he
trusted it would so continue, in spite of every artifice
resorted to by their opponents. He used the words
" in spite of the arts of. their opponents," because he
had then in his hand a proof of as extraordinary an
artifice as had ever been resorted to in the history of
contested elections. He then produced a paper,
which he said had been issued from the Committee
of his opponent, and contained sundry observations
on the declaration which he (Mr. H.) had made at the
hustings on Saturday last. If he was in error in
saying
.that it emanated from them, let them now dis-
avow it.—Mr. ft. then read several extracts from
this paper. It purported to be an address to the
Electors, and began by telling them, that the right
of Suffrage in Westminster was almost universal.
" This," said Mr. 11. 44 is false. Westminster con-
tains 168,00% inhabitants, and only 14,000 of these
were entitled to vote. But it is not my intention to
d a ell upon this mis-statement ; it is the calumny of
the inference they have drawn from it of which I
complain. They say, " now what does Mr. Hob-
house mean, by giving an equality of sea; age?
Why, he tells you plainly, that when he is returned,
he means to disfranchise the majority of the Electors
of Westminster. ' The Nobleman, the private Gen=
tleman, the rich shopkeeper, and the opulent mer-
chant, he would leave in possession of their right of
suffrage; but the ingenious artizan, the poor house-
holder, and the humble labourer, he would disfran-
chise." How they have dared to assert these senti-
ments as mine, or how they can reconcile the so doing
with their professions of respect for you, conceiving
that you could be gulled by such an artifice, I am at
a loss to imagine. They were handed out of that
Committee-room, and Mr. James Macdonald was in

the Chair at the very time. ( Shame! shame ! )
ask' that Gentleman, then, the direct question,—lL
it, Mr. Macdonald, the work of your Committee ?"
Mr. MACDONALD: " I will answer you by and
by." ( Yah! Shame I He too'nt answer. Go on,
Hothouse.)
Mr. HOSHOUSE then continued, that they (Mr. L.'s
Committee), knew perfectly well that he was for the
very largest possible extension, and had declared
himself so unequivocally, that none but the wilfully
blind could affect' to misunderstand him. He had
put his opinions on paper, because he knew thcre was
no other mode of dealing with his opponents, the
Whigs. " Their chief•power consists,—and to de-,
scribe it correctly, I must do it in rather coarse terms,l
—.their chief power consists in telling infamous falsi-
'ties."—(Some applause, with great disapprobation.)--
He asked, had he ever given cause to suspect that he
had the intention of depriving them of any part of
their political rights? The Whigs objected to his
calling Reform an object paramount to every other;
fir it was no longer so In their estimation. They
had objected to his nomination in a room; but did
they not bring there themselves that excellent young
man, Lord John Russell, and did not they, when they
saw the unanimity which prevailed itt his (Mr. H.'s)
favour,—did not they, by the mouth of Mr. Wishart,
withdraw his Lordship's claims, stating, that they did
so because they would not create disunion ? Mr. H.
concluded with again asserting, that he was not a
party-man : and that if he went into the House of
Commons, it would not be to do the work of this or
that great man, but the work of the people only.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT then advanced to address
the Meeting. Mr. HUNT came forward- at the same
time, and the Hon. Baronet gave way to him.
Mr. HUNT then spoke : he contended Sir Francis
bad no right to be heard, as he was not a candidate,
before Mr. Lamb. Ile advised the populace not to
listen to the former, and called upon the latter to
speak first. •
Mr. Lama came forward, but the tumult was so
great that he could not obtain a hearing.
Mr. HUNT again stepped out.—(Go it, Hunt! give
it the Baronet! don't spare him! &c. followed in peals).
The orator again, like Demosthenes on the sea-shore,
out-roared the storm with the following sentences—
" I want to put some questions, for your good, to Sir
Francis. His political death is fast approaching. Will
you submit to his assuming the Dictatorship any
longer ? Major Cartwright has sent three questions.
to be put to Sir Francis Burdett. Will you let me
put them ?"—EThe uproar, however, continued with
unabated violence, and after some time, Mr. Hunt
passed up the outer bar, towards that part of the
hustings where Sir Francis stood. In his way, he was
assailed-with dreadful yellings ; he persisted, how-
ever, and stood brandishing his paper, containing
Major Cartwright's questions ; and at length, not
being able to obtain the least intermission in the cla-
mour, he again raised his voice, and read the ques-
tions in the midst of it. The ast tprestion asked,
upon what ground Sir Francis concluded that Major
Cartwright had no wish for a seat in Pirliameut,
knowing, as he did, that the Major hail been a Can--
&date three times already ; namely, for Nottingham,
Retford, and Boston ?—.2.dly, What were the Hon.
Baronet's reasons for believing, that even with his
support, and that of his Committee, it would be im-
possible to carry the election Of Major Cartwright
for Westminster ?—f,dly, What are the statements in
Cobbett's Register, which the Major, in his " Letter
to the Electors of Westminster," countenanced, know-
ing them to be false ?—Mr. Hunt, hiving read these
questions, added, " I told you I would give way to
none but a Candidate, and I'll never give way to
the Hon. Baronet. Ile likes to come in the sunshine,
and he skulks away in the thunder storm. I tell
you that he is a political apostate, who has formed
so many different opinions, that GOD only knows to
what sect he belongs. Ile accuses Major Cartwright
of falsehood, but he knows that the Major can, 'to
use the beautiful language of Mr. Hobhouse, prove
him guilty of infamousfaisities. Sir Francis ought
to know that the delusion of 1807 is gone by." 51n
Hunt then retired, and
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the most horrible uproar, said he could not have con:
ceived it possible that.the admirers of Mr. Flobboute's

