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The Ward of larriogdoe Wittiest, Swath side; and The Ward of Portsoltea. The Coats antICS WI sot ill ISO soy Oil in the said Lamps, het 'adios will base off dry. A specioon of the Lamp sad Bartow, and say other perocular dike Contract, may be sees at the cipal Clerk. Clerk's 011iee, Baildlaall. W. BOND.Pria _....____. - __., r -- • IMPERIAL •PAIMLLIASENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MAT IS. ----, The SU/Imm sad several Members of the Hasse of Cele- lIMP, attended at their Lordship,' Oat, and heard the Royal Yost ewes, by Commiesion, to the Bill for enlargitig the t a mes of the Lords of Justiciary and the Banes of the Ex. e yworr is 'kedged, and the Judges he Ireland—the Irish Cowers' 8i11..-the Innkeepers' Alloweace Bill—the Bin foe ' ,lume the Isel.ag of vessels in the Newcastle Coal Trade —the Bell permitting the Thames and Medoi Castel Com. pre 'ovary their line of Navieation—the A Her. hear Improvement Bill—the Highgate Archway Billilill bet Road Improseinest Bill—ond SIITY-SIT Draintog. Istkeere, Road, and Estate Bills. The Cualosissiosiem 'retie Loft' C11•110ELLOIS, Earl of AYLESIOVID, am Lod w A i.ti !denim. The foreign Liars Doty Bill vas read • seemed time. Ile Earl of Lay DelltD•Llt flowwwl," That Ilw Gas Ligh 10 be read a third time us Friday rest." After a few words from the Duke of Arno!, the Bill wa ordered to he read a third time on Timodernext. Mr Orm, from the East Judie House presented ekrtab pspris at their Lordships' Bar, in thisifortiity with the orde Mlle MA April.—Ordered to hams the table. Mr. Ashley Cooper, Mr Remick, Lard Francis °dims' If r Dun,. Giddy, aid other Members of the Home of Cum ism's, brought op several Bills—sitiongst them was the thole at Bineswieles Annuity Ball—the Misers wore of $ 'Naval and heal description. GUARD'S DIVORCE BILL. Mr. Br aaa vote, as Counsel for Calomel Guard, stile roorisely the them of the ease. His cheat, la the year lan had marriorJ Mire Margaret Coeburn, sad lived with her vet lumpily, till the ;Anvil of his kerne( England, fur rues. Ayers, on prokssionel duty, iu pros. Mrs 6. was at that lie the mother of two children, and regiment with a third. was tier istrntiou to base secompammi her koalmod derma hot the seders 'of the Commander-is-CUMf prevented bee.- lirittob p r i f "Is 4 , 1 2 talcs itItZSC ur* ;0- -AlliamS&.o SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1810. there appeared a discussion of the privileges of that Rime by a Committee. He had not heard the sub Me of the Report, and could not say whether Ild *Would approve of it or not ; but in order to kuiirel . against such consequences as he had stated, he could sot agree to the printing of the Report. _ — iiitcHascaLLoQ o f the ExuieQuaß said, that . . . . IPehated with their substence. They were ordered to lie on the table. The Highland Roods Bill west through a Giantlike ; the Report to be received on Monday. Mr. linsotr, is trousequence of the intention of a Right How Gentleman (Mr. Grattan) to bring forward the Catholic lineation, postponed his motion to Monday next. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The Howse went into • Committee of Supply. The follow. tug mass were voted to His Majesty:—Sin 'Millions by Ex chequer Bills ; L. 9,594 tb pay off Annuities ; L. 43,768 for erecting buildings fur the Naval Amines; L.os,otio for re 'Kidding the public edifices in Trinidad, whirl, were destroy ed by fire ; L.1,00u to be applied to the Veterinary College Insanities ; and Li.s,noo for repairing the British Seal*. memo, ke. en the Coen of Akira. The ClIA.M1111•31 reported pemniai, and asked leave to all again on Menday.-I..eave given. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered tr be received on Monday. COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS. Upon the minims of Mr. Wo•ntox, the Hume went into the Committee of Ways and Mew, Mice it was voted that the sem of Kist Millions lie raised by Exchequer Bills. • The Hoene resumed, and the Report was ordered to he re mini! an Monday. The Rungs Salt Bill via read a second tine, and ordered to be emanated on Moods, seat. The Surveyor-General's (of Ireland) till was postponed to Mo Am next. The Stage Coach Bill west through a Committee I—the Report to be received on Monday. Mr. Des Das moved fur leave to brim in a Bill to amend the Act fur the regulation of the Establishment of the East India Conspioy's Service, awl also that relating to Courts- Martial.