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Settlement. He really thought that that several noble Lords had expressed the noble Marquis ought not to have an opinion that a remedy should be approposed the second reading of this bill plied, although not as a part of the Reat a time when the Minister was not in form Bill, but by a separate bill. He at the House, and he hoped that he would present gave no opinion on the subject, still consent to postpone the second but certainly this was a matter of conreading till there should be a full House, siderable delicacy and importance, as unless he should think proper to aban-being connected with a great constitudon it altogether, and leave it to the tional question. The inconvenience of Government, which was responsible for the present system, however, appeared the consequences of the Reform Bill. to him to be considerable, and therefore He admitted that the measures were they would have to balance between the necessary in this and many other points, advantage of altering the system and in consequence of the passing of the the danger of interfering with a great Reform Bill; but they ought to be left constitutional enactment. In the mean to the Government. time he thought that it would be expedient to postpone the second reading.

The Earl of RADNOR did not see the force of the noble Duke's argument, as to leaving this measure to the Government, and as to the impropriety of proposing the second reading in the absence of the Minister. But he agreed with the noble Duke in the expediency of postponing it; and, for his part, he thought it would be better to withdraw the bill altogether for the present. No great inconvenience had as yet been felt from the present system, and it might be better to wait till inconvenience should arise before they proceeded to apply remedies. Sufficient for the day was the evil thereof. He admitted that this was a measure of great importance, as interfering with the Act of Settlement, and, therefore, it ought to be narrowly and maturely considered. He hoped the noble Marquess would consent to postpone the second reading, if he did not postpone it altogether. No great inconvenience had as yet resulted from the present system; and as to the instances referred to by the noble Marquess, these had occurred at a general election, to which the present measure had no application.

The Marquess of LANSDOWNE: This topic had undergone considerable discussion in the committee on the Reform Bill, while the noble Duke was absent, and it appeared to be the general opinion on both sides that it was expedient some such measure as the present ought to be adopted. It had been suggested in the committee by the noble Marquess, and he must do him the justice to say

The Marquess of NORTHAMPTON said, that the case of the election for Preston supported the view which he had taken. As to the inconvenience of the time and form in which he had brought forward the present proposition, he explained that he did himself think that it might have been more conveniently made part of the Reform Bill, into which he had intended to move the introduction of a clause to the same effect as the bill before their Lordships. But in consequence of indisposition he had been unable to give timely notice of that intention ; and therefore, yielding to suggestions from both sides of the House, he determined to bring forward his proposition in a separate bill.

The LORD CHANCELLOR must acknowledge that nothing could be more fair or candid than the course which the noble Marquess had followed. At the same time he could not help thinking that, although the principle of the bill might conveniently enough be discussed at a future stage, and although the object of the noble Marquess at present was only to advance the bill a step further, leaving the discussion open for the committee, yet he thought that it would be the better course, in the present state of the House, there being so few of their Lordships present, to postpone the second reading to a future day. The object of the statute of Anne, which it was the wish of the noble Marquess to repeal, was to secure that the persons whom, being Members of the other

