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PARLMIIizivTARr PROCzzDlivGl. HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JUNE a. The Duke of Let MST ea was fwcrn, and took his feat. The Bills before the Houle were forwarded in their refpre. live ftages, and forepal Private Dills, brought up from the Commons by different Gentlemen, were read a firft time. Connfel were heard in continuation relative to the Scotch Appeal, Sir Jamas CoegymouN, Bart. v. the ,Paovorr and others, the Town Magifinites of Dumbarton; after which their Lordfhips pnft poised the further hearing of the cafe till Friday. The Earl of MOIRA obferved, that having to addrefs their Lordfhips in what related to a (t.tef tion of Privileges he believed it might be thought neceffary to carry, as ufual in inch cafes, the •fianding Order into effeet, for the eaclufion of Strangers; but which, from the nature of what he fhould have to trouble the Houle upon, need be enforced but for a very fliort time. The Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, which of courfe precludes us from Dating what enfued. The grangers being re-admitted, The Earl of SOFFOLR addrefTe'd the Houle at tome length, on the fubjeel of the Paper Currency, particularly the enormous circulation of Country Bank Notes. In the courfe of his obfervations, which for the molt part confifted of details, he Rrenuoufly contended, that the Paper Currency was the principal caufe of the exifting High Prices of Provilions, and that the evil loudly called for the interpofition of the Legiflature ; and in this conclufion, he obferved, he was warranted in fome degree by official authority ; as the ifrue of Coun try Bank Notes in Ireland had been Rated, he underflood by a perfon high in Office in that coun. try, to be an intolerable evil, and to require a Le giflative remedy. He Dated, that in a certain portion of his rents, which he not long Since had cecafion to receive, on calculating the (um in eighteen parts, it appeared that one eighteenth was paid in cafh, another in Bank of England Notes, and the remaining lateen parts, in Country Bank Notes. After Rating a variety of circum- Dances, tending to illuftrate his main pofition, namely, the injurious confcquences of an =mettle quantity of Paper in circulation—the iffue of Coun try Banks, and its effect in keeping up the Prices of Provilions, he alluded to the Adl paiTed fome time Since, to reflrain the amount of their value : • ' I he expreffed his with, that an Ael ona fimilar prin ciple were at prefent in force,asthere was infinitely more occafion for it. Lord AUCKLAND Wiflled to know of the Noble Earl, if he meant to conclude with any Motion ? The Earl of Surma intimated his with to frame a Motion, in the Alpe of a Refolution, tending to reftrain the amount of the value of Country Bank Notes beyond a given fum, and, on being given to underftand that a mere Refolution of that Houfe could not produce the defired ef feet, he obferved., that at prefent he did not intend to move for a Bill on the fubjeet, but ftrongly re commended Minifterial -Lords to come forward with, a Legiflative remedy on the occafion. 1 Their Lordfhips then, after further receiving a few Private Bills from the Commons, paired on to t „ the Orderofthe Day, which was, fortaking Hayes's . R. Petition into confideration. The Prayer of the Petition was, that their Lord ' • !hips would difpenfe with the Petitioner's attend• ante op the Occa lion of the fecond reading of his Divorce Bjll,as he was.neceffarily abfent from his Country, being employed in his Majetly's naval 1 fervice, to which he belonged. Mr. Hayes's Solicitor being in attendance, was called to the Bar, and in anfwer to' the quetlions put to him by the Lord Chancellor, Rated; that he lately had a letter from Mr. Hayes, informing him, that he was then employed to commancla Rutter, on a fecret Expedition, but that he, the Solicitor, had made no inquiries at the Admi ralty, or at any other official quarter, as to the truth of what Mr. Hayes communicated to him, not entertaining the kali doubt of his word. The LORD CII•NCiLLOR quitted the Woolfack, and Hated the cafe in