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eotaHfel Bfip&s&G& ^ tiB& hkfa ^ ' in ref ^ mg thexWa ^ rgm offered , to be -paltt of ai *« cb of the articles # f war , : * &k fife se # wit ) r of the pmmfom e&t tee &onte not now expatkite . He krtew , however , of no laW jhuman or < livifi € , ^ : o atitliotise the inffi «? iioE [ of a punisBitient iriikh hu&iaB iiatnre cannot bear . It tojpeared strange that , when
it tws adunttea that there was no dtifecti < m % Q sift ttffe matter to the boaoiii , fhemever shduld not be allowed rer 4 £ O to his proofs , nor could he allow that any discontent would be excited m the army-It Would be no inore than a Bntish soldier ought ' to know ; that ,
if there was any grievance ^ there was one place , at least , to which he might look \ # eh confidence forjuilice * O Oft the division there was for Jfe Waf&le's motion one , andagainst it ninety . fe tbe utteer h ^ fitse £ ord Hoi
brad stated die case of a man dy * ing in the Marshalsea prison * oil wnwr th « r coroti ^ r ' ^ jtlry foutid a verdict o £ Starved to death ; but
mutated it afterwards by these words ; * We vei ^ il jr believe that the deceased ^ death &ak oaused by want of f&od and ck > thi «^ , and of proper attention iii his illness , " Hk lordship moved for the propet papers , and afcei ^ ards
a com mittee thforigh his meains ^ as appointed to investigate the case ; which will lead to a mate-^ alteration we hope in the s tat e ™ aebtors , for this poor man was "anwired for a debt of only seveft P ?? *^ The * commercial credit em
k ^! * wttgh « v « ral stages : 2 * m bai ^ i ^ h ^ e pc ^ icy is very ** t » be J « doubt ^ six millions ^ JnttK . y ^ te advanced on ?*^ gWHsfeui £ s a » ti maoufac-22 ^** « ^ c oarse it is to be ^^(* th the consumer wrll
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pay a greater price fm Ms commodity , as tl * ere "^ n ^ fie \ liS 6 r im ^ cessity for britigit % it into the market . A ^ very coiisid ^^ le ide ^ b « ate t 66 k place In the house ; q £ lords on the informations eir offipioj of which JLord Hollattil moved for a list , from 31 st January 1801 to 31 st January i&lK The most extraordinary thing- ill this debate , as it is reported , wad the unaccountable warmth of lord Elienborough upon this subject * who maintained that the legality of informations ex offiqid was
never a doubtful thing , axid that nothing could be moremischievi ous than by speeches m that pub lic assembly to irri ^ ress the public mind with' an idea that thef were in any respect illegal . He did not regard clamour or tufrmlt : he was accustomed every day to meet it , and had learned to
despise it . If the noble- I 6 rd had any real and substantial gr ievUilce , he should have conieboWiy * forward and stated ^ and applies } for redress ; blithe inust ev ^ r
deprecate any unnecessai ?^ " aftw peevish irritation of th ^ public mind . JLotd Holland vih ^ licated himself from the aspersions , and retorted upon the learned lord that there was not one argument
used by him which was not unfoundted , nor one allegation which had not its origin in misapprehension . Many noble lords spoke on the subject , and in general the
legality * and to -a certain degree the propriety , of these informations Was allowed ; but the multiplicity of them of late seemed to indicate store forwardness to
repress the liberty of thre press than tras necessary * For Lord Holland ' s nadtion- were twelve , and against it tw # nty-four . Lord Folkestone vas to bring the same 2 b
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/57/
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