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iriducetttent to commit adultery would, be done
away. 4t waa,lte believed, too rtteruptly the cage, t hat
A married womstn seeing a person she enexpettedly
el suddenly formed a peculiar off, etion for, to say
hive Had I seen you before my maeriage,
should have been the happiest *ammo 00 earth,
• now I am sue of the most miserable." • This
the signal in the other :party to do that which
should annul the existing marriage, 'and prepare
e way for their, mutual happiness, in being pers.
mitted afterwards to contract a watriunitiial en-
gagement. Ile believed it wits not utifrequent that
emits, in whom there•ideays exists such a medley
good and eid, a disposition towards im-
moral 'practices, and a love of morality, to
argue in his own wind upon this spy -sub-
ject, and, at least, to draw an erroueous conclusiOn
that.iu paying his addresses to a Lady- tin Situated.
-was actuated by a principle of litimur ; because
fitresatv that a biii of divorce woniti eaable him
the Luih reparation by marriage. The
isetetence 6f the present proposition being made
tending order of the Muse sroukl be,' to shut
•.all hope and eXpeotation that Any such regara-
could- be made. In that case, if a seducer
paiwessed the least ray of humanity, if he triter.'
'led the slightest reflectiou, he must shudder at
idea of attending to his own oeittificatioh, when
knew that it most inevitably lie followed- by the
ill of the Lady, by the misery of a whole
tinily, and Ity the degradation of 'himself in the
/es of the world. lie next observed, that the pro-
position which he had now wade; might. Le object-
ed to, as an extraordinary proceeding; but he
could assure their Lordships, that by referring to
many of their utai4dist4 orders. there would be found
new principle in the present measure, and he
istaticed several, where particular clauses were re-
pired .to be inserted be bills to qualify-theta for
introduction into that House. Ile had no appre-
linsion that los toot eon would meet with ally net-
tefial objection, and he hoped his proposition would
long remain on their Lordships' Order Book, and
would seldom, if ever, be found necessary to be

I-mistimed with.
The Earl of !Lemma expressed himself as hav-
ing no indigestion to oppose the motiou of the No-
ble Lord opposite (Auckland) ; but was rather dis-
pored to have gone still farther in any measure,
which might tend to the prevention of so many
reaches of the conjugal vow. At the same time
could not refrain from noticing that one iejiirintis
consequence would result from that proposition
becorniive .t standing order. It would eventually
happen that cases would arise when it might be ab-
solutely necessary or desirable that the order should
I* dispensed with. This would produce a very
unpleasant inference, that favour es as shewn is
particular came& Lie would rather have wished,
that some general law could have been adopted,
from which it would in no instance be necessary to
deviate.
Lord MULGRAVE addressed the House, at con-
siderel.ile tenth, on a subject which he eterwidered
of very serious intportaitre. llad the Noble Lord
hvouglit forward any cnotioli which might have had
for its object the puresinuertent the rululteree, had
it tendel. to disqualify him front tilling,any sit es-
tion in the Array or Nasy. or His NhticAo thi-
vertiruent, it should have had-hie most cordial sue. •
port. Had it atilt gone i'ariliereeen4, inflitted cor-
poral putushinent upon the Wee (Weiner of con-
jugal happiness. as tar as it could intneted,
cousietentiv with the ntilkendui;ifistration of
English Law, such a motion 3b,cislii have also
met with his hearty concurrent*. No man more
than himself deplored the prevalence of that vice,
ltd to the g,eat minaber filf Attesters. He
did not -actiond with what had beMitletifed by the.
Noble Lord, that women had theietvetew a di-•
*carte femi their husbands. and qtr etpectation
that they would be married to their seducers,
when they became Participators in fine crime of
edulnary. He entertained the highest mi.:llion
of the Ladies of this ecnititry. and Dever would
fie think that any or them, Atoneeer bold ur
forward, so far lose all sins of shame, as to ad-
dress their seducer in the language ascribed to them
by the Noble Lord who brought forward the pre- ,
Beet motion. Evetetimmig the lower orders of so-
ciety, where education tied not its due influeuce
upou their hulks of life, we often sew remark-
able instances of the force of aliame, to avoid which
it had not aufrequently lutepeited that a woman
murdered her own offspring. In the higher orders,
wlhQse education, manners awl retiworient, unitedly
swayed the feelings and disposition of die female
character ; could it hr supposed there was so much
want of shame that a, Lady should say to her se-
ducer, " If I hail seen you (before I was married, I
should have been tine happiest woman on cattle
but now I am one of ere moot iniscroble." Ile
felt the strongest objections to the proposition's
been:Mee u seuuliteg °else of the llou•e, - and cer-
tainly it would, not have this support. ()tie cense-
quence would be, that, provided tills of Divorce,
enistaiaing the clause alluded to, after listing re-
ceived their Lordships' assent, would, most pm-
habiy. after passing the other House id Parlia-
ment, be Not hack destitute of that particulsr
clause. This would occiseiOn the greatest Meas.
veinenee„ and might possibly prevent altogether
rh hills Iran passing into a Law. Great hard.
•111 would hereby accrue to the injured hue.
ti and, to whom, it must lee allowed on all hands,
this remediable act ought to he eetentled.—
Hes:dee as things were at present, it was permitted
t leeeducer to mike all the compensatiou possihle
tOr the act he had committed, that of lathering a
body into diserace ainotigst maukiisd ; and it was
held to be almost a principle of honour, that the
man was bound to marry the woman whom he
lied seduced, and deprived of her virtue. This
consideration alone had frequently been suf-
ficient to deter men frura prueecutiug their tie-
etire for gratification to the utmost extreme.).
But if the premed pop owtiter were to become
waistline order of that House, that othrtary check
uenti eicions propensity would be completely de-
&trey-ed. His Lordship, amended by expressing
his conviction that the motto's had a tendency to
increase rather than diminish the allurements to
a lultery, and that it will br attended by very its.
ierious enemy tieuces : on these grounds, it would
inert with his opposition.
Tbe A ecentsuor of I:4IITERIBUttIf sad, he con-
sidered it his duty to address a few observations to
the House, upon the present question ; it was a

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