Star. — London, England, 1817-03-29 00:00:00

* high was professedly levelled it legal Meetings le gally culled to Petition that House. The House on Ai occasions sheared itself laudably jealous of any rp;!oletituent on the privilege of originating all mea ds:es ss hich touched the purse of the subject. It was, tot A 'e s important or less essetit;al tof the power o t . t he Iluuse, 1.1 receive the Petitions of the people. thing which lessened the commun:catilu -be t even ch Hou s e of Commons and :he iseople, lessened ;rflaut.c.e, and rendered it has a counterpoise :0 taro other braarkes of the Legislature. The ether hid an interest to disunite and weaken them— w ts the duty of the !louse of Commons to resist vralleit attempt to touch s, vital a part of its r .:‘,o., 3re s, It was al says from smell beginaings hid meisur:A ofiginated, as sip:Wet:A infrae of right might :shays be m id: precedents for 1 :;.•;I:er ones. The attempt t.. 9 connect the ro.sent with some inc wove:shoo:cc which was said t o i1.0re1.1.71 7 n felt lei the Courts o: I.rw, Wai Very • .4,15. I i the first place he doubted the fact (11.0 8. )—f:r if Cott was the casc, they should be tare 01:t: 1•1 1 4: l-ard Of it; awl if it were so, a measure should have been introduced to ,:,inset dint inconvenience. instead of tacking such class to. a Dal intended to meet a temporary srs with whizia it had no connection., or:„ : )- 7 .0nraorable Gentlent.m called upon those who e , romJ Itelor no on this ground, that they would rin'ist::4l to any change in the Constitution s to c a r , :ward i:i consistence to re i spose the Clause on. ,! :co ' .iiere;oll; for suds Gentlemen we-te bound, . ; ,:o.g to their iNrotessed princ , pie. to resist any as sr, il upon tl.e si: i ?ots arti privileges of the eg %lives of 1.1. e Crown, o.he pocro,;et.ves or power of the Crown seldoni, j; ever, experienced any °jots:is:trot* from that quarter. th.: a 41 ol Close Gentlemm for the preser ratio i lit Co: solution seemed reserved to wit%- itteJ ahy chang , : ta favour of popular principles.—. Diener C.t power of the. Crown had gone oa ad• y h ri t :; ;L , tpeciaily within the last Liiiriy yetis, s.) f . a . tl, s poser seas now become such as to be felt ir.rr.ity direr:ic:to The power of the. Crown was io tat pre s ent in •Il [dices, and in most places irre vri:V.e. Friu4 that power, therefore, the most stri ass danger was to be ap,reheodld, and yet no alarm appeared to be kit us to 'es et.s:tnee and effects, rtice l m ly aca mg those tuna were so in their ails ler the safety of the Conrittititia, when any po rkies was I , ught forwai o extend the rights of e people. On the contra, y those who were sent eat nest to support end eLI orl,;e the porn : • t o 4,f . th e Quoit, were always nio)t forward t, ahrdge the pe.tileges of the people. Of that f ,, ritrardn..is the Cl ruse b fore the House furnished a striking vs: mph:: far here was :in attempt made, not to interkre with s4ltitous or inept meetings, as the 1.1111 proposed, but to cur:ail the right of meett:igsainexcepti at ably Upon what ground, he %mold ask, was such an ex• traursfolsry proposition brototht forward, or why shosl.l t'.e Lif co in of Westminster he precluded from imeitairing at their usual place of meeting ? There was no good reason for thus interfering with the Elec tors at Vs - estininster in particular. He never lecol. leCted an in;tance in which any practical inconve nience had resulted train the meeting of the Electors of WIE. minster in Palace-yard, tither to the Legislt sure or the Courts of L tiv ; therefore the Cl ruse Ti• dcconsi.teration was totally uocalled for. Licked he &tyre semembereti a measure more uncalled (or, more unnecessary, or more inconsistent with the Constitu tional ivileges of the people in general, and there fore he felt it his duty to give it his must decided ems:Alain. 11.. n. Mr. WARD declated that he could not ate that such importance belonged to *. this proposition as the last speaker laboured to attach to it. If it were thecbject of the clause to prevent those inflamma tory ur insolent, or foolish discussions which gene rally prevailed at Westminster Meetings—it it were desired to put an end to these' offensive, and often long and dull speeches, so pregnant, however, with libellous attacks upon the principles of the Constitu tion, and upon the character of that House, which were usually heard at those Meetings, he could mi derstand the motives of Ow orpo,itiou the House had board. If it were intended to interfere with the right ot petition, or to prohibit the Electors of %Vest:loa ner hem being entertained with those insulting ex perisnents upon the patience of that House, there might