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HOUSE. OF LORDS, Mammy, JeLv ?.4.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took Ida seat on the
Woolsack at hall-past three o'clock.
The Ito}al Astoria was given by Commission to
the following Bills, viz.
The Royal Family Annuities, Appropriation, Excheqiier
Bills in Aid, Kings Servants, Tobacco Licenses, Assessed
Taxes Composition, Alien, losdon Militia, Army Prize
Money, Navy Prize Money, Post Horse Duties, Saving
Batiks, Marines Relatives, Bank Note., Labourers' Wages.
East India Volunteers, Spirits Intercourse (Ireland).
Tenants Recovery (Ireland), Domehailer mod Port Patrick
(lettered', Brewers' ficeases (Irelintsl), Public Works (Ire.
WHIN lasonwist Debtors Orelawdji• Lunatic Avy (Ire-
land), Pelteveit Divorce, and Topsail's's lottery Bills.
On the motion of the Earl of Lasestotea, the Irish Chaa-
eery Bill was read the third time user passed.
The Insolvent Debtors' Bill was read the third time, with
amendments, and passed.
THE QUEEN.
Lord ERSKINE snit!, he held in his hand a Prti-.
Com from her Majesty the Queen, the prayer of
which hr considered both just and reasonable. Op
a former oceasi he had exercised his privileges
as a Peer, in suppoiting her Majesty's request to
be allowpil u list of the svitnesses who .were to be
against lwr. It was not for him to set up
his individual opinion against the joilginent of the
noose, but hr had a tight to say he lamented the
decision which their Lordships hail come to on that
occasion, I ler Majesty now requested that a ape.
titivation of the place or places, where the c 6 -
nal act► were said to have lwen committed, shoolil
be cot ttttt unicateil to her itlajesty's Aitorisey.Ge-
moil. If this should be denied, it would he im-
possible for her itlisj..sty to be prepsreil to meet
the accusation, without bringing forward every
witness who for the last six 'ems might have
bail an opportunity of observing her Majesty's
conduct, This deinalid of her Majesty he was in
hopes the House would grant of their free grace,
without the necessity of hearing the arguments of
• her Majesty's Counsel at the bar. Ile would beg
to remind their Lordships that they had now done
with analogies—analogies which it was said were
at war with equity. He was not presuming to
charge an improper allegation. but ns such an alle-
gation had been made, it was incombent on their
Lordships to see that no analogies were followed so
implicitly es to be injurious to the ends of•justice.
He knew not what places her Majesty hail been in,
but it was universally known that she had been iu
various places, and it was therefore utterly impossi.
hie her Majesty could rebut the charges without
the informetion which she now required was given
to her. The Noble Lord strenuously deprecated
the mode of procedure proposed to be adopted. and
he protested from the bottom of his heart. that in
his opinion their Lordships, by so proceeding,
would take away from the dignity. character, and
honour of the House. He objected most strongly
to their sending forth to the world testimony (if
such it might be called) token without the usual
check of cruss.exornination. By the course to' he
adopted, their Lordships also would be plac-
ed m a sitnatiots of difficulty. %Vere they to
be abroad and in communication with the world ?
If that were the case, and no injury arise to
the cause of justice. their Lordships mast be di&
fermi from all the *lieu which he bad ever had ex-
perient•e of its the administration of the law. He
declared that he hod nu interest in the decision of
the present question, but that their Lordships
should continue to maintain the character which
they hitherto had of making their tribunal the last
and firm support of justice. He duly appreciated
the milliners with which the Noble Earl opposite
supported Ins oi tttt ions, but he was persuaded that
not one of the arguments which he hod brought
forward in the other stages of this question would
now apply. The Noble Lord concluded by mov-
ing, that the Queen might tie heurd by her Coun-
sel at the bar in support of her Petition.
