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London, England, 1814-06-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OP LORDS, JUNE 29.
In a Comniittee of Privileges, the Earl of SHATTEMRY In
the Chair, their • I.oreiships resunse.l the coesideration of the
Claim. so the Hot-Inv.& Peerage. Counsel and evidence were
heard, princioally,un the part of the Counter Claimant, William
Boit hwich, Esq. of Crookston, and with a view to the question
of legitimation: In order to prove that the ancestor from whom
the original claimant derives or claims, bad been a natural son,
and In support of the objection to the words ".fifiitl natigrafir."
It being the opinion of some of their Lot &hips that farther
evidence on the atoce points were necessary, the farrier hearing
upon the case was adjourned to this day ae'nnight.
'lle House then resumed; after Prayers were read, the far-
, titer consideration. of Dundee, Divorce Bill was entered into.
Two witnesses were shortly examined, with a view to the
allegalons on the part of the Lady, of improper negligence, or
implied connivance, on that of the petitioner, Mr. Dundas; but
nothing material seemed to transpire from their evidence.
The Witnesses and Counsel having withdrawn from the bar ;
A conversation of sone length ensued on the subject, in which
the Earl of LAUDERDALE, the Loan CHANCELLOR, and Earl
STANHOPE particillated. In the result it was determined by their
Lordships to postpone the farther proceeding upon the ease till
Monday, with a view of affording means to Mrs. Dundee of ap-
pearing by Counsel, &c. at the Bar of the House, in support of
'her allegations. And; on the motion Wks, LORD Caawcxxxna,
the Agents of the parties (and not the Counsel) were ordered to
attend on Monday.
The Cape Wines Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Loan Bill was read a second time, and the ether Bills
upon the table were respectively forwarded.
VACCINATION BILL.
The Order for summoning their Lordships being
read,
Lord BORINdDON rose agreeably to his notice,
to move the second reading of the Sill for the more
effectually preventing the spreading of the Small
Pos. Adverting to what had transpired the last
time he had brought the subject before their Lord-
ships, he observed, the principle of the Bill did not
seem to be impuened either by the Nob.e and Learned
Lord on the Woolsack, or by another Noble and
Learned Lord not now in his place. The former
principally alluded to certain obstacles which would
be found in carrying such a measure into effect ; and
the latter certainly questioned the propriety of some
of the clauses. Under such circumstances he was in
duced to uithdraw the Bill on that occasion. He was
induced again to come forward, chiefly in conse-
quence of his having received applications from dii-
terent parts of the country, and front different quar-
ters, many unknown to himself, earnestly soliciting
that he would endeavour to obtain some Legislative
provision to counteract the fuither spreading of the
loathsome and danger. us disease in question. Under
these impressions, he should feel it a dereliction of his
public duty if he abstained tri m again bringing the
subject forward to the serious consideration of the
House. The present Bill he considered as free from
the objections formerly urged. With respect to its
principle, he would not trespass again upon their
Lordship further than to observe, that a similar
principle was established by various Statutes,.and had
been recognised at all periAs of the Constitution.
This appeared in the system of the old Statutes re-
specting the Plague, and also in that of the Quaran-
tine Laws, which all went upon the preference given
to the general safety over what were temed indivi-
dual rights. The Bill, be observed, left a free option
to all to recur to either mode of Inoculation. The
object of the clauses was merely of a protective na-
ture, and to the nature of these provisions his Lord
ship generally referred. After agiiin adverting, but
more particularly, to certain points which were
touched upon in the former discussion, the Noble
Lord observed, that what had been asserted respect.
ing the Vaccine Inoculation affording only a tem-
porary degree of protection, created an injurious de-
gree of alarm upon the public mind ; and it was pro-
per and necessary every thing should be done in order
to counteract the ill effects of so erroneous a suppoi-
. tion. Tae Noble Lord then referred to an authori-
tative declaration of the Board respecting an assertion
that the Vaccine Inoculation afforded a protection of
three years only ; and which solemnly alleged that
such assertion was wholly without foundation. He
trusted, under such circumstances, their Lordships
would allow the Bill to go to a Committe, in which
the objection of any Noble Lord to the clauses and
details of the measure could be regularly and freely
discussed ; more especially as no serious objection
seemed to be entertained to its principle. Lord Boring.
don then moved that this Bill be now read a second
time.

The LORD CHANCELLOR shortly addressed
the Houk upon the occasion. His remarks were

chiefly directed in explanation of a part of the former
discussion on the subject, was particularly ad-,
yerted to by the Noble Mover. He did not seem to
object to the Bill going to a Committee.—The Bill
was then read a s' cand time.
Earl STANHOPE said heiwislled it to be under-
stood, that by his assenting to the Bill's going to a
Committee, he was by no means bound to.vote for
the adoption of the Bill in its present shape. It would
require a great alteration in the Committee before he
could approve of it, notwithstanding the clauses re-
specting the red fiNgs were kit out.—(d/augh.)
No particular day was fixed for the commitment
of the Bill.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
Earl STANHOPE presented a Petition from se-
veral persons in confinement for debt under mesne
process and in execution, complaining of detention in
prison, alter delivering up all their properties to their
lawful creditors, for different periods, at three, four,
or six months. Some difficulties in carrying the Act
into execution, commonly called Lord Redesdale's
,Act, were, he said, also complained of in the Peti-
tion, as well as the injurious effect of parts of its ope-
ration on the circumstances and prospects of the Pe-
titioner. ; and he would remark, that however lau-
dable and well-meaning may be the dispositions by
which the Act was framed, there was something un-
just, unfair, and unresonable, in swing, that a man
shall remain three months in prison before he could
even move for his liberation. The prayer of the
Petition was principally for the repeal of that part of