The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-05-09 00:00:00

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PRICE 640.

port, he could mot recommend the Petition to the Crown. He,
however, wished the whole of the papers laid before the House
on this subject yesterday, to be referred to a Select Committee.
The Creditors of the Royal Canal Company had beam induced,
h what he must call false representations, to advance 840,0001.
on the credit of the Company. He was &mama the subject
'should again go befig-e Committee, whith should Mate, In their
report, whether or not a case were made out which deserved
the recommendation of the Crowns.—He concluded by moving
for the appointment of a Select Committee. The motion was
agreed to, and a Committee appointed.
Mr. W. POLE moved, that the House should. ea Monday,
resolve itself loth a Committee, to consider of tin propriety
increasing the Salaries of the Comminiooets of Appeals In it.-
velum Gaeta, in Irelaad, and also of grantieg diem an allow-
ance on retiring. These Commissioners he stated to be of a very
old class. They had been established to the time of Charles 11.
and he believed few Commissioners hi rendered , greater ser-
vices to the couutry. Additiosmi Mattes had or bite rpm been
imposed epee Me m. =lima* they. receive.). samenfy ao
mere thato.Stle. talchAz2 lopme wet ifilerwanll. thee& to
-nem. no Way ao eau etismaeratime f the labour,
talent. and leandeg fee, and he should Ahtrefore pro-
pootito aumem their Inothne to POOl. sad to *rant an allow%.
awe of 50. en retiring. These Salaries, &c. he was desirous
should be charged on the Conee/idated •Fund, and wished the
eonnt golentotion Co take place front file commencement of, the pre-
se year.
Mr. H. SUMNER obtained leave to lbring, in a Biß for the
better regaled% the Nightly Watch of the City of Westminster
and the parishes la the vicinity of the Metropolis. fie then
brought in the Bill, which was read a first and ordered to be read
a second time on Tuesday, and to be printed. •
The Irish Sugar Distillation Bill was read a second tine, and
ordered to be t'aiitted on Wednesday.
A new writ was ordered for the county of Dawn, in the room
of Mr. Savage, wito,aince his election, has accepted the situation
of Eacheator of Monster.
Mr. D. P. CORl:moved, that the Petitions from the Frame
Emitters, which were on the table, should be referred to a Se-
lect Committee.
Mr. J. SMITH seemided the motion, which was carried, and
a Committee appointed accordingly.
Mr. G. CLERK moved the second reading of the Scotch Dis-
tillatlos i Bill, but there appearing no enactment on it, the 8p &her
directed it to be withdrawn. It was accordingly withdrawn, tit
the purpose iinn another.
Lord BlNNlN6postponed the consideration of the Report
of die Mall Coach Exemption Bill, to Wednesday.
On the motion of Mr. HORN ER, the fOl lowing accounts were
ordered to be laid before the Home, viz. total account of
the tackl valise of the Exports from Great Britain to the Con-
tinent of Europe, le the years 1805, 6, 7. 8, 9,10, and 11; and
accounts of all Experts from Great Britain to the Continent of
Europe within the twee period, distinguishing manufactures
from Colonial produce.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Mr. BRAND then rose, pursuant to notice, to
submit his motion to the House, on the subject of
Parliamentary Reform. He certainly considered it
a matter of extreme regret that it should be neres-
L sexy for him to briug a measure of such immense im-
pertance under the consideration of Parliament in a
Haase so empty, as to iudicate a total indifference
to a subject, in which every person interested for the
welfare, and respecting the feelings, of the aztamu-
itity, must take, a lively concern. Sensible as he
was of the dileottraging nature of this circumstance,
he felt he had net alternative; _ and though he Could
1 rot but harlot toe en/nee of such an attendance as
the importance of the question called for, he felt
bound to discharge his own duty. This, then, being
i the case, he was still encouraged by the conscious-
-1 ness that, whatever may be the disadvantages under
which he brought forward his motion, he bad the
consolation to know, that he was about to introduce
i the question at a period when lie had less difficulty
' to anticipate, less opposition to encounter, than at
any former period, when he had brought forward a
similar motiou. This was the first moment, since
he had taken an interest in political questions, when
he could submit such a proposition to the considera-
tion of the House, without its being opposed in
I 'inane on the ground of alarm, by those who thought
any corrective of the present system, or any Reform
of the Representation, dangerous to the principles of
the Constitution, and an innovation resembling
the proceedings of the French Revolution. For his
own part he could declare that he was no friend to
innovation—that he was not the advocate of specu-
lative reformations. The proposition he had to of-
fer he was surewas entitled to the support of that
House and of the country. Ile was rejoiced to find
that they could enter into the discussion of the sub-
ject coolly and dispassionately, because, notwith-
standing the interest attached to it out of doors
throughout the country, every Gentleman who heard
him must be convinced that no alarm whatever ex-
isted on the occasion. The plan he had to propose
that night, was the same he had in a former Session
submitted to the House. The people, in the feel-
ings they had manifested upon this question, had
taken a lesson from the situation of the nations of
the Continent, long prostrate at the feet of a mili-
tary Despot, notwithstanding all the &lnes which
had been made to instil into dick minds that the
Reform of the Representation of the People proposed
was a species of speculative innovation. It now
remained for the Government to shew whether the
Members of which it was composed were ready to
avail.themselves of the experience they had of the
fate of the Governments of the Continent—to take
instruction from their example, and not to neglect
in the same degree the wishes and the interests of
[the people. He was aware it would be asked why he
, should press this question upon the House of Com.
i mons, when the great mass of the people was so lit-
tle interested about it. But this imputed indiffer-
ence of die people he should-positively deny. Had
1 they not upou their table the petition of the City of
Loudon, the capital of the empire? Had they not
already before them the petitions of the metropoli-
tan county of Middlesex, of the city of Westmin-
-1 ster, of the county of Essex, and of the county
1 which he bad the honour to represent (Herts)? They
had also," on a former occasion, the opinion ef. the
populous, wealthy, and extensive ceuuty of York
upon the same subject ; and he believed, that if
the opinion of the people through Out the country
were to be taken upon the question, it would ,be
trued to bil strongly, gsplicitly, &Aid enanimonaly
in its faioirl, upon a Conviction that some reform
iu tie state of the representation of the peoplh in.
!Oat Muse, was necessary to restore it to its conte,,-
' atitutional principle and character. But if thin,.,:._
"ten not the case so 'generally, the wide diliwsiezi: !.

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