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London, England, 1818-03-10 00:00:00

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.and peace (hear, hear
It was also an object of the Bill to inderanti:
Magistrates for dispersing somc public Mee it,
alluded particularly to that called the Madk,
ing. Here again the Magistrates might justify
conduct in the eye of the law, if cajl
the evidence of those persons upon whose
don they acted. There might be some peers,
the Bill which would require amendments; 1)%
principle of the Bill, he trusted, would appeal- lob.
House as necessary. He hoped, therefore, the
-
House would see the propriety and justice rip 3,41
the Bill—(hear, hear.)
Mr. LAMBTON said he did not mean to,
that time into the merits of the Bill which was
posed for the sanction of the House. He wow:.
Err a few words on what be thought should
precede the discussion of the Bill—.he meant,
duct of Ministers. They were required
pass the Bill in question, without inquiring irrx:at
disgusting measures which were pursued duzianle
last year—without inquiring into acts of tyruir,
oppression, and cruelty, more disgraceful and fur
than the Bastile ever saw. They were desired
overlook every consideration of the manner in sta
Ministers had used the powers entrusted to rheas,ild
to grant them an Indemnity Bill, as a necestare•
companiment of the suspension. They asked
measures upon their responsibility, assarai
House that they would not abuse their powers:
armed them with a sharp and dangerous ilutriu
and they were not sparing in the use of it; yrs)
when facts were submitted to that House that
cated the Secretary of State in charges of cruelt,
severity, which seemed at variance with the '
Lord's general character for humanity, Mork
refused upon the most fi ivolous pretences. Lit
his Majesty's Ministers came down to that Ii
armed with a green bag ; this they laid before,
mutter of their own selection, and got themsei'
stituted at once judges, jury, and witnesses. Tut.
port of this body, so constituted, endeavoured*
magnify the mad attempts of a bankrupt apta
cary and a starving cobler into rebellion and ita
treason. When this came to be investigated ts
Court of Justice, it turned out on evidence tha it
prime agent in the mischief was a Governmenr;
and an honest Jury acquitted the prisoners des
crime laid to their charge, though means had
used to influence their minds, which shewei
conviction was the object more than the in,
tion of truth. The Habeas Corpus Act was
suspended before on such grounds. Even ©et
year when danger was most imminent—rhea ;
reigning dynasty seemed in the utmost hazard fin
foreign power and domestic treason and rebellice_
yet even in these circumstances, siLich might I
deemed a very strong case, the Suspension was
passed without much opposition, and with
protects and remonstrances. Last year, when
attention of the people had begun to be amp
in the measures of Ministry—when they cos:.
longer be diverted from exposing the srctem
which they acted, and the profusion with Which
dissipated the resources of the country in jobs
sinecures, they all at once had recourse to their
refuge, and bethought them of gagging the mo
of the people, in order to stifle the cal for econ
and retrenchment, which threatened to deprive .
of their best support—the means of provicfl
their friends and adherents, like the execrabizhane
piers*, who, when he found his power become air
and his intentions suspected, sacrificed all his opp
Twins as the victims of his ambition. This esi,
however, attacked the high and powerful; za
Ministers directed their attempts chiefly a7..tae
poor and the starving manufacturers. ilea en
would have felt remorse at the sight of a CC:r.t,
neduced—a people suffering the utmost print:
but still loyal in their attachment, and looking a
that House for redress of all their wrongs. Bat
Governors shewed they had no bowels of comps
and taught the people to think that it was can
Mt folly to look any longer for redress u
use. But the resource of Ministers for meer
die distresses and complaints of the country,
tend forth Oliver in order to excite disturbances.'
thus to justify acts of tyranny on the part of the(
vernment. This arch-spy hurried along from c-a
to county, displaying the standard of rebellion
tucking riot and insurrection. Wherever hi
could be traced, and they were traced witis
care and accuracy by his Honourable Friend
Bennet), them it was found that he had been Fa
ing to robbery and murder. Unhappily he prof
in one instance not in vain. He was found u
returning to render an account of his penis ald
success. He could have rendered his accou:::
words which a great poet ascribes to a
base and more malignant parts of whose
Mr. Oliver strikingly resembled. This spy
At last, as from a cloud,

loud was the acclaim :
Forth nal in baste the great consultini re"
&lid from their dark divan, and with like ..11
Congratulant approacb'd him ; who, with 11...4
- lidense, and with these words, attention nay :.
Long were to tell
What I have done, what suffered—with what pan
Voyag'd the unreal, vast, unbounded deep
Of horrible confudon • over which,
By lie and Death, a broad way now is Fred
To expedite your glorious march! (Hem kr. VP'
In consequence of this spy's success, Brandretl".
some of his associates, were publicly tried, at
headed on the scaffold as traitors. Why sva
instigator, in whose hands Brandreth was
mere instrument, tried? Why was not this
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stained spy put upon his trial at the imperiJvc."
of justice and of the country ? When the eirfe.fi
struments of his designs, and the mole 5411
innocent victims of delusion and fear, were loc.
'mdeath, why was Oliyerleft at large? If, ill.'
laws of England, all connected with a traasi.la
involving murder, are guilty of murder, how c
no charge to be laid against the contriver anti as
gator of the transactions in Derby ?--(hear, r',
But if the voice of justice and the country aka
the punishment of Oliver, equally did it call k
disgrace, impeachment, and punishment of
who sent him forth, who praised his moral ch .
and who vindicated his whole conduct. In
councils originated the plan of sending spies 211
the people—front their. Cabinet issued Oliver as'
champion. Yet those men now came down or!
act of indemnity, requiring the House to fon;
perpetrators of all those da,TX atiociata, 114

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