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Though the inbetritias In4iihidasal licensed wai
IMrs. Drums ick—( 4 Mgt) —he thought she might
claim Ili* Mine iteit to Are: hve Opel tribunal to
! 41. rile on her coniluet yi icy oilier *ninon in the
kingdom. He felt ilirgrealeit pain in the would tie
differ from so many Noble Friends, hut he err-
; taitily mast decline against the Secret Committer.
• of it was the last word he should say in the course of
his life.
Lord llortit *aid. he observed that those
Noble Lords who had hero louthiat and mi.! rib-
yin tit in Cri•ptlrlng that House to pro_
cerfligig, in ihe other titmice of P.:ll:a.neot, kid all
fallen into the saute error t herrn:etre* s‘ hick they had
condemned in athrr ; therefore. le.t lie shouiii err
manner, lie judged it hr.t to say tin-
thing 'oil that sottjsct. ;to Imputation hail been
ex:messed an that side of thelTiuse against the nse
of Secret Committees io greiersl; it was quite a mis-
take to soppiise so. One Noble Friend on his side
of the House (Lord Lauderdale) said he thought
it his (levy to atteial t':e Committee ; another
Nolile Fi lend (we believe Lord Dotioughmore)
had said that the Yates and proreetbur,s of the
House Ef Commons had convinced him of the
prepriety of attending it ; but his Noble unit
Le-hued Friend (Lorti Erskine) behind him (in
whom lie should always think the law and con-
pintail:in of this couotre owed an inticii) said, that
they frit thentselves laZittnil to abstain from atten-
dance thereon, and he did not think t. at justice
had liven done to their arguments. If he (Lord
I Jutland) had been appoint, ii to dist Committee,
lie deem it Ins duty not to act on it. •
Ills Maj-.l)3's Ministers had shunned respon-
sibility sii t very eat—tout inertly did they not
take tin theatrelves the responsibility of bringing
in a Lill of l'ains and Pessalties--but they did
not open the bag a Inch they laid on the table,
nor venture to propose any measure as a consequence
of its contrails, but to assist them in all these
points they ca:led for a Sreret Committee. He
Was not & very old man, yet lie had six or seven
times seen the bulwarks of the liberties of this
country susisruded by the advice of Ministers,
and by 111e.11.6 of those accursed green bags.
lie 1)3.1 seen the Ministers of the Crown morn-
inet.d the viespetision of the most sacred protections
of our freedom psi very thin 1-louses; and those
bulwarks and guards suspended, su I.ir iis depend-
ed ou that !louse, in the course of twenty-four
hours, without any previous ictjuiry, any prelimi-
nary steps or proceedings. Since the Revolution Bills
of Pains and Penalties had generally, at least when
directed originated in the [louse
of Commons. Ile fs It an i itch notion to advert
to ope lieing, as' had been tutted
by a Noble Friend, tile case most in point.
la was that of Lord Clarendou. He had beet'
impeached. or at least some measure leading
to impeat htnent had been taken in the House of
Citinifirsios, and the measure ras brought up to this
House. While these things were going on, a at-
gociation was commenet d betweese Lord Clarendon
mid the King—the King wished him to leave the
kingdom, for the sake of tranquillizing the
country. Lord Clarendon, probably feeling
himself innocent, did not much like to aban-
don leis country; but influesiced by that strong
sense of duty and zeal for the public good
which usually governed his conduct, at hat con-
sented amid withdrew. Not three days passed be-
fore a Bill of Pains and Penalties was brought into
Parliament against I for running away front
justice, as was said; suit lie believed that Initial%
•to the history of moat of such proctediags, it would
be found that they were founded on similar grounds.
And it was a cui mos thing OM the state of this
case was held precisely the reverse of all preceding
ones. For if the Queen left the country, or, in
other words, did that which on all former occasions
was deemed an evidence of guilt, then she was to
get on allowance of a large tutu of money usually
granted to be spent in the cousitry—(llear, keel—
but if she stayed she was to be dealt with as a
guilty person. He could not assent to flee propo-
sition of Ministers, whets they would not tell him
what measure it was that they meant to sub-
mit to the Muse. Ile objected to a Secret
Committee, because lie thought it an uncon-
stitutional course. The grounds of this opinion
he had stated 'when opposing the motion for the ap-
pointment of the Committee. anal therefore he should
now only recapitulate them. lie had said it was
tont:main utional, because in consequence of it
.indi-
viduals would hr placed among the judger of a case
ou which they heti previously pronounced an opi-
nion on ex-parte evidence. Oh! but the Noble
Earl (Liverpool) said, there is nothing its the bag
which would justify impeachment. And this brought
him to the consideration of a question on which
lie had heard the Noble and Learaied Lord on the
%Voulsack. and Isis Noble and Learned Friend
(Lord Erskine), with extreme werprise. It warm,.
vetted that impeachable sod indictable cases were
convertible terms—s doctrine which lie thought
subversive of some of the hest principles of the
Constitution, end one to which he esitressted the
Noose never to lend its sanction. lie said,
that if the Queen Consort, or any other subject
the realm, conducted herself so as to disgrace
herself and her station, this formed a proper
subject of parliamentary impede-Moroi, and he
wee am that this was the ductsine of Lord
Somers and other very great !assayers. The gets
lion Under consideration was, whether the method '
of proceeding by a Secret Committee was that !
which their Lordships 'Wald sanction. No man
had said that Secret Committees were punt at times
Useful and neer-Maw., All that had beeps maid by
Noble Lords on his aide was, that a Secret
Committee was not jest or necessary in this
gyre; sod when it was nut necessary it be-
came dangerous, for an many grievous things
had been done with that lustrausest, that it would sat Wag
home satisfaction in the minds of the ebbc.-{Heer.)—
If wait back even to the lime tit Beery VIII. they
wield had that ail the precedent and analogy doom to the
halal times were armally against los nojessy's allaisters.
In sis Jammer of Bishop Atterlusty, papers were dims.
eased whit* two stoseglit to emoting evidence of a
say esikeilve tied dengeroos ethispirse, t the Minima
of the Colon advised their master Is shake a speech
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amardingty mare doom there sod did as. not what
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sf Ormosiroo—tterra it was referred to al..erel Caasioiure.
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