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Parliament roll of the 6th of Henry VIII. By that act, the Rights and Privileges of free speech in Parliament are established, and a special action is given in favour of the party injured by any action brought against him for words spoken in Perim emit. And, from this statute, it appears that Parliament, at that time, when the case occurred, which seemed to chew the expediency of legislative provision to give fuller force and protection to its privileges, made it the subject of such provisions. In the sth of Charles I. an information was filed against Sir J. Elliot, Dense! Holler, E.g. and Benjamin Valentine, for their speeches and con duct in the House of Commons ; judgment was given against them in the King's Bench, they were seidenced to imu►isonment, and were fined : In the Parliament which met in 1640, the House of Com mons, after a report made of the state of the cases of Mr. Holies and the rest of the imprisoned Mem bers, in the 3d of Charles, Caine to several resolu tioir. ; by which they resolved, that these proceed• ings were against the law and privilege of Parlia ment; and condemned the authors and actors in them, as persons guilty of a breach of the privilege of Parliament. In 'the reign of Charles 11. these proceedings were again takeu into cousideration; and the House of Cosamons came to several Resolutions. On the lath of November Irs67, they resolved, That die Act of Parliament in the 4th year of the reign of .11eury VIII. abov, referred to, is a declaratory law of the ancient mid necessary Rights :lad Privi lege} of Parliament. Oil the gsd of November ltih;, they ' , solved, That the judgment shove re ferred to against Sir .1, Elliot. D.llolles, and B. Videittiae, Volnires, in the King's Bench, was an illegal judgment; and 00 the 7th December 1667, they d sirwl the concurrence of the Lords. The Lords, an the 12th of December, agreed with the Commons it, there votes. You: C:immittee next refer to the ease of Sir ; the detail of which they pin ceed to insert from the report of a former com mittee of this House. • The ease of Sir William Williams, against whom, after the dissolution of the Parliament held at Oxford, an information vas brought by the At torney-General, in the King'a Bench, in Trio. Term. :Hi Car. for a misdeuse r, for having printed the information against Thomas Danger •lncli he had ordered to be printed whet, he was Siieaker, lay order of the (louse. Judgment passed against him on this informatiou, in the se cond year of King James the Second. This pro eeediog the Convention Parliament deemed so great a grievance, and so high an infringement of the rights of Parliament, that it appears to your 'Committee to be the principal, if not the sole ob jject, of the first part of the eighth head of the means pised by King James to subvert the laws and hber '>lGs of this kingdom, as set forth in the declaration of the two flouses: which will appear evident from the ac. ount given in the Journal, eth February, 16Se, of the forming of that declaration, the eighth Isead of which was at first conceived in these words: . tidelicei, " By causing informations to be brought sod prosecuted in the Court of King's Bench. for Ilnatt , qs mad matte-, cognizable only in Parliament, end by d•yers other arbilrary and illegal courses." 11th Pi bruary, idas.--" To this article the Lords d sagreed ; and gave for a reason, because they,do not fully apprehend what is meant by it. nor what iustances there have beer of it which there fore they desire may be explained, if the House *ball think fit to insist further on it." pith February, 1688.—" The House disagree with the Lords in their amendment of leaving oat the eth Article. But in respect to the liberty given by the Louts in explaining that matter ; Resolved, 4 That the words do stand in this manner ; by pm aecutions in the Court of King's Bench for matters end causes cognisable only in Parliament, and by divers other arbitrary and illegal courses.' By which amendment, your Committee observes, that the House adapted the Article more correctly to the case they had in view ; for the information was filed to King Charles the Second's time ; but the prosecution was carried on, and judgment obtained, in the second year of King James.' That the meaning of the Home shr.uld he made more