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• SePaltit's t'st Ahlislinfen't the -.1“(1
M•• He should exros,i.,g the Ibisre-
"etttatioils of ilie:;e Ito bad described t hat 'tact
of
ist rter'itory as totally tinfi., from its climate
tret;''''Y, for the purposes of culonivoion.
erse was the fact, and as early as the yearii°u2, Lord Seticitk hadpnifiled out its vti olya-
foesiit a letter in Lord Pelham, Oleo Seceeta, y
the Home tun'. The charter origi•
granted to thy Bay Company to
itartl!'" the For Trade in Aineri:ca pot hat• Cont-
tot possession of an immense extent. of t...erri-
totY• lu 'Progress of time the Most valuable furs
4%0 become in a part of that territory,
lent' it appeared Advantageous that it shout& he
'tellied eultiy4tr.d. On this groom!, the Pi-
, gaetors of the Hiol.on's Bay Compatly grant-
tt”ii the. tract oti the
.11ed River
,to hif orids,lieipr,.
° did not think himself warranted in in
laki •
.; lig his settlement until he ha&aieertained the.
iifirtiolefirthe Company tri make that grant. Eie
ehartr before the ablest laileyers ; and
,f•la3 the tunanimous opiniou of Sir, S. RoMilly,
t now Jtistice) Holroytl, and Counsellors
jilt Searlett, and Bell. that the' I:Unison's
`'Y (-:onipany were authorized to make the
tart 'I his opinion Was -confirmed by, that of
Ministers; arid, if a doubt 1-)ttrl
:'eti on 'the subject, it ennst have beet) re-
ecl by the conduct of the Colonial pepart-
i flt 1813. The war whit A met ica hay-
-44 then broken -out? fears were entertained
irioan Attack On Lprd estaolislonent,
it-;.itite• 13epartMent furnished him tor
lo,'"fettee with '2OO sta'nd of iiritt 11114 several
%teCei Of ordnance. Bat another enemy soon
jeB„l;ted against his Colony. It had excited ibe
~-;""sY of the North-West Company, who be-
their attack by inserting betters in the.News-
hiPers in order to deter from joiiiing
14:,,,1,'"%4°"15bi1t. They were told that the neigh-
Indians would tise and molder the col°.
4,1;8., whilst the contrary was the case, send the In-
;Kos
(t.4..1 came over and became settler's thernsel-ve§•7.-'
its sr. heat t)—He had been told, that applic.a-
-to,?1"1,1 been made by the North-West Company
lz„c'e Indians toattack ~and dettroY the colorly.7.
lye
tat • he wouid not answer,' but he hadSeert
4t,..a'u'ttvit of an Indian, called Kattlewabig,
Ag,_-,lti"te that he hid been applied to by the
strL, s of the North- SVest Company to de-,
tshe, settlement. '1 here was a set of men
rtl
loorgrroldies, the offspring of Canadian
fa;11 1-3 a"( 1 traders with Atirhaii women, whose
I:jer amounted to about 1000, and who acted,
ttei,rtillig to the education which they 1100 '`Fe-
1t.02,"i' "3 clerks, 'servants, or—lionters. 'These
o - collected trout a great distance by the pro:.
• to„t,?l'g W m
the North eso Copaoy, atol in lbls
destroyed his Lor'dship's settlement,
.t.i.otitig the horses, and ring every ipe7
1)::1If devastatii,o, The esiahlisliment, having
pertl
r'''.'eweti, -a greater number•ufAtiose people
Cleo "sienibled the. next year, treaded by the .
"t the North Vest Company.. Notice of
kivt; r'il'l and of their:ioteto ions havint4 been
" by the liidians to the Colony, ?.ir. Se'6l)le
to meetnt t; it h as many men as tie cool,)
leriect• lie arid his party, however .heing'far in-
-qii• •
thtir in numbers,. were, easily surrounded by
