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take ■ step the operation of which might he the
exclusion of the successful Candidate, without his
having hod any opportunity before hind of iniagiii-
ioß rvrn tlte, posaihilify of such an interposition.—
/Hear, heeTP:7—Besides the hardship to the loth-

%Altai. he Also looked. as lie was hCriud to du, to
the great inconvenience which might possibly Arise
to the citizens of Dublin from the party spirit 141111
arSPOUie of a. reasoord contest at. their election.
The present election, he understood, wigs conduct-
or' with very strong feeling, at both sides. The re-
petition of these in thit event of a new election,
still further exasperated, sta they dolibtless would
he wider such circumstances. lie would deplore as
.1. great misfortune for the citizens of Dublin. Un-
der any circumstances, he would deprecate an ex
post faeto measure.—(Hear.) .
ARERCILOSILIY begged to call the attention
of the House to the .subject uponwhich they were
t. boat to legislate. It hail nothing to do with the
Duldin election, but was in ;slain terms whether or
v.o Parliament would continue to afford suitors in
the Irish Court of Chancery that protection to
which the law had: entitled thern,—( I leor.)—
Nobody had ventured to state that the office of a
!Master its Chancery and • Member of Parliament
wire compatible. The very Gentleman whose case
was supposed to be involved in the present conside-
ration had himself given conclusive testimony noon
that paint. He declared that the business of his
°Mee required his full attendance for ten 'noodle in
the year.—(lear.)—Could any man sifter such a
declaration, and with r conacionsiiess of the im-
portance of the duties of such an office, requite an
exception to be made in favour of a Gentleman
who hid himself sliewn the impossibility of making
it with any sense of justice ?—( Hear.) —The Hun.
Ceritleinati opposite (Mr. Shaw) asked the Mouse,
on behalf of the citizens of Dublin, nut to accede
to this clause. If he asked that on behalf of the
citizens of Dublin, he (Mr. A bercromby ) would
ask for the clause on behalf of the whole people of
behind, who, if it did not 111199, would he deprived
of the lierforinance of those duties which they hail
a right to require from a public officer. Were they
(the people) to he deprived of the benefit of
Kivu% indispensable duties performed, merely be-
cause Mr. Ellis wish to gratify his ant:ntititi ? To
pa-s the clause would entail no individual hardship.
for tio Blaster iii Chancery hail been a 31ember
Parliament since ;he Union. As to the ea post
_lulu operation complained of, lie must say, drat he
II ght the complaint is little out of place, fur this
Pill was not now for the first time brought forward ;
it wasp measure long in contritiplution for the re-
gulation of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, cud
iris was the first time when his night Hon. Friend
could have introduced the clause. which was now
complained of as if it had beets prematurely framed
to inert a particular occasion. It would be a de-
reliction of their duty if they did not agree to this
clause.—(Hear.)
Sir M. W. RIDLEY said, be could not help re-
marking upon the observation that thus clause, if
passed, would be productive of great iiiconvetairoce
to the citizens of Dublin, by exposing thew in one
I,4o.sible event to a repetition of an election coott.,a.
'Fe this he would mower. that there was 'to peers-
taty whatever of their being so exposed : fur if the
e'ection was concluded its favour of the Gem lemon
c!luded to, lie could lake Ills seat, and obviate all
toe inconveniences alluded to by the resignanou of
his office as Master in Chancery.—f Hear, hear.)—
To give him the option was no hardship upon him ;
lie could either retain the seat or the office ; hr
could not expect that he or soy other public officer
would be permitted to retain a situation the duties
of which he could no longer perform for the polo.
I.e.—(hear, hear.)
Mr. I'. Buxtost—" I bog to ask • eines-
tnt, on the ellt•Wer 10 which will materially depelid
toe vote I shall give on hits motion. The Noble
Lord opposite (Lord Castlereagh) having declared
1,-e offices of Member in Parliatotnt sod Afa,ier its
Cloineery to be totally incompatible with each
other. sill lie, in the event of Mr. Ellis beim;
erected at, a sleiuber of Parliaineio, and retoinitig
Iris seat as such, recominis• I his dismissal I hie
office Ns a Master in Chancery, the duties of %%loch
tt will be impossible for him to perform, while
sttemling the business of Ina cutAtitututs

CANNING said. thitt he believed his Noble
"vend bad on nlijection to the principle of the
r.:vtioo, provided it did not 1, crier IA rviroioccl;Ve
application. Supposing, for instance. Mr. Ellis
wits returned by the electors of Dublin, he In
let,Ksi his office us a ,M..ster us Chancery, and then
wetild be improper to interfere with his fipreser,•
1.41:Vr situation.—/Hear.)--They ought to do
nothing which could interfere with the pending
r [teflon, but then let the Geritlr wean, if returned,
v,mrider which he would tetaiti—his seat or Ins

S:I J. NEWPORT had no objection whatever that
such should be the effect of his clause in the !ne-
gro instance. Ilut " 11'0111 and abet the passing of
Coe void Act" he thought the office of ?.lister in
Consprery should expressly disqualify the holder
bona brine a candidate to serve in Parliament.
Mr. CANNING—" Tneti lit us understand each
other. Supposing the election to take place while
th:s liall is pending. or at the time it is pissed, the
being d Muster of Chativery fit the time it took
place is tart to be colosiilerril a distplalitiertion iu
this particular case."—(Hear.)
JottN NI4WPOar—" Ni', but then he cannot
s:t iu this House %Aldo he holds the office of
it!asier."— (Hear.)
Alf, CAN N I Still the election, he being •
111 sore in Chaurery at the time, ',half lie valid."
Sir GEnteGV. HILL warmly complotoerl 11141 the
abject of the prolapsed clause 1\11,(1:11 be to dist:pi-di-
fy. without 'lover. a gentleman final tilLeg a sit u-
soon to which lie was previously clearly
ti 4 he understood, this clause was intriolsol to
otisoushfy Mr. F.lllis (should he be returned) from
lioldiog has seat, tailless he relinquished Ills vfliee in
Chancery, (hest he should say, that it cots the first
tone any Member of Pailiament had. dining an
rL coon of great expectation ever limp t-ell to that
/Worm a meusute which would, if pits. 41, have the
of of concluding that. elections-4 War.)
Indeed. lie meant to ask if the Right am. Bsto.•
vet would not procerd.a step Nether. and subiai7
tote Mr. Grataal,:a nisuke •for Mr. Elh;t's, in lite:
ascot of the lattal'iskying ulfinustely a% thy lowa
vf.the f+4?—(if Ao. fect;"froan Sir I. Netrport)-;-
Well. if that were Dot the casr.uill the effect must