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ed to Sf, 
emphatic proteft, wes feon atter entered 
on the rournals of the Houfe : 
“ DISSENTIENT, 
“ Vor reafons ita often urzed ia yain 
for the lait feven years, againtt. the ruin- 
ous profecution of the unjuit war carry- 
wg on by his Majeity’s Minifiers againtt 
the people of North America, and too 
fatally eoutivmed by repeated experience, 
and; the date difgracetul lofs of a fecond 
amy, to fland a: need.of repetition. 
“ RicHMOND, 
» oS RivZwiLbiaM, 
“ RockKINGHAM,” 
Tn January, $782,‘the Duke of Rich- 
frond engaged in ak inquiry, that foon 
after produced a difagreeable perfonal al- 
tercatton between his Gracé anid Lerd 
Rawdon, now Larlbot Moira*-'Vhis re- 
Inted to the exeeaution of Colonel Haac 
Haynes, whom he ffated to be “a ren- 
tleman, who (if ‘report {poke truth) bad 
heen executed in contequence of th® teo 
rmid orders of a Britifh ofhcer, and ‘un- 
der circumtiances particularly fhocking to 
the feclings, and repuynant to the priné 
eiples of every Enghihman. He was de- 
feribed as Laving fuffered death without 
@ previous trial: this was the ‘alleged 
gnatter; and whatfoever had been faid, 
‘ritten, or printed, on the fubycét, was 
, 
sirmaed (with how confidlerable a <ieeree of 
trath, inveRigation might perhaps deter- 
mine) at the efabhfiment of the fact. 
Hip Grace afterwards meved for a-copy 
of the various’ papers relative to this af- 
fair, which, however, was not granted. 
Soon aiter this, the Nobleman juét alt 
Inded to demanded an explanation; a 
challenge, as is Commonly bebeved, pat 
ed on the occafion, and a compromite 
* Tt.afterwards appeared, that Lord Ray- 
den had privately interceded for the lite of 
Colonel Haynes, and attualiy applied to the 
fovatifts to make fuch an application in fa- 
vour of the prifoner, as’ micht obdtain’ his 
pardon from Lieutenant-Coionei Balrour, whe 
tommanded. Rut Sir Egerton Leigh; the 
Attorney-General of Curclina, having de- 
tlaxed, "that he would feoner cut off his 
right hand than “gn. petition io injurious to 
his Majefty’s inierefts,” this project became 
hopeleis. ‘ . 
In refpeét to this man, if he broke his pa- 
role there might be fome pretext tor his exe- 
cution; but, even then, his counfel ought to 
have been heard in his behalf. 
trary, if, as the Americans affert, he return- 
ed to his allegiance cenditionally, the cafe is 
entirely altered. 
Memoirs of the late Duke of Richmond. 
and the following fhort, but, 
- powertul intereit; or 
On the con-- 
[Feb. 1, 
was at length effected, through the intera 
vention of common friends. 
On the elevation of Lord George Ger- 
maine to the Peerage, the Jate Marquis 
of Carmarthen moved, “ That it is ex- 
tremely reprehentible im any Minifier, 
and highly derogatory to the honour of 
this Iloute, to advile the Crown to exer- 
ce its indifputable rivhe of creating a 
Peer in favour of a perton labouring un- 
der, the heavy centure of a Cowt-Mar- 
tial.” The Duke of Richnond took an 
active part in the debate, and- was ale 
lowed to have dittingdithed hintelf, both 
by tis talents and his refearches, on this 
occation. ile allerted,.“ that by inat= 
tention to the ancient patents of the 
Peerage, it would be difeovered, that, 
trom the reign of Edward ILf.-antil the 
tune, of Henry VE. it was expreisly 
tiated in every new patent of the ercation 
ut a Peer, that/iueh creation was made 
wiih the conjené of Parliament ; nor did 
2 Angle initance vccur-. during the whole 
ot this period, that. titles were granted 
without the particular, acquieicence of 
tue Houle ot Lords. Subtequently to 
the reign of Heury WIL. indeed, the 
Crown carried with a contide rably lets 
reliraining hand this exereie.of the pre- 
rogative; and during the later eras, it 
had been .regardedas an inconte(tible 
and eftablithed right. At -the epoch 
to which he adverted, the predecefiers 
of their Lordihips in the Peerage -alfo 
exerciled their privilege of creating new 
boroughs, and of fending members ta 
Parliament... Yet {0 incontrovertible was 
the potition, that power: fellowed .pro- 
perty, that; fora conlicerable length of 
tnuc, and down to the prefent moment, 
the Commons had belden the right of 
chooting their own members; and it was 
alfo cuttomary to increate the Peera 
wienluever the oecalon offered, by cail+ 
ing up to the Houte of Lords duch mem=- 
bers of ine iloute of Commons as were 
conipicuous by their opulence, their 
| the greaniefs of 
their alliances.” e 
His Grace then proceeded to ftate, 
that their Lordfhips were materially inte- 
reited in ail new creations whatfoeyer, as 
they, im fact, “* compofed a Court of Ho- 
nour:”’ A commoner fent upon trial for 
his ife, might, on ‘a yariety of legal 
grounds, challenge either. one or any 
number of his jurors; bat on the con- 
trary, a Peer, in exactly the fame predi- 
cament, did nut enjoy this power, aud 
muit be tried collectively by his fellow 
Peers. ‘Lhe Lorcilups could not there- 
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