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i^ • • • 1# IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, FrsavAßT 26. The Mime proceeded in the bearing of Appeals, but uo judrin•nt Irv, pronounced. The Carl of l'unis tuok the oaths and his ~at. CORN LAWS. The Earl of Ket.t.ta preaenir.l a Petition from the laud• 1144414.11 and formers of the e.ohoty of Fife, praying that so talons the arrrHgr price. of torn, She maritime thelrstis of 5c00..,„1..., 4 1.1 lie 144414441 rd in the estantatc.—Laid uu the STATE OF THE GAOLS. ihr mutton of Lur I StOltinltTn, the isante Of the Earl of Tanis nas added to llir Committer appirinted lasi even- III; to inquire nolo the Stair of the Gaols. It had bersi Ihr initniinn of the Nuhlr Secretary, that 11w sulfur of Lord should he plat-ell un the Curninitfrr nn the preceding Pruning, but on inquiry It seas found that the Noble Lail ►ad nut then taken his neat. MESSAGE nem! THE COMMONS. CHI M N EY SWEEPERS._ Mr RFINFTT and °therm brought op* Bill for the heart rmulation of Buys employed in the Sweeping ..1 to whirls they &aired their Lordship.' courortrom.—The Bill war mad a hint time. The House then adjoornril to Monday. HoI:SE OF COll tIONS, Fitt,' iv, TrnltuAßY 20. 11 , e kaght Hon lIENn% GRATTIN took the o ath. en d 11!‘ Feßt. _ . Mr. Dicgt.t.ov pre.ented a Petition from 11w or-rapiers of land in the County of Somerset, praying that additional dull is 1 , shoclil be laid nia 11w importatinn of corn. Mr. Dirk in•on .aid be did not agree with the Petitioners, in think Inv; That thure should be any additional importing duties kid •.0 earn, hot he thought the country alauuld be an exporting eiimst. y in the article of corn. Mr. Matti disapproved of the object of the Petition. Petitinnen state that the produce of 11w country wa‘ sufficient fur the siistenance of its inhabitant., but they did hot consider that the imputation will go o n proc rri si vr ty increasing. In trial'', the population had already overrun the country, and any ri gulntion that would go to iiirren.r the mice of torn, lie conotamord, as highly immilit:e and 'mu11.... Hr considered thsit the Petitinnera had .rliTted nn ungracious time to complain, now when the purse air shut :itrain•t foreign corn, and tottehultsl by saying, that if inia eliiuf (tome, it will proctrd from the agitation of the court ion. Mr. Thettissost said, thrt the Petition was lint prepared (or the put pose of being presented slow. The Petition was Inds rd to lie laid on the table. INMA. Mr. CANNING p ts d Copies ef Treaties entirlintril with the Nally, !Walls in India.—fildervil to he on the table, and to be printed. EQUALIZATION OF TIIF. DUTY ON COALS. Sir C. MORGAN iirrienteil a Petition from certain lialot bitanis or Monmouth, praying that nu alterat might be made in the Coal Lan. —Ordered to lie on the table. Me. FowAßns ostoke against she Eiuslizaison of the Coal Duties. He raid that the inrasurs would be to thr maissfitelorieis of the country, amid Iy in jur3oit to the iron NM k•. Sir ISAAC COFFIN %puke against the umirial anti henry dottier on Coals which p d so ls upon time 'mores i n ... vs of society. Mr. 1.1771.1709 seilsl, if the 101.ject wstss nzitated, he would feel himself 1.0.104 to oppose st. Ile saisl hr 6uprd that the Members would nut rwoistemuste su uppresiore a measure RS an sada 4 I tai min tosik, Mr. BF:SWETT said that Staffordshire rind Shropshire. two of the most loyal counties in England, were der-Aridly against the m e, and he would feel himself humid to oppose it. Mr PROTSIBROE Said, 11,31 in comylianre with the a i.hr-. of his cristtln•nts, he a .titt,' opium, the measure. lie es prsa-ed liim:rl( against it..• iqualigation Mitt. Mr. H. Ste si ge said, that tier inhabitant" of London anal the adjacruit comities a cie subject to an 4111i11111i, unequal, and most • our mous duty It was an setts le which in this try might he well I'OllllllllT, mi as o. i r t h e first err, Pities of life. In a tiontstry where taxatiun null so heavy, flue Nlittistrr should take ere& y rase that taxes should out • press partially upon Our pant of siivii.ty, as iit the par eriit ease. He, fur lane, would liaise cage that the sobjtct slinahl come before the Hatis.. Sir. N CALTTRT inn/Winn, the present duties 011 li.ith partial pod uujii•t, and they affected the lower t lasses of the people particularly. Lord CastLeat AGM Paid, lie slid tint consult r the present a favourable time to agitate this subject. Mr. LITTLUTON said, that if the Hun Member for Surrry should tiring in n Unll, nr move for a Committee, he would, to *very stage, give him his decided opposit . Lord LOWTIIIR presrntlyl a Petition front certain Italia. bitaists of Kendal, praying as alteration its the Itieolvent L. blors' Art —Ordered to lie on the table. . _ Lord G. Swinton prrnent44l souther Petitinu from the M th,egeiort any alteration iu the Cu.il Duiies ...