38] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



tute Wednesday, which was nega- 

 tived by 80 against 15. 



It is not necessary to trace the 

 further passage of this bill through 

 the House of Commons, since the 

 additional debates were productive 

 of no new arguments. After a 

 third reading on Februarj' 20, it 

 passed without any other divi- 

 sion. 



On Feb. 27, the bill was order- 

 ed for a second reading in the 

 House of Lords, when the Earl of 

 Liverpool stated its nature and ne- 

 cessitj^ 



Lord Byron then rose, and in 

 the first speech he liad made be- 

 fore that assembly, described in 

 very strong terms the distresses 

 jvhich had driven the poor nianu- 

 fecturers to acts of outrage, and 

 expressed his detestation of the 

 sanguinary spirit of a measure 

 which, he contended, had only 

 been resorted to in consequence of 

 the neglect of government to ap- 

 ply timely remedies for the evil. 



Other lords in opposition spoke 

 ;against the bill, with even greater 

 severity than had been used in the 

 House of Commons. 



At the close of the debate, the 

 house divided on the motion of 

 Lord Lauderdale to adjourn the 

 discussion till Monday, when there 

 appeared, contents, 17; non-con- 

 tents, 32 ; majority, 15 ; after 

 which the bill was read. His 

 lordship's motion, that the judges 

 be ordered to attend on Monday, 

 was negatived. 



Upon the order of the day for 

 the committal of the bill, March 

 2, Earl Grosvenor rose to move the 

 .discharge of the order. The de- 

 bate was thereupon renewed with 

 the same arguments which had 

 been before used, and the question 

 being put upon the motion, it was 



negatived. Two proposed amend- 

 ments were agreed to ; one, that 

 the attempt to destroy frames 

 should be made only a misdemean- 

 our; the other, that it should not 

 be imperative upon the person in- 

 jured to proceed immediately to 

 prosecute, provided he could shew 

 a reasonable cause for his delay. 

 The bill was then committed, two 

 peers. Lords Lauderdale and Ross- 

 lyn, entering a protest against it. 

 The debate was briefly resumed,, 

 on March 5, on the motion for 

 the third reading, but it passed 

 without a division. 



The fellow-bill for the preser- 

 vation of the peace in the town 

 and county of Nottingham, was 

 brought to a committee on Feb. 

 18, when, on the suggestion of 

 some members for extending its 

 provisions to the neighbouring 

 counties, Mr. Secretary Ryder 

 moved, that it be an instruction to 

 the committee, that they be em- 

 powered to extend the provisions 

 of the bill to any other county in 

 Great Britain, which was agreed 

 to. 



When the report of the com- 

 mittee was brought up on February 

 20, Mr. Ryder said, that since the 

 bill had been before the house, he 

 had received several communica- 

 tions, which had made it advisable 

 to extend its provisions to the 

 whole kingdom. The bill had been, 

 in consequence, new modelled in 

 many parts, and in this state was 

 submitted for discussion to the 

 committee. The clauses then went 

 through the committee. 



No further discussion is recorded 

 respecting this bill, which, with 

 the former, passed into a law. The 

 operation of both of them was li- 

 mited to March 1, 1814. 



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