The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-05-24 00:00:00

1 ry. "Ve properly dIOCOSSed upon other occasions. The outline of the Bill woe, to rest in the hands of the Exe entire the power of creating special magistrates, and to enable policemen to be transferred from one barony to another, to he under the control of the magistracp. He trusted the Bill would be discussed at length upon.some of its future stages, when its merits could be better un derstood by the House. He moved for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise the appointment of Constables in Ire. land, so as to secure the tranquillity of the country, by the removal from barony to barony. Sir J. NEWPORT said that the measure appeared to hies to place a large farmer at the disposal of the local blagistrates, add to leave them without responsibility. Upon this first view of the measure, these were the trio einel objections which presented themselves to his mind. Mr. V. FITZGERALD thought the thanks of the Hose* doe to his Right Hotusurible Friend, for having this early brought the subject before the Hons.. It was one in which be had fora long time been deeply in terested, and be was much gratified at seeing it in such good heeds. Mr. Secretary PEEL thought the Hon. Baronet would not find upon reflection, that his objections could lie against the Bill. He was satisfied that the Honourable Baronet would apply his mind to the measure proposed, without permitting, any pre-coaceived opinion to inter fere with his deliberate judgment. Several attempts bad been made to accomplish this desirable object, but hi therto without success • and it was his earnest hope that it might now be rendered practicable. He believed that the chief evils of Ireland arose from the ordinary Euglish laws not having had a fair trial in that country. He did net mean to anticipate discussion, add he should therefore noir express his opinion that what was pro posed unight r now he done; and it was agreed on all band.. that if an effective police could be established in I relied, the greatest benefits must arise from it. Mr. BROUGHAM put a question acmes the table to Mr. Welborn, which, as well as the answer, was in audible. Leave was given'to bring in the Bill. seci.sit JUDIcaTURE. Mr. A LLEYN rose in pursuance to Dotter, to submit a motion to the House, which he was sorry hid not fallen into other hands. The subject might be consi dered with reference to the present defects in the Welsh Jurisdiction, the possibility of removing them by Legis lation, and in case this were found impracticable and difficult, to the propriety of abolishing the separate ju• risiliction altogether. Under the first branch of the subject, the facts were admitted. There were few re sponsible officers and molt of these held different 'Rua- Gone ; some of them incompatible with each other. The Equity side of the Judicature was seldom resorted to; and therefore Gentlemen whose legal education had been pried/411y directed to the Common Law were se lected as the Judges, and these were of course little ac quainted with the rules of equity. Two objections to the equity sidirere indeed of themselves almost loser mouotable. The Court was ambulatory, and it lisil not the power of enforcing the attendance of witnesses on the obedlince of its own decrees. The latter circum stance had been shown in the case of Lord Kensington. who, under the advice of Sir Samuel Hominy, had brought actions against one of his tenants in the Courts at Westminster, in defiance of an injunction issued by the Welsh Court of Equity. Another objection which affected the whole of the Judicature, was in the circum stance that the Judges might act as Counsel in cases not coming under their judicial cognizance. This gave rite to many suspicions connections between the Judges and the Attorneys who employed them as Counsel. The next objection was to be referred to the present state of the law, which in some cases directed Welsh causes to be tried in the adjoining English county; and in others gave a power of removing causes by certiorari to the superior Courts. The consequence of this. was, that many suitors had to take their witnesses a hundred miles before they came in sight of the Court of Justice; and that the expenseof trying an unimportant cause not unfrequently amounted to three hundred pounds. Such a system amounted to an exclusion of the poor from the means of obtaining justice, and enabled the rich to op press with impunity, as certain ruin attended a poor man in the event of his encountering such express. Indeed he knew that a rich man who wished to compel one of his tenants to subunit to Certain terms lie wanted to en force upon him, told the poor man to "submit, or prepare for a journey to Ilereford ;" so that it was evident that oppression in this case was held out as a less evil than the Court of Law. There were other difficulties in the system; supposing a Gentleman from the Chancery Bs; were to be selected for a Judge, for the Welsh Judges had to try the prisoners. Now lie believed that Gentlemen at the Chancery Bar were little acquainted with the Criminal Law ; and that many of them had never held a single brief in a criminal case. —Anil yet these Gentlemen would have to expound to Juries the law as it affected the liberties and lives of their fellow subjects. There were also other objections, and those too of e political nature against the present system of appointing Welsh Judges. They