The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Boston [Mass.]) 1770-1772, 1771-07-11

Il culd not rave core, lie iaic, was Eel F."
Gale of luoh in PCI,aree, rot n'ytt his o'iei'
hut to tie liberty of tie tltie6f in gcrcraL
Mr.. SERGEANT JeFhior, and Mr.. Lee, ie'e'a'
ly iurpoIted The Serjeari. Mr.. Jcrhlon quo
Ted number e Gales, in all which the perion
found to be unswluIIy committed were dli
charged, and for thetc reaGons that the CouI'
in the cafe Of Habeas Corpus, couldn fuP
port lis coniiitulIonal au hoIiiy o'hefwie
he irffed warmly that the privileges 81 Far
Lament could not be iuperior TO the laws
and in defence of this put the following quei
tions Can the Privilege o! Parliament Civ
away our rights Can it protect US in gu
property OF can it redrels our legal com
plants No, the uncertainty Of i's pun'ih
ments AID lis Gcelmlrab,e duration flew
they canna,, where then ihall we apply, blu
TO The laws Of the land which ipeak clear
d,l}in6t. and authoritative on all theie matters
Mr. Lee following Mr.. SERGEANT Jrphior
with great ipirit and argument, and con
cluded BY bidding ad;eu to the civil libertic:
Of England if they depended On The arbitrary
decree OF Parliament.
After the arguments were hnilhed, Tx
Court vsy thrifty rePied, "they cou'd nc
take cognzancc Of inc privileges Of P,'s'ia
mcnt, they were of themie,ves compeIen
Judges, and that therefore MIR. Oliver nuf
be Iemanded." Mr.. Oliver was accordingly
reconducfed 10 the Tower.
Nay 3. |; is faid the following motor
was made on "Wednesday by the Earl o.
Chatham, in the upper houle
" That an humble addteis be prefented tC
bis Majefy, mof dutfully and earncily be-
ieechlng has MeieAy, that under The late VIC
laton of the electors OF Great Britain in th'
election for Middeiex, fill unTedleilcd, arr
in the preftnt cor fi6 which has 70 unhappiIy
arien between the claims Of privilege Of tht
Houfe of Commons on one iide, and thol,
Of the magifracy on the other, his MajefJ
will, in his paternal widen, deign to oper
the way TO compoie this alarming warfare
and that in order to prevent the iaid Houit
and Marion from being involved in intempe.
rate dllcufions of underlined powers, which
in the extreme may endanger, the confItuti'
on, and tend TO Ghake the tranquility of the
Kingdom, hisMsjefty will be GRACEFULLY plea
fed to recur TO the recent feDfe of his people,
BY diholving, after the end of this ftfiion, the
prefent Parliament, and calling, with conve-
nient dilpatch, new Parliament;" % for it,
II againR it.
We hear proteR is entered aeainft the
Durham yard enbanking bill, fgned by LORD
Sheiburne, and two other Lords.
YeRerday a court ofCommon council was
bed at Guild-hal, when the committee ap-
pointed u prepare petitions to every branch
of the Legislature, againR The embankment Of
the river names at and near Durham yard,
reported petition to the King, which being
read was very much approved and agreed to
with one little alteration, and ordered to be
delivered directly to his Majely by the nne-
lifts, attended by the Remembrance, which
was accordingly done.
Il was ordered that Mr.. Remembrance
be directed to take copies of all the evidence
given the Houfe Of Lords, relating 10 the
embankmeni ofthe river Thames at Durham
yard, together with theLords protect thereon.
Il was moved that this court, with the city
officers be deGred to attend the Right Hon.
BrsE Croiby, Lord Mayor. and Mr.. Alder
man Oliver, in their gowns, in procehiOn
from the Tower to the Marion Houie, on
their enlargement from their pieient con6ne-
ment, and on being put was carried unanl-
mouAy.
They write from Petelfburgh, that her
Inner;al Maienu has lately recalled ali her