der assaildnts, who were mounted, and all who
qt► bur killed in wc_le b hot .soon after.
pre'. tl'e e'Orisittred-t1 have been a .moit foul and
ILZetlitaieil murder. It was painful in hint to
11,1 E'btili charges against Gentlemen who' Were_.
Ipe4ltesent, but they:were tieress-ary to establish
tier,ircntuti for ,his motion. It was to be consi-;.j
%Is°, that ;Ile case was not Only a foul tour- •
e, bin ear tote likely to recoragain. lie tneti 'read
e:ct% front letters written at different times 'by
.Mr, . Robert tleory, and
Ille‘elrehibalil Lellaoci, part avrs of the North
Sent'io.t:'"olan in Whictr they stye& that Lord
tet„ ntly-%! he made, to. ahandon establish-
;tired ‘;I:)e'llit wonid strike tit the•rntrt of their trade,
(;scribed the expeditions which were
sit,„ll).'ing to set ant both in 1515 and 181 G, to de-
ll, IYB',lce Colony, ~rt the•restilt of those expeditions
the '6, some of the Colonists were allOwea by
tt),,,relv.,atters to return home, on their binding
never to come hack to the Red River.
I"ch"rd, whose Petitintr was before the
to
had been less fortntiate; he hail been se-
No evid`l4oo, his wife -and anti carded to
vhere ":11iath, a distatice oh eight hundred
tiolle Partners of the 'Hudson's Bay .Comp Any,
tOtip, .4".1 of the property seized, bad` also been
(I,att.Yed, ,
Ice sante time his settleineot was
111 luyecl (Or the second thee, Lot ti Selkirk was
‘l,.:tr"al, preparing to repair to the Red Ri-
-I°Li% iti roue hundred disbanded soldiers of Nlen-
Ivishel egiotetit, tvlio hail agreed lo join him. lie
Thint, , I° know o•jcv a Sessions of Oyer and ,He
• J • ,
, s
• n„, barn held to America, to try those
were intended to be brought before a
ir trit)
'"1 to "0"1, instead of suffering the proceed-
tlit,3 (h. _
'AK on as they had done ? Orie-tourth.of.
e - •
hdiev eased had pot been put on their trial, and
Ford e.(l, were not intended to be tried ; and
'wo ,i,vlktrk, after bringing some of kis witnesses
Ittait,te.'"said miles, had been at the expence crf
able "'jog them for some years, wit bruit being
sted
tk.' 4)
"t the questions in wl),'icli he was inte-
taizo set at rest, In the few •trials thfit had
to Pldee, Lord Selkirk tad not .been allowed
t.
-(14. •-lt a single. witness, Ile ,thougbt the
traord, Plltsned to-yards his Lordship very ex-
it• tleiltst:!rY, •as tri4eir lie had wished to exAmi'ne
• SLeti:r, he was told hi the Governor, sir
k;,,,anatitt
.._)o!‘e, that all Crowo prosecutiops it)
,s toll) cc.nducted by the. Officer of the
414 1)e. an'!
hits Lordship's legal advisers cool(
14'1' In surieled to take part in the proceedings,
tot .
%`ll"ine 'l'oesees„
.w • •'ka• I leave, it tout apet..,
lo that instance e did not feel justified in
11, t g• h
From v_ar,ierts eircionst'attces eppear.ed,
SiNentrtb-VI est Compatly had that iuflue.nce
ass n
eliut ll: ne—turt etr' 'l3l:tio.t (I-117cl) (itnoins t asticitC7eceainsd:ti'llileel siert ar:ets ics(l::faott'llfl' ''ktislit."ic`nitli
one pet con, of thesname of George
" _
.hose case was so bad that nobody
P"tin " I"in ; but he fount) a better way of
‘'s • on pretence of being sick ; anti lie
on a
I ,0
te,giviptYrr tfloetri,deoii knew irPgslll'7luhcleiea er7esficieTerri9thihefi:l
•
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• 414utt tiette:ral in Canada to be in the.
tktr`iisiol; powers which he believ-
_

