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t stitute was proposed he, would support it, rat, t.:7 that continue this A6l, which wits the stibra .of Vso Much dispute. , Ile did net wish to oppese His I'Majesty's•Ministerse ot but until so: such sebatitnie HOUSE OF PEERS. • i was proposed, he considered it hisdetytO oppOse - TUESDAY, MAY 20.. i the repeal of this Ad. ,With a vieW, thereto-. to . - le The Seotch. Judges' Salary Bill was read a third I give time fOr some. proposition of try nano,. time and passed, and, a Message sent-to the House of should move to postpone the second ding of this Commons to 'acqinint theist therewith.' • ' . ' Bill till this day . three weeks. Mr . . A.L N EXA'6Eff, 'Mr.'CuArl,IN, Mr. LAS cr.ttE, , ' Lord ST. JOHN thdught the. bestsubStitute for and 'several other Members of the• House of : Corn- 1 the A& would be to repeal it, and leave the Re . ron4, -• brought up the Franking Bill, the Irish mead I cruiting Service, to i,a freely, mad without impedi hnenture Bill, andti,Vo PriVate Bills; .which were read , ment., He contended that the Aa had, in itleope a first time. TheFranking•Bill was; on the Motion i ta t tion e been totally inefficient, and , that it .i,vas ab of Earl SPENtEIIi: ordered to be printed. - , 1 surd to suppose 'that Parish Offieers - ceuld be con ADlWitt)Nia _FORCE REPEAL BILL. verted.-into Recruiting Officers with any beneficial On the Order of the Day being read , . 'effect-. It was .true that Inspeding - Officers had Earl SPENCER said, in proposing the second been sent-round h. them their the Country -to teac .. .. readina of the - Bill'„ for repealing the Additional - new duty '; ,but the Parish, Officer • only bedding his 42 FOrce - A6t; he should have thought it unnecessary to :, situation for a year e no sooner was 'he taught iii this . • trouble their Lordships wltlvany detailed reasoning !,new military school how to anal•histic,c,Li.edlee: on the sUbjed, it being a matter of public notoriety, , than he went out -of .office,- ;too ) o- 1 . - 11 . e , ~/ .1. ; and at„ the ,kune, time- .clearly deducible from the i eqUalty ignorant, who had to go heronther tdheds,lne. • . • Papers on the Table,. that the' A.a had totally and i course of . instrudion.. The Act, ten• e ad . . entirely failed., •• Finding, however; that 'there was l been. invariably found either ni . igatory or *Tressive a considerable clfference of opinion. upon the sub- 1 in its, operation, without peoducing iniy.benefit wi,i,at jeect, he wits • under -the necessity of : entering into .. ever to the Army; but, on the contrary,. it a npriing.. .some • details, .Ikb:id) lie would render as short as , 'and emb.arrassing the Recruiting Service ; an - , toere e , ' -si'lle • At the time the Act was. passed he had . I•fore, he should .vote for its repeal. • • pob . .. , considerable obj ea iOn -,; to it, which, he at that period 1 The :Earl of TVESTMORLiaII could not. con stated to the lion• Fe. , ~Ho was - then of Opinion, that I , sider the•presena measure unless as conneC,ted.with • the 4..ka Would be found inefficient as to the purpose I other measures which it was 'intended to propose , of raisine - men, and Wpt - dd altiMately operate, as a 1 and the staffit of which had spread alaian through • T.lli upon the Country, contrary tjahe intentiouS of the: Country.. He conceived that sonic measure was those by whom the -Ad was originally proposed. , absolutely necessary to enable us expettitionsly to TheS- o bject : ons were in evert; respecct realized. ,Had 1 feet - oft the Army at the commeneement'of .a War, they on the contrary not been so, but 1144 the Ad ISo as.to attack with etre& the Posses 610pS Of the IL nt.: 7 , .realiy proved efficient in raising' men for'His Ma-. 