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110V5E Cr commorks.

no Reverelos Bill Is no recd n third time, end poised.
The GINO Deg Bill wee ordered tu Yf mad a ttlid
ou Monday.

CO LL F.CTI NG TOE INCOME TAX.

Mr. dftr.; FILL Wire notice that, earty.day
after tl:e recess, Lt would submit to tile nutter of
the Fiorillo., a motion respecting the manner in a•biels
the income Tix was COnerted. He hum ever mould
nut bring tFe subject nude: rli.i ‘:ssion at all, if he
understood, lions an Hon. Gentleman oppobite.t hut
there was on Intention cf makiug any taccerity
terat'mns in thuiporie of entlevion.
The Cuaru-Et.I.OR of the EN.CHI.QOFtt elutes, ea
his reit:lines, to Like means to correL6 nay nheue or
ayil, if the Hon. Gentleman would stai= to fans the
facts nod ease:. where they existed.
"Sir J. NeWrer.lt uo-weei fart a. Alntract of due Deed of
funs-eyanee Bally farrirk and !munch us the imely of
Cork. Ordered to be laid bekre the House.
••1
SLR FRANCIS 11WIDET't
Mr. LEI 1111 l red the Order of the nay
for the resumed cuus:d:ratlots of the Letter of Sir
Framis Burdett.

'flit Order beteg read, the Segura Moser! the
question to be, "That this letter was a sciinesnotio
and layer, redacting on the just right, and
of the llome."
Lord °Murton entered ii.to a contr.:girt of the
different uutlioritits on the question es tr. the I.:11,4
and privileges of the Howse. Lord CliielJtse:ite
Hull slid, " thut tl.e privilegrsid the H• u, V
were well kitima, and fouuded on • tiro law
of the land." Lord Jr Grey, on the cent' wry, de-
dared, "that the law of Parliament was only it.c.nn
to Parlicineut-men ; for which retry 1111U11 war seek.
iug, and nobody could find." L•lron the u:tole, we
understood the Noble Lord (who was it..iod !the
except in a few detached senteum-) to object to tl e
undefined nature of the prteilegr s tiaimed h the
!louse ; and, in some degree, to deft tid the exprer-
*ions of Sir Francis Burdett in his letter discits:lrg
there claims, which came before them under very
unfavontable circiumttuces.

fte Jose ANNTRUTHER differed in tote fioeh the
Noble Lord who preceded him, End in nothing
more than that it 'hyoid be allotted to uny 00e to
wean the regard- of the people of England from
the House of Comic:ol,a. The House of Commas:.
were an iudepeorleat body, stAndeng on this Ammo!,
and thus particularly eituated, that tin y were
:equally bound to mist popular clamour rod the
enerenchment cf the Cronin. They sere to exer-
cise their own privileges, to deliberate withoot any
erintriniling inflireoce, •nil to "Nod di•tisict front
all other authorities. As he Lail differed from the
majority on She flight of diicaesing the elocution for
the liberation of Mr. Jotter, he wan the more amnions
to fbke this early oppot tunny of ileciasiag his emai-
l:seats. The got valor, before them was, win titer there
witi a libillons pttletic.ition ognitist them, "nil
they or not the House had exercised wrom,full
stoat they chinned as n right and piirder. it ft ‘,..8
attempted to draw a line, which he rowel nut 'Wier
to be drown, and to say, that if tie offence *is a
libel, it was to he porsi•hed by the comevon haw,
and not taken up by the' Home. flut a thing
might be a breve!, of peririkge as well as n fibol ;
Iltbd it Vas net bee-ease it might be punished
slac-
where, till, they wive to refiain.froas Yee:cuing their
own tiothiseity... Thr very comtnemieti.ent of ilia
Inter was a libel.. It &incited eiat t• the House
of Coearnous hail p-seed a vote which oninuated. to
a declaration that an nailer of Oohs was to Fie t t
more weight than Mims Chide' and the Inas
of the land." '(his ono a like istof
manna', tending t" injure and render obliuNiuliii
the House or Comninvi. As fur tilking übuut
Mare Ctorta, it• as, wile and tiihrisloisa, sr
it was Weil known it itid eat exist ft the time of
meeting these pried-7.1c With respect to their
bring contrary to the limn of the lain!, h. M.,c
sew; a few minutes to intiiitre. Where wire tit, y

