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London, England, 1809-05-03 00:00:00

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A34I74IIItATIOS of PURGATIVE 11E1W
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iMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

•..HOITSIR OF LORDS, tat
LOCAL MILITIA BILL.
The Earl of Lteentioot observed, that this bill
had, in consequence of his tint being present,
terday, been read a third time, while it had lives
his intention to have ineerted certain elation' or
amendment. This basing occurred, he toe***
proper to notice to the Nobk Earl opposite Nerd&
wicket, he purposed during the present session, to
introduce another bill, which would contain such
clauses and amendments ao had bees *Milted in the
other bill, which unfortunaiely had plumed in his
obseuce.
Lord Gattweitre suggested to the House, that
in consequence of what had been stated upon the
present occasion, the pmpoond motion of his No.
tile Friend (Aucklund), for the preswntiou of a
mnititudc of hills bring crowded into Parliament
towards the conclusion of theseseion, was bight',
necessary. He did not wean to state, -dud the
tended bill, 1111 W mentioned, necessarily called tor
their interpre:ition—l,n it ens extrtMtelF isnporte.st
that this subject should be attended to, rind, he
trusted his Noble Friend would take an early op-
portunity of prosecuting the object of his intended
motion.
DIVORCES.
Upon the Order of the Hay being read, that
certain proposition, previenoly eummitted to the
House, to this purport : et That uo hill of
be presented to their Lordships, unless a clamie be
contain al therein. prohiliation sitimaimima ooraiwa.,
from marrying each other, bee steuditig Order of
that House ;••
L rd Autahvgn rote and mid, that in rising to
Address tfic.js lararibthine, lie was induced to confine
himself withan eery narrow limits struit a subject,
where. if he omitted any statement w hide might be
aboolately necessary to convince their Lordahipe,
that deficiency would be to well supplied by Noble
Lords on bath sides of the Iluusr, who were brio r
able than i i 11l st•lf to press ituy farther arguments of
that nature. le bad long been a painful duty for
him to attend that House, and permit the many
divorces which had lately been petitioned fur to
less into a law. It was particularly painful no this
'account that those Bills of divorce generally con.
taiimd clauses sanctio ll ill ; throe who had been
guilty of this seductive rive, to contract marriage
with each other. In viewing the di Trent penal
laws of 64 kingdom, sad the many mall °fences
which the Legislature had deemed it wise to
painish with severity, it was somewhat rumor-
dietary them) punishment whatever had yet been
devised by Parliament for the assassin of do.
medic peace, and all the comforts of private life.
—The oti!y interposition manifested In the law of
.the coutitry was that by long custom and initient
precedent, it had brew deterruirwd that seine corn.
pensation was due from tte seducer to the tutored
husband. This tompensiffion cat also obtained in
many cases I,y permitting judgmotat to go by de-
fau;t ; after which there was too much ground to
suspect a compromise was made lietwern the parties
as to the extent di' damages. This way a subset
of the greatest importuoce to the rea.k and
rtuation of their Lorik.luiri, and to the loiimple
which the coodoct of the higher elasse4 exhibit.
ed to the lower orders of life; because it pecu-
liarly happened by the present mode of pro.
ettdiog in bills of ditiorce, that divorces them.
selves were generally confined to the higher clavi-
ers alone. On this subject he would also say,
that if a remedy was to be applied et all, it ought
to rum(' to every man as a subject, and not to his
rank sal situation in life. But how was it possible
that those in the middling or lower classes oftwicietyi
*mild have any remedy of this nature ',derided to
them, for he was informed from authority, that ti e
procerdines in one divorce &trim; the presentee.
seen. bad cost the 'party Oeveral at.
digits in former 'times had been made to lessen
the number of divorce% and bills for that pur-
pose had been frequently introduced, but, Imin
the differeut opiumns upon the subject. or front
other cast,,,, those bills had terminated mime.
missfelly. It had been intimated to him by
a Noble Lord near hint (Lord Grenville), that
there would he less difficulty in the mode which
he was now parsisiost, than if he had once more
brought the question tooter discussion in the shire
o(awither Bill. Be mskiog it a atandisig order of
their Lordships HMl's., Ant no Bill shook. he id .
toodsused without prohibiting the criminal parties
failllONlerr•f• b 471•011•111 • rile poet of tie pre-
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