Star.
London, England, 1817-06-24 00:00:00

efere Mr. /owlet Ford, who congratulated him on his being
about to be released, after soil/ring LI long a confinement, on a
"'edition merely nominal—on hi. tuternig into a recognizaitee
of 0:1000. This oiler he refused, a, he was in tepee:even
that the suspension would soon b - t;.lstn off, when he intended
brilearg Ids action for the inirtisunintut he had sustained,—
Disappoleted in this hope, lie bad at length :Wailed himself of
the offer wh eh had been made, and was set at liberty. When
the Hebei. Corpus Act was rniileted to expire, he commenced
legal pruce, thugs against dise by wham be had been cunlined,
when he was stripped by a Bill art Indamnity, which then, as
he (Me. Brand) thought, was improperly.pasitel ; and thus he
was precluded Iron, seeking retire's, and !rant vindicating his
character Ihe individual had then withal to do bus to de.
clare, as he now did in this rattan, before his country, " per.
sonat.d" by that Hou.e, and as he aiso declared with equal so-
lemnity before AL/410117 v GOD. that he never was in any way
guilty of that which he understood to have been imputed to bins.
'The Honourable Member took ucca,iun to say, he should have
little obj. c,: an to trust Ministers with the Habeas Corpus sus-
pension, it they mild thentselvc. See all the casts to which it
was sq OW. the Petitioner bellev'ssi himself to have becu
subjected to the hardships above stated through the niachina.
'lons of a person of iliiaMOUS character, who was employed to
give informatien to Governisieht, aid who, at the instance ut
the Petitioner, bad been expelisd on account ut Lis had conduct
from a Sock y to which he had belonged. The individual from
whom the p.itition came, fpally prayed, that if the House had
any doubt respecting his ciiinduct, they would permit bite to
vindicate himself at their bar; and at all events called upon them
not to accede to the measure about to be proposed against the
fiber les of the country.
Ou the qac,tien that the Petition should be brought up,
Mr. BROUGHAM said, he should occupy the House but a
(..w moments by saying a kw words upon a subject waich nearly
concerned him; and he hoped, that though he might not be also.
;ether regular, hr would be excused, as it was not his intention
1.3 submit any motjosi. He was the very last man who would
feel ch.:l-used to Like notice of soy breach of privilege without
the greatest uscessity for so sluing; no man Ilse than hint was
ready a. any Vole to proceed hastily against any person for what
he might have done in properly, and perhaps lie never till that
moult:it made any reference to a printed pubhcatlon of any de-
scription. 'there was a certain description of conduct which, ni
hi. opinion, however, should not be atiowed to pass unnoticed.
He alluded particularly to a must malicious and most grousniksa
misrepresentation which had beta made upon sometime; which
be. had said, in a Paper of Saturday last. '1 hat Paper had stated,
that a Noble Lord opposite bad said of him that he had been
guilty of a most wilful mier-epre.e..tation. It was unucetesary
tut Is in to remind ail Member that such language, it u had
takeu place, would not have been suffered in that House, b[lll
k•ss was it nece-sary for him to say how improbable it was that
any such language would have been used by the Noble Lord.—
He had taken the trouble ut examining all the other Papers, and
more of them cc:trained the slightest grounds fur any such charge
as had been pin ieto the Noble Lord's mouth by the Paper lie
mentioned. 1 hey bad taken the statement front a Morning
Paper, which had that morning corrected what it lad reported.
Lord LASCELLES had read the raper alluded to by the Hon.
and Learned Gentleman, and had been :is much struck as be
was by the pa sage which he had mentioned. That passage was
a complete misrepresentation of wuat had been said, and it had
been made in the must invidious manner. Ile had been some
years in the House, and it had.uever been his practice to com-
ment either ha or out of it, so as in any way to give offence to
any individual. He certainly had been in souse degree surprised
by an observatiod made by the Hon. and Learned Gentlemaa,
that his rtetth thOlad be printed along with the Report: such
language as bad been published in the Paper in question he had
never used.— (
hear, Use!) ,
Mr. BROUGHAM was happy to find that the statement
made by the Noble Lord had confirmed the opinion which be,
in common with the House, entertained of his disposition. He
bad not intended, by what he had said about the Noble Lord',
speech, at all to convey any imputation upon him.
The Petition was read, and laid on the table.
Sir JOHN NEW POR should now acquaint the House, that
Ittbs Habeas Corpus Susi:minion 811 l should go into a Commit-
tee, he et'ould move that thelbll bbould not extend farther than
the id of December.
Sir C. MORDAUNT presented a Petition from the County
of Waiwick against the further Suspension at the Halseas*Corpus
Act. The Hon. Baronet expressed great sorrow that his coo-
mom would not allow him to support I he prayer of the Petition.
After a few words teens Mr.DUUDALA, the Petition was read
and laid upon the table.

SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ,CT.
The Order of the Day for the first reading of the
Bill from the Lords, for Suspending the Habeas

Co-pus Act, having been read,-
_LordCASTLEItEAGU said no individual could
feel more deep than he did the importance of that
measure which he now considered it to be his duty
totecommend to the House. He was sensible of
the heavy responsibility which must fall on those who
call for it, and on all hands it must be admitted to
be a serious encroachment on the rights of the sub-
ject, during the time for which it was to be continued.
It then became a question, whether the internal state
et the country Wa6 such as to call forgo strong a
measure—whether the ordinary laws were sufficient
—or whether, if these were not sufficient, other mea.
• sures, less strong than the Suspension of the Ha-
bras Corpus, ought not to be resorted to ? In argu-
ing en this measure, he protested at the outset against
any inferenie being dawn, that Ministers, in forming
their judgment on it, •were subject to any undue bias
in its favour. He trusted that he was addressing an
audience who were too fairly disposed, to believe
such' powers would be called for it the Members of
the Administration believed the Government of the
country could sately go on without them—(Hear,
hear.) Nothing but a sense of duty—but conviction
that tor the safety of the loyal and, the peaceable,
and for the preservation of the Constitution itself,
they were necessary, could, he was certain, have
made them consent to take upon themselves that ar-
duous responsibility which attached to a measure
like that now under the consideration of the House.
He hoped their past conduct was such, as to prove
thee would not hare advised the continuance of the
Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, if they were not sa-
tisfied, that of All the measures that could be resorted
t.), this would be the most effectual, and might, as
it would be used, prove least injurious to the people
at large—(Hear, hear.) The course pursued by Mi-
nisters, in confining the measure to this 'part of the,
kingdom, and in limiting to tinie•as they had done,
must, he thought, prove to every impartial. person,
that they were unwilling to oveierep the necessity of
the case, or to apply the law when io force to any
but its legitimate objects—the presentation of the
Constitution, and the protection of the loyal and well
disposed. He wished the House to decide on its
adoption or rejection, purely from the tarts which
were "brought beroie them. He protested against the
inference that had been drawn, that to bring in a bill
like,this was to libel the whole country, and to pre-
fer a general Bill of Indictment againstthe People
of England. He did not call for this measure against
the people ; but, on the contrary, he demanded it
for them, in order to protect them in the exercise of
their industry against the machinations of agitators,
vihich were hostile to their interests, as they were to
those of the country at large. The adoption of such
a measure might alarm those who knew themselves
to be guilty of treasonable designs ; but, in his con-
science, he believed the loyal and peaceable pan of
toe community would feel no uneasiness about it,
but, on the sontrsuy, would be guaclul for Use par