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London, England, 1812-07-22 00:00:00

PaiCE SIXPENCE-HALFPENNY.

Adrninismiticte would leave eause to tetsiember. lit
ws'uld put it to his Right Hon. Frisnd wnetoer Isis
HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 21. was not a foul libel against the Judges of the land,
Their Lordships met at half past three 'clock,
entered and whether the Crown Lawyers could pass 011,r such
o
into a Committee of Privileges, first on the Kilmorey Peeragto, an offence ? As to the motion made, lie must oppose
the further consideration of which was postpqred w Wed.tesdily it. The trial yeas now pending, and the House ought
se'univlit ; and next on the claims of the Earl of A:hlu.te, whici not to interfere; particularly so, when it was knoren
were recognised and affirmed by their Lordships.
I that Mr. Fitzpatrick had brought an action against
1 he Committee thou adjourned during pl a‘uret and about
half pa t four •he House being formed, and prayers over, Mr. i the Attorney-General, for damages, bid at .ClOOO.
Ltueiington and others, from the Commons, brittle t up the And in such case,. he thought it would be batter for
Public i'eate Preservation Bill, the Dissenters' igurshirs the his Right Hon. Fri=end to Wait u sell the two trials
Prison: rs of War Escape, the Coffee Retail, the Privy Purse, • should be concluded. The libel in q
first tame.uestion had
the Assessed Tax s, and several other Bills, which were read the
nothing to do with the Catholic Claims, but was a
After some observations from the Earl of TAVERN:Kn. and distinct thing. It was not for publishing the Penal
Earl STANIIO PE, the second reading of the Diswitere Billwu Laws,. but (sr this offensive passage; :ma he assured
ordered for Thursday. the Hons../ that Government had no iteentiOn ot sup.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE hell in his hand a Paition .
H, use • piessing the work itself, so tar as regarded the Fedi- •
against the Stone Bottle Duty VI!, which he vii,hed the
to receive, is it could not he cal Vll petilon against a Tax Bill, cation .1 the Penal laws.
as he could prove at their Lordships'lvar, that this measure would Mr. HUTCHINSON considered this as a cast
be a loss to the Revenue instead ot an increase. connected.with the Catholic re tin and on t.' at
The Earl of LIVER POOL opposed the receiving of the Piti-
:
lion, as did Lord STANHOPE ;on which Lord Lauderdale a account be thought the Houseuglit not to sl7 tr.tlC
w it. without noticing it. He highly disapproved of dill
ou the motion for going into a.Cominittee on the Loeall'ollees act,• as one from which great mischief might mdse. •
Bill, • Had the publication been evert a gross libel, the con.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE opposed the Bill, as it would
duct of Mr. Saurin was such •us ought to be noticed
be sure to injure the retail trade of the country. which could not
he carried on t kilted these tokens. It would also be the means n Iby the H, use. • .
•
introJtia• g agant those local notes, which were ra•sd for nothing, Mr. W. FITZGERALD rrqtested apainst the
course taken by the Hon. Gentleman of loathing
Whereas the i likens were worth &fourths of their nominal value.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL. contended. the if these Tokens
which eve- ydsctission in Catholic argument. In this case
suck :-rgument did not apply. To this the! he was
were allow.-r( to continue in dradatiou, those of she Bank,
were of more real value, compared with their remind womb,
would shortly disapptar. i sure the Catholics were no parties. In it the condnct
1 he 13iti then went through the Committee. l of the Judges arts impeached. The L.rd Lientenatit
BillOn the motion fur the third reading of the Storm bottles Duty .
of Ireland was charged with taking away the I:fe of
L ,ord HOLLAND e.rposca vies tax, on the
ground , that It an innocent man, and abroad insinuation was throe n I
si mild be a most unpr,dttetive one. out *that the reason was, because the man was a Ca.
tholic. Would the Hon. Gentleroan then say that it
sit an attack against the Ca holes Body, to prose.
The Earl of I.Ni:it POO!. t•ald, that as a new tax had been laid
on g'ass Wattle., it was thought equivalent to lay a duty ou stone i w
bottles.
the i cute the author ea this libel ? The motton before the
BA11:he Earls of ROSSLYN and LAUDF.R.DALE opposed
I House was,in his mind unnecessary, and tended to
The DAte of NORFOLK wished, Wore he could give We prejudge a question about to be tried in a Court Or
assent to at y Tax 13i1', to ask the Nob:e Earl (Live pool) if war Justice, and therefore I.e would oppose it.
had been actu.,ily declared by Amerlca against us ; and if so,