-Ordeted Iu lie os the table. PEWITS ELECTION. - - - - Mr, ATICINS - iVlVlGilTapitesrerl --- it the bar with the Report of the Committee appointed to try the merits of the. Penryn Election. It stated, that the Committee had foetid the Petition against the election of Mr. Henry Swarm was not frivolous or venstious —and the Committee boil resolved, that the said Henry Swann had been guilty of bribery mid corruption, and was not duly elected to it in Par. liament for the Borough of Peoryis. They ale resolved, that several other persons named in the Report had been guilty of corrupt practices at the Election of Peoryti. Sir C. Bveatt.t. said, he thought that in the present ease the minutes of the Committee should be laid before the Holum One libtoilreil men at both sides were charged with ac!'s of bob •ry—.llse three individtmls who had been lomid guilty of corrupt Practices. by the Report of the Commit tee. were agents to the parties, and it was not utolikely that the one party was as deeply implicated as the other, who are raid to have been guilty of coirup lion. It was a case which called GA 'inquiry and consideratioo, and the House should have the minutes of ti,e Committee before them. lie con cluded with tinning, that the Speaker du not issue li:s warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to issue a new writ for the Bioroogli of l'euryit. Mr. Hot t us vr out it said, it was not usual Tor the House to suspend i•siiiiig their writ, without hav ing very strong cause. He did not think that at present there were grounds before the House to in t:nee them to simper d the issuing of their writ. Mr. CAREW land, he thought the !louse ought to pause before they ditermined ; they should at least have the minutes of the Cottiniiitee before them. A Member, whose name tie could nut Irani, said, that oit to vitae where gross corruption was reported. the House ought to have before them the evidence on which that Report had been founded ; they shoold then proceed with seve.ity ; and lie conceived that by marking 01144 of corruption with their strongest crustily, they would give the beFt answer to those men who outside of doors SO violently upa oiled cooolloct of Parliament. Ile was him sill a moderate Reformer, and he could not but Fick with disgust and abhorrence on the vile coo. ouct of ii.o.e who would basely barter their privi l-grs—those proud privileges 4-I....ti”gutzLtd this country from the degraded nations of the ('on his opinion, whole proofs of gross tiff ruptrou had hero established naught borough., the right of representation Ought to be taken away, prod transferred to those large towns Menchuster, Leeds, and other places of great wealth and population, who had no representatives at all. Sir .1. NvvrroaT agreed with the lion. Member that she base practices lie alluded to deserved the highest reprobation. It was a salutary and wise proceeding, where cases of corruption appeared, to denounce them, and to inflict the heaviest cen sure that the House could inflict osi those who were convicted before them of corrupt practices. Ile agreed with the Hon. Member that this would be the Isest answ e r (I. give to those intemperate premiss who talked of reform, but whose object was riot relorm, but revolution. Lord essTts.itEstai said, that it *mild be a severe exercise of authority to suspend the repre sentation of any inatiors of the people, for any tnne, howa%er short. If the house were to take the case agsnist the borough, lie would wish to know from the Speaker what was the course which Parliament should take. . . The SPEAKER said, that the House would &lay issuiti4 the warrant where a special Report was niade against ►he Borough ; in ordinary cases the writ is airver delayed.. Ile would not, he said, off hand