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London, England, 1811-04-05 00:00:00

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DIPPRtAL PARLL4MENI.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

THURSDAY, A,Patt. 4.
•
The Royal Assem was given by.Commissior; to • .
the Exchequer 131111 Fendiog Bili, the CoMmeic it
Credit Bill, the Annual Indeni ,itY, the Oentwa-,
stoners of Military Inquiry, and the Militia Gaßcers
Indemnity lulls, together with thhty-ohe 411 s of a
private or loc ti description.
The Lords Commissi .nets were 'he TAM) eltity.
CELLOR, .11:3r1 ant Lord NY,L9INOIIAth.
'Their DirdShips then adjourned fur some tithe
during pleasure.
After the resuming of the House., about fire
o'clock, the Bills .upon the table were forwarded in
theleres;'eative steges.
On the accession' of the Militia Indiamenr Bill; a
shr'art conversation took place between the Eteb tf
Liverpool, Derby, and
The Noble
.SEettEees v of Sears towing stated
the expediency of theildi in troth'', mete me witty
no unneLessary delay in its progress, suggested the
propriety, of reading the BM a second titoc to-
morrow, note ithstanding' the notice of. a Noble
Earl, respeaing a discussion on another Bill, 5i0..1
lot t hat 'day ; and spelt Lords as thought proeer
could deliver their sewimett, on the next ,
the Bill, for which it may b 3 understood that toe
discussion of the MCattLe was fixed.
The Bail if Dreth? eXpressed' hitwelf greatly dot.
satisfied with the principle of the Bill questioe,
at least to the extent to which it was titrir:d ;
should feel it his dutyjo oppose it in every stag
It went to perpetuate a new system with resket to
the Militia, and immediately rte i rpose.Nikiititmal
hurthens the poorer classes of les-Majesty's- sub..
.jets. His Lindship alsia noticed the great rise,
latterly, in the price of substitutes. The Priuciple
of. the Bill 'was one which deserved the greatest at-
tention from that Hpese ; and he thought its dis-
cusiion should take place at the regular stages,
tho,igh he did not flatter hit:itself he could persuade ,
their ,Lordships to vary the proposed arrangement.
The Earl of RosiLYN hiyi.oriad what had fallen
froth his Noble. Frietad, and the Earl ot 141vsepooe
spoke in explanaticee
Ail, understanding appeared to be 'aettled, that
the second reading should take place ie.-morrow. ~ •
LETTER. Or MR. POLE.
The Order of the Day upon which their Lordships
were sointnoned being toad,
Earl STANnOtig rose to bring forward his promiied
motion on the above subje. He- first muted that
the. Urcolar Letter 'of Mi. Pule to the Magistrates,
of .which a copy had been laid before the House,
should be read ; and -.it was according!. read by the
Clerk. His Lordship then moved, That the Ad i.of.
the. Irish Parliament of the 33t1ut the King, chap.
ete, lie. the Convention A. , be also re-ild; which
proeeeding accortlngly took place. • The Nook
Eet then obserwed, that their 140014)s hid just
hone! read the two doeuments upon which exciti
stvely,he meant to found his proposi ion. He said
the tnytion was in itselt. a .very simple one, and
which in effect would go to declare, that the letter
Mr. Secretary Pole, calling upon the Magistrates
of Ireland to act as he required of theth, was going
beyond the letter of the Aet, That was what his
motion imported. It certainly, went to relprohme
the letter upon the account of illegality, and he de-
fied any lawyer ‘yhatever to disrove the ColibtrUC.•
Hon he should put upon the Ad. The me sure in
question was contrary, to the li erties of
the people, and tended to excite hatted and ill blood.
Their Lordships should not sutler such a document
to remain on thoir table unnoticed: He would, in
the first instance, state ilia motion tit • their Lorde,
ships was to call upou the House to reaolv*,
That it had taken Jana es most sericus coeaidera.
ruin` the Circhler :Letter of- Mr. S eteetry Pote" to •
the Magistrates of Ireland, and also the Ael of Par-
liament therein mentioned, being art Atlnt the Irish
Patliatnerat, of the 33d of his Majesty, chap. 29, •
and that the HoUse think it necessary to declare,
that • the said Circular Letter required the Magt;,-
orates to do and perforni certain acts of s..tverity not
authafiSed by the said Aa of Porliament, and which
it done and- perlormede would be direetly contrary
to law ; and that the said letter by so reqrairiug the
Magistrates to tide. required them to attack the eghts
of the people ot lieland, and is therefore and there.
by an unjust attempt- to- invade their liberties 'and
that the said lent r was direetly contrary to that spirit
of ctanciliatiott which ought tea a6ltlitre the Govern-
ment Of berated tOwar.is the people`of that country."
Tins was the Motion filch hi meant to 'submit te
their Leirdshipa. The jet of it wits, Mr. Pole's cad.
Inc, upon the..AL.gist lee es to perform :Utz, of • seeeete
which they were not- ahlierioel by the Aft, aid
that was the true. queseee be ore them, 'rile Jett
in ()minion' was uudcniab:y a penal it
was. a taxed principle in ltw that evt. peltsl
statute ehould be coostrded Lordeiip
then proceeded to tit examittetion oh the letter,
ptoVl3lollB, of the 'Ail in -question, contending that
a plain • and obvious coostrumion thereof amply
bore out the coneluaiens couched in his rocs-
turn, the aaidieTnot in the leatit degree trench upon •
the right of etching to petition for the redress jaf
grievauees ; this 'was expressly mentioned in ttte
proviso at the end' of the A 1, tLhing.
therein should be construed to preVent the nodutiha.'
ed right of his Majesty's subjetes to petition
ow:it or hhi Majesty for the redress of pl_Mic or
private grieyltnces." l'hey should attont.l pata:War-
ly to tee citcionstancee of the c ttloope
thil• tray (Aunt within the meaning ot the Acts,—
e',", were-eehliely notorionS, 'I he &it'etint,.,l con-
.
iVlrkpl'atell by tile Act were :,ot tp we di Why