to look for the law of' the land ? In the practice of
the House, ever since it existed, and 111 the princi-
ples ou which that practice was founded. lie
would try the asrwrtion by three tee tests. The
House of Cumulous being a branch, and a very
high branch of the Legislature, was not to be ea-
lu tttttt stet!, or obstructed in its proceedings. It
stood as exerosiug a high power between the King
and the people. The stating of this position was
almost sufficient. Was there u club or society which
hail not the power of protecting itself, sod should
not the House of COllllllOllll have that power
" Aye," it might be told him, .4. it is admitted that
you may remove personal obstructions, but you have
uo right to go any further." Were this the case, he
would ask if they could enjoy that for which they
chiefly met—the free exercise of their judement ?
Could they enjoy this, were libels sod attacks upon
them permitted to be suede? Did firm lemeir recol-
lect how the vute was carried against Lord Stratford?
slow Members were intimidated by libels to vote
for die murder of that unforturiate Nobleman ?
ll'hy might nut the same be dune agiiii to.iaor.
row, as was done then ? and men who spoke, as
he was now speaking, be booted, hissed, and
threatened, as they ;Passed to the House, in the
same incliner as the Straffordiuns were no Curtner
days? 11'hat was there, if they defended these
libels, to protect them from similar influence?—
There was no difference, in effect, between 10J011111g1
and hioungs iii the Hill, and scoffs and reviliogs, to
iutimidate them, posted on the walls and pillars.
All these were constructive libels, tootling up to the
present cite. To visit these was necessary to their ex.
silence, and retry calumny mom them, as 111,011111).
Court of Legal Jn.lieature, must be stopped its A-
ware. Wm it to argued, that they were to he ob-
structed by 'Mehl upon the walls, and to have no
resource nut the tardy one of indictment. nod appli-
cation to a court of law, which JO not look at the of-
fence in the seine form they did? %Vete they to sub.
mit it to :another judgment, as a breach of the peace,
or a libel, which, mi their own judgmr qt, thee could
try as an obstruction maul breach of privilege? Then
came the question. Who was to be the Judge I—lf
oot the House, then every shadow of its independ-
ence was gone; and they submitted to another ju-
dicature instead of theirowu. Even the lowest combs
of justice possessed the sole right of committing
fur contempts upon themselves ; and, in caves of
cominittel for contempt., no other Court would
iutertere ; on this principle, that every legal body
was the hest judge of its own rights. It was
said, that the House of Cououwis might abuse
ins authority: so might every Court ; hut this,
if allowed, was allowing no more Mau that au-
thority Haight be abused—.a position he was
not mauled to deity. Let those, lootecer, who
made this oloservation, examine the history of the
House of COllllOlOO., for the last three or four cen-
turies, and the,- would find that 110 Court had ever
overstepped its own hounds his. It was by its
deratiun it had acquired its weight, sail the more
that wright in the State was felt, the more pru-
dent bad they been in the exercise of their powers.
It was argued too that a breach of privilege was no
contempt. This was en arguiluent he could not
answer, 'perigee lie did out understand it. He
was not conteirdiug fur new privileges— fhey had
enough to make them independent. and one of the
chief 11/011CPS of independence was to be preserved
from calumny.—(lisar.) The Hence was slow
calumniated be one pretendisig to speck in the
voice of the people. If they looked back, they
would find times when the Ministers of the Crown
thorteht it fur their interest to culunseriate and ile.

