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PARI.4,IIEAT4I2r PROLLEDLAGS. il )ITSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, APRIL 26. The eonfideration of the important /Viva! Caule, Ca•hcset, Bart •. the Earl of Canine being returned, Mr. H. I. aline %VA.; f (fiber, and at very great kngth, heard on behalf of the Noble Ittctptindeat—and Weiler confirnsation of the cafe adjourned ill Monday. _ _ . The coo 11 , !-ration of the Appeal C.ofe, RCllillgtoll Ir. Rtdiirig tots, a as tatd for the 9th of May. WEST-I.:DIA ACCOUNTS. The Earl of SUFFOLK, after &only adverting to a recent communication which he had with a No ble fiecietary of State, then in his place, obferved, fhould have to move their Lordlhips with refpat to the produCtion of certain very important public accounts. He was aware that documents of this nature fhould not in general be produced, except adequate Parliamentary or public grounds were laid for their expolition. In the prefent in lance, he was confident the ground he thould proceed on was unohjeetionable in there points of view—it was no leis than that of public delinquency, which, he had reafon to think, he could make appear, in cafe the documents lie fhould forthwith move fur were granted to him— and this confideration, withoat going farther, he would aver, was an adequate and fufficieat reafon for their production. The Noble Earl then moved, That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Ma jetty, praying that he would be gracioufly pleated to order that there be laid before the Houfe, an account of all Monies and Sums drawn from the Weft Indies upon his Majelly's Tresfiiry, from the i ft of Decem ber, 1798, to the tR of December, 18cNa, fpecifying the amount of the refpedive drafts, the time of their being refpeilively drawn, and the different times of payment." Lord HAWKESBURY laid, he did not rife to °pp.& illr motion, the natnre cf which the Noble Earl had communicated to him a few minutes !ince, but to exprefs his opinion generally, that documents of the kind limli not be produced, unlefs fame ade quate Parliamentary or public grounds were laid for fuck produelion. Such motions fhould not be made, as he feared was fometimes the CitiC, idly, or upam light graands. For independent of other impor tant confiderations, it thould be recolleCied, that filch pro. eedings induce great inconvenience at dif ferent pith is offices, and fometimes fn as materially to interfere with the limitary difhatch of public bii finefs. To the prefent motion he had no objeelion —nor did he mean, in any thing laid, the leaft to call in quAion the general right of Parliament, on fulticient grounds, to call for official information— snore elpecially in what (ar.d which was peculiarly ci.nithutionally its province), concerned the I L 1.•;..• peilditti , e. she Ear! of 6L I FFOLK acqiiiefied in the °bier -4,i he N &cretary of State. There was r • expreGoo which, he laid, ha was lorry had fallen . hint, eamely, a motion idiy uta,te. This by no moans r oild apply to that which lie Lad jolt fulnit led to the Haute ; for, if lie ware not greatly mil. taken of mifinfarincd, lie could ground opan the documents moved for, a charge of deliaquency on the part of the 'freatto y. Lord HAWKESDU RV explained, that it was obviatis, that what he hated ;;;•nerally could not be ;wended to apply to the Motion of the Noble Earl, it:al:much as he exprefsly Itated he did not s - Lean to opiiole t ;aeftion was then put, and the A-ddrefs or dered accaidingly. On the motion of the LORD CHANC6t LOR, who re prefented that an immenie niimbar of Appeals were Leff.: e the Houfe, a Committee was appointed to meet on Tuciday, to :A: into consideration the hate of the Appeals and Writs of Eu rut before the Honfe. r. ~~ t I HOUSE Or COMMONS. T!le SPEAKER took the Chair at half pat four. Scare private buratefe having hr .11 3 nt. , 01 writ wan hr. tiered to be iffued to Eke. A !it:rip:is for Vetzhingly, in tiac wont of James Milne•, Efq. (treed. d. Sir WILLIAM SCO ET moved for the re-romm!tment of the Prix_ Bill on the 36111 of M.iy nixt.—Ordered. Si^ JOHN NEWPORT moved that cerr.,in official papers re fpeeting the r.xpecce of Government in IttLintl. t.t the fecond time the Thames I Aftpgc and 3all:nage Bill ; and ou the motion of Mr ROSE for its commimicht on Monday, Sir M. W. RIDLEY felt it his duty to call the attei.tion of the Ii mire more particularly to this Bill, which he found, from its pre-inthle, was intended to re al many, if not nearly all, of the former laws by which she navig.,tion of the River Thames was regulated, at.d to eltaldifh many new and heavy charges, upon bills and velfLls, for width he knew of no fulßcient reafon ahgn; ed the Houfe. .re, however, be could be Induced to give his off ilu to filch a Bill. he mould feel it his duty to move, that an aecount a the Receipts and flair.:adittmes of the Trinity Houle board. for the loft three years, I'm laid before the linufe. Mr Ito in a few wards, defended the Bill, audit was coat i- i led for MouJay. NAVY. , NDRFW HAMMOND moved, that there be laid before . Copy r.) the letter Carolled, on the azd April, aos, . .m ruli, rof the Navy, to the Lords CommiMoners of •J 1 —Grdered. ISLE or MAN. .NV mi . .", and after tome allufion to a motion 1„ ; p ia ... u. .1 farai. r for a return of the Port Du , -tie,: I,t the a M.:rt. fn:in 1793 to 1804, and the thereof curiur z p r; d of five yearm, nhf. reed, that ' !... appearc th.4t fhe rzceir ..vt•rti-r...1.11)aut ..t ;,:id the expet.:lttore4:.bott i 6 I•er avian - a. Ia ,v• fe.7lii, of uut of which it app...Ared th-.t F :it: into th , . I.:::::hequttr, and the only accoton ire r. .tic .;f the rcrnairdo.7 lons of 17,i 01. was, Ur :t a was a ,knee 1., the brit', of the Iztc :.1)4 Facia kteeiv,r4 : emot-;*/ • .; ut.thr t iromatar.:ei ~fthc country, the ilutec oneht ;.. r, ma::. f4ti,:itti with inch an accoLut of fa large a Iwo, be tAft ti.,ticeth4t Le ltould, on t' ritidy mat, move rot au Account of the Itxplus tcycou.:i of the I& of NT:in. SLLFCT COMMIrrEw. 0 , 1 the motion of the CIIANCELLOR of the rX::1 - 1EQUEK, the Order ct the Day for balloting a Selea-Committee was ri.ad. The Scr;eant at Arn.s having, in pot foam: cf order, gune to the ;..ther's Chambers, the Court of Requel and adjacent, to furnrym the Mart her,,, tire bal. lutilT proceeded. When all the nanie, of the Mem. brr. :tad been :cad by the Cle:k, an] when thcfe hn chofe to VULt: had depofited their fills in the glafs ; Mr. S'rURGES BOURNE moved, that a Ccrn mit:ee be appiiitted to exaritine the lilts, an] to rc -1,: rt to the Houfc the names of the twenty .one i , •!ohe; wit had the tnij•-•rity of vntes Mr. WHITBREAD fai , i, a report had been very generally ci. , n!atecl that ii i. had been fent to Mem ber. ht• Letf..n; high in authothy, pin:ill out the ..f thufe ;ley w•ilsed to 14 chofen en the S.Aal Committee. He held in Lie ik..nd a paper nam:“..l that wilt) vvcre (id iv be feleeted, and recommended by Government, ,which he w..01d read to the Houfe, namely, Lord Caltlereagh Mr. St. John Mr. Wlitbre d Mr. Softer Matter of the Rolls Mr. H..Lateels Mr W. Windhoun Sir H. Mildm - ty Sir W Scott Mr. S. Thornton Mr. T. Gro‘ille Mr. J. Lute Mr. Ryder I.ord Boyle Lord George Cavendith Mr. Cartwright Lord Duni* Mr. Hawkins Broone Lord W. RuiTell Mr. Gunning. Mr. Lkyeefter If on the report of the Committee appointed to examine the glafs, is lhould appear that thefe were atitially the names poffeffing the majority of votes, the infer ence was too plain not to be drawn by every man in iheH ink and in the country. Some of the perfois he had mentioned were fo nbjedionable, that if they were returned, however novel the proceeding, he mould inflantly feel it his duty to. move that their names be expunged for the purpofe of fubftitutiog' others more fatisfadory to the public. Mr. FOX obferved, that it would certainly be as competent to the Houfe to expunge fuch names, as :t was to them to expunge the names of thofe members ballotted for in elation or other Commit. tees, whole occupations would not allow them to at tend their duty. The Right Hon. the SPEAKER, however, Rated, tkat the only question before the Houle was, that a Committee of 21 Members be formed, &c. Mr. Sturges Bourne's motion was then agreed to, as was like :wife the one which followed it, fpecifying the names of thole who thould couttitute the examin ing Committer. `Mr. SIILRIDAN hoped that the lift which bad been read by his Honourable Friend, would be laid on the table of the liouce. He adverted with appro bation to the mole of forming a Select Clmmittee, propofcd by an Homan able Gentleman laft night, which was, that the Members who were to compofe it, World be alternately named by both fides of the FlOlll2. On a former very important occafion, when the ballot was lufpeaed to be but a mall:, on the no mination of the Minifler, confidering the importance of undeceiving the public, and not letting them ima gine that the Cominittee were choler fairly by ballot when it was no Inch thing, he had moved that the door-keeper be called to the bar for the purpofe of examining whether or not lids had been delivered through his hands to the Members. It was true his motion was negatived, but he hoped that Minifiers would not avail themfelves of this as a kind of tering claufe—(A laugh.) After a few word. between the SPEAKER and Mr. WHITARII&D. as to the proper form of proceeding, Mr WHITER6iID 111017.6 d A refolution, " that it was a high breach of die p‘ivtleges of that Fioure to c.r ciliate lids of lq,utbers to ferve by ba!lot in a Sete& Committee." A diviiitin immediately took place, when there appzare..!, for Mr. Whitbrcad's Dilution 45—Againti it 154.—Majnrity tcso. THE Phi% TSR or THI ORACLE. When we were again adinitted, Mr-ATKINS WRIGHT was commenting on the necsflity of admitting the full enjoyment of the li berty of the prefs. - It was true that this liberty ought to be exe , cifed in a becoming manner ; yet if every frivolous paflage in a newrpaper, derogato ry to the dignity of the Houk, were to meal - ion its interpofition, the public bnfineis would be gvievoufly impeded, and no great end cf jut:ice would by filch means be fuccefsfully promoted. On there grounds, he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would not profs the Order of the pay. Mr. GREY thought, by the tenor of the Hon. Gen tleman's fpeech, he 'teemed inclined to objet to any form of proceeding in cafe of a libel infiinging on the charafter and priyileges of that Houfe. He would admit that nothing of a trifling nature would have attraded his observation, but he conlidered this by no means to fall within that defeription. This was not an unguarded expreflion, it was the I..aguage which " he tha; runs may read," and I:leie could be no difficulty in collating the general siefl;7n of the 2aragraph. If any Gentleman could confider it a fair dirculTion on public mearn:rc, he (Mr. Grey) would be the Lift man to Zlifeuas age fuels diftadfion, and would withdraw the motion he now propofed— but he thought that the palEige contained only grofs and unqualified abufe, and that it was manifestly in tended to iufult the dignity of the Houfe. Under the influence of this opinion, he would difeharge a need: fary and a painful duty, in moving for the Order of the Day. The queft;on was then put and carried, and the Order being read by the Clerk " That P. Stuart do attend this Houfe," the additional quellion was pro ' pored. that 4 ' he now be called Co ;" when, after a remark, addreffei to Mr. Atkins Wright, by the Speaker, on the point of Order,' Mr. WINDHAM faid, he was not, as Isis Hon. Friend (Mr. Grey) had diflinguillicd liimfelf, the lilt man to invite the Houle to exert it own authori ty on an occalion of this kind ; but if he were'dif poled to avoid the application of it, it would be Im eaufe he fh. uld defpair of its being attended with Accor,:ing to the fentiment of one Hon. Gehthlailli, it w..s the wiled way for the Houfe to admit licence to triumph, and to difmifs all cam about its own honour. " Let every man fpeak and write as he pleaks, it could be followed by no mil chievous eonfeqnence ; the • good fenfe of mankind would fee the abferdity of filch mifreprefentations." But would the Hon. Gentleman treat with the Came levity a libel agairot his own reputation ? If he would not from private motives, how much more powerfully fhould he be influenced from public ones,to prevent their means of d:famation ? The prefs in-this country had, by the patience of individuals, and'of affociated bodies, been too long tolerated in its ex cefres. Whatever was a:Mt deferving rkfpat, had been dill egarded ; the dignity of rank, the fplenclour of flare, the pride of fituation ; whatever was noble and honourable in polifbed fociety, whatever was de corous in civilized man, bad been rendered -contemp tible by the univerfal liceoce of the prefs; The ef feet was not trivial and partial, it was important and general ; it tended to produce a change in the politi cal charai9er of this country, eminent as it had be come by its virtue, its valour, and its magnanimity. The queftion then was, if this overgrown evil were to be permitted to flask over the land, and to fpend its rafje to the deltration of all that was great and exceent in the State, or if we were to arrelt its pro / greis ? He felt nothing vindiftive on the relent qU& dna ; he thought, however, ;hat the Houfe could alone wank its own fecurity, and preferve its own charaAer, by condoeing itfelf in a way that would mark firongly its difapptobation, and prevent the re petition of the offence. Mr. SHERIDAN could confidently affert for his Hon. Friend (Mr. Grey) that ro man felt a higher refpe& than he did for the liberty of the pill's, or was lets difpofed to countenance vexatious profecuticns for accidental excetfes. The habit of his own (Mr. Sheridan's) life had taught him to be eltremely tole rant on all occafions of this fort. He, however, could not avoid confidering the paragraph as libellous ; yet not only candour, but common Whet., required he fhould declare, that, in companion sv::h many others, which teemed to efcape Cenlure, it was de- cent and moderate. If the Houfe were accultomtd to connive at publications fo indecorous, it would be fevere to file& the &it violation it noticed for the difplay of its refentment ; it would be more generous to apprife the public it had adopted new maxims, it had awakened frelk fen fi bility, and would not infu ture fubmit to let there tranfgreffions pats with im punity. There was much to be Paid in favour of thefe diurnal publications; he for one (hould deem it to be a great national calamity, if the people, through tome fuch medium, were not made acquaint ed with all that paffed within thofe walls ; and it was not very furprifing. if Members of that Houfe in dulged fo mach licence in fpeaking of each other, that printers fhould catch the infeChon, and not Phew all that decency and refpat to which, under lets un favourable eircumftanees, they might be inclined.—. He remembered one occafion on which the whole conßitution of Parliament was libelled ; the Houfe of Commons was reprefented as an excrefcence i which might be amputated without danger ; and the pub lication was expofed to the verdhll of a Jury. An it. genious friend of his at the bar fo artfully managed the defence, that the Jury were fully convinced the work contained no reflation on our public inftitu tions. Such an experiment had not much difpofed him to favour profecutimr, and he did not think this was a fit opportunity on which to adopt any judicial proceedings. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the Houfe would now be fully fatisfieditwould haveheen wifer to have availed itfelf of the recom mendation of his Learned Friend, laft night, and to have allowed itfelf an interval of four-and-twenty hours Cher refledion. As the matter now Rood; it was neceffary to take tome ferious notice of the affair, from a regard to the • dignity and charader of the Houfe. He mull, at the fame time, repeat what he' laid yeaerd ay, that, after having tolerated the abufe, it was a delicate thing to commence, and extreme le verity fhould be avoided. The Hon. Gentleman, who fpoke left, in contending for the freedom of the !refs, had a little let down the charater of the coun try in a branch cif its inftitution, for which he had ((onetime& expreffeci equal partiality, he (Mr. Pitt) meant the trial by Jury ; and the (tory, however amufing, was not calculated to promote in the coun try that reverence for the moil admirable contrivance for the proteCtion of property, liberty, and life, which in the brealts of Englifhmen it was accuftomed to ex cite. The equity and humanity of the 'Houle might be properly exercifed after the Houfe (hould be in formed what the perfon had to fay in his own vindi cation, but to withhold all enquiry in the prefent Rage of the hufinefs, would be to furrender the privi leges of Parliament. Mr. SHERIDAN laid, he could not eafily be caught addrefling the Houfe in difrefpeCtful language of an Engli(h Jury. The conftruaion jolt given to his remnik was not corral ; in what he had Paid, he defignid to do juftice to the talents of his friend, and equally to the perfett purity of intention in the Jury he addrefred.—(4 cry of Hear! Hear!) Mr. CANNING obferved, that the Honourable Gentleman feemed to have forgot the conclufion which he had drawn from the Itatement which he had made—( .4 laugh.) The ATTORNEY GENERAL thought that the expreili:4l of acquitted libeller was rather n. n'e re niarkable than that of acquitted felons I—(A /alb.) Mr. FOX—Sit, it has never been my opinion, and I think my condo& has pretty well (hewn it, that the liberty of the prefs fhotild be rattily meddled via). But, however, when a grofs breach of privilege was committed, it is not perhaps altogether proper that the offender fhould efcape with impunity. Some alln fion has been made to a prosecution by the Attorney General. It does not appear to me that this is the jult mode of proceeding on a cafe of this nature. No Court of Jultice eve:, or at leaft very feldom. adopts the plan of a profecutino in the cafe of aContempt of Court, but almolt invariably proceeds by taking the punithmert into its own hands. In a hint on the Houle of Commons, therefore, the perfon who has written it ought more properly to be punifhed by this Houle, and it certainly is by no means advilable, that he Omuta be fent to filch a mode of trial as has been alluded to, without firong grounds for ter df.ing.