quedion to their Lordlhips, as well as the nature of the Standing Order which applied thereto—the enforcing of fuch Order with refped to the attendance of the Petitioner at the Bar, was difcretionary with the Houfe, which may, in particular cafes, on grounds which it deemed adequate, difpenfe with the fame. In fuch a Cafe as that bef ore them, the bell evidence which the cafe admitted of to prove the allegations of the Petition would certainly be required, and•this, his Lordfbip feemed to fay, had not yet been offered. The Noble and Learned Lord moved, in the &It inftance, that the Petition do lie on the Table ; but after conferring with one or two Peers, he Moved that the (aid Petition be taken into further confideration on Wednelday next; which was or dered accordingly. • THe Order being read for their Lordfhips going intb a Committee on the Scotch Militia Officer?! )3ill, the Honk accordingly refolved into the fame, Lord Walfingham in the Chair. The Preamble, and tome of the firft clanfes of the BM, were, after tome coaverfation between tote Earl of CA RMASVOMI, Duke of Moaraost, Lord HOPART. and • other Peers, difpofed of by the Committee. When dick Lord hips came to the confideration of that claufe in the Bill, which goesto theregula• tionfof the Trial of Officers by Courts Martial, and atithorifes Officers in the Scotch Militia to fit on the trials of Englilh Militia Officers, tried by Courts Martial in Scotland, The Earl of CA AAAAA or, in a fpeech of fome length and with a confideralsle degree of warmth, oppofed the elaufe. In the courfe of his addrefs, he went into tho general fubjea of the Militia forces of England, defcribed the principles on which they were originally formed, which were 1 croifonant, he faid, to thofe of the genuine Confti tution of the country, expatiated on their effenti.il utlit y, th ir seal and loyalty, particularly that of the Officers, and the important national fervices, which, in a regular and Conibtutional way, if left 11 66._ untainted and unimpaired, they m igh t, if neceffitry, perform. •He then arraigned the conclud of his listjetty's late Knitters with refped to the Militia force; particularly with refped to their mcafure of inning the regiments to recruit the troops'ofthe line, Which, he laid, bad degraded the former fer vice itt the eyes of chore who were wont to con template the Militia with fatisfaaion and refpee, and even reduced it to that Rate, that he, for one, would rather at the end of the war fee it entirely fupprefred. After treating there points confider ably in detail, his Lorditip paired to the forma -1 Lion of the Scotch Militia, which he averred rc fem bled the Englifh in no one refpe& but in name, being particulafly diffimilar in the modes of the appointment of the Field Officers, and ladling their qualifications. The Englifls Militia was the connitutional bulwark of the country. But fince the Noble Lord, °praline to him, (the Marquis Townibend) firft methodized it, the alterations it had undergone, more efpecially by the late miniilry, were fo great, t ha t it was fcarcely any longer the fame thing, fo metamorphofed has it been. He then dwelt upon the general repugnance which the Engliffi Militia O ffi cers would feel at Isting rendered liable to be tried by Scotch Militia Offircers ; and particularly his own feelings on the occafion, which he expreffed with a confidcrable degree of warmth, and concluded by moving for the omiffion of the claufe; with re fpea to which be was particularly defirous to know the reafon why it was introduced The Marquis Tow it s H END feelt as much for the Militia in a conftitutional fenfe as any man poffi bly could ; but he was free to confers, that no thing which had obtained lately with refpeet to it ought, in his mind, to degrade it, Rill lets to in duce any man who wilhect well to his country, to fee it aboliffied. Lord Hoaair followed on the fame fide, and very ably vindicated the conduit of Minißers with relped to the Militia, and begged the Noble Earl to recoiled, that thee men tiken from that force were all Volunteers, and were engaged only for a limited fervice. He profeffed the high& venera- ' Lion