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r .4 appointment was illegal ; a Noble and -aerated Lord had Paid that it was nut. It was gated be unconflltutional ; here again the fame Noble - declared it was not. He lays that he upon the would have aged as as Lord Ellenborough 'did, and he was perfuaded the Noble Lord would sot skive aded in a manner which he would confider as . .Improper. Much Reefs had been laid oponthe opinion .of Judge Black flone. Whatever merit might be dif- Corerable in that writer, it could not be denied that many of his theories were fanciful and imprailicable. fie wouldattack the principles advanced by the Noble Lord *AO had fpokenTo long and fo eloquently, and afert brit there was no fuch ditiindion to be found In thiConflitntion es that he endeavoured to main talits.srile would give but little autho r i t y t o t h e wild, ' the Eseadtifnl th eories of Blackfione, for in order to twit them it would be necettery to abrogate the ju rildiftion of that Houle. What do the Noble Lords fay by way of anfwer to the precedents produced 1 Why this, the cafe of Lord Mansfield was one inno vation upon the Connitution, let us not have a re cond. From the earlieft periods of our hillory it would be found that legal perfons have been called to the Council, of the reigning Sovereign. The Grand Juniciary formerly was the fie! Minider. His Lord. Ship then examined the precedents of Sir Edward Coke, of Sir W Temple, of the regency of glieen,] Anne, charged with no light matter, the fettlement, .of the political fuccethon to the Crown. Of that Regency were both the Chief Junius Members; and if feditions had taken place, if libels had been 1 1 tobligoed tending to °barna that fettlement, the offenders mull have been tried before one of chore I 'lodges, ahe did his duty. With refped to the alliance of Lord Mansfield, he would fay a few words. He never could have thought that it would' -bore become his duty to defend the memory of Lord •Stansfiekl againit therefleetion which hadheen thrown pon it, that his chara&er for the adminiftration of office bad filtered during a certain period of his life. , His Lftrelfhip here read many pattages from the 1 Speech of Lord Mansfield, upon the motion brought for ward againa him in the year int.] The charge then was, not that he was at the fame time Chief, Janice and a Cabinet /knitter, but citation* after be bad emfed to have a feat in the Cabieet, he continued to be one of the feats advifers of his Majelly. His Lordflip next obferved upon the cafes of' Chief Jul. tices Holt, Lee, Mansfield, Kenyon, the left of whom it was Paid, was only occafionally called to the Conn viL There was nothing, he Paid, which &mild pre went a firm and upright Judge from doing his duty, both as the bead of the etiminal jndiclal power, and as one of his Majelly's Cabinet Council. He cited front a minute bf the Council, a precedent, on the gab of June, 1780, when Chief Juilice Wedderbura attended it to enquire into the caufe of the late riots, aild was one of the tub-committee which collated the evidence, and reported upon it to his Majetty— and a/tempt was one of the Commiffion which fat in the Borough for the trial of the rioters.— He trotted, that he had pretty well difpofed of the quedion with refped to law, contlitotion, and predict; he would nest fay a little as to its expe diency. Noble Lords teemed to have adopted a very perverfe mod* of reafoning upon the rabies% They allowed that the Judges might continue impartial when the life of the Sovereiso was attempted ; when the countryliras attempted to be deluged in blood; when the conflitution was to be fubverted ; but all 'this impartiality was to meat, as lien as be was called upon to poi& tome :inferable libeller. The anode ofpropofing the quenion appeared to him par . , titularly objedionable. If, within a few days after' the appointment, the propriety of it vat quettioned in that Houle ' the next thing for Parthiment to do would be to fug gell so his Majefly whom he was to appoint. And to whole appointment are there ob. jedions made I Why, to the very perfon whom the Noble Lord on the oppofite bench advifed his Majelly to call up by writ to that Houk. As be before (aid, the refponlibility of adviting his Majetly to call to his Councils the Chief Junice of his Court of King's Bench lay entirely upon himklf, he gave his advice lb his Majelly to do fo, becaufe the fituatiott of the Country required a man of a firm mind, of an elevat ed mind, and of a pure and unblentillied chara&er. Theft were the grounds of his advice, and he exulted in them. The LORD CHANCELLOR fpoke at length to the Motion. He earneilly entreated the Noble Earl to follow that advice which he bad recommended to his Noble and Learned Friend, - and to reconfider the gueftion. Was it poffible that the Houfc could en tertain a queftion which wastantanount to a nega. tion of the undoubted prerogative of his,./fejedy to appoint his own Council? Look to the Journels of the MAN.