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11111 1 Lor 11 livered mince Ise. the r I ighan dame, the pa, , 1 Mr. MI, a private '!'he Rages. Inas b , sum t raelve In tl • The Sons, offence ? Cot lii roads, fur at Tenure • tee, w The R AP Marqt Lord& The . . nelsen 1 clanks Th whek the 1. of the Col • Mari Th !Los t , !toed for.lll be e.. was l Carly Sir year smart Add. the tt 1796 t Neva preie Jr ner, i I from the 1 ram that bis r Whit unlit to hi FL read iugt did place • ref° tiny JuO cup sea the pot mail 1 the ed, I 'l 1 I ' the ." I for I Sta que xi VI 11111 111(i ble the ordt fo 11 of fi tune, tion Lam be ai grea whet Parl thou . • • ting 'nig! As the i tinui rate adve with ticull whet quite proci coon' ) • I pole. that I porta ceedi vale. any i bidl. perio, perha the it fined fay it He Cal i recoil • legifi; a ;Li h prow this, Hour refpet curry to wh PARIAMANTARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, I, VEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. Lard OLENBERVIE, accompanied by feveral Members, de• livered a metrage from the Commons, purprting, t'•at the Cont. mittee of that Houle. on which the permiffion of their Lordlhip tar the attinulance of the Lewd Preditent, and the Earl of Buck ighandhire, had been reqnefteil. basing cIoCA the hearing of evi dence, and made their report, the neceflity for fuch attendance, on the pan of chore Noble Lords, no pongee t•sitted. Mr. ALEXANDER prefented the Beaman's Fneouragement Bill, and the I.nridon Port Impmveme•az Bill,whieh, with feveral private Bills• recently brought up, we re feverally read a tied time. The Bills upon the table were frowarded in their refpe.flive pages. Among there the !nth Feder Duty Bill, the Englillt and Irdis Militia Pay MU, and the Militia Adjutants Bill., feverally went through Committees of the.. whole Houle, and the Reports T,:ceived. In the Committee on the General Turnpike Road 8i11... The Duke of NORFOLK. obje.'led to A9t iif its leading provi eons- By the former tta., rookty of certain mimics, teeietl for offences andtr the Ad, yeas ;ranted to the informer. hi the pre- Coe MI, the whole Itd , aey was appropeiat , ti to the repairs of the roads, which would deprive the informer of his principal motive fur &fling. He, the , :efore, propofed an amendtnent, tending to reßore the provitiou of the former 41 eft, in that re (peel. Tbis propofitior„ not fuming to meet the fettle of the Commit- tee, was, ett tite•queftion being put, negatived without a diviiion. The Report of rile Bill was ordered to be rests-rd to-morrow. A Petition f.rom Sir John Johnitone, Ben. claiming the title of Marquis of Ssonandale, Ike. wai prefented, and referred. by their Leedligin, to the confideratlon of the Committee of rii , ileges. The I - Vanfe rdulved into a Committee on Moore'. Divorce Bill, when re• ierat amendment's were made, by the ontiffion of certain laufes. Th e Stipendiary Curates MI went through a Committee of the wloile Haat', and was ordered to be reported to morrow ; when the lord Chancellor raid, he &mild move fur the re-commitment of the M. GARDNER'S DIVORCE RILL. Counfel and evidence were farther heard relative to the Bill to diffolve the marriage of the Honourable Alan Hyde Gardner with Maria Elizabeth his now wife, and to enable him to marry again. The firit witnefs called was a Mr. Shore, for the purpufe of proving the kr •ing Mrs. Gardner with a copy of the Bill, He Rated, that he ferred the copy on a Lady, whom he under lined to he Mrs. Gardner, at her reGdoace near Ware, in Hert fordihire ; but as he never had fern that I.ady either hefore or fine, be could not Rate politively from his own knowledge, that Ilse was Mrs. Gardner.—That part of the moot' was therefore need. Cagily referred. Sir Alured Clarke, K. &Rated, that he refilled at Madras in the year 1795, as Commander in Chief of his Majelly's forces in that quarter; that he knew Captain and Mrs. Gardner. Site was hiifs Adderley, the daughbr of Lady Hobart. That he was prefent at the Marriage oft sprain Gardner with Mifs Adderley, in the year 1796, but could not he pofitive as to the time of the year. He he Lend it to be about March. Lord and Lady Hobart were alto preient at the marriste. Jennings. a young mrn, who lived (errant with Captain Gard ner, was called, with raped to the abfence of Captain Gardner from England, on his hlajeily's ferric:: in the Weil Indies, from the latter end of January, or beginning of February, tBO2, till his return in the following July ; and to the Rate of hit health during that period. Captain Gardner had been very ill, particularly at bis return, when he seas unable to remove from the Ship without alfiftanee. He hated, that the Capt.,in,as far as he bad an oppor tunity of oltfertiog, always behaved in a very alreaionate gnawer to his Lady, and treate d her with the greateli re f pe dt . Further evidence is to be adduce/ . The Bill was afterwards read a fecond time, and ordered folic committed. By not objedt log to which crocerdii gs. the LORD CHANCELLOR accrued. he did not pledge liimfelt to eonfoit to the third reading of the Bill, and earneftly rzpreffed his h.pe, tlut a fuller attendance maytake glace on its fubfequeot d:icuf&olis. alp. JUSTICF FOX. Purfitant to the Order of 'lre Day. their Lord(hips sefolved into a Committee. for the farther invetiiga lion of the matters alledged in charge againft Mr. Jolliet Fox. Lord WA LsthcHAbt in the Chair: The attention of the Committee was entiNly oc cupied with the crofs.examination of two former wit saes, Mars. Armflrong and Galbraith, and with the arguments of the refpalive Counfel on contefled points, which carnally arole in the cootie of the exa mination &c. The Connie), &c. being ordered to withdraw, and the Chairman to leave the Chair, the Houfe return ed, when, on the motion of the Lord Chancellor, the Committee were ordered to fit again on Saturday, for the purpofe of the farther invelligation. Lord GaENVILLE feeing a noble Secretary of State in his place, obferved that he rnfe in conic quence of his underflanding the Noble Lord had given notice of his Intention to bring in a Bill to con tome the proceedings in the cafe of Mr. Juftice Fox, until the next lemon of Parliament. He rote to trots their Lord(hips with a very few obfervations upon the fubjtet. He was aware he was not perfally in order, but his fettle of the intended proceeding wile fo Ilrong, that he feized the fiat opportunity he had of laying a few words upon it. The propofed mea fure, in his opinion, would tend to a material altera tion of the whole frame and conflitution of the Par liament of this coantry. He hoped full time would be allowed for the confideration of a queflionzffuch great importance ; a queilinn of no left moment, than whether they ihould now, for the tirft time fince Parliaments exilled, tr.aft by a law, that the King thould not have the power by his prerogative of put ting an end to motions, dircuffions, and hills, which might be pending in b , ,th Houfes of Parliament ? As far as he had been able to inform himfelf upon the fuhjeel, there was no inilance upon record of con tinuing from feflions to feffions, Bills, or the delibe rate proceedings of the legillatnre. His Lordlhip adverted to a fulemn decilion, which had been given with refpat to the point by both Honks, on a par ticular occafion. With refired to eleaion committees, where the proceedings were continued, the cafe was quite different, at inch made a feparate tribunal, the proceedings of which were within itfelf, and Were fo conftitated by a fpecial law, and fur a particular pur pofe. He concluded by again exprelTng his hope, that lull notice would be given of the intended dic zullion of a meafure of fuch great and peculiar im• portance. Lord HAWKESBURY ribfcrv . ed, that no pro ceedings fhould obtain with relpea to the fubjeti ad 'sited to by the Noble Baron, which would indicate any intention on his part of taking the Houfe•by fur prife. He war, however, rather obliged to the No ble Lord for giving his general opinion at fo early a period upon the point, though it was done in a way, perhaps, contrary to the forms of that Houk. Of the intended difcuflion, the Noble Baron may be of fused, ample notice fhould be given' He could not fay that he coincided with the opinion thrown out He law the point iii a different light. It fhnuld be recollelted, that a grqt difference exilled between a legiflative arid a judicial protee.ling f*f