Star.
London, England, 1805-06-20 00:00:00

GARDNER'S DIVORCE RILL.

Counfel and evidence were farther heard relative to the Bill to
diffolve the marriage of the Honourable Alan Hyde Gardner with
Maria Elizabeth his now wife, and to enable him to marry again.
The firit witnefs called was a Mr. Shore, for the purpufe of
proving the kr •ing Mrs. Gardner with a copy of the Bill,
He Rated, that he ferred the copy on a Lady, whom he under-
lined to he Mrs. Gardner, at her reGdoace near Ware, in Hert-
fordihire ; but as he never had fern that I.ady either hefore or fine,
be could not Rate politively from his own knowledge, that Ilse
was Mrs. Gardner.—That part of the moot' was therefore need.
Cagily referred.
Sir Alured Clarke, K. &Rated, that he refilled at Madras in the
year 1795, as Commander in Chief of his Majelly's forces in that
quarter; that he knew Captain and Mrs. Gardner. Site was hiifs
Adderley, the daughbr of Lady Hobart. That he was prefent at
the Marriage oft sprain Gardner with Mifs Adderley, in the year
1796, but could not he pofitive as to the time of the year. He he
Lend it to be about March. Lord and Lady Hobart were alto
preient at the marriste.
Jennings. a young mrn, who lived (errant with Captain Gard-
ner, was called, with raped to the abfence of Captain Gardner
from England, on his hlajeily's ferric:: in the Weil Indies, from
the latter end of January, or beginning of February, tBO2, till his
return in the following July ; and to the Rate of hit health during
that period. Captain Gardner had been very ill, particularly at
bis return, when he seas unable to remove from the Ship without
alfiftanee. He hated, that the Capt.,in,as far as he bad an oppor-
tunity of oltfertiog, always behaved in a very alreaionate gnawer
to his Lady, and treated her with the greateli refpedt.

Further evidence is to be adduce/. The Bill was afterwards
read a fecond time, and ordered folic committed. By not objedt
log to which crocerdii gs. the LORD CHANCELLOR accrued. he
did not pledge liimfelt to eonfoit to the third reading of the Bill,
and earneftly rzpreffed his h.pe, tlut a fuller attendance maytake
glace on its fubfequeot d:icuf&olis.

alp. JUSTICF FOX.

Purfitant to the Order of 'lre Day. their Lord(hips
sefolved into a Committee. for the farther invetiiga-
lion of the matters alledged in charge againft Mr.
Jolliet Fox. Lord WA LsthcHAbt in the Chair:
The attention of the Committee was entiNly
oc-
cupied with the crofs.examination of two former wit-
saes, Mars. Armflrong and Galbraith, and with
the arguments of the refpalive Counfel on contefled
points, which carnally arole in the cootie of the exa-
mination &c.
The Connie), &c. being ordered to withdraw, and
the Chairman to leave the Chair, the Houfe return-
ed, when, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor,
the Committee were ordered to fit again on Saturday,
for the purpofe of the farther invelligation.
Lord GaENVILLE feeing a noble Secretary of
State in his place, obferved that he rnfe in conic-
quence of his underflanding the Noble Lord had
given notice of his Intention to bring in a Bill to con-
tome the proceedings in the cafe of Mr. Juftice Fox,
until the next lemon of Parliament. He rote to trots-
their Lord(hips with a very few obfervations upon
the fubjtet. He was aware he was not perfally in
order, but his fettle of the intended proceeding wile
fo Ilrong, that he feized the fiat opportunity he had
of laying a few words upon it. The propofed mea-
fure, in his opinion, would tend to a material altera-
tion of the whole frame and conflitution of the Par-
liament of this coantry. He hoped full time would
be allowed for the confideration of a queflionzffuch
great importance ; a queilinn of no left moment, than
whether they ihould now, for the tirft time fince
Parliaments exilled, tr.aft by a law, that the King
thould not have the power by his prerogative of put-
ting an end to motions, dircuffions, and hills, which
might be pending in b,,th Houfes of Parliament ?
As far as he had been able to inform himfelf upon
the fuhjeel, there was no inilance upon record of con-
tinuing from feflions to feffions, Bills, or the delibe-
rate proceedings of the legillatnre. His Lordlhip
adverted to a fulemn decilion, which had been given
with refpat to the point by both Honks, on a par-
ticular occafion. With refired to eleaion committees,
where the proceedings were continued, the cafe was
quite different, at inch made a feparate tribunal, the
proceedings of which were within itfelf, and Were fo
conftitated by a fpecial law, and fur a particular pur-
pofe. He concluded by again exprelTng his hope,
that lull notice would be given of the intended dic-
zullion of a meafure of fuch great and peculiar im•
portance.

Lord HAWKESBURY ribfcrv.ed, that no pro-
ceedings fhould obtain with relpea to the fubjeti ad-
'sited to by the Noble Baron, which would indicate
any intention on his part of taking the Houfe•by fur-
prife. He war, however, rather obliged to the No-
ble Lord for giving his general opinion at fo early a
period upon the point, though it was done in a way,
perhaps, contrary to the forms of that Houk. Of
the intended difcuflion, the Noble Baron may be of
fused, ample notice fhould be given' He could not
fay that he coincided with the opinion thrown out
He law the point iii a different light. It fhnuld be
recollelted, that a grqt difference exilled between a
legiflative arid a judicial protee.ling f*f that Houfe •
id he corctived in 'liar view of the fubjeet whs}t he
propofed could very properly he dune. Added to
this, the cafe was perleftly a novel one, and fo the '
Houle would rather have to form a precedent. With
refpett to the other Houle of Parliament, a cafe oc-
'tuned which, lie (*lensed to thiplc, bore a eiroilitude
:o what he had fuggefied: he meant the cafe of Sir

Thomas Ramboll3, wherein, with referenee to a
bill of pains and penalties, it was propofed to conti-
nue the proceedings. With refpeet to his intended
bill, he should propofe thurtly to bring it in, have it
primed for the perufal and confideration of their
Lordships, and, with refpcd to the difctiffion which
may take place on the quetlion for the fecond read-
ing, the Noble Lord may depend upon it, that ample
notice should be given.

MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY.

Lord HAWKESBURY•delivered a MeNage from
his Majetiy, (tilting that his Majelly's communica
Lions with certain Foreign Powers were not in that
Rate which enabled him to lay the refult before the
Hour:, or to enter into further explanations with
the French Government ; but his Iviajefiy would lay
hold of every opportunity, in concert with thole
powers, to bring the war to a termination, confifient
with the honnur and fecurity of this country, ant' the
interefis of Europe; and his Majelly hoped for their
Lordthips' concurrence and fupport in loch meafures
AS he Ihould deem neceirary to that deferable end.
The Metrage having been read by the LORD CHAN•
ctteos, Lord HAWKESBURY moved, that it Ihould
be taken into confideration to-morrow. Ordered.
some routine bufinefs was then difpofrd of; after which the
Houfe adjourned till to-morrow, when their Lordlhips hand km .
moiled for the eoniideration of his Majefty's Menge; and upon
the Earl of CA P rsroicr% motion reflecting the ttate of Me Nes°-
, nations with Rata, &c.