be some alarm for the enjoyment of their ta ',mune privileges ; fora practice had prevailed at those meetings which was equally new in the history . of th i s country, and i nconsistent with the dign i ty o f Pariiammt, as that practice involved a system ot de tracti:,n and contumely upon the reputation of that Home. Heretofore it WAS the principle of popular leaders to raise a clamour against particular measures; but the 'minim object of those who usually took a lead at Westminster Meetings was to deprecate, by every means in their power, the proceedings and cha meter of that House, to point it our, indeed, as the great grievance which ought to be removed. (Hear, bear. from as Ministerial licarbes.) It was indispu table that the harangues of those leaders were irately directed to excite hatred against that Asset:Coly.— Tee people were not immediately called upon to pot a - end Oa the existence of that Assembly ; but that call was perhaps reserved for the eve ut the great Kelorm— (Thar, brag —But it was the duty of Far- Lunent to guard the people from such acts of outrage as the system of their leaders had an obvious tendency to proveke. For the sake of the people themselves, he called open the House to accede to the clause under consideration. For if they should be guilty of that 7 ' 4 i:conduct to which the system of their leaders - e - oeld prompt them, that House would be a party to the guilt it it rejected the proposed Ain:ailment.— Ile Meetings of these people, so liable to be misled isy those who, it appeared, were but too willing to mislead them, ought to be removed from the place n+.tre the great temptation to outrage was CON Vellieili• Still was the best provisioa that could be made to 'protect the .dttuded people from giving immediate effect to those fl:elings, to excite which so much mis chievous in.Justry was generally employed—(Bear, ke").—PtrsuAded that the clause under cunsideration met the approval of the greater part of that House --(.1 laugh, anal hoar, hear, on the .011torilion basehes)— and that it was also approveilby many of thve who usually opposed any measure originating on that side of the House. he should vote fur its adoption, con 'incest that it had no tendency to interfere with any constitutional privilege, and that it was calcalatet to &sail ossialat gnat chischal. I, nl c: :' Mr. BROUGHAM obser' ee'Ll, that if be were to pronounce his Honourable Fiierd's assertion, that the clause before the House Would meet the support of the majority of those then present, his Hinton:able Friend would regard the grounds of his dissent as a mere paradox. B it however the majority might de cide, be (Mr. Brough int) must &dare this clause I was the most extraordinary and tiejustisable of the three ur four dozen Amendments sent sheen from the Lords, and of which the House had aheady disposed. l'he Lords posiessed. no doebt, corsiderable privi leges, but to those privileges there must be some limit, ur the privileges of the Assembly, which he had oleo the lioaour to address, must 'oe a mere nullity. Ii upon a Bill sent up by that Hieise for nee perpese, he Lords !led poseee of eraiiine a ne:asere ter cmite ' amelter purpose, what became u! the privileges ot th-it House, and the Arneedmetit snider discussion was, he wettld inetireie, essentially diiTerent (tem the original object and express prieeiple of the Bill te which it was annexed. This Aniensinient was ire deed totally inepplicable, even front a consicieratior of the title of the Bill. For what hod a measure, the title of which was, " A Bill for the more effectuelly preventive of Seditious Meetines and Assemblies," to do with a Oen te for p-eventieg leg 11 meetings, within a certain dist nice of Westminster !fell? clause, ilifeed, Apple d to all meetings, whether fecal or illegal, and therestire (11.1 not at all come within the scope of the original P. lid at what beige was this extreerdioery clause brought forward, and under wh e t cioennst . ences :—(g ear, hear) It Was MI a getter:ill Ate. that was Stlistliiitvit to Ow 1 linise on this ere isitiii, but a lice! Act, that pro. posed U. dtseluaiily one Feectors of ‘Vestoionster fount eerie:sine a ri .t woich they had enjoyed from time ininioneiial. Tee In se menntr its which this, as wall as the other A triendtst its b ring tit forward on th s o:cesion, Was drawn up, was psrlieps lees; exceptionable tea: ore in their character. •I 'he House cettle not interfere with any rielit sit the su i •ct. it could not co:lsis:en:ly take a pony out se eny inet sidual's pocket, or put a penny i n to it, without pro ceeding in the reetilai Parliatneata: y course—without appointing a C..111t11;1Ve to consi ler the