The Sun.
London, England, 1818-02-26 00:00:00

STATE- PRISONERS'.

Sir W. IItritROUGPS moved for an Addresq to the Prince
Regent fora Return of a II the persons arrested,
.or detained tor treasonable charges, distinguishing do de-
tained fur high isretisoit froln tbose confined " on Suspicion
of Trea.srm," or ," for'rreasomable Practices,' ai,l alq4 dii-
iiitgoishing; the warrants by which they had been committed.
Ile also moved for a nett:en of the Pi ;sons to Which thee lota
been first comautted, as also th-u•se to which they Lad been

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'iet:bicqiiinily 'Om' (tV(.41,-aila the aditnir in which the?..lt ill
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Urea o).ra:ed.—The ;notions wire agyeed to. • •
. NEW- ti. ItiTs. •

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?Jr. NPDOSALD wished to kpow why a new Writ liitt not
been issues! for a Ilnr7ess to se: ve in the mint of .1i r, G. FL.
Rose, who, since his election, had tufeept'ed the OiEve of Clgrk
of the Parliament •?...
. Lord CAhTLF.REAGH said, be MU nut pre Pared to afl -
ewer the question', but would inquiit into the tfitunistanitu,
which had prevented the Writ trout neingstnoved for. , Ai yet
e lielieVed the •imlividtiAl mention'el/41.1md done no :set which
in point of form. pr4etttliat Ire had accepted the unite svlseli
had been inentrovitik •
Sir M. W: RIDLEY belted to state, that be Understood
the person who'had been ntentinued had named an individual
to act as.his Pepnty. This proved that he had accepted the
situation of Civil; of the Parliament, HMI lie (Sir M. W. Rid-
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ley). woujd therefore inove, that a new Writ ithould be issuedfor Southhd'lpton.
Lord CASTLEREACAI had no knowledge bf thi tippAit=.
meat of a Depute.
Mr. TIERNEt spulie, but was inandible. --
The motion for a dew Writ having been put front the Chair,
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved that the debate on this
question should he adjourned id Fridayi that time fur inquiry '
miet be afforded:
Sir J. INKtypoirr argitetl; that as ;to documents or proofs,
or inquiry were called fur, when a Meadier accepted the Chil-
tern Hundreds, and a new Writ was moved for, so liaise could
.be ne=cessary,. now, and therefore it was nut necegsai-y to
ad-
journ the question over to Friday.
The 4UANCELL9II of the EXCHEQUER had iii yet not
beard any Member say that he . hnew of his own knOwledge
that-the Hon. Gentleman who had been mentioned, had,
.since his election,done any act tor prove that he accepted the.,
'Office in question. At present they had no facts before thetni
and what had been stated came in the, shape of a mere sur-
- wise. -

Sir M. W. RIDLEY said, -,he had had the information on
authority which be chilli' not doubt, that Mr. Rose had ap-
pointed his Deputy. Nothing but mere form was wanting
to induce the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself to move
theuesi Writ.. The Hon. Gentleman,. however, as he had had
.the officedn reversion., sonst.he considered to have accepted it,
as nothing to the contrary liad..appeared.
• Lord MILTON remiaded the House, that formerly when'
General Bettie was supposed to'have•becOlue Earl of Lindsey,
a new Writ was INsned ; butt sunk doubt listing arisen wile-
, ther he would• actually succeed to that title, the Writ was
;superseded; and the House sustained no inconvenience. In
the present instance qua. House bad . long been dept iced of
one of Representatives of the People. As the office was
held in reversion, he thought it ought to be eegtuded as hav-
ing been accepted.
Mr. ABERCROMUY thought, as the office was held in re-
version, the House ought to have been informed before this
by the Hon: Gentleman, or some one for him, that he had
accepted it. To omit. this, was, in his censurable.
His Hon. Friend, however, wbuld lose nothing by letting the
subject stanirover to Friday, when, if the office should not
have been accepted, the whole question-•eonlit come before
the flouse.-Tlie debate was then adjourned to Friday.
'Mr. M‘DONALD said 'he would now move for, another
Writ, to which he thought no objection could be made. He
moved that a new Writ shonld be issued for Christchurch, ler
a Burgess to,servti in the room of the Right Hun. George
Ruse, deceased.—The motion was agreed. tay.l •
BROCK, PELHANI, AND POWER. .

An How. MEMBER, who had been oier,New-
gate as a Member of a Committee of that House,
some days since, had learned that Brock, Pelham,
and Power, had been liberated, in consequence of
receiving a free pardon : he wished to know if
the opinion of the Judges, on which the pardon
had- been granted, was 16 be laid b4ore the
House. Ile then described the crime which they
bad committed., by engaging three poor Irishmen,
and employing them to coin base money, in order
to betray them to punishment 'tor, the blood-mo-
ney. Though guilty of the fact, lie understood
they had been liberated under the opinion of the.
i.;velve Judges : he wished to know it they had so
been let loose again upon the town ?
Mr, )3Amousz said this question bad been cbm-
rrimicated to to on a former day by the Hon.
Member, and he had found, on inquiry, that the
men weleliberitted in consequence of it.s being
found that ,as the law-now stood it was impossible
that they could have committed the 6fience which
had been_ imputed to them. At had been very
much under the consitleration of the Law OffiCierS
of the Crown, whether any act could be framed
50. 83 to meet the precise ca.e. The opinion of
the-Judges, though it had.caused a- pardon to be
granted, was not in such a shape that it could be
laid before the House.

Sir F. BURDETT thought it imuossible that
there.should he no kw, tinder which men mat)

be punished, who had employed oth, rs • tit& w-
fully, in order to procure their conviction for the
sake of the blood-moncy. If such mete the opi-
nion of the Judges, that opinion Oil ht, in sonic
shape or other, to come before the House. The
pardon granted, he thought, ought to come he-
fare the Judges, that they' might decide whether
or not it was a good one.
The ATTORNEY,GENEItAL stated Brock, Pel;•
!tarn, and POwer to have been tried under u no.'

riot► that they had been guilty of the sang: of-
ret:ce for Which others had been tried, and of
which they had been convicted. An other ease,
however, similar to 'theirs, had beet' -argued
before the twelve • Judges,' who were of opi-
nion that the crime committed did not amount to

that wits► which they had been charged. What-
ever the moral turpitude of their conduct might
have been, it was impossible to execute theta, or
indeed to,punish tbent in any other way on that
conviction. He had since turned his attention to

ft tuning a law to prevent such offences from es-
caping punisho)ent for the future, but some iif

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bculpesi not easily to be surmounted, were in the
Way. No prosecution had ever been conducted
with more assiduity than that of these men, and
lie for his own part, had never been more

anxious, in nay case, to bring Offenders to con-
dign puniiinnent. •

Lord STANLEY was about to speak, *when
Lord CAsTGEIMAG fl remarked there wa3 no
question Itefore the fluuse, and t4e coUversaiiOn
ceased,