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'IRISH BISHOPS'.

The LORD CHANCELLOR-lei the Wool-
sack to call their Lordships attention to a subject.
sthich appeared to him to De of importance enough
to require immediate attentien, as it invoiced the
first nrinciple of the constitution cf Parliament,
viz, that care should be taken that the House
should be full It related to the right to their seats
of the A rchiepisceral Lords cf that • part of the
United Kirgdom called Ireland. Feeling its im-
portance, lie had thotsght it his duty to cull the
attention r f the Houle to it en an early day pre-
vious to the recess, but in concequence of the ab-
sence of two ileble and learned Lords, owing to in-
disposition, (Lords Thtirlow and Rosslrii) the
e,nestion hail net vet been decided ; he had then •
stated, that a nnestion had arisen during the last
Pa:livnent; whether tl:c In. hhishop of Cashel was
entitled to a teat in that I louse during the Session in
..-hich he rat. The A:1: of Union had piosided,
that a certain number of the Spiritual Lords of
I relard should be entitled to sit -brrotation, and
that he took to- be the sole object of the.enactenent
4 the Act of Parliament ; hut the Act did net ap-
pear t-+ `hare provided, or foreseen the necessity of
provid;a; Against a vacanay, by death or other-
wise, aceurrit4g 11,(teeen the issuing the free andthe
;corn of the writ. Another di.licultr, also, had
aricen, respeetirg the writs to be issued to the Lords
.pirictial the Disheps. Tl.e Ac: did n( t, in terms,
..press in :what manner the four Bishops, whose
tarn it WAS to sit, should be sue:ironed, hisoranch
th-tt they were t-etrewhat purzled -themselves to
low upon whom the right of sitting deveved.
1... v the Act, all Abe Temper.:l Lords of •Irrlard, en-
to sears, were to he summoned indnidnally,
hr or.ly four WI-4S Were directed to be issued to the
tour Spiritual Lords, who were to sit in rotation.
'Their Lerdstip would readily go with him, in the
•knowled,le that the writs directed to the Spiritual
Lords d:ffered in their contents from those issued to
the Lords Temporal ; as the former.referred to the
several matters with which tire Lords Spiritual alone
were conneetcd. These several doubts. his lord-
'hip said, eraght to be raneved, and any Mitre
difficulty, of a similar nature., .preverred; he
thertfae should move, that so much of the Act
of the Union 'with Ireland, as refers to the right of
the Ladsknitual -c.f that .part the United
Kingdom called Ireland to their seats in the I louse
4.1 Lords, be referred to the consideration of -the
Cernmittat of Privileges, and that the said Corn-.
mime sit on Thursday next for that purpose." 116
Lordship( put the question from the 'Woolsack, ac-
ccrelingli. Ordered.
Mr. Gaanast, the Inspector of Convicts, -pre.
sensed the Annual Accounts of them, and their dis-
posal in rusnance of the Statute.
Ihe Appeal Cause, Lawson v. Maxwell, was,. 911
motion, ordered to be heard on Monday next.
Adjourned till Monday, at tom o'clock.

IICV:;1:. OF COMMONS.

tun Av. I

Tl'e ST E.tKEll took the at half pal_ th:le
o'clock, and continued swearing in the new
r. till four.
Genet al GASCOIGNE prey_Tte-1 a petition from
the Corporation of Li 7erpor.l, for lc.urc to erect t.s.w
Docks ar.d rnalte roads Im!ing to foe same. Re-
ferred to a Committee.

The Aneual Accounts of the Commissioners for
the Iteduction of the National Debt, ending 31st
January 1803, were presented, and urdered to be
bid upon the table.
The Accounts o! Mr. Adam Graham, Inspntor
of convicts on the river Thames and :n Portsmouth,
were presented, and ordered to be laid on the table.
Mr. WILLI:01 DUNDAS ga7e notice, that be
Lhould, on Monday, mote to enlarge the time for
receiving private petitinns, one wee!: tardier.
General GASCOIGNE moved there should be
laid before the House, an Account of the number of
Vessels, and the amount of their Tonnage, together
with the number of men and boys employed in the
transport service and armed ships, bets\ een the sth
of January 1801 and the sth of January 1803, dis-
tinguishing each year.

