The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
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felonies al that he west. TN it should be peeved that
this Itignieti (he tested the ewe hypothetieally) had pat
to say other witness. and at Dowse thee Of other de.
sired blab In go before the Niles CUOININAIII,
to kiwi, " if you give • particular kind of testinioay you
shell have • gnat reirava," he would sok. if such proof of
it Awl( nsn4 Rol miaSevially street the &vinous of then
Lueilthipt: eifergalled Ila gift ,fddletist so lbelhilt elr
clarified that Mere was si• roof of general agency ; be ad.
silted the oppesitioa of ordirfory rides of evidence
malmsey WY a to the orinsiaskia of •oeh• toeiraowy ••.
that whiells ihey *idled t• Maio by putting the gerilinii.
Dui one% a owe had bees snede out, that. if Ilcol and este.
tdoshed by fortheir testimony, most essorrioce their Lordships
that a temptations had been offered lo amber.. • wittieaa to
give false transitorily against the %t Nes. lie stoteeivt.l that,
tinder these rbetssnalatioes, she evidence was perks -111 ad-
nsiaisible. The Noble eat Learned Lord had very learned), ex.
poootdool the priseipi srnfevidenre do what he supposed to be
'ignitor eases in the Coorts below. Thank God! these were n„
similar room. He was 111110401 ilith.lnird to be found
from the Noble sod Learned Lord at the table on gut,' ••
plaelieri Lot reeling. sts be ed, that there *creek( e.
whirl' jissiitied the ponirolar logairy which be rt
col, Ise mots be excused roe Nitt penning his opierio,•,
[mumble one, and perhaps nut the opisiou of arty wine V. e,
is that Hons., that his yiesoilla was admissible. liis iit,‘
wsah 51 *hoot the preen:door was, that the rpierttp7i
atiahl be loom alit before she public is the clearest lo
most satisfsrtory onaosetr one way us the which roii!ii
um ttr if they soffer.oi au grave a ease to go by nuileht,el,
tows fled, ontexansioed. Agai• be experseed his defrreocr to
thejudgaxent of the Noble and Learned Lord ua the Wool.
sack. He admitted Heat the Noble nod Leal tied Lord !lad
Wiled the rules of the Courts below with exacta's's, yet
lie could 1101 think that their bireltliilis nimbi helloing rittht
to confine tin esschts strictly to tbuse rubs to the prestos:
iiistatore.

The Earl of Liverpool mad, that if any doubt existed a.
to the effect of the law of reirleace on the care, it weal.. be
Lest settled by referring a question to the Judges; hut
iitelerstood it to be a general admission, that the epinion
the Attorney Geiser's!, congealed by the Noble and Learned
lord as to the leactice in other Comte, was cornet. Th.
the,, name t the question of kpeciallity. Helot wile ;fie
'tulles ler rirriaretauces of the eds.:, which ought to infiece
the House to depart from that admitted usual Coarse of pr,.
et riling Before he examined ;hit question, hr am.ii
just observe, it must be moot swkwa.d f r !her
Lordship. in that stage of the proneaing, after hae.r.r
bens eroded throwahout by the common roles of ....•
dente, to alter their condors and adopt another rwe It
was nut admitted in the croto-1 of tneir proceeding as a
in utter of positive right that they should coofilte there.. am
strouly to the twin of the lower Courts. Oro the ,
as tiny wile aping in tin: •Nertise of legi.latiee as
!suction, it was 511151.1 i.nesionble to sat 0. .4t
they might ma to in their iuyoiriee. Furese. 1-g
and judging of the hiII:MVO its ore wfirels might an..
NO wide an areeille of those functions, it tonal
advisable by ils. ir Lord-hip. lit otaaa.kie liae,a- • .
by the 'corral practice of the haws of the c.01.t.r,
Would their Lordships at this ..lenueed stooge
another course with reference to a pal titular 1a..,
case might tried to interminable into le For at :. •
Ohilles Wed that not only as to ,t.
other, might they be reasouality requested to I part f:••
that rule whieb had hitherto liens blames
that !bey might nut to be bound by nice and teetooe ti
jertions i but this was no nice anal tsclin.ral .4.1.
it was an objection founded OM the very ••. • a
of justice. When they were called on to j.oh~. n f
ripals by the acts of their agents, they osir.l•l to Ise ~r.
