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London, England, 1814-03-02 00:00:00

TAIPERTAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF .LOl-MS, TUESDAY, MARCH 1.
This being the day for, the Meeting of
;:.eat, after the long recess, the LORD CHANCEL-
Loa came d( own to the' House about three o'clock,
and a number of .1-leers attended in their places.
Prayth Were read, by the Bishop of Chester.
The Lop CHANCELLOR stated, that in conse-
mlenc,e of the burning of -the Custom-house,
ad been made to him far liberty to in-
spect the papers in the custody of. the Clerk of
Parliament., which had been 'at'anv time present;-
ed from the, Custom-house. Sitting on'the Wool,
sack, be thought it most becothing in him to
metition, the matter to, their Lordships ; and he
now-moved, that Mr. in")ing., the Inspector-Ge-
neral of the Lriports and Ekports, should have
leave to examine the papers- which haq been at
any time' presented to that House ;from the Cus-
tom-house.—Ordered accordingly.
Mr. Hill, from the Tieashry, presented papers
front the National Debt Reductiotl Commission-
ers.—Laid on the table.
VMITHER. ADJOURNMENT.

About five' o'cloel the Earl Of LIVERPOOL rose
and delivered a Messlge from the PRISCE ItEGENT,
stating his Royal Highness's pleasure that the
Alouse should adjoiurn till Monday the 21st of this
instant March:. His Lordship thereupon moved
that the. House do adjourn till Monday the 21st
of this instant March.

The Marquis 'of LAN,SIIOWNE said, lie did, not
sise 'to Oppoae the motion, under the circumstances
inwhich it was made, in consequence of the Mes-
sage from the Prince ,Regent, just delivered by
the Noble Earl, although it would andoubiedly
ue 'perfectly regular 'to oppose any AdjournMent
proposed under similar circumstances. It was
the farthest from his wish in the least to embar-
rass Ida Majesty's Ministers with regard to the
conduct Which they at the present, crisis felt it
necessary to pursue ; he, on the contrary, was
disposed to Place every confidence in their inten-
tions upon the present oceasibn. It was there-
foie with relacCince that be now made arty objec-
tion to the proposed. Adjournment, but satisfied,•
as he was, that in unison with the general feeling,'
both' in and out of that House, no interruption
would be attempted \vial regard to 'the fgreign
policy wilich :iiinistera felt it advisable to piirsue-,.
:he did not see the necessity of adjourning, Parlia-
ment for: so long a period, at a time when so',
'much public and private business remained to'
be dispatched. Considerable incoavenienee must:
necessarily result front this, step, whilst by-keep-
ing Parliantent sitting no inconvenience,
conceived, could arise to Ministers, us be could
not believe that any attempt would be made in the
Ica“ to einbarrass them'on any subjeet'connected
vcitli foreign pOliey.• There was one subject of
veiy great importance, and having no conneciion
, whatever vita foreign altirs, which the Parlia-
oa2at were pledged to take up.in . the course of
the
.a.veseut Session, he alluded to the revision of
the. Corn Law's, a subj..et undoubtedly 'of great
mornentrial which, in his Mind,. there could be
uts objection to Parliament sitting to discuss.—
A awl:a paint was the judicial busioess of that
noose, respecting which it 'could not be denied
that considerable laCouveirietiee must arise front
delay. was' only last year that a new arrange-
ment was made, altering altogether the Constitu-
tint, of the Courts, for the express purpose of fa-
cilitating the hearing o appeals in that, House,
and getting rid of the arrear that liad accumulat-
ed ; and now by these Adjournments that measure
was rendered nugatory;by the delay'and, incon-
veniance drat must necessarily arise from the
Houae not , He .had felt it. his duty to
throw out .these suggestions, in consequence of
the motion now . made for Adjournnteut, which,'
hawever,••it Avas certainly not his intention to
oppose.
fite`Earl of- Livarrpooa said, the candid man-
ner in which the Noble Marquis had dealt with
this question, called upon him to be equally
frank, and he certainly had no hesitation' in an-
tnittingalte right of any Noble 'Lord to oppose,
any avatitin,of AtiljoiirnMent made under .
circumstances, although, When such a Message
was, delivered, respect for the personage fr9M,
,I%'llolll it proceeded,` would naturally incline to
comply with the call. As to the cause of calling'
for sur) an Adjournment, he Must throw himself
upon the indulgence of the house, it being of
course impossible- for hint to communicate any in-
formation.- He trusted, however, that the House'
would • sot far pace confidence in his Majesty.'s
Ministers as, to believe that they would not have,
advised such a thea,iars.a, without the strongest
conviction of its being e.Xtr cutely desirable •thaf
such art Adinurnthent'should take place; nor had
they resorted. to it', Without, maturely weighing
the inconvenience to which it might give rise.—
The result of their:inuairieS upon this poiht had
been, that no material inconvenience would arise
front the Adjournment now proposed.
The Earl of DAUNLEV thought -that much in 4
convaaience would result fronithe proposed Ad.,
iournmeat, both as regarded, public and' private'
business, particularly with 'respect to the Appeals
before that Ilouse,-in the loafing of which' great
May must necessarily take One, tic could not
see any' objection to Parliameat continuing sit-
ting,- convinced, F.,; he that no Noble Lord
Avoidd attempt. to throw the least embarrassment
in the 'Way of the -Mioisters,•in the great work
which at present occupia'd their attlnition, whilst
other subjects might, with colivenieace and bene-
fit to the Public 'and individuals, be discussed and
decided upon. ,
- The LORI) CHANdELLOR obikerved, with respect
to Appeals, that during the next three weeks be
could not have sat more perhaps than three days
to hear them,- as his resettle- would be -required
, in the Court of Chancery ; but when the House'
met again, • the days that %vere..now abstracted
from _the business of the House, and•appropriated
to the Gaut of Chancery, might he abstracted
tram that Court, and applied to the judicial busi-
ness of the House.
The Earl 'of DERBY suggested, that this would
be in fact an adjournment till the nueldle of April,
as the 21 st of March would bring them nearly to
Passion week, when, the House always adjourned
over the ensuing Easter week. It woulc then be
an adjournment for six instead of three weeks.

