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London, England, 1808-03-13 00:00:00

REVERSIONARY GRANTS BILL.

LORD ARDZAI Opposed the Bill, on the ground of its tending
to trench upon the prerogative, a{►d of its having come from the
other House under circumstances which interfered with the fret.
dom of debate in their Lord hips' House.
LORD RRDESDALS argued against the Bill, conceiving it to
be the commencement of a system of innovation, of which no
man could se•e the consequences. lie illustrated the danger of
submitting to the other House, by ;s reference to the time, of
Charles I. and the commencement of the French Revolution.
Loren 114 Iry LIR vRY briefly re-stated the considerations
which he argued on a preceding evening for adopting the ince.
sure with some modification.

A division then took place, when the numbers, includim;
proxies, were for Lord Arden's
.motion ; against it 83. Thii
parity of numbers had the effect, according to their Lord-
ships' rule of pcoccedin in such cases, of negativing• the 'no-
tion ; and on our re-admission their Lordships were in a Com-
mittee.

Loren IhwKrsnrßr proposed to limit the duration of th.
Bill to the Ist of June, 1810.—Adjourned.

FRIDAY, MARCH 11.

Lord Lake's Annuity Bill, and the Scotch Creditors Bill,
were read a third time and passed.
The American Commissioners' Bill, and the Marine Mutioy
Bill, were received from the Commons, and read a first time.
The Sugar Bounty and Drawback Bills went through a Com-
mittee. In the course of proceeding Lord SutiOlk took occasion
10 state his apprehensions of injurious consequences to our agri-
cultural interests, and should, pursuant to an idea which seemed
to he generally entertained, permission be given for using sit,7ar
in the distilleries.

LORD I—itinEno4re, with the view of being duly prepared
for discussing the Bill for enforcing the Orders in Connei!, vow
Teethly expected to come up from the other House, was :vizi.
ous to be informed, whether or not French Colonial produce
which had been landed in America, and become neutral pro-
perty, could he freely cenve ed to a port in Sweden?
LORD ItcrnostNr stated, that under the Orders in Council,
the enemy's Colonial produce could not be conve3ed in neutral
vessels to the ports Of 'nu allies.
Lord Lauderdale read over the series of resolutions which he
meant to move mt Monday, respecting the conatnereial policy of
the Orders in Council ; but finding that the Nfes3a„e respecting
the Swedish subsidy would take precedence of all other liusine:i
on that day, he gave notice that he should not bring on his mo-
tion until Wednesday.
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Lona 11oi►t.t moved the second reading of the Debtor and
Creditor Bill. )le entered into a detail of the grievances which
the Debtor suffered at present when arrested in "Imes process;
and when taken in execution ; and pointed out the advantage
which would result both to Debtor and Creditor, from adopi-
ing the principle of a Cessio Thenorum, which had formed part
of the Roman law from the time of Julius Cesar, and which
was adopted into the legal code of mint of the modern European
nations.

tORD Pf.r.e.vnnnnrca opposed the Bill, alleging that the
process of arre:t in five case, out of six produced payment of the
debt, without even the step of putting in hail being resorted tn.
He quoted various passages from Lurd Hale's Works on the
dangers of innovation.
LORD llors.AND supported the Bill. which, afters' few wora•
from Lord '.Moira, in reply to Lord 1 Ileidoov.m7lo, errs reircto4
di vi: ion, by Sinn to I'f