The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-15 00:00:00

P TA L., PARL I/WENT.

HOUSE p.P_ pEns.
TRURSDAV, APRIL 14. •
The Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to
the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill, the.COtton- but3i
Bill, the Irish Ditties Bill, the Cotton Prohibition
Bill, the Jesuits' Bark Prohibition Bill, thelrish Cot.'
ton and Bark Bill; the Malt Excise till, the 'lrish
E3it India Trade Bill, the Irish Warehoutinalill
P
the Irish Bank'Token Bill, the Orders iii 'Council
inderriuity Bill, 'the: Annival_lndemuity -Bill, and
several other Public and 'Private Bills, in all forty..
oeven.
The ComrnisAuners were the LORD CHANCEL- •
Loa. Lords H.s.wrussultY and WALSINGRANI.'
Mr, WHARTON and several other Members-of the l.
House of commons brought up the Irish Promissory
Notes Bill, and the Irish Customs Fees-Bills; which
were read a first time.
In B;and's.Divoree Bill, Mr Harrison appeared as
Counsel for Mr. Bland, and examined a witnescto
prove service of notice on Mrs. Bland ; the Agent for
whom attended, and requested furtl)ertitno.—The
further proceeding in the; Bill was postponed till this
clay three weeks.
The judgment in the appeals, the Earl of Wernyss
v. Carne, and Richan v. Trail, were posiponecl .kill
the first appeal day after the Recess.
The Wool Bill passed through a Committee,-
end was reported.
Adjuurned till this day fortnight, the 28th inst.

HOUSE OP COMMONS,

• THURSDAY, APRIL 14.'
The Speaker and the House,' in obedience to a
summons by the Black Red, attended in the
tiottse,of Peers to hear a Royal Commission read,
and-upon his return he acquainted the House, that
the Royal Assent had ' been given to several Pub-.
lie and Private I3ill4.—The Public Bills were these
The Exchequer Bills Funding Bill ; the Cotton
Wool Duty Bill ; the Excise Law Bill ; the Bill
for Prohibiting the Exportation of Bark from'Ore.at
Britain ; the Bill tbr prohibiting the Exportation of
Bark and Cotton Wool - &Om Ireland ;:.eheirish
least India Trade Bill ; and the innkeeperS''SUliiiSt-
ence Bill.
,
Two new Writs were ordered to be iistitel,` one
fin- the liorongb of St. Mawes, in room of Serope
• Barnard, Esq. who has accepted of the office of
Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds ; the other for
the borough of Wareham,lll:the room of Sir Granby
+9l.' tnaa Caleraft, who has accepted of his Majesty's
Pitiqdreds of 'East Bendrecl.
The dHATNCELLOR of the Exettpayeet brought,,up
`several Annual-Accounts ; which were , upon
,the
table, and ordered to be printed."
Mr. GRA.HAN presented a Petition from the B.o'uth
Lon don Water Works Company. against, the, Vatix-
ball Bridge; • which was ordered to lie .upoo the
table.
Mr. ESTCOLIRD moved, that there be laid before
the House Copies of the Returns of the effeetive,
Strength of each Regiment of Militia on.the Ist of
July 1-807; and the lst of April 1809, with an Ac—
count of the Numbers which have volunteered into
the .Regular Army from each' Regiment, together
with the Numbers wanting, on the tat of April
1808, to complete :die Establishment' of each Ale-
giment. Ordered,
Sir J. C. HIPPISLbY begged to, put. a question to
the. Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the absence of
a Noble Viscount who had brought in the Defence
Bill, which was, whether any exception was to be
made in favour of those baltotted men who had re-
lied on the faith of Parliament for not being again
called upon till the, lists. of their respeClive parishei
were exhausted for such was the .construction of
the law ; and Gerelemen,_ like himself, whO had
abed in carrying., into dial the provisions, of -the
late Militia Transter Bill, had witnessed the anxiety
expressed by such persons 'who stood in 'this situa-
tion. .

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, could of
resolve the question from his recolleCtion Of 'the pro•
visions of the
.11in.

Sir J. FllPPl4LEY,observed, that he put the ques-:
lion not merely 40in knowing how interesting. the
result must be to those who stood .in this predica-
went, but also in compliance with a requisition which
had been made to hint.
The House adjourned till Tuesday se'nuight.
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