The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, ,Liva. 31.

The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the Woolsack about four
oclock, and after Praye.rsournmen were read some routing business
was disposed of. An duringat pleasure then took
place.
About five o'clock the House resumed, when the two Exche-
quer. Bills Bills were read a second time. ,
The Sugar Importation, and the Malt Ditty Rills, were read a
third time, and pare'!.
The Royal Household Bill was brought up from the C.sm-
mons by Mr. Lushinr,tou and other Members, and read a first
thee.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, on the Bill being read a firs
time, moved ,"That the Bill he printed;* nod acquainted their
Lordships with his intention to move the second reading of the
Bill ou Tuesdsv next.
Ur. LUSIII2ittTON also pomaded the Household
Bill; which sas read& first time and ordered tit be prietc.„.
Monte accounts were ordered, on the motion of -the Tall of '
LA UDERDALE,but from the irregularity thistaprevailedbelo*
the Bar, which space was uncommonly crowded, we could sot
learn the purport with sufficiebt correctness.

STATE OF IRELAND.
The order for summoning their Lordships being
read,
Earl FITZWILLIAM rose for the purpose of
bringing ford the motion, of which repeated notice
had been given by his Noble Friend(Lord Grenville).
A considerable portion of the Noble Earl's speech,
particularly the introductory part, was delivered in
a low and rather faint voice, n hich precluded dis-
tinct audibility. He had come forward in order to
bring under the consideration of their Lordships, one
of the most important subjects, in all itp views and
hearings, which could possibly call for the attention
of the.lmperial Parliament. But:though momentous
and important as the subject was at the time the notice
was first given, greatly as it pressed upon the early and
anxious attention of the British Senate', yet he cer-
tainly little thought that its peculiar importance, and
the necessity of a speedy investigation, would be in-
calculably increased by the view and consideration
of circumstances of recent occurrence, which were,
be believed, unprecedented in the annals of the coun-
try. The events and circumstances to which he allu-
ded, he could not have eutertained en idea of, when
he first proposed their Lordships being milled together
fer the objects he had in view. The proceedings to
*hid he adverted went to shake the foundations of
these great bulwarks of civil liberty ; nay, to endan-
ger the personal safety of the .subject ; and, he be-
lieved, he may venture to challeiige the House to
produce any instance of the kind in the judicial his-
tory of the country, for the last century ; they mili-
tated against the very principles by which the liberty
of the subject was upheld. These prwcqedisigs
rendered it more imperatively incumbent on their
Lordships to consider the general subject, of which
such proceedings had now become a very prominent
and important part ; not only with a view to the se-
curity of the undoubted rights of those who were
most immediately liable to be affected • but with a
view to the point (though occurring on the other side
of the water). in the light of precedent and example.
That house, particularly, could not be too feelingly
alive or too vigilant on such an occasion, as the rights,
the liberties, and the personal safety of their fellow-
subjects at large, were implicated in the consideration.
The rights of the people with respect to the purity of
the trial by jury, he regarded as the, palladium of the
public safety. The most anxious and jealous care
should be taken to provide for and assert the due
and upright administration of that most important
branch of our judicial system. But a more regular
opportunity would arrive for a detailed disrussiou of I
this part of the subject ; for it was one w hick must
be considered ; and he trusted, when that day should l
arrive, Parliament would mark itsstrongand decisive
vase of such proceedings. The subject to which he
had more regularly and directly to call their Lord:
sl:ips' attention was one which involved the general
stale of Ireland ; and on that general ground he had
framed the proposition he should have the honour to
submit. An investigation of the general state of the
country, would best spew the real grounds that ex-
Wed for the loud. and repeated complaints of grie-
'mice to which their attention would be called ; they I
would find that a more serious " difference," at least
he may 'ue allowed to call it, existed between the Go-.;
vernment and the people. By -the word people, he
was far from meaning exclusively the mass of the po.
pulation, but the great body of the proprietors, and
men of consideratiou in the country ; and such a state
of things he must say existed in that country. If not
the original, at least'the most prevalent cause of this
state of things was, as had been often and frequently
urged before, the deprivation of their undoubted
rights; and until such an alarming and oppressive
grievance should be redressed, they must naturally
expect that the subject would again and again be
pressed upon their. attention ; for, without such re-
dress, they could not expect either harmony or sa-
tisfaction in that part of the empire: A great' deal
Mats apparently laid at the door of religious difier-
ences of opinion, but he might be allowed to say,
that, in reality, and in fact, not one particle of reli-
gious consideration could be fairly ascribed to it.—
This, he would venture to say, would-be found the
case, when they came to examine; they would find
that difference in religious sentiment had, in reality,
very little to do with it. But, he would ask, could
airy man be fairly and conscientiously kept out of
his civil rights—even of the common rights of subjects,
`of the religious opinions he might entertain ?
in repeated, it was Ito difference in religi.
.nts that formed the grounds of the exclu-
:holies from a due share in the representa- !
liament, and from those various other un-
tilts of which they were deprived. It was
ibute it to the difference of opinion : for
ith respect to the doctriue of transubstan-
was impossible to say, that a man could
true and loyal subject because he be-
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