Star. — London, England, 1804-06-23 00:00:00

11 Ore, tion Vo. n in at a un:• here the , lu h e nder the refpea td4t, perhaps equally remehetifible ; for he had, contrary to the legal mattice of Scotland. re turned the poor man his fee. Tits Sheriff of the county had told him the indignation which had been felt through the county froso the corded! of Morifon, in difiniffing his (errant , withholding his wages honettly due, and hurrying him and his family out to dame, with the confeqftences it produced on the bofinelk of volunteering; to which he an. Avered, the Gentlemen of the county had the re• medy in their own hands, and that they Ilsould mark their difapprobation of Morifon's eondna ; and if in that any fanaion was wanted from his authority, he would cheerfully give it ; for he did then, had ever fine, sad did INS, believe, en his confeience. that • the condua of Morifon proceeded from difareaed motives. He therefore wrote the letter in quellion, upon 'hie Own rafponfibility, meaning to knelt the Sheriff thereby from any refponfibility in the cafe, soditolopuith him with a document for his own yin dioatios, in cafe of incurring any cantors from aging theremasier. It. never was his hmentios that the Letter thould quit the Sheriff's pockef until events illoald sunder it neoedery to be ailed Upon. But if a letter fo confidentially and privately given could be. conftmed into the publication of any thing in ite costume , dawned to be libellous--furely Mr. MOTI• fon had his remedy in ap aaion at lattr, and hip own, Initiation in life would have enhanced the damages % without retorting to the interference of Parliament, and thus render a man liable to two punifhtnents for the fame offence. But if the conduft of Mr. Marilee was known in his vicinage to be coerce and ;riven henfible. could it be believed that any expreffion in a 1 letter from him could induce the inhabitants of that widow to difbnunienance hint, or to avoid hie intim.' comfit I impoillible.But,Mr. hiorifon had lairafelfi eabibited thla Wee Se Olsabrie miming of the dißieft Bs April lak theme sad carry a iefalatiol of Center* to die ptamedint; bin the - owed% tepee ! *d their feclingsbYtkoating the refolition. If then ohs natal opiniiie dale coulter* iris? the the .e.utt of Mr. Warn, liras hi; tie bkia Advocate, die only Melt io thit enmity mlie *.r.kd from delherulg as epithet ppm that •the lat was it his duty to MU Mr. Merifon by the hand and to countenance and applitedhitn4br the manner and the caulk by which be had got rid of an unruly fervent i ' Ilith refpea to the tea part of the hitter, authors'. lug his sroatatinal to cuitedy, the Hado would fee It was sot only net feted upon, but way to be ailed epee in cafe of the salmi landing of en Mall is the dolour? : had with tape& to the Aa of t Tot; *Web was *finally as Aroma protedion to the panel U hem of the fobjea in Scathed, as the be/446Kit. Raker t.Wpor is Eagland. though it mob s trait empties on eaCesSf umiak sod el imams; Se the lanneedims auger die, and only allowed thrimprl. *anima of any man's masa upon fufpielps is Sad -taps, on th e wathesity of a warrant rigued lui ive Privy Coaacillars s yet as an AA forte dm Hails did sway the Privy Council of Seethed. and is ink abe. whole refponfibility of the Executive Government, including that of the Privy Council, had thereby de volved upon the Lead Advollate, wee he in so cafe even of high trestfoo, however .urgnot or tenable the grounds of his -forpition to sothorifeehe feiting of any asea'srprims, without awaiting the tedious and l o circuitsiu tom of oommunicatioa with CrOVaalllat at she di of 4 0 3 miles ; and the lapfe of a fen night, tint re the orsival of a wausat hom London, fined is dike formweesis though an away were land ed, and in the barrette:if the country ? If therefore the Honourable Merober mans upon the narrow ground °fa mire departure from she Facile female of office, to triumph over-him, be envied hies sot that triumph. nay, be had aheoll fold, with the prefounckft refpeil for that Book, that any posilbenent it might be pleafed to iollia upon loch agthaoar would not cut' deep Mortis feelings. Agaiii.he would declare, that the letter was private and confidential to the Sberiff, and was merely as a document for his own vin dication whenever it became tvecelisty to ea upon it ; Rill lefs could he have fuppofed it would be entered on the records of the county. He should as Much have expeard that a letter from his wife to the Sheriff would have been fo entered. Neither did he intend that a notarial copy fhould have been (erred upon Mr. Morifon. He knew that in what he had done he was eaiug upon his refponfibility, and amenable to the Houle for the confequences, but if the Houle was to interfere by taking out of - the bands of a public