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PARLMMEATART PROCEED!.' GS. tram: OF LORDS, THURSDAY, 114 ARCH 31 .„ „. The 14 , Juk, i , a C.inni tee of Privileges, heard hie. Fr. Stine a: font, length as leading Counfcl in fupport of the Ciabll ni the Rev Edw. .1 imewcl.l Brydges to the Barony of Chan ting, after whicli Mr. Attorney General waa heard at confiJe.. rabic ler hon behalf of the Crown.—The farther confkieracion of the cafe waa adjourned till to-morrow. MILITIA. Lord HOBART moved the fecond reading of the Militia Officers' Bill. His Lord(hip fupported the principle of the Bill on the ground of the ur gent neceffity at the prefent moment of giving every aid in the power of Parliament to the Execu. rive blanch c.f . our Government. He urged arcing ly the difficulty of procuring a fufficient number ref qualified perfmts to aft as Officers in the Mili ea. The Notlle Lord went at confiderable length into the detail of the minuter branches of the Bill, as well as the defcription of its general charaeler. tlfter expatiating on the neceffity and expediency of each particular part as he proceeded, he con cluded with espreffing a hope that other Noble Lords would fee that meafure in the fame view as he did, and that the reafons which he had pre mired would have fufficient weight with the Houfe molt cheerfully to afrent to what was the purport of his prefent motion. The Earl of CAR fi•lt VON, in a very animated fptech, combated the arguments of the Noble Se cretary of State who made the motion. He pointed out the neceffity of a Militia force being officered by men who had a (take in the Country, and who would not only of consequence have w.:;ght and authority in the county to which they Llonged, but who, from their long refidence, and moil likely that of their anceftors, among the people, would have a flronger claim on the fer vices of the people, from the affeCtion which would nttturally attach to them as neighbours, patrons, to fiiendc. His Lord(hip laid, the Conftitution had molt wifely adenowledged this principle in the formation of a Militia, as the Conflitutional means of defence for the country in time of peace. But the Noble Lord obferved, this was a moll important meafure, and called for the moll let ions attention of their Lord hips, whereas it was only two days open to their contideration. lie declared himtell incompetent to decide lufficiently on the cliff - trent ohjeifts it embraced, from the flight view he hail taken of the Bill, and. indeed, he luppored that other Noble Lords ma have felt a flmilar in convenience, from the (bonnet; of the pciiod for which the Bill had been fubmitted to their confi deration. The Noble Lord concluded with fug gelling to their I.tirdlhips the prom icty of poll porting the conlideration of this me:time to tome future day, when the Houfe would generally have more maturely deliberated on the nature of the different propiiii.btris which that Bill contained. Lord HOMAR T re.tla:ed lowa' of his former arguments, and mentioned, in addition, that the protifion was only conditional, that it was by no means to he cntifidered as compulfory, or what mutt in every I..:lance be complied with. On the contrary, the (pee of two 'booths was allowed to the Lnrd I.it.u!'i.ants to provide perfons pro prly qual.fied, .f that ollj.et could not be effated within the tittle fpecifivd, that then only were they to have tecriiirfe to the meafure autho rued hy :he Ili:1 now before their The Lail of CA It %AltVoll replied. His Li-it-di/lip lilted his ideas bi ;lie ul iginal formation of a !sli V: a, ‘4lllCh %%tilt rt. (hew iliat Parli lens it, jealous f the exitlence of a flandirg army in tone of peace, as datwevnus to the Contlit.ition of the Cotinti y, had firit initituted the Militia, whole in. ter eits ere not the f...-ne as foldiers, and who were officer:el perfms of conflderable property in the coin ti p. it appeared to him a mealnre pnrely parliament try, an.l . to his mind it Teemed as if Governmem hid a:I inclination to do away this cenft••iitir.nal a!together by the many en c,,,A,!'ftepts 111.. t * linkl late ycats hien fl..4de on wizmal crntiriviirn that body. pre f. he :11(,11, 0 .•r. tznded more Itrongly than a v I the rell to an;imlate the militia to a (Unti e ; III). *. r!". • 1.,.pn c3i l c.l to nr.kr. Tic r 4,1 r, l Cat KNAII.V.II:— . My 1.0 , d, I . - 1m p-, ..,ti-r. I I .y i,iit W . 41.41 14.15 proptr :.it ui e t Ltivrc us." The Loan C/i ANC 1LL01....- 44 I did not call to .it,ler on that account, but it is contrary to the rules the fora Member to fpeak twice on the lame fubje& except by way of explanation." The Earl of CA kW A R VON I know that this indulgence has been granted to others ever fince ' I had the honour of fitting in Parliament, and I have a fight to infifl upon the fame indulgence." 