NuMItES 107 8. J FOR CHARTER, T " E 8" * P ABOUT 257 tons burthttti; is now in •onplete to receive a on board, and lays the lecond wharf b-low Pine-t>reer. Enquire of Jehu Hollin?;worth CS 5 Co. February 8. j For Sale, or Charter, the sloop BETSEY, tjtTJohn Dankins, matter, BURTHEIvf about 800 barrels flour, in complete or der to receive a cargo immediately. For terms apply to the Captain on board, at the fiibfcriber's wharf— or t ° , , JOSEPH SIMS. Who has for Sale, just imported in said /loop, Coffee, ©f an excellent quality, in hhds. and tierces. Sugar, ditto in iihds. and barrels. Fetiraary tt. s Excellent Chret in Casks, FOR SALE, BY Jofepb Antbmy & Son. February 13, For SALE, by tbs SUBSCRIBERS, IN PENS-STREET, 13© quarter Chests frefh Hylon Tea ; 100 ditto do. fre£i Tea; 30© Boxes China, containing fnlsli t;a setts of 41 pieces; 400 pieces Bandanoes; 4 Bales EngHlb Sail Canvass, £10. 4, 5, and 6 ; Willing! & Francis. ,}taw. [amiary 30. MEDICINES. JOSEPH HUGGEFORD, DXUGGIST, I No 319 Pearl-street, late Queen-Street, NTENDING to retire from bufinel's, will dispose of his whole tlock of Medicine? together wi:h a complete fliop furniflied, which afe of the latest imported and bell qua'ity. Any perrons inclining to purchase the whole will be only charged a fma.ll advance 011 the original cost and the terras of payment rendered easy. The purchaser will 15 Jl' le af lvatitage (if ho chooses) of taking immediate poircffioii of the (hop and cellar a* the house is engaged for another year, and on the firft of May next he may have pofleffion of the whole which is an excellent stand for bu iinefs and no medical ilorc better eftablilhed nor more ex tensively connected in trade on the continent. Persons not inclining to purchase the whole m».y be accommodated with any qua-itity at very reduced priccs. Those persons who are indebted to the co-partner/hip «f Peter and Joseph Huggeford, will b; pleased to pay the fame to Joseph Huggeford, on or before the Isth day of April next, as after that time all outstanding debts will bis put into the hands of an attorney. New-York Feb. 6. WILLIAM I O UN G~ No.; z south Second'frreet, HAS FOR SALK, An extf.five aflortmcat of PAPERS, from the marmUc turers in Europe, and from his Manufactory onEitan djrwine, whokfale and retail, WRITING £* PRINTING PAPERS, viz. Imperial, Small folio Port, plain Super-royal, Ditto gilt Ro Bloflom Paper assorted Medium", Transparent folio Poll Demy, Superfine&comraoh foorf Thick Post, in folio, Marbled papers, large and Ditto, in quarto, small Extra large Folio Poll, — Ditto, quarto, COARSE PAPER* Folio Post, wove, London brown, afford Quarto, ditto, Li g-book paper Folio wove Post, lined, Hatter's paper Quarto do. do. Stainer's paper Ditto, gilt, do. Common brown Common size Folio Port Patent (heathirtg paper Ditto, quarto, plain Bonne t boards Folio & quarto Post, g:ilt Binder's boards. jllfo, a variety of other S-TA TioN/iRr Articles, viz. Wedgwood and glass philofephical ink-stands, well af foited ; pewter ink-chests of various size?; round pewter ink stands; paper, brass, and polished leather ink-Hands for the pocket; fed morocco portable ink-ftahds with pla ted spring locks, gold leaf .and embofled papers; fhininj fund &. sand boxes , pounce & pounce btfxes* ink <k ink pow der, black leather & red morocco pocket books, with and without instruments, of various sizes. CauntiHg-koHfe and pocket pen-knives of the berf quality, ass-skin tablet and memorandum book*. Red and coloured wafer*,com mon size, office ditto. Quills from half a dollar to three dollars per hundred, ready made pens Black lead pen cils. Gum elafticor Indian rubber. Gilt and plain m«f