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~~ .PiMLl.didENT.flir PRuCE;EDMGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MAY 5. - • The Earle of GLASGOW and BALCA , and the Bilhop o f Dow t., were Iwo:n, and took their feats. l'he Order being read or the Commitment of the Dank of Ireland Raariefti:in Bill, their Lordibips accordingly refolved into a Committee upon Ake fame, Lord WALSINORAII in the Caair. }an of the Bill was farthwith acceded to by the Committee. lord Kit. o took the fait regular opportunity that preGmted Hal, for preparing the introduelion of the claufe he bad given notice of on two former occaliona ; the fulaftanet and fifes.% of this eiade was. In authorife the Creditors of the Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland, to compel, by legal pro- ccfs, that Corrarati in to pay them the amount of their de- minds in Bank of England Notes, allowing for the difference of the currency in Irelan.L The adoption of this meedure the Noble Lord contended, would in a great degree remedy the ' eviisproduced in Ireland by the depreciation of Its currency, in colifequenceor the enormous circulation of Bank Notes.— He pointed out the diflcrence between a real and nominal ex change and argued that the biter was by no means Co much a„rainit:lreland as was generally fuppofed; inannuch as the ac- . tual balance of trade would be folizid to be in its favour. The ranks of the unfavourable Itate of t►e Exchange, with refpera. to ireland, arofe, be contended, chiefly, if not folly, from the Feat depreciation of its currency. The great objedionagainft what be propofed was, that it would tend to draw the fpecie out of the country : this he could not think would he the cafe. Ile was of opinion, that an adequate fupply of Bank of Eng kuld Notes could be procured by means of Bill: of Exchange, and in the way of commerce. He contended, that unlefs the r-ufe of the depreciation of its currency were done away, which his prupoficion would tend more than any other ma ture, equally unexceptionable, to do, the confequences mull eventually be ruinous to that country•. The Noble Lord con cluded with moving ills Haute, which wi.s to the cikel above (tared. - -- I be Marquis of Sire.) Lid, nothing could more clearly thew the difficulty of finding any remedy for the grievance under which the kith laboured in the high and increafing exchange, than that a propofition mould come from a Noble Lord, who had conlidered the fubject Co much with intent to do it away, which was in no fort practicable, and which, If practicable, by any potable means, would be prods Live of the molt faious niifehlefs : his Lordffiip (aid, he had conlidered the fubjed a great deal, not only as a duty to Ireland, but alto for the pur pok of giving fuels local information to their Lordihips as they might not otherways obtain; and by doing of which, perhaps, on larch occafions, the feat he had the honour of filling would be of molt public utility. A Bill for continuing the rettric bora on the Bank of Ireland could karcely have any chute ad ded to it mote entirdyinconfiltent with its principle, than that which was propofed ; neither could his Lordirttip poffibly un derftand what difference there was between allowing the Bank to pay their engagements with guineas or with notes from ano ther country, which they mutt buy with guineas. It would open the Bank in the worft manner potable, by allowing all the fpedc to go out of the country, without circulating any of it through it for its own internal purpofes. His Lordlidp laid, the difficulty in confidering money queltlons arofe partly from not confidering fpecie like any other article of commerce— Take it in that view, and much of its apparent complicacy 's tinted. Gold, it was very certain, bore a premium of above 5 per cent. In Ireland above its nominal value in Bank Notes; but though he was not prepared to far Paper was inform degree of depreciation, he would not agree that It was a acreffary conk quane refultiog from it; and in the preterit infhnce he was much inclined to think it was not the cafe ; fpecie, it was well known, was indifpenfibly neceffary for the lid= trade,the great Staple manufacture of Ireland, and not needfary,frons any pre ference given to it alone by thole who carried on the trade, but front other very good and fulficient redone. With a limited guar.