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subject, ..e did not mean by
'4' from legislating upon the subject

he should think fit to do so
Mr. WALLACE moved for a select committee to inquire
treatment of the unemployed and destitute people of
exclusive of the parochial poor) from May, 1841,

part of the Government, acceded
to the motion, leaving it to Mr. Wallace to constitute the

Sir J. GRAHAM, Oil tE

YRENCH moved for leave to bring in a bill for the
better regulation and extension of medical charities in Ire-
land.
Lord ELIOT said he saw great difficulties in the plan pro-
posed by the hon. member, and in candour to him he would
say, that he could not promise him the support of Govern-

went for the measure.
Leave was then given to bring in the bill.
On the motion of Mr. HUME, certain returns were ordered
relative to the case of the Rajah of Sattara.
Mr. ROEBUCK then moved that an address should be pre-
seated to her Majesty, praying for a pardon for all those per-
sons who had been transported from the Canadas to our
penal colonies for political offences during the late outoreak
The hon. and learned gentleman passed
giums on the course pursued by the present
Government towards the Canadas, and said that, as the
leaders of the outbreak were now taken into the councils of
her Majesty, he hoped that those who had acted in accord-
ance with their advice might be allowed to return to their
Country, and that the Government would thus add the
coping stone on the arch which it had raised, and secure, by
such well-timed clemency, the affections of all classes of the
people.

In those colonies
highest eulog'

Mr. EVJART seconded the motion.
Lord STANLEY said it was always ungrateful to interpose
to prevent the exercise of the royal cl

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more particularly so aftera speech-so temperate and judici-
ous, and so calculated to win upon the house, as that of the
hon. and learned gentleman ; but still, he must say. it would
be very unwise for the House of Commons to revive, by such
a course as that proposed, former animosities, when, as the
hon. and learned gentleman admitted, the population of the
Canadas was satisfied upon the whole with the course pur-
sued by the British Government. He feared, that it an en-
tire amnesty were given to the parties in whose behalf the
hon. gentleman had pleaded, those who had stood up in de-
fence of British interests and had risked everything to quell
the treason of which those parties had been guilty, would
have great reason to complain if they found that a pardon had
been granted to them, and that they were once more
.placed
upon an equal footing with those who had stood faithfully to
their allegiance. There had been no great or undue severity
used in the suppression of that rebellion, and considering the
various shades of guilt which pertained to the parties whole
cause the hon. member advocated, nothing could be more
unjust and unwise thin to include' them all in one general
easure of pardon, whatever might be the criminality of

number

-- • Some we—re-We-importefseven, some
or fourteen years, and some for life ; and yet too all of them a
measure of free pardon was proposed by the hon. member to
be at once conceded. It would be a most dangerous inter-
ference with tho prerogative of the Crown, and he, therefore,
hoped the house would reject the motion ; but he would, at
the same time, say that the Government would be ready, in
each individual case, to listen to any favourable representa-
tions which could be made for mercy, but to an indiscrimi-
nate pardon in every case he must say it would be most un-

Mr. HUME thought that the Government should complete
-'od work which it had begun, and, notwithstanding the
e parties, should grant a free par-
)y persons, and thus Put a final termina-
gs which might prevail
Canada.
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