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peak with these Gentlemen. In former times sm.
Tat Judges hive WWII inspoth.(l, and hanged too, for
less Mines (halt these, and the resron • as, that they
broke the 10,0 oath as well as their own. If what
bas been said of Nome of theseiudges he fully prgyerl,
they shall not want my vote to 'inflict on them the
am* chiudiviNnimt "

gilt Fit Midi kW IN/SIMI:ITO)! spoke also to this effect :
446 Ms. Speaker. in the front of Magna Charts it
litiairt-norh negahinms, fells differenrus justillarn—
, me will deter or deny justice to no man. To this
,Irlye King'', sworn, and with this the lodges are in.
•trostedsby thetroeths. I wonder what they can say
144 itsenotets'es. If they have not read that law they
hie not it to sit upon the Bench ; antlif they have,
had almost said that they deserve to lose their
heads. •
" statp.of this poor nation is to be deplored,
that in almost set ages the Judges, who ought to be
preserbeis of the. laws, have entleavoused to destroy
• them ; soil.that to please a Court faction they have
I) Sreschery attempted to break the bonds asunder
of Magma Charts, the great treasury of our peace.
It was no s.soirer passed than a Chief Justice (Hu-
nan.) lo that-day persuaded theKieg that he was not
booed by it, 'because he was ueder age when it was
passed. But this sort of insolence the nest Com-
mons resented to the, ruin of that pernicious Chief
Justice. In the time of Hattano 11. there were ewo
Judges vitro did insinuate into the King that the
Parliament-was only his creature, and depended on
his will, anti not on the ftrinlemental constitutional
law of Ike kingdom: width treacherous advice
proved the ntinOf that King, and for which all those
evil instruments were brought to justice. In his
late Majesty'stime his misfortenes were chiefly aces.
sinned by the-Corfeptions of the Long Robe. The
Judges, sty an extra-judicial opinion, gave the
king power to raise money upon any extraordinary
occasion' without Parliament, -and made the King
judge of these occasions.
" Phe two great pillars of the Government are
Parliaments end Juries. It Is these which give the
-• title of freeborn Englishmen. For my notion of
free Englishmen is this, that they are ruled by laws
of their Own making, and tried by men of the same
condition with themselves. These two great and
undoubted privileges of the People have been lately
invaded by the Judges that now sit in 'Westminster
natl. They have espoused proclamation lats.—They
• have discountenanced and (opposed several legal acts
that tended to the sitting of this Honourable House.
They have grasped Mt Legishrtiae Power into their
of hands, as in the instance of printing ; the Par.
liament was considering that matter, but they in the
interim made •their private opinion to be law to
supersede the- judgment of this House. They have
served en *ignorant and an arbitrary faction, and
have been the messenger of abhorrence; to the King.
: " Mr. speaker, what we have now to do do is to
load them with shame who bid defiance to the law.
fl'hey are guilty of crimes against eature—against
their King—against their• knowledge, and against
posterity. The end of my motion, therefore, is, that
we may address warmly our Prince against them.—.
,Let us wile a Committee to enquire into their crimes,
.and not fail of doing justice upon them who have
,perverted the law. ' Let us purge the fountain, and
the streams will issue pure."
I The House mustard, " That a Committee bespi
.pointed to Osmitie the proceedings of the Judges iu
IVestntinster Haft, and report the bane with their
opinions thereon to the House." And Articles of
:Impeachment having, upon that report, been after-
naldi drawn up against Sir Wm. ScitoGds, Chief
'Justice, it was blest lved, " That the said Sir We.
•Sceooes be impeached upon said Articles, and that
the said Articles be engrossed and seut up to the
:Lords by Lord CAVE/4015n."
is ltesolveJ, That the Committee appointed to
examine the proceedings of the Judges in Westmin.
toer Britt, and to prepare impeachments egaiost Sir
Fes NCIS NORTll,ChiefJustice of the Common Pleas;
Sir .1 nom ss Jorses, one of the Justices of the Court
of King's Bench, and Sir RICIIAItD IVESTON, ettl3 of
the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, do bring up
such impeachments with all convenient speed."
After Sir WILLIAM SCROGISS had put in his answer
the Krliameot was soon'thereatter prorogued, and
4' this affair was dropt. However the Chief Justice
was removed from his high station."
Now, in whatever way the Commons may have
viewed the Petition for Howie, the subject of it em-
braces all the matter that was deemed so important to
,the national interest on the question of Scsonos.—
Indeed, the matter which was charged upon SCKOCGS
was the making of lows with the Legislative effect,
bat whiela 'did not infringe upon any existing Statute;
but that against the Lords of Session, is not
only of making laws with • Legislative effect, but of
rescinding the enactments of the Three Estates of Par-
liament. Of *bat consequence is the suspending of the
Habeas Carpus Act to the People of Scotland, or the
passing of the Indemnity Bill to Ministers, if the Judges
there may rescind or supersede both. We cannot ht•
deed understand, what interest the Scottish Membefs
should at all have in the Commons in Bills applicable
to that nation, if the Judges, rescind ahem, er if they
may mike better laws. And the Scottish Members use
in that House must, in that view of the matter, be to
Legislate for England and Ireland, where the laws
of Parliament are held binding by both People.
It seems of little wonder to us, if Dowies Petition
is true, that the time of the Hon& of- Lords should
be so much occupied by appeals from Scotland, and
that so many of these cases should be remitted to the
Court below, for the conflicting Acts of two Legisla.
tures must make the law of Scotland extremely ditS-
. cult to be understood, and it must give rise to an es-
tent of pleading upon no other principles to be ac-
counted for.

FRENCH RAPERS.
CHAMBER OF PEERS. Arait 6.
The Chamber of Peers (which had adjourned un-
til to-morrow at noon) was convoked to-day, to re-
ceive a commuuialtion from the Government. The
Count Corvetto, Minister of Finances, and the
Councillors of State, MM. Begoin and Cosier. pre-
sented to the Chamber a Project of yr Lvw relative
to the Bank of France. This Project will be exa-
mined In the Bureapt, and discussed in' • general
assembly, on Thursday neat. A Commission was
appointed to roake,s report ou th• Project Oa Law ,