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HOUSE OF LORDS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11.
Mr. STEVENS Ws heard, in conclusion of his at-
gument, and Mr. ADAM, for the Respondent, is
the Appeal, LLOYD ar. . GRADY ; after which, Mr.
MANSFIELD was heard in reply.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then adjourned the fur-
cher. hearing to a future day.
His Lordship also adjourned the House during
pleasure, and withdrew ; Lord A tvaNr, EY present-
ly entered the -House with his full-bottomed wig ;
and afterwards acquainted their Lordships, that the
Notate and Learned Lord, .whose proper office it
was to sit upon the Woolsack, had been obliged to
retire, owing to indisposition, and that he had un-
dertaken to fill his seat in his absence. His Lord-
ship proceeded to the Woolsack.
The Kensington, Brentford, an ti Coln chrook Road
Bill, and the Eieter and Biddeford Road Bill, v.:2re
read a second time, and committed for Monday
next.

MUTINY BILL.
On the Motion Of Lord HOBART, for the going
into a Committee on the Mutilly Bill, the same
was read, and the House resolved itself into a
Committee accordingly, Lord WALSINGILAM in
the Chair.
Lord ELLENBOROUGiimored several verbal
amendments, and the insertion of two or more new
clauses.
After having gone,through the Bill, Lord %VAL-
SI NGH4M reported,. that the Committee had gone
through the same, and made several amendments.,
The Report was ordered to be taken into cOnsi-
&ration on Monday.
Jactsori's Estate Bill was read a second time,
and committed for to-morrow fortnight.

rritti MINTO rose to remind the House that,
pteviotii to the late recess, he had given notice of his
Intention on an early day after the House should
meet again, to bring forward a Motion for Papers,
which would oblige Ministers to give the Horse
some information, as to what had passed b'etsteen
his Majesty and the French Government relative to
Switzerland. He had waited hitherto in expetcht-
tion that some new lights would be thrown on. the
subjed ; but what had passed within these few days,
was of So truly important a nature, that it ought to
absorb all other considerations: Their Lc‘rdships
could not bait perceive, that they were on the verge
of a new war ; it was, Iv some tonschltion to
be conscious that it was a calamity ut upon us, net
if
sought for by us ;it originated, it should take
place, in the insatiable ambition and itripiacabie
hatred lodged in the mind of the First Consul of
the Ftench Republic. On such an occasion, it was
not fitting to look retrospedively, or to entertain any
discussion either. with regard to censure or inquisi-
tion as to what was past. It was a moment to cri-
tical, that every man ought to throw aside all his
icalousies, and to unite hand and heart in support
of the common cause. It was not enough to de-
pend upon the tried virtue of the people—lie meant
their spit it, their courage, and their firmness ; but
new virtues mutt be resorted to—the virtue of perse-
verance, and of patiently enduring every difficulty
during the arduous progress of a conflid in which
we were likely to he engaged, not merely in order
to preserve the honour of- his Majesty's Crown, but
td secure the charaFter, the interests, and, if it must
be so, the existence of the coultry. At such a mo-
ment, their Lordships would hot wonder at his
abandoning his intention of making any Motion
similar to Oat to which he had alluded. Instead
of embarrassing Ministers, or calling off their at-
tention from the important national business in
which they were at this time engaged, it was the
duty of every man, who felt as a British subjed
ought to feel at such a crisis, to give their mea-
sures his anxious support, and to assist them to the
utmost of his power.

BILL TO PREVENT VEXATIOUS ARRESTS.
The Order of the Day for the Second Reuling of
this Bill was read, when
Lord RAWDON ( Earl of Moira) rose, and
assigned his reasons for thinking it necessary for him,
at that moment, to detail at length the cvuunds on
which he had originally rested the several clauses of
his Bill. Noble and Learned Lords, who (roils
their official and professional situations in the courts
of law, must be infinitely more competent to deci.le
upon the prafticability of any legislative regula-
tions upon the subjea than he could pretend to he,
had done him the honour to read the attentively,
and had favoured him with their opinions respeain7
it ; as he found that they objeded to some parts of
it, he certainly should not at all persist in pertina-
ciously pressing those parts upon the House, but
was always ready to bow with deference to superior
knowledge and superior anthurity. He would for
the present, very shortly touch, upon the several
Clauses. To the first, that for obliging the Cre-
ditor to pay for the sustenance and support of the
Debtor while in prison upon mesne process, he
found there were ohjeetions, resulting from the idea
of the additional hardship it would impose upon
the Creditor, who might have been imposed upon
by a fraudulent Debtor ; that Clause might, how-
ever, be withdrawn in the Committee, if it could
not be so modified as to remove the obje,llions to
which it was at present deemed liable. To the nest
Clause, that which increased the ground of arrest
from a debt of 101. as it stood now by the Aa
of George the Second to 201. (which according
to a comparative consideration of the difference of
value of money at that time and at this, might be
deemed a reasonable altetati he had the satis7
faiaion to learn, that there was no sort of' obje9ion,
and that being the case, the.necessity for insisting on
the first clause was, in a great measure, dene away.
To another clause, that empowering a man ar-
rested to prevent being kept in custody, by allow-
ing him to deposit the amount of the debt for which
he was wrested, and a suna equal in amount to de.

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