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/ Pl‘l.z ‘ j4t TWICKENHAM. TBE LET, furnished, for six weeks, about Mid summer, a good detached FAMILY ROUSE, with Coach. house, Stabling, Lawn, and Garden. Letters to be addressed to W. X. Port.OfEce, Twickenham, 31 itio Hese x. 'ji) 4-411fr' •-. \ A lle/ ~-,,,\47---- 0 0 ,„ 3....... Mo t own u 3. 2 . 0111. $ °Vag° ZElis .1 kw, THE FAMILY of WILLIAM HONE, in the course of last winter, were kindly assisted by private friends to take and alter the premises they now reside in, No. 13, Gracechureb ctrect, for the purpose of a Coffee-house, to be managed by Mrs. Hone and her eldest daughters : but they arc in a painful exigency which increases hourly, and renders a Public Appeal indispensable. 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It is now tea months since she recovered, and has bad no appearance of the complaint since. I shall be glad to satisfy any inqubtes oo the subject. If by let let, the postage must be paid. I am, Gentlemen, with esteem and gratitude, Your obedient humble servant, THOMAS RUTLZDGIL. To Messrs. ]. Lignutn and Son, Surgeons, Manchester. _ . These Drops are sold in moulded square bottles at es. 9d. 4s. 6d. a DE I ls. each, by John Lignum and Son, Surgeons, &c. 55, Bridge strtet, Manchester; Butlers, Chemists. aseapslde, caner of Sc. Paul's, London ; 73, Prince's -street, Edinburgh ; and 54, Sackville street, Dublin • Brans, 42, Long-lane, West Smithfield ; Sutton and Co. BowChurehlard ; Barclay and Sons, 95,Fiesf-market Litd" ? ) .ar ds, 67, &. Paul's Church - yard ; F. Newberg and Sons, 45, St. "erg Churcb-yard ; F. Nerebery and Sons, Agents to the Sun Pk' °fficits 29, Dame -street, Dublin ; Scott and Orr, 1 00 . South ildt , . and 67, Prinee's.street, Edinburgh; IL Nelson, Glasgow; 41.1a1l respectable Medicine Venders. Or wbost also may be had, Mr. Ligassies Isisruved VIC OII P GUILE LOTION, for aU Scorbutic Entrillos rya " " 414 uslao s 4. Lignom's SCURVY OINTMENT may now W had of tik .bove Agents, price U. 9d. each Pot, duty lacluded. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1830. l'aicE 7D. N°. 13,482. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS-SATURDAY. SIR JONAH BARRINGTON. I Lord F. GOWER moved the order of the day fur the further consideration of the resolution of this house, relating to the Admi ralty Court in Dublin. Mr. DExmax, who appeared for the petitioner, said the pro ceeding in which he had now the honour to address them was one of a most unprecedented kind. In former times, the tenure of the judicial office was during the pleasure of the crown. The incon veniences of such a rule were mainly instrumental in occasioning the resolution, and when Kin g William landed, the evil was at once remedied by the Parliament who brought him in. On the one hand it was improper that the judges should be removable at pleasure, while, on the other hand, justice required that in gross cases of coal versa;ion in these offices they should not be protected front punish ment. The Bill of Rights established the principle that they wee. amenable to punishment. The first case that occurred under the principle was in 180 S; but that was abandoned, on the ground that the proceeding first originated in the House of Lords ; in conse quence of which, if coaled forward, this house would hate been de- prived of any concurrence in the matter. The next case was that of Mr. Justice Johnson, who, having been convicted of a libel, was permitted to effect a compromise, and retire from his office. Some proceedings were then taken against Mr. Baron iti‘Cielland, but they were not taken up by the house. The next instance was that of the present Chief Baron Olitady, who was accused of having unjustly increased his own fees by the force of his own authority. Yet, although in that instance two commit tees reported that they agreed with the report of the com. missioners, the House refused to be bound by their opinion, and took upon themselves the examination of the case. The sante rule , he contended, ought to be adopted in this case, in which the Resolution agreed to by this house had taken all the Bar. as it had taken him, by surprise. Such a course was, in his opinion, subversive of the Constitution itself. He warned the house of the danger of their present proceeding, and argued that nothing but the proof of guilt in a Court of Justice—proof given under the rigid rules of law—should be adopted as the foundation of such a course. —Without such proof the house ought not to dctomine on ad. dressing the Crown for the removal of a Judge. (Hear, hear.) —There was one mode of proceeding—namely• by impeachment —which might be adopted in this case. That course was, however, open to many objections; but there were two others which could fairly be adopted. These were, a writ of mire facial to re peal the patent by which the office had been conferred, and a cri. urinal information at the suit of the Attorney-General. By the latter of these especially the case might speedily be decided, as were those cases in which any unfortunate printer or publisher called down on himself the censure of the King's Attorney. General, for any