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- urged the former measure, would new p►ess the present, namely, to set aside the right to eserciiie a power so pregnant with oppression and abuse. He concluded by melting the second read. in iF of the Bill. fhe Loa° Casitecito& hope his Noble and Learned Friend would not press his motion at melt • moment as the present. It was, he must contend, utterly iinpossible to deny that the right of arrest before Bills were found,, and holding to bail, was vested iii Magistrates in cases of libel. It had been so held since the Hi-Volution, and uo case hill been decided in the Courts to set aside the existes:c.: of such a power. That House, which was the deruier tribtival of the land, would not surely be gin to make a new euactineut without first hay ing some quest• argued in the Courts of Law to shew the necessity of their interpositio►:, by laying down a legislative principle. As to the case of the libel in certain parodies on the Scriptures, he wished to speak with the greatest re. spect of the Juries who had acquitted the Defend ant ; bat if their verdicts were grounded on any belief that a profane, blasphemous, and infamous libel on the Holy Scriptures was not equally a Ael oti the law and Government of the lanat. City hail decided erroneously, and contrary to the authority of Lord flardwicke and the best opinions on this point. He earnestly hoped his Noble sod Learned Friend would not persist in calling upon their Lordships to adopt such • measure as this without some better reasons than had yet been urged iu its support. Earl Gast conceived this to be a question of the Mali vital importance, as affecting the Constitution of the country, the liberty of the press, sad the freedom of the subject. He felt it indeed difficult to reply to the speech of the Noble end Learned Lord who had jest rat down, because it was a speech of general authorities, unaccompanied by argil. meets in their support, or esplanations of the parti cular cases on which the authorities bad so decided. The opinion of the Noble sod Learned Lord was of course entitled to the highest respect, but yet it was only that of a single individual, and against the best writers on theist,. and the best authorities upon the Constitution. The doctrine thus attempted to be supported was incompatible with the freedom of the press, and liberty of the subject. It was said, indeed, that the practice had prevailed since the Re volution; so had the practice of restricting Juries in the case abbe,. until the Libel Act was passed,which sconce destroyed the practice. It was very important to look at the retorts. that had been made to justify the abuse of power, whith it was the object of this Bill to remedy; They were; as had been said, t hien)? returns of the practice under the eye of the Secretary of State ; but in their justification no argument had been advanced beyond the single as sertion of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woodsack. On the contrary, the authority of all the great text-writers went the other way, to 'establish a very different doctrine, and one more congenial to the spirit of the Constitution. In looking at the returns which had been made of the exercise of this power of commitment, its suspen sion for forty years during the present reign, was most material as against the practice—and forty years too, when there was no absence of libels, far it Was just at the period of the American war, when th* country teemed with political publications of every description.—(Heer.)lf this practice were so firmly founded in law, it was very extraordinary that so long a suspension should have taken place, but be it ever so old. be would reply in the language of the Learned Judges who had decided against general warrante—g , No autiqoity can give sanction to a practice so bad." On the-subject of the Pa rodies alluded to, lie entirely differed from the No ble and Learned Lord ; and he had the satisfaction of having three verdicts pf successive Juries in support of his view of the case. It was highly to their honour to have given such verdicts, and by them they had in no small degree contributed to the safety of the tountry.