The Sun.
London, England, 1813-06-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The ceennd reading of the Fire Arm?. owt: of the drop-
pedortlers of yesterday, was lixea for Monday.
Mr. 11.1 stings, from the Exc4e oliite, prosented certain'
aemunts, whie,h were ordered to lie on the

Mr. .ilder.in'an Arzims fixed Jc ilropin•tl tiOtice O 4 a motion
resoecti lig the :),tht'r kith Trade,• for Tuesday next.
On lice motion of Mr. ItontNsoN- it .was nith,!retl,- that on
A:o:lday the lionte should resolve itself inii Committee of
the wh.le House, on the 5.141 of Geo. 3d. cap. 103.

Sir IL ii4rtNELL,-in.fixing the dropped order for
a Committee of the whole [louse on the COrn
LaWs, for Monday, explained the nature of the
Itesblutinn which it was intended to propose,.and
which,.he said, materially differed from that which
he had originally-in contemplation. The resolu-
tion which he should propose, 'on Monday, was
simply, that when Corn should fall to 80s. a guar-
ter, then that a duty of lOs. n quarte, should he
laid on the importation of foreign Comm. • It was
evident that-such a resolution could not interfere
with the tree importation of foreign Corn, until
-Corn i,, this country hai fallen 38s. a quarter, its
present price being 118$. ' •
The Comunttec was accordingly appOinted for
Monday.
The CuitscrtLoa of the EXCHEQVER obtained lenve to
bring in a Bill for.the more speedy examination .and auditing
of Military Accnuntii in Sea, u and Portugal. •
Mr. LusaiNcrroN hihught up the Revert-of the Committee
on the importationsuf M.rtinique Sugars. Time Report was
agreed to, aad Bills weiv oriiered accordingly.
Jl, , IVitAttroN olna,ucti leave to ittat,BLU.for thwk,
ticfol Shie-uaners in certain cases.
(In the 4uoliou of Mr. Waikato it Acne ordered that on
.Monday the House shcaild reS,dce itself into a Coiniaittee on
sercrai public Ar:tst belt froth the inaudible manner in
which the spoke, we were' unable to distin-
guish them..

It ‘V3,I ,7rdrred that on tolunduy the House should resolve
I:self into a Committee nu tue Iri,h Insolvent Debtors Dill,
els Use Irk!) Amendment Dll, and on the Irish
'Athens 8.11.
The Irish Bishops inn was read a third timeand passed.
Mr. LUSHINtirON brought pp the Repurt of tho Committee
~f Supply, which was agreed to.
On the ttnition for reading a second time the-
Bill for better auditing tile .accounts of the Pay-
waster-Uvueral tit the Forces,
Car.cv aiked, whether it was in content-
_

plation to abolish one of the joint Paymasterships of
the Forces When he had made a motion on the
stiAjeet, he had been told, that there was a Bill
in the other House in which the abolitfon of that
office was involved. That Bill had, however, been
thrown out. tie also objected to the otlice of-one
of the Paymaster Ships of Marines, which the Ad 7
tuiralty bad acknowlek ed to be mmeCcssary.
Mr. CILOKER denied that any such acknowledg-
ment as that last impted to the Admiralty had
been made, but the reverse.
After a few words froth lair. Itoxe, the fill was
read a second time, and ordered to be committed,
on Monday.
My' : CROKER brought up the Report of the eus--
toriis Bill, which was ordered to be recommitted
on Monday.
AUCTION REGULATION BILL.

Mr. WarrattEAtisuggested the propriety of hav-
ing the Bill printed, that the persons more im-
mediately concerned may have an opportunity of
knowing its contents.
Atter a short conversation between Mr. Whar-
ton, Mr. Freemantle, and Mr Uuskisson, the ite.,
port. of the Bill was: brought up, and it was order-
ed to he taken into furtherconsideration on Thurs,
day next. • -

A Message was brought from the Lords, agree-
ig to several Pubtic Bills.

