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Sumner's motion, fl That the annuity of aoool. payable 
to the Hon. Jane Perceval for her life, (hall, after her de- 
ceafe, be paid to fuch male defcendant of the right ho¬ 
nourable Spencer Perceval as (hall be at that time his heir, 
for the term of his natural life.”—Mr. Whitbread de¬ 
clared his diffent from this propofal ; Mr. Wilberforce 
exprefled his apprehenfion that fuch a vote would be fuf- 
pefted to have originated from the political opinions of 
thofe who had ufually fupported the deceafed minifter ; 
lord Caftlereagh moved an amendment upon it, which 
went to fet it afide; and other members (poke againft it. 
When, however, the divifion took place, lord Caltlereagh’s 
amendment was rejected by 107 againft 67, and Mr. Sum¬ 
ner’s motion was carried by 136 againft 23. 
The report being brought up on the next day, the firft 
and fecond refolutions were read and agreed to nem. con. 
—Mr. Kulkifl'on then rofe, and, after feme obfervations 
refpeCting the (iruation of Mr. Perceval’s eldeft foil, now 
.at the univerfity, who would come out into the world 
with a (lender pittance, propofed that the third refolution 
Should be recommitted, and a grant included in it of ioool. 
a-year to the eldeft fon on his reaching the age of twenty- 
one, without prejudice to his reverlionary right to the 
fum already voted. A debate then enfued, in which, 
Unanimity being no longer the confideration, the friends 
of the late minifter (howed a determination to maintain 
the ground they had gained, and carry the national 
bounty to his family as far as the feelings of the houfe 
would permit; whilft the members in oppofition feemed 
to think that enough had already been done for juftice, 
and that augmentations would only be an abule of the 
public generofity. Regarding the particulars of this dif- 
cuflion as neither pleafant nor inftruftive, we (hall only 
ftate its refult: this was, that, after the original refolu¬ 
tion, and a motion for poftponement, had been negatived, 
Mr. Huikiffon’s motion was carried. 
On the 15th of May, lord Clive rofe to move for an 
addrefs to the prince-regent for a monument to the me¬ 
mory of Mr. Perceval in Weftminiter-abbey. This was 
oppofed by Mr. Lambe as a clear recognition of his pub¬ 
lic fervices, which could not be acquiefced in by thofe 
who had difagreed with him in his political meafures: 
Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Wynn, and Lord Milton, (poke to 
the fame effect. Lord Caftlereagh, Mr. Canning, Mr. 
Wilberforce, and others, fupported the motion; which 
was carried on a divifion by 199 votes againlt 26. 
Bellingham was brought to his trial at the Old Bailey, 
the court being fitting, on the 15th, when, there being no 
difficulty in proving the faft, he was, without hefitation, 
brought in guilty. There was a flight attempt to prove 
him infane ; but, except his perfuafion that what he had 
committed was perfeftly juftiliable, and an apparent ex¬ 
pectation that the aft would be fo confidered on liis trial, 
no other marks of an alienated mind could be adduced. 
His execution took place on the 18th before Newgate. 
He prepared for his fate with great compofure by the ufual 
religious exercifes, and during the whole feene manifefted 
an extraordinary degree of firranefs and felf-pofl'elfion. 
He denied that he had any accomplices in the deed (as 
indeed there could be no fufpicion of this kind), and per¬ 
illed to the very laft in refufmg to exprefs any contrition 
for his crime. 
This wretched man is dated to be a native of St. Neot’s, 
in Huntingdonfhire, and aged 4.2 years. He was brought 
up in a counting-houfe in London ; and fome years ago 
went to Archangel, where he lived with a Ruffian mer¬ 
chant, in whole employment as clerk he continued three 
years. Having formed a connexion with a Mr. Borbec- 
ker, in the timber-line, he returned to England in order 
to feek a contract for the fupply of timber; and entered 
intoconfiderable engagements with the merchants of Hull. 