— But let me not, at the fame time, be mifunderltnod. I am by no means difpofed to favour the difpofition fo turn matters into Contempt of Court, which are in fait et imesOf entirely a different nature. In this in fiance, however, it is clear that the offence refembles that of a Contempt of Court, and as fuch it ought to be ;minted by this Houle, and by no other. I have certainly not often thought it fit to profecute indivi duals. But at the fame time I mull fay, that the Gentlemen on theother fide have not been remarkable for their forbearance in any cafe where Government has been concerned. I do not, therefore, fee why the Houfe of Commons thould be the only part of the conftitutional body that is to be libelled with imps. nity. I widely differ from my Hon. Friend, when he lays that fuch a paragraph as this appears almolt every day. Undoubtedly I am not in the habit of reading the Newfpapers fo much as he does , but 1 certainty has . ; .fcarcely ever feen any thing like this. I defy any Gentleman to (hew me any fuch.— (Gbferving a fmik from the Member, on the other Pe.), --I lay again, that I defy them to (hew me any fuch paragraph. There are, indeed, often attacks on in dividuals, that, &RBI (peaking, are wholly unjulli fiable—but I fay, that if lucb au imputation as this had been thrown on any of the proceedings of the Houle of Commons, when the'Majority was in favour of Adminittration,it would not be tolerated—(licnr 1 Hear! from the Ireafury 13(n. !)—No one would dare to do loch a thing. I certainly do think this, ther,..- Ifore, an extraordinary cafe; but at the fame time, on the general principle that the freedom of difcuf- Con, ether in or ont of doors, fhonld not be Oro u raged, I am free to confefs, that i am not of opktun that the puni(hment ought to be fevere. Mr. WILLIAM SMlTll—Nothing, Sir, in my opinion, can be more ferious than a libel directed againfi an individual. It very often dPes him incal culable injury, becaufe it goes into a du - Ad - and places where it is abfnlutely impoffible for hint to follow it. But, Sir, I really think that a libel on the Houle of Commons Rands upon very different grounds. Pa ragraphs of this fort, when they are not in unifon with the public feeling, are of little importance.— This libel, Sir, is certainly out of all unifon with the public feeling, and therefore, in my trillion, it is per. teal) , harmlefs. This is certainly not the cafe when a libel is publifhed on the condud of a li:ember of the Honfe, and this, therefore, ought to be a more ferious confideration. We ought to be more careful of protefling individuals limn Inch attacks, he.cauf.e, when the Houfe, in a colleftive fenfe, a± with the public, all libels on their concluff can be attended with no mifchievous effells, even though they fnould be more grofs, if any thing can be more grofs, than the libel in coeftion. Ido not, therefore, thinl - , that it was material to notice it ; but whether any pi o ceedings fhould be had upon it, after it had been no ticed, is another quetlion entirely. lam rather dif poled to agree with the Right Hnn. Gentleman on the other fide, that I,mething fhonld certainly be done by way of marking the difpleafure of the 1-loufe. But I muff advert to one thing—We are here accufed of bah, intemperance, &c. &c. the expreflions are not very material. Now. Sir, how did we proceed? You, Sir, gave the vote that decided the matter, and there fore this is more particularly a libel upon you, you whom we all refpeft, and whom certainly it becomes us all to prom& from any improper imputations. This cafe, therefnre,does undoubtedly differ from any other very materially. Can it be fuppofed, Sir, that you were affirmed by intemperance, or gave your vote in hafte, after you had liffened to the arguments on both fides ? Certainly this cannot be laid. This may be a reafon for taking notice of the libel, but at the fame time it mutt be confeffed, it is an additional proof that it,could be atte,nded with no harm whatever. Dr. LAURENCE differed trona the Honourable Gentleman who had kill fat down, on the nature and effeOs of a libel. The Hon. Gentleman (aid, that when 4 'Aid was not in unifon with the feelings of the public, it ought to be