The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-02-28 00:00:00

test necessary, except the two Evauses,. the Spencein philosophers. All the other leaders of the disaffect ed in London had been allowtA to prosecute their dangerous projects without any interruption. The case to which the latemeasures had been applied, was one of leaders without followers : and not that to which atone a measure of Suspension could be Isropitily applied, a ease of followers without Seeders, Row e, Suspensions of the Betio* Qom Act could deprive leaders of a body of followers, he woold leave tittlr 1,01...1ithi.p.1 to coojectrre. . If thee,*. had been leaders, they would hive been Ole to effect ; something. Every etive,ntege they Multi , ticsite hid been offered tit, their tleOgnst Orin( It Yogi' of ull• paralleled distress, tkoy eeposted opportunities of working eko the Petgnos of tae. rm.', of Loudon ; tiatafter all, the 3 heft beep able to effect nothieg; every tats saw them with diminished. hone and diminished forces ; and when it was most intportant for them to call their ranks together, they could new et any one point MuSter atere•ltteu 50 cc l(9 intlivWoals out of s population of 800,000 People. He mentioned this Is most decisive of tart weakness of those persons to, whorn so much power to produce misc hi ef had been impat . ed. Ile mentioned this as most decisive of the state of . feeling in the population at la r ge; because, IT ray eapetiment coshd be tried oo the temper of society (Its was car from wishing that any such expo. iiment should be tried), none could have afforded a Snore decisive result than this, where mischievous two bad been at work through a whole year, of great RubPc distress, atO at t u g end of it were Good to knee tailed in oroduclogany effect from all their ma chinetipte. But it wske perfectly tree that there had berm, and might still:he, perms,' actively etuployed in digasing violent and erro . osoos opioiene ; and it was singular that the persons most ectivel, employed es mentiorted in the two Reports of last Session, were Wilt1)01e. throughout, of proportioning the means to the end : they never once appeared to consider whit w het iusufficierst. means they thought to compass their vrojects. In all the circookstaticys, in All the bear ings of these proceedings, it would hove been meek snore effectual if Parliament had conferred the ex traordinary powers col the Governor of Bedlam, re. ther than consign the . objects of their fears to his, Majesty's prisons; and so much easier would it kw been to convict them qf madness than of treissen t that it would never have beep necesssry for Doctor Mourn to call on toe Mouse for a Bill of Indemnity. —[Dear, hear!]—Thill, then, was the case of tile disturbances that had taken place in Loudon. He should now come to the case of the Midland Coun ties, ns set forth in. the . Reports of last yeas and the present Session. It was here necessary for him to state, that . in the Midland. Counties as elsewhere (notwithstanding the state of London was such as he hat! just skuts es), it was generally entertained that a }arge body. of. People were there ready to co-operate with any who should join them. How that belief obtained growl's! . be . would tint now discuss; but that it had heel' produced, in Yorkshire especially, by delogate, from burden, better known by the name of Oliver--,Loud Cr* of Hear, hear, hear!j-.-wo‘ undoubtedly tree; but to what es tent other. parts of the king4o . m.llad been operated infli.tPluatnry speechee and the writings of persons respahling ntadroeu (for madmen they. did resenthle) t what portion of the expectation was de rived front the latter, and, whet from Oliver he could pot preten d to say. He certainly was bound to say that. Oliver. did exceed his insteuclious ; and he . *j o lted dolt. Lordships to, nltlerast this, because the ev,itierice, which sliewed the improper W110;01011 of (Veer, was of the slime esrere es that oat which se vets' persona ii4oPmeJl by ; Oliver bed beet, arrested, tend if there was . any. qhjection to the olio, the ; amine objection niest i epply to/the other also. Its buds cases the evidence was ! OR; of•parties cuncerned in the iiansaction ;, end. here he. begged, leave to call the attention of their Lordships to the nature of those transactions its which (though it was impossible to assign on rthat.groend end motives) the impression he hall alluded to existed it, the midland and other counties. And %kat, even under 11,4 impre,sbion, took