subject, and giving due *Leics. of the proposed enactment. Yet tree now, at tee twelfth hour of legial &en, it Was itlC:Sipttd to wrest an iaspot tent right froth the great Is y of the Electors of Westininsier , (Hear, hear). Yet tips, which had in tact all Cie ch :rester se a Pri vate hill, it we; propeszd to press without afforiin; te the parties iii Crested ally oppertuait y of stating Such a mode of pmt ending wee he cootendee, by ler means fair deal ti either to wards the peep:e or towards that House—( (tm, hear). It was, indeed, taking the pe iple by serielse,! while it involved an outrage upon the privilege:: or I that House. Of those privileges the Heese had I usually been extremely tenecihus--efieti, itsdeed, that tenecey had hetet etraiord and era -!; e l ated, I his opinion, with respect to any penalty :ntroduced by the other House. But all tent ter.e.tizy proceeded front a salutary jealousy of the ptiv!legts of that House, and yet in the clause uathr ceeseieration, an attempt was made to render these privileges nugatt try —(f/tar, /tear). As to his Honocrable Ft iead's al- . luesun to what took place at Westminster Meetings, that was not the question then before the House.— Foe the present question was not, whether tl.e West minster Meetings were well or ill conducted, but whe eler quite a new measure should be adopted, in the shape ot an amendment by the Lords, in a diii with witch that ausendinent had no natural reletian? This amendment ploposed to guard the Pariiement and tile Courts of Justice from any inconvenience or in sult, which might be a very proper pretvsion. But why not make it the subject of a new Bill, iesteed of connecting it with a measure for the prevention of Seditious Meetings ; and thus the House would have an opportuuity of fully considering its merit*? Why connect a proposition of this nature with a Bill rela tive only to SAitious Meetings, instead of bringing it forward as a separate measure in the usual form; and by having it read a first and second time, com niitted and read a third time; affording •the House the usual means for investigating its tendency and character, before it came to a decision ? It was well known that upon private bills the House solicited scru tiny, he might say opposition; that due notice was' given to all parties concerned; and that such a course WAS followed in all cases where private interests were involved; that not a brick-bat was removed, nor a, wider-cow-be changed, nfr the interest nor property of any individual affected by any legislative proceed ing, without allowing every party to be beard by Couneel, liefore such proceeding was decided upon. In no times whatever, whether good or bad, had ibis course been abandoned; and yet in this case it was proposed to adopt a measure infringing the rights of the Electors of Westudaster—(near, hear, hear.) — if the subject of this Amendment should be brought for ward as a separate Bill, he would be prepared to discuss it; and he saw no practical inconvenience that could result from postponing the consideration of such a measure until atter one holidays, as neither the Houses of Parliament, nor the Courts of Law, were to sit in the interim. There was, therefore, no occeston for hurry, for no danger could be apprehee sted from delay, even it a Bill embracing this object were not adopted for a week or ten days after the termination of the recess. No Westminster Meeting was expected within that period; but wen if it took place, where was the danger ? For his own part he had never seen any danger, or practical inconve ' clique from the Westminster Meetings. Langove might have been occasionally employed at such Meet ings which was offensive to some persons, which was possibly improper, but he never, with one exception, heard of their interfering in any degree with the functions of Parliament, or with those of the Cronus of Law. He had heard of some tumultuous Meeting* upon die discussion ot the Corn 13i11 (ts. Nose of she Hiesettiiiuter Electors," exclaimed reve red twice: soots Me Oftmitims Bringer.)