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is not to be met v id:, I believe, in the laws of this
country. With respell to the 10,0001. it is the busi-
ness of the Attorney General to see that it is pro-
perly charged, and as to what County the venue is
.to be laid in : I am no lawyer. but at the same time
I cannot see any great di.ll nlty in this part of
the case ; and indeed l cannot help conceiving that
the chief difficithy lies with the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman himself, arising from his own particular
way of feeling; and I am sure there is no Lawyer
in Westminster-Hall who will not agree with me
upon this. I cannot conceive but it must originate
in the Hon. Gentleman's aversion to the prissecio
tion. Upon the whole, therefore. I do consider,
that to interfere at this time is extremely suspicious.
House has already gained immortal honour in
the country, and if we are to agitate this question
now you' will lose all that honour we have gained.
and a suspicion will be thrown upon your proceed.
ings which will not easily he effaced ; but, above all,
you will establish a precedent of the most serious
tendency. I therefore shall move, that the other
orders of the day be now read."
Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON said, he was never
less inclined to obtrude himself upon the House, but
he felt himself called upon not to give a silent vote
upon the present occasion without going at all over
the grounds of the question ; he declared that with
all the consideration he was capable of giving the
subject, his mind was not at all changed from his.
firmer opinion. The course of proceeding by
prosecution by the Attorney General he conceived to
be the best, the most lenient, and most moderate
mode. Impeachments might be prottaSed, a vast
expence was attendant upon them, and the result
might be the total ruin of the Noble Viscount. in
which no man would feel more than he should, nor ,
no man rejoice more in the Noble Viscount's ac-
quittal. The question, he considered, was, whether
the House would, or would not, all a consistent
part His Honourable and Learned Friend on the
floor (the Attorney General), had said that there
may be cases where the House might rescind their
resolutions. From the Report of the Committee,
he was sorry he was obliged to think there was
new matter of very serious charges against the
Noble Viscount. He thought the civil suit would
be nugatory, but what had happened to induce
the House to rescind those resolutions after two
days deliberation, he protested he could not see,
nor could he find any precedent for it. With re-
sped to notice, he hoped his Hon. Friend (Mr. Lei-
cester) would not think he said too much, in observ-
ing that when his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Bond)
had proposed his motion on Wednesday last, and
when the Right Hoe. Gentleman (Mr. Pitt) had
spoken upon it, he did think his Hon. Friend might
have taken that opportunity of mentioning the sub-
jea. He therefore thought it indispensably neces-
sary, with a view to the consistency and dignity of
the House, and to prevent the establishment of a
most dangerous precedent, that the original pro-
ceedings should be adhered to.
Mr. PITT shortly explained.
Mr. IL DUNDAS SAUNDERS, considering
the question to be investigated and the person to be
tried, thought the mode of impeachment by far the
best. It seas possible that the Neble Viscount had
stated objeSions against both modes of proceeding ;
but. front what he could conceive of the Noble Vis-
count's feelings, whether guilty or innocent, the re-
sult would be the &Mitt to

Mr K ERR said a few words in ftvour of the pro-
ceeding by the Attorney General, and the incon-
sistency of the House in adopting any other; when
the question being loudly called for, the House di-
vided, and there appeared—For Nil% Fox's Amend-
ment, 143—Against it, Ititi—Majority against the
Amendment, 23.

The original Question for the Impeachment was
then put, and c.trried without a division.
When the strangers were readmitted to the gal-
lery, the tiPt AK ER was putting the question upon
Mr. Fox's motion for a call of the House, but, after
a short conversation, he withdrew it.

The other orders of the day were then disposed
of, and, at HALL •PAST TWO o'CLOCK, the
Horse adjourned to this day.

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