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11017 SE Of LONDS.A.WZDAtiDAY. MAY rt.
teditaml wer • 6na ly heard relative to the Irish Appeal, Red-
dingtot r. Reddingtoo,v4 Mr Monier at inure le x,ll in IC•
ply oo the Ilan of the A.opellint. The farther consideration
of t'-e •am aro. rt,fe red eul Friday.
rt'e Btu. upon tne Table wet.: ftrward d in their veve.al
stage. ; Aron; them the Land Tax Commtoienen. Naval B‘a
*rot C•ritmatee without Amendment

Thy m. ,T.ry tzposditure Enrenry ICH ; the NA.lli Fn.
qui: y C0:1:m.1.66°n Bill; and the Mac Pallet Bi.t, we‘e
brought up remit %be Cmyturtnns by Mt Alex Anfil`r.
SeverAl itr.vate Kin. were brought up by Mr. Hurst, M:.
eriaptift, and other gentlemen.
Bills were wend!? read a first time.

i3n the so-etaion of the. Wine lluttes
The Eta of SUFFOLK etb:erved, %tin them lint bten
bSrmnrial pr.ocutetrinol coned by a number of Ufficros in the
Arm'', praying. cc account of the high r rice of Witte, on se-
Brunt of the exectrisive duties. a drawback with respect to the
litter 111 their favour i this he ritoiegiit a con.ideration of ins.
reuncip, which did not appear to be atteoiled tn. and he lament.
.a That the price of Oie article was now co high, as that a
Subaltern Officer could not &Surd to indulge himself with a
eats of wine.
The attendance of the Julies, with respect to certain Al.
peal Causes, were fixed for particular data next week ; that on
the e 21140. Fairfield v. Morgan, was fixed fur Tuesday next.
. .

The of the Nfinnta; of the po eeedings upon the
w..ttesr.d and laid before the Hnube, prepalatury tu the peo.
deeding' on Wt.loBl.ll)ivorce Bill.

MR. JUSTICE FOX.

The relevant Order of the Day being reed;
.The Marquis of ABERCORN moved an Ad.
dress to His Majesty, in which were vnsbodied vari-
ous matters at Charge against Luke Fox. Esq. one
of the Judges of His Majesty's Court of Common
Pleas in Ireland. The Charges enumerated were,
with a few exceptions, those contained in the Peti-
tiens presented, a'nd the Articles of Complaint pre-
ferred against Mr. Justice Fox, and which have
been repeatedly before our readers respcaing the
alleged miscondua of that Judge, while employed
on one of the Circuits in Ireland. The Address
concluded with praying His Majesty, that there-
fore he would be graciously pleased to remove the
said Luke Fox, Esti ftorn his judicial situation.
The Noble Marquis simply moved the Address,
which being read by the Clerk;
Lord HAWKKSBURY said, he should move
ewes propositions nn the Address now read—First,
that it be referred to the consideration .of a Com-
mittee of the whole House. And secondly, that the
House should resolve itself hail a Committee, for
the purpose of Tropiring into the truth of the fasts
alleged in the said Petition.
0.. de question being put;
Lord AUCKLAND rose, and stated a variety of
ohjealons against the proposed line of proceeding.
lie had frequently urged his sentiments as to the
propriety of com:nenciug proceedings in that House
noon nr.:eters c f mete misdemeanour. He submit-
ted wheiher it aid not go to call upon any individual
to come forward in his defence, upon matters al-
legect by any Member of that House in his place ?
Ihough, at tile same tiore, he ccirfessed that the
mode ro.w proposed was irifi•iitely less exceptionable
than the C+:111411 adopted is the first instance. Be-
sides, there was more thao one difficulty which
woulsi attend the proceeding in question; they would
have to enter upon detailed t xammati.nof the whole
vise, and then perhaps have to call upon the ac-
cused Gentleman for his defence. Another consi-
deration adverted to by hie Lordship was that of
the great end unavoidable expeoce to the parties,
which such a mode of prt•ceeding must occasion.
The Tory advanced period of the Session was also
to be considered; a period, at which all their Lord-
shiers must feel it was almost physically insposuhle
to get through the business.
The LORD CHANCELLOR spoke at some
length. and with great ability, upon the question.
Our limits restria us to the recapitulation of some
of his leading points. He expressed his hope that
by their Lordships promptly and sedulously apply-
ing to the investigttion of the business, at leao, nn
the part of that House, might be got through dur-
ing the present Session. He had to observe the
great delicircy of the Learned Person who was ac-
cused, in abstaining from the exercise of his judicial
funelions, though to his great pecuniary loss, while
the accusation vas pending: this consideration
shoultl combine with those ot justice to the indivi-
dual and to the country, to induce their Lordships
to make an etfetlual struggle speedily to come to a
decision upon the subjec'l. It had now proceeded
so far, that the ?rater must be investigated. With
respell to the doe bts of His Noble Friend, as to the
Juni dicion of the Hotise, uhenever the question
upon that head, aid he rru.red that whatever
eliould cone to be discussed, he would meet it,
and in a way, he toasted, to satisfy the House,
objeatens, if any should be trade upon that prin-
crple, titei would be discussed coolly, temperately.
with attention, and with a determination to make
every dire and proper allowance. lle would not
now enter upon the points alluded to by the Noble
Lord: al!, as expedient at present, he claimed,
eras, the power to address in cases of proved mis-
conduel of a Judge,. in the extnutila of his mike.
This, at least. would he allowed, on a clear propo-
sition, that by the principles ot the Constitution,
and the letter t t the law, that both Houses cf Par-
liament were, in such a ca e, entrusted with a dis-
cretionary power. After expatiating upon these
points, he stated his opinion, that inch a case as the
present, upon principles ot policy and of justice,
should be commenced with reference to an address
for removal. in that, preferably to the other House
of Parliament. With respca to the addtess, as
proposed by the Noble Marquis, he submitted the
expediency of leaving out some particular parts of
the fags charged, on grounds upon which the House
was to proceed ; for instance, the application al-
leged to be made by the learned person, to the
Commanding ()dicer of a corps, to use his influence
therewith to proem: an address, Ste. Such mo-
dal would be certainly unguarded ; and such as he
could not mean to justify; but in the particular case,
he thought it worud be preferable to confine it to
motives relative to the conduit of the accused, in
his situation of dodge. Were these omitted, it
would be much hem r ; and, as the case stood. there
was a pressing dory upon the House, to enquire
into the feels. As to tie nver:itic line or proceeding in
the Committee, it would of cnnron depend upon
what they should find in proof, and wh rt not, and
it would be open for the House to give its instruc-
tions tram time to time.
Lord AUCKLAND spolcr shortly in explana-
tion.
The Earl of CARLISLE strongly suppoi tea the