—was "Atte 'a precedtnt of flitch a motion upon thein ? If the. principle contained in the mo tion were polled td its o utmnft extent, the effect of it ultimately would be to pull down the Monarchy,. lie bad litkd Fro g tnnegh to fee the abfurdity of ma. Img C.:pflitutinpt from theories. If this motion *gob pars,.4l‘i :text, he fuppofed, would be, that zone of tho Law Lords fhould have a feat in that Moult. itii. Lnrdfleip pronounced a warm eulogium upon the Trial by Jury, in which be contended the fgety of the fubjeft toadied, and not in fanciful theories about the divifion of the Judicial and Execu tive rower. It lhould be remembered, that Lord Mansfield lived in hot times, when many virtuous and well meaning men were to be found, but during which alto there were fame knaves, who made a !talking boric 0! liberty. He hoped the Noble Earl would fave his the trouble of putting the quellion upon the motion he held in his hand. The cineltion being loundly called for, was put by the CHANG e Lima, who declared that the Non Contents hid it. No divifion was demanded, and the Houfe adjourned at one o'clock to next day. I 1 1 1 HOUSE OF COMMONS. - - - - Mr. HURST prefeoted a Petition from the Infolvent Debtors In Northam Oonl. Mr. SltralLlAN, Admiral MARINAM, Mr. COVIITt*AY, and Colonel M.Mostort, took the oath, and their feats. Mr. SHAW J.EI'J VRi informed the Haute, that an Hon. Member (Mr.Tt ) had pollponed his motion for removing certain doubts refpe.fUng the Treating Aft. tiUTlaurfday next. Mr. W. DUN U AS gave notice of hi. intention to move, on Wed. tlefday . fennight, for renewing the Scotch Bankrupt Laws, which had bitty expired. The Sheriffs of London prefented a Petition from the lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of London, refpedting t►e improvement of Stnithaeld.—Referred to a Com. mince. Mr. Maus, from the radio Houle, prefented a great variety of Papas on India at, irw " ' Mr. PAULL moved, that they be pinta al et the Nfembers. Lord TEMPLE wined to afk the Hon. Genlosten. whether he meant to bring forward his threatened charges agalnft a Noble Lord, and of what time he rneant to do fo Mr. PAULL replied, that after the papers now before the Houfe were printed, he fhould take an early opportunity of pro ceeding to the charges, which he felt it is duty to Lay before the Houk. COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMITTEE OF IMPEACH MENT. Mr. WHITBREAD informed the Houfe, that to-morrow be would fubsnit to diem a communication front the Committee ap pointed to drew up articles of Impeachment againft Lord Melville. On the motion of lord TEMPLE, the Houle agreed to refolve Kelt into a Committee on the Corn Laws, and the American Wool BiU, to-morrow. Mr. FYDEL moved for an account of all Wool, and Woollen Stuffs, imported into Grcat Britain from North America, for the lilt twca:y year.-Ordered . The Greenland Whale Fifhery Bill was read a fecond time, and committed for to morrow. Mr. JOHN 'TON poftponed his motion for certain India Pa pen till Thurfday mat The Qlialidcation Indemnity Bill was read a third time, ad paffed. On the motion of Mr. VANSITTART, the Houfe refolved It fdf Into a Committee on certain Id& Revenue Ads. He Rated his oiled to be, that the setting laws fhould be continued for • Ibort time, till they could be revifed. Refolutions to that effeEt were then agreed to, and the report ordered to be readved to t:11040W. Mr. ALEXANDER brought up a Report from the Cammtittee on the Expiring Lime, containing V IlTiollll Rdolll4lllolll COMMITTSI OP SUPPLY. On the mnelon of Sir PHILIP STEPHENS, He Navy EEI. mate, peed in Jaanary, and the Palmate' et the Tranfret prellensel In liebrusty Wt. were bid hare the Com ■ ON. holidell ea he Wawa" ems the agreed to, end the wand on be reeelswien• wane*. A/dworm mened he tie )Mores st Order , made W the Rank es& v aresion, it an 4csmoe of the annual Mason el HA ; and for tidy a fecal Order, Manion the wand' Mr. HOODLUMS, ollgedlod is thigmend el les said. log to &dolt the motentile tawhdllneset the Connno”. aAid the Hon. Alderman Waft a s Wig • sershant, well knew Aw e ad = eimlsided, dee ham netounts bad been before pedeneed en lir Hain Gad sling die Oil he mooed for was nessely ea lifts* of a mere dopedpaper already before the Menlo Mr. HILET ADDOTOTON olifermit het he had formerly t fuggefted to the Hob Aiderreen to .de the word a halm ; but lines the Hen. Melt had sheenht W Z a m m e mithe rid he bet • la ter attained by its ftmloo, be mold hash MI pro pofed alteration.