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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

110USIE 'OF LORDS—Tiosmir, MARcit 10.

The House sat in a Committee of Privileges on
P" Petition Claim of Charles Augustus Ellis, an in-
t. to the Barony of Howard de Walden. •
Alter oma observations from the Lnrd Chancel-
lor, Lords Eldon, Reties&le, and Arden, it was, on
au motion of Lord Hawke:bury. agreed to, that
pecleim of the Petitioner, Charles Augustus Ellis,
,as rightl, and that he was fully entitled to inherit,
as the lawful heir to the Lord Howard De Wal-
den, who was called by writ of summons to Per-
knelt in the 39th of Elizabeth.
When prayers were concluded, the following
Silts •a.s.nit through a Committtee the It i.h Excise
*sod Drawback Bills, the Brandy Duty and Refined

Ibtrar Additional Bounty Bills, and t,n,2 for vesting
,
rain Powers in the Commissi-iwt:, AppoiliteJ to
itie..n:e and repair the Sewers of th:t City And Litier-

pcsot Westminster.
01 the Motion of Lord AUCKLAND. the
tsermitt.l of the Sierra Leave Sill was deferred
iszol to-morrow.

ADMINItiTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND.

Lord RE N V ILLL rose to move for certain Ac-
cntsms, previous to the in:rodudion of that subjed,
ire* the considtiation of which their Lordships were
ti' en particularly summoned. fie had, on a former
occasion, when he proposed to the House his mown-
' f-e of bringing in a bill for the Regulation of the
coins of Justice in Scotland, adverted to the great
ir,,nvenience which the Wine had already suf-
semi, and which it was likely yet to suffer, in con-
. _

. armee • of the great number of Appeal Causes soh-
sektcO f, its judicial consideration. He should
thereqo.e at present trouble their Lordships with
two %lotions ; his, " That an account be present-
ed to the House of the number of Scotch Appeals,
from the year 1794 to 1801 ;" and next. " An Ac-
runt of the number of Stench and high Appeals,
fora 1601 to the present year 1807." Ordered ac-
cattiingly.
The LORD CHANCELLOR having quitted
the Woolsack, observed, that he was induced to
wall the attention of their Lordships to a commune-
'
cation made to him from the President and Scno-
iors of the College Justice in Scotland, for the
purpose of being guided by the wisdom and deci-
:Son of the House, on a sufjea in which he was
snsviiling to trust to his own private judgment and
He had received from that body a 'Ole-
• artist. adverting to the Bill at present before the
lieme, for the better regulation of the Courts of
Justice in Scotland ; but, as it contained no distina
payer, nor complained of any specific grievance, he
aid tact feel himself justified by any precedent in
the Parliamentary History of the country, to present
it to their Lordships. He found, from a retereace
sweeersoS wee loth/ Memorial. that the Court
of Session grounded the present communication on
two precedents; the that, when, in the year 1659. the
Coen of Session made an application in a similar
mustier to the Parliament of Se it land; and the ether,
that, in the year 1717. by the AEI of Seeketust. the
Court of Session did apply to certain Lords, part of
hair own body, hut who were also Lords of Parlia-
ment, communicating to them their opinion on cep-
tan legislative measures then in the consideration
et the House. It was fcr the House to determine
whether such precedents had any reference to the
present ease. Anxious as he was to obtain the in-
cruaiors and opirion ct so learned and venerable
abody as the Court of Session, and naturally alive to
tt,e feelings and wishes of his native country, be still
eouid not forget that be had to preserve the rights
:Jed privileges, the dignity and char:after, of the
ii.osse. With such an impression. and in so delf-
t at and important a matter, he felt it the most ad-
s's:elle method to govern himself by the wisdom
and indgrnent of their Lordship
Lord GRENVILLE declared himself portico-
lerly satisfied with the motives and seasons which
had induced his Noble and Learned Fiend to ap-
ply to their Lordships for a4vice and inatuaion in
the present case. Mat though will.ng to give
every credit for the caution which was observer. he
still mast assert, that the usages and forms of Par-
'Masco, the prsaice and precedents of the House,
were cor.elasive against the receiving of this Me-
morial from the Court of Session. Parliament
loot unaloimly, too the best and most salutary rea-
lois, denied to any person or body, the right or
opportunity of giving advice upou subjeas submitted
to its legislative consideration. This was of itself
'laudatory on their Lrodships, not to receive the
esimmunieati n alluded to by his Noble and Learned
Eked. But there was a farther objeiion, arising
nom the uniform custom of the House, not to al-
low even Petitions to be laid upon its Table, corn-
ieg from any alleged body. unless that body were
L.gally and justifiably entitled to approach the Le-
gislature in a corporate capacity. Ho was con-
vinced his Noble arid Learned Friend telt upon this
whied, as he did ; although he was coon-I,l'le of
t'o strong and powetful inducemetos which urged
lOn to apply to their Lordships. Teere wis con-
soltrable attention to be paid to the venerable and
kernel body from whom this communication was
received. This his Noble and Learreed Friend felt,
egethee with an unwillingness to decide agues:ion of
such weiplity impoi tall( C on his own private opinion
and conviaion. With respen to the precedents re.
leered to in the Menlo" ial,they would be found.on ex-
anioasion, by no nouns to apply to the p. sent case.
Whatever may be the neture of the come x ten of the
Court of Session, with the Parliament of Scotland,
wee tag was clear, that no iittervece could be drawn
from that cirentnstaace, in any manner affeiting the
made* or decision of the House. it was minces's-
vary to enter ioto the minim did"-renew ; he .should
setisfy lainself by setting, that tee Parliament of
this country was so essentially dalereat in as con-
atueti; is irons tile Parliament et counted, that no
oket of the latter coed.' be supposed as a 'instilled
toccolent, by which the House shoold regulate itself.

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