whether her could hold out any hope to console the country, by a Sir FRANCIS BURDETT declared that the
pia,spect of its being yet averted. conduct of the Ir;sh Attorney General was an unware
1 he rentable assumption of power ; and a power via was
vainly t capable if great abuse. It was an act wholly uncap.
el'aa.cr!liet)dt (.I.:.(l)Vv,E.rtßi n.l)li.nsaaind'itntidatiretchte sin•atey7gtentlacte.allaßle"fo;
war with this country had ra'4.ll bah Houses of Par!ianietit.—
nected with the question conaint before the Courrs s
and the notice taken of it by tbe House could not
mpreocrati2esngth.
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tit ti.Kre
in
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yetert e, Unitedignorant
hoiSwtoatfth.e
as t had adopted
Parliament
prejudge any thing. Wjth respect to the passage.
1 he Doke of NOertllles
charged as a libel, (he had a stro ig preposession in his
should nut
btebdree atedwedmnbdutlibeecer,esaadryy.to take such steps
mind, that the author would be able prove the
to
t Ie
properante, a
The Bill heal then read a third time and passed.—Adjournsd.
truth of it, which he would have a power to do by
bringing his action.
Mr. SHERIDAN, in reply, complained of the
summons, because it had not picked out the offensive
paragraphs, but had characterized the whole hook as
libel. If it was improper to make this mei sir, fret,.
dram lice, what right h .d his Right Hen. Friend to
pronounce, misdealt lase, that this was a gross and
scandalous libel I He had no:hing to do avid* the
two prosecutions. His charge was, why did the At.
torney*General send for a roan to appear before him, •
in his private character, in order to catechize him be-
fore he brought him to trial t Therefore the circu's'.
stance nt libel or no libel bad nothing to do witlais
proposition. He should like to have the opinioii of
the English Attorney General on this question. He
was confident that Learned Gentleman would have.
scorned to accept of ice on condition of exercising
such a power as this. He would not send for any .
printer to get information from him in his parlous%
There was not a shadow of pretence fee refusing the
paper, but the fear of the proceedings that might fol.
low. He concluded by declaring that,he would take
the sense of the'House on the question for the
duction of the paper he had moved for. • •
After a few words from Lord Carrxractou and
Mr. Twins, the House divided, and the numbs**
were..-For the motion 43—Against it 67.
LATE OVERTURES rant PEACE.
Mr. SHERIDAN• said, that be rose, upon the
Motion for which he had given notice, apprehensive
that the House was almost :ired of him already. He
would console them, however, with •the assurance, -
that he had no inclination to go at length into the
proposition which he intended to submit to their con.
sideration, knowing that no opposition would be made
to it. It had been intimated to him, and which had
excited considerable Interest in the House, that his
Honourable Friend on his right hand (Mr. Whitbread)
had hastened from the performance of incumbent
duties in the country, to be frescnt when this motion
was made, that he might shew, he knew not
that we had permitted the most favourable npportua
nity that had haKened for a long time for making
peace, to slip through cur hands. He was alarmed
at the declaration, and knew not how to prepare
himself to meet it. He was like a dove flut.
tering and trembling in an open field, where a
hawk was hovering overhead, ready to pounce
down and clutch him. laugh.)—He could not
contemplate how he would support such a prop( Si-
don, for the correspondence of the Ft ranch Minister
was both perfidious and insidious, Perfi tious, be-
cause it endrivonrcd to lull us into coufidence, when
danger stood in our path. Insidious, becau -e it was
not addressed to the nation. There was ii(ehing on
the face of the French communication which was
not indicative of the utmost perfidy. In what way
could the proposal of the Despot be received but as
if he had declared his intention first ter crush the
Russian Monarch, in order that he night have full
leisure to turn his arms against this country. If ever
England wa't disposed to stand steady and faithful
to her true interests now was the One. To ruin the/
maritime strength of this c..untry was Napoleon**
great object. It was all that he lived fer. By war
he wouldnever take it from us, and he hoped he
would never be permitted to do it by negotiation._.
(Hear, hear.) Had Napoleon the same maritime
strength, he should like z., see how he would use it,
(Hear, hear.) He would rather see the island soot. -
tied, and sunk in the surrounding sea, than giveuP
one iota of our claims. Napoleon had gone to war
with Russia, for uc other reason than that she woel4

