Mr. Secretary Bournepresented a petition from Coventry, in favour of the bill for giving concurrent jurisdiction to the Magistrates of Warwickshire in regulating the elections for that city.
§ Mr. Hudson Gurneysaid, he was perfectly convinced the introduction of the Warwickshire magistracy was a wrong manner of dealing with the question, and that the only proper step to be taken against the recurrence of the violences which had so frequently occurred in Coventry, would be the restoration of its ancient charter, in the place of that of James the 2nd, and giving votes to those freeholders who were now deprived of their elective franchise, by having been transferred from the county of Warwick to the city of Coventry.
Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed.