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ju.!gment would not, as their Lordships were
Aware, be delayed by Ins request one moment, for
no- only question was, whether they would grant
the delay now required, of two months, hefore the
.11.eting of the Secret Committee, or after it. This
'of .45r0Ind.tlehrr the • PretaAtidion, that after the:
pieloninary proceedings had been instituted, and
• ressitt known with more or less accuracy—
:lller her Majesty's, clattx•Cter. but bets bl *eke oed in.
~ne eye* of all Europe, their Lordships out of
▪ xisbetaur justice would then cause • detay of
rid- or six months. This he assumed, because hr
,14. Convinced that no tribunal upon earth--tint
- Mils* framed, would proceed to thud
'dement, without giving the sceused an opportui-
Ivy f f producing witnesses foe the ,defence, and
fors British Judges he expected it in the fullest
iotidence. The only question then wise, when
t'oer Lordships wooldgrant the delay, whether at
• time when it would be of advantage, or suffer
it to lay long after sentence had been pronounc-
ed—for it. could not be pitatiossed that ten-
*thee would he priessonswed 111 public opinion yo
soon as the Report of their Lordships' Com-
unttee was made knower., fle implored their
Lordships not to proceed in • ninde which must
out only prove a mockery of justice, but press with
extreme severity against the illustrious Personage
termed. Ile frnited that he should he permitted,
having read it in the totes of the other House of
Parliaosent, to cite to their Lordshipirthe authority
of the other breach of the Legislature noon this
"object. They were about to enter On a ihricossion,
whirl] the /louse of Commons 10111 already charne-
letlZell as fraught with consequence* " disappoint-
ing to the hopes of Parliament, derogatory from
the dignity of the Crown, and injuriomi to the best
:nterests of the empire."
Mr. Denman expressed his diffidence mid reluc-
tance in addressing their Lordship', an,l declared
that lie should have felt it his duty to abstain from
till...ring any observation* in aid of those which liar!
been so powerfully urged by his lbw. and Learned
['rend ; tent perhaps there were circumstances
o Inch, besides the great and unquedtionlible import-
ance of the case, might justify oar or two obser-
vations from hilt. It had happened to hint to have
nail the honour of bringing clown tine Petition of
her Majesty to the Howe, and in otrerio,4 that
Petition to a Noble and Learned Lord, a brunt lie
had solicited to present it to their Lordhips,
Ile begged leave, with deference, to express
this conviction which he had entertained, that lie
had been guilty of no breach of the betes of their
Lordships' House, nor had he. as Ire humble cots.
'rived, done any thing dertgatory trom those priu-
it let
of justice which it was one of the highest
hcrours of their Home to uphold. Ile could
rq bare 'apposed that individual ler-hogs or parts
1 ot:r es of any kind could have made it title crion-
le to any Peer of that House to pre-ent such a
reeition. The bringing up of the Petition could
. se irave withdrawn trout any of their Lordship'
`.o had or might bare undertaken an kind an
cgr•re. :my of the functions or pri%ileges which be.
.rd to them, as grand juror% or as judges. who
.•. sit. Ire called on to sit in judgment afitr-
rviis on the party tin the truth •iit instance tin
l'•estrico• one) interested in the Petition ; still
lees eoubt he as to whether or not their
:reships would hie disposed to receive the Petiimu.
• r
had received it, and its to pre.
5- •.r.ii it, it did no', be humbly submitted, be..
Wee, to soy subject, sinl, of course, could not be
.1' 1. dvfy of the highest ,object of the State to
t;iielegiee for. such air-set. Ile apprehended it was
rut ler the Petitioner to prove to their Lertlehim,
!. a ststernetit of arguments and iiistencel., that
should 01.1 he excluded ; it ratb.r, al. lw
at pposed, must belong to those who onjected to
a.' eption to elnesr Out it must hr excluded, mid
t 9 prose that its reception %mild be &rot:rime from
tt d•geity nod privileges of their Lordship. I loose.
'I terefore he was reproof to plead, that if
or teethed tittered itself to tile Qitekti. of
Uri trtruttuua ksioan with respect to the to, t.
me red wl-,eti had berm, or were about to he te'eeit
ega.est her—she, the best et*, of lilt. Stntr,
1,1 I,r hraril, wad alioweil to iktote•t, 4,,;ty
te..e, and relllol)*lrAlece, null proceedrilw•
ll rtio:ttied to be Sr. toltwovs to her .
chseacter, her Itlorty, noel even her !ire. lie felt
e uttnost difficulty iron toe titirivris;!bv., i•xtraio-
ei'car:;, sod, lie would venture 11,
{Milt prucesdings toslito!rtl, loititiv.e mt liPn te.
suit. le thighs leave Income niezutinted is rh tl e
s.atuie et those inflames and their ‘uriout, relittions;
Let it: considering the jurl viii pruress to olecii
si'.L proceedings most rho urn sonic line of their
st.ges, Inc multi WWII I itlisrit to he twill% nil the
nor did lit kriors s, byte to lock for their ter-
mier.tini.. Theta. miW:t Lie too'es roct-r4111:6 in:
which it would be alit, rt:tely tmprt..nl Ie for the it
I.urJ,i 114 to divest thetn,ilses ;iropetly of the int-
erressiuus alech the pruceedieg. alrraify thitttuted
were calculated. especially it immediately persisttil
i..„ to produce ; and yet the.. Lordrlope, at men
16t nutiour, would be required to .lo that winch was
ine•ible for arts mats to accomplish. In ease of
trepeachcoetit, cinch might be directtil 1;$ the
/louse at Common*, Grir Lordships wouin be
placed it, just such u silt:anon. Ito the oti-ri
hard, it woe-et be col :tittered ptnprr, hewteet Ills-
just, lititrUper, cud cuntnoy to the eitv.uns
moles of ilAsillCCs to proceed, without twit, to the
cot.srleritiou of a liui lit pain, and penal its,
lor the purpose of cuotttoloiog the out.is•rti pa: is
to isifatny, to rail., and perhaps to death.
1. ri:lier case it tNatp equally important twat the
'Ho fis Nod judgments et then Lords:ion. •hotild
b tired front the danger to which hr lied clinch ii.
lioe if the mode of hreceedime m1101)411.
OA of impeachustui by tine House lit CUll'lllohr,
and their Lordships were to he called ou to deceit,
if the find subject of the empire had or had out tor-
teiteti her tile, her butiohr, and the pets Ceges of hen
high station, if such nem to be the ifs octilliiigt, Ile
would ask their Lordships what would be the state
of mind to *latch those Peers. who were to form Eleir
Lordship.' Stele' Committee, must come toting.
quirt ? Now were 1111 e., to int-scot the it trout
1614114 illearliCed by the intermit/ 4M winch they
0.6.41101 Irate to essousilt, no insures' by *lust means
innpoired. nor horn what detestobt•lMPtlrcell It Might
sterived--Irow were they to prevent the winos of
such iniquitous. materials from itilturnong thew
minds e And alter bring turitteesedsillete, and being
hatli esitspainiurred wad umoOsstrsdreted far a lopg
moo at lAssa, be. sate they to block, their feeling.