animadversions he might have passed on all or any of the mem. ben of his majesty's government; no objection of delay could be brought against such a course. No removal of a Judge ought to be recommended by this house, without the fullest investigation made by the whole of its members. A part of them, however respectable, however able and careful in instituting an inquiry, ought not to bind the house by their opinions. No legislative assembly could render itself popular, by acting as a judidal assemblyon the report of a se. lect committee of its own members. It ought to adopt a more solemn mode of proceeding; one more resembling the proceedings of those courts of justice, where the administration of the law was held as the great reliance and great defence of the subject. The house, if it did not adopt such proceedings, might be open to the suspi cion of having acted hastily or intemperately, or from party motives. Roger North had expressed those suspicions of pro ceedings, " cooked up," as he said, " for parliamentary decision. " In his opinion, it would be better to leave such a proceeding as that of advising the crown to remove a judge in the hands of the respon sible ministers of the crown, than for the house to take upon them. selves to make an address to the crown on such a subject, founded on the report of a committee of their own. The petitioners, had, indeed, to a certain extent, acknowledged the authority of the cons. missionen in Dublin by appearing before them, but Isis ap there could not give them, nor the committee who afterw inves tigated the case, the authority to decide conclusively on it. He (Mr. Denman) was himself quite ignorant of the merits of this case —he had been taken by surprise, and could not prepare himself on the subject, but he knew well that his learned client desired nothing more ardently than a full investigation into the circumstances. Again he called the attention of the house to the peculiar nature of this proceeding, and declared that he spoke in behalf of all West minster Hall when he stated that no judge, however upright, how. ever able, could hold his seat with security, if Ise was liable to re moval on reports of commissioners, made on exparte statements. He concluded by praying the house to allow counsel and evidence to be heard on this case at their bar. Mr. Denman having withdrawn— Lord Y. L. GOWER said that he felt considerable difficulty in l tt; l assenting to the pri nc i l a id down in the arguments of th e learned I counsel. He hardly t ht that much of that argument was at all relevant to the subject. here VW a considerable distinction be tween the cases cited and the present. In the case of the Chief Baron O'Grady, it was true that the house did not adopt the re. ,commendations of the two committees, but they declined to do so on F the ground that, in point of law, they entertained doubts of the cri minality of the accused, not because they thought the committees ought not to have decided on the ease, or bad exceeded their au thority in that respect. They could not agree that the house ought not to act except upon the verdict of a Jury, for that would be sur rendering a most important power,of which they ought not to be de. priced. If this were a principle of the constitutional law of the country, he saw no reason for the passing of the 12th and 13thWil. Liam 111. for the practice of impeachment had misted long before that period. It would be a total misconstraerise of the Act, if they were to give up their power in such cases to any other tit. burial lie did not mean to say that the house should be definitively bound in all cases by the report of a committee : but when they gave the evidence on which they had decided, as they did in this case, they furnished to the house the best and most ready means of determining on the correctness of the opinion they had head. Under all these circumstances he thought that the house would net be weU advi.ed to assent in this case to the argument of the keened counsel; but that they ought to adopt the resolution of concurring with the decision to which a committee of the whole house might come. Sr R. WILSON said, that in criminal cases in the courts below the witnesses would be examined on oath, and the house ought, on that principle, to grant the examination at the bar, as that in which the most satisfactory mode of taking the testimony might be adopted. He should support the proposition of the lama council. The SOLICITOLOENERAL obsessed, that be had libilet patiently and carefully examined the whole of the evidence in this case, and would most positively declare, that in no instance whatever had a more direct and distinct we been made out against any man than had been made out spinet this petitioner, on documents in his own hand-writing. The parole evident* might be put out of the we, and then there could be no doubt that's, was pel7. Every charge against him had been fay supper Mil es in his own band writing. The learned this went torn a detail of the evidence in the ems, and ding Is• ass who r:ad that evidence could doubt of the guilt of INr Jima It ought to be known to the house end to the essfars:V il dt only reason why no criminal infest:wise had bas mist the petitioner wee to be found in a merciful cdadididiks Ys d d. yawed Oak It W•ll z Etri r i et 000sideratien asitgossion to his age Oat that had not been inetituesd. 