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PER ML PA.R.L LIM EAT.

HOUSE-OF PEERS,'

MONDAY, DEC, 21.

THEIF Lori: hips met this day pursuant to -Ad-
kurntrient. Prayers were read by His Grace the
Archbishop 'Of CANT ER BURY.
A few private,Bills whiChWere before the House,
were. forwarded ih their different Stages: two•of
which were, read a third tittle and passed.
LOrds Hn.t,i Arn and (:)0 KY presented Petitions;
the former, from certain persons confined for Debt,
in the Litt', of Dublin ; and the. latter, troth cer-
tain -Debtors confined in the Gaol of MarybarOtigh,
in, the Queen's County, .Ireland, which -were
deired to lie on the Table.

Some routine Business was then disposed of.
Lord HOLLAND observed, that the important
and desirable event of Peace, which would pro-
bably be soon additionally -secured, by the execu-
tion of the Definitive Treaty, was an: objea to
which the public attention was strongly. directed.--
Under his view of that great and 'desixable objed,
he held it his duty to acquaint their Lordships with
his intention of taking an early opportunity, after
the signing of the Definitive :Treaty, (so,we under.
stood the Noble Lord) of submitting a Motion to
the House, expressive of regret at, and_irivolving
the censure of those whose conduti. had so long de-
prived the Country of the: blessings of Peace.

The House, :shortly after, On. the, Motion of
Lord WALSINcuAm, adjourned ;41 Mopday next. .

HOUSE OP: COMMONS,

MONDAY,

PEryrtows were presented ..frctm tike tPrim;iners
-confined for Debt, in the Gaol, of, OA_ Cstunty of
Derby, arid in the New Gaol in the Bofokrgh, pray-
ing for Relief.

They were ordered to lie on the Table.

- Mr. WILBERPORCE moved, that there be
laid before the House an Account of all the Grain,
Meal, Hour, and 1-ice, imported between the !sr
of OetOber ',Soo, and .the Ist of Cktober tgor,
13istiqguishing tke Country from -Which, and the
Port into-which, it was imported..—Ordered.- ,
Mr—rILEXANDER .presented a Petition from
the Retail Merchants of the Town of Londonderry,
praying for the Aepeal Of the 6 per Cent. Duty.—
This Petition, he said, was similar to those which
had been presented from the Towns of Belfast. and
Newry.
Ordered to lie on the Table. ' - .

A new Writ ordered for the City of Cork,
in . the room of Sir JOHN' HFLY liurciliNsoN,
who had been called up to the House of peeis.

Mr. DHAM said, that as he understood
the House was on this' day to ad-intim for some
time, he wished to propose a' question to His Ma-
jesty's Ministers, though, perhaps, no other an-
swer could be given but the ones which it'ad been
given by his NOble Friend (Lord HAwKEssuiti),
tyot, a former occasion. The point upon which. he
wished tin-. information, was relative to. that Ar.
tick, in the Preliminary Articles of Peace between
this Country and France, in which the Integrity of
Portugai was stipuhted -Rir. it would be recol-
leded, that at the time those Preliminaries were
,signed, there had been a Treaty signed between
France and Portugal, with the nature.of • which we
were then unacquainted, but which, it now ap-
peared, totally changed the nature of our stipula-
tions with France upon this ,subjeCt. If France
meant' to adhere to the terms of that Treaty with
Portugal, her conduit to us must appear in tjie na-
ture of a fraud. When this subject was before A-
ntacid to, his Noble Friend had expressed his opi-
nion, that the Treaty between
,Fiance- and Portugal,
by which the latter gave up so large a pirt of her
South American Territory, would be done away by
our Treaty with France. Since that period, how.
ever, not only the French Papers heid a contrary
language, but a Public Officer, a Counsellor of State,
in his Address to the Legislative Body, expressly
declared, that it never was in contemplation to
abandon that Treaty. If this subject was still pend-
ing, or, if there were any hopes of settling it at
Amiens, be should be satisfied with an answer to
that cacti. Bur if the business was settled one way or
other, he thought there could be no objection to
giving a distinct answer to the question as soon as
possible, because the Country ought to know what
we hatl.to expert from the Government of France.
If, however, Mini:,ters were of opinion,
_that an
atiSwer could not with propriety begiven, he would
not press it any further.
c HAAT .1,1.,0R of the EX.C.II4Q,UER
said, he was sure 113 Right Hon. Friend would be
ore of the .lasepet;ons in the House, who Would
attenti,t to embarrass Government by unnetessaiy
questions. With regard to the question which had
been proposed, he had no difficulty in saying, that
they had every reason for thinking (short of the
absolute determination of the point by a Definitive
Treaty) that the Treaty of Bgdajoia was-oione con-
sidered in force, and that the Treaty •of Madrid was
annulled.