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here, the outer of (apolog an opitainti es correctly, en act of adultery. which in the pereun committing
of hweetieeeme the 'Menet as eteetetely, one of the violation is by the statute high treason, is de-
pursuitie the track of truth with as tench effect Flared to be also guilty of high tussle. But imp-
esithio the sniper pf 44 boars, or env ot ha r •pet ific peer that the crime has been committed ithrood.
period, es those Noble Lords who pare had twelve and that the perpetrator is the subject of a foreign
rranettbs to reauottte tree euhiect ? There midnight- prset. ostrisig no allegiance le this. Crwereineeta
eilly have lieinri variety of Occuintis in-wide-1p See ettelt peril? cannot be coosideted auseeable to the
eret Coannittere hare beet employed. when certain leas of lino euttiory, and consequently cetiout be
peculiar considerations rendered such a mode of held stliity 0.160 1ff11114111• WIN", the principal.
jiroceediuig neeeismir'y, add when •Itarliriterost for the I therefore; who Weise is contemplated by the eta.
sioitkoce of one evil itemised In smother of seine- tar, is not, guilty, the air-coned ce cannot be
*hat less magtiituile—for a Secret Committer. &reed guilty ; and if the crime in not high ties-
is in itself in bear.)—Cut nut see. it loess not come *Shim eity other cleisof
one of those coseideeitielie applies to the ere. offences {mown to the law, of Etiglend. This to
sent case. Secret Committers have beers ere. ceresouly au umiesion in the law ; lint so the law
ployedeehee emessiiiraews have come to the kuow. lie sod 141 ilO whines, interpretation can the
ledge of, the Government, milli it might not be act conimitted in •aforeign country be coirsi-
advisable for the public service to let the einem- l tiered high treason in this. But cams you cause
stances of the weer and the "sines or the conspire- to the cositelosiese that the Kell seie, the corns-
tors tresespire. Secret Committees have been en. try shall sulTvr all the il.commveuience of time
played when the cases referred to individual+ whode crime. without any means of applying a ceinetly
it might' not be etitedient to apprise of their being or correcting an evil ? 1t may leered be asked.
placed in' a 'State of access • They have also although the offence be not high treasoe, whether
been employed with regard to the ethers of Foreign there might nut be some Other cerise of iespeach-
St•tes. in COMM invoic's the itaiioual character or 111r4t ? Upon this puha I can only beer my own
policy. Bet does any of these considerations opinion. which hies endeavoured to form aloe.
apply to the present terse. as being hecessiry to the beat legal odpi:s and that opinion is, th.e.
cot e& either the Umbel of persons. the character, there if no other cease or *Mipeachinesit. A Learn-
., ehe eiteetioe of the iitmes,,„? If the conceal- ed Lord opposite. as I understand, once suggesteif
meet of the circumstances alone were the object of the Prupriete of maktegesdultery an inclicialsle of-
tbe present course, Me might be attained merely fence in the Courts of leoniano u Law ; but time lire
by excleding stranger's from below your bar, end Ilse not been so modelled, nod adultery is still can-
yon.n
f 'hewing of the Noble Earl himself.
would thereby 'lrritant the means of publicity. sidered only as•Citil icier,. except its the Ecelees-
Eve
erotical Court, which 'uteri eat into the content-
no edvatitegee can be derived horn this Committee, Weisel of the potent question. Upon what pm-
for it will have no power tif calling for further do. bible wooed then Can an issipeachtnesit be In-ought ?
cements. or of sammoning vriliie.ses, and in the If the opinimiu I have staled be not correctly formed.
end it must do that imperfectly which the Noble I meet agree with the Noble Marquis, but lehiek
Lords opposite themselves might do much more have 'hewn that the force of his objection is (melded
effectually, mid who. notwithstanding. did Not to error, and that no remedy can be applied to this
feel themselves qualified, with all their know- cise except through the Meditate of the Legislature.