The Low) Cliattcat.Loa wished that the Noble

Lord flou.xxls said, the Noble and Learned
Lord had not stated, and he thought he would find
• difficulty in stating why it should be so. though
it was the fact, that the preamble of the Bill had not
any thing like the precision of an indictment for
'high treason, fur according to the Noble and Learn-
ed Lord's own shewint;. to indictment bore oil the
face of it at least one place wherein the cisme
was alleged to hare heen committed. But
it was impossible, in cases of high treason, to
spread the charge over a space of six years, for,
according to the Act of Parliament, treason which
had slept for there years could not be disturbed.
He wished the Noble and Learned Lord would
point out any Bill ever entertained by that House,
since the era of the Revolution, in which de Ado
and de jare the party accused had not a clearer
'specification than what was pointed our by the pre-
sent Bill. lie wished the Noble and Learned
Lord would sheer him any wicks of isuFeactimeitt
ao widely worded as the preamble of that Act of
'lament. On a former occasion the Noble and
lamed Lord had disclaimed all regard to Bills
lef Pains and Penalties. prior to the Revolution.
He earnestly wished that the Noble and Learned
Lord would lay his finger on any one Act since
that time, in which he did not Sod a far more lu-
minous specification of both time and place than
the present Bill afforded to the accused. In
the cases of Bishop Atterbury, of Plunkett, and
of Kelly. he believed that Committees of both
-Houses sat, and voluminous Reports were drawn
up, in which the whole uarration of the elle-
gallons were detailed. and the persons who
were afterwards employed to defend those parties
at their Lordships' bar were thus furnished with► a
specification of the charges much fuller than was
to be found in the present Bill. But it was not
only to the inure or less of injury dime to the ac-
cused to which he looked, but 'to the injury which
might be done to the character of their Lordships'
Howe. He wished to have pointed out what the
inconvenience would be of giving a clearer specifi-
cation of the charge ; he was not sure that it would
not be more adventageous fur the person accused to
have time allowed to prepare the defence after the
Bill should have been' read a second time. But the
question for their Lordships' consideration was,
which was the most proper mode for the discovery of
the truth?—(Near, heor.)—lt was the duty of those
who had refused the list of witnesses, anal who were
opposed to the present motion, to prove that that
mode of proceeding would be less consistent with
the ends of substantive justice, thou the interposition
of • great delay between the case of the accusation
and the defence. It would add another to the many
difficulties of the present proceeding, that in case
a majority of their Lordships should agree with Into
that a clearer specification was necessary, to whom
were they to go for it ? . Their Committee was no
longer in existence. The Bill was, by a Resolu-
tion of that House, to be cooveyed to his Ma-
jesty's Attorney-General, but he did not find
that any pert of the charge was communicated
to him ; and when he should appear at their Lord-
ships' bar in support of the charge. from whence
was the specification of those charges to come ? If
their Lordship, were to be guided solely by prece-
dent, the charges ought to be communicated by
their Lordships, for such was the course pursued in
Atterbury's. Plunkett's, and Kelly's cases, and
in which course the House of Commons also con-
curred ; but in the present instance the whole spe-
cification of charge was, as it were, suspended iu
the air, and they, the prosecutors, were equally
ignorant as the accused. He would repeat, the
only question was, whether it was more consistent
with the ends of justice that • clearer specifi-
cation should be given. or that their Lordship,
should be applied to in the middle of the
proceedings, in a way which it would be im-
possible for them to resist, for a long adjournment.
to enable her Majesty to' prepare her defence.
It certainly was a secondary consideration, though
it ought not to he overlooked, that that course of
proceeding would impose upon her Majesty, or,
in other words, the country, an enormous and al-
most indefinite expense; for she would be obliged
to call to the bar every person who had witnessed
Iter'conduct during the whole of that long period
of time mentioned in the preamble of the Bill.