might hold equations at the pleasure of the Crown, and might sit in that House, circemstances which would render their integrity liable to be weakened, at least in public opi nion. The next question was, whether these evils could l•e removed by Legislation, still retaining the separate jurisdiction. lie was of opinion that they could not; and it might thence be inferred that he intended, in the first instance, to propose the abolition of that separate Jurisdiction. He was, however, willing to submit the case to the consideration of a Committee, in which lie should propose Resolutions, declaring, in substance, that the reasons which formerly existed for a separate jurisdiction had ceased; that equality of laws between England and Wales was desirable; and that in order to eff,ct that equality, the separate jurisdiction should be abolished, and the jurisdiction of Wales be administered by Judges of equal rank and experience with those of England. There was another Resolution which, as it affeceki the Crown Revenue, must be pat into the shape fan Address, and this he proposed to do. He alluded s. .as payment of King's fines and King's silver, on the conveyance of laws, w hich lie proposed to be made through the English Conrt of Common Pleas. After some other remarks in support of hie proposition the Hon..llernber ob d, that it was the wish of the pen• pie of Wales to partake of the benefits of the English Constitution bv having justice administered in their cwn • country in all respects as it was in England. He then concluded by moving for the appointment of a Com mittee to consider the present Laws by which justice was administered in Wales. Mr. BARHAM seconded the motion. There was no difference in the condition of the two countries; except that of the language, which prevailed in a very• limited degree and was daily falling away. But this circuit]. stance could be no argument in favour of a continuance of the present system of Welsh jurisprudence, if in other respects it was objectionable, for the proceedings of the Courts were in the English language. Ile was in favour of the total abolition of the separate jurisdic tion, and lie thought the people of the country were not against such an abolition. It might be said that there was but one Petition before the House in its fa. your; this was accounted fur very easily. Had there been a wish to encourage Petition* they would have been numerous, but it was thought prudent not to indispose the people against their institutions without a certainty that the-proposed alteration could be effected. .--(ilear, hear.) When a Committee in • former Sea. sion had sat upon this subject, they examined one of the Welsh Judges as to the people with respect to any change in the system. The Jadge answered this ques that by producing an Address which had been presentesi to him by Grand Jury deprecating any change. Moth steesslhad been laid on this circumstance, but it turned out that the Judge bad brought Son this Athletes by hie own Charge to that Grand Jury; for in his Chaste he oottted - aid condemned the then proposed alteration. The hest evidence that the potpie of that country did not like the present system; was in the fact that they would .sot tenet to it; for they removed their Causes into the sn:wrior Courts, notwithstanding the expense and inconvenience which attended their doing so. He gave his hearty support to the motion of his Honourable Friend. Me. JONES opposed the motion. Ha old that means had not been untried to obtain petitions for the abolition of the septrate judo liction • but the people of Wales were, is general, satisfied will, the present system. Id tlettel the'''. wits a petitioti before the House from the 011anty of Chrthertiten, most respectehly signed, against the abolition. The administration of justice in Wales had continued for many centuries; the people were happy under it, and had not complained against it. The argument of his Hon. Friend(3lr. Alleys) respecting the want of power of the Court of Equity was singular enough; because it mast be the fault of a suitor himself if he would apply to that Court for relief when lie knew that it could not enforce its own decrees, and that the Court of Chancery. which could enforce its decrees, was open to him. The fact, hoieever, was otherwise. The Court possessed the power of punishing a contempt of its decrees. It might issue process of attachment and sequestration, and would have done so in Lord Kensing ton's case had the person injured applied to the Court for relief; bet the Court could not take the extra Judicial notice of a disobedience of its orders. The evidence takes before a former Committee was strongly against the proposed change. That Committee bad been moved for by a Right Hon. Gentleman now no more (Mr. Pon sonby) under an idea that the system was founded on corruption; but he afterwards declared that he was sur prised to find that the Welsh Jurisdiction was so advan tageously carried on, and tbat even that of England, in some instances, might improve from it. The Committee bad examined many respectable individuals connected with Wales on the subject, most of whom had strongly approved of the present practice. In particular, one of the witnesses had adverted to the comparatively small expense of the suits carried on in the Welsh Courts. — The principal persons who before the Committee had disapproved of the present system were Lord Kensing- ton (whose dislike of it was not avowed