fage and conversation card 6. All forts aad jizes of BLANK BOOKS ready made or naade to order, Bank checks, blank bills of exchange, and notes of liand executed in copper platqs* bills of ladipg, manifefts, seamen's artirW and journals, See. Sec. A well feleited collc&ion ©f miscellaneous books. Bi bles and prayer books various sizes and different bindings, j Toy books for children. Alio, of greek, latin, and englilh j clamcs, as are now in ufein the colleges and fchoolsof the United States. N. B. Feelt*sspanifhflora indigo,moulds, &otherarticles ofedjn manufacturing of paper, to be had oneafy terms. •0* The market price in Cajb paidfor any quantity of Havs. February rj. 'i,w6w PUBLI S H E D, Price of a Dollar, No. 60, SOUTH SECOND-STR. E ET j I STEPHSNS'j Philadelph' I)' ja ire FOR I j96, WITH A PLAts OF THE City of Philadelphia. January 18. SPIRITS. ANY Person may be supplied with Rum, Gin, Car dials, and other Spirits, upon application to the Subscriber, at his Diflillerv, No. 115 Story, or New flreet, between Third and Fourth streets. THOMAS CAFE. January 25. m4w N.' B. Whilkey and Molasses will be purchased up oil application as above. J !/ ft Arrived, 80 Pipes Bourdeaux BRANDY; J° Hhds. do. Red WINE; 50 Cafe do. do, 80 do.. Sweet OIL, For Sale by Feb. 20. W A G N E R, Woolen Draper and Mens' Mercer, Jit No, 25, South SecondJireet, TTAB, in addition, to his assortment of fuperfine Cloths A A and Caffimers, Received by the FaSor fromLoi doi, a very clc £a nt assortment of Gemicmens' Wailkoa: Patterns; such as Sattm, Silt Mobfeln, Caffimcr, and Mtrieules, which will be fold at their just prices. January 9. 1 . For Sale by 1 EDWARD STOW, jtm- No. 4, South Water-Street. Dec. 12. A I Jaraes Tiffin, IP HOLES ALE & RETAIL HJITTER, H i 1°- [° ? CC9I " 1 "re", near the City Tavra, , J P r rc f lv f J b y the late arrival, from London an I „ anJ . Bnftol » a lar 2 _-and elegant ajlortmer.t of Ladies and Gentlcmern fafc.ona'.lc HATS.—AIfo, a variety „f nn /w" n colour*, wludi will be fold on the loweft-tcrms far cafiu " .'' I o^V 8 ' Li " UeS rtatS ttll nwe{l from i-oiitlon. . , Oift. li. pise Coparmcrilup of the SttWcnV-ri, trading- by the ill Dt -rf« m ° A j 1 ? EMSaA,v '" this J" dissolved— fn fa,d Firm are "lifted to m.be I? ? P armCnt /o W Hknsh.w, No. 8-, south Fourth-street, who is duly author,zed to «utt and lcttle all accounts. Philadelphia, Feb. i? 'he Business will be continued by William H»n jhaw, asfoon as a proper fitnation can be obtained. j Notes, Wanted. TVp/SRNICHOLSON'S JVOTES, r° r ±2 dHtle and uell iHMMeJ Lots in •he City of Wajbingior., will be given. |TiIOMAS NOriLE. February i S. | COLUMBIA II OU S E J Boarding School for Young Ladies. TVs' AV GRa °,^ E R! DGE havingreniovcd from Lodec XT*. Alley, to tns earner of Elevc:>-h and air the ad* .Mage of a large, convenient House, in a dry,' -salthyfituatiou; hopes for the eentiimanre of the eocmw {he has hitherto so highly fxiur.'jUctJ; <ad m; wwich file returns her sincere ackupwied&ment. «T.Mrs. GkWoM'tmooi is afiil'tej, hy MA of th ■ firft ability; and the ufrful, as well as ornamental sfanchc<i' ot education are particularly attended to. February Columbian Gallery, Chefnut-ftteet, third Door Wtft of Tenth-street, MR. SAVA GE, INFORMS the Ladies and Gentlemen «f Philadelphia 11 a' r Go .'- uvlßI * N Gallery", containing a tiro* collection of amcient & modern PAINTINGS & PRINTS will be opened on Monday, inft. • ■' 1 his collection confiih of the production! of the s'fl: artists, and w,d doubtless he pleating to amaleurs and the Hdmii Lrs of the fine arts- To this collection Mr. Savage as added fevcral pieces of his own, one as which is the President and Family, the full size of Life. dollar " Ce a< ' m ''^ lon t0 Gallery, one quarter of a ■j,.' 