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* • • s'. and teemed .Irrietuthad gusted, open a former oc-1, . Mr. HERBERT opposed the BiU at KIM length. bee would think of applying
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IARLM EN ART if. ROC.EEDINGS. casion, the expression of a great man who wished. to‘.-liki preferred the experience:of our old laws to capital punishment would tend to deter crimes from
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He was leave a monument of his labours to posterity in some any! theory, and appeared to think that the propor. the more influence of terror. Where there was a
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• HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH SD. • - - aniencLuent of the law ; but he -should think it would tion of punishment to crimes 'wes not an object so chance of the severe punishment falling upon thm.
After prayers were read, their Lordships proceeded to forward have been more consistent for his Learned -Friend to material, as the attempt to'deter persons' from the offenders would' calculate the chances, and thereby be
the inns ueen the table, being mesas private. 'Cite Exchequer have selected that branch for improvement with which commission of crimes by severe punishments, which prevented from the commission of crimes.
Bins Futidine Nil, and the Militia Officers Indemnity Bill, were
he was most intimately acquainted, and establish his might be mitigated if the Judge thoitgltt proper. extremely averse to this bill, though he should not
atact I bird time and passed. I
A opt cogivevfadon took place between the Earl' of nantrcut memorial in the department where his practical . Lord .cEogGE GR EN ILLS said, we were object to the passing of the Privately Stealing Bill. He
teeintit‘i
ord HOLLAND, respecting the time of making Or taking knowledge was most extensive. There was not, he accustomed to our institutions, and 'accustomed to tee should therefore oppose the second reading of the Sin.
consideration the Report of the Committee appointed to in- was persuaded, an acting Magistrate in the country them softened down-in practice; but if we could-look Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY had so often troubled
'restive the circumstances attending the death of the mufurtunate
who had not more practical knowledge upon this on them with the eye of other -nations, we should look- the House with a statement of his seinirne t •
Debtor who died in the Marshalsea Prison, Tuesday Vas men-n g upon
subject than his Learned Friend, not with respect to on their spirit with surprise arid terror. They were this subject. that he should feel bound tribe brief od
• stoned as a proper day ; but as the last mentioned Peer obsPrseil,
a Cora:lll4e already appointed for that day was likcif to occupy' the practice of Courts, but with respect to its opera.. marked with one uniform character of blood; but this occasion. His Honourable and Learned Frietil
such of their Lordships time Monday, as we understood, was don upon the mind and manners of the people. The then, their severities were dispensed with in practice-. near "him (Mr. Frankland) had represented this Bit.
Axed on as the day on which that print is to be settled, and "..' ; effect of the existing laws appeared in the security Was this a proper state for the laws of the country ? as the offspring of theory, and such es may be ex.
for some further proceedings respecting the business..
they •itflorded to property, and the i. - they pro. The sever 4 of the law would go to increase crimes. peeled from a dilletaati lawyer. Whatever his Hon.
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• BANBURY PEERAGE.
In a Committe of Prililege', the discussions on claims of Ge-
neral linallys to the Earldom of Banbury were resumed.
The LORD CHANCLLLOI! delivered his sentiments at some
length, which appeared to be decidedly against the original mo-
tion of Lord EitKlN', viz. " That the Petitioner had mail& good
bas claim." The farther consideration of the case was adjourned
till Tuesday next.
CohcitEitclAt CtEDIT
Upon the motion of Earl BATHURST, this Bill
was committed; and passed thrgugh the Committee
without any amendment.
The' Earl of LAUDERDALE rose to &too-
tice,, that he intended. on Monday to move illeaddi-
tkin of a -dense' which would prevent the Bank of
-urchasi these Exchequer' He

