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be eubmitted, that Mr. Powell could not shelter himself ouster
the chmucter of an ascot; but that their Lordships sere
bound, for their homing-, to call fur those letters. Who was
the principal of Nlr. Powell/ why, their Lordships. Ile was,
in fact, s:wir Lordships' .I.4ent, and aas hound to else them
all toe 1.1101.0011011 they required. Would their Lot dslis ps set
up an insagistary pi tocipal to defeat tiw ends ofjatiee, :Old a
priiteipal too, abase 'mews's could not he ctlected by the
chum ssicat ions ego' red ; tune 11 r. 110 well bad .litied on
his oath, as he demoted, all the reastrawhich induced Mtn
to send min It1lslt:111 to 111 e C.0411111C111, Will 111111 111.! only
e.ute for his not 14.11011111 g. :It far us he, 11 r. Panel!, was
iatornied, was eickness, if them wet e the real reionits,
nothing more would appear in the letters he required, and
nu:injury could arise hum the proaticima of these let.ers to
any principal of Air. Pout: l's, w.ioever that p. mei pal ini..llo.
be. Ile ehould now, (newly e move that alr. Powell be
culled to i ii bar, and ordered to pi oduce !Ur 0 peat of the
CllftesiWlltleillse Let is eel' and Col. Hints il us It Wed to
the mission of Rastelli to Milan, unit the • anse of hit poesent
absence; or if their hardships should think it preferable lie
would move that such letters tomtit' he act ivied 10 :1 MCC. el
CO:1111:111,.! of their Lordship s House, for them to repose
upon.
Lord LI V Litroot. saw great &ejections to this 'notion.
Allosviiig that Mr. P0..1e11 Mut the agent uf tim House, still
he was pt of gated in this case atom: t being called nit to
produce 111,..tt4 papers. The NUfile .%I..rquit has yokel' of
tat. cones! dente, and the power uf 1-1; I 11 oitse user it, as
If it was it public document ; but in his case, unit in the
clrirac ter to w loch their Lordships acte 6111111 g. 11. %sat, la
all tut,„t. aud porensis, at private, cuiddentiat cm respana.
ence bet Cell ugerd and his pa incipal, and Olt all the
rules of law and jos' iee, 00e,111 to be held sacred. As to the
Act of sending gastrin out of tic country. it was one uo
which torte could be no deference of optition ; it wilt II
UlO.l imprudent a t; but It was the act of 4111 C of the agents
in the cause without cousultation with any other agent;
and he could not eument that such au net should be
made a foundation for coinatit.ing uu (invitee on oue I/I.IIIC
Matt :meted rules for law :old equity, by lot clog au avid to
the breach 01 confidence towards its principal.
Lord KING was decidedly of ot )))) ion the motion of his
N.•ble I'. send ought to be adopted. Tut Noble hail had
acknowledged the impropriety of the act of sending
out oi the • ountry. Ile would go further, he would say that
any common case brought forward in any of the Courts
below, in which the agents of the pat ty should thus have
conducted 111ellIteleeb, would have been put out of Court
with indignation by the presiding; Judge. The Noble Earl
had this slay admitted much. Indeed he was the only title of
of his Majesty's Nlististeis who was hearth ou this occasion.—
He knew not whether the Noble Lord's colleitrues thought
to shelter theruselves behind their silence, but though they
said nothing, he would tell them they were equally respon•
ethic with the Noble Lord. A Noble and Learned Lord
had said he had 1141 aisltes as to this Bill oue way or the
otter.—Now, thus, to appentance, eltrinkmg from respon-
sibility, would at first sight declare the present itdsitiniatra-
Cum as wantiug nerve—but 11114 its would say, in his opinion
never since t lie days of the ceieisrated Cabal had there becti
an Affininistration possessing so much nerve, or is Ito nad been
engaged also waked a proceeding.
The Marquis of LANSDU W N E contended that the House
atafully out hut imd ost Mr. Powell to produce these letters.
He is as anxious that the tt huh should be got at ; and us some
Noble Lords thought this might be done by a Secret Com-
mittee, he would wsthdraw his pre-remit minims, suit submit
another, which was " 'l'lllll a S. cret Cun 1111 l !tee b • ap-
pealed, to examiae the correspoutleoce of Mr. Powell and
Col. Brune.
Earl GREY contended, that the confidence between
principal and agent would not i.e violated by the mods, tioa
sof these pullets. if their Lordships thought this inquiry
ougitt not to be prosecuted then the 0 isole lit flies,. proceed •
in.'s should ternitiu.te uslautaueously, aid if their Lordships
acknowledged nu Oct of injustice hail been cmnouttru whiell
tliey could nut remedy, and into which they could 111111111111 ire,
he would theft move the immediate termination of these
proceedings. The Noble Earl concluded oy moving as an
amendment, or rather au MllllOOll to the original motion,
that the Secret Committee bate power to examine Mr.
Powell as to the authenticity of the contracts mode 10 him.
The LORD CHANCELLOR put the qaestion, as amended
by Earl Grey, when the House divided—
Contents
Non-Contents
Itlajoritv iu favour of appointing a Committee-43
The follow tug Peers were then appointed ou the Com-
mittee :
Tim Lord President of the I Lord Ellenborough,
t:truncil, Earl of Lauderdale,
Earl Grey, Lord Erskine,
E irl of Bosslyn, Lord HOU,
Lord Maniters, Lord Amherst,
Lord Arden, Marquis uf Lansdowne.
On our re-admission into the House, we found Mr.
Buou Au add, essing their Lordslups. He said, the eta-
toinatioo of Mr. Powell had holy berm partially gime into;
it might be necessary to call that gentleman uguits. lie
(Mr. Brougham) thought that the south of the case could not
be got at without secoring the production of the whule cur-
respontletwe of the psalms, to which, if there was nothing
wrong, there could be nu objection.
Lord CARN A R VON thought ilia her Nl:deity's Counsel
should ion lie esti ,dad from Cxuniiuimg Mr. I'oo r.l again.
He would miss muse, that Mr. Powell he cuLed to the Bar.
Lord DA ItNI.RI did out kit su, wrlit wont uppearniice
4.. justice their Le•rdeltis, coital • (lac the request of Counsel
to et:inane Plc. Poweli ill the Bat. 11e could nut sufficiently
espies, M. coon:iota at this udL.u, and contemptible pro-
The LORD CIIA NCELLOR put the weditin, that Mr.
Pins 01 be now :died to Ilse Ilitr, which was
Ms isi 111 l .
B Ito/41:11 A M.--Ire will now cal iiimolyr 0 limes...
It:louder Otiearli ".1411111, 111141 t admitted by Mr. Tyudale.
Von bete e. u lit the set vice ill the Vit!' oy tit Italy
have, as ( mum I.
Did yen serve its the Campain of did. I was
settle balite of Leipsic.
Wheat did yon rein.n front Russia?—On the It.lth of Fe-
bruary, M lA.
Writ >out alter its the French tiervice?—Yes, as Colonel.
When gas Viii float Mt' ihisierd to her Royal ii.glows,
Ilse Pritseess us Walt s lit the uionth of Noveathe Itt 16,
al her villa at
Who introduced you to her Rival highness?—Baron
Cavaletti.
Do you recollect ever imetitg her !loyal Highness at
Rome —I du, in ;,17, when she: came to Route sod ie•
unlined there.
14 had did slit leave?—The Lof gibotig of June.