Mr. WYNNE put off until Tuesday his motion
relative to the Orimge Societies.
Sir H. MONTGOMERY wished to know what was
the intention of the Noble Lord (Castlereagh)
respecting the sending of missionaries to the East

LiOrd CASTLEREAGH Said, it WES intended to in-
troduce sonic regulation upon the subject into the
prean►ble of the Bill.

The nekton Election Bill was read a second
dine, and committed for Wednesday next.

CREEVErS CASE

CREEVEY said, thatwhile proceedings were
nng on against him in the Courts of Law, be
never made any statement to the House, but he
would now make it, as he thought the sentence
passed upon him nifeeted its privileges. He would
not now ask them to conic to any resolution upon
the case, hut be may vvith confidence say, that
this was the first time any Member of that House
had been arraigned for words spoken in the
Muse, and printed after in explanation. He
would now state the fact, which was simply this,
that in the last Session of Parliament, speaking of
the distresses of the people of Liverpool, lie al-

luded to certahi surcharges. Imposed upon thettii
which he said were to be attributed to a malt
named Kirkpetrick. The account was given irta.
correctly in some of the Pellets, mid in the Vetter
where he -saw it stated thus,• he caused as correct
i statement to he mode. 'tits statement wits Ma le
in Mareh, 11,.1, add it was not until o..obee
. that : lie learecal an indictment had been pre.,
furred against him. He: .theil had the cause re.
I moved into the4c.ing's Bench. It was admittea
on. the part of. the prosecution, that all he had
; written was said in that House, .and that 'it wed
1 written tosorrect misrepresentation. No attempt
1 %vas made to prove that he entertained any 'na-
-1 licious intention in the puhlicution. • Mr. Justice
Le Mote decided that malice was. not necessary,
that the words being detamutory wits aullicieot,
' .' The other judges, when he apnik'd for a new'
trial, were of the same opinion, and Ml'. JtietiCa
Grose gave it tts his opinion, that the publication
was
.a libel upon ,the late Mr. Perceval, and but.
t touted in disaffection to the State. It' the doctrine
• I laid down iii this case were admitted, no Mem-
t bet. conkd have a viva rocecommunication with his
1 constituents ;. it would be impossible fur hint to
give his reasons to
„them for sotiug against any
•• i public delniquent, such as Mr. Fl nut, withwit speak-
:l lug what, in the sense of the 'decision against Itim,
stay be culled defeinatory language. Since 1771, he.
considered it. as settled, : that the debates of that
. House maybe published ; and then ,every Mein'
' her wits, iAceording to this doctrine, at the mail
of the reporters within doors, and of the Judge?
without. The 'Hon. Gentlemen then quoted the
. cases et.. Lord Digby, Sir Etlw. Deering, A. Mar-
yell; lard CaventliA, anti Sir .Francis Winning-
ham, to skew that it had been the practice, with
;:‘,leihbers of that I 'Louse,. to publish their speeches;
and
.that whatever wits the ~nature ot the matter
- containetrin shell publication, it. was only, cog-
no:Ale in that House, nut in the Court 4 below.
Sitrvon Knight, also a Member of that House,
I bad pithlisheri a speech of his 'against the Nature!-
1 ization of Foreigners, which excited *a greatifiamt
through tee conetry. The speech was declared. by
that House to contain false and scandalous matter,
'and wars ordered to be burned by the commotion
hanginnii, ' lie noticed :the proceedings of 1771,
when the-House was engaged in a contest with
the Public. The house, it teas true, did proceed
against Mr. Wheble and Mr.. Miller, for printing
their debates, and.Shey went so far as to commit
Mr. Oliver, who interfered in behalf of the prin-
ters, to this Tower ; but•their authority was re-
sisted by Mr. , Wilkes. - Ile, though repeatedly
summoned, refused to appear, took no !Wile.? Of
the calls of the House, which in the end shrunk
from thi assertion of its privilege.. He was con-
