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pipF a measure, the merits of which depeeded upon no
fads, but upon grounds of public polity. Consi-
' deratiens which wittieSlCf, in general, did not corn-
ier, heol. and. perhaps, Counsel, as little. It was
the province of their Lordships to decide, and to
advise His Majesty. upon public grounds, Ai to the
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prayer of the present Petition, unless semi. reason•
were assigned. he should be inclined to give it a ne
g dive. s
The Duke of CIA RF.NCE did not conceive i
necessary to follow the Noble Lord, on the present
04:onion, with respect to many of hid remarks
With respell to the Petition Alluded 0, he con-
t erived ha was pettedly in order, when he presented_
it ; ant adverted to what he had said previensly,
respelling his intention to present suet a Petition, at
a time when a very full attendance of their Lord-
Pi ships took place. He considered it as the right of
every description of Ili, Majesty's gulled% to pre-
i 'Pet petitions. taking care di it the same be respell-
. fulls- worded; is- d in this reseed, he could appeal
to the Noble Lord on the Wonlsack..whether that
Petition were not unobjedionable in that reseed ?
He presented it soon alter their Lordships came
out of Westminster Hall. In so doing, he only
had exercised hit rights as a member of that House;
in which he was more proud of the honour of his
seas, than of any other that attached to him in
the course et his life—an honour, which he
trusted he was incapable of doing any thing to
}mirk or tarnish. With resped to the suhjed to
which die Peitunns referred. if Noble Lords were
desiroos of entering upon it, under the present con-
sideration, he was perfeetiv ready to meet them.—
lie J 114411.1 persevstse, however, in his motion, that
the Petitioners be heard by themselves, or their
!'• Counsel, on the occasion of the second reading of
the Bill
Lad GRENVI LLE IVA, perfectly aware that the
illustrious Duke (who mutt know the great respect
he telt for hint), in curonicn with every Noble Mem-
ber of that House, had a .tlll tight. on every oc-
casion, to deliver his sentiments, and that to pe-
tition was the tight of all His Majesty's subjects,
s. a privilege which, however, may lie abused, prin.
t cipally for the put poses of isolusing delay. With
respect, however, u, the present motion, under-
I• standing that an order haJ already been made for
the heat tog of Counsel in a case in which he could
make no distinction from the present, he should
not oppose the Resolution ; but to hearing evidence,
upon ;hat which was not matter of evidence, he
should decidedly object ; hut he thought it proper
their Lordships should previtetsly settle how many
Conasel should be heard. And upon what. number
of Yeti.iors.
• Lord AUCKLAND expressed hip concurrence
in the propriety et such'anorrengment, as his Noble
Friend olladed too taking place.
Lord GRENVILLE suggested the propriety of
their Lordships hearing only two Connsrl.
Lord HAWKE:OVEN concurred with this pro-
position, as tar as the general principle was con•
cerneJ. With respect to the examination of evi-
dence, he should now offer no opinion upon it. Ac-
• . emoting infects may trepspire, such a proceeding
Iktc =ay become a questiort of expediency.
Lord GRENVILLE hopedtheir Les (ships would
. ' order. that no coore Counsel-than two should he
-- --beard, and that the Chancellor may be ,directed to
enforce it.
'.' • Lord ELDON had no recollection of such an
order being ever enforced. More Counsel it may be
necessary to hear. He hoped Counsel would not
be circumscribed as to the roues upua which they
' - were to sec-k.
Lord H AWICESBURY thought the House
might, if Noble Lords should think it more con-
venient, proceed now to the second reading, sitd
hear the Counsel in the Committee.
The Earl of DERBY remolded the Noble Lord,
that the Petitions referred to the principle ot Alm
Bill.
. Lord GRENVILLE was decidedly hostile to
such a proposition, and it sisted, that the olOrd i t
the Petitioners in thus wishing to pre.cratair.ale,
must proceed tram a wish to induce delay, to im-
pede the progress of the Bill, and, in short, to ob-
strud the justice of the House. It was at first
states', as the wish of the Petitioners, to be ...lied oa
the second reading of the 8.11 ; now it was pro-
posed to deter the bearing to another stage. Ile
hit so strongly on the sulejed, that he moved forth.
on-h. " 14,1• Counsel he now called in."
Lord ELDON, as for as he was concerned, vin-
dicated himself from aay wish to induce improper
delays. He had no connection with any of the
Petitioners ; if such motives were ascribed to him
by tee Noble boo, he did him an injustice.
The Lott cif LAUDERDALE contended, that
every thing tending to an improper delay, should he
rejected by the House t end. that if the Petitinners,
. after whet they had advanced, had not instructed
ee their Counsel so as to be able to go on at the second
7 treading, they should not be It ord at all.
Earl STANI 'OPE was of a similar opinion.—
, With - 4lt to the Petition more particularly under
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