—Leave given. Sir .1 01411 NIIIIIPORT gave notice that he would, a Mon dry ee'isaight, submit a motion respecting the Third Report of the Committee of Public Expenditure. Mr. HISIXIIIIOII, fur the purpose of elecidatiag the sub ject to which the lion. Gestlemea alluded, in giving his no tice; said, that he winkles/we for accomts of the act pro deice of the nen duties lately imposed, and also of those which were him established veopielaas stamps. Mr. Rosa brought in a Bill to prelabit the importation of foreign Milts. Read a first and ordered to be read a second time ou Monday. tie. Woanx ox brought' in a Bill foe raising the sum of twelve Willow, by way of anonities. Rood a int, and or. &Jed to be send emceed time ea Monday. COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES. Mr. DAVIES GIDDY brought up the Report of the Committee of Privileges, which stated. that the Committee having examined into all the precedents afforded by the Journals of the House. found, that all offences, similar to that under their inspection, were uniformly treated aa tontempts, and punished ss libels, the guilty person. whether a member or not, being committed. This was, in the year 1701, ascetic(' a, a general Resolution ; it had been so , litutely asserted in the Court of Commas) Law. in the cave of Crosby. of Oliver. and of Flower ; and nothing contradictory is theslighteit degree to this cstiertuni had presented itself in the couise of their inquiries. This power was. in the opinion of the • Committee. founded upon the clearest principle of justice, sod analogous to the power of any of the Courts of Justice. There were hot only the au thorities of former days to confirm it, hut the tea . tiniony of the House of Lords. which. acknowledged - - - - - *mech. In short, he had near is 1 S eat be" fore Geotletnen made up that Mirt*to vole fig the priuting of the Report. theg 1, 0 414 1. take ibo trouble to reed the intended pubbeatiott. Mr. D.-Gione said, that the Colliatieta; ceiving that the Report would be 'weeted feed them very soon, bad prepared it with all peed ble expedition. They bad turned ever nieay de the fantail's; and collected a nuteher orprecedastin from which they were afterwards to make • alto tion. This necessarily introduced teeny ersarrea. However, as they bad ne choice but to snake their report that night, •orpostpeoe it till Mondayi leap : paired to them the better course to deliver it iu it vats. If the House *greed tb the 'motion for hi being printed, he and the other Gendem-u of the Committee would have felt theanirelveicalled ttpoi, if thit'-Riglit Hon. Gentleman ors doubtful upon the setiject of the Report of the Committee, his an t certi y could be rawly removed, by ile , .iring that the should be read again. He could nut but *dm' the very great kindness and coositleration out " Ight Hun. Gentleman ( Ur. Pomooby), in at _site . what be did not hear the most unquali-• ' fied probation. Such an implicit credence in what a had not heard, was a circumatauce which tould.inot be expected frog auy friendship but thit #hicli usually flourished at the side, of the Musa to which the Right Hon. Gentleman be longed, lie gave much credit to the Him. Gen- Oilman (Mr. Hornet) for haring the his opinion with respect to the privileges of House. He warafa, Irowever.lisre Initened with more pleasure ..... _ to correct it, which be loitered hiniself they would have done in each a salatter, that it would have re. flecttd no disgrace other upon them, or Open the Moose. He dread in the obsersatisso fifths Heat Geutleinao, with respect to the opinion at. Chief Justice Wilmot. which metaioir altered and qualified, as he suggested. Mr. W. WYNN-said, that he thowgin the dbjiiea Owls (Ibis Hon. Friend went, not elereiy t 0 tlltl form, but to the sulistaoce of the Report. RIMS 'flitted that the paper of Lord Chief Jostle" mot was entitled to great weight, me coutaiainft 'IA opinion of a wise and upright moo ; bat ha ad not think it consistent with the digaity oftlist House, to quote the °pinks' of any ind ivid ual. his. ever. emiuent, in *appal of their prifilegos.ir-i The authority for them to resort to Open Meek occasions was the declaration of their predacessort —(hear, hear,) the decisions of that Idoellei I it was not to analogies they were to resort i the ground upon which they must stand or faH; *as the practice of their anceston. With respect Cade notion of correcting the Report, peerless mitt palm licatioti, he did not believe that they possessed dip such poser, nuless it was recommittal by a eats if that House, (hear. hear:l which he,would that it shi eld. He accordingly awed, t e = the Report should be re-coo:mom:di" - Sir Salmi:. 