• 9 _influence ,
&iced on the public morals. When tfley considered
what a vast amount of property there was in the
Country, and how exposed that property was in its
nature, being in a great degree personal, they would
be surprised to see how comparatively small was the
disposition to rob and pilfer. It was less, taking all-
circumstances into consideration, than in any other
country.—But what called for the Bills of his Lear-
ned Friend ? `Where was the necessity that demand-
ed it ? and who were the Magistrates that made re-
; presentations on the subject ? Such as had made I
re-
presentations were hostile' not favourable to the mea-
sure. The real cause of the introduction of the mea-
sure was,,because the law, as it stood, did not meet

the
England from pun ;ing . _se A. aer Bills, _
should at the sometime, having thf -achiantite- of
addressin.g a more narucr,us attendance, take that
oppattintry of stating:to the House those ,authniities
whidi warranted him in asserting,Ait the Mk' hail
effetted

a considerable reduction of its issues in 1806,
neAdy to the amount or half a million, and which

When a man found his life for the most tri-
vial offence, could he be worse? Might he not com-
mit murder as a means by which he might escape
conviction, though he could not aggravate the punish-
ment ? There was another question which should
not be forgot in the great national consideration of
law—the moral and religious question—the question
how far we could assume a power over the life of
man ? It was right to consider, whetherAhe man, un-
fit to live was not more unfit to die ? To thOse who
dread the consequences of this repeal he would refer
to the effects of the alleviation of punishment intro-
duced into Russia by the Empress Catherine. Those
who object to the repeal seem to think that whatever

the opinions of a certain set of men in the country.
He begged that gentlemen would bear in their minds
the great difference between passing and repealing a
law, and the danger of interfering with the settled
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seemed to he doubted by the statemint'of the Noble
Earl (Ross.)
The Earl of ROSS was sure the'Noble Lord had I
mistaken the extent of his ol,iservations. He had said
that the issue of Bank Paper in Ireland had not been j
lessened, when the rate of exchange against that
country had been considerably diminished. He made
the observation fur the purpose of shewing that it
was a mis-statement when it was alledged that the
, issue of Bank Paper had caused a depreciation of it
in Ireland. It had also been said that the issue of
the Bank rf England had been increased in thos:
• years of 1804, 5, 6 ; now there was rather a decrease.
—For the issue in those years, severally, was
017,300,000,, 5e17,‘200,000, and 817,100,000. This
statement had been so made by the Bullion Commit-
. tee.and, without any personaldisrespect to any indivi-•
dual, he thought their conduct reprehensible. This
was a great and wealthy Empire, and he would not
permit those false and perverted statements to go
forth to the public without offering his mite to stop
their baneful tendency. In. this country every-thing
depended upon our credit, and that credit was founded
upon the stability of our paper currency. A compa-
rison had also been made between the Bank Paper of
this country and the Assignats of France, which•was
altogether unfounded.
Tht.. Earl of LAUDERDALE was sorry to have
further occasion to notice, that his statement was cer.';
tainly questioned by the Noble Lord on a former
night, and he Would on, Monday convince the House
of the accuracy of hii staiement. He could also in-
form.him, that, however dissimilar in some things,
*the Paper Currency of this country was to the Assig-
onts of France, they were the same as to the causes
of their depreciation.
Loth 1-19LLAND observed, this conversation was
very •ular; but he could not help noticing, with

maxims of the country. It was understood out of
doors last year that the Bill was carried, and the ef-
the minds of the people

is must be right, for if wrong it must have been al-
ready discovered; and in this manner error was con-
tinued from generation to genentibn. He concluded
a speech of considerable detail
.by Complimenting Sir
_• - forward

