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Lord AUCKLAND observed, .tlSat previous to their Lordships proceed ingieS the ()tad& of the Day, ; business of a particular nature:Ara& to be attended .to, in Consequence, and the proceeding alluded to by the Noble Lord, being relative, we. understand, to a question of Privilege, the Strangers were or dered to withdraw, and for about twenty minutes an ' .exclusion continued. During this interval, a per. 1 . sots, who, we understand, is the Efficient Publisher. of the Albion, and who had been ordered to attend, appelredat the Bar of the House ; the proceedings' which took place upon this occasion, we are ob riemsly precluded from detailing. On our re-admission, The Eirl of ST. •L'INCENT was on his feet, and apparently towards the hose of a Notice which he delivered in a low tone of voice, to the einef, as we heard•hiro, that he should to-morrow, move for the Thanks of the House to Sir HYDE PARKER, Vice. .Admiral Lord Ntesoie, and the Officers and Sea men of the British Fleet in the Baltic. • The Order of the Day was then read for the Commitment of the Irish Master of the Rolls Bill, and accordingly the House ,resolved itself into a Committee upon the same, Lord WALSINGHAM in the Chair. The various Clauses of the Bill were then regu larly acceded to by their Lordships, without ob servation or Amendment, and the I-louse resuming, ordered the Report to be received to-morrow. Lord HOBART moved, that the Report of the Secret Comniiltee of the House of Commons, which had been recently communicated to their Lord ships, be then read : which document was accord ingly read by the Clerk :—after which, his Lord ship made a few general observations on the im portance of the contents of the Report, and the consequent necessity of their Lordships acquiescing with the other branch of the Legislature, in some efficient regulation for the• due strengthening the hands of Government on such an occasion, and con eluded by moving, as we could hear, that the 'said' Report be referred to a Committee of their Lord- • ships. When the LORD CHANCELLOR was about to put the Question on this Motion, The Earl of MOIRA rose, and observed, that cir cumstances might be such , as to call for strong mea sures. In such a case, he had no objeelion to giving additional powers to the Executive Government. But let it be done, he said, conscientiously. The other House of Parliament did not proceed in the business in question until proper information was laid,be fore them duly investigated by a Committee of their own appointing, on whose recommendations it appeared, that House aeted. He thought their Lordships •shotild proceed in a similar Why, and ati ',Dun infortnation laiA 1,4•F0r• *Kern. nod not merely upon the Report of the other House, to adopt mea sures which obviously, in some degree, were an in fringement upon certain onsti tut i ona l regu l at i ons . Lord 110BeiRT said, he fully agreed with 'the Noble Earl in the point he had laid down, and - if the Noble Earl had- waited but a little time he should have heard him propose the very proceeding alluded to. It was his intention, that in addition to the Report of the Secret Committee of the other House, a variety of important information, (which should be laid on the Table as soon as possible), should be referred to the consideration of a Secret Committee of their Lordships,. appointed in the usual way by ballot. The Noble Lord then moved to this effeet ; " That the Report from the Commons, should be referred to a Secret, Committee of e' ne i r Lordships appointed by , ballot, putting Li sts o f Names in glasses, and which proceeding s ta k e p l ace at half past Eleven c'elock to.moreow." On the questitsn being put ! Lord ROLL 'IND e" pressed his disapprobati on of the proposed fnestie of appointing the Committee, His objeelions to 'oallot, were, that by some strange unaccountable accident it happened, that the great Majority et the lists put into the glasses contained tae saul'z names. He thought the mode of appoint_ ing ',lie Committee openly in the House, preferhre, - ?:s was done in the important case of the Provision Committee. Lord HOBART replied, that the general praelice • of the House, from which he saw no reason for de parting, on. the present occasion, was to appoint Se.. cret Committees by ballot. The case referred to by the Noble Lord was that of a Seleti Commit. tee, which was appointed openly by the House. The question on the proceedings' moved for by' Lord HOBART was then put : they were orderd to take place accordingly, also, that the Lords be sum moned on the occasion. ' • Lord HOBART then moved the first reading of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, which proceed. ing, in the present instance, was opposedby the Earl of MOIRA and LORD HOLLAND, chiefly on the general grounds, that such an Important Mea. sure, which avowedly 'involved certain