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and the Barrack Ditiartment, but they would be
ready and presented before Monday. He way
aware, he said, that Monday had been fixed on b
an Hon. Gentleman on the otter side the House, fo
a motion he intended to bring forward; but that,
Hon. Gentleman, well aware of the exigence and
importance of the public ser vice, had agreed to postii
pone his motion to some Noire day, and had, at his
request, acceded to hint Monday, next for the pur-
pose he had mentioned.—Ordered to lie on the
tahle.
Mr. Ca rex Ara...wished the Hon. Secretary to in-
form him. whether he did not mean the papers now
on the table should iie printed ?
The SECRETARY at WAR said, he wished the
Hose to have every possible information on the
subjea, that would not he produaive of delay, that
prevent his bringing forward the business on
Monday. lie thought Gentlemen might take ab-
strafts, which would be of equal use to them.
Mr. Ca Le ear? could by no means agree, that
abstra,ls would be suffi&-.it in accounts of such im-
portance ; nor did be conceive the M mbers of that
House should be put to so much trouble. He
should therefore think it his duty to press for the
printing. The papers were accordingly ordered to
be printed.
MIDnLESEX ELECTION.
Mr. CREEV EY brought up a Petition from cer-
tain Freeholders, in the County of hlithilesex, stat-
ing, that at the late Eleftiort for Middlesex, there
were two candidates, via. Sir F. Burdett, and G.
Baulton Mainwariag, Esq. That before the pro-
ceedings were entered upon, the qualification neces-
sary by Aa of Parliament, of a landed estate of
6001. a year, was positively demanded by the agents
and Counsel of Sir F. Burdett, and the Freeholders
in his interest ; and that he, the sail Boohoo
Mainwaring, should verify the same on oath, accord-
ing to the tenor of the said Act ; that the said G. 8..
Mainwaring, in answer to this demand, had stated
that the said Aft of Parliament did not ayply to
him, and that he had no need to produce a parti-
cular qualification, he being the eldest son and heir
apparent of William Mainwaring, Esq. a Gentic-
man who had repeatedly been the representative for
the said County of Middlesex; and that he, being
doubtless possessed of such necessary qualification
as required, rendered it unnecessary for his heir ap-
parent to produce a particular qualification. The
Petitioners then proceed to state, that the said G B.
Mainwaring is not the eldest son of the said William
Mainwaring, and therefore the said qualification,
as such, can be of no avail, and that the said G. B.
Mamwaring, having no estate of his own, of the
value of 6001. a year, ne WAS not eligible to serve in
Parliament, as Knight of the said Shire. They
pray, therefore, that the name of the said G. B.
Mainwaring, who has been returned by the Sheriffs,
as the sitting Member, may be struck out of the said
return, and that the name of Sir F. Burdett may be
inserted in its stead. The Petition having been read
by the clerk ;
Mr. CILECVE•.' moved that the same be taken into
consideration on the 18th of February next.
L.Trd H. PET I'Y said, he had on a former night
moved for an account of all exports to Spanish
parts ; and he had omitted to say, " to specify the
ports, and the number of exports to each." He
wished therefore to correct his Motlon.
TAG SPEAKER said, that in such cases, the
usual and regular way was to make a new Motion
on the subjea.
Lord H. PETTY moved accordingly, " That
there be laid before the House, an account of all
exports to the ports of Spain, during the years
1903 and 1804, specifying the names of the ports,
and the number of exports sent to each." Ordered.

INSOLVEN r DEBTORS.
The Insolvent Debtors' Amending Bill was corn-
mitted—read a third time and passed, and returned
to the Lords by Mr. ALEXANDER.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Land and Malt
Bill, and the Bill for continuing the duties on pen-
sifts, tobacco, snuff, &c. which were severally read
a first, and ordered to be lead a second time to-
morrow.

A Message from the Lords informed the House,
th it their Lordships requested Oe House would give
leave to Sir I'. Featherstone, Bart. the honourable
Galbraith Lowry Cole, Sir James Stewart, Bart.
and Mervin Archdale, Esq to attend the Lords, in
order to be examined as witnesses before the Com-
mittee appointed to consider the matters alleged
againA Mr. Justice Fox. on the 18th of February
next.
SPANISH PAPERS.
Mr. G REY rose and said, that without the
smallest intention or wish to anticipate any part of
the general debate which is to take place on the im-
portant subjeet of the war between Spain and this
country, he was extremely glad to find, from the
communication he had just received from the Right
Honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer [Mr.
Grey and Mr. Pitt had been in conversation some
considerable time, and Mr. Pitt read over the whole
of the Motions], that the substance of all the in-
formation he wished to receive, in consequence of
the Motion; he had now to submit Wale House,
would be granted, and therefore he should not have
occasion to take up much more of their time than
barely to read them. He had mentioned, on a
former nighr, that there were several chasms in the
Correspondence which required to be filled up, as
they appeared to him to relate to a period in which
the most imprTtant part of the Negociation was
carrying on. In the corresponderie now before
the Howe, there is no document whatever from the
lath of June to the: month of September du-
ring which ;atei vat, he thought several P.Ters, or
written commun:cationc, must have passed ; and if
any had passed, it was proper they should be laid
before the House.
The first Motion, therefore, he had to make,was—
:hat there be laid before the I louse, Covies or Extracts of
all Letters front the Minter of Swain to not %Miter of Hr
Me,lesty from the Ist ofJ illy 1809, in the 18th Sept: follow-
ing, and oral! Instruflions sent to hint by Ministers in con-
sequence toerrof.
Mr. GREY said, it appeared by the Correspond-
ence that Mr. Frere had made a very strong re-
monstrance against the measures of the Spanish
Government, in facilitating the passage of a con-
siderable body of Mariners and Artillerymen des-
tined to reinforce die French fleet at Ferrol; to
this Note there woes no answer in the Col-imps-tid-
e:lce. He supposed, however, some ri"tLe must
have been taken of it, and if there had, be thought.