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1 esesiartation Rt/OUll OaMe* a I Abe %lose this ;' s 4 ;'4 the steep .- _ • ,t•iesies against her with that area whreb . she worst* to have the ttieoni of prodisiini, if she CoUldi iipoo her trial to this painful !old importaut et*, he could not took to petsinsOietould only keep in s;.%ri the greet prineiples of sithitantial justitt Tlie Mite Lord then referred to the priii,legE ids lowed by statute to person. on trial for:high trees ▪ ittid entreated the Noble Elf! opposite not to &Wire the Queen iti such ssiltis of that uptsortitaity of knowing her witneiwea whicii'she inukintve had if tried for high treason. If he Were itixious Ceti her Majesty's conviction (which fiod forbid he should be !) be would be the more anxious io allow ; her in the fullest latitude all possi4le meals of Providing for her olefeuce.—. If he were asked'whether in such a case as this he would make any allowance to the 'K eiser', which might unfairly weaken the armour of the prosecution, he should answer, No. But he did not think this concession could base such an effect, and he thought the accused ought to be allowed • list of the witnesses for the pur poses already stated. He thought that in so im portant a case es this, they would best pelt - urea their duty by allowing liberal opportunities to the Defendant. The concession in a case so rare as this can never be construed into a precedent.— ( Meer.) The LORD Citsucettoe replied that he yielded to no man iii his earnest desire that justice should he done in this case as in all others, with the utmost impartiality, end after the allowance of all due at 'potion to the efforts of the Defendant. He knew that paramount feeliiig of justice would iiifliteuce them within the walls of that House, without, lie nvitied it was in his power to speak with so much confidence, for really it was quite shucking to see elsewhere how this subject was considered ( Hear.) [lig Noble and Learned Friend who had last spokes, and who had vent his life in the practice of the 11w, was quite unable, with all his experience and sagacity, to adduce a single case in which such a-taint as that now set up had been admitted, except is the single case of high treason, which bore no sinology to the present. The case of high treason wet entirely singular. By the law which regu lated prosecutions for that offence, it was expressly enjoined that the accused should have a complete i.st of all the witnesses for the prosecution. indeed rot a single witness could be examined whose 114111 C v•4l not on the list furnished to the Prisoner ; so 1 at if one witness said he had seen one of their Lordships at a particular meeting, not one of t-eir whole House could be called to contradict rim, oldest Ms name was previously on the list of witnesses. He could slot see may analogy he r v;eesi the practice in a care of high treason, and tl:st in the case of a judicial proceeding like that now in progress. The House, therefore, could not create a precedent in this case, which they could in • like case hereafter refuse to any applicant, with iirt stripping themselves of all their functiontr, and wrap/minding themselves from the exercise of the l anwers vested its them by She Constitution. li the proceeding against the Queen be a public one at their Lordships' bar, and Cod forbid that it -.1-1-itilet he auy oilier! (indeed nothing else was ever Ire one moment thought of by o single individual,) lie should like to know iu what steig,le instance, save in a case of high treason, a list of witticisms laid been ever given. He could easily conceive the postabiltty of an application to postpone the period of the defence. on the ground of an inquiry into she conduct arid statements of the- prey-nut eu reases. mid he could easily see the propriety of a coircorrence In such a request. He did not bsliere. netwithinrmling the pains taken out of doors to traduce particular persons, that there was a man an that House desirous of going on with that stigniry without giving the fullest time for all preparations for the defence. This was i case which could not be considered merely with re !mace to the high rank of the party accused, for if they inade !Ms particular precedent for the individual, it would be in after times urged as an example for adoption, Whatever was ins departure frets the rules and principles of their ancestors.— (Heur.) 