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LONDa
MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1820.

THE QUEEN.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY.)
At ten minutes before ten the LORD CHAN

tELLOP. took his seat on the Woolsack,

The usual prayers having been read by the
Bishop of WISCHELSEA, and the roll having been

called over,

The Earl of L 4,VDERDALE rose, and addressed
their Lordships on the impropriety of allowing
CounAel to be heard on the point of practice left
fur discussion on Saturday. His Lordship thought
that their Lordships must be convinced, that had
they adopted that line of conduct which they
were about to adopt on Saturday, they would
lAave done a thing as utterly unprecedented,
by the usages of the House, as it was derogatory
to its dignity. It was certainly most prudent that
the House should come to some fixed resolution as
to the course to be followed in examining

nesses ; but to leave it to Counsel to argue upon,
and suggest to the House what that course should
be, was a thing without precedent in the House
of Peers. To put it to five Members
of the House of Commons (for such the
Counsel at the Bar were) to suggest to
the House of Peers what mode they should
pursue in a judicial inquiry, was contrary to all
Constitutional usage, and insulting to the dignity
of their Lordships. Looking back at the pro-
ceedings which had taken place, his Lordship
thought that the whole difficulty in which they
were now supposed to be placed, arose not from
the want of a fixed and perfectly correct rule
on the subject, hut from a misunderstand-
ing of what that rule actually was. The gene-
ral practice of Courts of Law, he believed,
was that: after a witness had been examined
in chief, he should be immediately cross-examin-
ed, and if at a future period either of the parties
could make out a case to the satisfaction of the
Judge, for calling up a witness a second time,
the Courts were in the use of allowing it,
subject to this condition, that the questions
on the second examination should be sug-
gested to and put by the Judge if ap-
proved. And was not this the very usage
which the House had up to Saturday last fol-
lowed in the important case now before them.
After Majocci, the first witness, had been exa-
wined in chief, he had beers cross-examined
by the Counsel for her Majesty at great length,
until, indeed, they said they had no further
questions to ask him ; yet afterwards an ap-
plication was made by her Majesty's Counsel
to the House to have this witness called up
(0). second time, and having :s.hewn sufficient cause
for the demand, the House was pleased to grant
it. Was it not perfectly evident from this that
the Counsel on both sides were quite aware
that the House were following in this case
the veiy course of proceeding which would have
I een followed in a Court of Law ? Where then
was the difficulty in Which the House was sup-
posed to lie ? For himself, he could see none, but
what had arisen from .a tnisunderstanding of the
existing rule, and an indiscreet attempt to part
from it. The credibility of witnesses might
be affected in two ways; either by circum-
stances arising out of their examination in
chief, or by witnesses afterwards produced. This
was a clear line of distinction which there could
be no difficulty whatever in observing. The
Counsel for her Majesty should proceed instantly
with all that arose out of the examination in
claief.---(llear, hear !)—The House had said they

would, after the case had closed, give her Majesty
full time and opportunity to procure evidence to