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of the Gentlemen employed in the Milan Commission, Hum
esseidial to the right determination of the Case before the
House, that Col. Brown should be examined.
Mr. BICOUGIIAM.—NuiIting which had fallen from has
other L-anted Friend could induce him to depart from the
questiom which hr had put, and which he would repeat
(raising his voice), " I ask whether your Lordships are
sitting as a Court of T.-".. ;• .t.. .
..e .I.c tor the Bill, when they wanted to exclude
an evidence which was material for her Majesty's viudicrs.
tin,,, by tying him (Mr. B.) down ; by binding him round
with nine-fold technical:ies—ss lien they wished to p
him from tweaking through that MISS of conspiracy and per
jury in which they had endeavoured to entangle his illustrious
client—thou the word of Court of Justice WAS constantly
sounded in their ears. Ilitt now uhanduoing every thing like
form and reolarity of proceeding, dying in the face of every
prii.eiple that guides the Courts below, their Lordships
were applied to, not as a Court of Justice, but as a Haase,
of Le4islature, to grant, out of their great indulgence, a
favour which it never could have entered into the imagination
(slimy man to apply for to any Other ttibunal. " I 84,4'
said the Learned Gentleman, " of in any Court since justice
, was ailtniiiistered in this laud, shire any thing like fairness
was dealt out hatween parties by what are called forms,
those handmaids of justice, if ever a proposition so monstrous
as that now (dieted to your Lordships was attempted to be
made 1" The next thing he supposed which they should
hear on the part of Cul. Brown was, that lie had not hod a
list of witnesses, nor any specification of the charges against
1.0 n.—( A lau.:l).—" We, my Lords," said Mr. Brougham,
" complain of such Olio 1, we have felt the want of them
I all through the course of this proceeding; but lever did we
foresee or apprehend the possibility of such an application rs
this. Will your Lordships, for the sake of Col. Brown,
however favourite an agent lie may be of the Milan Coln.
mislay azain stop shunt hi this extraordinary proceeding?
Will you salient! my Illustrious Client once more into that
state of horrible anxiety hi which she has been kept by yet .
and by her prosecutors h—Will you continue her in that state
of torture by making such a pluage as you are now invited
to make, out of all regularity of procedure, into something
as dark, us Listless, and as unknown to Courts of Law, as
any thing which the human imagination can conceive?
ask if your Lordships will indict such cruelty on my ills
trious and sotto tag Client—a cruelty SO needless, so gralllite
CMS, so shanwiess--tin injustice so beyond all example."
Mr. DENMAN said, be should he deseiting his duty if he
did not strongly oppose this proceeding, unexampled, and
not only fatal 10 the cause of his Illustrious Client, but un.
known the Courts of Justice. The Learned Gentleman sup.
ported the observations of Mr. Broo.;hain with great ability,
and after the Attorney-General replied,
The LORI) CHANCELLOR said it appeared to him I.
be the duly of the Attorney General, cousidering all the
circumstances or this must important case, to make the ap-
plicatiou. The application had been made for too reasons,
lOW for the sake of the character of Col. Brown, and the
other with the view to the elect of his rvidehet upon this
case. He considered that their Lordships were hieind to
reflect upon all the evideuce before they determined upon
grunting or refushig the application. lie should apply himj
self to the exantioation M. the Minutes, and begged th,•ir
Lordships would defer the derision till to-morrow 010111111 g.
Lund GRE Y approved of the delay, but he should sa4ti at
one [him; of, in his opinina, great importance. The question
on which their Lordships would have to decide, was wheal,'
the application should be granted now or after the Attorney.
Gen.•ral had examined his other witnes.c.s. If the delay
a ere ;41-notted at this moment the Attorney Geared would
have an opportunity of gtitity, flesh eviileoce, and thus add
to the delay id.' jiel ice.
Adjourned at to esity-five minutes past three.
INETEENTI I DAV OF THE DEFENCE
Ti CSO.t V, OCT. 24.

This day, the Lord Chancellor tuck his seat on the
Woolsack a few uuuutos before ten o'clock. Prayers we..
read, and the list called over in the sloe al manner.
GREY then My Lan ila, as L trust we may
vow entertain some hope of approaching the end of thesis
paoceetlings,in which e have been so bug and so
occupied. It appi ars to meeliccrdiuglyingtonttot th
we should consider the na.aire of the evidence caveat at
the bar—esidenr e which strongly proves that the testi-
moay dots not correspond with that before give n by the
same witnesses. 'Ellis ',vatic the case, nay Lords, it be.
conies lll:el...Silly that or, should lat. put in possession of the
testimony of the viiiiiesses eta oath, us laid before the
Sect et Comolitine. I ant aware that the exai ;; i;; anon
of these wiulea.es 11114 not been like the depositions
given bean, Alagist &dies ; but IlioUgh extra judicial
and irregular, they have been on oath, and have born 141,11
tu•fore the Secret Co, ;;;;; afire, and on limn isus foolitied
the basis of this inquiry. CollCel% log, as I do, (list it is
essential we should be past in possession of these deposi-
tions before tee are Culled Ola to decide un this momentous
pauceediugs, I shill, at a follire period, move Owl they bas
laid before yam Lordships."
The Lo kI) C A N ELL° It•—" My L•ir,lA.4 tPlealiolt
lA% tag ariseu last night, in umisegoture ill • ie npphcalian
of the Counsel for the Hill to s!ay these pn oceeihit,:s until
Colonel Bross should he called to pair Bar; in any opt.
1/i3ll. jultice dais PIA r, quire Mat p.,ur I.dreLliips should de.
Vir•s prueerling.r (List's of Ili or, Item Lori...tote
move. a That 0.,,,,4,•1 ho ions in, and inf./11.4A;
hat it i 4 the wiih Loa da:iips that lire,, *Weld aitaw
proceed."
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Were fu g,r 0.1 at all. It w eerr.ii, ly night Iwo Silty
should on WO lie r, ruler his
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