grade them. Should the same occur again. would
Geo&emu hold the setae tau:Mag.' in that vase
they held in the present. If Nlinidera were to use
the slate calninuirs towards the House, would Gen-
llenaeii hold the same hip,sh tone in &Noce of them
and the same low op for the House. ?—(Heor.)
Till he heard it he would doubt it. Ile slid not
care whence die attempt to degrade them origin-
ated, he would pur.ne the same course fur the pre-
servation of their independence. The Learned
Baronet then entered into some of the precedents
bearing on the ewe. It was said that they
could not trace be. -k these precedents to the earliest
antiquity. Be lack ;molt ilged it; and the reason
was, because libels oile out known so commonly,
before the art of ii ii g %..ts so general. From the
time rioting became genet al, they could Ise traced;
and, with this length of practice he was contented,
whatever other Gentlemen might he. lu all times
the House of Commons, and all Courts, had exer-
cised the power of punishing expressions of cool
tempt ; sod whet do r••rciiee did the prustiog of theid
make in the offence This was no urw question.
It had been agitated at all tiers, when either po-
pular prejudice or struggle for prerogative ran
high. 1n all these ;listeners the House hail sup-
ported their rights, and had helot supported, 4,11
the sense groom's they maintained, by the Courts
to which, in seven.' instances. they had been re-
tercet!. The Nold, Lord (Choulston) had bid
them look to the re,orils of the noose of Lords.—
In his mind they had Letter luck to their own ; and
if th,,y dol. they would find is their Journals a very
ample answer,-by our of the ILtvrt toe., of the age.
to thid very ease cited from the Hoare ol Lorda..—
In the caries of tit r. Flower, Loot Mayor,
Crosby. Ike., the *ram principle pervaded. Swigs
Crosby applied to the Court of Cotestion rk.: f.
a Pil!rsits Corpus. ti• be hailed ; hut this was re-
fused. and he was rem. sdrd by Lord de Grey, one
of the best authorities that could be referred to,
and the other Judges on 'he Bench, on the ground
that, as the committal 'or a contempt was on
the face of the warrant, the Court could not in-
terfere. It was then lir 1,1 ky every Judge in
the Commou Pleas rad I....chequer, and after-
wards by the Judges in tf,r 'gag's Bench, that
every Coital was to judge of its own COOtetnrt4.—
That adjudication was coneirtine, and that the
puoistoneot committrl. Thus t it whole twelve
Judges acre of the slime opiuiai. ..ord De Grey
expressed hie opinion to this short, hue remarkable
passage: "They here a right to euinuct, because
•it is necessary they should." Fortified with these
anthoritiea, he had no hesitation in saving, that the
moment they parted with the right to determine on
their own privileges, the) must become dependent
either on the Cr • the mob; for - 'ild

Drown or ne would not
say the people. lii the case el• Mr. Aietande•r
Murr.ty, he was remanded by the Court of Low, on
the mime pi three he had ju4 steed. It
was the smut• in Om Petition, *hie), we a
ha 1 ptewl.k..l at their bur, during the silting of a

