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TRIAL OF WATSON.

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P.1RL1447.EN1 AR7 PROCEEDINGS.

ROT:SS OF LORFw. JI/NE 17.

Evidence was heard in hiillar's Divorce Bill.
'1 he Edinburgh and (;Low Cuial Bill was, after some calmer.
vritufs from the Earl ot Ado tTOn, objecting to it, and the Earl
ot LIIOULKDALL and Lord Viscount' Marx! td.x, in favour ot it,
read a second time, yid committed .or Thursday.
The East India and Mediterranean Trade Bill, and the Agent
Cet.crai of Vuitton/eta Bills ;:assed through Com-natters, and
were reported.
Jr. Committee on the C./A:ices Wages Bill (for extending .0
them the pi iseisiotts us forting A:-.tf of Parliament, compeliidg
the payment of tlit.ir wages or. money instead of goods). Lord
Dn.:aeon, on the ground that the workmen in general wtrked
by the pica, and that the ainount due to them was only calcutaled
occe a month; moved a clause to :canapel the payment to them
every well in moues, of two-thirds ot what was due to them
fur that week, to under that hey might have money to purchase
the *isles they wanted, at free shops, instead of being obliged
to resort to the shop. eftAlished by their employers. -1 his clause
e-as opposed by the Earl of 1 AUDEILOWi as being foreign to the
purpose of the Bill, and as being founded on a vicious pritic.p!e.
that of intersering in the contracts between indiVidUair. Ate r
some conversation between these two Noble Lords, the Earl of
Rosalyn, load Redesdale, and the Lord Chancellor, Lord Dyne-
vor agreed to withdraw the clause. The Bill pawed through eke
Colaunittee, with anrcodmants. —Report on Thursday.
MUTINY DILL.

The Mutiny Bill having been committed,
The Earl of LAUDERDALE stated, that he
had asked the Noble Earl (Liverpool) opposite, on
a former day, whether dune was any imports tt al.
teration in this Bill? The Not)le Earl, with his usual
caution, had said, that he could give no reply to
that question till he got farther information on the
eubkct. Having consulted the proper persons in
office, the Noble Earl had stated to him that there
was no alteraii.m consequence. Now he had looked
into the bill, and found that there had been a very
material alteration with respect to the authority by
which orders or directions were to be given to agents.
Till 1812 the order was to be under the sign.manual.
At that time an alteration was introduced, providing
that the order should be under the sign-manual, er
by the Secretary at War, or Lords of the Treasury,
by his Majesty's command. Now the words "by
his Majesty's command" were left out, so that thr
direction of the Secretary at War and the Lords of
the Treasury was put oil an equal footing with the
detection under the sign-manual. Now this was a
rinst important alteration, and ought to gave been
eutnnitlnieatiA to the house, that it might
sitter whether it was decent or fitting that the di-
rection of a S.cietary at War, without a special com-
mand: shoul.: he put eh a footing with an order under
the sign-manual.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL admitted, that the
can:mein of the Noble Earl was correct, as to his (the
Larl of Liverpool's.; having said that there was no
alteration of consequence, and he concetved that he
(the Earl of Liverpool) was completely warranted
1111WhAt be had said. Tile state of tile case was this, he
did not think himself called upon now, to argue wlie-

cher the alteration made in 1812 was proper or not ;
but it was clearly the meaning of those who, in ad-
dition to the words a under the sign manual," in.
troduccd es or by the Secretary at War or Lords of the.
Treasury by his Majesty's command," that the S..
cletary at War, and Lords of the Treasury, should
act cm their responsiliality in the ordinary course of
their offices, without being bound to prove any spe.
vial command. All these acts were done by his Ma-
jesty'a command, and the officers were responsible ;
but whether there was a command or not, was a qu, s-
Lion to be settled between the officer and his Sove-
reign. If the officer had been bound to thew a spe-
cial command, the alteration in 1812 would have

been nugatory. However, it, had occurred to the
Solicitor of the Treasury, that under these words in
the get, in case of a prosecution in a Court of Justice,
he might be called upon to prove a special com-
mand ; and it was upon this suggestion that the
. scores 4'14 his Majesty'► command" bad been lett
out, leaving the matter on the footing on which it
was intended to be placed in 1812, so that there was
Do alteration of consequence.
Lord HOLLAND thought that the question was
perfectly open now, whether the order of the Secre•
tary at War and the Lords of the Treasury ought to
be placed on.a footiug with.. the sign manual ? TUe
'iteration, as it stood in 1812, was, he admitted, nu.
&acerb and that might be tl:e reason why no notice
Lad been taken of it. I, was true that the officer was
supposed to act by his Majesty's command, and was
revonsibie ; but when the words,“ by his Majesty's
command," occurred in an Act of Parliament, a
special command must be proved, and therefore the
alteration in Ibl 2 was nugatory. But now, when
the alteration was made in a way which rendered it
effective, the question, whether that alteration was
proper or not, was perfectly open.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL contended that the
alteration was proper, and that in those details of of.
Ece it would be better that the sign manual should
Dot be held to be necessary.
Earl 13ATHUR:a said that the alteration was
nothing more than an explanation of. the meaning of
Vie alteration made in 1812.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE Moved, that the
words" by .his Majesty's command" be inserted.

The amendmisit was, atter a few words fr,m the
Earl of ItossLYN, nept:ved, and the Bill reported
without amendment.

li ANBAS CORPUS susrzwszoN.

