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!USE OF LO:IDS, Tilunso A•, Fie. 13.
IMPEM lIMLNT WITNESSES' INDEMNITY SILL.
lend HOLLAND moved, that this Bill, the
prints of which were then on the table, be read a se-
tend time, on Monday next, and their Lordships
summoned oa the occasion, which was oedema ac-
cordingly.
Lord HAWKESBURY rose, (learn the Opposi-
tion side of the House) and observed, that he meant
not then to state! any sentiments !eistile to the Bill,
but merely to advert, and to call their Lordship's at-
tention to what passed last Session, ou an occasion
nearly similar A bill had been sent up from the
Commisns, containing provisions of a two-fold na-
ture: the first, to indemnity the persons described
therein. from criminal prosecutions, to which they
otherwise might be liable, in consequence of their evi-
dence ; and the sccmd, to indemnify them from any
civil suit or proceeding to which they may become
liable from the same causes. On this latter part of
the Bill, considerable doubts had arisen in that
house; and for the reasons stated at the time, it was
deemed advisable not to enact that part of the Bill;
but to call for the opinion of the learned Judges, on
the legal propositions which it involved. And, in
consequence. questions thereupon were referred to
the consideration of the Judges ; who, on account of
the intervention of a prorogation, did, he thought,
not conceive it regular to conic forward, until
again called upon. In the present instance, it was
intended to eneet the provision to which he al-
luded, by means of a substantive hill. He therefore
deemed it incumbent on him, to submit to their
Lordships the propriety of pausing, until the opi-
nion of the Judges should be known on a question
of such importance, ere they proceeded to enaiff
it by the bill then pending.
Lord HOLLAND (from the Ministerial Bench)
observed, in consequence of what had fallen from
the Noble Lotd, that he felt no ohjedion to the
opinions of the Judges being taken upon the point
adverted to. At the same time, his Noble Friend
must be aware (for his °en part, he telt it strongly),
that the bill in question should be proceeded with,
or decided open, one way or other, either by adopt-
ing. or by rejeding it, as seen as it were predica-
ble. He therefore thought, that the opinions of the
learned Judges should b.• called for, on the earliest
opportunity ; and in that view, it were better to
have their attedanee on Monday next.
Lord HAW REM: RY explained ; i(was by no
means his wish to impede or delay, for a moment
longs r than was necessary, the decision of the
House upon the Bill ; in that view, he had no ob-
*teen to have the Judges ordered to attend to-
morrow.
This suggestion, however, not appearing to be,
in the sentiment of some of their Lordships, so re-
gular or so desirable a mode, as that for the at-
tendance of the Leaned Judges on the occasion
of the second reading of the Bill on Monday ;
some farther rerniuks as to the most regular and
ptaferable course of proceeding were interchanged
between Lords Holland and Hewhesbury, which
ended in a motion, we believe by the former Peer,
if That the Learned Judges be diredesl to attend the
House on Monday next, with rasped to the Bill to
indemnify persons who shall give evidence, &c."
This, on Me question being put, was ordered ac-
cordingly.
ROYAL REMUNERATION. _ _ _

Mr. Alexander, Accompanied by several Mem-
bers,
brought up from the Commons, a Bill to en-
able His Majesty to settle, from the Consolidated
Fund, an annuity of 2,0001. on Lady Viscountess
Nelson, during her natural life, which was forth.
with read a first time.
Mr. Alexander Also presented a Rill, to enable His
Majesty to settle an annuity of 1,000!. on Rear Ad-
miral Sir Richard Strachan, Bart. K. B. which was
also immediately read a first time.—Adjourned.
HOUSE OF OF COMMONS.

Mr. G. B. Mainwat ing and Mr. Pym took the
usual oaths and their seats ; the former being re-
turned Member for the canary of Middlesex, and
the latter for the county of Bedford.
On the motion of Mr. CREEVY, Lord Henry
Petty was added to the Committee appointed to
prepare articles of impeachment against Lord Vis-
count Melville.
New writs were ordered to be issued for Ste! -
fling, in the county of Sussex, in the room of Lord
Ossulston, who has accented the Office of Treasurer
of His Majesty's Household ; for Cashell, in Ire-
land, in the room of the Right Honourable William
Wickham, who has accepted the office of one of
the Lords of the Treasury ; for Wareham, in Der-
setshire. in the room of John Calcrafr, Esq. who
has accepted the office of Clerk of the Ordnance
of the United Kingdom ; and for Richmond, in
Yorkshire, in the room of the Hon. G. H. L. Dun-
das, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.
Mr. Perceeal, the late Attorney-General, present-
ed a petition from the Debtors confined in the
county Gaol of Northampton, praying relief.—
Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. ‘Vindham presented a like petition from the
Debtors confined in Fishertown Gaol, which w.se
also ordered to lie on the table.
Admiral Betkeley presented a petition from the
jrnirneymen woollen weavers in the county sit Glou-
cester. praying relief on account of certain infringe-
ments on the laws relating to the woollen mann-
fatture, by the master weavers. The Honourable
Admiral observed, that from what had passed in
former Sessions in the House, he did hope to have
prestn:ed a satisfaCtory petition. But the masters,
he said, persisted in adopting the same measures,
and wonld rot come into any terms. The Hon.
Admiral concluded, by begging leave to acquaint
the House, that this was the petition cif the weavers
alone, distinct from those of the manitfaaurers, who
wished for the destruction of machinery. The peti-
tion was then read, and ordered to lie on the table.
The Exchequer Bills Bill was read a second time,
and ordered to be commuted to-morrow.
An order of the sth of June last, relative to a re-
turn being made of the non-resident Clergy of the
different Dceses in Ireland, being read on the Mo-
tion of Sir John Newport, the Hon. Bart. moved,
" That a return be made forthwith, of the Non-

resident C. rgy, in the Diocese of Ossory and
iilraore."—Ordered. AdjJorneJ.