PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES: FORMING A CONTINUATION OF THE WORK ENTITLED "THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY OF ENGLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR 1803." New Series; COMMENCING WITH THE ACCESSION OF GEORGE IV. VOL. XXIV. COMPRISING THE PERIOD FROM THE EIGHTH DAY OF APRIL, ΤΟ THE FOURTH DAY OF JUNE, 1830. [Third Volume of the Session.] LONDON: Printed by T. C. HANSARD Pater-noster-Row, FOR BALDWIN AND CRADOCK; J. BOOKER; LONGMAN, REES, ORME, AND CO.; 1830. PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES-(HANSARD'S). "HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES consists of two Series: the first, in Forty-one Volumes, commencing with the year 1803, and ending at the period of the Death of George the Third: the second, commencing with the Accession of his late Majesty, George the Fourth, the completion of whose reign (with the exception of the prorogation by his successor) will conclude the Twenty-fifth Volume of that Series. "To the fidelity and strict impartiality with which it has been conducted, testimony of the most flattering description has been borne by nearly every one of our great Public Men, and by all our most distinguished Literary Journals. In the thirty-eighth number of the Quarterly Review will be found an elaborate article, written by the late Mr. CANNING, on Mr. Brougham's Education Committee and the Reform of Charity Abuses. Having, in the course of it, occasion to refer to the Debates in Parliament on the Renewal of the War in 1815, and to those on the State of the Country in 1816 and 1817, that eminent man took occasion to pronounce HANSARD'S PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES to be "a Record, which, for fidelity, fulness, and despatch, has certainly never been equalled." "Neither has the Edinburgh Review withheld its meed of approbation. We cannot,' it says, speaking of this Work, and of its companion, THE PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY Of ENGLAND;- we cannot quote this careful and judicious Collection without bearing testimony to its singular merits. It deserves, as well as the New Edition of the STATE TRIALS, undertaken by the same Proprietors, to be numbered among the most useful and best conducted Works of late years. Both are indispensable parts of all Collections of English History. This latter panegyric came, like the former, from the pen of one of the most distinguished Members of the House of Commons. "It is hardly necessary to add, that a Work which has been thus spoken of, and which, in consequence, has found its way into most of the great public and private Libraries, not only of the United Empire, but of Europe and America, will continue to be conducted with that fidelity and perseverance which a reception so flattering is calculated to produce. As a book of Parliamentary-historical Reference it is, and will continue to be, 'indispensable.' "In addition to the Debates of both Houses, the Work contains an invaluable collection of Parliamentary Papers, consisting of many hundred Reports, Estimates, Returns, Protests, Petitions, Treaties, Conventions, Lists of Divisions, &c. &c.; together with a regular Series, for the last twentyfive years, of Accounts relative to the Finances and to the Trade and Navigation of the United Kingdom. These documents are exact copies of those laid before Parliament. They are to be met with in no other publication, and will be found eminently convenient and useful to the Reader: to whom, indeed, if his attention be at all turned to subjects of Political Economy, they are essentially necessary. By aid of the INDEX hereafter announced they will be capable of instant reference. "Finding that others have taken to themselves some merit by the adoption of an original feature of this Work, Mr. Hansard has been induced to |