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IMPERI4L PARLIAME.Iv T. HOUSE OF PEERS, MONDAY,' APRIL 26. TH,Ts. day the House met pursuant to Adjournment, after-she Easter Recess and the LORD CHANCEL LOR, recovered from his late indisposition, re sumed his sea t .upon the Woolsack. . Counsel were.heard in continuation, and finally, relative to the long-pending. Scotch Appeal, Lothian And others v. Henderson, and Co. viz. Mr. ALEX. ANDER, on the part of the lespondents, and Mr. ATTORNEY-GEN ER AL, fax the Appellants, in re ply.' T h eir Lordships deferred giving judgement thereon till to-morrow se'nnight. Lord ELt..st.rrto.aouoll, Chief justice of the :Cdurt King"s Bench, (late Sir EDWARD LA.w, Attorney-General,) was introduced with the ac customed formalities, sworn, and took his seat. — His Lordship's supporters were Lords AUCKLAND and ALVANL EY. . The Bank Rest.riftion Bill was brought up from the Couupoos by Nl,r. Alex qxn R, .and read a 4ist time. Six private Bills were also brought up—Lord L. GOWER, Sir joHN FREDERICK, General IVIATTL,4I•ID, RI la Mr. FAttgunAit,. one each, 'and *wo by Mr. JEFF E R yS, of Coventry. 'The Rills bron the Table were forwa;ded in their -Fespeekive .stages ; in the course _of which the se cond readin\g of Lane's Divorce Bill was fixed for Thursday. • . _ In consequence of a Petition for leave„ presented by the Duke of NORFOLK, notwithstanding the pustamary time of receiving Petitions for private pills, &c. being elapsed, a Bill Was brought in, And read:afirst 'time, the objet of which, as we could .collel, was to enable - Pis Royal Highness the DUKE of YORK to dispose of his House in Picea- Some loci vaie Business was then disposed of; after which, at a quarter after six o'clock, their Lord ships adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF CO4INONS, MONDAY, APRIL 26. - The CHANCELLOR cf the EIC HE (.%(7E R rose,. ireconsequence.of a notice he had given on a former day, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to regu late the sale of the Land_Tax. He stated, that the purport of this Bill was first, to prolong the term fixed for the sale of the Land_Tax, which by the present 'Aft 'terminated in . July next ; this would. enable the purchasers to , avail themselves the greater abunklance of money consequent on 'the re storation of Peace. A second objed . was, to get _rid of the tight which the present Ad conferred on proprietors to repurchase their Land-Tax at a future period; this would secure' it to the present pur chasers, and 'thus ad as an, encouragement to them. Another very important object , was embraced by this Bill: it was intended to amend and-chi away certain provisions in that - Ad, called " Powis's Xet,". and by adopting more efficacious measures in their place, - to. expedite the sale of the Land_Tax. Leave was granted to bring in the Bill, and the CHANGFt.Loa of the ExcHscut x.was ordered to prepare and bring in the same . : Mr. M. A. TAYLOR rose, in consequence of a Dotice he had given on a tkirmer day, to move for leave to bring in a Bill tc:eame-.nd the existing regu, iatipns of the Committees appointed to decide on Contested Eledions, and by this means to expedite the prOceeedings of. the said Committees. He ob served, that the speedy decision of Contested Elec tions was a matter of very great importance both to the persons immedi;.tely concerned, and to the com munity at large. He should' not enter into the for mer Ads passed relative to this subjed. Mr. GRE N VI L L E was reckoned a great improvement, as it introduced more accuracy into the proceedings of these committees, and yet great inconveniencies had afisen from' the delays 'consequent 'on its provi jions. It was the intention of the present Bill to semove these inconveniencies, to introduce .life and tretivitv into-Mr:GRENVILLE'S Aet; while at the same time it made no alteration in its principle.— Two inconveniencies it was particularly intended . to remove : the first was, the delays that attended taking down the evidence delivered before the Com. mittee. This evidence was taken down by one of, the Clerks, a person often wholly out of the habit of taking down evidence ; the consequence of which was, that the questions proposed were obliged, with their answers, to be repeated over several times. This protraded the proceedings of the Com mittee to a length extremeiy disagreeable both to its Members and to all . concerned. The remedy was simple, and obvious. It was well known how accurately and expeditiouSly the proceedings of Courts could he taken _down in short,hand writing ; and this was the remedy he