The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-04-11 00:00:00

haw n► the ivretiry of Stagt and the Secretary
tattoo him back to Mr. Becket. Assist.
oce was not to *ay promised, but protltired by
ijii„nuos -assistance both nail military, and
)„/ the assistance that was declared to he ogee*.
gal in the first instance, was nut grauted till
ihe fourth day after the issuing of the war.
r•t_ lin Monday morning. Either the as-
sistance they &Corded, was right or wrong;
0 justiliabt.., why was it delayed so long to
1,.,. immi,n, eat hazard , of the peace, of the semi.
iy of the metropolis ? The Secretary of. State for
t e lid4llo Wpm tinent. *as, as oAcia, one of
for aia4i*traies, and as tench, answerable fur the
paintetiatice of the public peace, and more espe.
i'aily so at a period when that peace was endan.
.v 0 by measoras sanctioned by the Ministers of
v.e day, at least, io furtheraere of carrying into
elect measures atiopted by' that House, under
the influence of their *deice; and yet, such had
been the hesitating imbecility of Ministers, that
ih,y could nut thing themes:ll,w to act with maul
Immo, ereit in prosecutions of their own measures.
The Serjeaut was referred to Mr. Ittcket, who
!A:snt him to Mr. Read, who referred him to
U.-cket. .Was this a' line of 'conduct, eh*.
ricteristie either of si.tdoin or.. of allergy ? Ile
should vote for the Areendnsont. '
The A TTORN EY.G E ER Es sail, that if
occasun should again occur he would give the
slate vote he already glvun. The Honourable
liaranot had been convicted of an offence of which
oat lloisse was cognizable; an 'offence that iii his
wind went to set at nought the authority of that
House; for if the doetriue of the Honourable Ba.
sand nosh! be established, the priiilegm of that
House were at an end, and its authority of
course, which could he supported only by the
Idifilltrinallee of those privileges, lie could ask
those Gentlemen who bad been so anxious fur a
sago( reprimand, in preference to that of commit.
weal, 'opposite* that the majority of that House
bad bons of theist opinion, in what manner dill
they think that repriusiod would have been
received? The Illoisouralile Baronet would 'save
booked dents upon such a censure with feelings
sexy opposite to. Pl•bbC necessary to be enter_
timul by the object of a seprimaid, in order to
make that reprimand ollectual. 'that Honourable
Weiser omild hams leaked upon it as if a matt of
Tank and eminence erns reprimanded by his ger.
trot* in his servant's hall. For bah and the
other reasons be bad already stat...ol, he never
vsueld regret the woe he had given fur cominit.
tacit to the Tower, though no man thailorell more
sensibly than he did the fatal cossequetires that
resulted from carrying that Measure lotto ext-
(Mon. The Lamed Gawk:Man next proteeded
t., Mend the conduct of Ministers' reapectiag the
that•tail occurteil in enfotcstig the Speaker's
,barrant. He denied that Ministers were bound to
hive provided aAttitist the possibility of resiatance
ti that st arrant an the part of Sir F. Burdett.
Ilonotif4ble Baronet had declared in that
Huu.se, that ha oat dispute their right to impri.
vac of *Oar own Members; incraTta-soch
a Liceiaration, would Govortiment have heMs war.
r.tatcd in the suspicion, that a Gentleman, and a
elm of honour, would have disputed it us it had
Inn disputed. The opihtion he had given upon
this subject was norkssarily qoalitied ; because the
case being without precedent, he had no audio.
city by st hich he could fortify the suggestions of
his own judgment, save that of the principle upora
which he argued. He thought that the zeal of
his Friend (Mr. Adam) hai ontrun his judg.
mut, when he insinuated that their having doubts
spots such a question was a matter of reproach.
Ile contended that if, on the other handy Ministers
had been less cautious in calling out the "solitary aid,
they would have been loudly censored .by Gentle.
oleo opposite, as hawing been too larecipitate in re-
sottine.to military •aid. lie further contended,.
that thti Secretary for the Home Department, se
far from being culpable in having referred the Ser.
son to the Civil Magistrate fur advice and aid,
that he would hare been culpable if he had not 1,
done so.
Sir JOHN SEBR:GHT said, if that if he could
hatefinnied any conception that the lion. Baronet
could have been capable of proceeding so far, he
vauld have been the last man its that House to
hue consprornised its authority, by acceding to
the adoption of any other. than the most rigorous
Pococtlings. If ever there had been conduct mere
disgraceful than any other that had yet come on-
der the coguilance of the House, it was that of
• the Honourable Baronet. If that Honourable
Baronet wautcd to try the simple qiae,stion of right
in the present instance, was it not in his were to
late done sowitlhout .disturbing the public .pmice
four successive days ? Vas this kis love of
civil liberty, sfirri3g up an infuriated mob to
id him its the grave solution of a great Comsti-
t:itioual question Was it bottom* et his seat
i:a civil liberty, that a tyrasmical mob shoots
line the front of his houses sad-compel livery .1.1
sager tooacover, while resoles the house of Sir
Francis Burdett He (Sir John) was not one ofj
those disposed to paithot sea testimony of :
eatrifulsory homage to the bowie of the Hooeur.
li
able Baronet, and in eonseqoence, ho nor his cat'.
:iage did not pass that way.; (al lookh.) Re area'
!vs every thing that had Mkt) from his Hemourable
aid esteemed Friend who bad opened tbw debate
(Mr. Caroms), anti thought the House Woad, tot'
the sake of their own dignity, to stopped his Mao
oat/4 Ministers in the present aidesl ettnorgancy.
Before he sat down, he would say one word io
behalf of a Orson whom he thought had mot *ilk
done ealkieat justice to, he meant the SesjbPd*
krms, whom he descrikal as a man of 011ielgtekki
vity aad tried personal courage. He tbotwitheoloi
the contlett of the Serjeant throughout was wlwll7i
Nelms blame.
Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY said, tbit k was sit
)'l5 intention, at present, to go into tbricrelown4l
tie vote he had already given, etch if it wits
*nought necessary, in consequence or late occur•
roots, to restate those grounds, His principal
f'bjert in ageing, nowwas. to mark tn. the Hume,
tt►'itutication of the vote he intended to gives the
4tlrsveltce between the resolutions proposed by
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