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SIR FRANCJ6 BUMDETr.

Mr. Qvta ruse to call the attentioo of the Coons
which, he said, he was happy to sea so fun, all.
tended, to a question involving the welfare of his
countrymen and the couutry to general. it was Is
consider the extraordinary and alarming power.
lately assumed by the House of Commons, of lin.
prisoniug the people of England foc Mkt:tees nor
nimble in the Courts of Law ; sad to adopt such
measures as may he necessary for obtaining are.
dress of grievances, and reforming the corrupt and
inadequate representation of the people in rarhs-
ment. He said, that in delivering his opinions. he
should be as concise as possible. to afford others
time and opportunity to deliver their miiiimeuts.
No two questions had ever been more generally dim
cussed; nor had any of greater importance ever
onsets. The first of the.. questions, on the Print-.
lege% of the house of Common., had already been
so fully discueed in that Home, a. sell as by pee.
sons poases.:ng means of information superior to his,
that he nerd not enter fully into it. -He would aim
be brief on the latter que,nuo, to obtain a [trierot
in pg, harm Hi and a Forces of grievauem;
te sowing chid', with those who joined* the rem
crediiiio of a l'ommuii Ilan, lie had loess; failed
di- •tf e mown ividividsmale.
who would rhos stiTtiatuss him, mod these helmeted
w:th, g such as epithet ; fur t.
love the to consider his pis-raga- ivr. to
support the hereditaaseern•voloes of the king,
stud to tool to the of COONIMPOS as the

bored. guardians of the people. and be. ready to shed
their blood to their support. was disloyal and shit-
affeCted, their characte;.: could not be stained by
see* no iosinustiou. As to Sir Francis Burdett he
professed high respect; with some exceptions, he
considered him a greet and noble character, but he
could not apprcive some of his expressions, as where
be called the House of Commons the inferior branch
of th- Legisliture--at the some time, looking at
•. things as they presented themselves, he could nut
think one-third part greater than the whole. The
Misuse of Commons, like the House of Lords, pos-
sessed th •ir privileges, they had liberty of speech,
were srcurrd from personal detention, as was iecit
laid eloseo in Mr. liatsell's excellent book, but they
now called for privileges; for which the) could dud
no precedent. anCerere determined to support.
tholigh not able to *One; but there could be no
right where there was no poster of enforcing it. It
struck his wind that there had been something like
design in the whole proceeding, to distniet the
public attinlion from other questions. He con-
tetideld that Mr. Yorke 'hewed his ignorance of the
Constitution, by forwarding the ce isplaiut against
Gale Janet. for he could not see how the debating
society had the poser of questioning the proceed-
ing% of the those of Commons. At length, bow-
ever;Mr. Vol ke, having turned out the people, was
himself turned out by the people; and then the ef-
fect was, that lie was pensioned and elevated, the
design limaine more apparent. and the public at-
tention we. completely called off by such a gross
attack epee their feelings. The object of Reform
was. to have the elective franchise extended, the
destruction rf boroughs, and shortening the dura-
tion of Parliaments, and was a question with which
all were acquainted; het therefore, would not pro.
lung the discussion longer. thin by reading a reso-
lution moos which a petition should be presented to
the Hesse of Commons. and which he .pledged
himself should, in substance, if not eerbatins, be
the tame. Ile then read the resolution, the pur-
port at which was, thaj an humble petition be pre-
minted. to• the Howse of Commons, setting forth
their grievatices, and acknowledging the privi-
leges of the House ; but lamenting the imprison-
ment of two of His Majesty's subjects, and the
effects produced; also lamenting the exclusion
of the public front the House during the discussion
of a great question. in which they were deeply in-
terested. and their astonishment and indignation at
the motet of it being since in a high offi-
cialsituation. It also comprsteeldi of the ivatten-
lion to public grievances; of the grievous and op-
pressive mode of levying the taxes; desired the abo-
lition of useless places and pensions ; regretted that
no means had been provided to correct public
abuses. or to bring great public delinquents to
jneti.c ; expressed their fears for the safety of the
Conmitaition, sod their concurrence in a dechs-
ratiou of the late Duke of Portland. " that times
of necessity were times for reform.'.' It also cum-
*ined of the pernicious influence of Member
Wdisig place', who were found almost always to
support the existing Ministers; of the trafficking for
seats of Lord Castlereagh and the Right lion.
Spencer Percival ; of the introduction of foreign
. mercenaries ; and other evils, which could only be
remedied by a Reform in the Representa•iou of the
people.
I%lr.Psassa.s. said;ehat in rising, profane, to se-
cond the motion. he should only impress upon them
• the danger of suffering momentary innovation, and
that they had particular reason to complain of the
borough system, as one of the inerubers so returned
had been load in vilifying the citizens of Loudon.
Mr. Alderman SMITH objected to the resolu-
tion, as of an alarming trodency, and thought there
was more design in it than was apparent.
Mr. JACKs entered into a long argument in sup-
port of the privileges of Pediment.
...Mr. SLUM said he would not follow the last
Speaker into the dark ages, but take his stand it
the Revolestiowof 1680. and hoped to satisfy the
Gentlemen who had just sat down. The first fruits
of that Revolution was triennial Parliaments. and
from the time of their becuiuing septenniel, there
had always been t desire to restote them ; indeed,
from their introduction had arisen all these dis-
sensions.