place in those counties? Their Lordships would read, in the Report of the Committee, a detail of what took place in•ar Derby, sed of the insurrection thet broke nut in Yisiksiiire; they would find how mall was the tiumbpr of the rioters, and with what extreme fetidly they, were put down ; indeed, the object had rather been to. overtake than to put duets sedition : they. would find what was the disposition of the itthabitants of the neighbouring counties, and of the surrounding villages, in the very centre of all the disturbances that had taken place ; these people were at least neuter ; and tin many occasions appeared to entertain au absolute hostility against the insurgents. Such was the ea tent of that,itisurrection ; and, whatever its amount might be, no diminution of it was effected by trhe Suspension of the Habeas Corpus. Its Derbyslti r, the Suspension had afforded no check whatever to the disaffection that existed. The disturbance there took place.under. the reliance that the discontented of that district had on their leader ; it took place un the nomination of Braudieth, called the. Nottingham Captain, who was appointed to command the cape ditiett, Here Oleo was the whole extent of the ope ration of the Suspension of the Ilabese Corpus in that couttty. lie knew it would be said, that if it had nut been for the opeeatiott of that measure, the same disturbances wowid_bave taken place in other counties. Ile would . ask, in estimating the extent of such .a possibtainsurrection, even in places where the disaffected . pnasessed the. strongest hold—be would esk.if, even in these . places, it would not hare been put down with meat facility; if there would not fatebeenfoetid in each of the adjoining counties one Magistrate, one Colonel, one serjestit, and eighteen tutu, for uo more of each had been employed— Hear!) —to quell the whole force of the disaffected. 'hat the Noble Duke had insisted, that the object of Government was to prevent, rather than put down. Had. the,Noble Duke considered what had beets the effect of the mnbt arbitrary power, the abuses of itn- prisonntent, the false information, the insecurity of persons 14 property, which always ensued, under the pretence of preventing crimes which the, policy of this country thought it more wise to leave to the pub • tic forms of justice? 'He hskstated on supposition, . that if similar insurrections had taken place in all the counties, they would have been put down in a * sim . far manner. But what did really happen ? Some parzcits attached to the left trill of this formidable • t +.._ : «wi►•+.•WWWi • they had been sit acquitted• Bet. it ow set from Yorkshire alone that thedehllied penoos at Derby Scotland also, and' their eteptietseioss bad certainly Aust been frasicated by- atay-rseereeises these-of the isa— traordinary palms code:Fed tie Ilihisistera r When ,the Report came out, it imitated that all the ma nufacturing districts of Sceetasida. Glasgow, Edin burgh, and a variety of other twos, were equally implicated t• overturn the Lawsand Gevernineril of the country. The Suspension Act was intended to eateod to Scotland: but either it did net at the time of the Report, or such doubt existed on the subject, that it was notthoirght proper to apply it; and what was the consequence? Its Scotland there was no movement at all Iu Derbyshire, where they ex pected such clouds to come from the north, no move ment took place till the Suspension Act Lad passed. In Scotland, which 'was left to the course of its own law, there watt no moeoment at all What were we to' infer from this? In Scotland, where the remedy could net be applied, the cure bad been most com plete. Insurrections had taken place in Derinshire, where the extraordinary poems might have been supplied; and none .iu Scotland, where they had nut been used. He bed now stated the situation of the metropolis, the midland counties, and Scotland. The remelt was. that the metropolis. without any eserci.e (ex• eept to the I.:valises) of the extraordinary powers vested in Mi nisters. any danger that might origiutilly have existed had been gradually diminishing. In the Midland Cationic* an insurrec tion did talsa place, and treatise was loomed 10 its full e. clop meat. but was attended with no evil even to flume in Ps imme diate vicinity, and of ;Al others Must unwed thirty affected. In Scotland, where the suspension had i•••ver been acted on—the country was a scene of OnbrOlkien • traughillity. lie said Irate guiltily, becanse she trials that had