•
He tlitl not ATICMC whether this consideration had
struck li:s Majestv's but it appeared to
lutn h;ghly desirable, if it '....t1T,2 possible,'to-avoid
the inconvenience that mu result rrOin
an interruption of the _htis;_ncs.: of Purilatnent.
He was satisfi,,l that no Noble Lord at-
-tempt in the least to et/A.:miss Ministers in, tlie
great work Which •Hoiv o::cupied their
for one, sincerely hoped that the'neg.lciation
Wonld.ter,,ninate sueitsfelly, and from the bot-
tom of his hekirt he Wished that a be
brought'abmit consistent with f4:_f-, sdety of this
country, and honourabe to all-p`iti ;es.
The Duke of ?.,.1:.::•out `ohsci craon the
great, ineonvenicnc,..., aTid expeoce to many'
parties had been put, whodiad Co: :e from distant
parts of the country to attend the Pause this day,
in the expectation that rileliainclir tc-c aid proceed
to busineS, au,l ~11:::getsted Vie pi if idly,
further Aillournminit to give
notice, to sti„,e frern
incurring a s:niii.i,expenee. Alinisters, of course,
could not now tell what alight I..:..pren-; but
within a week of the of ti.e 9;:osod
Adjournment, they le to' jii," v.:te-
ther another .A.djoiltulnelt would be. ccs,acy,
and a notice miaht he given t;;
The Earl Of Livt-Tit'o,,,-1. the pre-
sent moment his 'no ex-
pectation that another ..Adie;,,;: ~,010,4 be
necessary., With reveet, to t h,.t it i)cen sug-
,g'ested by a Noble Earl (Derir: ) had
been under considerition, hut it v.... nevertheless
tbourzlit advisable to meet on the 2lst of March,
by which the private Bills would. be much expe-
dited: He, of
.course, could not pledge himself
that no further Adjourninentiwould be necessary ;
but at present he had no expectation that such
would be the case..

The Motionwas then pit and earned, and
House adjoutned till Monday, the 21st instant.

}mush OF COMMONS:

The period-of its adjournment having expired
this day, -at the usual hour die -House reasseru-
bled.

PRIVATE BILLS.

• In consequence- of the great accumulation of
private business,, an unprecedented number
Ptivatc Bills were brought in, and read a first

time,

SIR WILLIAM GARROW.