proposed to introduce. Courts of Law had often referred any dispute that arose on their previous proceedings to the accuracy • of the short-hand writer; and in order to secure it to the satisfldion of all parties; he meant to make a provision in the Bill, that the short-hand writer should take-an oath to take down every thing accu rately. It was with a view .to the oath that -lie applied to Parliament, as the, regulation could in other respeds be introduced by the Committee it self. By means of this short-hand writer, he was Confident that business which he had seen detain such Commit tees for seven weeks, might be finished in seven days. • The other point which the Bill was intended to regulate was, the balloting for the Com mittee. As the present regulations stood, it was necessary to go through the same forms previous to each ballot. By this means, if there were a great nnmber of Contested Eledions, they must lie over for years, as the length of the forms prevented More ballots than one from taking place in one day. The remedy which he intended to propose was as fol. lows : that the same forms should' not be repeated on the same day, but when the names of the Mem bers present were once put into the ballot-box, one forty-nine should continue to be drawn after ano ther,•for as many Committees as it ,was intended to appoint for that day ; and that the first Committee - balloted should be appointed to consider the Petition that sto, d first on the list, and so on. He intended also to introduce some other char. - es with regafii to the Nominees; but on this he should enlarge more particularly at a future stage of the Bill. Hetxu,sted that the Utlise, op their part', would afford that attendance which was requisite to render ,the efficacious ; it was a duty due to their Country, as well as to the persons concerned, not to leave it irt the power a Returning Officer to prevent a Member duly ele4ecl from obtaining possession of his seat in Parliament till after a delay of two or three years. Possibly some Gentlemen of the Pro fession to which ,he forrnerly belonged might not be much satisfied with the expediting provisions of this Bill, and might think six weeks attendance better than six days ; but he trusted that they had :oo . much regard for the public good to oppose it from motives of private interest, and the loss of fees. He then Moved for leave to bring in the Bill, upon which Mr. R4NI S said, he did not wish to throw any obstacles in the way of the Bill. For his own part however, he could not but think, that the Committee ? if 'they found it proper, might in troduce a Short,hand Writer as well without the interference of the Legislature. As to the second provision, he - did not well understand how it could be applied as a remedy. The intention of his ris ing at present, however, was to mention a notice conneaed, with the Bill. In the praetice of the Committees, onkton tested Eleaions, he had observed one thing in which material amelioration might be effeaed, and both he and others had experienced the necessity of some amelioration in it. He alluded to the appointment of Nominees; but should defer any fa,rther observations till a futtlre stage of the Bill. • SPEAKER said, that the proper stage for the Hon. Gentleman to introduce his amendments would be by way of instrudion to the Committee, previous to the third reading. Mr. SIMEON made several observations on the impropriety of prescribing to any Court the, forms it was to employ in taking evidence. He said, that the Committees on Contested Eleaions were as independent a Court of Judicature as any, in the Kingdom, and, therefore, had complete ri;ht to re gulate the form of their own proceedings. Mr. M. A. T4YLOR rose to explain. He said, that he understood the :intention of Mr. GREN. VILLE'S Bill to :that the evidence should serve as a record to stare the Committee in the face, if at any time they should deviate from the deci sion marked out by the evidence before them.— . It was usual for the Members to take notes , to dire et their own decisions, but the Cle r k was re sorted to, in case of any deficiency or dispute.— The Short-hand Writer could read his own writing as distin&ly as the Long-hand Writer. He could also take the cross-examinations, which at prokent were almost entirely lost: His accuracy . was also secured by oath. It was not intended to force. any regulation on the Committees. They might (Ikea notes to be taken, or not as they pleased ; and• if they chose to sit six weeks instead of six days, they were at liberty ,to do 'so. It was only intended , to provide them with the means of expediting their labours, if they chose it ; and for this purpose he proposed to have a . sworn short-hand Writer always in readiness. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. The SECRETARY at WAR gave notice, that on Thursday next he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to enable His Majesty, in certain circum stances, to avail himself of the services of the Yeo banry Corps. Mr. tIILEY ADDINGTON moved for a new Writ for the Borough of Newton, Hants, in the Room of Sir EDWARD LAW, now-Lord ELLEN.BOROUGH, appointed. to the Chief Justiceship of the King's Bench. Mr, N. VANSITTART moved the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee to consider of an At for enabling His Majesty to raise certain sums of money on Exchequer Bills. The House havitig resolved itself into the said Committee, and the Resolution being put, that this sum do amount. to Two Millions, Mr. ROBSON wished to know if we were now to expert the p.ayment-.of,the Arrears of the Civil List, and if the present Vote of Credit would enable Ministers to liquidate its debts. If not, he should rather vote the amount of the present issue of Exche quer Bills to be increased to 3,000,0001. than that the Tradesmen of His. Majesty should hise their just demands. He said, he recolleded a case where half a million had been voted in aid of the Civil List, and yet His Majesty's Tradesmen remained unpaid for two years afterwards. By late Ads, he under stood, that if a Tradesman's demand on the Civil List were . to remain unpaid for two years', it be came void ; which would be - a severe loss to' honest industry. Mr. N. YANSITTART said, that . the Hon. Member had mistaken . the Provisions of Mr. BURKE'S Bill, to which he alluded. That _Bill never was intended to rub the industrious Trades, man of his due, or to deprive His Majesty's menial Servants of the rewards of their labours. It pre scribed no time at which their just 'claims became void ; The Lords of the Treasury could alone suffer by its Provisions, as their Claims became void as soon as Eight Quarters were due. The addition of another Million to the Vote of Credit; could have no effed, in expediting the payments, as it would not accelerate the payments to Government. Go vernment had the payment of His Majesty's- Trades. men as much at heart as any one. Mr. R036:,0N repeated Jiis former assertions with regard to the arrears and distress of the trades men who had claims on the 'Civil List ; and ob served the satisfildinn it must give-to His Majesty to have these claims liquidated. " Mr. BR AqQE made some pointed observations on the Hon. Member, repeating his expressions of concern for the losses of the tradesmen,'after he had been convinced that his former statement about the losses they were to incur was unfounded. Mr. BURKE'S Ad alluded only to Placemen and Pen sioners, but allowed butchers, and bakers the price of their goods. Mr. ROBSON said, that he wished the Civil List to be completely paid tip, that he might then know for what purpose rpone.y was , voted. He should then be enabled to separate His Majesty's debts from those of the Minister ; and .be enabled to stew his desire ,of .serving His Mijesty., while at the game time he refused to discharge the debts of the I‘,Ainister. The CHA NCELLOR ,of the EXCHEQUER adverted to some false statements which had fallen from the Hon:- Member.. He said that it was once thought that the prompt payments on the Loan would have afforded the means of liquidating His Majesty's debts, But ,circumstances hadprevented these from taking place ; and the first instalments were necessarily employed in paying off money that had been advanced by the Bank. It was unjustifi able in the lion;entleman'to assert that Trades men were in clang& of losing their claims by a de lay of paymeat. Mr. Burke's Bill was intended as an incitement to Pensioners and persons in the Executive Government, to expedite the payments, and was by no means intended to fall on the Trades men'and menial Servants. As to the time of pay ment, he trusted that His. Majesty's Ministers had credit from the House and their Country, that they would lose no time in liquidating the debts -of the Tradesmen as soon as they possibly could. No persons could feel more interested to have the debts of the Civil List done away, than those who were, in the eyes of their Countryintn, responsible for expediting these payments. After a few more words from Mr. RossolF., the Bill passed the Committee, and the House having re sumed, the Report was ordered to be.received to morrow. Mr. WICKIii!,M gave notice of his intention of moving for leave to bring in a .Bill to enable His Majesty to continue the services of certain of the Yeomanry Corps of Ireland, under, certain regu lations. BANK OF IRELAND RESTRICTION BILL. Mr. CoRAI- moved the Order of the Day for the second reading of the Bank of Ireland Restrietiun Bill. Mr. Y ANDELEUR was of opinion that the Re striClion on the Bank of Ireland had created a spirit of Banking, and of speculation in trade, which had been highly injurious to that Country. 