'fir Earl of lavencoot, then proceeded to fol low op the ouritions he had already made with the hikl awn, " That the House rhonld be called aver an Thursday, the 31st August, at tea of the clerk in the warning." • " Thal dist call tie eufureed by the authority of their lAirdthips." " Thai nu Peer shall be ahreat on that day, nor on any aulnitquent oar during the pruceeilinis, without kave friirrthrir That no Peer ;heti vote by Prosy. - " That the Lolvtthancetior du write letters to their Lord el:;frt, that their atthodance as required tat the Insulter above vtlic it." Ail these motions were surreraively 'greed to. Stregal Bulls lying upon their Lordship►' table were Repel:lively advanced one *loge, mud the House .attpuriaed at half-pool "even o'clock. HOUSE OE COMMONS, Monsmair, JULY 10. The SPltAktit took the cfri.r el four o'clock. Joboaeo, GO= the Office of Chief Secretary for Ire- lan, ' Wooed up rri tam Papers relatlve to the Graud Jury Aracaaturous of Dublin olocb bad beta ordered by Ike Mi. Stamboul preaent.tl Ntitions from &naive/tins •1.41 Alanahrster, praying far a !• re trade. . The Omar ttauivrd itself tow a annatiitre on the Irs‘li Tithe Lra.ea Hill. The itepart yea reerived, read. and (a dmit to be taken tam farther cnnaltlirallou drab Jay ant mouths. Ile Report of the Leedom Militia Rill Was brbogitt up snot Ordered to be rearosaileitd 141q1OefrOP. lerittaTcris ionverased • loollthei from the.Potlers4 Sairordabire lama /be mama of the Irish Proeortiois Deters S. Eadriok Chiba sod Earthenware. lie *marmoset tler4 the theme liaties Dill was to he /cad the third ruse; • • he thought it ethilld hi Abet proper to postpono.d. Rid if soother rah work likely to offer, he wuliki nines an in lhalpart of the Bill which related to the int. portiline of eWss and eardoen'hare. * ' The Petition ens ordered to he printed. Colonel DAUM' presented • Petition from Richard Wil lissaania, Srsink.streei, Ilralent.place, Lambeth, eaoraver, isimplainidg that an inveutiou of his, for preventing the forging of looses, had beees •adopteul by the Batik without oat newirdgini it ; that the Bill before the House for the iwNectints of the new notes would exclude hint from supply. idt the country banks se he bid hitherto done. He there. tote prayer/that the Bill might not pass tato a law without MM enactments being provided for his prniectioa. The Offeects at San Bill, after a few observations (root aIIAERINTOSIIL Sir W.SOOTT, and Sir I. COVVIII, wad Lend • • second time—to be printed, and committed on !Slianday. . taloa) Mime put a gees ion to a Right Hon. Gentleman I*. R. Ward) respecting the appoisionent of • General of 'Artillery ow the Irish Staff. The artillery were brigaded ▪ reviewed with the infantry sad other forces; he wieW to know what could be the duties of the Geocral of Artillkwyt in such a ease. Mr. R. Wants maintained the propriety of the appoint. bent. The Order of the Day foe the second reading of the Irish ,Pov Removal Bill, was then read. r. PARNELL and Sir J. Hewn's/ made some remarks. Sir .1. YORKR wished some clause to be produced, to pre. *eat the Irish poor from returning, after being once carried heck io their own country. Mr. HARBOR° read over a series of numbers takes from the parish books within the bills of mortality, abeltriag that • large proportion of the 'reopen in each parish were Irish, and proving bow large a diminution had taken place in the 'Uproots,* (its one parish as much as 401. per week) skeet* . heat passing of this Act. After aortae remarks from Mr. C. GRANT, the Bill was read a second time. To be committed on Wednesday. A Message from the Lords announced their assent to se veral Bills. etteskierstion of that justice with him Afield be paramount to every other influence, and by it alone stsould he be guided thrtnnhout the whole of this , •ase. He cordially concurred in the wish that when l'"" . "4911* V i ege r etlo4o l l 6 4_l o . "LW_ . gb 01 . 1 *illiddr lis flai mOssLstsfitose :111! A - 3k if witoeserti, he would rethei .!t.i.o the Nw4 . lllrowl.lwAilivrt4l2l4#l ... ol pro. COliftdr it *II Mt titmice to oltviit or- suliaislitianitli e Isy (110 isstrussee . Olf ei %Mir of sno i s hi fir cirnfessect wit( tb kin Ortto be He AA' he ktievi . to hi pror4dent. Asa 9 W eit" , ribiht t to ; EPA( ' ::.t of the witnewiet vgiryttit'er, ea to rte ! ..%;ey . .e9 trial' for hilt trestrin: JY . this were not h a w was thi :0440 to reeiis.eisciiiiie dui SIR W. MANNERS-AND ARMSTRONG JARVIS. - • - -- Sir N. HERON said, that he understood that Sir W. Manners Mid Armstrong Jarvis had been taken into custody, and that Hugh Manners and Atter were in aitendmice, according to the order of the House. The two latter had beet► directed to attend to inform the House respecting the escape of Sir William and Jarvis. Now, as the fugitive, were already in custody, sod as he on. derstood that their evidence was not so material to the Committee upon which they were ordered to attend, as it was expected to have been, and re membering also the disposition of the House to chew leutily to those of the parties who hail merely acted in 'conformity with the