The Noble Lord concluded by observing, that it
was more consistent with parliamentary usage, mid
with analogy alto, to furnish the perrou accused wit►►

at general nature required peculiar todidgence, rod
he agreed they did ; but the question was. how
should that indulgence be grouted a /it ti r
Courts below ,the accused never could bete the
advantage a hick. in this in-lance, the alltovntice
of an intervening period between the accusa-
tion and the clefehre would give. Ile pot it to
the Noble and Learned Lord (Eiaktoe) whether
the granting ■ period for the pleparat of the
defence Our the purpose of lii. argument. Ire
would assume that time would be asked mid grant-
ed) was hot am extraordinary advantage to the ac-
cused. That peculiar advantage tile Illustrious
Personage hail by the mode of proceeding which
had beets adopted. The Noble moil Learned Lord
objects that there was no instance of • long adjourn-
went during a tri.d. Ile (Lord Ltverpool) was
aware that till lately Juries never separated. arid
stow, as it war considered an evil, it was eticuisiberrit
with as matey difficulties as possible; but there was
no sort of analogy between that proceeding and the
proceedings of their Lordships' flail this
been a trial for high treason, their Lordships would
have separated, perhaps only fur a week, but still
a separation bring oiler rammed, he was at a
loss what objection could he made its Ow our case
that did taut ryardly apply to the other; it was au
inconvenience which arose from the Footsore of their
proceedings, mid could tiot he avoided. Hod a
list of the witnewirs been given, it would atoll
have been cosnpetent to call others. In the cases
of Divorce Bills, where the Iloase were di,-
, satisfied with the proof which had been given
of the adultery in the Courts below, he would
contend it was competent for them to cull 'widene~
at their bar to prove a different act of adultery.—
According to the speech of her ',Majesty's Attoviley-
General, tirade at their Lordships' bar, there wag
nu necessity whatever for names of 'assesses, lie
knew the whole of the testimony, and the nature of
it so thoroughly. God forbid that they should do
any thing nut consistent with the Bids of sulistoo-
tie! justice; but. considering the nature of the
charges, and what had already passed, he could hot
agree with the motion of the Noble and Leonard
Lord. _ _ . .

Lord KING put it to the Noble Earl (Liverpool)
whether allowing time fur prejudice to work opus.
unrelated charges, would nut be to defeat the VIA%
of substantial justice ? A. it was acknowledged that
this proceeding deprived her Majesty of 1.011.4.
prt-
vilegea which by the conistiois law she might chimp,
be thought they oirght to grant what would Ise cou-
sidered as a slight compen.stiren, vas. the lepecitic*.
lion of place. lie would remold their Loirlsreliss
that it was necessary not only to edininister si.b-
stantial justice, but that they ought to newel the
appearance of injustice ; and he submitted that a
Lou rigid appearance to form would •have that ap.
peartnice in the public eye.
Earl BATHURST said, that those who pressed
unreasonable applications, and not those *1.9 re-
sisted them, were the occasion of Ow public tuned
being prejudiced. The application now mode
could out be available for her Alajesty's defence.
Supposing it granted, and Milan were specified 115
our of the places; but her Majesty having been at
Milan in the years 1816, 181 r, 1818, and 16/9,
how could it be useful for lier• Majesty's defence,
since she could toot tell in what part of the first or
the last year she was charged ? it was therefore al-
together nonsense to talk of that as necessary to her
Majesty's defence as the proceedings were its he re-
gulated; and if they had ouw bees font or tire
days advent ed in the 11,vrutiglit1011, which, ifiCCVd-
irig to her Majesty's itrinatill, they 'inlaid
then this application would have beets alinat:y
futile.
Lord ERSILINS rose in reply, and said, that Its
hail heard nothing in the arguments which heti
been urged against the prayer set the Petition wlnch
altered his original opinion respecting its justice
and propriety. it was said that there was no 104-
logy respecting the claim now made and the u -
form practice n. the Courts below in cases of h.g.i
treason, or the usage toe Parliament upon tit:C11•10.,
not dissimilar to that now before their Lordships.—
He hail alluded so the practice tiiruther Courts, not
,for the•purpose of recommending it for their spe-
cific adoption, bat to impress upon them the pro-
priety of brining their mode of proceeding in such
it case as this as 'utearais possible to that parsuril
under the eye of the Judger ehiewhvne, ptovide.l
that so briuging it dud nos interfere with the due
administration of their Lordships' justice. The
Noble Dirt opposite (Bathutst) 641 said, he could