and from mere recollection, give a further °imam) upon the usage of Parliament. Mr. WYNN mentioned a variety of cases, in which the House had acted. He said, this was a lase which required consideration ; and lie suggested that the further discussion should be suspended to an early day. Mr. P. Morriss said, that, in the present case, both parties were afraid to propose the bribery oath. The Report, in his opinion, did not go far enough the circumstances would have warranted 71 Special Report. In his opinion, the hundred ought to he included within the borough, which, by increasing the lumber of voters, would render the introduc tion of bribery more difficult. Mr. 1101ILDSWORTH Maid, no opinion had been stated, that any bribery had been committed on the part of the Petitioner. Mr. HASVEY observed, that there was no proof whatever that bribers' had been resorted to by the Petitioner. The Honourable Member (11r. P. Moore) spoke, as if there had been evidence before the Committee stifficielit to authorise them to make is special Report, awl that the system of bribery ass c.orried to such an extent, as to render it dangerous to aditimistrr the bribery o•ith. This was nut the easr. It appeared that the facts stated referred merely to acts of individual bribery. If any thing else had been elicited, even incidentally. the C - inittre would certainly have acted on it. They could, however, proceed only on the facts before them. 'They could not look to former Elections— I hey must proceed only on the present circumstances; and tlto•e circumstances seftrred merely to acts committed by individuals against whom the Report was duetted. Mr. P. Moony. explained. Admiral Sourts►atNE said, every Member of the Committee had considered the case with the most •enous attention. and were desirous of doing that which should fully meet the justice of the case. Actuated alone by that feeling. they hail come to the decision which was now before the Ilatime. Mr. !lOWA RD observed, that the cases alluded to were not exactly in point. Mr. S. BOURNE said, it was very desirable to know what course the Petitioner in this case was to pursue ? The SPEAKER—" Before I put the question, the (louse will permit me to observe, that if any opi nion is entertained by any Member, that the writ must he delayed under the circumstances of this case, that supposition is erroneous, Fitts nre only susreuded when the Report mfficts the franchises of • borough. The original motion was, ' That a new writ he made out for the borough of Prosy.), in the room of Henry Swann, Since that, an amendment has been moved, ' That the said writ do not issue until the House has taken the Report bon consideration ;' and finally it has been pro posed, ' 'Flirt this debate be adjourned till Monday next.' It is my duty to put the question on the last proposition." The debate was, on the question, adjourned until Monday. Mr. W. WYvr said b that in order to enable the House to decide correctly on this question, it was absolutely necessary that the minutes of the Com niittee should be laid before them—because, they would have to proceed on the Report quite inde pendently of any other consideration, ashl to state whether they agreed to it or not. This it was impossible for them to do without a full exittnina tom of the minutes, in the same moonier as they were arcustotned to have the proceedings of flintier Committees laid before them. He should there fore move— " That the minutes of the I'enryn Election Committee be 141(1 before the House."—Agreed to. CASE OF' MR. GitADY. Mr. C. H. Huxcuirtsira said, lie could assure the House it was with infinite pain hr pi. seined himself to their notice on this occasion. He felt tlim he had undertaken a most difficult task. and, w the performance of it, he had to throw himself ou the pu tient attention and liberal consideration of the House. Not because he conceived flit he was about to advocate a bad or improper cause—but, from au apprehension, that, in his zeal to delesid an injured individual, he should let fall some expres sion unpleasant to the feelings of the Hon. Mem ber for Limerick, and thus weaken a cause w Melt he was most anxious to assist and support. %Vali regard to what had fallen, on the preceding evening, from the Hon. Member for Dover (Mr. W. Bootle), who stated, that lie would