- tity of (peck In ;he country, it was very natural, when indif peofibly wanting any where, that thole who chanced to hold what there was of it mould give it an increafed value. A hate worth yoL at Smithfield lath month might be worth 401 now, without any depreciation In the Notes of the Bank of England, and the fame argument would apply to (peck. His Lordfhip fad, that the high price of bullion in Ireland, and the high exchange againft that country, were both circumftances much to be regretted ; and yet, though trains in tome degree as caufe and effea, they tended to counteract the nib-hie& of each other; and if It were potable to remove the we with out the other. it would be attended with conkquences the molt ruinous. The high value of fpecie for internal par poles kept the money in the country, which otherwife would be forced ladt by the high premium of the exchange ; and the high exchange reintbarfed the merchant what be bad paid for fpecie, without obliging him to add to its price upon the confuma. The exchange operated as a tax upon all im ports, and as a bounty on our own Manufacture; and thus, perhaps, it carried with it a kind of Sinking Fund, that might ultimatdy do away a grievance in which it was fcarce potable to find a dire& remedy; and all the prophets for which were fo full of difficulty and danger, that in ids mind it was better far to bear theft& we have, than tette of others Mat we know not of. With reaped to the auks for the high exchange againft Ireland, they were pretty generally known: a great Military Eftablieurient in times when the country was difturbed, had incurred expenee, the means for which were necefarily got out of It. The intereft on thole Loons, great in companion to the wealth of the country, and paid out of it, was one auk. Coals ' imported, and amounting to near (even hundred thoufand pound. a year, one-ball of which was ufed in Dublin, and paid fee in fpecie, was another emir- An Mamie of expo= ID thole win lived out of the country, by the rife in every article of confumptlonovas another auk. An inereafe of foreign trade and every other natural caufe for the balances of trade, alas operated; and it was unfortunately too true what was advanced by the Noble Lord, that Irdand had not a balance of trade in her favour with any country in the world. Such were her pee lent circurnlances, but be hoped and trotted with meek bettor prokeets before her. His Lordlhip raid, there was cot point advanced, to which. from perfonal motives, be was particularly anxious to allude; ft bad been very hadultrioully circulated, that the high exchange spiral Ireland had been atafioned by an inereak of abfentea, in cookquenee of the Union, and that it was a fair price to pay for it. Ha Lords* kid, the fa& was not to, that was no increak of abfentees worth naming that he never believed the Unitas would increafe the abfentees, and that if he bad, be never would have voted for It, not from re gard to the paltry funs which a kw individuals might expend, and which would be provided for by half the value of a Limo Ship, but becaufe nothing could compenfate any country for the Woof its rcfident Gentry. The example of their lives, the encouragement of their countenance to indultry, the protalion of the weak, and being and enforcing a regular and impartial adminiftradon ofjultice, were duties which the great awed to their &salons; they belonged to their refidence, and the want of them DO advantage could compaitate. lord King and the Marquis °ratio* fpohe keenly in eze. planation. The Earl of Lill um% &only, but decidedly expeeffed hie difapprobation of the daub, oo the grounds generally urged by the Noble Marquis,and for the additional and important reeks, that its Introduction would entirely do away and countered the intended effects of the 3W; the purpofe of wlikh was, to restrain the Bank of Ireland Dirators from Kahl (peck. The queftion was then put, and the prophet' chute was me petted without a disifion. Lord KIANG then pupated a feeond provifirm. which he ar gued, would be attended with very falutary reeds : It was, that the Directors of the Bank of Intend Should be required, at the cod of every month, to publifh the Amount, &c. of their Notes in C.lrcuirlon.la the Dublin Gazette. This propped.= was decidedly oppoled by The Earl of LIMIIIICK, and upon two general gromarh Firft, as it would tend to cart fume degree of nelle&ion on • body of men, againft whom, whatever nay be aimed, no charge whatever of usitrandud was eitablikod ; and, Secondly, ou she ground of Its Wing Lperfieroue—As the Salk.. o Par - !impost of We were very long in this country, his Loofah model have frequent opportunirks of moving toe accounts a lp:cling the Notes is mr.ithis. Aft. r a 6. w wools from lord Erna. the queftino was put, and the prop .fest claufe was flea-A:tad. Their Lordihips then went Afoul:. the remaining part se the VII, and the Hook relomin. ..rdered the report to be received to-num.'s,. The *shwas Bills lo lore the Houle were forwarded in their afro:alp. itagee,.....l,ljournied. HOUSE OF The followitng are the names softies, appointed by ballot, to Ete‘tioa and Return for ths Bo land Jofaph Falter Barham, Efq. Sir I. D. King, Bart. Right Hon.Cbarles Braggs Sir John Cote Hippilley Charles Duneombe, Efq. Sir R. W. Vaughan. Bart. Thomas Johns, Efq. Str J. S Erildne, Bart. COMMONS. on the reduced Lift of OM Coat try the merit' of the amtefted rough of Itircudbright, la Sem iEllab Harvey, Efq. Francis FMK, EN. Lieut. Viint Clausal' M. Archdale, Efq. Hon. T. Nevrcomen J. Fonblanque, Efq. and Clte I.ord Advocate of Scot• land. Mr:to L g.a a. !Mtn the Taunton Committee, , repotted,repotted, that William Morland, Efq. and John Hammet, Efq. were duly chard ; and that Mr. Rabinfaa's Petition was not hivolons or vexatious. The Committees on the Irit Compenfation, and the Irlib Courts Bills, were feverally ordered fur to-morrow. Mr GIIICGOa moved for an Account of the Bountiespaid for Corn, Meal, Flour, and Rice, imported from the toth 00.ober, aoa, to the sth April, 1305, dillingudhing each quarter, fo far as the fame can be made up.