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tice, to mote for leave " to empower Magistrates
to settle disputes concrroing the wages of seamen
in merchant vessels." He would state, as shortly
as possible, the dttject of the measure. By various
Acts of the Legiskture, it WIN provided, 111/11 jour-
neymen tradesmen stiffishl have au opportunity of
recovering wars, to tlw amount of 10/. by appeal-
ing, if, a summary manlier, to the Magistrates of
the district. The only individuals who were n
ut
ot
possessed of tine solvantirge, were the seamen
merchant vessels. The Bill he wished to introduce
was calculated to extend to those persons the power
of applying to Magistratts an the same way as jour-
neymen did. The Bill would not interfere with
any of the existing laws on this subject ; and, as he
understood no objecti.fo would be given to bring-
ing it in, he would not trespass further un the time
of the House. Has Lordship then moved for leave
to Inisog in the Bill.
Mr. I). GILBERT seconded the motion, which

was agreed to.
RESIDENCE OF THE IRISH CLERGY.
Sir Jowl NEWPORT our to stove. iii conformity
with his notice, for certain papers, which would
phew to the [tow how far the clergy of the Eons
blisheil Church in Ireland had resided on their
livings during. the lest live years. By the Act of the
48th of the King. • retnro of the non-resident i•lergy
to that country was made every year to the Privy
Colloid—and hr meant to move fur those returns,
for the years 1814, 1815. 11116, 1817, and 1818.
H• had this ilsy received a letter from a Noble
Lord (we could nut collect his title) enclosing a
111rsruriul, nearly c►tnnected with this ,übject,
an
extract from which lie begged leave to read. The
Meorori•tl was signed by 351 persons, ineruhers of
the Established Church. in the diocese of Cloglier,
and was addressed to the Bishop. The Momenta'.
iota requested, that 3 resident re. tor should be ap-
pointed to their parish. Their claim, they olrserveit,
ought to be particularly upended to, when their
number was considered. They wished to have
amongst them a pi,tit ratan, who would sedulously
watch over their slow 0.11 concerns, and undertake
the solemn duty of a pastor, with zeal and humility.
Dissenters, they observed, of every sect, and their
fellow-subjects of the Roman Catholic
hail resident pastors, of moral worth, and proper
ability—and they ateougly urged the necessity of
their spiritual interests being attended to in the
same 111111Iller. They protested, most distinctly,
against the appoiutnient of a nun-resident rector.
They 'declared their determination not to suffer
L their spiritual welfare to be neglected in conse-
quence of a►► arraiigeinent made for temporal pur-
pose,. The rector was to receive from them a
large income—and they heil a right to expect that
he would hire amongst them, and perform his duty
personally. This Memorial, he understood, was
transmitted to the proper authority. but no answer
was returned to it. Having dime his duty in bring.
log it before the Howe. he should now move—
" That an humble Address be pmented to his Royal
Digliness the Prince Regent, praying that he will be gra-
ciuu►ly pleased to order list there shall be laid before the
House Copies or Matra! .4 of the Retmus annually made to
the Privy Canoicil by the Archbishops and Bishops of Ire-
land, of the team., and descriptious of the s..veral persons,
not residing within their respective benefices, in the pre-
(seine year—whether their absence was with or without
legal cause—sad specifying the reason assivied fur abseuce,
as directed by the Act of the 48th of the Kim cap. 66, fur
the years 1814, 1815, 1818, 1817, and 1818."—Ordeicd.
SALT DUTIES

Dr. Plitt.t.tuoity. ;aid. he did not mean to press
his motion for a gradual repeal of the Salt Duties,
which stood for Thursday next—but merely to pro-
pose a resolution expressive of the impolicy of those
duties, and reeogssi,ins4 the necessity for their im-
mediate reduction. Ilia season for making tins
alteration was, because the filisocial measures of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer were not yet laid
before the House. This resolution would form the
grouud•work of a Bill un the sithjsct. after the
Right Hon. Gentleman had made fis etate►aent.