—Mess. agreed to. •• , • LORD LLLLL lioa•ucH t s 41raUtiesnT. -------- - - Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE rote. Though he had enjoyed the honour of a feat is; that Houle for many Parliaments, be yet felt himfelf inadequate to the importance of the fobjelt, to which he now claim. ed the attention of the Houle. He had no defign of commencing any fyftematic oppofition to the melt fares of the prefent Adminithation. Had he thought that the prefent would be looked upon as en oppoli tion queftion, he thould not have moved it. He thought it a fair queftion for the conftderation of the Hoare, and not neceffarily conflated with any party whatever. Indeed. fo far was it from originating with any formed oppolltion, that the Hon. Secretary, now oppofite to him, was the firft perfon to whom he Rated his doubts on the fustier% He underftood, that the fame queftion was this night to be difcuffed in another place ; but this .coincidence was fo little the ace of defr, that he had bad no communica tion whatever with the Noble Lord who was to move a Moiler queftion in another Hotrfe, and was not even perfoaally acquainted with him. Thus much it teemed neceffary to fay, in order to remove the fuf picion of the prefent being a party queftion; not that parties in general were uniformly to be reprobated : they were incident to all free Governments, and might prove ufeful in preferving freedom. While he was upon this fajta, he begged leave to give those ratite to an Honourable Gentleman, oppofite to him, who was long the leader of an oppofition, but who had now a principal fhare in the Adminiftration. He fhould with him to divert bin:fell of the character of a party-leader. That Honourable Gentleman fhould pcollea the laying of Lewis XII. " That a King of France ought to forget the injuries he had received as Doke of Orleans." If that Gentleman lhoolcl continue to retain the fame principles and opir•ions which be formerly maintained, he ventured to re did, that his adminißration would prove neither honourable nor lofting. But to return from this digieffion, he mutt again repeat, that his mind was free from all party motives, and that, under any Adminiftration, he thould have been ready to make his prefent motion. Had Lord Kenyon been appointed to a place in the Cabinet, he thould have expelled that fuch a meafure would have been warmly oppofed by the Hon. Secretary, and he fhould cer tainly have felt it his dirty to figment him. The re lent was a queftion of a great and important nature, and highly interefling to the public; and it was his opinion, that fbould the Chief Juftice withdraw from his fituation as a Cabinet Minifter, the Adminiftration would be Itronger in the opinion and affections of the country. At any rate, he gave them an opportunity of fatisfying the public mind on the fubjeft. The Hon. Member then moved, that the King's Speech of the 3d of March, 5761, (horrid be read. In this his Majefty informs the Houfe, that former commit , lions to the Judges continued during good behaviour, and expired on the demife of the Crown ; but that, as he looked upon the independence of the Judges as effential to the liberty of the lubjelt, he had granted new commiflions to continue notwithllanding loch demife. An Alt was accordingly paged, continued the Hon. Gentleman, fecuring the independence of the Judges, by making their Calory permanent. But it appeared to him, that the grant to a Chief Janice" of any emolument, or power, which may 'often be more gratifying to an honourable mind, contra dieted the fpirit of the A& The Judge could hardly be Paid to retain the Came independence, while the power or the emolument conferred'upon him, might be withdrawn at pleafure. Now this was precifely the cafe with the dignity of Cabinet Councillor. It was not, indeed, accompanied with a falary, but the fituation of confidential advifer of his Ma -1 jelly might be more gratifying to an honourable ambition than any of the molt lucrative nature, and might produce an equal effect.