The Sun.
London, England, 1821-06-16 00:00:00

PROTEST

Of the Earl of DONOUGHIVIORE, in the House Of
Lords, Wednesday, 13th June, 1821, against
the determination of the House to receive the
Report, then, of the Bill for the regulation of
the proceedings in the Courts of Law in Ire-
land, which his Lordship had proposed the
postponement of for six months.

DISSENTIENT.
1. Because, from the rapidity with Which this Bill has been
pressed forward through the Upper House of Parliament, since.
it has been taken under the powerful patronage of the Noblo'
Viscount, the two Reports Of the Commissioners of Inquiry aJI
Ireland; on which its enactments avowedly rest as their excln'
sive foundation, containing 447 closely printed pages of the mOst
important matter, and which had been upon the table of thO, •,„e
other House since November, 11119, not having been subOttea
On their Lordships till four-days before. they. were called upon -sr
adopt the principle of this measure, by giving a second reading
to the Bill, though I had earnestly solicited such an interval ss
would have enabled one to have perused these voluminous a°'
cuments, upon which it is now necessary for me at once to cif'
tide, a mode of reasoning would seem to have been sanctton
not very respectful to the independence of this branch of the lie;
gislature, viz. that the right to deliberate 4hnurs
was not within the province of their Lordships ; but that ti,?';
House was placed by the Constitution as a convenient stage 1-
the sole purpose of speeding to the Throne, with its ready fif;;
and almost without the formality of any Tprevious inquiry,results of the deliberations of the other House whatever
results might happen to be. •
to
2. Because„ deprived as I have already shown the Hou,scabe
have been; of any available consideration of the Reports
Commissioners of Inbt
quiry, I have n '
still further to complain Ica.
several little less important document's, viz, the coinnleh,t
tions between the Irish Judges and the Government 0-
country, upon the special subject of these Bills, and wt:ich lib
been called for by myself, have not been, till this very rnofne'"
placed in their Lordships' hands.
though
3. Because this Bill, which has been thus pressed —ening
the House without due consideration, or any adequate I,.!witb..
or explanation of its several enactments, introduces,
ihj; Courts
standing, important alterations in the proceedings oi,rtain „tv,
of Common Law in Ireland by the substitution of?
Wished salaries, in lieu of that principle of fees 1015
to be r:-
sisted therein from time immemorial, and which is •
tthis coon ,
tained in the practice of the CoMmon Law Courts of
a_
_.s,
try; and inasmuch as this violent departure from long est Wn,ed usage, though adojned net without difficulty, and in a
non
qua-
lified way, by the Irish Courts of King's Pencil and Corn
argumentative
Pleas, is decidedly rejected, in an able and ,
statement, by the whole of the talented Court of Lxznequer in
that country. h had sub-
-4., Because the Noble and Learnel. Lord who holds the Great
upon,,parn
et
dh the V
Baron'o o l
who
hadk in
heretofore held the this Nouse, and an-
other Seal aNnodb IPer easni d
de s iGreat Seal. in that country to which this Bill particularly re-
lates, being the only professional Peers who have expressed
any sentiment upon the subject, have avowedly thrown ti g,
whole Weight of their high A.uthodties aga-1-o`. the prop e 4

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