11 . 03111.1:1' could hot think liat if** to that opinion, if it had been more seasonably de- livered. He admirel the great anxiety which had appeased in Gentlemen, when the privilege* of the House were touched upon. He greatly ap proved of the warm expreesiou of their solicitude upon such an occasion. It was a feeling which had grown it little of late in the Hone. and which should be encouraged. So far from thinking that the Committee had advanced be) and the limits of their directions, their exertions iu fulfilliog their duty were most praise-worthy. They had taken every measure to arrive at the information so much de sired by the House, and had attained it. It ap peared to him a singular son of pride, that the House should wrap itself up in its own opinions, and disdain any authoritiev, which tended to the confirmation of its privileges. Mr. Possonsv said, that the Right Hoe. Geo tlemau had been greatly mistaken. in saying that he gave to what he did not hear, unqualified appro. I bation. Such en assertion was a most erroneous TM &mimeo sad eirverial Members of the Hoeft of Com- De , attended at their Lordship,' Bar, and Issued the Royal bust twee, by Commission, to the Bill for enlarging the sures of the Lord, of Justiciary sad the Barges of the Ex. s tarer is Steamed, mod the Judaea ist Ireland.—thar kb& Caterer.' lookeepen' Allowasee Bill—the Bin for r edone the laolmg of weasels is the Newcastle Coal Trade —the Bill permitting the Themes and Medw►p Camal Com pri weary their Naviestion—the A liar. bear Improvement Bill—the Highgate Archway Bill—the Inn Rued Improvement Bill—and 111/TY. SIT Drairoug, Istlossre, Road, and Estate Bills. The Commiesiosiere weft the LORD Ca•acat.Los, Earl of AYLESIOILD, awl Lei d The foreign Lions Doty Bill or read • seemed time. Ile Earl of Lay DiNID•Lft mewed," That tlee Gas Light be read a third time or Friday rest." Antra few words from the Duke of knew, the Bill was ordered to be read a third :isle oft Toredaroest. Mr Ores, from the East loagia House presented cartels ripen at their Lordships" Bar, is coofortiity with the artier tante 'nth April.—Ordered to harm the tab*. Mr. Ashley Cooper. Mr Remick, Laid Francis Oaborfte, Br Dein% Giddy, and other Members of the House of Cum- Nemo, brought up several Bills—siemsgst them was the Duke ci Bionswick's Almon) Bill—the onsets wore or• pinata and local description. GUARD'S DIVORCE BILL. Mr. Be aaa vote, as Counsel for Colette Guard. stated ',wisely the tarts of the ease. His Hirst, is the year I sow, %ad married Mire Margaret Oakum, sad lived with leer very Loris till the paned of his termite( England. fur rename Ayr.% un proirssionftl duty, iu pros. Mrs 6. wee at that time the mother of two children, and premien' with a third. It eta tier tetentiou to hare eccempauteri her hoelmod abrusd, het the seders o 1 the Cestamsder-ia•Cbief pnifteoterl bee.— After the departure of her husband, she west to reside tot (mem, is Dewoushiee, with • relation ; but, is eamegetesee of her expected veneer...me, • separate h.u.r wee taken tar her, where she Isym Site shortly atter It came ftemtaieted with a Mr. nudge, ib.. son of tie apothecary sad anumesid .4e, lA. ite•ftmendedl-aiertleopi.....!".4mor iinarerliminwe wienoene rou► place, w►ic► trio tbe fottudetiou or equip oised alum. In the sear ton, Culouel Guard returned to Ireland, and was stuetly after routwowed to Louder., 10 gnu evidence us the trial of Geu. Whalelueke. He wrote se . ;era toms to los Lady, requesting her menses in the use. wombs bat her answers were uniformly cold and repulsive. At karM hi client learned from some of his friend", who dricreed the criminal condaet of Mrs. Girard, that her lie:left arm.. from the conuection which she had formed ash Mr. Charles Mudge. In tomeqeatee of this informs• boo, allitmell Mrs. tinted at tallith came to London, the Corms, by the advice of. his Mead% refused to visit her nor had he area lwr from the period of his leaving Kagland fur SWIM Ayres to the reseal day, bowleg hers employed it the orrice of his country, in Pipet*. Used Portugal, and being at present t prisoner at Vexdoie He should call eve- Iniee to poor, that, at the time of Mn. Guard's leaving °wry, for Lonrho', she was Apia regain ; mid that, is Jan, lust, an was natural of a child; Moth child, by comparing lots r, must evidently appear to be a bustard. Mei.. %radio' and Lee proved their having endeavoured le arm q, a (Merit with • copy of the Order or the House, and the Bill, at Salford, near Masebester, sad at Liverpool ; hat sot hamar men her, the rape's were left at Belford, her laic ploy of iesidowe. 