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London, England, 1831-08-03 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1831.

LAUD'S, ROIIENT, Kingston-upon-Hull, wine merchant,
Aug. 15, 18, and Sept. 13, at eleven, at the George Inn,
Kingston.upm-Hull. Attorneys, Mr. Walmsley. Hull
and Messrs. Norton and Chaplin Gray's-Inn.square.
DIVIDENDS.
Aug. 23. W. Young, Rochester, comeds-maker, at three,
at the Court of Commissioner.—Aug. 22 H. Shaw, Billel
day, Essex, grocer, at eleven, at the Court of Commission.
ers—Aug. 23. J. Earl, Chnrch.street, Hackney, chesty.
monger, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—Aug. 23.
H. B. Hall, Twickenham, innkeeper, at two, at the Court of
Commissioners.—Sept. 5. J. ()Amu, Sbap, Westmoreland,
innkeeper, at eleven, at the King's Heed Inn, Appleby—
Aug. 23. T. B. Christian, Leicester, salt-dealer, at twelve,
,at the White Hart Inn, Leicater—Ang. 25. J. Geetrell
and J. Dew, Bristol, haberdashels, at one, at the offices of
Mr. James Coster Dew, Stephen-street, Bristol--Aug. 23-
R. Joyce, Cambridge, boot and shoe-maim, al dem, at
the Conn of Comas Aug. 28. T. IdellantZ Blr-
mlnghowt, *water, at twelve, at the Wien Inn, Union-
and▪ treet,ingham—Ag 211. S. Clm, T. Mother, jun.
K. Pringle, Etna Iron Works, West Derby, Lan-
cashire. founders, at one, at the once of Mr. James Lowe,
Exehangnalky, Liverpool—Aug. 26. T. Ireland, Newton,
Manchester, dyer, at two, at the Star Hotel, Manchester.
CERTIFICATES. Avo. 23.
W. Beetles, Powell.atreet, St. Luke's, builder—H.
Foulds. Queen-street, St. John, Southwark, carpenter—T.
Holland, Birmingham, jspanner—J. tlendall. Heigham,
Norwich, distiller—W. Wallace, Workington, Cumberland,
shipwright—l. James, Cheltenham, Gloucester, victualler—
W. Bartlett and T. Bartlett, Reading, canvas manufactur.
en—J. Parsons. Shrewsbury, grocer.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. Wolfe and F. Roberts. Pershnre, Worcesterehire,
schoolmisnesses-12. and A.Singleton,Waddington,Lincoln.
shire. grocers—J. Lori and W. Holland, Rochdale. Lan-
cashire, woolstaplen—W. Ashley, jun. and E. Beck, Isle.
worth, wharfingers—A. Green and D. Allele y, Great Port-
land-street, gun-makers—G. Campbell and S. Penott, jun.
Liverpool—J. H. Uren and C. White, Chapel-place, South,
South Audley-street--R. Poole and S. Edwards, Kenilworth,
Warwickshire, attorneys—C. C. Judd and E. Counts, Old-
street-road, silk-dyers--A. Primrose and J. L Jones, Liver.
pool, milliners—D. Brocklehank and C. Arundel, York,
carvers and gilders--L. A. Durieu and J. Martin, Sutton.
at-Hone, Kent, grocers—Joseph and John Bacon, FoleshiU,
Coventry, builders-41 and H. Brown, Bradford, York-
shire, woolstaplers—D. Simpson and Co. Liverpool, ship-
wrights—E. and S. Boddington, Kenilworth Warwickshire,
butchers—A. Stratton and J. K. Smith, Cheapalde, ware-
housemen—E. Mersey and B. Harding, Long-acre. math-
lace-manufacturer--J. Eastwood, Km. and Co. Diathesis,
Yorkshire, merchants—R. Greenough and J. Robinson,
Manchester, cotton-manufacturers.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.
MR. LONG WR-17-M,RYI3 CASE.

!enrolls. rants THE COMMITTEE 011 PILIVILTOIII.
The Committee of Privileges, to whom the Letter of the
Lord Chancellor, stating, "'That be had issued $ War.
rant for the COmmtment of the Hon. William Long
Wellesley, for a Contempt of Court," and also a Letter
from the Hon. William Long Wellesley, complaining of
the same, "as being an infringement of the Privileges
of Patliament," were referred = and who were to examine
the matter thereof, and to report their Proceedings, toge-
ther with their opinion thereupon, to the House ; have
examined the matters to them reared, and agreed to the
following Report
Immediately after the Committee bad met to
examine into the matter which the House bad
committed to them, they received a letter from Mr.
Long Wellesley, stating that the Lord Chancellor
had issued orders not to allow him to attend.
This information was confirmed by the evidence
of Mr. Butt, the Deputy Sergeant at Arms at-
tending on the Great Seal, who attended the Com-
mittee, to state the reason why he had not obeyed
the Speaker's warrant.