e;) "AAA 6ever seen Claiineil 11 the Attori'v"..
General dt'lSlglancl. 14ei1.01. tor instilikit.:c,

right totto,“ n• Grauti 30t)t Itt►eini 111 extotiine
anti oite.cAseva ouniber
of veil mstvere't. he !tied At York ll'otvu if hills
wt,'re found flgalust the iii 'l, wni e.x!•ecteil the
bilis %voulti- be thiovv--o- out ; but ritiß event lint

appepitig i.lr,e ;Cowl was adjonrned sine..die, and
thy wit!), sses, some of ivirornhad he,” nrfiUght
.I',ODO 'miles, and had as far to return, were at ,
once sent to the riglst-4014m; Ile wished to- knox!
if what had taken place:w.as con.,ist. tit with-the
law of Canada. Jr the (irylit:_ral of Ln~
latid could nut enter .ry ItOoM, tie ap-
prehiimicil the Attorney-Getitral there could ba'Ve
Jto stight tio sQ, ii, however,- he had the right
to do asitehad dne, it Tight to b* .impartially
"ekeicised ; but. tills it was not, for where an
actiob was brought tigainSt the North WcSt Coin-
pally, be Aon,lt,qiiite as diferent course. He then
censured the Selisit.k had received
on a charge Of resisting legal process. which tie
described to have 'been highly improper. He
would never maintain that resistance to legal pro-
, cesi waB not an offence that ought to be punish-
ed, more gopepiajly in the case of a person .of;
rank, and in risontitry but 11,altciyq.izeti,; but,
With' all these considerations he would inaintain,
that the Offence wits trivial, conipared with
the, wrongs Which had-beert conrmitted against
the Noble Earl (Lord Selkirk,)--Lord
kirk, be asserted, bad done all in his power
to obtain a' legal decisiiin on the meris of .
the case. He had been anxious that the char-
ter granted in his favour sbutild come under the
consideration of the King in C.onneil. The case
might, in his opinion, have been set et rest be-,
fore now, had the Colonial Department taken that
course which he thought ought , have .been
taken. Government, be understood, had sent two,
Gentlemen, Mr; Copeland and Mr. Fletcher, to
• time interior of the country, in order correctly to
'ascertain the causes of, the disturbances on the
act) River'. He could wish to,know the result of .
their ettquiriv;;and- also the CatiSe of the distnis,,l
Of Mr. Fletcher. He mOved for ati humble Ad-
dress,to the Prince. Regent,. for copies of
all ~tli
Cial communications . bet \even the. secretary, of
St ate for • the Colonial Depittment and the G•t-
vernment of tbe -Province' Alt Upper and Lower
Canada, respecting the destrontion of the Settle--
Merit on, the ft!''.ci River, and .t.,especting any legal-
proceeding On the- subject in Upper or Low, r
Canada. -He would alsb move' tor -a copy of Hoy
Opinionrgiven by..the.La.s Officers.of the Crown-
with respect jo the right ofjotisdicrion claimed
by the Companies for- Copies of any Report
ruade by Messrs. :Copeland awl Fletcher on he
subject of. time havers_ Lich • had taken
place ; and a ot any Colonial Acr.,to nip
• •
l'efie art. lliquiry into Crimes ant! Offences Corti-.

seconded •.the motion. He would.
have • been unwilling 10 cuter upon !hese state-
thetits, which he' now felt called upOn to make,
had Ikon. Baronet teen content °to wait for
the interrinietion which he claimed before he pro
notinced a j9.4lnent ot.) an ez parte wit; w of it.. the
Baiotitt had Said this was tint one of many
Petitions -that might .he laid On tie table of 'the
tiotiiei but he hoped the Home would decide
.not from the rotmher ot Petitions to be presented,
hilt !Tool the real merits of the case. The Noble.
Earl had beerime a large share•dio der.in the Hod-
so.!'s B Company,; He thought too well of the
Noble Liars jtvlgnient to suppo-,e that immedi-
ately utter sinking a very considera-le capital in
the trade, he had laid.` aside all Own:Ails ot profit.
lie consnlered that lie had a right to tegard the
Noble girl as a member of the Hudson's Bay
Company.' lie (Mr. Ellice) had taken the opi-
nions of tne`most considerable persons at the Bar
of this Country, which were, allAirectly at va,
riance with the opinion of the lloa. Baronet, as
to the validity of the grant made iti taVour of the
Earl of Selkirk by' the Hudson's Bay Company.• ,
He hail submitted the case to the bite Attorney-
General, who bad no doubt that time Hodson's
Bay Company had no power Id grant the
land to Lord Selkirk, as it had 'n.ver.
been granted to them by the. Crown. lie
(Mr. Ellice) hail accordingly at the time given
notice that he held the , grant to be nitgatory,
and would not respect it. lie then read a letter
from Lot d Selkirk, to show how thA Noble
Lord., knowing that his claim was Objected to,
was determined to enforce it. This letter, writ-
ten in 1812, declaring his, right to be establish-'
ed by the Hudson's Bay Company, directed his
agente., where they had the physical means, to
seize on the timber, which others. might cut
down, and to destroy the nets of those who might
interfere with the fishery, as they would those of
poachers.. These direetious he would show.had
been fully acted up to by the agents of the Noble
Earl. He then read a proclamation issued by
the. Governor, Mr. Miles M•Domild, reouir-
Ing the agents of the North West Company
ao remove from the places where they had
established themselves, within the next six months.
A ,second proclamation directed against them
haying been disobeyed. Mr. Mtponald sent a
.body of armed men to break open the Post of the
North-West Company, wheie they seized five
(milked, bags of proyisioos. Mr. Pritchard;
the present petitioner,
.was then a Clerk in the
service of the North-West Company. He was at
the post.whieli had, been opened, and he (Mr.
xv,oulll say, Mr. Pritchard was the person
retiodiad-basely permitted it to he broke open—T.
he paid basely pe.rmitted it ; for had he.(Mr.
Ellice) been in Mr. Pritchard's .place, having
arms in. his house, Are wonld have defended the
provisions.. From this time frequent conflicts took
place, and if he wished to infl .me the case by
partitular fratetutffis of what had• been done
against theNorth-West Company and its Agerits,
he could easily do. it. He, however, would Cots-
ter“ himself by describing, hot_ in very different
.terms, the conflict which had unfortunately taken
place. He then went into a long statement of
the operatioos of the- Hudson's Bay Company
against the North-West Company, from •which'
it appeared that the former had, after using
,other means to destroy the trade of their rival,
proceeded to attack and • raze to the ground
tsvo posts or fortresses .belonging to the North
West Company. The. latter., to prevent their en.
tire destruction, had been obliged to have recourse