3 hr key. Croorey proved the marriage of Colonel (.ward to Miss Cockson in 160 Q, at the parish church of Bal. li marin a , C omity of Curb. He also proved tilt 'armature of the deed of settlement, to which he was a subscribing • ism m. Elisabeth Dersick, who had bees servant to Mrs. Gaud, at Otter'', deposed to a variety of circuinstauces tending to Fiore& criminal conseetiou between her Mistress sad Mr. Mr. Let roamed the record et the trial, " Guard r. Hodge," at the Eirillf Assize*. he which 3i s m id• da. " 3 "` sere awarded to the Plaintiff; whit h, however, were ucver pikl, the Defendant barium abet-tooled_ The ker. Mr. Guard, brother to the Plaintiff, deposed as to a reafersimi which Mrs. Guard had made to ham, of her having wird improperly. Elias& • NMI proved, that Ifni. Guard wu brought Is bed at the house of her mistress, Ws John-street, Cum urrial.ioad, in Jame, mow It Waitilreined iimieressary to adder, say farther evidence; tad Muds) next was appuirted for preweediog is the Rill. RoliliCßGH PEERAGE. The LOR D CH A AAA LOS gave notice, that Ise woold, on Ludy next, submit a inotionto their Lordship on thin ixeject —Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Ream was summoned to attend the Home of Lords, hi hey Ho Majeat)'s Assent to iscveral Bilk.—:For slash me tire privet - dings in that Home.) I:pa• the motion of Mr. BY ma, the Pariersa Pairing Bill sae read a thud tivise, aid passed. Mr Peres Moose heouglat in • Bill for the rebuilding of ridry-lane Theatre, ander certass mealtimes ; which was a tits, mid ordered to be read &wood time ow Monday. Mr. Mext.irtr FITZGE pretested • Pollnow hose t " Calim the rwt'iliil. Clergy, and Gentry, of the monde of Kent, epos the subject of tbs Catholic Eumptions ; sad Mr Brats Somas D Atir premised • similar Petition CAN the town et( i which were read, mad ordered to he 011 the tahle. Mr WV.LLIALCY PoLt brought in • Bill for ammiding etrtmn squares in Dahlia which wan read • first, and Of di oil to he read a setesd time //0 Mosday. A Mii.am wits met Bea the Lords, mem ing to several Prate Lags. _ Th.- FArt.r Parise Eiil ors read a third titer, and petard 4..rr wet Oren to heist in a It'll to repeal so inert. of an Act of M t proem Majesty, as refitted to the possinnent `uire delivered ra< hostard ehiedess sad to wake vet fate ' , taunts. is the room thereof. Mr Jotty..nti presented certain Art-nabob Ines the 01Bre nf tier CL,.i Serra tarp of 'rebind bot, (woo Ito. Inaudible tia aisle Wry were read hp the tktk, oc ate gum -Thot Mbees creceived that the Committee hid gone beyond the directions of the House, in pre senting a Report, which net only cootaiiird their opinion, but an argumentative etateinent of the opinions of the other House, and of the Courts of Law, upon the question of the privileges of that House. He did not conceive that the ana logies of the common Law Courts were by aiiy mesas applicable to that subject, and should tint be taken us a foundation for the conduct of the House. The Committee had no authority to dis c is. the expediency or utility of any measure to Ise ad-rited by the House of Commons, at a time when the principles of the Constitution were to well known and so universally acknowledged. What had parsed in the House of Lords upon the theme of their privi leges, should he by iso means constdered as a guide to the decisions of that !louse, and should not hate beta quoted by the Committee us any authority upon that or any other questi in in wiiich the pri vileges of the Commons +tete concerned.—Ordered to It on the table. Mr. Rose, in order to convince the Hon. Geld. shot the Committee hod acted with propriety, mov ed, ghat the directimis to them ' ,h e w,' b e rea d: , Ile th n said, that hr honked upon the Committee as having acted with consistency and propriety in fortifying themselves with all the precedents' pot , tilde upon the subject. As to the delivery of their (Tontine, if any Gentleman wished to object to that, the subject coisld be better discussed when the Re port was printed. Mr. XV ti.searoaca said, he was surprised that Gentlemen objected to the enumeration of such pre cedents. The acknowledgment of the other House, from which the House of Commons hail to expect so little in confirniatiou of their privileges, was, in his opinion, a very desirable and grateful cotninunica hen, and served to increase the conviction of the House, in the propriety of the conduct which it had