The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-28 00:00:00

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STATESMAN.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, IRIS

The bidet:salty Bill was read a second timer toe
folly discussed, last night in the loose of Lords.
The majority for pushing this white-washing Bus
through its second stags!'? es, with the help of
Prozies, 67,
.there being for- Ministers 100, ana Se
againstT ONLY 15 Opposition Peers were pineal.
The number in the division approving of the condaes
of Ministers 'is their best atgoment. 'They were
,wise to rely option this test alone, for 'certainty
nothing else in she Obeli course of their vispitic.siot
CoOld hate they teast-tendeoc,y, to produce ronaietlos
in thearsols of.eheir‘.afititettrs. Lord Strissourots
*die ciledoit.4o
,iseasseter of. his
itortfirtoaditittit;' hove,, Vie • bloody-minded,
spy and incendisry, were the most remarked*
ports. ,ef ibe . defensieO, speeches. Remarkable
they *rev end hasty ,cberecterietto of the bleu
.red esneeekeeolit,aottlee. which we lice. Olivet
meet be w.hisetwitebed: lee It seems, *bog with his
patens.. Taw ,u,•1141 'we not yet sensible of the Sc.
urn Timm of Ibis. patriotic organizer of plots aid
iwsurrectwnsv
tar='s .twerits ogr:dl:lso"nrso"t•Zsteell; bilehendUedomweithS.ailts
etaefel fellow's,,atid the names of the equally meritorious
•Mogistratee who were so keen.eyed .as to perceive
the simultaneous tieings in their eery embryo, that no
one can fully speak their prise, not even the Home
.Secretary himself, who so couscitutiossly argues and
votes for his own acquittal. Bravo! my Lord Ste-
mourn : there is **Aright in modesty. Some per-
sons may Call ibis shameless impudence, and demand
better proofs thou mere amertious; whilst not a. few
may think the arguments for cruelty and oppres-
sion. that are drawn from the dreams of a weak
hstagination, teeming with horrific ifs sad mtg.
deriug possbilities, are very untenable meads
of justification in a Government, for .such
di-
ferrsive weapuos will cut more ways thus suss.
We ate always to -impose. there is a defiolimey
of fact, whets fancy is made to Supply its plum
64 Iladnot the simultaneous risings" of the rehear
ing mobs (with ferocious Petitions. in their beads
and wrapped in blankets of terror, that eadulatel
before the eyes of the pious Secretary), been licrestel
in their course by the activity of Oliver and the Ili
dons of the Home Secretary and his Magisrtstm—
Whai 2 'We know not what might have bewail,
tyit,h equal ttoih the humbler hypothesis wilt aggfry.
Had not his Lordship's sent been cast ins per/Inds
way-..slit might probably have been his uncle. Andielm
might not lase been the situation of the country, es
all.those that have been ruined by the cruelties e
the Suapensiott,.bad the coke of the nation been ri
irpected,. and its distresses ameliorated, instead
being struck into silence and horror by the innate
rat conduct of its. Rulers 1 Rational argument
thrown away upon such absurdities.
The Report of the Secret Committee of the Coo
mons was at length brought up last. night. It is of
piece with that of the Lords, full of approvals of tl
former Reports, and of the measures of the Stops
Moste bet rather shooter and more particular in veal
ing of the past arid present.disposition •of the pop
lace, which otter fails to be represented as always
favour of a revolutionary foss of Government:
One bold assertive is hazarded, and, considering t
proofs .open which it is founded, will amuse
Reeder. After making the remarkable sod ale
unexpected • admission, that " there was
one instance of any pets** le the higher
middling ranks of • life having contributed
the slightest degree to the disturbances," and
boding to the hodlocreet scald Spies, who can it see
enumerate, it informs us " the enmities of
•Conimistei had been neat directed to the prootedili
ia.piest those persons detained under the authority
.the Siipeesion Act. That they had examined
'charges on which every one of those persons had be
eammilled, and they found that they hod in every
.slaty been sabstantiedsd upon otitis (whose oa
we pre left to conjecture),—Thst it was 'the opie
oft ilbs.Cedamillite .04 the powers entrusted to
',cement. by_.tke Antsellieded to, bad in
ov
=K. ken Csercieed....:oll :rise liistwetion.'
• it. 4111 Wiped reisisw.an Assets( earliament to m
lite.fonetr~ believe thiss.:Jgr. Ulan very aith
‘ithirecierisad• the Rsiniq a jemble eve
the e
sellie in the former Repottat and that Ministetssr
'Has Wet eUsittesing. Lord tfebTLIRSA,Ge's reptio
this theracter of Mt elotieesce threw the Hoes*
inestroentusion. ibis Lordship baring no messue
,flosiettpob it,- did not move, that it be taken ,
',-censideration, a* that the slight discossioo it on
went eyos‘ upon the formal motion for its recepi
It wilt be seen, that the'CIIANCELLOR of the
CIDEetIER has givers sonic, of a motion, which
have the elect of keeping Bank Tokens in circuit
, for another year.
,n- I

The Pftsmcs Rcoarst remained in the (Went!
lace after the conclusion of the Court on Thurs
and dined wish his Royal Moiher.
Yesterday her MAJE•IY, the Princesses AUG
and Erizascru, the l'utsce Rusatrur, therin P
thost-lloranustu, and others of the Royal Flo
dined with the Doke and Duchess of Gt.ouccl
There was also.in evening party.
Yesterday a COurt of Directors WWI held a
East kWh-house, urban Captain F. Cotessott.l
sworn into the command of the ship Abtell, cons
to Bengal direct.

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