Constitu; tional principles, should not be suffered to advance until the House were fully satisfied of its necessity by the inspeelion of the promised Documents, or the consideration of the Report of their proposed Committee. • • Lord HOBART and the Duke of MONTROSE, argaed in favour of the first'reading of the Bill, as . abstradedly in itself a proceeding not of much importance, and as courtesy / in compliment to the Alter. House of .Parliament, Acisiead all 'Bills sent up y them, 'at least a first, tithe,--the more especially ; the Noble Duke observed, as in the present in. stance, the Commons had accompanied the Bill with the Report of their Secret Committee, which contained the grounds on which they had passed the Bill. The Earls of . KINNovt, and TnANt7 Said each fe4 - words ; after which the Bill was ttad a first time—and their Lordships adjutant 3, till lair vast eleven o'clock to.mortows 144.1(...“),Z VI" Co loG.talL...:tia) BONI'S - Oki APi IL .Is. • - The phrnaged . Ala i tzal was read'i fait tin and ordered to, b'e ceadia second tilde lei-rnorrow. Accoimrs of the totara:gtount orihe rr'lorrs• fortlft - last threJ yearn, distit*uishing those of Britt.sh,.Karifadure, were prosemod, and ordered to on the Taff.e. The Custom Duty Bill •A'ent . thrty..4h a Committee. and was 'ordered to - be - read - 11MM rime on-fritter,-, •-Reliortthe Cornrititteeatipioisti46l4;ol4stradrz...tbe. St.intling (.)rder4 ; relative to I twinseres, was referred to a . tett Committee. .Tie.Retiort ofrieditnittee on the Small Beer Brewers. 'refifigil was' hrtni)riSetip, react; bud agreed to,-*pci ordeittr to . ,,lK4f ß oicitt.in,,ia conformity to the Report. F. 11'EIRDZ7:T said,- that he iad a Petition to presebr, ionic he would now.read to the_flouse ; it was from Johnilietne, a piivate .soldier in -theist Regiment of • Foot Guards : It stated, that .he was ordered tolreland along with his - kegintent - in 17 , 18; that at Portsmouth, jut as he was going to emhail, he was arrested on the i zth of: July, and after some days confinemtnt sent to London, where he was ex. amined before, Sir Wm. Addington and Mr. Ford. Sir Y. Buknrrr was proCeeding in yearling • the Petition, when _ . ,The .O ) EzIKER interrupted him, and asked if he.could.not state the objea of the Petition shortly, and it would be read,when presented. .1;,- F. BURDETT said, that the substance of the Petition was a complaint of hard Ships suTered under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Att, and an' application for relief, but as the details or the Petition were in his • opinion of the utmost consequence, he wished to read it fully. -- He then proceeded. in reading the Petition, which farther stated that Mr. Ford asked the Petitioner if he was acquainted with Mahony and another Sol dier; to which he answered that he Was,. that they . were in the same regiment with him ; that Mr. Vord then asked him it he was not in the habit of reading Newspapers, &c. to the other Soldiers of the Regiment Here Sir F. BUZDFTT Was interrupted by Sir R. Btrxrox, who moved -the Standing Order- for the exclusion of Strangers. The . Gallery was immedi ately cleared, and we undeistood that Sir . F. 13t ~ a 7 Derr read the Petition, and having afterwards pre-. sented it, moved that it should lie on - the Tabie: A division took' place on this Motion' s . Olitalf - Wa's negatived ) but we could not learn the numbers.. Ott our - 'te:adinission to the Gallefy;. The tY LINCELLO R of the EXCHEQUER was • speak ;It on' the Question that the. Bill =to>prevent SeditiOns 'Meetings be now read a second Airtlei-- The cour:ie he recommended lobe rakti was, bat, the Bill be uo* read a secondtime,* that::i.L be coin, . mitted toLmorrow:, that the Report be receiv . ed..on , Friday, and that the-third readini next. He saw-no objection to.-.this coarse,.. atnd it he heard none stated, he should take it for granted that Gentlemen on the other, side acquiesced Mr. PITT said, he was stirprized - that.:any lay should have been expeaed by'. Gentlemen on the other side [Th;s evidently :soniethin g which eve did not hear) The Bill ytas'not:new to Parliament.: •It came before the' consideration of the House many•years ago. It then was a new: measure,. 'and was amply discussed and the-•expe- : diency k proved, and therefore it ,was adOptd, It rested onfaeta which • were then establish.;:it, and the continuance o f the cause of the NU was stated in :tic Rcpoit now before che . Houcfe, which Ri.port 'expressed, in the strongest tern, the necessity of the measure, for it was thtie p art i cu l ar l y state d that the ilninediate ob: j ed 'in the view of those whose machinatiorn were to be guarded against, was, that of "':olleaing numerous meetings in dif ferent parts 'if the Country at once, and to encica.