The Sun.
London, England, 1815-06-02 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

'vq". • HABEAS COUPVS.
Serjennt ONST,OW l: ()with Committee be appointed
to inquire kilt() the state of the law respecting the writ of Ha-
beas C:orpus, and to report their opini..m thereon to the
11905 e.

TLe :.ITTORNET-GENERAL did nut mean to object to

ttle motion, but w 3.; wcrt,con,i(ict.ii)le
tits, and it would require the most serous cUusiikration of
the House. • ,

Mr. W. WI'NNE said, that if there Was im.s-ihilitY of
140 injury to the liberty of the subject, flint shoula Ile stif—
ficient to iinittce.tlie House of Commons to enOirt into the
state of the law_un the subject. Leave was given to bring 7/1
the 11111.

7 • EATIJING 111 tl-11,1 tHANIES. •
Mr, WYNNE, adverting to the Thames Police
Bill, to prevent depredations tin the River, called
the attention of the House to a clause which it
contained, and ‘vhicli no one could have expected
to flint in such a Bill. The clause to which he
alluded forbid persons to bathe in the Thames by
day-light, after seven in the morning, any Where
between the 'East India Company's Dock, at
Madman, and. Battersea -Bridge. This was a
tolerable space to comprehend in such an enact-
ment. Why should the population of the country
be thus prohibited from taking an amusement
which was so.. conducive to cleanliness_ and health,
and which enabled them to acquire that art which
supplied not.only a safeguard to their own lives,
in many situations, but might make them not un-
frequently the means of saying the lives of their
fellow-citizens. It-bad been the object cf sonic
States to encourage bathing, and public schools
for swimming had been-established ; and to ,him
this appeared to he a more rational -policy than
that which had been adopted in the Act to which
lie had adverted. He concluded by moving " For,
leave to bring in a Bill .to repeal so much of the
Act as relates to bathing in the Thames."
Mr. H. ADDISGTON stated the clause in ques-
tion to have been inserted in the Bill. in conse-
quence of various representations made to the of-
fice to which he had the honour to belong, of the
shameful nuisance which bathing in the Thames
had proved to some of the most populous parts
'Of the metropolis. It was. not intended by this
clause to.prevent bathing in the Thames after 7
.o'cloclsin the morning-, any where between Black_
wall and Battersea Bridge—its object was merely .
to give the Magistrate a discretionary power to
put it down, when: it was found to be a public
nuisance. • •

Mr. IVA NN stated the notices which had been
put up by order of the Magistrates contained a
generalprohibitton.

Sir .I....'NEWPORT reprobated the clause, and
contended the practice of bathing ought to-be
encouraged, instead of being punished by a
penalty..'
Atter a few words front Mr. liAavEY, leave
was given to bring in the Bill.
Mr. B. BATtiVitsT brought in a Bill to enable the Down-
patriclz Elec;ion Committee to re-assetohle, which went '-
through all its stages, and was passed.
The Ite-port of .the Caledonian Asylum Bill was brought
6p, and agreed t,i. . ,
sir ff. PARNELL brought up a Petition from certain gro-
cers in'the City_of Dublin, praying relief front the Act which
prohibits titans from selling spirits. in their shops.
Mr. Alderman SI-1.-INV (Dublin) said a few wusds, but we
could nut distinctly ascertain their purport.