until he bad lost his cause in the Welsh Court); his Lordship's Solicitors, and a Mr. Owen, a barrister ; but this Learned Gentler man was, day after day in the course of his examination, correcting or altering his evidence; so that his own mind was not, it appeared, very decidedly formed twos the subject. The attorneys whb practised in the Courts were, generally, men of respectable birth, education, and conduct, and were thought fit companions by many Hoe. Members of that House, and persons of eminent rack. The Beech had to boast of the names of Lord Keeps, Sir James Mansfield, Sir Vicary Gibbs, Sir Archibald Macdonald, Sir William Grant . (the late Master of the Rolls), and the present Vice-Chancellor, and Master' Of the Bolls. The Bar could produce the names of moo,' of those grave and learned persons; and, in addit those of the great and accomplished Sir Wm. Jones, the late Mr. Serjeant Williams, the late Mr. Justice Ashuret, Lord Glenbervie, the present Chancellor of the Exche quer, the late Mr. Dsuncey, and Mr. Taunton, who bad lately been honoured with a silk gown. He could met believe that the Courts in which such personages as these paraded, were not sufficient to answer all the ode of justfie. He defied his Hon. Friend to adduce one single instate, of injustice being done in the adminis tration of the Criminal Law. Another reawo advanced by his Hon Friend for doing away the jurisprudence of that country was the existence of the power of indict's( arbitrary imprisonment at the pleasure of the landlord over his tenant. But this power equally existed is the remote parts of Yorkshire, at the option of any despodc landlords. He admitted with his Hon. Friend, that Judges in Wales should be appointed by the Chancellor and not by the Treasury—upon different principles than political; and that they should not have seats in that House. If this motion were disposed as lie expected it might, he should bring in a Bill to remove these abuses, and he begged to say, that his Bill had the sanction of the first lawyer. In conclusion, he begged to observe that he thought his Hon. Friend had not brought for ward every thing to induce him to consent to change the long established jurisdiction of the Principality of Wales. He must therefore give the motion his negative. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH confessed he should like to see the clause in the Bill of the lion. Gentleman op polite (Mr. Jones,) which was to abolish the appoint inert of Welsh Judges on political principles; and also that clause which should vest the power of appointment in the Lord Chancellor. Ile really thonght this would be a mast curious part of a Bill brought into that house. All that be would put to the house upon the question be fore them was, whether they would consent Odle popu lation of a large portion of this empire not having the laws administered to them with as much purity as the other parts—whether they would consent to have per sons as judges, who were on the high road to political preferment. On this subject it was puerile to bold forth the names of persons who had filled these situa tions. lie (Sir J. Mackintosh) might do the same in defence of the Star Chamber, but he would be trusted as a fool for his pains. It was plain that the principle of appointment did not ensure to the King's subjects in Wales the same chance of pure and enlightened Judges as the King's subjects in other parts of the empire ; and that being admitted, the question became a very small one, and easy of solution. The Hon. Gentleman oppo site (Mr. Jones) was ready to admit of the propriety of Welsh Judges being excluded from that bruse; but even that, upon the present principle of nomination, could not place them out of the reach of influence. The safer way would be to adopt his Hon. Friend's motion. The Hun. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Mr. Jones) said, that this change in the judicature was not called for by the people in Wales ; but he (Sir .1. Mackintosh) begged to say, that of all subjects this was the one upon which he would pay the least attention to the general opinion of the great body of the people. The prejudice of antiquity was, no doubt, respectable, but certainly was not to be permitted to have weight in a legislative assembly, or on a question of this kind. Ile confessed that he always felt great jealousy at the idea of increas ing the number of Judges. A small number of judges was the hest guarantee for a long continued preser-1 vation of high moral feelings, and a multiplication of the number of judges was always attended by a propor tionate declension of that high tone of judicial honor which, in his opinion, was the greatest happiness to • country. He thought it was the first policy of a State to keep the name and functions of a Judge as high in the estimation of mankind as possible. tie thought this could best be done by keeping the number as small and select as possible. But although lie had no superstiti ous predilections in favour of the number of " four." although be had no Pythag o re a n f ee li ngs i n f avour of particular umber : he was willing to increase the num ber of the Judges, if necessary. He thought the time had arrived when, from the great pressure of business, the number should be increased. But he was adverse to any inequality among the Judges. Ile had rather that two extra judges should be appointed to she Court of King's Bench to relieve the others. Mr. SCARLET'!' said, that