evident to the Lords, the House order ed, "That Sir William Williams be added to the in+tiagers of the conference ;" and Sir William 'Williams the same day reports the conference with the Lords ; and, " That their Lordships had adopted the article in die words as amended by %he Commons." And corresponding to this article of grievance, is the assertion of the right of the 'object, in the Math article of the declaratory part of the Bill of Rights ; via. " That the freedom and debates or proceedings in Parliament, ought sot to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament. To which may be added, the latter part of the sixth resolution of the exceptions to he made in the Bill of Indemnity, Journal, vol. x. p. 141 i, wherein, after reciting the surrender of charters, and the vio- toting the rights and freedoms of elections, &c. it proceeds in these_ words: I. And the questioning the proceedings of Parliament, out of Parliament, by declarations, informations, or otherwise. are crimes for which some persons may be justly ex- cepted out of the Bill of Indemnity." On the iith of June, 1689, the Home ordered,' " That the Records of the Court of King's Bench. /elating to the proceedings against William Wil liams, Esq. Dow Sir William Williams, Knt. and Bart. late Speaker of this House, be brought into this House, by the Cost** Breviurn of the said Court, oat Thursday morning next." On the 1 12th of July, " the Record was road ; end the Home thereupon Resolved, That the judg ment given in the Court of King's Bench, in Easter term 2 i.e. 2di. against William Williams, Esq. Speaker of the House of Commons in the Parlia ment held at Westminster 2,3 th Octobec, 32 Cu. 'di. for matter done by order of the house of Cons- MOD% and as Speaker thereof, is an illegal judg ment, and against the freedom of Parliament. " Resolved, That a bill be brought in to reverse the said judgment." ' This hill was twice mad, hut went no farther in that session : ' —A similar bill was iii the follows sn it ses.,iou ordered to be brought in ; and a third Ind missed the Commons in 1695, and was sent up to the House of Lords, but dal not proceed there to a areohd molding. It %mums further. that on the 4th of Jane. /09s; " a petition of John Tnpham, Erg. was road ; set. ting forth, that lie, hi mg s Serjeant at Arms, and attending the House in the years 1(179 and 1680, when several orders were made, and directed to the Petitioner, for the taking into his custody the several persons of Sir Charles Neal, &c. &c. and others, fur several misdemeanours by them com mitted, in breach of the privilege of the House; and after that the Coalitions were dissolved, the said per,ons hriog resolved to ruin the Petitiouer, did, in Hilary Term, the 33d or :huh of King Charles, sue tile Petitioner in the King's Bench in several actions of trespass, battery, and failiC imprisonment, for takitig and detaining them as aforesaid : to which actions the Petitioner pleaded to the juris diction of the Court, the said several orders; bat such his plea with o►er-ruled ; the then Judges rul ing the Petitioner to plead in chief, and thereupon he pleaded the orders in bar to the actions: not withstanding which plea sad orders, the then Judges gave judgment against him, Scc." " Upon the report fro.ti the Committee of Privi lege* and Elections, to whom this petition of J. Tophaiu was ►eferred, the House resolved, That this House (loth agree with the Committee, that the judgment given by the Court of Kiiig's Esster 'Ferin 34 Car. 11. Regis, upon the idea of John Topliam, at the suit of John Jay, to the juris diction of that Court; and rho the judgments given against the said Mr. Tophani, at the snit of Sunlit.' Verdun. &c. are illegal, and a violation of the privileges of Parliament. and pernicious to the rights of Parliament." Whereupou it was ordered, " That Sir Francis Pemberton. Sir Thomas Jones, surf Sir Francis Wythens, do attend this House on Wednesday morning next." " In consequence of this order, Sir Francis Pem berton and Sir Thomas Jones, who had been two of the Judge s of the Court of King's Bench at the time when the judgment was sieved, were heard iu their defence ; and afterwards committed to the Serjeant at Arms, for their breach of the privileges of this House, by giving judgment to over-rule the plea to the jurisdiction of the Court