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Samuel Romilly on his exertions in bringing
the Bills. Sooner or later the cause he had advoca,
must triumph, because it was tha cause of good sense,

humanity and justice.
Mr. ABERCROMBY found fault with the extent
which had been given to the question. It appeared
to the opponents of the motion as if it were an at-
tempt to overturn the whole existing system, and ex-
clude capital punishment for ever ; but the true ques-
tion was short, distinct, and practical—it was the
single question of changing the punishment in a case
where it was even now seldom inflicted. By the pre-
sent system of severe punishments being appointed
for trivial offences, Judges and Juries were made to
violate their duties, prosecutors to shrink sack from
theirs, and the punishment to be in some cases a
mockery, and in others an oppression. He (Mr.
Abercromby) held in his hand a list of committals
and ptesecutions which occurred within five years,
and from that list would be seen the unwillingness of.
prosecutors to come forward under the present sys-
tem. In 1802, of 107 committed for trial, but 79
were tried ; in 1803, Itti were committed, and 109
tried ; in 1804, 135 were committed, and 59 tried ;
in 180.5, 131 were committed, and 76 tried; in 1806,
128 were committed, and 56 tried. To what cause
was this extraordinary disproportion to be attributed,
but to the disinclination of prosecutors ? The Juries
were not unfrequently led into what could scarcely be
called by any other name than perjury. An instance
I'had been cited by the Learned Mover, in a fcrmer
debate, of a young.woman who was fuund guilty of
stealing a £lO note. There could be no doubt of
the fact ; but the Jury found the value elute note to
be under 40s.:—(Hear, and an observation from a
Member, that perhaps the Jury were near the value.)
—" Not" said Mr. A.bercromby, " whatever may lie
expected on that point as to the selo note, the Jury
could scarcely have satisfied themselves on the point
at the time. This case was worth many others, and
there need not be adduced a stronger evidence of the
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fect of that opinion upon
shewed itself immediately ; they began to think it
was not so.criminal to rob and pilfer. His Learned
Iriend had succeeded actually in altering the law, as
far as it respected stealing from the person, and had
congratulated the House that prosecutions were since
increased : but the increase of prosecutions was in it-
self an evil ; for reformation, and not punishment,
was the end of penal laws. Mild penal laws might
suit a despotic country, but were incompatible with
the liberty of a free state, Where there could be hotiti.
little preventive law. He referred to the History
the Penal Code of China. The British laws, he con-
tended, were not formed upon any general principle,
but grew out of necessity alone, and it might be pos-
sible to buy an exemption from vice and crime too
dear. He quoted the opinions of the Recorder and
Common Serjeant of London against the Act of last
year ; and concluded gy expressing a hope that the
House would attend to the practical judgments of
men acquainted with the fact, before they agreed to
a Bill which wou4 introduce a new system founded
upon theory, not experience.
Sir JOHN ANSTRUTHER• said, that if he
'thought the measure had any tendency to interfere
with the fixed maxims of the country, he would be
one of the first to oppose it ; but so far from tending
to alter the system, it appeared to him to be calcula-
ted to bring back the law to the system from which
it had started. No man could look much at the man-
ner in' which penal laws passed in this country, with-
' out being aware that they met in general with little
consideration, and arose in many instances from.ac-
cidental circumstances. If a particular crime was
prevalent at any particular time, the usual course was
to bring in a bill to make it a felony, so that the crib
mind- code had arrived at such a degree of severity,
that no man could look at it without shuddering.—
remed consider from time

Irreg,
the small degree of knowledge he passeitedon. this
su hjec t, that all the arguments which he had jest
beard in favour of the paper currency•of this countrr.
he beard at the time in favour of the Assignats of.
France. The advocates for the latter speciespf cur-,
rency at that period, equally with those of the former
at .lies time, m.iintained, by the.self-same arguments,
And all which he had

there V4s no depreciation'; and
'heard on. this siihject, he cottld. End written in the

and Learned Friend 1:7- ht think of his knowledge en
the subject, he could • ono him thatfor fifteen Tears,
whilst he wont circuit, he had studied the criminal law,
and when he had nothing else to do, went constantly
into the criminal courts, to take notes of their pro.
ceedings. His Honourable and Learned Friend's
speech was so abstract as not to be intelligible, and
which he could not answer because he could not fol-
low. His Honourable Friend had talked of his high
authorities which were against this measure ; bat no
man had a right to assume- that the Judges were
against this measure. The learned Magistrates, the
Recorder and Common Serjeant of the City of Lon-
don, he was aware; had given the sanction of their
auttotity his But •••

high , against 1. s measures. epee what
facts Because offences had &ready increased. This
was a-preof that some alteration was -accessary. /I &
physician found his patients - under his r
titan, he would think it