oppose the motion with which lie (Mu. Ilutchinsoii) meant to conclude, on the ground that the Petition of Mr. Grady con tained sannething disrespectful to the House, lie begged leave to ikssure hint, that if he saw any expreasion of an oliensive nature in the Petiti )))) , he would not have supported it. Ile wished to call the attention of the House to the ducision which they cattle to on Vt . eli IteSdily last, a deco -10/011, the propriety of which he was very iimi•li in clined to question. The revolution on that occa. 41011 was carried iii u very tfuiui (louse—not More, he believed, than rit) Alcuilitts being preaelit —and many of them, lie 'tither imagined, were nut attn» gether aware of the astute of the tlemion which they hail countenat.ced. He dill not stand up there, presuming to qateWion the riglits and priviw lege' of the Commons ' Humor of Parliament. He knew and respected those immunities, because they belonged to them . as the Itepresentstives of the People. They were not merely the privileges of that (louse--they were, in fact, the privileges of the great body of the people--and he Phoul.l be ashamed of himself, if he were so Ignorant of the value of those rights, as to slept up to that House, and say any thing tending to bring them into con tempt or disrespect. Willi reference to the vote of Weiloooloy last, lie would siov , death all due deference for the opinion of other Geoolemeo, that the House acted in error. One disadvantage against winch he haul to contend, to order to produce any favourable result from this application, was the dif ficulty of guardittg himself front otferiug any ob servations on the transaction in which this business originated. He should • be sorry to press any nh. nervation oft that subject against the Hon. Member for Limerick, or to make soy remark whatever, that tended to prejudge the question'. Ile was free to say, that if, oil au itiVevtigation of the whole affair, on !Monday se'imight, it s hould appear, that a conspiracy had 'wen entered into against the lino. Member for Limerick, no punishineut, in his couhl he inflicted on the authors of it, which their conduct would not fully warrant. Let it not, there. fore, be supposed, that lie meant to offer any opi nion on the case. Ile had moiling, at preset'', to do with that question, which would, tat a subse quent period, become the subject of grave invest'. gallon. Those Members who %%ere nut present at the previous proceedings, would perhaps sallow him to put them in possession of a few facts, which were esseutial to the proper understand ing of the ,Petitioner's ease. The son of the Petitioner asserted, that a Member of the House of Commons 11411 attempted to dispose of is situation, connected milli the administration of the Criminal and Civil Late of Ireland. fur b lee anal corrupt luirposes. Ile charged that Mem ber with those corrupt practices, and lie left the House of Commons to deal with that charge, as, iii its wisdom, it might think tit. The lion. Alentber, against whom this charge was made, delivered, iu leis piece, a triumphant reply. But what said the House ? Notwithstanding this defence, tiny said " 11'e will hear the charge on Monday se'ainight at i o the bar !" In the course of the Hllll, Member ' s speech he produced a letter from the Petitioner's father, which created a strong sensatioot. Now, in his humble judgmeavt. if the letter thus produced had been sufficiently proved to have come from sir. Grady—had it been avowed, at the bar, by that Gentleman, as Ins band-writitog—sill, to the then state of the original procetaliog, the House having determined to hear the charge, they would have done better, if they had abstained from takisig any steps, snore particularly one so strong as they had resorted to, pending a proceeding which they hail themselves sanctioned. But what course did they take? Those who were absent ought to he informed—and those who were present ought never to forget the proceeding. Strangers soinetimee heard what was going forward ut that House —mod it happened that Mr. Grady, before he was lartuu,:lit to the bar, did hear it resolved by the House, t h at his letter was " a high breach of their privileges." If Mr. Grady, when placed at the bar, had said, " I have heard your vote—but the House cannot expect that I will accuse and criminate myself. It is unjust to call on me. You have determined to hear the original coinpluint, wow, theta, interrogate lute on the "'object of this letter 1 4 [lad lie thus expaessed himself, he would have been perfectly justified.