The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-06-29 00:00:00

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whatetreelaviug bees. gipso. The tax, was directly
.operative spot the ms~e, and the Bill went to
otter the 55th and QM sof his lets Majesty.
The CmancaLLoa'orlfre &lawsuits mowed
the Order of the Dry f6rthe Report oa the Naval
and Military Peoatoos to be .brought up.
TH,E LAIR ATTOI4IIIY-WaiLIIL or IRELAND.
Mr, Baousit•ti said that the HOURS most have
rani in the papere extract, from a most extraordi-
nary lOW which went to affect tile-parity hitherto
existing end unsuspected in the administration of
jeatiee. The letter wee from the Right Hon.
Siurin (at the date of it Attorney-Groeral of
lieiaud). purporting to address GO less a person
than the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
Norbury, enclosing en extract from a Peer.
which, in respect to the conduct of a high judi.
cial officer, suggested that he should take the
opportunity of going circuit as Jude, to inter.
atingle his functions in 'salines,' of and act
upon the minds of the gentlemen of the cowitry.
He .hoped that lie need not urge any other reason
tonality hint in proceeding, to give those of the
Government Who were interested for Mr. Seurin
an opportunity for explanation, that the proper
parties might be enabled to deny it if they could.
He *as willing to leave it as a question whether
any . man in race: had dared to write such a let-
ter, or a hundredth hart of what wee to be found in
most portentous letter—affecting not only'the
office of a Judge, but involving a charge against
the Reverend Bench of Bahops,-from which those
high personnel; must be freed, or their conduct
be under a jest obloquy. He was aware of the
difficulty of interfering in such an affair. Had
the letter only existed in private circulation he
would not have taken that notice of it; but as it
was published, it must be either admitted or denied
within a reasonable space of time.
Mr. Pau., though it might or might not be
his • duty, as Home Secretary, yet as the par-
: ticular friend of Mr. Ssurin, he would say.
that he was not prepared either to admit or deny the
authenticity of the letter. nor did he conceive that
any one was bound so to do. He could easily
believe that it must have been extremely painful to
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to have taken
any Parliamentary notice of a paper obtained in
'itch a way as those by which that letter must here
been acquired, for • man to publish a letter found
in the public streets which ought to be delivered
back to the owner ! He would rather be the author
of a letter ten times as bad, the° the person who
had caused its publication.
Mr. BROUGHAM had said that he would not have
noticed tile letter if it had been private in its circu-
lation. He had not heard of it at all till yesterday,
and therefore could have nothing to do with its
publication. He agreed in reprobating the probe.
bin treachery of those who published private papers
which 4%41 into their hands from means not the most
honourable. He conceived that nothing short of
the necessity of law process could justify the publi-
cation of private palters. He would almost go the
• length of the Hon. Secretary in saying, lie would
tether write than circulate that very letter ; but his
disapprobation was perfectly cdiisistent with his
conduct in calling ulna; the parties, after publica-
tion, to affirm or deny the authenticity.
Mr. PauL put it to the Hon. sud Learned Gen.
tleman to consider what was likely to be the result
draucha proceeding iu encouraging the betrayal of
private correspondence, slid if it were not likely that
the good to result from it would be insufficient to
compensate the.eirt.rnious evils which might sake.

Mr. 11. G. BENNETT wislird to kno—w if the
Hon. Stcretary would inform himself of the means
ay which the letter had got auto joublic circulation,
and convey the information to the HOUie ?
Mr. declined the office.

Mr. Buouottare said, that if no denial were
given, the country would understand that the wile
reason fur not proceeding rested on the difficulty of
intiafering with the parties.