of King's BP111.711." Your Committee think it proper to state, That Sir Francis Pemberton and Sir Thomas Jones, in defending themselves at the Bar of this House for their conduct w over-ruling the Plea to their Juris diction in the actions of Jay r. Topham, &c. de fended the judgment they had given, by resting up on the nature of the pleading, and not by denying the jurisdiction or authority of this House; and Sir Francis Pemberton expressly admitted, that, fur any thing transacted in this House, no other Conrt had any jurisdiction to hear and determine it. Your Committee in the next place thud' it ex• pedient to state to the House, that there are va rious instances in w:iich persons committed by the House of Commons have been brought sip by Habeas Corpus before the Judges and Courts of Common Law ; cud in these cases, upon its ap pearing by the return to the Habeas Corpus, that they were committed under the Speaker's Warrant, they have been invariably remanded. 3. Having stated these instances of the manner in which the acts and commitments of thi• Noose have been brought into judgment in other Courts, and the consequence, of such proceedings, your Committee further think it proper, and IY some degree connected with this subject, to advert to the course which was adopted for staying proceedings in suits brought against Members and their ser vants, while they were protected 1(0411 such suits during the sitting of Parliament. The roll of Parliament, MAI. afford. the earliest trace which your Committee haw found 11 pow this ettbject. his • writ from the King, con firmatory of the privilege of being free from suits to time of Parliament, and is in the following words : Rex mandavit Justiciaries suis ad maims, Inuit • dr. capisnd enigma : quod supersedeant captioai coraudem obi rummies halvah!, et alii aummemati ad Parl regal last parted commits dictum Parlia sseituin duraverit. There have been various modes of proceeding to enforce this privilege. lu Derea's JOUTIMI, p. 436, 31 Elie. 1588-1589, Friday elst of February, your Committee find the followidlgentry Upon a motion made by Mr. lliarri,,that divers Members, of this Ilium having writs of Nisi Prins brought agaiust them, to be tried at the Assizes in sundry places of this realm to be holden and kept in the Circuits of this present vacation, and that writs of supersede*, might be awarded in those cases in re. spect of the privilege of this Mouse due and apper taining to the Members of the wise; it is agreed, that thu,e of this House which shall have occasion to require sti6 benefit of privilege in that behalf, may repair unto Mr. Speaker, to declare unto him the state of their cases, and that he, upon his dis cretion (if the eases shall so require) may direct the warrant of this House to the Lord Chancellor of England, for the awarding of such writs of sniper seder's accordingly." But the House used to stay also proceedings by its own authority ; sometimes sending the Serjeant at-Arms to deliver the person arrester: out of cus tody ; cud sometimes by letter from the Speaker to the Judges before whom the cause was to be tried. Of this latter mode of proceeding, your Committee find many instances previous to the 3d of Charles I. Your Committee find a decision against the autho rity of such a letter, in the Court of King's Bench, which is reported in the margin of Dyer's Repoli,. p. 60, and in Latch, pp. 40, and lin. And shortly after the refusal by the Court of King. Bench to notice this letter from the Speaker, the Parliament was dissolved. There are, however, many other in stances of tbie course of proceeding after the Wow ration ; aud in the instance of Lord Newburgh (1,3 d February. 16(i9) the House ordered the proceedings to outlawry to be staid during the Sessions, end the record of the ezi;eots to be vacated and taken off the fill The List ihstance which your Committee find of such letter, haring been written, occurs in the Lord Bullteley'r case is 1691. in which the Speaker is directed to write a letter to the Prothonotary that be do not make out, end to the Sheriff of the county of Pembroke, that he do not execute any writ, whereby the Lord Bulkeley's possessions may be disturbed, uutil dr. Speaker shall bare examin ed sad reported the matter to the (Joust. and this Iloure Like further order thereon. By ill and 13 W. I IL c. J. this privilege was curtailed ; and fur ther by Stat. 4 an.l J Ann, c, 18.