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MAIO: OF LO:lLS—Tutiosv, JCIT 2.
e Cotemittee of Privi'cr:es, their Lordships made Glebe,
• rogiess in the consideration of the case of the Royal Dukes,
claiming th'ir rights tt vete as Peers of lerLind at the Etectosn
of feels to sit Olt thilri of 'lretond io the lfiJtnl Parliament,
dre. to pro:ool again to-noirti•e,
Lied CAHIF.R, one of the irdth Representative Pee”, was
in and took 1114 I.C.a.
The Rural Assent was given Commission to the
Cilil Wit; the Iridt Loyalist Cotrtniissioners Kill, th. L.Lat
TZ.`'..'ims•oliditi•iii, the Expiring 'Awl. Mr. ritt's indentoil
the Wooten Maettfacturers, the Pam Clergr Relief, the Coin
Et ponatYiun, the Coating Trade, anti to several Ads of a poi.
Tate or local description.
The Lord. Cain • iesioners wcre, the LORD CIIANCEL-
LOR, LurdWALIIINGITAM, and Lord FLT.I.I4IIOiIOUGH.
The Wilt upon the Table were forwarded in the* several
site Among these, the three Exchequer Rita 134-4, and
the realer no,ober of he Bills hriught up yesterday fruit the
CO.IIIIIOIII, were read a second t.tne, and cJininittel for to-

illOrntrw.
the Dublin Harbour BM, the Mlitia Offirem Provia;un
the Pa:ace-ye:a Buildiusa Bill, and the Or n Acts Anie4d.uetat
wee brought up from MA
the Commons by
r. UX-
AN nr R. and severally read a fir.: time; u was etc', a Private
itell presentA by the Earl of E'JSTON.
ST PANCRAS POOR BILL.
The order cf the day, for the third reading of
thi: 1311, being moved, Counsel for the Petitioners
against the Bill, and those fur the Petitioners in sup-
port of the Bill, were called to the Bar.
Mr. ADAM (on the part of the Petitioners against
tort Bill) displayed his usual ability and argumenta.
tire elrapence against the measure. In the course
of his olnervations, he urged the propriety of re.
esmtbitting the bill, in order that farther evidence
should be heard, and to enable their Lordships tho.
mealy to investigate the subjea ; and contended,
that a Bill, whose principle was contained in the
Preamble, and such Preamble capable of being
proved physically impossible to be true, WAS a legis-
lative us:asure not fit to be entertained.
Mr. Ptom ca (as leading Counsel in support of
the Bill) contended, on the contrary, among other
points, that the greater part, if nut the whole of his
Learned f'riend's argu rients. zpplied to the provi-
sions and dezailed con,iderations of t!..e Bill, which
were fit to be discussed only in a Committee of their
Lordships t that such an opportunity had been amply
afforded to the parties, by many of their Lordships
sitting in a Committee on the Bill, for a number of
days, and during several hours each day, they
should have then brought forward all their evidence,
aid adduced every thing they could in argument ;
and that, at soch a very late period of the session,
the Bill should not go back to a Committee, to its
almost certain loss ; that the measure was founded
in the necessities cf the case ; that it involved no
111,17 aims, n3r did it trench upon the rights of the

parishioners.
Ar:er tie Learned Counsel had concluded,
The question was put for the thud reading of the
Bill ; on which
1 Ire E ill of SUFFOLK rose and made a variety
of observ.itinns upon what had fallen from the
Learned Counsel, at the Bar. fie was ho‘tile to
the 11.11 in its present shape. and adverted to certain
points of evidence. a hich he considered as very
material, wilicli the Committee upon the Bill de-
clined hearing. His Lordship repeated sortie of his
former objeftiorr. to the measure ; and stated that
the affairs of tie poor in the parish of St. Pancras
were much Letter administered than those of St.
Pancras. After touching upon several of the points,
in which he conceived the measure, as it then stood,
to be highly cirjetctionable, he expressed his cl,r-
viiition, that at least the Bill ought to be recur:.
ottitted ; and concluded with a motion to that effea.
The Bishop of ST. ASAPH followed the Noble
Earl, and at some length, repeating most of his ob-
j.•clions on a former night. 'expressed his decided
dia'aisprobarion of the Bill, in its then shape. Though
the Bill had undergone some alterations in the Com-
mittee still his opinion of its effeds was unchanged :
the Bill west to re-enall all that their Lordships
thought proper, after much labour and considera-
tion, to expunge from the na of 1803 ; and the
&ilea was to biting the affairs of the parish of St.
Pancras back to the former plan of administration.
It may be matte: of surprise, tit? Rev. Prelate ob-
served, to the aristocrats of St. Pancras, on the one
band, or the democrats on the other, that Le should
take such a part on the present occasion as he had
done ; but his condua in that respea was regalated
by his opinion of the intrinsic merits of each par-
ticular legistative measure, for whatever C'eati they
may be, they had a right to have their properties
and rights secured by the Legislature: but by the
operation of the Bill, would be neither aristocrats nor
democrats, but would become aristocrats by means
of their power of perpetuating themselves. After
adducing a vatiety of detailed oblations against
the 'Measure, which the Reverend Prelate exhibited
in a strong and forcible point of view (which our
limits do not allow us to recite), he concluded by
arming his op:nion that the Bill ought to be recom-
mitted.

The Earl of WESTMORLAND expressed him-
self bra. y, 'out decidedly in favour of the Bill. He
conceived it 171 a great degree to grow out of the ne-
ctssities of the case ; he particularly adverted to the
present miserable state of the poor of the parish in
tinestirm, which principally arose from the circum-
stance t.f their having no proper adequate work-
house ; this, the present Bill would give the parish
the means of crating; and deeming of the measure
as he did, the Bill should have his support.
Lord HOLLAND, at some leng:h, spoke in sup-
port of the objestions of the Rev. Prelate, and of his
Noble Friend (the Earl of Suffolk), against the Bill.
With the former, he contended, that to adopt the
Bill, wauld be to enae, without adequate grounds,
that which, after a long and stria examination, their
Lordst.ips thought proper to reject the year before
last. In the course of his detailed objeeions, the
Noble Lord adverted to certain proceedings which
occurred in the Committee ; and, adverting to the
principle of the Bill, he contended that the parish-
loners of St Pancras were lett by it without a suffi-
cient controul over the administration of their al.
• fairs, or the due application of their money ; a cons'.
deration, which was best secured, he thought, by
popular eleeions, and the controul of those by whom
thc money was paid.
Duke of MONTROSE, in one point of
not stirptioNi at floe Noble Baron's
Ire the Bitl recommitted: tetanse
atteatled the Committee pretty closely,
once the oplasttenity 61,t consulting the
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