fident, if the same attempts. were made now, to
I put.ish the publication of Parliamenttly Debate,
the same resistance would be made by the public
as was made in 1771. They would again assert
their right to be put iii possession ot what passed
! in "thut douse, and How, as then, the House would
I be obliged to reilaquiah its privilege. if at the
!, present day there were regular reporters, who
made daily reports of their speeches, :t made his a
much stronger case, as it the speech of a 'ttlenther
were by than itteccurately repOrted,, it would be
i hard if the speaker should be the. only person tor-
tbidden to tell 'his Constituents W hat he and said; It
Was
,apSINSI3,UI; he could cad the printer to the
I Bar, a. d have hint reprintanaed or imprisoned
Ibut he ;night not
.ehoose to do either, teeliug-,
that in the hurry insepurnele from making such
',a lieport,.such illtleeliraci might tie perfectly ac-
cidentar; but if he was . not disposed to pu-,
►nish the Reporter, he might be inelincd to cur.
rcct the representation given of his speech, and
ought he to be restrained troth taus by the terrors
of tine and imprisonment.?. The Hoese ought to
be jealous of us privileges) and, in- the first in-
stan,x, jealous of the Judges, Who had generally
been found the. williug instrinueutS of the Ctewn.
In the beginning of the reign of CharleS the First,
I it %vita their practice to cause a Member to be
I brought before' them for what lie had said, and
when before them their languitgellad been for all •
the world like that which. had recently been used
by the Judges in the cou,.. of.' King's Bench. Sir
John Elliott, Mr-.
,Hollis, and others, were in this
manner brought into their Courts, when the
Jedgo said it ',v'tis their intention to cell in roes-
tiosi the trite' liberty of, speech in a Member tif
Parliament, hut what 'a eMber said in his place
ought to be said in a Parliamentary manner, and
Parliament being 'a High .Court of Justice, ought
.to set a good eXalliple to all other Courts. On
arguments like these the persons brought before-
theni were cast, and then came the sentence,
which was as' remarkable for its lenity as their
arguments were for 'their force. It was stated,
that though the offence was 'great, it was intend-
ed to visit ii With a light hand. The Members
therefore, in the first instance, were all sentenced
to be imprisoned during the King's pleasnre, Sir
. T. Elliott, 'who Was held to be' the greatest of.
feeder, to pay ii Ane of 20001. and Mr. Hollis
10(10 marks. Other fines were inflicted on those
whose Offence was of less magnitude, and all
were confined. Some died in prison, because
they could not pay their fines, ancl others, on .
making submission, were released On Certain um.,
ditions, among which were these, that'they should
not come within ten miles of the Court, and give
a bond of 20001. as security for their future good
behaviour. These seine Judges who thus decided
for' the Crown, afterwards, when the loug Peelia.:
meut had the power, sanctioned One of its most -
atrocious acts, by declaring t hew seb es in 0ppc....:
aition to the Crown in favour of the iittaii"l" at
that NoblenrAn. This, and the coadovt of trio
lioui ot Judges in
Pr"" th,at tii;elY lie , it4o'caloni of tr st'
Judgesllsit of te:o4o:l:llll:::::l6;:i.sg.daileilitirrt!tire'::ti't:riCelis;
thes,:eui
st,:aj,.:.st.tren.
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:ialititlso,:ssvc:olo:silt,ifirie;dl;.:l:!.stiptitsc.o,ltiteti.sisiejto,tf;t4oll,itev7.titeicliit
s,soeitrltifil
t. cite
IgWlSsltilti:sel;"Z;;lii;fl;2;
the privileges i .
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Ist relatelleltal
last
mindpdi their conduct
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of the a
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CrOwn were accused of violating their privileges,
t
by trafficking in seats in that Home, they bad re-
fused to receive the tendered proofs of that &et.)
but when a miserable individual, Mr. CluleSapii

