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TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1817.

TEN THOUSAND POUNDS STERLING MONEY will be
paid in addition, to the Holder of the First-drawb Prize
TO-MORROW.
TBIM wishes his Friends to bear in mind
. that iSe Drawing is about to take place TO-MOR-
ROW, being the First Day.—All Purchases made prior to
that perind will he entitled to peculiar advantages, the full
particulars of which have been given in former Advertise-
ments.
The Public Favours arc very respectfully solicited at - the
truly fortunate, and consequently favourite Offices of
T. BISH, Stock-Broker,
4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross.
Who sold in the Last Lottery (as usual) more Capital Prizes
than any other Oflice-keeper.

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JULY 7;

SIR FRANCIS BURDETT, BA rvr. v. LORD COLCHESTER,
LATE SPEAKF.R or THE HOUSE or COMMONS.
This was a Writ of Error brought by Sir F.
Burdett, to reverse the Judgment of the Court of
King's Bencbswhich "was in favour of tire Speaker.
The case was argued last week by Mr. Brougham
and Mr. Philip Courtenay, for the Plaintiff in
Error, and it stood over till to-day ; but the so-
licitor-General was not heard on the other side,
the Lords being unanimous in affirming the Judg-
ment.—A question had been put to the Judges,
whether, if the Court of Common Pleas com-
mitted a person for a contempt, it was sufficient
tbeit the adjOication should state specially all the
mstances attending its or generally only ?
And whether, if so stated generally, and a Habeas
Corpus were issued,theConrt ofKing'sßench would
dis Charge the party, unless the nature of the
contempt were specifically stated ? To which the
Judges answered, that the Court of Icing's Bench
would not require a more-special statement, and
would not, and ought not to discharge the party,
giving faith to the general statement'by the Court.
After the LORD CHANCELLOR had moved that
the Judgment should be affirmed,
Lord ERSKINE rose and said, that as be con-
curred in the motion that had been made to affirm
the judgment, it would be quite unnecessary in
almost any other case to add any thing to the
formal affirmance by his Noble Friend, who pre-
sided ; but from what had formerly passed in the
House, when the imprisonment of the plaintiff in
error took place, he felt it incumbent upon him
to say a very few words. At that time it was an
opinion expressed by persons of great weight in
the House of Commons,, and it was generally
thought to have been its intention not to permit
arty action to be proceeded in so as to have its
privileges at all questioned or canvassed in a Court
at Law, and that imprisonment would attach upon
all who issued process, or countenanced it in judg-
ment. Lord E. said, that having felt the utmost
alarm at a proposition so dangerous to the liberty of
the subject, he had expressed himself on that occa-
sion in his place in the House with great warmth—
with more, indeed, than was thought right by some
whose opinions he highly valued; but-for his own
part he repented of none of it, and upon the same
occasion would repeat it again, and stand by every
word Alf iss No man cocld respect cr wake more
than he did the high privileges of the House of
Commons, so essentially necessary for the secu-
rity of the subject's liberty ; and whilst that
House was advancing, amidst obstacles, to its
jost station in the Constitution, which had
now .so happily and securely been attained, it
was no wonder that they were jealous of their
privileges, which led them into excesses unneces-
sary for their preservation, and inconsistent
with the scurity of our legal Constitution, as they
had imprisoned persons for only appealing to the
laws of their country when imprisoned. - He could
not, therefore, avoid expressing his heartfelt sa-
tisfaction at the course which had, in the present
instance, been pursued. The Speaker, though
standing, perhaps, in a case which might have
differed in argument from that of inferior per-
sons (though he would give no opinion upon
that), had put in his plea like the most private
man. He had trot objected to the jurisdiction of
the Court of King's Bench, but had pat himself
upon the country for the fact, and pleaded his
justification to the Judges of the law—so that
it the Court had decided against him, he trust
have been hound by the judgment. This was
no waiver of
.privilege, but an act which
gave it double security and lustre, as tine
privileges of Parliiment were part of the law of
the land, and would always be duly maintained
in the Courts of Justice. The case had been most
learnedly and ably argued, and every objection
taken which could support the plaintiff's case ;
but if, instead of its being the commitment of the
House .of Commons, it had been only that of one
of the superior Courts of - Law, be should have
givers tire same judgment; as he could not agree
that the- Commons had any higher privilege of
commitment for contempt than that which was
necessarily poSsessed by the Superior Courts, tot
their own protection and that 01 the people whom
they protected. He always felt more than he
could express in support of the legal jurisdiction
of the country, as he-was sure that if they were
ever overborne, the sun of British freedom would
set for ever.—Judgment affirmed.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The Royal Assent was notified by Commission
to the Office Abolition and Regulation Bills, the
Compenation Bill, the Irish Sheriffs' Bill, the
Spirits Intercourse Bill, and a slumber of other
Bills.
The Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lord Redesdale.
The Exchequer Bills Bill, the Irish Treasury
Bills Bill, the Annuities• Bill, and other
Bills, were read a third time and passed. •
The Greenwich Hospital Prize-Money Bill, the
Militia Pay and Cldathing Bill, the Saving Banks
Bills, the Appropriation Bill, the Militia Staff
Bill, tire Extents in Aid Bill, the Exchequer
Court Bill, the Elections Bill; the Irish Fares Bill,
the Hackney Coach Bill, the Irish Grand Jury.
Presentment Bill, -and several other Bills, were
brought up from the House of Compwns by Sir

