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Mr Warren contended, that whatever ulterior measures
might be found necessary, whatever other or more preferable
measures it ight be practicable in time to adopt, if this
bill remedied at once a pressing and growing evil it should be
passed. On this ground he supported it. As the division of
the bar which it would create, it seldom happened that there
was any one Counsel of such overbearing talent, of such
acuteness and display that all the Attorneys in the Kingdom
would run after it. He alluded to the Bill, which passed seven
years ago, to establish the Vice Chancellor's Court. Great inconveniences
were then apprehended from it, but it had worked
itself into facility in practice. Whatever inconvenience there
might be, the House had to decide between that and the evil
of the arrears.

Mr Lockhart denied, that because the Bill would remove
the evil, the House should pass the Bill. All inconveniencies
had some good. The difficulties which attended legal proceedings,
and the extraordinary accumulation of stamps in
them often extended to a denial of justice. He objected to the
palliative now proposed which might cause there to lose sight
of the ulterior object which the present inconvenience pressed
on them. He thought improper also to occupy the time of the
Judges of the Court of King's Bench so much that they could not
keep their minds cool for decision on the political questions
which would come before them.

Mr. Chetwynd said, he objected to this Bill, first because
it was defective in its provisions to produce the end proposed;
and second, because it would throw an additional labour on the
Puisne Judges without compensation. No public officers were
even now so inadequately paid as those learned persons, and
though he should object to the grant of a shilling unnecessarily,
he should be happy to see a proposition for increasing
their salaries submitted to the House. An effectual way of relieving
the King's Bench from a great part of its business,
and at the same time effecting a beneficial change in the
criminal jurisdiction of the country would be to pass sentence
at the Assizes in certain cases, on persons who were prosecuted
for offence against the Revenue Laws. The House was aware
that in the cases of breaches of the Revenue Laws, the
parties were prosecuted by informations ex-officio and not by
indictment. In consequence of this form of proceeding the defendants
were brought up to receive judgement, though
when

Identifier: | JB/109/159/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	159	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	G3
Penner		Watermarks	C WILMOTT 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andreas Louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	35814
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