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14-4- PERI/14 ,PARLIAMENT.

1-10LISB OF •P,EERS
TUESDAY, APRIL 28.

TN* Earl of itOtreVlti (late Lord LOLIG!Igeti

StOUGH)3 was
.this-day..intrOduceci with the accus- •
`tottled formalities, sworn, and took his -seat.
- Lordship's supporters were, the Earls of WEsr
.)40S.LAND and CHATHAM'.
•
.Their -Lordships then resulted .the farther consi;
de'ration of the Scots Appeal-,-.Fullartons re. Sir Ifew
Dalrymple,: *hen Mr.' Ctitait, Second Counsel for
- • the. Appellants,. was heard at considerable length.
The Bills before the Howie were forwarded in'
their respedive stages.
ThiOrder of the day for the third reading of the,.
. •
s.!ditiOn 'Bill- being read,
The Duke of BEDFORD, iii a"short and temperate
Speech, opposed the third reading- a the•samo.--s
He argued,that the •Eviclentielaid before the Hciuse,
through the Report of the Committee, did not
!,,:,,warrant them in countenancing a measure which mt..
„litated against the first piiiiciples of the Convict:-
tican, as asserted at the Revolution,in 443. Neither
did lie think the Bill Would afford fhe proper remedy
for the evils apprehended'; for 'the purpdse of meeting
" those, he thought tie! Commuraavr, as at present ex..
attssi.l.7.!Walt.r,Ll4.i
js.;ol ii*U4:l4 rather hear that
Ministers adopted the really efficient means of reliev-
ing .rhe distresses. of the Teople, and to-take away
fro:n the disaffeCted,one.of.-their alledg.ed grounds.
of ading. The Bill, he .believed, would .have the
aeet of. suppressing public Meetings, and that was
his principal as in' the' case-. of the original
Bill th ree.years.,ince, of oppocing, it, as 'he ,tholight
the Subjedhad a right, ip.some t44q, ,t s'. and
canvas 3 .the-Pr6Ceeding of the. -Legislature, and he
knew it wont& be "easy. to find Magistrates upon the
• subjed of the deliberations. of Metetitigf,, 'wboltvou
readily interfere and suppress the,Aarre. Be w.n:
the-refole against the further progress of
Ir.ESTMO L4N D; reply to the
. -Noble Duke, entered: at --some length into the sub-
jed, and in a sensible.and spirited speech-{which
we very much -regret. that a temporary press of
Variously interesting matter precludes us from de-
tailing) supported the Bill.—With resped. to the
idea of the Noble Duke, that the Bill trenched. upon
• the 'first principles. of the Constinition, he ob-
served that the doetrine of ,the right of petitioning,
asserted at the Revolution, did not go to the
I.c. length the Noble Duke seemed to imagine ; it was
Et right of all others' the' most liable to be abused,
•an , excess ,of which must absolittely tend • its
destrudion ; nor jf the great., Parliamentary
'Leader at that period had thought so,. the, Ads, of
, the 13th of CHARLES H. would not-Italie been
suffered to remain on the Statute Books.- Did
fetch a Lawas that enacted by the Bill exist iii i7SO,
the disgrace and plunder of the Metropolis would
.nor have taken place, aid many -lives would have
been saved., Numt:crleits, Ads of the shire spirit
as the present, -had. p.'s seta. at different periods,
one particularly, Coe. :e7th of the Kisto, which'
went to prevent Pubile ,'Ledures on Religioui:
Stihjeds on a Su; r ; the -Preamble of which
set forth, That suc',l discussions would• tend to the-
increase of irreligion and- Immorality. He ob.
• served, that when the megure was originally propos-
,- ed about three years since, it encountered s most.
strenuous opposition, upon every stage; that was,
pot the case at present. Experience had fully
evinced its salutary- effects, and that no abuse had
been made by the Executive Government of the
roWers coliferred.by it. He Was borne out in this
by the cireninstspee of nci. public cippOsi.
tson being made to its renewal, or Paition•to Par-
liament agaipst it, such was the sentiment of the
great body of the people ; but the joy-manifested,
by the disaffeeted 'and . conspiring, were strong:
proofs of the necessity of renewing the Measure, and
as .such, he .must press, for its immediate third,
reading.
. •
No further 'opposition being Madie,llie Bill was
read a third time and iisted, and a Message ordered
to be sent to the CuinmonS ,to acqUaint them,there.
with.
Campbell's Divorce Bill went through a Com-,
mime of the whole Haute; whiely a few slight
Amendments were introduced on the sug,gestion.of
J.Eord CATH*C4RT. '
The Ficnie then, after disposing of tOttie routine
busines:., adjourned till tomorrow.

IfOUSE OF cciMmoArs,
TUESDA,,Y, APRIL' ;8.
Several PubliolAecounts were presented and or_
tiered to lie on the. Table.
Mr. BuRDON presented the Report of die Coin.
mittee on the. Standing Orders of the' House, 'rela-
tive to Rills Inclosure. which Was ordered to lie,
On the Table, to be printed; and ,to
•6e, taken into
(Aber constderittioi, on.lvionday ne?4, •
Mr. Asaot presented the Report of the Com»;
-mittee appointed to consider the most eff'eftual
thud of promulgating the Statutes of the United
kingdoms throdgh *every part of 'Great 'Britain and
Ireland, which was ordered to lie on:the Table, and
Lo berintO,
A Message from 'the Lo't's signified that. their
I.,ordships ha4azree4 to one Private'Bill.'
The second reading of the Coal Bill' was" deferred
1.111 Tuesday next,
Dtwkworth's Divorce Bill went through a ,Corn
mitree pf .the, whole House, Sir Roßt'kt NEL in
the. Chair, 11e1r. GAtotow appeared as counsel fur
14‘..Puckworth, and ealled•several witnesses to sub.:
plantiate the guilt of Mrs. D.tickwcirth, .As. the
circumstances of the case are known tp
public, it is unne!:essary to :nttr into any fitta9
it now. ~
Mr.' 41,14E0N thought it better ,t 3 intimate in
4111 s-stage of the bt4site:is, before the Couusel had
*ithdrawn, that he could not, on the evidence pro.
clUced, give his cot-tsent to this Bilt, but ‘vould op-
pose it on thc second reading, if farther evidence
was .not adduced, ,
1,4 r, Gotow• was again calipdrin, and asked if
tte hati.pny more evidence to pLoAuct .
Two more witnrtsses were falla' 'examined,
4n4. Mr. PAILROW., Was propeeding to comment an
qio when IX WO Pitiered to W404111Y;