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(he only lost two by aicknvis) becau4 he wos hot
plovitled with a certificate from Governor Mac.
quarrie, with whom he was not on friendly terms.
Mr. Ilttetwarr said, that the Petitioner did not
pray for pecuniary relict, lint that the Iloove should
dmihoosty.losa, 'hie( pertormaiore Yf
bitidotN, and Owl neeett•lty of affording him what.
ewer relief they: thought fit. He earnestly solicited
the alteutionetieseivernerientto the case Of this Ili.
4ividuel, oboes he had every reason to believe to
he a respectable nun, end to have lost causideratily
by the
Mr,..ltysraw was not certain that the House could
reeeirie this Petition, from its obvious alhit.ion to
pletuniary relief, Without a recommendation from
the erowti.
blr. BeNrie*T said it did not specify pecuniary
relief. j
Mr. Gootwutto remarked, that this case had
already been under the consideration of Govern-
ment. The reml circumstances of it were these:--.
The gourds, in the passage out, had fired, on three
distinct arid separate occasions, upon the convicts.
killed 12, and wounded a number of them, as well
5 salrirs. The Governor, on the arrival of the
ship, as was his duty, ordered a strict inquiry into
the whole circumstances of the care. A volumi-
nous mins of evidence was given before the Commis.
stoners, tonne of it very contradictory, not only from
the convicts, but some of the sailors en board. The
Governor, acting properly upon his deseretwo, sent
the caste home for trial, and vhil out give the eerti.
Ecate to the Caplan', to entitle him to the extra
remuneration for taking the best pinsible care of
•toe people on board. It did taut follow because the
Caputo, was very properly acquitted on the charge
of Lowder, that therefore lie was entitled to a re-
ward fur hiving taken the best possible care of the
tnet).-((leur.)

Mr. Ilk, m sTr said that the Captain had not only
the surgemi's testimony in his favour► hut also the
recommendation of the Transport Board.

Mr. COULBURN said that the Governor's certifi-
cate war indispensably necessary. If he did not
•mistahr, some of the evidence involved the comfort
of the surgeon as well as that of the Captain, though
of course the trial exculpated all.
Mr. BRICIIIITT thought it quite intn!erable that
adequate remuneration was denied the Captain.
The SPEAKER, after referring to the term+ of the
Petition, thought a doubt arose on the point of
born as to its admissibility ; in one view, however,
it might be received.
. . . .

Lord CASTLEREAGH recommended, that where a
deuht iuterpured. it ought to be interpreted libe-
tufts in f.iour of the right of petition.—/Hear./

After a few words from Mr. WYNN and Lora
CASTLEILEAOU. on the impropriety of presenting
petitions conveying charges against persons in a
61-tant part of the world, which if true ought rather
v, he mole the subject of judicial proceedings in
the Courts below—

Nlr, BEN tierioirrentled the line of conduct lie
bed taken, rod moved that the Petition do he on
the table.—Ordered.

THE QUEEN'S COUNSEL.

Mr. Bitounnsat said, he had • motion to sub-
nil to the House on a sulrject necessary to secure
a uniformity of practice, though he found it mili-
tated against very old standing orders of that
This motion was still more necessary to
secure their privileges as a /sody from great al,use,
god their Members individually from great annoy-
mice. ft was known perhaps to many •who now
betted him, that Members of that House, whit were
Counsel, were prohibited by two stamling orders
from professionally attending below the liar of the
House of Peel's in law care.. The first standing
order: prohibited them flora anent-brig in argu-
nients.of writs of error or common law Froceediuge;
the other had referente to questions of appeal, and
stood on a different forniug, as they ware ors judi-
cial witure, which could not come afterwards for
coosideratiow from the Upper to the Lower noose.
The standing orders iu both cases were expressly
prohibitory, Though the uniform practice for the
list cesstary, indeed from* the year 1710, was for
Members to attend professionally in the discharge
ttf their iegul duties below the bar of the other
Will" without let or litudrance from their Louts
ship«, who bad no ressoo, of course, to oppose
any, but certainly without any from that [louse,
whose standing orders by so attending were in.
fringed. He could certainly, in loirticoler inetance+,
wags great convenience to Members individually,
if they were not tolled upon to attend in such cas-s,
but by the *Viet etiquette of Counsel, it was riot
permitted them to refuse a brief iii ate Corot io
witch they practised, be the nature of the cause
what it may. The reason of OM role was ob-
viously that oil his Nlajestyht subjects may have tin
equal CiOtnCe of the besielit of thheir own selr citron
of professional assistants. The rule, as or6ing out
of one of those standing orders, was certainly that
t...Putisel should not appear in the other Muse iu
support of private Bala. 'flie reason of this was
proper, arid he should be very far from wishing to
see that rule opened wider.--(Near, keor. heir./
/fie present proposition was respecting the case of
a Bill lately introduced in the other II iti,r
the Queen, which would form a fair exeentom In
the principle of the standing order. De meant that
the Counsel for the Queen shoul..l have
notwithstanding the atandirig ord. rs, aid on that
secsunt (t. e. her ;Majesty's case) dont-. This permis-
sion for the Queen's Counsel (who happened to he
Measbersof that House) to attend when the Bill was
brought in en behalf of her Majesty without aerating
thrusts% would, he trusted, 1,. granted williont
in the place to which their I/timid:owe
would be called, her Majesty 'had Ito law officer. She
had no member of her household in the Upper House,
as no household was, in fact, yet rillinted to her.
His Majesty was not so : lie had iu the persons of
his Ministers those who would act for him in the
progress of those proceedings—he had those who,
like. a nominee at an Election Committee, though
not specifically the advocates of. the party, were
yet bound to see that every thing wee fully clove in
his behillf. On the part of the Queeu there were
vu persons, except her law officers. who could be
iioderstood as directly appearing in her behalf.—
His motion, that they be excepted for the special
case nod oe the special ground, was of so proper a
stators. that he *could make- it eon, tint anti«
Cipatifig any possible objectless. That being done,
he it'd only to request, Ise .the pith of himself
and his Leotard Ceiteripir, Hot *hilt they aim