—Tl.e Hoe nourable Member observed, that from what his Friends had said, it now appeared to him that no, practical inconvenience had crer occurred in conse quence of the legal meetings of the Westminster Electors in Palace-yard a therefore his objections to this clause was strengthened; But there was another inconsistency belonging to the proposed amendment. According to the preamble of this amendment it was meant to provide toe the protection of the Courts ot Law ; and yet the amendment uself applied only to the Courts ol . Lavrat Wostininster Hall, leaving those at GritildhAllo Lincoliel Inn e Old Bailey, and . . . . elsewhere, comparatively unprotected ; thin leavinr i thoim Courts unprotected which were most exposed. and prilecting those which were least exposed. The Courts at Guildhall were, it was notorious, held vn. der the same roof, and within the same pm. as the place appointed for popular Meetings in the City. and those Meetings took place nearest to 61 most oh noxiots parts of those Courts, it any such parts there were, and he loved' not. If then the real ohject w i the amendment were to protect the Adrniaistratlun ofJostice, why leave those Courts so unprotected -- But he cautioned the House against beiag imperd! opon by the affected solicitude for the adininistretion of Juoice ; for it require) no such protection as this amendment professed to have in view. Now as to the constroesion of this Amendment, it was, indeed, most cleinsily drawn up. (Cries of (Hear, heat. ) l'r:r it Ltil a complete loop-hole, oe %s:iteh the Eke to: s ( f Westeninster might *veil themeelees: to: neon reviewing thit clause, it would be sees, witheot dwelling urn the absurdity of the notice for mire then fifty persons, as it any such notice ever sreci tied the nitusher to meet, that for the purpose of con sidering the distress of the country, or any petition to Path-talent upon the sohject, the Electors ot West rnirster might still assemble in Palace-yerl, notwith standing the enactment of this clause. I: might be Asked then, " why oppose this clause, if so inefficient to the object you deprecate?" But to this he would ees Nei-, (het he opposed it, because he d.sspproved of the precedent, because that precedent involved a violation of the privileges of that House, and was grossly inconsistent with the dignity, deliberation, ol i o , .! ;mum that ought to prevail in all its proceed ings i'Hear, hear.) —Besides a proposition, although very cittrusily winded, might betray such a di peei ti n a. it was the duty at the House to deprecete and repsi--( hear, hoer)—Recurring to the subject to the Adnalassteetion of Justice, the Learned Gentlemen Adverted to the conduct of Lord Iklenstield upon the decision of the case of Wilkes, whole: popularity was, in his judgment, a disgrace to the morel and intellec tus) character of the country. For sudi a man could never deseive the esteem of any morel peopl:.— But upon that occasion Lord Mansfield betrayed no fear of the people, who crowded Vs'estnai.:eter Hail to hear the jadgmetat respecting Wilkes. On the contrary, Olio Learned Judge took Lie oss a caurse, mid desia leg the d :ors ot the Court to be thrown open, pronounced his Wile, equitable, and impiessive judge meta before the conialees multitude, in a strain that marked the firmness and noignenietity of his mind, regetelless c f oil] :t consequences lollese.ed, and mind '.i, telly of the cititse co Justice and ot law which he 'CAS Ca led upon to administer. Such, lit his opinion, aught arse: ye to be the course of a British Jude, :and w:.ile British Judges so acted, they could have no fear of ani resentirieat horn the British people. Mr. CANNING said, that thou Ala none of the ob jections had been pressed, wh ch tie was induced to expect, much had been adveaces:, which excited his surprise from its novelty. The Honour-Able Member wet° sosike first on the other side (Mt. Curwen) bad descr;lned the Cause under consiJeratieu as a direct: inOingetnent upon the privileges of the: anise.- 1 Chat the Lords had betrayed a disposition to veal a march upon that Heuer, and ta uoiro .ell their lune- Pi ins, by leg islating alone for the do miry. If se, this certatiary was a very dark mid intricate Islet on the part el the Liods, and the Heiise should congratulate itself upon the pos isesse m of so per. SOCUOLIs a statesman as the Honourable Grath:net:l to expose its object—( 4 hush, and hear, kar). But it the [.'gads had really nomatested such a design, he had no doubt that it would have been promptly detected by the sagacity of the Ci i sa.r, t ..0 whose au thority the House would have shewn the seam: de-' fe.rence as it bad time in the course of the wining upon an Amendment which actually interfered with its privileges; this authority having, however, thought otherwise, as he must infer from its silence, he hayed he should stand excused if lie preferred it to that of th e Honourable Gentleman. But as to the olijsctions of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman teem bed just sat down, he took leave to say, that the Learned Gentlemen a t :as in etror, in supposing that the Ameedment under consideration was at all at vo riance wide the object of the Bal. For the Learned Gentleman appeared to forget that this 13.11 wee a measure of prevention ; and that having in