The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-04-13 00:00:00

complete sktisfactiois, and a more thorough convic-
tion of doing his politic duty. than he should feel that
nig.lit in lopporiing the motion of his Noble rrierid.

The E;rl of BUCKDIGIIANISHIRE defended
the conduct of Mitlisler4. _ _ _

The Earl of ROSiLYN reprobated the neglect of
his Majesty's Ministers to provide soma means
against the return to the Continent of a person whom
they t hetnselves characterised as the greatest enemy of
he peace of the world. A small force would have
been sufficient (or that purpose ; for the question had
not been argued fairly. It was a very different ope.
ration to prevent an individual from crossing over in
an open boat, and to prevent the passage of an armed
expedition. Nothing could be more futile than the
attempt made by the Noble Earl who had just
spoken, to justify the conduct of the British Govern.
:neat, by asserting that that of Fiance was as much
or more interested in the subject. Whether the
Bourbons het! the same meal: a..d the same facilities
as ourselves, was not the question. Our Govern.
merit had a distinct duty to perform; they neglected
it, and if their Lordships refused to call for the Pa.
pers moved for by his Noble Friend, they would, in
his opiuion, abandon their duty.
:heir Lordships then divided :

Contents 21; Non-conteuts 53—Mujerit! 32.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMNIONq.

The. LORD ADV OCATE ..1 scoT 1, NJ 11. bovine!, obtain-
ed braughT three Rill'. Th.• for the better ar.
raneengeod •if the Judicial Rec.,r4s ..-utlond. The I•ecnrirl,
for the beurr reSul. u,n of M hat roomy. The
third wog for abolishing the Inferior Coruinii,ioriers' Courts in
Se Of and.

'I hr Two Millions Irish F.c• hequer Bills Hill w.ki Tyne! it first
time. arid ordered to be read s secoad lime to.morrow.
SCOTCH JURY COURTS WILL.
The order having been read for the House to resolve
itself into a Committee on this Bill,

Sir S. ROMI LIM did not rise to oppose the pin.
grass of this Bill. He thought, on the contrary, that
it was a Bill which would confer the most important
benefits on Scotland. He could by no means consi-
der this Bill as a mere experiment, but as an immediate
remedy for a great practical evil. From his own ex-
perience in Appeal Cases from Scotland, he knew that
the greater part of them turned upon mere matters of
fact. The mode of trying those questions now in
Scotland was enormously expensive as well as dila.
tory. A case which in England might be disposed of
by a Jury five or six weeks after the action was
brought, was often pending in Scotland for seven or
eight years. There was another great advantage, in
the Trial by Jury, that the countenance, the deport-
ment. sod tone of voice of the witness, was a sort of
Whig commentars on the value of his testimony.—
This was an advantage that trials taken open written
depositions could not have. He certainly valued
highly the conscientious scruples of those Petitioners,
who supposed, that after taking the Juror's oath,
they could tint give up their opinion to their fellow
Jurors so as to agree upon a verdict. In this coon.
try, however, where the trial by Jury had existed for
many ceil.aries, a matt would be supposed to have a ,
very perverted understanding, if lie could imagine i
thut,aftet having advanced all the arguments he could
in support of hi.. impressions, he would be perjured
in filially acquiescing with the opinions of the ma. ,
jority, and finding a verdict. He must also observe,
that he thought this Bill might be a precedent for im.
portant amelioration in a pa: t of the English law.—
In our Ecclesiastical Courts, the proceedings (which
als., went on written depositions) were enormously
expensive and dilaters . lie hoped that when the •
attention of the lionse ivas called to the advantages
of 'Eris! by Jury in Sc.,:hinci, they would also see
the propriety of a similar mode of trial in many of the.,
ciso before our Fcclesiasiical Courts.
Mr. W. I)UNI)A: stated, that he had introduced
Amendments into the Bill ; and note of them was, that'
that if the Jury should not agree in twelve hours,
they should he dismissed. •
The House theta resolved itself into a Committee.

Upon the Cisme for the Commissioners being, on
every fnture occasion, appointed from the Practi-
tioners at the Scotch bar,
Mr. ABERCROMBIE disapproved of this clause.
He paid a high compliment to the talents and fitness
of the gentleman whom he understood now to be ap.
pointed (Mr. Adam), and considered it u one of the
most important parts of the Bill, that there should
be some one Commissioner at least, well acquainted
with the rules of evidence in this country, upon
Trials by Ju►y. He thought it too much to tie up
the hands of the Executive Power from appointing
any such person, in case of the death of the gentle-
man now appointed.
Mr. HORNER supported the clause. He thought
that a mere English barrister would be no morecom-
petent to try causes according to the law of Scotland,
than a Barrister who had only practised in Scotland
would be to sit at Guildhall and try cases according
to the law of England. He conceived that the law
of evidence in Scotland would be improved by the
Trial by Jury; hut it must be, after all, by the
Scotch law of evidence, and not by the English law,
that those trials must be decided. If there was any
attempt to transplant at once the English law of evi-
dence into Scotland, he wnc sure that k would

The LORD ADVOCATE also supported the
clause.

M r. A BERCROM B 1 E and Mr. CROK ER said a
few words.

Several clauses being gone through, a very long
conversation tcok place betsveen Mr. IVilberforce,
Mr. W. Smith, Mt. C. Grant, Lord Binning, Mr. J.
P. Grant, Sir J. Mackintosh, Mr. Horner, Mr.
Elliott, Sir H. MI otgomery, &c. on a clause for re-
quiring twelve hours' cuni•ideralion of the Jury ; af-
ter which time, if, not tgreein; unanimously in their
verdict, the Jury to be discharged.—Agreed to, with
amendments.

The other clauses went through the Committee.—
Report to be received a-morrow.—Adjourned at a
ginner past eight.

We understand, that the applications to the Com-
mander in Chief from General ()Seen, to be em.
ployed in the Netherlands were so numerous, and
made under such coollicting interests, that it was
judged expedient to send the Military Secretary to
the Duke of WELLzeorow, in order that a final ar-
rangement might take place ander his own immediate
cognizance.