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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,

THURSDAY, JANUARY 15.

In the. Committee of Privileges, Dowager Lady
Howard De Walden, General Hervey, and Dowager
Laay. :Hervey were examined touching the claim of
Cl)arles..Augustus Ellis to the Barony of Howard De
Walden. 'Lady-Howard De Walden being a Peeress,
was exaillined seated on a chair next the table of
the House.- Farther consideration deferred till 'the
loth of February.
-The Exchequer Bills Bill :was read a third time
and passed ; and a message sent to the House of
Commons to acquaint them therewith.
Mr. HOBHOUSE, and several other Members of
the House of Commons, brought up the Malt Duty
Bill ; which was read a first time. -

The further consideration of the Appeal, Cham-
ley v. Lord Dunsany, was deferred till Wednes-
day next.
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Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

.HOUSE OF COMMONS,
THURSDAY, JAN. 15.

The SPEAKER acquainted the. House that he had
.received a letter from the. Right Hon. —William
Wickham", stating that that Gentleman having ,been
returned. for the Boroughs of •Midhursrand tal-
lington, he made his Elet-tion -to serve far the latter
place; and that, had not he been prevented by ill-
ness, anatirnation to this effela would-have been
made to the House within the limited time. •
A new 'Writ was ordered for the Borough of
.331e.tchirigly, in the room of Mr. Porcher, who had
accepted the Stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.
The Malt Duty Bill was read a third time, passed,
and ordered to the Lords.

Mr. VANSITTART brought up the Accounts of the
Estimates of the Barrack and Commissary- Depart-
ments for the year 1807.—Ordered to lie on the
table, and notice given that the same should be Taken
into consideration in the Committee of Supply•on
Wednesday next.
Sir W. WYNNE gave notice, that he would move
for leave to bring in a Bill to continue an ACI of the
44th of the King, empowering his Majesty to ac-
cept the Offers of Service from Volunteers of the
Militia in Ireland.
Sir CHARLES PRICE moved that an Account of
the Tonnage of Ships and Vessels built from the
sth Jan. 180 G to sth Jan. 1807, distinguishing the
Tonnage of each Ship or Vessel, and the Ports
where built ; as also an Account of the Prize Ships
registered in that period, be laid before the House.
—Ordered without any observation.
Mr. PEECIVAL gave notice, that he shonld to-
morrow move that the Orrler of .Council of the 7th
of January be laid before the House.
Mr. BIDDULPH gave notice, that he would on
Tuesday next mark-, that in c(:y3equence of the ex-
traordinary grants of money made by that House for
some years back, and the great increase of taxes, a
Committee be appointed to consider the expediency
of abolishing certain Offices, Places, Pensions, Sine-
cures, and exorbitant Fees, for more readily alle-
viating the accumulating burtheus of the people.
Message from the Lords, acquainting the House
that their Lordships had agreed to the Exchequer
Bills Bill.

Sir J. NEWPORT (the Report of the Commis-
sioners of Inquiry, for January, 1806, having been
previously read) said, that the result of that inquiry
had convinced the Commissioners that a number of
the offices conne&ed with the Customs of Ireland
had become useless, and that a great part of those
offices had been converted into sinecures, by the
substitution of other employments in their place:;
that out of the gross number 38 were, by this Re-
port, condemned to be abolished, and 26 to be con-
solid:tied that in the 38th of his. present Majesty a
s nilar Report had been made. The Hon. Baronet
taen, without any further observation, moved, ,that
leave be given to bring in a Bill for the Abolition of
certain Offices in Ireland, and the consolidation and
regulation of other Offices therein.—Leave given.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, that he'would to-
morrow cad the attention of the House to the 46th of
the King, chap. ag, as doubts had arisen as to the true
objea of the Bill, owing, he believed, to the too great
generality in the wording of the Corn Intercourse
.Acct. He wished therefore that some proceeding
should be takbn declaratory of the objet of the
Bill, and confining its application to the Grain of the
two Countries only, and not as relating to the Corn
of any foreign market—a subje& that it was un-
necessary to add was of considerable importance to
the agricultural interests of the Empire. He con-
cluded with giving notice, that he should to-morrow
move for a Committee of the whole House to take
the said Bill into consideration.—Adjourned.