Mr. MAWMAN.was glad to observe, that in the
petition now proposed, that part of the summons
" to consider the extraordinary amt alarming power
lately minuted by the Hituiteof Commons, of int-
p7isoning the pt ople of England," was to be omit.
ted. But he thought it right, as the people of
England had been told by Sir F. Burdett, that the
COloraittol of Mr. Gale Jones was an usurped power,
and as this rpiestion was fairly before the Court,
thiit it should he an object of their serious consider-
ation. lie thought it by no means unfair to con-
chide, that the fir-nth-men who thus avoided
meeting this question, had, since the tiniirle WHO
given; convinced themselves that the House of
Commons had a power of arrest. He had takes
some palm in examining the question, and he would
mentor, to produce a few proofs, such as he fluttered
himself would pot and end to all donbt• from the
minds of every member of that Court.—So early
as 1455, we find the Judges deelbre to answer
a question concerning ,the privilege of Parka-
meat: " Fait bath not been used aforetiore that
the Justices should, in any wise, determine the pri-
vileges of the High Court of Parliament." This
Ittreloratioa of the Judges is sufficient to couri ire
tun, thet even this catty Farliiineut would Hot per.
wit its privileges to be interfered with. Lord
• Coke, in his 4th Inst.. expressly states, " that the
Commies, in their Howse. bare power of judica-
ture." Now it is remarkable, that Sir F. Burdett
• tests muck upon this very authority; and yet, if he
',MI but gmot.this position of the Chief Justice.
thertverill beam end of the dispute. Sir William
jlotPil. (supposed the first lawyer, in lt:s10, of his
dovt oleservm.s-

M 'Mat ibe Mower of Comma. was a Coon of itarlf, and
we* dno., that .o Act could deprive it of 118..11,...
whist. it bpi diva's ezereneJ, yr couttuiLiiig PCIVV:I%
sit boil"
Time whit the precut !loose of Common, ;1..f.
dace rb eaouroittiow Mr. Oak elOttrA •11. d Sir L.
llartiat. Mr. J 'wrier Fen/ r declared—

" That Ole kw of .as thr law Of thr hind,
ad then avetata te, lea rad ut 0113 w, it the hlvis.e Lu‘ilet not
coltoilt for cusit,irrpt
Nu*, k. u-iitt..l, if it cau he duattrteti that there
I otttottpt or the floes:. when Sir F. Rural iI
e•tt, tit • Sreekr.'s warraet " thia inat cameo, tiles
tei Sranrt. tilts pwce of ttnrellrd riper,
uv ft atute of ehts A•td, when

he clenches) this otiose. by observing, 51 that the
whale procedure coaritiitttes the most uplawful act
the Mind of man cast possibly conceive:l
We hive had Judge Black,tone so often quoted.
and his name is sib familiar in thit Ceurt, that what-
ever he states, will, he doubted not, have Isere as
great weight as 'the opinion of any one whom Sir
F. Burdett has tooled. lie affirms that.
" The judgment and commitment of cad* respective
Court, as to cuulcuspis, mast be final and without eontroul.
It is a eunfidsnre that may, with perfect safety and wearily,
he rimmed is the Judges and Houses of Parlhuaeat. The
Hoo,e of Commons have this power Golly in common with
all the Courts of ifeshatinster- Hall ; end if any persons may
be safely eistruidesl Vito lower, they mast sorely be the
Commons, who ere elioneu by the people ; fur their privi-
leges and powers are the privileges and powers of the people.
The House of Ceininaus is the only judge writs own proceed-
ings." " Holt," continues he, " differed frow the other
Judges in this point, but we must be governed by the eleven,
and not by the single one." The clnie great authority, in his
Consaieutarles observi a, " Thai whatever matte: arises in
either Howse, Ought to be eternised, diseessed,mid adjudged
tY that House to pinch it relates, and no when. else."

