The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-06-02 00:00:00

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it proper to adhere to tbeir roles. At all mats, Ile
thought it hie ditty to' call the attention of the Rosati
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kird;COCHUANIi Contended that the Petition!

es& to lie ►poa the table. He *hawed, that that.
ungrateful Monarch, Ferdinand, being enable to
protasis Correia is hie own country,
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him o'er_ to his Majesty's Ministers. 11 w gaits
cartels; that dime Ministers "mild sever give any
relief to- those who differed from them. He had

heard, however, that this Parliament, bappily for
the Public, was almost to expire, and be hoped that
in enoiher Porliansent the rase of tbs.. sefering Spa.
nisb Patriots wosid be taken into dee coasideration.
Lord MORPETH then rose, and moved that the
Petition he witbd re wo.
No farther observation being made, it wee with.

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drawn accordingly.

WESTMORLAND ELECTION.
Mr. BROUGHAM,adverting to the circumstances
which he had mentioned in the House on Saturday,
respecting the Commissioners of the Land Tax, said,
be held in his hand an important document, dated
the 23d of May, and signed and sealed by two re..
spectable Commissioners of the Land Tax in West-
morland. It appeared, that. instead of holding their
first Meeting as the Act of Parliament directed, on
or before the 13th of Aitril, they delayed (from what
motives he was not competent to judge) holding it
molli the 9.3 d of May, when they issued an order, re-
quiring that the assessments should oot be made be-
fore the 27th of June. By this delay, it most be eel.
dent to every one who considered the subject ever so
slightly, that no voter could have his assessment cor-
rected by the statutory means pointed out by Act of
Parliament, in time to enable him to redeem his bled
Tax. The names of the two Commissioner{ were
Christopher Wilson and John Hudson • the one a
Gentleman residing in the neighbourhood' of Kendal,
this other the Vicar of that place. He by no memos
intended to impute improper objects to either adios*
two individuate, particularly to Mr. Hodson, who, it
was very probable, had been practised upon by others.
Nor, indeed, did be do so with respect to Mr. Wil-
son; however it was his duty to state, that he bad
been informed (a kind of information. to which, no.
der the circumstances of the case, be was obliged to
Woo) by respectable persons, whose veracity, be be-
lieved, was onquesilomable, that Mr. Wilson was the
Chairman of the principal Election Committee in that
part of the County of Westmorland, for that party
*hose interests were manifestly to be benefited by a
delay in the assessments, and that Mr. Hodson was a
Member of the same Committee. This, certainly,
was rather an awkward coincidence, and led the mind
to fancy that some coooezion existed between the two
circumstances. Nevertheless, as they were very re-
spectable persons, be bad no proposition to make to
the House on the subject. He only hoped, that as
, the transaction bad been noticed in the Hoes', and
as a decided opinion had been ezpressed as to its im-
propriety, the Gentlemen in question would not per-
sist in such conduct, but would confine themselves to
the provisions of the Statute without assessing a dis-
cretion highly detrimental to one of the parties in-
terested, and calculated to disfranchise a large body
iof qualified voters is. the county. He frosted, there.
fore, that what bad already taken place, would deter
them and their colleagues from persevering in the
Coarse into which they bad been betrayed. He re•
peated what be bad stated on Saturday, that be was
far from suspecting that the Noble Lord opposite or
his colleague countenanced any such proceeding.—
He acquitted them of doing so, because he believed
them incapable of such an act, and because it was a
very weak act, and would eventually do more harm
than good to the party from which it proceeded. He
attributed it to the over-seal of those inferior agents
whose exertions seldom did mach benefit to those in
whose cause they were displayed. If, however, be
found that the conduct which he had thus exposed
was persevered in, he should be under the painful
necessity of bringing it ender the distinct considers.
tion of the House.
Lord LOWTHER observed, that the application
wbich had beep made by several persons in the coun-
ty of Westmorland to be assessed to the Land Tax
was perfectly novel. He believed it was the only
instance to be found in the kingdom of individuals
soliciting to be taxed. With respect to the delay
that. had taken place in requiring the returns of the
assessments, that was occasioned by the difficulty
which the Commissioners found is digesting the mo-
tocross Acts respecting the Land Tax, and appiplog
them to the district in question. He would cenfidowee
ly state that the Commissioners of the Land Tit im
Westmorland had exerted themselves with 60
greatest vigilance and activity. The. Noble GM
also defended the conduct of Mr. Jobasoo, the Soli-
@Rot. lie could see in Mr. Johnson's application to
the Board of Tete., no infringement whatever of the
privileges of that House.
Mr. BROUGHAM, is explanation, said, he was
kW* the House would recollect that be had not
centered Mr. Johnson. On the contrary, be had
declared that Mr. Johnson, in what be bad dome,
was only laboneing in his vocation as an Election
Agent— for so be was on his own showlog ; be signed
himself Secretary to the Committee for co acting
the re-election of the Sitting Members. Re threw
no blame on Mr. Johnson. His observations were
directed against the Tax Office, and his opinion MIA
(an opinion which nothing had occurred to remove),