Mr. LUSHINGTON having • moved, that' the
Speaker should issue.his warraut- to the Clerk of
the 'Crown to make out anew Writ for the.eke-
tion of a Burgess for the Borough of Eye, in the
room of Sir William Garrow, tylio-:Ance
had accepted, the, office of Chief Justip of
Chester.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY observed, that the c?pe
pointnient. which had 'occasioned the necessity for
the motion just ni,,de b•.- the Hon. Gentleman,
appeared to vim 'to he, so objec;ionabie in its
nat—
ture', that he should not considev'himseltas having
properly disehargod his Parliamentary duty, unless
he celled the attention of the House 'for a few
moments to the subject, It was not his intention
to make any !notion respecting it ; he had
.not
heard that such was the intention of any other Hon.
Member. The present, therefore, was the only op-
portunity which he could-ever have to make the ob-
servations thatseemed to him to he sOnecessao% He
understood that his Majesty's Atto-ney-General,
%vim had recently accepted the high judicial office
described in the Honourable Gentleman's mu.
tion, had not resigned, the office of Attorney.;
General, and did not mean to resign it ; but that
it was his intention to hold the two offices tdge-
ther. To him (Sir. S. R.) it appeared that the two
offices were wholly incompatible.--(Hear, hear, •
hear,!).7-To, appoint a, Gentleman holding a Ina
erstive office at the sole pleasure of the Crown,
and removable from that, office the very wOment
that he might give dissatisfaction to the Crown,
to a high judicial situation,, wds fiat his 'opinion
distinctly inconsistent with that independence Of
the judicial character which it was so important
to preserve inviolate. It could not be out of
the knowledge or the-recollection of most of the
honourable[ persons who 'heard him, that early in,
his Majesty's reign, and on a very memorable
occasion, his. Majesty was pleased to state to
Parliament, that -it 'appeared to him that the in-
-dependence of the Judges, was essential to the im-
partial administration of justice„ tti the preserva-
tion s of the liberty of the subject; and to the •
'maintenance 'of the honour of the Crown. , lie
could not shink. that .theit saerviil Considerations
were attended to in the appoihtnient. of •tt Gentle-
man to a high judicial ollice, who, •as he had
before -observed, had' at' the same time another
office, very lucrative in its nature, and from.
which
.be -teas rethovable at the plea'mre of the
Crown at any moment at Which the Crown might
think fit so to 'remove him. Besides, it' was
evident' thlt to. place as a•itidge over the sithjvet
;an Attorney-General, he whose ditty it was 'to
assert and maintain the rights- of the Crown
:afr,airist the., subject, was not the way to in-
sure the equal administration 'of justice. Lie
'trusted that in making ' these obset vations he
should not be understood as intendinls; any Thing
personal or 'any thing disrespectful to the Learned
Gentlemanin question. He bad Merely done as
others had done before him. An individual who
Stood hi the high situation of his Majesty's Actor=
ney-General, had as right to expect, ancl had a right
that the Pnblid should expect for him, tha: wheat
any high judicial situation became vacant, he
should bevested with the judicial functions. But
then he ought no longer tzi retain his office as A't-
torney-General. He knew that there was a pal-
c'ular Attorney-General tot-Chester as well as an
Attorney-General for the King ; and that
many, perhaps in most. cases, prosecutions might
be conditted in the Court 'of Chester by the
former; without any previous interference by the
latter. Bitt this teas not always the case.- For
instance, the reeefit cripinal 'prosecutions' for, t
in that part of the 'country were divectedley his
Majesty's Artorney-General, who assisted-at the
• eousultatimis of his 'Majesty's Goveriment, the
Object of which was to ascertain the best mode of
quelling the disturbances. Shouhl such occur-
rences again take place under the existing circum-
stances, persons %Vold& be tried by au
who had advised and directed their prosecution I
It was undoubtedly true that them* two offices

had, at former periods, beets 'held by the dotme
individual. Lord Kenydii, 'Lord Alvanley, and
other persons, wkOse • int'yntory he highly re-
spected, bad so held. them. 'Bat so inconsitit-
eut did the appointment: seem to him, with pure
notion's of theindePeptience of the judicial cha-
racter, whiAl. ought not to be'exposed to be af-
fected.either by the hope of Royal favour or by
the fear of Royal resentment, that no example,
even Sir 111. lisle or Lord Somers himself af-
forded it, ecitird iii his opinion sanction such a mea-
sure. it was a great misfortune that the instances
to which to lied just alluded, in-which thetwo offices
were held by oat individual, had been allowed to
-piv,s without comment. IMpossible as it was to jus-
tify the appointment, it was essential' that Such si-
lence should not again be obsirved, and particularly
in that Homo, one of the peouliar duties of which,
was vigilantly (6 watch over the impartial admi-
nistration of j,; ice. What would be said by
the country if one of the twelve Judges was 1,,
accept an office inconsistent: with the 'pepper
discharge of Ws judicial functions, and from.
which he was removable at his Majesty's plea-
sure ? What thew could be said of indi-
vid.4 Who held the two incompatihlo.,Offices
of Judge and, Attorney General, the emoluments
of the latter office being four or five times greater
than those of the foi-mer, and from which latter
office he was removable at. the pleasure of the
Crown ? Could such a person be considered. an
independent Judge ? The House must be aware,
that the office of Chief Justice of Chester was a
very high one, being next in importance to those
of the twelve Judges ; the Chief JitstiCe of Ches-
ter having always to try an extraordinary. number
both of criminal and of civil cases. fie- bad felt
it his duty to throw out these Observations'; but
lie repeated, that it was not his intention tO make
any motion on the subject.

The motion was then put and agreed to.

On the motion► of Mr. PONS,ONDY, a new Writ
was ()Hero' to be' issued 'for the County of"Kil-
flare, in the mom of Lord Henry Fitzgerald, who
had accepted the office of Steward of East lieu-
died.