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of affinity, be confidered it as an argument again('
adopting the Mare ; and, he added, it snuft be
obanouffiamore improper tokeep a woman entirely
from opportunities of reformation, who, perhaps,
more than any other, wanted them. With re-
gard to what had been faid of fuch a Claufe af-
felting the fate of the Bill, he faid he was of opi-
nion, that the addition of fuch a Claufe to it, and
fo-brought in, mutt, in another place, enfure its
rejettion.
The Loan COUNCILLOR quitted the Woolfack,
not to trouble their Lordfhips at length, he faid,
but to offer one or two obfervations, which tome
of what bad fallenfrom the noble Lord, he thought
rendered it proper in him to do. The principles
upon which he fhould vote that night he had more
than once (lated to their Lordfhips, and the more
he thought of them the more he was fatisfied of
their rectitude. With refpeCt to what was faid of
the prohibition of intermarrying with the Adul-
terer being rejeded, he pledged himfelf that a claufe
to that effed fhould be propofed. With refpeet
to the queries put by a noble Marquis on a former
evening, whether a marriage between parties fo
circumlianced as Mr. Addifon and Mrs. Campbell
was good or bad ? his Lordthip teemed decided
upon the point, and obferved, that de lab, fuch
a marriage was good in Law until avoided, which
was conformable to the principles upon which the
Marriage Laws, with a reference to religious con.'
fiderations, were founded. It was good, if not
avoided, during the life-tame of the parties. His
Lordship obferved, that his Motion fhould be made
upon the fpecialties of the cafe) and proceeded t.
obferve, that a Clergym'an who fhould knowingly
celebrate fuch a marriage as that alluded to,
would be punifhable. The Noble and Learned
Lord, after dwelling Tome time upon the Law,
as applying to thole cafes, teemed to fay, that no
confiderations as to the influence fuels Claufe
might have upon her fate fhould reftrain him from
propofing what be fhould deem juh and falutary,
and concluded by repeating, that his Motion fhould
be on the fpecialities of the cafe, and not upon ge-
neral principles.
Lord Mu Ix Rave fpoke &only in explanation.
The Duke of CLARENCIL obferved, upon what
he felt to be the impropriety of his entering into
a dircuilion of the points in queftion, after what
had been fo ably advanced by Noble and Learned
Lords upon the tubjed. His Royal Highnefs
teemed to exprefs his furprife at the doubts flatted
by a Noble Marquis on a former evening, and his
opinion that the difference between void and voi-
dable, was fo very (mall, as to be fcarcely worth
arguing. With refpeEt to the particular Claufe
in queftion, his Royal Highnefs expreffed his dif-
approbation of it.
The Houle then divided, when there appeared
for Lord AuCklances • Claufe ao--againft it 9
Majority t r.
On our re-entering the Houle,
Lord MOLGRAVII was addrefling their Lord-
(hips, and teemed to argue (or the propriety of
poftponing the Order refpeding Mrs. Addifon's
Divorce Ball, or at leaft deferring the Debate upon
it until the Third Reading.
The DUKE of CLARENCE fhortly eXpreired his
boßility to the Bill in queftion, which he raid was
founded upon principles of Morality and Religion,
and concluded with moving, that the Order for
the fecond reading of the Bill be difcharged, in
order (as we underflood His Royal Highnefs)
to accommodate certain Noble and Learned Lords,

who withed to deliver their fentiments.

The Earl of Rossmot fpoke with great ability
upon the cafe of Mrs. Addifon, whom he deemed
woi thy of the attention ofthe Legillature, and con.
fidered it proper that their Lordlhips, though they
fhould not go to the full length of granting a Par-
liamentary Divorce, fhould endeavour to admini-
ller every degree of practicable redrefs,
The LORD CHANCELLOR teemed to ezprefs
nearly fimilar fentiments with refpeEt to what
fhould be the conduct of the Legiflature on the oc.
cafiop, and was in favour of the Bill going to a
Committee.

The Duke of CULLUM' (poke ably in explan-
ation.

Lord AUCKLAND adverted principally to the
great difficulty and embarralfment of the queftion,
and with great candour alluded to thole confider-
ations which preffed o,n either fide. He argued,
however, againff the affumption which teemed to
be determined, that in going to a Committee up-
on the Bill, all idea of Parliamentary Divorce was
given up ; on that point he was yet undecided,
but was perfeCtly open to conviEtion when the day
of ditcuffiou fhould arrive.

After Come farther converfation, the Order for
the feconci reading. of the Bill was deferred till
Monday, at three o'clock ; and after difcuffing the
remaining Orders of the'Day, their Lordthips ad-
journed till to-morrow. ~ • ,' •