The National Register. — London, England, 1808-03-27 00:00:00

198 ?..o no -'ll*Chh.lNn presented a petition from 127 persons, sty ling themselves Nlanucaeturers and Merchants in Manchester, IL aging for leave to be heard by Counsel against the orders in Council, Ills v o rth.hip e mu hided nith 'no% ing that the. peti tioners ha% e leave to be heard by themselves, or Counsel nu the su%f i t et tuatt...r of the itray,er of their petition, Lo RD HAWN Fit;Utt 1110ved an amendment, to the etrect that the petitioners should be hearill against the Cotton Wool Export Pro.tilii Lion 1301, and such other matters connected with the Or ders it, ...'outteil, in which they would state a distinct interest. — After some fi.ri her con%crttation, in which several Noble Lords repcatetlk addressen the House, Los d kcsbury moved for leave ton ithiran his amendment ; but Lord Grenville contend ittg, that this was inconsistent n ith the orders of the !louse, af ter a proceeding hail heel' had upon it, the question n 511CCVS• riVVI y put on too %vo amendnicias, and on the original motion, all Of :IS n;. gativvei %% 1111011 t a div ision, [.inn attii•wit moved Inc'etolid re.iding Of the Orders in Council Bill. lit: briefly 6tate:l Inc grounds on which the mea sure was adopted. Loon it ift 1 v:•' oppose d the 11111, as being founded on a mea sure of which neither - the legality, justice, or necessity had been proved. Lt. no /I ny supported, and Lords King. Lauderdale, and Grenvi:leiypowd the Bill. division molt; place, and the tootion na, carried by a majority, Proxies included, of Hilo to !id. The Bill nas accorainJy read a second time, and ordered be comuti.,ted,—Adjourned. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. rnrn.t V, lIC IT 25. seG Alt l• 0 MAI ITI mnNn v, tRt I; 4.21. THURSDAY, MAR(II '24. •- 7.1F,F MARCH 27. Loon SrrroLK rose, and stated a variety of consideration:, to induce the House to demand a complete copy of Mr. Gar. like's correspondence, up to the period when Zealand was in, vested. No part of this correspondence had yet been laid fare their Lordships, though certain extrak‘ts had been present ed to the other House. He concluded a ith mot ins an Address to his Maj,‘sty, for obtaining the Papers alluded to. • Loan ILswhrs hunt - did not see the. necesslty of producin z the Papers requited. They bad already been refused, after discussion, and the anly public motive which there could he their production, was obviated by a vote of approbation re7;t. five to the seizure of the Danish navy. The grounds which Coe. curred in another place for producing them, d'ol not her. appk, lb it tvould be recollected, that he had cot fountred any part of the defrnce of Ministers upon them. Lord Haw kesbury spoke in ex planation, and Lord Mc.l7,rave against the motion, which, after being supported by Lortis Holland and Grenville, was negatived ithOUt a div ision. Their Lordships went into a Cl/11110i tit e on the Orders in Council Bill, and after some conversation the Bill was oct,kred to be read a 411:111 time on Friday. Lunn nINYING. Chairman of the Suv.ar Committee, crated, that several Report; had appeared in the Daily Papers, am, flouncing that the (:mumittee had some to a determination to prohibit distillation from Sugar. The fact w ar pot sn. T:tf, Committee yeas still inveitigating that part of the subject, anti had conic to no decision whatever. Ile wished, therefore, to, caution the Public a::.ainst any inch misrepresentaiions. foe ..ITron‘ . tv-(:E !Lir. obtained leave to brirg in a lii1) for amendiag the laws touching the mode of proeeedin4 um.:t irdietments and informations in certain cases in the Court of King's Bunch. This Bill applies to matters of revenue ; and authorise the Court of King's Bench to issue warrants tar the apprehension of offenders in Scotland, who may have fled thi• Cher to avoid prosecution for offences against the revenue coal tnitted in Englund. The Bill was thereafter brought up, and read a first time. Secoml reading on Monday. _ _ Mit. S. 1I neN.4 nu gave aotice, for Monday, of a motion on the subject of Lotteries. The Land-Tat Comtnis, , ioners Bill naR read a first, dered to be read a second time on Monda. r. L n ERWIN Sil4W, upon a report, obtained leave h., bring in a Bill, reducing . the ..evetal Acts into one, for ree'.• very of Small I)c•bts in the City of London. The IVorthy Alderman likewise obtained leave lo bring in a Bill for en larging and othern•ise improving Smithfield Niurket.