Colonel Sibthorpepresented a petition from the Merchants, Tradesmen, and Inhabitants of Lincoln, complaining of the general Distress of the Country, and praying the House not to grant further supplies until the state of the Country should be taken into consideration, and measures adopted 430 for its relief. The petition was most numerously and respectably signed, and in it he fully concurred. The hon. Member declared he would never vote for the supplies being granted until the state of the country had been fully taken into consideration. The House was still a sacred spot, in which Members might yet speak their sentiments without fear of prosecution. He hoped those sentiments would be widely diffused throughout the country, in order that the public might know that their complaints were not silently passed over.
§ Mr. Fazakerleysaid, he could bear testimony that the petition expressed the feelings of a large majority of the very respectable inhabitants of Lincoln, and he fully concurred in the prayer of the petition.—Ordered to be printed.