4 -' PANORAMA, in High-street, exhibiting a View 01 London, continues open for the amufemertt of . o who ma y bc difpofid to fee that intereHing perfpec tlVc'' Feb. 20. To the Public. AT MR. O'ELLER's HOTEL. A French Miniature Paiater rcfpcAfuUy offers his fer 4. X vices to the Public, and hopes that the moderation of his terms the very ftort time of his fittings, and the rate ot his abilities, will indute his visitors tobecome his patrons. Feb. io. s 'T'AKEN fr<*n Mr. Hill's on Thursday evening last > a g°°d Hat, marked in the crown, the name Andrew Allen—Whoever has taken it is requested to return if at No. 68, norih F.i S hth-Street. Feb. 16. * . Mr. Walter Robertlon T3EGS leave to acquaint tt ; Gentlemen, fubferibers to Washington, Prefidant of the United Statesof Ai* :.-ica, engraved by Mr. Field, trorn an original picture p a Jited by W. Robertfon, that the i roofs arc ready for delivery to the feverat fubferib ers at John James Barralet's, No. 19 north Ninth-flreet ; V J U or , mr9d ' s ' book feller, No. 4., Chefnut-ftreet, where the fubferibers are requested to fend their address. Q£ober 27 eod _ WANTED, ON Loan, for two or three years— jooo Dollars, for wluclj a mortgage on Land will be given as-fecuiity. l tte land is clear of every incumbrance. J an - 9' A Paterfon Manufactory. A r ? Meetin g of the Board of Direflors for -L X. cltablilhing ufeful Manufactures, held at Paulus- Hook January 25th, 1796 "The Board taking into consideration the general affairs of the Society, think it necessary that a meeting of the Stockholders tWid be tailed as soon as the Law will permit; it is therefore re vived, that the Stockholders be called to meet on the firft ruefday in March next, at Egerlcy's Hotel, at Paterfon, by ten of the clock of the forenoon of the fame day, then and thereto take into serious confederation, affairs of the utmost importance to the said Society;"and that every Stociholdai be earnestly requested to attend either in perion or by proxy." ory, A true extract of Minutes, . T „ , p - COI,T, Superintendent. E.ew-York, January 26, X *96. CtitM N r ED, ~ Several Apprentices to the Printb"-- Bu fineft. Apply at the Office of the Gazette of t?ir united States, x\«, it<h CHcluut-ftrcct. $ MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, , 79 6. #.«V* F. COP PING EH, No. 221, foiith Fror.r-ftreet. .., i 1 w MADEIRA, -) SHERRY aad I WINERS' PORT \ MICHAEL GILL, WILLIAM HENSH \V? aha T. HOUSE of COMMONS. November 25. Mr. Sheridan presented a petition agaipft the con vention Ml from a numerous body of affiliated men, eonfiftrag 0, printers, -hatters, weavers, cordwainers, bookbi.deip, carpenters, joiners, smiths, &c. &c. &c to the nuir.Jjer of 17,000, which if there had been a longer tinp allowed, wobld have amounted to conoc tie next prtfented a petition of a similar conrtrurtion, ri om the ine.ndly focietv of working bakers, to the nnmq«-®f 1000., The right hon. gentleman (Mr.Pitt) had a flirted that the friendly societies would not be as. ertled by frhefe bifts, if they pafled into 3 law ; but he ' £, that wnen that P art of the bii! Ihoutd be dif ouJen, the ngnt hon.gentleman would be convinced that hf had been mift.-vken. He next presented a peti tion again-, L thelitis from 4000 of the inhabitants of Birmingham. Here again it had been prefied for time or it would have had an afionilhing number of more bgnatures. Suth too was the situation of the oeoole who signed this petition, that in confluence of foane "'niHemlmanoeuvre, they were denied a public meet ing, for no newspaper would publilh an advertisement to call a publia meeting, nor whaShgli handbill fuf iertdtA be circulated for that puroofe. Yet hotwith tlailding all tligfe discouragements, in a day *r two had 4coc lignatures'been fubl'cribed. KNATCHauLudidnotrifctooppofetliemo- I t ' on L tor r th f P etlt ' on to lie on the table, but to caution: the hoafe how it accepted that petition as the .sense of. the inhabitants of Birmingham. He was dire&ed to this caution by a petition which lay upon the table of the ho4fe, and was presented in his absence by his ho norable colleague (Mr, Honey Wood) which was stated to he thepeuttonof themayor, recorder, freemen and inhabitants ot theWty of Kochefter. It was G -n-d by 1700 p rfotis, among whose names there were not more than 140 names of freemen, though Rocheflcr contains 700 freemen, and between thirty and forty thcufand inhabitants. He did not mean to cast a reflexion on txe peclons who figaedttatpetitioii, but he knew there were numbers who did not know they signed. At the lame time lie had to übferve that the conduct of the [ chief magi,lrate of that city, was reprehenlible in fuf fering a prjeeflion at the lame time,, wljich was a dif gr r whcrcl » t!le effi gy of a reverend and resectable hifhop wfis carried about'the town and after-- wards burnt (a laugh). He said it was no laurhin.. mattsr, for not only the person of that prelate, bnt the churcii itfelf was insulted, and he h:-,d to remark tiiat many of the persons who signed that petition, were the very persons who conducted that proceflion. He W ifeed h:s honorable colleague had given him notice tiilt tuen a petition was to be presented, as he fhcuUl t.ien hsve thought it his duty to attend, and mention tn lc ureumfUnces at the time. Mr Kc>(«fcy.woodlaid, ti at it vaj not for want of relpeft or a. tention, that hit honora.bU colleague lad :10c Wi>per notice given tlut fueh ; petition.was to he ll .',"' ru ' w'-lt hecaqfe he himkii" knew nothing of it fill it was.sent to him. and on account of the amazing t-apnjuy with which the bill; We're fririiga ihroughtfce houie,he was defircd !o deliver it soon. He did call upon his honorable colleague to appriie him of it, but he him, audthe urgen-y of the nccafiotij I '< he mating. hoWevcr, a- K before ft-ated flHhe Uoufe, was regular: and, notwitli- the fffle>Ttioii driVn npon the chief roa<*iUrate, he would alfert that his conduct, had been bold and pro per, in co.nifig forward at 'fueh an alarming crisis like an independent man. That gentleman was as good, pure, ami peaceable a character as the honorable baro net ; and in regard to the suss which had been made about the proceflion, perhaps it would have been bettir it it had been omitted. About the time of that procef lion, Mr. Honey wood arrived in Kochefter. The peo ple, having by fowie means received intelligence of h.'s approach, afTembled on the road at the other end of Chatham, anil begged his pcriuifl&n to attend him, and draw nim w.tho'jt horses to h:; inn. This he de clined, being apprehensive »me mlfcanllruaion would be made, and palled through Chatham a« usual, attend ed by the people only, who behaved with the utmost decorum. Whsn he came to the entrance of Rochest er, hbwever, they took hi{ horses from the carriaw and drew him to the inn, where he addrelTed them from the step, and exhorted them to depart in goo'd or der, and in left than ten minutes they had entirely dif peried, leaving the streets of Rochefier as quiet as the bar of the h9lllc 0:' cpmm >ns then was. Some time af ter this he heard a huzza, and upon lookin-' out of the window, he law feme boys leading an as*, with no com mon figure upcS h, end there the matter, so far as he knew, ended. He