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'f'.►rlinment. lam happy to see these under dis. '
cuss' ~,,, sod I hope it will not be long ere the
House shall he acqoainted with 611 the new pro•
cesiws which have been resorted to ; amongst others
that notable decision of certain London Magistrates
respecting some persons in confinement, two of
who►n haul lwesi apprehended °pots warrants previous
to the Suspension Act. In ordinary cases of im.
prise iiiii rest each person was informed what was the
crone alleged egoists( I , and could search for
Ilse remedy or redress applicable to his case. But
here Ilse patties toeing arrested merely with a view
to safe custody, mould know nothing of the mat.
ter ; nor, ►t tier slid, mold they avail themselves of
it fur their slitence ; all, therefore, that they could
do was to acid themselves of the option granted by
she Bight Honourable and Learned Gentleman,
and this option he was empowered by this Act alone
to ;impose. The Act, therefore, being shout to
expire 111 the first week of our sitting, It was ass
Act of unprralleled oppression to propose to mess
iss their !Ilion an option dependant on ass Act of
Parliament ell the eve of expiring."—(Hear.)
Tile -Sotictiolt.GEozost.—" My Honourable
and Learned Friend seems altogether mistaken in
the principle of law, upon which he has founded
whole speech. Does he for a moment mean to
'weft. that hest a mass been taken up on 11 charge
of logli treason, and that such circumstances hail
been I.rought to light during his confinement, that
he had been discharged upon his own recognizance,
there was no persolicusupetent by law to enlarge him
upon such recognizance prior to the passing of the
late Suspension Act? I apprehend this Act confirms
no such power. The power to commit and to dis-
charge in this manner existed long before 'lsis Act.
—(Near, Aear.)—The power created by this Act
gas the power of prevesiting the accused being
to ought to trial in the usual course of proceeding.
If this Act h id never paned. it would have been as
conii.eteist to the parties to dispute she legality of
the recognizstices, as if it were to con ttttttt until the
time of trying the (mesh tttt ..—/ llmnr.)—We are
now discussing what dues not concern the merits of
this question, nor flow out of its •nactu►rut. The
Minh!, will therefore determine that this
Is not the proper season fur esiteitaining the goes-
ti'l,l."--( hoar.)
Sir W 51. Iluttaounns-1, I certainly agree that
Act cave 00 slew power; the power has been
•+c;l oloset vi.l to have existed before. However,
Ilse ext-telm.tyr it must, in this case, be considered

extrcatel) 4.lljeetinintllle. The Secretary Itftitotr.

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virfentfy has usurped this power, to the prrissolier of
throe portier, nor eAtt the Right nun. end Learned

4;alitleilian vastly i.xcillpate I self fr the
charge oI oeglect of duty ul out having discharged
there n ithout taking duly r.-00g1112,111Cett.
The A itureiry-Geserral might to have known, that
1.0 Secretary of State had any power, much less
right, tin a charge of high Irrasou, to liberate the
moored I/II OWII recogiozatice, Or co iiiiii it him to
Li! ; Mach hr. inn any inferior Magirtrate eger-
cis, such a prerogative. This power Ireliiiigs only
to tlw t:otirt of King's Bench. The attempt to
justity this coptlnct loot beets equally futile as the
5.!1e.1.1.1 I. myross on l!ie public mind the weer-
rity of la.li and alarming measures of an
its oho+ Lesitalyd not to plunge nn.
1117::111i 11110 1411101$ WIIIIIIIIt came, and keep
ilturc 21111011rr11, withulll permittiog their
ionisceoci- to lie tiddlalislied, in order that they
krep alive those fears and apprehensions to
which Administration was indebted for the support

of many, otherwise averse to their guilty measures ;
unit finally eland, iu the face of the insulted public,
to extott loom these persecuted victims recog-
hisser-es for their appearance and good conduct, as
the price of a precarious liberty."—( Much up-
p lamest. )
Mr. LOCKHART considered these recognizant...lt,
if permitted to continue in force, would be directly
in coutrailiction of the spirit winch dictated the re-
peal of the Sii•peintion Act.
Sir SAMULI. ROMILLY—" There cannot be a
greater impropriety than this act mi the 'bail of the
'Secretary of Stair, in extorting these recogilizsoces,
lit ii tone lie was aware the Act authorizing all these
iiire,tores why nit the eve of expiring. Nu doubt
all think the Roll liar existed too long, mid we,
with great p 1 'panty, are dispensing with the usual
forum. its ostler to facilitate the progress of it
through the /Inure, through tlie extreme urgency
of the case, as alleged by his Majesty's Ministers.
But "hen did this extreme urgency arise ? not yes-
fertliq, nor a week, nor a month, nor two mouths
ago.—(Heir, hear.)—Why, then, did not Miiiis-
tt.trs 31.1.1 to the suggestion that the Act should
only continue to the Ist of December ?—( Hear.)
11. wild it nut certainly hare rep re I long before this,
hail they apprised the Prince Regent of the state of
the country, and advised him. us they should have
done, to consult Parliament sooner ?—/ Loud op-
planse.)—No! here fora length of time they have
antlered the country to writhe under the lash of the
most extraordinary powers ever confided to the
hands of the most virtuous Ministry, upon which
they Imre ant scrupled to act until within a very
few weeks of the meeting of Parliament, when they
ought to have known they would be brought to a
strict account by the representatives of the people
for the scandalous excesses they bud hero guilty of
towards our constituents.--(//ear, hear, hear.)—
Wt. have heard of neither rebellion, insurrection, nor
even commotion since June hist, when the system
pus weal by GoVerillTlCitt in sending out their spies
end missionaries of sedition to effect corresponding
revolutirmary tumults throughout the country, was
debuted bv the 'lamest occident, and exposed iu
all its enormity iii Happily when these
*genitors of the ;roars 'Jerre ceased to be employed
by Ministers, all appearance of ibruffcctioto ceased ;
yet. notwithelasoling the cry of iudiguat raised
in this House and out of doors—notwithstanding
the motives fur coercion had confessedly ceased—
still, to the eternal disgrace of his Majesty's Mi-
nisters, the same tyrannical system has been acted
upon as before, almost up to the very opening of
Parliameid."—( Hear, hear.)
'tlr. B. Bat Itunsr, at considerable length, de-
feuded (hit conduct of Ad iiiiii 'nitration. It was
vain in attempt to infivie tutu the public mind the
revoliiiig ideas that the Green Bag 14411 WAN lig
but IA I.llllNpirgeV of the Government against the
people, as the trials for libel had been denounced
as an attruupi to bring the decision of Juries lido
contempt. As for Oliver's conduct, it was produc-
tive of li good, and no injury whatever, al-
thiiii.4l) incidentally and accidentally introduced to