—Ordered. He alfo moved for an Account of the Arrears of the addi tional Affeffed Taxes, and the Arrears of Duties on Shipping, due to the sth April, tBo3, fo far as the fame can be made up. —Ordered. The SECRITAIT It WAR moved, thlt the Report on the Militia Families Bill be received to•morrow.—Ordered. The Conunlttees of Supply and Ways and Means were or dered for tomorrow. _ _ A Metige from the Lords informed the Houle that their Lordfhlps had paCed a Bill for the relief of Soldiers and Sailors, and provifion for their families, in cafes therein mentioned, to which they defired the concurrence of this Houle. The Bill was read a firit time, and ordered to be read a fc cond time on Tucfday next, and to be printed. The Call of the Houle was fixed for Thurfday, and the names ordered to be taken down of thofe Members who arc abfent, &c. lICOTCW SCIIOOLMASTIIII. The Houle refolved it into a Committee of the whole Hoof.: on the Motion for Leave to bring in a Bill for making a ruttier Provifion for Schooltnaften in Scotland.—ale. Win. DuNDAS in the Chair. The LORD AovocArs, after Rating the atefulnefs of this clafs of men to the community at large, laid, that to them was owing the degree of intelligence, morality, and conftant attend. anee on public worthip, which fo highly charadterifed the lower orders of people in Scotland, and to which the people of that country might attribute the (mall number of crimes and capital pundit:waits which occurred there. In 1692, the fabrics of Sehoolniafters had been fixed at too metes Seats, or about sL Reding ; thcyhad lince been railed to mo meres, or about soL and he now propofed to mile them to 300, about t6l. and a fratUon. In very estenfive parilbes, &dimity had arifen as to what part the fchool mould be fixed in, and from that dream- Rance there was no (choot at all. He propofod, that, in the prekat Bill, it amid be provided, that in filch large wan where the Halton fubkribe 600 awe, they ball have power to divide (Moots in different parts of the paint. He therefore moved for leave to bring in a Bill for making further Provibm for the Parochial Sehoolmalters, and for the better Government ' of Schools in Scotland.—Granted. The Report was ordered to rented ; on the contrary, he was on the point of ' building a houfe which would colt him cool. and as to his having a family to fullain, it appeared that two of his kns had voted at the Elation, lad that the refi of his children were grown up ; as far as his pecuniary circumnances were concerned, he was not fo far an objert of compaffion as had been reprefented. Mr. Catcaarr faid, he had been creditably in formed, that the fats Rated in the petition of Mr. Simpfon were true : with raped to his building a houfe, the fad was, that he had been warned out of a farm, which he held, of 401. a year, and he was alto obliged to quit the houfe, and he was therefore obliged to expend what little property he had to build a refidence for himfelf and his family. He thought that this poor man had faired enough for the purpofe of example, and it was in that view of the fubjea that he had prefented the petition. Mr. SHAW LEFRVItt (aid, if the punilliment was merely of a pecuniary nature, the argument which had been ufed would be entitled to weight, but he thought that in cafes of this kind, the punifhment ought to be corporal.—Punithnsent was to be in. Hided merely for the purpofe of example—tke man himfelf ought to be panifhed for the commiffion of a crime fu very ferious and flagrant. He was fare, that the Hon. Member who moved for the enlarge ment of this man, had been ablated by the belt motives, but he thought the dignity of the Houk required that Mr. Simpfon fhould be continued in prifon. Mr. Buxom: faid, the Committee, is their pro ceedings, had followed the cafe of Shoreham, and when the perfon appeared &II at the Bar, he was' much furprifed, and felt at the moment a with not to urge punifhment. But he thought Returning Officers, who acted partially and unfairly, ought to fuller ; and he would have had him at fire coto• mined to Newgate, rather than to the cufiody of the Serjeant at Arms; but that the Shoteham cafe did not go that length. Mr. Clatesar laid, the man had pleaded igno rance, and as the report did not charge him with corruption, he thought the Houk might incline to treat him with lenity. Mr. Buaroa Aid, he was a perfea