The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-23 00:00:00

Foliciter•Goneral„ equal at least to two mom"—
(heir, hror! and a laugh)—se that if he had own.
Imrs, he had wet power equal to the Plaintif.—
As to the universality of these prosecutions, they
interretell even with the common good offices and
social Fabius of life„ etch was the cupidity of those
wive gave Wanton's''. 011 this point, he wash,
just •barrae, that he had a letter hoe • ',Man in
i:”Jrhester, she slated that he lent his copra to a
ills'ittis and was profectated for that friend's brewing
• quarter of maalt.,..-[//coe, Atari]—The penalty
was one hundred wends which sea notified to
him without any pektioos monitory letter, the
first intimation condo, is the appalling fore of a
copy of it e bill, of shoot forty or fifty folios in
length, Ile applied to the Board of Excise ; and some
time after, he heard from them that they would re.
snit the penalty, provided he paid 301. and what
641'11 costs might have bets Interred. In the there
of three mouths after that, he received an mount
trim a Solicitor of the name of Car, la which those
small rapine's were charged at 461. The Hon.
Gentlemen, in the coots@ of his speech, took et-
rnity' to elver, to.the condor: of the Lot& of lite
Treasury, 16 regard to Petitions arising out of sorb
matters as that before the Bosse; which, he ob.
served, was woiforelyestisfactory,.from the toady
end considersto situation with which they IWO sit
lie concluded by moving, that the .Petithia bo
brought up.
A MEMBER, whose name we could not learn,
row for the pothole of bearing testimony to the high
character of a Gentleman who had been Olathe! to
In tha speech 401 the lion. Member (the Solicitor of
the Earley).
Mr. ELLICE complained of is individual, bet of
the system. the hist stage of any such affair as
that in q.ntiun, a refinance was made to the Se.
liciter ; and all subsequent proceedings wets advised
by him.
The SOLICITOR GENERAL wished to make
env or two ebtertations, in reply In the speech of
the Hon. Weber (Mr. D. Harvey), be he
thought it did not only attack the Comeissionyrs of
Lads. end the Commissioo•rs of Castries, as well
as the Solicitors'( those Metal, bat became it con.
tilted • direct attack on the resider' of the Judge
*he at reed presided in the Court of Eschequer•—
(Cries of "no, not front the Opposition Benches )
sight b. wrong; bet by emeraled to the Hasse
whether the Hon Gentleman had not compared in
some as the Cowl of Exchequer to the Slow
Chamber.—(Hear, ketsr!)—Tho linos* would be
aware, that thete was sot any more important petal'
Iha 1i.'.... Lear this Lh et •...ch regarded the met.
ter in cparstion, being the VI hof the King. It enacted
that every Captain of a suet should accutatoly de.
scab. his cargo in the ship'. manifett, and upon his
arrival should alto Cerrectly report it at the Custom.
house; end that If it shoold be found that such cargo
Avoid sot agree either with the menifeat of the re.
pert, h. should incur a penalty of 1001. Now the
Copies Is this case vats!, that ha had • certain pot.
ties infeeleo on board ; and oat his am's, he relati-
ve, the same quantity. That actual case, buyers,
tae, that Ike* was • considerable deficiency in that
quantity. Tito matter having been taken into consi-
deration by the Commiativners, they directed a rose.
rotten to be cadet' en In this prosscution
the Honourable Gentleman had told them very
rivet delay took place. fit* cause, ha beliered, of
that delay, and he hid no doubt that such soul
sera Olt l• be the fact, was the cisconts.ent• of
the Captain's hosing la the numniinss left England.
It en fine necessary for him to ester into • ailirliCll-
lion wf that GeAtifillie or of the Bolted of Kicky.
which had been so lately eulogised by Hoe. Gentle.
men opposite. lie (the Soliciior•Genrii•l) (night
well by ntrusral froth rotating into any vindication of
hiMplf•—[ Hee. 9 —het as for his Bon. and Learn.
el (:ritttll (the Attorney-General) wit.' had so lately
left that House, It was diets his to obeeraehns
possible it was that he mild b. actuated by any other
motives than genie which a sense of puhlic defy seg.
tested. In regard to the great number of informs.
shine, It was owing to the peculation and fcautiof
the wiles concerns fa then—certatnly not to those
unworthy motives which the Hon. Gentleman bed
attrittoted to the Solicitor and the Commiastooers of
Latise.—(Heat !)
Mr. CALVF:RT was not one of shot, who gave a
vilely ear to casts of this sort ; bet he would •ay,
that Ise the proem imitate, lea thought the lion.
Veutlessati (Mr. Harvey) had made est a very clear
one. There wets two things which the lion. and
Learned Gentlemen lad not satisfactorily answered t
In the filet place, as to tins great law of time in ibis
prooecution—• laspensinn of two years; and in the
stoat place, as to the number of Counsel tratployel,
and the rest it:peace, both of which he thought
moth greater Van necessary.
Mr. DF:NM AN thought it very hard, that when
aa Hos. Gentlemen had brought forward a case of
greet hordship nu the part of an individettl, the Law
Officers of tho Crown were to say, that if such cow.
plasots were to bat brought forward at all, nothing
short of an impeachment could be resorted to
( Hier !)—Hr did not two that the character of ibis
Learned Judge, who had beea alluded to, had been
at all alerted by any thing which the Hon. Gentle.
eon (Mr. Barley) hid said. And. indeed,it would
hays been more e..na..ne a to that delicacy sills which
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite (the Soli.
eine-General) bad refrained from opesking of
self, not to have tinted up with oho present discus. I
shots that most sacred of •Il chatacteis—the imbed
ebsracter. His own conviction wss, that if the bill
of eseeptions bed been followed sip, tho ruling at
Nisi Pries would have been corrected. A. to that
Gentleness the had been refereed t.. (the Solicitor
of the Katie), that inditirisal, in the es- eut'on of the
most oiliest port of our law., had, he should not be
deterred from saying, coded with posers of the most
dangerous nature, and impieties's of the most for-
midably character. Ile theold hate hoped that a most
rigid stiegoiry would have taken piece Into it, sod he
did still hop* !bet this business would be bought b..
lets the House neat Session ; sad that a most mina,'
latestigation wield laity place into the whole system
of Excise and Cremona Laws.

C BUR HELL ativvrt•tl to several instances of
eistosott hatthnip ender t►ese less& ,
The Pi ♦as thous brossight op and toad suit'
I►a motion met it do No es the table.
The CHANCELLOR of As EXCHEQUiiii