Justice Sir Eardley Wilmot has examined this
doctrine of attachment very fully, and seems to
have foreseen and carefully to have answered such
objections •as those of Sir Francis Burdett. But
he would not fatigue, as he easily could, the Court,
with an infinite number of apt quotations oh this
subject ; and would, therefore, close those already
given, with one from a great patriot and profound
constitutiosal politician, from whose autherity, lie
thought, there mold tie no appeal : he meant that
of Mr. Fox, which Wan delivered in February.
1798, when lie was in the meridian of his life ; lie
affirmed, which clearly applies to the arrests of
both Gale Jones and Sir Francis Burdett—
" That, in the case of • libel on the House of CUOMO,
the ;serous who had written it, ought, must properly, to be
pnuiabed by the House ;^ and further, that the House pos-
sessed an buherent coustitutiottni right of punishing those
who twearred a couteuipt, or a Lea guilty of a breach of its
privileges."
Now, he would ask, what cneld be said in answer
to such authorities Mr. Hume. in an essay nn
the independency of Parliament, in which he eon-
siders whether this Government will terminate in a
monarchy or a deinoceacy, has made 1111 observation
which he thought very illustrative of this ttttt rut ;
and as it is made in ackueole-guseies the power
of the House a Commons, though he draws a con-
clusion that oar Constitution will eventually be
swallowed up by the Monarchy ; it catioot there-
fore be inferred, that it is made with a view to exalt
that Power. H. says
"The share of power, allotted Sy our Counts:hoe, to the
House ofCeausone, is se great, (bat it abouslately commando
all the other parts of the Co/crosscut; sad where're it
pleases sight swallow up all the nut, sad caress the *hole
power of the Constitution."

. - -
lir anerwards asks.—
" How is thw member of tour Coretitollos confined within
the proper hulks •"
The answer that he gives. is *e same as may he
given to the question now in dispute. so to the
abuse of the power tide !louse cosy adopt iu its
11111111,....

" Because the interest of the body is restrained by that of
the iiiitividosis the Howe of CHIIIIISUP. olettritc* got it*
Power, because teirli no aserpntiats world becoming', to the
silkiest Odle ainjority of its weathers."
He could rot help thinking, that the attempt to
dept we the 'louse of Common' to commit indi-
viduals for libels, had tint been considered with en
enlarged view. A friend of his (Mr. Slade) lad
drawn conclusions from extreme cases, and though
he thought such commonly enormous, yet he beg-
ged to be indulged in putting a supposition. which
he hoped would not be considered an extravagant
one. Were an ambitions prince desiromi of be-
comitig absolute, hl4 first attempt would be to de-
stroy, as Cromwell 11,1,1 done, the House of Com-
MOIIII. And how could he more effectually do this.
than by first contriving that the people should lose
all confideuce in it, and then by despoiling it of its
privileges. • Suppose some one of his courtiers were
to publish the grossest libel against it—such as to
call the Speaker's warrant .• this thing, saigeneria.
bearing our fiancee of legality." ; sod suppose
the only means of pumsluneat were through the
Courts of Lew ; it was not an extravagant conclu-
sion, that the people's minds might be so poisoned
through deu-inro. or so int. 'dated by fear, that a
jury could not be finind to find this courtier guilty
of a libel no the Honor. Would it not become.
he inked, in such an emergency, destitute both
of power and of respell Would not the Members
hecnine as contemptible -us even the Consuls of
Rome, during the ter. of the Caesars ? In
short, this power of the Douse had beet' the cause,
for the last two hundred years, of our liberties in-
creasing, ahite those of the rust of Europe had di-
minished. The indiscretion with ninth those rush
polimiaus had rushed forward to dispossess the
Commons of this privilege, might lee likened"
that of Indione ; wi.o, when they were deiirous of
potsers;ll; fruit, cut down the tree that bore it, ...oh-
out once reflecting that by this process. they fur
ever prevented its affordiug deem either nourish-
ment or shelter. Sn, were they to destroy this •
power in the popular branch of our Constitution,
would it he prevented, in the hour of peed, from
affording 'is protection or safety. But. sop-
pcse the Home of Commons had aot a right to
cominit Gale Jones, what becomes of Sir Fran-
cis Burdett's denial that it had not it nght to com-
mit him; when he has most explicitly admitted
in his •rgtiment in The Political Re:filter. that it
has • power over its own Menolwis? Ilis words aro.
in speaking of the three branches of the snots, that
no one hiss separately nny power, EXCEPT OECT ill
oar* Aleatherr." After lie had deliberately *rotten
and published this wlmi.onti, one cannot help
thinking, Eno when the Serjeant at Arnie first
waited open him, that he intruded to deliver him-
self next day into his halide; and why he should at-
terwards refuse to deliver himself up, lie should, 1
thi.,k, make satisfactorily, if nos-ible, known to the
public; owl the people of England are not oaly
henry entitled to this implantation of the Baronet's
rein-al, lout also to account for his 6.1114 iustrit-
naval& tat throwing the whole capital into a state
of confoo.ioie and dismay. Does he imagine that
he was jitatified in doing this. if, as lie mates, the
Ilium of cotatnJtat had a wiser over him For,
even if his mind were in • state of doubt, does he
Tien jinn use 'het then he bad a rigid to resist ? If
reintative had arisen from advice he had after-
wards vs...lived. hr (Mr. M.) hesitated not to any,
that that Aster wee lend. In contlwinn, Mr. M.
avoiaed ot friend to Parliswentsry Reform ;
and r-greited that tin present Miniver* elimild
coutiout iu office, in doirA opposition to the sense