his feeling on the subjeci of the number of Judges was different from that of his Hon. and Learned Friend (Sir J. Mackintosh), fur he had rather see the aamber ofJudges diminished Blau in THE ST, MAN. eteased. Tim reason that the Cow, Ist King's Bench was so such oppeessed with husihessa wee, because a 'great deal of enstreh which °oche to lgt disposed of by the Quarter Bassani was brought 's that Court, and some measure to regulate the distribution of business I was lunch *anted and might he moat usefully introduced... He therefore disapproved of that part of leis Hon. Frientrirmeasnre, which went• to change the conatitu tieo of the Court of Kieeralionela. With respect to the general question before the House, he did think that it was very improbable that gentlemen of eminence in the profession could be found to take the situation of Welsh Judge - M.li stipend of LIM. a year. From this it fol lowed that the people of Wales could not be so well off as to their Judges as the other parts of the empire. He did not think the lion. and Learned Gentleman opposite (Mr. Jones) derived muck from the argument he used as to the antiquity of the present form of judicature; foe, the present form was established in the time of Henry the Eighth, and that which was 100 , 11.141 in England was lint as yesterday in Wales.—(A laugh.)-o-die did nut therefore think that Welsh blood would go along with him in that reaper.. He did not pledge billiard( to agree to the resolution of his Honourable Friend, but be cer tainly thought the House ought to go Into a Committee on the subject. Col. WOOD thonght that the great increase of pro- . party which had taken place in Wales dace the time of Henry the"Elghth, entitl -4 them to a change in their judicature more suited to their present state. lie had changed his mind on this subject—he bad done so from conscientious conviction ; and he thought he was called upon to state that change to the House. The ATTORNEY-OEN h:RA I. said, that the question placed before the house by the lion. gentleman on this occasion was, whether they ghoul , ' change the con.tito don of the C ourtsf in Westminster Hall. For the alter ation of the Welsh Judicator* would entail an increase in the lumber of Judges in the Court of Kings Bench; and he must say that at present he entertained very strong objections to such a . It appeared that he was expected to have introduced some measure on the subject of the Welsh Judicature; bet he could not do so whilst Committees were sitting upon that question. There were reports of Committees on this snbject, which spoke of certain changes in the Judicature of Wales; but no one had ever talked as the Hon. Member called upon them to do, of abolishing the whole Judicature at once. He was ready to allow that there were defects, bat bethought they might be easily re..le died without abolishing the whole system. He main tained that it was a fair argument against the change of • any system to skew how it bed worked ; and that on the present occasion it was perfectly fair to shew that some of the highest judicial characters bad come from the Welsh Judges. Mr. BARHAM explained. Mr. J. WILLIAMS earnestly desired to see the Welsh Code assimilated to that of England. Mr. SCARLETT explained. Mr. C. WYNN wished to see what was defective in the present system corrected ; but before going the length of doing away a whole system of judicature, he r could wish to see the specific remedy which it was pro. • posed to apply. For the present, As be was not pre , pared to give his assent to the whole of the resolutions before the house, he would recommend it to the Hon. , Oentleman to withdraw his motion, on as understand • ing that should the plan to be proposed by his Hon. I Friend near him (Mr. Jones) not meet with his (Mr. t Alleyn's) approbation, he would be at liberty to bring o forwavdthe propositions now withdrawn at a futureday. i Mr. M. A. TAYLOR supported the motion, but was mawilliag that a question of such importance should be • disposes.: of in so thin a house, and he therefore moved I as an amendment that the further discussion of the quee r Lion should be adjourned to that day fortnight. After a few further remarks from Sir C. Cole, Mr. C. W o Wyno. Mr. Secretary Peel, and Mr. Denman, Mr. • 14:A. Taylor persisting in his motion, the gallery was cleared for a division, when there being but 34 members t present. the house adjourned. %. t WESTMINSTER REPORM DINNER. Yesterday the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Triumph of Westminster and Purity of Election was celebrated at the Crown and Anchor T ; Sir F. BURDETT. in the Chair. The company was more numerous and re- ' spectable than we remember to have witnessed on any I former occasion. Among them we noticed Lord Ebring- ' ton, Lord Nugent, Sir R. Fergusson, the Hon. O. Ben net, Sir IL Wilson, J. Hume, Esq. Sir M. Barrett, Col. Johnson, Dr. Lusbington, D. Ricardo, Esq. P. Moore, Esq. Sir O. Robinson, Hoo. C. Hutchinson,J. B. Mooch, I Esq. Hon. D. Kinnaird, Alderman Wood, &c. &c. As soon as the cloth was removed, The CUAIRMLN gave " The People—the only source I of Legitimate Power; " which was drunk with applause. Air, " Britons strike home." The CIIAIRMAN nest gave—" The King, and may be recollect his own declaration that the Crown is held ' in trust for the benefit of the People." Air—" Rule Britannia." The next toast was—" The only remedy for our na tional grievances—a full, fair, and free Representation of the People in the Commons' House of Parliament."