Show of THE HABEAS As the public are deeply interested in obtaining correct election ic turns it may be mentioned in this connection that great buntain owes tho bateas corpus act to an adroit fraud I 1 he reader must not suppose that I 1 am ad or excusing such things mv object being merely to mention a strange butoi hutoi n fact the privilege of habeas clipus is contained in ildeni Chir its operations bad been nullified by royal authority and this atas causes which led to tho 1 I war in which cromwell ed distinction in 1674 the cioe of join mons passed a bill fular defining the nature and power of habeas corpus but the hou e of lords opposed it and yet it was eventually carried in the above mentioned manner in the final vote in this body tho yeas were 57 and the nays 55 in all whereas the shots that tho whole attend ance at that time was not more than this discrepancy is explained in the following manner lord gray who was one of tho tellers the lill and as a ery noble nan acted gray exclaimed pass for five I 1 he other teller did not m the confusion of the moment no arethia andele fraud escaped detec tion the bill to indebted ihus entered cit ence and I 1 anerd nerd hardly add that the ant of habeas corpus as it in is a celoso copy of the bill which was enacted in aboe men honed manner |