that Houfe • id he corctived in 'liar view of the fubjeet whs}t he propofed could very properly he dune. Added to this, the cafe was perleftly a novel one, and fo the ' Houle would rather have to form a precedent. With refpett to the other Houle of Parliament, a cafe oc 'tuned which, lie (*lensed to thiplc, bore a eiroilitude :o what he had fuggefied: he meant the cafe of Sir Thomas Ramboll3, wherein, with referenee to a bill of pains and penalties, it was propofed to conti nue the proceedings. With refpeet to his intended bill, he should propofe thurtly to bring it in, have it primed for the perufal and confideration of their Lordships, and, with refpcd to the difctiffion which may take place on the quetlion for the fecond read ing, the Noble Lord may depend upon it, that ample notice should be given. MESSAGE FROM HIS MAJESTY. Lord HAWKESBURY•delivered a MeNage from his Majetiy, (tilting that his Majelly's communica Lions with certain Foreign Powers were not in that Rate which enabled him to lay the refult before the Hour:, or to enter into further explanations with the French Government ; but his Iviajefiy would lay hold of every opportunity, in concert with thole powers, to bring the war to a termination, confifient with the honnur and fecurity of this country, ant' the interefis of Europe; and his Majelly hoped for their Lordthips' concurrence and fupport in loch meafures AS he Ihould deem neceirary to that deferable end. The Metrage having been read by the LORD CHAN• ctteos, Lord HAWKESBURY moved, that it Ihould be taken into confideration to-morrow. Ordered. some routine bufinefs was then difpofrd of; after which the Houfe adjourned till to-morrow, when their Lordlhips hand km . moiled for the eoniideration of his Majefty's Menge; and upon the Earl of CA P rsroicr% motion reflecting the ttate of Me Nes°- , nations with Rata, &c. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Sir j B.WAgtftEN brought up the Report from the Committee on the Naval Afylum, which was read, and ordered to be taken Wee further confickration on Friday next. The Bank Note Forgery rxtenfion Bill wu read a &mod time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday. The Fiat nounty BSI, Militia Officers Allowance Bill,Barrack Matters Bill, and Militia Pay and Clothing Bill, were read a third dire, pared, and ordered to the l.orda The Loyalty Loan Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time tomorrow. The Univerfity Advowfon Bin was repeated, and ordered to be read the third time on Today. Mr. WARD preformed the Poor Clergy Provillion Amendment Bill, which was rca.l a firft time, and ordcrcd for a fccoud reading Mr. I. H. BROWNE reported from the Committee ou High. rnlßnads and Brialgri.—Ortlertd to be prima. Mr. ROSE prefetTud the Bill for the 'free export of Woollen Cloth to India...—Read the tint time, an 4 ordered for the fceond reading to-morrow. The Bill for appointing Conuniffirmers for fettling the Union CompLnfation in Ireland, and the frith Elliott and Import Bill, were read the het. time. Mr. HENRY LASCEI.LFS prefented Mr. Pitt's ao,otsol. In demnity Bill. Read the hrft time, and ordered fur the fecond reading to-morrow. Cu! CRAUFURD r red,That there be laid before the Hoare an Account of the Number of Men that was wanting to com plete his Majetty's different Regiments of Cavalry and Infantry on the lit of May, t dos. And also, That there be laid before the Howl! an Ahfirad of the Returns made under the Additional Defence Afton the tft of January 1805 —Ordered. The London Port hill was read a third time and paired. On the =fifth of Mr. LONG, the Houle went into a Com mince on the Report of the Committee on the Petition of the Trotters of the BritiOa Mufeum. A Refolution was paffed de claratory of the expediency of granting 20,0001. to that National Inftitution. When the Houfe recalled, a Committee was nomi nated to confider of the addition to be made to the building of the Mufeum. Mr. W. Dickenfon prefented certain Accounts from the Admi ralty, purfuant to an Order of the Houfe made upon a former day. Ordered to be laid upon the table. Leave was given to bring in a Bill to permit the importation of Wool from America into the port. of this United Kingdom. The