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N.-- PiIItLIAMENTARr PROG.E.EDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 6. Counsel were fully heard touching the Scots Appeal, Mines e. Smith; after which the Judgment of the Court of Session was reversed by their Lordships. Cour•sel were rarily heard nn the Chancery Cause, the Earl of Mount Norris u. Nk bite. To proceed again on Friday. Lord STEwiict (late Sir C. W. Stewart, K. 8.) was introduced In the u'ual form, sworn, and took his seat. His Lordship's supporters were Lord GOKDON (Marquis of Mundy) and Lord Elia - Estee P. Lord Nott - rawicK took the oaths and his seat. Lord De DUNSTANVILLE presented a Petition against the 'Helittnue Election Lill, front an individual, complaining of the intriugement of his rights, by certain provisions in the Bill, ‘Nbieb, being read, was ordered to lie on the table. The Greenwich Hospital Lands Bill, the Unstamped Cloth Exportation, East India Duties, and Parish Apprentice Bills, together with some of a private nature, were brought up irons the Commons by ISiir.BROGD EN, Sir JAMES GRAIL/01, and other Members, and severally read a first time. The farther proceedings in the case of the Barnwell Peerage were, on the suggestion of Lord REDI:SDALL, tiled for Tues. day next. Alter a %bort convt-rtatlon between the Earl of I. AU DZIR DALE, Lord Us DuNs rAxvit.t.E, and the Loan CllANcLumit, the further cocsidera• ion of the Halstune Election Bill was appoint- cd for Monday nett. Sane conversation ac7oss the table took place between the Earls of LAvocanaec and BIYCKINGHAMSIIIRE, touching the production of certain documents relative to the Affairs of India, a string of which was moved for by the first mentioned Peer. The converAtion turned e= it fly on the official nature and de ti of one of the documents. The Earl of LivEßrooL said a few wends upon the occasion, andthe papers moved for by Lord LAUDESDALE were generally ordered to be produced. PRCCESSION TO ST. PAUL'S. The LORD CHANCELLOR thought proper to•acquiant their Lordships it would bo necessary for them to assemble at the House to-suorrow at eight o'clock, as they would have to marshal and arrange themselves in an order similar to that in which they used to proceed to Westminster Hall on occasions of state trials; and his Lordslcp said they would have to join the Commons, in the Procession, about nine o'clock. SLAVE THAiiE PETITIONS. Aconsiderable Dumber were presented in the course of the Sitting, front different parts of the country, by the Duke of GitasTos, Lords BOLTON, ROLLS, Earl STANHOPE, and ether Peers, against the renewal of the Slave Trade, which were severally ordered to lie on the table. Lord ERSKINE presented one to the same pur pose from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corn =tons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled. The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a pet' tion signed by a considerable number of the persons calling themselves Quakers. The mode of wording the Address, or designation of House, in this Petition, gave rise to a conversa tion of some length. It seemed to be addressed to the Peers or Lords in Parliament assembled, and the remarks made by such of their Lordships as partici pated in the discussion, were to . the following gene ral effect ; The LORD CHANCELLOR deemed it proper to call their Lordships attention to the informality. The House should be designated, as the Lords Spi ritual and Temporal. *I he Bishops were certainly nit Peers of Paliament, though essentially a compo nent part of the House. Lord ARDEN thought the informality sufEcidnt to authorise the rejection of the Petition in its then shape,and intimated his intention to move to that effect. His Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER thought the expressiop of Lords in Pailianient suffi ciently included the Bishops, who he certainly re garded as an essential past of the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR spoke in explana tion, and adverted to the language of Acts i:f Par liament, as expressly designating the Upper House, in the way he had pointed out. Earl STAN HOPE decidedly concurred in the de. finition of his Highness of Gloucester, and 'added, that the species were certainly included in the gam:. Lord EItSKINE, though as anxious for the treat roent of the House with all due respect as any man could be, thought no hesitation should prevail re specting