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" Upcn this impdrtart point your Peti.toner humbly begs
leave to represent to your itieht Honoutabie House that the
Londou Onion Society was founded in lan, by Mr. Edward
Bolton Clive, Mr. Walter Fawkes, the late Colonel 11059/lile, Mr.
Montague Burgoyne, the present Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman
Coodbehere, Mr. -Francis Canning, Mr. William Hallett, Mr
Francis Burdett, Major Cartwright, Mr. *Want Slade, Mr.
Timothy Brown, Mr. J. I. Clarke, and several other individuals
equally respectable; that it continued tr hold Mee!lugs but a
very short time; that it never lid any aci except the publishing
of one Address to the Nation cite the subject of Reform ; that it
never hail any one " Branch -** that is never held any Correspon-
dence, either written or verbal, with any Society of any iota;
that it never wad affiliated to any society, or branch, or any body
of men whatsoever; finally, that it has lint even met for liCeril
three year; and a ball best past ; and, et course, that it is Mt now
In existence.
4. What then must havelseen the surprise and the paiwof your
humble Petitionee, when lie saw in the itepost of your Lordshipe
Secret Conimittee this Loudon Union Society represented but
only as being cill in existence,'but Meetly and extensively at
work, establishing branches and affiliations, catryin on an active
coi respondence, infusing life itito Societies of Spenceati Phalan.
thropists, and producing by these fueans plans of conspiracy, re.
volution, and treason ! And though your Petitioner is toe well
assured or the uptight views and of the justice lit every Commit..
tee consisting of Members of your Noble and Right Honourable
Noose, net to lie convloced that very stroug evidence in support
of these charges niust have teen produced so your Lordships Se.
cret Committee, your Petitioner cannot, nevertheless, refrain
mum express ng most humbly his deep regret that your Ler&
should unt Lave deigned to send for the Boobs
and other testinioniels of the character and proceedings of the
London Union Society ; and your Petitioner humbly begs leave
to observe, 'het tide omission appears sitieularly unfortunate fir
the London Union Society, seeing thatthe Secret Coliffiiitiee of
your Lordships aweer, in anteher part of their Report, to lament
the want of means of obtaining the erri!itil primeedings of Stier-
ties, and seeing that it was natural to owes: that a Society have
hag branches, an Ablution, and ass act.ve correspoudoice, had
also a copious collection of written dOcumeitts.
" Your Petitioner is aware that he has trespaised too lung tea
the patience of your Lordship; but well knowing that yoet
Lordships seek only for hush as the hate of your proceedier,
he humbly hopes that you will he pleased to excuse the earnest.
assent hie present represeutat ion, and he also presupesiodiumhly
to express his hope' tlict your Lord will be please in your
ghat tenderises for the c*.aratter and liberties of his Majesty's
faithful subjects, to consider whether it hi not possible that your
Secret Committee may base been tni.le I,by what they may hive
droned good evidence as to other tarts of th;:tr recent Report ;
and, at the least, yaws- Pet•ii•itier butabli prays that y:ior.i.orst.
steps will, in your great void, se.-tision, lie phased to pet mit jeer
Pet tt i ttt ire to produce all the Itiooks stud Papers of the London
Union Society at the Bar of your Right Honourable !loess.,
where.your Petitioner cimilittently assures your Lordships that he
i 4 ready to prove .11 and %modal' the allrgaiotis contained iii this
his most humble Petitiun.—And your Petitioner will ever pray.
lIUSIAS CLLAST."
His Lordship obso red, with regard to the Petition
he had thus read, that it contained statements which
it was of the utmost importance the House Would
thoroughly examine, because it these statements were
correct, the Secret Committee must have been ins.
posed upon. lle had the highest respect for the
Members of that Committee, but they might easily
have been misled by false evidence, persons desirous
of courting the favour of the House.
The Doke of MONTROSE tose to Order. Ile
cOoidered it highly disorderly to impute to the Mem-
bers of a Committee appointed by their Lordships
any •motives, such as courting the favour of the
House, which could iseuence them in the discharge
of a public duty.
Earl GROSVENOR said, if the Noble Doke had
allowed him to finish his expression, it would 'have
been found that lie had no intention whatever of im-
puting motives to the Members of the Committer.
All he meant to say was, that persons, with a view
of courting the favour of that House, of courting the
favour of Minuters (for what was intended but to
give Ministers mdditional power) might state to time
Committee what was not the fact, and that thus the
Committee might have been misled. This was his
view of the subject, and it was most important that
such a consideration should be adbpted by the Hose.
Was it to be endured, that upon statements ma4e by
any Cdhimittee to that House, and which statements
were offered to be proved at the Bar to be untrue,
that the liberties of the people of England were to be
placed at the disposal of Mr. Canning, Mr. Bragg.
Bathurst, Lord Castlereagh, and then colleagues
(Cries nj Order.)
The Duke eft ATHOL spoke to order. He felt it .
inaumbention him -to aver, that no man en his side of
the House was capable of such motives as seemed to
be inferred. • Any language that tended to impute
improper motives, was unparliamentary, and should
not beheld.
The LORD' CHANCELLOR expressed a simi.

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lar sentiment. He felt it his duty not to sit silent on
the Woolsack while any Noble Lord stated that a
sacrifice was about to be made of the liberties of the.
people to such men as Mr. Canning, Mr. Bragg.
Bathurst, and the other-personages alluded to.
Earl GROSVENOR contended that the measure
about to be proposed; would be in effect to place the
liberties of the country for the hands of the Noble
Lords opposite and the rest of his Majcsty'sMinisters.
He, therefore, did not conceive what had alien from
him as unparliarnmiary or out of order.
Lord ROLI.E appealed to the blouse, whether it
was just or fair to make allusions to persons not
Members of that House ?
Earl GREY argued that nothing which he had
heard•from his Noble Friend could be tauty constru-
ed as a breach of order. The effects of a Bill for