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HOUSE OF PEERS.

reIDAY, APRIL 25.
The. Appeal Cause•Rosex. Lord Fife was affiente.d
at once, without hearing Counsel for, the Respon-
dent.
• Lord Possemity rook the oaths and his seat. MS
Lordship was introduced between Lords Besborough
and Dundas.
Also, Lord WALPOLE, on his accession; to the
title of Earl of Orford ; introduced between Lords
Spencer and Fitzwilliam.
Lord HARDWICKE took the oaths and his seat.
THE IMPEACHMENT.
Lord RADN9E renewed the subject of.yesterday's
conversation respecting the propriety -of enforcing
the standing Order of the House, which requires that
the Peers should keep the places allotted to them,
according to their respe&ive rank, at the ensuing so
lemn Trial. The more he considered the matter,
the more he was convinced of its propriety. Pre-
vious, therefore, to moving that the Order be enforc-
ed, he should now move that it be read.
The LORD CILINCE.LLOR argued at some
length, and - with much felicity •and illustration,
against the Motion. The Noble Lord, be said, find-
ing that his object was defeated last night,-7endea-
voured noW to give it a new aspe6t, which he might
expect would bestow a new interest and attraction
to it, and thus procure it n greater number of parti-
zans. But the-Noble LOrd would be disappointed.
Notwithstanding his strict regard to fru, and the
number of attitudes in which his ingenuity might
bring forward and place such Motions, their Lord-
ships would not forget that form was but' the ex-
ternal attendant andguardiazi of. justice; and such
should be religiouslyaibserved : but they, would re-
coiled at the same time that such steps and atten-
tion should not be devoted to it as would seem to in-
sinuate that the anxiety of the House turned upon
nothiii eke, and that the substance was sacrificed
and made subservient to the form. The rank, as
Speaker Of the House, which he iLla the hon, ur to
bold among their Lordships, imposed it as a duty
more peculiar to his situation, vigilantly to superin-
tend the due tinsel ranee; Of form, and that part of. hiS
duty, as well as every other, he shodid be studious
to perform. The. object of the Noble Lord's Mo-
tion to him appe4redwhelly nugatory, and he, should
give it his decided negative.
Lord A UCKLAND.appealed to NN/hat had passed
at the last Trial of that solemn natdre, and asked if
the strictest attention was not paid to decorum,
though no orders had been proclaimed to enforce it.
Lord CATHCART thought the proclamation of
the orderS might be useful, As an adwonitidn to ob-
serve it, but-no further.
Lord SPENCER was nearly of the same opinion.,
Lord RADNOR persisting in his Motion, a divisiOn
took place. Contents 1 o.—Noneobtents 37.—
Majority against the Motion 27.
INTERCOURSE WITH AMERICA.
Lord SHEFFIELD rose to, move for several additi-
onal Papers, which he thought, necessary to the fur-
ther illustration' of this important subjed. He should
therefore first Move an humble Address to His Ma--
jesty, requesting instrudions might be given; that
'there be laid before the House a Copy of the Re-
port of the.Boad of Trade; delivered in Feb. 1784,
to the Privy Council.
Lord ,HOLLAND, was not for objeaing to the
produ6tion of the Paper, though he did not see that
any use whatevercould be derived from it for the illus-
tration of the subjea of the Bill he had the hon Our
to' introduce, while it. would be produ(tive of much.
trouble and delay.
Lord SHEFFIELD contended, that this and
many other Papers which be still had to move for
would explain the state of that Trade at different pe-
riods, and the various opinions that were entertained
of its tendency.
After some further conversation, the MotiOn was
agreed to, and
Lord SHEFFIELD prOceeded to move for a similar
Report delivered in Jan. 179 t, and for a Copy of all.
the Memorials presented• at ditferent times .since
1801, against Suspensions of the Navigatien Laws.
Lord AUCKLAND declared, .that not one of the
Papers moved for„bf the Noble Lord had the least
relation whatever to the objea of the Bill before the
House. The object' of that Bill, he wished once
for all to declare, ,seeme.d to be. wholly misunder-
stood by the Noble Lord. It by no ineans'ititended
the introdudion of any change -in the Navigation
LaWs ;'.its whole objed was to make that lawful
which was now unlaWfdl, and -to make Ministers
responsible instead of their subordinate servants.---s
As to the Papers, they were so itolumihous, that it
would employ sixty clerks for months to prepare
them, which would prove a serions•derengeMent to
public business, without mentioning the -expence at-
tending the produaion of them. If it was intended
to create delay by moving for such Volumes, that
intention would be frustrated, for lie was determined
to proceed in the second reading of that Bill, with-
out waiting for any such Papers.
Lord SHEFFIELD intimated, he should be satisfied
with extraas.
Lord AUCKLAND was at a loss to know by whose
judgment anddiscretion the extraQs would be made.
Lord HOLLAND dwelt upon the same objections,
inchleelared his determination to oppose the pro-
duction of the Npers, as tending to no purpose.
The Duice: of CLARENCE complimented the. Noble
Lord (Sheffield) on his commercial knowledge, and
thought, that for a -person so ,conversant in such
matters, a reference to the Papers in question would
be sufficient.
Lord SIIEFFIELD pressed the necessity, of -his Mo-
tion, when the question was put, and negatived with-
, out a division.