---21(1,jutiru , cd till Munday. MOUSE OF COMMONS, The Bid for constiUr tingaliridgeacrtissthe Thames from the Savoy Precinct to roper's Bridge, was read a ..econd time. Lord G. CaNeml;ol presented Petitions against the Bill, from Earl Spencer, and 'alter Proprietors of Rattersea Erid:le•- 01- dered to be beard by Counsel against the Bill on the third read ing. HR. 11411iNC moved for an Account of the Total Valoe of all Exports from the Port of London, from the Hall of October 1801, to the Bch of March ISOS ; and from the lOth of Ortotnr 'SOO, to the 15th of March 1807, distiwoishing the Qualitit each Week, and the Exports to foreign Europe, and other parts of the world.—The million was agreed to. Lord Mahon ptesented a Petition from the Merchants and Tra ders of' Hull against the Orden; in Conneil.--Laid on the table. Mr. Iluskissou brought up a Bill indemnify Mg all concern ed in carrying certain Orders in Council into effect, in hrin ii home wine, &e. from Ptatugal. Read a tirat time, and ordered to t i e panted. r t v , ctr 22. The Ilona', in a Committee of Privileges, heard Counsel in support of Sat ,I a nies Imies's claim to the Roxburgh Peerage. A long con%eisation, in u hich Lords Auckland, Crenville, If a , Ilarroo by , and the Lord Chan ceilor took part, occurred, on the sultject of the Petitions the th tiers in Council, In consequence of its appearint , to be he general sense of the !louse, that the petitioners should, in some form or other, be heard by Counsel, Lord Bucking hamshire moved, ti tat the l lcpse shouldgo into a Com mittee on the orders ir, Council, o ith the % iew of affording them an op portuni:‘ of being su ILeard, This proposition was resisted by he Nuttle Lords to Administration, on the gro mid of its being tits same which had been already twice negatived, and which wiis now again submitted o ith due tintice. The consequence xias, that it ULIS withdrawn by the Noble Mover fur the present, Lunn LoTnEnp acc proceeded to discuss the commercial policy of the Ordeis in Couneil,--The Nohle Lord went over to whole series of arguments, hielt we have freque n tly had occasion to detail, to she iv, that the pressure of this measure must fall immediately on ordinals, and ultimately with theruo , t ruianus se% erity upon ourselves. lie considered it as tantamount to a declaration of 'tan against America, lie concluded with moving a stting of Resolutions, comprising the cLief topics of hip speech. Lunt) /I trot n:r commented on the subject of each Resolu tion in succession, drawing a conclusion of a direct contrary tendency. Lord. King, and Auckland, supported the Resolu and condemned the Order:. in Council, as being iticon bisient with the theory and practice of commerce in every age, and in every part of the World. ided, amid the Resolutions were neir,aliv:td by a majority of 5G to 21,—:Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, MARCIT 23. Lord Attettand moved that the Orden , in Council shonld be referred to a Committee, and that thl• Petitioners bhouki be heard before the Committee by themselves or Couwel. A fter a long discussion, awl a division, the motion was agreed to, and Counsel ordered to attend at two o'clock on Monday. The question being then put, that the House-should " now" resolve itself into the said Committee, Lord Spencer proposed to substitute " Tuesday next" for the word now, which pro position was, after much discussion, negatived by a majority of 47 to IS. Lord the pus web ne; d Grenvi le nl4 • AR ,liptruction to the Committee, for irpo►.e".• 4 14, i ~ A ~,, i Itt , 0 two Bills. The ►notion .gat i / ' 't ' 4 t ti t r included, of 109 to 48. ' H ,i.> '.::. . 1 77 .;- ' \''' he Committee, aad,ad- -, 7.- 03 pi ‘1 , ? „ 1.-1r) * i : "li. • . .../.: 0 I .ar • , 4. ) .i. - t**Ertrr 1 11. 114 0061 ' . 'rile owlet Cf1??.N11.% Gr.v. Mn. S venrr roof, and said that the Public had a right to call for the ntaiit ample information reltect Mg the actual hostilit . of Denmark to this country which had induced his INlajesty to for bear and alr.taiti from hostilities until the Nerr la,t mornein. At least the country had a mast unquestionable right In team the grounds upon ultich such idea of host it it s• had been founded. Ministers .had captured the Danish ships and the arsenal unit stores. That wits au imyortaut itict 4 but it was a libel un the If plop i ~