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IMPERIAL PARL ElvT:

- • HOUSE OF PEFRS, .
WEDNESIM.Y,, APRIL IS. "•
The Bills upon the Table were forwarded it their ,
several stages;
Mr. PELI-lAIVI broUght up from the Cotimons
the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill. .
. The Scots Distilleries' Bill waspresented b'y Mr.
BR \COE, and alew Private Bills 1;), othsr Members.
Lord AUCKLAND observed, .tlSat previous to
their Lordships proceed ingieS the ()tad& of the Day,
; business of a particular nature:Ara& to be attended
.to, in Consequence, and the proceeding alluded to
by the Noble Lord, being relative, we. understand,
to a question of Privilege, the Strangers were or-
dered to withdraw, and for about twenty minutes an '
.exclusion continued. During this interval, a per. 1.
sots, who, we understand, is the Efficient Publisher.
of the Albion, and who had been ordered to attend,
appelredat the Bar of the House ; the proceedings'
which took place upon this occasion, we are ob-
riemsly precluded from detailing.
On our re-admission,
The Eirl of ST. •L'INCENT was on his feet, and
apparently towards the hose of a Notice which he
delivered in a low tone of voice, to the einef, as we
heard•hiro, that he should to-morrow, move for the
Thanks of the House to Sir HYDE PARKER, Vice.
.Admiral Lord Ntesoie, and the Officers and Sea-
men of the British Fleet in the Baltic. •
The Order of the Day was then read for the
Commitment of the Irish Master of the Rolls Bill,
and accordingly the House ,resolved itself into a
Committee upon the same, Lord WALSINGHAM in
the Chair.
The various Clauses of the Bill were then regu-
larly acceded to by their Lordships, without ob-
servation or Amendment, and the I-louse resuming,
ordered the Report to be received to-morrow.
Lord HOBART moved, that the Report of the
Secret Comniiltee of the House of Commons, which
had been recently communicated to their Lord-
ships, be then read : which document was accord-
ingly read by the Clerk :—after which, his Lord-
ship made a few general observations on the im-
portance of the contents of the Report, and the
consequent necessity of their Lordships acquiescing
with the other branch of the Legislature, in some
efficient regulation for the• due strengthening the
hands of Government on such an occasion, and con-
eluded by moving, as we could hear, that the 'said'
Report be referred to a Committee of their Lord- •
ships.
When the LORD CHANCELLOR was about to put
the Question on this Motion,
The Earl of MOIRA rose, and observed, that cir-
cumstances might be such ,as to call for strong mea-
sures. In such a case, he had no objeelion to giving
additional powers to the Executive Government. But
let it be done, he said, conscientiously. The other
House of Parliament did not proceed in the business
in question until proper information was laid,be-
fore them duly investigated by a Committee of
their own appointing, on whose recommendations it
appeared, that House aeted. He thought their
Lordships •shotild proceed in a similar Why, and ati
',Dun infortnation laiA 1,4•F0r• *Kern. nod not merely
upon the Report of the other House, to adopt mea-
sures which obviously, in some degree, were an in-
fringement upon certain onstitutional regulations.
Lord 110BeiRT said, he fully agreed with 'the
Noble Earl in the point he had laid down, and-if
the Noble Earl had- waited but a little time he
should have heard him propose the very proceeding
alluded to. It was his intention, that in addition to
the Report of the Secret Committee of the other
House, a variety of important information, (which
should be laid on the Table as soon as possible),
should be referred to the consideration of a Secret
Committee of their Lordships,. appointed in the
usual way by ballot. The Noble Lord then moved
to this effeet ; " That the Report from the Commons,
should be referred to a Secret, Committee of e'neir
Lordships appointed by, ballot, putting Lists of
Names in glasses, and which proceedings take place
at half past Eleven c'elock to.moreow."
On the questitsn being put!
Lord ROLL 'IND e" pressed his disapprobation
of the proposed fnestie of appointing the Committee,
His objeelions to 'oallot, were, that by some strange
unaccountable accident it happened, that the great
Majority et the lists put into the glasses contained
tae saul'z names. He thought the mode of appoint_
ing ',lie Committee openly in the House, preferhre, -
?:s was done in the important case of the Provision
Committee.
Lord HOBART replied, that the general praelice •
of the House, from which he saw no reason for de-
parting, on. the present occasion, was to appoint Se..
cret Committees by ballot. The case referred
to by the Noble Lord was that of a Seleti Commit.
tee, which was appointed openly by the House.
The question on the proceedings' moved for by'
Lord HOBART was then put : they were orderd to
take place accordingly, also, that the Lords be sum-
moned on the occasion. ' •
Lord HOBART then moved the first reading of
the Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill, which proceed.
ing, in the present instance, was opposedby the
Earl of MOIRA and LORD HOLLAND, chiefly on
the general grounds, that such an Important Mea.
sure, which avowedly 'involved certain Constitu;
tional principles, should not be suffered to advance
until the House were fully satisfied of its necessity
by the inspeelion of the promised Documents, or
the consideration of the Report of their proposed
Committee. • •
Lord HOBART and the Duke of MONTROSE,
argaed in favour of the first'reading of the Bill,
as .abstradedly in itself a proceeding not of much
importance, and as courtesy/ in compliment to the
Alter. House of .Parliament, Acisiead all 'Bills sent up
y them, 'at least a first, tithe,--the more especially;
the Noble Duke observed, as in the present in.
stance, the Commons had accompanied the Bill
with the Report of their Secret Committee, which
contained the grounds on which they had passed the
Bill.
The Earls of .KINNovt, and TnANt7 Said each
fe4- words ; after which the Bill was ttad a first
time—and their Lordships adjutant 3, till lair vast
eleven o'clock to.mortows