'So much had this been the- case, he said, that even the smallest payments had been made in paper. In consequence of paper being allowed in that Country to be issued for silver," traders had issued notes for 3s. 6d. 6s. and Bs. ands inferior shopkeepers for 6d. until scarce a sixpence i was to be seen in any part of the Country. Thiswas produetive of the greatest in. jury, as 'many poor persons, possessed of these small notes, found themselves on a sudden, through the failure of the source from whence these notes were issued, reduced to still greater poverty, and: unable to pay their rent. He thought some Re-' strietion ought to be introduced into the, Bill, upon this injurious issue of Paper. Mr. HENRY THORNTON observed, that this Bill had been introduced to accompany the restric. tion on the Bank of England.. With respeCt to the restriction on .the Bank of England, no danger could result from it ; that Bank was a body ex . tremely respetqable, who were sufficiently disposed to restrain the circulation of their own paper, and to linitt, within due bounds, the paper circulation of the country, which they were the better enabled. .to do, as they possessed a monopoly of- the issue of paper in the Metropolis. With respeCt to the Bank of Ireland, the case was different, other Banks issued paper in the same place where that existed, and a restriClion on that Bank would therefore be ineffeaual. It was important, however, for the House to bear in 'mind, that too great an emission of paper produced the ground on which the Con tinuance of the restriCtion on the Bank was founded, as by raising the price of commodities, it impeded their exportation, and consequently turned the ex change against us, Ireland appeared to be extremely liable to a danger of this kind ;" when, howes;er, the discontinuance of the restriction on the Bank of England should be matter' of discussion, the cir cumstance of the course of Exchange being against ' Ireland, ought not to operate asa reason against that discootinuance,tind they must provide in that country, as in this, cash for their paper. The course of exchange„between this country and Ireland was at the present moment 2 or 3 per cent. against the latter, and between this country and the Continent 5 or 6 per cent. against Great Britain, which, how ever, so far as related to Ireland, must be added to the 2 or 3 per cent. the amount of the exchange against that country in the intercourse between Ire land and Great• Britain. He thoUght some measure ought to be adopted to prevent too great an emission of paper in Ireland : he had no local knowledge of the Country, but he was convinced that the people must frequently surer from the insufficiency of many persons whose paper was sent into circulation. Mr. CORRY said, that- if an Hon g Gentleman (Mr. VANDELEUR), who. had made several obser vations upon the Bill, had privately communicated those observations to him, he should have paid every - attention to them.. Another Hon. Gentleman (Mr: HENRY THoRNTON) had done so, and he thought it highly necessary to pay attention to the ob servations of that Honourable Gentleman, as he was convinced of their justice. He trusted, however, the situation of the Bank of Ireland would not be looked upon with any degree - of suspicion ; it had never yet been called in question, and a former Bill of -restriction on this Bank had been passed. _ without any inquiry, its credit being perfeCtly sub stantial. This measure was taken up now as an auxiliary to a similar measure relative to the Bank of England. Some observations had been made rela tive to the course of exchange ; as he understood the subjea, it depended upon the largeness or -smallness of the remittances made into any -court -try from .ot r tier States. However, the course exchange might, at' the present moment, be against Ireland, he trusted that the revival of the Linen ,ManufaClure in that Country, and the Export of Corn arising from the bounty of Providence in the last Harvest, together with other circumstances, would so f'ar amend the situation of the Country, that no difficulty would occur when this Bill