firanger to all the parties, but this was a queftion whether die Houfe Should encourage or difcourage a Retus i. ing Officer in the conuniffion of the greaten crime he, in that capacity, could commit ? The only ez culfe fuggefted in his behalf was ignorance ; but it was wonderful, that a Returning Officer mould be fo very ignorant, as not to know right from wrong. He had , however, the affillance of a Barrifter, but would not follow his advice. The punilliment he had already undergone was nothing; to a poor perfon the expences certainly might be heavy, and go to the extent of his whole fortune; but in this cafe there could be little doubt of his being paid the money again : and, perhaps, be might alto receive a remuneration. He was convinced the only punifhment to deter Returning Officers from fwerving from their duty, and from aging partially and unfairly, was perfon.-1 confinement in tome proper-prifon; and as he thought the Haute was deeply interefted in fecuring the Freedom of Elec. Lions. they were bound in fupport of their dignity and charafter. to treat this offence with all due and becoming feverity. He therefore moved, 4 , That the perfon at the Bar, for his faid offence, be com mitted to Newgate," which, after a few words from Mr. Serjeant Ben, and Colonel Porter, was ordered. be received to•moi row. ACCOUNT/. General GASCOTNe moved, that there be laid before the Houle an Account of the quantity of Coffee fold for Home Confumption for keen years previous to the year 1 yos, and the grofs Duties thereof for the fame period ; silo an Account of the number of Profecutions for Felonies and Frauds in the Coast of Exchequer, for the fame length of time, previous to the sth of January t 793: with an Account of the Expesaces incurred thereby. Mr. VANIII obferved, that u to the Account of Im ports and Exports, It might be eafily got, but with refport to the Profecutions, and the relative Accounts of Bounces, though he had no oblation to giving them, yet bs thought there would be coolldmaide ddliculty and delay in procuring the informed= oeceffary for making out fuck accounts. He would therefore wits the Hoc. Gentleman either to poßpooe his motion, or !tate kale makoable grounds why he wilhed tide accounts to be produced. Mr. Rosa laid, he did not think filch aa .account could be made up. Mr. W. DUNDAS raid, be thought fume rearm Should be given before the accounts were granted. General GASCOY Ns raid, be hid not thought it neeeffary to Rate the grounds, but as he was aced fo to do, he did it on the behalf of the Merchants, who 'Maud to have as full a knowledge of this as pollible, before the Confolidation Bill came forward. It was for the Weft India Interell to general, that he made the motion, and be was willing to alter it to any Rape that the Hook might think 7: Mr. DUNDAa pod hinged raddled with the Hon. Ge neral's rufous. Mr. VA 141111 esplained Dr. LAWRINCL found fault with the mode of reprehenfion conveyed, in aging for reafons for a motion at a time when a great mature was gang forward, and casteoded, that it was ttrldUy Parliamentary for any Member to move for Papers, wklioutfitving reafona _ _ _ __ _ The having sited fora reafon; and the moment he heard k given. having wealth:at and pro/11W Minh* farislied with the ow tiee,—The motion war then pat and agreed to. MAYOR O► GRIATOLIDISIT. The Order of the Day being read for calling John Simplon, Efq. Mayor of Great Grimiby, to the Bar, in order to his being reprimanded, and difcharged, Mr. Ross objeCted to it ; he Paid he was fore that the Hon. Member who made this motion on a former day, was only aauated by motives of companion. It was true that Mr. Simplon appear ed to be an ignorant and uneducated man, and totally unacquainted with the Rules and Orders of that Houk, but there were Come eircumflances conneaed with his cafe which deferred the atten tion of the Houfe. This man was not only attended by the Deputy Recorder of the Borough, but he called in a Counfel upon the occalion, who advifed him how to a 8; but he had chofen to ail upon his own judgment, and in direa contradiaion to the advice of his Counfel.—He not only admitted per. lons to their freedom who were not entitled to it, but (offered perfons to vote who were not qualified. Under thefe circumnances he wifhed to alt how it would appear upon the Journals that a man who had been guilty of loch conduCt, Ihould dcape with a flight punifhment of three or four days con finement in the cullotly of the Serjeaut at Arms, where he had lived much better than he would probably have done at home, and probably not at 'his own expence ? He would therefore go back s if he was now difcharged, with only this flight pu. ointment, and his cafe fo far from being an exam ple to deter, would rather be an encouragement to other Returning Officers to as in the fame man ner. S;nce the Revolution another cafe had occur red with regard to this very town of Great Griml by : in that cafe