directions of Sir William, unit hail no will, he would move, that the Order of the Day, requiring the attendance of Hugh Manners and %Vmllian► Alter, should he read and discharged. He understood tf►at Jarvia lied surrendered himself; sod was already committed to Newgate. He would shortly have a petition to preseut from Jarvis to the House, praying for their mercy, of which he conceived Jams to be a very proper object. He had no motion to nuke with re spect to Sir W. Manners. The order was then discharged. Mr. W. W yam said, that it was an additional ressoulur extending the mercy of the Howse to the inferior delinquents that the chief defendant was already its custody. lie moved, that Sir William Manlier, should be committed to Newcate. Sir J. GRAHAM said a was impossible that Sir William should have absconded to elude the Speaker's warrant for taktog him into custody, us was asserted in the motion, for Sir William had left home two hours before the arrival of the messenger at Bucktninster, and could i► n t have known that such a warrant was not against him. Ile moved an amendment, that Sir William► Manners should be discharged out of custody. Dr. 11111.1.11.10 RE put it to the House to consider in what situation it would tie placed if they hbe ►ated Sir William, after setting their own orders at defiance, and proceeded against Jarvis. who had no will of his own to exer►. He Issoprol the acme jute lice would be dealt to both offenders. Mr. TEN X YsoN thought it right to state, that though the evidence of ti r ‘Villtoin and Jarvis had been coiled for aw snat,rial evitleiice by the C - mittee, yet they had been all that day to custody, slid ready to attend the Committee, and yet had not been collet! on. The SPEAKER called the Honourable Member to order. He would upland to his own judgment sod discietion, if there ere, We., or ever could be, an occariuu wherein witnesses, offer beins ordered to attend upon that House, could be suffered to (le ternime fur themselves, whether their evidence would be material or not, and decide accorditigly upon the obedience or disobedience which it might be necessary to eviller. Mr. TENNYSON twigged pardon, and thanked the Speaker for his reprimand. But hr would com pare the case to that of a witness called in the its ferior Coact+, where he would not only receive awbp4ene, hot as uflitlevit most be drawn stating that the evidence "mold he necessary. The SPEAKER was sorry to interrupt the Ho nourable &leinber a : 4min. He must have misunder stood him if he called hie explanation s reprimand. lint he war disorderly inasmuch as the subject mitts ter RI-his discus war ■n order which bud liven given by that House. He ►epeated it. and would persist in it until the House should determine the contra►y, that it must be disorderly iii the extreme, to enter into discussion for the ;purpose of estublirh ing a ditferAice on the merit 14 obeying ur dis obeying the orders of the House, on the assump tion of the evidence of the offending party being material or otherwise. Mr. W. 11►vNN %sill a ft* wordy. Colonel VVoub thought that the real question htfore finut , e was, whether Sir W. Manner, had aincOntled to tludr tfir Spent:tea warrasit fur his apprehrio.ion Of out ? This it would be esupossible to know, except be were to be called to the bar and examined. After a few obvervations from Mr. CALCRAFT, Mr. MANSFIF.I.O, and Mr. Guct.lttfUlt, the amend- Meld Ws The original-mutton was then pot. A Member 'node stone übject 7.it the ground ofileticient evidence of the charge. Sir J. MACKINTOSH reminded the Ileum., that on Wednesday last ts Revolution had been entered no their Journals, that " it appeared in the House that Sir Wm. Manners had viblicondeti, in order to ovoid being take - ii into custody." Thus was after evidence hod been given of the offence charged, and slier the atemenger had been examined who was ordered to serve the warrant. It was then ordered that Sir W. Manners should be cominitted.to Newipte. 45101111,4011. Mr. BEN oat? saidpissribid conceived it to be hie I duty one foram omission Id call the atteotiou or the House to the Ophthalmic institution, nod to state the views . which be then entertained on the subject. He Illiltwntitrarts tiler the prevent op. portenity of sayiag, that since tlsat period he had hair an opportunity of fully inspecting that este bfishment. Hrhad visitedit in - company with his Honourable Friend, the Meitiber . for Middleairt, and without giving iity'revirtiis notice of his in ltdtion to do so. He had finial shotot Pixy' sol diers undergoing treatment there, oil . of whom (with the exception of three individual.) appeared quite satisfied with their eiteetiori. He load mi nutely remitted the whole of the interior of the hospital, its economy, errangemeots, and