1 my, or at..least to place otirselves in it proper state • jesty's service,•he certainly. would not have proposed, 1 of defence. . The waut of some such, measure hid its-repeal; Whate,vere his original o bj e ctions might beet felt repeatedly by this Co'aotry at the .begin- ' have been, .For some months_after the Aet . p'asseti, - ning of Wars: Atrthe commenceinent,of the present 'it seemed not to be - known or understood, and War we were, with resped to the Army, in &miser- Scarcely any steps were taken to carry it into effed.i ably unprovided state., Hew* not now .It - raid of It Was at length partially- carried into operation, but i waking this adMiSsiOn; seeing a Noble. Lord on the produced _a . very trifling return, until . a Letter was' other. side of the House Who . .was then in Adtni , written - by a - Neble 'Lord oppOsite (Lord • -Hawke*. nistration, but to whom he did not on that_ account bury), in Sept. 1805, 'and another Letter 'in Dec. Mean to iinpute e any blame. flt'was thentound'ne-= 1 . 8,05, for the purpose of ~ explaining the mode in cessary to, raise a large force - by means_ of ballet -; ..a . which the A& Might be carried into et - Ted, - but at large force,'Was .raised, and the - ballot continued the,same tiny inviting and encouraging thase.meana i to operate 'until it. Was found,ethat it,. in •a great .to be used Which were-netconsistent with the spirit, measure, defected itself, in Consequence of the high of the Aft itself. His Lordship entered into a num. '''' . Price - gi;ien ,fbr substitutes. It was,then,lourid nee ber of detailed statements , for the putpose of proVing"'eessary to resort to some other me sure fer. the pur- , the great deficiency in the number of men raised ' pose•of raising men ;,' and thjAd which it was now under theACt, whil - st,out of the number' aCvually - proposed to repeal was brought in by his deceirsed raised a: eery 411 - 11111 prciportiOn was flie - reSult of the and much-lamented Friend—not merely With a • exertions of the Pariah .Officers acing legally' under view of keeping up a regular supply tor the Army, the Prevision's of , the Bill, the remainder being raised but - also with the intention - of e,stabli4ling,n pet:ma- by Recruiting Officers, or• by Crimps, in a magnet , Uent force—fronl whence : the Army, at .a future Wholly foreign to the, original - pa - pose . of the 8i11. , - , -. . - period, at the coturnencement .of: anyetiew War, - Pcilalt3es bad • t hus a =rued to the amoont of four nun- might be, enpeditionsly.angenented. This Ad was drud thousaq pOunds, vitich would be a, moil op'- i no‘,v proposed to be Tepeated, end. what- was ,to be pressive and Mijust:Taxupon the Country, for not I the substitute' He had hef-u-d of wild land, strange ,doing, that which Was inapossil , le to be 'done e 7. 1 specehitions fir enlisting men for limited time; Lind: cording. 'to the 'diode provided by - the Ail:. .It ' discharging Met •in time, of <.s--e tOUld DUt - he expected that Parish Officers could . ' .Eari:Sioati . cale spoke to order, obeervlng that there ad effectively .in a situation i mpose d upon them was nothing ilbourthese points, in the Bill. : ' '• • by the,A6t, that of Recruiting Offieers, which 'was ''• • A. sluirtn coversation ensued on the point of or- • so wholly foreign to their habits and . course ollifee I der, bet sveen Lords' luL PR AV C, HOE, t,..'• ND, 1 W kus- The \,e' besides, most necessarily o p era te most op- 1 nUitY, and ELooN, but . no -. decision was heaale; presaivelyit. many distrias,Oom the inequality. of and • population ; .ens, altheugh in son mandaduring The Eerl of WEST:+xonLANO. proceeded. ' I•lewas distrids it Might not be difficult to procure-the men,. afraid, he said, that in stating such wild specula . - yet in others it was - utterly.impossihle. Thus it had 1 tions it wo:ald not be believed thet they had actually. ariset that a laree proportion of tile men noMinally l any. exktence. l-le deprecated the cOnsegunces or raised - under the Act were raised not according to I inlisting men for a limitedtime and discharging them. it s provisions, .but in: defianee of them, the space I io time of war. -Under such a praetice, .11 - terthe 'within which