the Magiarates bad been guilty of very great offences, though not fo great as that imputed to the prefent Mayor ; but in that cafe the Houfe ordered the Attorney General to profieute the offenders. Under all the circumnances of the prefent cafe, he was therefore of opinion that the flight paniflament which this man had undergone, was by no means adequate to the offence he had committed. Mr. Ilt.aceava yr, join. raid, he had been inform ed that the allegations of Mr. Simplon in Ma peti tion, were not Madly true ; he underßood that he Was by no means io poor a 034 A as had la.:eu fere' CLERGY RESIDENCE SILL. The Houfe then refolved itfelf into a Committee. for the farther confikterstion of the Clergy Ref,- dent Bill. The claufe being read, which extends the period for which a Clergyman may be abfent from his living, without aiking leave of his Medan, or being liable to penalty, from one month, as here tofore, to three months. The Arroa sr Geo ARAI. role, and in a fpeech of confxterThle length and argumentative force, expreffed his opinion that the time propofed by this claufe WAS much too long : for however highly he relpefted the Reverend body, f"r whole regulation this Bill was intended, he could not bring his mind at once to confent to extend the time to three times the ufual indulgence in a Bill, which was profef fedly brought forward for the purpore of correfling an evil, univerfally complained id through every cc unty in this kingdom, and which this Bill pur poled effellually to prevent—namely, the non-refs dence of the Clergy; and looking to every other claufe of the Bill except this, it appeared to him rather as a Bill of Relaxation than a Bill of Refiric. tion. He reprobated in the flrongeß terms the principle of depriving the parifhioners in every part of England, of the advantages of a refidenttary I clergyman for one quarter of the year; and point. j ed out the glaring difadvantages which the parifh ; mull Wain, not only in its piety and morals, but in the abfence of t h at man w h o oug h t to be the j protellor of his parilhioners, the advifer under all difficulties, their umpire in all difputes, their con- Nation in ficknels and forrow,and the example for their manners and deportment. lithe Committee paled this claufe in its prefent fhape, what opinion I would the country form, but that the farther the Houle proceeded in difcuffing a Bill for more ef- featially reflriaing the refidence of the parochial Clergy, the more lax became their notions of the neceffity for that refidence ? Paying every compli. ment to the wifdom, deliberation, found judgment, difcretion, and good intentions of his Learned and Right Hon. Friend who introduced this Bill, Rill, 4 in the controlled view he had taken of the fubjea, he thought the period of three months, without any licenca from his Bithop, was not required„by any of thofe ordinary occanons, which might call for the temporary abfence of a Clergyman from his parilis, and therefore he was for modifying the claufe to fix weeks at any one time, or three months at different periods within the fame year ; and he moved an amendment to that circa, wifhing at the fame time to apportion the penalty to length of abfence beyond the time limited. This produced a debate of very confiderable ex. tent and zeal, in which feveral Members (poke re peatedly. . Mr. Girona differed front the Arroam Ga msaaL, as dui Mr. Rose. le Lord Poa ea ESTER was afraid that leaving th, Clergyman (lin liable to the informer, a nd nndci fuels a penalty as that propofed by the claufe, o f furrendering one fourth of the emoluments of liii living for the year, would ad as a pa 'emium to ftimulate the vigilance of the informer, i n watch. ing every day for which a Clergyman might t abfent ; and thus, under the 'modificatit in propofed by the Hon. and Learned Gentlema A, all fuch days throughout the year added together, Wou ld loon amount to three months. The penalty too would, in many inflances, be enormous, as m any livings in this country were adequate to Come bi. thoprics ; fo that the toleration of the Clergy under this Bill, of probation and indulgence, would be work than it was under the ftatute of Henry VIII. which this Bill was to repeal. The ATTORNEY G reminded the Noble Lord that he had exprefsly propofed to do that by amendment Which the Bill did not now do, namely, to apportion the penalty to the period of abfence ; for under the Bill as it now flood, a Clergyman would incur no snore penalty by an abfence of live months than by one of three. The Ca A Meaccoa of the Excu soy as differed entirely from the Right Hon. and Learned Gen tleman, and fully acceded to the clank as it flood in the bill. The Houfe, he Paid, in framing this bill, Would confider the body of men with whom it had to deal, and deal with them with that de gree of liberality, refpe&, and confidence, which was due to their charaelers ; and not as men who were not to be visaed with any difcretion