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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

FICTDAY, APRIL 17.

THE Lords assembled this, morning at .half past
eleven o'clock.—After reading several Bills on the
Table, a Message was received from the Commons,
brought up by Mr. BRAGG! and a number of Mem.
.hers, stating that the Commons had sent papers for
their Lordships' consideration, relative to the de-
signs,of the Seditious and disaffeded, and request-
ing that the Commons might have any of the said
- papers returned to them from time to time, as might
be wanted.

A Message was afterwards moved by Lord Ho.
BART' to 136 returned to the Commons, agreeable to
the Message received, which was ordered accord..
ingly.
The Papers were ordered to be referred to the
consideration of the Sele& Committee.

Their Lordships then adjourned till four o'clock
P. M.-

' At four o'clock theit Lordships assembled again,
and soon after a considerable number of Private
Bills were brought up from, the Commons, and se-
verally read a first time.
The Order of the Day was then read, for hearing
Counsel, Ses:. with resped to Mrs, Addison's Di-
vorce Bill.
Mi. ADAM, as Counsel for the Bill, accord-
ingly appeared at the Bar, when a few words
were exchanged between the LORD CHANCELLOR
and the Learned Counsel, with respect to the
immediate line of proceeding, whether to argue
the legal question popounded •by their Lord-
ships on a former day, in regard to. this par.
titular case, or to go - into further evidence, for
the purpose of substantiating the important fad of
the Adultery of Mr. Addison., The Learned
Counsel choosing the latter line of proceeding,
three Witnesses were brought forward, two of
whom attended Mr. Addison and Mrs. Campbell,
the sister of his wife, in their tour in Scotland in
79+ ; and a third, who had also attended them on
the same occasion, and was besides a resident for
some time at the house of Mr. Addison near Black-
heath. Such circumstances transpired from the tes-
timony of these Witnesses, with rcsped to the
abovementioned point, that •
The Earl of CLARE was induced to observe,
that if they were proceeding with the evidence on
that head, in consequence of what had fallen from
him on a former day, they need not trouble them-
selves farther, as he was then of opinion that part
of the case was clearly established in point of fact.
A Gentleman was then brought forward, with a
;view of shewing the state of Mrs. Addison's feel-
ings when she learned the criminality of her hu3-
hand, which she had first hesitated to believe, as
d `2rning him incapable of such depravity ; that when
she was convinced of it, her resentment and aver-
sion from him were so great, that she quitted his
house, and ever since lived in a state of separation
from him. She at present resides with her father,
Sir James Campbell, at Inverneith, in Argyleshire.
A short explanatory conversation then took place
between the Loy n CHANCELLOR and the Learned
Counsel on some legal points connected with the
case, and which are to be matter of future argument
and deliberation ; their Lordships having deferred
the further consideration of the case till Tuesday
next.

The Order of the Day being, then read for cer_
tain proceedings :relative to .a Question of Privi.
leie, Lord AUCKLAND moved the Order for the
exclusion of Strangers, in _consequence of which we
are precluded from stating the particulars of what
...passed.
. However, we understand that the ostensible
Printer, &c. as well as the acting Publisher of the
Evening Paper called the Albion, were brought up
and called to the Bar, on a charge of an important
breach of the Privileges of the House ; their con.;
du6l on which occasion formed the subjea of their
Lordship's'. 'deliberations until 'a quarter past eight
cielock, when the doors were again thrown open
for the admission of Strangers.
After Strangers were re-admitted.. the Order of
.the Day was read for the second reading of the'
Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill. .
Lora MOIRA rose, 'not he said, to give his de_
tided opposition to this Bill in its present stage,
but to-'state some objeflions which appeared to him •
deserving of their Lordships' consideration. He
was very ready to admit that there might exist
cases in which it would be right, and indeed neces-
sary, to suspend the Habeas Corpus, and he did nor
Mean to contend that it might not be. necessary to
suspend that MI at the, Intent moment ; hut he
should contend that there had not been sufficient
evidence laid before their Lordships, to justify them
in taking 8o strong a measure as that which was

maw proposed. It had always bten usual in cases
sinittar to the present, to have-4 Message from the
Throne delivered by a Minister, who, with his Col-
leagues, were :mswerablefor the advice which they
gave His MAJESTY; but in the present instance
there was nobody responsible. A Committee had cer-
titinly been appointed, but there was no such respon-
sibility attached to thcm as there was to Ministers.
He was far from wishing to throw any imputation
upon the Noble Lords composing that Committee,
because nobody could plao 4 greater reliance upon
their honour than he did ; but still they were not
placed in 'that situation of responsibility that Mi-
nisters were, and if it should turn out that the
it!tt.z4,lat which they had formed was erroneous,
what remedy could the i-fouse l)aVe It appeared
to him , that i 5 such a Fase ;s the present, the
tonunittte ousht not tp have confined itself to*
giving a mere opinion ; they ought
,to have stated
the grounds upon which it was formed. It might
perhaps be improper to state the sources from which
they hall derived their inibrrnat:on ; but he did nclt
think thew could be any impropriety in stating
that the circumstances generally were upon which
their opinion was founded. UPon these grounds,
tbough he should not oppose the Pill in the present
stage, he thought it right to say, that he should
4414 sonic further information upon 07 gliZlCtt
pf.ftor 44Ye his assent to the pill?