for the Militia. With refped to the particu lar claufe, which was fo noxious to the Noble Earl, be had no objedion,to its (landing over for further confideration, in which view lie thought the better way would be to dired the Chairman to report progrefs. The Duke of Mow limas took up the vindication of the Bill, at Tome length, and very ably re plied to the different objedions of the Noble Earl; he alto vindicated the formation of the Scotch Mi litia, which in principle he contended was ftriftly the fame with the Englilh; the caufe of vetting the appointment of the Field Officers in the Crown was the fmallnefs of Tome of the Counties, two or three of which were required to make up one bat talion; the qualifications for the Officers were loser only in proportion to the value of the landed and monied property in North Britain.—With re. fped to the classic fo warmly objeded to, it was merely fuggefted on the ground of convenience, and under the probability that the requifite num ber of Englifh Militia Officers could not be found for the purpofe in particular parts of Scotland ; and it was confidered as moth conftitutional, that officers of the Scottifh militia should be tried to, as they never went out of Scotland ; and it was no more than literally trying them by their peers. The Earl of CASRNARVON replied, that would not be the cafe if this Bill paired into a law with Englifh officers going into Scotland, which they ynay do, for they certainly would not be tried by their peers. For by the Scottilh law, a gentle man there in the militia is qualified for a field officer,. whole income m;y not be more than 301. per annum, and the fi eld officers there are all appointed by the Crown, whereas thole of the Englifh Militia are qualified in a manner infinite ly luperior, and betides that, they are appointed by the Lords Lieutenants of their refpedive coun ties. It was therefore but fair in the Houfe, when fuel; an inequality was about to be recognized, that Militia Officers in England fhould be ap prized of it, that they might, by petition, be en. abled to oppofe it, and be heard at the bar; for which purpofe he fuggefted the propriety of hav in g the bill recommitted. . Lord Roomer (poke with a great degree of feel ing and Come warmth in fupport of part of the obfervations of the Earl of Carnarvon. The Earls of CARLISLE and RADNOR delivered their lentiments, which were in difapprobation of the claufe. The Earl of CARNARVON made a few other re marks on that difference in the Scotch militia, which reftrided the ages of privates from 19 to 30, whereas in the Englifh. it extends to men of 50. The Duca of Motrraosa anfwered his Lord (hip, that this arofe from locality of cullom in Scotlania, Lord HOBART, after what had paired, depre cated all further dircuftion at prefent, and moved, that the Chairman do leave the Chair; which be ing agreed to, the Houfe refumed. Pregrefs be ing . reported, the Committee was direeted to fit again on Friday, to which day the ennfideration of the Englifh Militia Subaltern Bill was pa poned. Their Lordfhips then proceeded to the Order. for takin into confideration , the Refolutions p uff ed by the Houfe lath Seffion, relpedinr Bills of Inch°. Cure. The Duke of Bauman addreffed the Houfe at Tome length on the general lubjca of Bills of In chafure, mid expatiated on the very great import. ante of facilitating fuch meafures. lie obfervedi that notwitbftanding the great degree of attention he had bellowed on the point, he could as yet de vife no means, fatisfadory to himfclf, of carrying his ideas into effeft by a legiflative regulation.— Refolutions pallid by both Hnufcs of Parliament appeared to him as likely to be more effectual; and, rcipeaing there, he fuggelled is variety of expo dients,particularly a regulation foreontrouling the Overfcers and Commit Goners, as tending to con. duce to the great and deferable end be had in view. His Grace concluded by intimating hi. intention to bring forward Tome ipecific propolitions on the Itibjelt to-morrow, on tvi)ich ecearion he moved that the Houle he fu.