Ships were in confequence fent out to Archangel to bring 
home cargoes; but, Mr. Borbeckcr having meanwhile be¬ 
come a bankrupt, the vefiels returned in ballaft. Bel¬ 
lingham, who ltill remained at Hull, was arvefted, and 
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thrown into prifon, by the difappomted merchants, for 
the non-fulfilment of the contract; and, during his con¬ 
finement, or foon afterwards, he wrote a pamphlet with 
the intent of ridiculing the merchants of Hull. On the 
recovery of his liberty he proceeded again to Archangel, 
where he entered into various fpeculationj, which ended 
in his involving hitnfelf in ft ill more numerous difficul¬ 
ties. He was there very troubldome to the government, 
fending to them memorial after memorial, on fubjects re¬ 
lative to bis private concerns; and he, moreover, gene¬ 
rally conducted himfelf with fo much pafiion, that at 
length lie was fent to prifon, where he remained a confi- 
derable time; claiming, in vain, the protection of the 
Britifh minifter, who, indeed, could render him no affift- 
ance. The term of his confinement having expired, Bel¬ 
lingham repaired to England full of complaints againft 
the Ruffian government. He married in London, but 
took up his abode at Liverpool. He commenced the bu- 
finefs of an infurance-broker, whilft his wife purfued that 
of a milliner. He continued at intervals to prefent me¬ 
morials to the Britifh government on the fubjeft of hie 
claims; but thefe were concerns with which government 
had nothing to do. For the laft few weeks he had been 
in attendance about the houfe of commons; and, a fliort 
time previous to this rafli aft, he nddrefted to feveral 
members of the houfe a printed ftatement of his griev¬ 
ances, requefting their interference in his behalf. It it 
faid, that his laft application to government on his affairs 
was made that very morning, when he received a repul- 
five anfwer, which is fuppofed to have confirmed him i« 
his dark and bloody purpofe. 
The only other parliamentary proceeding immediately 
confequent upon Mr. Perceval’s aflaftination arofe front 
a circumftance juft alluded to. The criminal, in juftifi- 
cation of his aft, which he always defended as vindica¬ 
tive of the injury he had fuftained from the rainifters ire 
refufing him compenfation for wrongs which he afierted 
that he had undergone in Ruflia, particularly complained 
of the conduft of lord Granville Levefon Gower, the®, 
ambaflador in that country, and fir Stephen Sharp, the corc- 
ful-general. His lordfhip, therefore, on May 30, moved 
in the houfe of commons for the production of a letter 
from himfelf to the fecretary of ftate for the home depart¬ 
ment, lord Caftlereagh, dating all the circumftances rela¬ 
tive to the cafe of John Bellingham. An addrefs to the 
prince-regent was agreed to for this purpofe, and the let¬ 
ter was read before the houfe. Of its contents no more 
needs here to he faid, than that it completely exculpated 
his lordfhip and fir Stephen with refpeft to that unhappy 
man, whole paflions appear entirely to have obfeured hie 
reafon as far as concerned his tranfactions in Ruftla. 
Whatever might be the general opinion of Mr. Perce¬ 
val’s talents as a ftat;efman, no one denied his ability as a 
fkilful leader in the houle of commons. His lofs to the 
exifting adminiftration was therefore confidered as a ftroke 
which they could not poflibly furvive; and it immediately 
fet in motion all that mafs of political intrigue and fpecu- 
lation which never fails to be called into aftivity upon a 
prol'peft of change in the government. The earl of Li¬ 
verpool, on whom the polt of leader now devolved, at¬ 
tempted to acquire an acceffion of ftrength by the affoci- 
ation of the marquis Welleftey and Mr. Canning. Upon 
the failure of this attempt, Mr. Stuart Wortley, on the 
it ft of May, fubmitted to the houfe of commons a mo¬ 
tion for an addrefs to the prince-regent, praying his royal 
highnefs to take the proper meafures for forming an effi¬ 
cient adminiftration. The motion was feconded by lord 
Milton. Long debates arofe; and the conclufion, though 
fuccefsfui, was not very gratifying to the oppofition-party, 
as the majority was only 4 votes in a houfe of 344 mem¬ 
bers : and, what was extremely mortifying, the addrefs, 
by a fubfequent vote, could be prefented by only the 
mover and feconder; for the motion for having it pre¬ 
fented by the whole houfe, afterwards altered to one for 
having it carried up by fuch members as were of the privy- 
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