had oceafion yesterday to be at Ro eheiler again, when he-Was informed that the figareon j the a.s had IX'en burned , but he heard of no other ir regularity, uor hats he eve r heard, till now, that any ot the people who signed the petition were concerned in the proceflion, an affection which he was much in clined to misbelieve Refpeding that proceflj-on, how ever, he had to state, that some hand-bills were after wards diflributed, one of which he had not about him bat he thanked his honorable colleague for lendiss; one' wherein the mayor, recorder, and twa other magijirates expreded their disapprobation of the proceflion. He thought it would have been much better if the honora hie baronet had attended when the bill was presented • but he was glad that he had now given him an oopo--' tunity to explain, ' r islvt Sim Sir Edward Kaatchhull did not mean to throw the ™<>J1 /Kgbteft refleflion 011 the mayor, but he thought mm leprehenfiv.le to let the procession pass by his houfe aiidas to rhe (ignatures of the handbill, one of the ma giitrates (Mr.Mancroft) was not in town at the time, he told him so, and had, therefore, merely signed it to j suit his own private purposes. Mr. Honey wood informed the house that the mayor | had no knowledge of the procession till it was over. Sir J. Moßii/i un t a.Tured the hoofe, that the pe tition from Birmingham, did not contain thefenfe of the majority of tfce inhabitants.there ; that it was pro cared by falhemu* means frem the lower orders of the people, who were induced to sign it by the ronnexis* ol a petition for peace with the petition agaisftthe bills, and that no public meeting had been-cailed for the oc casion. Mr. Sheridan reminded the house that he hid {fated the petition to be signed by 4000 of the inhabitants of B.rmmgham ; and consequently, no man who .knew the immense population of that town could imagine it was figsed by the majority. If he had brought the let ter which he received from a refpc&ahle gentleman of that town with the petition, he could have mentioned more precifcly the reasons why a greater number of signatures was not obtained. One cause was, the rapid 'fy with which the bills were prefi'ed j another was, that an attempt had been made by the opposite party j to promote a violence if the meeting was called ; and a third, and very obvious reason, was that which he had dated, that no advertisement had been pubiifhed, and no hr.ndbills permitted to be circulated about the town. Thus the people were deprived of a public meeting. And now he would fay a word or two upon the Rochetler tale, which if the c,fe have come w.m a betier g,a , from the eiry of Canterbury, a« it was of tnat lutein wnichiseo.'n-noulyiail c * Canterbury ta.e. He mUi it did a ta: a 1 aoply to the petu ion whicJa Ive had rf , t f „, f 4(V , m w"" n t ! T !u s ' h T I u ' from Warwick, he thought it had hetfcr bereoeated, *o, ridiculous liory fuoitiuited, fi.ftr it would apoly fqv „,l;y a J well to Warwick as to tS.rmir;«!, $ e c^cgvT:itr, c ,Vv was not at all onicjrd to ciedit, so *,as it ifvolv-d the per. lons who Itfbfcnocd io tne p.tuion. He deoreca.ed the cir cumltai*ce, lo tat as it re!a:td ro a revet but 'u'* footed it had aril'cn fro.a aJ| ; m £ i,. in tiFpublii p.pir,* w.iieti lie ho pi a *v dS a he could iio' for a moment undine, that any learner,d P - r foi» cou.d be .o inn;lere.t, and (o ignorant* the pri tl «i« st ,. „ Ur lonltiiuiiou to lay, thj.t « the mef.of the people haJLihinir lo ao wuh the Uwj b.f; to obev • licit*. !" v % ' SirEd.vaid Krutchoull explained again that he did not me.t,i to throw any rdlcaioti on the perfbu who frmed the petition, but nc thoti jli; the