taken place in Seuthuid ha d afforded no pre ofar t buiever that that tranquillity had there been even menaced. lie must consider it as sot extraordinary proof of tranquillity, that after all the in lances that had been of freed of a disallected spirit prevailing these; await the repre sentations of his hisijeste's al Wee's., and she various allegations in the different Reports; after all that had been staled of Glas gow, Edinburgh, and the manufacturing districts. his Majesty's Law Officeis could bring none to trial but an old Clergyman (against whom nothing could be alleged, but tints be had used some violent exptesions in a sermon. and even that adept on was timid to he nos proven), and too others, also had wad ha . proper words at a Public Psleetiug,till off which, in the septettes of the Court, amounted only to •` indecorqus, absurd, and le proper expretsions." These were all his Nejesty's Law Oillerri hod prosecuted„ with the addition of one other.—he Wald hl.leinlay, who (after couduct on the part of the Crown Pro secutor to which he should not now advert, but which he thought loudly denim ded a separate enquiry)—[Loud cries of hear l] —was. after all. retorted• to his family vs tthout any sub stantiation of the charges 'wanglt against him. Having now stated what was the situation of the country at the time of the Suspension of the Halfwits Corpus, he begged to remind their Lordships, that ke hod set out with undertaking to dwell ally, on that statement which went to show eat there had existed any real danger to the Government of the country. because it was Un necessary its any case but that of actual violence •a have re course to a Suspeosi )))) of the lleheas Corpus. Ile MO ou a former occasiin stated. that if the II euse, instead of (Attiring for designs of violence. and searching out for greaten ar rayed, bad only enquired whether erroneous and mischievous opinions existed, stud to what extent, they would have found that whole cla-ses of people were affected by foolish and inspossib e doctrines ; but he hoped he should not he told that such opinions were to be repressed by the measures of an arbitrary Government. On the contrary, it was, be thougne quite clear, that the erroneous and absurd notions litre principally caused by the. pursuit of such. stasis trary measures. and by the withholding public justice from the jurielice •t ought to exercise over offences. Such p; (weed ings formed the imxitiosatlimeet un which these oedema. were nuurisbee, and it was by arilieriog to such proceediegs ;hat the see;st handle was atetirded lO those who were disposed to inflame abclniislead the public name --[Hear, hear !]—He was firmly convinced, that if the methane' were more in number, and Kremer ie puwer„ thee the most alarmed had ever imagined, the true citadel its w hich to resist aid defy all their 'ettaelte was that which as long ns Enelinalexisted would be setter led by all that witegreat and good in it ; was that .which had beep handed down sanctioned by time and the accumulated witiont of ages—the citadel of our law—[Hear!] —which they who profereed to bold it iu veneration ought nut they to expose to neglect. as instißicient either to afford protection or redrescse [Hear !]—This led him to the particular memo:, now under the consideration of the House; a Him-lire which its character at least was nit addit Muni invasion upuu the laws of our coon ry.- I]..- Ile said, atidetianal, hes-sorbet he Suspensions of the Iles hems Corpus, however violent and iinpropee, wits at leastn tem porary measure, while this would have a permanent effect to the ends of the lives of !Moe who had suffered under the former measure, sted would be appealed to sox precedent in future. — Ile had said before, that he thought it impossible for any Noble Lord to contesid that Stopemieo of the Habeas Corpus should necessarily be followed by a Bill of Indemnity; but if reason were not stifficieet for such an assumptiou, he was also - borne out try historical precedent. The Whims Corpus Act had been often suspended; but. in Sir Hobert Walpole. a, Ist itester who (legit' neve: to be ineutioned withont respect, would not call for tiny Hill of Indemnity. After other Suspensions, dittaima Kills bad been adopted and proposed, bust none to the rate etat the present, except io 1801. or that of Ireland in li9ge which he did not 'minion, because he hoped the transaction' of that dreadful period would never be called a precedent for any pro ceeding vs Statelier. If, then. it appeared