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lairfrom the line of proceeding already ;e.oleed
n, and every objedion made to an itnmekii4be •,
proceeding on the part of that House, was, is Lit o.
mind, equally applicable to the other House of
Parliament. It was no argument against any spe- .
cies of proceeding in that House, to say that the
Commons possibly may not cooenr. Such a prin.
ciple shr,uld never be laid down. He saw no ad-
vantage which could possibly result from a recite.
rence to the !louse of Commons, in the present vove
of the businvos ; the judicial charadcr was one
the greatest importance, and whatever liffele;f•it
should be seriously considered. And, in every view
of the case, be thought it preferable to continue the
present line of proceeding, but chiefly in those of .
regularity and exeroition. A speedy decision, in
sods a case, was of incalculable importance, arid as.
such he most oppose the motion
Lord Viscount CARLETON observed, that the
Loomed Judge in question was desirous of having
the charges against him thoroughly considesesf.
and suctions to confroot the vrausesas that shooki !At *-.**
kodght forward. The consi or bit snub
grity, his fame. his high office, combined to render
him anxious for an opportunity to come forward in
his vindication. He meant not then to say how far ~
those charges were foatided, or not, against the
Learned Judge, toot he thought he was justified in
assuming that some of them were not well founded.
because they were withdrawn. In adec'ting, gene.
rally, to the case, there were some peculiar eionms-
stances relative to the powers of the Judges in Ire-
land, which, in some points, were very dirrest •
from those of the English Judges. Alai some of
these immediately bore noon the ohjed under consi-
deration. The Noble and Learned Viscount referred-
to the different aft,, by whicn the present shoo:ion of
the Judges was constituted ; but, he coated, it was
not untii the year 1772, that the Irish Judges v-ere
placed upon the same footing as chose of Enoleod.
With swiped to the point immediately wider consi-
deration, the mode and coarse of proceeding in rich
a case, the ads were silent upon it ; hut the question
avowedly was not of the powers cif either Hoe e ;
it was a ea e of discretion with their Lordships.
oesped to the probability of the matter being
taken up In the other House; that there sore peti-
tions presented long Once, they knew, hot notbirg
farther; and so far as they were aw.ire, or could
argue from appearances, the Commons did not
mein to proceed. Adverting again to the Om/tiros
in which the character of the individual stood,
pending the discussions, lie thought it would he
preferable, that their Lordships should proctaxi in
the course already resolved upon.
The Marquis of ABEKCORN stated. that his
only object in coming forward. was the eediauf jn
tice, and to settle W. case between. the Learned
Judge and the petitiorers. on the part of an
inured public. As to the form or mode of
effefting that, he Lad no wish to saprrvl; 'twig

the poiut, was decided, he had nn wish to ecomess
that opinion. The discussion of the important sub-
iea under consideration had bean, on all sides,
treated with due gravity and deco-um; there
however, one exception. A Learned Lord, who
Ins merly filled a very sari-us and grave situation,
he thengle, in some inc.:sure, departed foo'n
the proper mode of meting the sirbjeeq. These
were even anpearances of a bias iu Ira mind. sad,
he reeorded him as insinuatire; thee he thought
sona• of die chArgei were ill fantasied, at he said he
had abandoaed theta. With rs-sprift to the charges,
his wish was, not to brill; forward say but what
w, re of sufficient weight and imenrtance. the rea-
sons which induced him not to bring forward. the
second time, those charges which were. omitted.
were specifically stated by him at the time ; and
these were' on the present occasion, referred to by
the Noble Marquis.
Lord Viscount CARLETON spoke in explana-
tion. He would leave it to the Noble Marquis him-
self, how far he had, in his expressions, departed
from that degree of gravity and dignity whit h
shoule always accompany discussioes in that House.
With respea to the charges adverted to, he stilly
said, he had a right to assume two el ehern were
not well founded, because they seer:. wit.- Ares.. n.
He by no means alluded to the Noble as
having proposed them, knowing them us re
founded ; did the Noble Marquis know him as sl •
as some Noble Lords in that House, he weuld Lot
bare so expressed himself; he never had a persemal
aleereation with any man; he never made the small-
OK personal allusion to the Noble Merqnis in shat
be said, stink's did he attribute to hint any isnpro•
per motives.
The blarquisof Ansecoess explained.
Earl SPENCER spoke generalii in support of
the proposition •sf His Ror.ol :'•;•)
• coesi aerations, lee tie:eight, should ‘t•lith na
such an oceesion; theit Lordships sh..ull coos der
they were about to set a pftcedent oa a case oi•be
eighess importance ; a circumstance which should
outweigh all minor considerations.
larwd- HAWKI.SBL RY observed. tie more he
considered the subje& in question, the more he was
confirmed in the justness of the obj %%ors he had
offered an a former night. Ay what fell from a
Noble Lord opposite, he was misconceived in what
he said on a former 'sight ; what tm 1)441 said sc.is.
that when the Commons lad decided upon a vote of
impeachment, he could not conceive a sy arc uni; upon
which they were not 'cooni to agr4e town Address for
removal in the first instance. With to peat to what
had been said that night oti the ground of de!ay. pro.
ceedings of the kind irftulved a kind of mat in the
House of Commons as well as in that Home ;
of
this the ease of Mr. 1-lastiags, who was heard in his
defence at the bar of that Howe,. was •n iestenee,
as was also that of Sir Elijah fenny. though the
ever-s were diff.trent. However, wt 3 all possiLle
respect inwards the House of Convnons. he thought.
that. in the particular ea* before taiem, truth and
justice were Wilt likely to be obtained by pus euteg
the investigation, as resolved upon by tbew