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disprove the necessity of this privilege having been
exercised .. beyond the time of legal memory;;'
: nor cal, it be endured that the House of Curnmeos
is to be boon) by every regulation introduced into
o
theSubordintte Coorts of King's Bench and Com-
mon Pleas. Witt the same right may the Justices
of the Courts of Law he called in question for com-
mitting those who obstructed their proceedings—.a
power which u founded upon HO New. but 01 *0
l'qUtil degree against the cause of Alva Chute
so strongly relied upon. " That no luau shall be
takee or Imprisoned, or disseised of his Freehold.
or outlawed, or banished, or anyway. destroyed :
nor will we psi. upon him, or commit him to pri-
-4311, onless by thelegal judgment of his Peers by
the law of the hind.
Your Grace is, im doubt, aware of the extreme
indulgence of the party who resist this power of the.
House of Commons, in confessing that in cases of
obstruction the House, 113 well as the Judges. have
the right to commit. But upon what statute have
they found this right ? If we must apply to Sta-
tute Law fur this, we have none ; and Mgr.,
Cholla Nein obtrutes itself, with the terrible clause
of Personal Exemptimi from Commitment to Hit
NI ijesry's subjects, and denunciations against tbs.
breakers of the provisimis therein contained.
11'e w:11 mike no compromise iu a question like
the present. Either Mori Choria is good evil
valid iit every tittle. or it shalt not be relied upon
to the extent claimed by the facious aid discon-
tented.

If Magna Charta is good and valid in every tittle.
the Custom of Giavelkind acknowledged by our
Courts and by the Parliament, for obstructions to
their proceeding, illegal and
_oppressive? if it is
not good and valid in every part, (and that it is not
many of the clauses bear ample testimony), then
will the House of Commons be justified in not
steerii.g themselves by this feebl • compass.
Thus far I have endeavoured to inswer the ob-
■erratious adduced in the two that letters of Paoli-
clrC.

I have 'hewn, first, that the art of printing hic,
perseded the el4:11 urpou you, Grace. to imam
upon the charter being read iii our churches twice
a-year ; • directioo a:eras:try fur .he general It row-
ledge of the statute, befure that art was discover-
ed. Secondly, That the charter 'twit' proves, that
that au a custom miy sometime. ous ceigh en ex-
press Act of Parliament, as an the case of dower of
gavelkied land. Thirdly, That the sanction of tins
privilege by Ilia Majesty would not 'virtually vio-
late the Cornatiou Oath ; from the whole tenor of
which it may appear, th..t howeverspacious may be
the doctrines of Pubficato, they are not so fair and
unansor,rable us to co wince the world, that the'
priviieg- lately exercised by the Muse of Crimmins
is usurpation rather than
_

In replying to the remaining letters of Pad. fieola,
it is my intention in. re hilly to enter npnii the
fence and nriintensiice of this ; and in the
mean time beg to sithserilir in) ad f.
Your Grace's /*minims ~crvant.
THE MAN IN TUC MOON.
London, Svpt. la 1110.

Major Downstan, with tin compiniet of the
Artillery.. is ebsbarking at Plymouth, with some
other reinforcements, for Lord ‘VIILUNCITOII.II
tinny.
The Honourable General Coral t.tri has sailed
with the Gordon Highlanders, to juin Lord Wet.-
fi taro res army.
The battalion of marines embodying for armlets,
is in • great state of forwardness—at present it is
under the commands of Majors ALIENCIIdMIIII and
WILLIAMS. They will embark at Chatham.
Generals CUPPAGR and 51.Lann, of the Aria-
ke', bare set off lion Weolerich for Portsmouth.
A rotten is raid to hare telegraphed the Hannibal,
in the Chops of the Channel, and informod flee, that
she had been rimied by three French men of war,
standing a N.N.W. course.
A letter, dated Heligoland, nth September, says
rind by the English paper', the accounts of
this island being.likely to be attacked by the ene-
my have been much enlarged on. I can assuie yon
we are in no fear whatever, nor do think the ene-
my weak towage to think an attempt to retake this
sionlil arid any thing but discomfiture to such
au undertaking. Our latest accounts from the Con-
tinent speak in terms of confidence. that a war 62-
tween France and Russia is inevitable."
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We have received the following interesting letter
from the Isle of Wight :
" Newport, We of Icight, Oct. t.
" I hasten to inform you of a dreadful comma.
lion among the troops at the Ditor, which took
Oars about right o'clock last evening, which, for
110111 t, nine, caused a considerable atoms, as all were
pattir-struck wealth' the rirrisan. The Bruns-
wicker., a part of foreign corps here, hail been,
cliori..l; the day of Sunday, guilty of several
kriite., one of the E tat huh t recruits bring wound-
rd in an affray.. Bat a party living intoxicated, in
the evening, entered the canteen, and demolished
every thing that caner in their arty, and did the
same in a s-frond roma ; they then rung some nee
tionsi songs, rushed out in a body. and went to
their gaugers, and brought out their idles, with
four rouads of boll cartridge, and fired up and
down every division at random. One report men-
tioni 1,0 bills having been fired—another account
makes them hut 103. One man, lam sorry to oaf.
was killed, another wss shot so badly in the arm,
that it has been amputated—another through the
body. bat whether dead or.not. is not known. We
trust an 'tannest will be held, and en account
given. • satisfactory one we hope, why these men
were intrusted with four rounds of ball-cartridge
each. The drums at length beat to anus, and 012
garrison well ordered to ground arms, which was at
length done, after some little h citation on the pint
of the fereignen.