Tory Parliament, under the contralti of Tories,
ter presenting which the ilidividualse •erae4l stem
euimatttsd. The next year, a W lug Parliament
acted uu the wine principles, and carried them still
farther, by embodying theta in resolutions. It was
iiguinst these resolution+ that the attack of Sir F.
Burdett was levelled. He only quoted this case. to
"hew, that ell parties agreed in iutkoowledging their
right to co 11111 l it. It was attempted to pare (loan the
venerable authority that had been adduced; but he
did not we how thiecould be done. It was nut by
stating and commenting ou them, singly or de-
Nein-db., that they could get rid of all the Judges
awl Sages of their day. Neither Chief-Justice
Holt, er the House of Lords. ever controverted
thp it power to commit fur contempt, but only as to
the espediency of its exercise on particular dices..
lions. Ile would not enter into that, and reipierpted
the House not to he led away by the introduction
of the question, whether they bad seer overstepped
their power? the real matter for consideiation beie4.
the assertion of Sir Francis Burden, that they
had not the power to commit at all. He had
done, in his opinion, all that was necessary.—
lie had bitten that they were claiming no new
principle, but exercising their acknowledged
irrivilege, for the removal of obstructioes. ,He
had *hewn that they hail th'i power to commit.—
that the House wus the sole judge of its own iirivi.
lege., mill that, whether the contempt was in this
cries of a mob, or embodied into 'pamphlet, still the
offence aas the same. It was no matter thought it
came under any other deseription of hisel or breach
of the peace, telll it was also a breach of their privi-
leges. The sleet question that prevented itself was
oil Sir F. Burdett'. letter. With it ha had no fault
to flail, fur its cote' log on the idscussion of the sub-
ject of their rights. The Hon. Baronet had taken
up a hopeless argument, and had treated it so ill,
that his pumohlet wits one of the worst out the ash-
jeet ever published. It was a repetition of the ar-
guments so much h szlitiled in the time of Wilkes ;
in 17e1 ; and in the time of Ashley and White ;
and though the former might not be in the recol-
lection of many of the young Members whom he
saw around him, yet there were many iu the /louse
to whom the Honourable Baronet's course dis-
played nothing. The fault he had to find
with the pamphlet was, that it was Lolly
written, arranged, and a plagiary front all the
former authors who had treated on the sub-
ject. It contained not a single idea which was not
at least a cent ury old ; whi, ii, being worse stated,
was drawn up and exhibited to the public as some-
thing new. Ile would have left it to die—which
such a thing- as he. had descnbed it to be would
have done—like all similar produetione. It was
replete with :id-conceptions, bail quotations, and
false statcanetits. It was the hringitig it into notice
that made him mistrust the whirls:win and judgment
to the Honourable Gentleman whose .tnotirm they
were now discuasiuq. He could not inesrgine that
such a pamphlet could be mischievous, however
gross the inis-stutements were, with which it
&dummied. (if these, passing over the greater part,
hr would point out one or two. The petal/1101i
from Blackstone, in the title-page, was an attempt
to deceive, by iiiiitscipie a belief that Blackstone
was an autilwiry fur die opinions inainiamed by
the writer. Time contrary was the ease.
stone was one of the Judges who eamiuitted Cros-
by ; and, still more, in his hook, he expressly laid
down the doctrine, that the Courtacould not relieve
perwma committed by either Ileum of Parliament.'
tiir Francis Borden a!so nos stated, wheu he held
out that the !loose hail heard, *sit I's own walls, all
those libels, and gnat abuse, which were oltIV
rite,' uu.the pamphlet. This was not the feet;
and lie appealed to all who heard lion, whether the
Hon. (fart. had in that House ever tittered oar-half
of whet he Wilshire Kieran's. public ea a speeeletbere
delivered ?—t• Hear, hear, hear.) Th.-resolutions of
1721 were stated by Sir F. Burdett es the com-
pendium of their whole privileges. Thia was un-
fair, fur the house del then, us they generally did,
only vindicate the !privilege impeached; but in the
middle of the pass ige (looted, the ll.m. Baronet
might have seen a sentetice (of a hiell lie had over.
looked the repetition l his
extract) which over-
turned his whole hypoillesi., by slitting that the
privilege then asserted au. Wile among tunny others.
The pamphlet oil tiles.. ilt1:011111, was deserving of
contempt, and he stolid not *Mask so ill of the
proule of Logland, as to imagine they could be
misled by it. It could do no harm, for lie was con.
Amsted the inure their privileges were coneys...al the
:firmer they would stand. If it had not tweet thirty.
live years since this «levatiou had heel' agitated, he
did not believe that ten people in the country would
have read it. Since it was noticed, however, it
was for the discretion of the House to pursue the
course they thought best. In the case of Major
Scott, a rearimmol hail been thought sufficient--
others had • t..d. But before the I Ism.
Gentleinau brought forward this mono's, he ought
to have looked at it in all its bearings and attendant
circumstances—'o hare consulted those better so-

quaanted with the practice of the flots,e than he
sass anti to have ailvistd with them what ulterior
proceedings he would have to prrimie, rather than
ask the Biome to come to two Resolution', without
knowing what superstructure was to be raised on
this foundetunt.
-Lard Fo!.xsroax was of a contrary opinion to
the last speaker in terry thing he had sidrinieed.—
lief. re he proceeded to treat of the ips.•stioii, he had
a few ob-ervations to make on what haul airsarle
be-ii the emus.- pursued. Ile complained of the
mode in which Mr. Lethbridge brought forward his
1041,, Mill of the variety of 4ruuts:lr and opi-
nion, on %Omit &fie-resit speakers had argued the
case. Tire letter Wilt> denominated libellous and
scandulnu,, but PM steps had been taken to
prove this. One Honourable Gentleman had
token up the passage respecting the warrants.
Now , in the legal definition of warrants, there
were tour necessary points, hi all of which that
issued by the Speaker of the House of Coin-
moos was deficient. It could therefore, Zss his COM.
ception, he nu %rt.y great crime to call it illegal;
another lion. Mcintscr had descanted oo the word,
re-Ist," Is if it had beta used its an improper
arose. But if they would look at the context. Met
would food that it. was coupled with 4' legal.
or 4. resist the docti..-.." " resist with voice,"
in noise of which it could be co,strueil into an
improper mcamtig. But even take the word
111 its COMOMU sense. were there nn authorities
for 10 The great Lord Chatham used stronger cx-

