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THURSD4Y, MAY 28, rBoi. ,

IMPERIAL P.ARL lA EN

MUSE OF PEERS.

WEDNESDAYS MAY 27.

SCOTS APPEAL.
Ste JAMES Col;nouN, Bart. v. the PROVOST and others,
the Town Magistrates of Dunabarton.
Counsel were heard in continuation relative to this. case,
and at considerable length ; after which, their Lordships
postponed the further hearing of the case till to..rnorrow. •
Lord AL v ANLEY (late Sir R. P..AR'DEN, Master of the
Rolls), was introduced with the accustomed formalitie.s,
sworn, and took his seat. His Lordship's supporters were,
LordsWALstigeni,,m and GREY DE WILTON.
The Committee on the Waste Lands. IncloSure Bills,
which stood for this day, was, on the Motion of Lord Ho.:
u ART, postponed till Tuesday..next.

The Earl of SUFFOLK, after a very short pre.
fatory observation, delivered in a low tone of
voice, moved for leave to withdraw the Petition of

John Heron, a Soldier, whith,his Lordship had pre-
iiented on a former evening, complaining of a variety
of alledged grievances, which he descsibed himself
to have suffered with resped to his confinement, ar-
rest, &c. under the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus

The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that: he
felt it necessary to address .their Lordship upon this
occasion. For his part, he could never agree to
the Noble Earl's Motion for withdrawing the Peti-
tion, and he thought it would ill become the House
to grant it. Their Lordships could, under all the
circumstances, do no less than reject it. He had
observed on a former evening, and should then, call
to the recollettion of the House, t!iat the Petition
contained weighty and serious refleaions upon the
Magistracy of the Country, including the very
highest and the very lowest. And these, from
what had passed, they had every right to infer,
were not founded in fad ; the House, therefore,
should mark its sense of such a procedure, by an
absolute reje&ion. Being aware, from general re.
port, and from notoriety, of what had passed rela-
tive to the affair, in other quarters, (the other
House of Parliament, and one of the Courts below)
he had taken the liberty to ask the Noble Earl,
when he first introduced the business to the notice.
of the House, if he had read the Petition. He felt
satisfied that the Noble Lord had come forward on
the occasion, from motives which did honour to his
head, as well as to his heart. On an ordinary oc-
casion, he knew that the question might he con-
sidered as a rather unjustifiable liberty; but on an
occasion of such importance and delicacy, hefelt it
his duty to put it to the Noble Lord, and the result
was an acknowledgement from the Noble Earl, that
he had not thoroughly .read the Petition. His
Lordship then went into a detailed account of all
`the . circumstances of Heron's case, from the time

apprehension, which, we understood the
Noble and Learned lord to. state to be in June
1798, until the period of his presenting the Peti.
tion to that House, including what had taken place
:hereon in the other House of Parliament, and par.
ticularly with respea to the Proceedings thereon in
the Court of. King's Bench. These being already
before our Readers, in a variety of shapes, Ave deem
it unnecessary to recite his Lordship's statement.
In the course of his observations on these proceed-
ings, he had occasion to advert to the character of

individuals, whose names were either expressly
mentioned, or whose conduft was adverted to in

the Petition. Of A ris, the'Keeper of the House of
Corredion, who, his Lordship said, was not an
Officer of the King's Bench, he felt it unnecessary to
say any thing— the conduit of that person had
lately been made the subject of much public
disquisition, as well as Official Inquiry. He ,
referred to what had passed in the other House
of Parliament upon the occasion of that person's
condutt, and observed, that after'a regular inquiry
had been made. into it, and the result laid before
that branch of the Legislature, that House, so we
understood his Lordship, did not deem Lt necessary
to ground any proceedings upon it. Of the charac.
ter of.. Mr. Kirby, the Keeper of Newgate, his •
Lordship was pleased to speak in very flattering{:
terms : the charader of that Gentleman, independ-
ent of the consideration of his being under the con.
trout of a very active body of Magistrates, was
unimpeachable on the score of Humanity.—
Indeed, his reputation for that virtue was
too well established among his fellow.subjeds, to
render any illustration from him necessary. And
yet, he observed, the. Petition contained assertions
of a very weighty and serious nature against these
two persons, so Inua so, that hey had no hesitation
in saying, were they established to the satisfaction
of a Jury, the Petitioner would obtain very ample
redress. With respea to the chars ler of Mr.
Ford, one of the most active Magistrates of the
County of Middlesex, his Lordship had also occa:.
sion to speak :—.7,50 far from a charge of harshness,
or severity attaching to his official demeanor, that
Gentleman, he had reason to think, was in the
habits of receiving acknowledgements for his lenient
discharge of a. very severe duty—As he had before
observed, some of the very .highe3t as well as
the lowest were readied upon in the Petition ; so
the conduit of the Secretary of State himself
did not escape without allusion ; and he was happy
for the moment, at the absence of that Noble Per-
sonage, in repelling =every insinuation of the kind
art utterly groundless and void of foundation 3
this in a great degree he.could speak from personid
knowledge arisiug from a long official intercourse : It
was sufficient then to say, that he spoke of his Grace
the Duke of PPRTLAND, who could not be supposed
likely to err on the score of humanity.; With respect to
.the Petition, his Lordship argued with great atlility
and tied ; that the House, even- its the reformed
state of the Petition, could have r alternative but
to. reject is, In regard to the allegations revetting