ledge of the circumstances. to propose to the Isi a case so anomalous end so importaet where usf
House any mode of ultimate procedure. If they precedent can tie Need fully to apply, I think it
,be not Ode to mla so. how can they hope for addl. safest and best its refer the rue at price to a be-
times!, knowledge from the assietance of a few cret Committees that tine Misters 11644. .01161 C
other Lords; who must enter sit the examine- I dore-ii, amid, without sue *melees istquiry, listipose
lion without any previous knowledge of the u Bill of pains and penalties. or shy other essiese
winces? 'Mere are the objections which have ue- which they might approve. In all teenier pine of
curred to me mind with- respect to the course urns pains 4•111 penalties. the Bills erishiated au *cret
pursued, mid I have sestet, them, I hope, with per- Committees', mad even if mice a Bill *ere sent sits
fret candour, before i could have known any of the front the other Hoare fee your emecierience. your
contents these papers, or have learned the oh. Lordships have yet thought it expedient to propose
jects which his Majesty't Ministers may hive in a Sera Connisitter to examine the evidence on
view. Time principal übjeetiose however, is, that which it was roweled. The Noble Marquis seems,
which is drawn Irons your Lordship.' judicial cha- that the Ministers Must kiww their own iisteistsoses,
meter, and from the caution with which it becomes mid being fully acquainted wills all the eircute-
you to guard Remised any cireunistatice which might stanterli of the case, mud be better quelitird than a
prevent you from perforuthig your melt linportant Committee to suggest the best mode of proceeding.
and highest duties, not only 1114 'gamier perfectly This Might be said in every ease, and more rave.
courisient with the principles of justice, but, even chilly iu Casa affe'iting iconspiraciee against the
free from the possibility of stain or reproach. Your Stale. id Thiel; the Masters were generally ac-
Lortlettips ought oleo to consider, that the (Mises. y quieted erith much more that they could deem it
of the public are upon this subject eittreinely ire- espedietst to make known. even to a Secret Conte
table ; amid how much must they be iecreased, if. is, mittee, cud if its such eases the House would su
a natter so deeply interesting, recourse be had to *et, why should it hesitate to pursue a similar
any extraordinary sir inconsistent course of proceed- course in the present instance? Besides, what mode
ing? The Noble Marquis briefly recapitulated his of preeeedisig can be more delicate or respectful
arguments, and sat down amidst cheers from the than to submit the matter to • Secret Committee,
Noble Lords around him. leaving it to such Cunimittet to suggest whatever
The Earl of Ltiearoot. then rose, sell mode inigist be ultimately adopted ?
I rise, my Lords, under considerable difficulties, Lord Hoeeeed remarked, that the Noble Earl
because, from the peculiar circuiostairces of this had wasted more of lois time in admitting the force
case, I feel myself precluded from entering into a of the objections made by his Noble Friend. The
full explanation of the motives that induced his Noble Berl said, that upon this point 114 had fee
Majesty's Ministers to pursue the course I have now ceived legal ()piteous of high commotion, but of
suggested. I trust. however. that without going this the House could know twilling. nor of the pro-
into that part of the subject, I shall be able to give beide contents of the papers recommended to their
a full and satisfactory answer to the objections that comer:elation ; but this they knew, that the King
have been made by the Noble Marquis. Cut first, had been advised to stud a 'commuuication to Pare
I most excuse myself to your Lordships for not lietneet, and that at this eery moineut the great
pursuing the course which the Noble Marquis, and inquest of the *iodise was engaged. in diseumesse
iieritepe other Noble Lords, think I ought to have the proper means of examiuing it. How was it
fulleired. But if it be fitting at all to refer these possible for the House to know what course
Papers to a Committee, it venitil Isere been most of pioceeding the Committee of the Haase
improper fur we to suggest what I might think of Cu 11111 l ous would suggest ; or how presume,
ought to he the Report sit that Committee, 41161 the from the nature of evidence which' had not
mode Of proverding which should be ultimately been opened, that an Mapeachmetit would not be
adopted. But 1 come now to the snore substantial recommended ? He could 11411 agree with the Noe
and iteportaut oteectiois, which is, that as a similar ble Earl. that in the event of an act of high treason
ileasego has beeii rent to the Houie of Commons, being proved against the ejaerri, the Law Officers
an impeachment mil lit be ordered by that House. of the Crown alone ebould proceed against, her its
and your Lord-hips in that event, have to the first instance. To Peritasient ought the 'first
perform the judicial duty of hearing and deter. commuoication lie inside of every cireutnetaece re-
mining this impeachment. Such, I believe, was biting to the Royal (tamely. He conselaihed. hem
the Noble Marquis's objection. I feel au extreme the ill-advised course of proceeding new adopted,
difficulty in treatise; this subject. because to make thet the Mouse was placed in a sitriatine iss which
myself intelligible. I must otsunie the existence of they might be compelled to withhold their ominous
guilt. where such an assumption ought time least to nPosi the merits of this cree, either iv law or fact.