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Houses of Parliament, the Crown should have been, in this stifled-up, stinking choose for its servants or responsible place, in all this fine weather, ever since advisers, should be such that, on going the 1st of April; and here it seems I again for the suffrages of their constitu-am destined to remain. It is got to be ents, they would be found to retain now worse than ever. I used to be able their confidence. Now he (the Lord to leave them for a week. I want to go Chancellor) must confess, that he had down to GODALMING now; and I can't. not been able to give the subject so much It will soon come to that pass, that I consideration that he could have formed shall not dare to go to KENSINGTON. I a distinct opinion as to the expediency shall be like the fellow, that got his or the inconvenience of that statute. He finger in the tap-hole of the barrel, and should hope, therefore, that the noble who was obliged to sit there, because Marquess would consent to postpone he could not take it out; could not hís motion until after the next week, as trust a spicket or cock, lest his wife a great part of the intermediate time should come and take more than would would most probably be occupied by "do her good." I shall be like the the discussion of the Irish Reform Bill. Quaker in Long Island, during the The Marquess of NORTHAMPTON said rebel-war, who had two maiden sisters, that it was not his fault that so many and one of the three sat upon the moneyMembers of their Lordships' House chest, day and night, for seven years, considered the bill of so little import- during the time that there was a British ance that they did not attend to discuss soldier upon the island. This Quaker, it. He had given sufficient notice that whose name was Hicks, acknowledged it was his intention to bring on the dis- to me that the story was true, saying, cussion that evening. However, in ac-" D'ye see, friend Cobbett, I liked cordance with the suggestion of the" uncle George's people very well; but noble Lord upon the woolsack, he would they could'nt keep their hands off move that the second reading of the" dollars." Pretty much the same it is bill be postponed to Monday week. ' with the Lords and the loanmongers, The motion having been agreed to, who find it extremely difficult to keep the House adjourned at half past seven their hands off our Reform Bill. Howo'clock. ever, the people are ready for them: the people have not been gaping like Martin Do, for God's sake, observe, how Marall. The rotten wardmongers of LonBROUGHAM looks at it askance! Did don do not seem to have perceived the you never see a dog, that had been anti-reform bill was coming on. FRANCIS whipped for fowl-killing, look sideways PLACE's Union do not seem to have at the poultry in the presence of his perceived it: it seems to have escaped master! He would fain have a snap even the all-searching eye of the BIRMING but, he is looking towards Bolt-Court HAM Union; but it has not escaped the with t'other eye. Well, as I said once NATIONAL UNION of the Working Classes before, when I and my brothers were in London; and that my Lords will see, little children, and used to run about by the following petition, which was yesthe house, tearing at our mother's terday I believe in the hands of a peer, gown or apron in order to worry her with a request, that he would present it into giving of us apples or something as soon as possible. Foh! away with the or other, she used, when we had tired nonsensical stuff about freedoms in an out her most exemplary patience, to ex-oak-box; about statues, and medals, and claim, "Be quiet, you plagues of Egypt, buttons, and badges, and symbols! Away do!" Little did she think of what her with all this stuff, which never yet was poor son William was destined to under- otherwise than laughed at by crafty go; what worse than the seven plagues tyrants, to whom nothing is so terriof Egypt he would have to endure! Here ble as plain sense from plain men, of am I, actually tied by the leg, watching which we have a specimen in the folthese divers sets of reformers; here Ilowing petition, which petition ought

to put all pretenders to superiority to" son who has an office or place of pro the blush.

To the right honourable the Lords
spiritual and temporal, in Parliament
assembled.

The petition of the National Union
of the Working Classes and

others,

HUMBLY SHOWETH,

66

That your petitioners, having read in the 73rd clause of the Reform Bill, that "all the laws, statutes, and usages now "in force respecting the election of "members to serve in Parliament, are "to remain in full force, except so far as they are altered or repealed by this "act;" having read these words in the Reform Bill recently passed by your right honourable House, it is not without surprise, accompanied with a feeling still more unpleasant, that your petitioners already behold no less than three bills before the two Houses of Parliament, which bills propose to alter or abrogate some of the laws, statutes, and usages now in force, respecting the election of members to serve in Parliament; and that in every instance these said bills have a direct tendency to counteract the beneficial effects of the Reform Bill aforesaid.

"fit under the King, or receives a pen"sion from the crown, shall be capable "of serving as a member of the House "of Commons."

That, in the fourth year of the reign of Queen Anne, this solemn compact with the people was broken by a parliament who repealed this protective act; that the scandalous transactions which took place in consequence of this repeal produced, in the sixth year of the reign of Queen Anne, an act, containing a provision, that members accepting of places of profit under the King, or receiving pensions from the crown, should there-, upon vacate their seats, and be re-elected before they could again sit in the House; that this last-mentioned law, though enfeebled by false and dishonest constructions, is still in force; that it is one of the laws embraced in the aforesaid 73rd clause of the Reform Bill; and, that the bill above-mentioned, to bring which into your right honourable House your petitioners understand that leave has been granted, will, if it become a law, totally abolish all the protection intended to be secured to the people by that act which placed the present family upon the throne; that it will. That of these bills, the one of the enable the crown to fill the House of most pernicious tendency, and propos-Commons with placemen and pening the most direct attack upon the sioners, and will make its members the rights and liberties of the people, is a natural enemies instead of the faithful bill (for the bringing of which into your representatives of the people. right honourable House leave has been granted) to prevent the vacating of seats by members appointed to places of profit by, or receiving pensions from, the Crown.