--1 l Geo. 11. c. i4—.lu Geo. 111. c 50. - Lori Chid Jestiv;Ds Grey asps, Cresby's ..• The Other of this Paper will be couipletell armored on Moeday seat, to No. eit7, Stamm'. nearly opposite the Lyetwow Theatre. THE BRITISH PRESS LON DON, SATURDAY. MAN The Armirle, 34 guns, Captliii flartlyman, ar rivtd, on Tuesday e%eui I K , at Ply ttttt uth, from Quiberon-Bay. She iningi an net mint of the boat. of the Armille. Cadmirq, Meekey, and Daring. having made sn a'terk nit thirty of the enemy's vessels, nndrr 1.4 Fuse de L'Oye, on the Isle de Ithe, and after having taken possession of seventeen, the wind sprang up a-head, and pre vented their being brought out :—ten were de stroyed by setting them on tire, before the boats retreated. We are rorry to hear the loss of Lieut. Townley., of the Armide, and three men killed nod as many wounded. The enemy's loss is con siderable. The Lively frigate as rived on Thursday even'ngst Spithead from Cadix. She has brought intelligence from that city to the 3d instant, which is tnree days later titan the date of the accouats previnualy re ceived. Nothing of any interest or tinpori rime had taken place subsequent to the fall of the fort of Matagorda. • " Many of onr Readers," rays The Dublin Even- Pose, will recollect, that some years since, the late Mr. TANDY tiled • declaration in the Court of Exchequer against the &MAILER of the Irish &louse of Commons, for issuing a warraut for his (Mr. TAN Dr's) arrest. Some proceedings were had in this cause, but they were ultimately quashed on a motion made in the Court of Exchequer by Coun sel on the port of the SPEAKER. For some days pest • person has been employed, with mach terreey, in copying these proceedings, for the purposiswe must suppose of producing them in a Iliitish Ciiiitt of Justice, as a preendene in the great cause now pend ing between Sir F. BuRVETT and the people on the one part, and the House of Commons on thweler. Extract front • private letterolateil Beth, May 17: This peaceable city was last night thrown into the greatest confaraCin by the Mendip Local Militia. who are berg on permaneat duty, commanded by Col. Rogers. Some dispute arose between the Officers and men respecting the merching guinea, as they term it ; a deduction was merle horn it for trowsers, which the men objected to, and some of them refusing to obey the word of command, were taken up and put into the city gaol. About eight o'clock in the evening the privates met in N large body, advanced to the prison. broke open the door", liberated their comrades, and carried them off in triumph : several of the Officers were ill treated for endeavouring to •impress the riot. Thursday morning. eleven o'clock—The Lanca shire Militia are this moment arrived from Bristol. Two Troops of Ilorse use expected in the course of the day. Afteraoon, half-peal four—As grit Post-office closes at are, I have only.to add, that all is qss r t at present, but we dread the evening parade. I shall write you again tomorrow. The 4th, or Royal Irish regiment of Dro4oon fliterds, marchid,lllmirrsilay, from Birmingham. on their route to York ; they will be replaced by the 7th Dragnmu Guards, a troop of ninth is already an ivcd at. Alitutisighaiu. LIST OF THE MAJORITY AGAINST ML EANKOA FOR •BOLISRING AND REGULATING eIYILt Adam, W. er, Has. 'l', Ni,lii:ll,Sir Aresll, F Fosestter, oda vv . Arbuthnot, Foulkes, E. P..tin. ru... Bagwell, Gmicomue,Gea. Peri, It. .rilaine, S. Gmeibunse, H. P. •1 •...e • .o, r Bernar Barry, d J. M. H a ll, B. Pa ritdcrgarit ,S. Hoablon, 1. H. Plines, H.; Bickerton, Sir R. Hamilton, H. r.li, W. AL Bootle, E. W. Harvey, E. Plume; Sir Browne. j• H. H uldarorth„ A. H. Pule., Hoe. ' Bruce, J. liuliord, G. Pulteue t , Buller, Sir E. Haws d, Hos. F. G./tanner:J. Boller, J Hogivin, J. RITMO'', i Calvert, J. H•ane, Sir A. Ruse, %gig Clephane, D. Jacob, W. Rider, Clive, W. Jerilyn, Lord Sintlair,S4, Cotterell, Sir J. Johustoue, G. suipeten, 31 Criekitt, Irving, Steward,(:. Croker, J. W. looses,- Stii hug, Air Davies, R. li. Eiogaton, J. S:. alien, A Deed..., W. beadles, 11. Stamm. C. Desert, Earl Les ic, C. 11. li,kii, Sir :. Dean...re, E. I.uft. J. H. Thorntiiu, Duckett, Sir G. Long, Right ilion.C.T byline, 1.,i, Drurnmuud, H. Linhington, !CR 'rhymer. 