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HOUSE OF LORDS.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 113.
lir. Alexander was heard for the Respondent in
the Appeal Cause, Thelltisson v. Woodford, and Mr.
Mansfield in reply. After which the Lord EZhan-
cellor left the Woolsack, and took a comprehensive
view of the merits of the cause under appeal, which.
he concluded with reading two questions, which,
with their Lordships concurrence, he said, he
should move eo submit to the consideration of the
Judges.
He afterwards moved them, and adjourned• the
further consideration oti the. Appeal till the 11th of
JAv.
'ilte Loan Bill, and two others, were read a third
time.
The House resolved itself into a Committee • ona
the Eledion Bribery Oath Bill, Which, after some•
explanation and approbation of its principle,. from.
Load Alvanley and the Lord Chancellor, passed
chi Committee.
Some conversation, took place in the Committee,
on the Convi,!lion Reform Bill, between Lord El-
lenhoroueh, Lord Sheffield, and Lord Alvin:ay.—
At kngtii, on the suggestion of Lord Ellenborough,
Lord She ffield consented to withdraw all the denies
of the Bill, excepting the last, and the introdudory
words of that were agreed to be altered. Reported
progress, and asked leave to sit again to-morrow.--
Ordered.
CLERGY FARIMNG AND RESIDENCE MIL.
The House resumed their consideration of the
Report, beginning where they left off the preceding
day, viz. at the Exemption Clause ; to almost every
one of which Lord Grenville specifically objeCted,
and three several divisions took place. His first oh-
jedfron was to exempting the Chaplain of the Speaker
of the House of Commons, or, as he was termed in
the Bill, die Chaplain of the House of Commons. His
Lordship grounded his objection, on his own know-
ledge, acquired while he was connected with the chair,
that it was not necessary that a person holding the
office of Chaplain to that House, need not of neces-'
sity hold a benefice with cure of souls, in aid of the
chaplainship, because it was customary, after three
or four years service, always to recommend the Chap.'
lain to his Majesty's notice; and he was sure, tn'
consequence, to have either a good Canonry, or a
valuable Prebendary bestowed upon him.
The LORD CHANCELLOR replied, mid de-
fended the exemption, although he could not but ad-
' reit, that, probably the special exemption of &Chaise
lain bf the House of Commons was matter of stir.'
plusage, St. Stephen's Chaplain being part of the,
King's Palace, and the Chaplain consequently one,
of the King's Clerks or Chaplains.
The House divided, and die words were'carried
of about ten.
To the words 44 the clerk of his Majesty's closet,
or his deputy clerk," Lord Grenville did not °hied;
but he strenuously opposed
,the exemption of " the.
Captain General of his Majesty's forces," and was
supported by Lord Ellenborough, and the Bishop of
St. Asaph in the principle, that the duties of the
office, were duties that were of a lay nature, and
that a layman might execute it.
The Bishop of NORWICH said, ecclesiastical
matters were connected with the office, as the Chap:
lain General appointed Clergymen of different dis-
trids, and sent orders to them to administer the ne-
cessary offices of the church to the several regiments.
quartered in those districts. He added arso, that
the Chaplain General resided necessarily in London,
to receive the directions of the Commander in Chief,
whose chaplain he was.
These arguments were opposed, and it was still
contended that a layman could execute thet duty as
well as a clergymen. The House divided on this
exemption,
Contents, s—Not-Contents, S.
The exemption of the Brigade Chaplain on fo-
reign service, and the exemption cf the Chaplain on
board of his Majesty's ships, called forth a good
deal of discussion.
The LORD CiIANCELLOII having said, that
the former was co-equal to the parochial Priest,
having a large flock under his cure ; and the Chap-
lains of the Navy, in every sense of the words, ship
parochial Chaplains.
The Bishop of NORWICH proved the necessity
and importance, that Captains in the Navy should
be encouraged to look tip to the better sort of the
Clergy, men of governed manners, unquestionable
morals, deep learning, and pet-sit:vivo eloquence,
capable of winning upon the minds of their Pari-
shioners, within whose sight and touch they coati-.
nued to be, from day to day. From such a descrip-
tion of Spiritual Persons only, could the necessary.
good effects of Religion be expe Red to be impressed
on the minds of the crew of a man of war—and not
from raw, inexperienced young men, who had jug.
taken orders, and scarcely knew their own duties.
Lord ELLF.NBOROLIGH argued strongly in,
support of this exemption, and it was carried.
Lord GRENVILLE moved an Amendment to
the exemption of 44 Chaplains in any. British factory,
or in the household of any British Ambassador, or
public Minister residing abroad," by inserting words.
in substance and drat, " adually doing the duties
and duly performing the offices of such Chaplains.".
The Amendment was agreed to.

Some conversation took, place on the exemption
of the Preachers or Readers to the Inns of Court.
' Lord GRENVILLE said, those whose exemp -
'tion he opposed here, he saw clearly would not
want advocates to support their cal*, The Mas-
ter of the Rolls, he thought, should pay a Chaplain
out of his own official revenues.
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Alvanley, and Lord
`Ellenborough strenuously supported the exemption.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, the Noble
Lord could not oppose his objection, very seriously,
as he was unable to refrain from a suite when- he
did oppose the exemption, but it was highly neces-
sary the words should stand.