this Petition. The religious sect Irom w hom it proceeded, were entitled to every indulgence, on account 4 their inoffensive and inubtrusive habits; their lung standing as a religious sect ; and from a conviction in tiis mind that no disrespect whatever was intended to the House, by any possible trifling infor, mality there may be in their mode of Address. Lord ARDEN explained, that no intentional dis respect on the part of the Petitioners formed a vound of his objection. Lord REDEIODALE also acquitted the Petitioners of any idea pt intentional disrespect to the House ; and he adv,erted to some instances in which the pecu liarities or religious prejudices of the Qualcets were very properly ovellooked. Tne Doke of GL 4 pvcsTß coincided in this Lord HOLLAND thought the present simply a qufstion of form. He adverted also, in reference to • what tip from a Noble and Learned Lord ; to certain sta tutes. one of Mirabeth particularly, 4nd on a reli gious subject, where that' House was designated as the K Lords in Paidameue assembled.'' He really believed that the l'ctitioners, in cheese resent Address meant bona dw whole House of Lords; there pas nothin* disrelectipl to their real dignity in the Lord ELIIENDORCAJGH observed, it behoved the House to attend to the mode in which it was ad dressed; though iii the piesent instance he thought the i l ofir i f sufficiently designated, by die words— •• Lards is PorliAment assembled." • The Earl of LAUDERDA4aE was decidedly of opinion their ' l ordships should not hesitate to receive the Petifieu. The ArChbislapp of CANTRBITRY thought, that there was but an irregularity in point of form, and which he seemed not to think it worth the while to reject the Peitiou. Load ARDEN referred to what seemed to tee a general SLAW Of their Lordships , and particu la rly to what fell from the most Reverend Prelate. He ib e refore should not press its rejection; though he full felt the propriety of the House attending to the Intuit; in which it should be addressed. The Petition was then ordered to be on the table, as Pere some other Yetitions to the same effect, pre sented ti n y Lord HOLLAND and the Each of DES -20401:6L1. LOMAS raNOUTII •2111 The Eall of LIVE4POOL rpoved the girder of the Day for taking into consideration tlic Prince Re gent's Messages respecting the Prams of Annuities to these Noble Pessoria6es. His Royal Hit,iiriess's Message in the asp of Vice Admiral Edward Lord EXMOUTH, was according!? read. The Noble Earl then moved a Corresponding Ad dress to the Prince Regent , assurin g him the House would cordially concur in'enabling his Royal H i t: ness to confer the annuity st ated in his Ro y al sage on the Noble Lord in question. The Earl of GALLOWAY took the opportunity to express his cordial concurrence in the proposed remunerations,' and to express his hope that some measures would he adopted towards ameliorating the condition of the Warrantand Petty Officers, as the most beneficial consequences would thereby result to the service, particularly in guarding them from the seductive arts of the Americans. He doubted net but the attention of his Noble Friend at the head of the Admiralty was directed to the subject. The question being put, the Address was immedi ately voted by the House. The Earl of LIVERPOOL then moved the con sideration of his Royal Highness's Message, respect ing the Annuity to be granted to Lieutenant-General Stapleton, Lord Cumbermere, being read— His Lordship observed, that on a former occasion he had certainly stated that the provisions then made for certain other Noble and meritorious Lords , were not meant to be extended to the subject of the pre sent Royal communication. The Noble Lord was at that time absent from this country, and he spoke from the best information he could obtain. However he had since arrived, and from what he (the Earl of Liverpool) could learn, respecting the state of his affairs and circumstances, he would not, without such means as were now proposed, be in that situa tion, which he was sure all their Lordships would wish, with reference to a due maintenance of that dignity so worthily conferred upon him. —(Hear, hear.) —The Noble Earl then moved a corresponLing Address to the Prince Regent, as with the former case, which was immediately voted by their Lord ships. ttPiCELLANrous. • Earl STANHOPE presented a Petition from cer tain Masters and Journeymen in the Gold and Silver smiths" Trade, in the cities