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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—Fueseraw, May 21.
The Order being real for the farther coosideration of the
lea octant A 'weal Cause; Cathcart, Rat 4. the Earl ofCassilis
.Tiro LORD CHANCELLOR quitted the Woolsack, and,
in • speech of conoderable length, delivered his sentiments
urn toe kap,' insints of ti.e rase. A part of which (as sire
c(re.l Ise his Loreship% he seemed to think, it would be proper
to rev back for farther ennsidtration. Fie coircluded by mu,.
jag, that the ease should be farther considered of on Fn Jay
Stoat, which was ordered accordingly.
Their:has upon the tabe were forwarded iu their respeet:s
Mages.
IC wasoriered, on the matron of Lord ALICE'. !s: !I, that
An Account of the Procee.iiims which leave e,btalield, wrti,iet
gran period, for the improvement ef the Chest at Chatham,
should be laid brfere the House.
The Ear: of SUFFOLK eked the attention of their Lord.
ships to the eireumstince of his haring mused some time since
ter the production of a 'aeon West. 1,1,1,a Arcomets; which
was then arose to by the ?CAW: but 110115 of which wri:e set
produced, He wished to know ula Noble Suertvary, wise titer
these were socu likely tq be lard upon the table, as he meaut to
ereund some important motion thereon, aud :the Scission ap-
proatimased to it. close!
Lard KAWKESISURY observed, that it was impossible to
get the accounU moved for by the Neelale Earl, ready for pro•
ductioat w.,hiet 1110 urne. They were of a very sedrimieoos
nature, comdriseug amounts of all the monied down fur from
the West Ind,a Isiehdk ('Jr a number of years • the prepare.
Eon eras certainly going forward, in the prover °ers; but he
was, unable is tell when they would lie ready for premeatation.
If the Nonto Fad meritioned aLy particular iteee.s, or the ac.
counts • eery particular time, no which to found any particu-
lar merest ion, they may, perhaps, be specd,ly produced.
ti Eail of SUFFOLK spoke in ex;elaitation, and said,
he not wish for an account of any sum lower than 2,0001.
Whde toe Noble Earl was on ins legs, he begged Leave to call
their Loidsheicis attention to another case of nern.produflion of
accounts. He alluded to that of the proceeds of b!d naval
'store., and their application. The Motion he alluded to was
at least a year &ad a half ago; sod no corresponding account
bad been since prielm.ed. Thru eroceeds mitt be very cons.-
rierable, when it was considered that ire some years not less
than two millions seer, voted, for the service of the nosy, and
the great wear and tuts which must take place anent' our
biockarittig squadrons. After some further observations, his
Lordship moved for the preiletaion of those accounts, from
the Ist of December. 1804, to the Ist of December, 1801.
Lord AUCKLAND observed, that, on account of the time
Meted in the Mution,it was evidently rinpossib'e ifcou'd be cote-
plied with. The hlntion afterwards was allewsal to bets ithdrawn
for the purposz of its being new vodetled by the Notate Earl.
The Order of the Day ,o: taking the late Message from the
Commons into csai• d. ration, respecting the attendance of the
Safi eat St. Vi z- rt ta me, a Se'ect Committee being read ;
V
• iol H AWE LSkitißY oteerved ge rerally, ibat he reence.wed
the us--al practice tit such rows was, that the Nob e L-erd a,i-
wts! to to the Menage si,ould, in his .elaou, rise and rate
either his williapess or objection to attend, as reqotored, or,
hie absence, soots third Noble Lord, to &dam fur him his
dispositions on (het head; under these ClTCsinstaiters, should no
Note 1.-rd -resent be empowered to declare the determuration
te de Melt Ltd is that repeat he submittal whether it
• Wr o d cant 's• preSeaddetelicfer the eensidenstion of the Mel,
lege fora der er two?
The Lt. RD CHANCELLOR seem. 4 concur in the pro.
f scat was seig -swab, h's Nr late F e d, and to the k
that Ott usual emetic. in seich es.es was, the Peer in nee4i.oe
trundel acted in hi. piece, and make the nocesaa.y declaration
eho the Hieuie. The result war, as we could e.ellect, that the
inn h r eouseeloration of the Mem.ge was deferred till to.
lintrenft.
MR JUSTICE FOX. _ _

