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Mr..IIISIICE FOX.

Lord HA !PK ES DIM Y having moved the 'Order
oithe Day for the second reading of the Bill for con-
tutiing
.the proceedings against Mr, JrtSticti Fox un-
till next Session, observed, that a Noble Lord; who
was not how in his plaCe, hid :expressed his disappro-
. haion of this Measure; lie was, however, at a less
. to conceive on what ground .ahy. objeCtion could be
Made to a Bill which was so evidently calculated to
proniote impartial justice with re3pea to-the Public,
with
,rcspeEt' ,to the ' Petitionen!, and with rOpeect
to the le`arned Jude himself. He' would de that
• Learned judge thelustice to say, that he had shewn
every,diSposition on his part. to meet the chargefairly,
and to facilitate that investigation, which he was,
doubtless, desirous stionld be completed as speedily as
possible. Witlirespe&yi the witnesses, it was obvi-
• ous that much expellee Would. be saved, by ;rendering
it unnecessary M.bring back to this country those who'
hadalready been examined. rf it shOuld.appear that
the Bill would violate any broad Constitutional Prin-
ciple, it certainly Ought net to pass; but it was far froin
having any such tendency. He reminded their Lord-
-ships that it was the plaice of the House to make a
clistinftion between measures which were strictly le-
'gislative;.:thd those which Werejudicial. The latter
were ccititinued.froM session, to session, but the for-
tier alWays ceased tipon a prorogation or dissolution.
There were other measures, which, though not strict-
ly judicial, were analogous to judicial proceedings;
and with respeet to these, it had been the praCtice to
Tiring in r Bill for continuing them, to *prevent. the
inet4iVenienee of being obliged to renew them. Such
a proceeding took place in the case of Sir Thomas,
Itutribold, and also in that of Mr. Hastings. He could
riot See how this ißill was to interfere either with the
• prerogative or the privileges of the other House of
Parliament. It could not pass without the con-
sent' of Aci other, branches of the Legislature, and
when it 'had their consent it became their AA. The
onlynossible ground on which it appeared to him the
Bill could be consistently objected to, was that of the
chatri against Mr. Justice Fo'c, being of so trivial 4
nitture as to deserve no farther investigation; Now
to enable the House to form an opinion on this view
tire subjea, they bad the ex pane evidence taken
before the former Committee, to which he should
• ''..nOt have referred, had it not been made public at the
deare of the Learned judge, :lid also the whole of the
idence given at the Bar on one of the charges.:'.....
In„nlindin to this last evidence, be ,shonld enly say,
'in' the words, of the Counsel for the Petitioners, that,
untjl thch• Lordships heard what the. Learned and
venerable Judgehacrlo say upon that evidence, no
man could reg:thi a single lad as proved. It would
be very improper .in him, or any one, to pretend to
pr,,r1m4,,,c, an opinion on the charge' from that evi-
-41,,1nee, but this he would say, that it appeared to
allor,i ground for 'noro'e firtller proceedings-r-for giv-
ing, at 1ea,4,, the Learned Judge the opportunity of
cxpiatt4tion and 'vindication. Though there m'as-no
peeedent that pe'rteftly ;ippiied to the Bill, the me a- supp:;iitsi by its atialow to other cases. He
tlicrefori iii;u the Bill be now read a seeend
Bill was then read, and ordered to be
committed. •
Aftee some conversation between the Loan CfrAlp!
ct.-.40n, Lord R.\ h•Noa, and the Bishep of
Asten, on. Gardner's Divorce Bill, a Clause for bas-
tardising child borne bY Mrs. G. *let ordered to be
left' out. •
Mr. Adam and Mr. Parke were 1100 in support
of .Mr. Jnitiec Johnson's Petition against. the Ofr
tenders' Atralidment Bill,•
in the Committee on the Bill, Lord WeIiTNEATII
proposed an Amendment, to prevent the A& from
arty tetrosnealye effea. '
The LOBI4 CILLIIICEL.I.4OR, said, that care
ought to be taken that the. Bill had no tendency tp
prjudice cases now depending; but it appeared that,
in so far as, it' had a retiospeCiive etiCr, it would be
beneficial to Defendants. lie should, hoOeer' ,:co&
ider the .ftrtrrichnent proposed by the Li,lable• Earl,•
rid if it appeared to him that substantial juitice to
liw.Country and the Individual required it, he would
n ove a Clause of that nature; which seemed most
p,siper, either on the Report or.the third reading.
The third reading of the St. Pancras Poorßill was
ts.ostported to Tuesday.--Adjourned.

