The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-06-27 00:00:00

LTESMAN

fir. AbIIRCRUIMII—"-- ir thee adverted to the eta, ale.
*aim It was clear they had been told of peewee
among the Magistracy of Ireland who made prit of
justice. A favourable ear ought to be giv. n to complahals
of sal-administration of justice. From 1807 to iffn•
repeated complaints bad bfto made on that subject. As
a Member of Parliament, he was bound to take care of
the rights and privileges of the people. • The case was be-
fore the House, and the House ought to use it for the be
unfit of the people. It was a case in which the King's
Attorney-General addressed aletter to a Learned Judge
going the circuit. One passage was, " let the tientk-
men be informed, that if they do not take care the Pro-
testants will be thrown in the back ground as they were
formerly." This proved that they were haunted by
that nefortunate calamity, difference of opinion. He
'thought it impossible to withhold assent to the motion.
Colonel BARRY explained.
Mr. R. MARTIN was convinced, that if the petitioners
had sent a brief to the lion. and Learned Gentleman for
his opinion oc their petition, he would have advised than
not to have presented it. It was so inflammatory, so de--
void of all argument and reasoning, that the Honourable
and Leatned Gentleman, in his emphatic tone, would
have said to these petitioners, the House of Commons
was not to be bullied. He th.ught it impossible to bare
a better magistracy than at present existed in Ireland.—
With regard to the charge of Judge Fletcher, that had
been alluded to, he could inform the House that be bad
spoken to all the other Judges on that subject, and that
they had uniformly given it as their opinion, that the
delivery of that charge ought to have removed Judge
Pletcher from the bench, of whom it might be said, no-
thing became him so much as his death. • . .
Mr. PRKL assured the House, that he meant to 4161
dress himself solely to the subject before it; Amalie,
thought the Moose would believe- hiniswhan he declared
his wish so to do ; for out of the 84 days Parliament bed
sat, forty-pine bad been devoted to Irish affairs. The
question was, whether a Committee should be appointed
to inquire into the administration of courts of justice in
Ireland; a coareS that bad not been adopted for 120
years. and then the measure was applied to a case aof
gross corroplioa. Although be was opposed to shat
was called the claims of the Catholics, be had still too
good an opinion of that body not- to disdains for them
the inflammatory*. edt to say ferocious language of that
petition. They would never have said the corporatime
of Dublin was corrupt, and bad rubbed the country of
a million of money. Many of the supporters of the Ova
tholics in that •tlonte' particularly the Honourable'
Member. forCoris(3lr. Hutchinson), had contradicted
the assertions of that petition. This document, lie was
quite convinced, originated with a limited number of
persons under the denomination of the Catholic .I'so-
- now sitting in Dublin. It proceeded from the
same spirit that actuated an association holding meet-
ings in Dublin about ten years ago, under the name of
, the Catholic Committee, from which emanated a publi-
cation, complaining of the execution of a Catholia
Fanner, who was tried at the summer assizes of Kilken-
ny, in the year 18W, by the name of Barry •, and of
the improper respite of the sentence of Walter Hall, be-
cause he was eProtestant, whose case was brought be-
fore the House of Commons in 1812. The Right Hon.
Ofttlemao then; read various extracts to prone the falla.
etyco'f these two charges, which he declared to be direct
imputations against tae administration of the laws in lre-
kend. The late riot in the north could not be checked so
soon as it would otherwise have been, for want of a ma-
gistrate in that past color district ; the genfletnao who
was formerly ha the Commission there having been re-
"end), removed. In consequence of his strong political
bias. The center of Lord Manners was to attend to no
Conautunicatiogis specting. the magistracy but those
4ii fro ,c.vmatkcinar or a governor of -a
count -, He s sorry Ilse Learned Gentleman had de-'
oat
pile} ' twins tbe good. taste he had-shown is tbe• bus
011"Cer
gindirtig of his speech, by alluding to the letter of Mr.
Saarbt to Lord Norbury, written twelve years since; fOr
it could be legally in the possession of the public: The
Honourable Gentleman eulogised Mr. Saurin, defended
tthe decisions of.,the Court of Chancery in Ireland; froid
labiate he said•sthere had been but 22 appeals out of
2,700 causes decided by Lord Manners in 15 years, id
only half of which appeals his decisions were reversed.
and concluded by declaring. that he could not support
the *doe, as be was satisfied the petition was pre.
awned to answer the purpose of a party in Ireland.
Mr. 11ROUOLIA11 said, any one who bad only beard
the Mondurable Secretary's speech must suppose that he
(frID Brougham) had made a statement, on making the
erotism, wholly different from that which a part of his
prislant audience bad done him the honour to hear. Ho
thank the Honourable Member for Galway for the
jocose notice he took of his. speech, which was the most
aaccassful piece of mimickery he had ever witnessed,
'sada:wit congratulate the Right Honourable Secretary;
who, he believed was called the manager, for haring so
able a performer to close the Parliamentary season—
(great laughter). l'he Honourable Secretary said, Hie
.appeals from the Irish Court of Chancery were misstated
on a former night. but his corrected statement proved
that the proportion reversed was correctly stated. He
bad also expressed his horror at making any allusion to
Mr. Saurin's letter, considering the treachery by which
kismet have been obtained, he said, in the climax of his
indignation, and it was impossible for condemnation to
got beyond it. It might have been procured by bribing
'Wants to rob their masters—aye, and their mistresses
swis (exclaimed Mr. Brougham, the House resounding
well cries of " Heir"). That Horne had in its possession
a green bag, crammed with documents procured by such
'treachery practised against the Queen—(the cries of
"hear" continued to resound). How would the Hoe.
Secretary, after the feedings of horror he bad expressed
at the treachery by which the nation was impaled —be
lead almost said degraded in the face of the worid—how
dould lie sit is council, with any two of his colleagues;
who had countenanced the procuring such documents by
imeans to which all common treachery Was comparatively
, respectable (continued cries of " hear"). The Hon.
, Gent. concluded by pressing the necessityof sending the
petition to a committee.
Mr. HUTCHINSON rose to explain. He was proceed-
ing to repeat the observations of his former spech, when he
was interrupted by loud cries of " chair, chair."
Time SPEAKER said, that a member was only entitled In
explanation to correct any misrepresentation of his senti-
ments, not to repeat those which he had already uttered.
The gallery was them cleared for a division, when there
appeared—Ayes, 09—Noie, 19D—Majority against the mo-
tion, SU.
The orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a quarter after Two o'clock.

z yesterday week, ennserons end respectable meetings
were held at Wakefield and Motel!, of the merchants,
manufacturers,aMl othenhiaterested in the staple trade of
this county and Of this country, when . resolutions were
entered into at each place, strongly deprecating the pro-
posal of his Majesty's Ministers,to permit the free export-
ation of Britian Wool. At both these meetings, the po-
Bey el imposing a tax on the importation of Portly'
Wool was reprobated ; bat that measure, mischievous as
it ssayeauly is, was held to be preferable to the project of
expOrtiog a raw material which this country alone can
reduce to perfeetion, and the whole of which we have
machinery and workpeople to manufacture. A meeting
simi►sein its object and result to the above, was held in
theNagistrates' tsoom, atHalifax, last Saturday, when
an lithinapt was made to carry an amendment, to theeffect
we presume, that the trade in wool should be free--nei.
Um taxing tbe imports, ner•lnstraining the 'Sports, but
it was neitativcd by a .large tuajori►y.-.-(•heeds Moreirry,
due 21.)