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concluded by moving for returns of the sales and produce of
Danish ships, captured previous to the late declaration of war.
LORD 11.111KESarnr intimated that it was impossiblt• to coin-
ply with the Noble Larl's motion, as milts of the ships alluded
to were not sold, and consequently no moons had been made.
Tits g.sat. up Si PFOLIi s ithiliess his motion, and pledged
himself to bring it forty ird again early in the next Session.—
'fhe motion was accordingly withdrawn.
LOCAL II II lilt.
Loan ILDexesernr rose on the order of the day for elting
into a Committee on the Local Militia Eill. Ile considered it
a permanent national system, calculated to give more effect to
the volunteers, and provide effectually fur the defence of tile
country.
/WE EARL or Set nine supported the principles of the Bill,
but objected to seventh previsions in it, particularly the pay-
ment of fines for exemption.
Tor EARL or 31, 1 li.l considered the volunteers flighted by
the observations whisk had fallen from a Noble Lord ()law Ices-
htirs). lie considered the volunteers entitled to the gratitude
of the country for their uniform loaliv and patriotism. lie
had seen the volunteers of s‘votland, anti he should feel no hesi-
tation to commnud them against an, force that bight invade the
country. If the volunteers in the South of Lagland were not so
well disciplined, it was because they had not been properly
;idled upon to• qualify themselves. As 'they stood, under all
the present circumstances, he considered them preferable to men
raised by the Local System.
• Loop HAMKSSOUItiO in explonation assured the Noble
Baron who; had sat down last, That be never intended to cast the
slightestdilyespect ()tithe Volunteers.
The. 11'04C-4' went into a Committee, and after a long discus-
.sion on the several clauses of the Bill, the Report was ordered
to be received on Monday.—Aciourned,

HOUSE. QE COMMOSS;
MONDAY, JITNE
On the motion of Mr. Reit, the Cinque Port Pilot's Tiiil was
re-committed.
On the motion of the same Right non. Gentleman, for ve•tittg
rn the power of the Lord Warden of the tit►gw Party the ap-
pintment of silty additional Pilots fur Dower and the I-le of
Chant, the Committee divided, when the Clause nab carried
in the affirmative,

ROYAL MESSA (Mt'
THS CHANCELLOR or ens ETCHRQUER delivered to the
How a Message from his Majesty, the same as usual at the
close of every Session, for the accustomed Vote of Credit toward
the incidental exceeding of the year in the defence of the coon,
try.-,-Referred to the Committee of supply.
The order of the day being read for the }louse to resolve itself
into a Committee of Supply, and a motion being made for re-
ferring thereto, amongst other sulijects, the Petition of the India
Company, praying aid ; it was opposed by several Members,
The question, however, was carried in the affirmative.
MR. DUN D 4C S 4 l'N uE as resumed the subject of India A flair.,
and observed that the sum he should move for, if granted, would
Ntxry the Company through their difficulties, without any fur-
ther aid from the Public; and he moved that the sum of
1,500,0001. be granted to his Majesty, to enable his Mikjer,ty to
pay the same to the East India Company, on aceouot of tha
expenses incurred by them for the Public Service in Italia,
After some djscpssion the Resolution was agrees! to.
SICILIAN TREATY.

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER moved that a km
riot exceeding 300,000/. should be granted to his Majesty, to
make good the same som stipulated in the Treaty with the King
,if Sicily.
Ma. WHITBREAD was desirous, before he could agree to this
Resolution, to put a question or two to his Majesty's Nlinisters.
tie wished, in the first place, to know the origin of this treaty.
There was a stipulation in it regarding the remission of duties
upon articles' impoi led from this country. !lad that stipulation
been already carried into effect, and were those articles admitted
free of duties ? It was also stipulated, that two fortresses s' Id
be occupied by us. Why was m.t the occupation Of Milagzo,
a fortress of more importance than tither of those mentioned in
the Treaty, not included in it?
Mn. Secrevr stir Cry vino sail. his Sidiiian Majesty having
incurred the hostility of Frasier, on account of hi; adhrrence to
us, it was our duty to give him support and assistance. After the,
disasters which full upon Austria, the li,iug of Naples mu'.