officer, circumßanced as he . _. - ,s, all exercife of difcretion, and punifh for that exercife when no injury whatever had accrued. there' would be an end to every exertion of difcretionary power for the public good founded on refponlibility, and the hope of indemnity upon a clear proof cf ailing from neceffity and for the good of the country. Sup pore that the enemy had altually landed, and Mr. Tlori fon had been really (cited and • imprifoned, would the Houk call upon him to make out a legal cafe or juflification of the aft ? Such a cafe mull be made nut upon proofs that mull convia and execute Mr. Morifon. With refpee to the lalt paint in the letter relative 0 the preveption of any indemnity to Mr. Morifon for any lodes its property might robin, In confequence of the landing of an enemy, he would tuppore the cafe of the houfe and property of Mr. . Morifon being deftrnyed. with the cottage of his dif rneyed fervent, at the fame moment, by the enemy. '-le would a& the Houfe, whether in claiming in demnity for Inch Info. the claims of both would be allowed to Rand on !imasr ground, the one having dine all in his power to ptevent his fervent from de fending his country, and the other engaged in adlion, and lying wounded in the fi eld, while his property was detiroyed lit would he impoffible, certainly, for 'im to give equal recommendation in fuch oppofite vales, were the indemnity to depend on an appeal to 'im ; butt it was to depend on the decifion of a Court. lithe; he had no influence or authority, upon a fair eta*natinn of eridcnce, and, confequent ly. where the Letter to the Sheriff could have no operation. The Learned Lord, after apalogifing to the Houle for trefpaffing fo long on their attention, and the neceUlti of (peaking In much of himfelf, hoped they would emote him under the prcfrure of his feelings, open fq fuious an BCCUrAIiOI); and relying . on their pitied and liberality, Paid he &odd await their sdeciaos with the profctindell refpcft and deference. The • Lord Advocate then a ithars:w below the Bar, when— Mr. WHITBREAD moved a itefolotion, •• r i s the tontine of the Honourable Charles Hope,' To writing the laid letter, WAS iNgll, cpprelve, and contrary Sc his official duties.". Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON bid, die; fpcich of the Learned Lord embraced fb much et traneoes matter, totally irrelevant to the fubjeft ire debate, that he (hoold reel it onneceffary to %ref - pall: on the attention of the Houle by endeavouring to follow his Lerdlitip over fo extenfive a field. The Letter written by the Learned Lord to the Sheriff of Banff, was the pr incipal ground of enquiry; and tbe • firtt fentence uttered bT the Learned Lord in jollifi cation of this Letter, in his mind, inßead of pallia ting, exaggerated the mifchief; for the Learned Lord, after acknowledging that Morifon bait applied to him by his agent, reprrfenting the cruelty of fuch a letters and the ruinous injury it would do to hit diarefler, preferring himfelf to be a loyal etas, and entreating foot reparation, by a written acknowledgment that the letter was-written under a mifinformation ; yet the Learned Lord avowed, that %Read of racers, he had told the agent, that Morifon malt futnnit to the injury and defamation, without any redrefs or reparation. The condor% of Morifon towards his fervent, in with holding his wages, was fuel at cer tainly could not be vindicated ; but it was not the mircostderft of Merit= to his fervent, but the ono- . dna of the Lord Advocate of Scotland, is his ofielel capacity, that was the object of invelligation. and whether that conduct can be julified upon any rea fonaide groin nds He owned. hoverer. that from the elaborate like& of the Lesined Lordlintrelf, he could learn nothing like Inftificarion; and if men were to be Iliginatized with the imputation of diFi loyalty and treafon, merely for difcliarging infolent and refraelory Caveats, he knew of only one remedy for the evil, and that was, to engage no fervants.—* Rut if a fervent. the moment he puts a volunteer's uniform on his back, was to confider the authority of his mailer at an end, the volunteer fyltem, inilead of being an advantage, would be a nuifance to the country. The Learned Lord Paid. he did not mean the letter was to quit the Sheriff's, pocket until ac.