'came before them for an offence comparatively
venial,- then their privilege's were asserted, and
that person was committed to Newgate, In the.
present SeSsiiiii; When g►ea"t charges were prefer-
_ red 'against the Diikes_ of Cumberland and. Leeds,
and-positive-protif offered to be adduced ,-116 pro-
ceedings were instituted against them ; but when
- Mr. Crogan was charged with a similar offence,.
be was committed to prison. The things made
him jealous of the House in matters of privilege,
i►i.t lie was not jealous of any Member explaining
he had said, when lie had been miSrcpre-
sewed. • When Mr. Horne. Tooke. prosecuted one
- Wright, a bOokseller, for publishing a report of
the proceedings of a Secret Committee, charging
-him with High Treasou, a rule Nisi was granted,
on the supposition that it was a. false report ; but
when it was proved' to he a 'trite One, the yule ►was
discharged, it being the opinion of Lord Kenyon,_
that in such a case there was no just ground fur
complaint. Mr. Justice L►wrence, on that ocea-
• sion, stated that though the publication of w 144,
• passed in the Courts of Law might be- inconve-
nient, • yet it Was so important to the pabli6to,
know what passed there, as well as'what passed
in Parliament ; that if a true. report Were pUblish-
ed, it could not be a matter of complaint, By t his
precedent he ought to have been judged, and not
of the King v. Lord' Abingdon. He concluded by
bun ing a resolution, reciting the proceedings
-Which had taken place in the Courts of LaW, -the
'defence he had put in, and setting forth that lie
bad been most unjustly and illegally pronounced
to be guilty of a crime for which he had not been
.put on his trial. It was his intention to follow.
this up, by moving for the production of the records •
of the Court of King's Bench.
The SrEtataa said, hips memory did not furnish
any instance in which the House had been called
upon to assent to a proposition embodying a long-
string of facts which had not been proved be-
fore the House in evidence. He felt it his duty
to state, this, at the same time the question could
be raised.

Mr. Wytcstk.: did not' approve of the
course taken by the Hon. Gentleman. He thought
there Vere no grounds for a complaint of a breach
of privilege, and could not agree with the mo-
tion. Lie had been surprised at the Hon. Gentle-
man's postponing it su long. Had he (Mr.
Wynne) felt himself called upon to draw their at-
tention to a breach at privilege, be Would have
brought it before them within 24 hours: Now that
the Hon: Gent. had submitted his case to• the
Houie, be was not surprised that he' had delayed
it so long; but, on the contrary, be was sur-
prised that he had not delayed it till after the
close of the Session. lie prot.eeded, at consider-
able length', to Jet forth the evil effects to be ap-
prehended from such 1111 extent of privilege as
that claimed by the Hon. Gentleman,- and con-
. eluded a speech replete ‘vitl.v legal and Parliamen-
taiyiknowledge, by declaring, that it' he wished
to destroy those privileges, whichhe regarded as
the strongest bulwarks of the freedom of Parlia-
ment, he would take the cosn'sc pursued by the
Hon. Member (Mr. Creevey). For Ids part, how-

. _
ever, as rib precedent could he found for such•
application, and as he was content that their pri-
vileges should remain -such as they had been for
thelast. 200 years, and such as their forefathers
had thought it wise to establish, he should vote.
against motion.
Colonel O'HABA contended, that the lion.
Member had a right to .expinin what he hail said
to his constituents, and, ought only to be held
amenable 'to the House. .

Mr. WESTERN spoke, but from his expressing
himself rather in a low tone, and standing with
his h lel{ to the gallery, was not distinctly beard.
We understood him to say, the 1-lon. Member
(Mr. Creevey) bad-a right to submit his case to
the consideration of the 'House, though he could
not altogether approve of the Resolution before
them. He maintained the House bad a right to
be jealous of the Judges, in matters of privilege.
The privileges' of the House had, up to the year
1763, extended to cases of libel,
Lord A. H tistwroN thought, after the decisions
which had taken place in the Courts of Law, the
point of law was settled, and he moreover thought,
th .t that which the Judges had decided to be the
law of the land, ought to be the law of the land.
He would uphold as firmly as any man, the right
of freedom of speech in that House ; but if they
were permitted to publish what they pleaSed
against any individual, this privilege might be
greatly abused: The Hon. Member had said, it
would be bnr,l if every one out of that House were
to be allowed to publish a report of what a Mem-
ber of Parliament might say in his., place, while
the Member himself was not allowed to do so,
nor even to correct that which others imperfectly
reported. This, however, was not the fact. Ile
had as much liberty of publishing what rpassed
in that House as any other person, and he bad
no right to' more. if the question were pressed
to a 'division, which he hoped it .would not be,
be iihould feel himself obliged to vote against the
nehh tou,.