POURE, OF COMMONS:
ir11474431144Y, JUNE: 27.
Set•jeant 13p.sT gave notice that. shouldst-
onq Motion Ott the Eleventh Report' of the
Comtnisiia of .Naval inquiry, which stood for
.I:ILTSt
t*/0114,i,ty, 1,0 ',Cll4)rsday.
•brought. Up the Report of the Corn-'
tWtn•o on the Rank Forgery- 11i1t. IWeArnetitut
(Te agrved to, and the 41-1 ordered' to be rear:
third time to-inorrow.. ,;„
_NI was read a second time
l' he Leith' Ihrbour
and ordered to be comtnitted to-morrow. d +l*
Lord GLENBEttrit4 brottght up the Report of the
Committee of Secresy, to ',whom that 011 'or the
Eici•enth Report of the Commissioners of Naval
intjuiry, which; related to the issuing, of 100,0001.
fbr Secret Nayal SerVicCs, 'had been referred. It
stated, that triving examined a variety of Evidence
Lnd Documents, and hang given the subject the
fullest consider ttien in their poiver, they had come
to. the following llesclations,-,That, in their opi
nion, the sad simm of I'oo,oool,qt:id' been athfpccd
tit objeCtS 'to the • money' approFriated to
;i'ervices Wa4 applicable, tind'lin •which' the
,eri'ettit'auel honour nt' ,tho Ctmintry were 'tuner-pity
been applied 11l the
tittes!.: orminq it had been iw.ted by

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the Lords of the rt 1-,a.,,ury, and . with the know-
ledge of the First Lot% t of the Adoairaity ; that the'
circumstances ()I- t 'fitlle at which, the transa&iou
took pl-ace 'were Such as to render any disclosure of
it impoNible, with Out consequences,of great pnhlte
inconvenience ; that such a disclosure would hate
been a subjea of much regret ; that the necessity
of such sectesy had con tinttecl to the present mo,
menu; and that the Committee therefore felt it their
duty to abstain from entering into any details on the
sub' e&.
On the Motion of Lord GLENBERVIE, the Report
was ordered to be printed.-
The Townley Colleaion Bill went thMugh a Com-
mittee, and the Report was ordered to be received to-
morrow. .

Mr. STURCiftS BOURNE obtained leave to' bring in
a Bill to enable His Majesty to purchase certain
Grounds contiguous to Westminster Hall and the
Court a Exchequer, for the Public Service.
Linghani's Divorce Bill was read a second time.—
Evidence being heard to prove that Mrs. Ling_
him was out of the Kingdom, the service on her
mother, Mrs. Dixon, was declared to be good ser-
vice.

in pursuance of a Message from their Lordships,
the SPEAKER attended in the House of Lords, and
on his return informed the House, that the Royal
Assent-had been given by Commission to the Lot-
tery Bill, the Additional Stamp Duty Bill, the Spa-
nish Bed Wine Duty Bill, the Loyalty Loan Bill,
the Pest-horse Farming Duty Bill, the Irish Malt
Duty Bill, the Irish Licence Bill, the Commis-
sioners of Taxes' Bill, the Paymaster-Generals' lie-
gulation Bill, the. Auditors Account Bill, the West
India Imports and Exports Bill, the Tri,h. Freehold
Bill, the British and Irish Militia Pay, Bills, the
Irish Compensation Commissioners' Bill, the Mi-
litia Subalterns' Bill, and a number of Private Bills.
On the, Motion of Mr. HusKtssom, the House
went into Committees on the Ad relative to the
Drawbacks on Sugar, and on the Ala relative to the
Duty on Hops. The Reports of these Committees
were ordered to be received to-morrow.

