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in a popes. 1011(Nee *tel.
he week! 'wet. • t. *it AM tret.
olneetred ter Yea -havakloirdeU
six months asts, lis:fpre the est elslistionent ist
censorship." The Bedsit! insiated still wis at.
tended his:. liiiTtiliegientesst ;Sea time, “livald;:x
We have no arm, of vier own. we can hoist a certatd..
flag upon the !puma, and the!' shall liatre it
grained:* •
The newt point to which lieevoild cell fllrlr LtrAf.
ships' attention was the same as that wbtca safes
contained in a petition that lie had pfteented to the
Howe a few nights ago, in which it was asserted
that under this Alien Art foreign witnesses must ,
1).• wholly unworthy of credit. This spentsg out 'if
a feeling which was not only good in itseir,'•foot
perfectly cumistent with lbw heat proaciplits sof
British law, and . consonant with .the ShetWat 01we,
ver,,al feelings of human nature, wh ioli. were
paramount in their influence to all law. lo sistdt-
i"l4. he might Itzli is his Noble and Learned Friend
bud observed on a lots uccasiots, that he w aspen,
nosnicing his 'own °Pinions.; but they were the
opmions solopted sull'eufoiced by the Collet iitallon.
Oil behalf of the House he denied stud rejected
any advantages which the power of thls law offered
"to them. Called on, as they were likely to tw,, to
Sri as Judge,' mill Legtslators out a question of sleep
importance, it to.cause theta not to suffer their hen,
ceettiogs cress to be brought into suspicion. It
was nut enough that they were right awl just
in their loci, and felt themselves *mimeos
of it; it must to known and felt eteewhere.„ and
nothing ought to lie left for doubt or siwt,l-
cion to feet! nu. The U.II would resider thi• al-
most impossible. Whets lie stud that the ll some
must be aware that her Majesty hail up ealltptlittory
process by olticlo site could deal with wither-.a like
that enjoyed by her pro/set:otos% he Uhl not meats
to insinuate that Goversonent would make any On.-
f•ir and imprinter use of the power which tl.e
placed in their !muds; but it was impossible to
prevent that power from producing snifter unit
partial results, in some instance, at least, He
would put a case :—Supliose a ',object of Austria,
qualified by some imrticul sr itiforsuatiou to give
evidence in the impenditig process hi forour.of the
Quern—lie vell...cted the state of Austria, because
that Government was 'siren sod treacherous beyond
any other wliiZh he knew of; because, if there wit
any thing to•be executed of a nature prelatic!), tia-
ra:nous tool unjust 'Over& individuals. it nos al-
oils effected with the greatest ease mod the leest
scrupling by Austria—suppose one of her subjects
qualified to give such testimony as he had before
described, and this individual having, from smote
cause or other, incurred the displeasure of his Go..
varronent, Inv! concealed himself is. France, 6.r
some one cif the neighbouring territories, watild
lists person be likely, from mere gallantry and clii•
valry, and a desire t,) of service to the Qitecu,
venture to place himself on the soil of this coins-
try, knostiog that Ilse Governmeol were powiewled
of such a power to cionveylisiu away ? It hail liven
asked by the Noble Viscoutit upposite.,ll3lsinstens
could he suspected of any disposition to, lamas! this
powsr lii et•peet to those who might visit Jlll,
country as witnesses in riv,.or of her Majesty. !Le
,hot not vtopr.e.e that it t.ould lie turned to ally
',hose by the Nalde Viscount or his cc.lle4gues, but
it was imptasible for the ,Nulde Vs:count to know
.that abuses niiKlit lie couisisitted under the tot by
inferior ngeists. Bet he rejected any argnineut de.
dared rrOol such principles ; they betrayed them.
sLlvts; they oeted ill direct coistradtction to the
'phis of loss; thee would, subvert aunt Ahake the
very found tious of jii:isprudince if tlwy
cheery tte4ree of power, which should belong to
i!!e I ins to the exe:cise of individuals, on
the ;I,lsta:rip:ion that such power would nut he
alorself. 11.. had opposed thla ; he
s :yr no reason fir styporting it its 1820. lie con-
c:hdrol I,v very earnestly protesting against it.
The 17,,,arl sit !AVM:POOL observed, that at the
pectili ir period or the sewo,), and the bite hour
of the eseolog, be ass not going to detain their
I.tird,•hipa I,y any general discussion as to the ins
t:nisic senior or merits of the fli/l,• eopeciaßy as
they had heen so amply discussed at the tiro ',e.g.
in of only prnetteol question for their
Lordships would be, whether nor of there weir the
' same reasons for passing this Bill as et first. Ile
wished to recal 'he argument as it bad beets (I's-
cosard Fry dit, Noble Viscount who spoke 'wrote
• Obit Barrio, he whom his Noble friend hail
lent ',reefs cicatly utitierstruol. The Noble Viscount
hat mid, that eveiy aerie iu Europe possessed the
poser of Imossilliog :thesis from their territory. and
• wi.y shoul•i it lie refused to Great Britoil) ? The
acknowleth4eti that ouch a rawer
briuuiged to the state of litiog, Coeds, unit Coos-
Hoots, loot was out the lifeeJgweve of the Sovereign ;
bat w!;rte cunLl such a pOwer be .practically soul
useiolly vesied r%cept. in the Crown, subject of
course to the croons sod ildol;llllSttattellt Porlis•
utrnt ? tosser VOUI,I reside sin • where hut in
Crimit, although the etifuretniest of it, as it
was pfoildril for to the 1411, 'did not. He
would not go through the long rest,of precedents
whico h,d Itern (puled lit the limner &bate on the
13111, cinch were no Isis mind eiraciosire.• There
W.I. wile e.see, howet-s, it; the reign of-Elizabeth.
which reign eafs peneer-bad been -paid to
have Lieu must a ssely and,tquitairly-enereiserl. of a
whit, had sp..ken very seditioutiy of the Eng,
Ir.li (..4• vermin-to. The party ,was a foreigner, who
had sit s era L o n l.n Rochelle, surf their:lllomm was,
vuhrthrr the othnsive Latigth4ge had., been used by
Inin at La Rechelle. or to Engilu.sd.;•becaniest was
teatiltaosed that it' the exiw•lWtonll'hati been uK'd i"
4:ll,4tatoi, he wriiikl hare been atuowerable.lothe
laws, but it it 4.ll:mitotic, all that could
be 11011‘ would be to meted ions out of the .cattritsy„
Such was the issibleat maimer of eseremiug theta
potter,, than aeloch be thought there could • be
bearer IY a Mote leitteott use of thee presogotivert•ot
1:',0".:4 He atiou44ll the supposittos of ,the
Noh!t: gesolo at tan ll.e priasible exercise of lbw
ro 1r.10111,4 os. keeping witi,eosts: iu
or hir Majesty out ..f , Count.);
ussreatusiable ; but toe piglet of rettiosthro oboes.
leasing' property, iu the clsory...ope.,,stopy
flattest to it, ir.usiorfety, aryl yet• porwritio
ilioled.int torsos a.:st uppottuouses for,coln,
storing or eff.lthlig i•vil.towatds the country, els d
altilebt, &Aided to 'e;ery.‘iiiiitell 'all.
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