be admitted; but I must be neat distinctly' wader- Iteferrimig to the precedents noticed Ity Vie Eabl of
stood to speak hypothetically in whatever instance Liverpool. he remarked that tie pr-s,:iit proceed.
I may teem to impute actual crionineley to lwr Ma- ing was 'erectly opposed to all precedents, and he
jesty.—l/eue, heor.)-1 Wee tin difficulty in saying perticuiarly noticed the case of Bishop Attertenye
that if the circumstances of the rine warranted the riii. precedent was its lerriii4 sod he hoped that.
conclusion. I should riot only agree with the Noble they would not look to remoter eeriness for exam.
Marquis, hut even go farther. for hod there been isles, especially to the time of /leery VI iI. In the
evidence of high treason. I should not have ream- case of Bishop Atterhury, the King 111 a sprees from
mended the referring of the subject even to the the throne communicated to bete Houses the cif-.
House of Commons. The Low Officers of the s eumstanees of the plot, but the evidruce re-
Crowe, its such a cote, ought to Proceed 'meeting it was referred to the Commons
*genet the Quern in dee course of •Iss, so that the judguteut of the Lints was left uns-
aid such, in my opinion would be the oily i biassed, and qualified to wee• eey determivatiou
fit course to adept. But supposing that tier Mae of the other 'rue Cutworms proceeded
jesty the Quern had hero guilty of the act of while by Bill. and when the coileu•truce of the Leeds
tern in a joreigii country, slid oust thus could be teas requested, their Lordships then eppoiirtsil
proved by evidence euperior to the poisibiluy of Committee to examiue, the. evidence. But how
doubt, it yet would not, se I have bees, edvieel, be would time character of the House wand with the
considered high treason by the laws of this creamery, nat 1111 l —how would it appear stn toe votes ei the
and was slut cognixible by any Bugled) tributes,. House. if their L srdships. wenoet referring the
By the statute of Hawed Ili.' to violate the matter to the Judges, sue while the great itiquest of
wife of the Kings or of the Heir Appsrent to the nation was eugaged in exerniesise the ducaiewsits
the Crown. or of the King's eldest daughter, is conenuiricetert by the Crown. *herald ewer io e re.
declared to be high treason; but the act is tee subteen which w 061,1 virtually be a relesel to d.ess
but respecting the el 11l Maley of the female in prime equal justice at the bar of their tiumw ? The
either of these cape. It does not literally make the Nettle tend then commented Spun the -dislike the
fact high Ketone in females; but by the uniform emeopie of this emesestry everseimseed rewards Secret
decide:um of the Courts of Law. all parties to aim Committees.which was so etrieig, Maio Weir 'Muer
act of tremolo are held to be I ' ilea* iii the trate a Seetet Cweisesistre and a greets beg were always
son--and upon the 'Principle of tlsie rule tiltswife oP assindited with the ideas of injustice. There now
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