*Ong Pre3cTiPr
not thorn.—
If an alteration then was or town could
say it ought to be to greater breaking e-
wheel - rack tun* *Afore t-
end"

French botlts of 'fiat -chiy.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE said, such was the
difference between the Assignats of France and the
Bank Paper of this country, that Mt could only say,
be was inclined to prefer the assignats of France to
the paper currency of this country. He saw a Noble
and Learned Ltird ( Redesdalelf who smiled, but he
would challenge him, with the little he knew on the
subject, to inform him that a depreciation might
not take place by the same means in both these spe-
cies of currency. The over-issue in each, for want of
proper restriction, would produce exactly the same
consequences.
L- rd REDESDALE said there was certainly a
difference ; the Assignats were issued by the Govern-
ment for goods, and were not returnable in a certain
period ; whereas Bank Paper was issued upon secu-
rities, for which paper, or other securities for it, was
returnable in three months.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE still maintained,
that if the issue was heyind- the securities in either, the
consequence must be a depreciation.—Adjourned.
HOUSE GE COMMONS.
A Person from the Treasury presented an Account of the
Bank Notes in cireulatidn at various periods since the year 1715.
tirtIIIGATE AIfCIIWAY BILL.
iillobtition from Upper Holloway, in

The only for this was to .
to time the abuses that crept into it, and this was all
his Learned Friend proposed. There were two things
to be considered in penal legislation : first, the pu.
nishment should be proportioned as nearly as possible
to the offence ; and, secondly, the benefit of the pub.
lk should be considered as effected by the example.
With re, to the smaller class of offences, it was

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impossible to Jose sight of the case of the individual,
it was just that he should be punished in proportion

importance of the objects to which the Learned Mo-
ver had so honourably and 'perseveringly devoted
himself—( Hear.)
Mr. MORRIS, from all that be had seen and known
on the subject, was convinced that some change in
the Law of Punishment ought to be made. He would
merely mention a circumstance at which he was pre.

just
to his offence, but in many cases there was no propor-
tion whatever between them. When severity was re-
sorted to for the purpose of example, they should be
sure that the benefit of example would be the conse-
quence. The intention of the law was to make our ,
penal code and our practice the same. He disap
proved of the suggestion of his Hon. Friend (Mr. I,
Frankland) to leave it in the option of the prosecutor
whether he would bring his action for the compound
felony or not, as it would leave too much in a malig-
nant person's power. The Hon Baronet was of opi-
nion the certainty of punishment would have more
effect in deterring persons from committing crimes,
than the uncertainty which the present code holds out.
With respect to cases of aggravation in shoplifting,
he thought that the laws should 'be so clearly laid
down, as that it would not be necessary for the Judges
to use that discretion, which to them must be irksome,
in distinguishing between grand and petty larceny.
• He considered the sentence passed-upon offenders of.
this description (which was that of death) wasnothing
'more than a mere legal form, because it was never
carried into effect. The consequence was, that it ope.
rated as a sort of mockery of justice. Thinkiirg the
laws would be better executed by die bill of his Hon.
Friend, he should vote for it.
Mr. M't)ONALD thought; that the House should

Mr. BYNO presented 1 -7
favuur of the Highgate Arclissay Bill. Ordered to lit on the
Table.
Mr. MELLISH presented one on the same subject from the
Inkablonts of Kentish Town. Ordered to lie on the Tads.
STAMFORD CANAL BILL.
Afte a istagthentd *llscussion on the second reading:of the
aiiiikforil COO 80, in which Mr. TIMM PSON, Mr. MADDOX,
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not be deterred from adopting the principles of the
bill proposed, merely from its being stated that it was
an innovation. Every improvement that was ever
proposed, might be got rid of in the same.way by the
cry of innovation. We could not suppose our
code was so r Iderfully constructed, that it had the