regale (mos, sod he felt himself called on to state that they reflected the utmost honour on Sir William Arista*. sad that he bad never seen any place better conducted OE managed. Bat he had hewn informed that a nomber of soldiers who had re ceived pensions on account of blindness, had been, If not cured, at least materially relieved tinder the management of•Str W. Adams while their pen sions were still contioued on the original scale. it was for the consideration of the House, whether some examination should not be instituted into the cases of these men, with a view of determining (as at understood) whether sonic &diII:HOU might nut with propriety be made from the pensions at lion granted them. Suds an inquiry, of course, should 'be commotted only to medical persons. The Hem. Grotleman then moved.— _ That there be laid Wont the Haase a return of the number of Soldiers who are sow receiv►ng peasioos um oc arias of blindness. Sir T. ACLAND expressed himself very glad to find that the Hon. Gentleman hail so handsomely acknowledged his present impressions on the sub ject of the institution. and endeavoured to remove those which possibly had been created iii the minds 'of others by what had passed in the House before. He (Sir I'. Adam!) knew that ass institution at Exeter, with which Sir W. Adams bad been cots ' smiled, bud certainly proved a very great blessing to that part of the country. The Hon. Gentle man - Nil stated that a considerable number of sol diers were now receiving pensions fur life on ac count of blindness, who hail been restored to sight by Sir Wm. Adams; so that the pensions were continued. though the cause for granting them listi ceased. He was, therefore, of opinion, that it should be referred to W. Adams, or some other medical Gentleman. to examine and report whether those individuals were or were not cured. Mr. RF.NNsTT4hd not believe that the persons in 411C111011 could be properly said to be cooed, al though considerable relief might have been afforded them. Lord PALMERSTON said that it gave him very great matirfaction to hear the statement which had been made by the Hen. Gentleman ; it was ex actly such a one as he had expected from the can dour of his mind. It was perfectly true. that many persons had received various degrees of re lief from Sir v: Adams . * treatment—some incon siderable, with reference to the proper amongst of promos) to be granted—but other. so great, that if it hail been coriferxed before the pensions were awaided, that circumstance would have operated much iii determiningilseir extent. The Chelsea Board, however, bad hitherto forborne taking any steps 011 the subject, and were resolved 141 observe the same conduct till they could see their way fur ther than they at prerent Sir J. Yout said, he apprehended that ton much stress had been laid on the practice of Sir W. Adams. He (Sir J. Yorke) had been a Di rector of Greenwich Hospital at the time that the first body of pensioners from that had been placed under she came of that practitioner. The patients selected were the most favourable that could be discovered ; and, therefore, he tl ght. that though very great cities hid certainly been performed on them by Sir %V. Adam., any re►pectable army sur geon would have done as much. Mr. BARHAM said, that Ilse selection had been made entirely from those pensioners who had been. pronounced incurable by the army surgeons; yet that Sir William Adams had effected some corn. pier cures among them. Mr. BLENETr conside►ed it a mistake to sup pose these individuals had been perfectly cured, though they might have been materially beam tiled. Mr. C. H. Hurt:Hinson bore tertitnony to the superiority of Sir W. Adams's. mode of treatment, and the repeated and 'extraordinary success with which it had been attended. _ . The (preterit'', WWI t6eu put 8111(1 carried. FOREIGN WINE. Mr. RICARDO moved, that there I n laid before the Hamm a return of the ',washer of gallons of foreign wine imported end exported. front the 6th July, 1919, to the Sth July. 1990; al.°, an ac count of the chases paid. •nd the drawback. made thereon, durinif the 61101 e periutl.—Ordered. EASTINOIA COMPANY'S CORPS. Mr. CANNING,. alter moving the order orthe day for receiving the Iteport of the East India Company Vol 1111 l errs Bill, said that its object was to rei.ra Ramie (to about onr.third of its hornier extent) a corps originally established in the year 1793 or 1794, which was kept up uninterrupted for a number of years, suit which was at length disbanded in con sequence of a eliirrrence of opinion as In the funds by which it, should he supported, between the Board of Directors soil the Board of Control, It was now proposed to defray the expresses of the corps out of the commercial funds of the Coa lmen. a charge which they were amply sufficient to hear. 