The Committee were, in consequence, preparing
to report to the House this obstruction to the
exercise of its authority, when the. Lord Chancel-
lor's Sergeant at Arms, Sir George Seymour, de-
sired admittance, and informed the Committee
that the Lord Chancellor no longer objected to Mr.
Long Wellesley's attendance. They, therefore,
deem any further observation on this subject un-
necessary.
. _ .

As it is manifest that no intention has existed
of wilfully infringing the privileges of the House,
the inquiry limits itself to the question, whether
Mr. Long Wellesley is entitled by those privileges
,to claim his discharge from this commitment ? a
question, the determination of which appertains
wholly and exclusively to the House of Commons.
To assist the House in the decision of this diffi-
cult and important question, your Committee feel
it to be their duty, first, to state the facts as they
appear in the evidence, and, secondly, the law and
usage of Parliament on such questions, so far as it
can be collected from the resolutions end proceed-
ings of both Houses.
1. Your Committee commenced their inquiry by calling
upon the Deputy-Sergeant at Arms for the authority under
which Mr. Long Weellllesley was detained in his custody,
when be produced the minutes, signed by the Registrar of
the Court of Chancery, directing Mr. Long Wellesley's
commitment to the Fleet, for " his Contempt," but not par-
ticularising its nature, and two notes, signed by the Lord
Chancellor' authorising Mr. Lung Wellesley's detention
at his own house in Dover-street for a limited time.
Your Committee then proceeded to afford to Mr.
Long Wellesley an opportunity of freely stating
the complaint which had been• referred to them.
That statement, together with the notes of the
short-hand writer of what passed in Court at the
time of his commitment, to which be referred in
coofirmation of his assertions, is in the evidence;
and though some parts of it appeared irrelevant to
the object of inquiry, your Committee do not con-
ceive it to he expedient to omit any portion of what
he considered it essential to his case to lay before
them.
A detailed, order of commitment, for the con-
tempt, which was not entered by the Registrar of
the Court, so as to render it perfect, till Wednes-
day the 20th inst. (the second day of the Com-
mittee sitting) was produced on the 21st, by Mr.
Dicks, the Deputy Entering Registrar.
Referring to the Lord Chancellor's letter to the
Speaker, and the evidence, your Committee are a
opinion that the grounds on which Mr. long Wel-
les;ey is pronounced in contempt must be taken to
be those confessed by him in Court, viz. his hay-
ing removed his infant daughter, than a ward of
,the Court of Chancery, ,bpd having given direr
Lions to the
.pemog to whom ,he delivered her im-
mediately to put her out of the jurisdiction of. the
Court, and declariug his decided resolution under
no circumstances whatever to let his child be under
any other guardianship titan his own.

That this was a criminal contempt of the Court
of Chancery your committee apprehend that no
doubt can be entertained.

2. On the Law of Parliament. —The earliest definhion of
the privilege of Parliament respecting Arrests is to be found
in Lerke's Case, Rot. Pad. 11 Henry VI. No. 67, in which
It Is thus claimed by the Commons : " La Previlege de vre
Court de Parlement d'estre quietez de touts crests: durant
we dit Courte, forlirise pur treson, felonie ou suerte de
pees: " and in that of Thorpe in the 31st and 32d of the
same King, where, when the question is put to the judges
whether Thomas Thorpe ought to be delivered from prison
by virtue of privelege of Parliament, the Chief Justices, in
the name of all the Justices, answer, " That they ought not
to *uneven to that question, for it bath not been used afore-
true, that the Justices should in anywyse determine the
privdew of this High Court of PAM:onset t" and that
" the desurminatier and knowlegge of that privileggs be-
!Meth to the Lades of the Parlement, and not to the Ins.
*es ; " and afterwards, " That if any peraonc that is al
'Umbra of this High Court of Parlement be arrested, in
Niche cases as be not for treason, or felony, or de silent of
the peas, or fur a condempnation badde before the Park-
meat, it Is used that all such persona shuld be relessed of
such arrests., and make an attourney, so that they may have
theirs freedom and libertee (rely to entende upon the Par-
kment."

