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London, England, 1803-03-19 00:00:00

PARLI4IMENT4Rr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 18.
Connie) were beard relative to tie Scotch Appeal, Crawford
and others o. Coons, viz. The Loan ADVOCATE of Scotland at
conEderable length as leading Conniel for the Appellants ; after
which their Lordihips deferred the further hearing of the ca
till Monday.
A great number of private Bills were brought op from the
Commons by different Gentlemen.
The Report of the Committee of Privileges, relative to the
effect °flora Vifcount la se talc a's (one of the hi& Reprefaw
tativc Peers) being promoted to an Earldom of Ireland, was
taken into confide:ache, and the Patent creating his Lardikip
an Earl of that part of the United Kingdom was read.
After this proceeding took place, Lord butane took his
feat on the Earl's Bench, without any of the formalities attend-
ing the introdudion of Peers promoted in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom, (which It appeared was done in eonfequence
of the refolutlon of the Committee of Privileges), from which
the Noble Earl faluted the Houfe in the ufual form.
The Marquis of Sum made a few obfervations on the tats-
lion, the principal of which was to declare his opinion, that the
proceeding which bad taken place was by no means fufficient.
He thought his Noble Friend Mould proceed to take the custo-
mary oaths, and fcbfcribe the dechrations at the Table, in con-
fequence of his recognition as an Earl in that Houle; furls a
proceeding he conceived to be voteffary, in confequenee of the
proviflons of the Adts of the tfith and tyth of Charles IL which
he moved mould be then nail.
The rele►ant eitradts from the Adis referred to were accord-
Joey read by the Cleft. In maul puma they went to mad
that no Member of either Houk of Parliament mould either fit
or vote, without laving firß takenthe Oaths of Abjuration and
Supremacy, &e. and having fuhtcribed to the Declaration, Ste.
and letting forth the penalties incurred on failure of the fame,
&c. die.

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The Noble Marquis then added a few obfenrations, tending
to enforce his propolitioo as abeve, on which
The LORD CRANC ZLLOIL quitted the Woolfsek, and obfav-
ed, that he law no objedtion to- the Noble Earl's taking there
Oaths, if !rejoined the Noble Marquis in opinion as to the pro-
priety of his taking than. At the fame time, he was free to
confers. he law no necaty whatever, on the pan of the Noble
Earl, under the peculiar 'Amanita:wee of his cafe, for tacit a
procee&ng ; and his redone foe to deciding, be would &only
Rate. Their Laraips would be aware, that the Noble Earl
did not enter that Houle, nor was be entitled to & or vote in
it, under any other dereliction than as one of the Reprefenta.
Lives of the Temporal Peers of Ireland. It was not by virtue of
his Lzelflifir't Patent, as an Earl of Ireland, that he entered
that Hosea. "mellowed to fit, but by thole of his Writ of
medusa. sua sionathous. fr_mi&al to hint, and inked, m a Peer
doted to the United Parliament by his Ca-r.<.: G !r-420de
It was by virtue of his Rerun, in which he was deferibed as
Lord Vikount Limerick, that be fat in that Haute : the Patent
on the Table related to the Noble Earl's rank Jo the Peerage of
Ireland, and -3 to his feat le the United Parliament. The
cafe was &tercet in ten014 new Creatiallt era Pro.
motion, the Peerage of the United :::.L..1010011. 10 tilde mks
the Peer entered that Hook by.vinue of ?etch i'zgst of Crea-
tion or Promotion, and therefore the powers of taking s oaths
and the abet formalities of introdutioe were Peccary. i= '
the cafe before them, the Noble Earl had duly taken the Oaths
and made the Subferiptioa, in cenfequenee attire rims made
of the Temporal Reprdentative Peers, as the part 8f Ireland ;
and fo eireundtanced, he was of °pintos, that there edited no
meaty of his taking the Oaths in the prelate bamee.
Lord ft tE m ammo au =pared his pale& 0110CRITCOLC ID
what had fallen from his Noble and Learned Friend, on the
Woolfack, whole arguments he eeforeed by additleaddsferva-
does. Whit wiped to the idea of adepdag pnweediegs, which
were at belt Welds, he °braved, it did set top there...the
tendency of loch were generally snifehiewne. particularly in
the way of precedent. Innovations, which in the &ft in/lance
may be regarded as hamlets or eiders, very fddeen failed of
being prodn&ive of rnifehlevaue medequenees.
Lord A silo agreed with what had Men from the
Noble Lord un the Woolfack„ with relite& to the promedinp
in victim—the Patent which had been jut read. clearly re-
'poled the Noble Earl's rank in the Peerage of Inked. and
nothing farther: it granted that dignity to him, and the Mks
male of his body--thofe Heirs mid not lit under that Patent in
that Houk, adds It &add peak the Peers a Irelandom a
future day, to clod than moos their Reprefentatives. The
Patent had no ether elk& In paler of ferns, perhaps, it
might entitle the Noble Earl to a feat en a different Bowl la
that Houk, but certainly, it couldhave no reedier eat.
The Marquis of Sucio and Lord At (poke (amorally
in explanation ; upon which the theca am dropped.