9s was sure that no palates of. Jonah Harlington lived& hare advised rod the pr seat mplidnion to the house, he every one who enslave}, the Memo meet be convinced that, if a cambial leformstien hod been SA easel him, there must have been a seven personal punishment indlsted en him. Or 201121 T WILSON said, Is was Sir Jonah's wish to me wlistitar such woad be the result of that proceeding. The 80LICITORAIENERAL said, that they were bested net to eseemh his wishes, but their own sense if duty. The only ipso. don now was, whether the peeper course to be permed was is 'Eqpt the resolution under consideration ? On that pant it seemed to him Impossible to entertain a doubt. The conduct of the radium in now ceiling foe an investigation was d a pine, with ebe test of bis aomduct. When an ihttll have biwrilliwa b e woo Invited to meta Into it— enders belay vat him let Ile purpose,_ he threw every obstacle in the way t hs_ jr ? hope *Sett that sad persona in shy' which he lied neestitadlidely avoided. Thebes. end Ismail alookbor sowdolloil tVag Mot lb* moo voroihd admilhoh•Spit ect ilr e Isbar bestowed upon it, and he was now y satisfied his duty called on him to vote in favour of the noble lord'. pro. Sir C. WETHERALL was of opinion that to accede to the pro position that the house could only act on the verdict of a Jury in a case like this, would be virtually to surrender th e p owers t h ey l aw . fully possessed.' There was another question, namely. whether the proceedings before the committee were such that that house could not act judiciously upon them ? On that question he had consi derable doubt, which induced him to wish that the Resolution of the noble lord might not be pressed to a division at that moment.— The doubts he entertained were, whether the Meuse ought not to foUow up its usua l p ract i ce oehaving counsel at tile bar before it acted judicially on a question of tiths eon. (Hear, hear.) In case of bribery at election, and in those affecting the removal of a public minister —as, for instance, in the case of the Duke of York —the members of the house examined witnesses at their own bar, not that they doubted for one moment what the committee reported, but as each individual in the house was to act as a Judge, he thought himself bound to hear the evidence on which he should afterwards live jugdment. For this reason he wished to take time to consider of the resolution now proposed by the noble lord. 111 r. H. BATLEY confessed, that as the evidence now stood, the case was fully proved against Sir J. Barrington ; but it the wit nesses were to be examined and cross-examined at the bar, a very different case might possibly be cliched. He support e d t h e app li. cation of the l earne d counsel. AIL C. WYNN said, that examinations at the bar had both ad. vantages and disadvantages attending them. They were made be foie a fluctuating audience, some not hearing the beginning of the case, others not waiting till the end of it ; and in spite of every wish to the contrary, on the pan of each individual member, such exam inations never could be conducted in a manner wholly free from party spirit. He doubted the correctness of the opinion of Sir C. Wetherell, that it was the uniform practice of the house to take evi. dence at their bar on proceedings of this kind. In the case of Lord Melville, the evidence was taken before the Commissioners, and then before the Committee, and the House of Commons did not hear witnesses at their bar. In all cases of privilege, too, the matter was referred to a committee, who made their report on evi dence furnished to them, and on that report the house acted and awarded the punishment. Surely that was acting in a judicial ca pacity on the report of a committee. In the present MC every pos sible indulgence had been shown to the petittoner--every favour he asked was conceded ; and since the report had been made, a delay of nearly a year: and a half had occurred before any step had been taken to enforce its recommendation. He must say that that delay was disgraceful to the house. The petitioner now ex pressed an anxious wish to be personally examined. He had expressed the same wish to the committee, yet he had never attended them. He wrote a letter to tile noble lord, the mere tary for Ireland, urging the propriety of his being personally exa mined on this question, examination which he said " could only be made with effect before a committee of Parliament." Yet after that he never attended the committee. The committee wished him to attend them, if he attended at all, of his own accord, in order that it might not appear they compelled him to come before them, but he himself requested them to summon hint, in order that by appearing on their summons he might be protected from any legal process; and yet, after all that, he never came before them. When the house reflected on these circumstances, did they think that the committee had acted in such a manner as to deserve to