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have moved twat the Clerk of the Board of TAze called to the Bar, to answer for his neglect but ta.,
he had been informed the delay vc.l occasioned i,
the great diCculty of obtaining tit: returns.
1.3011 A S toft)::.
Lord A. HAMILTON rose, pun cant to his no
to
move that this person be discharged from Netru c;
e,
'From what had passed in the House on the 0tt....01
for depriving Fergusson of his olio:, he collects:4
that the general feeling was, that snilicitut puzi,ll,
meta had already ben inflicted sad cljt
they were now disposed to deal morriCil:y %tit},
especially as he had ackiiowledg- , nnerc,
therefore did not anticipate at.y i,l,KcLortr, rao.
tion. He moved—That Thom- s Fer. ?.issre !•••• ca:htd
to the bar to morrow, and discharreil.

Mr, WYNNE said, that as :he fir,:::;; ai,,,A7
decided not to take his view of the p.iLisl.roetsitCat
ought to be inflicted *a the psrtcr qee:
should not oppose the view wtiri:
might be• inclined to take of tr.is mrrion, was
certainly a strong circumstance in 1.wr,31. pc,rat.
son that he had acknowledged his guih. Wlwn
subject was last before the House, he .aal.
whether he intended to ground any gen.c! 41
on the motion which he had FirJpo,44 !3 !:t
for the dismissal of Fergusson from ots•
that time he stated that he did not rizer,:,
forward any general measure. Bet
sideration, he thought it was a quenion V7e;:4
ing the considcrat:on of the HOJP!. nhether
Visions of the Ats now in free
Clelks in the Post Office, etc. interferiEr in
ought not to be ester.ded to Officers of the A,lefirj
Taxes ?He threw out chic now fcr ems:Jen:in
of the House.—The motion a as then :Inv.: tc.
PETITIONS POR IREPOP.M.
Lord COCHRANE presented a Pcti!ion Ja
Burgesses of Paisley. The Petition prayed fc.r
Reform and Universal SuffrAge.—lt W. 1.1 braght
up, read, and ordered to lie on the tabk.
Lord COCHRANE then presented sir similar
Petitions from Ifaacheger, three from Faldi, 2,se
from Pollockshaws, one from Royston, and en hum
Iluddersfield, and several from various other plAtes,
—They were read,- and ordered to lie on the table.

• IPARLIAIMNTANT arson.%
Sir R. HERO rose,
.pursuant to his notice, bl
rime for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Sep-
tennial Act. He hoped the House would do in tine
justice to recollect that he had never before had the
presuMption to call upon them to agree to any mo-
riot of his; nor would he now !:..re come before
.them but from a strong sense of daty. when he Fez.
ceived that the Sessionlad advance.l v. such a
without any motion on the subject being in
forward. The subject was one which hats
bean 410 frequently discussed, that he need not net.
pass long upon the time of. tLe House, even if his
health had been such as to allow him to do so. Os
vat ions occasions. the House, convinced of the p..=r-
fnl reasons in favour of the 11,forrn which he pro-
posed, bad gOrie a• great:way z -wards erecing it.
At the dose. of the. American war the suaj was
stron_ gly. pressed upon the Hoax. The crAsloct of
the Ministry at that time, by conttnning the w‘r in
opposition to the wishes of the nation, gave such
strength to the cause, that it had then neai:y tri-
umphed. Afterwards, however, it had reiapta, but
WAS again brought forward with sery fair ilT4.4.eiti,
cal it suffered most severely hi the defec:;ott of us
most able *advocate. Then came the French Revo-
lution, and from an appeal to the transactions
had taken place at that time, the enemies et lt,ilan
had successfully opposed it. The cause was reco-
vering from this blow when it was brought iito
repute by those who are the worst enemies of a

derate and constitutional reform, and by those p.sts
which had been so much exaggerated.' These obsta-
cles, he believed, were now nearly quite returiv,.!,
.The machinery for the constructionpf plots, if nut
altogether destroyed, was so much damaged, that it
was not likely again to produce any explosion. Who
the Grenville Act was passed, the corrupt state of the
Representation was admitted. So far as that Bill
went, it had been extremely beneficial, and it was
unfortunate that the House had not „rue further.
Any Reformproposed fromhi his side of the House was
always opposed, on the ground that the time nas im-
proper. If it was left to those on the other side, he
feared that the proper time would never come. In
the-tinae of .prosperity they said it was neediest, and
in the time of adversity dangerous. But it was en
objection to Reform that those who wished for it
wete'not agreed as to the plan of Reform. Another
oljectioti was, that the Constitution Ivas perfect and
needed an reform. Neither of these obActions Lad
any. weight. But• the most forrnidaV,e ti all objec-
tion's adduced was the consequences of the French
Revolution: If this were dispassionately consideted
it would be found perfectly unfounded. It was veil
unfair to argue to revolution from reform. It kras
only necessary to look to the character of the pe.4.e
of tngland to see that they never had been i ~..:.cd
to anarchy. In the troubles in the time of Char:( I.
very little blood was shed on the scaffold; ncr woa;i
that Monarch have been sacrificed hinkse`

not front a convictionaM..:4 the people of
that he could not be trusted. by any pArty.
gument that Reform was attended with d 3. •

not be sincere ; for those on the othcr

•
urged it made no scruple of sheik& or ••
the Constitution when they thought it c•.'
Reform, in fact, was essential to t!.e

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