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HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, THURSDAY, FEB. gsr, Report prefented on Groeu r i OKENzia's and CLARENDON Petitions, Rating that the New Road from Kellit's ERate to Arthur's Seat will leffen the dillance to Montego-bay, and will avoid the river Mino ; that it will form an eafy communication between Clarendon and St. Ann, and evidently benefit the public. A Petition from Dr. THOMAS DANCER prefented, Rating his fervices to the public, in re-e ft ablifhing the Botanic Garden, and that he Rill continues to difcharge his duty as Bland Botanift. Petition from Kingfton reported, Rating, that the population, trade, and commerce of Kingflon, had greatly increafed ; that the retort of Foreign ers has alb become very great ; that the prelim laws do not afford fufficient fecurity for the fafety of laid town, and recommending a Bill to be brought in, fo r conßituting the fame into a Cor poration. Report agreed to, and Bill ordered. Route in Committee on State of the Bland; being refumed, two Refolutions reported as follows :- 1. That it be recommended to the Houk to fend a Meirage• to his Honour the Lieutenant-Go vernor, _to thank him for having communicated to the Houle the intentions of the enemy to fend a fquadron from Breit, on a fecret expedition, the deflination of which is probably the Ifland of St. Domingo • to allure his Honour that the Route will ever be anxious to attend to any circumßance which may put this valuable Colony in any danger, and that, relying on his Honour's known zeal and experienced energy, the Houle will, at all times, enable his Honour to make fuch immediate and fuitable arrangements as the general defence of the Colony may require. 2. That it be recomended to the Houk, to grant to the Lieutenant-Governor a fum not exceeding ro,oool. in order to enable his Honour to make fuch arrangements as the general defence of the Hand may require; and that this or any future Affembly will make good the fame; the Honfe being perfuaded that no application will be made of fuch fum, in difcharge of any expences for which reconrfe has ufually been bad to the Britifb Go vernment. _ _ _ _ _ _ Hoafe refolved to refute payment of fubfiffence and lodging-money to Staff-Officers, in more than one capacity. Committee appointed to examine general map of the Nand. Minutes of Commif fioners of Forts and Fortifications ordered to be laid before the Houfe.,--Adjourned. FRIDAY, JIM 20. Two Meffages fent to Lientenant-Gnvernor, nne thanking him for ,his information refpeeting the fquadron from Brea ; the other with two Retolu tions of yenerday. Committee appointed to refume the confideration of two Melrages from Lientenant.Covernor, of r3th of March and 6th November, 1799, refped ing the Maroons in Nova Scotia. Account Current from the Agent prefented, and referred to Commiffioners of Public Accounts. —Adjourned. TVIIIDAY. FIB. 2 4 . JANII STEWARD, Efq. took the oaths and his feat for St. Elizabeth. A Wage from Lieutenant-Governor, with a Return of Maroons. as follows : Moore-Town—Officers fit to carry arms, 6 men. able and fit to carry arms, 47; boys, many of them good mots, 20 ; women, 78 ; girls, 17 ; children, 108.—Total, 2 7 0. Charles-Town--Officers, 7; men (hot, 62 ; wo men, 81 ; boys, 40; girls, 3 e ; children, 57; in valid, t ; infaste, I.—Total, 281. - . Scot's-Hall---Men. f 4; women, 12 ; boys, f t ; 13.--Total„ 49. Accompong-Town—Men fit to carry arms, 37; boys, 53; women, 44; girls, 33 ; man, unfit for dqty, I.—Total, sllll.--Grand Total, 739. Mr. Plltilf and Mr. blow Vl' Added 1• 1 Commit tee on Trelaway PARLIAMENT:4,Rr PROW:DINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MAY $. Mr. Gulags was heard on the Appeal Can& FULLARTOM V. Sir Haw DALRYI4 Fit, on behalf of the Refpondent till pafi. five, when the further hearing WAS adjourned to Monday next at two o'clock. Mr. QUAILML, Deputy Ufher of the Black Rod, appeared - at the Bar, and informed the Honk, that a Deputation from the Commons waited a conference with their Lordfhips, in the Painted Chamber :—and accordingly the following Peers were nominated to manage the fame, on the part o their Lordfhips, viz. Earls of Ross me and Gat towsv.l.ords WALSINGHAN, AUCKLAND, Dow nes, and the Bifitop of OXFORD. On the return of the Deputation from the Con ference, the Earl of Rosstie read the Communi cation which he had received from the Commons together with certain Papers and Documents, re lative to a more effeetual mode for the promulga tion of the Statutes, which on the Motion of his Lordfhip, were ordered to be printed. The various Bills before the Houfe were for warded in their refpeCtive