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Ire would c mt-z•at IM itself ith referring to only
one--that of a libel put& itself
by I. Mattheirs, in
177). Tina was r.fmred to a Committee of Privi-
leges j and, in in.isepteoce of their report upon it,
the !louse acted. Holding the opinion. that this
was the proper coarse, he. would move, That the
charge u •noimd Sir F. Burdett, fur r,breath of privi-
lege, be referred On the Committee of Privileges,
for their report Odeon."
The StEARea ob.ervcd, that there could he no
Standiog Order as to a particular fart, of which it
was for the Howe to judge as they thought proper.
If the House thought of adopting the views, of the
Right Honourable Gentleman, their first vote smut
be to order the Committee to bit ; but, at present,
no such separate motion could be entertoitteti ; and
the only comae. the Bight Hationroble Geutlrmau
could pursue, was tomtura the sane, ae on Amend-
ment to the Retolution now under consideration of
the House.
Mr. SIERTDAN and epics referred to
the taints of the Standing Order, as Wilding nu the
I lmt.e.

The SPEAKER said, the House must cousider the
speciticcharge before them.
Mr. SHERIDAN tli o " That the Com-
mittee of Privileges should Le appohited to alt. On
Wednesday next."
The SPRAKER s lid, the motion must lie framed
as an Amendment to the Resolution before Life
Ffonse. He then put Mr. LetlH,ri:lge's lirst
lotion; and. while Mr. Sheridan was writing out his
Amendment,
Mr. W. Amin spoke to order. He renetrked
ou Cie state of the original question, and proposed
'intendment, to refer the mutter to a Cohunittee of
Vrivilsgrs. His Right lion. Friend had slated
oils cane in support of hi, opinion, but many more
might he aolvaitesd. In the year 1701, a letter of
Mr. Culpepper, addressed to the Seraln.r. charged
as a breach of privilege, wts in this 'mintier referred
to a Committee of Privileges. Thinking, there-
fore, well of his Right Honourable F. letas design,
he could only Isis!) it to be carried into effect in
another shut)... as the in0.".1: proposed seemed rather
to be an awkward one of getting at the motion.
He would reemnisted to his Hight lion. Friend to
witli.lravr Ins amendment, on the understanding
that au ailjournine.it, to be moved by an Hon.
I' feud of In:, Aiould be agreed to, and the discus-

saia•postpoued to a future day. In the ititertue-
diate time, the Committee of Privileges might sit,
and their report be taken into coasideratiou on that
adjourned debate.
Mr. BRAND was convinced, that if the Hon.
Mover of this question had been aware of the great
interrupt on it would hoer given to the other im-
portant business on wi.ich the House had been so
long and deeply engaged, he would lint have kyr
Ina:well to britig it forward.—(llcar.)—lle would
have been the more averse to do this, at this time,
as nu danger could accrue from the pouponenaent
of his Wieldiest, and the utmost elanz• r to the
interests of the country ini:;ht aries front their nut
coming to a speedy decieion ou the conduct of those
Minster% to whir costal) the atfiirs of the na-
tion were now entrusted. Ant that he would refuse
to consider the qu sewn, now that it was brought
forward, as one of the atuiost importance. To him,
any question iiivolvi.•g the Coustitiitiiiii, and the li-
berties of the subject, was of mina vital cons, queace
and Intermit, than twenty expedition. to It &chi-
ten, or any oilier part of in. Oolie, with all their
• radon a and disaatets. it was indeed a question of
wrest maiguituile--a question which had not only
jorged the attention of the worthy Bart. (Sir 1..
bi.. 4.; •) I ut of many gnat legal and constitutional
•writers. (heat dilli-retice of opinion had existed as
'Wale nght of the House of Comiionsi led the
limiter had been agit dad %le) gre.il men. on
both std..% with arty soperior ability. Nut
wrht;ther the House bed a light to commit, in the
• preservation of its owe, dignity awl character; of
tins neither lie nor any one helore him ever ex-
premed a doubt ; but where the hue was to be
drawn. situ to what bound their privileges extend-
ed. It was not his intention, at preseut, to enter
into distinctions on this point; but he most say,
that even from the passiogre read in support of the
charge. great doubts arose, and the num. r became
of such anxious valiceili to the Constitution. that
he meet deprecate any thing like mip•-tuosity iu
coining to a dteinuu. It was not Doctiquiry to state
his °wenn' ou the resolutions proposed by his Ho-
noarahle Friend (if lie would allow hint to call
hien so) ovcrslie way ; yet, as he never feared to
&liver his at.ntiinetits. whatever they might be, he
had no hesitation in saving. that the hist pu‘stage
cited would coin% under every detiiiitam of a
breath of privilege---(llear, hear, h,ar,)—and
that if the queattosi was Wl', he must rote that
it was so, under certniii modifications, wind; lie
would reserve to himself the liberty of proposing
hereafter. In the other patioggcs he euold see no-
thing coning under s sinii'tir description. With
regard to the Hisolntinu, lie must ask Gar time to

consider and iniestigate, before he deided that
the rig:its there el.nrned, were, as asserted, the just
rights acrd privileges" of the Howie. lie bad em-
ployed rill his time this morning in rceiling, as
as he wee stile, the authorities on tuns subject, but
had not had time to obtain all the information- he
could wish to have, before he was calleadon to decide
by his vote. liargrave, whose vast knowledge and
accuracy of judgment were too well known to need
his comment, said, that" summary judgments were
Improper where the Cutirts of Ldw were open to de-
cide upon the care." The present was such a mar,
for Courts of Law w. re peculiarly open to decide on
libe:s. Such, ton. had beets the practice ofthe House
in the instance of Mr. Reeves, whom the House
ceded the Attorney-General to prosecute. He
had many doubts on other point., which he lied
not bed tune yet so resolve. He doubted how ter
it was right for a Member to express to his eutisti-
torah; what be had urged in the House. What ref•
fence there was in siatiog to his constottiente whet
he had sta(ed, without reprimand in the Hower,
be had yet t., learn. Ile lied alreudy Aided I.ls
oriiiiion of all the pa•segss•, escape the last. The
istieetien to the first rootage, was, where. speak-
loit of the lkletulsers of the Meese, they were iit-
sritied as tt collected together by means which it
ii 1,6 t necessary for me, (the author) to describe."
This appeared to Vim perfect abstinence and mo.
ti-r•titta and he supposed the Honourable Ha-
coact must have overlooked it, or he would here
used mach tho liret:t sod express terms. Alter