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NUMBER 4634.)

IMPERIAL PARLI.dMENT.

ROUSE OF PIERS.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22.

.This day the House met at three o'clock, and was
occupied it hearing Counsel in the Appetti May v.
Wharton, till near six 'o'clock. The further
consi-
deration was then postponed to Friday. ..
A number of Private Bills Wert brought up from
the Commons by sir E. KNATCHaULLaMr.GRAIIAM,
and others.
The Lottery Bill, the Irish Distilleries' Bill, the
Irish Salt Duty Bill, and the Irish Chancellor of the
Exchequer's Bill, were committed, and the other
Bills before the House were forwarded in their re-
spative stages, after which the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22.
Lord Howicx. and other Members.took the oaths
ana their seats.
On the Minion of Mr. CHEESEMENT, an Account
was ordered to be laid before the House of the gross
Receipts 3t the Post Office, from the sth of April,
1103, to the sth of April, 1807.
His Majesty's Property Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed on Friday.
Mr. SUMNU presented a Petition from John
cod, Esq. praying for an enlargement of the .term
for entering into reeognizances on the Petition corn=
Veining of an undue Return for the Borough of
Lancaster, on the ground of the indisposition. of one
of the sureties. 'He then moved, that the time of
entering into the recognizanees be enlarged to Mon-
day next.
.ISir J. NEwpowr and Mr. P. Mociaz opposed the
4°lion, on the ground that the time had passed for
Presenting such Pennons.
Mr. DENT pledged himself in a few days to bring
before the House a scene of iniquity on this sub-
-3e61 of a very extraordinary nature.
• After a few obervationi from the Sreatzta, the
l'lotion was negatived without a division.
Mr. DENT gave notice, that he would to-mor-
row move for leave to bring in 3 Bill to pre-
vent the feelings of the House from being thus
played with.
Mr. Ross brought in a Bill to make the Harbour
of Amsterdam, in the Island of Curagoa, a Free
Port. Read a first, and ordered to be read a second
time to-morrow.
In a Coiwnittee on the Linen Aft, a Resolution
was agreed to, to allow a Drawback on Linens ex-
ported to the West Inclies,The Report was ordered
to be received to-morrow.-
The Naval Stores' Bill went through a Committee.
The Report of which was ordered-to be received to.
morrow.
On the Motion of Mr. BIDDULPII,. an Account
vas ordered to be laid before the House of all
buties on Coal and Lime carried coastwise, in the
Principality of Wales, for the last three years.
Mr. Honnoose brought in a Bill for the continu-
ance of several Ads relating to the British Fisheries
and the Woollen Manufactures.—Read a first, and
ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
NEW MILITARY PLAN.
" Lord CASTLEREAGH, in pursuance of the no,
tice which he had bad the honour to give, rose to call
the attention of the House to, the Military measures
"Mich his Majesty's Ministers thought it their duty
to propose ;.a subjed at all times important, but per-
' baps never so important as at the present moment-
. Otis crisis. It had been to ,him a subjea of consi-
derable uneasiness, that the prockii.lion of these [pea-
6ures had been somea hat delayed by his own per-
sonal indisikißition+ but there were other and more
eansesAehich "had induced Government not
to be hasty in briOging them forward. His Maks-
" 'Y's Ministers 'could not but feel, on coining into
"lee, that the event of the campaign on the ton-
Client, which was then opening,. whether favourable
or disastrOus, was likely to present to the observa-
tims, of 'Parliament the truest motives for inciting,
1111 to " exertion—unotiveio much more powerful
than any which the statements of Government could
otherwise.roduce. He could also assure the 'Right
ilon. Gentleman opposite, that his Majesty's Mi -
nisters were anxious that their return to office should
net be marked. with any undue impatience to sub-
vert the plans of their predecessors. Among the
eminent qualities of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the
solicitude to destroy established systems was one
'which he owned he was least (lavas to emulate.
Impressed with -these feelings, his Majesty's Mi-
nisters examined deliberately the Military System
already in existence. He was prepared to admit,
that whatever objetlions he felt to that system, he
also felt considerable difficulty in making a' funda-
mental alteration in it. A comparatively inferior
system laid claim to 'protection. from 'the circum-
stance of its being in existence ; and, therefore, in
what he should Air to the House, the Right Hon.
473entlomati would not And such a deliberate purpose
of alteration as perhaps he expeeted, or as charade-
, liaed his own arrival in that department which he
.(Lord Castlereagh) had now the honour to fill.
(Lord
thus stated the reasons why tins subjea had
not been subrnitte4 at an earlier period to the consi-
deration of Parliament, he should now feel it his
'doty to propose to them a measure of great energy,
which would put the Country to much inconve-
nience, which would subiett it to severe sacrifices,
but which was rendered indispensable by the cir-
`g e..umstances of the times, and by the measures of the
late Administration. On this point he felt relieved
1 from the necessity of entering tido a particular mid
detailed description of this necessity. The present
situation of Europe was enough of itself to rouse the-
. public attention. If the late Administration allowed,
when they were in office, that the Military strength
of the-e
Country was inadequate to its objects, how