the -riven in each .district were to be 1 .end'of the first s term of service, 1'5,000 Men at the • raised.having been all Owed to be .orilarge:l,.and (he I least .would- be discharged . mutuali t y i this itdded.t6 bouniy • eto he increased; all- of which .wasecontrary 1 the,aeerage annual number of .15,000, 'to si.ipply • to the st)irit of the Act ; . and the resorting to such 1 casualties and defielencies, Would make 30,-000 m w en; me ans :slieed d , that,the A itself s y M as totally- i a niuuber Which it :would be Impo:;sible to supply .; • fi e ient to })roe' nce the :effeiirt intended. One pro- I by all our means of rectuitinge - He -contended that: • fessed objea of the 11:61 had been to decrease _the l the Ad was , a great rflea3ure, and:that tilde ouebt high bounties given .for Met —the i'arisli 'Officers 1 to 'be- (riven to allow of its full openition. He' dc -:. were'nOt allowed to give more hem three-fourths .. tiled' that any.' improper. Means ..I la- ti , .been used Co the bounty given oil entering into the Line. This ,carry the Act into effeEt ; it - ' any - means_hid • been • praisien was fiaied ,iragficient e•-atril then means - used, not exadly within the letter of the Ad, those were • found to 'Merellse , .the bounty .of - the • men Who used titian aded loyally illegal, and with the , ' raised; if 'theyeafterWards enlisted into. the Line, to. view of assisting his Alajesty':s. service. THU celled twenty-one guineas — whilst the:. bounty given by 1• upon a Noble "Lord'opposte, who had - formerly op- . .. the :regular 'Recruiting Officer .Was only sixteen I posed the repell of this t.,d, on the ground that it gameas. Titus Oe regular 'recruiting set-vice for aug ht t o have a fair ; trial, nosy' also to oppuse it et • the Army Was outbid ; and the ,AC? - , instead' of as- the same gi - ound; as the Aft. had not yet been stiffi ,sisting th'at service by its 'operation, materially- im- ' ciently tried; it had now , begun. to.be. efficient, and peeled it.; and it was pi-dyed by Papers on therfable, this_ W as the' period. chosen to propose the , 'repeal of that 'as •t he Aa, by ~:vhateyer means, Was made to 1 - it,, without proposingeany substitifte, • produce inore . Men, the number - of men produced 1 . ... :Lord Viscount SLD.MOUT pe r'- by felt 'himself pe- by the regular recruiting proportionably ditninished..l sonally called upon by what had beep: said by, his. ' Thus the Aa, instead of assisting the service„ hung I Noble Friend. It was true lie had laSt .Session op- • . about it, and impeded its progress.. The Ad, there- I posed a Motiot for the repeal of, thisit,..on the • - fore, he contended, had totally falled.in raising men ; .1 ground that it ought to haVe • a iiiir:taial. . Tilt:. Aa 'ling Ii id tn:oed.tiut to he, no thing inoi , e than a m': a- l', had'been tried, and enfirely - failed. He was,'-therct sure of ,oppreive taxation', which it was nevei: in- Lfore, consistent in now supporting its proposed re tended it should be. The regular requiting Service, j peal.. The, original.intentiouof the Pict etas triir•aire it Was evident, i .wo,allpro- go on much better without it; I men in aid of the Recruiting Service,' but...'se'file and, woold, the w e ras. every reason' to believe, . 1 from 'aiding the Recruiting Service, it had;. it its duce as - many men for general service as Were now ~ operation; materially impeded its progress, there produced in the whole. by that and the ~K.6t,, the 1 foie . no longer answered its 'origit al purpose. , Its latter (tidy Optieitieg for limited service, an additional provi,sions had been found whollar inadequate to raise bounty being green for the men afterwards enlisting men in the mamier proposed by it, Impeding f6rgeneral service. Without reference,. therefore, t I vg. 1 , ~.,weers'were then sent round , the Coantry to ex . to any Other' 11 - . IC2SUre that, might be- proposek . and 1 plain the Aa, and diked the means by Which it . conceiving it would be tnuch