lain as to the proof sit the agency, far Ilats a
obvious that a pasty labouring under ii fro, •
tie. is the proof of their innocence, heal a ~.,• re ii'a
slid easy course to pursue fur escape than lo ch•re •
the other side with cen.piracy, after having dole s.:
about layiug the grimed work of each charge carhop. far
their own practices. lie could conceive no prosciple m... •
clear, more Olurinela SO es4ll/1011 moose nod to the in,,., :or-
professional mind. He would Net go Into any pro-tient,
application of his remarks. The evidence Sheered that It.-
genii had told Raisselli to co to Vtlinareati, not with any
particular message even, but simply to go to the Italian
Advocate. If that were to he a•sittned as evidence of itt •
agency of Riganti, they would violate every v.:oriole nr ivy
still ofsabataetial justice. lie agreed with the Noble Lor
sisal when they came to the ju.latnent of the rise, and 4
eousider the whole of the etrideute prnaile,J, it woui.l I.
their duty to r.ject all doubtful testimony, not pet it Lela..
entirely, as much as if it wore not io the hook. Tlery
could only pass such • Bill spun llo• most clear and in.
ria-puinble lest 'musty ; and if the preamble slim u1:1 rou•
nut to be reseed by evidence admissible to every
Mille', the Bill ought not to pass. They ought to look at
the evidence must sessile:wilily, sod strike out from their
minds any part of it which was at all tainted. The Noble
Lords opposite had shrwn tbesaselve• desirous to have the
Milan Comanisaiou probed to the bottom. He (Lor.l Liver-
pool) had no objection to that investigation. But he must
say the least coneenieut course which the House could adopt
for that purpose would, in his mind, he liar memo.'
proposed of letting is that inquiry side-ways. Their
proceedings costal sot bet be torch embarraned ly Ilre ac-
companiment of such au investugstiou. !At that Commis-
sion be inquired hoe uss its saill grounds, when the noose
would wet he shackled as at present by technical modes or
inquiry. He could sot agree that the question of the Kahle
Earl was one which, Se the present sitrettons of the Hoase,
ought to be put.
Lord Erskiee gave the Noble Earl fall credit for his de-
termination to guide his judgments no the Bill by she clearest
nod must indisputable evidence. The only question with
him was, whether the question proposed by bps Noble friced
was not necessary to delermisie what was indisputable test:.
missy aged what was not! As to the argument of the Noble
Earl, that it was too late to alter the rule which had ha heft..
guided them, he admitted that unless he (weld shew that the
rule was inepplinsble to the particular raw, and that the
whole proceeding was plated its a totally different light from
that in which it lad stood all along, the rule ought not to be
departed from. He felt great satisfaction in not brier
rose of the Peers who had been supposed by the Noble
and Learned Lord on the Woolsack to differ from hini,
and who bad therefoie been invited to refer a question
to the hedges. The Noble awl Leaved Lord had stated the
rule of law most correctly , but be bad not givers any opis
atom which sheered them why, in this panic:taw instance,
they ought mot is depart from the ordinary roles. He
bussed that he should be clearly isoderetood, and that if he
stated any thing irregular he should be called to seder be
their Lordships. The Noble and Darned Lard took this up-
ponsatity of correeting a mirtake which bad gone forth as to
what he had said ate fume, period o f this Aldan Commission,
It was impossible for him. the whole of his pool life proved
it to be inspossilsk, that he could have said any Wog to the
direct disparagement of the Milan Contsolsoloo, ensifted
and asemosisied as were the whole of tie affairs of that
Consatiosina ; on the contrary, he had bag been iutimato
with Mr. evoke., sad for the present, at least, he had no
mason to suppose bat that the other sesitkutets who sold
with him wile equally Avant and respectable •
bad said was, that had the Commissioa been COIN pos. a • S.
angels', issatead of honest men, the evidence
beer corrupted before it reached them. The use et
questios was 10 enable the NNW In ore hot Far ii
bad been corrupted in ise source. That Itigauti bad nose
been proved to be as agent, we far that by his conduct he in-
volved his principal, ass true I hot the net of the principal
was mot Oben an oostaust. Rigawll esker, Ibtateili to
down tad be exantiord by the Mike Comitirtilots, and lee
went accurillarly. lie admitted that this was not enouz...
to prove that itigaati ass oh(' agest of the connotation. Bat
thee could they Inhere that lists man bestow motive offered
to bins to go there when asked by Rigauti to got surely at
must he alasitied that Rigasti somehow or other was in-
fluent Is take as interest in procuring testimony. Levin y
irks the particulars of such a fact ought to be ailmitted. It
would he foe their Lordships to determine, when they canoe
Is pispoonwee their judgments, if the interest whisk Rig.ull
took was a corrupt and profligate bt-rest. The object or
the "motion was, to fears what induced kigaisti to be so
bony—to lamer, in skeet, if any toospiracy had bevel at-
tempted. lithe inquiry shooold prove that there was no eon-
spitaey, it wunkrees at all affect their Lordships' lodgement.
If proof were offered of large promisee, and now& held