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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A Report was presented at the Bar of the Boat', fhwa
1414..1 .inat nee' statute, that the Sdttog Meagher',
Jogger)", rttt Fag Charles Calks Water, £,,:q.
beri: •'nly electori, and that the Pewit)! as nut fr:rolugts
one.
g t.e oat-ragbag; fadiequer Bills Fusaist nor w•- r-r,gl
a se,oggai tinge, and ordered to be committed, os Monday

uen.t.
A from tt,c Part Office presented an seemed of
tre rwur paid fur Government Exprcarres betwetu Limdua
eJ4 0 .iyheed. Lae.; upon dre Table, sad, upon tbc molars
uf PA!... 4F. . urziered tube printed.
LICE...SEA INDIDINITY BILL.

Mr. Hu;aisioit, is isurSuauce of a former no-
ti:e,•stated to the House, that under the peculiarly
dillScutt circunistaucduuader whicb the Portuguese
merchants were placed! it hetame Ministers to
take very step to factlitate.th.:: femoral of their
property rams Portugal, nod that the Lord. of the
Adeiiralty did acpnrdia7ly issue orders to the Ctrs.
tout House to permit the entry of the produce
into British ports, in ships belonging to every
country, as if they had Beep British--teat further,
in consequence of the Declaration of His Ma-
jesty that the enemy's ports were blockaded,
several nentrads had corem into British porta,
without a kuowledge of what had tarn place,
with lar asrgoes, which, by kw, cauld not be ir.:-
mitted. 'go ft was, the:efcre, thouiht expedient to al-
low tlicin to warclunose them goods tut they could
, persausslad -*a -anima Aii•Ml again. sad it was
necessary to bun this de?arture from the law
sanctioned by Parliaixtent. There were only two
provisions in the Orders in Council, on which it
was necessary-to apply to Parliament; the ono
growing oat of the Orders of Blockade, oultecting
such vetoes to the Laws of Forfeiture. He thought
the House most peceite the Aver-nit,' of cols pro.
posed indemnity, as it would be hard to
render any neutral liable that was not apprised of
these Orders. The other provision he should pro-
pme to make, is, to permit, under the present
state of commercial difficulties, the Privy
Cen:xll, under warrant of the Treasury,
to order liceaaes permitting commercial later-
:.crs2 with any country from which the British
r..ug was excluded, iu vessels navigating under soy
flag whatever. It must he remembered that many

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•.t-the powers were wot voluntarily engaged in
hostile measures against this country, their itemical
dispolition being cute* owing to the overwhelm-
ing power of Friil/Ce. He should conceive that as
the ease now stand*. it would be competent to ex-
lead this privilege to the flags of any country, but
he dattsted ',bellies. it would he proper to extend
tin* privilege to belligerent flags. ITeder these
cirutostimees he should mere 4, That copies of
the Orders iu Council. presented to the Home on
the 15th instant, be refaced to a Committee of the
whole fiouse." •
Sir Joao Nsorros: seiJ, be had to lamest that
the House did tug consider the real effect of these
• Orlo!rs sooner. He was pricctly certain that it
would be wise and !saline tudsonetion the exercise
(den privileges required,. but doubted as the
propriety of e te.tidiug the licer.,,es to Bell nt
lags. The flourishing state of the cent of
tins country had been hitherto owing to the little
iaterfereuce of Garet nmeut with cotnmereial con-
cern*, arid he believed that the want of prosperity
iv Ftanir, in regard to her commerce, was much
owing to the Government being altioas busy in
coatrouling in'ereantile allaira ..ft.•

The CHANCELLOR of the Eicntomrtioemed it

unwise to attempt at an times to iapose restric-
tions upon commerce, but the piaralt* features of
war, (and especially a war like the present.) might
n,:cia•niio the propriety of making ;an exception from
general rule of that kind. In some cases it
was evident that it would be ad% israble to give pro-
te..Curi against apparently hostile flags, as nos pro-

po•e-(1. -
The motion was then put and azeetnl to, and the
vomit into a C• mmittee on the Urciers in
Council. In that Conintittee--
moved, .‘ TLtt lintre be 7iven to
tr:ng in a Bill co-: winking certain Ordcra ;ii
f,r hy a Coni:aiipiiiti
tiit graliting to CP•tain
in (' Ttalql Cale.. *0 *II to al kw the it-11011110'1,w
n.:= from count: ire from a.hicl; the liriti,b flag
ui,dee any flag v, in any ve.al nhat-

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rtkiv rnotioa being egree:l tn, t'ae f ina,e re4urned,
ILe Report was received, ald a Dill ordered ac-

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RFVERtrIOXARY PLACS BILL.
preesated the li.eiort u: the Cu::

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tnittee avoiutell to Inspect the Lords' Jonriutia np-
no the itubject of Reversions.
This toeing laid upon the 'Not., he gave notice
that he should, 00 Aouttay, woke a motion cool 4
cernittg this Ltrines&
The CHAN:;i:LLoR of the EXCHEQUER wished the
Heidourable tjentletuaa to proitose his Motion on
6oitie more conve,lient thif than Muaday, there be-
ing ..uUtie.s of importance airerdy !Led for that
dry. .

WILLIAM De NPAS &SliM.Deti a wi.h to know
the natt;t• • of the liu.inuretile Gentleman's in-
tended Moiout _

Mr. I.ltNacs auow•crcd, he meant t'► propose to
limit the Bill tow cc. tarn number of years.

PETITION Wit PEACI

Colonel Srin i.v.c presented a Petition from the
italcalsitants and au Li ufacturem ofJlanchester, pray-
ing for rcace.
On the Motion that it be laid upon the Table,
Mr. WiIITBANAD rose and observed, that this
Fetitioo, from its great length. appeared to be
signed by many thousands of persons, who, added
to the Dimly thousands more, whose Petitions were
already upon the Table of the House, he hoi .31
would induce Ministers seriously to listen to their
solicitations. Some lueinuatious had been thrown
out as to improper means having been used to pro-
cure many of the signatures to such Petitione. Ile
believed it wm. only necessary to look at the Peti-
tions themselves; to -jod:.,re of the feelings of those
who presented them. The language of this Peti-
tion was peeultarly rtepectrul, and the prayer of
it such as ought to be attended to He did really
think that they threw very gr..mt responsibility upon
Ministers, and they were ther:fore bound by these
expreisions of the suleriugs of the people, to li,t4t_
cteir utmost exertions to etfeet what they so ear-
neatly desired. Ile trusted at all acetate that the
House of Commons would attend to the prayers of
Choi Petitioners, and of itself make some recom-
mendation to the Crown upon the subject. if
Mi-
nistem did not think proper to take some steps
upon the 'trivet.
The Petition wee then ordered to be laid upon
the table. sad the Chancellor of the Exchequer
immediately moved the third reading of the