for the Irish vestries bill, 27 Apr., against the public buildings grant, 3 May, to cut the assistant treasury secretary’s salary, 10 May, and 13 May, to repeal the Irish coal duties, 13 May. He voted with his relations for Jewish emancipation, 17 May, abolition of the death penalty for forgery, 24 May, and Labouchere’s proposals for the Canadian civil government, 25 May. He presented a hostile petition from Thetford, 4 May, and voted to amend the beer bill to restrict licensing for on-consumption, 1 July. He divided against administration on the libel law amendment bill, 9 July 1830. At the general election that month he made way for his brother Francis at Thetford and came in for Callington with his father.12

The ministry counted the Barings among their‘foes’, and Bingham, who attended the opposition meeting at Lord Althorp’s*, 13 Nov., voted against them on the civil list, 15 Nov. 1830, when his father did not vote.13 At the latter’s request, he was named as the reserve for appointment to a treasury lordship in Lord Grey’s new administration ifhis cousin Francis declined.14 He may have presented anti-slavery petitions from Bamborough, 18 Nov. At The Grange the following night, he narrowly escaped death at the hands of the ‘Swing’ rioters whom he confronted in his capacity as a Hampshire magistrate. According to Lord Ellenborough, who had the report from Baring’s father, he ‘was not much hurt’ as ‘his brother [Frederick] the clergyman’ raised the whole village to disperse the mob. He expanded his militia troop and was