The National Register.
London, England, 1813-04-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

- MONDAY, APRIL 5.
•Mr. PITT moved the .second reading of the North Wilts Canal
Bill, when
Mr. SHAW LirsnvuE-moved, as an amendment, that it be read
this day six months. • -
A long conversation ensued, dntirg which the Bill was supported
by Mr Freemantle, M Brown, Colonel Ellison, and Mr. Lyttle-
ton ; and.was opposed by Mr. Simeon and Mr. Hart Davis. A di.
vision then took place :--Fur the second reading, 156; against it,
69.—M8j0rity 97, for the Bill.
On the motion for bringing up the Report of the Attainder of
Treason Bill,
Mr. YORKE opposed it,,contendirm that to make a person guilty
of high treason incapable, not only of traimnitting property to his
posterity, but of being made the channel of its transmission, acted
as a prevention of the crime.
Sir S. RomiLLY ably supported the Bill; and, after a lour dig.
cus,ion: a diviAmi took place on the motion of Mr. Yin ke,
the Report be bro,n up this day six rinintlis:"—For the Amend-
ment, b 3; against it, 4:1. - Majority 12. aitainst the Bill.
• The Sinecure Lill was read a third time, .and passed.—Ad-
; jourued. •

TUESDAY, APRIL 6.
TAW. GEAny presonted a Petition from several 'Freeholders of
Kea, against the (taut phoposed to he built in that comity.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented three Petitions in tavonr of it.
A conversatioo then took place between Sir W. Geary, Sii T.
Knatchbull, and Mr. Caleraft ; after which, the Bill on this subject
was ordered to be Committed. in
Mr. JOHN Smt-ra presented a Petition from Nottirgbam,
favour of peace. He stated, as an instance of the distress of the in-
habitants, that in one parjish, consisting of seven thousand persons,
one-third received parochial
The Petition was ordered to be read, when it appeared to be
printed.
Tile SPEAKER observed, that it was contrary to the rules of the
House to receive a printed Petition, and it was accordingly with-
drawn.
Mr. LOCK II ART rose to make-the motion of which he had givers
notice 'On the subject of the present state of the laws relatiihr
to
bankrupts. It had certainly., he said, been the intention of
.that
portion of our ance:tori who had originated the bankrupt laws, t
go
iiivc to the fair, but unfortunate trader, every possible advantie
that justice would admit, consistent with the real interest and se-
curity ofthe claims of his creditors. In process of time, however,
many glaring abuses, in spite of 'all 'endeavours to the contras.," had
crept into the administration of those laws, and ha
rd
wha rendered
wey them
in their present effect almost the direct opposite ot the re
in their origin designed 'to Iw. He thcretbre moved as a liesoln.
tiet; that the Home hill, this Session, take into consideration the
Acts if Parliament relative to banktuts ; and also te administra-
tion of the said laws.—Agreed to nem. coy:.—Adjournehd.

WrDNEDAY, APRIL 7.
JOINT PAYMASTERS OF THE FORCES.
Mr. CREEVEY rose, iu pursuance of his notice, to submit to tlit
Hoiise a resolution, that the place gf one of the Joint Paymasters of
the Forces sholild 'be abe!slied. It was said that no shying could
be effected by the measure he proposed, as the present salary could
not be reduced if the office's %%TIT vested in one person ;- but,
the salaries of the Deputies might he added to that oft tLe
Right Kononrable• Geo ilii tlem opposite (Mr. Lone;),
a u hen
have 5f.:0 ii. per nnitin, and a year to Lord C. Somerset
ouktbe saved. : But it Was not on the ground of econoMp that
he proposed the nit:is:nye 'because the office in qKstiOn was a
kiniiapicntary place, for pose which tht, poesitir did nothsiug but re.
geive the 2CP0.1. Oed; file only Way to abOIIOI.O*CCA)