Lord Suffieldpresented a Petition from the Inhabitants of the Ward of Aldgate, in the City of London, praying for Reform in Parliament, and for the Repeal of the Assessed Faxes. He agreed with the petitioners as to the necessity of reform and retrenchment; and he would take that opportunity of saying that he gave the Ministers his support, with perfect confidence that they would act according to their declarations on those subjects. Much had been said on the question of Reform, to which he was as favourably disposed as any man in the House; so favourably, indeed, that on the very first time he took his seat, he had declared, with more zeal than discretion, that he never would give his support to any Administration which opposed that measure: and he, therefore, was glad that the time had arrived when he could give an Administration, pledged to reform, his general support. As long as the present Ministers acted up to their professions he would support them, and he had the fullest confidence that they meant to carry their promises into effect.
§ Petition laid on the Table.