The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-06-01 00:00:00

tin's in the Fields, against the Poor Removal Itill•—Or-
dered to be printed.
Two petitions to the same effect, were presented from
parbilies in the County of Burhani.—Ordered to be
printed.
Six Petitions on the same subject were presented from
Worsley, and different places iu Lancashire. Ordered
to be printed.
Mr. It. SMITH prevented a petition from the Guar-
dians of the Poor in the city ot Lincoln, against the Poor
Remove' Bill.
.11c. WILLIAMS remaried on the number of petitions
which had poured in against this ineilMire, f the ma-
iiiitactuting counties, and now,he edded,one was brought
before them from the cottre ot one of the great agricul.
tural counties. If his Learned Friend who had liner,-
duced toe measure was not suffocated under this mars of
Wading*. lie must possess more might than any WAD he
(Mr. Williams) had ever known.
The petitions were ordered to he printed.
Petitions on the same subject were presented from the
Bailiffs and Burgesses of Leicester: Irmo the borough
of High Wickham; from the borough and town of Mac-
clesfield ; from the inhabitants of Wolverhampton in
Staffordshire; from the Mayor, Burgesses, and Corpor-
ation of Liverpool ; from the parishes of St. Sepulchre,
St. Pcter, and St. Niles, in the too a of Northampton ;
from the Overseers of the Poor, and inhabitants of the,
tows of Illauthester; and from the Carlton ; trout the
Minister. Churchwardens, and Guardians of the poor at
Bullwell ; from the Rector. Churchwardens, and Over-
seers of the poor, and trustees of the parish of White-
eh mei ; from the parish of St. Peter, in the town °flied-
;fr the Corporation and Guardians of the
pour of the city of Exeter; from the inhabitants of
Swansea ' • from the Guardians of the poor at King's
Limn, in Norfolk; from the Churchwardens and Over-
seers of the Parish of St. George the Martyr; from the
inhabitants of the town of Leeds; from Southorum ;
from Beverley ; from Witney ; from Sheffield; and from
Halifax. The petitions were read, and ordered to be
printed.
On the last-mentioned petition being presented,
Mr. SCAKLErr said he was as sensible as any man
of the force of public opinion, and he was the last man
to wish that any measure should pass.which was strong-
• ly opposed to it. The House, however, was aware, that
means were sometimes resorted to, in order to procure
petitious, which would justify them in regarding them
as not altogether correctly expressing the sense of the
inhabitants of the large towns from which they were
presented. To give the house some idea of some of the
feelings which were opposed to the measure in question,
he begged to read to the house part of a letter which lie
had received from a Gentleman in the profession of the
law. He would read what this person hail objected to
it, that the house might give it all the weight which it
deserved. The Learned Gentleman then read part of
the communication which he had mentioned. It let
forth, that the Bill for removing the Poor would dimi-
nish the number of appe'is at the Quarter Sessions.—
This the writer observed,would bear hard on the young
Barristers and Attorneys who had strong claims to the
protection of Government, and, therefore, it expressed a
hope that that part of the Bill which bad been particu-
larly alluded to, would be expunged, as it would be ma-
nifestly unjust to the Barristers and Attorneys, to adopt
a measure which would diminish their practice.—(A
laugh )—The Leetned Gentleman said he had read all
this, to give the house a correct idea of some of the
views of those who were opposed to the Poor removal
Bill.
Mr. MONCK gave it as his opinion, that the number
of cases likely to grow out of the new law, if the Bill
now in the Louse should pass, would afford the Bar-
risters and Attorneys a better harvest than they enjoyed
at present.
Petitions against the Bill were then presented from
Needier on, North Byerlv, from the Guardians over the
Parochial Poor of the Chapel of St. Andrews, of All
Saints, of St. John and St. Nicholas, in the town of New-
castle-npon-Tvtie; from Kidderminster, in Worcester.
shire; tram die milted parishes of St. Margaret and St.
John the Evangelist, Westminster.
They were severally read and ordered to be printed.