Stages. Lord AUCKLAND obferved, that one of the Or ders was fur the third reading of Campbell's Di vorce Bill, which fiage he fhould objeCt to taking place that evenittg. His Lorcithip thee adverted generally to the very aggravated circumftances of the cafe in quellion, which he thought beyond any other that bad come before their Lordfhips, and required the particular interpofition of the Houfe—in which view. fhould their Lordfhips agree to peilpone the Bill, he intended to move for the introduction of a Claufe to prohibit the Adultrefs, Mrs. Campbell, from intermarrying, in cafe an opportunity fhould offer, with the Huf band of her Sifter, the perfon with whom it was proved the frequently had an adulterous inter courfe, and upon whole account fhe was di vorced. This being a particular cafe, and of a glaringly aggravated nature, he felt it flrongly incumbent on him to come forward as he men tioned. And accordingly he moved, that the Or der for the third reading of the Bill be pofiponed till Tuefday next. Which being ordered, he gave notice, that he fhould propofe a Claufe to the effect abovi (tared. A great deal of private bufinefs was difpofed of, in the courfe of which, after a Petition had been duly received, and an attefted Copy of the Pro ceedings in the Ecclefiaftical Court regularly laid before the Houfe, a Bill was brought in, and read a fira time, to diffolve the Marriage of George Hayes, with Chriftian his now Wife. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. The order of the day being read for the Houfe to refolve itfelf into a Committee upon this Bill, and the Houfe being in a Committee accordingly, Lord Walfingham on the Chair, The Earl of Moms laid, he had intended to have fuggeßed averal amendments to this Bill; but upon due refleetion, and upon the fuggettions of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolfack, and confidering this Bill of a temporary nature, be deemed it better to let it proceed nearly as a tranf cript of the hit ad, fubmitting onl a few altera tions. With regard to the preamb , of the 'Bill, i te his with certainly was to have that red, for he never could content to that preamble. It Rated, that, " Whereas, notwitblianding the great pre judice and detriment which ads of Infolvency pro duce to trade and credit." Now this was not only., a very general averment, but, in his opinion, a very untrue one, he was defirous to prevent that! untruifm becoming a part of this Bill; he fhould therefore fubmit the propriety of introducing, af ter the word " which," the word u cafual." As, in his mind, the want of fome permanent law, which could relieve thole really infolvent, and pu nifh thole who were really fraudulent, and which adually caufed temporary laws of this kind to be injurious to fociety, by enabling the defigning and the fraudulent to take advantage of them, to the irreparable injury of the hona and unfufpeEting creditor—he was therefore of opinion, that when once an individual becomes lama Pe infolvent, and in c u Rody for debts, which he unwarily contratled, or contraCting, incurred without fraud or snifter defign, there fhould be fome tribunal of appeal, as 1 loon as be becomes charged in execution, which, upon an accurate and fair manifeßation of hi*afe, 1 fhould be endowed with power to let him at li- 1 betty ; but camel, however k as he was, to accom- plith fo defirable an (Nett, yet he mutt for the pre. fent forego k, under the temporary embarraffments i and preffure of the times. His Lordatip then pro. pofed the Amendment, to which the Houfe agreed, and it was adopted. He then Rated, that from the advice of his No ble and Learned Friend on the Woolfack, he had taken into contideration the circumftances of 1 indi viduals confined, what!, at the fame time, he ad verted to the necetlity of preventing artful or de figning perfons taking advantage of this Bill, by an ex ypg fa 9. date to it. To counteract that, he &could now move their Lordfhips, that the blank left for the period when the operation of the Bill was to commence as a law, fhould he the' firlt day of March laR ;" and having mowed accor dingly. his Motion was agreed to, and the blank was filled up with u the firft day of March, ;Sot." The next motion he had to fubmit would be that of the furn to which it was his with the law fhould extend; with that view he had taken into confideration the AEI of the 37th of his Majefly, which limited it to i soot. and Judging from the increafing formws and exigencies of the times, that 1 it would be humane and wife to extend it fome. I what beyond that furn, he would now fuggett the propriety of advancing it to I soot. and isaving I moved to that effect, his motion was