view to provide, that Meetings convened foe legal objects i 'should not be turned to illegal or mischievous pur poses, it was perfectly consistent wi'la the scope of such a Bill to graft upon it an Amendiveitt of rlais nature. The dietress of the count, y was well known to have produced a great deal at terinent and in its lion ; and the purpose of this clause was, that the Electors of Westminster, who could not be exempt from the general fermentation, should not be lieb:e, thtoegh the influence of improper persons, to give to that fermentation a peculiarly dangerous direc tion, by levelling it against the Houses of Par liament, or the Courts of Law—(llear, hear, hear.) The people were not charged with the disposition to :nisei:le!, but not supposed exempt (mom the general feeling and liability, and hence this Clause was liaise td in order to remove these meetings to a convenient distance trout that place where most mischief might be done. For if nine-tenths of the people usually assembled in Palace Yard were perfectly innocent of any illegal purpose, as he believed they might, still they were as liable as other men in those times to be added by inflammatory demagogues, and hence it was wise to transfer these meetings from that spot where most mischief might be suddenly and irrepa rably perpetrated. This was the only view of the Clause, and as it did not interfere with the txereise of any legal right, he could see no objection to its enactment, and therefore he felt it his duty to give it 1 his support. But the Hon. and Learned Gentleman went further, and cited the conduct of Lord Mans field, who was so alarmed and terrified by the iiopti letion of Westminster and London - pouring down into all the avenues of the Court. that be ordered the doors and windows to be thrown open before he pro nounced sentence. But where was the megnaniniity, where was the fearless heroism of that example Lord Mansfield knew he was about to deliver a judg ment in concurrence with the passions of that mob ; he knew he was going to reverse the outlawry of , Wilkes, and really, sander such circumstances. it re spired no great degree of fortitude in him to declare that he was ready to die at his post—(.:ear, hear.) — There was one part of • the Honourable end Learned Gentleman's speeds, -however, v711;e11 undoubtedly excited lais surptik, wheat he cou:idett.d hi:, extent of reading, his depth of judgment, and his accuracy of argument. The Honourable and Learned Gentle man expressed his astonishment, as well as his clic gust, that a character, so blasted in all its mor.'l qua lities as that of Wilkes ; shou;.l have b•.:cione the idol of the day ia ith the pzi ple of Es , 2,land, af 4 .d he seemed to consider it as v sin.silar circumstance. Put l•t him salieli the hisi.ity of all times, from the cr c!sses of ancient Democracy down to mo:iein -Taco binkm, and se!ieri would he find the man wh.) stimulated poplifir frenzy into tumult sedi tion, that was ert•mpt. from private victs Let him starch the b_ginnings of those Revo!utlons which had over tiviiid Manarchise and States, ..nd he wou:d find :he seciet incendiai ies, the first dark plot ters of those mischtt f 4, putting forth th., deloded pza plc as their instruments, while they forked in base cunceslment, watzlitui , t; their sa!eq• It he crnid rind as insttnce where destiatiguesi having such deiigns, were men of blameless ch,racters, of exemplary domestic conduct, of private worth and virtue, th indeed, [night. he 11.1 , i forth as an exceptionhut till that wa s d on •., t ill h;sti:ry ras Y7 ' reversed, fill the experience t wakes must be considered, IPA Ai 111 t! f, !..;.7;:f, hit merely one of a gregarious Lind, a Kaiii!:t of ill-, Shire, and Representative of the v. ,r.) 1. was to guard Ag tiost evil • of the desci:;)tioli %%inch sa-y men sought to produce, th.s. the wh..l • of the present measures were ilt•vised ; and t%:,:ret , 7e be she •Id give the clause in question the same sts:y9:l ai he had those measures, which were calculatAi to protect'the liberties of Englishmen, sounitly and which he believed were called fur by the exigencies of the rimes. Mr. BROUGHAM, in explanatien, said thet:the Right Honourable Gentleman was mistaken in what he had stated with respect to Mr. Wilkes. Part of the judgment in that gentlemai 's case WAS !avowable to him, namely, the reversal of the outlawry ; but the sending him back to prison was very far item being a popular measure; and therefore it was clear that seine danger attached to the Judge, and yet ne threw open the (news and windows ul the Court—(fiear.) Mr. PONSONBY said he had as little respect ter the character of Wilic:s .is L's Honourable a,,J