The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1808-03-15 00:00:00

HOUSE 0? COMMONS.

Mr I.atezt.t.iti, Merman uf the Malmesbary Eleetioe
Committee repartud Ui thy House that the sitting 31stsbers
were duly ducted, sad that the Petition was not frivolous our
vexatious.

sir. SHAW brousbt in a bill for paving, repairing, and
fightiug 'Wain paaacip-s is the par:sit of PAWNS. kead a
Lod and marred to be n Art a second time.

A Copy of the Charter of Grevirescl; Hospital wn :aid
span the Table ; aud, upon the snotiou of Sir CHAR !Ai
Pots: it was ordered to be prisit:cl previous to his bris;-
hag fir:ward a motion wpm) the subject.
Mr. Pot': moved for Copies of certain Orders sod Di-
rection Knee by the Lords ,4 the Admiralty,• etc. retains
is t►e penults( el the ROchfort Squadron with victuals.
Mr. CA LC/AFT SSA. It wan His onion wish to bate
every document relative to this subject laid before the
• Howse, pervins to his fusion* a motion epos them
. T4e ?otioa Was agreed to.

Mr. II tiollitsON moved fur Copies of. several Orders of
Cooed! rolativt to the iletvot;ori of cortaill Americo /kip,
see the warebousiog of their movies i as aloe Copies of *Ls
Orders of the Lords of the Tressery, aliosieg the inswts•
title of goads is Per tugnise seasis.—Ordetird.
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Certain papers relative to the Dardanelles were laid Rum
the Tahoe by Mr. Ca%llllll.
To a maestiosi from Ur. WWI o, aa to when the
mightiest' diapatchee relative to lideomark, which were or-
dered, 'timid be hid arm the Table, Mr. CallUthe said,
tisahtbey would mom it presented hi the House.
Mr. St.ms at gave matar, that mama a Right Hunourster
Gestleuma, not then in his piece (dlr. Shea idea', sun,
proposed the convideratioa f the l'etitiou relative io
the Cold Bath Fields Prisms, he should submit a motion to
the House relative to it.

PETITIONS AS TO THE OILDEIR IN COUNCIL.
Upon the motion of Mr. Alderman Comas, u,.1
Petition of the American Merchants of Lola
twee ordered to be taken into consideration upui
Thursday next.

Sir CII•Itt.EI PRICE presented • Petition from
certain iierrous 'tiling themselves SOciaty of
Merchants, in Loudon, tnidiug in cotton, *ool, anti
other emantial wants of the enemy," expreralag their
gratitude to Ministers for the late Orders in Coun-
cil, and praying that they be carried into full effect,
as being most adrantageous to their trade, and tic
most probable mode of convincing the enemy of
the impropriety of Isis own Decrees against this
country. . _ _

Ups:ii the motion--". That thia Petition be laid
upon the Table," it was objected to by Mr.
T 1 VILISET, M. WIITTIIIII,ID, Mr. Simms, Mr.
Bsainu, Earl TEMPLE, Sir Jona NEvrauttc,hi,..
lltusEirr, and Mr. l'ossoliae, ou accounts: the
l'etitiouvrs not being properly describes!, they
sinning to themselves the afpelliktion of a Society
of Merchants, althoilkh not constituted intrAt by
charter. It was argued, that the same objectwn
must necessarily exist to this description, as o'c,-*
urged against the Petition as to the Cold
Fields I"rison. presented from certain persu...
siding themselves to be the Grand ,Futy.
The Cris CEL Lon of the ExcamtivEat atiPPort(4
the Petition, and argued, that the rase of these
Petitioners, and those alio described theniselre,
the Grand Jury, %vas perfectly different, the loft,.
having assumed to themselves a legal
which did not belong to them. These
were a class of respevtahle merchants, end, ms sus
had a right to petition individually. The Lull,. 4
theitrzelveb a Society might originate, fdir .•
the House knea of them, from their ionising a
rate chili.

Mr. l'utisoNev observed, that upon reading
Pr•titior: he found Li, less than 19 or 30 nano•i:
and he v.4s not therefore hu
that there was not a paragraph of good
throi...,liout the wlita:e o: it, fur he did Lit behr,,
that they could with's-43nd it themselves. It .•

nliucrd Lain of a preacher who get a flit.; 1
of to write a 1 S•l:4sli fur him, which hciag i
to uet it pr.nted. 1k •
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Petitioners being for.igneis had adopted a.,y
that were thought h: certaiu petiroco c
}roper for cheat to tulopt.

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