— If he bad gone further—if he had bulkily said, " You have no right to interrogate me—l will not :answer you—the first priocuples of the Constitution under which I have the happiness to live declare, that a man shall nut be compelled to cons let sir cri minate himself !"—even if lie had used that lan guage, lie would only have alone that which he had a right to do. W'hese then would have bran the evidence of his having written this letter ? what ground then coold they hate eutiltuittell him 1 The Learned Gentleman (Mr. Ilioughani) stated it to be his opinion, that the Ilion. Member fur Limerick was eligible to appear as a witness in this case, because lie was not a party in the pro ceeding. Nut a party ! How could such a propo sition be maintained ? What did the Honourable !tether declare in Isis speech ? He stated that a foul conspiracy had been formed against him. What did the Noble Lord (Custlerregh) state ? Ile gave it as his decided opinima, that Mr. Grady tva• one of the colospirators. Was, then, the Member for Limerick a party or not in the proceeding. when he exclaimed, that a conspiracy had been set on foot against him, and when it was asserted, that the isadisialtud brought to their bar was 11111,11Catril in that conspiracy 1 Ile Contended that the Hum. !Member was a 'party, and being placed ill that si tuation, he ought nut to have been called tau to give evidence.—(lieur.l—Suppose those pervious who wore Called conspirators should prove their case— what then would be the situation of the douse? Wheat !multi this, he holied, and lir believed, the'', for his own I ir, and for the honour of Parlia lova, the Member for Lilo. rick would fully cleu.r himself. But, let them suppose the contrary—why then they %soul(' be v.sited by the unplear•ittat re flection, that they had allowed Mr. Quio, the per son accused, the principal party in these proceed ings, to give evidence in his own elte. Hr would contend, on every principle of right void justice, that Mr. Quin ought nut to have been odinitted as a Wittie4ll us N Cans with which he e as so inanely connecteol—(//eor, irear.)-1 le knew that many Members quitted the House while the busi• aiess was in progress—and he felt quite convinced, that, when the motion was carried, there were not, as lie before said. more than fifty Slembrre pre gent. A questiou ofsu important a motile requir e! more mature deliberat 00000 0 and should nut have hero decided so hastily, and in so thin a House.- -1 Mars)--Suppose the letter to have been the most objectioneble that c!;ualil be (retailed, still Ogresses nu evidence, except that of Mr. Quilt. to tiring it biome to Mr. Grady—and (hut evidence, he would Maintain, taught out to have been rrstrty ed. There was Ito midst's to the letter—the lino. Member stated that he threw away the envelope, tau which the superscription was written—and his name did 11111 14111W11( 111 it front 114101111111 g 111 end. flow, then. could they safely and conscientiously deride that it was written by Mr. Grady and sent by lain to the Ilea. Member i• Ile observed, that there wit a considerable titter amongst nentlemen, when Mr. Grady eppeared "at the bar with spec levies, mid stated, that, for IS year., his sight was so bail, that lie could nut speak to any partictslar hassibwrittiog, if exhibited to Info by candle-light.— Now, he could shew, by the moat respreteble tes timony, derived from per-ons who hid known Mr. Grady iii France, in this cmultry, and in Ireland, that his orga... of vision were extremely imperfect— that lie found ereat difficulty in distioguishing ob. jects. Its would go turther,.asid prove, incontest. ably, that Mr. Grady was so short-sighted, that, In going throw:( the streets, lie ran the hazard of being rail over toy the carriages which were passing, if he had not a dui le with him. Ile mentioned this point, incidentally, to sties. the hostile feeling with which the I louse virived this Gentleman, and to prove, that, in this instance. the feeling was not justified by the fact. A feeling seemed to prevail that Mr. Grady wished to deceive them altogether —but the truth wag, th it, though he wax a studious man, of great alsjliiy, and much attached to read ing, it was with difficulty, that lie could either read or write even in the day time. It might not be improper here to observe. that Mr. Grady had it in his power to have left the !louse, ever and over • ogaiii, when the proceeding was going on, and when every person could ;perceive whet was likely to be- the result of it !