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Sir SAMUEL 1:0 NI I 1.1. Y presented a Petition from certain
persous, who wrre prisoners as del lots to the Crown, complain-
ing •hat th 4 cannot have the h,nefit of being liberated by the
In. olvcait Lighters Bill, witiviut the consent of three of the Lords
of the Treasury.
Mr. WHARTON stated, that it was not neceesary for Debtors
to the Crown td be at any expeuce in Waking out their ntentur4ls
for the Tresquy, 34 they need not employ a man of busiceNi fur
that purpose. •
The Petition was then order•cl to lie en the table.
The Woods rral Forests Bill was read a third time and passed.
Tlx Medicine Bill was read a third time and passed.
'The White Herrings Bounty Bill went through a Committee
of the whole 1 Inuse.—Report ordered to be rec. ived tomorrow.
The Vote of Credit Li 1 we:it through a Committee of the
whole House.—Report to- morrow.
The Bill for regulating the allowances on the Assessed Taxes
was read a third time and passe.% after some remarks from Sir
•1.1:ItTON.
Ihe Bill respecing the Agent-Gcncrat of Volunteers and
Local Militia watt through a Committee of the whole Hoisse.—
Report to-morrow.
t he Hilf-pay Bill was read a third time and passed, .
Cerra' 4 Papers, Reports, &c. were preset:ted from the Corn-
trihnioners of Inland Navigation in iteland.--Ordered to lie on
the table.
PROSECUTION JOR inset ra IRELAND. _ _

Mr. SHERIDAN brought forward the motion of
which he had given notice, relative to the conduct of
the Attorney-General of Ireland, in requiring Mr.
Fitzpatrick, a Printer, tb appear before him, to spew
cause why a criminal information should not be filed
against him, for printing the Statutes which affected
the Roman Catholics ; and be was happy to learn,
that a Noble Lord, in another place, who had once
filled the office offitterney-General in England, dis-
countenanced such conduct, by saying it was not the
way in which he should have acted. This act might
not be illegal : but still it was one that might grow
into a most mischievous practice; and, therefore, it
ought to be rut a stop so.—Hete Mr. Sheridan read
the summons from the 'Attorney-General, requiring
the attendance ol Mr. Fitzpatrick at his private house.
—Suppose the person sillnatoned was a weak igno-
rant man, and obeyed the summons ; suppose he
should he enticed into a confes,:ifan of every circum-
stance that might constitute his defence. In such
case the Attorney-General would be acting the part
of witness, judge, and accuser. Such a proceeding
as this was highly reprehensible, and it was still
more so, on account of the high respectabiity of
Mr. Saurin, the Irish Attorney-General. It was his
intention to move, on a future day, that the House
should come to a VOle of Rep, obation on this subject,
if the Paper he wanted were laid upon the table. He
concluded with Moving—"" That there be laid before
the House, a Copy of the Notice sent to Hugh Fitz
pat: ick."
Mr. W. POLE said, that the practice in Ireland
had long been for the Attorney-General to send for
parties whom he intended to prosecute, to hear what
they had to say in extenuation of the charge. Mr.
Saul in had no intention of intrapping Mr. Fitzpatrick,'
which was manifested from the circumstance of his I
asking him no questions when he called at his h: use.
The practice had always been considered as a matter !!
of courtesy to send for men in this way. Now as to
the Libel itself, he must broadly state, that the 13( ok
had nothing to do with the Catholic Claims. A Libel
was here published, which went to bring the whole
administration of justice into contempt ; a part of the
work was of this nature, and he woulu read it. The
passage set forth the case of a man named Barry, a
Roman Catholic, convicted at the Kilkenny Assizes,
who was declared to be innocent, that he died pro-
fessing his innocence, and that there were circum-
stances in the case which the Duke of Riclunood'a

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