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The Additional Defence Bill for Scotland, the
Irish Linen Bill, and the Woollen Penalties Suspen-
sion Kill, were brought up from the Commons, and
re.td the first time.

Mr. Tighe's Divorce Din was read the third time,
.

'lte Marquis of ABERCORN said, that, in
briging forward the Petition against Mr. Justice
For, he had expressed his hope, that the proceed•
ings would have followed on the part of Govern-
ment. He bad waited a due time, to sec that hope
r alised. He was happy to learn, that re the part
of Government, every disposition existed, to facili-
tate the true end of substantial justice, in this if-
fair. Rut, he was sorry to find, that all the ttcable
must devolve upon himself. He. however, would
discharge his duty, since the important trust bad de-
volved on him, of calliog upon the House to afford '
that protetinn to the Magistrates, the Gentry, and
the People of Ireland, which is enjoyed in this
country. From that moment, he uusted, he should
mingle no acrimony, ny personal motives with that
duty. He shoat,' consider Judge Fox as clothed
with all the privileges of an accused person. He
would ask nothing of their Lordships, but to execitte
justice, and justice in malty; and if it should ap-
pear that Judge Fox had forgotten to do that, if he
had administered justice with the bitterness of psi-
Tate passions, he would find an example in their
Lordships. that justice is to be mildly and petite:l), i
as well as impartially :administered. He called urea
their Lordships, as well those holding hi eli oiliees In
the Government as others, to aid him in this great j
task. A Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Carle: nO
had presented a Fallen from Judge Fox, and had
Mounded a motion in behalf of that Judaea", and had
done so very Properly. He begged the Node Lord to
attend to, and indeed to superintend, all the future
proceedings. He hoped the Noble and Learned
Lord would afford him all the aid of his talent and
knowledge. He had no personal feelings or me-
tires in his discharge of his duty. I Its personal
share of the complaint against Judge Fox, he could
have been glad to have left out sif the future pro-
ceedings; but they made part of that Judge's condna
in the discharge of his judicial fualtiens. But they
should be treated by him only as sacs. With re-
'pea to the:time when the farther proceedings might
he expelled, 'he wished to say a word or to
Many petitions he hal received against Judge Fox
These were generally conceived in terms so unpar.
liamentary, that they must be sent back to be ahered
in that respell. The persons complaining were
many, and lay at a great distance. All this would
necessarily consume time; but there was another
cause would occasion delay. He had never spoken
to Judge Fox in his life; hut he tm derstood that
Judge was not prepared to meet 411 the charges
against bim; and, on his part. wished for delay.
He would accede to every wish of that Italg con-
intently with the ends of justice. He dist no-, for
the reasons he had assigned, think the business could
be brought to an issue daring this Sessine.
The Earl of MOIRA said, that if the late Go-
vernment had forborne to bring forward any mea-
sure against Mr. Justice For, it was not to be con-
cluded that they had negleCted a grave accusation,
in a master of so much importance. It was rather
to be presumed, that they had weighed the affair
with the attention it deserved, and perhaps it would
he no false presumption to conclude, from their si-
lence, that the charges had not that foundation,
which those who forwarded them to the Govern-
inept, supposed. The charges brought forward by
the Noble Marquis might also prr. ve to be less
weights than they appear to he in the first statement,
it being the nature of VICh things to be frequently
erroneaus. He was entirely unacquainted with any
part of this matter of complaint against the Learned
Judge, and was almost as much a grang .T to that
Judge as the Noble Marquis stated himself to be.
Iluthe must consider the state in which use Learned
Judge would stand, if the proccedines should rest
here till the ensuing Sessions. What has been urged
against him is before the ptfilic, with very high
colouring. The Noble Marquis pr, tresses, tie :t
Judge Fux shall have no grievance to c enplain or.
Now, he did think it a great grievance. that in all
the interval between this and the text Session of
Parliament, the Learned Judge shall net cniy have
the charges of the petition resting trooo ;.im, bat
many others stated in tic speech of the Noble Mar-
gen. lie thereti•ire thotteht the No'ale :Arlen
bound, at least., to the following—en defuse and
reduce to a pr-coe statement in petitions, ail the
complaints aeeinst the Learned Judge ; tit tran,mit
him copies of ttese; to fix the time f.::- final pro-
ceeding, : and to deter:lye the 'le of the proceed-
ings. With respe to tlte hitter, he did not thir.lt
their Lordships cniald e i . t a 1!—.41 :ssre,
the c) .1:;e :h. v werc •.:. would
:tee that r ether : but he we: it eecatna
N ask M its now, ,!•••.:-,:ig tni siren, t,.
tt p•a-cue terms all the complaints az ti st the
Learned Jadee.
Lord cAkLuoN considered it as extremely
hard upon Judge Fos. that the cha-gas shouid te-
main as they did before the public, without any
thing, except what WAS mtained in Mr. Harts ee-
lit:0:1, being reduced to precise terms. His Lord-
ship spoke, in high term. ct the telents, learning,
and legal knowledge, of Mr—ltistice Fox ; and
spoke, he said. from his c kit avledee of ;hat
Gentleman 1:e thought it hard, tau the cem-
plaires had been pernotrai to lie doi mate for nine
months. and then be orosioced at the cio•e ..1 a sea-
:jai (a cry of laar bcfre !). and ti.,. arther pio-
ceesiengs pat o.F tai the next.
M4TC1.1;6 of Al-11:.l1CORN thought the two
Noltie Lords had hastily imputed a desire of undue
delay, and want of candour, to him; and he WAS
surprised to hear one of the N -tale Lords three
by a lit-a--ai louer.ocis i'ersna near hors (the
Deise or He woald net call that a sar-