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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
TUESDAY, APRIL CC.
Mr. Erskine and Mr. Wood were heard for the
Crown, on the long depending Appeal by Writ of
Error, on the judgment pronounced by the Court
held at Carlisle, on the 10th of August, 1792, be-
ing the summer Assizes of that year, in the cause
between the Inhabitants of the County of Cumber.
land and our Sovereign Lord the King. After
which the Lord Chancellor' read the question sub-
mitted to the Judges, and the Chief Baron read the
reasons, which induced them to be unanimously of
opinion, that the judgment ought to be affirmed.
On the question being put, it was affirmed accord-
ingly.
Tile Order on the Chalking Bill for Ireland was,
on the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, dis-
charged, and a new Order made for Friday next.
Lord LIMERICK said, that on accesint of the
absence of a Noble Friend abis, from unavoidable
cause, he was under the necessity of moving to dis-
charge the second reading of the Irish Bank
Restrietion Bill, and move, a new Order for Mon-
day next.
Lord KING reminded the House, that previous
to the recess, he had given notice of his intention to
1 ri lg the papers on the Table, on the subjeet of Re-
venue and Finance,. under consideration ; he rose,
therefore, to say, that unless some unforeseen cir-
cumstance should arise to prevent it, he would on
Monday next submit a motion on the subjecl. to
their Lordship? consideration.
Lord WALSINGHAM moved the second read-
ing of the St. Pancras Poor-house Bill, when
-I.4rd RAWDON (Earl of Moira), rose, and said,
he should have felt it a painful task, if it had been
necessary for him to go into a full discussion of all
the topics conneeted with the present Bill, but the
petitioners, whose petition he had presented, did not
objeCt to the whole of the Bill, but opposed it par-
tially, and that on a ground that was undoubtedly
highly objedionable. Ile would state what their
objection was, viz. the Bill professed one objeCt,
but its true policy and objet were entirely different
from that professed. It would have been but decent
to have stated its objet iu the preamble, or title of
the Bill, which was no less than to dispossess the pa-
rishioners of St. Pancras, to a limited extent of that
franchise, which was the natural right of every sub-
jeCt, viz. for parishioners in vestry assembled, to
have the management of their own power. The Bill
went to the vesting the management of the poor of '
the Parish of St. Pancras in certain guardians and
trustees, arbitrarily chosen, and not subjeft to the
controul of the parishioners. His Lordship said, it
was but too freqnently the praaice of their Lordships,

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out of respeet to de-House of Commons, to pa st
over such Bills as were brought up from that House
with less attention, and more relaxed examination,
than was usually paid to their own A&. Had such
a Bill as the present originated in their Lordships'
House, he was persuaded that they would have ex-
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pe&eil that the title and preamble should have ex-
plicitly stated the real object of the Bill, and that
some evidence should have been given at the Bar
on the second reading of the Bill, to establish its ne-
cessity and expediency. It was too late now to do
that; but having thus stated what he had to objeet,,
lie should, on the motion that the Bill should be
committed, move, that the petitioners be heard,
• by their witnesses in the Committee, upon the allega-
tions of the several petitions, which would be laid on.
the Table.
On the question of commitment being put, Lord
RAWDON moved, that the petitioners be heard
by their witnesses in the Committee.
His Lordship presented two other Petitions, and
a third was brought up by Lord Wakingham.
Seven or eight Messages or Bills were brought
up frcm.the Commons, by Mr. Alexander, Mr. Las-
celles, and oth?rs, and presented. The Bills were
read a first time.
I he Bilk on the Table were read their stages.—
A dj ()timed.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, AptlL 2t.
- Sir LAWRENCE PARSONS presented a pe-
tition from the Grand Jury of the King's Countjr,
against the Dublin Canal Bill, which was ordered -
to lie on the Table.
A Message from the Lordc announced their hav-
ing agreed to the Grenada Loan, and several private

Mr. JEKYLL presented a petition from certain
Clothiers of Yorkshire, against thi last Bill, for the
regulation of that trade.—Ordered to lie on the
Table.

Col. LONGFIELD presented a petition from the
tanners of Cork, complaining of the regulations for
the colleetion of the tanners' duty, and praying for
relief.—Ordered to lie on the Table.

Mi. CORRY seconded the motion for the peti.
tion being received, and said, that the obje' of it
should receive every degree of attention.
Mr LEE deferred his motion for granting com-
pensation to certain patentees in Ireland, wno were
sufferers by the Union, till Monday next.
The Committee on the Irish Courts of Law Re-
gulation Bill was deferred to the same day,
The second reading of the Clothier's Bill was de.
ferred till to-morrow.

On the motion of Mr. N. Vansittart, an account
was ordered to he presentee of the amount of the
permanent taxes from the sth of April, 1802, to the
corresponding date, in 1803, distinguishing each
quarter.