inhabitants of
Africa. He concluded by moving an address to the prince regent, to renew
his exertions for the attainment of this noble object, which was agreed
to unanimously, as was a similar one in the lords, on the motion of Lord
Lansdowne.

An act of grace for reversing the attainder of Lord Edward Fitzgerald,
also passed this session without opposition. The preamble of the bill
stated that his lordship had never been brought to trial; that the act
of attainder did not pass the Irish parliament till some months after
his decease; and that these were sufficient reasons for mitigating the
severity of a measure decreed in unhappy and unfortunate times. The
attainder itself, as passed by the Irish parliament, was an instance of
contemptible servility to the ruling powers by that corrupt assembly. A
bill was introduced in the commons on the 11th of May, for enabling the
public to accept the Marquis Camden's liberal sacrifice of the surplus
profits accruing from his unreduced tellership of the exchequer, as
mentioned in a previous page. It was necessary to carry a bill to
authorize contributions by his majesty's ministers and other public
officers, lest his donation of L69,000 per annum might be considered an
illegal benevolence.

The only other business of importance this session was the granting of
L50,000, for the purpose of enabling government to divert the current of
emigration from the United States to the Cape of Good Hope, the colony
to which, it was considered, that it might be most advantageously
directed. This money was to be spent in defraying the expenses, &c, of
those who emigrated to that colony.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.

Parliament was prorogued on the 13th of July. The prince regent in his
speech expressed a confident expectation that the measures adopted
for the resumption of cash-payments would be productive of beneficial
consequences; regretted the necessity of additional taxation;
anticipated important advantages from the efforts made to meet our
financial difficulties; and avowed a determination to employ the powers
provided by law for the suppression of sedition, which still existed in
the manufacturing districts.

SEDITIOUS ASSEMBLAGES.

Many causes operated after the war in producing general distress among
the poor, both in the agricultural and manufacturing districts. The
agricultural population being more thinly scattered, and more passive by
habit and education, bore thei