• Wei invafion fhould render it necerary to at upon bathow_. then. was the Sheriff to a ft in dinned * the inhabitants of the county from all inter com* with Morifon For his own;part, he confider ed the letter itfelf, witout any comment, the River ell poffible charge agarnli the Learned Lnrd ; nor bad he Paid one word - in his defence, that had not ra ther aggravated than palliated the ground of accufa doe. The ATTORNEY GENERAL raid, it required nothing more than the flatemeut of the Learned Lord Advocate to be convinced of the objet he had in view. The queftion was to be confidered under two tints of view, namely, whether the (objet was of ihEc extent as a private grievance, or an at of rob& enormity, to jonify the interference of Parlia ment t The effeft on the individual had been moll relied on ; but in that refped he could not confider it of fuch magnitude as to call upon Parliament to interfere. If it was a cafe in which the ',arty injured could have no hope of redrefs from the laws cat that part of the country where the injury was inflided, then the Hoare would be properly called upon. He did not approve of the exprenions in the Lord Advo cates letter ; but if they had the efet of a libel on the chaster of Mr. Morifon, redrefs might be olt- mined by a perfonal Reim. He could eafdy perceive why Morifon preferred applying to Parliament, r411.-i theft than to one of the ordinary Courts of Jußice. No doubt he was aware that a Jury would confider the provocation his moduli had given, and would on that account award him but trifling damage* ; if, on the contrary. it was a cafe that merited large da mages, Morifon had the means of redreffing himfelf. He argued, that the Hook could not refufe to grant an indemnity to an Officer of State, who fhould. in die event of invafion, apprehend a perfon whole loy• shy he had realms to fufped. With refpea to the threat of deßroying Mr Morifon's property on the landing of the French, the Aft of Parliament ex cluded from compenfation thofe who did nut do all that lay in their power to refill the enemy. Under ell the circumßancessit leaned to him that the Houle ought not to interfere with a vote of cenfure, far left by an Addreft for the removal of the Learned Lord. He did not think there was any ground made out for an application to Parliament; nothing but direr feftion could hive induced Morifon to difinifs his fer vent for attending an infpedion of his corps, and Each reafonahle ground of fufpicion 'lifting in the breaß of the Learned Lord. he was perfedly jußia able in aping as he had done; and therefore he thought the queftion would be bell difpofed of by proceeding to the order, of the day. He concluded by moving the other orders. Mr. GREY obferved, that if any thing could add to the seep regret of his Honourable Friend who made the motion, it would be the mode of defence adopted by the Learned Gentleman, on whole con dud to much of the pure adminißratton of juftice de pended. He would not follow the Lord Advocate through the hiltory of all the ads of power com mitted by his predecerfors in office, but he could not avoid obferving, that in every inflance they had been nitified by the neceffity of the cafe. He dreaded left fuch aas as there C.-mold damp that fpitit which urged the pe-ple to arm themlclves. He dwelt upon the injury Mr. Morifon mutt neceffitrily &Rain by fuch a denunciation as that of the Lord Advocate, and contended, that it was the Judy of the Houle to watch over eh: conduft of high officers. and take care their public procet.dings were fouoded on principles of jollice. lle trolled the time was fir dillant, when a perfon doing what he had a right to do would espole him to the forpicion of being &fal -1 felled. He regrt.ted the nnellion had not been fairly met. Thinking the purity of the adminiitration of the jußice of the country depended on the adoption of the original motion, he fhould give it his *flint. Mr. DALLAS confidered that thesquellion rela tive to the conduit of tb.: Lord Advocate, led the Houle 1i.71 to confider whether that conduct was illegal ; neat, whether it was oppreffive ; and laßly, whether it was con trarr to his duty as a great officer? As to the alledged illegality of the conduit im puted, Gentlemen. in bringing before the Houle of Commons tLis charge 'gaud the Lord Advocate. fcemed to all upon the prefumption that there were no Inch things as Courts of law in Scotland, and 'sit no remedy existed in that count: y. in their tribunals. before which, if there was any illegality in the cafe. Morifon ought to bring forward his aecufation..— Gentlemen were to confider the circomtlances cat the cafe as they had been :laud, with refped to the peculiar funation and emergencies of the country.— Inifuoh a catga with danger lb imadiant, For a loan of 'landed property to refill •ble fervent pervoilka to abfent hirafelf for a few hours to attend ttir iss. fpellicn, as a member of a Volunteer Corps e was w fort of conduAthat hardly reeptired elucidation. In° loch a cafe the Learned Gentlemen faid t that he, without any particular authority, ihould certainly think himfelfjOftified in procuring the erre* of bleb• a perfon immediately on the landing of an enemy.