fecund reading of the frith Bounties and Drawback Bill was ordered fur Mouday; it was alfu ordered that the Bill be printed. Leave was given totaling in a Bill to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Goat Skits. The Woollen ManutaCiarers' Penalty Sufpenllou A 4.1 was or dcred to be read a fccand tins*. to-morrow. The Secretary at Vial. prefeuted fercral Accounts, which were ordered to be laid on the table. In a Committee of Supply the Sum of Iso.A. wit voted to the. Veterinary College, and another Grant fur the Support of the Board of Agi The Crinai - a Canal Bill was read a third time and paired. WAYS AND MEANS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Order of the Day for going into the Com mittee of Ways and Means. Mr. FOX role to alk a queflinn, with refpea to the notice given yefterday, in the abfence of the Right Hnn. Gentleman, relpefting the appropriation of Five Millions, being the furplus of the 'all year's Confolidated Fund, which he underilood had been already appropriated. The CHANCELLOR rf t! ' e EXCHEQUER anfwered, that he had mentioned the furplos nn opening the Budget, as part of the fupplies of the year, but the Committee of Ways and Means had as yet paired no vote on it. The Hon. Gentleman would Ipeedily learn the purpofe ofits appropriation, ' as a Meff.tge would be delivered this evening or to. morrow fram his Majefly to the Houle, which; ow. ing to mere accident, he was prevented from deli vering at that moment. Mr. FOX diced, whether in the MelTage intended to be delivered, any communication would be made refpating the iffue of certain Negociations with the Continental Powers ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER anfwered, lie could not Pate to what extent the Mef lage would go, but he huped it would be delivered in the ma fe of the evening. Mr. GREY obfcrved, that it was upon the ground of nn definite communication being made, or being expated to be made, that he had given notice of the quetlion he intended to bring forward as to-morrow. The nature and extent of the communication intend: ed, mull principally govern him in the necellity of proceeding sith that queftion. The Houfe then refolved into the Committee of Ways and Means,and, upon the motion of the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, refolved, that four millions, out of the furplus of lall year's Confo lidated Fund, be applied to his Majefty for the fer vice of the current year. Refolved alio, that a film of 1,192,1521. being the furplus of the grants of laft year, be applied to the fervice of his Majefty for the current year. The repot tto be received to-morrow. DUKE OT • ATHOL'S CLAIMS. Colonel STANLEY moved the further cmfidera (ion of the Report of the Committee on the Duke of Athol's Clislms to further compenfation for the lots of his rights in the He of Man. Mr. FRANKLAND declared that he entertained pelf:mall) , as high a degree of roll:fed for that Noble Perfon.ige as he believed could be entertained for him by any other person in that houfe. In a fpeech of con fiderahle length, however, he Rated it to be his opi nion, that the compenfation already made wks more tharraclequate to any pecuniary lots which his Grace .the Duke:of Athol had fußained in confequence pf the bargahi of 1765. Neverthelcfs he was aware) ' that, to a high mind, no Aim of money was fulreci ent to compenfate the lois of fuch high honour as that which was facrificed by the furrender of the fo vvreignty of the lfle of Man. He thought the Cub jed to be too executive to be fully invelligated this Seffion, and fuegtfted the propriety of bringing in the ufual periodical Bill relative to the Ifland for the prefent, with an underftanding that the fubjed lhould be brought forward at an early period in next Seffion, land alth with a view of giving a full hearing to all the parties interefled in the cafe. Mr. ROSE maintained that the Revenues of the Ifland had increafed to fuch an extent that it was but an alt of Mice that the Houfe Ihould confider the propriety of making fuitable compenfation to that Noble Family, which' had been forced to give up their right to the Sovereignty, and by such contrad had fuasined a molt incalculable lois. Sir W. GEARY