-nmoned ; which proceeding, after a few words tr.3tit Lord Ham: r yas ordered to take place. • Their Lord ps then difpnfed Gnome private bu oefs, after which they adichleimadll to-morrow.' HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Report upon Koop's Straw Paper Patent ManufaCtory Bill, was brought up, and avezd to. The Hilt Members' Qui:heation Bill was read a firft dine, and ordered to be read a feeond time on Wedraday next. A Meffage from the Lords Rated, that their Lordihips had peed the Coventry P-or Bill, and feverai Private Bills. Mr. ADDINGTON mr,ved a new Writ to be lined for the Bo rough of Lymington, in the room of Sir HtarßT BURILARD NEALE, But. who has accepted the office of one of the Grooms of hit Majcity's Bed-chamber. Mr. Lussitnoron brought up the Bill for the better regula tion of Public Notaries, which was read the firs tin, and or dered to be read almond tune on this day fennight, and to be printed. A Perfon from the Veterinary College prefented an Amount of Receipts and Expenditure of Debts, and Grants of Parlia ment, whieh was ordered to he laid on the 'fable. Mr. Cosav brought up a Bill to continue feveral temporary Adts puffed in the Parliament of Ireland, which was read a firft time. Mr. BRAGOE brought up a Bill for eonfolidating into one AB feveral provitious ufually introduced in AEU of Inclofure. —Read a Brit time. The trills Wine, Ale, and Beer Licence Bill was read a firfl time. The Report of the Portugal Wine Warehoufe Bill was brought up, and, with the Amendments, agreed to, and or dered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Mb Additional Stamp Duty, and the kith Diftilkry Bills were brought up by Mr. Cocas, and read a firft time. Mr. POISON gave notice, that it was his intention to bring forward a Motion ea Friday next, relative to the Penfions pay able out of the Civil Lift. The Repent of the Committee on the Grenada Merchants Petition was ►rought up, ordered to be laid upon the Table, and Copies obit printed. Mr. LEIGH moved for leave to bring in a Bill to render the Proceedings in the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in Ireland more benefi cial and effeetual in perfonal Aelions,Leave be ing given, the Bill was afterwards brought up by Mr. Potisomar, and read the firtl time;—on the Motion for the fecond reading, Mr. W. Mooes objeeed to the Bill. He thought the Public would derive no benefit from the Bill, although the Individual might. He did not be lieve that the propofed change met the concurring fentiments of the Judges in Ireland, nor that it was of fuch a nature that they would with to fanc tion it by their authority. The Bill went to exer cise an authority out of the Jurifdittion of the Court.—Judgment and execution could, accord ing to its provifions, be obtained againa at man without perfonal fervice upon him. But the Bill not only difpenfed with the neceltity of perfonal fervice, and extended the jurifdietion beyond that of the County where judgment was obtained, but alfo accelerated, beyond all example, the facility which the Plaintiff had of obtaining judgment, without giving proper time to the Defendant. In all there refpefts it differed, for the worfe, from the Englifh Law. It would alto go altogether to cut up an ufeful procefs by Civil Bill, whereby (mall debts were recoverable in a fummaty way af• ter perfonal fervice, and by a Ilion procefs. Mr. G. Possomar thought that none of the ob jeflions Rated by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman could be made againft the provifions of the Bill itfelf. It appeared to him to be a znea- Cure of very great public benefit. After noticing the objeftions of the preceding Speaker,hauggeft ed the pmpriely of laying a copy of the Bill before the Judges of Ireland, for their opinion. Mr. Luau and Col. Maar' it defended the prin ciple of the Bill. Mr. Aaeor expreffed his intention of aPply?ng to the Judges of Ireland for their opinion. The Bill was then ordered to be read a fecond time, on this day fennight, and to be printed. The Bill for regulating the Election of Mem bers to ferve in Parliament for that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland, was read a firft time. A converfation took place between Meffrs. As- SOT, TRENCH, BAGWELL LEIGH, and YOKE!. Mr. NicrioLi.s fuggefted that great care ought to be taken, not to give the influence of deciding the Elation of Members to ferve for Counties in Ireland, to Barrifters appointed by Minifters. Sir JOHN PARNELL laid, that the Crown had at prefent the nomination of Sheriffs, and that as matters now flood, they bad greater power than the Barrifters would have under this new Law.