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London, England, 1820-09-19 00:00:00

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seillsid. in direct I of thit• mottment of
!.ashours unieersal cooleurretace beet in on tbe,
OW* Ord., of a jedicial pro;ireding. fur the mike
lkidelgtog iii es pare stieemeets.—(Hear. hair.
jive the Minieferid side. lowa, eelpaed h the
f—lit repeated what he hod oserTled.
Niet would
o a discussion med be little else than hos
isp.a.*
Igifig be et parse declamation, ou • subject A rt
completely staled. The gallant officer declares/.
himself to be already i coenpetrie jedge of ill* rwst.
we-Whirr. hearp-lie,behered the gallant Office.
to be the telly wools who stood in that destrebe
econditiou. /le cytoileibtied the gillaut Officer Mel
those who weed before him. fur having dragged the
/louse into a elm-us-into on all that had passed in• - „
'One tipper [loose. It was the siocere conviction of . I
7164 mild, that seteleebernaight he die result, the
Veen* would have perfect justice done to Ised.osi
• flints. hare.) —Certain he was that Ow wool& not
be found guilty, sinless she were proved, to be ewe'
When the Bill should come down to that Whin
the question would be ape., to throe in all its beer-
ier. He militated the House of the necessity elf'.
• nut giving way no popular clamour. The 'whit!.
ought not to have it faulted atecougst them that that
Perliateeut were likely to do iojustice. Hr wee'
convinced. on the contrary, that perfect justice
'meld be done io the end.
Mr. G. BENNETT was desirous to 'hew his flan
and unshaken opposition to the impe..eling tnetsitre.
His opinion was loot at all sleeken. but on the con-
teary, confirtned by a hat he had wtommed in an-
other Haase. He loud been present dry by day. He
Was convinced that to proceed would only be to in-
volve the institutions of the country in fresh rehear.
It would be only to assist in dung that which Mo.
Maters had beets eugsged in fur years, reducing the
constitution and autleoritie, to coutempt and ogm. t
y. The measure, go how it might, south •
make every man now living in the country lame. t
its introduction us long as he should love. Ile
Would insist on referring to the proceeelingo
of the other House, their door. bad been throw,' .pro.
slid lie had witnessed what passed there. It e. 411
true that the admission was narrowed to a certain
~umber and certain classes of auditors; but the
House was sitting in the 'winner of a Court of
justice. and there every one wee supposed to be
present. Ile hail heard it said they were not le
continent on the case—that they were to keep
their minds unchanged until they her'id the _
whole of the evidence, and his lio.ioutabte aid
Learned Friend (Doctor Phillimoie) had cow.
plunged of the House going into er-passe state-
ments. The Noble Lord and his Hon. Friends
were pleased at his Learned Filen I's suggestions ;
they smiled pleesautly, and cheered him loudly.
Why, what sad the whole proeeeding.bithetto bat
en expiate stateineet ? Was it ever before heard
of, in the history of jurisprudence (e wept in ouch
tribunals as slim over which Bradshaw presided.
where the King was condemned to death), that or.
known witnesses shorld be called 'from unknown
places, their evidence be heard and recorded, sal
commented upon, end then the Court adjoure.
determiuing nut so hear our word on the side of
the defence, tvrn in reply to that comment ?
The Houourable Gentleman then c.onineuted
on what lie termed the disgraceful. briotlY
circumstances which lied been adduced on the
most beastly evidence. Ile accused the Hight
Houourable Gentleman opposite of haviug exttio:
lined a charge disgraceful to himself and the
country. His statemeuts had not been proved,
even by his own a itneeses, debased as they were.
Ile knew not by whom the Hight- Hon. Geistlentan
load beets employed. but to his disgrace as • se-
nator, as Attorney-General, he had turtle abate-
ments which his blood boiled to think of. He
could mat have believed that au English Geo,
drown would I ave undertaken ou bUth grouted. its
mike such assertions. And yet they were to be
told of ex parse oratements ! Why what mere -
could be douse ? The case was &tidied. What
ever it amounted to es accusation. it was before the
world. It would work no more mischief.—
" Treas.. had dose its worst,"
No more evidence could be adduced. lie had
heard the greaser part of it when delivered; he bed
read it over end over leggin. Having observed the
effects of the Milan Commission, having sees that
instead of filling up the space of six years. the
evidence only reached to three (another instance
by the way of the kind of justice which the
Queen was treated with). Having seen- and
witnessed the delivery of that evident,. his
impression was, that no man of commeu pro-
denee. ar understanding would have adresided in
stipOrt of the Bill. upon such evidence as hat
been produced. He had at first been *track with
the probability of the Queen's innocence. and of
the conspiracy against her, by the heroic conduct
of that Illustrious Woman, in boldly approaching
the shorts of England. He lead felt that in such
behaviour the motive must be an honoutable one.
Ile had heard. he had known of instances in which
people had died protesting their innocence, even
after they had by the laws been proved guilt... The
desire of leaving their families seine grasp 'el tom,
as to their innoeeuce, bad frequently weighed w.. :Is
persons M that situation more than the tear of
death. But lie had Lever k.,Ossla. on any oceans.
a guilty person seeking trial monist the 'trees's."'
opposing obstacles, and where honour and fortune
voter offered so the party to abstain from it. We
w.is convinced Ilaw as much as if the teal were co..
chided, that it had ii. fair fuundatinii. A more
fowl and diabolical comipiracy, or one mummified
by a inure loathsome mid foul collection of lied wit-
nesses had never been known—greater and more con-
vincing proofs of couspiracy had never occurred on
arty tons. Seeing then dust such was the coed.
tion of the proceeding, that all dams were ranged
in hostility to it—that even the.. claws by which
' the Goveentnent was upheld, theorem'', the mem
and the clergy, were Witted with the staspieleas of
hostility, what was the proper course for Ohl
noose to adopt ? It was in cid to bade it

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