The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-15 00:00:00

PRIVILF.GE OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. CANN !Nu, before the House proceeded to
the other bosinesa of the evening, felt it his pastel
duty to cull the mutation of Members to a case in I
which their privileges were very materially loathed.
The duty was in itself plinfol, bet be felt the morel'
reluctant to diachlige it es he himself was personally
concerned. No man could be more sensible than be I I
was of the tzpedience of suffering all that passed
wit is the wails of that Howe (whether by permit- !
siuo—the propriety of which he would not empire I
into ; or by conisivance, as was the case at present),
to be cessionicaseti In their Constituents end the 1
Public .t large. For 46 years, dosing which he had
had ohs henna of Sidi% is thus Hues, he had never
etsiopitined of asy souse or tororrectostos which
aught eve Nerd t Mgr why into the reported ea I
co sits of what ocanned I here. He *Dell incept 1,
woe occasioo—the last S.-ssion, when he had to make I,
e c .nyeeint of the sass Newspaper. which he was!
now vomit to being to the notice of toe Ham. The j
Wei. premiums's, of which be had to capleis was
so gt..as mad maligo-nt in its oaten., as to leave no
doubt that i• 5..1 sot the effect of mistake. The
Heine waid recollect, that on the debate on Toes-
daitiat, an Hon. Member (Mr. Home) bed delivered
an opines it open the *object them before it. Ho
(Mr. Canniug) was not Jo the House at the time,
ut he came in before the debase was ended, and
Gilding that, so fir fres any thing wenn or masa
hating occurred, the Hans was is a stare languor,
be avid nut of course imogia that any agog refer-
ris.g personally to his had been uttered, lutil tiwrefur•
hod so espanstios to give; bat what was his so pries,
when on the folialog day be found, that is the rub
pert of the debate le the Tines Newspaper, the
Hon. Mosher (Mr. Homo) had been made to soy,
(speaking of the nasal whirls should he observed)
—" lamed of that, he (Mr. Hose) saw a mititery
mania prevalent, that colt the counts, localcstable
sew; bards, trapped in scarlet sod gold, were daily
paraded through the streets, as if to meek the maild
poverty of the lower orders." " awe," continued
r. Gan fling, "the editor pot in a remark of ` both-
kr from the Ministerial Hashes.' The report then
soot on, mud the llossourallio Mambo, was swede to
say, 4 Ministers might laugh, bet let them look at
thu aloof lies of the picture; let them surrey the mi-
sery of the poor, !shoeless, isdastrions wretches at
Carlisle; or ties of the sahsppy beings they mat
is our streets, sod he believed doers would be footed
bat ea was asoog them who would still keep a
sails upon his countenance—and that would be a
sails of self-cortgratoletion from a Right Honourable
Gestlanto (Mr. Canning), that by habitually tore-
tog into ridicule the seining, of his fellow-creatures,
be had been able to place himself so far shove their
unhappy condition: To 016,4 conflated Mr. Can.
•• wee added a remark, as if the goose bad re-
, celled this part of the Heliostats blemlost's speech 1,
with applease, for the report affixed the words • cost-
, limed elseere.'" Now, he would say, that if soy
Honourable Member would get up, mud laying his
t hand to his Fart, declare upon his honour, that if
the Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Ham.) had net said
s the words impi.ted to him, the report which he had
reed war • sty thing el.. than a gross and solipsist
I misseprebentaion, lie (Ali. Canning) wield be satis-
G d in give up any farther notice of it.—[Hoar,
I hear I J—T he first step which he tak was to apply
to the Honourable Gentleman opposite, end to ea-
t quire atruogh a Noble Loud (he hoped in terse of
. ; personal s ivii i ty)whether he (M r. Hesse) had orhad mot
lased the leagues, winch had been attributed to him.