The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1820-07-07 00:00:00

IMPARIAL PARLIAMNNT.

HOUSE OF WEDS, THVIUDAY, Jvcv O.

Sir H. Permit, Mr. Calends, and other Members of the
House of Commons, brought up the Wilful Malicious In-
juries Bill, the Metropolis Turnpike Roads Rill, the Court
of Eisen Beach Proceedsog Bill, mid the Dindeary Har-
borer Bill, which were severally marl • Int time.
Sir JINN. Graham brought up from the House of Com-
mons the Tenements Recovery (Ireland) Bill, and reported
that that House bad agreed to the anseodineuts of their
Lftelehipa.
LABOURERS WAGES.
The Earl of Dattpurtint remota' • Petition' from cm,
tails Ishabitams of Staffordshire, praying that the La-
bourers Wages Bill might be miasma halo a law.
Earl BlAtiontote wormed a Muni* Perinea, but we
.were amble Se ascertain from where.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
On the onetime of Lord Avectres. the Order of the Day
for the commitment of the lansolvent Debtors' Bill was dis-
charged, slid entered for tomorrow.
The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved that it might be re-
ferred to the Shunting Committee of their Lordships to below
in a Bill foe regulating the nsansfactum of cotton mid calico.
—Agreed to.
The Marquis of IL•nossown gave notice that be would,
sio Monday Next, move the wromsd reading of the Privately
Stealing in Shops 4ill, the Capital Felonies Repeal Bill, and
the Capitol Felonies Commutation of Punishment Bill.
He moved that their Lordships should be semnismsed fur
that day.—Ordered.
THE QUEEN.
Lord DACRE rose and presented • Petition from
her Majesty the Queen, complaining generally
of the mode 44f proceeding 'Wowed with respect to
her, and praying that she might be heard by Coun-
sel against the Rill now 'wilding. Unacquainted
as he was with the nature of the case, he should
for the present confine himself to moving that the
Petition be read.
This motion being agreed to, the clerk read her
Majesty's Petition. Ii complained that she prayer
of her Petition presented on the former evening,
had not been acceded to, arid that Counsel hail not
been permitted on her behalf to offer such state-
ments and facts to the House, as might have in-
duced their Lordships to have suspended the
present proceeding altogether. Her Majesty
complained, that, us she understood, a
list of the witnesses who might be produced
against her would not be furnished to her. Her
.vlajerly, iherefoie, thought she could do nothing
more than solemnly to protest against the proceed.
nog, which She thereby did, and she desired that
her Counsel might be permitted to appear at the
her of the'House and urge her objections to the en-
tire Rimittlre.
The Petition being read, Lord DACIIS moved,
that the Counsel he called
'rise LORH CHANCELLOR mi.!, that he never
eoold consent that Counsel should be permitted to
appear at their bur, and address themselves gene-
rally to every topic which they might think proper
to connect with the proceeding before their Lord-
ships. The Petition did not explain the points to
which it was. the Quern's wish that her Counsel
should be heard, it would therefore be, as lie con-
ceived, their Lordships duty to prescribe to the
Counsel the points and circumstances to which
they should address themselves. He could have
uo objection that the. COnr.oel should be called in.
and asked as to the points to which tltey meant
ur were instructed to speak.
The Earl of Lie carats:. having expressed his
perfect concurrence in she suggestion of his Noble
and Learned Friend, moved unit Counsel be call-
ed in, sod inked as to what points it was their inten-
tion to address the House.
An order to this effect being made, Cuousel were