Lord C...AsTLitimmin thought it would be more
convenieot to get rid (4 the motion, by moving
the previous question, or by-passihg to the Order
of the Day, than to put at once a direct negative
on it. The, arguments used by those Gentlemen
who had taken part in the debate were se.. very sa-
tisfactory to him, that he hadno what to add any
thing to them. He wished, however, to offer one
single observation on what had fallen front the
Hon. Gentleman under.the gallery, with respect
to the jealousy with which that House ought to
re,ard the Judges in matters of privilege. His
argument %vas u ve • r good one as far as it referred
to the futkes of-former days, but it did not apply
to the Judges of the times in which we had the
happiness to live', When the Judges were the
creat iires of the Crown, it might be proper to re-
gard them with jealousy ; but
.at the present day.
Nvheo their decisious were marked by purity and
imieretitlence, he thought they-need feel no alarm,
at the itlet of their pri;ilet,res g g. before them,
their eonntry
shoiiia.p," to the
~titer
t wEi;,Trtor, in explanation) a" s •
not ineautto east oxiy.reitertions on the,ittifie,eshi:::if;
the present day. _
tjt4lo eNplanatOty conversation ensiled. het weeu

Lotll tatit4anAtni ailtt I.it. W. WYNNE. After
which,
Mr. Witeratte.th abl be should vote for the
motion proposed by the Noble Lord, and he was
glad that he hail submitted such a proposition to
the House, as he could .not Vote for, •and should
feel sorry at being obliged to vote directly against
•the imition of his Honourable Friend. Some Gen-
tlemen were very violent on the subject of filch
privileges, and others bad been. disposed to hold
them very lightly, He had endeavoured to take a
Juiddle course.' In any question that.might ariabetween the House and the country,. as to the
publication of debates in Parliament, lie was 'con-,
vitteett the House would laii, as it ever had
and he must be permitted to say it . ought to
fail, when it attempted to prevent their going
forth to the world. This was decidedly. his opi-
nion, as he was convinced that nothing was bet-
ter for the conntry, and if this were lost 4-ti the
public, every thing would be lost. A question
-arose, as to whether the words contained in the
alleged libel had been spoken in Parliament. Ills
Honourable Friend, .however, bad guarded .him-
self on this point, by bringing forw:a‘d witneises
in Court un the trial, who .proved that the
were actually those' .which he did speak. This,
therefore, made the case of the Ilonourabie Gen-•
tle,man that of a Dian who had been misrepresent-
ed, who was anxious to give a true_ representation
by correcting the erroneous statement which had
gone forth. He was surprised to hear the [lon.
Gentlemau reproved for delay. Ilis Honourable
Friend (lid not require to be: vindicated on this
N.) re , as itinust be remembered that it arose from
his desit a to consult the convenience of the House,
and he thought he was fully justified in bringing
the sohject under their consideration. When. the
:tioble Lord spoke of the purity. of The Judges, he
would wish to ask how his Honourable i.‘rielid-
was protected against any unwarrantable state-
;Dent which they might make.? Ile knew. notiioW
anything could be more offensiVe than the lan-
guage, which hind been used in Court when the
Honourable Gentleman receive& his sentence.— I