— Aftuateds as he evidently appeared to have been, by a zeal for his country, the Noble-Lord was now se cured of having committed an offence, when no ma titre whatever, of an improper or unjuftifiable nature, could be alledged againll him. As to the fupperfed oppreffions, he mull thy that he could never agree to the idea that Morifon s condo& had nothing to do with the affair. He would put it to the candour and the honour of the Houfe whether this could be for a moment admitted ? Was it not his conduit that oc cafioned thofe fufpicions which &Elated the letter of which fuch complaints were made ? And he would I put it to every Learned Member of the Haute, whe ther, if. he had applied to a Court of Law in this country, under fimilar circumllances, fuppofing the treatment of the Lord Advocate had been op ' Eve and illegal. hat the anfwer would have been? What was his own conduit ? The Court of King's Beach would not have granted a criminal informattan ethos the man's own conduit appeared fo t furpicious anal& improper. In the difeharge of his public duty, at fuch a cats, as an officer of fe much importance to the State, the Lord Advocate teemed to him to have aCied in a manly manner, and tech as defesied his fuppnrt and approbation. The Honourable Mr. KINNAIRD faidohat now he few the courfe purthed by the friends of the Noble Lord, he felt hinsfelf rather the more difpofira to addrefs the Houfe. He could not help obferviag the Orange mode in which thole Gentlemen oa the ("polite fide firove to give fo important a tpse tion the gu.by. Being fo nearly conneaed with Scotland, he could not but implore the Hoak nut to Coffer fo great end fo interefling a point on the atop due of In great a Lew Officer, to pats over without due confideration and examination. He hoped that Gentlemen would, on this omicron, take a Jon from a tranfaEtion that occurred in that Houfe not a long time nine, and molt be fret\ in all their me mories. When a propolition was made to throw fe elan blame on the condole of the late Admisiffea. elm. a Noble Lord who bore a confpicuous pert ha ir, rejeaed. with difdain and indignation, a 111041111111 for petting the previous quellion, which wootd hovel left the charaaer of the ItUnifiers completely. triba l vindicated. Let Gentlemen who are fo manse now to defend the charaaer and the condof3 of die Noble Lord, difdain to (hater him under filch In fubterfuge. The defence of the Noble Lord lr fell appeared to sell only upon two grounds g irk that of the flan of the country ; and , feconilrifehwel nf the amphibian nature (ihe might fo captors itinifek) of the official fitnation of the Lord Advocate. ! He believed be bad suede a cared datenicot wheel he obferved, that the (Late of defence in the counts", WAS not. at that time, adequate to the fuppofed dan ger. He had listed the abfertee of regular forces. and the devadation, if he might call it fo, of the greater part of the Militia, which left the northern parts cf Scotland almoft bare of the means of de fence. But did Morifon, io this ant, really difcou rage and keep back the Volunteers from appearing to ferve their country? Had any pofitive inflance of the kind been proved by any of his countrymen, and tome of them di.' not want boldnefs ? He bad allowed this man for (evertl months to attend his vo lunteer duty; but a particular occafion occurred, when he required his fervices for a different purpofe, and for this he was to be fliginstized, handled, and punifhed, in the mart fevere and appreffive manner. But which indeed was it that depreffed the fpirit of the volunteers ? certainly any thing which wan to impair the affection, zeal, and attachment of the people by unneceffary rigour. and ftretches of power. He need not appeal to the inhabitants of this country who knew In well bow to eliimate the avoidance of the appearance of oppregion and harfhnefs on Inch occafions; for the promotion of fuch great objeas, which were moll likely. by tech condom as that of the Lord Advocate, to be frultrated. The Noble Lord had appeared to think that the whole falvation of the country depended upon him, and therefore he (boob! have endeavoured to promote it by the fillet and *Weft means. As hi th. equivocal and univetfal nature of his office, as he had deferibed it, and the powers of other officers who teemed to be within his inquiation, he mutt beg lave to doubt the flatement. He hated himfelf to be invelled with all the authority of feveral ancient abrogated offices now combined in MS own perlon, exeltifirely of his legal functions. If he and his minifters of grace really and conftitution ally poffefs fuch an commons extent of power, he ()could be loth indeed to be the inhabitant of that coun try with which he was proved to be connected, and &mild, molt probably, be found among the number of thefe emigrants whom the noble Lord would be de