argued, That the Noble Duke had no right to go back to the feudal revenue of the Bland, nor to found any claims on its increafed re venut from its conneCtion with Great Britain. That increafed revenue was owing chiefly to the titheries, and the (*need's and profperity of the fisheries was to be attributed to the bounties and drawbacks from this country. Should it be thought necelfary to give any thing to the Noble Duke, he would not give it under the name of compenfation where no farther compenfation was due, nor from the revenue of that Ifland, which in his opinion owed him nothing, but from the public pserre of the country Sir WILLIAM YOUNG oppoled 'he cl tim of the Noble Duke, on the grounds that the compenfa don of 70,0001. ought to deemed conclufive in the year 1765. That the Noble Duke had no right to go back to the old revenues, and compare them with eke prefent, becaufe tie increafe in that rape& was owing to the foflering care of this Country, by our Laws, Liberties, and Conflitution having been extended to the inhabitants of the Ifle of Man, from which the whole of its profperity had arifen, and much of the produce of that revenue arote from duty impeded on Great Britain on the herring fishery, of which trade he entered into the particu lars. After all, he obferred, that the revenue of the Ile of Man was only s 1,683 1 . out of which there were difburfements to be deduCted to no Ids an amount than 10,9421. leaving a furplus of leis than spool. The whole population of the ifland was 32,000, of which there were goon seamen, and therefore care lhould be taken to sio nothing that might utter the fy Item, by which the State might lore any part of that Ilrength. They were once chiefly smugglers, and by the regulations which took place after the agreement in 1765 they were driven out of fmng gling into there Melia : and if this policy be altered, they may be driven back again from the fisheries to smuggling. Mr. DAVIES GIDDY did not thin': the Noble Duke entitled to any compenfation for dignity, or for that part of the revenue of the Ifland which tee ceffarily went to the fupport of its Government, and therefore oppofed the Houfe going into the Com mittee. Mr. KINNAIRD contended that the compenfa tiou in quellion would lead to no additional burden on the people of the Ifle of Man. The claim the No ble Duke had was on this country, and not on the Ifle of Man, as his Sovereignty over that Mind had been refigned to this country. In regard to the fur plus revenue, he thought the Duke, as Reigning Chief, had a right to claim it, as having been tole Lccriflator of the Bland. Mr. JOHNSTONE Rated, that he had perufed Frafer on the Fifherics, and was of opinion with that author, that the profperity and fuccefs of, he Ifle of Man was owing to the remittance of the Salt duties, and the bounties allowed by this country on the ex portation of &h. He thought that the Houle not having gone into the particulars of the fubjeit, were not qualified to decide on the whole cafe. M. ROSE explained. ' Mr. HARRISON was averfe to the granting any Thing further by way of com2enfation to the Noble Duke, on the ground that it had beee fettled forty years ago, and that the opinions of the Law Officers of the Crown w4re decidedly againa the claim of the Noble Duke. Lord HENNIKER thought the Houfe had a right at all times to correa errors as they appeared, let them be of ever fo long 'landing ;_and under all the circumillnces, he in his confcience think the Duke of Athol entitled to compenfation ; as to the amount, that was a matter to be fettled by the Com mittee. Mr. R. WILLIAMS was decidedly againa any further compenfation whatever. Mr. WINDHAM wilhed to record his fentiments upon this fuhjelt. The burthen of proof was on Ore who fuppor•ted this claim. He contended that there was no compulfion upon the Duke of Athol to affent to the terms he agreed to in the year 1763. Not a word was heard againtt this bargain for twenty- Ove years together—therefore there was no prefump tion that it was improperly made. It was Paid, that if the Doke of Athol had not taken what was offered to him by Government, he fhould have had nothing; true, but then be would have had his elate, for he was not bound