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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.

THURSDAY, MAY I.

Tnkliouse met at•ten O'clock, and;after reading
the Pallls- no the Table, ploceected, about eleven, to
Westminster-Hall, to•attend the Trial of Lord Vis-
count Melville.

About a quarter past four their Lordships re-
turned, and continued for some time in discussion,
during w high strangers-:were, excluded.
An -order was made to .proceed again to-morrow
on the Trial of Lord Viscount Melville, and 'a Mes-
sage sent to the House of -Commons to acquaint'
thein'the-rewith.

After our admission, the Order for the attendan.ce
• .
of the Judges, in the case of Lncina and Crawford,
-i'Vas discharged, and renewed for the Ist of June.
Mr. lEit.vis, Mr. ALEXANDER, Mr. MANNING,
Mr. GOOCH, and several other Member's of the
House of Commons, 'brought up thee-Admiralty Ju-
,risdiaion Bill, Lord St.-Vincent's -Annuity Bill, the
,Longitude Bill; the London Docks Bill, and two
prtvate...-Billsiwhich were severally.yead a first time.
.. Mr. Jones, Marshal' of the King's Bench Prison,
and Mr. Nixon; Deputy Warden of the Fleet,Prison,
presented, pursuant to the Order ofthe'House, AC-
c9unts of the number of Prisoners for Debt confined
those Pris Ons,; which were ordered to lie on the
Table. . • •

Mr. Irqng,, Inspeaor-Gener2l of Exports 'and Im-
ports, presented several Papers respeding the Ships
and their Tonnage employed in the West India
Ttade; which were ordered tq lie on the Table, and
to be printed.
Appraisement Duty Bill, and the Wine Due
ties Bill nak-.,d through Committees, and were re-
ported.—Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

HOUSE OF COMMOXS.
THURSDAY, MAY 1.

•-T he Bill for Jaking away the Drawback from
Russia and derman Linen exported from this Coun-
t=ry' to the West Indies, was brought.in by Mr. F,o-7
T:R, and read a fitaftime. The. second reading was
fired fOr this day fortnight: •
Mr. PAUL Lzave notice, that lie should to-morrow
tnove for farther Papers in support of his Charge
against Lord' Wellesley. •
" -On the Motion of Sir W. GEARY, who stated the
convenience of Ministers to be his principal obje&,
the. farther consideration of the Report of the Treat-
tig" 13 ilk postponed to Wednesday next.
A Message•was brought from the Lords, stating
:that they liad.agreed to the Export, and Import Duty
Bill; and to the Excise:. Duty Bill; without any
amendment. Alsio that their Lordships Would pro-
:need farther in
.the Trial. of Lord Melville to-mor-:
'ow morn't-2' .Zen O'clock. - •
The €PEAKER informed the tiduse; that he had
received a Letter from Lord
,Colling-wood, dated on
board the Queen, at sea, March 24, .1806,- in, an-.
.11,,,trd his Letter communicating to his Lordship,
to Lord Nigthesk, and. the. Captains, Officers, Sea-
men, and 'Marines w'ho served 'under 'him in the
Battle off Trafalgar, . the Thanks of the House for
their condua oti that occ:sipn, in which his .'Lord-i
ship expressed his due sense of the honour cOnferred
on them by so signal a mark of the approbation of
the House;. and declared his confidence that when
trc,sh opportunity presented itself, the Fleet under
114;connuand would continue to merit the -approba-
tion of their Country.
A Person from the Office of the Chief Secretary
in Ireland presented an Account of -the Imports of
P-cland for the last year.
On the Motion of the LORI') ADVOCATE of SCOT-
pAND, the House went 'into a Committee to con=
sider the •Aa -of the 26th of • George chap 47.
settling the Salaries of the Judge of the. Admiralty
in Scotland, and of the Commissaries of Edinburgh.
On the Motion of the' Learned .Lord,.Resolutions'.
were athaWaiCts introduced in the Committee (Sir J.
SiNci-„‘ln in,the grantino• an Additional Sa-
lary to the Judge of the Admiralty in Scotland of
4.1:01. per annum ; and to each of the Judges of the
ComMisuury Court of 15'01: per Pliaum. And, on
tire` lotion .Mr. DUNPAS, it was..ordered
that these; together with /he former Salaries; be Net
Salaries, without any deduCtion.--The 'Report was
ordered to be rewived to-morrow. •

°atilt:. Motion of Mr. WHITCHED KEV&E, the
former Order moved- by him for an Account of the
Claims made on the Direftors of the East India
Company, by the Creditors of the late and .present
Nabobs of Arcot, was ciischarged, and,a new Order
tip -she AarnE,‘.pl'upos was entered,• containing 'the'
TjeCisions of the,Aaid .Claims by the Dire&ors, and
Proceedintl;F. thereon:

Sir 3, NEWPORT moved that the Order for the se-
reading of thi..-Dublin Paving Bill be discharg-
ed,- stariiv„ that it,:vcfas the intention of the lrish
GoVerniwnt to bring in a Bill for a similar 'purpose.
After few words from Lord DE BLACIVIERh,
ksrocQ' could-notdistinaly'he'ar,
11'!/-.YO,;iKZ-s:iid-,• he had no obje&ion to. the.
beiog diseharged. He was anxious that the
itt.'port of " the
,Ccm-vissiopers. should be before the
House ;- antl be was surpriedit .wai not printed, as
the Order for that purpose was made some time ago.
LATOUCHE eknreSsed a' wish that some
farther steps might be •taken, to it the tate
of the diiy: . .

Sir JOIN NOPP OR T begged to state; in answer
to the flopouriibleC4entlenian who spoke last, that a
phm for that purpose was in contemplaticin. With
respet to the condu& of the I!ord,l_,iegteilant upoli
this suble6t, he had oply exercised the powers vest-
ed in him by an,. A& Of Parliament,
,and he ailed
upon the ,iir.eport of a Cotmnission. Composed of
some of the most respe&able Gentle:nen in the City.
of Dublin.

' Mr. A LBA-ANDE It said he still retain.A ;he
opi-
nie:a he-bad before expressed, that the Lord;Lieu-
. tenant-had acted with precipitation upon this occa-
sion.

LONG said, the Lord Lieutenanrso far from
acting Rrecipitately, had a4,-inally waited,.until the
last day allowed, by the Ac 3 of Parliament be-
:forq he, appointed the lYs'el:r COmMissiOners, ntid
he was stare that, when the Hduse compared
.thi.; RepPrt of the Commissioners with the powers
tran:.ed by the Acc.t. of niliament, they wcinld be-of
pp,:non that the .Lord Lieutenant conic( not .'.Lt in
any ot:i.er ‘cay than he had done.
A fte.i; a fexsi words from Mr. PARN.EL :and- Mr.
the .r.l,lot.ii.g) was agreed ti)