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by the Right Hon. Gentleman, was the 
fame.as the other Hon. Gentleman com- 
plained of, it certainly was diforderly and 
unparliamentary. Mr. PrrT replied, that 
if the houfe waited for an explanation 
from him, they would wait a long time 
indeed. . The bill for the fufpention of 
protections, was then hurried through all 
its ftages, carried to the lords, and the 
next day received the royal affent; and in 
the evening, carried into effect upon the 
river Thames and other places, 
Upon the fecond reading of the land- 
tax redemption bill, in the houfe of lords, 
on the $th of June, the Earl of SUFFOLK 
ftrongly contended, that the landed in- 
tere would: be ferioufly affeéted by its 
operation, and, that to add freth burdens 
to-thofe whieh already exifted on that very 
vaiuable part of the community, would 
be highly imprudent. Lord THURLOW 
obferved, upon this occafion, that he op- 
pofed the meafure from his judgment and 
conicience, and viewing it in every pofii- 
ble light, he did not hefitate to pronounce 
it unjuft and dangerous. His lordthip then 
- went at fome length into the legal conf- 
deration of different claufes of the bill, 
which he pointedly condemned. Lord 
AUCKLAND, on the contrary, urged, that 
from the plaineft and mof concife arith- 
metical calculations, the moft material 
benefits would refult from the financial 
operation of the bill, which would evi- 
dently extinguifh from 60,to 80 millions 
of the 3 per cents. The Lords HOLLAND 
and CAERNARVOQN argued againit the 
Hill. Upon a divifion, there appeared for 
the bill 27, againft it 7. This bill was 
paffed into a law a few days afterwards. 
June, went into a committee on the newf- 
paper bill. The Attorney General ob- 
ferved, that however gentlemen might 
have underitocd it otherwife, this. bill 
would attach no refponfibility. to proprie- 
tors of newfpapers, but what the law at 
préfent‘impoied ; and to accommodate the 
objections of gentlemen, he fhould propofe 
that ‘‘ Refpenfibility fhould attach to onl 
three proprietors.’ The Speaker {aid, 
that he thought two inftead of three pro- 
prietors, would be fuffiicient refponfibility, 
added to the printer and publither. The 
Attorney faid, that from the very re- 
fpectable quarter from whence the amend- 
ment came, he fhould agree to it. This 
bill was pailed a few days afterwaras. 
Mr. Secretary DuNDAs, on the-12th 
of June, prefented a mefiage to the com- 
mons from his majefty, purporting that 
The houife of commons, onthe sth of 
‘State of Public Affairs. 
tical conjuncture, on his faithful commons 
to provide fuch- means and meafures as 
the exigencies of affairs might require. 
This meflage. was ordered to be taken 
into confideration the next day. A fimi- 
lar meflage was prefented on the fame day 
to the houfe of lords, by the Lord Chan- 
cellor. The earl of SUFFOLK rofe, and 
faid, he withed to obtain fome informa- 
tion from the noble fecretary (Lord 
GRENVILLE) with refpeét to the object 
of the meffage.. Lord GRENVILLE re- 
plied, that it was ufual for his Majefty 
to fend a mefiage of that nature to the 
houfe in time of war, and at the clofe of- 
the feffion. | 
- Mr. St. JouNn, in the houfe of com- 
mons, on the 11th of June, rofe to make 
his promifed motion refpe€&ting Mefirs. 
ARTHUR and RoGER O'Connor. In 
what he had to fuggeft, he faid, every 
thing would be avoided that related to 
ths unhappy ftate of Ireland. After_con- 
tending that the 12th and 16th claufes of 
the Habeas Corpus aét, were, in the cafe 
of thefe gentlemen, grofsly infringed on, 
if not wholly violated; he entered into a 
detail of Mr. RoGER O’Conwnor’s cafe, 
from his confinement. in Ireland till his 
acquittal; his arrival in England, his 
tranimiffion to Ireland; and, finally, the 
occurrences regarding him at Maiditone ; 
together with the arreit there of Mr. AR- 
THUR O’CONNorR, at the moment of ac- 
quittal, and the tran{portation of the two 
brothers to Ireland, under frefh charges 
of treafonable praétices—the whole of 
which, he contended, were a chain of in- 
fringements on Magna Charta, the Bill of 
Rights, and the palladium of Englith li- 
berty, the Habeas Corpus act. The hif 
tery of England, he faid, produced no 
parallel to the cafes of thefe two brothers. 
He then moved for copies of the warrants 
upen which Mr. ARTHUR O’CONNOR 
and Mr. RocGeR O’Conwnor were lately 
apprehended. He next moved for copies 
of extraéts of all lettters and communica- 
tions from Lord CAMDEN, which con- 
tained any account of the charges againft 
thofe gentlemen. Mr. SHERIDAN fecond- 
ed the motion. ‘The Attorgey General 
contended, that thefe motions were hoitile 
to public juftice, as well as to the perfons 
who were the objeéts of them. He had 
reafon to prefume there was ground for- 
the arreftation of Mr, ARTHUR O°COKN- 
NOR, at the conclufion>of his trial; at 
any rate, he was bound to believe: that 
the nobie fecretary, under whofe warrant 
he was detained, had- documents authae- 
rifting fuch a tranfaction; nor would he 
preiuime, 