Sir IA/MBIGRAVA lA, Mr.. ELLIS-ON, IVIr.(.:ILarmAN, Mr. LA 113,
Sad Mr. Arias took part, the House divided on the Ameild-
new, Bat it skosid tte read that day six 'months; when there
Ipred—For tlie Alierreinent, .6.—Against it, 87.—Majo-
: gity, 59.
as Message from the Lords signified their Lordships' agree-
ment to the indemnity Bill, the Exchequer Bills 14'ttudirsif
sod several private Lill.. . . • +
DWELLING-001.1ss ROBBERY 8114.
SAMUELAOKILLY moved the Order of
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wonL
preternatural merit of never requiring to be revised.
As our wealth and luxury had increased, so had our
penal code ; and it was necessary from time to time
to revise it, and see, whether some punishments were
not altogether disproportioned to the crimes. Tbg
severity of our code produced in the injured parties a.
reluctance to proFecute ; in the Juries it often produ-
ced perjury, and in the Judges connivance at it. The
-:Ps thr'

sent. On the home Circuit a young woman was tali*
for -to the value of five shilling'. It was eiri.

.‘ stealing
dently her first offence, and the witnesses and the Jury
evidently tried to evade the conviction • but Lord
Kenyon told the Jury, that they had nothing to do,
but with the question of guilty or not guilty. They
found her guilty, and the Judge pronounced sentence
of death upon her. The woman had observed the in•
terest which her situation had excited in the Court,
and when she heard the sentence suddenly pronounced
upon her, she tell back at the instant, and dropped
upon the ground as if she was dead. Lord Kenyon,
whose sensibility was not worn out by his office, cried
out from the Bench, in terror, Woman, I don't
mean to hang you I Will nobody tell her, I don't
mean to hang her !"—(litar, hear.) Yes, at that
moment, the feelings of the Judge and the Jury were
against the law, and no man could have stood in that
Court without a feeling like their's, that the law was
unjustifiably severe, and ought to be amended.
h•• The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
laid, he could-not give a 'silent vote on this occasion.
The most effectual system to prevexctscrivne was the
most _mild in fact, though it might appear in terms
the most severe. Nothing had been said to prom
that discretionary punishment was not useful to check
the greater offenders. Nothing had been said to
prove, oven the policy of leaving it to individuals to
choose whether the indictments- should be laid

tally or tot ? If the choice were left to .
the regard for character alone woad put a total end
to capital prosecution, add this great arm of the law
be cut off. The Bills proposed to make punishment'
more certain : this must be, either by making the,
punishment ieu discretignari, or by increasing the
&it the -‘ in

appetite prosecutions. - punishments
the Bills were, from transportation for fourteen years
down to the smallest punishments, at the discretion
of the Judge. The Bills took away but a very few
of the impedimenta to prosecutiOns ; but the practical
Janus would any, that the in4ediments at present ex.l
ittirthrew any inconvenience, any of that which'
influence on a large scale in the way of prose.
- unwilling

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the Dayibr the',seeord.readillgof.the.p..- to prevent
Robbery' in llwelling-houses. •
Mr. FRANICLAND said, there were no less than
five Bills brought forward by. his Hon. and
Learned Friend, to alter the law as it now stood ; three
bad been proposed last year, two of which were re-
jected in that llotise,,ind one in another piaci ; but
in addition to diose, two more were to be attempted
•

