The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-01-30 00:00:00

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es Ahs pf.titi.6;epeesitni Act,.eheerve4
tha1,1h.P4e4,14. OIL Emits Rgipeal had he its object'
•to iester.e,dte 14eov. Ass ho.natorel end usual mimeo
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operation ; and that'.aop etedieellehe
ma4t lat=he Cfeucts in.the ,ceittlein war. • •-•10:
tir.110,13110.11441A1 observed, that the Seheireslooo
Sti took opey an impoetatOesibtgoard leder:Sher*
flif.thlteellirr. It deprived him of a legal rentedy.—°
ithedelaitreet .eould eey tO the detained, we can keep
you till elie.lstof March. or you may. gti net epolr
Per ceeditians; you shall pity hundred paned', .01;
go down oe year -knees and :beg- pardon, of enter
'into recogeisapces to appear.-on the -first day of
Tom Anal, on. Was that the immediate result of
the Act ? -Did the Act.give soak porkers to the Ma-
&Lunt's.? Me had sluderstood that in one or two
cases the alleviative uttered to the detailed had been
tejected; Itnd.tber. Pas VC*** which would, he be.
!kited, shortly come under their notice, concerning
the conduct of a certain Justice in London towards
three individuals.—[llear rj —ln Other cases, he was
told that the giving of recognizances was voluntary.
The qutbstiett, he Ildmitted, would come most pro-
perly beferne Court of Law. But the present con.
aideration was. 'as to the requiring recognizance; at
the °plies, el 'Government.
The• SOLICItOR GENERAL airs, that sup-
posing no Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus
Act shad poised, would not the Secretory of State
have possessed the sane powers in cases of appre-
hension or committal for trefeont? The Act did
not, in mach respects, confer new powers ois the • Se.:
cretery of State. The Act was not passed to web*
to commit, but only prevented the
.privileges of the
Habeas Corpus Act. The legality of requiring re:
cognizance' was not essentially connected with the
Suspension Act. The power was exercised inde.
pendently of the provisions of the Act, whith took
away the right of bail. The question al ti•ibere.
cognizance, remained, independent of the Act ; and
it was a question purely of lase.
Sir W. BURROUGHS agreed that the Act did
pot confer new powers to commit. Bet the Secre-
tory of State had thought tit, of his own atttherity,
essimnee a condition to the release of persons appre.
!bearded and detained, which it 'did not splitter Iltit
gaesbed a legal power to do. He could not agree
with what appeared to be the opinions of the 'Alter.
ney•General; as to the poet's- of the Secretary of
State. He knew no powers to that eateut, eacept is
the Court of King's Bench. By hit proceedings the
Secretary of State had admitted, that there was not a
serioes ground for the detention of the individuals ;
but there might be an object to keep up alarm, and
thereby to gain and to rally round Administration
those who otherwise 'sold not have supported them.
.--[Rear, hear !]—The questioner the recognitances
was, he theeght, materially connected with the Pre..
sent Bill, particularly as it concerned the conduct
pinged in consequence of the Suspension Act.
Mr. LOCK II A itT agreed, to a certain patent,
with the Solicitor• General, that the question .as
to
recognisatices did not don from the Suspension Act;
bet might be considered as a question at Common
Law ; yet there were various considerations cennect•
ed.-eriiir the subject.
Sit SA MU EL ROM 1 LIM commenced by observ.
ing, that it was sot by any means. hii intention• to
offer any obstruction to the mestere sow before the
House. But be found he could not let the matter
pass without his decided opinion, that the Bill which
they were now called upon to repeal, was originally
altogether uncalled for, and 'seterned to him to have
been intended as an experiment upon the patience of
the country. At present it was not his intention to
enter at large into the merits of the question, bet
merely to offer a few general olitietvatiArs. The rel.
peal of this measure was a matter of the utmost itn•
portante to the Public, and he had en lineation •to
occupy d.eir attention unnecessarily while engaged
iu
a duty so urgent. It had been asked repeatedly,
and with great propriety, at the passing of the •Sus..
pension Act, what use *is intended to be merle of
the measure. It wit always answered, 'that it was
necessary, in the slate of the country, to viable
Government to dentin certain persons in Collodi
without bringing them-to a public trial, as a &clo-
ture of certain facts connected with their conviction
by a public trial might be attended witty serious Con-
sequences to the public trenquitlity. Some of the
peopled, however, taken up, end detained under this
pretence, had beets discharged more than two mOrithw
ago-without avey trial Or enquiry; the necesitty
detaitihterthem, Ivo longer "lasted in the state of the
country. • It was proposed, at thelitne of passing
the Bill, that its duration should be limited to Dee.
1; but this was not assented to, and up to lett week
this ezttaordivary messerelveratted end .the
opproltenriou of being tidied to a severi beefiest for
their conduct seemed •te.bitvelled:at fast to a release'
Mom The conntry hrd•ortiettid 044 neei‘blt meettot
OM& thireyrinni-oft ibis-V*IAV Siltitte; it stilt
'had: thefaisfertune to eat* vwdsir tltlsSetteite, and till
lesetelawid the artitraily powers teftletved by it had
•iestineed'till within a few days.' Wien-did the SW.
.painliaa *Woes isneetessaryt, Warta i *fiat
'---asiteratirtefore the meeting of Paellatneett.• 'lllO.
very peeper ergeney with .which the Element- 13414fi1.
hurried through itirseterel etigeerpititelf 41fitt ibefft
was=nots vestige wf. &ogee haeCto -itepfttelEdielibil'
istielti, • , When ow it ttistime- tittni wtehimi I fr*ot
ibis sine the!tegieilt b. diiiirtatt, th 6141104
fisted Melva Shadow of ditto eat' cetfilndefith
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eliPeararke tiffdisaffectiote;tetteespebttilith
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Imed;•ehetittitet reetriltike &Mr %or iliNualkoitp
bttttQ rittdostatv Who as etiOrtetattAth Itettilli4llo4
ter an extraordinary alacrity in divulging plots and
conspiracies. Let it be remarked, and the remark
was well worthy of attention, that it • was in the

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