to meinS of reti't (via tbeit toi) been
gi.lsollily 119ivillg161 heir obi,' I tiie
t,f !he (:oloily •ot Govero'or
No &itch had ever beets iiitruileo. A riliiie
cabwitiv (he clic) 11.. i iwrite it tt> the

B troiret), mOre tftalic,titis t epresetii a t had
ne‘er been tat abroad than the t, whiCh ntri
it appear that the meo who wete eonortcting
.e.cessary sup;dy of provisions to the camits
we're ptoccethog to pittack t:;:)v,inor Semple in;
Iris quarters. He %vas s:o e that there was nut
preMedttate4•.irvenipt to ditotirb the 'COlony ••••-•
.Governur Simple might miSeake the object of
those he had pursued, ftod in the it rit,at ed
'state of the fe;lings. of both Pardo, that which
visaed .(though he latnett'ted it as mitch as the
liationercould do) did :trait appear to hint a
matter ot Brea' stir/trite. That these was a dispo-
sition io disturb the Ball 'of 'Selkirk after the pi.
racks he had committed, he did ''tit deny. Ile,
for one, had been faward .to,advise thOst who
had their little all at s.take to defend themselves
with the best Means itt their poWer,tiod lie wits ivil-
iiug
to'rakeopoo himself there,ponsibility orgiviu;.;
inch o.d4ice. . ile.d.eseribt-d the petitioner to htcve
given his evidence very fairly in a Court of Justice..
where he had declared that Ire did not know which
party fired the first shot, hitt he (Mr. Ellice}•
would contend that Lord Selkirk had been the
first aggressor, and had carried. his_aggressions to
a height whieli those of the party opposed to hitt)
had never attained. Lord Selkirk; according
the• Hon Baronet, had advanced to Fort William,
to punish a nest of miirderers,. Whet) there, he
ought to have contented hintsflf with attesting
those Who wore supposed to be goilry, tbotigh he
ought tint to have gone so far, as at Sr. Mary's
•he was not so- distant front York hut it would
have been easy for hin<to call for the interference
of GoVernw.firtre. Instead of doing so, he had
advanced to Fort William, secured all who were
thert, and sent them down the river, a distance
'of-fifteen hundred miles, in the• most ignomiu
niotis manner. Among those thus harshly dealt
with was Mr. MiGilliv,ay, a. most honourable
Character. He was treated as a person charged
with murder, though it had never -I),ett ati.empted
to .preter a bill against him. The Eat lof Sel-
kirk besides seized on the propertg found
at Fort William, and not only seized, but appro-
pri'ated its to his own use. From an unfortu-
nate, individual of the name of M Ken zie, who
was frequently itt a state of intoxication, the No-
ble Curd (or his ages r s). had absolutely obtained
a iramittlent transfer of 'tJte properly he had
seized. This individual hail since brough-t an ac-
tion,in Canada, and. obtained 15001. damages. lie
did not knew that theadtninivration ,of justice
.there was so detective as it had been described to
he; • The present was the first ()erasion on Ohio!,
he bad heard a general complaint. brought against
it. The conduct of the two Judges who had,
-liberated Campbell seemed to- call' for eiiirhana-;
flint,' but persons in their high situation ought
not to be condemned. unheard, 'The AttOrney-
Geoeril, from the circomstapee of both, parties be,
log dissatisfied with him, he thoUght it 'might be
presumed had acted fairly between them. Whet
first appointed, he was retained in England by the
agents ot the North West Company, but the mo-
lIIVnt he lartried inCanatla,be returned the retainer,
and had declined acting for the North-Neat Com;
pany. He entered into a variety of derails con
nected with I he arrangements Of. the Colony, and
took, an opportititity of expressing a hope that it,
would not he or,decs•Ood that when lie Lou merly
spoke of the conflicts likely to take place, that lie
had at all anticipated the scenes witnessed on
the • Red River. The case of Lord irk had
been brought forward with every advantage,
as be had posSessed himself of all the private
'papers that • could serve hint., by.the seizure a!
Fort William, or by the beibery of Iris-agents. He
wished the question between the two Companies
set at rest, by a legal decision in this country.
He bad direc;ed prosecutions to be instituted'
against Mr.- M`Donald ; but the idea ot, the late
Attorney-General had.been, that though be could
bring an action for damages, be could nut prose-
cute him criminally for his felonies. Ile viewed
the proceedings *.sPliielt:had taken place to be Such
as deserved the character of •a civil war. Nothiug
had been done that ought to be called a Marder,
except in., one instance, where the foal) *bad. been
convicted, and might perhaps have been executed.
kle wished' to God that every cold-bieloded mur-
derer might be brought to punislitnehr; -b-titthe
violent pr.creedings. w7.ichltati actually taken
place seemed to proceed, for the most part,,frorp
remrOraty ir;.itatinn, and, as be - had- already
slated, merited hot the character of a Civil
Wa