of London and Westmin, ster, against the Apprentice Bill. Their Lordships resolved into a Committee on the Treason Law Amendment Bill. Several amendments were proposed and adopted in the course of some discussion of the measure, on the part of the Loan CHANCELLoit, Lords Et.t.r.:,%:co- ROUGH, ERSKINV, and HoLuisto. The Bill, as.amended, was ordered to be printed; the report to be taken into consideration on Monday. The Corruption of Blood Bill was then committed; a few amendments introduced, in the course cf some conversation on the subject, and principally on the suggestion of the LORD CuANceuxu. the House resuming, ordered the Bill, as amend ed, to be printed. It secured to be understood, that both these Bills would be recommitted. On the motion of Lord EIisKINE, the Peers were ordered to be summoned for Monday next, for the consideration of the Simple Contract Debts Bill. Dundas's Divorce BM received some amendments in a Committee, which will be reported on a future day. The Irish Spirits Distillation Bill passed throu7ll a Committee, and was repotted without any amend ment. _ .._.... The Committee pa the Highways Bill was yost.' pont:4 tilt Frigar. The remaining Bills being tecpectively forwarded, their Lordships adjouincci till eight o'clock, jzr forma, when they niereiy assemble tor the purpose `of joinining the Procesion ordered to take place, to he Cathedral church of St. Paul. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A number of Petitions were presented front tliff‘rent on the Aboition of the Stave 'trade, . . _ . . he burying in Woollen Dili wa s read a second time. Mr. I.UsHINUTON obtained leave to bring in it 13111 to re gulate the issuing of Promissory Notes in Scotland. Mr. BATHURST obtained leave tor a 8.11 to procure more correct Returns of the number of Fersons cunsic.ed u: MUMS and misdemeanours. 'I be same Get:dentin then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Act of the istti of hts Majesty, respecting the En rt gistering of Aliens. Leave being given, the bill was brought up; on which Mr. WHI ('BREAD expressed bis surprise, that a measure for renewing au odious and iniquitous law should be forced upon the House, without, as be conceived, due notice having been given of it. He could not discover any necessity for renewing the Act its question; or at all events, the Right Hon. G. ntleman had not stated any reasons lite its renewal. As the reasons, it any exi-ted, might require discussion, he treat:a that the &tight Lion. I;entletilau would not hurry the Bill through the House iii the absence et so many Gent:erne:l as must uext %seek le:lVe town for the ditkrent Quarttr Sessies:s. Mr. BAI HL KS C cairn tut cl kis wllingness to comply with the wish of the 1 - 10119tintli:e Gendrman, and fixed the Wallet COUtitirrititill of the BiU tur Friday se'iiiiight. I Le Military Offenee and Misdemeanor bill was read a first time. 'I he sheriffs of London presented a Petit'ou from the Lord Mayor and COitilngll Council, Olt the Abolition of the Wave Trade. A Ent was brought up for iusproving his Majesty's Woods and Forest% DUTIES ON COTTON• Mr. pLACKUURN said lie held in his hand a Petition from the Merchants, Manufacturers, and others interested in the Cotton Trade in the Town of Manchester, the prayer of which was, that the duties be taken off the raw cotton imported. The Honour able Gentleman obs, rved, that the quality of cotton imported from the East Indies was found interior in quality to that fri,m our West India Settlements nut duty on the latter, it imported in British built ships, was equal to '24. per lb. and in foreign built ships to ad. ; and the whole was equivalent to 3'J per cet.t, on the article when nunutactuted. The result muicipmed in the Petition was. that an undue adv.in i.uge would be given to the futeigq trader, who paid no duty on the raw material. Mr. BARING considered this to be one of the must important questions that could occupy the at tention of Parliament. He would a-,k Ministers what were their ideas of the manner in which the Manu facturers of this country were to meet the competition of the foreigner ? It was certain that if it were in tended to continue those duties, the cotton trade of England would be in considerable danger. In ordi nary times, the duty on Llattchester Goods was eltial to one-littil or their value. The French, (luting the war, had made astonishing progress in the inanutic % Lure of cotton ; and it our Manufacturers were not nAbled to maintain a competition with them, it was natural to crpect that they would withdraw their ca. pital, and form new establishments in other countries, wbere labour Ins cheaper. Under every view the duty coMplained of was most unwise and impolitic. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that, as the Act would not expire till the sth of July nest, it was unnecessary at present to enter into the general principles that might govern Ministers as to its revival. He could conceive no occasion for any sudden alarm amongst our manufacturers about fo reign competition. It was satisfactory to know that , prophecies respecting the ruin of our cotton trade by the progress of the foreign manufacturer, had been continued for these 150 years, and had always been falsified. Mr. FINLAY contended that the British manu• facturer deserved at the present time the eminent protection of Parliament, as he laboured under heavy disadvantages. He could not see on what principle the raw material was allowed to he exported without duty, and the manufactured article to be fazed. Mr. J. P. GRANT coincided in opinion with those who were alarmed at the progress of the French ma nufacturers. He entreated Ministers to turn the sub ject well in their minds. Mr. PHILLIPS spoke against the continuance of the duties. He had conversed with several intelli gent Gentlemen lately returned from Franc; who had seen the state of the French manufactories with astonishment. The continuance of the duty would certainly induce our manufacturers to take such st •ps as would effect the ruin of our trade : he therefore hoped the duty would be taken off. Mr. FOILIMS, Mr. Eimer; and Sir C. M. 131:1111BLI. 'severally spoke in favour of the Petition. Alderman ATKINS was also decidedly in favour of the Petition. He stated the amount of cotton con sumed annually in the manufactories of Normandy and the neighbourhood of Paris to amount to 90,000 bales. He hoped Ministers would encourage the growth of cotton in pur own Colonies, and alio* it to come in free. The Petition was then !nought up, and ordered to lie oar the table. Mr. TIBRNEY, after g few olmeritations, moved for accounts of the expences of the last quarter, in the departments of the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, atul the Board of Works.—Ordered. Sir J. C. tiI.PLISLEY moved for extracts from certain Letters of the Governor and Council of Bom bay, and the Court of Direetors, inhume to the Ca, (holies in India.—Ordered. 771 E PUOCESSION. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved that the souse Jo, at its rising, adjourn till to-morrow morning, at eight o'clock. The SPEAKER said, the Howie would have the goodness to recollect, that they were called on to at tend for the purpose at joining in the ?recession. He should propose to take the Chalr precisely at halt past eight, and at nine o'clock shouts' begot to Fail over the names, not as on ordinary occasions, but according to the alphabetical arrangement of We counties. OUTIGIGE MELANIN Sir H. PARNELL alluded to an outrage which took place on the •Zbdi of last month at the village (It Castietown, in Ireland. A tair having been held there some disputes arose amongst clue loft t;r orders ; a cit . . cumstance very common it. that country ; ou which SCUM Magistiams thought proper to call out the mills Lary. They were directed to toad with bait cartridge, and without any notice to the mob to disperse, or the leading of the Riut Act, they were ordered to tire, by which tour persons were shot dead, and several uthrrs wounded. Considering this act to be most outrageous and uncalled tor, the Hon. Baronet. wished to know whether any steps had been taken to enqUoe tut° it Mr. PEEL said, that as Government meant to in stitute an enquiry, be should abstain nom any expla nations. But he could assure the Hon. Baronet, that the outline of the 'lair was totally different from tine ex parte statement which be had Amen. A riot was expected, and the military bad been called out to prevent bloodshed. Alluding to the reservatill which tie had made on bringing tot ward the Preservation of Peace Bill, to ptopuse any farther measure that might be necessary, the R4lit. Holton' able Gentleman gave noticc, that on Imlay he shout.