—lt was a principle of our common law, that no man fhould be at the fame time a judge and party in the fame caufe. But in Rate profecutions i which are condulted at the in fiance of the Privy Council, the Chief Juflice, who is a member of the Cabinet, mutt be both a Judge and a party, unlefs he withdraw from it while fuch difclifficirs are going forward. And even were he to withdraw, how (hall the public come to the know ledge of it ? Some prepolTellion would Rill remain on their minds againtt the pant( of the public jir ft ice. &fide, that appointment might place the Chief Jur lice in a very difagreeable fituation. In his capacity Of Councillor, he might incur the difpleafure of that Houfe, and yet might Rill continue to exercife his high office, though he had loft, in tome meafure, the confidence of the country. It might alto be anted, if any one of the Judges be appointed a confidential advifer, why not more ? why not all ? And would not the Conflitution be effentially injured by fuch ap pointment ? Betides, it tended to deprive the Houk of its choice refpeaing the modes of profecution againft public offenders. Had the Chief Juftice been a Cabinet Councillor. k was not likely that the Houfe would have ordered Lord Melville to be profecuted in the Court of King's Bench, before a Judge who was his colleague in council, and therefore might be fufpefted of tome bias in his favour. The Honour able Member then drew the attention of the Houfe to the precedents, which had been fuggefted, as authorifing the appointment in queßion. All thofe, however, antecedent to the Aft of his prefent Ma. jelly, for fecuring the independence of the Judges, he confidered as of little weight. The only inflance of fuch a precedent he could recolleft was at the dole of the reign of Queen Ante. when the Chief Juftice was alto a member of the Regency. But it had been well laid down by Judge Blackftone, that in no cafe fhould a profecutor be at the fame time a judge.— Lord Holt had alto been mentioned as another in- Rance, but he could find no notification to this effeft in the Journals of the Houfe. Lord Mansfield indeed had, in 1 775, acknowledged himfelf to have beets a Cabinet Councillor ten years before, while be held the fituation of Chief Juftice. But his Lerdthip had never been confidered as a great conftitutional yer, and his example was not fafely to be relied on. Betides, the delicacy of that Noble Lord, on other occafions. was not much to be admired. He had fat on the trial of Lord G. Gordon, who was charged with inaigating the mob to deßroy his Lordflup'S houfe, without teeming aware of the indelicacy of filch condos% His example then was not much to be relied on. On the requeß of the Hon. Gentleman, there was read a part of the Journals containing an addrefs to his Majelly, praying him to order Sir Elijah Impey too Righter the charge of having accepted an office from the Eaft India Company, while he held the office of a Judge in the Supreme Court of Bengal.— This, the Hon. Gentleman contended, bore a confi derable analogy to the prefent cafe. He then made feveral quotations from Judge Blackftone, (hewing that the cffence of Liberty cßnfifted in preferring the dillinftion between the Legsfiative, the Executive, and the Judicial Powers. He concluded his fpeech, by reading feveral refolutions. which he propofed to the Hook for their adoption: I.* Reared, That it is the opinion of this Houk, that it is ex pedient that the functio n of • IViinifter of the Crown be preferred clininet from thofe of a Judge at Common Law. a. "That the Members of the Cabinet Council are the cone dentW bfbilften and adirikn able Majolty. 3. " That It is a predict peculiarly Inexpedient, and tending to render the adminittration of Mice kis fatisfadory, if not ids pure, to unite In one perfon the odium of a Privy Councillor, and of a judge at Common Law.' Mr. BOND was ready to admit that opinions had gone abroad on the prefent occafion, not favourable to the mature of calling the Chief Jaftice of the King's Bench to a feat in the Cabinet ; and the im ons profeffed by the Honourable Member who introduced this motion, had alto impreffed the minds of many good and honourable men without doors ; but it was his own opinion, that there was more of plaisfibility in what had beeen Rated by the Honour able Gentleman, than of any thing folid or well founded; and, notwithftanding the profeffions with which the Hon. Gentleman opened his fpeech, that nothing perfonal was intended towards the Ncble Lord in quellion, the whole objeft of his fpeech and his motion was to remove from his Majefty's Coun cils, a Nobleman of high charafter, eminent talents, found wifdom, extent . ] re experience, proud inde pendence, and unfullied integrity, at a moment when it fhould be the zealous objeft of every friend of his country to unite in thofe Councils the collec tive wifdom, talents, and integrity of the land. If his Majefty had been gracioufly pleated to call to his Councils a man fo competent to advife in a crifis arduous like the prefent, he was wholly at a lots to convince what there was infeftious in the air of the Council Chamber, to endanger the integrity of the judicial charafter, or how the circumftaince of com bining in the fame perfon the office of a Judge, and the Councillor of his Sovereign, upon