— The Bill was then ordered to be read a fecond tithe on Friday next. The Hide Flaying Bill was read a third time and palled, after a fhort converfation between Sir W. ELTON'', Gen. GASCOIONE, and Mr. &taco E. Mr. Roasow Cilia, he had withdrawn the Mo tion he intended to have made fall week, on the Chancellor of the Exchequer informing him, there was a Paper of the nature he wanted already on the Table y but that Paper did not contain the information he ' , tithed for, being without dates. He only wifhed for an Account fimilar to what had been always prefented heretofore. He would therefore move, " That there be laid before the . Houle an Account of the distribution of the a,g00,0001. granted to his MAJASTT for defraying the Extraordinaries of the Army for doh, with the dates of the relpeeive payments."—Ordered. Mr. Jowas moved, that there be laid before the Houle the particular items of the fum of 2,67340. let forth in the account No. 34, prefented to the Houle on the Rth May illot ' by the Eafl-India Company, as a d e bt dye from Government to the Paid Company. Mr. BIAGGI laid, that as this was a new fub jell, and Gentlemen connetled with the EA-India Company were then abfent, he wifbed the Ho nourable Gentleman would poflpone his Motion till to-morrow. Mr. Jonas kid, there Papers had been produced for three weeks, but as he had no with to take the Houk by furprife, he had no objedion to poftpone his Motion till to-morrow. Mr. H. Avoinovon ftid, he was defined, in the ahfence of his Right Honourable Relative, to give police, that the Refolutions of Ways and Means and Supply, would be brought forward on Friday nest. Lady Abererombr'sPention Bill was corn/pi neck. Mr. Jonas Paid, be gave his hearty confent to this Bill as far as refpeded Lady Abercromby ; but he had to lament the cafe of the widows and families ofinanr gallant Officers. • From what he knew of the difpolition of the Chancellor of the Exchec i ber, he hadno doubt but the merit of theft Officerk who bad fallen in battle would be regard d by a provitinn for their relatives. The other Orders of the Day were deferred. • LONDON. MU:DAY, JUNE 3. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON? cycLoc;-.. Confok, money, 61 —Rod. 60-4 Perecnt. YU—. 3 per CCM. 96t—.. CP Ann. 94-,-Ommum 9 prctn. ?RICA OF STOCKS YESTUDAY Sank Stock Long Ann. z 8 a-z 6 3 per Cent. Red. 6059t60 Mon Ant. 5 v-16 3 per C. Conf. 601# f• Imp. 3 per Cent. 511 i 1 5 per C. Navy 96 i Imp. Ann. i z 54 5 Per C. Lay. 93{ x 94 Conf. for lee. 54 i The funds were very dull yefterday, and rather felt T. Jews were great Idlers. No rcatot could be given for this, les it be the {reparations in the ports of France, for the ins: Pion of this country. The meeting of MORRAV, BONAPAITE, ?t Mail Tann, is thought t 4 be for the purpo, of arrangit/ a plall of campaign. By private letters we harn, that on the day the Mail hrt Hamburgb, the exchange on this Country (dl 3 per C.o. 171 confequenee of the number of hills from St. Pctaihurgh, for our fleet In the Pattie. We announced yellerday (in our Letter front Falmouth) that the Dutch Wand of St. Euilatta was in the poffeflion of the Briti(h. The furrendu took place on the asth of April, in confequence of a Deputation having been fent by the inhabitants to the Governor of St. Kitt's, informing him that the French had abandoned the Ifland, and red:Attn. ins him to take the Wand tinder the protediou his BRITANNIC MAJESTY. The Acas (loop was accordingly difpatched, with zoo men, under the command of Colonel BEIM*, of the Buffs, who took poffelfion of the place without oppoiltion. The TOV/NSEND Packet, by which this news was brought, came over in twenty-two days from Tor. tola. She brings no confirmation