The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-15 00:00:00

LONDON:
~ygIMAT NOTEM•ER 15.

'roar EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

ne noel daring the early part of yesterday ex-
we," lA* a steady appearance, until the middle
e, ail, when the market sudd• my took a de-
(:ave rile, and Consols, which opened at 69k for
to ucieat, 1.091, to $9. This, as might be sap-
f.Acraded a considerable i.attie among the beers,
„et of whom were declared defaulters yesterday,
sae is day, in addition to those we mentioned on
udq, Tots rase was attributed to the idea that
pi;.e,,Diforron:.l have been prorogued last night, which
wasetr!ern a 4 tu create a great demand, for money
s..:k was very scarce. However, this morning has
falatied the report, and the addition of the
iskiin troop being urn the march, has changed
sle feature of the market. for t. onsols, which opened
st la are now t'.9l. the market nut looking' quite
ss Ini.liant. The other Funds partook likewise of
Otis rise, as Navy Jive per Cents. were done at IWO;
bat ate Dow inn Whatever may be the Nutt result,
there certainly is sot sat& lent pontical reason NT this
el ra...on, and nothing but the pubiic bring so sub
est of stock could have created it.

this 'Homing, has an el 'borate article I
s:lem• the immediate cause of the of
the gait of Pains and Penalties. There was a drawn-
mace, it was alleJged, connected with it, nhich was
items to Ministers, but of which no notice was taken
by them, either in the course of the proceedings or
a: tie conclusion. This circninstance, attic)) Ministers
E..oiltrood to have kept so snug., is, however, no
othsr than that which was the topic of discussion la
every public company in town, namely, that in the I
eye of an impeachment, a majority of twelve was ab-
whitely necessary to the condemnation. Now, we are :
Maly convinced that this circumstan re had not, and
could h:tve not the smallest ininence in leading to the
abandonment of the DUI. Independent of any refe- ,
rence to analogues cases, the Ministers acquired, in
the course of the proceedings, that kind of conviction
with respect t ) the measur.! itself, which nia.k its ter-
mination most expedient. The loud and universal
mice of,Rald]c ?pinion was against it. The whole
nation hat i,lentillod itself in the cause of the Queen,
and was agitated with the keenest emotions. The
peace of the confer!, and the security of the Ministers
were in imminent danger ; and if their love for their

conatry and their master had been insufficient to re-
s•rain thin in their rash and obnoxious course, their
regard for their own interests was enough to cheek
them. But the cause assigned in this article of The
Ti.tua, is inapposite and inapplicable to the occur-
rence. Whatever the additional number above a hare
majority may be that may he required for condemna-
tion in a case of impeachment, that number is err-
tai,4 not necessary to the passing of a Bill in Par-
liament, though it he a Bill of Pains and Penalties, or
even ut Attainder. In proof of this, we have an insta-ce
in the case of Sir Joust Flixwick, in the year 11;96,
when a Bill of Attainder passed the House of Peers,
by a majority of only seven. Sir JOHN had been ap-
prehended at New Romney, on has way to France, to
join the abdicated Ninnarch, and with him had been
seized his servant, by it hom hesent to his lady, a letter,
wai, found, and which contained evidence otitis
imentlons. For this offence, it was thought
peeper to proceed against him, not by a Bill of In-
dietuient in any ordinary l'ourt of Justice, but by a
Bill of Attainder, introduced into Parliament. In op-
posieg this mode of proceeding. his Counsel, Sir J.
Pow's, well observed at the Bar of the House of Com-
mons, that "if Bills of Attainder come into fashion,
we shall neither know what is treason, what is evi-
dence, nor how, or where we are ta he tried." In the
stages of the measure, the most strenuous and
justly grounded opposition was made to it; and the
'furies tin this occasion asserted those Constitutional
priu.:iples of dberty and justice which the Whigs were
t ineutiaistently violating in their proceedings
against the unhappy Baronet. he Bill, however,
was committed, pasted, and sent up to the House
of Lords, where it produced the longest and
wannest debates which had been known since the
re.ortnation. At length it was carried on a divi-
sion by siert EICHT against stztv one; and one
and forty Lords, including eight Prelates, entered
a protest, couched in the strongest terns against
the decision.—lt may not be irrelevant to add, as
a further specimen of the spirit that actuates all
Bills of Pains and Penalties, that Sir Joust Ecr-
u Ice, after ineffectually soliciting the mediation
of the Lords in his behalf, while his friends im-
plored the Royal mercy, and notwithstanding the
Bill against him was carried in the House of Peers
by a utajority of only SEVEN, was wade to suffer
upon Tower-Hill; and could obtain no other fa-
your—than an ow:taloa by an axe, instead of a
halter