Earl GROoVENOR presented a Petition from
the City of Chester against the continuance of the
Habeas Corpus Suspension, which his Lordship sta-
ted to have been pi•oposed at a very nuescrota meet:
ing, regularly convened in the Town liall, and

agreed to by a large majori..y of the persons assembled.
The Petition having been read at the table,
The Bishop of C HESTE R, kst this Petition should
be considered the sense of the inhabitants of Chester
generally, which it was not, was desirous of stating,
that a c.,unter Petition had been very numerously
signed, and would shortly he presented to the House.
Earl GROSVENOR could only say, that he had
been informed, with regard to the Petition he had
presented, that it was agreed to by a large majority,
at a very numerous meeting, regularly called in the
Town Hall, in pursuance of a requisition, at which
the Mayor presided, and at which persons of diffe
rent sentiments attended, and from the regularity ob-
served, had the opportunity of delivering their senti-
ments.

Lord HOLLAND asked, whether he was to un-
derstand from the Learned and Reverend Prelate.
that a Petition was actually to he presented from
Chester in favour of the Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus?
The Bishop of CHESTER said, the Petition
would probably be presented to.rnorrew, and the
House would then be enabled to ascertain its object.
The Petition was ordered to lie on the Table.

Earl GROSVENOR moved for an Address to
the Prince Regent, praying there might be laid be-
fore the House an account of the times, ages, and
descriptions of thg persons arreste4 under the powers
given by the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus, spe-
cifying those who had been discharged, and those
who still remained in custody.
Lord Viscount SID MOUTH objected to give the
names, as it might operate against the persons so de-
t.i;ned. The timber of personir detained he was
willing to produce, nor did be object to the ages
being stated, particularly as there had been upon this
point much misrepresentation.
Earl GROSVENOR was anxious to have the de-
scription of the individual..

Lord Viscount siDmuuTH could not agree to
give the description.
The Duke of SUSSEX observed, he did not sup.
pose his Noble Friend meant a description of their
hair and eyebrows, but whether they were married
or unmarried, &c.
Earl GROSVENOR wished to have at least their
situations in life, as it would skew that there were
amongst them no persons of any consideration in the
country, and therefore that there was no danger ex-
isting to call for the measures which the Ministers
were now proposing.
Lord HOLLAND deeply risgretted hearing from
the Noble Viscount the osjectian to disclosing the
names of the persons detai.led, as it thus appeared
that the Ministers nct only had ordered, but that they
intended to order the arrest of ind;viduals, without
any intention whatever or briiii-ing them to trial.
Lord Viscount hIDMOUTH said, the Noble
Lord might put what construction he pleased upon
the coLduct of Ministers, but he ( Lord Sidmouth)
should feel it his duty to abstain from giving any fur-
ther explanation. It must be evident that it would
be highly improper to di..cicse the names.
' The Earl of DONOUGHMORE regretted that
there should be any warmth displayed by the Nehle
Viscouht, the charge made being not against the
Noble Viscount, but against the measure of the Sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus. Were there soy
proof of persons of rank. or iii high station, beipg
implicated in a conspiracy against the Government,
he would most readily concur in giving every power
to the Government that the security of the country
night require ; but when there were no persons con-
cerned, but individuals without rank or property, or
without any name derived frum their talents, what
was to be apprehended ; what was the danger that
could call for the measures proposed by Ministers ?
Lord Viscount SI DMOUTH said he could only
agree to a part of the motion, and he therefore moved
to _leave out the words after those respecting the Ad-
dress, and to insert merely an account of the number
and ages of the 'persons detained.
Earl GROSVENOR urged the propriety of agree. 1,
ing to the original motion, but, under the circum-
stances, he was disposed to obtain what he could, and
therefore he would withdraw his motion.

The motion being withdrawn, Lord Sidmouth's
amended motion was agreed to.
Lord Viscount SIDMOUTH then moved the
Order of the Day, and the House resolved itself into
a Committee on :he Habeas Corpus Suspen►ion Bill.
On his Lordship's motion, the blank for the dura-
tion of the Bill was filled up with N until the expira•
tion at six weeks after the commencement of the next
Session of Parliament."

EarI.GKOSVENOIt gave notice of his intention
to move an Amendment in a subsequent stage of the
Bill, to the effect, that the sill should expire in case
of a dissolution ut Parhatnent.

' Lord HOLLAND said he did not mean to dis-
cuss the Bill now ; he merely wished it to be under-
stood that) Noble Lords were not precluded from
moving Amendments in a subsequent stage of the
Yell. His Noble Friend (Lord Grosvenor) had al-
rrady given notice of one Amendment, and another
WAS intended to be proposed to limit the duration of
the B:11 to a still shorter period.
The Earl of DONOUGH MO R E intimated an
intention of proposing an Amendment, which would
'have the effect of producing the meeting of Parlia-
ment at an earlier period than it had been of late cus-
tomary to commence the Session, by limiting the
duration of the Bill to a certain day, unless Parlia-
ment should assemble in the interval.
• The Dill then passed through the Committee, with
the Amendments proposed by Lord Sider:natl., .tr..:
the House having resumed, the Report was ordered
to be received to-marrow. It was understood the
third reading would be nn Thursday.—Adjcurced.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
A call of the House having Linn ordered for this day, the gal.
lery wis not opened till Bye o'clock. Before the admission of
strangers a division toog place on the motion of Mr. 17.-;!..LiAst
Du NDAF, for discharging the .order of the day, when the num-
bers were—Ayes 126—Noes 45—Majority IS.
Mr. DICKENSON presented a Petition from certain Inha-
bitants of the City of Batts against the custom of using Climbing
boys to Sweep ellmnies.--Laid on the table.

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