He was there told, that he had been found guilty
of a libel on the late Mr. Perceyal, and that he
was disaffected to the Covernment. He %visited to
know what protection his Honourable Frieil.-haa
against this libel on his chariwter i If no one rose
to defend the ►nanner in Which the character
of his Honourable Friend had been thus at►i-

niadvertcd upon (and he thought no one there
would defend it), lie shodhl suppose that it
would be admitted such conduct should be arraign-
ed soniewhere... He wished some of the Law Of,
ficers would rise mid tell him where his Honour-
able Friend might look for redress. If a Member
of. Parliament were to be punished for giving a,
correct report of his speech, ct might ic'contend-
ed, that considerable inconvenience ivould arise
from the difficulty of his explaining, in many in-
stances, his conthict in Parliament. He however
could not consent to place every man in. England
in that predicament in which he would stand if a
Member of Parliament were permitted to publish,
without being amenable to the laws, any thing
which he might think proper to speak in
place. Under these difficulties, lte would be glad
to cote for the motion of the Noble Lord.
The ATToasmy-GENtut.s.t. said it was not his
intention to hove troubled:o.c noose oo Oil, oc-
casion, as every thing • constitutional and legal,
affecting the question, lhind been completely an-
swered by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr.;Wynue) and
the Noble Lord (A. Hamilton), had he not, been
called upon by the Hon. Gentleman who last
dressed them: He noticed the distance of time at -
which the motion was brought forward on a mat-
ter of privilege, and yet the Hon". Mover was not
prepared with any specific proposition to offer to
the House. This was a sing uhr situation for them
to be placed in. What did the Hon. Gentleman

4ean to do ? • Did he mettif to impeach the J udges;
o petition for their removal ; or merely to have
tis narrative submitted to Parliament ? ln the way
which he introduced his purpose, Whatever it
(night be, he had not spared those whOM he ap-
proached. But it was not necessary for hill' (the
Attorney General) to vindicate the memory of
the great Judge, how dead (Lord Kenyon), or to
defend the character of him who was hut a few
hours retired from filhitg, the arduous
,situation:
(Mr. Justice Grose), a character for which he
need only appeal to every man in the profession
ho had had Opportunities of observing his con-
duct on the bench, on circuits, and at assizes,
while, during a long life, he had shewn that a more
upright Judge never sat in any Court iu any time..
itc would now do that for which he rose----state
his recollection of what that Learned Judge.- had
said. Previous to this he entered.into it detail of the'
course of proceedings in the trial of Mr.CreeVey,
which it is unnecessary for us to repeat.—
He affirmed that there had been nothing done
in the Courts of Law, to question or abridge
the freedom ofspeech in this House. All that was
done in the House • (which there was "no danger
w,iuld be neglected while the Chair was 0
ably filled),
.was to see that, due decorum sty
debate was observed, 'and that every latitude Of
observation, consistent with right, should be per-
mitted, But this should not be understood to de=
termine agoinst, the miserable subjects of this
state; that; a MeMber of Parliament should. pro-
nounce an injurious libel against whom he
pleased, and publish it, gratis, to the detriment.
of a member of the coMmunity. These we.re in 7
juries which no man would submit to ; and if the
law was not open to redress the person so wrong-
ed, they would have recourse to per orail violence
to staisfy theirown resentment. Lie asked if this
were necessary for the preservation of the' priVi-
leges -of the House, ridiculed the idea that this,
could be'rotitended, and maintained, that 'what-
ever latitude of debate Might be allowed .in the
House,it was impossible to sanction the publication
of libels out of doors. He then alluded to the gross
and calumnious observations in which the Hop..
Gentleman had indulged, even in his
,statement
'in the present, occasion. He had Said,he believed,
hat in Wright's case Lord Kenyon had refused
,stice because Horne Tooke Was au obnoxios
No man but the lion, Gentleman would
iive ventured
such an assertion respecting a de-
ceased Judge, whose integrity was never question-
ed till this night. tie had gone further, and also
libelled the existing Beach, with Lord EUeld
their head, Lou'in
)-
rotob at
every came 111 their

,erson.

