Star.
London, England, 1815-04-18 00:00:00

LATIlw.r. .NIURrtAY•

Sir SAMUEL 1:011LLY rose to r.p.,ve for an
Address to the Prince Regent I‘l- a ccpy of the
coteler's R. pert, presented to los Rryal ilighurss,
on the subject of H. Lathrop Murray, sentenr,tl t-•
:ransporrat,cll for bigamy. Tile Ifi-,lntio'afti,-
Gentle:lmo, alter t.ttitig hi; opittion ut fife FL,;ll;i:it
hardship of the l'etition,i's case, went into a detail
the punisltru.n.ts kr this offence f..r a reriod
seven years, from !MIS to 1812, Itorn v.'llieft it ap•
reared, that out of 10t cona ictions, only 2:: persotri
had been tr.:imported for seven years, the rest beirL;
imprisoned to a twelvemonth, or less periods. He:
thus if:hared, th .t the Judges did not consider the
crime of so heinous a nature as to warrant such a
severe punishment As transportation, unless attended
with such flagrant circumstances as were not proved
in the*case of the Petitioner; and he contended that
his motion should be agreed to, in order that the Le-
gislature should know whether the law on this sub-
ject might not deserve some alteration.
The XL TORNEY-GENERAL deemed it his
duty not to let this motion pass without some obser-
vations. He adverted to the opinion of the Right
Honourable and Learned Gentleman opposite, when
he made his first motion relative to Murray, namely,
that the House ought not to interfere with the sen-
tences of Courts of Justice without the most grave
and weighty reasons. In this opinion he perfectly
agreed ; but ho assured hint that he totally differed
from him in the view he had taken ftt the case in
question, which be considered to be one of the most,
flagrant nature. If it had been deemed necessary of
late to make Ow punishment for the crime of bigamy
more severe, it was because the law had found that
imprisonment was not sufficient to deter evil-minded
persons from committing it. He reprehended the
conduct of the second wile of Murray, in comenting
to marry hint wi, out the knowledge of her friends,
after he had told her of his former marriage, and
i merely taking his word that it was null and void,—
' Site had a fortune of £lO,OOO, which was to be paid
Ito her on th... day of her marriage, and she was enti-
i fled to £E70,1)00 more at the death of her mother :

he would therefore ask, whether, if her gu irdians or
partnt haJ knovvri of this intended mairiage, it could
be supposed pos,ibie that they would not have inter-
fered to prevent it ? The circumstances alleged by
the Right Ho:t. Gentleman in b:-halt of the culprit,
that of [I:OSC of his having had an University educa-
tion, and being an Oihcer and a Gentleman, only
tended, in his opinion, to render hint still inn re
But even the grounds sin which lie had pe-
titioned for a reversion of the judgment were mat kcd
by depravity; for it would scarcely be credited, that
in the Jocuur-nt now lying at the Secretary of State's
Mice, he had dared to say, that having had a dis-
pute with a jeweller who had used him ill, and that
jeweller being the brother-in-law to the Recorder,
who had tried him, it was nut extraordinary that he
should have been convicted. Such a libel upon so
just and honourable a man was not to be endured ;
and he coned only attribute the interest which his
Right Honourable and Le.arned Friend had taken in
this culprit's case, to his excessive urbanity. Under
all the circumstances, lie apperausl to the House it
this was a case in which the sentence pronounced by
the Judges ouglittO be brought to that House to be
revised ? He telt it to be his duty to offer the most
decided resistance to the motion.
Mr. H. ADDINGTON said, this was a case that
did nut call for the iiiterierence of the House.
Sir S. ROMILLY, in reply, scontendycl the case

tinder consideration was one of recall*. 'banish; p
and therefore one in which the interference of that
House was necessary.
The motion was negatived without a division.
Mr. HORNER gave notice, that on Wednesday
he would, submit a motion to the House on
the sobj,.ct of our Lite discomfiture at New Orleans.