[PRIC SEVENPENCE..

James Graham. Mr. Brogden, Mr. Dominic
Browne, Sir William Lemon, Mr. H. Martin,
Mr. Davenport, and other Members, and read a
first time.

On the first reading of the Irish Grand Jury
Presentment Bill, it was ordered to be printed,
and

The Earl of LIVERPOOL gave notice of his in-
tention to move the second reading to-morrow.
The Earl of DONOUGM,IORE wished for• furti d
time, that he might he enabled to understand the
Bill, which from what he had heard had fur its
object to make a great change in the system of
Grand Juries in Ireland. The House of Com-
mons had taken three Sessions to prepare this Bill,
after receiving considerable information upon the
subject, and it was surely not too much to ask
that a day or two should be given to their Lord-
ships to undersand its scope and object.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL regretted that the Bill
bad not come up earlier, but it sI as one of veal
considerable importance, and he wished the prin-
ciple of it to be recognized in that louse, what-
ever might be the subsequent opinion as to the
propriety or not of pressing it through this Ses-
!jun. As it was, there was so short a period of
the Session lett, that he did not think any delay
advisable, and as the Bill might be discuss'd in a
subsequent stage, he thought it unnecessary to
postpone the second reading.
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The Earl of DoNoun.rtmonc wished for some
explanation as to the 13iii, but the Earl of Live. a-
root. said it could nor be tegtillrly given no'•_s
there being only a notice for the second reading
before the House, and the-conversation dropped.
The Irish Election all passed through a Con:-
tnittee,, with.some Amendments. moved by the Earl
of Limerick..---Report to-morrow...
On the third reading of the Clergy Residence
Bill, a lone conversation took place, in which the
Earl of Harrowby, the Archbishop of Canterbury,
the Lord Chancellor, the Bishops of Peterhof ought
and London took part. The Lord Chancellor ob-
served, in the course of it, that until they defined
residence, and adopted some other mode of ob-
taining the value at a benefice than the joint re-
presentation of the Patron, the Ordinary, and the
Parson, no good upon this subject would be done.
The Earl of Harrowby moved several Amendments,
some of,which were agreed to, and others nega-
tived. The House divided upon one respecting
laying before the Bishop, in the cases referred to,
the value and the population of the benefice, and
which the Archbishop of Canterbury considered
unnecessary, it being, he contended, already pro-
vided for by the Bill. .

Contents 0 I Not Contents

The Bill was read. a third time, and passed.
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.

The Royal Assent was given, by Comm;ssion,
to several public and private Bills '(for which see
the Lords' report).
The following Bills were rend a third time and.
passed :—The Colliery and Cutlery Labourers'
Wages Bill, the'English Saving Ranks' Bill (after
a few observations from General Thornton), the
Irish Saving Banks' Bill, the Exchequer Deputy
Remembrancer's Regulation Bill, the 'Frame-
breaking prevention Bill, the Militia Pay Bills,
the Irish Lunatic Asylum Bill, the Naval 'Asylum
Bill, the Bank Tokens Stoppage Bill, the East
India Goods Remcnal Bill, the Coal and Culla
Bill, the Supply Appropriatinn Till, Dyott's Di-
vorce Bill, and the Hackney-Coach Licence Bill.