— Air—" Kick the Rogues out." Mr. STURCE said be rose for the purpose of proposing a toast, which, the oftener it had been proposed in that room, had been received with greater enthusiasm and delight, and which he had every reason therefore to be lieve would be received with equal pleasure on the pre sent occasion. As long ago as the year Ibo 7, when the Electors of Westminster first met in that room after the hard battle which they bad fought against corruption and Caen in t t; and after the glorious victory which placed the Honourable Baronet who sat near him as Representative of that great city, he (Mr. Sturcb) took occasion to congratulate them on the happy choice they bad made, and to predict that their Worthy Representa tive would never give thew occasion to repent of that choice by abandoning the principles upon which he was elected. If he spoke with cootidence at that time, with how much greater confidence was he now entitled to ad dress them, when an experience of 15 years had proved the steady attachment of the lion. Baronet to the prin ciples els:cli he then professed, and given the strongest asaurauce that lie would adhere to them to the latest mo ment of his li fe.(A pplanse.) Had theHon.Bart. boron the slightest symptom of any thing like tergiversation, or a dereliction of those principles?—(No, no !)—On the , contrary, had a Session ever passed in which he bad not made some effort in behalf of the liberties of the people? It was true, indeed, that his efforts were not always suc cessful, but that was not his fault. He (Mr. S.) ex pressed his firm conviction that the only remedy tor the grievances under which the great body of the people la boured was a full sod free Representation in Parliaments of short duration ; and concluded by proposing the health of " The steady opposer of tyranny and oppres sion, the constant advocate of Parliamentary Reform, their truly honest Representative, Sir F. Burdett."— (Continued applause.) - . ... Sir F. Buitozry rose tn return thanks. He assured them that the great pleasure which he always felt in meeting his Constituents, was enhanced on the present occasion, both from the manner in which the worthy elector (Ile. Sturch) had done hint the honour to pro pose hit. health. and from the satisfaction with which he called to mind the various occasions on which they hail wet since he tint became politically connected with the independent Electors of Westminster. That connexion had continued for a great length of time with unditni •iisLcd regard. be believed, on both sides, and Ile had now the more satisfaction in calling it to mind, because their prospects were now fa: brighter and more promis ing than they had ever been on any former occasion. It had been a source of increasing pleasure to him, from the first year which they celebrated the triumph of the independence of Westminster, so nobly straggled for, and so happily obtained, up to the present moment. He did not think that he should be promising too much, if he so far confirmed the observations of the Worthy Elector who had just add d them, as to say that he should never swerve from those prisciplee which first recommended him to their notice. Afterso.long anal. here're to those feelings, he did feel that never baring bronght his, mind into a state of doubt or hesitation, as, to their justice, houesty, and propriety, if any mortal could pretend to pronounce any thing with regard to his future conduct, he might venture to predict that those same principles would continue to inflow.* his public conduct to the latest moment of his existence.-- (Applanee.)—They had met, year after year, under cit. eleu,t a n e e. ,0 more or less public comb went aid difficulty, lint never, as it seemed to him. at a period which bore more the appearance of a political crisis thine at the present-moment. When he called to mind the general condition of the country—when he considered the various circumstances of lifetimes in which they were placed, and the various topics which presented them; selves in taking that view, so many subjects, all apps . ; rentiy of equal importance, bat upon which it would now be impossible to enlarge, rushed upon his mind, that he felt at a loss to know which to mint or omit. The proceedings of Parliament had at length made ap parent to the whole United Kingdom, a truth of which that enlightened portion of it contained in the city of Westminster had long been convinced, namely, the absolute oticeasity of having recourse to that principle, which would malt* the House or Commons, instead of being worse than a mere shadow, a constitutional molt of the voice of the people, and an instrument in the bands of the people for t Ise control of the Executive Govern 'neut. It was a great astisfaction to his mind to see so tow tientlemeo present no that day, aiding and assisting the great cause of Parliamentary Reform, and he could add also, that many others would have been present but from particular circumstances. Hr lamented more especially the absence of an Hon. Friend of his, as it proree.l4 , l from a do mestic misfortune—he alluded to Mr. Lamli.on, who so ably undertook thecauseof Itefurm last year, and did that justice to it which was to be expected trout his totems and his integrity,—(Applause.) Since that period. other propositions had been made, which, though they did not go the toll length of the opinions which they en t used