great State queftione, could tehd to a perverfion of the laws, or to render the adminiltration of juftice lets pure. So far from fupporting his apprehenfions by any fad, the Hon. Gentleman had not adduced a liogle cir , zumftance to jußify his reafoning ; but ash had been to ftrenuoufler argued by him that abufes were likely to accrue, he begged leave to examine the quellion as to what were to be the effefts rifked, of calling the Indent Chief Juftice of the King's Bench to aid his Majefty's Councils as a Cabinet Minifler. That No ble Lord, if any thing could render a man indepen dent in his principles, or incorruptible in his inte• grity, was in poffeffion of every confideration that could tender him fo. Raifed to the top of his pro feffion—filling a poll the molt honourable and diftin guilhed—in which, by the law of the land, he was ren dered independent of the Crown, and removable only for mlleonduCt, of which it was not likely a man of his high charafter and unfullied integrity could ever be guilty—placed in a fituation where the eyes of the public were continually turned upon him. where his words were continually weighed, and his judg ment ferutinized by the whole Bar, and checked by the vigilance of his affillant Judges: what could be 1 the poffibie inducement for him, in fuch times as the prefent, to be guilty of malverfation in his judi cial charafter ? Profellionally as a lawyer, he was now independent, and at the fummit of his ambi tion ; for it was well known, that lie declined to ac cept the only judicial fituation in the country higher than that which he aCtually filled. If any thing could be urged that would cut nearer to pollibility, it would be, that as a Member of the cabinet, he might advife the profecution for a libel againft that body, and afterwards prefide at the Mal of the libeller. But here again there was not the leaf probability of his being enabled hum his fituation, to do mifchief, inafmuch as the Jury, and not the judge, decided upon the law as well as the fag. Even conld it be fuppofed the Jury would be influenced to an unjuil verditit from the mis-direEtion of the Judge, the party would have his remedy in a new trial. The molt public charafter in the :calm was the Chief Plaice o' the King's Bench ; there was no map whole pnblic 1 conctuftlood More confpiconufly open to obfervatOoo His Court was more retorted to than any other by clients of every defctipt ion ; but while he (Mr. Bond) felt as jealous as any man, of the pure adminiflration of juftice in the country, he felt.pt the fame time, that it was nett to an impoffibility that the Chief PA - - ace of the King's Bench could be induced to any aft that could occalion the reditudeof his judicial chairaco ter to be called in queflion. Beßties, the purpofe for which the Noble Lord wascalled tohis Majefly's Coun cils was not for confultations on the propriety of cri minal profecutions, but of giving his advice on coot tions of State, and concerns of peace or war; alliances and treaties with foreign nations, in which his great knowledge of the law of nations mutt render his councils of high importance ; and was it probable, he would elk, that there was any thing in the known difpofltion of the Nobleman referred to ' that would induce him to fwerve from his duty? There were certainly other important points upon which, fhould occafion *rife, lie would, of courfe, be confulted ; fuch, for inflance, as cafes of (edition, infurreflion, and high treafon, and he might afterwards come to fit in judgment upon the perfons charged with fuch crime. ; but what evil could refult in this cafe ? The Chief Juflice of the King's Bench is precluded from taking his feat in that high office, until a period of life when it mutt be fuppofed his judgment it matured, and his mini divefted of prejudice. Was it then to be fuppofed, that a man of the found talents, extenfive profeffional knowledge. and high purity of charadter, fetch as the Noble Lord in quettion paella, would, in aiding the delibera tions of a Jury upon the evidence before this Court. fay that was law which was not, liable as he would • be to the obfervations of the whole Bar, and checked as he mull be by the venerable charafters who fat to affift him on that Bench ? But fupportag lie did give hie advice in the Cabinet for the profecation of parties, (weir it did not follow that he would after wards fit in judgment upon theist ; for was it not much more likely that be would ant be earned in the Commit ion for fuck trial ? betide, if the Lord Chief juftice be fummoned to attend a Council where fob jefts were to be difcuffed upon which be amid there after be called to fit in judgment, would he not have the power to withdraw, and