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London, England, 1804-05-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-M iwi:lOttip.MA T ea.
In an Appeal from the Court of Exchequer
Chamber, Lucena v. Cranford and others, Mr.
Erskine was heard on behalf of the Appellant.
The further hearing was adjourned to WednesJay
se'nnight.
The Archbishop of TUAM moved that the
thanks of the House be given. to the %slop or k. •
chester, for the sermon preached before their Lord.
ships, on the fast day, in '.Vestminster Abbeys a' d
that his Lordship be requested to permit the same
to be printed. Agreed tn.
Two Petitions were presented to the House bly
Lord Gaerivrt Le,. from person. stating them
to be interested in the rightiteloging 'li rn
she It ot••••ugh et AyleArawpray ing that the , •
before the House, relative to that Borough.may pass
into a law, and praying to be heard by Counsel irs
support of their Petition. Ordered to lie on tied
table; and the Petitioacreto be Sitiaad Oy Counsel. •
The Marquis of AbERCORN said, he had a Pe-
tition to present to their Lordships, which wa': of.
such high importance, inasmuch as it implicated the
cundud of a Judge in Ireland, that he thought it •
proper, before he presented the Petition, to give this
noticeof his intention, and to move that the Linde •
be summoned for the day on which he should bring
it forward. His Lordship then snored, that dI
Lords be summoned for Thursday next. Orderer. •
The order of the day, for taking into coosidera-
tion the reasons of the Commons far d;.agreting
with certain of•the;r Lordships' amendments in OA
Volunteer 3iU, being read;

Lord HAWKESBURY said, the Commons hail
agreed to such of the amendments of their Lord.'
ships as appeared to him to be of materlat import. •
As to the first of those they had'aitered,. it was
merely in futtherauce of the principle on which their
Lordships had made the amendment. :Cone of•the
amendments to which they disagreed, escept the
last, would require any particular notice from him,
as he did not suppose their Lordships would insist
upon any of them. As to the List, he would have
been glad, had the
_Commons permitted it tote-.
main in the Bill. Yin he could not thirk that :t
sufficient motive for hazarding the loss of a Bill of •
this importance, a even for delaying its pausing,
since it might be made the subjeu of a short eapla.
natory Rill.

Lord GRENVILLE said, he had entertained a
hope that, instead of this Bill being returned to the
House, 6ne would have been introduced to.vsnlee
the Volrpteer System more i tt Thgiblf, CorboLent.
and effectual to its uses. He scarcely ever addressed
their Lordships with more mortification and ern.
barrasiment. if he were to follow the impulse •1'
his own nand, he would move, that the considera-
tion of these reasons of.the Commons be pootpaced
till such a day, when it would be most probable the
House would not be sitting, for the purpose of dis.
posing of the filL But, after all that had been said
in that Housi on this Bill, after the many tirtes he
had been compelled to trouble their Lordships cn
its inefficiency, and its absurdities, he was not now
disposed to argue the matter entirely over agfin,
and however &ply he felt at being disappointed, his recent EU just expenations of a more wise
and comprehensive Bill, for the regulation of the
Volunteer force, he would at present confine him-
self to the consideration of the reasons assigne I by
the Commons, for disagreeing to some of the amen&
ments,jvhich be thought material.

A coeversation of considerable length then fol.
lowed on the reasons of the Commons, respeßing
three of the rejeffed amendments. The first was
on that amendment which reheved Commanding
Officers of Volunteer Corps from the injunflion to '
report to the assessor of the assessed taxes, whenever
a Volunteer quitted a Corps.
Lord OREN VlLL.Einsisted, that such injoteion
reversed (as far as it went) the order of ranks in the
Society, subjugating the first penple in the country
to the controul of some of the lowest. He male.
tAined that this, and similar regulations • i&it
original Bill, and now restored by the
mons, disagreeing to their Lordships' anto-
merit, which wan to do those regulations away,
placed a burthen on Commanding-Officers, great.
er than their whole military duty; and that a
burthen peculiarly ungrateful to their habits and
feeling, which he had almost said, even the injunc. ;
tions of an aft could not compel them to bear pal
tiendy.
The second retied amendment was that which
provided a separate deposit of arms in each parish,. ,
where a erffps con.ists of men residing in varigps
parishes. In such case, his Lordship obserilal,
that the men w.re drilkd in their respedivz p.uishes, 4
and it was no: convenient that the deposit of their
arms shouid be in another parish, often et seat
tance.
The third rejected amendment was that which. I
took away the power of Commaadiii;,olfidtts (as
.1
given bythe original bill) of cr,mpeliing the delivery 1
of arms, doodling, and accoutrements to him, at bit I.
discretion; this was argued at much length. Lord
Grenville stated the power given to Ore C•wr.. •
mattcling Officers; if their Lordships' Amend- ri
'went on this stihjetrt were re Red, it would be
a violation of the fundamental principles, and the
litw of property in this country. He called it a
monstrous robbery. He saw nething in the Kill
worth reserving ; but it he di 2, he would not pia.
chase it at such a price. He w,, glad to find that
rto man found in that I louse I,a dy enough to
vindicate the masons on which the Commons had
disagreed, in any instance, to t eir Lordships' •
Amendments. lie had too high an opinion of the
truth and honour of 'their Lordships, to suppose
that could be the case. He caociciej by mod; z
that the Ansendmcat in ca:e be ias,.Led 01.