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.1111PERIAL PI4I?I,IAM ENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 6.

THE Marquis of -Dow Nsits IRE took the oaths
and his Sear. ,
The, Bills upon, the Table
:were forwarded in
their respeCtive stages':
Lord AUCKLAND called the attention of
• ' the }louse to the circumstance of a Petition having
• been for some time before their Lordships, from
a Mrs. Jane Addison, of Argyleshire, in Scot-
. land, praying, for Relief.- The *case, 'he said,
was deserving of extraordinary attention, as
containing some circumstances of a novel and
aggravated nature, and the whole proeedure being
rather new to that House, the. Petitioa was very
properly, on ~the suggestion of a Noble and
Learned Lord, ordered to lie on the Table for
sotnetime. ...He then gave notice, that on this
day se'nnight henhould move to have the Peti-
tion taken into consideration ; and concliided by
moving, chat their LordshipS be summoned for
that day; which was ordered accordingly.
The Earl of/ MOIRA presented a Petition
' from JOHN STUART, and -others, which,. as we
co4ld 'coiled, Was against the Bill now before the
:House, intitled, " An Aa for the better Relief
' of Debtors, with respea to the Imprisonment of
their Persons." His Lordship presented a se-
cond Petition, which was from certain Persons
confined for Debt in the, Canongate -Prison of
Edinburgh, playing Relief, Sce.' both of which
were ordered to lie on the Table.
It was ordered., on the Motiotiof Lord N.:-
. PIER, that his Lordship dO hav-e leave to attend
a Committee of the House of Commons.
Mr. CRAIc, an Officer from the chancery of
Ireland,- presented a variety of Papers from that
' Coort;',relatiVe, we believe, to home pending,
Appeals. -
The usual Question olAdjoornment till Mon..
day being put, "a conversation of some length
arose upon the point, between several Peers. It
. commenced, in an opposition being made to an
Adjourn*); till Monday by the
LEI:, who delivered- a few words against the
proceeding,' but in so. low a tone of voice, that
it was impossible to distinguish them.
Lord WA esittclimq very shortly replied in
the same way.'-,-As did
Earl FITZWILLIAX, who spoke in support
of what fell from -the Earl. of DARNLEY, and -
seemed to throw out a hint of. the propriety, in
the present .situation of,affairs, of sitting de X,.
in
•
The Earl of 'DARNLEY' expressed his con_
viflion .:of the impropriety of adjourning over
. till Monday', and Moved that ".to-morrow,"
be'substituted for the day first proposed.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that
there existed no sort of •necessity in the case ;
it was generally known, ,that the House•upon'
every• occasion, except ~vhere, it very rnrrly
occurred, that business had been pleviously
fixed for. Saturday, .adjourned Over that. day ;
even on the Noble ,Lor,l's view of 'the •
r the Finnic. sitting, alafor. no specific pu,rpcise, on
• - so, unfit a day, must tend to it;; yeas the alarm,
if anV.rxisied,. as
,the Public would be raw'.
rally led to think,. that somethi'ng extraordinary
or momentous must 'have occurred, or was ex-
Flied, which- induced the House to sit. On
those grounds he would recommend their Lord-
ships nor to deviate from the usual course.
"Ite Earl of 'MOIRA raid, he..was aware Of
its being 'very orrusual to sit upon the thy in
question-, except: where business had been.previ•-
ously fixed for it, or on the notoriety of an itn.
. portant Motion • being,. expeeted.: at the same
rime, he must Pfc.r from the NOUle and Learn-
ed Lord respeCting the idea; that were the House
to ,it tp;eroreow it-might tenetb 'increase the
alarirr: even.admitting it to haVe that .efred, a
mecting'of the House could not create more alarm
than 'sock a. proposal having been 'made and.•
dismissed would do. 1-ie was decidedly of opi-
nion that House ought to sit, as.proposed by.
the Noble Earl.. .The circumstances of'the
try, ira 'every point of view, more -especially
with resped to the, eXisOng situation of affairs,
called fOr'allthe vigilance and attention of Parlia.:,
11l ent, and obviouSly the more, so, -as at the mo-
ment there were no responsible Ministers to look ,
to. • The -condo& and •Vigilande of Parliament:
thercfcre, the best security of the Country,
and it was its duty to. manifest its vigilance.
With reseed to the idea that there was !to parti-
cular subject before the House, or Motion for its
regular discussion, he observed, that, the eircum,
btanees of the 'times were sticli, it waa impoSsible
might• to foresee what arise—measures of great
imptirtance may possibly be' in profess, Which
might render the advice and interposition of
Parliiitnent highly 'salutary ; upon these general
grounds, he should support the Motion of the
Noble Earl.

I.9rdillCLE,GBArE.said, there was one point
which fell fi'oin the Noble Earl, which he never
could sngs'cribe to, and 'his repugnance. to icwas
so, strong,' ,that 11Could not avoid immediately
his disapprobation-of it. He alluded to
the idea, tl,..ta propo':;ition brought forward 1.)3, any
PCO, and on which there should he a
woutd create as great a degree of alarm,
and have the :•;:ine effc6l, upon the puNic mind, as
a &liberate ad of the House itSelf.: With re-
aped to tlie t 'resent proposal, he seemed-to think
tomorrow, 'did he not view it in the
szteic objcelionable light with the Noble and
Le::rn(-A toyd, mug he, at best, useless,- The
long and well known custom of Parliament was,
that no important Subjetci or Motion should be
witiout previous notice of the same
having been given„. Then, he would ask, if it
was nor for a the agitation of
.some important
be,,incs they tre:c to,* to_morrow, what could
the proceeding be fot,-, His Lordship concluded
by .exprcsqing himself against a departure from
the ordinary course of Adjournment.

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