carried, and, the blank was filled with ;cool. His Lordfhip next called the attention of the Houfe to the clank, which regards perfons who had taken the benefit of any former Ad, and who are now in cullody ; and having Rated, th at even fuch perfons might now he in cullode for debts incurred without any evil or fraudulent defign, fignified the policy and the jnflice of the fame being enquired onto, by em powo ing any two Julloces cf the Peace to rum mon the two parties before them ; and, wilds they faw juf caufe of &mining the prifuncr, to dif charge him, otherwife to to remand him finally. After a few other obfervations to this effal, his Lordfltip moved that two or more Jullices of the Peace be empowered to that effat, and the mo tion was agreed to. The feveral alterations, as they attached to the principle of the Dill, being arranged and agreed to, his Lordfhip next moved that two perfons, whom he named, (indiwiduals, as far as we could learn, confined in rift* in Dublin on verdias for adul try) fhould be particolary exempted from the be nefits of this Bill. In this alto their Lnrdlhips con curred, and the Committee on the Bill, after re porting progrefs, was ordered to fit main on Mon day, to which day the Hoare adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A BILL TO PREVENT DOUBTS RESPECTING TUP ELI GIBILITY OP PERSONS IN HOLY ORDERS TO SIT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Whereas it is expedient to remove doubts Which have arifen refpating the Eligibility of Perfons in Holy Orders to fit in the Houfe of Commons, and alfo to make more effeEtual provifion for excluding them from fitting therein Be it therefore declared and enaled by the King's Moil Excellent Majefly, by and with the advice and confent of the I.ords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this prefent Parliament affem bled, and by the authority of the fame, Thatfrom and after the no perfon having been or dained to the office of Priell or Deacon, than be capable of being eleeted to terve in Parliament as a Member of the Houfe of Commons. And be it further enafted, That if any perfon, having been ordained to the office of Prieft or Dea -1 con, ihall hereafter be eleeted to ferve in Parlia ment as aforefaid, fuch Eleetion and Return are hereby enated and declared to be void ; and if any fuch perfon thall be fo elefted, and ffiall pre fume to fit or vote as a Member of the Houfe of Commons, he (hall forfeit the Turn of for every day in which he (hall fit or vote in the Paid Houfe, to any perfon or perfons who (hall fue for the fame in any of his Majelly's Courts at Weft minfter• and the money fo forfeited than be re covered by the perfon or perfons fo fuing, with full colts of fuit, in any of the Paid Courts, by any altion of debt, bill, plaint, or information, in which no effoign, privilege, proteftion, or wager of law, or more than one imparlance, &all be al lowed ; and every perfon againit whom any fuch penalty or forfeiture Mall be recovered by virtue of this Aft, (hall be from thenceforth incapable of taking, holding, or enjoying any Benefice, Living, or Promotion Ecclefiafficar, and of taking, hold ing, or enjoying any Office of Honour or. Pro fi t under his Majefly, his Heirs, or Succeffors. Provided alfo, and be it ena&ed, That no per fon shall be liable to any forfeiture or penalty in - flifted by this Aft, unlefs a profecution limit be commenced within calendar months after fuch penalty or forfeiture (hall be inCurrcd. FRIDAY, MAY S. Sir RICKARD GAstoN brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Petition from VS'inchelter, relative to the erec tion of a new Bridewell in that city ; which was agreed to, and a Bill ordered purfuant thereto.. Lord &L./qualm obtained leave to bdag in a Bill for the im provement of the Port of Rye, la Sogett.. Mr. Coal reported front eM Centsittoe appointed to exa mine the mailing Laws tontine royelotios of difputes between Malta,' and Servants. Vie &poet load; that the Laws were defallve, and reconwnenapt Voir arrangement to remove 4oubts refpt ding the power OfMaglftrates on this fubjeCL The Report was ordered to be taken into, frher conflagration on `Monday. General GASCOIONt gave notice, that he thould, on Mon day next, move for leave to bring in a Bill to explain and amend the Adt relative to the flaying of hides and &los Sir J. SINCLAIR obtained leave to bring in *a Bill for the um prnvement of the Part of Thurfo, in Caithnefs, Mr. WM. Due+ DAS moved for feveral accounts to be laid be-. fore the Houle relative to the annual Revenue acid Expensil ture of the differcot Settlements of the Ealt India Company for the years ending with the latett advices, together with