to decline any part in fuch deliberation, or appoint tome other Judge to try fuch castles in his own Court i in filch a cafe, the Bench of Janice, in this country is fo conflituted, that no reafonable fears of injustice could be entertained by any man. But the Honour. able Gentleman's obje&ions were not • direded again!' the charafter of the Noble L7rd, but agaiiiß the poffible fofpicion of his impartiality, from his appointment to the office of a Cabinet Minifter, which wooid reader his achniniftration of juftice lets ratisfaltoryo Such an argument, he thought, entitled to no fort of weight ; for if idle, unfounded, and fp*. culative fufpicions were to weigh againft eftablitbed charafter, known principles, and unfullied integrity, it would be impolfible to find any man againfl whom loch arguments might not be offered. But the.Hoi. Members's objeftion to the Noble Lord as a Cabinet Councillor, would avail him nothing, if he did not carry his principle-much farther, and deprive him alto of the office of a Privy Councillor, and of a Peer of the realm, for in either of thole &tuitions he had a right to advice hie Majefly, and might be em ployed in deliberation upon matters upon which he might afterwards fit in judgment. It had frequently. occurred in the cafe of the other Judges, who had been fummoned to attend the Privy Council, and to examine evidences before them upon matters on which thole judges were afterwards to fit in judgment. It was fo with Lord Chief Jake Holt ; and in a much more recent occifion, in the cafe of Chief Italics Eyre, who was employed in examining witnefies be fore the Privy Council, aostinft perfons upon whoa he afterwards fat in judgment on a charge of. High Treafnn. But, in a Cabinet Council, no *knifes were examined, and, therefore, the mere deliberation moll be much left exceptionable in loch a tafe, than the examination of witneffes on both fides. Bet wis it to be fuppofed, that any man of an enlightened mind, loch as the prefent Chief jullice of the King's Bench; would retire from loch a deliberation impreffed by prejudices, that could afterwards bias his judgment againft the law and the truth ? Betides, without tu tally altering the Conftitution, it would be impoffible to deprive the Noble Lord of that privilege of advif ing his Sovereign, which he enjoyed as a Peer of Parliament. Such objeftions, therefore, had obvi outly no other objeft than to thwart his Majefty in the exercife of his prerogative for calling to his Councils thole whom, in arduous times like the prefent, he conceived moft competent to advice. It is not nierelo as a judge the Noble Lord is to give Iris advice to his Sovereign, but as a Itatefmon—and, therefore. if the Honourable Member was not prepared to go much further than his Refolution that night pro poled, he could not fee what objeft was to be an fwered by fuch An innovation. The Ref elution did not, in fad, declare that any thing was (lane in that cafe that was unconflitutional or illegal: in fag, nothing was fo done ; and if the 'Ow was not fro there was not a Judge upon the Bench who would be fit to fit as a Judge of Comniiffion. In cafes of high treafon, the Privy Council, after examining witnelfes on both fides, with the aid of the Judges, fent thole Judges to any part of the kingdom, to sty the parties accufed : and, therefore, unrefs the prin. ciple was carried much farther than the Honourable Gentleman propoled, his refolutions would anfwer no purpofe. With refpeft to the objeftion made by the Honourable Member againft uniting the judicial and Legiflative with the Executive rh trafter, on the audit rity of Blackllone, he had on'y to obferve, that Blackttnne founded his doftrine on that of Baron Montefottieu, who, though a waiter t f , eipeaability, was but a theorill on the fubjeft of Legiflation, and not fopported by any praflical facts on that head. Bnt BlackOone only meant to nate, that the office of Judge wo, not to be united is the perfon who was an Ertectoivo Member of the State. But, i as to the legality of the Judge tieing called to the Council of the Sovereign, there could be no quer- ; lion y for the Lord Ctrancelloo in virtue of his of. fice, is a Rater:Dan, arc' bound to sotvife his %jelly, and, therefore. to contend for the contrary prinetple, was only fighting with fhadows. It might, indeed, I be (aid. that the Lord Chancellor's privilege was only to decide in cafes of property between Otto • jells; but it was an Cftablifhed fa& that the Coen cellor had the foie jorifdiotion in petitions of right, and if influence amid be fur poled to Tway the jut. ' 11 1 ! 1 : 1 i 1 4 . ~, • 1. , i r , , 1 1 " ; ! ''.. r . 1 ' * I ti I I,f 1 I 0 0 i . . i '- i ' ' A I 1 • • , Al k