§ Mr. Henry Thorntonpresented the following petition agreed to by the electors of Southwark, in common hall assembled: "To the honourable the Commons of Gt. Britain and Ireland, in parliament assembled. We, the undersigned, electors of the borough of Southwark, in the county of Surry, beg leave to congratulate your honourable house, upon the result, so glorious to the character of parliament, of the discussions which have taken place in your honourable house on the 8th and 10th days of this inst. April, respecting the gross malversations in certain branches of the executive government, which have been disclosed in the Tenth Report of the commissioners of naval enquiry. We pray your honourable house to follow up that virtuous line of conduct, which, upon the two days before 377 named, have diffused such signal satisfaction through the whole country. We entreat you to sift to the bottom the mass of abuses which the aforesaid commissioners have traced and exposed. We beseech you to renew, without loss of time, and to extend, if necessary, the powers so faithfully executed, of those commissioners. We implore your honourable house to pull down guilt, however protected; to save from rapacity, from peculation, and fraud, a people who contribute cheerfully to the real wants of the state, and who never complain but when their generous temper is abused and imposed upon: so shall the commons of England take the most efficient course possible to vindicate the sullied honour of the government; to confirm the public confidence, and to plant in all good hearts the most unfeigned admiration of the British constitution."