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VirtZWITRIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS—Tuasoar, Juke 11.
ROOS PEERAGE.
Their Lordshits, pursuant to the Order of the Day, resolved
sy;;,, a COlDOSittes .4 Privileges and Lord WALSINGIIMVI
taken 0004*
Mr. Horner was heard as Count 4, at some length, in sup-
port of that:Lust of the Duke of Rutland, to the above Barony.
Alles which, the Committee deferred the farther consideration
el the 68,1 till Friday.
frilem Weft then rearlf and the various Bills upon the Tilde
sera lerseard-d in their respective stages: among these. the
Army pay-Office Regulation Bill, the West India Pres Poets,
the Post Horse Duty Farmingßll, and the Public Accotiotanti
Audit Bills severalli passel Committees if the whole House,
wsrusut Amendment, and were afterwards tepnrted.
Lioglisro's Divorce El alto .anted through a Committee;
but receiving an Amendment oo the morn of Lard AUCK-
'LAND, the Report was ordered to be made to...home.
The second reading eit M,-ore's Divorce El era postponed
tat Thurs:lay. .
Lord WALSINGIIIAM (ire the essence of the Marquis of
dhereorn) moved that the Committee of the whole House do
farther to morrow in the coneideration of the eass of
rredjis,taet Pout; and that the Cousel he called in at half ;rest
Ism 'Mock, and theft Lordships summoned on ,the occasion,
which two ordered aserirdingiy.—Ailjnuritcd.

and limitations, as induced the Committee to de-
cline examining me ; and I come now to offer my-
self before this douse, in which I hid the honour
to sit for so many years. in a very different situation
from what I appear in now, under a most singular
predicament. I heard of a rumour, which, from
some Tuner or other, had reached the House of
Peers, that I meant to come here, with your per-
misaion, to vindicate myself against charges pre-
ferred against me—and I now come under such re-
stridions, as will not allow me to enter upon my
own defence. But, though I think it my duty to
pay due deference and obedience to that paramount
authority, and abstain from any thing like a formal
justification, 1 hope I may be permitted, notwith-
standing those bounds prescribed me, to offer some
Ineliminary observations—first, however, returning
At humble thanks for the indulgence which this
House has been pleased to grant me. On the Bth
of May last, this House came to fourteen Resolu-
tions, to which two more were afterwards added.
Css the ten first of these, I shall make no observa-
tions at peseta, but some first to that which states.
that thee& of the `2sth Geo. 111. was. for several
run, suspended ; and large sums of money were
drawn fronts shrEantr, Tremor, ender the
pretence of being for naval purposes. That Reso-
lution certainly may be considered as not aridly
applying perompally to me, except in as much as it
was conneiksawith the 13th and 14th Resolutions,
which stated, that these sums had been applied to
the purchase of India St,ck, the discount of bills,
and other objets of private emolument, with my
knowledge and consent. It is evident, that, though
it has not been distinetly so stated, in terms, the
Resolutions most clearly imply, that I suffered, or
directed this to be done for my own private use and
benefit. These resolutions, without being arcom-
mied with any vindication, have been i-. lastrious-
ly circulated in every corner of the kint,dom, and
sat y gentleman who now hears me rry.pa have been

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