from being affected lama they .aboutd be called to
sit in judgment ea the Isle sadisontior orbit) high am'
illustrious client Ile rubtaitted that it wits imps-
ble for the most honourable mind to divest itself
of the influence wiii'sb most spring out of such a
partial omit. of iuquiry. lie declined makiug any .
comment on the mean% by whiels such information
had beets Scraped togetner. Ile would only urge,
it for as he was able, their Lordebuss•to remember
that altering a long period there would be no thlllite
of confrontinl or questioning the most gneatioua.
Isle and (as he believed it would appear eventually)
! the foulest evidence, tendering itself with the must
malignant and unprincipled zeal-.-for•aucli a cause
was little likely to fail from want of proofs, they
would be footsd in nbandatice, especially in sot li
question as the persecution of ill unfortuande le.
male, however exalted her emidition, who had hr.
come obnoxious tut • powerful Court. The Go.
verement in such a cure was, not required to be !mi-
-1 tirutaily active its gathering evidence. It would
only need to be known Nett testimony woubi
wanted, and :ibundatire of it would be premptly
furnished. There were enough of that claws of pee-
wits, in describing whom, his lion. situ Learned
Friend had uearly fallen upon the words of the
great poet—
rt SOnie busy and imamate: nag knaves,
Sown euegioe,cozeione slaves, to st some aiiice"
lie thought it more than probithle that some such
persons might have suspected the antipathy which
was generally supposed to exist in a certain high
rpiarter towards his illustrious client, and might
have been inducted, from the depravity of their na.
tore, to produce the polluted testimony which
they might devil) would be acceptable to the party
whom they were auxions to serve. He submitted
then to their Lordships, whether it would not he
mere gracious and more becoming to the minciples
of justice to pause. He did not ask for delay no he.
half i f the Queen ; she wissenost-anstions for decl-
aim ; hut every thing tended to prove that by a
trill:tit; delay the purposes of jesitice would be more
folly erred'. while the termination of the pinery&
in).e,s would tint be at all protracted by it. There
was 'oolong so fatal to the interests of jolts:we es
hr is CalllP to lie half-heard, us it weir, the Pei-
denFe on the one part being lied tendered., without
the po=stile capability of nieetiog end repelling it;
ssothiog could be so useful to those interests as to
rouble the accused party to meet the clssrges which
were to hr exhibited in every wino and bearing of
them, am.t to point out all the rlefects, either in cha-
rade'', or in the given testimony of the witnesses.
Tile ixceildice of the English law lay chiefly on
that one principle, of requiring all the prunes in a
se!, Io eanie at a givets nionsent before the Court ;
Hap Neell3:II1011 being nu sooner hearth than that the
Inuiirs were enabled to cope with it, and sifter the
hearing of the case the defence irnmediatery follow.
tog, without any delay in the process. Because if
if tt were managed otherwise, every opportunity
that could be wished by the moat depraved would
then be turaished for suberual sad perjury, tund
it woeld not lie possible to conceive that au some
ease. at least the interval which' might take place
iiptseeen the tip,' autl the taller parts of a
odi roil proceeding would not be laid out
altditig or underni• g the evideoce first
given ; sod if in ordinary cases this here the
inceint found to be most consonant with stiles jos.
tare, it must apply with etrii force at La.( is, the
raise of the illustrious party whom lie hall the
In :.rave. It was in fall not for the delay of
but the dispatch of its proceedings that they
is•ked far titter illustrious client n little delay. lie
t.vould add. that when he cosiiiiltred the circuit,-
bud ("flowed her return to this
roliatre—oheil lie oliserved in what monomer she
o at> tiputed by the most pie,erfill classes its the
State—haw for ttt i t table *ere the ranks of tier ap•
....eptits. 111. a powerful her Judges, aud how few,
loos it en k, and how unaided her advocates, lie could
not lint reel the utmost anxiety tor the issue of
v.ent question %Inch oils likely to be
w"olil conclude by iiuntang the words of one of
to, w i.e.t of maukind. one who was is great
tat his time. nod was a Peer of that House :
" A Judge ought to prepare his way to is just
us On.t 11,4,111. to prepare his way by tits.
affil taking down ; sir when there
tither side at high It oil. violent pro.
secanon, conning advantages takeil, coin bi
greli coo opt!, theii is the tirtue of a Judge
sec is t.. ,nuke lit quality equal, that he tnay plant
li•s Ittagtodt as upon an even ground."
next °tiered himself to their Lord.