14'1 .Dufferia, Lord Macleod, R. IL 1). Tosinhead, Dund3s, Alagoas, NI. H. 7orriniters.l, Elliot, Hos. W. 3tl:iiinera, R. Vcrekir, C , Ellice, W. Milne*, R. P. It WILLI,. r Farqubard. Montague, M. Ward. R. Finch, lion. J. Murray, Sir P. Wedilerlinea, Fitzgerald, W. Needham, Hes. F. Whailcui le Fitzhugh, W. LIST OP THR MINORITY wno VOTRD FOR .MR. MOTION FUR AROLISIMPLO •N 0 as4,l SIN CCURFo. --- .Alarrerniolsy, Hon. J.Gower, Earl Pt lbam. Admin.', (:. Gower. Lord G. L Piggott,. Sir Abhor", Vise. Greatll, P. Pole, Sir C Babingsdni, 'l'. Hamilton, Lord A. Poilsord, Booties, 11. Home, W. H. Porrunsby, Boring, A. Horst, R. Portman, Baring, T. II mailman, W. Power, R. Bastard, J..P. Jackson, J. Pilule, lit Iliditulph, J. M. Jeky 11, Jos. P)m, F. Binning, Lur4 King, Sir J. D. Ridley, Sir Ilinehfurd, Lomb, Hoe. W. bit Aub s n, Blickburae, J. J. Leferre, C. S. Ravage, r• Brougham, H. Leigh, R. H. Sharpe, R. 'Sync, G. Lemon, Sir W. Shaw, Sir Cokruft, Lloyd, J. M. Smith, C. Cooping, Rt. H. G. Loyd, Sir E. Smith, J. Comoirtg, G. Lockhart, J.J. Sinai N. ' =n e e : Hon. G. Luntides, W. Smith, W. N. W. R. Slactlotrald, J. Sitio:es. Boerne Crsterey, T. Maiming, W. Tarlelos, V Calbhert, J. R. Martin, H. Taylor, W. "oat J. Mattio w. Hon. IR. Templeton*, , Dickeeitoo. W. Miller, Sir I'. Thompson, ' Eustim, Earl et Mills, I'. Tlonettun, I Kgrrt on, Milton, Vise. Trentayar, Ellis, C. II blur/re, P. Vaughan, Families, W. H. Nerilk, Hon R. WrOrro, I. ' Fitzgerald, itt.H. H.N import, Str J. Whitbread, Fitzroy, Lord W. North, D Wilherforr. Foilkotoor, Vise. O'Hara, e. Willoughby, romoommilo, W. H. Osborne, Lord F. Tl,orte, C W. Goßdiod, T. OnoNton, Lord %%tilt man Pam Wippears from the aSove 'lies, that the Nlaj.irity WES la ale* tit M misters, and not its favour of Mr. Banters Li • dry as ore stated yesterday. Yesterday morning Km Mines of WALES anis at Windsor,. and, after waiting on Their :11st s. Till, went to Princess AMELIA's house, tope} ,s IS resit, as did al.o the Mikes of CAlligtabL anj Cussentawn. The PalNCit left Winthor et Mn o'clock, fur London; and lift town spun. at i,ist o'clock in the eiening. Tor Winther. Liss %IA. sry and. l'itueet.sett AutWITA sod Soo Pau did nor ride oat yesterday itiaritiug, us tog..t is tuppititedi ta•Princess ASIE/AA's ill health: Sir H. ['ALFORD Mined at Wind-or, Thursday night, at Prince.. Alas.'s's.*here he slept. The Duke of Costumes" left Loudon, yester day morning, moo after silt o'clock, for VI This day, the B tenelor's Juluiee at Windier, as usual, in honour of Her M AJE:n Birth-di}• ; lint the military have orders not to hie feu-de : joie. The household belonging to her Royal theme* Princess AINELSA have orders not to g o oat. His Royal Highness the Prince of %V al.'s', read dinner, which was to have taken place next FrolaT. is pos'poaed. 'Thursday was the anniversary of the Princess if WALLS'S birth-day. Her 80311 Ilighatess com pleted her 42d year. • The marriage between Ludy ANNA MIMI PERCY. the second daughter of the Hake of Noit- THUM:WM..IND, aid Lord FRAN( IS NleallAY, the secon.l son of the Duke of ATtiot., taki•s place th.s day at Northutnberland House. The cerrnton c is to he performed by the Archbishop of Cram:a- BURY. Lady Cam( gives a grand bell and supper, nest Wedisestley evening, at her house in Burlington s/tett. Thursday, a Deputation of Merchants. and others. wanted on the Lords of Tr.ile, when the latter intimated their intenttcms as to the graining of Licences for shipping bound to the range of coast between the Emma and Boulogne. and be tween Dieppe and Niigata. They are to be granted to continue tilt the loth November nest. Oa tie exportation of cotton and tin, the &termite on of their Lordships is to be received OK I%lliiiitoy Des's The Board his granted some indolon. lea is re gard to certain ports of Spain under Preach a usinistraiion. In the range of harbours frets to St. Selredian, it is allowed that neubal sionw lades with Spanish produce. may hate their depAr• lure without molestation. BIRTH. - Leah, at Thum DMus, is alum, t►e Lady of rds...l Tayler, Esq. ow trf the Represeatatates foe Casierbery, et s •RICE ttly STOCKS YTRRDAY. Rank Stork 463 .--..— 3 per Cent Reduced ON: V , I per Cest. Cueeels... 4 per Ger. s per Cent. Keep loin I..