Star.
London, England, 1816-04-10 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 181 G.

PARLIAMENT aler PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF I.ORW, APRIt. 9.
Their Lordships' joelment in the Scots Cause, " Mat& r'.
Maude;' was given this ti,ty, the etect of which seas, partly to
affirm and partly to teci.it the decision of the Court
Lor4 REDESD.ki.E presented a Petition from the Debtors
in Duri:am Jail, against the repeal of the lits.ilvelit Debtors'
The Excisit Duties Regulation end the Lead Manufacturels
were react a third time and pa-seed.
The Pancras Church, and the elierse and Butter Import:ohm
Bilis were brought up from the Contillllllq, by Sir J. Gs aitmcs
auJ otL•ers, and real the first time.

Surrey Theme, the Crown Rent.' Rectiv.rs', and one
or two otlivr Lill,, were returnekl from the eutomot,A, with the
aequieseence of that I lunar
T .4 ir(1•11; ajtii•littnletitS.
! he War Exose the oniks,iry N.,tee
through Cominittveg if Ow whole l'hol,•;n11,1 wire reput:tal.
The hari of 1..1U I )I.:t to move,
to-morrow, !or an th,• nomls. r of l.a.ik Notch it.
circulation, (tont du. srii ut .I.iirtAry, ISt i, to the preitlit period,
together with their dates and tog:et-Live "mount., ; for an Ac-
count of all the Bank Note,. in circial.tthot troili the ..!h January,
I 80ti, to the :11sr ut 1.41u4ry, lito1; and fur remain oilier Entail-
ci4l Doctlim.trs.

ISoN.II,III,TE'S DF.TENTInN
Their Lordships then resolved into 1 Committee
on this Biil.

Oo the cloestion for postponing the Preamble.
Lord HOLLAND roar, and made a variety of
ob:ervations, chit* telative to the principle of the
Bill, which in sid:;:-,lnce and effect were similar to
those adv.i:iced hy his Lordship last evrn;ng on the
subject. lle point?.ily kieprecattai the doctrine held
riot by Noble Lords oprosite on the occasion, assert.
ing that Bonaparte .vos th pri;oner of the whole Al-
liance, and not rncrc.y (t this country to which he
snrrenlered. doctrine, he argued, would go ,
to pervert an es...abl;she.l principle of the lattl of l'sia-
tions, and also aganr.t the principle that
re%tulated the municip d system of Government of
Europe.
EArl BATITUR ST, in answer to the Ntlble Lord,
thou:gilt, undtr t:at c Bona_
p burrcndert,i hints it, liciog driven to such an
extremity by the combined operations of the Allied
Power, he was to a great measure to be considered
as the prisoner of the whoie Alitance, and that in
etros,lnence the othLr Powers had a tig'a to inquire:.
and to :Ism rain in what niantot he wa; to be treated
and secured, and to conceit 1%':11 us the means of
Lir...cot:lily securing him, so as to prevent the cbanc,.:
of Ito r,turning again to potter. • The rliste fact of
his surrendering to this country, did not, nuder
such 6rcanistancc., give us the txciasive light at
d:ct.oi•

The Earl of LAUDERDALE argitd in support
of the po.iition ot his 14-.lrle Fiend; gild what he
chiefly coatended for, with a view ot an ernendstion
ot the preamble, was that an express dzclaration
should be made of the particular ground and prin.
eiple upon which goicipakte was so detained, as pro.
viJed by the bill, to prevent the estitlilisliment of
i most joint ions precedent in the history of Europe.
! The Earl of lt li,()Willr argued, that the par-
• tICIALir CAS:' upon Wilk!) I•OrCighipi were called
to legislate. was without precedent or parallel in the
aimais of Eiirope, ''r in the history ot the world ; it
111 thereitne• their duty to create a precedent for
theni,,elres:. If Bonaparte 11 not given himself up
to die British shipping, In would hate fallen into the
hands ot the Fiencli Government. He would ad-
vert to a hypothetical case suppose at the battle of
Waterloo ba had barn captured by a squadron of
Prussian hussars, wi,ul:, in such ai case, either Eng-
Lind, Austria, or Russia hare remained quiescent,
and cernuiiited him to the exclusive disposal of Pros-
sia Certainly nor. let such, in the wly of argu-
mem, was a parallal case.
Af:er .1 short explanation flan Lord H.n.I.AND,
the Preamble was postponed, and the Committee pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the Clauses and Pio-
vis'aiir of die Cid. This producad much discussion,
.ind various Amendments were proposed by Noble
Lords a; the Opposition side of the Committee, which,
alter mine or less observation from the Peers present,
were disposed of in the uegative.
Towards the close of the discussion,
Lord HOLLAND proposed the introduction of a
Proviso, the object of which was the reservation ot
Certain civil tights, which he thought one so circum-
stanced should be fully entitled to—the prominent
point of this was, to-take away from a IJ:fend-am in
a civil action the power of advancing as a plea, that
he (Bonapa`rte) was an alien enemy.
This proposition gave rise to a short discussion, in
which thy Lone Comm's:Liam and the Ysarl of LAU-
MERDALE chiefly participated. The Noble and Learn-
ed Lerd thought such a proviso at best nugatory,
AO unnecessary with reference to the measute hefOre
Clem ; besides, as fag as it could apply, it would be
a consideration whether it,might pot tend to deprive
a liege subject of his Majesty of his civil rights.
The Committee divided—Contents, s—Not Con-
tents, ll—Majority against the Proviso, 6.
An Amendment-proposed to the Preamble was
also negatived ; but in the coursed the proceedings.
one or two Am .nilments, chiefly of ,a verbal nature,
were agreed to by the Committee.
The-House then 'resumed, and ordered the Repoit
-to be received to-morrow.

The St. Helena !mere( urse Bill also received one
or two Amendments in a Coniniittee, ind was order-
ed to be reported to-morrow.
The Princess Chia-lotto's Eqablislirrent Bill was
brought up from the Commons by Mr. W. DuNims
and others, and forthwith read the first time.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY notified his inten-
tion to move the consideration of the relevant Stand-
ing Orders to-morrow, with a view to their suspen-
sion, as far as related to the progress of the above
Bill—Adjourned.