'The D ;kr of Moizransa fpoke in favour of the Bill, and übferved, it was a lamentable confidera ion, that in times of public danger like the pre fent, a failicient number of the landed Gentlemen i.f the country did not manifeft that promptitude n come forward in the Militia fervice as to luper cele all necettity for a Bill of this nature. But if the nceeffities of the public fervice required it, elfglit not to be precluded from effi. mean, for officering the Militia. lie could not coincide with the Noble Lord in the neceffity I r delaying the fecund reading of the Bill, as tile whole of its merits were clearly within the corn prelimlion of every Noble Lord in the Ht ule ; ind lie therefore fincerely deprecated any delay of meafure to necelfary to the means of public de fence, at a moment of threatened danger, when every man who pofrefred an acre in the Country lhould be ready to (land forward as a foldier for its defence. Lord RADNOR coincided in the arguments of Lord Camas V l / 4 ,11, and laid, it was obvious Minitters did not like the Militia ; that they willed to dif guit Gentlemen of landed property from the fer vice ; that for this purpofe, and with a view to create a necetlity for this obnoxious meafure, the New Militia was In conaitutcd as to require three additional Captains in each Regiment, and thus to create an inadequacy in the number of quali fied Gentlemen for the fervice, and an occafion for introducing swiqualified perthns. He agreed with the Noble Lord that this principle, if adopt.' ed, would prove a doath•blow to the Militia fervice. Lord CARNARYON again role, but was called to' order, having fpoken twice before. This produced a converfatiun on the point of order, in which Lord I'ELHAM, Lord REDESDALE, the LORD CHANCELLOR, Lord ELLENBOROUGH , and Lord CARNARVON, bore parts. Lord CAWDOR (poke against the Bill, and fully I I adopted the fentiments of Lord Carnarvon, as well with refped to the claufe in this Bill for admitting unqualified perfons to command., as to the cit.- cumitance of drafting men from the militia ranks for fervice in the line during the war ; and on this point he withed to alk the N Axle Secretary of State, whether or not a fimilar meafure was intended again to take place ? as the anfwer to that queition thould govern not only his vote 'to-night, but the condud he thould adopt with ref - pc& to the militia fel vice. Lord Honaar anfwered, that before any filch meafure as that alluded to by the Noble Lord could be reforted to, it mutt be authorized by an A& of Parliament. If the Noble Lord required any far ther anfwcr, and if it was the fcnfe of the Houfe that he ought to give it, he was ready to do fo. The LORD CHANCELLOR Paid, that if it was not thought right to rejal the Bill altogether on its principle, but that there were Come parts admitli ble, though others were objetlionable, the more regular way of proceeding would be to fuller the Bill to be read the fecond time,and go into a•Com mittee, when there would be ample room to dif c ifs the whole, and fuggeit fuch amendments as thould kern neceffary. The quellion beiag put, that the Bill be now read a fecond time, paffed in the affirmative on a div ificn—Cantents 4 t —Non Contents z—and the Bill was read accordingly. On the motion that the Bill he committed, _ _ . Lord CARNARVON again rote, and fpoke at eon fiderable length againft the principle of the Bill, upon the general ground of his former arguments; and he laid, that the Bill, by veiling a difcretion ar y power, of recommending Officers, in the Lord Lieutenants of Counties, might be perverted by filers to the total eaclufion of qualified Gentle own from that fervice, and render it totally de pendant on the Crown ; and thus place the Confli union of the Country at the mercy of the creatures of the Crown, who were Lord Lieutenants of Countiel.—The Bill was at length committed for hlt.nday next. CLERGY SUSPENSION BILL. The Houle, purluant to the Order of the Day, refolved into Committee on the Bill for fufpending profecutions againd Clergymen for non-refidence in their pardhcs. The Bill being read through to the enalling cl ode, for further continuing the provifions of the Bill already in force until the Bth of July next. 