—(Hear, hear.) — Had he been one of these Jurors, he would have giveo a similar verdict, from a fall belief that the object of the author was to vilify and degrade the Government. and not the Holy Scriptures which lie had parodied. If the author hail sinned, it was with great authorities • for his Majesty'. Minis ters had published parolie's of the Script to de grade their political opponents. The Noble Earl here, at great length. repeated his arguments against the Circular of the Noble Viscount opposite (Sid nniuthi to influence Magistrates in the discharge of their duty, and enimadverted, in strong terms, on the oppressi•ms which followed the exercise of the anomalous and dangerous doctrine laid down in that letter. He concluded by cordially appioving of this Rill, for the second reading of which he want to vote. The Earl of LIVERPOOL saw no reason why this Bill should have been introduced at this late pe nod of the Session. Though cfsinclined to enter fully into the question, he should yet offer a few observations on the speech of the Noble Earl opposi!e ; all that he had stated on general warrants and upon the Act, had no reference to the present subject. The only question Was, whether cases of libel thoul,l not stand precisely on the same looting as other offences, and be put in a course of inquiry by Magistrates, in the same manner us any other misdemeanor ? There could be no hardship in the party charged upon oath being allied upon to pro- vide security to answer for the offence. On the de. vision of three Juries iu London, lest October, great stress had been laid, and it was therefore declared, that the publications in questioo were not libels. Rut were there not decisions elsewhere by Juries which &clued the same publications libellous ? [.• Where ?" front Lord hrskine.)--;Such a ver dict had hien given in the county of Lancaster, and he bad as good a right to asinine that the publi. cctiou was a libel, on the authority of the verdict uf a Jury. as the Noble F.arl opposite had to oviiisme that it was tint. From every view of the proposed measure, lie must give it his decided oppasitioi.. It was said that other libels had been published with impunity. So far as the general argument weld, be was ready to admit the fact; hr knew th it in Mr. Gibbon', work oar the Deifies and Fall if the Ifomaan Eitopire, it would nut he diffiuult to hod a blatplaeinuus libel. Hut was there dithretice betareu an insidious attack up the Along . %ND said, that when the N. 41 alluded to the, conflicting verdicts of Juries. he should have added, that the particular verdict Isis which he rested his opinion was, where the Defend ant did not choose to Make any defence. As to Mr. (lucre's Vinare', all he would a.y was, that had they been directed against any body else than his Majesv's Miiiisters, the House and Country would not hare had the advantage Of hearing that etcpression of Clues horror, which h3d issued from a Member of the Hi tilt Reverend Bench opposite, from the Noble Lord on the Woolsack, and the King's Attorney flear.)—Perodies had previously been issued, Nurtli and South, East and Vest, bnt never before had they been encountered by ea mud' devout and forensic eloquence. The Noble Lord then, at considerable length, enforced the necessity of the second reading of this nil as a measure esse:Aially necessary fur the security of the liberty of the press and freed..ns of the subject. and to annul so strange an anomaly as had existed with so muei otipression to indivi duals during the last year. He could not enter into the rained legislative system of the Noble Via!, as to the dirtiuetiun to he drawn between the hill:tenet of works like Mr. Gibbon's, and that of more cheap and popular publications. He could not see why a law should be made for cheap publications. which did not equally apply to those of a gninea.