The same principle is maintained in the Lord
Crumwell's case, the entry of which in the Lords'
Journals, 30th June, 1572, is as follows :
" In Parliament Chamber, where the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal assembled the day above said, in Anno de.
rime quarto Regioe Klizabethe, etc.
" Whereas upon complaint and declaration made to the
said Lords Spiritual and Temporal by Henry Lord Crum.
well, a Lord of the Parliament, that in a cause between one
James Taverner against the said Lord Cromwell depending
in the Court of Chancery, for not obeying to an injunction
given in the said Court of Chancery in the absence of the
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, at the suit of the said Ta-
verner, the person of the said Lord Cromwell was, by the
Sheriff of the County of Norf. attached by virtue of a writ
of attachment, proceeding out of the said Court of Chan-
cery, contrary to the ancient privilege and immunity, time
out of memory, unto the Lords of Parliament and Peers of
this Realm, in such case used and allowed, as on the behalf
of the said Lord Cromwell was declared sad affirmed,
wherein the said Lord Cromwell, as a Lord of Parliament,
claimed remedy.
" Forasmuch as, upon deliberate examination of this
cause in the said Parliament Chamber, in the presence of
the Judges and others of the Queen's Majesty's Learned
Counsel there attendant in Parliament, and upon declaration
and opinions of the said Judges and Learned Counsel, there
hatb been no matter directly produced nor declared, whereby
it did appear or seem to the said Lords of Parliament there
&ambled, that, by the Common Law or Custom of the
Realm, or by any Statute Law, or by any precedent of the
said et of Chancery, It is warranted that the person of
any Lord having place and voice In Parliament in the like
ease in the said Court of Chancery, before this time bath
been attached, noes the awarding of the said Attachment, at
the end suit of the said Tavernor against the said Lord
Cromwell, for any thing as yet declared to the said Lords,
appeareth to be derogatory and prejudicial to the ancient
privilege claimed to belong to the said Lords of this Realm.
Therefore it is, the day and year aforesaid, Ordered, by con-
sent of all the said Lords in Parliament there aasstnbled,
That the person of the said Lord Cromwell be from hence.
forth discharged of and from the said Attachment t Pro-
vided nevertheless, and so Is the minds of the said Lords in
Parliament plainly by them with one consent declared, That
if at any time during this Parliament, or hereafter in any
other Parliament, there shall be chewed sufficient matter
that, by the Queen's Prerogative, or by the Common Law or
Custom of this Realm, or oy any Statute Law, or suffident
Precedents, the persons of any of the Lords of Parliament, hi
such ease as this caw of the Lord Cromwell's, ought to be
attached or attachable, then and from thenceforth it is by
this Order intended that to take place which so shall be
sheaved and warranted, as above is said ; this Order or any
thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding."

CAIL OP YR. X RRRRR OX.

Commons' Journals, February 3,1606.
" Roger Brenton delivereth a petition to the Someone,
and M. Holt presenteth it; obeying, That being chosen a
Burgess for Flynt, he was committed for a contempt by the
Judges of the King's Bench, November 23, last. Rderred
to these Committees, Sir Geo. Moore, Sir John Heigham,
Sir Edw. Hobby, Mr. Wysemao, Sir Edw. Hobby, Mr.
Folkston, Mr. Rob. Bowyer, Sir John Boys, Sir Fr. Hat.
ings, Sir Nath. Bacon. Thursday, Committee Chamber.
" These Committees are appointed to consider of the peti.
Lien exhibited by Roger Brenton this day, as also of other
matters of the like kind touching matter of privilege, and to
report their proceedings to the house.
On 13th Febutary, left—Habeas Corpus for Mr.
Bretton.

" On lath February, 1806.—Rabat Corpus for Mr.
Brenton nod in the bons&

" Writ returned.
" Mr. Moore witnemeth that my Lord Chancellor will
not infringe the privilege of the house.
" Mr. Bremen received."

CASE OP MIA WILLIAM SAM/TILE.
VIA April 1614.
" Sir Jo. Strongwish month, That Sir Wm. Baradld,
Burgess for &wpm, is committed by my Lord Chancellor,
sit hence the Summons of the Parliament, but before his
Election, and prayeth the direction of the house, which is
reforred to the consideration of the Committees for Privi-
lelle••"
14th April 1614.—' Question, Whether Sir Wm. Damp.
(slid committed after the Summons and Whet the Election,
for a Contempt? Ordered, upon the question, that he shell
have his Privilege by Writ of Habeas Corpus."
16th April 1614.—" Sir Wm. Be brought In
with the Warden of the Fleet by the Srrjeant with his
Mace to the Bar, and there Mr. Speaker, with his bat se,
shortly related unto them the awn of his doonniuneat, that
the writ delivered to the Warden of the Fleet. and that
now brought in by him. Desired to know the pleasure of
the house."