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LAIPERIAL
HousE co: Loans, We overso ‘r, MAaell It.
then con.i2eratinn
.4 the Soots Appeal

Ties fart.
Cease, Crawford, v,,Coutts, being resumed.
10 Lord ELDON rose, and, at some length, deli-
vered Ms opinions opou the Ca.r. The result of
..• et,* was, that ulnae r t..reircurostances, he deemed
it' advisable to posaffne its farther censiderarion,
'•. with a reference to .their LoreLO:ps' final decision
- uisem it, till }ridgy next.
use provoition meeting the concurrence of
of their I.:.'erdships, was ordered accordingly.
The farther hearing upon the Scots Appeal,
flowie -... Merry, paupers, was postpoiii d.
A !Vapor( from the Lords Committees, appointed
to search for precedents of the Proceedings of the
Horse, in cases of impeachment for High Crimes
art Nlls.'entean ors, and to whom the consideration
of the Additional Aeticle of Impeachment against
Viscount Melville was referred, was laid on the
table by Lord Walsingliam. ' .
A sli-rt conversation tea place on the subjeet of
ais Lepeot. between Lords Auckland and Eldon,
taming chiefly en the subjeft of the additional Ar-
tole of Ireptachrmnt, but which terminated in a
rftutiou from the to:neer,. for taking the Report of
the Committee into ennsideratirm to-morrow,
awl' that the Loris be 'ammo ed on the occasion ;
which were ordered accordingly.
II \ MITI 4IF v. I i•NE-srs.
After the Bids tipc.re the table had been forwarded
in their respeltive stages,
The Report of the Committee of the whole
Home, on the Bill to declare the law with reeve
to Witnesses being liable to answer, being taken
into consideration. .
Lord ELDON, agreeably to his notice on a fo--
mei evening, rose to propo.e the introduction of
two Provisoes into the Bill. These were foundee
no the opinions he had formerly avcwed upon the
subject. to which the Bill referred, and upon hie
'continents as to what shetild be she conduct of the
Legislature. silting upon the effed of tie opinions
heeled by His Majesty's Judges, on the occasion.
Though a majerity of these had decided on the
grounds upon which, is the first instance, lot Noble
and Learned Friend on the Woolsack had brought
is the BilL.; vet it D'aonld be rect.licaed, they all gave
their opinions one way or the other, merel s
y ato
what they thought the gneral rule of law to be , all
admitting. re,ther more or less. that st:ch gene-
ral rules were lieble.te a variety of exceptions.—
Oa these general prioeiples, the Provisoes now
ufged by his Lordship seemed to proceed. with
a view to secure to Witnesses their real legitimate
vou of demurrer, under the particular cases ; and
which the Judges of the respective Courts be-
low, were, in their judlcial discretionary powers, to
decide ; and also to provide, to a cetain extent, in
particular cases, that the principle adnetel in
Courts of Ecieity should apply, with rcspea to the
answers of Witnesses in the Cowls GI Commse
I•
lAw, tee.
THE PP.OVISOES.
!Thiel; were considerably longer than the orijinal
Bill, being read, from the Woolsack.
Earl STANHOPE rose, and loudly contended,
:bat the Provisoes of the Noble and Learned Lord
went to render the Bill still more objettionable than
it originally stood, and to make that which was du-
bious bekte, still more deolatful. One tended.to
bring' the i ules of equity into the Courts of Corn-
sew Lew, a do line he could never subscribe to ;
and whirl', in his mind, proceeded upon unconstito-
tional principle. He would ask the Noble and
• Lemma Lord, for whom his personal respeet was
t .-at, whether he did not really think his own
jI ,•rd :itaahope's) Bill, would be a more effeßnal
idle for she evils complained of, than that pru-