have their decision im peached, because of the haste or want of examination they had manifested in arriving at it ? He maintained that the power of addressing the crown on such subjects having been given by statute was intended to be exercised, and he insisted that this was not a case in which they ought to surrender that power. He declared that nothing but the age and maladies of this person had prevented him from insisting on a proceeding which, if a ted , would call for personal punishment. The evidence given before the commissioners , had been most carefully taken; .it was upon oath ; that given before the committee had confirmed it ; but the manner in which examine. door were taken at the bar was such, that it afforded every opper. tunity to those who gave it to qualify, if they were so inclined, their original testimony, or even to swerve from it altogether. If the evidence taken before the committee upon the ease of Sir J. Barrington had been of a conflicting nature, or if he thought that anything important could be elicited by cromesansination, be might, perhaps , be in favour of a further inquiry at the bar. The case, however, depended upon undisputed documents, and without the oral testimony of a single witness, it was fully established. He, therefore, saw no reason for going through the facts a second time, unless it could be shown that any point had not been duly inves. tigated, and that new and important light could be thrown upon any part of the transaction. Mr. D. W. HARVEY had arrived at a different conclusion to that to which he believed many hon. members had come. He doubted the judiciousness of the course adopted by the learned coun sel in taking the high ground he had taken, because it was directly opposed to the provisions of an act of parliament, which b a d c l ot h e d the house with, the power of proceeding by address, in conjunction with the lords, for the removal of any judge. The question was, whether, under the circumstances, it was fit that any other evidence should be produced than that of which the house was alrea in possession ? He thought that it was necessary. The report s tithe commissioners on the courts of justice in Ireland only touched briefly upon that in which Sir J. Barrington had presided. They found that the register of the Admiralty in Ireland was the depository of the funds of the Court, and at liberty to make use of it; the only security to the suitors being the integrity of the officer. The question then was, whether the Registrar was justified in the mode in which be had disposed of the money. One of the princi pal sources of his emolument was the use of this money of the suitors, and who was to say that the judge of the court was the only person who might not borrow it ? It seemed to him (Mr. Harvey), therefore, that Sir Jonah Barrington might borrow the money of the officer of the court, although, at the same time, it might be dis. graceful to the administration of justice in Ireland that the matter' had for eleven years been neglected. An address from the hones was one of the most permanent and indelible stigmas that could rest upon the character of any individual, and it was sot because Sir Jonah Barrington, weakened by age, and withered by Menai ties, was anxious to retire from public life, and sink into ob. 'entity, that that stigma was of no importance to him.—( Hear, hear.)—lt seemed to him (Mr. Harvey) that the house was called upon, not °ray by the request of Sir J. BanWgton, bet by a some of its own duty, to summon Sir J. Barrington to the bar, and to exa mine him as to the facts. The evidence of Mr. ?Juneau showed that there was only two cases of the kind—that of the Nancy and Redstart. The conclusion at which he had arrived, after the best attention. was this—he had no doubt that the money of the sukon hod been improperly dealt with, but It was a question whether the parties were responsible. or whether the responsibility was not on the pert of the register, and that merely of a civil nature. It ap. peered distinctly, with regard to one of the sums in ration, that the 1001. borrowed had been laid out in public securities. He sub. nutted that Sir J. Barrington ought to be called to the bar, in order that he might have an opportunity, it be could, of rebutting, by oral testimony, or by documents, the charges brought against him. If this aged and inOrm individual were able to refute any part of the imputation, be hoped the house would not think that it had misspent its time. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL referred to the evidence before the committee, to show that the 2001. had not been invested is Securities; but that it had been withdrawn from the fends of the Court, and rulers, by Sir J. Barrington, who bad not been able to prevail upon the Register to join with him in nikrepresseting the fact, and accepting a bond for the money. Mr. WYNN further adverted to the same transaction, and denied ' altogether the doctrine that a Judge could be painniued eves to bor. row money deposited in the hands of the Register. , foe the bear& of the suitors. As to the mode in which Sir J. %mingles bad bee. rowed the sums be hadobtained, it much resembled the mode toOmir. rowing of the gentlemen, who, in former times, were in the habit of frequenting Hounslow Heath. The SOLICITOR OEN ERALealled the attention of the baser to the undenied (set that Sir J. &eclogue bad ordered the money of the Nihon to be paid by the region into kid bankers, sad had ales dawn it est rpm his own private cheque. Sir R. INGLIS okayed that the payer of the petition ed Sir J. Barrington bud bees practically grated, and that hie ceased bed not intim to_preiew fowler evidence. Tice het, ondoetbudly _ war, that Mir J.s3erringii;;Zi always shanned iniii;ity ; aDdlt weld bow all . 