The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-02-07 00:00:00

in h good situation in the days of the Star Chem.
bee, but it requ:red other tribunals and pact prin.
ciples to support it in such times as the presto, to
give it energy Utili to give it patience. It was the
publicity of their proceedings alone, which sup-
ported the spirit of the country; it was the pub-
licity of their proceedings which reconciled it. to
all the privations and burdens it was to undergo.—
But the old bug-be ir had been set up; they were
told that it would lead the people to undervalue
the coustitution. mud from thence to get rid of it.
Surely if his Right Hon. Friend had given himself
a moment's rellection4he must have retracted such
an amertion. Allusion had been made to France ;
but was it the liberty of the Press that brought
about the revolution there ?—(Hear ! hese 1)—lY as
it not, on the contrary, the loss of that liberty ?
What was the cruse of the fall of all the rotten
Moiorchies of Europe; wus it the liberty of the
Press ?—(Hear! hear !)—No, it was its absence.
Had such a liberty existed in Austria, in Prussia.
or in Spain, Bonaparte had not hero at this
moment the tyrant of the Continent—(Hear !
hear I)—He would oily say a few words on
what had fallen from the Right Honourable
Gentleman, who prOposed the motion ter the
Standing Order, Hr had compared the House, in
the exercise of its function of enquiry, to a grand
jury; but he would ask, did grand juries mitt
their proc• edings ? The grand jury was sec.et,
and justly ; because it wool,' be wrong that its dis-
closures should bias the petit jury. But even
upon this principle, how did the Right llo-
noarableGentlernen procied, with all hisansie.y tor
the secrecy of theerand jury? If he A igbtly
informed, the gallery alone was cleared. Peers were
admitted to retain their prat.ondet the to.lery, so
that strangers, who hail nothing to do wit ii the
were excluded; while Peers, who might ',Willett ly
become the jury, were allowed to remain.--(Near!
hear 4—What did the Noble Lord mean by this?
—(A lessgh.)—He begged the fight Honourable
Gentlenn..i 'a pardon; but it was profs ode that he
would suon become a Noble Lor.l.—(A laagA.)--
The Right lion. Goodrum had spoken in a very
manly way, of being responsible to his constituents
alone, with whom only he wool.' deign to consult
as to his conduct upon such necasions. It did not
appear. however. that he was Vt:1: anxious to make
the experiment. Ile seemed rather diffident of
mumble% with them; nor would his conduct upon
that bucness conduce to wale hum a bit more ready
to encounter them than he was before. He con-
cluded with observing, that the course which he
proposed. appeared to him the most moderate they
could adopt. It was necresary, on every account,
that some step should be taken ; but after the
speech of his Right Hon. Friend, the necessity was
increased.

Mr. PEIOEVAL binged leer. to state. in reply to
the Hon. Gouittemen s questions, that he dill hot
sIA to shelter : self etude', toe Sounding Order.
If it was his Right Hon. Friend's intentiou to clear
the gallery optics all occasions, he would oljerot to
it 'himself ; (hear I hear!) but he must insist
upon the right of every Measlier to move foe clear.
ing the gallery, without stating his reasons.
Stranger. were then eructed to withdraw, and the
House divided; when there appeared, for Mr. S:oe-
riden's motion.
Ayes
Nuts ttifj
Moja ill
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We were again autia,tted tato the ganef, for
few minutes. dniing which,
Mr. BAKU! gave notice that hr would mare,
to-morrow, for an account of the increase and di-
miontion of certain salaries.- lie t.ioved. after-
wards, That the papers presented list Session
relative to the Linen Board of lrelsnd, should be
referred to the Committee of Publ.c Expenditure;"
which was agreed to.

Sir Jolts 'I-Slawrnae ntovei, Ti.at the Aiipen-
di* to the 9th Report of the Couimisoioriers of Mi-
litary Inquiry, in Ireland, should be printed."—
Agreed to.

Lord PORCHESTER then moved the Order of the
They for gaol; into Committee on the inquiry into
the Scheldt Exptclition, upon which 'Amgen were
again excluded. and nut admitted for the night.
The HOGS! Adjourned at Half-past Twelve.