adopted. Mr. PONSOKIIT said, that he was not in tile House when the Report had brew read, but he highly approved of the part of his Hon. Ri au speech which he had heard. The candour of the Hun. Gent. who spoke last, something reitenible4 that of the party which professed all the virtue of the !louse, and which possessed none of it; it was like the candour of those who waited until the sett ttniente of both sides of the House were disclosed, and then let out their opinions, which uniformly came in with the stronger side. Although he be lieved the Hon. Gent. did not possess that kind of sincerity; yet, sorely, his conduct Imre a very striking anslo4y to it.. lie objected to the printinz of the Report before its examination. It would 1w said, that it was necessary to print theltepoit Inc the purpose of examination into it, °writs. lie would acknowledge the solidity of such on argu ment upon another °erosion, bat the printiog of this Report was highly olijectiolialite, as it tva• not well that a thing should go almond to the Unlit(' Kingdom, teciresimst•ner winch the pituiitug of tilt Report would inevitably occasion, it kii h the House could not acknowledge as its own, but in which and gross misrepresentation. He was convinced that his expressions were not heard with accuracy by the Right Hon. Gentleman, otherwise do gross a niisconstructien could not have been placed upon them. Ila had stated that the part which he had heard of his Hon. ['titbit's speech was approved of by Into, and rustle no assertion as to the part which was spoken previons to his entrance int, the House. The CHANCE/J.OR of the EICUIQVIIIIL explained. LOCILHAKT observed, that there was one thing in the Report which he coiniderod highly de rogatory to 11w privileges of the House. and which would determine him against it—that was, the statement that such authorities es it hart collected from . discussiona in the Courts below. did confirm their privileges. Loid Minion said, that he felt, a good deal. the objectied mode by his nova Pawed So lbw ibapon I for. if they went to Courts of Law for the confirma tion of weir privileges. they would weaken them in the very act. If they considered the decisions of such Courts, when coinciding with their privileges, as a necessary sanction; they must consider such decisions. when• made in contiadict.on to their pri vileges, u deterioration of them. He thought the entire proceeding derogatory to the prnilerres of the Houser they *hewed u kind of doubt sod uppre , licie.ion, as if it was 11t1 ess:ary tbit they ShnUtel be confirmed liy °aur judicature., instead of being 'pawned nod maimained by than. ovn authority. Ile thought that the referring of suc h yue.twus to other Courts would not hate a wildei.cy to establish their privileges more firmly in the minds of those who iineatimiedthem at per sent. Mr. Witt said, that, with's°, considering whether, as the lion. Gentleman under the gallery had said, the terms of the Report were derogatory to the dignity of the House, he would pat it to the Committee itself, whether they would wish it to go to the printer in its present form ? He found, upon looking over the Appendix, that it was not in a Sta'e to he intelligible to any piiiiter. There were so many inieilineations and erasures, that he d d not know how any person could proceed in the un dertaking; there were erasures by knife, by pen, and by pencil; it was all irregularity sod confusion. Ile was sure that it was not the intention of the Committee to mislead the Hower, or to he guilty of any misquotation, however indirect; but he could not hap observing, that the opinion of Lorl Chief Justice ‘Vilirit, alluded to in the Report, was not cited as an opinion which hart sever been delivered; it appeared there with all the solemnity and weight of a judgment actually permed, though even he (Mr. Whitbread!, nuinfor.ued as he was upon Koch subjects, was perfectly aware that it was au opinion not delivered, but said to have been prepared to be delivered, though. in reality, never pronounced. In was, hr understood, seve ral years after his death, that it ,net the light. Ile would ask, did the Committee intend that it shisuld be published in this manner? lie was rime that they did n ot; breanse he was sure that they did not mean to deceive. Hr dewed that such piper timid be WRAP,' a. true legal authority ; or, at least, that it should he consoiemi o f ep , will, a Judgineut nrtually pronounced in a coin t of lu-tice. Ile enumerated several instances of the iliaartimry of the A ppeudiv ; in one litstanye, there appearad the word t• analogy" followed by tan blank It ; /ate:!4); in somber, thure were 'ports eXpUnged,k4eing, parts that were brhind them. II tem'• that i.