all the Eftimates, &c. preliminary to the bringing forward of the Budget.. —Ordered. Mr. Jones anted if the papers ordered would contain any at. count of the intended Expedition to the Manilla Elands, which he underftoosi colt no lets than ileepooL though it never went out of the Bay of Bengal,. Mr. Wst,l)un Da s laid the papers moved for wculd be im mediately laid on the table, and be printed for the ufe of the Members. Mr. Jonas taw nothing offer...fire In the queftion he put, and thought it ought where been anfwered more fatiafadority. If the papers refer that Expedition Gadd not be produced, it was his intention to more for them. Mr. 11 elixir Paid it would have been proper, and might have Paved trouble, to give a more explicit anfwer to the timer don of his Holt Friend. A perfoo free. the India Houfe preicnted tbeAecounts moved for by Mr. W. Duedaa, which vette soldered to be printed. Mr. ABBOTT Paid, the hour was ed (five o'clock) which had been appointed for a conk With the Lords relative to the promulgation of the Statutes, and moved that a Committee mould be appointed to manage the fame. l'he Committee was accordingly appointed to confer with their Lardihips, and on their return, the Secretary at War, u one of the Commit tee, informed the Houk that they had continunkmed the go. folution of the Houle to their Lorelfhipa, and that an &awes would be fent to the Honk by a Meffenger of their Lordibire The Curates Mork Duty Exemption Bill; the National Bank Note Forgery Bill; and the Militia Pay and Cloathing Bill, were read a third time, and paled.' Mr. BRAGGIL reported from the Committee on tbit Aft rela. &re to the Dtawbacks on Sugar, which was agreed to, and a Bill ordered. A Meffase front the Lords Rated their Lortilhips Went ti the kith Rice Importation Bill, end fetteral private Bills. Mr. ABBOTT brought up the report of the Committee ap. pointed to examine the 4th Ankle of the kith Union, which was read, ordered to be printed, and to be takes into further coofideratlon on Monday. Mr. Coats' prefented an Account of the rums received with in the year taco, by the Trcafurers of the feveral Counties in Ireland ; and s° Account of the Areffments tithe Grand juries, CLERGY EXCLUSION ■ILL. The Cnancsccoa of the EICHICIIIIR moved the fecond reading of the Bill for removing doubts re fpeiting the Eligibility of perfons in Holy Orders to fit in that Houfe. Sit FRANCIS BURDETT Paid, he rofe to exprela his ' decided difapprobation of the whole principle of the Bill. It was not his intention to take the fenfe of the Houle upon it, in its prefent Rate, nor to oppofe its going into a Committee ; but when in a 'Committee, he declared his determination to go more at large into the fubjeft.—For his own part, he did not believe that any modification which it could then undergo, could reconcile him to the principle of it, which he confidcred to be unjult, for he could fee no ground for going the length of ftigmatizing any fit of men by iSsri an chnement. The Clergy were not more likely be influenced by the Crown than men of any othc prc feaion, nor could he lee any reafon why a ma.• wear;ng a black coat was Acre dependent or. fl Crean than one wearing a red coat. The Bill we. it upon two grounds, each of which appeared to him to he exceptionable. The Aril ;mond wa., that which went upon a fuperftiticrns kind of notion of fome indelible &alit,' attached to the Clericai charaaer ; a notion which he eould-aot but thin: ' favoured of Pop ery , and ought not to be held by any member the Protefiant Church. In the Preamble of the Bill, alto, no reafon was afllped, only it was limply Itated to be an AR in coofe quence of doubts having beet entertained, but without fpecifying any inconveniences which had arifen from the entertainment of fuel' doubts. This Bill went the length of taking away the rights (.1 a great body of men ; he hoped therek'ore that it would not be precipitated, but that time would be afforded for the fuller confideration of the ns:uftirc. As an individual, he fhould content himfelf with limply oppoling the fecond reading, referving htm felfe a fuller declaration of his fentiments in a future Rage of proceeding. Mr. HORNE T00ne..." Sir, I rife for the firli, and, moil devoutly do I hope, for the only time in nay life, in oppofition to my Hon. Friend. I with the Bill to proceed to a fecond reading. When I review the cafe in all its relative bearings, and conned the MI with the circumflances, I am con, vinced, that the Right Hononourable Gentleman who brings forward - this Bill had no alternative. Situated as he was, he could not aft otherwife. In the predicament in which he !lands, one ounce of caution and difcrction is