—(Hear f --fit every view he was decidedly in favour of this Bill, which would certainly go to establi.li a sound and useful icriw Lord Easxtxr replied. and the House when time numbers were, for thy second rearfing— N.r.Contents Cootents Maj 'My against tli4.cleosid Reading . IS MIENS. On our re-admission Ist-low the bar, we found that the Oidrr of the Day had been read for the consideration of the Report on the Alien Bill. Lord Sit:OlOOTR moved, that the Standing Order of the House, prohibiting any Rill from passing through more than one stage at any one sitting of the House, should be suspended, with the intent of having this Bill read the third time this night. The Earl of ROSILY N argued upon the cruelty and inju.tice of such a proceeding, as the House had not granted individuals complaining of an injury to state their grievances at the bar. Hoping, then, that by interposing a delay in the further stages of the Bill, this measure would be more fully considered, he should move "That the Roost do now adjourn." On this question their Lordships divided, when there appeared— For the Adjournment—Present ll Proxies l2-23 Against it—Present Proxies Majority 3S During our exclusion, we understood that a Noble Lord (..e believe Lord Hottsnn) moved the previous question upon the motion for the suspension of the Standing Ostler. On this the House divided— For the Motioa--Preseat l3 Proxies Against it Present 3l Proxies llll-59 Majority.•••...• 31 The House again dividtd nu the suspension of the Order— Fur the Motion—Preserst 49 Proxies 47-56 Against it Present l3 Proxies .. 14-411 Majority 3l the Standing Order was then suspended, and the Report of the Bill being received, the Bill was read the third time and passed. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of ; and the House adjourned at TwsLes o'Ctoca. MOUSE OF COSISIONS, TUESDAY, June 2. TAX OFFICP, A permit from the Tait Office presented • copy of all erdess issued from that atm. cod signed James Thompouts, to the assessors of the laud tax iu the tucuty of We►tmaw laud. Mr. Juboson, horn the office of the Chief Secretary for Ire land, presented accouuts relative to the House of Industry and certain Hospitals in Mathis. Mr. Hutchinson, horn the Bauk, presented an account of the weekly kiln of Bauk Notes and Bark Poet Bills for a curtsies period. SESSIONAL A DOR ESSES. The CgaNgto.o" of the Egoista" moved," That this House do reseal au humble Address to hie Royal Highoess the Prince Retest, praying his Royal Highness to din et that there be issued from the Treasury a saws of 1141.10 s 84. to be paid to Mr. Rickman, to defray the expenses incurred by him on accounts of the land tax asoessnienis r in the years 1748 sad 1749; and to assure his Royal Rieman that this Hume will make gnarl the saute."—Agreed to. Addresses were then moved sod agreed to, to the follow. log rifert : That a church preferment be conferred us Hie Rev Mr. Stereena, Chaplain to the House of Commons. That the sum of 1,2001. be issued from the Treasury, to recompense Jsmn Bingilen, Esq. fur his trouble as Chai►man of the Committees of the House fur the year 1818. That a sum of 2001 he issued to pay Juba Henry Lee, Esq. his salary, as first Clerk of the House,for the year ISIS. Mat a bum not exceeding, with his fri it and entulumenis, 1,600/. be i.enrd to pay dlr. —...:—, his salary as second Clerk fui the year 1814. That a sum sot exerrdilm 49.5!. be listed to pay George Wickham, Cleat of the Journals, Lie salary fur the year 1916. That his Royal Highness will be plcascil to order such it romprasasiun as to has Royal Highness shell seem fit, to be given to the Clerks who have iittendid the Committees of the house. The CninettLian of the EICREQL/Irlt then mowed, that the Art 52 Geit 111. appointing Commissioners to make regulations fur the Others of the House of Coenntoub be read—u hitt% having been slime, an Adder+. was ni•nreil and agreed un to has Koval Mightiest% peeving that he would direct there be laid before the House ass amount of all Suing of Money al the clispkoal of the above Comings slim* ve .1 to. lUr. Bellamy then pregetited an account uf the money at the disposal uf the raid Cuasenissiunera, which woo laid un the late.e. Olher Add to the Prints Regent, to ate fullusiug affect, were then cart led:— That a el. ar son ut 1,009/. be limp .1, b. iag the om. uut P.11.1. 11 91ello•••1•••••. • - led to the law of libel, anti . the Christian 1 hem iv a wadi. general) 0 7' 1116 11C. Funiculars or the enactme n t, s r c on f e rring the ad- accsmsible only to l iterary men, and in a PlalltAllet 'clittectal power on Juries in such cases of judging or publication circulated in penny numbers. and ''both of the law and the fact. For the same reason the style of which was adapted to the moat oreti- that he hod urged the former measure, he would nary und.rstatiding ?