•us Aeweisiee Imp J per Cent... 6 ts•ittbe Laths Bonds l9 prsin• 11:%.h.vier Bills 4 4 pees. E.szle.la Lottery Tickets 941. ,i,.. Cow. tla -1 T. also. sturk-lkokre, 4. C4rals.li, ..d (Iteliiill•C“Ps LONDON —Pnottlka C. SMITH, No, t , (iot.o Isl r 1.. . owl pehf.h.4 at Ida No is, Ra. k St (cos . Chard , . sltrao4. by J. WHITE. of same pilfer ate. for this Paper, watt to Ear (Wis. :past pool), t• del, ululate.' to el we be lose sp lamer her", HARI Fresco Das St rum rAue ••• eeotm 11(1101 Here sat is - lii - ; does h II tthiht is 11l I of anti Clett I the C, !Pitntla v k i : l t ATM. • Pi enderga el . WU " '1 "' W E E•lt, W. Plume?, Sae T. Mea. DI Puir, lb w R. Pultau e• frit . .Railliar, J. E . I, al Rtichtial, G. flied Rnst ING, tl Roder, 4 Saber SPhelair, si r j . Mew NI iimeinni, Y. town. Simard, it;.f. The Sti, bort, Aim W. Stlith3n, • Station. C. MI li)kee, Sir NC Thorn, ti ll , DAY, .liiyetze, Lu d t . "'Pun. U. t• T oarite TowsraheaJ, will 1.1 11 8 ' lbw 8a He ' „• Verekez, C. At i I ti a11.u... Fit Hatt_ Rank Ward. ItTsek Moors. Wedareistica, Sir D. What . tea, It. Strand F. N 0 "1 / 4 ND itlkitintini Pelham. /Las.. C. Lore PiKgoll, S., A. Pule, S w C Cal. E Leckie Putisualry, RI. c, Poems*. R ao. Swim i• purtioaa, E. D. ." Pourer. I, tea ; • Pi title, Hee. f. In tl P'l4, F. Weedy " R idley, Sire, W. The St. Atibn, sir J. ONNiat S a V age• F. Dickw nu m K. F Shaw, Sir J. Smith, G. TN SIMI I fled. Smith N. The Swath, W. most, I 8 1(14.en, Boom Tarletua, h. Ta)kir, Tempki mir ., -r m. at fieli Tisampnuni, F. fennel Thurston, A. !IQ's Trenta . •ae, J W. ROTA Vaughan, 51, R.. Wearra, C. Voider Whitbread, S Wilherfurre, W ease, " If a Member wag arrested before the 12 and 13 W. 111. the method in %Vestininster Hall was to discharge him by writ of privilege, under the Great Seal, which was in the nature at a superse deas to the proceeding. The statute of William has now altered this, and there is no necessity to plead the privilege of a Member of Parliament. —All these Acts merely apply to proceedings against Members in respe.:t of their debts and actions as individuals, and not io respect of their conduct as Members of Parliament; and therefore they do not in any way abridge the pocient law and privi lege of Parliament, so far as they respect the free dom and conduct of Members of Parliament as such, or the protection which the (louse may give to persons acting under its authority. 4. Upon the whole, it appears to your Commit tee, that the bringing three actions egotist the Speaker and the Seijeant, for acts done in obedi ence to the orders of this House, ib a breach of the privileges of this (louse. And it appears, that in the several instances of actions commenced in 'preach of the Privileges of this House, the House has proceeded by commit ment, not only against the party, but against the Solicitor and other persons concerned in bringing such actions; but your Committee think it right t.. obser►e, that the commitment of such party, So licitor, or other persons, would nut necessarily stop the proceedings in such action. That as the particular ground of action does not necessarily appear upon the writ er upon the decla ration, the Court, before which ►uch action is brought, cannot stay the sail, or give judgment against the PI 'ff, till it is informed, by due course of legal proceeding, that such action is brought for a thing done by order of the Flouse. And it therefore appears to your Committee, That even though the House should think fit to commit the Solicitor or oilier person concerned in commencing these actions ; yet it will still be expe dient that the /louse slionla give leave to the Speak er, and the Serjeant, to appear to the actions, nod to plead to the sense; far the purpose of bringing under the knowledge of the Court, the authority under which they acted : and if the House should 'agree with that opinion, your Committee submits to the House, whether it would not he proper that directions should be given by this House, for de fending the Speaker cud the Strjeent avinst the said minions. NEW THEA T RR-ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. This peon! . 6 AT 13 'DAY May 19, . eslo. will be meted RING HENRY TH . E Henry, King of England, Mr. Cooke ; Cardinal Wohey, Mr Keinhle Cromwell, Mr. C. Kesuble. Katharine, Hunan of England, Miv. Siddona. To whirls will be added, the Farce of IS HE A PRINCE? Baron Crarkenbrrz, Mr. Muth!, u ; Captain Lindurf, Yr. Jones. Caroline, Mies 1\ whit'.