-sillemen. sating in Committee on sorb a loth. j. et, st Id come forward in that House, "still ?midi afiirr nlo. If a tall was offered in .n. h .i -tale to tl,. Sp.-.llc•r, Ine would relit.e to trcele.• it ; t.O shnul.l that re r.i•••• this Report, it they hail it y e•ni• %okra! ttttt for its. it own character, or for that of the Ile found in nue plat..., that, out of ii'"*" l'n ''''d' l,l '• 0)112'1. 4 11v estouniiaated. hae Lie k nut in ant.tiicr, Ihe dat• • Wet Committee had a right to defend the privilege* hi the House by analogies from *lw courts of tamthap were therefore at liberty to quote the private !pi. Mott of a Judge, which had never bees defieereill and which, though previou4v entertained, liable to be alteied upon consultation with hielPdo Osten. He could not but think It right frefleir Committee to hove referred to the decnikea courts of !owl- but when it asserted that WSs mutate for colitempt, even by courts of wesioisto were not cognizable elsewhere. and sopptertad•theS docuine upon authorities. it should give the seelto. win, against it also. The case of Bushels We& ' -entered as most important : In that men thetobsis Of the jury was committed for haring given • vs 44 diet contrary to the opinion of theme . . tits% jOty wee cithimlttett fot trtattedept, - tee think that such coalminel would net have belt cognizable in other courts ? He coneloduieritil accounting for his not having attended the Coss• spinet., by. stating, that, si he differed iu wahine,* from tho.e of whom it was composed, an& mo l d not have the vanity of expecting that he would bit able to Ater them sentiments, be thought it better to absent himself—his presence could only hove contribisted to prevent them from reportiog. The Soricrtuit,GEnsitst.. expressed his rite+. that his Mon. and I.cenred Friend had thon g t is necessary to absent himself from the Committee. It appeared to hint, that the beNt way to arrive at Pt true judgment was, by cauvassieg different op.. nions. The question upon whir% the Committee was to exercise its judgment was, whether es* House had a right to commit for contempt ? Ile regretted it as a most unfortuuste, circumstance, that hi. Hon. Friend. who stood almost alone upon the occasion. shostl.l call in question owe of the best established principles in that House—o prix ciple which stood upon the united grounds of res. son, authority, and analogy. He remembered, upon a late occasion. that his Hon. Fri, ad bed ransacked precedents, not to establish a piibeiple upon their authority. but to thew he* little weight precedents should have. He had quoted instancon of puist.hing people, by placing them on horses, with their foie,' towards the tail, as if that could be a reason for under.rtting the force of precedent.-- What was there censurable, he would rill, in giving such sanction to the privileges of that House ? Did not the Right Honourable ("curl man oppo site (Mr. Ponsonfl) quote ouch authorities, in 'hot speech, which impressed them, at once, with such conviction and delight? Nu indiiiduel instantcEs of bad precedent could be admitted to invalidate the force of rights and privileges, standing upon ins memorial usage. But it had beeu objected, than the opinion of ins ice Wilmot was not delivered in Court ; it was true that it was not, but if was his opinion. contained in his manueeript. and pub , hailed by 111. son. If it did not carry with it cli the isistliogi..y of a judicial di clutch had, at lea•to as good a right to be quoted. as the opinion of Coke or Blackstone, or any other great man who had %listen upon the subject, witisout being is the so.. thou.'s' to pronounce actual judionet.t• He hoped that his Hon. Friend was also siugular in his ossia nion, as to the right of one ( ' oust to decide upon cases of committal by other Courts, fht I contempt. Bushel'. case dud mt. apply, for it was not for contempt ; but if it was for Contempt, chit hue llooourable Freud gran to contend that it was cognizable in any other Cosset ? lir, could not avoid calling thaw unfortunate opinions, Cons. Ina (sum so high an authority, soil liable to ht. Ise they it ail, were, quoted in support of doctrines I *hole teu,tency wine Itle+t pernistous. He had sus ul.j..ctinu in any ottreasion as i the form of the • IHH.-po t, but the substance be wistlid esaiestaio. Si, Sintit Round., thought it would have b..c..1 more candid in his Liao. r i l ta d t o saa,k