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MAY S.

whole of the parish was ballotted. He would also move a
clause in the Committee, for the purpose of enabling any Vo-
lunteer corps, with their Officers, to transfer their services to
the Local Militia. and that the Officers should retain their rank,
and the whole have the same exemptions which they enjoy at
present. Another regulation which he would propose in the
Committee, to facilitate the service of persons who might find
it necessary for their avocations to transfer their service from
one county to another, or who, if they changed their residence,
might avoid the inconvenience of serving in the county where
they were originally ballotted, by serving iu that where they
resided. It was also his intention to propose, that the families
of persons ballotted into the Local Militia should, if they were
poor, have the same allowance during the absence of the father
of the family, that was given to the Volunteers when on per-
manent duty. The last provision which he would oiler in the
Committee was, that the Local Militia should be placed under
the command of Officers in the Line.
MB. WHITBREAD said, when the Bill was in a Committee,
he would move a clause that those persons who were serving by
substitute in the Army of Reserve, should be exe•npted from the
Local Militia. There were cases where industrious persons,
ho had saved and paid 40 or 50 guineas for a substitute in the
Army of Reserve, were drawn, and obliged to serve in the
Militia. The instances were but few, find he thought the
parties ought to be relieved, because the names of those serving
by sulsstituo in the Army of Reserve were not taken down, as
it was thought that they were not liable to serve.
Sin FIZ4NCIS BURDETT, while he was desirous of seeing the
military strength of the country increased, pointed out, in a
very able speech, the necessity of reforming the army, parti-
cularly with respect to the mode of punishing the soldiers.
This Bill, he said, subjected the whole country to martial law,
and it was degrading to Englishmen, while called upon to defend
their liberties, to be placed in that situation to which the present
practice of military discipline would reduce them.
A long conversation ensued, in which Colonel Wood, Mr.
Wilberforce. Mr. Windham, and several members took a part.
LoRD Cisrcu.nrAcii replied, and the Bill was read a se-
cond time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday..—Ad-
journed.
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TUESDAY, MAY $.
A ballot stood for this day, for a Committee to try the Don-
n-ml election. There being only tvrentr.iwo eligible :\lembers
round, instead of forty-uiue, required by the Grenville Act, an
akljournment took place.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4.
Mr. Alderman Shaw presented a Petition from the ButAtets
of London and Webtininster against the Flaying. Act.
SUPERANNUATED JUDGES OF SCOTLAND.

A discussion took place between the Lord Advocate and
Sllicitor-General of Scotland, Mr. P. S. Duntlas, Nlr. Rose,
Mr. Perceval, Mr. Whitbread, Sir F. Burnett, and Dr. Law-
rence, the principal feature in their artonents was the objection
in the Barons of the Exchequer receiving. any pemion on their
retiring from duty, whether retiring from duty oat acconot of
old age, infirmity, or of having been in ofliee for up%vartb: of
fifteen years. It was contended that these Barons were solely
Commissioners for conducting the vvenne, and that they did
pot go to the Circuits as the Lords of the Courts or Justiciary
did, and therefore that their Itlhours were not those or a severe
or arduous description. To this it was answered, that the
Judges of England and Ireland, including the Barons of the
Courts of Exchequer in the respective countries, were'provided
tor in the way Intended, and therefore that it would be unjust
not to exteod a similar provision to the Barons or the Exche-
quer in Scotland. The House divided, when the numbers svcre—
Ayes, for the Committee, Noes against it, O.
The House went into a Committee on a Resolution submitted
by the Lord Advocate, granting to the Lord President of the
Court of Session, the Lord Justice Clerk, and other Lerils of •
Session, and of Justiciary ; nod also the Barons of the Esche-
quer, a sum amounting to three-fourths of the salaries
by these Judges, out of the hereditary revenues of the Crown in
Scotland, on any of these Judges retiring from Mice.
• After some discussion, the Committee divided, when the Re-
solution was carried by a majority of SO to 31.
The Local Militia Bill was committed. In the Committee it
was divided into two Bills, for EiOand and Scotland respec-
uvely. The blanks, were filled op, the Report roceiscd, and
the Bill ordered to be printed, and to be taken into further con-
sideration on yr o.thet:day nes t.

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