That your petitioners shall never think that they have done their duty towards their country and their children, until they have done their utmost to cause the compact between this reignThat, in the twelfth and thirteenth of ing family and the people to be adhered William III., an act was passed, usu- to, and until they see, accordingly, all ally called the Act of Settlement, because placemen and pensioners, and all persons it settled the succession to the crown in receiving public money under whatsoa new dynasty, diverting it from the ever name, excluded from the House of House of Stuart to the House of Bruns-Commons, as your petitioners can form wick; that, in this act, which is, in fact, the title of the present family to the throne, divers provisions were made, for the purpose (as expressed in the preamble of the act) of "preserving the rights and liberties of the people;" that, amongst these cautionary provisions was the following: "That no per

an idea of nothing more unjust or more monstrous, then that men should be empowered to impose taxes, a portion of which they themselves are to receive.

That your petitioners would have been, agreeably to the said 73rd clause of the Reform Bill, well content to leave this matter to a reformed Parliament,

And your petitioners will ever pray.

FRENCH BOOKS

FOR SALE, OR RATHER TO BE GIVEN

AWAY.

but that perceiving that your right the people against the votes of those honourable House appears to be disposed who, now, first impose taxes upon the to proceed in a bit-and-bit manner with nation, and then put a portion of them regard to these laws, they pray that your into their own pockets. right honourable House will be pleased, not only not to pass any bill to prevent the vacating seats as aforesaid, but that you will be pleased to restore to this burdened and suffering people the provisions contained in the Act of Settle- By an accident I became possessed of ment, thereby again shutting out of the the following French books. I have had House of Commons all pensioners, place them five or six years. They were sent men, and others bolding offices of profit, to me in mistake, and I was finally or pensions, such measure being, in the obliged to keep them, in the stead of a firm conviction of your petitioners, ab-parcel of my French Grammars (printed solutely necessary to rescue them from at Paris), in the year 1825. They were the that ruin and misery under which they subject of disputed claim for two or three have so long groaned, and also to pre-years; "the honourable Board of Cusserve and uphold the just rights and prerogatives and true dignity of the Crown.

toms" made them and the Grammars a subject for a display of their literal and judicial powers! In other words, this That your petitioners have no need crew of Jacks-in-office, who allow a case to seek authorities in the examples of of the Grammars to be imported into foreign states, seeing that a reference to London, would not allow a case of the our own laws and to the example of our very same Grammars to be imported fathers is quite sufficient; but that, if into Liverpool! When I moved my there were found hypocrisy sufficient to shop from Fleet-street into this court, affect to see injury or inconvenience in the case of books was removed: the shutting of placemen and pensioners they had a change of domicile, out of the House of Commons, your pe-at any rate. Luckily for those titioners could point out to your right who will have the good fortune to honourable House a country, peopled by get these books, the case containing the descendants of Englishmen; a coun-them was large, and I wanted the room! try retaining the common law of Eng- So that, at last, out they have come for land, and all the forms of the Govern- sale, or, rather, for making presents; ment of England; a country surpassing, for I have looked for the greater part of in the race of prosperity and happiness, the books in the CATALOGUE OF DULAN all the nations of the world; and your AND Co. of Soho-square; I have seen petitioners could state to your right the prices of the same books in that honourable House, that, in that country, CATALOGUE; and I have here put against the abovesaid provision of the Act of each book JUST HALF the price speSettlement is in full force; and that no cified in the catalogue. There is but person who is in the receipt of public one copy of each work; and therefore money, under any name whatsoever, can" first come first served." The books are be a member of either of the houses of all in excellent order, having never been the legislature. exposed to dust or to handling. My Again, therefore, your petitioners descriptions of them are perfectly cormost earnestly pray, that your right rect. I wish to get these books out of honourable House will, with as little my way, but I will never sell any one delay as possible, be pleased to pass an of them to anybody for less than is here act to repeal the acts aforesaid of the stated. 4th and 6th of Queen Anne, to restore to its full force the act of compact between the House of Brunswick and the people, and thus afford protection to

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