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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE Or LORDS-THURSDAY, FIAT 14.

The consideration of the Irish Appeal Elute, Steditouton t.
ft edinetrin, being testi melt, Mr. PlOiner was heard at emisid....
able length on the part of the Appellant. Further hearing de-
ferred till to morrow.
!Sir J. STEWART, accompanied be several Members,
brought up a Message from the House of Common:, in pur-
port, legurrting the, this Earl of St. Vincent be permitted to
:vtsod t r lielectCommittee of that House, to wlinn the
con,irlmation of the ease of Home Riggs Popham, Bart. is
referred.

on the Meilen of Lord IIAWKESBURY, it was ordered to
eorruniinicatal to the Messengers, that their Lords ipr
yenta acrid an answer by messengers of then own ; which was
aeenrdi agtv thine by the turd Chancellor.
Several Private Bills were brought up from the Commons,
by Mr. Ft-newts, Mr. H. Brows*, Hoe. Mr. Pierrepteit, and
other Gentlemen, which were severally read a hist time.
. The Bills upoe the Table were read in their several stages ;
these were mostly third readings.
The OnLir of the Day for the second reading of a Bill (in-
troduced by the Eail of Radnor), d' Fur enabling Bodies Cor-
porate, in the eases and undar the restrictions therein con-
tained, to 0 •'ant the conection of I.ocal Oaths, administered
by the a Id Bolies Corporate," being read, the Bill was accord•
ingly read a newel time.
Lord IIAWIESBURY fit it proper to oppose the further
pr.rgress of the Bill Whit their Lordships would do, were
they to pass the Bill in queraiou, would be to enact a. general
law for a pelican use a principle which lie must
abeam oalrect to. If any particular Corporation, or body of
men, felt theenselyea aggrieved or hiconvenienced be the mode
it which the uadis they were obliged to take were dictated,
let Clem curtly to Parliament, state the spcific gdevance, and
- whet they con:civet! to be a seasonable remedy, and be was
willing us pay every attantiou to it ; but to a general law, such
es the present B II went to enact, in cense:octet of some dif-
leulties exietieined. or objections entertained, to the form of
their oaths, b? the Corporation of a partieu'ar place, was what
he could net mania it.. He should them fore resist **further
progress of the Bill.
The East of RADNOR defended the eraunds on which he
brought forward the measure, and adverted to borne rases in
which a corn:Clio:1 or alteration of the Oaths was evident's,
necessary. It had been his duty, in an office which he had the
honour to bold (we believe that of Recorder of New Sarum ), to
administer the Oaths to certain Members of a Cerporations
parts nil which were nositive nousen‘e, soil other parts Ineon-
ststect wali, or contradictory to each other; these we., re-
rreel to by the Ruble Earl, and created some risibility among
then atedships There was every proper caution adopted eat
the provisions of the Bill, to prevent any improper use being
mole or it. The interventian of the Judges of Assists was
required by the Bill, and, after these, the Loh' Chancellor was
raeurred ro, as checks and matron!' with respect to proceed-
ings unaer the autlioritv of the Bill ; at the same time, Its Lord-
ship did not seem willing to press the Bill-
The LORD CHANCELLOR was willing to allow his Noble
Friend every credit, as to the purity of be motives in coming
forward; and the object, which was gne..l in itself, was endea-
voured to he strained by the purest means; hut, with his
Noble Friend wh•o first spoke, he Tither disapproved of enact-
ing a griieral law, when a remedy was caUed for on the
part only of a particular place. He thought the mode of ap-
ilisrirr tia cirenrtortanger of the particular case, fur
redress to the Crievn, would be a preferable mode to that pre..
scribed be th • Bir,—.t reedear and more unesceptionahle made.
hyper the whole, lie would tag leave to recommend his Noble
Emend to withdraw the Bill.
TI,. Led of RADNOR spoke shortly in explanation af.er
which the Lee. COIANCILIAII moved, That the Bill he
eomminsri this day three months." which was ordered ae xird•
and, pa consequence, the B li is 40ii see the present
Sess'orl—Adjouraod till to-morrow.