•I•he LORD CHANcEr.r.on Olt et v‘as Con.
tr.ly to tl.c nit tict 1.1 1':1111.1111e1.1 11. !leaf Wore
1.11. C. 1111.14.4. IL, 1...,r161)11., boviever. put the
ni:rti:er a lhlt i Counsel *liould be firuttl,
ore:limed.

Loral 1,11. EtZrtu.: I. then said, that iu deference to
tht titt:,trioua pity aho>e Atlvoeate*their Loth,
.!iips had
.01,1 heottl, to
C.,- 1101130.4 iu trrder to allow the fullest o7portimity
for then I..crabliilll) to r the tirgUllbelit%
II!. V 11:!:1 just heoril. life pi.opo.ttl
i
re,into rott.ule,illlol) fill Wetlviewloy.
Et•.l GIIEY, following the rxmople of the Nolils
oppin.ite, aod nritiiniui to let the powerful
wiiloo their 1,01.4.1,111 pg had jUit Ileutti I.ro.
duce Leif' fulleot cutivicti 1111 l would po-tpoile
ill'eolell to IllUkr !hope proceetlittv trusty.
r,. -arc, Olt to-rnoril.w, for sslot.'": time lie Gould
toolL t;:lt the:r Lord:Oupb shouit! Ite tomb.

A tipwrocti at c quartet Lao'''. eight

110I,SL CO:UNIONS. Nlosvair, SiONe Rii.

Tlic fslltrs ra. oprottl sLurtla I.ttott two fetlock. %Mt
14u• crowd %a:A trot nrar st) C rat aar ma pi crvaitit slop, It lfro
ILe Lu.iorss relating to Iht 4$ tNptcird lu colOci
sautler dm-sm.:on

lir Speukse took the Chair ut twesal) mingles EwCyre feat
~••

air N. COLTUURST brought up the lir pert of the Cush
Elmhurst BM, aim h tsio. 'cat: aml akretti tb.
'llw Ahti.WerbstacCompituy L .1. N as read a seioad time,
and ordered au be eriaineitted.
FUENCH LACE.