'rhe first destination of the volunteers would be the custody of the Company's own premises, and the peewee( of their own properly in case of any commotion in the metropolis.— The propriety of such a safeguard would probably be 01101111 rd, when it was considered that the Com pally stocks continued properly estiinated to amount to thirteen mill s—right of their own, five be longiug to individual.•. They had also .1 depot tit muskets, out less than 45,000 in number. No one could doubt that such a ►put should be guard ed, parteculaely when the guard was to consist of those servants whir would otherwise be idling in groups ■round the spot. After securing thin ob ject lie had stated, the band . would theta be dia. • potable through pay part of the metropolis. like other troops. Wilen the Bill . thus proposed to raise, clothe, equip, sod support a body of 800 . min, without env impasse to the cottorry• ti ght that the 1-luuse would peak before reject ing it. Mr. BERNAL disapproved of the Bill on consti tutional grounds. He was very 'lorry to hear thin • ■ carpi at' XOO men wank! lee necessary to com plete what lie should call she military police of the metropolis. A Member from the OppOsition side, with whose name we were miernominted, su pp or t e d the Bill. After a few won's from Sir It. WILSON the im port ,p which was hot exactly understo od in the gallery, the Report was received, awl the Bill, with she amendments. ordered to be engrained, Mid read the third time kr-morrow, if then cul l/raised. LIMF.RICK•ELECTION. _ Mr. JANES 13A1.Y moved the Order of the Day. that Henry IYE•terre, Esq. he brought to the bar. in order to his heisig discharged. SirJASIES MACKINTOSH said, lie rose not to op. pose the ni.otion, or to interpose any obstacles to the discharge, of Mr. D'Esterre„ but to offer some sug gestions for the serious consideration of those per sons who were concerned in the circumstances of this most humiliating case. The Petitioner, it ap peared, was a member of a learned and most re spectable profession on the other side of the water. and also filled a judicial situation. He had him self, in his Petition, admitted that parts of his evidence before the Select Cotpmittee were contra slictory ; he therefore hoped that it would be con sidered that it wee absolutely impoillible, l'fter what had happened, that he should any longer con tinue to discharge the duties of a judicial office, dor a member of u learned profession. He hoped thin this would be seriously considered by the per sons with whom the determinanon regarding the office would rest, and also by the profession of which the Petitioner was a member. Ati Hon. Gentleman whose name we could not aszertain, and whit been n Member of the Se lect Committee s observed, that the Corporation of Limerick had disgraced itself in a Most extraordi nary manner in the course of the election ; and added (as we collected), that no amendment is their conduct was to be expected, while ►Mr. D'Es. terry continued to he Recorder. Mr. JAMEs DALY said, that imbedy was more fully aware of the impropriety of the Petitioner's con duct than he was. but that the Petition having been tint into his haunts on Saturday, he could not de cline presenting it. Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH sugrested. that some insurance should he held out that the Petitioner should cease to hold the office. Mr. J. DAI.Y said, that his continuance in the office depended very much on the Lord Lieutenant. There was an annual election, for the confirmation of the result of which the Lord Lieutenant's sanc tion was necessary, and he was sure that would not tiny longet he given. Mr. C. GRANT said, that the subject should be taken into serous consideration. Sir J. MACKINTOSH said that that was his object. Mr. BANKKs wished the. the question should he postpoued, that the House might have time to de termine what was the most convenient mode of pro ceeding. Mr. C. GRANT understood that the office in question was tilled by annual election,, which took place in Sepiensliet, and that a re-election could not he of farce without the sanction of the Lord Lieutenant. If that were so, he had no hesitation in staling that the Lord Lieutenant would withhold his sanction.—(Hear.) Mr. BARNES wished that something should be done in the mean time. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, that there was no way of depriving a corporate officer duly elected but by course of law ; but it was quite clear that the period we% not distant when a re-election must take place. The question was then curried in the affirmative, and M.. D'Erterre was brought up to the bur ill the custody of the Serjrant at Arms. and addressed by the Spriiker to the following effect : " /Icor) . D'Esterre, you have been reported to this House by the Select Committee appointed to by sad determine the Petitions complaining of an midge elect ion aid return for the city of Limerick,ar having been guilty of gross prevarication in giving your evidence before the sense Coaunistee. For that offence you have been committed by order of this House to his Majesty's gaol of Newgete. Year Petition, express ing sorrow sod coutrition for the errors you have committed, and prayiag that the House will be pleased to order yoordis. charge,has been received and taken iutocoasideration i atarlyots me slow brought up to the bar to he reprisnanded in order to beteg discharged. If it were my defy to reprimand a per son of the lower orders of the society, but half educated, and half ignorant of the solemn duties of an assis, it would be unquestionably necessary fur me to 'siemens, the nature, character, and consequesices of such so offence; I should endeavour to impress on his mind that prevarication bad • di rect tendency to defeat the ends of truth and justice, sod *hal it differed rather is legal construction than is fact and con science from the crime of perjury. But when I am ad. dressing one who has received a liberal edveatioo, who is • member of a learned and respectable professioo, and who la in the exercise of a judicial effigy it closet be thought ne cessary that I should render the diichaege of the duty which I am called upon to perform the more painful by ad monishing you of the enormity of the offence, or of the flintier and infamy with which jt is Weeded.— This task I shall leave to your own taloa, persuaded that its redectioua will *hew you the impropriety of your conduct, more strongly than nay words of mine could convey. To these reflections. therefore, I ant torment to leave yea; and shall only fusther inform you that you are to be discharged out of custody on the payment of your fees. and you are sc. coidingly uow discharged ea payment of your fees." The Petitioner was then taken away from the bur—after the reprimand was loudly cheered. titi the motion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, ordered to be inserted on the Journals. SALE OF SPIRITS. The CHANCELLOR of l R Lie ....xEHEGUER moved the Order of the I)isy fur the secoud reading of the Sale of Spirits Bill. Mr. M ARRTATT contended that the introduction of the measure was contrary to a standing order of the House, stud that before proceeding further. the matter of the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER argued that the atunding order in question did hut apply_ Mr. W. SMITH had been told within halt an hour by persons most nearly interested its the spirit trade in this country. that if the 801 l were passed that trade would be ruined ; tinder these circaos stances„ he thought it itnpussible -the House could go on without the application of a Select Com mitter. Lord CASTS:RHEUM said. that the ohjeet of ate Bill was merely to rear* regulations in the trade which had bees, repealed is the year 1817, and had Previously been in elkiatence for teitenteen The necessity of the interference of • Select Com mittee was a notion eo contrary to common senor, that. if admitted, it wonld interrupt the whole pit:- grera of parliamentary businem.—( Hear.) The Smarms observed. that he was the last to. dividual in the (-louse who, in decency. ought ts: give an opinion on the applibohility of the Stand ing Otttrr: beets*. hiving h-en artioedt tint u few days. a question on the words of rt h.s4l neve , arisen before, and therefore there was no light from precettebt. Sir J. NistroaT said. that the Bill was to re peal certain parti of an Act of 1817; and it reAtly was enough to puzzle any one to discover bow ti. .mud rending was affected by the Stanhope Order. or how the enacting of the measure would destroy $ trade which had been seventeen years in existence before. He thought that a certosii proviso had hero; iiitruduced into the BM. not justified by the leave given to bring it in. lint excluding tiro, he was convinced the: the Bill was not within the Stand ink Order. The Mill woe then reed ■ second time—Commit. tee to-eidrrow. Oitu rr*. Lord PALMERSTON moved the Order of the Day for the House going into Committee on the MilittA Bill. Colonel WOOD paid, that this was a Bill which had passed every year without opposition ; but last year certain words had been added to it, which ins teri idly altered the mode of supplying clothing, and took away from the Colonels that control in this respect which they had for many years enjoyed. He hoped therefore that the Noble Lord would 114%.