pressions. In one place, speaking of the
rights bring infringed ))))) he sii)s, rattier thus
up their claim., tt I..et ohbeiorti prevail fne
In 'soother, tt Would rather see the que.tiesi
brought ticiapplie, and tried between the prop
the Government." The bowie would be

pamiug judgment un word,. winch could 001
harsh construction, be twisted 11110 higir

thought wrong. Another 1104 1111 l rwble Get
hart commented on that yee.age, where i

of Rights. as i Bill of Wrongs, nos
to. This passage he read, to alien that igh
Mr. Yorke might, the House had no reaso• to
compluiti of it. Another pa—age had been much
commented upon—that in winch it was said, that
the Douse of Commons with their high-
flown fanciful ideas of majesty, and tricked out in
the trappings of royalty, think privilege and pro-
tection beneath their dignity, assume the ,word of
prerogative, and lord it equally over the piing awl
the people." Ou this passage be agreed *Oh the
Learned Gent. on the bench below (Sir S. Itodully)
that lie could slot ck•rlt usideruand it. It was one
of those used by the Worthy Bart., whew he moved
for the liberation of Jelin. and it was worthy of
remark, that this, and all the other strong paseages,
bad; hero used by. hits, either at that tune, or some
other, in the Rinse. He could not tuck. out the
meaning of tint sentence; but. us far as he could.
from the context. it 'appeared to mean, that, by as-
suming the power to punish without law, the
Norse would do what neither the kink or people
pretended to do. He these came to the terms of
the resolution, " libellee* and scandalous." To
he scandalous•, the paper must he false—to be
bellous, a had intalllloll must be proved. (It it.
falsehood he had heard nothing, mid lie believed
it would be difficult so infer any had intention
from the publication of what the author considered
as a good argument. The second resolution brought
the House to decide oil its own rights and privi-
leges, denied by this paper. Ile did not know bow
fur the faetof publisliiiig his opinions to his consti-
tuents wee • breach of their privileges. lie was
aware, that to publish any thusly; that paned to that
House was a breach of their privileges, interdicted
by law ; yet the practice was conniveel al, and al-
lowed. As for privileges, 'he could coeceive they
had ts right to none, but what were accurately de-
fiued, in stature ■std extent. To prevent obstruc-
tion appeared to be the limit of all they could
claim. The Noble Lord then described the an-
cieut privileges cud immunities of the House, such
as freedom from arrest, exrrpt•fur treason, freedom
of spe,ch, Lc. &c. under none of which descrip-
tions, lie cooteutled, the privilege now claimed
by them come. To 114 e their attention was not
to be distracted or 4d0,1 envied by libels, was
potting it to Cie aid. at extent. The Master
of the Rolls, on a former evening, had said, that
voter was uret'i.art•. Ile observed, that the
Learned ill." 1101 Ilse the word " privi-
lege," and as the saute 'duration to words ap-
peared in the opinion of Lord De Grey, hr in-
ferred that at w•as power, not ;lege, they coil•
tended for. The right to remove oliatructious was
always conceded. But here, in Jones's libel, there
was no obstruction, and the busitiesii of the House
would have gone ow perfectly well, if it had never
been noticed.. As for the Courts of Law exer-
cising the power of co 1111 l lithos; for contempla. that
rule was not invariable. The Court of
Bench had been beaten in the ease or &nor',
when Lord Newfield presided in that Court.—
Bingley was brought op for a contempt, is the
publication of a libel. He denied the authority '
of the Court to Commit him without • trial lay
Ids Peers, and the Court committed him. After
two t ears' imprisonment, still denying their au-
thotiy, he was discharged on the motion of the
Attoiacy-Gearralr uu the ground of his punish-
ment lupin hurts sufficient. Here then "was
• case analagous to &Melia, in which the Court
1. was defected—for if the host contempt merited '
punishment, the continued aggravation owned
further imprisoutnent. lu his opuiiou, the more
legal and just way was to pursue for the libel by
indictment, rather than econsnit, without trial, for
contempt. The case of Huxley S iiidon had been
quoted, but that was very ilia... Tent. for he wally
obstructed the House sitting as a Court of Inquiry.
Nagar* Charm said, that no person should be com-
mitted to prawn. lint by legal authority ; where
then, he shroud 10 k, was the legal iiiithority in this
case? where was the lasi by which he was
ted ? But this gr••at principle was asserted, not
merely by Afagaa Charts, not merely by law. but
by the three branches of the Legislature di►tinctly.
Charles the. First had disclaimed the right to en-
join any thing against law. •I'he Home of Com-
mons had wide a declaration to the stone ef-
fect, and the House of Lords also. That there
were Resolutions of both Houses oil the opposite
side, lie (lid loot mean to deny ; but the Right
! lion. Ceidleinaii hail no reason to pride himself
upon such instances; they arose out of the ferment
occasioned by the eases of Ashley and White.—
The Right Hon. Cieut. say, with truth, this
they were nut to go, in usery instance, for an ex-
plant tam of their privileges to the Howe of Lord.;
but if, upon examiliation, it appeared that the
judgment they had pawed was right, the circum-
stance of its being their judgment should not re-
vent them from attending to it. There was tioother
reason which induced him to deny this right in the
House of Commons or the House of Lords; it was
this—lf two brunches of the Legislature claimed
the right of commitment. why-might the third ?
No person could admit, that the oxen ise of such a
right upon the part of the Crown was reeoncileable
with the Constitution; ■nd yet, in his evil:ion,
there was ■■ much potted fur the assornpt' of
it in the one case as In the other. It was minimal
to s-iy, that a person committed by that House
for breach of privilege was entitled to a Habeas
Corpus, if the Court had not • right to dismiss
him on the investigation of his ease. Tile House
had attempted to commit Mr. Wilke., in vain; it
had attempted to commit a men of the name of
Coleman. Oliver it had committed. but Wilkes
had refused to attend ; ■nd they, to get rid of the'
difficulty, ordered I - to attend on Thurseev.
■nd adjourned over to the Friday. lu the r•:ise of
the Refund) Petition. in 1701, the temper of the
Parliament was tuntiVest, from tl•e tumbril; of a
resolution passed by it, in, shortly after it w s pre-
sented :—they decided that Me. Culpeper. Member
for Maidstone, one of the persoca cuocerned iIl the
scandalous timid] Petition. was ma duly &levied.