--/Hene t Y—Tbe Noble E.irl now press the present. namely, to set aside the right ' concluded by opposing the Bill. to exercise a power so pregnant with oppression and I Lord fiei).l,4o said, that when the Nohle E arl • .I *. - \ • ‘4 4 t4•44b4*)•%N) of holit's year's salary. to b. come de.- de . Sli of Jo'), to Al the ri.titione acre tlirl Orderer" to Ise On the Heir; Seiiimee, RN de strleyeitin at Aims to she Howe. i t „10... , : Also esti", suns of SW so halt. year's salary to Jolsa I Lord Corot tire tketi rose to sae, he held its his Clew's*, nig the pr im ly %.1, 4 „, . That a sum not esireerling 0,000! be issneil, hi remune- baud a P etition fr .m the Cu). of tV e-insiosier-- rate the Commissioners appointed iii pursuance of Si Ad. and 111 oil others. from virious ',arts of the county. dress of the Wow, fur twinning into the fees and ',onto. Leeils, Portsmouth, &t... The Pe isissuers hoped for merits of Courts of Justice to Ireland, fur their trouble furl is radical rehn in i , the representution—and that use year. every itidividu it not sli.iptalitieill by temleriress of Irtlsit rumitnirk. • . . .., e wea ' k'er -i, of ninol , or crime, should be allow- Tier Report of the Irish Fisheries Act Cominasnee Mill a was twOUght tip and sup-evil to—lts • 001 • 4, 1. 1 "• 1 1irt of Ike eel :1 share in the election of the nomiliers %ht., eresinithe Bill was read Ike third 11151 and passed. rote away his property—end that Parliaments . COTTON W0 : 61., lac. might he sumally electe.l. Mr. P Besl.o moved— The Petition% were then brought np, the first "That there be isotherm, ttsrHouse a Return of th , from- read and all ordered to he on the table. After a tines of Cultoa Wool ija h perted front all parts of the world bi , lort stitrmil into Great Britain, helm the year 1812 to the year 1817, bulb inclusive, spectfyiug the spautilies that have arrived Sir FRANCIS BURDrft mos, to move his Reso in nod fruso each port.•—Agreed to. lotions on the suil,jel.t of Parliamentary Reform. Alte," Fist anima of the export, of the mine article, He ltd placed the Iteso!Utions he intended to pro- during the same period, specifying as above."—Agreed to. pose, on ground!, that could slot possibly he ob- Tlse same Honourable Member moved for various' Returns j ,e? , , eu . o relative to the Exports of Coitus Twist, Yarn, and Calicoes, eciy tiny one ; lie had not grounded them with the Duties on Esportatiuu Drawbacks, Jac.; which merely on the theoretic opinions of political writers, wire ordered to be laid on the table. whose talents had gained them a 'ugh degree of R/r. J. SWIITIII moved the Order or the Day for the second celebrity ; lie had confined hiti.elr to one course, reading of the Bankrupt Laws Ameadment Bill. the Rllll. I utterly impossible to be sulij.cteil to censure—lie Member stated, Inv object was out to press the Bill throne,. meant those speeches from the Throne to Parka the House the present Session, but that, after a scrawl read. ing, it might be committed, in order to have the blanks I mein which contaitied and held forth the very inns- Oiled up, without which it would not be intelligible to the ciples of the Resolutions he was ,'',irons the House eountry,by which it was'irsporiast it should be welt under. should adopt. He indeed had always considered stood, beings measure of great national concern. the interests of the Crown and the people the same; After some coueenntina between Mr. WRO7YrSLRY and our bail he ever seen stile good esso.e of jealousy Mr.J.IMITTH, the Bill seas read a aerosol time, committed, .. . royal considered in the Committee, and the blanks filled up, re- emptier,provided it was agaiii.t the pr . .. du ly ported, end the RI part ordered to be taken into further coo- balanced by an exertion of the powers of I arlia siderstion this day three months. mint checking tool keeping it within those bounds DEAN FOREST. where it could only be exercised to the public be- Papers weer presented from the Cummirriuners of Woods nefit. He was afraid his Resolutions might be and Forests, relative to the mimes in Dean Forest. thought rather long ; but lie persuaded himself CALICO DUTtris that, when Gentlemen considered the