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these individtials; he repeated; the Petitioner by;
applying to a Court of Justice; and proving his
case; would obtain ample satisfattion The other
House of Parliament had though! proper; 'apparent.:
ly on the ground of the matter it contained; to
je6 the Petition ; and on which ground; as, every
objeftion still existed in full force; he should mare
their Lordships to a similar line of proceeding:
The Earl of SUFFOLK shortly replied to what

had fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord, whom
he professed hi 3 inability to follow on the grounds
on which he had considered the cases The Noble
Earl spoke of the purity of his oc,in motives in
coming lofward, and said, that he was authorized
to deClare, that the Petitioner was ready to sur-
render himself for trial , and he hoped that no
proper steps would be taken with regard to his api
prehension. He spoke of his long,confinement as a

grievance, and contended that the Petition, whether
true or false; he could not pretend to says contain.
ed a strong case:
The Le) RD CHANCELLOR, in explanation,
felt it necessary' ro repeat, th,:t prtneedings before
a Jury in the case were at the man's own option ;
and if the allegations were proved, he entertained
no doubt, on that line of legal process, of adequate
damages being obtained.
The Earl of SUFFOLK and the Loan CHANC EL..
Lott afterwards severally spoke in explanation
when the Quostion was put, and the Petition imme-
diately rejdled.
The Bills before the House were forwarded in
their respeaive stages.
The second reading of the Scotch Militia Re-
gulation Bill was deferred till Monday.
The second reading of the Clerical Exclusion Bill
was fixed for Wednesday, and, on the Motion of
the Duke of BEDFORD, their Lordships were order-
ed to be summoned on the occasion.

A great deal of private and routine business was
disposed of, in the course of which,
The Loan CHANCELLOR made some observaz
tions• from the Woolsack, with respe6l to the nuto•!_
ber of Appeals before the House, and the orciee of
their hearing. A Petition having been presented
6y a Noble Earl, praying their Lordships; as we
could colleft, that a certain Appeal might be heard
on a particulartay, which would give it a priority
to several which stood before .it on the list, and
some of a very long standing,, the propriety of
which the Noble and Learned Lord seemed to doubt.

Flis Lordship also noticed the case of the important

Appeal, Thellusson ThelliLson, which, as we
understood him, appeared to be the wish of some of
the parties to be heard on the zoth of Tune; instead
of to-morrow, as the Order originally stood, on
which he adverted to the Order in which the Ap-
peals were fixed, several standing for hearing before
that day, which, if they could he disposed of before
the period desired, he thought their Lordships would
have no obje:nion to hearing is then.—The Order
for hearing the Appeal in question to-morrow was
then discharged ; and after some farther private bu.,
siness, the House adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

'WEDNESDAY, IcIAT 27.

Mr. ABBOT took the Oaths and his Seat.
The, Bill COr establishing a Public Hop Market
.n the Borough was read a first time.
The Winchester Gaol Bill was feud a second time.

Mr. Atto-r moved, that the RepOrt made by
the Seidl Committee on the 14th Article of the
Union with Ireland, respecting the Qualifications of
Members holding
{Offices in Ireland, to sit•in Par-
Hameln, he taken into consideration
He then gave notice;, that it was his intention to.
move to-morrow, for leave to bring in a Bill to
declare what Offices in Ireland, should disqualify
from sitting in Parliament. Mr:Alt3or also gave
notice, that it was his intention to move for leave
to bring in a Bill to regulate the Ttial of contro.
vetted Elections in Ireland.