of the report that Cuadaloupe had furrendered to the arms of this country. The ROYAL PAM tcv do not leave town for Wcy. mouth, till after the prorogation of Parliament. Colonel Nora let off on Saturday laR for Ira land, as Adjutant-General. Lord PELHAM is to be created an Earl, in order that his fop, Mr. PEL nApt, may receive the honour of an English Baroty. In codequerce of Sir Cnatiss Wawa/ bck,g called to the HiTufe of Peers, the arrangements far the rtprefentation of the county and . borougr c.t Brecon, are.as follow, viz. Sir Roe at SA s.usa Bart. vice Sir Camas s *Aces, for the cotthty. SAMOEL HOMSILEY, Efq. vice Sir ROBERT SAS.US SIVILY, for the borough " Porto Ferrajo, which makcs fuels a gallant de. fence againft a thong corps o f French troops from Florence, is garrifoned by about is() Briti(h. The aft Regiment of Glafgow Volunteers were reviewed in the Green, by Gen. DRUM MOND. uw Thurfdayfe'nnight, when they acquitted the mfelvcs much to the fatisfaaion of the GeneraVand a nu. merous and brilliant crowd of fpettatots. ' The'Farringdon Volunteers are to affemlile Thurfday, and to be encamped at Colefpits for 7 week, in order to perfed thenafelves ja militar) ezercifes. • The Volunteers of Stamford, aid itsneighbour hood, have made a tender of their Cervices to any part of the kingdom, in the event of an invafion. The feveral Volunteer Corps of the metropolis and its neighbourhood, arc to have field-days on the 4th of June, in the accullomed places of emir cife, but do not affemble in Hyde-Park: The Bloomfbury Affociation meets in the Foundling Hofpital-court, the Surry Volunteers on Clapham Common, &c. Lieutenant-Colonel WILLIAM Scorr has been appointed Refident at the Court of his Excellency the Nabob Vizier, at Hyderabad.' Lieutenant - Col onel Rossoe is left in the charge of the Government of the nand of St. Helena, the Colonel being the Lieutenant-Governor at the time of Colonel BIOOR a's rcfignation. General MARTINI, who died Come months fince at Lucknow, where he had refided many years in the fervice of the Nabob of Oude, exclufive of fe veral legacies to different charities in India, left behind him 33 lacks of rupees, (or 396,0001.) and even this fum was much lets than, from his habits of life, his friends had been induced to expel; Colonel C. Bait tax, of the sill Regiment, is ap• pointed by his Excellency F. NORTH, to command the garrifoitof Columbo, and Lieutenant Colonel DALRYMPLI, of the t9th Regimen[, has fucceeded him in the command of the Fort, &c. of Point de Galle, the garrifon of which has been reinforced by three companies of the t9th Regiment. Accounts from Java Rate, that upwards of too. neutral fbips have arrived there annually for thefe five years pall, each of which, on an average, mutt have left at lean 70,000 dollars in hard fpecie, making the. whole funs of 3,500,000 dollars ; all of which are fill on that ;Rand, betides immenfe magazines of produce, military, and other titres. Accounts from Calcutta Rate, that the brother of the Rajah Parumsta died fume time fine, and the next morning after his deceafe, his funeral pile was raifed with great folemnity, at Bauboo Ghent; where, in fpite'of every remonfirance, two fine young women, his wives, committed themfelves to the flames, with the cor pfe of the deceafed Rajah. Mr. GIORGI Rost, Surgeon to the Firß Bat talion of the Coldffream Guards, who died in Egypt in confequence of the wounds he received, was eldeß fon of the Rev. Jose Ross, of Udny, near Aberdeen. He was a promifing young many only all years of age. A Letter from Barcelona, dated May t 3th, far. , " A detachment of tbe . 47th Demi-brigade, from Montpelier, pallid through here a fortnight ago, on its road to Carthagena. Another detachment is now proceeding to the fame deßination. Orders have been given to prepare for the reception of 4000 men of the bell Troops in France, wbo arc, it is Paid, not two days journey from hence. Nine hundred French Sailors are alfo to repair hither. They will immediately go to Carthagena; and Ole land troops will take the road to Saragoffa.—There are in our pegs fever or eight fail DI =drill*" 1 a D T o! sr 7