of Reform, hail at length produced this beneficial effect on the public mind, that they proved the House to be as ailversc to the slightest schemes of Reform that could be proposed, as to 'boss which were of a more comprehensive and effectual description. Lord J. Russell hail brought two propositions before the Houseovith an ability which raised the greatest-hopes in the country of ;his futureexertions, oue comprehend ing 'chat might be termed the minions of Reform, the other carrying a Reform to a greater extent. :t might he deemed a favourable augury, that this last proposi tion had met with a greater degrne of support than any osition for Reform since the period whets Mr. Pitt. brotaght that subject under the consideration of the Hasse, ghostly after he cause into Administratioa. For his part In grits ..winced. and he believed the public were colesiesed. that a fell, free, and effectual represesta. lion of the people was absolutely necessary for the safety of the country. It was a new era in the history of the country when they heard it publicly avowed by the Mi nister of the day, that he was compelled to continue en due and burtbensome expenditure for tge purpose of maintaining what he (the Minister) railed ioniatime in the House of Commons, bat what they (the Reformers) properly called corruption in the House of Constnons 7 l He believed this was the first time that it had ev been onblusbingly avowed that corruption in the rare sentatioa of the people was necessary to carry on the tioverstnent of the mostly. if this wee* true, then he must say that all the euloginme be had ever heard epos the English Constitution were false, ridiculous, and air surd.--(Applause.) So different, however, was the view of the subject taken by our ancestors at the time of the Revolution, so entirely did Mr. Lecke differ in opinion from Lord Castlereagh, that that great man declared that any attempt to poison the fountatos of liberty at their source was such an offence against the Constitution, that it would justify the people in resorting to that last prin ciple of liberty, resistance to oppression.—(Applause.) He himself could remember that when he first came into. Parliament, it was considered a breach of the Orders a the douse to impute to any Member, that he was noddy influenced, for no Minister bad then the boldness an effrontery to say that there were men in tba House whose votes ought to be influenced by as, other consideration than a conscientious sense o duty. The late Speaker of the Noose of Commons then Mr. Abbot, pretended at least to be greatl shocked at dissevering a traffic in seats in the House though no man was probably ni.ne intimately ac 4 quieted with the practice; but now all was change and no one seemed to be startled at each conduct. Thi reminded him of the description of the effect proslos by Sin, when she sprang out of the head of Satan :- -- " Amazement seized All th' host of Acs ;•n iii;eltiheYrecoll'd, afraid At first, and call'd me sin, and for a sign Portentous held me; but familiar grown I pleas'd, and with attractive graces won." Thus corruption appeared to have rapidly won apo. their affections, and that which was once deemed an jest of abhorreuoe was now considered all essential an necessary principle for carrying on the Government o the country. To whatever departtuen.hoof the Stat they turned their observation, toe save corruption an protligacy were every where conspicnoos. The di • which at present weighed upon the couutryloas admitte on all timid., but the most extraordinary and contradic tory reasons were assigned for that distress. Som attributed it to what was formerly considered as the strongest evidence of prosperity, namely, the super abundance of the produce oh the land [a laugh]; others ascribed it to causes which were equally unsatisfactor to the minds of many, .and all theories might perba be maintained with same plausibility and skew of lege meat. But there WWI AO. thing which no plain w • cmthl possibly misunderstand, and upon which no ter honest men could possibly differ, namely, that the cor caption of the House of Commons had tfie effect of COD verting what was iuteoded by Providence as a hlessin into a curse upon society. It we looked to our colt:tins system the prospect was as unsatisfactory. The state o Ireland afforded a still more striking imotaoce of all th evils of misgovernment accumulated to au almost in tolerable extent. He hoped that the exertions no mildly by the people of England, oppressed as the were by their on - 11 sufferings, to extend relict to di sister kingdom, nimbi prove that there was no hostilit. of feeliag or interests betneen tile tao countries. H trusted twit the people of the Uoited Empire, layin aside all differences, whether civil or religicus, wool join heart and hand in their efforts to obtain a full au tree rqresentation in Parliament. Ile lad heard fte quent allusious made of late, and particularly on recent occasion at aLi • • Society, in presenting Preach Ambassador, to the auty of npholdiuc the uarchial principle, and Christian virtue. Now of ai places in the world a literary institution WAS the lea tit for advocating the monarchial principle. unless whs is called the Republic of Letters, were to be concrete into a Monarchy. But it appeared to bins that ther were no two things so inconsistent with each other • the Monarchical and the Christian principle. He ti • begged leave to advert to the words of a great, able, it v