111 as wee as one trilogies' wee appointed, be bed amiseetnated to beses die won se ems sin, fee the puspess ef pestenswitest. The Aber aim We A ivid=4 e ease l as amok set mph *a mon of the nisi , wen ale. Begtuni bawls Aelle deer egg s fei le wettest shalom is T without *Am& illellerlobentedem. A. Op the pies ago et lift% iller~e j ca l Nellg to t• WS Ail, eree bed it best , r Segpisa, kw ri am. e teas -is tee a stage el' the preeestbeis Sir R. PEEL adverted, first, to the proposal of h., hon. antrgal- Lint friend, that all timber proceeding should be abandoned by the house, in order that a prosecution might he instituted against Sir J. Barrington, and that parliament should be governed by the result of that criminal enquiry. He (Sir IL Peel) could nut acquiesce in any such recommendation ; he would not leave it to a Court of Law to decide whether Sir J. Barrington had or had not committed a legal offence. The advantage of the law giving independence to the judges was qualified by many disadvantages. No doubt, on the whole, it was better that the judge should be independent of the crown ; but if, presuming on that independence, they neglected their duty, the public, by the operation of the statute, suffered a material injury. A judge might commit many acts of immorality and i cency not cognizable as crimes in a court of law, which would tuliy disqualify' him for the discharge of his official functions, and %at. rant the house in addressing the crown for his removal. Ile !nigh. depart the realm, and leave his place savant—or. from extreme age, he might be notoriously unfit to retain his appointment and wa s it to be permitted, that founding himself upon the independuce of the judgs, he should continue to receive his salary ? Neither was parliament to be bound by technicalities of courts of justice, with re gard to flatters of evidence. The next question was. whether the house could proceed upon the report of its select committee, without hearing further evidence at the bar ? lie thought it could ; am; if the testimony taken before these delegated bodies were of no value. it would be far better never to appoint a select committee. The evi dence, on which he felt competent to decide upon the guilt ut Sir J. Barrington, was documentary ; and as no explanation had been attempted to he given of any of the documents, Lis mind was impressed with a moral conviction that Sir J. Batrington had been guilty of acts which disqualified him for continuing in the situation of a Judge. Redid not sec the necessity for further investigation, and he should receive with reluctance and wariness any suggestion that would have the effect of deferring a decision until a future ses sion of parliament. At the same time he deeply regretted the ne cessity of inflicting so severe a sentence upon a gentleman holding a high office belonging to an honourable profession, and who had now reached a very advanced age It seemed to him impossibi.! for the house to avoid a proceeding which, while it showed that it was the sole authority to effect the removal of a Judge, would mark with sevens taprobation the acts imputed, and of which he was sorry to say there existed sufficient proof. Sir R.WILSON—Iie thought that Sir Jonah Barring'on ought to be called to the bar, and asked the nature of the evidence he was desirous of producing; and the house would then be able to judge if it was of sufficient importance to gintsull other ittoett.dings distr. He should thetefore move that Sir .1. Barrington be c.11;,(1 to tie. bar, and asked the nature of the evidence he was deshous to proileee. Lord F. L. GOWER was oppused to any further delay. Mr. A. DAW:SON thought that delay ought to be 31:owet1. Mr. HARVEY—If it was necessary that the affair should be settled Mitt session. why was not the report brought in In the first week of the session ? It would appear from the letter of Mr. Lomb, that he did not entertain Ilse same view as the noble lord who now held his office. The evident:, if correct, no doubt would justify the proceedings that were taking; but all that he wished for w.ts, that they might come to a unanimous cnclusion, sitting, as they were, judicially on this case. Sir It. PEEL—Mr. Lamb's letter was written in 1828, and the report of the commissioners was not till 1829, therefore 31r. Lan b was ignorant of the charge against Sir Jonah Barrington at the time that he wrote ; besides which, the letter only said that as he was not then in office, the cAse must be referred to his sae ccssor, which did nut seem to be any very strong