Lords Sitting of 15 December 1830

MINUTES.
Petitions presented. For the abolition of Slavery, by Lord SUFFIELD, Lord KING, Lord WHARNCLIFFE, and Lord GOSFORD, from various Congregations of Dissenters. By Lord SUFFIELD, for Lord Holland, from the Town of Nottingham, against the Truck-system, and for the Redress of Grievances.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
The Duke of Hamiltonpresented Petitions from Linlithgow, Hamilton, in the County of Lanark, and a third from another place in Scotland, all in favour of Reform in Parliament. He fully agreed with the prayers of these petitioners. He was glad to have the honour of laying them before their Lordships; and he could assure their Lordships, they were the fore-runners of many others. He should not have made one observation in presenting them, had it not been said in another place, that the people of Edinburgh wanted no Reform in Parliament. That

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assertion was disproved by a meeting lately held there, in which all the leading inhabitants had agreed to support the Petition for Reform.—Petition laid on the Table.