great msg. A Petition was presented from the Calico Printers of Car. nitude of the (petition, they would excuse that. lisle, against imposing any additional duties us their trade. —Read, Nod ordered to lie en the table. y s 100 1 esu Jett t o But he would lather the I I I b h • HIGH BAILIFF OF WESTMINSTER. that dialyze, than that he should be charged with The Report of the Cuniinittee of Supply on the reenuners- bringing them forward without having properly tiros to the High Bailiff of Westminster, was ordered to be considered the subject. and without being able to taker into further consideration to-morrow. advance strong undeniable grounds for them.— PETITIONS. For himself, having thought so much on the sub- Mr atwNerr p resented a Petition from on individual of h j est , he experiericed the same difficulty in bring. the name of John Chamberleyne, complaining of the hiss of property by the formation of a Canal, aid praying the I tog it before the House, that my one would in at- House to grant such remedy as might seem meet.-l Aid ou tempting to prove it truth to him self-evident ; the table. but knowing that the views he took were not those Mr. T. CORR permeated • Petition from the Parishioners of many Gentlemen who heard him, he wished, in of Great Marsiugham, Norfolk, against the Pour Settle- particular, to submit his sentiments to the disinte ement Wil.—Laid on the table. rifted 31einhers of the House. It was also diffi- PR IVA T E BUSINESS. cult to bun to comprise all the topics that might The &Tatra addressed the House and said, be introduced on a subject so extensive, and that as there did not appear to be any business many of which lie felt it his deity to advert to. immediately coming before the House—he would take the opportunity of submitting h i s v i ews on . ,Wllament many years ago, there was instantly a endings of the House—he meant the mode coin_ CII this question had berm brought into Par matter of importance to the regularity of the pro- li cry raised of dimgerous opinions, and of a sub monly pursued of conducting private liminess. version of the Constitution, though the grounds on which it was advocated had been those acted on As it was stow concluded for the prtsesit Session, you rh e s a very de of he deemed it fit he should state, that of is great t h me i—t forefather princiole fiir of a ttttt exten al electio d n, peri and od of quantity of such business dispatched this Session, nearly one-fourth had been conducted without • that extended mode of suffrage to %Inch, though limited, the name of universal was ill popular compliance with the Standing end Sessional Orders. lanwusge applied. Some time sg), when he had These Orders had been intended for the protection of property—but under the system now acted on, hio n iself brought the question before the House, lie had stated, that, according to his views, the right and for a long time growing up, they were not a . , . , • of suffrage shook' he confine,' to persons paying only an imperfect safeguard, but even worse than none, because they held out the ides of its existence taxes to the King, the Church, or the Stair—and where it was not. It was true, each case wherein lie believed that if that rule were adopted It would the orders hod been dispensed with, possessed many bring about a moderate reform and a fair hi re p resentation. It hail been cart in s merits, but the House would see that the aggregate that he wai inconsistent —that he dish toot teeth act of such cases was so great, that unless the ru les fully up to hi. own principles. He allowed were enforced more strictly, it would, in Some time, it but he octet) up to Orin an far as he be impossible to refuse any request for overlooking thought necessary for the security of the people:— theta. There might be more excuses than in or dinary cases for what happened this Sessi•in—he- The principle had since that been more it:scouted, prouced stro covion. Or history cause Easter fell unusually early, which abridged a she nd er,' th d at freedom nger was the u great cti leading u Iwillcillle the proper period for transacting business of a pri vate nature. He trusted the House would excuse of our Constitution —nod by the aticient law, Mein. titre of P ar l iament were taken Irma almost au Trim for drawing their attention to the subject, sod hoping there would be an ansendinent in the ins- place intlie . countre, and Parliameots elected at nogement of the business he had alluded to in the to f t h e three great festivalscn the year. The Hon. Baronet then took a review of the progress of next Session.