Juries through natural feelings of humanity and cc,
passion usurped a power wlueh the law did not give
them, and Judges seemed very well contented dist
the discretion should be shifted from themsalVes to
somebody eke. As to the sentences of death,
were so often pronounced, and so seldom executed,
they now appeared to the prisoners, as well as to eviry
person in the Court, as mere senseless words, niutter-,

cuuon. Prosecntion mint be an .
thing after the first bent of anger against the efftli-
der ; and it was *only' ebb being bound over by the
blagrirete tit &burnt*, at die moment of inziety and
irrication,‘. that,coultil have egbitmed the great-into.,
city of prosecatiOos,'lnich;al they it conduce to
the public, advantage. -If even beg sere disposed to
11Prokt ell. that other biU s of his ' Mmurahle and
_ . arm,

the . ..-et or on the . : it -be to
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greater lenience. The Hon.. Lew* Member
then proceeded toenumerate the ' that
had taken place in the number of cm. If the
prosecutions increased under the operation of his
bills, it would be a proof of their efficacy. But his
Right Honourable Friend had stated that the law
Was not executed. That however was not the case :
ifie law was executed until latterly. It was only in
doe course of the present reign that his Majesty in
Council in London and Westminster, and the Judges
oft circuit, mitigated the sel+erity of the law, and very
properly. It 'was they, then, who made the innova-
'n. All he wanted, was to render the law the same
theory as in practice. To hear Gentlemen talk of
s law, one would suppose that it had been the pro-
Irduction of the wisdom of the greatest lawyers and
statesmen k whereas most of the laws in our criminal
code were passed without notice, and it was not until
the present reign, with two exceptions, that any dis.
.ettsaion took place in Parliament upon the criminal
law. As a proof of the awkward situation in which
'Juries were placed under the present State of the law,
be mentioned the case of the apprentice of a lapidary
in St. Giles's, who was some time since trial for steal-
ing his master's pocket-book,containing six £lO notes.
The case was clearly proved, but it appeared that the
boy had ever before that act been faithful to his mas-
ter, and other favourable circumstances came out
upon the trial. The consequence was, that the Jury
round a verdict for the stealing six seloaotes, stealing
to the amount of 595. It had been urged against
ithn, that he had brought forward these Bills on hit
own opinion. Certainly he had, but he was supported
by the authority of Blackstone, of Bacon, and Coke,
in support of an amelioration of the criminal law,
and he was not afraid to set the weight of these great
names against e'en the high authority of the Corn-
- London.

mon Serjeant and Recorder of _
A division then took place—
For the 2d reading 79—Against it sS—Majority 26.
The Bill was then read a second time.
• SNGLISH MATCHING GROUNDS ROURRY BILL.
On the question for the second reading of this Bill,
• Mr. DAVIES GIDDY 'Said, that although this

Bill was alledged to be founded on the same princi-
ples - those of which the second reading bad been

as
carried, yet he thought there was a distinction in the
circumstances to which the enactments applied that
would make this inexpedient. The goods in a bleach-
ing-ground were spread over a very large space, which
it were difficult securely to fence, the articles were
; v aluable, and the temptation to steal them strung ; and it
was necessary to guard rhefis by the severity of the law.
Sir S. ROMILLY stated, in reply, that he had
'brought in the Irish. Bleaching Biil, which must lot-
low the fortuneof this, at the requisition of the linen-
IsnantiNctuters in Ireland. The Chancellor of the Irish
iExchthiuer had also informed him, that there was no
disposition to oppose k. As to the English Bill, the
calico'printers in Lancashire had signified, by one
lof the County Members, that they had no objection
to it.—.-The English and Irish Bleaching-grounds Bills
were then respectively read a second time, and com-
mitted.
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, strEPENEtow OF TUE IeXECUTIVE POWER.
. • Ikti„,.Ii4,HItBREAD rose, to speak outheiobjeCi
of the notice he' had given respecting a provision
in case of a future suspension of the Executive
Power. A variety of circumstances having driven
off that notice so that it could not be acted upon till
next week, and as it was understood that a declaration
was then to be made of the state of His Majesty's
health, he certainly should not bring it forward then.
. ,_ .