to poll 'tenon,. to th, it '1
wary wily, -tricix„
het it was a merit
1, 1111 c*ve 1101.1 00:0.00
ly
20O1Mei could I.e hea:ti,
fMr.llll:lli4r pfeCt.C4illig,
he
d cootie on a grave sr,d
111 ; that they *yowl
thought pulheiretty Itri„e
4,,11, nt, and to Ise tt,iers.4
at they would recollect then",
.pportuunv of bring heard int,*
defence. He hoped still Lit!..tr, that they *0„14,
reflect, they writ sitting us judges, nut es aerate
and that, as jiidgea, it li• came them to deride ups,
the inertia of the particular case, ebstructed heel
other utr.ttrr. Hitherto, he was sorry to say, the
conductors and supporters of the charge h,d
played no such disposition ; they had talked of the
necessity of repressing the spirit of Jacobins-a); a
comoderation which should not wiz with the
subject, having nothing to do with it. The quit.
lion was barely a question of Hitt, and be 414
not think the production was a Heel, for it di.' i,„t
go to dispute the just rights and privileges
Must. lie felt very much what had been Inaba
by the Master of the Rolls, on the former day, „,
to the difficulty of rejecting the gotten ; he trier,,
fore should move, " That the House should p,o.'
eyed to the othel Orders of the Doty."
Lord Buda two denied that the deltaic trued.
kismet' in consequence of the dubious nature d/
the question. He did not recollect that airy loth.
viduel, except one, had said; that haishoterternd
the alighteµ doubt upon the subject. The ground,
as it appeared to him, upon which it was adjournid,
wits, that another most important question was un-
der consideration, acid that it would have been im..
proper to interrupt the progress or
The prevent sobject, he allowed, was man
portent, These were net ordinary times, Der ass
the Hon. Baronet an ordisary personage. in the
pursuit of a favourite object, Parliamentary Reform,
he had not hesitated to abuse that House, sod us
represent it. tu the coarse of the lest Sellout', as the
only place in Inc country wl.ere the voice of the
people was not attended to. (71ear, hear,./rum
Ministerial. side.) The question res. whether
they were to give up their rights se I ptiviligeo.
Iluar, hour./ An Hon. Fr.etid of his appeared
to bun to have gone too far, when het...laded tl
product to ler harmless, because the comp°.
sition was deftvive, end the matt, r nowstrise;
he rather *_.reed with the Hours wattle Geo.
Hyman who had said, that whatever was the eb
racier of the production. wheiher noeseosied
otherwise, to diet it wee iutrlhppihle to these
when it 'was alldreaseil, it was criminal.—Tlis
House, be contended, iii tild tint he intimidated,
by the people on the our hand, or by the Crowe
on the °tiler ; nod It was resisting toils species
of intiontlattou, that it had succeeded in inaimata