Mr. SCARLETT said, as to the question'whieh
had arisen as to the conduct of • the person. called
Lord Selkirk's Governor, he could not understand
how any man of common sense could
,suppose that
this Governor Macdonald had been guilty of a
felony: The truth was, that the whole offence. of
the Governor consisted in acting under a mistaken
idea of the extent of his authority, The great
burden of Lord Selkirk's offence consisted in his
having established some sort of authority in his
colony. He could not see what offence there was
in establishing some sort of government or autho-
rity for regtilating;.a village of 100 inhabitants, on
the Red :River. He concluded by an eulogy on
the general conduct of Lord Selkirk in the mat-
ters, in question. • •
Mr. W. made some remarks on the out-
rages which had taken place during the contest
between' Lord Selkirk anti the North-West Com-
pany, and blamed the conduct of Government in
having postponed
,(oo;withstanding that Noble-
man's repeated applications) to supply Lord Sel-
kirk with 'any 'opinion as to the lev.,aiity of his
proceedings, though they had in the fitst instance
sanctioned his undertaking, But the great question
in this elite was not whether Lord Selkirk or Sir
Simon Maegillivray was in the right, but whe-
ther a tract of ,country, far wore extensive than
Great Britain, and a great part of it as fertile,
should be left a waste, occupied only by half-
breeds, hoishrtas, and wild beasts. He trusted
that this question when it was' brought fairly he-.
fore ti.e ijouse would be properly discussed. But
he could not conclude without expressing his per-
that if Government had attended to the
iiplictitiOtis of Lord Selkirk, or the North West
Cwnpany, by-sending the instructions which were

're~uireci, tic misChieri which lipti,s.ccurted might

ilAr-e been %IViilde'fi

EL-LICR
KENNET he htleVi, the 001.0' ner ter be
SO feFpect:ll)l, raiiriloiteit a ni..ti; th!it be was in—

(if.ptit!ihg'his signAlltre tn-any statement
which he d i not hrlieve he trite. Ile
no hen Wayne the §tip,lpetiess of the ,C 4,1 dii.s.l De-
fuent:in tie;zlertitig to tin that which ihty ti;i4
liierlged thrmsel4e-4 it) do, narnel, to Sen.! ow he
cipinittu of the :'\ttornry aii(l
If the statement ppl)khet: 1... y the inc.,,(l. of Lott(

wks tear', there-wpis evitleptiv well a ctse
iiiatie wit'aganise the Liw Alitil..ri-
tir§ in calimlA, reilitiretl iftiffictitAte redies.
Ile pANsetl it,vrartn encominni on Sir. Peiegrine