—(Hear. /tear.) EXCISE OFFICE—SCOTLAND. our Constitution, sand of the state of our law under Edward the Confessor—of the conditions acceded Mr. FINLAY moved, that the Papers presented I) to the House on the 30tli M to 7 Wilhelm the First, at his sectarian—old ay, from the Excise of ~ Office, Scotland, be printed.—Agreed to. the provisions of Nlagosi Charm. From all POOR SETTLEMENT. which, he contended, that the !lobbing of short Parliaments wtti die ancient law of the land;— Mr. P. Mooak, presented a Petition from the But a novel doctrine had been laid down, with re liilishitents of several Imrishes in Coventry against the Poor Settlement Bill. spect to the enactment contained in the Statute, COAL DUTIES. " that Parliaments should be elected ahem ver sue cessare." This, it was said, only meant, that, when Mr. LASIBTON said, that he hail not been present a Parliament wits once elected, the Crown had a when • Petition had been presented to the Ilouse, right to keep it on foot, for n whole reign, if it from the City of London, for an equalization of ,sie.ised. lint Arllt this WIPI 110 t eOIISO/11111t with the eon the duties on Coals; he therefore took that °pin tun ty to give notice, that it was his intention, early s i titutiou of the country, or with the principles on which it was founded. Reason mist clearly Oros. iii the course of the next Session, to move for the mode appointment of is Comniittee to take into consi- td, that such a mode of constrtting Is law—st , • , wiiicii went to destroy its power, altonether--iiever iteration the propriety of establishing au equsliza could be received as the true me. /cut, if a doubt two of the duties on Coals, arose upon the interpretation of a law, the sure Way SCOTTISH BANK. of discovering its teal oliject seat, to mark the way Mr. F. IntouGsss moved— in which it had beets acted on ; —um!, on ex:minis. " That there he laid before the House a list of the names Par of all persons who have pitielwprol Stuck in the Royal Bank! in" ' it would be found, that prnrogatiOtit, al' Pin. 'lament. its ancient t insel, frequently took place, of Scotland, since the 21st of April last, specifying the amount of each purchasr."—Ordercd. and that in the course of a year, two, three, and even four elections had been held. It was titers fore PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. rather too much to say, that the law, by which Par- Sir F. BURDETT rose to present a Petition from lianienta were directed to be held its often as was the town of Loughborough, for Parliamentary necessary, gyve the pooer to the Crown, is lien a Reform. The Hon. Member states!, that a Right Parliament was assembled, to leugthen its exist- Hon. Gentleman had discovered last Session, on ever to ass indefinite extent. What oat the subject, his presenting some Petitions or the same nature; declared iu the apreclies from the Throne to Parka that they hail !nets sigma' by permit's of a very meld, for calling Owns nigether ? It had Away.; tender age. The same objection could n o t be heel) stated, that the measure was resorted to in or raised against the one lie now held in hi, hand. der that the King Ini. ; ;lit . lie made asap; dined with The age of the first 1111bIlerlber W. 14 sisty-four, flat the toterests, feelings, view.. and semis:sews of lots of the second, sevetity-oine ; they had all (11111 e tint /1111lieetN 111 every past of the isloostoisi. ' Those inertly to years el full maturity—a/nigh/rig ) speech es e xplic i tly d ec l a r e d th i n Ilhallinsitritts were the age df the youngest beilig fifty-live. 