to part from it, as the Proprietors of elates, houfes, &c. are obliged to do in the cafe of every Road or Canal Bill, your wet docki and the like, where the Commiffioners raid we mutt have your property at all events, and you (hall have for it only what we offer, or what a Jury will give yotr, but the property you l►all not keep. The Noble Duke might have kept his; there was therefore no compulfion. He did not fay the fum given was equivalent for the regalities and honours which be. longed to the Duke of Athol, hut if he chute►! to bar ter them for money, he thould not afterwards fix a higher pecuniary value on them. That money was the object was clear, for the Noble Duke did not fay give back my titles and my honouts, but give more money, therefore he did nor fs: that the Houfe ought to feel any fympathy with the Noble Duke for the arigtocracy of this cafe, for it was a mere queilion of pecuniary confideration, and as to the value of the revenues of the Ile of Man, the anfwer was, that the profperity of the ifland was what Parliament itfelf had created by its laws and regulations, and now it was a(ked of Parliament to grant to the Duke of Athol a fum of money on account of the profperity which they had themfelves procured to the country. He contidered the opinion of the Attorney-General, as given in the report of that Learned Gentleman, as of great weight in this cafe, as hoiwo to ;be claim of the Noble Duke I it rnefl be taken that the Le•ii r• Gentleman retained that opinion, at lean the I !. had time reafon to lament he did not attcld t • . port his former opinion, or to anty•unce, tion. He thought that if Ibis claim was a:!,:: •, there would be no end cf applications to PaHank. ; on this fubjed, hecaufe the principle would be bifhed, that the Duke of Athol's family had a to compenfation in proportion as tire profperity the Ifle of Man increafed, fo it would be for crcr growing with our growth, Rrengtitening with cu r ttrength. He related a dory of a man and a cat no at each end of a rope, and thrown into the watt,, and it was faid that the aserlion of the cat to that element was Inch, that her exertions being proper. tionate to her arerfion, fhe kept herfelf above it, and the man below it. In the prefent cafe, the averlion of one party to what was called a bad bargain word; create extraordinary exertion, nor could there he wanting fome aiUdants for that purpofe, fo that the Ilronger body of the two lbould be kept under, aral drawn through the water. He did not fay, or men to infinnate that this matter appeared to thole wle, cupported it as a job; if it did, they would not foe. port it, he was altured; but it bad that apptaracc: to him. Mr. SHERIDAN laid he had liftened oith atten tion to his friends who had oppofed the claim of the Duke of Athol, under Tome apprehending they nil k lit change his opinion upon that fubjett ; but indeed of doing.fo, they had each in his turn confirmed him in that opinion. He did not think his Right How Friend (Mr.. Windham) had enriched his fpeech tc night, fo much as he ufually did, by lively tallies of wit and Sprightly eloquence. He did not think much of the Rory of the cat tied at one end of the rope, and the man at the other, unlefs for the mere pun Gil the Me of Man ; it reminded him, however, of the exertions of his Honourable Friends with regard to their pulling at the end of the rope againli the claim Of the Noble Duke, for it certainty was " a long pull, a ftrong pull, and a pull all together."— He indeed, from the manner itt which his Hon. Friends had oppofed this claim, that they had not given themfelves the trouble of reading it, whica reminded him of what a Learned Friend of his, who was once Attorney Genefal, although he ufually voted on the oppofition fide at the Houle (the late Mr. Lee, we rrefume) who had fpoken to him of the peace after the American War, and reprobated it in the molt fevere manner. " What do you think of the 7th Article ?" " Have you read that?" laid I. laid he, Ido not think that any part of it is fit to be read." So here his Honourable Friends did think the claim of the Duke of Athol was not fit to be read, otherwife it was to him manifetl they •would not oppofe it as thy did. He confidered