Mr. GouLifif sAitl, lie was happy to be re-•
Hexed from the Ileet•Stilly to tite con.
eSI bet‘..een Selk ilk awl the North kV:vst
Unnipatty,, farther as 'coneerucd die charges
agriiii,t his MaOq's. Government! These chayges
,Arere, first, that of partiality to one parttar ,)ther ;

and soeondly, that of neglecting
_to take proper
ste.ps to prevent and suppress the cotta}'' itt
Lipper Canada. As ro the second charge, it et ould
be 'heedless for hint to gO fulther'-back than the
first. in!itnation ,of Lord Selkirk to the Colonial
pepartAnt:ut, .uf his intentiyn of forming an Agri...
ctiltural Settletnent its iheinterior of Notch Ante-
rici. But in that-intimation therewas nothing to
giver any reason to Supposie that the,Noble Lord's
projects would interfere with the: Oropertics or
rights of any persons. in
.that cootitry. The
Noble Lord stated that a military f.'rce would,
be desirable for the protection, of his settlement.
There was no ortwillingoes.s .on C.C. part 9f Go-
vernment to comply with this request for military
force, and the Governor of the province was in.
sit:tided to supply troops.. Bat the Governor is
reply to this older made such representa,tions as
_showed the impossibility of complying with it.;
but he made the only other arrangement which
seemed desirable or likely to be effectual. Sir
Gordon Drummond (the Governor) inforincd
Lord Selkirk of the reasons which made it im-
practicable to protect the settlement by a mili-
tary force, and received a reply in August 1815
from Lord Selkirk's agents, approving of the mea-
sures which he had adopted to supply the want
of military force. In 1816 the great Outrages
took pleee, and the Whole' tract of country in .
question was agitated by a civil war. The•step
adopted by the Governor on this occasion was the
Wiest that cosild :have been resorted to. - He re-
voked alt the warrants by which any of the,con-
t.er Ling
parties
,bad been made. Justices of the
Peace, sitd appointed two Commissioners to
get into 'the interior to collect evidence.
This, commission. was - executed 'OS st4edilso
as ,possible. When the House saw the• detailed
Report of these .Commissioners, he was sure
they •would agree that flier had exectried
Nheii,ducies impartially. It bad been said that the
.GoVernment bad not acted impartially towards
Lord Selkirk, in choosing hint as the first object
of legaVprosecUtion. But it was necessary to re-
-6)11(.0, .titat, When a warrant %vas sent to Lord
Selkirk,,instead of obeying it, he imprisoned the
prrson sent to execute it. Where the object. was.

to Turrish violations of the law, it most be seen
that in so flagrant a case it Was impassible or the
Governor to proceed immediately to prosecute
the offence. The Hot!. Gcndent,in then detailed
the circumstances attending the various trials, and
said, that it had been found that the population of.
INlontreal were so universally prejudiced on the:
various questions at issue in favour of one party.
or the other, that it was impossible to find
Grand Jury there that could be reasonably de-
pended upon. But there was not the bast gi.ound.
lor:wny charge of partiality against the Judicial.'
Anthorities.

Mr. BENNET explained.
Sir JAMES MosTGomaitY, after what had been
s'aid by the Hon. Member who had sat down (Mr:
Gunlbnin), could not help stating, that he hail:
relosyd to hint the inspection or copy of certain
papers. He was by no means satisfied with tht
cause of delay. . .
Mr. ELLICE was glad that it had been proved
that Government. had not been a party to the
transactions complained of.

The Amendment wag carried.
Several other motions for copies of papers were
put and carried, as an:ended. •
HIS'.I\IAJESTY AND SUCCESSORS'.

Leave was given to bring- in a, Nit to amenit
and explain.certain Acts for the Disposition of
the Personal Property Of his Majesty and Suc
cessors.
Mr.'C. \VYNNE condemned Minlitera for bring.:
log forward important measures at this late period
of the Session, at so late an hour, and in so thin
a Rouse. it would have been more honourable
for them to have offered thesesobjeCts tor discus-
sion at an early part, of the Session, than to have
smuggled them as ~,i‘t-Were through the ,HOusel at
so unbeasitha'ble‘aphour.
IRISH SESSIONS OF THE PEACE. ,
The General ,Svsstoip% of. Peace (Ircland) Bin
was read the second time, and after a short mon--
versation, its whiCh Mr. Croker, Mr. C. Grant,
Mr. Wynn,.Mr. R.,Mart in, and Mr. R. Peel took
a part, respecting an inceense of salary to. the
Assistant Barristers itl tkat countty, it was orckted
to be committed on MOllil,lV nest.
DILLS OF EXcIiANGE. • •
BROGIVEX, in the absence of the Him.
Member. for Goildiord (Mr, Sericant Onslow),
brought' in a Bill for the better Regulation of
Acceptances of Bills of Exchange, which wits
read the first time.