Lear: ned Friend, but he unquestionably had great merit with the people of England, and received their rep port. ley ought not to forget, it was owing to his spirit and exertions that an end was put to the doc trine of general warrants—a practice completely sub versive, so far as it went, of the personal libetty ti Eeglishrnen. With respect In the invectiv e . of the Right Honourable Gentleman against demagognet and jaeobins, it had tint/ling at all to do with the nab ject then before the House, and to which he now wished to call their attesniset. He really was sus . pribed that no one among ilwniseives, not even the Speaker, hadidiscovered the danger to which ?Arlie mein, it appeared, had been S 3 long exposed ; and that the H..use of Lords, at last, seas forced to ar.acrt its safety. What he chiefly complain:l ef in the clause was, that the Lard allouid enact it in the MM. ner they had done, and send it down to that House, leaving only an op i ;astusiity fur a single discussion; He could not only consider that as an attack upon their privileges, iii the sniet sense of the wind, but as a departu•e tram the rain ebject of the Bill which had been sent up to them. Ile also objected to the mixing of any coissideratioas Perteicing to de:Ct;:irti of iigetice, with wes.e. reiY:eci o ::".:tlS!V:iy...o PArill. ment. Had any instances aCtlEttiy tarty pl 4 z e , is which the Courts of Westmiiisttr Hall Sad s :alined inconvenience from Meetings in Paia:e-yarti? Could *single case be stated ? It public meetings were to be considered as always liable to that start of peeves.. sum which the Right Hoinsurable Gentleman had stated, his argument would go to the total probilaid tion of all assemblies of the people. He certainly could me help tending a little jealousy optic:tithe hub. jeer of this elanse. It originated with a part of the Legislature which seemed to have toe least to do with it. In none ot the spre:hes delivered at Wetamin ster Meetings, so far as he had read, nor in any of the petitions presented to that /louse, had the dignity or privilege of the Pterage heel As:ailed, and why then should i t rep forth to guard against a dan ger which the House of CoMilmis did nut perceive, or to provide a protection which the H •use olCominons did not asks That was one, among the other grlunds of his objection to the clause, and besides, he i egerded the whole ploceeding as unparbassientary, imatual, And without Alty similar precedent. He should there tore vote against it. Sir W. DURROUGH entered into a review of Vie misconduct of Ministers in not c saint; Pathan:eta to: gethet earlier, though they were aware ot the din. gets which threatened the country; awl afser carets. ing Isis approbatinn ot the measures th it hid beet adopted, which he considered not }stronger than the exigeecies ol the times demanded (with me tscv;ii A of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus), he c in cluded by signifying his assent to the Clailaes Mr. WILBERFORCE said, that hiving bee, prevented by itidisposition from -attending tt.e pro,.:rir3 of the recent measures in that House, he was very anxious to s:ize that occason, licasaver late, et el pressing his approbation in them, becaese he theueht they were most necessary fir preserving and securing Ithe liberties of the people of England. Lord COCHRANE said, 11. c (louse must kiow, that public meetings were holden in the Guddhell of London, and why was more danger to arise to Wes!minv.er•Hall, than to a Court of Justice sitting in Guiitlk all Tl.e Counts of instice ought to be ex punged Item the clause, or Westminster-Hall should be omitted. This elause osru st rl a c t rni i t al hoenr ib ed a : t fo : th it e adjourned, rt hem, should , o e r t be. lawful for aoy persons, 6t N e. o t t o v mee t on c h as e a c ti on y cai d e j a uve y tad i d h o d septennial Parliament...-. mustnw) 6 r le(:Ci1 p r oro gu ed i t f liti: I.CCd',,,'',:etij!;: 1 ./ o)l V ireti a lesil ; ;etuoa o irs n lNit l ss' e lheiitt o : on the days of tittina.) 7 ..flOW. ever. has mini objection e.ent to the whole of the Clato.e. In t.'e proceedings in Palace-y“rd there had neon no tumult, no outrage, no obstruction ; no vt penance whatever indicating even so rinc:i warmth as had been manifested that ni g h t by n lti , iit Eon. Gentleman who had lately returted !.oin trit Embassy to Lisbon— (Near, hear, and a :..nth). He believed the House would find, Hot only twit tills Clause was faulty in thew resptctF, hut that there Iv: - sit, whatever for ailiptiog it ; and that it violation in s te r._ ( of i ther hf,). privileges or the Citizei in The H .r. Mr, LY rTELTON said,, , As no neces- t was a gross ens of West- that hckati