better to leave the re- . ' * as - to be. executed; and he could not help • remark gular. recruiting sere ice free and .unclogged, than I ing, that in this instance the ,Inspeding Officers to' suffer it 'any. longer by the 'operation of this , i t were-allowed to trench too . much upon the pow -_,r - A he proposed its, repeal ; and for that. pur-. ' I of- the Lieutenants of Counties ; but it w as only )Se tvoyed that , the • Bill -be now .read a second when InspectingOilieers were substituted for the ~.o time: - _Lord CAMDEN felt hienself •called - on, as.one cer§; that men began to be raised nominally under .of those by whom , the A6t now proposed to be re- the - a butAd, really in a manner totally contrary: t - ,- pealed was submitted to•the attention of Parliament, .jts spirit; and in defiance 'of •all its proviaions.- -to say a•few words Upon - the sti*e.t. - He admitted i 'With respe6t tO what had been - sail by the Noble . that great deLys" had taken place inthe execution i -- Lord, as-to Our unprovided' state at the colutoence-' , . ' bl ii:c 'A , (I, ;nil tact to' many places it was not for ' meta of the present War, it was well-knoWn that some time !sufificiently understood.. lt had. at ' . the number of men discharged in the intervenliat fength, however, operated -with &insider:lWe' effed, HPeace were. so it conseqbence-of the ' provisions rof aod had continued for .some time to produce -a aunt- ' prey iota Ads of Parliament, and not by r at. y rstet of ber of men, for •'lia ..Maesty's S.C7icC, and ought ; the then .Ministry. Men were -aftersa'aols niked no ,in his opinion, to be given up, unless some ate- . with i .the greatest possible expedilion, - im:l in. a le W quite substitute was preposedr , 'HL' deniedtleat the i months our Force seas greater than at any - period r e g nlaa .recruiting service had been impeded by the. o ar i ng - t a a vace ai ng w,,a , re din ...Le ~.,e not mean -1.9 nperation of the Ad : c . )11 Vie contrilry, he 'contend- , . makeany- invidiellS•comparison betiv6ell -whit wai ed that for the ;last eighteen mooths it ,lald pro- ; t h e n done and the'exertions of. the snave ed:ng ...:Al.:1-.: doced as many met is could reasonably be expeded, ; ministratien, but the -only a(t of theirwto , ..nwre.se notwithstanding the .operation of the Ad' ; and ' the Army was the Additional Force Ad,,except.the that, therefore,. the loco raised under the A6t were measure, Which lie cot sidered . a. 'wise - one, of -al.= - i i., ,0,, ~,a 1), gained 1 :1 c1. , ...„,,w,i, If any 41equate sub- . lowing a porliop 0:... the Milit'..a to en1::;t: ..,.a ',h.: . . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. • Line he I- 1 . 11-1 : 1t,. 3:lovs-clver., be alloWed army that the, nien had: becn previously ralsed:' which it N•vas :now pkopciged to repe;d : had, 11c ; CUll— totally — failed to answer . its oyigipal inteh ticin it sy.'enerated all the inconveniencieS of a (and inc6nveniencies There -Were in that .as, in all other est2lrllshmentS), with all the disadvantages. of a .Standing : Army, without'.prOducng any of . the advantages' of either:, lie took the Ai:} by itself, w itboa refei-ence to any substitute, and should there-? fore oppose the Amendment.. ' • • • .I.ird.ilifILGRAVE. had not theleastobjeCtion to voting for the . Repeal of thiS Bill,if he could see that any cfraalve Plan was'., to be substitueted in its stead. As to..the idea of limited'service , to:the litary to be inliF•ted in future, he thought that it would be likely to create dissatisfaaion among those who had already entered for although other 7 Wiie.:they no doubt would be extremely wril cOll-• ,tent with their situation. He -recolleEted to have read of an old man who had never gone outside of :the walls_of a town until an . edia was isStied to pro ., hibit any one from going beyond the gates,—this ex ' cited A curiosity in his mind which prompted him to watch his opportunity to go oat, and go beyond those bounds which. he had