'fire Bilhop of Sr. As Ar N role to move his pro mired amendment, which, he Paid, he fhould be inclined to dn, without trefpaßing on the time of the Houle by any further arguments in addition to what he laid yefterday; but as he was happy to oblerve a much fuller attendance of his Reverend Brethren in the Houle this day than was frequent ly Irina), he wifhei to Rate, in their hearing, the morives which influenced his conduCt in relation to this Bill. It was now above two ye s fince it had been thought proper, by fume per sin an• other place, to bring forward, for dircuLlion, the fiibjed of certain profecutions then, and for Tome time previous, carrying on againil Clergymen for n•'n•reftdence in their relpeCiive parilhes ; and to bring forward a Bill for fufpending the Ad oldie :tit of Henry VIII. tinder which thole profecu tions were carried on, in order to give time for bringing forward futile more eligible law on this fubisirt. From that time to the prefent four fuc cerlive Bills of Sufpenrion had been puffed in per petuation of the first : but Rill no Bill was ready. Convinced lie was, that inilead of this feandallous continnance of the fufpenfion, better would it have hem that the law of Henry VIII. had Rill re mained in full force ; and much lefs would have been the injury in conviding a few individuals rn der penalti, s, coon of which had been defervedly incurred, than that the public flrould have fo long remained without a law on this important fubjed, in materially affe&ing the religion and morals nt tl•c C oinery. .lod here he was certain that it iheir Lorstfilips al:fatted to the prefent Bill to the rud period ut the tuipentivu ri.iputed, the would he, that no other Bill w, - •uld eomej t -I in the courfe of the prefent Se(ll,in ; and,l •f comic, another Bill of Sof - pen:lon on the open ing of next, while the mO Icanslalous negleCt of religious duties on tile part of the nr,n-1 efident Clergy would continne to pals unpunifhed and unchecked. Much had been Lid of the miferies which would be intailed upon the refident Curates, by compelling the Clergy, at prefent non refident, to do the duty of their own parifhes, and thus let a-drift the refident Curates, who did the duty fur them. But, fpcaking from what he knew, he could affure the Houfe the confequcnce would in no fort of proportion fulfil what was fo predifted. There were many of the opulent Clergy who would Rill keep Curates ; there were many others, ad vanced in years, who mutt alfo be obliged to keep Curates; and, as to thole who would he thrown out of employment by forcing reCtors to retidence, he would fay, that a refident Cur ate was as much a Rara Avis as a refident ReCtor. It was by no means to be imagined that every non-relident cler gyman kept a Curate in the parilh, wh.) would be difplaced by compelling him to do his own duty ; on the contrary, the praftice was to confign the duty of the abfentee to fume clergyman holding a fmaller living in the vicinage, who, to encreafe his (Upend, by doing one half of the duties of the Locd's..llay for his abfentee neighbour,could only devote the other half to his own parithioners. In many inflances the Clergyman, when ti,e weather permitted his coming at all, walked ten miles to do his duty on a Sunday, while, for the other fix days, the lick and the dying were left to them. felves, dellitute of fpiritual rites, or religious con folation : but by obliging the Reetor to reticle, and do his own duty, no Curate fuffered privation ; and he who did the duty would be induced to im prove his own living. In other cafes again, a Cie! , gyman was appointed to a (Mall living, poffibly in a remote or obfcitre part of the country, where he confidered himfelf too much fequeftered from company and amufements, his fine talents buried alive, and himfelf configned to the drudgery of calling the pearls of hit eloquence before the fwinifh peafantry. To avoid which, he configns the duty to fome needy Clergyman in the vicinage, whom he remunerates by a paltry ftiriend, and ac cepts for himfelf a lucrative curacy ii' Come great provincial town, where he has a better opportunity of focial enjoyments, and of fhining off to advan tage. The contemptible trafh on this fubjeft,that had teemed from the prefs for the IA two years, was truly ridiculous. But none of their Lordfhips, he was fure, would refufe to agree with him in the necelfity of checking a fpecies of negligence fo fla. grant, and the inflances of which were lo nume• rous. Feeling, therefore, that compelling the Parochial Clergy to Refidence would be by no means fo injurious to the Curates as was Rated— feeling that no injury could refult from the revival of the rift of Henry VIII. equal to what the pub lic mutt fullain from the want of law on this rub• jeft, and convinced that if the fulpention was pro longed to the Bth of July, no Bill would be brought forward this Sefton on the fubjea, he fbould pro pole, in amendment, that in place of the words —" Bth of July,"—the words---. 