The Order of the Day being moved, for their
liinishins to go into a Committee, upon the mo-
• dons alleged in cnarge against the above judicial
Charatier ;
Lord HAWKESBURY observed, that he
thought the most proper and regular course of pro-
ceeding in the case, as it had stood before their
Lordships, was, that an Address should be moved
to His Majesty on the occasion, embodying in such
motion or address,. a statement of the fins upon
which the charge, giving rise to the Address. was
founded ; and then to rtftr the consideraton of the
whole, to a Committee of the House, for the pur-
pose of affording a regular opportunity of proving
at the ear, the allegations stated in the Address.
This line of proceeding would, he thought, best
scpare with the Al of Settlement ; and, upon this
ground, he should beg leave to suggest to his Noble
Friend, the propriety of moving such an Address,
in which should be embodied, for the purpose he
had mentioned, the important fads of the case.
The Marquis of ABF.RCORN expressed his wil-
lingness to accede to the proposition of the Noble
Secretary, did such appear to be the sense of their
Lordships, as the most proper ; for, it was his wish
never again to be reproached with urging the adop-
tion of any particular mode of proceeding, in pre-
ference to another. Under this impression, he
should therefore readily undertake to move an Ad-
dress as suggested; but he should content himself
with simply moving the Address, and not offer a
word in the way of comment upon it. From the
moment, he judged it important to come for ward
as he had done, in a case involving the rights and
privileges of his fellow-subje&s, and saw the matter
placed in a train of investigation. He had carefully,
as their Lordships must recollect, abstained from
'toy observations in that lion;e, which might go to
aired the individual, or bias their Lordships judg-
ment on the case. Oir tittle groun.ls. he repeated
he should content hicnie.lf with simply moviug the
Address.
On the motion of Lord A UCK LAND, the order
for their Lordship; going into the Committee was
discharged.
I.I4GSIA M's DIVORCE.
The Order of the Day for the second reading of
the Bill to divorce Mr. William Lingham, from
Eliza, his now wife, being read, Counsel and evi-
dence in support of the saint were called to the bar.
The circumstances of this case, when tried before
the Court of King's-Beach, being very circumstan-
tially narrated, in our Law Reports, we deem it un-
necessary to enter into a detailed statement thereof,
in the present instance.
The necessary laels of the marriage of the parties,
in August 1800 ; the elopement of the Lady with
the Defendant ; Mr. Joseph Hunt, to Barnet, in
July 1802, where they passed a night together; the
award of damages to the amount of 5,9001. r. the
residence of the Lady afterwards, with Mr. Hunt,
in Pans, saith some subordinate falls, were all duly
-proved.
With respell to the damages, which were award-
ed to the full amount of what were laid in the de-
claration. it appeared from the statement of Coun-
sel (Mr. Parke), that the Defendant took advantage
of the Interval betweeen the Verdict, and the giving
final judgment. re dispose of all his 'fens, and to
leave the kingdom. Mr. Hunt and Mrs. Lingham
were seen by one of the Witnesses (a native of
.France) together in Paris, about tea months ago ;
shout which time, the lady was served with a copy
of the Dill. S!:e was delivered of a child in Paris,
in which city it is supposed they still reside; and it
41Plas.ollared to be proved on the part of Mr. Ling-

ham% that he has never been out of England since
Mrs. Lingham quitted the kingdom. •
Mr. Hunt, a broiher of the Defendant's, was pro-
duced as a witness, and underwent a long examina-
tion. This witness came to Barnet, in consequence
of a letter from his brother, on the morning after
he had taken Mrs. Lin,,ham to an inn (die Green
Man), in that town. Ile saw the Lady in the hes!,
whence his brother had just risen. The ptuport of
his visit was a cornmisoun from his brother, to let
Mr. Lingham know that his wife was with him
(Mr. H.) at that place. A letter' was also writ-
ten, intimating the c)rcum,tatice, and which, it ap-
pealed, was, throu:th mistake, delivered to Mr.
Lingham senior. lire witness referred to some
conversation, which he had with the l'eti:ioner, Mr.
Lingham, about his brother's being so attentive to
Mrs. Lingham, &c. ; and in one of which, Mr. L.
mentioned his intention to forbid him his house.
He adverted to the circumstance of the Lady and
his brother being out together rather late un even.
ings, in his chase, out of which, Mr. L. I.elped her,
but expressed his disapprobation of her condu.t.
When he was ultimately apprised, by the witness, of
his wife's infidelity, Zdr.L. appeared greatly affeilled.
The night after the Lady and his brother were to-
gether, she came to her husband's house ; but Mr.
Lingham not see her, having previously r,.-tired
to his father's. The next day, however, site went
to the Defendant's, Mr. linnt, where she staid about
a fortnight. What became of her afterwards, the'
win •ss could not particularly tell.
He was cross-examined by some of their Lord-
ships on certain points, which transpired in his evi-
dence, and the House was induced to postpone the
further consideration of the case till this day se'n
night, when the witness abovz mm,ioned a•as or-
dered to attend.

Previous to the examination of evidence, some
general ohservations were made by Lord ACCK,
LAND and :he Lord CHANCELLOR. resp.•Eting
certain clause, which, their Lord hips, agreed
meritcd, in the appropriate 'cage of he Bill, the
most serious consideration of the :louse. _ .

Some pr wtte business was then discosed of, and
some witnesses were swan, with rrspeft to their
intended evidence at the Bir of the touch
iiig the charges Ag.iirst Slr. Justire F ix.
A proposi:;oil o this cace is. we understood.
fixed for to•rnorrow, and, oa which, the Lords are
unutioht.l.—Aljourned.