never once thought of exce ed- 'lig before..' of DERBY supported the origin4Mo-, tlon ; his .Lordship - could not see that,_ any reason bad beep urged to 'indite& their Lordships to',post ponca measure which had for its - objed the general Recruiting of the' Army; and placing it . on a :toi-c respettable footing. - • Earl RO SS LY conceived the Additional. Force Aet to be so extremely nugatory, rigorous, and op pressive in its effect, , that he felt himself bound to vote for its .Repeal, independent. of airy other consi deration as to wizat his ,Mz.ijeSty's Ministers Might find - itsnoceSsary to bring forward in - its stead..•• Tke•Piike ,114, - ON PROSE ,(.It.fended the prin ciple of the Additimial.Force Aa,. and asked . N a o ble Viscount opposite (Lord 'icirtiouth).. as 'the pre sent Bill involved the Repeal of theAtMy of Reserve Aa,.how he could think of votingin support the before-theLill; len House ? •-• .•• Lord MOO" I'Hassured.theN'obleDA6 that he had long since been mosthost fully aware of the conveniencies and difficulties arising from the Aft to -which hebad alluded.. It had operated in a manner so contrary to the N.viThes and expeaa lions of those who introduced it into Parliarhent,. or who , gave it their support, - that he bad determinedlong.sinee to vOte for its Repeal 'is soon is ;Any _other ntetsure for 'recruiting the Army .should be' brought forward - in place of it. Th:!! . ,Ettr/ of .O,I4.RNLEY gave the Bill his most hearty support. He congratulated. their. Lordships on this measure. being brought before them : he had opposed the- Additional Force A& otl its in-' troduttiort,as a Bill into that Houses9well was he convincedOtits'inrilitiency.as to-the raising of Men, and also of the vexatious tendency of its provisionS. If no other plan . .were to be substituted iu. ?fs phtce, Ile would still feel hirnSelf bound ,to give his-vote fOr the abolition of a, system at once so nugatory and_ unjust. • Lfircl lIIIVIs ES-BURY entered" at very great length into a - view. of ivlvat his,l,ordsilip conceived to be the merits of the Additiatial Force ; _and, after combating - some - of the arguments which bad' been adVanced for its .repeal, asked their Lordships whether. they" could .think of voting for the repeal .of a measure of experiment, just at the - nioinent thin it - began to .be understood—would they . arrest its progress just at the moment that-it begat to be pro.luetive- of the most' beneficial etteets to the • Countrj ?, . , • The Earl. of G lilr , lPloV argued strongly that the Bill' octet to be repealed. . 111. its , very principle it • was both nnj6st and: unconstitutional. It. was, indeed, less dangerous in the latter way.than its title purported ; for, instead.Of being a Bill to raise a per-. manent Additional - .Force, 'the • endurance., Of that perm-attention:! was limited to a term of five years. . Earl SI'EA CER . took a. general view of the ar guments urged in support of the Bill, all of which he answered,- A Noble.. Lord bad objected that it was nor fair to compare the number _raised under the D.ll with that numbf•r - which the Bill bad professed to raise,: • This he. should not insist . 011 do4lg 3 but, unquestionably, the Noblo_Lor.4 could have no - ob- Jeaion in •computing the number katally,raised l , to . count 'also the:penalties- penalties-.incurred, andiitAki - fig Mein both into consideration the iNoble. Lord Wouhl find . the tienalties, .taken ,'istbounties, to beat the_rate of . 671) 6.r701...f0r• ev ery man. raised. • . - Earl .114,1) 4 VO R. it: the Bill bad -raised:Wen t y times the number of men it: had ,produced, he should still be .for its Repeal, , It was the rno3t -Co.npletely • - fraught with injustice of any law, in .any code with • whieh he,'had ever,been acquainted. GROS VEAOR, in. votingfbr. the - Repeal of , the Bill, booed.bit; to unnerstoolnot - to pleclge.him self to ~the_siapport - of, the-Plan, alluded to ,by nisters. . • • The . question' W:l3 then called for; -and-0 J - -lonse divicced On, sarl'lArestnieriand's .tkmendment. For the_seCond rLdinp , 'now-- Contents -I' resent , - - 71 • • - Proxies 26--c7. For the second reading - this day three weeks resent - .3 4 PrUxles - - - ' • 11 , -40 , , „ 103jority for the second . re4ding now - 57 The Bill was then read .a second time, and order ed to be committed to-ino .. rrOw.