—(Hear, hear.) — Surely, his rernsiiiiiig to hear their ilecisiiiii, and his respectfully subinittiog to their orders, were circumstances that might to weigh considerably in his favour ! letter, if it were the most Olen sive possible, was not proved, by sufficient evi stetter, to have been written by even if it had been his iiroductiou, it was evidently primed, as hr hail stated on a former under feel ing. of strong irritation, after the office of Clerk of the Peace was given ',wily. %Vital said the Alen,- her for !Amend: to this point ? ‘• When," said lie, Mr. Grady was agitating this subject in My county, when lie was *weeding retinas !prejudicial to toy character—might I not, by re-instating his foil in this rare, which I had it in my power to ,10, have effcetually sidled his complaints? But I did not fear them, Nod therefore I gave the care to ;m -other." corum.,...ers were here worthy of notice—fiat, that the letters said to have been written his Mr. Grady, were out sent till after the office w a s g iv e . ; tkretitl4lly, that our of the c h a r g es w a s, that the Hon. Member gave assay the office oulv during pleasure, and might revoke the gill whenes rhe pleased. On the Yid of Sep. tetolter lie gave notice to the Petitioiler, that he bad that data giscii away the office ; and, on the 19 ,1 1 of Ot•tnl),•r, the letter complained of was writtrii, alter 411 ilihnlatlUn that the Gem. Nleinlter lied derolid that he would place sir. IL Smith in the office. That letter lie held m h.* hand, and he insisted there was not tut 4! which could be fairly slid to contain a breech of the privileges of that )-louse. Mr. W. ‘l'lgtr, to order—" It i+, Sir, a little too inueli, when a resolution has passed, nernine coNtendicente, and t• so entered on Our Journals, designating a particular art to be a high bre:.cli of the privileges of the House of Commons, for an Ho►.ouraboer Member to come down and say, itt the fixe of that resolution, that the in thus described is nut a breach of privilege. —(hear.,—This is the more extraordinary, the flotiourable Member him self having been present tarn the resolution was agreed to, and having offered no opposition to it." Mr. Hu rcuiNsox said, that Laving spoken on the subject to many Members much older and more experienced than lie was, to nhom he stated, that he conceived the case to be one of extreme hard ship, and having failed to inspire them with similar sentiments, he withdrew when the question was put. He afterward• moved, when Mr. Grady was sent to Newgate, that the whole of the proceeding+ should be printed. iu order that the case might he properly understood. lf, in reading Mr. Grady's letter, he was n o li ning correctly, he would not proceed with it, far lie would ant willingly adopt ally p:neeeding' that was c•elculuted in injure a person limo lie had so long knonn, and whose cause he supported, nut merely because Mr. Grady was his foietirt, but becative he considered loin to be au ag , zrieved M r , W. ‘l' y t ssr—.. 1 do not mean to object to t;ie H n. Member's readuce the letter, or stating. ring thing is favour of Mr. Grady—hut I object to t broad assert ttttt , that the leiter is 110 t a high breach of our privileges." Mr. HGTcHtSsoN begged to call the attention or the House to the following letter, dated Hos;Iogoc-sitr-Mer, October 19.. " Sin—As I have received no answer to niy letter, tle• livered to yon by Mr. C. Smyth, I presume you don't mean to answer it—hut I'Vril that shall nut divert me from the course I mean to take in ths business; tiuderueith you base the copy of a letter written by oite to a leadiug Member of Opposition with whom I have been the last week in London, who furnished me with extracts and precedents from the Commons Journals, for the purpose, anti to whose advice I have committer! myself; I think it right to assure you, that I base not, and shall not, communicate upon this or any