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.deel on More and he wished', in common •• * .
with his Noble fiend, that the question, what.:
ever it might be, should be voted Unanimous-
ly. The condo& of his Majesty's Ministers,
during tha negotiation, might more properly be
made the stihjeft of future investigation and discus-
sion. His Lordship argued with his Noble Friend
tt
on the Beach b4ow im, (Earl Fitzwilliam) in the
necessity of hAvipg ';% information before them,
relative to all the points his Noble Friend had men:.
tioned, when the concht& of-his lifateityrs- Minister!
should come under consideratioh. '
[Earl Fitzwiiliam, with leave of the House, de-
sired to withdraw his motion.] .
The LORDCHANCELLORIeft the Woolsack
to express his willingness to concur with the Noble
Furl in withdrawing his motion, and with the Noble.
Earl who 'had jits,t. Sat down, in thinking that the
subjeet ratter restihing from the important papers
oiti the table, world adult of two separate and dis-.
tin& question,: With regard to the first, viz. the
. cause between the Sovereign of this country and the
'French Repnblie, be should wonder of what sort.
og stuff that man is composed, who .could, after
an atteni!ive perusal of the papers
.en the table, hest-
htte a Angle moment hi deciding, whether the ho.
nour and dignity of his. 7+lajeistT'S crown, and the
interests of his pe(iple„ ought to be mported or not;
A's to the second ple.lion, viz. whether his Majesty's
Ministers had condu,!tcd the negotiation ably,
wisely',' and well, he admitted, that it wcurd he a
tit Subjeg of future enquiry ; and he trusted,
that whenever that enquiry to(* piace, it would be
found that they deserved the thanks'itnd applause of
their 'Country; rather 'than its
_cfnstire: Sure he '
would, that , they howl been actuated by the best in-
tentions, and that in a. negotiation atten4od with._
tcircumstances. the most, arduous, delicate,• find dill."
ficult, that perhaps ever occurred, the° bad stre-
nuously exerted' their 'Most. ea'rtac..st endeavours to '
maintain the honour' and dignity of his Majesty's •.
.croWn,:and die intereso of his übje&s. ,
The Mation of earl ritziilliank w,as withdrawn.
Adjourned to Monday next.

,

HOUSE OF commoNs.,
ittiDAY,,'MAY
Mr. Pitt thii day stook, the oaths'sFurtiis scat for
the University of Cambridge, but remained only
for a short tune in the House... .
The Bill fin- the Improvement of the POrt of
Glasgow was read. aa. cold time, and ordered to be
committed.
• • ' Nc)TTiNGHAM ELECTI9N.
Mr. I. H. BRONNE remarked cursorily on the
very outrageous and'. unwarrantable proce;:dings
diming the late pleaion for the town of Nottiugharn,,
whiat Should -make the House be on its .guard
agailiti a s;milar conduCt in the ensuing eleCtion. He
was not, however, instruaed by the iCommittee, of
'-'whic.ble bad the honour to be Chairman, to pro-
pose to the House an adoption of the remaining rt,
r-solutions, they being satisfied with feeling a faith,
.fal discharge of their duty, arid hoping that the sub.
tt je would be taken up-by some other Member after
Ncttingliam stiOuld
.be fully represented. All he
had to move at present was, That the Speaker
should issue • his writ for a Member to represent the
town of Nottingham, in the room of Joseph Birch,
' Esq. declared not duly eleCted,"—which was agreed.

to. - -..-.
A Report was, made fmm the Evesham Corn-.
mittee, that the two sitting Members were dulyclea•
cd, and that the petition .against them was not frivo.
lons or vexatious.
. . TtlE. MILITIA.
The SECRETARY at WAR rose, in pursuance
of a notice he had- previously given, to move for
leave to brio., in a Bill fcr the completion of the
_Militia.riec'Would not, fir the-present, go into all
the minute details which the House would have af-
terwards to consider of. He would, however, state,
' ti-at the main ()Nee& of it...Vas to complete the quotas
of the different eounties,.and to facilitate the levy of
the Supplementary Militia, whenever it should ap.
'pear by his Majt•sty's Proclamation that such a mca-
si.tre was deemed necessary. There was some satis-
faftion to find, that in less than three weeks after
the notice had been issued, more than four-fifths of ,
the Mi4tia were eeltially assembled ; but, at the
same time, he must not conceal from the House
that there was a great deficiency in the quotas of
several of the counties. Tie Bill, therefore, proposed
to enable the deputy lieutenant to fill up all vacan-
cies, without any reference to the causes of absence.
As the law stood before, they did not proceed to
ballot for vacancies in less than a month after they
' wire declared, whereas now they would be filled up
lo,thwith by the operation of this Bill. Before this,
when vacancies were declared, the Lord Lieutenant
summoned the magistrates, and the only penalty
for the de.iciency was a fine of ten pounds a-year
upon the parish. It was now proposed to transfer
this power to the deputy lieutenants, and have
the fine imposed and renewed at every Quarter Ses-
sions,. which would ,make a penalty of 401. per an-
main instead: of 101. which he trusted would secure
more effeaual returns, but the measure would not
be more strong or effeBnal than may be necessary.
Thai' were, he said, men who made a trade of en-
listinig and enrolling themselves in one regiment,
and then deserting and enrolling themselves in ano- .
ther. .To remedy this, the present bill would enable
his Majesty to mate a proclamation, allowing such
defaulters to come-in and;
.join their respeetive regi-
' ments before a given day, in which case they should
be exempted from all penalty to former misconduEt.
' But with regard to such as may not return, the Se-
cretary at War was to publish lists of them, with
their descriptions, through all parts of the kingdom,
with rewards for their apprehension, and upon ht.-
hag taken they should be mach; liable to serve his
Majesty abroad. The parishes would not lose by
the regulation to fill up the ballots forthwith ; for in
• case the men at present absent should return, the
persons drawn in the new ballot should be carried to
account, and the same men would supply any fu-
ture vacancies. In the Supplementary Militia it was
proposed, that nicn of the height of five feet two
inches "should be admissible., and the penalty for not
appearing was to be extended from ten to fifteen
pounds. It was also provided that his Majesty
should have the power to embody them at any tare
that might be thought necessary. without assembling
'his Pailiarnent. In future no seafaring people were
to be admitted• into the Militia • and those now ern-
bbdied in it would be transferred to the Na% y, and
the place of such transferred men would be supplied
by subsitutes at the public expence.
He then moved fbr leave. to bring in a Bill to.
amend the Mt af the 424. of George 111. for the