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PE RI AL PARLIAMENT.

110':SF... OF LORDs—lutlDA•,.Tuir 17.
The Loudon Additional Fore Bill, and the Trish
Vote of Credit Bid fur 800.00,4. were brought up
from the Commons Mr. ALLY A NORR and others,
read a tirst time, and ordered to be printed.
The Bills oo the Table were each forwarded a
stage.
CORN RILL.
The Order of the Day being read for the House
to resolve its,l4 into a Committee of the whole House

on the Corn Rill;
I Ail STANHOPE moved, according to the
Prayer of the Petition of Mr. Chalmers, which had
been on their Lordships Table some days, the said
Mr. Chalmers he heard by himself nr Counsel.
Lord HAWKESBURY opposed this, on the
ground, that no individual had a right to be heard
against a Bill, merely because his interest Was affel-
ed, without stating how his indiridiutl interest was
likely to be injured by the operation of the Bill.
It was not enough for any one to say, that his inte-
rest was affefted, because it ;affected the trade in
which he was concerned. If this was allowed, it
would be impossible to bring fct ivard with effei any
Bill of regulation, because the interests of one per-
son or another must always be affected by such Bills
in a certain degree.
The WILD CHANCELLOR said, it was his
wish, in all Bills which passed through that House,
the utmost latitude should be given, that could with
propriety ,to ever. person being fairly and impartially
beard against a Bill by which his individual interest
might be ;111',,t.:d. In the present instance, he did
not think it would be ritoper to hear the Vititiiiner,
Mr. Chalmers, either by hiniself or Counsel, in the
stage in which the Bill thet. was. He thought, how-
ever, there was a middle path which might be pur-
sued, by which the Petitioner might have the same
advantage as if he was heard now. The House
might agree, that he should be heard in some future
stage cf the Bill. On the Report, for instance; and
be might in the mean time present a supplementary
Petition. stating how, and in what manner, his indi-
•idual interest was affeded by the Bill.
Earl STANHOPE objeEted to this. fle saw no
- reason, he said, for deferring the hearing of this Pe-
tition to a future stage of the Bill. He had a po-
sitive obießion to it, for, as the matter now stood, if
the Petitioner was heard, it might be that his case
would warrant an alteration in the Bill ; whereas,
if it WAS postponed to a future stage, such altera-
tion could not be made ; besides, he had a right, if
the present petition was not heard, or produced
Ito effed, to offer another petition in a subse-
quent stage of the Bill, and he could derive all the
advantaLte which the Noble and Learned Lora meant
to give him, even after the present petition should be
beard. He wished. however. to take the sense of the
House on this matter, as it would enable him te re-
gulate his proceeding next Session on the question of
the Slave Trade ; and therefore, though lie would
not divide the House, he would take the sense of it
on the question.
The f)itte of CLARENCE said, he paid the ut-
most attention to this business, and was surprised to
find that the Noble Earl had not brought it forward
on the second reading of the Bill. The Petition, be
foti..d, went diredly against the principle of the Bill.
and, as such, was not proper to be brought fat ward in
the Committee. It should have been on the second
reading, or it might Le heard either on the Report,or
against the third reading of the Bill. He :.Mould,
therefore oppose the Petition being heard in the pre-

sent instance.
The question that the Petitioner be heard by him-
self or Counsel, was then put and negatived.
The House then resolved itself into a Committee
of the whole House.
Upon coming to the Schedule B ;
The Duke of CLARENCE observed, that al-
though he had been much upon the Continent, he
never knew, tall ately, that English Malt had been
exported to it • the difference was so very great be-
tween the English Beer, and that which he had tasted
in I lolland. He was also informed that the real Hol-
lands spirit was distilled from the same Malt ; he did
not mean to oppose the Clause, he only wished to
understand it.
Lord HAWKISSURV explained.
Earl STANHOPE observed, that the whole of
the Bill was irregular, and he should move that the
House be resumed, and the Bill be re-committed.
Tn. Dnke of MONTROSE said, the objections
made by the Noble Earl, were as extraordinary as
they were unaccountable. He had debated the
whole of the proceedings in the Committee in such
a way as gave him reason to think the Noble Earl
had forgotten he was speaking in that House.
The question was then put and carried.
Some other verbal Amendments were made, and
the House being resumed, the Report was ordered
to be received to-morrow.
The Insolvent Debtors Bill was committed fur
Thursday next. Adjourned to to-morrow.