future step with Mr. C. Smyth, mu.h less with any body else on the other ride of the Irish fii.unirl. I depre cate any idea of a threat ; but, as I have utten thine before to your advantage, I off.e yen advice ; I advise you tto slote my sou to his officc, of which you deprived him, by an appointment fur life before the first of next January, anti by your answer to my letter to inform me that you mean to take my advice. No answer I shall consider as re jecting the advice, and it will be uuneeeseary fur you to write, if you determine upon rejecting it. Your answer, ur your uo answer, will be here, or will out be here, the 12th of November; and to rave you further trouble, and me further delay, I think it right Its obssave, that the suggest' of ally mithlin term, will not fall within the scope of my advice. " Ste, your obedient Servant, " THOS. latal./Y." lie (.Ir. Hutchinson) had read this letter several tinted—and a great deal more light must be thrown utt it by the Learned Gentleman (Mr. Wynn) or come other Hon. Member, before lie could he led to consider it a breach of the privileges of that I louse. The Learned Gentleman (Mr. - Brougham) tiluvervetl, that, even if there were no attack on the Hun. Member fur Limerick, in his Parlia mentary capacity, contained in the letter refer red to in that which lie had just read, still it WWI a libel on the House. But, suppose the Petitioner proved his case at the bar on Monday ire'intight, where, Oben, would be the libel ? The Hon. Member for Hover asked, on the former vvening, " What ! Gentlesneti, will you liberate a mini oil htiday, who was committed on Wednes day ?" lie would say, 6. Cert.iitily—ii, on exa mining the proceeding, you find he has been int. properly committed, lose nut a moment it. rescuing "I him from configieme..t !" lie wished I to understand, that be came forward on lion, without am• communication from lie had not seen bon on the subject. Um he had communicated to him the proceetin took place on his Petition, yesterday eventi to that communication he brit received whatooever. He stated Olio, that no impression might be made with respect Grady, on account of this application. (Mr. H.'s) spontaneous act, in the discharge rious public duty. The lion. Member' had said, •s that the fir,t win of the P, peared to him not to fall far short of statii Petitioner had been wrongfully confined. be conceived there was really nothi ng Mr. Grady ariured the House, the othe , that he had no intention of insulting the Commons, by any thing he had vsrittei also declared that lie was innocent of imputed to him. would therefore *ohm the consideration•of the Ifni). Member whether it was a grave filterice, to state, sod respectful terms to the hour, wl previnurly declared at their her e that: innocent man lie begg;4l pardon of , for having detained them so long, and he Gentlemen of niore experience than For iust 'iii on this occamon. It Was no ttot),itwas a bubjcct that clime home 11 and Wings of all, awl he hoped hi, an wet with general aitiiport. The lion. c•onclndni by moving— " That Thomas Grady, now a prisoner in his Nl...jests, Gaol of Newzate, he hronglit to the Hard this Hour forthwith, in order to his being discharged." Sir R. Wit.sos, in rising to second the motioL, expressed his regret that the justice of the Hour. had been administered in so summary a marine.. He did not mean to rider into the general toper, connected with this motion, but he would cot). fine himself to the latter part of Mr. Gradv' s Petition. Fie there stated, that his liberaiion was essentially necessary to the arrangement those proceedings, with respect to the Honoural, Member 6.r Limerick, which were now prodii, 4 before the House, and which, he might say, attract- ed the attention of the entire kingdom. His Nan, .1 he observed, was only 23 years of age, and, as was known to many Members of that House, was es tresuely inexperieoced. Now it surely would not be for the honour of the House, nor for the honour of the Member fur Limerick, whose spirit and feel ing were so much in union with the serious duty he had to perform, to prevent the Petitioner from ho. big the benefit of his fiither's counsel and assist. mice. All the parties were, if he might use the term, judicially innocent—none of theta had been convicted of soy crime. They were