eloquence could have been alarmed at his puny era
forts td answer him: - After all the pompous promi-
ses, however, of the preceding day, he had not, on •
this day's poll, a majority of fifty votes--(" Only
forty-eight,' fi-oni the Huaings).—This was the way
he meant to show theni they were tvithout a chance
of success. The Honourable Baronet, as Mr. lltaa)-
house had promised, had brought up his forces front
" the populous parish of St. James," amounting in
the whole to about 50 votes, so that this was all the
result of the Honourable Baronet's extraordinary cx.
ertions. He was glad, however, that the Baronet
liUdglecen spared the mortification of seeing his Fro-
tega at the bottom of the poll; for he seemed to ex.
perience infinite anxiety on his account. When he
brought up the peptlous parish of St. James that
morning, he took his stand on the hustings, and got
the huzzas of only seven voices. This, however, did
not diminish his appetite for popular applause, and
he was now come again, and stood before the people
of Westminster, unable to obtain a hearing. Mr.
Hobhouse had produced a paper, to which he required
an answer, and talked of 44 infamous falsities." For
his part, he (Mr. Lamb) was not used to such lan-
guage ; but it was a common observation, that when
people were losing their cause, they generally lost
their temper also. „All he should say to the paper kn
question at pi esent, was, that he thought the man
who wrote it was fullrentitied to the £l,OOO which
had been offered to any one who could make 1.4 r.
Hobhouse's declaration intelligible.
Mr. Honitotysz again came forward, but was in-
terrupted with cries of " Spoke, spoke e' and even-
tually retired to make way for
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, wl:o, as he came forward,
was received with a loud and long shout of applause.
Sir Francis, however, like his predecessors, was an-
noyed, throughout a very long speech, by a great
number of noisy dissentients. ,He spoke of the cause
of Reform, as the one to which his whole life had
been devoted, and insisted that he never had deserted
it for a moment. He proceeded to speak more at
large on those points by which he perceived their
minds were affected. He could not but congratu-
late them that no Court Candidate dare shew him-
self before them ; neither dare even he, the Coalition
an Cdidate, who was equally the friend of the ins and
the outs, come before them without a disguise. He
knew that if he had declared for Radical Reform,
he would have lighted the torch of discord among
the Whigs, and they would ,have thought him no
more a Whig than himself. So hee came there in
disguise, and told them he was a Reformer on the
principles, of Sir Samuel Romilly. But it wrs
ahsurd to talk of being of the principles of a nail
who is deceased, and whose principles, on that
particular question, are 'no where recorded. Sir
Francis then went into a general review of the dif-
ferent plans of extension of suffrage, and contended
that no one had yet insisted on suffrage without any
exception. The words Universal Suffrage, literally
understood, meant no exception;—and ere was
the advocate for this? He defended himself against
the charge of having deserted Major Cartwright, and