-=-Acti9urned at Qne -o'clock. HOUSE, OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, MAY '2O. Mr. BAli1“1 presented.a Petition frori the Coun' k y of Hertford, _.and Sir \V: GE . , , Rx one from ,the . County of Kent, against the.'existing-Mali Laws. -- •• Both-these Petitions were referred - to the Com,- : miitee appointee. to consider those LaWS. LoralVioßpETH' moved for an Account of the Pro ! I' 1 - x.1131 . t-! - ,Amount of the Revenues of India for the years t`. - :t),+-Li, together. with the IntereSt of the Debt there contraded.; speO4ing tit° EY,pences of the Esta I;:iihtnents• of St.. Helena and . Prince of Wal&;ii 1 Island, for . the jast two yearS.*-Ordered. Sir J. 1. 1- EW..PORT 1 .-:>ught up Bills for better re . gulatirig F.-.. - Cise in Ireland, and , forje . pe:d'uig -Additional Force Act it; that Cone ! 'try. All of which were reed a first time. The two first were __'orders':. to tae.ai.sedontr time . :.r.)rrow, and' lazt to lie mad a secont-,1 011 ; "Thurclay da .. - - .•, •_ , , . mr. vAI. I.sre3erited, pun-mint tU order ef =Account sheaving the Amount of the Arrears and, Balances in the hands of the Collectors of the Revenue; from the sth ofJanuary,-1774, to the sth of January, i &A.—Ordered to be printed. A Message was received from the Lordi, stating that their Lordships had agreed to {he ScoteliJudges' Salary 'Bill and to several Private Bills. . Mr. ALLIIANDER. brought. lip the Report a tbe Committee of Ways and . Means of. yesterday ; which was agreed to, and . Bills - ordered to be brought. in accordingly. Mr: C: WY NNE presented thelionse, agreeably to Order, Copies of the • Instrudions given - to all Ships of War, and td 'all Privateers, &c. carrying Let- ters of Marque against. Neutral Shipping navigating i 0 • the West Indies.—Ordered fo lie on the Table. LORD MELVILLE. Mr. HUSK/SSON stated, that be had giv,eu tice of a, Motio for this day, for - Papers tendingto spew. the grounds on which. the late Board of Trea 7 sury had thought proper to remit the interest on the balances in the hands of Lord MelVille..::He was aware, however, that such a-" Motion might involve Mini in some allusion to the evidence adduced en the Trial Of the Noble Lord, which might seem to trench on the PriVileges and Orders of the other House. To avoid every alltisiOn of the kind, he should postpone Motion till after the judginent was given on that Tri:il. • . NABOB OF ARCOT. Mr. Ilartousc mated the Order of the Dtiy, for She second reading ,of the Nabob of Arcot's Credil tors' Bill. Mr: KEEI=eE called the attention of the house to 'the nature of the Pehts . ,.,most of which sere fraudulently created; at least arose no real and onerous cause, and, were accumallteli 'by fraudulent interest. He called on the Hon.-Gen-e -tleman (Mr. Francis) who lrad much distin guished the attempt to suppress thalaß abuses, who himself resided in .that Country 2$ years, and who, lrad returned to thig kingdom-with 'a eharalter as unsullied as he had left it, to assist him in his present,endeaviur.: - ;- He: then .proceeded enter.into a long statement, and to call for the' reading of many Minutes _relative to the delits'of I.,MTherSon, and Sir it. Sullivan ; which had been allewed to lie dormant for Many years; and which,, he alledged, did not proceed frern re rand tottajide contrails„ . ' Mr. - jOff.VSTOIVE found himself carted oh, out of regard to the chara6ter of Sir J.. M‘Pbersozi, whose friendship he had experienced in early life, not to Sit silent and hear his =game unnecessarily dragged forward to public attention as elucidating a subje& in which he seemed to' Chace so, little.con 7 -nexion. He also thought, the insinuation against the other Hon.,Baronet equally unbecoming itt his a6seilce: LiHTTENCE agreed in the observations. , tinro wn out by the Hon: Gentleman N.yho had spoken ; first ort the . subject.. It was a fit subjea, not of in dignation merely, but of shame, to think that bribes • to the servants of this 'Country, by the Native PrinceS of • India,' should have been at • all times. 