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London, England, 1805-06-28 00:00:00

110(TsE OF COMMONS.

Mr. Serjeant BEST rtlerred his toutinti on the I Ith Report
of the Naval Cerinissiouers, which stood for Monday, to
Thursday
Mr. GILTS brought up the Report of the Rank Ftegery
Prevention Hirt which was order‘d to be read a third time to
morrow.

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The Loutlt and !)heath were read a its; and
ordered to be real a serried time to-merow.
A Petition was preceirtml by Mr. Liagham, praying for a
Sill of Divorce hoot his wife Um, for Adultery; and Mr.
Heath, a witness, proved that ke had reason to believe the
Lady was now ill France.
Mr. S. BOURNE. obtained leant te Wag in a Rill for allow-
ing the purchase of regain grounds aliment to Wortininser
Hall, by the Exchequer, for the use of the pu►lic, which
being agreed to, the Rill was brought in, read a Stet, and
ordered to be read a seemed time te-ntorrew.
He having, pursuant is a summons groin the Black Rod,
attended the Lords' Contsresioners ia the House of Peers, the
Speaker, set his TOUT, informed them, that the Royal As.
mat ►od ►een given by Commission tothe Lottery, the Stamp
Duty, the Spaniel) Red Wine Duty. the Loyalty Loan, the
Irish Mak Duty, the Irish Incise 'Melanoma Duty, the Tax
Commissioners Regulation, the Paymaster General's Office
Regulation, the West India Import Duty, the Irish Militia
Cloaking, the Militia Subaltern Olicers• Allowance, end a
member of private MM.
Me. ROSE brought in a Sill for imposing an additioaal
Duty tbe Straw data and Bonnet% 'inverted into Great Britain;
and Mr. Giddy, the Packard Esslorry Rill; which were mad a
lass, and ordered to beetled a secosad time tremorous.
Mr. PkULiciso natio that he should to-morrow move for
sans• pirwe alati,e le the appointment of the Hen. Henry
Walla* tooth, Genernanent allied:649d Provinces of Duds
in the East ladies.

Cohmel CRAUFURD obeeared, tlgt in the return of the
effective hone of tbia ciessitty, ie &and recruits included,
though they were not taken isms the 61400114 of the year tent,
or the tint returns of 1 SOS. In entire, therefore, to be enabled
to make a proper comparison, he should move " That th7re be
laid before the House as Account of the Return, of Recruits
in the Regiments abroad, Rota the lst of January 1804, to the
lit of June NO.' As he did net anticipate any objection to
kis propoial, and believed it wit& be ready to be produced to-
gnormw, he did nut see that it awl induce him father to post-
pone hi. intended mottos.
ThoSLCitETARY at WAR slid, be bad nu oteection w
She smitten • and acknowledged that chum returas ul recruits
had not bee made in thefermer accqunts.
Ordered theistic Home should, to-morrow, revolve itself ilia
a Committee of the wade Howe., to consider of so much of '
the Irish Permanent Taxes as rotated to the military survey of
that country.
The Irish Lean Bat was committed, and ordered to be re-
ported to.lnurrow.
The House went into Committee% on the Townleian
ferias the Duty an Wass imported, in which it was resolveit
that an !additional duty of 2s. W. on Crown plate, and Is. •
sheet on German Glass, be imposed; the Hop Doc, lowering it
one penny out of twopence lialdpenay per lb. ; the English
Militia Officerr Allowance, in which a cleave was moved by
CitoneISTANL.E,T, that in reduced Regiments, which had
two lieutenant Colonels, the Second Lieutenant Colonel
should be retained in the itegd sent. with the rank of Lieut.-
Colonel, and having wily the pay of Major, which was agreed 1
to ; the Irish Duty Collection 4 and on the Drawbacks spun
the 'incaution of Linen, the produot of any a the West
India Coienim eke Reports of all which were ordered to be to
mired to-morrow.

SECRET COMMITTEE.
Lord GLENBERVIE brought np the Report
of the Secret Committee on certain matters con-
tained in the Eleventh Report of the Naval Com-
missioners, which stated, that after haffios duly ex-
amined persons, papers, and records, relating to the
sum of 100,0044. of Naval Money. said to have
been expended, and unaccounted (or in the Ele-
venth Report Resolution, they had resolved, that it
appears to then that the sum so expended had been
applied to purposes perfectly naval, and paid 4y the
Comptroller of the Navy to an order from the
Treasury. with the knowledge of the First Lord of
the Admiralty; and that they had also resolved
that there were suticiant reasons for not. consistent-
ly with the public services, discovering the mode
in which that sum was applied, and that the same
reasons for not disclosing it still continued.
LORD MISCOUNT MELVILLE'S taleF.AcHtmtur.
Mr. WHITBREAD moved, that .Me. Sersant
BEST be added to the Committee for drawing up
Articles of lmpeachno-nt against Lord Viscount
M E LVI L La 4 which being agreed to, he neat gave no-
tice that to-morrow he should move for a Bill of
Indemnity to allow Mr. Troth to be examined as
an evidence on the Impeachment.
DUKE or ATHOL'. ComPENSATION RILL.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
moved the second reading of the Duke of Athol's
Compensation Bill.
Mr. CURWEN oppoved it at considerable length;
and moved, by way of amendment, .. That the
Dili he read a second time this day three months."
Mr. FUJI.ER piopmed die ~ppointrnent of
Commissioners to enquire into the compenutuiqu,
as was done in the year 1798.
The I louse divided on the amendment ; when