It was, however, his intention to submit a peopositioa
to the House shortly after the recess. He could not
name the day at present, as he should be under the
necessity of being away for some time, but he par.
posed to bring it forward as early as possible on hit
return. •
YORIAGY MINISTERS' SALARY,

.i•
On the question that the adjourned debate on the
Foreign Ministers' Salaries' Bill be resumed,
Mr. BANKES observed, that this was a measure
to repeal a considerable part of an Act passed last
Session:. Before that Act, the principle of the excep-
tion in Mr. Burke's Bill had been abused, and persons
who had not been employed in missions of import•
crossed the sea, and been ab.

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ance, but had merely c..
sent three pa for years, clAimed pensions, and became
permanent burtheus to the country. To Ministers
themselves it must be convenient to baarmed, by the
I.egulature, against the mistaken expectations and
improper &v ands of their own dependants, for short,
and comparatively unimportant, services abroad.
He mut thefifore, oppose the second reading of the
18111. • . . .c

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Thetetaining of the
deter crimes from
Where there was a
falling upon them,
ttces, and thereby be
of crimes. He was
ugh he should not
ely Stealing Bill. lie
d reading of the Bill.
ad so often troubled
his sentiments upon •
sound bei be brief od
and Learned Frielil
represented this Bit
such as may be ex.
Whatever his Hon.
: of his knowledge en
chalet fifteen years,
died the criminal law,
z dos went constantly
t. notes of their pro.
Id Learned Friend's
be intelligible, and
Luse he could not fol.
ad talked of his high
this measure ; but no
sat the Judges were
rrsed Magistrates, the
t of the City of 'Len-
the sanction of their _ •
ures. But epon what
ratty increased. This
a was necessary. If a
ng under his pep.
Inteetiikti taideseh;_l
ahltilimion king
could
king on
tor
mit be to
and•Aseniiied Member
he that
of ces. If the
the operation of his
reir efficacy. But his
stated that the law
!ver was not the case
.erly. It was only in
that his Majesty in
singer, and the Judges
ty of the law, and very
who made the innova-
ender the law the same
leas Gentlemen talk of
at it had been the pro-
. greatest lawyers and
he laws in our criminal
ce, and it was not until
rcePtiones that any dig.
Lent upon the criminal
yard situation in which
present State of the law,
ipprentice of a lapidary
me since tried for steal-
onta ining six /el 0 notes.
but it appeared that the
been faithful to his znas-
ircumstances came out
Levee was, that the Jury
g six seln notes, stealing
id been urged against
ward these Bills on hie
d, but he was supported
se, of Bacon, and Coke,
a of the criminal law,
the weight of these great
authority of the Com-
of London.
tinst it sS—Majority 26.
second time.
LINDS ROURRY BILL.
cond reading of this Bill,
;aid, that although this
nded on the same princi-
ccond reading had been
was a distinction in the
enactments applied that
The goods in a bleach-
* very large space, which
fence, the articles were
°steal them strong ; and it
by the severity of the law.
in reply, that he had
ng Bill, which must fol-
ic requisition of the linen-
'he Chancellor of the Irish
.4 him, .that there was no
.S to the English Bill, the
ire had signified, by one
at they had no objection
h Bleaching-grounds Bills
a second time, and corn-
LteCtITIVE POWER.
se, to speak on the.subiece
n respecting a provisioa
ension of the Executive
urastances having driven
ski not be acted upon till
lerstood that a declaration
Le state of His Majesty's
not bring it forward then.
on to submit a proposition
the recess. He could not
; he should be under the
some time, but he pop.
a early as possible on hit
TER? SALARY.
adjourned debate on the
P Bill be resumed,
I, that this was a measure
trt of an Act passed last
the principle of the creep-
id been abused, and persons
ed, in missions of import•
issed the sea, and been ab-
Limed pensions, and became
le country. To Ministers