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IMPERIAL PAR 14!144,0.A72

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110. USE OF P . ,

J4N. 9

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IN an Appeal from the.caart of C.ba,
ncery in Ire-
jand, Page and others zj. Kirrultan -ar,ct pellets, the
Solicitor General 3yasfbearct.6l: the 4pNllants.--
Pirther consideration 'deferred: :Monday; •
The Pensions; &c. linty through
Committee,..an4 was repqr.teii:
-The Order'tbr committing •the Malt Juty Bill;
which 'also purported to be a Bjll for rdmovingrioubts '
respee:ting the issue of cerfa Exchequer Bills, and
for other pal-poses,- having been read, •
The LORD CHAtqcgr4oit left tlicWoolsack,- to
call the attention of the Houk to'thisßill, which
appeared' to 'contain' foreign- to 'the objed
of a Money $lll. His Lordship -1-n,ved -that 'the
Standing Order respealing Bills of this description '
be.read.

The Standing Order 'was -accordingly read by the
Clerk, •declaiing, that to:' tuseft in Money -Bills
clauses foreign to.the obje6ts 'of those Bulb was un-
parlianlentary;''and destruative of the constitution of
parliament.- • •

TfiE LORD. CHANCELLOR 'said it would be wast-
ing the time oftheir Lordships for him °to attempt
tb prove, what must be obvious to. tile -House, that
Clausei were inserted in this Bill which had no re-
lationto its object as a Money Bill, and. which there-
fore rendered it obnoxious tp the Standing Order of
the House which had just been read. He therefore
moved that the Bill be rejected.—Ordered.
adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMNaYS,

FfiDAT; JAN. 9.

Mr..mooriE 14Tcoht p the RepOrt of Bowyer's
Lottery "Bill.
The
,Report on the Sc. niolg. Bill was or-
dered to be re-committed. •
Sir ..l'ouN NEWPORT, Chahcelfol74fthe ENchequer
for Ireland, took the oaths and'liiS'"..seat. iTflio Hon.
' Baronet, upon taking his^seat,, ipfoinied the House
that he made his eludion for; thecity of Waterford.
A new writ was ordered tb' be, issued, to ele& a
Member for the County of Sus Sex, in the room Of
General Lennox, 'who was called to the- Upper
:House, as succeeding to'the title and honours of the
Dukedom of,ltichMond.
Mr'. DICKINSON informed the House; that being
chosen to serve, in Parliament .for the Borough of '
I,ostwithiel and the County of Somerset, he made
its eledion for thelatter place.
Sir Jour NEWPORT gave notice that he Would;
on Monday,' move for leave to bring in a Bill 'for-
correating an error in an A& of the 42d of the King,
chap. 105th, for RegulAinci•Cantroverted Eledions,
as relating to Ireland: The ()hied of this Bill would
be to supply a defeet in the said AEt, for though the
C,;mmissioners were sworn to aet,.they were not em-
powered to administer an oath to the Clerk who at-
tended to take 'down the evidence; to empower
them to administer this bath was the objeet of the
he hoped to haVe the honbur of submitting to
that House.
Mr.,CALCIM FT, seeing an Hon. Gentleman in
.his place (Mr.:3ohnstune), he should take that op-
portunity of giving that Gentleman every satisfaelory
explanation as to the question that Gentleman thought
.it necessary to putltp him yesterday, with respeet to
the item for powder in the charges for the Island of

Ceylon; the Honourable Gentleman asked why the
iiecessary supply ofgunpoWderhad not been furnish-
*ed. by some of our Settlements in the East Indies ?
to that question the best answer would be the simple
statement of the faCI, that the Governor of that
'lsland had required a supply of English gunpowder,
in preference to that of. our Eastern Settlements,
Awing to the superior quality. of 'the former—and
this too, nut so much for the comparativeexcellence
our gunpowder, as the positive inferiority of that
formerly supplied by the Settlements. As to. the ap-
parent disproportion in the charges i 0001. for
.Engtand, and 70001. for Ireland,. for worms,
turn-screws, c, it vas to be considpred, that
.of the Suppiies hitherto furnished for the service
of England, 91001. remained unexpended, so that
towards the customary Annual Supply there was
but a deficit of 9001. whereas, there was no remain-
der to supply the yearly derriand for Ireland ; this
otateMent, howeyet, as it stood, put in this case the
_Ordnance Estimates of England to those of Ireland in
the ratio of 7 to 1, which be was free toacknowledge
was,by no means the due proportion. As, to the
officers of Ordnance, .in Ireland, they were en-
titled to every praise .tor the strictest economy, and
the most laudable. attention to:the duties of the:de-
partment.' If blame, therefore, was justly to attach
self to arty quarter, it would rather belong to this
side. He confessed that, upon this head, he was
pot sufficiently prepared to . ire, as satisfactory as he
could "wish, not having had sufficipnt time to possess
himse.l( of the fullest, mfortuation upon the ;
be should,_ however, take the earliest opportunity to
enahle i 4 to account for this apparent- dispropor-
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t.tou.

JOHNSTONE felt much obliged by the
great anxiety the Right Hop. Gentleman had,evinced
to gile.hirn and the House every satisfaction relative
to the quesiious he took the liberty of putting to
yesterday. It was, however; very natural for
.11irn to suppose, that in .that country where the ma-
terial of which the gunpowder was made. was to be
aclr_if could •be furnished at, a:chettper rate than it
puid be contraded for in England. As, to therecpui-
ion forwarded by the Governor of Ceylon,. he (Mr,
johnstone) did not thrik that the responsibility to
that House rested upon the Governor, but upon the
,v.ho,were bound to judge of the propriety
pf acceding to it. This, too, he felt it necessary-to
add, that he had the fullest reliance in the capability
of the Governor of Ceylon, and thought that that
gentleman had given proofs of a strict economy.
• Mr. CALCRAFT said, triat.he had onl; to repeat
that English gunpol.vder had been sent out. to the
Island of Ceylon, upon the positive orders of the Go-

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verncr, founded .upon reasons already specified, that
pppeared'to the Governnient convincing.
General WA LPOLE intbrmed the .House that it was
Lis wish that his Motion (of which. he yesterday gave
potice) for enlarging the time for receiving Recog
pizanCei relative to the county of Lol2donaprry' Pc7
'tion should .tand For iNiorldly