* submit some additionat regoiatiuns, having In view the prevention or suppression ut rioting. Sir H. I'AgNiA.L. tli reply, said, he had such confidence in the tauvernment of litland, and the 1 Right Hon. Gentleman, that after what nau been said, he should urcltnu bivutb notice tot a motion which he had intended Sd tnaae on die subject of the outrage alluded to, THANKS TO THE NAVY AND 4Nllly. Lord Crl.b . l . LE ltErl'GH said he r. 49 pursuant to his notice, to move. the Thanes of that l' louse to the valiant defenders of the country. He was slim!, that when the House recollected the peculiar itattiri of the war which had just been concluded, therecould be but one opinion of the transcendant merits of the different branches of the service. The interval be tween the wilt now closed An d the preceding war had been so short, that the merits and services of our Navy and Army might be said to have been tried by the test of experience for the last twenty years, as throughout the whole period of both wars, when it was recollected hoik much the earlier period of the war had been embittered by internal disturbances, the House would feel how much the country was in debted to that excellent military discjeltne in general, which had carried us so pi oudly forward. He should begin by pointing the attention of the kiouso particu larly to the set vices of the Navy ; the early zlories this branch of the service could never be forgotten ; and if its exertions had for the last few years been less pre-eminent than at former epochs of the contest, it was wily on account of the total absence of the enemy from that element on which we had so Frothily contended will him.. The great and ttanscenclant services ut the Navy might be said to have closed the iminoptalized battle of Trafalgar—but it since that ever memorable period, there had been no op portionty for new triumphs, the navy had not less de served the unqualified thanks of the counts y. It had ever since their employed in a description of service infinitely more painful, though less glorious—it hair been charged with the arduous and dangeruili duty of watchi:ig the enemy along nit whole extent of coast, and blockading hint in h s harbours ; and this not only at periods when the tabours ut the sea were real dered less severe than at Otliera l but incestontly, during ail weathers, and in ever) season. Su WC. formed, that our commerce was le of war almost as secureas in peace. speaking, in time cessfully indeed, was this 111" of ft, block ad pnict e ie W auy country could aat for itho:s, had exalted our navy not fail to do to pre.eminence, practical improvement than leading is they could get. Happily serv Hap ice pi s ly he th w ese as e s z u e : n e to a greater height of _ f our a career more splendid than at any . other ?Moat 'ft that the re sources' history. Never, indeed, did i t . happe that of any other power. As to the army, it had run of the country had admitted of seeh degree of military objectAt such a period as we had lately witnessed, i t be came, this strength erat last war ha! called f orth. this great country to make an ex ample that should go far berm/ a ll its fernier Wee cedents. It was a proud refeettes, that in no situa tion had Great Britain relied for protection on other nations, I but, en the contrary, that she had been enabled to take her station amongst the first military powers of Euroee. The vast extent of our resources was evi dent from the fact, that the contingent which Great Britain bad undertaken to furnish is the late cam paigns, was equal to that of any of the powers with whomwe were in alliance. In addition to our mi litary co-operation, we had lately undertiiken to place, at the disposal of the Allies, a subsidy ot no less than five millions. Thus we had been the means of bringing into the field, in aid of the grand cause, no less than 150,000 men, estimating the subsidy at the rate of a million for every 30,000 men. But when it was recollected, that exclusive of this subsi diary assistance with which Great Britain was charged for the confederacy of Europe alone, she un Jertook to bring into the field an army of not less than fory.five thousand men ; it would bi• al. miued that he had stated the proudest fact that it odd be advanced in such a cause. We had dis tinctly shewn in the face of riro l 'e, of what we were capable, by that great and un lona pled exertion which we had m ide in bell eh of all the nations of the Continent. It was particu larly gr4tifying to koow, that the amount of troops strictly British employed in the campaign in the Pen, insula and other parts of the Contioeilt was not less than 90 1 000 rank and file ; and their services must be indelibly engraved on the mod of the country,. where they would excite the most pleasing and grate• tut recollections. Matured as their knowledge kui been, under the guidance of truly illustrious Qom. 