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the metaphy..iral aistinetions, nice definitions, and 1
pedantic remarks, which this question excited,
Formed-a cutious specimen the Frenot character.
Sonic of the ladies joined in tooe debate ;-and I know
not to what height it might have been carried, had.
not the arrival of the thi interrupted the orators,
and stopped the,conversation, with a subject more
agreeable to the general taste. •
(Tv be cu.dinueti.]

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

MOUSE OF LORDS,

THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 3.
A number of Peers, among whom were the
Bishops of Ely and Chichester, the Earl of Coven-
try, the FAR Berkeley, Lord de Doustanville, and
several others, took the oaths.
Two Petitions .against the Woollen Manufactory
Bill were received, read, and ordered to be laid upon
the Table.
Several Petitions in Cases of Appeal were read,
and the respective Causes to which they referred
set down for hearing.
Mr. Munden, one of the Agents of a Scotch Ap-
peal, was examined, as to the consent of the Agent
on the other side to the prayer of his Petition, that
the Cause might he heard on a particular day, and
answering for his being agreed, the cause was upon
a Question, ordered accordingly.
Lord Chief Justice ELLENB, ORO UGH brought
in a Bill from the Judges.
Adjourned till To-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

THURSDAY, FE SktiA a Y 3.

New Writs were ordered to be issued for..the
Borough of Ipswich, in the room of George Alex-
ander Crickiit, Esq. deceased, and for the Town
and Port of Hastings, in the room of Lord Glen-
bervie, appointed Surveyor of His Majesty's Woods
and Forests.
About. twenty Members took the Oaths and their
'Seats.
The SPEAKER called the attention of the
House, to two Petitions against an inutile return for
Drogheda ; the circumstances of -which he consi-
dered it necessary to state to the House. By the
Act of the 28th of the present King, such peti-
tioners not lodging recognizances within the time
prescribed, might, within a farther time of twenty-
me days, either deliver the same personally to the
Speaker, •or enter into the same before a Magis-
strait, who should transmit them to the Speaker,
to be by him reported to the House ter them,
either to receive or discharge the same. In one of
the present cases, no recognizance having been en-.
tered into, the order must be discharged. lheotLer,
which was the Petition of Henry Mead Ogle, Esq.
was in some degree new, and merited more parti:
cularly the attearion of the House. By the A.‘.l of
the 28th of the King, coupled with the order of tho
House of 1779, it was made laq:fill for the Sz,eaket
to examine into the validity of the securities, and
due notice for that purpose being given. Two days
had been considered a sufficient notice under thip
regulation. In the present instance, however, al-
though the recognizances had been lodged In due
time, no such notice had been given. He thought
therefore, that as this was a new case, the present
order of the House should be discharged, and a fu-
ture day appointed for taking the same into con-
sideration.
Lord HAWKESBIJRY then moved that the pre-
sent order be discharged, and that the question be
taken into consideration on Monday next.—Agreed
to.