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that manner than the matte vulgarity.; he felt himself
bound to state to the House that .the facts' in his eel;
denee were the same, without any alteration, as tho*
which he had detailed to him ten days after they had
occurred. This consistency (while there were so many'
inducements to vary. if he had been the man he had
been represented to be) convinced him (Mr. H. Sumner)
of Canfor's veracity: Those who treater the present
question as trifling did injustice to the interests of the
Public ; and the statement as to Mr.Kenrick's character
did not alter the nature of the transaction; and with re
spect to the question of character, that was a point upon
which there might be two opinions. Ile would state
one fact which bore upon that questions. Mr. Ken-
rick might be a good father of a family, but he was
not a good neighbour. He recollected an instance,
he could tell the House, in which a piece of land
had been to be let, and where the conduct of Mr.
Kenrick had been anything rather than•neighbourly.—
EMr. W. LAMB submitted, that allusions so personal as
those Into which the Hon. NIL mber was going were nut
of order3.—The best proof he could give of the estima-
dos in which Mr. Kenrick was held in his own neighbourhood
was the simple fact, that he was eat by all the gentry in his vicinity.
—(Hear).—The Hon. Member concluded by expressing his opi-
nion that the result of the inquiry ought to be, either to deprive
Mr. &enrich of his situation as a Judge, or to restore hint to the
Country with a pure and unsullied character.
Mr. DENISON said that, as Mr. Kenrick's near
neighbour, all he knew of that Gentleman was in favour
of his character. On the first night of the present
charge being brought forward, Mr. Kenrick had re-
quested him (Mr. Denison) to state to the H ,use, that
he was himself most anxious for the fullest investiga
don. For the refusal of the search-warrant, he thought
Mr. Kenrick had been justified in it. The taking Can-
-for into custody had been reprehensible. But, as far as
warmth of temper was concerned, seeing what the
House had seen of Mr. Cantor at the bar, if no man
was fit to be a Magistrate but such as could have pa-
tietice with that person, very few persons, he believed,
would be in such a state of qualification. On the whole,
he did not quite agree in either of the courses that had
been reciimmended. That suggested by the Hon. Member for
Nottingham, he thought, went toe far; and the other did not con.
vey even that degree of censure which he thought the case deserved.
Sir FRANCIS BURDET Jr took the short question
to be—a question which the House was bound to pur-
sue in any shape, and by all available inquis ies--whe-
ther Mr. Kenrick had or had not exhibited such qualities
of character as deserved to preclude him from further
filling two such officei as those of Justice of the Peace,
and Judge upon a Circuit? In his opinion, this had
decidedly been the case. He by no means looked at
the transaction in the light in which it was attempted
to be presented by the Hon. Gentleman opposite. But,
seeing that it was too late now in the Session to obtain
all the evidence which Mr. Kenrick might think neces-
sary to his justification, he should advise his Hon. and
Learned Friend to rest satisfied with The opinion which
the House had already expressed; leaving upon Minis-
ters the respon-ibility of declaring how far, upon thdir
own investigation, the effect of the resolution moved
ought to be carried into operation, and resering to
himself te opportunity, in the next Session, of inquiring
what discretion had been exercised? In proposing this
course, he de.ired to be understood as fully ready to
go all the length proposed by his Hon. and Learned
Friend (Mr. Denman); and as being decidedly of opi-
' nion that, upon due consideration, there was only one
course which the Right Hon. Gentleman on the other
. tide could adopt. The Hon. Baronet concluded by
observing—while the House was on the question of
dismissing Judges—that there was a Petition to which
he should, in the next year, call it: attention, from a
Mr. Thorpe, late Judge at Sierra Leone, who, as it
appeared to him, bad been dismissed from his office upon grounds
far lighter than those now proved before the Uoase, ands gentiallb
very unsatisfactory.
Mr.'COURTEINAY thought such a lint of proceeding was. In-
deed, most extraordinary, and the mere proposition was sufficient to
convince him that it was not a case for the interference of the House.
Mr. DEN MAN said, the expressions that bad been made use of
ib eharacterising the conduct of Mr. Kenrick, by almost every
Member who had spoken, approached in severity of eensure so
nearly to his Resolutions that he should not press them to a divi-
sion, resting satisfied that nothing further was to be done by the
House on the subject.
IIir.CROKER reprobated the warmth of temper shewn by Mr.
Kenrick, bin denied that his anxiety to obtain pot:task* of the note
And of the fleece bad nrigiaated ix& any sinister motive.
Mr. LOCKHART observed, that the present case &hewed the
inconvenience of making Judges also Justices of the Peace. The.
House could not question a Gentleman's &nese for one situation,
without impugning his character as regarded the other.
Mr. WYNN admitted •some haste and intemperance
in Mr. Kenrick's coquet in the present c;ie, but de-
clared that his behaviour as a Judge in Wales had al-
ways given the highest satisfaction. With respect to
the strictures upon Mr. Kenrick's private character, he
thought. that they might as well have been omitted,
particularly as far as they came from a Gentleman
whose judgment might be something warped by the
fact of his having a law-suit with him. For these se-
vere dealings, too, with Mr. Kenrick for his warmth,
he doubted how far they would form a -tonvenient pre-
cedent. If a man's temper was to be so decidedly alleged
'against him as a ground of unfitness to fill a public
situation—suppose it were to be made a question how
far a Gentleman who, in a Committee of the House,
had been so intemperate as to commit a violent assault
upon another—how far such a Gentleman was fit to
remain a Member of Parliament?—(Hear, hear, and
great laughter). In conclusion, he would say, that if it
had been proved that Mr. Kenrick bad acted from cor-
rupt motives, that would have been a sufficient ground
Mr addressing the Crown to remove him from his office;
but no such fact had in his opinion been established,
and be thought the ease as it at present stood was too slight to re-
quire any notice to be taken of it by that House.
Mr. H. SUMNER said, that if he was the person to
whom the Right Honourable Gentleman had alluded,
as being engaged in a laW-suit with Mr. Kenrick, he
begged to inform him that he was misinformed. Ile
was engaged in no law-suit with Mr. Kenrick, although
lie d•fied any man who lived within five miles of that
G let eman, to be sure that some law-suit was not ott
the anvil—(4 laugh).
Mr. MA BERLY having seen it stated in the Morning Chro- I
'tick, that a rebt)ve of his was engaged in a divots with Mr.
R.rtirick; thought it necessary to declare that lie was not aware of
that fact, When he delivered his sentiments on this question on a
former evening.
Mr. WYNN had understood that there bad lately been some
proceedings in Chancery between Mr. Kenrick and the Honour-
able Membet for Surrey. If he had committed any mistake, he
was nosy for it.

Mr. DENMAN said, that the cases of a choleric Member of
Parliament and an intemperate Magistrate were.aut-p tally]. The
violent* of the former could injure no person but himself ; whilst
the intemperance of the latter Might prove hurtful to those whom'
it was his duty to prottcte—The amendment w.O then agreed to
without a divisims, and the House 'Saving resulted, Mr. Gouons
brituglitvp the Report. when the Resolution was agreed to.
Mr. E. 1110 E presented the Report of the Committee appointed
to inspire into the state of the Printed l'oprrs or tt.e Uvusr, 4e.
The House then rt solved itself into a Committee, to consider or
cp Address to his Nlajos r on the subject of the Repoit..

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