The Sun.
London, England, 1832-03-30 00:00:00

PREROGATIVE OF CREATING PEERS

A pamphlet, which contains some curious
matter, and displays considerable research on ail
questions affecting the prerogative of'the Crown
to create Peers, has just been published b\
Ridgway, and is, at the present moment, worth
of a perusal. That it should contain any new
views upon a subject which has been canvassed
And discussed, until there is nothing new to be
said upon it, could not he expected, and those
who look into " the Prerogative of tnating
Peers," in search of such matters, will be sadly
disappointed ; but there are several points im-
mediately connected with the present state of the
House of Lords—the sentiments of hying per- '
sonar es having the power to op rate upon it—
as
well as the ultimate fate of the Reform Bill,
and the necessity of popularizing the House of
Lords—or, in other words, of rendering it an
assembly, in every respect, representative of the
feeling,s and sentiments of the aristocracy—
which are not only worthy of notice, but highly
curious and interesting. In the first place, for
example, ..ve find from it, by the following pro-
test, that, on the occasion of the proposed sus-
pension of the prerogative of the Crown to
create Peers, in case of the Regency of the late
king, our present gracious Sovereign was the
first of the Peers who protested against such an
invasion of a right bestowed for the benefit of the
people. The following is the protest and the

" Because we think ourselves called upon to rrorest
in the most solemn manner apinst the principle of sus-
pending, during his Majesty's indispositino, and of those
lawful prerogatives of the Crown which the Constitution
vests in the King, not for his personal benefit, hut as a
trust en behalf of the people,—and to declare, that in our
opinion, if such prerogatives are necess iry, and advantage-
ous to the people under the permanent .goverttment of a
King, they are equally beneficial and more necessary
under the temporary and prec.rious authority of a Re-
sent, especially in a period of extensive warfare and great
national embarrassment.

CLA RENCE, ERSKINE,
LA U DERDA LE, ROSS LYN,
HoLLAND, SPENCER."
A LBEM A R.LE,

in the final debate also, on the Regency
Bill, Lord Grey expressed his most decided op-
position to the Bill ior restraining the Royal
Prerogative, and in alluding to the exercise of
it observed—

" The fact I afin;it to be, that of late that ',ranch .of
the Royal Prerogative ha.. not been abused. But I enlist
here protest against that line of -,rgurnent which goes to
say, that because a prerogative is not necessarily in a
state of activity, it shrubd therefore he suspended. The
prerogative, like ail other prcr,,,gatives, was given to the
Crown for the benefit of the people; and while it a ,n be
exercised for that object, ought not to Le seerrrated from
the person performing the Royal functions."

Lord Holland was, also, at the time in qiies--
tion, found upon the same side, equally strenu-
ous in the defence of the King's. prerogative;
and even Lord Harrowhy, who undertook to
reply to him, was compelled to admit in his an-
swer, that " cases might occur in the course of
time, in which the use of this prerogative for the
purpose of controling the deliberation of this
House might be justified by extreme necessity."
'We introduce these matters to the notice of our
readers, not for the purpose of proving what has
been held at all times, and by all parties, to be in-
disputable,—the inherent right of the Crown to
create Peers to any extent which the welfare of
the country may render necessary,—but for the
purpose of shewing that the King was long
ago, not only fully aware of the right, but a
strenuous advocate of its exercise on all great
emergencies—and that Lords Grey and Hol-
wriat is the -inference? Why that which we
have all along maintained to be the infallible
result of Tory opposition to the wishes of
the people—that the King would have no ob-
jection to create Peers—that his Majesty's
Ministers would advise the creation—and,
finally, that through this beneficial use of
a trust granted to, and reposed in, the Crown for
the benefit of the people, the Reform Bill would
ultimately triumph over all opposition, and hand
down to posterity the name of Grey as that of
the brightest and best of its benefactors. Who,
indeed, looking at the character of those to
whom the Bill has been entrusted—to the ob-
vious and easy means of t.arrying it which are
at their disposal, and the certain danger to the
peace of the country which would result from a
second rejection of the Bill by the Peers, can
doubt for a moment that the creation will take
place ? We cannot doubt it—we will not doubt
it—we will not suapect it, until more demonstra-
tive evidence has been laid before us than we
have yet seen ; for who that was not desirous

either of playing into the hands of the enemies
of the people, or of producing a convulsion
which would aniiihilate, instead of improving,
the House of Peers, could possibly, under pre-
sent circumstances, refuse to add to their num-
bers? if Lord Grey were such a man, he would
not so employ the power reposed in him by his
Sovereign—he would again leave the House of
Lords to its consistency and its fate ; but he is
anxious for its preservation, and as the only re-
maining means of effecting this desirable end, he
will do what his King, his character, and the good
of his country, so imperiously demand of him—
he will create the Peers.—Morning Advertiser.

•.
A new article of manufacture has just
as appearance—namely, gloves made of felt, durable,
and elegant.—Blackburn Gazette.

n ad e
ireful,

Some wicked miscreants have been in the
habit of late, of laying upon the streets of Falkirk, and on the
roads leading to it, pieces of buttered bread, biscuits, oranges,
&c., which on examination, were found to be impregnated
with poisonous substances. In some instances, where dogs had
eaten of the bait, death had speedily ensued. It is supposed
that the wanton prepetrators had in view to bring odium upon
the surgeons of the place, but happily what might have been
the fatal result of their plot, has, as yet been avoided.—Edin-
burgh Advertiser.

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TENACITY OF LlFE.—There is to be seen
at a tavern near the New Market, Stockbridge, a cocker pup,
about eight months old, which was thirty-four days locked up
in an empty room of a new house, without either food or drink.
Its howling and moaning was frequently heard, but there being
30 many dogs about the markets the sounds were not attended
to, and the proprietor offered a reward for the recovery of the
animal. On accidentally again going into the room, he per-
ceived the poor creature in a corner, reduced to a skeleton, and
deprived of sight. It was able to lap a little when found, and
slowly recovered.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
STARVING A JURY TO A VERDICT —At
the Norwich Assizes, last week, en action was brought by one
Everett against a farmer named Youell, to recover damages for
the breach of a contract in the sale of fifteen score lambs, sold
and warranted sound by the defendant to the plaintiff. At the
last Assizes this case was tried, and a Jury were locked up all
night, and then they could come to no decision on the case. The
present Jurr was special, and the Foreman was John Anger_
stein, the late High Sheriff for the county. The defend-
ant sold several lambs to the plaintiff, and a few days after one
howed symptoms of the rot, and fifteen died afterwards. It
was proved that the plaintiff's land was good dry land, and se-
veral witnesses said the lambs must have had the seeds of the
disease when sold. On the other hand, it appeared the de-
fendant had sold several lambs of the same sort to other persons,
and they had not been attacked with the rot. It was con-
tended that the plaintiff's lands were calculated to produce the
disease. After the whole day had been taken up by the evi-
dence, the case went to the Jury on the opposite opinions of
the witnesses for the plaintiff and those for the defendant—all
of whom were men of experience and respectability. The Jury
were locked up the whole of the night without fire, candle,
fond, or drink, with an intimation from Mr. Baron Vaughan
that he should not discharge them without an affidavit from
a surgeon that the health of any one of them would be endan.
gered by a longer protraction of abstinence. At one o'clock on
Sunday afternoon, the Jury were starved into unanimity, and
boy returned a vercici. for the defendant.