to their Lordships, that under one Suspension similar to that of Ina sear, no lu deinuity whatever had followed ; if they consider. d nut only what provisions the present Hill contained, but what persons were chieily.allectrd by it, he trusted they would pause 'weber they proceeded. Their Lordships woe in possession 4.f the Re port made by the Committee. When that Committee we. ap pointed, he had suggested that it should be twined wills full powers tousake a complete host-dig:snow, stud to, send fur pa pens, persons, and record.. It had afterwards been proposed to refer the various petitmits from parties aggrieved to the consi. derides.' of the Committee. %melter that had been acceded to, or it had been understood that the Committee should have power to send for pavers, persons, and records, was of no ma terial importance; but hr did cite-Wee it worth their Lordships' attention to have made a full stud stateside' enquiry, or still to make it, before they passed a Bill which affected the interests of so many who claimed redress, which professed to exclude them from that redress, o oil set aside the whnle s intent and effect of equal. Lass. Udell . Loewe. ps hoped tostisfy the Publicabey could not proceed to pass su, ii a no...rogre without completing the enquiry, If such enquiries were inseparable from 'olden iii ii y Bills in ge neral, they were muse especially necessary iu the prevent start'. Ile.did me say that lie should oppose an indemnity is all cas of Suspension; but he entreated their Lordships to look at ege peon itiaM of this Bill befisre them. It provided an indemnity not only for those who were autborisedsto commit and detain under the Suspension Act, but fur all persons wbe. since January last, had detained any parties whom they might suspect, however unwarrantably, of being disaffected toward* his Ms4esi y's Government.—[Hear, bear - I]-1c included. mg only Secretaries of Sate, Privy Councillors Magistrates, but stlso all Officers. Spies — [ Hear, hear !I—informers. or any other who might in any manner have contributed to the detesa tem of persons they might think fit to deetn objects of suipie* . Would their Lordships at once rob and confiscate the legal Sights and ethims of a description arsenous so large as those who had been affected by. she late exteaordiaary measures, without at furdius them an opportunity of making their complaints heard, and holding out a hope of some redress to those who, under every precaution. might have fallen victims to misrepresentatials or mistake? Lordsaies' Committee had done their duty, but the duty .r.entnitted to them was only that of inspecting papers submitted to theta by the Prince Regent.—[Hear, hear!]' He would now risk their Lordships, whether it was not due to tae interests of thus , who ere affected, and to the hotlinr of the !louse and the cietars , to interpose such it delay as might id: ford tiatekethe parties interested to he beset at the bar of the I louse; la aiatii a from further proceedings in this measure, if it complal ass a ere vimr by of atientiou and if not. to dis• miss them withmit retaining a caMe for complaint. He begged to resnisaf their Lordships, that . pending lademnity in ;beeline of - W Moans mid el,ay, ail petttiqua from parties who had beep committed were referred to a Committee. to e n quire iato their merits.. and beenaldairodisee theanmes of all the Peri- , darters. Why that course should not now be adopted he had set to learn. Ile kcew it might •he stated. and with some cthnee of appt-thation from many Nettle Litri!A, that the indi viduals sere w..rt!tle.e. Ccrtalily, With respect to E S'I:fikTESMA.N. . . " srvii;i :rll an e d the result j CIO i favour; but tibiallititirikilid of 0 •by law, was: alit My tad beldam besets"to ter . worthies, however Oil"(nt kelt till found so) . *ill eh object of greater lawns titan auy one of their Lordships basking in the sonshile of . mei Wei& aseesiere - svaa ceusesuptilie_ AUK not nett IMPMPIPPgr MIN/ •••••• ••••• mm!mor,, er 0 11 9 such ladivideak, - hat alto the coiri many who WPC Jot 0041 J—It was the ditty of the LegiShOlife to prevent men from beiag deprived, vadat , aft, INV atildeffYi of the bee* of lowa atst pilefeat Inherited by birth right. He wmaor Row climatal% the pm prim of entertaining the Bill malt (it might or might not be nesarreary appealing. laths last Apt .f the Legit...oe.. wisidr Ii referred). he only naked their Lordships oat to deprives.