worth a ton of rheto. tic. In laying this, I with to guard againft mif conflrnaion. I am not the advocate of fubterfuge and evafion. When the point at ;true involves the cattle of jullice, it would be unfair to take advan ' tage of cafual error—but when injuftice is the ob jea of purfuit, then it becomes laudable to take advantage of every opportunit y to defeat that end. I do not now fee a learned Gentleman (Sir Wil liam Scott) in his place, who, on a former night, when the butinefs which gave birth to the prefent Bill was under dircuflion, flatted certain propofi. tions refpeaing the priellhood, which, I cannot refrain from (hying, were wholly unfounded, and unwarranted by truth. I with that learned Gen.,/ tleman was now here ; but as he is not, I hope that time of his friends will take care to inform him of the affertion I now make, in order that he may come down to the Committee ready and fat ly prepared to make good his ftatements. I knout him to be a man of great acutenefs, and truly, hi the prefent inftance, he will have occafion for the full exercife of all his ingenuity ; for I feel no he• fitation in telling him, that I am flrongly per l , fuaded he will not be able to fuftain his pofiticias from any arguments drawn from the reafon of the thing, from law, proteflanifm, the bible, or the mate ter of faa. I wave entering into an eqmination the manner in which this Bill has been introduced to the Houfe. It meets us as a folitary ineafure, unconneaed with any fefficient caufe, or ground of operation. It merely tells us, that doubts ha ye been entertained, but does not fay that any inc oa4 venienc, has arifen front thole doubts. Whether it was right and fitting that the Bill thould come into the Houfe in his thape, in the prefent female flfriox of tusieditefi,Tflop not now to enquire. Had I either felt convinced in my own mind that my fitting in this Houfe was produftive of incon venience, or had this been proved to be the cafe by others, I fhould have anticipated every 'at tempt to expel me, and have been the fink to quit the fituation I hold, voluntarily, and, frost the impulfe of my own feelings. But no inconveni ences have or can refult 'from my fitting ia this Houfe. The queflion is altogether perfonal. (Nor no! was exclaimed by fcveral Members). Mr. Tooke continued—" In laying that the queftion is to me perfonal, which I au maiatain. I do npt mean to fay, that it proceeds froze any fentiments of ahimofity towards myfelf, at the part of the Right Hon. Gentleman who brings it forward. I have never deferved enmity, anal am ready to believe the folemn difavowal of all per fonal refentment made by the Right Hon. Gentle man. But, in the eyes of the Public, it muff an. pear Perfonal. It mull, for reafons which offer themfelves inflantly to notice. For a century and a half there has not been a fmgle Parliament in which fume perfons in holy orders did not fit. It may be Paid they fat here/alkalies, and that a blot is no blot until it is noticed. About fifteen years ago a Mr. Rulbworth was petitioned againk, as a Pruett; a Committee was appointed to examine the Petition, and they decided in his favour. During the whole of that period, no inconvenience has been felt, no alarm excited. No fears or appre herillons were exprelled of there being any danger of the Clergy riling ea ies#, and milting into this Houfe, to come in for a thane of the good things which are fuppofed to attach to a feat in Parlia ment. But, the moment I make my appearance, the moment I thew my face in the Ho ufe, the lignal of alarm is given, and my prefence is (up. pored to endanger the Conftitution. Under fuch circumftances can the Public do other than con fider the mea:fure as a perfonal queftion. It has been Paid, that if the Clergy are fuffered to fit, the Houfe would be converted into a Convocation of Divines. It mutt convert Will, in fame meafure, into fuch a meeting, when it proceeds, in the Cost• mince, to canals and analyfc what is and what is not a Nett. I hope a decent time will be allow ed between the fecond reading and the formation of that Committee, as the queflion involves die rights and privileges of a numerous order of men. In that Committee, I (hall not be found to pto pok any alteration which has a tendency to op pofe the reafonable detire of the Houle to prevest the Clergy from occupying a feat." Mr.Fieacouar defended the principle ef the Bill, contending that it had no reference whatever to any particular individual. The motion for the fecond reading was then pot and carried. The CHANCELLOR Of the EICHMFER Paid if WAS his intention to move that the Biel Ihould be committed on Monday, log as foals Gentlanes ab e.% Let% curt, 4.:ze