out of the aria letter of an A 6 of Parliament. This was not the way in which a Britifli Legiflature Would treat that learned. venerable, and pious body of men ; to whom this country owed not left of its important advantages, than to any other in the Empire. Their learning, their charaaer, their exemplary conduct, and their ardent love of the Conftitution, demanded a different treatment than that of a galling reftriaion, under the liability of pains and penalties, to a coercive refidence, which would convert their parifhes and parfonage houfes into a fpecies of ?rifon, and deprive them of thofe relaxations and tntercourfe amongft their friends. and connexions, or for their temporal bufinefi, or their health, which every other liberal profeSon enjoyed. This was not the way for their parikes to derive the advantages of a cheerful and cordial exercife of their facred funaions ;—but was rather calculated to difguft them with thofe duties impof ed under pains and penalties, and meted as the talk of bondfmen, wit ho ut remittance or relaxation; he therefore moll cheerfully fupported the clank. as it flood for three months. !I' Mr. BuRTON faid, be had attended clofely to the fentiments of Gentlemen on both fides oftbe Hou . fe. In his opinion Acre was much of ft rong readmits on both fides ; and whatever might have been his own opinion on the tubjea before be came into the Houte, the leaning of his mind now, upon the fulleft confideration, was in favourof the clan& as it flood. He was convinced it never could be the with of the Honk of Commons to convert the parfonages of the Clergy into prifons ; all that could be reafen. ably defired was a &blonde' relidence. If the Clergyman was obliged to refide ten lunar months out of thirteen, if he wits taught to confider his parfonage houfe his home, there would be alto the feene of his don:clic comforts, and the point of his attraaion ; nor would he be eatUy tempted frequently to abfent himfelf for three mouths to gether in diftant journies from his pease, which could not be undertaken without confiderable trouble and heavy expence. Sir WILLIAM Scorr (poke at confiderable length in fupport of the claufe. and Paid, the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman who moved the amend ment, teemed either not to hove read the Bill. or to forget, that though a Clergyman might be ab fent for three months without aCking leave of his Bithop, yet his Bithop was at liberty to idue a mo. nition for his recal to his pan& at the end of two months t and if he difobeyed, had the power, br a fummary procefs in the Ecclefiaffical Court, to deprive him of his living. His Right Hon. and Learned Friend teemed to apprehend that every Clergyman in the country would make a point, under the privileges of this Bill, of running away from his living three months in every year; where as there was no probability to be deduced from the example of one Clergyman in twenty. of fucb an abfence thrice in the courfe of a long life; and, on thole eccafions, the duty of the Church WAS done by a Curate. He coincided in the argument of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as to the illiberali. ty and implied opprobrium of loch a reftriaion on the Clergy, as if no confidence was to be placed in their own confcientious fenfe of duty, beyond the length of that chain in which an A(l of Perlis. ment fhould bind them. The Arrota sv Gas 111 AL replied, in fupport of his former argument, and appealed to the Houk, if the non-refidence of the Clergy was not, at this moment, a crying grievance throughout every county in the kingdom. It was (aid. that if they were abfent for three months, there were Clergy. men to adminitler fpiritual duties in their abfence. There were indeed dilrenting Clergymen to preach to their flocks. But this was a circumftance pro. dative of political mitchief, incalculably beyond any thing which thole who had not an opportunity of clofely obferving could potfibly conceive. The three months of abfence, for the amufement or relaxation of the perils Clergyrnen,might be chofen in the depth of winter, when the ficknefs. the dif. trellis, and the dying fituations of his poor pan thioners moft urgently demanded his fpiritual aids and was not tome limitation necefary on this head t —lt was, betides, in his mind, idle to fuppote that any Bilbao on the whole bench would eser cite the feverities of a privilege to recal a aer► gyman from that abfence in which he was indulged under the sawed hint and trisritie of an A& of Parliament. And even if this privilege was eur cited, it would take a procefs of two months more to render it effean Al. The MAISTIR or ?NI ROLLS fpoke at much length in fupport of the clank, and lid, he wiled the indulgence had been even greater. The pre fent Bill, fo far from being, as Hated, a Bill of re- Limekiln, was a Bill of re&riaions from PPlenary indulgence; for it repealed an Ad of Parli imettt r, "t!, ~~, C F I~ lt ; I