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for ailik one Member to say_that another feels one
motive.anii ai% uf)on.another:' *Now, hiito,rd
ship,* in my. mind, puts that matter out of al!
doubt: He pays. me more attention. than I might •
reasonably have expeded. He, is; very complai-
• sant also, .for he gives me
ia title which Ido not
desire. One part of the subjea to '
which the
Noble Lord proposes ,to inquire,- is, whether I
am Rever'end or not ? And ibis is the second time
he hai•Shewn to uie a courtesy, which the House:.
has long sliewn to 'Min, 'that of giving a titicto,
a' man , which' does not belong to 'him. • Yet,'
when he finds -me in my,place in this House, in-
stead of deferring Motion till Tuesday, or
telling hs now.;
,what his M9tion.rwill be. on
'Tuesday, a:Motion- this very day—a
course of proceeding which- would seem fo me
very strange in any other place, and which seem's
to me not vay candid with resped to the House.
I have *met, already in this House, a justice, a
kindness, .and a feeling of honour; which, I own,
I never met with out of this House.. I have felt
that which appeared to me to be a misfortupe,'
that of Imprisonment, 'and in that situation I •
have met with some very handsome and honour-
able treatment, but nothing comparable to what
I have met with in, this House. I have no
favour to ask of the Noble Lord, hut I 'think I
do not transgress the 'Rules of the House, by re-
commending it to him to stick to the Notice he
has given, instead of moving things upon the
,sudderi."

Lord TEMPLE said, that the Reverend and
Honourable Gentleman would recollect, that he
(Lord TE steLo could not have been entitled to
trouble the House for one moment without
making some Motion, and if he had but waited
for five minutes, he would have heard. what he
Was going to say, to explain to him and to the
House, the mode he intended 'to adopt, and the
line he was about to pursue on Tuesday next,
and then he would have seen that the two M _
tions he had now to propose; one of which was
now before the House), were only preparatory to
the discussion which he intended to bring for;
ward on Tuesday. It was his intention, sup-
posing the House should agree to the Motion
now before it, and the other that was to follow,
t 9 have these two persons examined at the Bar
'of the House;‘ as to the faft, Whether the Hon.
Gentleman opposite to him, was 'or, was -not a
Priest, or had taken Frieses.Orders ?---When
that question should be' disposed of, he should
take such further steps' as the. opinion of the
House might direa, or what should appear to be'
necessary, arid, whatever that Gentleman might
think, ,he trusted the House would think this
mode of proceeding was fair and regalia.. •
Mr. HORNE, TOOKE said, that the Noble
-Lord had not explained a syllable of his intended
Motion.—lt was not for him 'to explain the na-
ture of the Motion now before-the House, tut he
thought he was warranted in saying that a more,
naked,Motion, without notice, never was made
in that House. It called for ,two persons with•
certain documents to be brought'to the Bar of the
House; without assigning why or wherefore.—
Some reason should be assigned for putting these
to the inconvenient- of coming to the
Bar of that House- He had no personal Coln-
plaint, hut he thought the House had some reason
to look upon this course as a surprize,.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL said, that,
whether the House would grant the Motion was
for the House to consider, but his, Noble Friend
Could not be charged with any unfairness in the
course he took, for he had stated the ground on
which he made the Motion now before the House.'
It was, that he Conceived the-Hon. Gentleman
was in Priest's Orders, and that he conceived
that 'the rules of the House) and the principles of
die Constitution, did riot permit a person in
Priest's Orders, robe a, Representative of the
People in Parliament. That was the point which
was to be discussed.--.lt was necessary to ex-
amine evidence at the Bar to ascertain that fact;
whether the evidence would prove that fail or
not, Was not now to be discussed ; that could
only appear when the evidence 'was examined.
Supposing the faCt to be established, the question
would then remain to be'discuSsed:—Whether a
person who had taken the Order of Priest, could -
constitutionally sit in that House as a Representa-
tive of the People in Parliament ? But this Mo-
tion was only preparatory to that discussion.

Mr. TOOKE said, ihe considered the Noble
Lord as having the Hon. Gentleman who spoke
last, as his Legal Adviser in this business ; they
seemed to have prepared for themselves some
trouble) which he would spare them if they-
pleased.—He would not only meet them half
way, but he would go towards them three quar-
ters of the Way, ; he would acknowledge the fa&
without evidence, that he had been ordained a
'Priest. ,
Mr SPEAKER 4oubted, whether the House
could, in strianess; be justified in proceeding on
the admission of the Party, without evidence at
,the Ear ; at least that point, had becn questioned
din the Case of the Son of Lord WEMYS which
Case he quoted ; atter which the question was
put' and Carried.
The other. Motion for the -appearance of the
'Reverend Gentleman from Branford, was put
.and carried also.