'deeMed necessary to insure a faithful performance of ti..ioricipty, or as indkiceroents to them . to betray - trust If debts were • reall1; • : ir , otia,firie due, 'he could not concz_ii;e o'n what greund they- were •al49wed to. . lie o'er from the year 1.799' to this time, without any elaiM being made under them. . • ; Lord .. C,-ISTLERE4GH replied at considerable _length, toile la . St speaker. If the general merits of the Agreement were . to be discussed, the discuss;on, otio - ht to be. - founded on a . distina measure. .Parlia, • 'meat was not, calted upon to sandiog .this. agree, -merit, as it was made by parties. fully cOmpetent tq enter into' it; and the - Hduse coUld not dissolve it 'except by positive statute, The question AIMS, whether they were to .enable the Commission, . • ers on the Debts to examine the Witnesses on Oath.' .The• 'public interest was certainly -coneerned.- ,, hut• that was a -reasen why the. House of Corrinions. . should not seletit persons who were to. decide on these Board of controul w4-conneeted with•the'Government, and it would, as- it was bound in duty 'to do, Watch carefully over the interestO of the Public, and, the kite : Board: had attended ,to them. Yet the. DitleolorS,. and the Board and the Creditors, had been satisfied with this agreement. He admitted the frauds _and abuses that existed in tyese claims, but 'there were a sufficient number of: them:apparently well founded to render the neces city-9f inquiry obviouS. With reSpea to the means, tbr paying sgeh as .'should be found to be good, equity required that a fund :Mould be appropriated to that pucpose: The Nabob. owed .alarge debt to the Company itself, and it WaS,getreasonable that the whole •.surplug reenue• cif the (arnatie should be applied to the. liquidation of `private elairaS; but out • ,of 0,0001, there. was set apart--forthis , •objea 130,0001. which Wai the Utmost , limiti of the sum. .liable:for the. priVate to the . in.quiries MahomeOn jurisprudence ; 'the c&iinui . ssioners here - could .direEt issues to be hied, y, ,the.' (OniiniSsioners, in India.: .He thought- thit in .eve.y point of view this was a proper mode Of p:roceeding, and supported • the Bill. 'Mr. FiUNCIS Observed, that - as The subject was so very iinportant,•, the attenclogee- so thiu, and so many singular doEtrineS, stated by the ',Noble Lord Which appeared to him improper and dangerous, he would, in order that not only the general merits of the Bill,, but these Collateral" points ; might be fully discussed, move that the Debatebe adjourned for : . a, fortnight, unless the House was decidedly hostile-tO, it. , . • Mr. HOBHOUSE. could .not conceive 'why it should be postponed for so.long as a fbantht,..even. admitting all the feasOns. of the .Hon: _Gebtletrim for adjourning the Debate.. But whether iG should be put off at all, or so long as thetton. Gentleman wished, he left entirely. - to the House. Dr. LAWRENCE stated that there were several things' of importance to come on ,or discussion„, 'and beStde,s, there was the interval of the...hdlidays.. He concluded by moving, that the Debate . he •(!jt,urned till Friday. se'nnights This was carried without a division,rOn - • • the Motion of Mr.' CR . EEV EY, the reference to a.Committee of the Motion relative to the American Intercourse, was postponed till Thursclay._: r • r • The 'Report of the Tortela..Free Pert Bill was-or dered to ,he,received - • --- - The ProfSerty' Doty 'Bill wai-:aiderea to be read a third time on Tlihrsday ntrit. Ordersewee thei3 disposed of, -,-Adjourned: