The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-06-09 00:00:00

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the ground _ Pui
was, that the language was hut sufficiently linnible.
—1 a:n surd that the beginning otit made its pro.
per bow, and that at theenei.of it there Was tlw.
proper compliment. You observed that courtef:
which is required in all polite 'ciolapsmies; but fr,
you had frittered down your complaints, atia
suffered your language to be so humble that qa,
meaning could not have been understood, it wuukt,
have been impossible that you could !Ave expect_
ed redress—it would be sail, these Petitioners
cannot feel the evils they complain of—they speak

like people at ease, and nut like those ,v. bo sit
'suffering !nider gri,:sanatis—their language is toe
' tame to.Alppote that they can be much In curliest.
—Such would have been the twister if Mir Peti.
tion bad becu couched in the teems, the Wald of
which has been stated as the ground of its to.
jection. It is an utter impossibility to to.
Cuucile the language of humility with time lan.
61,016 of' demand: The people of this. country
, klieg they address the Route' of Commons, feel
!their Consegnence. It•isenly- for 41th Italian met.
sicians who. have been Aistroduced iota this king.
dim in times of luxury, to set groans to music.
'You have only to continue item—tu act as well as
speak ; and what I mead byteting Is, that when
you are called isponito give' yoisr suffrage fur A
Number of Pasliantentt ij'ou 43 remember what
fort of a person he has proved Isimaelf to he.
You will advert to time manner iii which he has
conducted himself—tto consider how he has voted
on constitutional questiahs, and from thence draw
•,yinur coliclosion with respect to your expectations
of Isis becoming a faithful servant lif you and
the public at large. Gentlemen" your Petition
Saheb' has been rejected, cosit;stiak in •it more
frithsand:Utilise-Mere eleasdy,,proved, than most
Ptilitons that have becn:roceived
.1); the noose of
MO:Mons ; but in your case, as initially others, it
IsWebritin limn"! that truth may hesiacciliogly fallen.
sive: We are refuetantly .vimpeOleiL to abridge thu
remainder et G this entigtalu's Speech ;he pre.
Ceeded to ,argue ably against the constilutionid
'assumplldir of tale Powers and Privileges recently
exercised by the House of Commons" .and by fair
deduction, dcMoi4trated their inconsistency • with ,
the prieriplesot the' Elritiali Constiluliou. '.
' • Mi. .;f4l/.791tD again' catee;.forvapt. Ito
Odd that the Preeholillgs of Midalascx.hamt.soina
right to have expected that the G!.: ntletueit who
differad ?tool Meth iinitill have stated the gtound•
of•ttheit objection. Nu 'ono hid Cue so ;• but
Atm ' Gen tlent an had • citified (heir 1416114dd —at
persist' .of respectability as. he utyleOtonds aft 4
'perhaps it shirt viiist'srstine that •h' sviis tillett4_
•epsainted with him ; 'but:of this he 'AI *stilted"
that'the patience with' which -,thOy hid ;lick tkok.
urator to whom 'he alluded .mo..)t•toiiisi ;cod
;
the opputite Party that N Ws) hillfren:persmoit
Jr•inote: *Witty iittitnig thorn tti ' Itbeille their
causeolley would have beet' licaril.tiltitititdntions
Ile remarked, with refethiteir to tile ollloCmihd
endured by the people of t4ris ebentry;'.o4;t4ley
might be condensed 'so a single oink toil
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plified by a very simple sltilli. Theitoty td =II'
he. wished to draw theirtisttiffitiold 'vial that-oft
woinan who sold cote, imi slashed them alive liii;•
fore site delivered thank to her• rail others.. ' When'
reproved by a.persofictoe; theta-Silty of the act'.,•
she exclainfed). " God' hiss yatt, sir, 'there is
nothing in it—they do-not feel any pain."' Thus
it was with the people, they. had been oppressed a
long that their oppressors said they were accus.
Wined to it, and (liar there was _no sort of np.
pression but what they might patiently submit
to. Who Gentleinau who had last addressed them,
said, that it was peculiar to the Italians to put
groans to music ; but he would tell them that it
was peculiar to the Minister of our day to pre.
tent their groans from being heard. They rotnindeml
him of a tyrant of old who used to put his sub.
jects into a br. z-m boll, nail kindling a fire under
them, amuse. himself by boating the groans of the •
sufferers. . Our ministry, who like Phoilares pot
them into the brazen bull', stopped up its nostrils
in order to avoid hearing their groans. listing
pursued this figure more at large, he expressed fiii
wish that the House of Combions Would come
back to their proper senses, and that when they
understood what were the real wishes and semi.
nients of the people, they would of their own
accord set about-redressing their grievances. '
, Mrs Al ALLETT ruse ht the middle of the
-crowd. Ile was invited to tome forward to the
place where the Shetitt's and OrMors were ; bnt he
declined doing so. Ho clevated'ihimself upon a
'chair, and. the interruptiofi this occasioned pte.
vented our distinctly hearing the first •part•of his
observations. As be. tease at a Eontideribie dig.
I tance from us, we can .sinlngire ts.stiticils of his
must elm'opierst speech as• se ms could 'culler!. Ito.
said, Gentlemen, I have only one or ts'a ritharik
to make in answer to the Gentleman Who told yens
fie load the aothurity of the 'lave and precedent its •
his favou-. • I say that I perfectly coincide with
the explanation given by Mr. Clifford, with refer. .
ence to the reason nom which the present Petition
is founded. The observations of the Gentleman.
who alone has addressed you in opposition to the
objects fur which this Meeting has been convened, .
in my opinion amount to nothing. Gentiehmen, '
we do not %mists to take from the noose of 'Coat,:
"loons Cheir..Psivileges ; neither do we wish to dr.'
prive the House of Lords of their judicial rights :, '
'we' only ask, whet their Privileges are ! We iiilfir ,
• ettsh to have then defined. The House of' Custi.'
mons and the House of Lairds have, as well as tlott
Courts of Law, their distinct Privileges ; 'lief" if'
you ask Courts of Law fur the reasons upotewhieh
shrir..Privilegcs are, founded, you will have' the
-reltatass.for them laid before you, and you will find
litiskalsey.see.ilimitest arid defined by raw. NO*
sket 'relit. Priiiieges claimed by the llouso-of

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