- your by a sudden explosion, to avail themselves of the int_terVal . which may still take place before this Law can be renewed." If Gentlemen gave credit te, the statements of the. Committee, there should be as little delay ,in the progress of this measure possible, and Gentlemen would feel the necessitY . Of pr'oceedin'g in it- from day - to day, and to'appoint the time of the third reading for Mondiy tie*, and then, if there were objeelions to the , they might of course be urged. M r . .77,ER.VE.Y said, that the truth was, that w h en - lie was asking for delay, he was asking•for nothing, fur hirmelf, for he was as ready now as he. had bfe, ‘tt any, time, to state his objetlions to'rhe measure" hut. there were others whO wieie not ready, many who were'absent, and on theiratcOunt he wished for time. He wished also that the, Pub lie should have. some time to consider this measure, and tit the Hiiuse to Sec whether a T h•-• would be presented again.st it ;. 110(tihalite•knew of any, or believed there would appear moil olajdtirr eif•thit sort, for ; the spirit of . .Petition., was much . abated, and abated much in consequence of this Very Bill. having been in forte so 'Ong - as ir was ;'but he, staied...this in 'conformity to the ancient rates of Parliament, which always !awed considerable in tervals between the different stages of every Bill which operated in '%any degree as a:restraint upon the People. For his :own part he ftafilb' hope of producing much •effed i onposipg_this. Bill • he wanted no time' hithsett, tor tie was- re a dy t o d o, all tvhich he could do, that ofcntering a'Protest against this Measure ; bur others wanted time; and he thought the good old Rules of' the House- required that time should be allowed in this case s more than the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER seemed dis posed to grant. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. said, he was sine the House must perceive it • was his wish to accommodate Gentlemen .on. 4 he other side, as much as p oss ibl e , b ut the House must also see, it was incumbent on him not to assent to any. thing that wo u ld produce any considerable delay in the usual and customary progress of •a .Bill of this kind. Honourable Members would have an ample opportupity of offering their obje&ions on the third readlAg'of the Bill, if, in reality; they had any ; butilie amid not assent to the assertion.-of thelion: Gtii*lgroan who spoke last, that thecourse - proposed for p.ursuing this Bill, was contrary to the best pratliee of the House. He would refer to tlle Journals . ; and submit, that there were precedents for the mine which he proposed in this case. 'But this'll! had been treated as if the subjed was new, when; indeed, it was so far from being so, that we had had the experience pffiveyears upon its effed. - During all that time there was not one Petition against the Bill; a pretty good proof that the Country approved !r 5 1 4 Ltli ~~. '4 . . meant to contend that the Bill itself op erate d t a prevent Petitions; Unquestionably that cotild not beset - , for &sting that period Parliament had ed Petitions - for. Peace, and on various' topics of gr eat Public concern and National Importance. In o ne . • word, the right of Petitioning bad not been in the s. -slighteitrAlegre.c.relaided by .this. but on •the. 'tarty si 4 s' the ex rc se . Isf-it.itotisiteen-as-free-onel-4., frequent too, during the time in which .this• Bill war, as at any period of the same duration in th* • Zvliolc of our History, As to the Bill itself - Om lieved, that it - pre time it, was in some degree - ut popular ; but there was a change of opinion upoi k: ; ; ,4 that subjeet sb - Onafter its passing, and. he declared, that into all the company he went, the Bill Was app. ~.0 proved of uniformly by 'the most enlightened per.. • sons with Whom he had an opportunity of con. - versing. He had very, very often observed it to be the subjed of perfect approbation. It was .opposed as.- tirst from a principle that was laudable, and he. hoped never to see it extinguished in-this Country, principle of jealousy upon the subjel of Public Li.. betty. But soon after the passin g o f t h e Bill, a ''t convi&ion of the propriety of the measure succeed.- ed that jealousy ; since which the measure had been knOwn and:telt to be instrumental in:preserv ing the Constitution of this country., Now, .with, the experience of the utility of the measure for" Nur) years, without one expression of public discontent or dissatisfaftion, except i n t h e wa y o f Deb ate i n tharlionse,'.of which,he begged robe understood as not speaking. lightly, but in illustration, he would__ begleave.to ask, whether it, Was not rather t 04% much to presume, that if some time were to'ilipse, as some Hvn. Gentlemen kvmeci to wish, it W. I 'rtobahle ;hat numerous Petitions would be presented , against this measure ? If there was no probability' .