The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-12-07 00:00:00

THE STA'

of the Constitution. sod for every thing that contd.
blood to social order is the community.
Ts. Earl of CARNAILVON admitted the pro..
piety of some of the measures proposed, bat the pie.
sent Bill went to i to dm greet belwark of the
Constitution the Liberty of the Press, without his
Majesty's Ministers steeples to melte so topology for
introducing it. lie would consider it his duty, when
their Lordships went at, a Committee on it, to ergs
that the operation Aosta be moulded to a short
Iperiod.
The Earl of BLESSINGTON said, before Mi.
sisters visited seditious libel. with such tetchy, they
should first defier, what seditious libels are. A No.
ble Lord bad said, that any person who gage as opi-
nion against the conduct of Ministers, loot his weight
to the dissifecterl. A Noble Lord, steering, to this
doctrine, is discharging his ditty, aid fairly statism
his sentiments, might by the present Bill render him-
self liable to be hanged. Until themforo be heard
that It was not intended to be • peressoeut mar
it must bolo his dinpprobatioa; wither shoo he
have any coolideoce in Ministers until he heard that
it was istanded to propose some mess." of moscilia-
tine, sot merely • measure to protect the well-
known rights of the peob!e, but also to remedy their

distress
The Doke of SUSSEX 'photo rile. of the Lee.
monies system of edeestioe, of which Ise was en
active patine, aoliced the greet sod tepid lactessoerf
1 infetinstioN, cud segeested the evil elect which the
revel mason might have epee its Islets gronfi.
He cend cooditionslly agree to the Ares Seizure,
sod Military Training 13111*, kettgelest the present
Bill he protested le foto. .14 apposed in the pipets
laid epee the table, that Minitel. were apprized of
the state of the country in the late Sissies of Par-
lianiest ; sod if it were as they sow repreiset it,
they &bend have noticed it before they allowed a
prorogation to take place. &Ohio's libels had also
been in course of publication for years past, tied yet
they bed taken no pains to pettish them sod pet Ike.
down. Until he were convinced that all the mea.
suns that eight hart wee taken for the public safety
bad been takes by Ministers, he would sot enema.
rage their 'reelect by vesting Mom with additional
powers. These being his sentiments, he could sot
conseientioesly sepport the present Bill.
The Bill was then read a wand time, ordered to
be committed to.morrow, and reported or Thuisday.
SLARCH FOR ARMS BILL
On the motion for Waging op to it Ripest of the
Search fir Arms Bill,
Earl GREY espetisted on the dengerees pewee of
breakieg into a man's hoes*, seed reposing the in.
metes le violent. It was the certain rizhl of every
Selajed 10 peas MI arms ;II was a right Loaded on lie '
principle of self.d.fesce; it was e riled established also ,
1 by the all of Riahts, which mothusised riftislinne to i
I se oppressive Government. He could net, therefore, 1
contest to its sespensioe,even for a limited time, with. 1
out a necessary cause; bat in the pretreat lostmoce no
sullicivnt around was laid. There were.. satisfactory
1 reefs that disaffected person hid procured arms col
i IS) considerebie Patent. Those new in the hands of the
lower names, were esclies limy folioed since tbeledi.
' 'ideals were disrhereed frees wtilitsry service ; of
this charge there were co sousfsetory proofs-411
was loose sod general. Whom any Chime spetific
I was stated us the subject. it was only in two or
• torn eases, *here the arms Were mode Go the appli.
collies of the informal, themselves. That the
I Radicals wet. 'retesting, end have assessed •
, mere systematic plan, he believed ; bet he coesteod-
ied that their nember was esetteereled• A. eti- 1
; dears el this, s Meeting at Newcastle was estimated
' at 30,000, tool yet the "thole population of the
; place, man, orotosn, and child, did not exceed 2/1
I thnessrod. A desire of l'arliamentsty tierces, he
believed, was (orient, not only there, but in every
lOW. part of toe kingdom. It was not confined tol
1 Radicals, it attended to persons of superior condi-1
I lien, of inflect/mond property. H. most passe be.
fore be consented to a Bill of this utters. It was a
measure of enierecealented power, and sebeersiee of
the rights of Englishmen. It woold be wogatory and
inScieet with respect of its professed object, and
ding to every other; it would operate as a no.
I tires to the disaffected to procure and conceal arms
without delay, while the loyal and well.m•auing
1 1 would softer.
Ile Earl of STRATHMORE read 'streets free
letters receiver: this mornini from Iso hitteist rates I
and the Commanding Officer at Neocamly, "PAW
Mated their •pprehansino of a sieseltaneoes move-
sent of the dirslicied es likely soon to take place,
and that the object of the Radicals was nut lien's
bet pillage.
The Doke et NORTIIUMBERLA ND, le et Mae
notion, said, his statement of the great twiner of
the &Mails was on of his own knowledge, hat
made epic the euthotity of oiling who were rye-
' trimmer.
Earl GREY, in esplattellon, said the the people
of Newcastle were only spectators of the Mooting
there, het that those persons who constituted it
site ehitlif from the Neighbouring districts en the
hanks nf the Tye', which consisted a nemerees pg.

potation.
lend F.RSIEINE still the Bill was without a pre-
cedent in the annuls of Parliament. To carry it into
elect. it was sufficient for the informer to make has
>fawned. merely on belief. No positive averment
on oath etas required, Ind consequently in the caw
of a false charge, the injared patty was left without
redress
r'. Earl of DAB N LEY proposed so amendment,
leaving nut the class' for searching booms fee arms
be night, bet declined to press it, no the sugges-
tion of
Vitcoont siDmourti, Ilia' the clause to which
it Welled had been gone tbroeigh. and that Ike Noble
Earl eoold nave en opportunity of soling his
simentinient io.nsotrow.
tie Bill, with the amendments,was then ordered
le be engtriesed, and reed the third time row.
Th. Report of the Military Training Bill was then
brought op, and ordered, with tie amendments, to
be engtossed, and read the third lime tu-ssorrne.—
Adjuoined.
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