have eithei joined. France, or sought tor assistance from Ene-
laud. There was no alternative. The war was not therefore
of his own. choice, but must sooner or later have been forced
• VPQn him. The payment of the Subsidy was to commence from
the period of those disasters. The subsidy was to he empluved
in putting Sicily into a state of defence, and bringing forward'
great portion of the population of that island. As to the treaty
Specifying only two fortresses, and omitting that which the Ilon.
Member considered as more important than either of those men-
tioned, he would say that Milazzo was actually occupied by
British troops. The reason it was not mentioned in the treaty
was, that the article specified only the minimum of the force
which we engaged to maintain in Sicily.• Had Milazzo been
included in the treaty, the number of troops nuht have been
encreased. The question on the resolutions was then put and
Unanimously agreed to.
COMMITTCE OF WAYS AND MEANS.
After some observations from Mr. Windham, Sir W. Curtis,
Mr. Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Tier-
ney, the sum of 50,000/. was granted as compewation to the
Inhabitants of the town of Roseau, in the Island of Dominica,
for losses sustained by the burning of the town in defending it
against the enemy on the 22d of February 1805.
For the expellees of the Commissioners of Military In-
quiry
To the Commissioners for distributing American Claims 14,000
To Commissioners for the Improiement of the British
Museum
To Commissioners fur repairing Mars te Harbour, in
consequence of the storm on the 14th of‘Janua'ry last 5,000
Towards improving the Harbour of Holy head..
When this Resolution was read, a division took place. For
the Grant, Ayes 131—Against it, Noes 42.
On the motion for a grant of 75,220!. for the purchase of land
and houses in Palace-yard,
MR. IVIAMIAM thought it necessary, that the money should
be spent with some common judgment and taste. Ile ridiculed
in the happiest manner the dwarf Gothic taste which had been
'hewn in the new front of the House of Lords. A number of
little pipes and tubes were dignified with the Lames of tossers ;
and although the very idea of a tower was something that would
hold men for defence, yet those things which Isere called towers,
would not even hold one mau. Nothing could be more repug-
nant to true taste.
MR. ROSE completely coincided with the Right Hon. Gentle-
man in disapproving Of the new front of the House-of Lords,
which he thought was a specimen of such wretched taste, that.
Slots% ithstanding the money that it hadvost, he hoped the Riga'
lion. Gentleman Nould agree with him, that it would he Ill'•
cessars to incur another expense in has ing it pulled down again.
Ile disclaimed having had any thing to do with the building.
A very long discussion took place, after which the motion
was a...reed to.

Sir l'homas Tarton moved that the sum of 54,702/. he given
to John Palmer, Esq. as the balance on the per ceutage due to,
him from the sth of April, 1793, until the rear MS. On the
questiou being put, the Committee divided, and there appeared
in favour of the motion 93, against it 73.

DISTILLERY BILL.
Lono 11. PETTY denied that ally scarcity existed in the
country, or at least not sufficient to originate such a measure. On
a division there appeard for the third reading 71, against it 34.
majority 40. The Bill then passed.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a Lottery for the
service of the year, not exceeding 60,000 tickets.—Agreed to.
Adjourned.

TVESfAY, JANE 14.
The Hare Shooting Bill, the Baracks Franking Bill, and the
Irish Nialt Ditty Bill, were read a third time and pared.
Mr. Wharton brought up the Report of the Committee of
Supply, when the various resolutions respecting the grants of
Monday were read and agreed to.
On the motion of Sir A. Wellesley, the Dublin Police Bill
was read a third time arid passed.
The House then went into a Committee on the Duties on
Welch Coals, and, on the motion of Mr. Manning, the old Du-
ties were repealed, and certain new Duties imposed, of Is. 6d.
• ton ,-- ied -
the Coffee Duties Bill, which was
to be read a second time.
KINGS PROCTOR.
consequence of the great extent of
navy, and from the general war in

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which the country was engaged, the business and the emolu-
ments of the King's Proctor had prodigiously increased. Sinte
the commencement of the present war, more than :3000 causes
had passed through his hands, the costs of each of which that
went into the pockets of that officer were, upon au average,
103/. for every cause, which amounted to considerably more
than.3oo,oool. during that period. lie did not complain, how-
ever, of the enormous amount of the emoluments; but he thought
that the mass of duties which he had to perform was much
greater than could be properly got through by one man. To
remedy this evil, he shellac' propose a Resolution to the house,
to the following effect, namely, " That it is the opinion of thii
that the duties of the Office of King's Proctor are ton
great to he performed by one man;'' and should follow it by
another, for presenting an Address to his Majesty, praying that
he would be pleased to appoint three or more Assistant Proc.
tors, for the purpose of inure speedily performing the duties
of the office.

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Ani'OrlTE GENERAL opposed the measure, both on the
grounds of political inexpediency, and from a regard to the in-
terest., of the navy. The Office of King's Proctor was of very
ancient standing, like that of the Solicitor or Attorney General.
With reAard to all those suits in the Court of Admiralty, the
ing was doniinus [dim, and it wag highly important 'for our
respectability with Foreign Powers, that the (Mies should he
exercised by one in w horn the Crown pldced that confidence,
which could not properly be plliced in a number of individuals.
Besides, if Navy Agents in general were employed by the rap-
tors to prosecute their claims, there would be no end of %I`X-
atious proceedings. This was exemplified in the conduct of
prilateers, where the complaints of vexatious conduct nr.-e in-
numerable. It was therefore important that the King's Proctor
Arnold have no competitor, eke it would be productive of end-
less vexation to neutrals.

-.MR. MARTIN supported the motion at some length. lie was
certain that the navy in general had imbibed the .amc•• opinion
on the subject of the office of Ding's Proctor with his llon.
Friend. There was one evil of which they liv.cl to complain,
namely, that the King's Proctor was totally independent of the
raptors, and thus captains in the navy were in a worse situation
than those of privateers, who could employ iheir own agents;
and the fact was, that cases of captures in the plantations were
generally five, and sometimes ten years before they were deter-
mined. Now it was only proposed that three or more addi-
tional Proctors should be appointed, to any one of w hom car-
ains in the navy might apply. Ile mentioned one case, in
which a•cause wa,i pending from 1794 to 1801. It wa certainly
more reasonable that the captains of the navy should be able to
employ a Proctor who was in some degree amenable to them,
than one who was quite independent ; on the whole, he obould
dears ily concur in the pre-ent motion.
The !louse divided, against the motion, 35—For it, 16—Lost
by a majority of 19.

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