SANK OF ENGLAND.
VANSIII'ART moved, that ihere should
be laid before the Howe an account of the Notes of
the Bank of England in circulation an the Ist of
Wolper 1802, the let of November IHOI2, and the
Ist linuary ISO% distinguishing such as were un-
der five poend,.
Mr. I'I.EICNEY suggested, that merely to tale
the a.ccounn fir the last three mouths would to in.
*efficient. Ile thought it v..ould-br more proper to
have them commence from the period the hut were
presented, which he believed was about a year ago.
Mr. vANsirrAß'r said, he had no objection to
taking the account,: from any particular period;
he, however, pm-tuned it would he quite sufficient
to state them at every three months.
Mr. T11:10ZEY intimated that this mode would
not convey all the information I.e wanted.
He had been tolithitludoltPnoecurred,that there had
been a great issue of notes within very short periods,
especially when any parlicular or extraordinary news
had reached this country. I !t• was of opinion, there-
fore, there *mid he a geoeral re urn of the whole
transactions of the, Bank, with regard to the issue
its note. for the las! twelve months.- He was not
actuated by improper trasan, of curiosity, but

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• them out would be a •• - '•• •usere .siiiiiculty,
sind.weuld occasion dela . .With regard !o the oh..
iesvutige rade- sty dii • ons -Member, of sudden •
noinercizi
ad =weal issue 4 of in consequence of ex-
traordinary political or c occurrences, he:
should be happy, at all time, to meet him on the
subject, and he had no doubt he should convince
lira of the contrary.
• Mr. TIERNEY said, he intended no injurious in-
sinnation—far from it; but he had been infortmd
that what he had alluded to had taken place upon
souse sudden events of a public nature transpiring.
If the fact was so, it might become necessary to as-
certain the cause of the unusual liberality of the
Bank In the issue of their notes. In fact, he was
desirous the accounts should be made out from month
to-mouth, as fully as they were before the Commit-
tee of the House to whom it was referred to engnire
into the general concerns of the Bank. He thought
too the accounts ought to be brought 4own to the
present period. He further desired to be- informed,
whether he was to understand that the Paper now
moved for was to be the only ground for the renewal '
of the restriction with regard to the payments by the
Bank in specie ?
•Mr. VANSITTAIIT replied, that he was not
aware of any other Paper that would be laid befine
the House ; at the same time he was ready to uss.un•
the Hon. Gentleman, that every other ini,rniati,.:l
v isich could throw light upon the subject woull most
readily be given. He had apprehended that the
accounts for every three months would have beets
sufficient; but if the Hon:Gentleman suf,iso,ied there.
had been an ex.traordinary issue of Bank notes at
any particular period, and would point it out, he
could have no objeEtion to the account cf such ex-
traordinary issue being laid upon the table prepara-
tory to the discussion of the subjeet. But it appeared
to him, that as the Hon. Gentleman's apprehension
of the fact was so vague and undefined, it would be
better for the House to take the account as it had
been moved, until he should hare obtained such in-
formation as would enable him to bring forward a
specific Motion. lie could not admit that he was
in possession of any other Paper than the one-lie had
moved for, but if the Hon. Gentleman brought for-
ward any-proposition, founded upon the sup poskion
of further information being necessary, it would be
for the House to consider the propriety of acceding
to it. _ _ •

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The Motion was put in an amended state, thus :
That there should be laid before the Ifous:r an Armful of
the Notes of the Governor and Company of the Kink sf
rand, in circulation on the Ist June ISO?, the bit Ant:.
1802, the Ist Oct. 1802, thz Ist 1)•x ltft/tr, and the 1.4 Feb.
,listusguishing the amount of those below tose value
of 51.