On the, Motion of Mr. WHITTIRRAD, Serjeant
Busx was ordered to be added to the Committee to
whom was entrusted the drawing; up of the Articles
sif Impeachment against Lord Nielville.

ILA
M in opposition to it, the House divided, when
there appeared, `► •
For Mr. CURVVEN'S Amendment, 12
Against it, 5O
Majority, -r-3 8

The Bill was ordered to be committed to-morrow.
On the Ordei. for the third reading 'of the Smug-
gling Prevention Bill, Counsel Ws called-in on be-
half of Dan Brock, and other Jurats of Guernsey,
who had presented a Petition- against the Bill, on
the ground, that it greeted their Tights, by interfering
with the internal Legislation of the Island. ~
Mr. PLOMER, as Counsel for the Petitioners, Main-
tained, in a very able speech, that' the Islands of
Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and' Sark,, were ap-
pendages of the Crown, as dependencies of the
Dutchy of Normandy, remaining annexed to Eng-
land after the conquest of Norniancly by the French
King. The Union of these ,Islands with the British
Dominions 'WWII Union with the Crown alone.—
The British Parliament had -not a right to Legislate
for these Islands, any more more than for Scotland
and' Ireland before the Legislative Union with these
Countries. The King in Council had a right to
propose .Legislative measures for the' Islands, which
-were valid when registered by -the States of the
Island, The Counsel allowed, that it was necessary
to check the Smuggling, and stated, that the Peth
tioners. were only desirous that their Independence
might not be invaded in the checks to be imposed.
•In consideration of some objections made by the
Counsel to some of the details of the Bill, the CHAN-
CELLOR of the Excitant.= wished to.defer the fur-
ther proceeding till to-morrow, and they were ac-
cordingly deferred, after some. conversation, in
which Mr. WINDHAM and .Mr. GREY stated, that
they thought the rights of the Islanders deserving of
the most serious consideration, and the CitANcet.-
LOR of the EXCHERU,ER maintained the right of Par-
liament to pass Aas including these Islands in their
operations. '
Mr. FELLowas said, it was felt by his Constitu-
ents, that the evils complained of in the Bill required
a strong remedy.
Mr. S. Bouawc thought It odd, that the Counsel
and the Petitioners contended for the comparatively
arbitrary Legislation of the King in Counsel, in pre-
ference to the more deliberative Legislation of Par,
liament.

The Exchequer Bills Bill went through a Com-
mittee, in which a Clause was introduced on the
motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, to
indemnify the Bank for advancing Money on the
Exchequer Bills of the year 1803. The occasion
of this Clause was, that among the occasions of the
Vote of Credit for that year, stated in the Preamble
of the Bill, the Invasion then apprehended was
mentioned as the first. In engrossing this Bill, by
an inadvertence, of which this was not the only in-
stance, all the other occasions but the Invasion were
left out. As there could be no doubt, that the ob-
jeas of Parliament in passing the Vote of Credit
were not restrieted to the event of the Invasion the
money had been advanced ; and it was not till late-
ly, perhaps from the effeCt of events that had recent-
ly happened, that' it occurred to them to desire this
indemnity, which there could be no doubt the
House would grant for their satisfaCtion. The Clause
VMS agreed to., The Reports were ordered to be re-
ceived to-morrow.

A Person from the South Sea House presented
Accounts relative to the Unclaimed Dividends on the
South Sea Stock.

Mr. BULLY, from the Pachequer,_ presented fur-
ther Accounts of the Grants not made good by Par-
liament.

Mr. HUSKIISON obtained leave to bring in a Bill
for better regulating the Property Tax,_ as far as re-
lates to Dividends on East India Stock.

Mr. HUSKISSON presented an Account of the
number of men Enlisted into His Majesty's Regular
Army for the two years ending sth January 1805,
Also an. Account of, the number of men who had
Volunteered from. the Militia into the Regular Ser-
vice under the A& of this year. '
Mr. HUSKISSON brought in a Bill for Regulating
the Calle&ion of the Assessed Taxes in Ireland.—
Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time. to-morrow.

Mr. Husittesow gave notice, that to-rnorrow, in
the Committee of Supply, he would move the re-
maining Miscellaneous Services of the year.
Adjourned.

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