ceased to operate, in returning to the accustomed channel of payments in cash. He admitted that this Bill. ought not to be continued any longer than was ab solutely necessary. He had lamented the situation of Ireland with rdspeCt to the unlimited circulation of Paper--but he had never been able" to frame a • ry. proposition worthy of being laid before rr ,l,- p ' which was calculated to remedy the Eve.. though he could not bring forward. any measure, be had frequently endeavpured .ta_cal l toe . attention of the People of Ireland to the danger which they were exposed, from the circulation at base Paper. Some considerable failures had, how' ever, happened which whilst they were the cause of much distress to many individuals, serve 4 35 - a lesson to all Parties—it taught those who sent Paper into circulation, that they could not issue It to that extent which they had imagined,- ,with°,n‘ exposing themselves to ruin and it taught those , . e r who incautiously receive Paper, from woatev therehY source it might issue, that they frecYjn-d7 to. exposed themselves and their families to distress necessary and poverty. With such lessons before the eyes of the People of Ireland, he thought it was the less, for Parliament to adopt any Restrietion ,upon the circulation of .Paper in Country—it would be better to leave it to lonn' t its own way by degrees, than to adopt any roca sur c . which might cause a violent revulsion, still 0 1 °' injurious than the circulation itself. The was then read a second and ;me, , 'pitted for to-morrow. _ measure OS. The Sugar Average Bill was read a second and committed for to-morrow. The French Wines importation Bill was re' second time, and committed for to-morrow. . lc Mr. Ab E*ANDEg brought up the Report Committee of Ways and Means, which agreed to, and Bills ordered, Mr. ALEXANDERbrought up the Report of Port of London Bill, .which was read and agreed and the Bill to be read a third time to-mot-x*oW' The Committee on the Irish Linen MaoPia W Bill was deferred till tomorrow. ' e 0 The Committees of Supply and Ways and M) were deferred till Wednesday. C 5 Mr. BRAGdE brought up the West India D° '- Bill, which was read a first time ,Adjourned at half past sixo'clock till to-110'1°1. AP.R:. £D, MAILS, D L• I.• I - - Holland - -o x - - - French - - o - - Hamburgli - - THE SUN. SpLEM QUIS DICERL PALSUM AUDiAT LONDON, APRIL 27, tBoz, 11 6 WE have authority to inform thc that t Proclamation of the Peace will not take plac e ttntl a Thursday next, on the evening. of which (13 Y (°, not before) the P u blic Offices will be iliutnli2at ,1 On-the same evening, of course s t h c -Geocri' mination will take place. m a,or A Privy Council was held yesterday a t on this subjed, at which His MAJESTY r teSiue A Proclamation was yesterday issued, for 3 t o f neral Thanksgiving, to take place on the June next, for the blessings of Peace. found in a subsequent Colunin. • by Tars morning a Mail arrived frog! F ar " r ; n s• which we have received Letters of the Z.l-c a ,iier We are furnished by this means with a much e oft account of the grand Ceremony at Hatre '99., & l ffi e. r in the 18th instant, than has yet been g iven e , the French or Fn g lish Papers, and . which ther fore give to our Readers. was The account respelling the Emigrants mistake. They are all to he razed from th e , ol,al except about 400, among whom arc all to Family, t o ne The Standards of the Consular Guard tier .kith consecrated at Note* Dame on Sunday last) great pomp and ceremony. f z 33 We have received the Pars Palir' t resting. Their contents are completely tmi nteres" The French Funds continue at 57 f• It Tats morning a Dutch Mail arrived► had no intelligence of any importance. re Petro the been celebrated with great pomp on ac" unt 61. it t, Peace, in the Roman Catholic Chapel at the Ha o g fs. and the French Ambassador and all the French cers at that place, attended the ceremonY•, t er ,l "Y' A very numerous Meeting took , p lace yes t _ in Downing -street, to settle the Ter ms of the tery. • : The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER 'n h vas, ed the Gentlemen of his Proposal, wi ch % e )a r s that there should be Three Lotteries in the .r • amountingint to be ii. hewholetor,,oooi- Tile Deposit °r or The number of Tickets to be 90,000 to exceed roo,ooo , or be fewer than per Cen t ' Discount on prompt paym ent s gi ls 4 1 . The Drawings to begin on the 2d o f Au 7, 10 29th of November—and 2d of April, 19°3' Irish Lottery. ,1 the re " The first Scheme to be settled now, all- Treasury maining two to be as the 'Lords of tbe • o should appoint.