The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-04-07 00:00:00

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After some conversation. between Sir J. Nawrosy
and Mr. BATUUtST,
Mt. LUSHINGTON presented the Report of the
Comaiissiou on the Fees of the Court of Chancery.
• ADJOURNMENT.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, in consequence of di
Royal Marriage, moved that the House on its risits
do adjourn to Widnesday.-o,dered.
It was ordered, that Committees have leave to sit,
Oetsaithstantiing the Adjournment; and that sick
Private Bills as bad been ordered to be reed a second
time tomorrow, should be read a second time oa
Wednesday.
On. a question of Sir JOHN NEWPORT'S,
spotting the Duties on Four-wheeled Carriages is
Ireland,
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
said, that it was in his contemplation to propose it
Measure of relief from the Afuties on the species of
Carriage most in use in that country. •
• Mr. SMYTH presented tt Petition from the Una
versify of Cambridge, praying that the Copy-rigig
Bill might not pass into, a law, and to be heard by
.Counsel agalost,it.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for the Novas-.
of Causes tried In the Assistant Barsistere Courts to,
Ireland, op to the tat of 1818; and tlss
Number of Appeals frototht udgments, with*.
home thoee Appeals; Number of Declare._
tiou in the Superior Courts, in.ubich the sum wallet!
*hive 251. •

....trOSTER said, the Hon. Baronet cured
answer his object by this motion, as the sties
sated in Declarations were far above the amongst
really in dispute.
► Sir J. NEWPORT then withdrew his motion, is
order to amend it.
ftDONs.
Mr. F. DOUGLAS said, as he understood no appo.
k.sition would be matte to his motion for a repeal of
the Fees on Pardons under the Great Seal, he shoeld
make only a few observations. The amount of the
Fees to be paid on all sock Pardons was much greater
.than those who had not taken the trouble to mph*
'into the subject could probably imagine. They
amounted to 1101. on each Pardon. It was obvious,
that the great majority of those who received Par.
dons, could not pay this erpetice, and the Hosea
might be curious to know how the drfficolty had been
got over. In fact, very few of those to whom mercy
was extended, obtained this complete Paklois, which
alone could make them competent witnesses in a
Court of Justice. There had been Only twelve Pu.
dons during•the last ten years, and he was convinced,
that ies consequence, great impediments had been
thrown in the way of Public Justice. lie could not
better illustrate this than by staling the circumstance
which first called his attention to the subject. In Nye
(district of Osfordshire with which he Wes coeoected,
some of the worst sort of cri nes had been committed
for some time with impunity, and there was at last a
prospect of bringing the perpetrafots to penishmeat •
by. means of the evident' of a min who had formerly
been convicted of a felony. The Act of Geo. 111.
31, which male persons who had hfen convicted of
larcenies conspetout witnesses did n..t apply to felonies,
and it was necessary to sue out the Portion under the
Great Seal. 'file litotes whocotiductedtheprosecutioa
were however, astonished, when they found that the
espence of this Pardon wid] he 1101. in addition to
the other heavy expenses which they were obliged to
incur, end they were almost deterred from pursuing
their object ;, finally, they did proceed, and Nero
thus subjected to a considerable burthen. The lima
Member observed, that if there .were any thin
in the case or character of a person convicted which
rendered it proper to. extend to him the mercy of the
Crown by the grant of a Pardon, it was too much to
say that such person should be compelled to lay the
elpplice which at present attached to such a greet. •
To remove this rail was the object of the Bill which •
he tneint to bring forward. Ile dial not think it pro-
per to extend the provisinas of this Act of the 31st of
the King to felotdi, and therefore he fel the neces- •
sky of another course of proceeding, in order to
guard against the mischief, on the one hand, of ale
towing the Otilie.ll of the Crown to devise ;winds?t►
belierit from 'the eatension of the Royal mercy; Pea
_on the other, to'prrvide that persons ab told tot be •
exempted from Ras mercy, merely because they had
-no pecuniary rei cis. Tue lion. Mesabi. concluded
-with movin4 for leer+ to bring it; a Bill to diminish
th • expellee of Piodo
The ATTORNE 1-GENERAL said, that he did
not mean so oppose. the motion, but from what the
lion. Mover had stated, he felt it necessary to sub-
mit a few •observations. The Patents for Pardee,
t'te of•j?ct..ol which axisa seaters convicts to their
civil rights,.• were Patents under the Great Seal,
which were, in feet, s thject to no more expellee
than was incurred for all other Patents under atte•
same Seal, and that eapence Was o.cesary for
purposes easily in he explained. One part of this
eapence was tequired to reward the Clerks in office,
for their trouble in doing the business connected wi is
these patents—another to pay the Stamp Duties iw•
posed by the Legislature. Those duties on nen
patent amounted in one Office to 61., and in another
to 301. The portion of the sum received for the
warrant of a Patent of Pardon in the Secretary or
State's Office was invested in what was called the Fee
Fund, out of which the Clerks engaged in this Wail&
of the Nattiness of that office, and the Law Miceli
of the Crown, were rewarded for th. it trouble.—
There was also a part of the expeoce ircuried 1.•• a
patent paid into the Privy Seat Office. 13,11 it sh,nl.,-,
be understood, that the greater port, if tot the yawl*
of the expense stated by the Honourable Sieve ,
dependently of the Stcnip,Detier, was paid for tut,
actually doe in tie se.erel offices to which he had
alluded. The prepr.ety of providing a rem' sieratiost
fur such (townie or performance of duty, was,
deed, felt by the Crown itself ; for whenever it wq,
found absolutely necessary to paidats Convects, mull
a view to render them competent witnesses (or pru•
owing the ends of justice, the sr:pence of such
Pardons was paid by the Crown itself.---Bat
where a Pardon was granted from favour, he
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FIN NEWPORT'', re, favour.
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,f the EXCHEQUER made a
etnpiatiosi to propose e granted
lollies on the species s(, or to bet
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Petition from the Ugh. Tee
log that the Copy-rig tension
sw, and to be heard by a Bill to
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the Number of Declare.. rs • bed kw*
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tit motion, as the sine Vlst'of fil
far above the 'mom
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the trouble trouble to enquire s Ceeleb6
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those who received elf. •
'pence, and the Hems , I- A. I
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impediments had Imo :f I
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staling the circeonstaaco 9,
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