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The Elie of Illokowicatas prramuril a Petition iroM the
' United Parishes of St. Gilesdn-thr-Fields sod St. Geroge%
favour 111 the Poor Laws Antrnslineist Bill.
The Bishop of CuttaTiat presented inn Prilltuns (runt
certain cotton Pdaatifestoress tote la love of ('heart) in
your of she Cotton Spianem Rexsitsitiosi Sir--`the P,tiGoua
were sot read, and laid rot 1h table.
• r LAW OF LIBEL
lord CIPAICiNIt pootponed hio stint for '!t•e veromi roast-
ing of the kill for meet toliiinit the p•swer of Maxistrates re
opectinx the romtnittisent of ;sermons chants st. wills Isla Is.
Wore intlictmeut found, from to-morrow to to•rourrow
se'noixt:t...
MESSAGE F I`tOSI THE COM VON
Sir J. NEU 1.011.1*, Mr. HOUlltig, and other. r,Orn 1110
House of Cott tttttt no, ltroisxlst tip the Fever Hospital 111 s.
(Inland), the Shave Triode Ahl4 Americium'', Bill, the Irtid,
Grand Jury Preisenimkut Bill, the 'hike of Kent's Proriaiiin
bill, the Iriob %VOA and Ward Hai, and the Hj%hv..v
,Pestulties Bill, in which they oh-tared their Imitative cum
eansmee.—These Billy were lead a Brat time.
ACCOLTIkTfI..,
A pennon from the Tax Office Prelie:te.ri palters rtlative to
the tellomption sale of the Land Tax.
Mr. Maitland, from she India Ilsme, presented an rieconnt
of the revenue and rAntr;:e, and the proceeds of oaks of tun
East Win Company.
These ammunts west. severally laid oh the table
The Earl of DERR" presented two Petit, t from the
tow• of Liverpool, row acme., the Pone Laws Amendment
Bill, and the other against she Fetish Vestrh:a NM, and
praying that they might be heard at the bar by their Coon •
eel exatuat the BM. ,
TIIG REGENCY-
On the motion of the Earl of
.I.ltEnnont., th't
House resolied its..lf into a Comtinttee upon the'
Regency Act Ameoduresit
In the Committee, the Loan 'Citsacs:t.t.on. rose
and said, that, nirderstaticling it to be tire de-ire or
their Lordships that the ad.litional members to her
Majesty's C til should be nominated by Parlia-
ment, in the tame manner u• luid been already door
by the slst of the King, he hail vrepitteil a clause
to thal effect, which, with their Lordships' leave,
he should sulima for their corii.leruV.:ort.
The Noble and Learned Lord *then re .4 melange,
purporting thatioar mertibera ahluld lie added to
her Majesty's C ttttt 161.741 mi they should he, nomi=
tiatt:d by Parliament—and that in Case of a vacate
occurring lay. the death or resignation of any
them, the qugen should have tl.e power (as already
granted by the fornier Act) to nominate to the Vim
°MeV.
The ciliate was carried Witlio:.;i *opposition, owl
on the motion of the Not'le ai,d beamed Lord, the
blanks in the clause were tilled up by the names of
George Earl oh Macclesitelit, W, tiro Lnrd Bishop
of London, Allan Lord St. Helen's, mid !Minot
Lord Henley, of IrMand: • •
Lord HoLLiap obserita, that this pert of the.
Bill. however Interesting, bore sue comparison, iii
point of importance, with that which related to
the mode and time of assertablivir, Parliament.
And yet this most esseritial provision ih the Bill,
which went to repeal a clause w the Regency Act,
was •Itugether unnoticed in the pream
hear.)--To the preanible he had looked for infor-
mation, respecting the nature of this ;worts tttttt but
it writ silent on it. The clause was now introduced.
as lie could understand, In the hopelesiness of his
Majesty's recovery, rind if snob were the case, their
Lordships ought not to enter Upon it without it
previous inquiry respecting that important porn,.
This was the more imperative, as it «as well known
that several provisions t!mitaiiied in the Regency
Act had been introduc•A in the expectation of his
Majesty's] recoicry, and with that jibs the Windsor
Estalilishritent had
been constituted, fur it was
urged to the feelin,s of Parliarneo, that it would
behighly gratifying to his Majesty on his recovery.
to find thole about him with whose fares he hail
been familiar. He was by no Means pleased with
the clause, but if he should accede to it, lie could
not help feeling, that this. Hoopla pledged him arid
the House to a review Of all the othet clauses in the
Regency Act.
The *Earl of Liientoot—The Noh!e Lord
seethed to forget the facts connected with the pro-
ceeding 4 of Parliament ors the Regency, and that
Parliament lilitl; iti the year sub-eritier.t to the first
Regency Art, With a very different view of the
subject. The powers of ;he Eseentive had, fur
iu-
sta,s beensrestricted in the first Act, in the hope
of his Majesty's recovery; bat as, after the lapse of
a year,•that hope was disapimMtert. Parliament rt.
moved the restrictionr. lie (Lord L.) byiro

conceived an inquiry into the state of the Kiog's
health neCessaty, previoui to the parsing of the
Present Bill for. dis the Noble Lord well knew,
Par'hutted and the public were, according to Om
proviiions of the Act, sp; rised by the quarterly
Reports; of the Council, of the actual state of lo•
Majesty's health, and of the probability of his re.
covery. This, therefore, removed the necessity of
any such itiqniry.
Earl (:ttEir said, it west true, As the IA), Eat
had 4,ttetl, that restrictions had been imposed upon
the Executive Power by one trt, which its the st.l)-
arquent yeat were reinoved by another, sod that
s-ouse difference hail exo•ted respecting the propriety
of their having ever bean iimdisest. There welts
massy, of whom be was tow, fltho eolio-iltr.l tient Ito-
EXPClttive Poorer had been created for the grotto-II
welfare. and was a great trust for the heitetit of the
w hole smarty, consequently flint all its itreteg "lee,
should be preServed entire in she boasts 14 the Go.
tertsment. Isot there riveted ton dor, mice be twte-t
the 'present moment and the It cowl year I f the
Rt•gency than what might be produced Ity the latete
of time. This, howevet, could nut istleet the pi to-
ciple of their cunduCt, unless indeed it could he
contended that his Majesty's sacred per-on nese st
this moment less an ntsject of their susxii•sts ca. •
than when lie first it I Jrnientio the di•peuwuuu of
Providence. lie did 00000 h. tier.vta rcferevee
quarterly reports of the (4111,11.• Cl.lllllll a s.etslMl-
tury answer to the ritgetasienlo of to. Noble Frsets•l
(Lord Hollasol), Ou the same g 000000 ids uljectroci
might have beets raised to the original ii•qinty. for I/1
tiLit period cirri.' daily tollytilis wiry watt', Mt-