the letters of Mr. Hammerflay, and of the late Duke of Athol as couclufive evidence that 70,000 i. W=as not then confidered as a fulficient eompenfation. In his letter to Lord Mansfield, requefling his LordOsip's advice, he fent a detailed Climate of the lofts at 620,0001. It could-apt be prefumed that he would have fent filch eftimate, if it had been evidently and molt ridieuloully over the value. Neither did LUrd Mansfield appear to confider it fo. As to the value of the Royalties, it limpid be recollected at what a very high rate the heritable jurifdii%ons in Scotland were porchafed up. Near t eo,oool. had been given to purchafe that which in income does not exceed Soot. per ann. and at that time the Duke of Argyle received 21,ci001. for What did not really bring in money more than 281. per. ann, The Duke had not let his claims fleep in Pence, but bad urged diem to Parliament in feveral bills that had been prepofed finee the revelment. Upon the whole, Co far from confidering it to be, as fume Gentlemen termed it, an infamous and fcandalotis job, he confidered it a claim that reflect' on Uri& juflice, and was fupportcd by the cleareft evidence : he therefore felt it his duty, as a Member of that Hciufe, to fupport it. Mr. WILBERFORCE begged the Houfe feri oufly to confider that the prefent demand Was oot fn much upon the revenues of the Id: of Man, as upon the confolidated fund of Great Britain and the mo ney of their conflituents. He ridiculed the ellimate of 620,0001. fent in by the lace Dtike Of Athol, and laid it would Teem as if his Grace had confidered the ri ve, eignty Of the lfle of Man as Something, neatly equi valent iu value to the Crown of Poland. which was efiimated at a million in the following hoes, " The Crown of Poland, venal twice an age, " To juli a million flints the modelt gage: He then read extrats of letters horn both the Duke and Docile& of Athol (the Duchefs being the heirers of the ifland) in which they both confider 70,00c1. as a full equivalent fur what they were going to lore. He pofitively denieti that any Committee had as yet reported in favour of the Doke's claim, and he thought if it was now granted it would be a preec dent to that family to come again at a locum am,, and demand dill farther compenfation. Mr. BARHAM thought it extremely imp: oper to give the name of an infamous job to a meadoe that any coufiderable number of Members in that Houle might think it their duty to fupport. If even the charge was confittent with truth, it was language not confiflent with good manners. He then entered at fame length into the corifideration of the claim of his Grace, which he lirongly Supported. The, queftion was then loudly called for, and the Houfe came to a divifion on the fu'ij..Et, when the numbers appeared to be—Ayes 95—Noes 38—Ma joritty for the Committee 57. The Houle then went into a Committee, who r: ported progrels, and had leave to fit again. MESSAGE F NOM TUE KING. • burin , - our exclulion from the Gallery, we learn that „ wI r. PITT brought down a Mefrage from hit Majefty, on the confidential interenurfe and cm:c.c• tion between him and the Emperor of Rtifiia. '1'111; Meff.ge was preeifely (imam- to that delivered ir. the Houle of L9rds by Lord HAWKLSBVRY. Mr. FOX made fame remarks on the Meffage, as anticipating the motion of his Hon. Friend Mr.Greys on the State of the Nation. He %%Abed much for further explanation, as the Meffage itfelf Wao vague and unfatisfaelory. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER e plied, that to-morrow would throw conflfilciale light upon the tubjeet in general ; he meant that point At. luded to by the Hon. Gentleman—the Stare of il:e Nation. In the mean time, however, he Mould move, that his Majelty's M e ff age b e taken into con fidcration on Friday next. To this the .1-loufe afferio ed, and adjourned at one o'clock. irk ICE 0 Cosfols, 1 The foll la night I by Mr. Pr Houk of 1 Groacu His Midef that the eons rAding hem tioent. have Majefty to Is cepref wi biza;n an osng t y tiai h certet r anh th a tef l al t e seinow h inf f e roz e; : : lead to a ten with the Per ono, and the therefore rec snaking prov and enter int require. 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