difregarded. By parity : of' reafoning it followed, that when a libel was in , unifon with the public feeling it ought to be taken notice of. There was fomethtng in this that dittin :• guifbed it from other libels. The Houfe fat rather , in a judicial caisacity. This was no polii ical quetlion and therefore the libel was the more intolerable. The , Houk' had on this occation done every thing with coolnefs, and no paffion or party feeling was con cerned. He ti;ifned to alit :.le to tome oth:r topics— (;ortdcostg.64. He entered his prot&l agairdt the dif• tindion that had been made by the Honourable Gentleman ; for if this was to be allowed, a door would be opened to the mcia fcandaleirs attacks on the Horje of Commons, when it was foam' thit theffe might be circulated with impunity. The quettion being loudly calledfor, and the Houfe having determined that the Printer be called in," Mr: P. Stuart appeared at the Bar. Mr. SPEAKER••••Q.... What h your name i—AnE Peter Stuart: Q . Look at that pa . per-is it printed and publifh ed by you?—Anf. It is. Mt. Sesaesa—That paper has been complained of to the Houfe as containing libellous refiedioas on its condua and char:alter. What have you to fay in anfwer to the charge ? • Permit me Sir, to afore you, that I very much regret that any pus of the Contents of my paper of yefterday fh.tild have incur red the difpleafurr of this Honourable Houle. If, Sir, I have iet• preffed myfelf too warmly in favour of Lurd whom I flaLli always entertain the higheft refpc.:l and efteern—l beg that this Honourable Hotise will view it as the unguarded language of the hurt, and not a wilful intention to proyoke the cen,ure of a power on which our aearett rights and liberties .lepend. I intreat you, Sir, that tome allowance may be made for that Fr edom of Difcuffion of Public Affairs which for a long (cries of years has been' fandloned bycommon ufage; sod tbat the !laity compatlon of a Newlpaper may not be confidered as a deliberate deign to of! fend this Honoura...de Houfe. Mr. Stuart was then ordered to withdraw. Mr. GREY role—Sir, it 4 now my dtity to fub mit a r:folution to the Houfe on this bufinefs. This I fhall do without premiling it with any obfcrvations. Of the fort of apology that has been made, it apology it can be caged, I leave :he Houfe to judge, and I fhall be perfedty fatisfied with their decifion, whatever it may be. I wills, however, to make one obfervation with regard to the charge that has been thrown out againft me by a Ger;tleman on the other tide, of having been too h.sity in bringing forwarl. this bufl nefs. Sir, I brought it forward as loon as the•offence came bef ore the public, and loon as it was generally known, and this I thought to be the molt proper pe riod. Having laid this, Sir, I fhall only move— " that the Paragraph in queflion, in the P.tper print ed and publithed by Mr. P. ST UAILT, is a high breach of the Privileges of this Houle." The ATTORNEY GENERAL—I do not mean to objet to the motion that has juft been made. Bat with regard to the obfervation to which the fionnor ' able Gentleman alluded, as coming from a perfon on this tide of the houfe, Prather think the Honourable , Gentleman (poke of fumething that fell from me on a former night. I believe the Hon. Gentleman willies now that he had attended to what I faggelted on that uccafion. I (Wed, that I had no doubt that this came under the defctiption of a libel, and think fo (till ; but I alto faid, that it did not appear to me that the Houfe ought to interfere in the bufinefs.— This is fl ill my opinion. Many things come before me which I cannot liefitate to pronounce libels ; but from the circumliances that attend loch cafes, I Ihould not advife that any notice Chould he taken of than. And I mutt fay, that the ragerocfr with which the Hon. Gentleman and his friends have taken up this paragraph favours much more of the irritabi.fi.v of forenefi than of any Avant!: of charatfer oa tiltir part. An Honourable Gentleman over the way, that he had great difficulty in finding an? other libel fimilar to the prefent one. Sir, li!l.!is do not make luch hang or prong imprefti , rig in other cafes as they do when they are dire.- ed againft ourfelves. This may have been the c;uf at prefent. 1 tecolled, Sir, when public prints r'..at Hon. Gentleman hate, at Clubs and meetin; , , , , :hat the Houle of Coma ions was fo loft to event thing that was juft and proper that there was no of: whatever in attending in it, and 'that it afforded no potation :Thatsur to the people of this country c — unt.iiiiox the