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Lord ALVANLEY said, the Master of the
Rolls' situation was not so good a one as the Noble
Lord had imagined. His Lordship spoke in great
praise of the utility of the institution of Preachers
or Readers to' the Rolls; and said, many cminentle
learned and religious men had greatly distinguished
themselves in the execution .off' that duty ; among
othersrßishop Burnet. •
• Lord ELLENBOROUGH took similar ground.
with regard to the Master of the Temple,sind men:
tioned Br. Sherlock of celebrated meniaff, who had
held that office with great advantage toil;'* Society
of the Inner Temple in his time, and the same bee
nefit would be derived from the present Master of
the Temple's great abilities, by the young man of
the present day.
The words were carried.
Conversation also took place on the exemption of
the .Bursar, Dean, Vice-president, public Tutor,
or Chaplain, or other ;such officer in any College or
Hall in eithee. of the Universities of Oxford or
Cambridge.
...Lord Gtb.ENVILLE of jeded to the exemption.
The LtiAtl) CHANChiLLOR replied.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH disapproved of using
the word bursar, who was only a sort of stewart,
and might be a layman ; and he also-thought that
the words " or other such officer," were indefinite in
their meaning. The-words of the exemption were,
however, carried. . •
The exemption of Fellows of Colleges challenged
considerable debate, in which, many of the argu-
ments urged in the many former discussions of the
Bill, were again brought forward by the Lord
Chancellor in reply to Lord Grenville, who objected
to the exemption of such persons.
Lord ALVANLEY stated the practice of the
College he belonged to at Cambridge, as to the
practice of beneficed fellows, and referred to the
. Bishop of Norwich for co .firmation of what he
had said. •
The Bishop of NORWICH rose, aasci in few
words repeated what he had said on a former night,
viz. that there were but sixteen Fellows of Trinity
College, who were entitled to hold one living cache
and not one half of them had a living.
The House divided op this Clause, but we an•
derstood that it was carried.
The exemption of the Professor of Gresham Col-.
lege was strongly objaled.to by Lord Grenville and.
the Bishop of St. Asaph,tas a farce and a mockery;
as the duty of the Profeetorship was done by deputy
in a lumber room oter the Royal Exchange, where,
not inurequently,nobody, but some old woman or
girls who catme,temapabout anchsce.wtratamas goo
ing on, were,givensa shilling to one and sixpence to
the other, to go away. His Lordship said, the.
College was long since demolished (at the death
an Archbishop or Bishop, whose name we did not.
distinctly hear,) and the Library, he believed, sold.•
He said, the Profressorships were mere sinecures,
and thatoilhe wa44.44 ask the Protessorof A strono.
spy the distinet.lor iof one star from another, he.
doubted much -iv iether he could tell it ; and in
other matters of science and learning, he much ques-
tioned, whet*r, the other professors were not equally
ignoraneand unlearoed. .
The LORI) CHANCELLOR. read a paper that
had been put into his hands to etplain. what the duty '
of the Professors was under the will of Sir Thomar
Gresham. As. to its being executed by a deputy,
a lumber-.room over the Royal Exchange, it was evi•
dent that the Right Rev. Prelate had occasionallr
visited that lumber-room, from the information
which he had, given the House, that it often was
the praetice, it only an old woman and a little. girl .
came, to give one a shilling, and the other six-pence,
to go away, in order• to avoid reading the lecture.
The 17.:.ch0p of ST. ASA PH said; he had his infor=
mation bn this subject from a very resPeCtable Cler-
gyman, resident near the Royal 'Exchange, who la-
mented his proximity ;o that building, as be was
mpetually' sent to, and intreated to go and read the
le.fture for one professor or other, and was thence
often obliged to' give up engagements of a more
agreeable nature. His Lordship said, he believed
the appointments to the Gresham Professorships
lay with some one or other of the City Companies.
The exemption was carried in the negative.
Lord GRENVILLE moved some verbal amend.. •
ments to the other parts ofthe clause, to make them
correspond with the preceding condition of exemp.
tions of the clause.
As soon as the clave!.. was gone through, Lord
Alvanley moved a proviso to be added to the clause
substantially the same, though not so in substance,
as that which had been proposed in the Cornmittee,
by the L'ishop of London.
The LORD CHANCELLOR objected to it, as
the most mischievous that could possibly be .
introduced into the Bill. It would endanger its fate
in the other House, and was unnecessary. His Lord-
ship enlarged upon this, and he used his argument
in some degree on his havingreason to believe, that
the object of the proposed proviso would make part
of another Bill, to be proposed to Parliament in the
present Session, which would also go to the better
provision of Curates, as wefras their residence.
The Bishop of LONDON stated, that he had
given up and withdrawn a proviso similar in effect
which he had moved in the Cominitiee, on the
ground now stated by the Noble and Learned Lord,
and therefore he' could not support the chanie now,
moved by the Noble and Learned Lord opposite too,
him.
Lord GRENVILLE, in a very argiunentativo -
speech, supported Lord Alvanley's charge, deiiying
that the assertion of any man; howerer
respettab ,' -
that another Bill would come into Parliament this,'.
Session with a provision of the nature of that now
moved, was a fit Parliamentary ground for sußencl-,.
ing a necessary proviso now moved. Who. srouLkir
answer for the House of Commonc, or, even,avhat
that Howe woulddo with such a I3ilt, if after the end .
of June it were praCticable to bring.it ini:
The LORD CHANCELLOR replied t' and
ter further debate,
Lord ALVANLEY consented to •avtbdraw
and move it on the third reading.

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