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tOUSE OF LORDS,
rca. 26.
la a Committee of Privileges, the further con- •
!sideratict of the claim orGeneral Knowlys,.,to
the Earldom of Banbury being resumed, Jinrd •
Eiskine advocated his eanse at considerable
lene,lll, and concluded hy' moving, that the
claimant had made good his title to the Peerage
in noestion. •.
• After n fery words from the F,,Aa of Suffolk,
the Committee, on the snggestioa of the. Lord
Chancellar and Lord Ellenborough, delevred
the further .Consideraticiti 'al the case until. Monday
serinight at te.n o'elock. •
The nous* then. resumed, and after prayers
were read,' the Bill for the Relief ot.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS
in England, was read a third time and passel..
The Marquis of Lv:.;sruivYN.e. preSenteti A Ge-
neral Petition from Difbtors in Ireland, proyiug
some relief its the at Legislative regulation.
Lord 1.1.P.,E5 DAL?, lir* few observations upon
the subject. He obsgrved that applications of the
kind were made to him upon that point,- but he
referred the Applicants to the Irish. Judges in the
first instance.. He regarded the point of an ex-
tension of the Bill to Ireland, as a matter of se.-
rious consideration, not only v.ith reference to
certain peculiar legal customs, but to eiat Might
be the conduct of individual debtors in this conn-
try, Who may withdraw to Ireland, and contrive
to get the benefitof Irish General Insolvent
•Aet ; such as may °cm., a consideration which.
• was pointedly adverted to by his Lordship, with
reference to the Isle of Alan ; and he thought
their Lordships should pause a little upon the sub-
ject, before they Should resolve upon a further ex-
tension of an Act of the kind
In answer to a question by Lord ERSKINE upon
the point,
The Noble and Learned Lord stated, that the
peculiar case of Bankrupts in confinement. for
debt was contunplatetr, and provided for in the

Several Private and Local Bills were brought up
from the Commons, • by Lords Stanley and Al-
thorpe, Sir J: G. Co►terell, and other Members,
and respectively read a first time.

CLAt N-Ls'. •
Lorrl !1,. HELEws presented a petition against
those front Stamford, in the Connty of Lincoln.
The Bishop of Cnneroaome front the Parish
of Worley, in Lancashire, to the same eifect t the
Petitioners expressed•a favottrable sentiment with
respect to the loyalty of the Catholics, but dreaded
the effects of their. admission into any high degree
of political power.
• These Petitions were 'ordered •to lie on the
table.
The Marquis of. WELLESLEY presented one from
the City of Chichester r the prayer Of which
that their Lordships would not be deterred front
a temperate and deliberate discussion of the itn
portant subject to which it referred, by any ap-.
plications of a contrary nature, tending to in-
fluence or fetter their functions. His Lordship ad-
Verted to some circumstances which gave rise to
the Petition, in the City and neighbourhood of
Chichester where, he said,' the Petitioners re-•
Owed to see the Clergy coming forward so
zealously, and their endt'evours to induonce the
raity their example; they also itsierted
that a Petition of a contrary tendency vttieit value
front that quarter, did not express the sense of. the
town and neighbourhood. But his Lordship laid
most stress on the circumstance -of a hand-bill,
which was circulated not, only in part of Sussex,
but in souse of the Northern (.!onnties, asserting,
that a publication, entitled, " tl Statettient of the
Third Part of the Penal Laws affecting the Ctttho
authorked 600 Prelacy sitting in Dith-
lin, 'contained a full and clear exposition of the
real sifts of the Irish Papists." A. publication.
howeYer, which that part of their fellow-subjects'
nut Only denied uny knowledge of, but pronounced
to be i gross fabrication and forgery.; and he de-
' preeated that any side should have recourse to
such means, which were only.eakulated to pro-
'! duce the worstimpressions, and' to kindle aninto-
shv and dissensiott.
The Petition being read, was to the ahote im-
port and effect, and ordered to lie on the table.
A Petition from the County of Cavan, against
the Roman Catholic Claims, was presented by
one of their Lordships, as we could collect by
the Earl of Chatleville,and ordered to lie on the
table.
The Annual Accompts anti Report front , the
• London Dock Company, were presented at the
Uar. •
The House then adjourned 'till Monday.

nOUSE OF CONIMONS.,
FIUDAY, ran, 4G. • '

Mr. JouNsoN, from the London Dock Com-
p:lnv, preseoted an Account of the Receipts and
Disimrsement3 of the Company, from' Novein-
her.lBll, to Noveruber 1812. Also a Report re-
lative to the progress of the Works.