firnus of flopping, according to the datements lie had given the Honk. He really felt himfelf warm from the aggravations contained in the defence that had been let up ; and for no retfon more than for what fell fromille learned Gentleman whohaJjtifitittlown. He had diced, with great confidence, which his pro feffional habits no doubt infpited him with —Are there no Courts in Scotland to be appealed to He &cold like to elk one quellion—Was this a matter which the Houfe fhould fend to the Court of Seffion ? It was a queition of a great public wrong. That Houle, as the Reprefentatives of the People, ought to confider this cafe refpeeting the offence of a great pub lic Officer. He could not but defpife the argument in favour of going for damages to the Court. in loch a cafe of public intend! as this was, and he mull treat fuch a kind of argument with a proper con tempt. The Learned Gentleman had declared. that lie would have aaed the fame part. If fo, he amid only fay. that he thanked his flan, that. though a SeuteLman, he had no chance of ever becoming a Lord Advocate. It was the charaaer of the la/ Government to avoid recurring to any ails of onne. celiary feverity, and be bad hoped to fee an end put to all thole eat of cruelty and oppreffion, and vigour below! the law (.1 laari), enplaned in the - heat of party fpirit, which had done fo much etlifellief, but of the cAufes of which be was nut now to enquire. He bad hoped that they had ceafed, and Le flmuld ever oppofe and slepteca.e their r.vival. He inireat• ed the Gentlemen oppoUte to let this AEI to.. flirty contacted. It the Nuble Lets! WAS to COOtialite in porticos to this great power was the prOpriey eeqsired in the ufe of it. A great power and a fawn one ha this refped were very different. A man mu& sot carry about heeled emu jatt in the fame way as be would a walkiregilia. There then was the fife& of the example, and the difficulty of procuring redrefs ; and lafily, there was the unfitnefs of placing power in the hands of a man who fo mifufed it as the Noble Lord had been deferibed to do, and particularly as he had defcribed it himfelf too. There was a queftion of great moment whether he were the fit depofitary of fueh power .? He thought he had power greater than law or rule, afting on his refponfibility, and yet he is very mo th offended at being called to account... He beard the phrak, ss vignur beyond the la.: ," re peated. He had no objection to it. It helped his illufirations. It might be ufeful on Come great, me vat, prang oteafion, when the law Well was talent and inoperative, as in times of civil commo tion it frequently was. Other means mull . be refort ed to when the law could not be enforced. In fonre cafes time did not warrant delay, and you mult take refponfibility ; but theft things fhould not be mixed. Alts at that kind the:old be open, and the claim fairly made for indemnity ;—but the law itfelf ought not to be (trained. If the Noble Lord had arreded the man, though he had pogeired bat half his power!. (till could he have made out his cafe—he might have been juflified and indemni. fled. But aould any body maintain that there was even a prefumption in his favour ? The man, it is I Paid, worked at night, and thatched a barn : that is to fay, by candle light. Now a man might al molt as well go into a powder magazine with a light ed candle as thatch a barn by candle light. But fom* whifpered it was moon light. Well : what was the prefumption from the moon I But fiill it is (aid, that the behaviour of Morifon was jilt! filch as might be expeßed from a man who was difaffeaed he did not know that. So it he ate his dinner it might be laid, aye. your difaireaed people always eat their dinner. He denied fuch kinds of inferences. l e bere was, is no good pretence at all. The Noble Lori dildai all this. ‘Vhat be wanted wax to give ad eaneapio' rerrernis to all who Litoold dealt to withdraw Volunteer Corps ; and thalami. he and • the nfetif hfs 'mat Powers, he 'could only de Co feaually by employing enneilia• i 11 bonged of coercion and (trolly. If the cries of jnflice were to be ddim' garded by that Houk, it would yet be Cure that rhos getting rid of the toteftion they were at IMp'cioto, and, in fait, lowering the great chant/to they prolefed to defend. '• Mr. W. DUNDAS fad. that two Gentlemen who had called (or a cool and difpaffihruite deliberations on this fuhjea; feemed to here forgot what &Idiot fired, fence they themfelves betrayed fisch airstilfalt fymptoons of warmth. If the Hoofe would bele him, he would calmii Rate the rotation-4A tosteetel The Hon. Member then enumerated briefly theist - SO ing points of the Lord Advocate's defense, and pot it to the confideration of any impartial and candid man, to confider the tree circumflances. Bulled• with the