* of their rights, not to es:dept. every hope of r. drew, int adapting this-...we with*n lu c re proeeedirag of eiewriry mows •foll and ogienstre than that they had hitherto bean ontislied svitli. lie entreated the. to 'flans the gaestima fur one fortnight s it could espwe Mein to no upeoovorienee, as the es pest . firelu law they were proceeding to paw world covered she Weever. sad it would afford time to deliberate on the tin.. of Intake who, had been aggrieved, Ha. therefore, moved, that the word. •• now" be omitted, and the wogs " tithe day Bailee" in serted instead. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, the Committee was the proper state for the consideration of the pro. visions of the principle only was before the House, and to that he should confine himself, Noble Marquis had entered upon the grounds of the Acts of last Session. Ile would remind their Lord ships of the circumstances under which those Acts *pre passed—the general alarm of danger,—the 'Secret Committee of theie Lordships Oft the subject , —the powers. givers to Ministers in consequence of their Report- - the continuatieti of those powers efts, a second Report had been made, and the salutary effects of the manner in which sucb pneeri had Iwo exercised in unnerving -the disaffected, giving con& deuce to the well disposed, end trenqiiiility to:lbo µOH( at large. la attaining this end Goveessernet had done things authorised by the Acts of last Sete. ' Mott, and by them only, and came before the House for a Bill of Indemnity, not upon their own state• ment, but upon the Report of a Secret Committee of their Lordships. He would remind the House of the Meetings in Spa.fields, the state of London in No vember, December, and January 1816.-17, .when. a sentiment of fear might he seen in every face along the streets, compared with the general suspect of the metropolis and the country, not so mach under the apprehension of estraordinary powers eta subsequent period; it was the wide spreading systematic union of disitiftiction that called for powers which were not deemed necessary in the case of 'Colonel I)espsrd's malignant and atrocious conspiracy, or in the 1 case of the Report of the Committee of 1811, in neither of which instances was treason so ramified and organized into system as now, when a common and concerted movement was found taking place in London, in Manchester, in Nottingham, in Derby, in Leicester, and Yorkshire. He contended that i the conspiracy was proved by what came nut on the trials. An honest and intelligent Jury (he would not say whether the Juries in this instance were or were not such) might find a verdict of ' Not Guilty,' though the existence of the conspitacy was clearly made out. Ho maintained that a conspiracy had' existed at different places, and in ilitletent times, lung before the month of April, when-the individual in question went to the country, therefore it could not have been set on foot by him. lie.thveght, a case was clearly made out in the last Session of Par liament of a conspiracy so extensive and continued' as to render the Suspension Act necessary. Its ob ject was to engage timbers of the lower orders in ects.of tumult; and whit cuuld tell how many per. sorps.of property would not he ready to join' its it, and how many thousands might be collected together in acts of violence in a few weeks, so as to render it thing fur Government to suppress them without making a sacrifice of the' liberties of the country for a short time. if ever there was a men sure of humanity and justice which went to prevent. evils den uumeasurableestent, it was that which had.' been adopted last }ear.. The Habeas COrpus Act had continued suspended dpritig the.war with France, for six or seven years, and all that time there was no insurrection or disturbance, but last year there was an insurrection and a conspiracy. It was under these circumstances that the Ministers,. with a Report of a Committee before the House, now asked for the protection given in 1801, on the precedent acted upon at 'list time. The detentions which had taken place did take. place on evidence, which could not be produced, and in cases where the parties could not be bruugbuto trial. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE explained. Lord EItSKINE said, the question immediately before them was, whether the Bill proposed should pass now, or be deferred, according in the suggestion of his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Lansdowne), for another fortnight ? So dangerous a measure as the Suspension of the habeas Corpus having been resorted to, the question now before them was not whether that measure was just or otherwise, but whether Ministers had abused the powers which had been intrusted to them? It was most dangerous to suppose, that when perms, who had suffered in for tune ttod.charseter•under those• measures, desired to lay their grievances before the Home, they should'be precluded-frous doing so, from any general reliance upon the-character of Ministers, or their discretion in the exercise of power. Against such a principle he would enter his solemn* protest. He entertained great respect.for the Noble Viscount who had acted the principal part' in the measures alluded to, but it might be too much to expect that be should extend this respect to all his. inferior agents. But, if even the Noble Viscount alese were concerned, however much he respected general character, he could not consent to such a.measerese Wee proposed till he he bad heard. the evidence. " Let us see," said the Noble Lord,." what this Hill asks of us." He. had no objections whatever to the reers who- composed the. Committee; but threviderice on which they pro ceeded might heenboen.foroiehed by the lowest mis-1 crews, though- not known to bench by the Noble Viscount. It was for this reason dust the country could not possibly basefisfied with the' Bill now pros posed. He rlitLnot• meats to make-any invidious al: fusions to the,Noble Lords: blit . the: great majority of the. Committee was Loomis to he composed of , Mi• nisters who were themselves responsible, and of their friends; and he thouglit4hwtraitors at Derby might say with as good • grace as Ministers, 66 We walnut be tried by a Jury of oar countrymen, we 'will not allow any challenges by the .Crown, but we will be tried by our fellow traitors." If danger to the ex tent alleged did really exist, why should such a jea lousy be teauifested respecting those to whcm the • lk ai • r - !qui pro. . 'mil ,wr that &twee wow to theershenlited a ins a great proportlln of•Parlismesit were men of wealth and reek, ramp would most willinglrupport Mini. .Mere, if coo d thauheir elan *di well founded. 1 1 7 recollected'. that, .11Ifte4 theilliate at Ike Old . 1 iley, in 1794, • Weiy letirned end eloquent man (Mr. Windham) had made use of an expees k i e s.whi c k • appeared to bias very reprehensible; to calli ng wts• heels emestated bp' its lays.rad I their country " acquitted felons with ptiety might the Derby mhos ht-eallei innocents. Aud even lo the districts where disaf, fitclion was alleged to have proceeded th dangerous length, the Report of Ahlseory Committen 'hose testimul that " the greet pen 6f the Peetplo red mein ignition even during the periods of the. pal est , internal diihculty and distress." What mere asst.. sire evidence of sound anshakeu loyalty total* estribitsal in any cottony In the **di: The Speak of the Prince! Repot, at the opeeingof the z. , boats teitimotty to the Mat effect ; and the sincere end osieqoiestcay symptom of the spirit Which animated the country was exhibited*, a late mournful event, by a whole population ding nitre 'Ol dlstrent sod cemealseestion. The only case in which the spirit of distinction proceeded , to actiof violence ; end which was laid held of es * support for the statements which *ere gle a n of tit/ , county, was fount to. be of such a etcleres.thet the appearance of abort le soldiem quelled them et seed All (hie donee could surety. live bear atoristod opt the Sespeosiera of the Hoboes-Corpse, end all that surmises and general suspicion attending that uses. ! sure. Hy not proceeding according' to law, ors unfortunate obstinacy of Ministers increased the ; and their responsibility increased twofold, by shutting out the oppertanity of deft/idiot themselves, He denied that a Bill of indemnity was a corollary `.fewer the Suspension. This proceeding was ODIMM. ' polar, and it could Dot foil of being so.. The Nobler Lord had got leis oon Joey to sit upon himself ; and in this proceeding he felt uteri for - the 'character of the House than -words could 'empress. But their Lordships knew well that then es* isied no jealousy of the People against the con. .stitglen of that. House, which *as held in re. sereoce for ages, It had been en object of admire. 'ion, avid reverenced for ages, not only with the . People of Ibis country, but to all die world.. He therefore Implored theca to hesitate before they wealth overturn this ancient anti immemorial reeereace hp, their rage for iuderintify log. Let them not be de. cei red by imagining that any People upon earth could submit to a legislation like this, where. Acts were passed without evidence to support or justify them. The Bill professed to indemnify MI. tasters, Magistrates, and others--sgainst whom ?