all person of high respectability, and their interest, tlitr honour, all that was dear to them, depended on the issue of this examination. Let then not, if they failed in proving the charge, say, "4 We were prevented from doing so, by the of the • House of Commons. We were owed and deterred by the exercise of power against this individual, who was calculated to afford us every assistance." No, if they did fail, let it be owitig to their criminal inability to substantiate the charge, awl then the punishment which followed would prove the upright justice of the House. The lion. Member for Dover said, the Petition was worded in such a way WI to offend the dignity of the Ilouse. He was sure it was not Mr. Grady's intention to do so. He threw himself ou their candour and mercy :—And, since he had entered the House, he had reason to know, that Mr. Grady wrote a very temperate letter, intended to be laid before them, but he had intrusted it to the only channel through which it could not be re ceived by the House of Commons. The indivi dual to whom it was handed, felt for the situation of Mr. Grady, but the forms of the House pre vented him front laying the fetter before them. Mr. COVIZTEN AT said, lie felt • most painful sensation, in being obliged, after due deliberation, to oppose the present motion. He stated, origi nally, the impartial opinion he had formed oil this subject, and lie assured the House, ill coming to that decision, he was not actuated by a particle of hosti lily beyond what a Wall would naturally feel OD such an occasion. He was reads to admit, that if, on a snore deliberate consideration of this case, they saw good reason to depart from their previous opinion, it would not be at all isieonsistriit with their honour or dig. nity to retrace their steles, and adopt another course. If, oil full consideration, it appeared, that they were, on Wednesday !light, betrayed into an im proper act, hr., for one, would conscientiously state, that lie would not he ashamed to acknowledge his error.—( //tar, hear./ —But it was because, after serious deliberation, lie conceived the course adopt ed by the House to have been perfectly coo rect— because he did not thick that the Petitioner had made out a case, impugning the justice of the House, or calliog for its mercy—that he now op posed the motion. The lion. Gentleman had not given quite a correct representation of the case. The first point touched upon by him, he would put thus:—The House had decided that the vending of this letter was a high breach of its privileges. The ground Oil which they Caine to this decision was stated, on a former night, by a Learned Gentle man (Mr. Brougham), iii a manner so clear and concise as convinced the mold of every person who listened to lion, that their proceeding was perfectly correct. !le (Mr. Courtelaiy) begged leave to state whst were nut tier grounds on which the letter was held to be a he( :oil of their privileges. The breach of privilege did nut arise flout any personal affront or injury supposed to be done to the Hon. Memo-r for Limerick. it rusted on tins, that Thumes Grady, not being referred to as a witness in sup port of the Petition, but being the father of the Petitioner, wrote a letter to the Hon. Member for Limerick, which, taking all the circumstances together, as every man of sense and judgment would take them, evidently contaiiied a threat ut using the power of a grave parliamentrry pro. ceediug, in order, virtually, to ()biotin luogleY. — (Hear. Attu, hear.)—lii the case of as ordinary Court of Justice. an attempt of a similar nature, that of exercising its powers for the purposes of extortion, would be severely punished. It was one of those offences which every Court, by the power inherent to itself, laid a right to, punish, and did not depend upon common piciliosijimis of l a w. ll' an inferior Court were allowed Ibis privilege. ceitainly the !lathe of Curtuttoui were equally au.. tile 11 w n this ert., reidoubter,, reslinge , .vening, L., • d no 11111 c. sufavonat, rect to ,4 It 11'411 I. large of a se er for Dor e . Petition 'p. hog that the d.' In this g offensiv e . ether night House of tn. Ile 1 4 4 E the ollev e submit it t o r for Dover, ' r in huothi, chat he had ;: he was 1 the II he called inrrelf to party go.). to the hew , e lotion would . Gentleman