expressidii of opinion. _ _ Mr. HARVEY explained. Sir J. NEWPORT could state that Mr. Lamb's letter was written not with any ides of corrupt practices having taken place, but in allusion to absence and neglect of duty. Mr. Alderman WOOD did not see how the inconvenience of the House could be urged u a reason for not hearing J.Barrington's evidence. The Officer of a Com always asked a prisoner if he had any thing to say why sentence should not he passed, and 1:e therefore did not sec why the House should not indulge Sir J. B tr rington wish a similar opportunity. Lord F. GOWER said that he had never said a word about inconvenience to the House. Wr. W 1 NN—Sir J. Barrington had had the choice of being heard by himself, or Counsel ; and having chosen the latter, he had no right now to ask fur the former. The House then divided— For the Amendment . . 4 Against it Majority. On our re.admitetion ' we found the Cl er k rea di ng t h e R eso l ut i ons . On that which stated the Report to be warranted by evidence, &c. Sir C. WETBERALL thought that it would be judicious to add a Resolution, that ft was not deemed material to call evidence at the Bar on this case. By so tieing they would be proceeding on the spaific circumstances ofjhe case, autl e not besetting a precedent for all other cases. The Resolution wu than agre e d to . • Ou the Resolution expressing that Sir J. Barrington had been guilty of salotts nialversation, and was therefore unfit to hold Ins office I Mr. WYNN thought that malversation was rot exactly the right term. Sir N. PEEL said, that "serious malversation" was the expres sion which Sir J. Barrington had been given to understand would be used in the resolution, and he, therefore, thought it better to re. lain that phrase. With respect to what had fallen from the honour. able and learned gent. he agreed with him that there was no geseral rule for hearing evidence at the bar ; but there were special circum. stances in this we, which rendered that step unneeemesay. How. ever, from the manner in which the honourable and learned int. hiidued the ease, there could be no do u b t th a t any suggestion proceeding from bim was well entitled to consideration. Sir C. W. WYNN explained--ln general, he thought it better to have witnesses examined at the bar, rather than by a select com mittee, but he thought the present OM was an exception to the rule. The resoludon was then agreed to. Lord F. L GOWER moved that an humble address be presented to his majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to re move Sir Jonah Barrington from his office of Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Ireland. Mr. RICE opposed the motion for the present, on the ground that no sufficient notice had been given of it. Sir R. PEEL (who spoke in a low tone,) was understood to say. that after the resolutions which they had agreed to, it was impossi ble that they could avoid arriving at the conclusion which bis noble friend proposed. However, as the present was an unusual we, and as it was one of a very grave nature. he sow no objection to a cont. atittee being appointed to prepare the address. Mr. RICE objected to the time and manner, not to the resolution itself. Mr. C. W. W. WYNN would not allow an hour longer than th proceedings actually required. Sir J. Barrington was already so stigmatised by the proceedings of the House of Commons, that h e could nor bola his situation Mager without disadvantage to the public service—die only question which could require time ten, whether they should ptoceed by address t r impeachment. Now, as there lamed to be no difference of opinion as to the nature of their pro. eroding, be saw no motive for postponement. The resolution for an address, as given above, was then put and agreed to. STRANGE SCENE. At this moment a person in the gallery distributed several copies of a paper entithd " The iniquitous Cause of Poor Rates, Paupet ism. and Ctime exposed." It was an incoherent and violent denun ciation of the public institutions and public characters of the noun• try. Immediately dug handing toss about to those near him in the gallery, he dung a few copies into the body of t►e beam. On being taken into custody by the messengers, he said, " I don't care—l have done my duty 1" He we, then removed, and brougbt down So the lobby. Sir R. PEEL moved, that the prisoner be brought to the bar ; whisk having been agreed to, and the order complied with, IitiIIPEAKER sired his name P Priewerw—William ThIIIIPEAKER--What could have induced you to commit the ol privilege of which you have jest been guilty P Tie prisoner mid that be had long observed the proceediogn of this Weft, and had seen so much inconsistency between itsprotes siege and its acts, that, considering its exercising the frown is the state which it did, be bad littk hope of its interposing to peo ny. justice fee him • he felt disposed, however, to psi be. fore them. Ho hatestruggkid with the world foe six-and.twenty !yews, and melt was the case of society in this country, that hi ironed it Impoesible to live se an honest was. He was then ordered to withdraw. Sir R. 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