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LON DON,
THURSDAY. Juus 7.

A Gotteaburgh arrived lust saight, with let.
tern and papers to the 30th lest. They annonime
the sodden death of the CROWN PRINCE of SWEDEN.
Ile fell from his horse iu a fit of apoplexy, and ex-
pired immediately. Passengers lately arrived at
Mimic+, from the North of Germany, state. 'hut
be am poisoned, and that a counter-revolution in
that country has been eff,cted. All the immedi-
ately-received intelligence from Sweden prepared
us for some event of thi• kind.

At a late bour last night we received Paris Papers
to the 31. t last, from which we hare Wade the fol-
lowing extracts:

TLIECTE,IIA.Ir 15.
Every thiag is quirt on the frootirrs of Cro.stia
and Turkey.
The English are still roving about the frontiers
of Dsbootie, and molest oar ninuotion. They
land, from time to tone. in the small is!.oni of Le-
vine, whit h was lothvrto w,thout on! defence. to
prof tire prosc.itioand fresh IrAtcr. Troop% and or-
nltery have now. hOWCIPIT, hen', gent thither, and
the island t. to Le pat to a telpCjit‘lllB =tats: of de•

fence; but every thins remmint qi:i.t i ;Int e-,
ll ie rarttny:s make bin ,t I.lnm their:Tr
liner, and navagoinn dud isimptiak user are W.„d;t,
to br wary brisk iu that

iMiTIIRDAII. MAT '22.
French Officers of Cu.toms have
Dordrecht, nod co:iscord ttil r„i,„;,l ro.f,
fuond in that phire; this noexperted piece of
leniency I. excited r vary strung sewntion.

Americas Papers have heru received to the 5i..11
of April. They cunlain aWI copy of the pew I!
which is to supply the ptaceof the Nua.lntetc„,„„,
Act. to a,l•lit:ou to the clauses which ae
alivalral to
ye,ta.rday, it imposes. it duty yr 501. per t ttl. ”tt
sll
mar:ufa.:t IWO limporird otii thber
Eugland or Fratice from the let of Nisy, %Web
day that Act expires. This new Bill th,!
/Lowe of IC rpreseatlitivrby r nitiorii) of tit to 4U.

'We have erceised (;crinan intpert to lite I'M)
list. and Dutch to the 341 stiotata. at!' I.!
in one of the furister, dated Bank. of ilit
May 18. '11)64
•

.; All private letters from Holland and Iliabaa
nnainuiously concur in stating, that titr apon.ffitrlas
in the Northern ports of Frillier, as w.. 1
of Holland, have keen douldeil since the preselat
of Bonaparte at Antwerp, rod In. tisit to the na,
ports lately ceded by Holland. A cittnier has lota
sent to the King of Hutlaud, with the peremotsiy
request to cult a second time on his Lroil,,t it
Antwerp. Napoleon has been observed, i10n.4
thd whole of Ids star• there, to hate fic fiteig.y
transacted business in his closet rah only la. las.
ther Jerome, formerly a French Adrona, 1,41„,
ther Louis. and the Minister 6f Marine. 'Da
King of Holland, during his harmer stay, depst,44
several couriers to Arnsterd.iin. &e. with the Doe
peremptory orclets to employ a ormaiderahle
tionul number of hands in the dock-y*l.ls, and
continue woiliing on the rrmamttrt► I cal, 4 „
and night. Of their progress he reeeires,eiery LI/
or two, a most minute report.