~00 the mutton at Mr. BIRCH. an a:-roam waa nrkrrd
',trigs the House or *l4 qiitiniiis fressitti
!'Lace import'd tato this COUllitry duri mg the lasi three yi uns,
• ...... _

G I; A )1100111: I.;

! ' A Alentbrir. with ,"64t ullecqu•in lett, bur
talauve an l'noirut Im o b. Ike Cultmittlet 0,, ike
thorrlPMCbleflwelit Bitl, rluch 11,411 I.r depried an 11rr att..01,"
lir a pVlllll9e IWOIMMII (016 Iwliei r by
r. U. ( ilSun) butuu"lt suKlebt4o3ld thc.sptatter, II:at

tomb x motion twee sot .agnmeadc to ritrlimmestari sear
mid priceileot, it was eithdeown„
LOAN DILL, &r.
The Loon Rill woe react the Cried time undimmed.
The Funded Debt Charge BPI was read the third time end
mimed.
The Deport of she Lowey Dill woe brought op, the
Amendment* read add agreed to, sod the Doll fixed for the
third readies; on Thursday, if eogromed.
The Reports of the Exchequer Bill. Pill, soil the Greco.
Egad Fishers Bill, were brought op awl agreed to, and the
Pills ordered to be read the third time tmatierrow, if en-
grossed.
ICI.E OF MAN. _

On the motion of Sir. LultiiNcrrux, the Hons.• resolved
heel( mop, a renteettre un the Isle of Mass Tr de Acts.
In the Conionettee Item:elution' .rte carried (after • ens-
versation between Mr. Conveys and Mr. Lusuranvon,
which was not 'edible in the Gallery), fur the sholitinn of
the fees payable in the said Island, and the determining of
certain stamp duties—noel for imposing additional "I" of
h. a gallon mu all runs, and 14 MI. a gallon sae •II genera
imported into the Island ; and also additional duties Oil
other mensisioditim. . .

The Hone resumed, end the Resolutions vrere ordered to
be received tu-ineer-triv.
WELSH COALS.

On the motion of 1.014 LOWTIII,II. the ;lonic resolved
itself into it Committee on Ow Welsh Coal* Km,lu.
tioli as R 10 fur continuing the same—Asol the Noose
heroic recurned, leave was given to bring to a Bill ac-
cordingly.
NEW SOUTH WALES.

The Order of the Day harks:: hero read for is Committee
of the House, ou the New South %Vales Unties 13111••••

Mr. DWAIN FTT inquired if the New Bill contemplated was
the sane as that passed last year,
Mr. GOULBIIIIIII (we believe) replied that it was to cow-
tient that 4.f boo year.
Mr. nrsrie.re expressed a wish that the reception of the
Report of the Committee we understood) should be pod.
posed till to morrow, or a future day, as he wished to offer
some obs►rvations on the measure.

Mr. Gotn.nwur replied that he shush! he very hippy to
cede to this arrangement, as there was no occasion to
press the Bill.
A Rest,Wilms fur eontinitine the Art was then carried, so.,
the !louse harnig resumed, the Report WAS fix. d fur Wed-
unary.
MIN E.S.

On the motion of Mr. U. GILUERT, the Mines Property
Bill was vutl the third time, and passed.

THE KI)i( MI.%TS.

Mr. M. A. TAYLOR begged to know- from a Right Hou.
cenaeurtil ulepo.il (Mr. Huai:ism!. ), whethrr Coe 'swinge
theowzi, 15. mews was to he permanently kept shut sin in
the ninentr it ai present V/ He could spiny- him that it
had Inv n a great suet-tea convenience-tit foot prisseii:ers.
Mr. NUTAtsauDt was surly lee could net give 3w answer 10
the question, lie haring uu concerti with, nor control user,
any pail of the 31ew,.. The arce,:s to foul paswwzrrs had
!wen recently rinsed. but ite a pprehemlei: that at all tinv.s
the passage was a:loWed solely through
hiar.)--Ilowever, he was unable to ram! peniwr es:planation.
. . . .

Mr. 11. el. TAYLnit sant he mercy nish,..l to krnow whe.
Sher the place nem to he permanently shut itp.
voust.: or !spur-nye (Duni.is).

Oo the ,notion of Mr. C. GRANT, au Dublin Howse of
luduat►) 1101 •ta% re•rat•tnittal, mid the Report, wheel Ilse
House ceourtir.l, ordete.) 4u be twelve.) tr•morrow.
The Coo ;;;;; tire au the Irak Court of Chancery 13i11 was
to ,ironed tilt Friday nett).

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