-.. of any petitions whatever against it, he did nit see. • how, consistently with his public duty, •he • coda_ indulge his wishes to aceommlclate Gentlemeawitiv. further time than he bad already stated. Mr. SHERIDAN' dissented from the do&rine .. laid down by the CHANCELLOR of the ExcH I(autit l ,-• on. the subjea of 'the probability of there being •tbo: Peictidni tebelirer,cnted against a Me.asure, and-tberi:.' urging that for dispatch, when_the_ question_ wA, .. constitutional: as in this case he maintained it ;wok' The House should never srcculate either upon die probability or the iniprobabili t y of _Petition s ' haat_ presehted against a measure,' butif it' was of gretv -- . publiC, iinnortancei- and none greater - •than .tbis,. i was ilie - dury 'of the House to iive time, 'in ifideet that tii;etpptilic should examine die meas?re-lindief4; 2 i de rsfan'tjiti fully before it past Into 'Law .. ' .-lits thitdc, eilififer l iekat)s length iii)Ott . the Bill;:, and 'reneseettr all-t 4 4jettions WhiCh hachieen urgeitioVie OM.: . whetrirst introduced, into Parliament, bi4oonuhßi.. , '7 crwith'observing,- that he had no hope of" - hkils,::: jecqions _ha vit4 :any 'effeo, but' that he uttered theil railu:r as 'a. protest' 'against the 'Measure than as a il- efficient oppositioni to it. . - - • - • ::.. :,...:-. ,Lakl HAWKESBC.l4 7 sUpported the Bill, - as measure 'which had alriady produced the i nt - Otialet.;=. tary efteft.. It7had not in the slightest degree dis.,' o.3i.traged the pptetice of petitioning, for in .17g there were Petitions oh Various public subjefis t and • aintmg , the rest, .seVeral lOgtheCrOWn to disinisa its Ministers. In- short, he was convince+that nett Bill never did, nor ever would, check any fair-Pei:le t i on whalaver. leehecked indeed - some; aeobliii - 4 cal attempts to excite discontent under eolotti of petitioning, - and in that view of the thin the Bill was that toi which there never co* . be any objection. But the right of petitioning' the Throne - , or either House of -Parliament, .wattla Right inherent in the Subjeet.of this Country, its, tsst h r .e n:)ovite,dOli was a . Right so sacred, that lie would never 1544' to any me a sure to restrain even the capric e or et.. .cess of i t , ex cept when he s saw arY: e vi v d o e t n ed t n . e f c o esis r,this itli, for so doing. wHe sate that nec measure u that l g a r a o d un o d p , o l a ) p t d he thatsamoe ground,nly, the dispatch of it also. 1 ~ .--._ Mr. WILBERFORCE reserved stating.theliro. ments which convinced. him of the nicessitT'ilibe presehr Measure. till a future opportunity: o 4l4lo4 y rose now to corroborate the itatements'ofiliisitßight Hon. Friend respetting the opinion whiChhad.been entertained .bk the Public . of this measure when for. rnerly adopted: :He allowed that at first strong pre. judices, arising, from - misconceptions of the nature . of the measure, had existed against it, as it hadliet't n 'conceived- that- it went to prohibit,4l l -meetings of any kind Or for any purpose whatever. But when their misconcept4ins were done away, When it , ap. ~: pearcd_that it -only, laid. restraints on meetings to - consider of :any sobje6t relating to Church or , State, then the People in general came to consider •jt.as a salutary measure of precaution, of promo— tion,. and safeguard to the Constitution, rendered necessary by temporary circumstances. As to ir4e mode - Of :he - appointrnent'..of the Committee of Sat:my, he argued that although there.wcre Or -five -hundred of the :Houie who. entertaintd`tht sane • opinions of the measures which , ought ,to rpurstmd, but iulte• .• if they, aaed without CM. cert . :isi utiderStanting with each ocher, might hav_etiven in very different lists of Members to compose the Committee,- it might have resulted that that Committee -might have been chosen by. 4 very small minority of the . House.a6tiog in concert, and.been composed of Members in whom neither the Majority of the House nor of the Country could have confidence, if some plan had not been adopted to secure a conformity ofchoice, as where there was a coincidence cilobje,a and design, and he thought that the distribution.-.of the lists which had be talked of, was a fair A 9 will as Ali best Method or se. curing thii objed: He further contended, that no method could have been adopted which left a greater liberty to Members, : or could' have less room tOr.the operario of ibiluence, as any,Gentletuan was, left perfecliy at libertysto alter the list presentee-119J an) as he might think proper, . He net advettPl .to ER what Mr. SH I D A N had said •res, cding•-inqaoces in which the same plan in the appointturnt QC C. fiances of Secrecy had not been follo*cd.„7,As to the firsi," the Committee. on the Fintrt*t of t h e Country, be considered its. attention to..lt tire been directed •to a solljett on . which . no - O en . tleman who could add one figure to ant her could differ in . opinion, and that, consequently, there could . be no danger in apil4l wing pers ons of different scntimen :from the Majority of