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up and confined by a Secretary of State ' s warrant , in a prison appropriated to solitary confinement . When the report of the address was brought up on the following
day , Mr . Hutchinson inveighed with great severity , and too much justice , on the conduct of ministers , particularly their neglect of the affairs of Ireland . Mr . Whitbread
complained of the omission , in the speech , of the state of our comraer . cial finance . The Chancellor of the Exchequer allowed , that the enemy had made an impression on the
commerce of this country , but this is to be considered as temporary , and if the subjects were not plainly indicated itt the speech , he begged that it might be now considered as he had stated it / He
denied the systematic neglect at * tributed to ministers on the affairs of Ireland , which for purposes they could best tell who made them , were represented to be in a
most unhappy and lamentable condition , and he challenged the opposition to find out men , who possessed in a higher degree the confidence of the country than the present ministers . After some for- * ther animadversion on the affairs of
Ireland , the report was agreed to , and the address ordered to be pre - sented by those members who were of the privy council . The business / of parliament now went on in its usual manner , and
among the notices of importance , waft one from Lord Holland , in the Hottjse of Lords , on the subject of informations ex qfficio by the Attorney General , which are at
present a subject of very great com . plaint , and deserve particular discussion . The subject will probably bring forward many particulars to tight , which shew the necessity of
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a general inquiry into the doctrine of libel , and the placing of it on a plai n and intelligible footing . At present the meaning of the word libel is undefined , and the
subject may be put to very serious hardships , from an information from an Attorney General , who perhaps at the time does not in . tend to bring the matter to a le * gal . Rearing . Motions were also made for papers l-elative to the bullion committee , and the
depreciation ot paper money is iiw tended to be investigated . The state of affairs in India was also brought forward by ] Vf r . Creevy , and the conduct of Sir George
Barlow severely censured : but this subject will come again before the public . On the whale , the singular situation , of the Regent , with a ministry not the objects of
his choice , will place the parlia * ment in a peculiar light , as the opposition cannot be so severe in their scrutinies : but we hope that in this situation Sir Samuel
Romiily will be enabled to carry through his reform in the criminal law , relative to which he has given notice of some motions , which will be a very great improvement to our criminal codes .
One consequence of the retaming of the ministry was arise in bank stock , from the idea , that the present siystem of non-payment at the bank would be continued . A
county has moved on the beaten topic of parliamentary reform , which was carried unanimously to the county of Hertford ^ and an address to the House of Commons
resolved upon . One of the members for that county has the jme * rit of bringing forward a motion on the subject ; and , if we wet * not too wt \\ acquainted ivitfa tht
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119 State of Public Affairs *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1811, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2413/page/54/
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