• ,
tarn for censure. Lord Cllcubtirough had neverns-
-1 sated the di;cl rim! asseribedto hint that a Member
of Parliament w.u; to ee restricted in his intercourse
with his constituents. The NO.ble Lord had said,
that such a as that,see.up for the Hon. Gen-
tleman, that under the pretence of •a necessary
freedom at dehate, itul'a right to state his senti-
ments to his thmttituentsi all the Kihg's subjects
might be
,libelled, Was'nat for a moment to be
endured. it was in fact a claim- to impunity to
publish misehievotis aini injurious libels, without
remedy to those• individuals who smarted under
. them. With respect to what Mr. Justice Grose
said, it was matte!: of opinion,.on the motion for
a new trial, and not 'a part of the judgment.—
For the sentence all the Judges Were responsible.
The observations ;accompanying, it, were addressed
as correction for the person receiving it, and a
warning to others to avoid his 'offence. He ac-
knowledged that the sentiments of a person so far
advanced in years ntight not be so clearly and per-
spicuously d'eli‘Tred, as. to preclude the,
posstbi-
lity of theit being objected to as they had been:7-
Ilat he contended that they Were correct in sub
stance. in stating the grounds of the mitigated
severity of. the punishment, the Learned Judge
had mentioned that they were the suspicion that
the prosecution did not proceed from motives of
public justice, liut for election purposes, and that
they considered the speech rather as an attack on
Air. Percevaland the Government, than-as aimed
at Air: Kirkpatrick. This w;ls the explanation
that every feeling avid liberal utitid would attach
to the address delivered by Nr. Justice Grose,-,
13y this or any other thing done by the Courts the
privileges of the Hous.e were "not trenched upon ;
hat the Hon. Gent. was taught that ;tootle, nuder
pretenee.orexpressing their sentiments there, and
then explaining them out of the house, ,should
have the power of libcllinnwith impunity 4
Mr. Ca REVEY replied very shortly, 'amid said he
wonld..do 'the same again; Its he deemed it a fair
exercise of hiSzduty. He maintained that what had
been done, as the first step in prosecuting Mem-
bers of Parliament for what they wrote, would
be followed by prosecuting them fur what they
said.

\ir. GARIlf* and Mr...WittrrzariAn
Mr. 111,,NNR.,:rTsiOirmed, 'that the words INCII by
.10t1;,!;4'Urtise, its he had taken them flown at the
time, Were, that the :speteh (If his Iloa. It'riead
%raii ‘.‘. bottomed on disatiection to the Govern-
meow' whkh Words he considered to be a '/..;r0-ss
aod,scandalowi

The Motion proposed by Lord CASTLEREAGH
for passing to the other Orders of the ,Day, was
then put, and carried without oppositfon.

' EAST INDIA BILL.
On °the Amnion of Lord CASTLEREAGH, the
East India OW %vas read a, second time, and cow-.
mitted for Monday: After sonic eonvekation with
,Mr. Tierney, the'rvnit of which was, that the
debate' on the pri»eiple,should be taken on the
motion for the tlpeakq:leriving, the Chair. Mr. T.
wished it to 'u he nderstood, that the committal
should not take plitee on the Same night i but this
Lord C. said would depend upon the circumstances
of the case.

The I-louse Then proeieded to dispose of the
other Orders of the Day, ;mei dropped Orders.
The further consideration of the Reports on the
ItOcers Bill, and Lind4ax ltedemption Bill, were
postponed till Monday, •
in a Qominittee of Ways and Means, on a mo-
tion, of the Chancellor of the EXcheqUer, a Reso-
Intion was agreed to for raising one.million by Ex-
chequer Bills tor the service of Great Britain.
The Report to be received on Monday.
!the Deputy Iternembrancer of 'the Exchequei.,
arid the Ccnumissioners of Land-tax Bills were
thrown out for this.day three months.
The Duty- Free Goods, Funded Debt, Local
Tokens, Peninsular Courts Martial, and Militia
went through Committees, to be reported
on Moutlay.
Mr. W. Smrrn presented a Petition, from Nor-
wich, against the torn Bill. •
A Bill to continue the Irish Fees Commission-
ers:; and a BM to expedite, &c. the auditing of
Military Accounts, in- Spain and Portnt;ll, were
brought in by Mr. LusnitioTox and Air, ANsrr-
ras T, and read a first titue.---They were ordered
to be rend a second time—the former on Monday,
the latter on Tiresday.—Adjourned till Monday.