Ye.tertgay, at two o'clock, the Kt au led('
vate QuLta's Yt.hxt, which
inerntlo). otentl-(1.

vt!sterday, ;About half-past votive o'rlotic,
MAJESTY, anti Prtneescrs AUGUST I, EllZln rt.
and SOPIII A, %i ItWl the Uukr of CUMBrats,6o,4
Carlton House. A APT partaking of • roll roast ts
with the Pritsee of WALES, they r. tureen toto
Pelare, and set off on their 'curs to
Windsor a little before three o'clock.

The following is the Eullttiu sOhlbited at tl.s
Duke of CUSIBLOLAN/V1 house:—
" His Royal Meow., the Duke t 4 CP`lNF.tr.i!fil
passed a very pod otabo, has horot tl4e drsm,s ..1 is
alma& well. (Stirsiesl) " HENRI' 14:11.1;,itl
E ERA It Ditto:di '
_ _

" Jane 6, Ist9, 9 o'clock eiening, Wecikai4l3)."

Mr. PONSONDY and (stonily tutenartl to harr 6ft
tours, on Soturdety,, Cm their veer, ,:si,to I on., to,r
ntololin, but on a. count of the vu::
lion of Lady aolmur l'omintrur, stbo n 4:!rt.ecl
Dr. BILAY. their journey is iluottioutted wood orit
u et k.

Epsom Ruces commenced ye•ter,lay. 51.1. at
tr.t)4l. up the first diy, there %as eel) httle spa%
Tlua hetta; the grand illy, great awns are befira
Upon the Derby Stakes. Tit.. Duly ef (201 t rr
Whalebone and Pledge are the &tourney. hi, 1..
four was tales but aught uitou them agui.l4 Cc
field.

Timothy. a most numerous and resoerta!ie
:Betting of the Freeholders of the Counts of Its'',
was held at the Tows Ball, in Ural n:. Pcr.s
(;ages, Eq. the High Sheriff of die County, :s.
the Chair, when it was unanimously sgrred to is.
titian the House of Commors for a Itrcurin in l'en
and the rdeen of Sir Eat Ct. RM.( I
and J. G. JUNE*. An Aildresi was
usianiniumily, approving the conduct vt fia F. boo
The Old Bailey Sessions commenced yesterday.
—:No trial of soy importauce took place.
I'o-sparrow morning the wheel goes 'mind. The
whole of the Prize Money, Two goes
Thos.
sand Pound's, will lie distributed g Owe obi
chute to have a chance for it. ilossenT and Co.
hope to grittily their Friends to the taco civil
of their orishra. 'llse Extra Prizes Oen or %1!1:1
as should not be lost sight of by any one who coo
command the means of sporting a trifle to °lois
an immense ante. Tickets and Slimes to be hint
lloasisar and Co.'., 26, Cornbill. mid St. Mara
twee* Hill, Borough.
The Public will please to OIIetTIN that the only
Persianin partnership with the late Si, J. Bstlw
twin. et the time that Gem shared and sold tip
Grand Prize of One Thousand Ticket., whisdi pro,
duvet! .1 OW. (in hut April Lottery) was F.. Fr.
TUN. who is now removed to No. g, COlllllOl, 11,41
the :Mansion
In conserinence of the alarming intelligence of t! a,
capture. by the British deer, of all ships trom fnete•
ly ports to the has hours of the Baltic, not proon..i
with English licenser. a deputation of wen 141: !
merchants waited on the Lords of Trade, Tues.l...
to request some explanation of a ch.inge of polo
so r xtenaire, and injurious in its operation. out
either the seizure of the vessel by our fleet,
her arrival at the port of destinstion. These
"'men were informed that the cut innst4nte
originated entuely in a mistake, and that the in.
*tractions loran the ()lice of the Admiraltt het! •
been expressed with that accuracy aial pr., is ••!.i
that were at all times desirable in gnat's is or
high import: are. It Was further explat., dat t..
interview, that neutral ships from tor:idly
without the Bettie, and on their voyage to 0,1....
hours of that sea, were not only safe front ea ow,
destitute of British licenses. but would obta.t.
protection of a British convoy if resistance .°
quitted. It aos also understood that this intoivt..
mistake would be ccorected by the 'wheat o;tro
tunitv.

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..rtit.a. •11. STu—rr': 6 1 E.MI-1.4k am%
Rank Stork.. . .
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S per Criss. Rt.loared 129.: .
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Long A nssolies IS 194411,
Ilatniuni
India 11..a.1 a l4 11:1pna
IFAch, 11/14 1 irlill.
Coast/Is fur
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mad rots:Mod at No. f 5. Rack et St. Clew n;
tb! J. WHITE, of ram* Owe

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