'Flue called to take care of the interests of the King nod Petition Was extremely respectful in its terms. of her subjects—nod thin the interest of the Crown The Hon. Baronet then stated lie had many other inisl of the subject was stun loud the same. Now, if Petitions to present for the same object, and Parbainent writ to rrinaiii a perennuent plower, all couched in the some l anguage , from Lasicaster; the circumstance. which were attar,' its enniosting Edinburgh, London, Middlesex, Dunike, Lynn, I from the identity of interest between the Knig end Birmingham, Errol, Wesli ll ill ster, Warrington, th e voi d, w oo l,' c e as e . Besides, a seat in Parlia- Exeter, sod other Is4/CeS. The Petlflllol., Irinollllllolg uncut W,l/I not formerly considered to be a matter of to considerably above a hundred, were then brought emolument, but, on the contrary, was looked upon up, until the first of them read. It statist, that as is situation of a very burdensome nature—anti an the Petitionets being all above the age or t.,,,,y. it remained, until Means were found to bribe is Par one years, had seen with horror the conduct par- li sinew. In the reign of Cliorles I. a great stretch stied by Ministers for the last twenty-five years— was made low oils coolie-sting a seat ill Pachametit o hich hail involves! the country iii ;in expensive and *Olt new ohjectslillire:a very foreign to II lust fie rtinouts war, brought ii s lii i ite &Hiatuses on the presentation of She pimple. Bin even that ,‘lnnarch country, and nearly doubled the outioinil debt— found it difficult to c..rrt. he point, nod he was that they attributed this to the imperfect state of I obli ge ,' to provers' with virdetice, to order to pot the representation—slid Ina). it for is snore rqicil down cercoss Members or list f10w.... From all one, untiti.sl Parttime:lts and mistrsal sulfrag,.... that he had stutrtl, it did appear to lutist ILILISI eVI• \ • •- s *: N INWIL‘ • • i mieot, that the doctrine of antmal fiarrannentsLa not a novel one, or in any . deree sisherriave of tile constitution of the Cottittex. With rive-et to the extwdirit4 of sdopting, pt this time, a measure which hart heen pra.tised by nor itlieetrorm, with most beneficial results both to the Crown and to the people, that certainly was a question open to investig mon and alts44,mssion. Mat, that it should be contended that the principle ass a visionary one—that the do was wild anti untenable 1014 to him most extraorthitary. To such assertions tberr was a complete bar—anti he trusted the friends of annual Parliaturitts would heir tot moor on the subject. Ile nos came to the great princiiiir —that principle which was of use utmost importance In jest view of this question—namely, who were the persons that formerly eletted Members of Pittlia ment ?—itow fur did the privilege of giving suffrages at parliamentary election. rx cud ? Now, though he admitted, that any measure to be adopted ou tins suhjrct ought to be taken with reference to the present state of the cottotry, and was a fair matter fur I'VIISOSOoK ahtl difICII.AIOII-61111 he nitia say, that, if a principle had h'erai long acted on—if claims had formerly been made to rights of this dr scriptiou—if no ill eirects had resulted front the extrciee of those rights—and if, on the contrary, great Mischiefs arose flint, their having been in fringed and trampled did seem to him, that such circumstances greatly streng . hened the claims the people now preferrc a l to the rights that were withheld from them. At the saute time, he must observe, that limir claims appeared to him more capable of cis fetter sin the ground of reason and ex.: pedirticy, than even Oil 1113 i, strong as it Was. of ancient and undoubted practice. Pel•htips no bet ter inside existed for discovering th'e system on which the people of this country anciently acted, than by examintistr the principles of tlw cont inuo law, roundest' on sound reason and c-its mon sense—end which, therefore, could not tilt dmeirsgi i n it ei r t p y r o wt f a t t l i t o o t s i e , or to which ia ,:tisi/I;rhcht.yi Placed on t o i f i :l s 7 - lute-brook were always li Ode, Now., the princi ple " that no man should he taxed with cal his con was as 0 1,1 a , the days o f Lord Chaim Hoe Forseecue. That principle was meted on in the best periods of the county—in the r• igtos of the Edwards. Ilere, indeed, he except the reign of Edward 11., who, although lie eilat.ted giant laws, and, amongst others, one providing carat Par liaments should be annually elect if, yet, by a breach of those laws, drew on him the hiss of his Crown, and finally of his life. S all, they tied iitily to • -in.ider the. etiticiments of that period, anal they would at olive perceive the pure princples on whel p the laws were fouttiled. Art n,cis mitre prosneitins than that of Edward Irigii more rentatkable for the pure admitustration of justice—a alga tome ennobled by the wise I.lws which weir then pained— was not to be found in the annals of En g lish tory. lit the time iii Charles I.