4 z 3th of May", be inferted. The LORD CHANCELLOI obferved, that in con fequence of the long continuance of Non .refidence on the part of the Parochial Clergy, which had been permitted to pals without check or controul, a duty was impofed upon the humanity of Par. liament to make fome provifion for numbers of deferving men, who, notwithitanding what had fallen from the Rev. Prelate, were, he feared,much more numerous than was apprehended ; and who, by compelling the refidence of the Rdlors, would be deprived of bread. On the principle of fur- penfion, he fully coincided with the Rev. Prelate; and no argument could poffibly induce him to vote for any Bill that would carry the fufpcnfion beyond the Bth of July. As to the difference be tween that day and the fhorter period propofed by the Rev. Prelate, it would be of no great import ance to the Public, further than as the longer day would give a full opportunity for thofe who had a more lubrfantial meafure in preparation (but had alfo other important duties to difcharge), to bring it forward in as perfea a fhape as poffible, be fhould on this account only oppote the amendment. The Bifhop of DURHAM all o fupported the ori ginal clank, if it µ•as only in deference to the Learned Gentleman (Sir William Scott) who had employed fo much time in methodizing and ar ranging this very laborious fyfiem of the laws of refidence ; an intenfe application to which, had thrown that Learned Gentleman into a Imre in. difpofition, from which he was now but fluwly recovering. He paid the higheft compliments to the talents, and profound erudition of that excel lent man, who, from his long profdrionAl abili ties, was better qualified than any other perfon for fo arduous :In undertaking ; which, however, he had not volunteered, but confented to engage in, at the folicitation of others. The LORD CHANCELLOR reminded the Houk that he did not promile, with certainty, the pro dation of a plan, and only laid, that at the more diflant period there would be a better chance for it. Lord At.v.sh Li v flrenuoully enforced the ado!). tion of the original elaufe, principally on the fame grounds as the Noble Lords who preceded him. He, however, declared, that if the general Bill was not brought before the Houle at di feafonable period of the Seflions,before the Learned Prelates Ihould be called to their other facred avocations in the country, that was to fay fome time in June, he fhould oppofe that, as well as the further continu ation of this meafure. In his Lordlhip's fpeeeh he feemed, he faid, to glance at fome promife formerly held out by the Bench of BiLhops, that a remedial plan would be fubmitted by one of their body in that Honk, which promife however had not yet been fulfilled. That he thought might yet be done, AS it was not unulual to have two concurrent bills relating to the fame fubjed. Lord Aue K LAND delivered his fentiments on the queftion at fome length : he noticed the improper died of fuch hills of cofpenlion, which in I ,, mc meafure m.ty he laid to leave that part of the corn mut,ity without law. He argued in favour of a general Amending Bill, and whit!., among other Good (fleets, would go to ameliorate the conditio n of the pourer orders of the Clergy. With r e fpeft to fhortening the term, the other Houfe in t he view of its pecuniary operation, would, on that ac count, be induced to rejeet the bill. Adverting to the circurnaanee of a general Amending Bill, ti.e Noble Lord expreffed his opinion that loch a Mea fare may, very properly, originate in that Houfe ; and he alluded to certain regulatians, which is Bich a LegifWive Provifion, would be attended with the molt falutary dirc&s. In allusion to what had been laid of the Rate of the attendance in that Houfe, particularly towards the dole of a Salon, his Lordfhip made Come admirable philn imhical remarks on the nature and propenfutes cf man, the almoft irretiftable attra6tions of rural re tirement or occupations, at certain feafons of the year, with a view to palla.ate that occafiunal, an.l fometimes frequent feceflion from Parliamentary attendance, at the feafons of the year alluded to. Lord ALWILEY fuggelled to the Noble Lord. that, according to his principles, he had better...• bring in a Bill to qui tarn the Pcer to prevent them from non•refidence. The LORD CHANCELLOR adverting to what WEE Enid of invellingt the Bilhops with the necetrary powers, laid, that from converfations he had with Come leading Members of the other Houfe, he was convinced Inch a meafure would have no chance in the Houfe of Commons. Lord ELLEN BOROUGH delivered his opinions on the general fubjett at fume length. He was un favourable to the prallice of Sufpenfion. A praftice which was never warranted, Cave by con tiderations of public neceffity. He took occafion to pronounce a fplendid panegyric on the charatter and talents of the Right Hon. and Learned Gen tleman (Sir IV. Scott) fo often alluded to in the courfe of the difcuffion. He