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measure of that nature should be crorteded upon
with the utmost deliberation and caution ; send the
objea nt what f.e wits ahnut to propose was, to at-
certain how the Mute had proceeded with rtspr.9
to former B.lis of that kind ; in what instancec such
measures were adopted, 7ind tr;lori wit at grounds;

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and whutlier the mere faCt of a prosecution by the
Commons had been deemed sufliiient grounds to
proceed upiin ? What he had to ststrthit was merely
to procure information on a subjeft of great im-
portance, not only rn the Hiose, but to the mem-
bers of the community at large. He would, there-
fore, move for the appointment of a Committee to
searchlor precedents respeCtii.g Bills. and the pro-
ceedings of tae House relative ihereto, enabling per-
sons to give testimony in matters of accusation, &c.
by inlenanifying them from prosecutions or civil
slits.
Lord HOLLAND did not rise to oppose the
Motion, but to say a fw words respeCting some
points wLich the Noble and Learned Lord had so
emphatically. thrown out, as to the Bill before the
House. For Ins part, he considered it as materially
differing from the Bill of 1742 ; for any detailed
view:. of the sutsj..d, he would reserve himself until
the Bill came regularly under discussion. He,
however, should be the last to support the Bill, if
he thought it involved these principles, as contended
by the Noble•and Learned Lord ; and he thought,
until the precedents to be sought fur were known, it
was unfair to represent it av similar to the Bill al-
Inded to.

Lord ELDON, in evplanation, observed, he had
sever contended the bill now pending was i
mile of that alltt.led to by the Noble Lord. What
lie meant was. that thougli the Dill was diferent in
s'.me prints, it could be reasoned on en the same
• principles.
The Question wss then put, when Lord LiJon's
Motion was curled, and all the Lords present this
Session were citi dined to sit in the said Committee,
WhI;l1 WAS oidcresl td commence its proceedings
to-morrow.
Mr. Jolinson, nom the Chief Secretary for Ire.
land's Office, presented certain accottnts from the
Cosonsissioners for cleawang, lighting, and paving
the streets of the city of Dublin ; and also certain
returns from the Commissioners of public accounts
in IrsLand, directed to be laid annually before Pal-
Lament.

MOUSE OP COMMONS.
Maw AND RE-ELECTED Mr.OI3IERS.
Lord Temple, Lord rylorperh, General Fitzna-
trick., Lord W. Russell, Lord H. Spencer, Mr.
Windham, Lord Oaatlstone,• Mr. D. M. Latkme,
Mr. Calcraft, and Mr. P. J. Cocks, weie severally
introduced. and tank• the oaths and then SCAM
IMPFACHMT-NT COMMITTEE.
• Mr. moved. that Lord Temple,
Mr. Cali:laic, and Lord Robert Spencer, he added
to the Committee ter rattling on the Impeachment
against Lord Viscount Melville. Ordered.
tiu VIE EAST-INDIA COMPANY.
, Mr. FitANCIS gave notice that he would to-
-21101:0W Move for the produCtion of a Paper relative
to the Debt of the EAST 'lndia Company, unless he
should. in the mean tithe, receive some intimation
that alight render the rune unnecessary.
THE CAPINET AND LORD EI.I.P4IIOItot7CII.
Mr. S. S PAN HOPE gave rotice, that he
would, to-morrow se'nnight, make a motion on the
suniell of Lord Ellentioreugh having a Seat in the
Cabistet.

Mr. Secretary FOX said. be would be plad if the
lion. Gent.lemitt would say what was the nature
et the b•n.

Mr. S. sTA NiioPE answered, that it was not
at present in his power to say Whitt the precisc nature
of the motion would be, only that he would make a
Motion on the sunicel of that appo:ntment.
ARMS IN couaTs MARTIAL.

The SECRETARY at WAR (GeLend Fitz-
patrick) alluded to a notice which he had given to-
wards the litter end of the last Session, of his inten-
skin to bring torwprd, early in the present Session,
a motion relative to certain abuses in the proceed-
imps Or Courts Martial. 'Hie peculiar situation of
affairs en the commencement of the Sessinn, had in-
, dined him to postpone bringirs it forward for some '
i time longer, and the change which had lately taken
place in ktis Majesty's Council;, led him to hope '
that the abuses to which he bad alluded, would
unw be taken up and con-card by the Executive
Governmimt, which would render it unnecessary for
him to unuble the House for Parliamentary relief.
He should therefore waive the notice he had given
on that subjea
A message from the Lords informed the House
that their Lordships had agreed to Lady Nelson's
cad Sir Richard Strachan's Annuity Bills, without
any

SINKING FITNI).
Mr. Alderman CURTIS rose, and begged to ask
a question of the Noble Lord whom lie then saw in
his place, relative to a report which had gone abroad
no a vets' important subjcd. It was by no means
his intention to interfere with, or ask any questions
relative to taxes ; but he hoped there was nothing
improper or irrexular in requesting tEe Noble Lord
to say. whether he had applied to the Governor and
Dilators of the Bank for information relative to
appropriating a certain portion of the Sinking Fund
towatds payment of the interest of the new Inas?
Such a report was in circulation, and might occa-
sion considerable alarm and uneasiness in the public
mind. He hoped. therefore, the Noble Lord
would excuse his troubling him for an answer to
what he h id taken the liberty to ask.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQPER
(Lord Henry Petty), soid, lie was extremely happy
in having an opportunity of assuring the Honnur-
able Alderman. and the public, that there was no
foundation whatever for the report he had heard on
that su bket,
Mr. Johnson, from the Office of the Chief Se-
cretary in Ire:and, brought up an account of the
narn'ocr of effective men raised in that Country
un,..er the aft of 44 of the King, called, •• The
Drfeaca A 3," pu-suant to the order of the House.
—Ordered to he o^ thl 7 able.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
I( f..e an account of all offices granted in rever.
14t.n in England. sp-cifying tint nature of ts'e of-
i• a Aces. a:.te cfthe grants! and the ',Nine! for
ij xsf iett 'hey were 2r