said that he had the greatest cause of complaint
against the Major. lie then recurred to Mr. Lamb
and the Whigs; and asked, what had the Whigs ever
done for this country ? Even at the Revolution they
betrayed the cause, and came in with a sham decla-
matory Act, called " the Bill of Rights," but which
had more properly been called " the Bill of Wrongs."
Their system, or that which they supported, had since
filled the metropolis with military, so that not a street
was to be found without its proportion of bayonets.
They had also an ample share of that perniciors
-sytaem of Bank paper to answer for; but if he \vete
t) detail all the mischiefs of Whiggism, or the glo-
ries, as Mr. Lamb would say, he should detain them
till midnight. The Whigs in place were like the Tc-
ries out of place, and Ralph the Historian had desig•
nated them as the "two thieves between whom
England is crucified."
On his retiring, Sir Francis Burdett was greeted
with very general applause.
Mr. MACDONALD then came forward, and expressed
his surprise and indignation that Mr. Hobhouse and
his friends had retired withcaat giving an opportunity
of answering the attack which had been made on Mr.
,„Lamb's Committee. He thought when he heard him
begin to talk of infamous falsehoods, that he was al-
luding to the report of that Committee, by which he
had been brought forward. But. if Mr. Hobhouse
meant to insinuate that the raper which he had pro-
duced originated with him, he would hurl back.the
falsehood in his teeth. That paper, it was true, had
found its way into Mr. Lamb's Committee, and had
been read there with great interest, as he had no
doubt it would he by all Westtninster ; and he could
not but feel obliged to him for giving it the publi-
city he had done, by coming to talk about it,
The noise and ups oar continuing all the time Mr.
M. was speaking, he retired imn.e.llately after the
above remarks; and Mr. Gale Junes, according to
his ancient custom, mounted the rostrum for the
finale, in which he dipped deeply into Grecian and
Roman History, &c.
After which the Meeting quietly dispersed.
RTli DAY.
State of the Poll this day at one o'clock :
Mr. llosihnss . - 540
Mr. LAMII 49t
Major CaIINVIIIGII/ Ea

• Friday, Mr: TYLER, Bookseller, of Cow-Cross St.
West Smithfield, was arrested on a Judge's V;arrana,
for selling Paine's Age of Reason.

A young French traveller, nephew of Court Mot-
Lteu, Ex-Minister, has succeeded in reaching Tom-
buctoo by way of Senegal. Ilisofamily has just re-
ceived a letter from him, in v,hich he annon-Ices h:s
safe arrival in that celebrxed town, hitherto unkncwa
to Europeans, and %.Itiell the vnfortunate MvNQo
,PARK twice vainly attempted to reach.
CORN-EXCHANGE, MA RK-LA NE, FEBRETART 17.
Our Market continues abundantly supi,lied ith ,T 1
Crain, fol which the demand is very trifling, a! d
what little Wheat was disposed of this morning was
'rather on lower terms than on Monday. The $.113(y
trade is expeedingly dull, and although lower price
were asked by full 2s. per quarter than were (*stair..
'ed on Monday, scarce a sale could be effected._
Beans, Peas, and Oats, are also cheaper, the supply
of each being large, and vcry sew buyers.

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