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London, England, 1819-01-29 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Tinasser, JANVART 21.

The Duke of SinsEx took the oaths old Ns
seat.
THE ADDRESS.
The Duke of MONTILOSS presented the Answer
et his Royal Highness the Prince Regent to the
Address of the House, condoling with his Royal
Highsteaa on the derrs•e of her late Majesty. He
thanked their Lordships fo► the eyinpathy they
evinced nu the loss i.urtaitied he the Royal Family
*ad the nation, and expressed his confidence in
the affectionate attachment of the Hoerr.

EVACUATION OF FRANCE.
Lord 1101.1. AND requested the Notate Earl oppm
site (the Earl of Liverpool) to inform bins when
the House might expect to have the Treaties laid
before them, which had been promised in the Speech
of the Lord. Commissiriners.
The Earl of LivEirooL replied, that it had
been his intention to have had them !sod upon the
table at an earlier 'period of the Srrsia► ; hot the
isidispo.ition of a Noble Friend of hie, who was
reliable to attend in another place, prevented him.
it being his wish that the Treaties should be laid on
the tables of both Houses at the same time. 11e,
however, expected that on Tuesday next he should
be enabled to lay the Treaties on the Valle.

CARD OF THE KING'S VERMIN.
The Ertl of SHAFTESBURY brought up tlor. Re-
-port of the 801 l fur the Cure of hir Mrjerty's
IPrrroto. .

The Earl or I.lvtapoor. brought up a Chum.,
enacting that troth's% continued iu the present Bill
shook! oftect nuy previous statute respecting the ao.
aesnbling of Parliameot on the demise of the King,
or or the Pritree Regent. This Clause was read
twice, anti passed.
'the Report was then received.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, 'Mtulay, Loamy's, 28.

The SIEAIIIIL took the Chair a few minutes before four
o'clock.
Several Slenihers took the Galls aud their seats.
PETITIONS.

Sr. WM PHMDAS presented a Petition from the Glasgow
Canal Company. fur leave to bring in • Rill to enlarge the
powers riniferrsd by the Acts relative thereto.--Reail, sini
referred to a Committee.
Sir B. WM Guist presented a Petition from certain Mhz.
hilanla of the town of Cheltenham, praying for brave to Ming
in a Bill to light that limn with Kim—Read, and referred to
a Committee.
Mr \Vans presented a Petition to the mene purpose linen
Gloacester.—Read, and referred to a Committee.
Mr SWART WORTLVT prewuted a Petition from the
Debtors confined in Turk Castle, complaining of certain
hardship in their situation, slid praying tin• HMISr to take
their ease into consideration, and giant such relief as they
might judge proper.—Read, and orderecVlo lie on the table,
and be printed
WESTMINSTEIt HUSTINGS..
•

The Orikrcollbe fhly having been read fur thor se-
orostol reading of the Westminster Hustings Bill, the Bill
was read • second liner, and ordered to he milted to-
morrow.

PRIVILEGES OF PARLIAMENT.
Sir Jam LI Al Al nINTos# said, be held in his
hand a Petition of some importance. It reinted to
the matter laid before the /louse the night before,
be the Speaker. soil refereed to u Committee of
lirivileget, and uu which lie understood the Conn-
mittre were piepared to being in their Report to-
It was from eertail persons who alleged,
that Mr. Il.diert Christie Burton, elected as Nlem-
bee in thi• Parliament for Beverley, and now in the
custody of the Warden of the Common Pleas, was
indelsted n, them in a large sum of money. One
branch of their prayer he was aware c,euld not,
consistently with the privileges of the /louse, be
acceded to—which was, that they should he oil"'
ed to be heard by their Counsel at the bar of the
House, to chew why the individual in question
ought not to be liberated. Rut perhaps the other
purl of it W4i entitled to some attention—praying,
generally, that the !louse would be pleased to
grant such tad as, on consideration of the Peti-
tioners' case, might seem expedient.
The Petition was then brought up oitul read. It
was (ruin flue merchants of Hull, stating, in sub-
stance, that judgment had liven obtained on a
bond, with the penalty of 1,0001 in the year INI2,
and on other sums since, against B. C. Burton,
Esq. of which a very small part had been levied ;
that Nlr. Berton had, in eoessequeuce, beets com-
mitted to prison in the year 1513, and remained
since its custody ; swd concluded by 'Keying as
Cescribed above.
Previous to the question, "'That the Petition do
lie on the table'"--

The SPEARED. said, that there appeared an irre-
gularity in ilw form of the Petition, which sheered
the ignorance of the persons concerned in framing
it, and co* stitu,ed a material objection, in point of
forth, to its t ein.; received by the !louse : the
Petition was signed by a person styling hit, ea
agent to the Petitioners, and not by the Petitioners
themselves.

The Petition was then withdrawn.
After some business of another nature had been
gone through—
Mr. W. WYNN brought up the Report of the
Committee of Privileges, appointed the night be-
fore.
It was read by the Clerk, as follows:—
Is The Coasminee of Privileges, to whom is was referred
1.0 ex...sine the subj.ci.niatter of the letters addressed to the
Speaker. and slimed Robert Christie Bartow, awl to report
rue same, sins their opinion thereupon, to the Humor. have
.at sad ex/mimed she above letters. They have fussed that
the smd Robert Christie Barter is is she custody of the
Warden of the CONSO6OO Pisan, nut en uuuuu tiois fur debt.
hut uu infuse process, and have resolved that he is entitled
to the privilege of Parliament."
The Resolution having been read a second time—
Mr. W. WYNN said he should lie content to
let the Mouse at once udopt the Resolution of
the Committee, were it not for the Petition which
laid been presented that night on the subject,
wliieli he thought required a few remarks. It ap-
'tented to him, that, independently of the great
defect iii Totem, which rendered it itiadmissible,
throe existed DO ground whatever for the prayer it
egged. There was no reasonable ditiirence in this
sallpect between a custody on final execution, and
ou mrsue process. The same principle of the ex-
peilteory for granting privilege Of POrIOSITICIIt
e,ineil to both cases, and it was ihis-.—that as the
&airs mimed by election to serge his country in