mayor reprelie&fible in luffe-mz ilic 6 , Air. S'lcrtdanobCe-ved that this was an extriordinary expla nation ; tOrall that'he Could unuerliand by it was, that ei'her tne huriorao e mionet thought there was no harm to bum a bt.hop, and :hcieloie did not nfcan it re (left ou the peifons wlio permitted it, or elf,- theve was harm, 'and those L r <b-s who permuted the ad were implicated in it. Sli. 1 ox- begged leave to i'ay a few words. The procefltoa he wun every other perlonmuft equally condemn 5 the.efi.re ic ..oped tha: he i'houid uo. be to defend it, but h<t cou.d not help reinnrkiug how much mil i.ulignali.to was Ihcwii by the hoa'e at one time to of this de- Icrtptioii, atid how littleat another. I hetel.ad been frequent inlUnces ol pauial dislike towards h.'m, when, bectule his pet lon cou.d not be attacked, the u ifojtuaaie animjl, which was of the I,,nie name, wascondemned to fuif'cr. and yet r.o notice had been taken. Another mftance was that Hie wo a gaiflll a jevcrcrjd nerfon, though not a bifltop, who has di tt.ug-ulhcu Im.tfcll lor the love ef fuence and liberty, and wt.l be remt mbercJ so loo< as fcier.ce and liberty (hall be rc- I pefled. I .iat n verend oerfon, to tl.e difgraceof this king ! 1 f" 3 " !crcc d to leek in a r ylum in a foreign cnuntry, m comequencc ol fttth iv.deccnt outrages — outrages which, to Inc di(»i,ee of tills kingdom, will (lain the page of ItilUuy n n V "ir. pa,Tcd The person he aliud-d to was Ui. 1 rU'Hiey, who wjs not on'y burnt in butaffaulted in tin own liotiie. and tigainft who.n those very French prin ciples had been p.ut m profiler, which were so ir.duftrioufly imputed to him. 11., rnifcreants whoinlulicd him not on ly carried an efhgy o! draw about tiie town, butthty enclosed tl.e heart of an animal i>i it, which they pierced with a pike 4 and cxpoTed die effigy fiaimd und llrcaming with blood in that ltoirtbie co ß d,non. Tney t.f cr-,va,d, borethat bl.edni? heart hef.re the effigy, which they consumed, mfmuattnl tner. jy, itial m that :n?nnei thry would have deftroved the perlon himlcfi ;sa traitor. '1 his was not then tiled as an a'r gument ; but he reminded she f-tife that it was the nature of violcttcc to produce violence, and thonatureof inlultto p-'«- duce mfult; and that tt was not bv »fls ol opprcfilon and cruelly, but b/luce, fqsuy arid forbeaiLnce Uiat the peo picam. the govitutr.rut were to be united. It therefore be came tiye hoi.fe to convince the wo.id that it afled with im par ia'.ity, aet.ttiat it (hould not fl, ou: with indiznation zt oue >'.«'«e.H -Q.u.., wi.cn u d.fregaided others ten thousand t.ntes more detetiio*. With ten,, ,1 to the adiniSon of the pe.tiionsast:.e lettf.- Nt the ,ot,.y 0 1 the p'aces (row which ;hey came, it was abl,nd, for they were to feecrvnlidercd on ly t.l tne peiions who them, and he therefore thought tf?'t'tli should always be, the petition of the underfizned. Mi. vv ILII AM Sm; I H wirs of Ihe fame opinion. Mueh a..0 had been laid ot inilrcprelentat-on, but it he had'been .11) the l-l jufc w.e-1 the ueutio 1 fro j, Ba.i» wa p.efen.ed, he mould have Hated, .that no o her purpose had been exprefl ed in the pnblsc nonce of the me. tinj than an add.efsof coh gtatulatioo and that the recommendatory claulelortheatioo. tion,,l additional nicafures was infcitcd after, and that »,•{_ tieuiea who fiJ.icd the petitioa wtot away without any idea ofr itjch a cbuf?. Mr. Stiendan p;efen:cd two fenaiate pftirions against tliW bills from the inhabi.aut. of the toWn of Warwick,' a e ainft tne relpedlabtlity of whofq names there could be ISocomplaint linee thefii ft signature on the lift was lord o,.rmer, and'(boa a.terlollowed the name ot