-., Against those who were unjustly imprisoned; who were imprisoned without information or suspicion to justify, their imprisonment. lie should most deeptr lament it, if their Lordships should not accede to the motion of his Noble Friend, to take all the Pe• titions before this and the other House of Para liament—(it was not regular to refer to the other House, but the Petitions before it would he presented to their Lordships)—he should deeply la. mint it, if their Lordships should not vomit* all those .Petitions before they passed a Bill of Indies; alloy. If ..they once passed the Indemnity Bill, these Petiiiesis could not be esamined or taken into con. sideration. What then, he would ask, were the People of England to - think of their Lordships, if they passed a Bill of Indemnity against charges, the extent, proof, enormity, and wantonness of which they refused to enquire into ?—(flear, hear, hear!) —Let them beware of venturing beyond the endur. , ante of a free People. A free People must be go t recited too free principles. He would therefore sup ' port an adjournment of the subject—be would do Gain his power to procrastinate, to retard, and, if , possible, to prevent a measure which, in his con science, he believed , to militate against, every tittle of freedom cud of justice.—(thar, hear!) The LORD CHANCELLOR said, he entertained! the greatest respect for the abilities and eloquence of the Learned Lord (Erskine), ahti hoped' that that Leatteed Lord would receive what he had shortly to Eder in reply with that consideration which he-(lord Eldon) had always felt disposed to exercise towards him. The Learned Lord, sod other Noble birth, seemed to speak of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act as a matter of rare occurrence, whereas there had been many such cases of suspension. Hut When their Lordships saw that an Indemnity BM was consequent on the. Suspension of the. Habeas Corpus, it certainly was incumbent on them to tireo the latter with some jealossy. The Act of Charles ll' had declared euddehued those liberties which moo previously the birth-right of the. People of this country ; but it was not possible for any one to fore• miry at. that period, that the very Act' which so fle• dared and defined the liberties of the subject mig!it theteafter.be foundsubversitre'of them. Had not•eoe Parliament been conksidled. lir. a seccesdils one, however, that very Act,. est tho. history 01 (healer . ; try would very *into ilsoye, might. have prosod must dingeTOON to theiibertlee of the country. lio admitted,, with their Lordships' Committee, rtes. .soundness ,of the great• hotly' of the•'People% yea this admission did - not disprove the necessity' for suspending the Ila.beso ,COtpus Act. Who would assert that the Peeps 'al England %menet seen& to thermion of William III.; but was it not matter "( historical record, th'it during.thati reign the , Ilatteari . Corpus Act was. sespended thine tionslo-[lfrer , hear !j-i- Bills of Jtalemoity went!: also thew paSse 3 , which justthed theivieistion of the law opoutheoleoese city of the, case, and did. not give groutid-toriell 4 vide-ale to come to Parliament for redress , a t it,wae pr e sumed no good sehjite rie 'firefer such o s cot In suspending the. Habeas Corpes Act, the Legisla ture took awe,- thi•liberties of the subject for tl.e • security of the Public.; and ,upon the same grosod the Legislature might also take allay the remedy at . Ws for grievances in' consequenCe of the ..suspension of the Act. Tie . saute opt:810in :as to suspension toot place again in , 17 15 ;. and alsti.itsll-16,:atid in.t/tosa ingtaoces the act of tospending'. was stilted to be its . sidend atian of the law, lhel.sereltutided"fer a'f cordingly, ia. the Indemnity. Bills. An vigil/UO* 4 rule, exemplified 10 the hilterry - of Ibis country, wit talus supreasa Jaz.; was a rule which j u stitio+l the suspension of any law, and indemnity to who had suspended it. lie now came t., tit" sion of the tlitieus Corpus Act iu 1793 .111.11.2 i ra arms hail cot witted aurliarigs 4u 4 Yoritalti hattelitikeiv vil io hp ae iri vieviiiiit net witheutitortiorpoissioif iO le pousertioufereed WW t I ,fsospenstgit of tile *aft. corral; . 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