'panders, they have been taught the art of war on; • scale that can Weyer be surpassed, The next service which demended the than is of the House was the Militia; and certainly this branch most ever cart with it a degree of eclat, on account of its great, yet temperate exertions, in the preservation of tranquil, lity at honte-i—ezertions which have impressed the country with the deepest gratitude, The Militia had, when the hut accounts were made up, contributed one hundred thousand men to the regular army, And since that time the number had certainly been eonsi, derably augmented. He then set forth the claims of the local Militia, the Volunteer Corps, and the Royal Marines, to public gratitude. lie coothuded by congratulating the House on the vigorous and efficient state of all tne Military establishments at the close of the war g which manifiesting nothing of lassi tude Brun the continuance of the war, were inferior in vigour and organizat:cal to no establishment of the kind an Europe - He then moved that the thanks of the House should be given to the Officers of the Army, Navy, and Royal Marion, tor their merit°, rious and eminent services during the war. Mr. BARING thought the Commander in Chief deserved a tribute of gratitude at their hands.— (Rear, hear, hear I) As he had formality voted cen sure against Ministers for reinstating the Uuke of York in the situation of Commander in chic+, be thought he might throw out this suggestion without any appearauce of servility. No person could have observed the progressive improvement in Our army without feeling that their thanks were One to that illustrious Personage. He thi tight it would be pro per to move a separate resolution of thanks to his Royal Highness. lie hoped t.:.e House world be unanimci3O in their feeling on this subject. Sir H. MONTGOMV,.RY wished vie Army ci the East India Compnny to he ineiaided in the vow of thanks. Lord CASTLEREAGH admitted the high claims of the Commander in Chiet on the gratitude of Pariiament. A vote of thanks to him had not been proposed, because it had not been common en such an occasion to name any indivi,iva( One of their resolutions, however, went to ding; that the communication of their thanks should be mad to the Commander in Chief, as Captain-General of 'the Army, that they might be conveyed through him to the Officers and soldiers. He thought there could be no objection to insert in that resolution their thanks to his Royal Highness for his services. Mr. CALCRA Fr approved of the suggestion of the Noble Lord, and panegyrized the conduct of the coternauder in Chief. Sir lIIIRRELL was of opinion the Army of the East India Company ought to be included in the vote. Lord CASTLEREAGH observed, that was not done at the end of the last war. He put it to the House, whether it would not be better that the troops of the East India Company • were covered by the word “ Army;" as naming them nqw, fur the first time, might make it appear they were not included in the vote of thanks at the end of the lag war. Atter a conversation in which Mr. W. WSNNX, Mr. Foams, Mr. H. Somme, and Mr. WrslON paitici pated, the Army of the East India Company was mentioned as being included in the sole or thanks; and the thanks pf the House were given to the Corn. rnanoe.r in cowl tor his tong, untenotting, and el - tectu.4l esti tions for the improvement in the Arm)," in the manner recommended by Lord Castlereagh. The Petty Officers, Non-commissioned °dicers and Pr ivates were named in other resointiontt• The thanks of the House west understood to QC I.:111%11110C only to the Volunteer Corps now in being, but to all who had been embodied during the war. GRANT TO THS PORTUGUV.Sit at:FFEKEIVI. Lord CAS CLEREAGH brusigto tip tar Report Of the Commissary APPOlated to Illperititeitd th i e dis trihitt on ot the giant made by Parliameut fur the re .44:10r riIePOILUg lane StatiCrase in 1811. He efenvi referred Lu the circutos weer of Portugal at that unie, and stated the effects .4 the grant to have been most satlikacioiy and gratitying. Mr. WAkti stated, that the Commissioners. Mr. Crests eau Joas Torres, to have travelled over tea ha srs on FA . p e