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London, England, 1821-01-26 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, J. 23.

The LORD CHANORIOR give notice of its
being intended to resume the hearing of Appeals on
Wednesday next.
QUEEN—PETITIONS,.*e.
Lord ERSKINE presented Petitions from Banff.
Dumfries, Arbroath, Beechin and Crieff, in Scotland.
praying that all further proceedings against the
Queen might be discountenanced and put an end to,
deprecating the late proceedings, and praying fur-
ther, that her Majesty might be restored to all hes
rights and privileges, and that her name might be
restored to the Liturgy.
Lord EKSKINE also presented a similar Petition
from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons a
the City of London.
The Earl of DARNLEY presented a similar Pell-
Lion front Kent, agreed at a Meeting of the County.
Ilia Lordship adverted to the refusal of the Sheriff
Is
convene e county Meeting, mid took occasion to oh-
serve upon the danger that must arise to the liberty
of the subject, if the right of petitioning was to be
obstructed or prevented by the conduct of Sheriffs,
who might be under the influence of the Crown.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL observed, that the She-
riffs were appointed, if hr might use the expression, in
so judicial a way, that the influctice of the Crown had
nothing tudo with it. In the first place, three Clew
tlemen for each county were returned by the Judges,
upon their oaths, to the Privy Council sitting in the
Coedit( Exchenser, afterwards, on the appoint
meat, the first name of the three was invariably
unless sufficient reasons were alleged on behalf of the
party to alter that coarse of nomination. There was,
therefore, no ground for inviting that the Sheriffs of
Counties were in any respect hithirrifell by the Crown
in the exercise of that discretion with regard to calling
county neeetings, which undoubtedly belonged to
Cern..
The Earl of DARNLEY, in esplanation, said, that
hr slid not mean to impute that the is.:lsience of the
Crown was exercised in the appointment of Sheriffs,
hut merely to observe, that, under other circumstances,
they might be made the instruments of the Crowe to
obstruct very materially the right of petitioning.
The Earl of GROSVENOR adverted to the pro-
ceedings at the Chester County Meeting, for the pur-
pose of 'hewing the very extraordinary conduct of the
Sheriff, who hail chosen totalse upon himself to decide
that an amendment proposed by him (Lord Grosvenor)
was irrelevant, without putting any question upon it
to the meeting, and who had afterwards also taken upon
himself to decide that the address was agreed to, and
refused, although called upon to do so, to adopt any
mode by which the sense of the meeting could be rosily
ascertained. Ile trusted that this extraordinary COW
duet of the Sheriff, so snbversive of the rights of the
subject, would be made the subject of animadversion,
if not in that House, in.the other House of Perliament,
and that some means would be found of marking it
with a proper severity of censure.
The Petition was read and ordered to lie on the
Table.
The Earl of DARNLEY observed, with regard to
the exclusion of the Queen's name from the Liturgy,
that that unfortunate measure had been the sole
cause of all the evils that had arisen out of the steps
taken respecting the Queen, and he trusted that Mi-
nisters would not endeavour to influestee the House
of Commons to refuse to call upon the Cretin to re-
store her Majesty's name to the service of the church.
Should, however, they succeed in setting the Howe
of Cotuntons and the country in diametrical Disposi-
tion to each other, thereby furnishing the strongest
argument for Parliamentary Reform, he should feel
it his duty to move their Lordships' House foe the
restoration of her Majesty's name to the Liturgy,
with the confidence he was entitled to feel, that, as
on the late occasion, a number of Member. of that
House would refuse to be influenced by those consi-
derations which might operate upon other occasions,
and that Ministers could not, as they found before,
command a majority-
Lord HOLLAND presented a similar Petition front
the Corporation of Nottioghane, to which he had the
bonoar to belong, but withdrew h on account of •
clerical error. His Lordship also presented a similar
Petition from a Corporation to which be said he had
also the honour to belong, but he was afraid be wool a
very Inefficient Member—the Corporation of Illessaner-
men of Perth. He hoped, however, that the nail they
had in hand would drive the expressions in the Speech
from the Throne; would go a grrV way to allay the
irritation that prevailed. here wanted nothing but
fur their Lordships to ear their prayers.
',be Petition was ordered to lie upon the Table.
Lord ELLENDOKOUGH observed, that some of
the Pr: Wolters appeared to petition in, free:owe of
the real Were of the locative respecting Which- they
prayed the House. There was nu /melon We' alma