—Chit unhappy period, when the Moilarch ti as»plell oo the rights and liberties of the people, which lie supposed lay in a very mall compass—securely to prison and to property—the greatest inroads were mane ou popti tar freedom. 'Flue propositions. folaildall Mt time common law, that tau matt should be arre.te4l with out cause, or punished but lay.mlue tour-e of luw— aud that the fruits of his industry should not he taken firms lion but by his awn coi,sent re then disregarded. That a inn i's person shout ibe secure whale he wits protected by innocence, sod thin his property should not be taken from him, exce it with Ilia consent, were protei,itioni •1011 so rational, that it was impossible to advent e elltV solid objections Agniiist them, But Chu. la is acted upon opposite principles— he pro: rrdrd tai a clue! and wicked manner. The lawyers fit itLys sanctioned the most scandalous breaches of the Vim-. stitution, and individuals suffered, fora long uu , in their persons and their propertie% h % the writ: will of the Executive Government, Parlialitelit tint being convected at all. It naturally wiett a Parliament did meet, that (hove great pitot.t.lett, which the *Words of their aucestoili toad estaltlisited„ should, at that time, be reerilitheareil. Bun, nut fortunately, in his oriiirott, instead of punishing those iinlividnals who had violated the sharers of the land and the principles of the the Parliantent, meting under a sort of manta for legisla tion, proceeded to eyart new laws, when it was o ily necesseiy that the old ones shinald its put in love. They embodied, in the Petition of !NEIN all t was continued itt Nava Charm, in the cot firm m tiinms of the diffeient eiturier , , and in various oilier laws. They re-asserted old 1 lass, *Hid declared the illegelity of many tarn ,Pour by the unfortunate Monarch. 'Ulna was rutin( not to protect th• sub ject. The King prevar.catud With Its word. He treated Acts of Parlinitient as pieces 4.1 viable parch nteitt —and then their ancestor* had one way left of doing themselves justice at • eltictirmerl by the common law of the counir)—the right' tf resistance ilgtilleit tyranny and eipplesionn. Their resistance ended, utif alum*, ly, its Intoging their Sovereigicto the block—but, fortunatt ly, iu vise i citing the tight* of the atahji ct. Whete • olein was once resorted to, it was impossthle to calculate where it would stop—end, until the resit ration of Chides 11. little attention was J' rid to the ',betti e s of the p4.43141e. 'flint Monarch, in the et niteient....' meta of his reign, shewed a rlPPostinni k.roaraitle to poptilyr rights; but, at a suloseijite4it p. rivals by acii,:g PI a mt tferein glimmer, lee prepc•ed the way for the hiss of the Crown to his suce.ssor., Doting its reign, hoarser, sump graved laws were a aweltit, and, itioutagst the rest, the Fishes.. Corpus AO s which they had latterly 'welt sit-pewter' wheliever the Crown pleased. It had indeed been take?, assay so often, that no depettslegice could he placed ten those sham securities, its 11w shape of Acts of Parlianteist, while a pawn extstrii in this- S'ate, sin math? whe ther in the Crown or rlsewhere,Avlin,is prive the people of their himeritrs, aheinever it was deemed ex!lediriil. Ile now came to the time when the of this coummil were laid Bonn by the Bill of Rights —ammd its a hid, their undeniable.sud vital enable tights, were stated. But the declaration which kite; agreed to before lie came to this country, w• lit much further. In that declaration, a fair, unbiassed, and perfect orprreentatiyil of the people iii Parliament wow to tast e d mt . But, like other matters, that part of the derldratioo was forgotten to be enacted. Inn pamphlet; a Lich Air. Fait kes Trude upon this ani.j. hr found the • iollowitag Shrewd übserstitinit—ts At the Itiesolutiolt we were served with a very line Lail of fate—but unfor• • ( , .~ - el