tug the right. and liberties of the people of Eng.
hind. The Noble Lord hod been extremely 162,.
in befile of.his arguments ; he had found out
Antanittg4 for worth, which, however distant foam
the common acceptation. were well calculived to
defeud the cause iu which he had embarked. He
had stated, that the word eriti.tratic a, meant only as
humble remonstrance to the. Horse of Conttrions.—.
( liter, hear, from the Ministerial sick.)—lint
custplins this with the real of the prodm Con, farhe
woo evihiog to adopt the court,' of examination &oe-
rsted by the Noble Lowlf. himself, they could
tied, tint the generol spirit of that production.
and tnany of the principles maintained in it,opptii-
ed such in interpretation of the word. It shard.
Vest tn., I louse were inclined to estrablish tl en. tura
authority as greater thou that of Megan (laws:
it stated, that ifthe power 'of iihortsoillent oat
not gives up. it was itiapotisible to soy, het:aer those
who contended agninst the Borough MUligelS,
would or would not be committed; and expreo-ed a
wonder, not merely why mai power should have
existed, but shy it should hate been permitted.
Bat the poser html existed. sod the ter) es"
purled by the Hint. Hart. went to prove it. In the
case of Wilkes, the House of Coinnamis had vent
for him: he refused to uppear„ it was true, but,
the at t of sending for him. the-lionselusd asserted

its power ; though, for reasons lost lumen to it-
self, it had not thought proper to enforce it—fm
fargh.)—Genil.tnen might laugh; but the House
might with propriety ware the enforcement, lather
than re. ive the tumults of Wilkes. Another ease
war, that in which Woodfall was ordered into the
custody of the Serjeani at Arms, for publishing a
libel on the Speaker. He had afterwards said that
the Her. Johu Horne cam the author of the publi-
cation; atm, being scot for, and asked whether that
mktiowledgment should be considered es a confes-
sion of his, or as evidence against ? having more
discretion than those who sere generally brought to
the liar. replied, that it slvinld he emasidesed only
as evidence. The evidence not being complete.
be necessarily escaped from punishment. Titer-
was also the authority of Mr. Fox. lie
declared, when some gunshot' of this devcripth
came under the di•coarion of Parliament, tl s
they should not go to the King's Bench, to des al
upon the privil-,es of Parliament, lint would dr
prod upon the ioselves for their support. if 11.
Hon. Bait. in the course of Isis dissertstimi, huh
adopted moderate rod becoming leaguer.. .l*
had .fated nothing inflammatory, he should 1w th
last man in the world to have noticed it. Them si•
tier in which he had spoken of the Speaker'. our
rant, as m tlinest, awl gerseris, pi o Id not be b.r.:^'
ten, and the passage about the trapyings of r 0.,•.!
ice. though mane professed nut to understand si
was certainly a bisel on the Howe of Coma.- •
It was acid that the law was intended to protect t',
House against the King. or any branch of the Es
ecuture Government ; but was it not to he inferred
that if any other power tweeting formidable, that
as well as the Executive Governments ithe,olll I
•artle.l off. The Howe of Commons dot not I.
serve the decussating of dealing out unequal punish
mem to the rich and the loom ; but he woold sup
poor a 1114! iu which that 1.1111.411.011. n w..nhJ ...•
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