The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

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liill, for the purpose of submitting one or 110 ver-
bol amendments.
Mr. I.ANIO sugtested the propriety of omitting
such parts of the Bill as appeared to be of a question-
able nature till the nest Parliament.
Sir W. BURROUGHS strongly objected to that
clause which required that 400 votes should he polled
•n the first two days, and as many on the third day,
sir that the Election should close. He was convinced,
that the effect of such a provision would be, to dis-
franchise a great number of -resident vote's, lit
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pence to the caoslislates.
-Mr. WI LB KRFO-RC flappers -ea the clause.
Lord MILTON and Mr. MARKYAT said a few
words. . .
Mr. J. SNIIIII thought,
_that the clause relative
to the 400 Nlembers was, in some degree, calculated
to give too much power intro the hands of the Return-
ing Officer.
Mr. W. WYNN said, that certainly the Return.
ing Officer might object and stop the proceedings in
some degree, but ,the undifintsed votes. mould be
going on.—(hear, hear;)-- He thought:that a man
would hardly succeed is; his Election who could not
bring up 200 Meeibers In the Iwo first days. If they
were not remedied, all the towns and cities in the
kingdom would be exposed to very great
People might come op who had only the means of
bringing seven votes a-day, and say with these votes
I will keep the poll open the whole t 5 days, and, as
the law stood at present, that might be done. 'ln
A-vonshire, the roll had been kept open by a per.
auniselio ltpd orily 19 votes, and it was .only by acci-
thipt that :400 been hindered from contineing the
volt. In Bristol the same thing bad happened from
tarson who could only bring nine or ten votes. In
klnkshire, one who could only bring 500;eotes had
is rip! the open the whole 15 days. Ile hoped it
that because that
„will .the Kist II
-setisinti of the l'atliament, therefore the evil ought
tpk.riftrered in @pat :tip another, especially at that
moment when the poll might 1-e kept open merely for
the purpose of disturbances.—[year, hear
These observations were what bud struck him as im•
portent, 114 he hrped.tbe Bill would not be ob.
Ise tett to.
s NA•49,l3N:$4t 911.PAP!sined•
„?.siIic..t..vSIIINCI (PA theoglot that the wording of
Isitsas of Ihe.clauses 1141,14 iptneral.,
bAip oltouciii AM, hoped ,tltet .very thing unex-
ceptioneble would.pe.,cl,4oe ayaey with, that the,. Bill
be al alkiffi4llrly44d ,is..Prott.esss as it
40 hoer, last year. :.119 44 then, wished it to be
wiuted,after,the Committee,with the.blatiks filled up,
aittt:be Anneglit that ,weeicl have beets proper. There
as one ciuse preveeting freemen from !eking up
Oleic fseetlom that they; 401 ht vote, to which lige,had
'lrjected, and this be nom. happy low vies left out.
VOh respect to the deur* relgOvaowthe4oo voters,
i 4 ens a question shouter 8 smeller uumbec of VOW..
or
,s greater number ofdays might not be allowed.-
4t the same time he thought it might he a question,
the word ' tender' instead of 'poll,' and a
clause, 9lowin the Election to go on while the Ite.,
turning Officer s fulfilling his duties, might not be.
was wa
stecessery.... Bat lie .did not think that it ought to
remain 'as it stood ; at any rate, some alteration,
•be made, lie conceived, relative to the
4. &POI: llecould, trot exactly agree with the
propriety of throwing the ea pestres upon the shoulders
file (attisitituents arum those of the CatodideUrs. It
step ~designed I o favour theuiselms at the
imp! perisriii for, though that House were not
111 e ethX ipe7rpons cepcersied, yet they formed the
pftltose.inte rested. With respect to quatifica.
imp!), thee/tit the.) ear and the day's possession was
Ble,Oest, title, unless iodeed the House should think
ikeiewessary to bate a complete and absolute register ;
reel thri only' time, when such a plan was attempted,
there Vitiff.Pglitiums against it from all parts of the
3i11!"1.
e hoped the House would permit
It es to inform them Isotr toe question stood. With
reaprct to the elleratiou of any words that hid been
*weed to in the Committee.. that could not then be
testae; but for any other alteration that might be pro.
l'Usofk she Lipase. was Opew.to agree to or dissent
from it.
Sir W. UURROUWIS wished the discussion to
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pr. 11111.1411911$,wsssurprised that the House
should be" gravely asked to postpone the discussion,
when the Bill had been already so well considered.—
It did not appear possible that it could have under-
vine a more complete dipeussion.
Sir W.,,WRIIOUGIIS thought it impossible that
they Could, in their present state. do justice to the
Bill, and therefore he should move that the (louse
be counted.
Mr. W. ‘VYNN thought it would be a more re-
gular prOceetlisig to let the Bill
,be re-committed to.
morrow, than that the Report should be re-consi-
dered.. lie should, therefore, propose that ; and he
tiered the lloose would bate 'no objecticin to allow
the Bill to be read a third time the *nest day. Ile
thought it very important that these should be as'
ninth consideration given to the Bill as possible, espe-
daily as it was so oear the Quarter Sessions. As to
tile number of voters, he had heard of .3000 having
bleu brought up in one day ; and indeed if he had had
his own u ay, he would have proposed a greater num.
be.: but as it was, he would tether that it should be
wider that, above the mark.
After some other observations from Mr. G. Bats KES,
General THORNTON, and Mr. H. DAVIS, the ques-
tion that the Bill should be re.committed to-morrow,
whs pitt and carried.—Adjourned.

141tENG11 PAPERS.

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et" l'ellAMßEtt OF DEPUTIES, Fin. 11.
• 114147Dttroryr (de l'Eure), made the following pro-
position:—
" That the King be humbly prayed to present a
Vcojett of Law for the perpose of securing the con-
stitutional exercise of the Liberty of the Press, of
defining with certainty the responsibility of authors
and printers, of determining the characters of of-
fences arising from printed works after their publi-
Dation, sod of establishing Trial by Jury, with re-
gerd.to offences of the Press." The proposition will
be cleveloped in one of the neat Secret Committees.
A Petition was presented from M. Saleles, met.-
chant, in the !ale of Bourbon, who protested against

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