adverted to the great difficulties, as well as the importance of framing Legillative provifions to remedy the evils corn. plained of, but though they could not do all the good they withed, they fhould do all the good they could ;—they fhould as far as in them lay ameliorate the Statute of Henry VIII. by a ge neral bill. The Noble Lord adverted to a variety of provifions which could in fuch a meafure be introduced with the molt falutary effett. He allud ed to certain defcriptions of the Clergy whom he thought fhould not be exempted from refidenez on pleas which were at prefent held as adrniffible. The confideration of how the Commons may after wards treat the bill, fhould not prevent them from originating the meafure in that Hoare, in which work he would be molt happpy to dna, as far as the very little leifure his official duty afforded him. Lord AUCKLAND role apain, and Paid, the No ble and Learned Lord's propofition to make non rcfnicnce a mifdemeanor, had entirely relieved his mind from the ernharraffinents under which he had laboured. His, Lordlhip repeated bis opinion, that the Bill Ihould originate in that Houle. The Loan Ceamcett.oa had no hefitation in giving it as his opinion, that fuch a meafure as the one alluded to, could not originate in that Houfe. If it did, it would certainly be 101 l in the Houfe of Commons ; and even if it fhould frit be brought into the Commons, and afterwards fent up to that Houle, ft might require Come amendments from their Lerdthips, which would be equally fatal to the bill. With refpett to the bill at prefent before the Houfe, Le approved of it only as a matter of temporary and immediate neceffity, hoping that Tome effedual meafure would Ihortly be adopted: but did not think that the amendment propofed by the Learned Prelate, would, in any degree, acce lerate fuch a meafure. Lord Pettiest contended, that they ought not to rely upon the idea, that any individual. howe ver learned, was preparing a Bill. In his idea, the heft way to have a proper Bill, refpalably drawn and adapted to its obje& would be for the Reverend Bench of Prelates to prepare a Bill and introduce it. The Bilhop of DURHAM faid, if the Bifhops brought in a Bill upon Refidence, it might :ilea with oppofition in the other Houle, from the idea that they were invefting themfelves with new and improper powers. The Bilhnp of Sr. ASAPH, or. the afforance nF the three Noble and Learned Lords, that they would oppofe any future Bill of Sufpenfion, con fasted to withdraw his amendment. The Houfc then returned. and the report was ordered for to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. JOHN Surrit brought up the minutes of the lichefter Committee, which were ordered to be printed. The Roman Catholic Bill wu mod a third time, and pato& The following are the names of the Members on the reduced Lift fora Committee to try the muiu of the Conceited kite- Lion car Harwich. W. Mitford, FN. Robert Holt Le;gh, Charles Chaplin, Ffq. Hon. Ales. Cochrane Marquis of Douglas Lord F. A. Spencer Sir FL Inglis, Ban. Ruben Fellowes. lion. John O'Neal Sir Robert Barclay, Bart. Hon. John Scott Right Hon. T. Grenville Thomas Everitt. FN. Lord Vikount Dunlop; Hun. St. Andrew St. John, Nominees. The Extrafts of the Minutes-of the Dunfermline Median, fo tar as relate to James Trotter, were brought up, and or• tiered to be printed. Mr. Drees e s mewed for leave to hring in a 8.11 for erne - ling a new Work•houk in the Pardh of St. Jame►, Weltmiutter.— Granted. The following are the Names forming the Committee to try the Eledtion .1 Berwick on Tweed. Thomas Ffteourt. Efq. Sir Robert Peele, But. Hon. A. Atchefoo J ohn Buller, Esq. Hon. G.T. Bert-steed ohn Calvert. Efq. Hon. Henry LakeliesSir Robert Buxton, Bart. Wm. Odell, Efq. Albemarle B. rtic, Lord Hervey Lord Kcntington John 11.11dalson, Efq. Hon. C. Grey ; Sir J S. Enikine, Nominees. Sir JAMS/ P reported from the Carmarthen Coun ty Committee, that the Committee beg lease 'hey may adjourn to Monday next, In order that the Counted and Agents on both fides may make arrangements to accelerate the butincts.-The Report was ordered to be brought up, and then Sir pima' PU L 7 IN P.T stated, that both parties had agreed on this, and the Committee were convinced the bufine(s won't' be expedited by an arrangement, in ctiffing the witneffes, ate. The Sr aaaaa tai i, th application depended on the precife words of an AIR of Parliament, in wtukh the content of all parties was abfolutely rifec:Tary. The Houfe would, therefore. detemine .11 the Itaten.tnt they had heard.—l ease granted. The Isla for Inercating the Rates of Slibbflence to Innkeepers for gitartering was read a brit, and ceder:4 to be real a lecoal tiaillC —.Adjuurt: the fiat :014 ma aPr his'