• no objection to erasing these words from the presen: Bill. Lord PALMERSTON said, that the reason of the alteration was, that there having been a great trail tity of very good clothing in store, some of that was issued out instead of money fur the purchase of clothing, which would have been a waste GI public mo n ey. The Bill then passed through ■ Committee— Report to-morrow. ALIEN Olf.L. Lo►e CASTI.EIIII6AGN mitred the Order of the Day for • Committee of the whole House ou the Aliens Regulatiou Bill. Sir J. MACJIIIITOSH rose. not to oppose the Speaker's leaving the chair, or to enter on a di•co-- lion of the principles of the measure, but for stronger reasons. The Hon. and Learned Gent. after a variety of observations, stated, that his object was to propose, that it should he an instruction to the Committee to introduce three clauses into it. which he. described. The first required the Prier- Council to cause to be communicated to ■liens, pre viunsly to their removal; a general ►ummary of the matters ■lleged against them—to allow them a rea sonable time for their defence—and to permit them to be heard by themselves or Counsel, and to pro duce witnesses for the purpose of disproving the allegations. The second clat►sr proposed to exempt from the operation of the Bill all aliens settled in this country prior to the Ist January, 1814. Thar day was antecedent to the peace with France, which took place in May. 1814; so that the clause wool& exempt none of the adherents of Napoleon, and no Jacobins, because they had not left France before that time. The third was of a more peculiar na ture. Its object was to take out of the operation of the Act all witnr►ses who might come to this coun try to be examined for or against the Bill Pain• and Priorities now pearling against her Ma jesty the Queen. The Honourable and Learn ed' Gentleman then maintained at considerable length that the adoption of such a provision as the last was necessary to preserve the course of justice from being disturbed; and also to deprive the ene mies of Parliament and tl►r country, at home and abroad, of all ground of complaint or calumny on the mode of conducting the investigation. fle then moved the instructiou on the first clause at above described. The question having been put— Lord CASTLIMIAGII rose and said, he would not pretend to follow the lion. and Learned Gentleman through all the incidental matter which he had in troduced, but apply his observatious at once to the clauses which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had proposed is be added to the Bill now before the House. It was a very easy course for NOM nod Learned Gentlemen to assume that all the ar guments were oil their side ; but notwithstanding he would not now enter at length into the argument or the merits, as such had already been urged in the previous stager of the measure, and it therefore could not be considered aw soy derogation for any indivi dual to avoid inflicting spoil the House a repetition of them. The two first clauses proposed were not new ; they had been brought forward mice. or more than once, on former occasions, and the House had then expressed their sense upon them. The first was a clause to enable the Council to enter into a regular judicial inquiry to esiiiiiine witnesses, and in short to have a complete trial. Now he must "Eel that if there were any grounds for an Alien. Bill at all, it must frequently be acted upon from infbr mstion, and under circumstances that could not be communicated to the party, and if the House were not prepared to grant the measure in the only way it had been accustomed to do, it would be better not to have it all. Hi. objection was very great to turning this power into a general political tribunal fdr the pariy—lt tribunal unknown to the constitiiiirm of the roam try. The second of the I-Lett. alit! Learned Gen tler:tale* claims to exempt from the opersnon of the Bill all those foreigners who ere in Eriglatiti prior to 1814, was mistiming that Ile foreigners re siding here before the war were legitimate objects of jealousy, but they might certainly. though not heretofore dangerous, became so from their con nexion with others of their countrymen who might but recently have come over. If he had objectimis to the two first clamors, tholse objecti were Infi nitely stronger to the third clause,- for he could out conceive a greater libel, or a fouler reproach on the Government of the country. than to have it insinuated that the powers of this &II were likely to be used for the purpose of obstructing public justice. The Honourable and Learned Gentle man most know that no Government would exei cise such power kir obstructing the purposes of justice—so far front that being in the miorls of Ins Majesty's Ministers, he (Lord Castlereagh) had tea dered to the Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, her