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London, England, 1803-06-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P.lRLlAmzsr.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
THUtIDAY, Ji.:142 16.
An the Bills on the table were read a stage each.
CHANDOS PEt R.IGE.
Lord VALSINGHAM made the Report of 'the
proceedings on the Chandos Claim ..f Peerage; the
same was read by the Lord Chancellor.
Lord GRAN fLEY thee nee to enquire whether,
by the House agreeing to that Report, and to the
Resolution that mutt immediately be made upon it,
the Petitioner was finally precluded from re-urging
his elrim, provided he should be able to bring teeth
such further evidence as sheald appear to him to
be sufficiently strong to sAtisly their Lordships of
the validity of his claim. • • •
Lord AL VANLEY said, tha.dorir was not final-
ly closed on the Petitioner, by the Reseletion come
to by the Committee of Privileges ; neither could
the door be closed by the Resolution which was ee-
sessarily to be moved immediately, provided the
Petitioner should present a petition to His eiejesty,
stating the nature of the further evidence he meant
and wished to bring forward; which petition His
Majesty would of course refer to his Law Adviser,
(the Attorney General) to consider and report upon
to him • and if the Law Adviser thought his state-
ment sufficiently strong to warrant His Majesty in
ordering the petition to be laid before the House,
then he might recommenceehe support of his claim,
by adducing further evidence. His Lordship said,
he would take tiie opportunity of stating, that he had -
seen, in one of the public prints,a report, that a Noble
and Learned Lord, who had argued at very great
length, previous to the decision by the Committee of
Privileges, that his speech was stron,gly in favour of
the Petitioners claim ; whereas the Nebie and Learn-
ed Lord had expressly said, that he much doulxed
whether he should vote or not, and in truth hed
given no opinion at all, but had conrined himself to
a clear and comprehensive detail of the whole of the
-evidence, and sheaved the bearings of each part on
both sides of the case; such misrepresentations were
inixemely unjustifiable. His Lordship would say
no more upon that point; but he would just adil,
without going into any reasoning, on what grounds
be rested his opinioe : that he concurred entirely
with those Noble. Lords who hati contended, that
the Petitioner had not sufficientl.e proved his claim.
The reason why he had no; spoke on Monday last,
in the Committee of Privik2..s, was, because he had
delivered his sentiments on the subject in a former
stage of the proceeding,.
The LORD CHANCELLOR left the Woolsack
to confirm what his Noble and Learned Friend had
said, respecting his condud•on Monday last, in the
Committee of Privileges. He had thought an ex-
amination o> the whole of the evidence, pointing
out its bearings on each side of the case, both in
favour of the petitioner and against him, might be
highly useful to their Lordships of the Committee,
previous to their proceeding to a decisive vote upon
the subjea. In endeavouring to assist the Com-
mittee with such an examination, he had most cau-
tiously abstained from letting fall one word, that
should be construed into an opinion either one way,
or the other ; and, therefore, he must say, that if
the House was pleased to overlook the publication
of what passed daily in that House, in the news-
papers, the writers of %hose reports ought to take
especial pains, that what they wrote was extremely
accurate.
A resolution, in the usual
Edward James Brydges, had
out his claim of peerage
agreed to.
CLERGY FARMING AND It
The Committee of the whole
having been resumed, the
to the consideration of the
exempting certain Spiritual
for Non-residence."
The Bishop of ST. ASA.
tion tx) the enumerating
were to be exempted from
defect ; because it would
public, by holding up such
to their view, and create
among the serious friends of
however, proceed to speak tbe
To the extending the exemptioa
the House of Commons, he '
Bill was seat up by the C*lll2llon4
of Pupa& due to that

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ID RESIDENCE BILL. • 1
whole House on this Bill
te Committee proceeded
e tenth Clause, that "for
11 Persons from Penalties
SAPH repeated his objec-
the various persons who
the penalties for non-resi-
raise the jealousy of the
a number of exemptions
alarm • and apprthenuk,n ;,
of the Church. He would,
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aption to the Cha.pliiin of
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