{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " or for life. In England, for a first offence, he was liable only to fine and imprisonment: and it had been deemed a measure of great severity when the judges were empowered by the act of 1819, for a second offence, to banish for seven years. Such disparity of punishment for the same offence, in two portions of a country which ought to be considered one, could not be considered just or expedient. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear", "preceding_text": "power, of the existence of which grave and high authorities doubt, but while they express their doubts, it is without scruple exercised. So within a year, a person of the name of Macleod, convicted (a first offence) of a seditious libel was transported for five years, and his sentence was considered a measure of leniency, while in England he could only have been condemned to fine and imprisonment "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "n with such want of skill, that he was either three or four times brought to the bar for the same offence, the diet deserted, and he remanded to prison. The court certainly did not exceed its absolute power, but no one could contemplate that proceeding without feeling that it was a disgrace to the country in which it took place and to the public prosecutor to whose incapacity it was attributable. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "o it a most dangerous and anomalous complication of power. It ought to be re-modelled, and in it's scope ought not to exceed the powers which belong to the attorney general in England, all the points to which he had shortly adverted were most important, and he hoped that the general measures intended to originate with official persons in Scotland would not fail to embrace many if not all of them. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "and of local and personal acts, which applied to that country. In such circumstances, he was sure that he should not appeal in vain to a British parliament, which would be disposed to extend to Scotland in this I particular point, that pure and perfect system of the administration of criminal justice, which constituted so considerable a portion of the just renown and glory of the nation at large. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "g, and is never almost attempted to be used, and still more rarely sustained. Very different is the case in England, where a prisoner may, and does, every day challenge numbers proportioned to the degree of his crime, and after he has made his challenges and obtained a jury as favourable as he thinks he can, 12 men must agree in their verdict of guilt and condemnation, before he can be convicted. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "of crime, the present practice was at least inexpedient; but in offences against the state, the law was monstrous and anomalous, and coupled with the power of the court to award punishments, for political offences; modelled on the practice of times, which did no honour to Scotland. It was indeed, important to rescue the sacred tribunals of criminal justice, from the possibility of future reproach "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/scotch-juries-bill", "section": "scotch-juries-bill", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": "possibility of future reproach [Hear, hear.] He understood, that other improvements were contemplated by official persons. He had long wished to call the attention of parliament to this subject, and he did not choose to surrender it to any one; and had the learned lord been present, he was well assured that he would have had every disposition to give the measure his most favourable consideration. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/14", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/14/malt-duties-bill", "section": "malt-duties-bill", "cue_text": "Order, Chair.", "preceding_text": "thought it the duty of members who had the interest of their country at heart to exercise their constitutional privilege in opposing the money grants. § Mr. Hume was surprised to hear the term \"factious\" applied to gentlemen on his side of the House. He considered that the term would be more applicable to the other side, and that the majority of last night was factious in the highest degree. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/20/conduct-of-the-sheriff-of-chester", "section": "conduct-of-the-sheriff-of-chester", "cue_text": "Hear the hon. member read the letter", "preceding_text": "o attend a committee of that House. The office of high sheriff was an arduous, and generally a thankless office. § Mr. Egerton said, that as soon as the petition was known in the county, the high sheriff had written a letter explaining his conduct, which, with permission of the House, he would read. The letter was hastily written, as little time was left for explanation of the circumstances. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/22/dublin-petition-complaining-of-the", "section": "dublin-petition-complaining-of-the", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": " arguments on that subject. But he must beg the attention of the House to a circumstance which followed the dispersion of the meeting. An application had been made to the lord lieutenant for redress, but he had been obliged to wait for an answer from the government in this country. That answer at last did come from the same quarter from which thanks had been sent to the magistrates of Manchester. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/22/dublin-petition-complaining-of-the", "section": "dublin-petition-complaining-of-the", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " the discontents of Ireland originated in local evils; to his majesty they were warmly attached. If 911 his majesty should visit Ireland, he would be received with an enthusiasm, characteristic of that gallant, brave, and generous people. If, however, he might propose an amendment to the proposed intention, he would move that his majesty, when half seas over, should throw his ministers overboard. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/feb/22", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/feb/22/dublin-petition-complaining-of-the", "section": "dublin-petition-complaining-of-the", "cue_text": "A laugh.", "preceding_text": " The sheriff then desired loyal persons to withdraw; and he (Mr. E.), amongst others, obeyed the injunction. As he went out of the yard, he met the sheriff coming in with the military. What occurred afterwards he did not personally know; but the statement of the commanding-officer authorized him to say that no violence was resorted to, but the noble lord who was in the chair was handed out of it. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/05", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/05/mr-ellis-duties-of-a-master-in-chancery", "section": "mr-ellis-duties-of-a-master-in-chancery", "cue_text": "Loud cheers from the Opposition.", "preceding_text": "iption whatsoever which was not settled, adjusted, or finished. He challenged the inquiry of that House into the fact. But, to recur to the question of attendance, he begged to say, that from the 1st of January to the 31st of December, there was not a vacation of a single week in the business of the master; nor was the master's office throughout that period known to be shut even for a single day. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/09/complaint-against-the-morning-chronicle", "section": "complaint-against-the-morning-chronicle", "cue_text": "Hear, hear.", "preceding_text": ", and contained a very foul libel upon a majority of that House. The terms of this libel were as follows:—\"List of the minority of 37 who voted on Friday last, the 23rd, for hearing the petition of Thomas Davison read before it was rejected, and against lord Castlereagh's admonition to the people of England, not to trouble and take up the time of the House of Commons any more with their petitions "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/09/complaint-against-the-morning-chronicle", "section": "complaint-against-the-morning-chronicle", "cue_text": "Cries of \"no, no.\"", "preceding_text": "his desire to proceed farther, if the offence was not justified. Sir R. Fergusson hoped the hon. member would withdraw his motion. He deprecated any libel upon that House; but he looked upon the paper in question with a different eye from the hon. member. Mr. S. Wortley asked, whether he was to understand that the gentlemen opposite made a virtual acknowledgment that the passage was indefensible. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/09", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/09/ilchester-gaol-petition-of-charles-hill", "section": "ilchester-gaol-petition-of-charles-hill", "cue_text": "Hear! and a laugh.", "preceding_text": "o go away, they actually left the town without visiting the gaol. This did not, however, prevent them from making a report, describing the internal state of the building, the situation of the pump, &c, all of which, unluckily for their statement, had been altered about a year before, and it was thus that a discovery was made of the manner in which they had exercised their inquisitorial functions. "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/20", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/20/naples", "section": "naples", "cue_text": "Hear, hear!", "preceding_text": "the House, not upon the production, of the paper, which for all practical purposes was in the possession of the House, but upon the sentiments 1368 and opinions with which the production of the paper had been supported or denied? The division of this night was in effect, a division for peace or war. His (Mr. C's.) voice was for peace, and for the true means of preserving peace, namely, neutrality "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/28/roman-catholic-disability-removal-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-disability-removal-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh.", "preceding_text": " of the House to pass this measure without consulting the particular sentiments of individual clergymen, if members entertained, with himself, a conscientious belief of the beneficial advantages it would confer. He had the authority of the head, of the Catholic church for saying, that there was no solidity in the objection taken on the other side: thus he was legislating with the pope at his back "}
{"kind": "bracketed_cue_html", "date": "commons/1821/mar/28", "house": "commons", "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1821/mar/28/roman-catholic-disability-removal-bill", "section": "roman-catholic-disability-removal-bill", "cue_text": "a laugh", "preceding_text": ". He should support the second bill, not because he apprehended danger from the Catholics, but because he wished to remove the fears and apprehensions of the Protestants. § Mr. P. Moore said, he had been engaged in a very extensive correspondence 1495 upon this subject; and he believed that it was in a great measure owing to his exertions that the bill, was this year brought before the House "}