apct'on.wno, th'o* no bi(ixoc» (o | loi)2 as unrivalled worth and learn fig were entitled i p •f-P ea •Jjeold *. fefpeaed, U, was that of»Dr, Samu«V ' Mr. Sheridan next presented a petition ag«in(i the billa Jrorn the inhabitants ol the town of KHqiarnock. Notwith standing that the people of Scotland were retrained from « ftce declaration of their opinions, he had ao opportunity of knowing the lentimeitts nf manyof them, ever since bad the honor of bringing forward a motion relative to the Rwal fl-,. roughs, and he could politivtly affvtrt that there never was a time when the people there were more dlffjti.fitd than at p'ei fent It was indeed a sullen and silent diftnisfeflion,, froA which the right honorable gentleman opiate mightawue an probatios, but it wasfuch a mod«ofiealoi,ing»s a man milht uie who Huns another with a bl*w, and obfcrves, thalhecx prefTes no difTatisfaftion . ■ . General Macleoa informed the House, that if many petitions had not come from Scotland, this was no ar gument of the approbation of the bills: when we con fidcr the nature and severity of their laws, we need not wonder if the people of Scotland are timid in avert ing their rights. He was happy that this petitien, of which before he had no knowledge, and which fun. ported another from Paiflevj had been prtfented. He then commented on the diftinflion which was made of late between the higher and low:r orders of the peo ple, and observed that fudi diftimftion was'molt dan gerous to social life, to our beloved monarch, and to the constitution. What is it that the rich hold their efiates by, but by the fufferance of the lower order of the people; and are not their rents enforced in some degree by law, and their rank in life entirely behclden it that fufferance ? He cautioned thehoufeto take care how such opinions got abroad ; for if once the lower orders of the people are made fer.fible of these invidi ous diftinflions, as they art the most powerful of two clafTeii, some fatal may enfne. Mr. Wilmot ftaud,- that no diftinclion had been made by any member, but that it came in a letter from Birmingham, which an honorable baronet (Sir J. Mor daynt) He then adverted to the Coventry petition, presented the preceding evening by Mr. Fox, the prayer of which he had refufed to Support, and said it was not the sense of the majority of the inhabitants yf that city. The Speaker submitted to the hovte, whether mem bers ought not to attend in their places tomalce their ob fervationsat the time the petitions were yrefented, and not to revert, in thecoui-te of other bufineft, te form cr petitions, the great inconvenience of which was so apparent as not to require his notice. Mr. Fox said, that the Coventry petition was signed by 33 00 persons ; and he did not go further when he pretested it, than to Hate it to be the petition of those who signed it. If any one perfau kad a less right, too, to irnke any objections to that petition than another, he thought it was the honorahlegentleman, becaufethe petitioners could not find the noble lord his colleague (lord Sheffield) ; and they therefore waited on him, re questing his concurrence, which herefufed to give, and of course, they had then a tight to apply t? any mem ber they pleated,' and they applied to him (Mr.Fcx) as a person agreeing with their sentiments. The hou. gentleman, therefore, could not complain that lie had not complete notice of it; and, Mr. Fox said, lie pre. tented it purposely on tl»e night when the call of the house took place, to give the faireft opportunity for any objection, though another time would t» have b*er. more agreeable. / y [_VeivMi
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