duties of his own prafeffion, haraffed with the perpetual applications made to him from the 'la- tore of his official lituation, at this pecoliar dojos, and. fired with as ardent zed for the thpport of the Vo- lenteer fervice, it was not to be expefted, that in a moment of warmth he &mild precifely keep his temr per on Pooh a fobjea, and be perfealy, in all re • !peas, cold, erotica, and accurate. Me could Mite the high character of that Noble Lord, the life of Cervices he had conduced to his canary. which could not be rallied by the tranfoftions now before the Honk. He appealed to the opinion entertained at him by the Noble Commander in Chief of his Ma- jetty's forces in Scotland, the Earl of Monte, wise differing widely, perhaps, in politics, from the Nokia- Lyra, bad given huh decided toritimony to his pobilic merits. He commanded the Edietbaegh bstadiedo; who bad, by dint of his energy, toombrotoplotiboo ward to fech excellence as to have beta 'preetonneet by that Nate Earl equal to regattas. Hawingg dorm* fo much for the public faro/ice, was it vrossderful that his been mid ardent feelings fbould, is a 'tingle in.• Reset. go to a little excefa Was it too math to oar ohs Houk to look upon Cods a circemolleoce favourable eye ? Had all dorm asAllorifoo had &off where would have been our-Volunteers t end all. the means for the defence of the country t He wi» b. likewife to corral, before be Lit down, ea 'nor'* feeding the cenfent of the Lord Advocate, in brier' leg a profecatien. That content was never refifhea though his prtfixtel management of the prokeetion aright be rekfed Ivy bins. Mr. W.SMlTHappeovedelf the raw i d : fe wb s t. tba Night Hon. Gentleman who (poke left the Learned Lord, Some it only wad to palliate, and • not to jußify his conduit, bat be wanted very to. verely the meaner in which the Lord Advocate bad *leaded himfelf, wed OM sore mangy the comfit t Mr. Dailey had taken in thin ode. liepe'defled aM . tire refpea for the ledges of the Casa of &Sea is , Scotland. but maintained, that ham the nmenes' in t which their authority was conititeted, the complain- t ant was not to 'spa the fame redrefs from them is . this cafe. as be might before a jury in this country. He fupported the prefent motion of his Hon. Friend, r entirely on public coatlitutional principles, which t- were binding and conclufive npon him • he raw no 1. other proper eourfe in this important ca fe. e Mr. WINDHAM had heard the defence with at. o tention, and it put him in mind of the laying. that he :- who becomes his own advocate, &Mom has a very wife man for his client. Between his defence, and R thole Pet up for him by his friends i it was bard to fay te which was the wor ft . However there were among o, them the charms of satiety at lea". Some were bold and tome were gentle ; Come ekd the full tram. a. pet flop. which the Noble Lord himfelf began, and d, others • played on the gentle lute. There was al% very material point conneaed with this ffifeMSon. k ad was vary requilite that the Hook °would know fame- r. thing more about the extent and nature of this ;wo- of digioes office of the Lord Advocate, which teemed to to unite and (wallow up all forts of offices and he powers, of all times concentrating into it's! tr. the ancient Cabinet, the Privy-Cooled. and mac ry great ancient officers of State, and pnatisigg theta of all into this one channel. It was high .time 20 ch confider whether it was fitting that fads en came ts, fhould exid, which formed a fort of imprison in ate- he rio polletring powers not to be foiled in may gr eat rd officer in England, claiming, by a peewee of re- of fponfilaility. a right to do every thing. Bat in pro- he portion to this great power was the propriety relished eft in the ufe of it. A great power aced a (mall one in tai this refped were very diferent. A man mull not he carry about balled erne j oft in the fame way as be his would a walking ilia. There then was the effect of nt. the example, and the difficulty of procuring redrefs ; i•y and laftly, there was the unfitnefs of placing power in in the hands of a man who Co mifufed it as the Noble If j Lord had been deferibed to do and particularly as he on- had defenbed it himfelf too. 'There was a queflion of he great moment whether he were the fit depofitary of on- loch power He thought he had power greater than Ind law or rule, sifting on his refponfibility, and yet he Oct. is very much offended at being called to account... de- He heard the phrale, 6' vig'sur beyond the lir.• ." lad peated. He had no objeaion to it. It helped his om illuftrations. It might be ufeful on fame great. w- ild &ear, pref Gog oecafion, when the law otfelf was !sat talent and inoperative, as in times of civil comma- .... I 4 cron nen ti • teat- Other means mull . be refort-