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THE NATIONAL REGISTER,.

Low) 114whicsavar concurred in the truth of the narrative•
just given; but thought that some allou mice ought to be made
for the irritation naturally produced by the sufferings and losses
which Mr. Ciffard had sustained during the rebellion.

Loan 11.4nnorich then withdre%r his motion ; stating, that
his parpose was completely answered, by having had an oppor-
tunity of vindicating himself from the misrepresentations which
had gone abroad, respecting his treatment of Mr. Gill:ad.

MARCH 20.

LORD ERSKINE quoted, ns the most recent precedent, the
rejection of a Nloney Bill, when he lut4 the honour of i;ttime ntt
the Woolsack, because it had a clause removing certain doubts
which occurred in the ease of Astlet, respecting Exchequer

Lords ITarrowhy, Melville, and the Lord Chancellor con-
tended that the Bill was tint an infringement of the true intent of
the standing order.
Lords Lauderdale, Grenville, and (fray maintained the con-
trar, opinion.
The Bill was negatived by a majority, proxies included, of
129 to 59.—Adjourned.

TITURCT)A V, MA ItCTI 17.

Le 17r.nnv presented a petition from certain lterchants in
I i‘crrool agaitel the Orders in Council Bill, which he reciticbted
the C erk to read.

Loon //Enos', upon the petition being read, dwelt at some
length on the motives of the petitioners. They coru,i-sted of
more titan .100 of the most ;espectahle inhabitants of Liverpo►►l,
who, differing. front each other on political subjects, had united
in this application, from their apprehension of the injurious
consequenc►•s to the trade of the cou►itry at lane, and to Liver-
pool in particular, as likely to re.nalt from the Orders in Couileil.
lie con /:vied by mot ing, that the poltioners should he Iteprd
by their Council on the t.econd residing, in furtherance of tit ~
Orders in Council.

Tor. Dotir. or MnNroose argued, that the motion was inad-
missible ; au, aecor4ing to the standing orders, counsel could
not be heard against a Bill of Supply.
Loon 1.:11,h,A n strongly iilsi!.ted, that the Petitioners had
a right to he heard agaitiA the 1111`3•:,111%; oft ht. Orders in Council ;
and if there was now any difficulty in point of form, it wholly
arose from the !rouse having entertained that subject in connec-
tion with a 1 tote of kid and Supply.
Tor Loon CniNcr..Lion said, that there was no order to pro-
hibit hearing Counsel against a Bill of Supply; but the genera/
practice of th, House had rn not to hear them.
Loon dir E•PCIIY thOUV,ht the prayer of the Petition con-
trary to the usual practice of the Howe. lie contended that the
Bill had been uniformly represented as a Bill of Soppy, and
that there etas not a eiall4e in it irreyelant to that object.
Loon zi VC: 1-41 r) conjured their Lordships nett t,?. slvit their
glom, against the Petitioners, and ath cried, m v,-:.,thetie terms
to the di-tresses which were daily a rerintdd tim: upon tbe„mano-
facturers Mall quarter, of the country. ill, deplored the conse-
quences of the Order..i. in Council, as tending to shake that firm-
ness and energy which the people had hitherto displayed. order
the most critical circumstances.
The motion was then put and negatived without a division;
and after a long conversatiou on a point of order, the Petition
was rejected.
Loner DEUFV pre-ented a Petition from the same persons
whose names were affixed to the former, complaining of the
Orders in Council, and praying to be heard :;;;tip:./ them by
Council, or to have their allegatit,as examined info in such
other manner as to their Lordships Antild seem meet. Ili::
Lortlnhip moved, that the Petition should lie on the table, ant:
that the Petitioner: should he heard by their Counsel.

Opposite opinions have rise to a long dLieus„om, In the ceurro
of which Lord Ilawkeshury moved, that the worth: relative to
hearing Counsel should be left out of the motion. This antel:4-
mein, after considerable oppo-ition, was carried without. a

Loan Enstftxt, in order to institute a proceeding upon witi•ch
the p"titioners might he regularly heard, then moved that tht
Ilotte should on Wellneiday go into a Committee to consider of
the Order. in t auncil. This motion, after a short conversation
was negatived.—Adjourned.

FRIDAY', M.% RC!! IS.
The Foreign Cotton Exportation Prohibition Bill, allO,
British Cotton Export Duty Bill, were brought up from the
Common-, and read a first time.
Loan UCKLAND Wished to know, whether any assurances
had been given, that Sweden and Sardinia were to co-operate
in the execution of this regulation, as without now entering into
its policy, it was clear to him, that unless their concurrence was
procured, it would he wholly inefficient to prevent the enemy
from being supplied by means of the circuitous *rattle, the le-
gality of which, at present, had been distinctly admitted.
Lard BATH URST said, that he had admitted that British
ships might convey enemy's produce from America to the ports
of an Ally, whence it might bud its nay to frame, until that