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London, England, 1801-02-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS:

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MPNDAY,,FE,B. 9.: .;
.Several *Members were sworn in:. A person
from the Commissioners for the Randion of the.
NatiOnal.tiebt, presented AceountiL.
Lord STORPORD said, that His MitjtSTY
had been .waited upon"
.with the Address of 'that
House of Friday last,- and that FitsMnstsTY had
been pleased to itttwer, that. he would give di-
regions accordingly. • .
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OLD BATII-fEtng ritis9:ll.
, Sir -FRANCIS BURDETT -,said, --he did not.
think he shoal faithfully discharge his duty as' a
Member of Parliament, if he did nut make the
.acCriaitited.with a.citeurnstance which had
come to :his' knowledge respecting, he Prison in
Gold 111:th.Fields. it appeared, that since the
close of the last Committee appointed- to imp:tire
into _the stare of thtit prison, the G.l)l,ei. had con-.
duCtect lihnsclf fati lie had done belbrC, 'and had
been gUiltY of fresh am'ls of outrage: i thought
it right not to lose any time in stating-this cir...
Curristance; to the licitise, because, if-.some mea.
sures were not adopted immediately, the live* of
some of the Prisoners' might be, dangcr.—[Sir
FLANc is read a Cage of a Person who was stated
to have been very severely beaten by the Governor
of the Prison,] --itfter this statetnent, lie should
think lie pA1..n.0 oompiimeht to the Hous.e if
nude any.. co mment upon sucli inhutnan condtni.
He did not think it necessary, in the present in
stancer- to point ,out the. mode which. the Honse
ought to adopt, but he waq sure the business
would be taken op,- because' the hollow. of the
whole Muse Was concerned. As to an
Lion to the Magistrates, he considered that as
wholly. useless. Re, had nOW.ciiiiliatged-his duty
by stating
_the-fad, and the- House would either
appoint Committee to inquire into thc fad, of
proceed in any other manner that they might
think proper. e should not at present make
any distind MutiOn upon the subject.
A Message from the. Lords stated, that their
Lordships had.,agreed to the, Bill ,for suspending
part of the Bill past last Sessions respelling Brown
Mad.
Mr. 'ABBOT moved, that there be laid before
the House, Copies of the Proceedings of the Lords
of the Admiralty, respeding the accounts stated
in the Report of the Committee Of Finance. -
'Mr. jOLLIFFE-idi, that 'he had upon a
former occasion Stated, that the expenees of the
present War were infinitely greater than that of
the Anierican War, and in orderto prove his as.
sertion, he should move for some Accounts of the
hist and present War. He therefore moved,
" That there he laid before the House an
,count of the Expence of the Army maintained by
this Country, including Militia, &c: for the
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years. 1793,;1794, 179., and 1790,distinguish-
ing the number of Horse."
.The :'notion was agreed tq. '
Mr.,. joLliFye., then .moved for similar ac.
counts for tht years 1779, e7Bo, 178.441ru117432,
which was agreed to.
Mr. jot.tiFFE then Moved for an account of
the number of Troops maintained by this Coati.

try, ;minding Militia, &c. for the years t 793,
1795, and 1796.—Agreed
11e)r. joLL,IFF E moVekfor...
count fdr the yevs ',779, .1780,, "i7n, d
/78z.—:-Agreed ro.;ii.
The Order ot,Ne_Day was'." hen read, f9r
sinning the Debate upon the ft'eport of the Com-
mittee appointed to consider what alterations
were necessary in the Standing Orders of the
House. the orthe C`otiimtttee
were then read and agreed to, after some, verbal
alterations.