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the orstem of tatatiou throughout the difermt

districts.
Alt. WARDSLI. complained, that as the law ut
prewin stood, an omission of otie taxable article
in the schedule, suhjected may person to pay over
again the whole tax—this he lincw from tuperi-

tt,
Mr. J. STAwnort: feared the Bill would be of
no great use fur the protection of the poorer class,
who were mostly tutable to maintain it snit against
any opprtsssioti. They were therefore excluded
froui the means of relief extended by this act to

the wealth?'.
Mr. W. Storni also stated the present grievances
of the 1100fi (}OM ttli: operation of these laws, as
excessive, end deintitty: admit Mu.
The Cast SCEI.t.oa of the. ExuiEQl,En, in reply,
said, be hoped ut least to derive train the Muse
credit for his inteotions to nomad the present aye-
tens, mid was of opinion, the severit of the penalty
On surelhargo, would render the pauper redress, as
mo Attorney would refuse *Aliso up his Lime, where
there could' be a tiiir surAtarge shewte iu Court.
Leave was then girt a to bring in the Bill.
wEstsitaoltit EiserrOnti.
Sir FRASICIS IiVROUTT Stated, that some cir-
cumstenceo which had lately fw it red in the Courts
of Lae, he aes of opioitm, had trenched on the
istimunitice anal privileges of that House. It aus
generally knowo, that 011 the lust getteral cleetiou,
he had been nosuitiated u candidate for ‘Vestmin-
ger. by a co isiderable portion of the electors,
without his knowledge. After the dia.-dust, the
electors who carried on the poll in Isis absence. bad
refused to pay to the High Bailiff certain demands
whickhe had ma& fur the eleurgio of the election.
Tlisstnattur wsts then brought into the itig's Bench,
where, thong i it had lwen khan it that he had not the
least directly's' in the eleetion, and though no law
or even custom ovoid be produced to establish the
cluim of the High Build, he had Iseett•vettenced
to paw the char„ es, by a Jury acting ruder the
charge mask tsi t hem by the Learned J nage, who had
detailed, that since he (Scir Franca.) lied enjoyed
the benefit of a seat in the I louse,uud had taken his
seat there, he shuuld be subject to the charges at-
teading his election. As to the election to a seat,
he by no meaus thought the persuu elected had a
diacretineary power to accept or refuse a scut to
which he was elected. No ;he thought the duty
imperative; and had iu consequence attended that
dlt% set Par!iatuent. But what were, he would lie
Oil to know, the beuelits of a seat there ? R hat
right had the Leached Judge to call a seat a bene-
fit ? They mast know little of die Coostituti ttttt
who should consider the faitlit'ol diseharee of a
Mroubeee duty say thing else than a great labour
and incouvenieitee. Perhaps die Learned Judge
might have reason to think otherwise; nor was
it quite so extraordinary either, when it was
recollected that that loaned Judge had tweeted
throngh this House very rapidly and easily, making
it merely a stepping-stool to that bench which he
now graced. l Ie thouglo the aecleittion of the seat
could never make him liable to the eonsequeoces
of the actions of others. lu support adds opinion,
he quoted Lord Raymond's report of the ease of
NVlute, where that Nobleman usaorted, that the law
of Parliament wits not known to Judges its ge-
neraL lit this opinion he was led to concur. He,
however, del not came to the Ilouse to find fault
with the conduct of any of the parties engaged ;
to him it was .of little import how the matter
should be , decideat but to the Electors the issue
was very important. He had called on the House
for advice stud counsel with respect to a point in
which their privileges were cumanitted, and that
Howie interested. Ile hail felt it his duty, for that
sake of hie Electors, to ask advice from the House,
whether het:staid be compelled to pay a demand in
which he was no party, not even by his egente ? and
he felt it a duty he owed to himself, that the pri-
vileges and law of Pediment should not, in his
person, be violated, without raising his yoke in that
House to warn them of their danger.
The CUANCSELOR of the Excoterea thought
the case of the lion. Baronet could uto support the
House's interference on the subject. The decision
of the Jury nod the charge of the Judge might
both lie wrote:. But the Hon. Baronet had been
ill advised by his Counsel to make the tweet to
that Homo ; the place alone to seek retlryss would
be in the Court from which the verdict
The lost moth. of proceeding would be to call for a
new trial, or tile exceptions ageinst tbe ivrocced-
lugs tried in that Court; for either of these he hoax-
ed the time had time gone by.
Mr. CCRWSN supported the character of the
Learned Judge, and thought hum an honour to the
Bench.
The SPEAIF.R Said, the affair was not rightly
cognizable by that House. as it vermeil to involve
the character of a Judge, not amenable to Parlia-
ment, for he was unable to perceive. that by the pro-
ceedings which had taken place, any macro:mmeo
had been mule on their privileges. AA the matter
um, stood, the Hon. Baronet should wait only fur
the resntt of the verdict. and If ehonld operate to
injure hint as a Memher of Pediment, he might
then cone forward, if he pleased, and state 'his
grievance; till then, it was, however, not in the
power of that blouse to give him any redress.
DOCTOR WIDEN AN.

Mr. BARHAM rose to submit his promised mo-
tion. lie was conscious that should Ins tion be
received SLY it might, it would be productive of good
effects. The intentions of Government in this ap-
pointment were the matter of diseussivii, and
though the act was small, yet the principle of
that retina was every thing. He deprecated the
di.hke which had been manifested for discussion on
11,11 politics. It was a false principle. Should'
the eyes of the Irish nation be directed to any
other place fur redress of grievances, should their
murmurs become Out loud hot deep. it might
Ile attended %%nit the most fatal consequences
to the British empire. Silence was the greatest
and most deadly symptom of determined aver-
sion and hostility in is discontented and dissatis-
fied people. The few remarks he had to suls.
mit to the House, ditl not apply Wilily to the
Irish nation, but to all nations upon earth. The
establishment of a particular sect of people. in
places of power :no] emolument, had ever been
productive of discoutelit. The Irish Catholics had
long been abused and oppressed. In that
country the established church was a perfect alio-
mai y in politics. In despite of the population of the