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Counsel- ices heaid ae 4;1141014bl rAitise to the S..mti
Anneal, Bonneenoan • 8A1111.'f.14.6 and other*, •.s. Mr
A I.vo a.d Mr. 11.,roir, no the part of the Atosoellont The .
farther co:hoole:atoeu °aw ease via ach.ooorned toll Fret/.
The Ilall• upon the table ware lfrorviard 4 in their rewealve
stages. Ainnont these, the Coal Futon' Indemnity Bill was
read a second time, and committed fo; to•onorro ..
"M•. ALFICANDPR br.ouirht up fro to the Commons the
Greenland Whale Fishery Boll; 111,1.1 4110 two private Bolls.
Tlo:oso• were severally r-rad a hilt time.
A MeAsllSet WWI bi.ourf.t up ;rod) the Comm/von, importing.
that the 11.nt5.044 1... ot ,11 loave i' two of ita Members. the
Hitt Gillartlli I .o,r_r Cole, an I Sir J/111. Steearr, Barr.
to attend i dontailitio?.. of their L ,r,l.Atis, if the said Mr.uaers
thought fit.
. . MR. JUSTICE Ft )IC.
Lord. GRENVILLE said, he hal to call the at-
Munn of th.-iir Lordships to a eiti.-ct .t very se-
rious and weighty importance,. nAnietv, the matters
aniseed in chargeigainu on of His M tjosty'sJn lyres
is Ireland, Mr. Justice Fox. now un-l-r toeir Lord-
shifts' aimadentiusi. He certainly should -h 4we come
forreArd, as P't now intended to do, when the stihjed
WAS last under discussion, were he nsit pr velted
fruin atto.i.doo.g by severe indi-,-,soritton. The CM*
was certainly OP a novel de-Attption in that i louse,
and, in every poica of view,..rhetlier as offtiting
the individual, the public. the eharafter of that
[louse, and the consideration of its being tfi form a
precedent with respell to the exercise of the highest
of all their fundions, one of the greatest imp°, twice,
and it behoved them to proceed to its eonsiderarion
in the most serious and deliserate manner. On this
be ad, he Mt it his duty to submit .to their Lord.
ships his ideas of -what was proper and ii Ling to
be done upon the occasion ,le cLd not kmw
that he should have. to close what lie had ,o say
with any regular ino,ion What he should offer,
he had rather their larriships would min in tocir.
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minds, did they ii&in it of any weight, or receive
asastance in,the way of discussion frorWthiste who
were more conversant in the subject thus himself, '
either then, or any future opportunityohan come to
any decision upon, his prokusitiont that day. As
the case stood, it appeared that several petitions
were presented that Session, complaining of martin•
dud-on the part of one of the Irish Judges in the
execution of his high offi:ial chap; in considering
this proceeding, it was natural to rider to the pro-
visions of those Ad- of Parliament, by which the
Judges were placed..
in their present situations. Ay
these the tenor of their officer was good belrivinut,
they were tcmoveable only on the address of both
1-louses of Parliament ; the case may come Irfnre
'them in the way of, judicial proceeding. With the
Hons.! of Commons there were two options vested; -
the first to vote au Addresi of Removal, in which
their Lordships would afterwards have to co-.ider
of their concurrence ; or to impeach the party twfOrt
tl,e tribunal of that [louse. In decisliag upon the,
case, ,44 it thee stood before their.. Lordships:they-
should be guided. by two is t ding consideratmits s
the first that of p tweeting iii the • most cetiveatertt
manner under the circumstances of the ease; and,
secondly, the, such' pr.K:ced;rg should he in st-wiry
the most anal goes to the pinciNes of the co,nitn.
tion. Vivi resped to t'ie it would he proper
to pause. tort titne.safficie @ruwhoin urr the
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other House of Par Kittle:i4.y not origierte a pro.
ceeding upon the car, as it tray ii. point of ta.-t ? in 4
case like the pre.;ent, where 'he charge was one of po-
sitive miscoodult,ft svoold 5e mote regular, as Well
as more consonant to he tormer pradiee, and
wore conducive to the ends of publie justice. 10
make tt.e.applicition, in the first instance, to tire
,utber II 'use, who, as he Irani brmre. were investlod
with the tro-feld option of proceeding: eitbeehrtYfir
way-ot address or impeachment. . Wtik respt:d fie
this, it was seriouslyrincumbsnt upon their. lend.
ships to consider of the conti:igent possibility of the
ease ultimately. coming• b -fore 'them in 'then Judi-
cial cepucity, in chi s:iape of an ..inspeachment ; be
such a case they, would have to sir as a Court eif
Justice upon that which, in the way now proposed,
they should have tried by previous examination ; the
anomaly rand coaacquences .if this were too °twines
to expatiate 'upon. In that ei-w of the question,
particularly, ittrould be preferable to let the appE-
cation, in the kit instance, be .node to that btatich
of the Legislature which, con-tirtitionagr, forms the
grand inquer_of the tiati..n. Br proceeding in the
line at present chalked out, the ordinary situation isf
the two Houses would, most protsably. be inverted ;
as. possibly they may be so 'placed as trrat•pesr,
to a certain degree, as prosecutors beater the Home
of Conamuns. In this view of the question, he
thought there could be little difference of opinion.
lie was decidedly of opiiii,iu it was preferable to
let the•matteraniginate with the other House. It
would belt): the House to consi ler, whether Or not.
in tlte mode prApocc-d, a degree of wrong miFlst •./ t
be uttered, 'hoe, to the interests of parties, Or •of
justice, or ;o the rulesprere'rilied by the Consti sail Os
In pursuing the course he teenrninen•led, they ..id
not .in the least renounce those powers whir., the
Adis,/ Parliament rested in the et tie again or,:ssed
the general importance of the sobjett to their L. -rd.
dope minds 1 and these con iderat:ons atten htw
upsm the t are being en,irely new. on this grated,
he rather wished the Rinse woald come to no .tech.
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that night, but take tom• to c .itsider the case In
All ks Views and hearings.. In tais view. and with
releteace to what he said of the probability of the
other House taking it up. he thought i: would be
proper to adj• urn the sitting of the Committee,
which stool for to-morrow, tot six weeks or two
months, or rather.that no particular time should be
tiled tor its sitting; this to be done so as :hat the
parties may mulerstanal that the delay was for no
other purpose than to afford them an opportuni•y of
addressing themselves to the other House of Parlia.
merit ; tnis delay, in tad. would not operate as**
impedinsem to, nor a denial of justice ; for, at this
expiration of the period, the parties would have just
the same opportunity of redress with that Heave at
at peeseat t however. in order to give effect to what
It, had laid down. and to give their 4,.ordshile ti

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