Star.
London, England, 1804-06-23 00:00:00

arr. Whitbread then proceeded to obferve, that the
pen which had been read were thole on which he
Pounded hit aceufation againfl the Right Hon Gen-
tleman. whom he had then the good fortune to per-
t:ire in his place. He trained that the Membeis of
the Honk had formerly read and maturely confi-
erred fide letters, and that they had now come to a
airatirron of this important quellion with minds free
ii-, an
.prtjosiice, and totally unbialled Sy partial mo•
lives. He, tbr Ids.own part, could venture, on this
oceation, to put in his claim to unprejudiced triotivei,
tied had come,to the Hoare to leave the matter to a
difoaffsimate difeuffinn.- The more he read theft
knots the more he confidered it to be his duty to
bring the queßion before the Houfe. But though he
felt warmly upon the fuhjeB, he could awe them
%tat it WAi totally unattended with paffion. In order
ta imluse the Houk to come to the refolution which
be Was about.to fuhnsit to there, be hoped it would
appear to them that he had not been inclined to
4rew any other conclullon than what appeared evir
tinily adtniiSble from the papers themiclres. kle
conceieer that it vas peculiarly fortuitous towboat'
the ends'of public intik% that the amok" and ebb '
scented had met in the form place, a circus[jtoree'
• erlaiob bad bees always attended with beneficial 4100.
Sequences in every infante where an acenfailon was
to he brought. It would afford the Right Hon.
Gentleman Cr. opportunity to urge in MI own lan-
guage what he might judge properte Rate in his nu
ideisee. The Hos& atCommoss ware in no man.
oar preeltided.from eowrinp to a eleoifloa arra this]
trecatipri, berms& It . was impoffible they meld al*
idler% iri, after having fans hated the Rep of ordain
the poodsition of the paper* which. sow lay
ithe oath. Alefules, they Writhe advantage- of elm
Right Hon. Gentleman's precious, sthielswasla ear-
AU 'bra coma completely to co. to it' decifura of Aye
pe bpi septa the gueflion. ' It was a detrital which
became die to the chararorof the individual who.
thora.oppeellid, are in joilibeles the people of Sow
*ad. envy one off- whom were peculiarly istereherk
be the event, Ittid Wank+ that they might be ilk
tared from a 4 agar micosiduft in future. fle
hilesglit it would bit sin& fair to flats. is the outfit.
*Mims of the Minima with which he steam to
rAik; i f the Houk, m well as himfaf. alto
die Right Hon. G t *inhales aerostat were
saiwiessd of the truth of she semediains. mhich
Wei that It &mid be fathered sp with as Alikk4b
link Sh)ety. Mahler the propsietifidehe
Witt Gestleman's being removed Am Wee
shish- he could not be Laid to be g for ems
eratiom.: The primacies be hoe to tribe was, that
the Right Hon. Gestkotasi by Ow mem ith•
t led to, had a& atoll opprelllively Illy, sod
writhaigat
Si at set quite catursey to hit (ham sit
Lore A.tomatenf Scotland. The perm somfmmill
upon the perfoa who held that heipopmer Amalie,
sirerytew,it wilfingtnacknowledgeteiteecrolitlygnenta
bid it was not confident with common fettle. nor r
dotal uslosasatioa of the laws of Scotland. to integre
that the-powers of the Lord Advocate could be eat.
tied to filch an amazing extent. As he did not this*,
however!,4hae the . popofition of illegality waaal-
ways. I.:ululates in coder to majotain a obargo al
eopreffooti, ltellbsonld grant Air a moment thee thie
.Lord rtavatatretSerifiand was fully invefied with
all the degree of authority which that Right HOW
Gentleman had affunled ; Int would fill a&m, thee
his condo& had been grofdy (*reifies upon Mr.
liforifon, the Gentleman mentioned in the letter.--
He would fupprife things utterly impollible, except
for the purpule of argument, that . the Right Hop.
Gentleman had a power to defame every man in
Scotland, to cot him off from the comfort of-civil
fi ciety, and to render him a wretch upon the face
of the earl, r and that he could defile any odic(' to
deptive individuals of their liberty. to enquire into
the teciet motives of men in the ordinary aaiona of
their lives, at.d to attribete their aetios to motives
the moll diflpyal, and the moil prejudicnjal to the
fate, Ilili he would (ay, that the Lord Ady-catc bad
bee guilty of profs opprefS aon the individual al-
luded Arils the pearept infarct. Although be-was not
inclined to enter into any recapitulation of what he
had formed) Paid, yet he thought a fatal' degree of
it tieceffary, as what he had Paid befnerbad bevy fp°.
het in the *Mime of the Right Hon. Centimes; and
be hoped the Houle would to far indulge him—tHeee
the Hon. Gentleman entered upon a brief detail of
{he nitellniflaneea of the cake, as fated in ear former
report.] Had the opinion which the Right Hon.
Gentleman delivered upon the memorial which bad
been prefented to him by Garrow, the fervantof Mr.
)fforifon, been only intended for the petufal of his
client, he (Mr. Whitbread) would not "militia the
right of a counfel to ufe rich free eapteflona as to
the character and condo& of a third perfon, Come-
what concerned in the tranfaion I but. in the prelim
cafe, the Load Advocate bad takes care to promo'.
seselais opinion, by the ad of fending it to Banffshire,
to be recorded by the Sheriff of that county. He
(the 1.-'rd Advocate) had, in rat, proceeded to pu- ,
With, aithout the formality of a trial, or public moot- I
ration, or iii hen lag one word from Mr. Morifoa is
his own defence. He (Mr. W.) celled upon the Eng -
lift and Scuts La eyers withio that Houle to give
their opinions, to fupport what he had Paid on this
occalim. Nth ips it might not be prefumption to alit
the Learned Gentleman on the oppiitite rule, alp well
at thole upon the other fide of the Houfe to give
their kiJgments upon loch a point, in orJer :hat Urn-
land might not lay under the Ragan of fuels a code
f laws, without that code meeting with the utmn*
-reprobation of that Kroft. It was INA* that the
fervent, iii confequence of what had walled betwixt
his waiter and him, relative to voleateerisg, might
have grot.ly mifbelisveo himfell t and it might alfo
have happened, that Mr. Morifran himfelf partici-
pated in that ipii it of loyalty in defence of his King
and country, %lath had le generally diffuied itfelf
through all ranks of fociety. As to the (errant, how-
ever, iie knew to.thing ; and as to Mr. Morifon, it
appeared to him that the Right Honourable Gen-
tleman had never done any overt at by which ha
motives could Mi iewried. Altboito he (the Lotti
Atie,,c4te) haddani that he (DM:jct.-et Mr. M-nfan's
conduit to have since from difittleciion, there was
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