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London, England, 1822-05-22 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1822.

PA in.! AM E N ,

HOUSE Ox''LOltnr,'TUESDAi, MiT
Counsel were ;ward in a• Committee of Privi;
loges on the MarchniontVeerag,e...
. Sir JAMES °umiak, and ohm, from the Commons,
brought-up the Irish Malt DuLi.'s* Repeal Bill, and several
private Bills,- which wereread; afirat time.
The LORD CHANCETILOR presented a petition from the
Dean and t hapter of Gloster, priying that the Bill fcir allowing
Cath'olie -Peers to sit and Note in eeeliament might not be
passed into a law. 4 3is Lorcblilp ditai presented another peti-
tion, with a similar prayer, from the inhabitants of the perish
of St. Martin; Leicester.-211liere'iTits an 'hiforinality in the pe-
tition, to which he thought it necessary to call their Lordships'
attention. It appeared that the petitioners supposed that the
oaths proposed to be'arspe.nsed with were those, inri;osed-by' the
statute of Charles Ti., wheacas tile provisions ot.' that .s.:aturiliaa
been repealed by the Act of William' 'This C441:11:
'Stance he, bc.wever, presumed, would form no objection'to=the
receiving the petition, as it appeared that the petitioners had
. been misled by what had passed On the subject of AM Bill in
Parliament ; for, when the, Bill was first iniroduced,Tit, teas so
worded as to repeal.t4e....A.ci,-- of rler 11., notwithstanding,
as he had .already . observed, that Statute was repealed by
the Act of William 111. As the petitioners. had been,Misled
in the same way as'. certain Learned Lawyers and Statesmen in
another place, he had'no doubt but that their Lordships would
overlook their mistake.
Lord HOLLAND agreed with the Noble and Learned Lord,
that there'eould be no objection to receiving, the Petition, as
the mistake amounted only to a slight irregularity. But. the
irregularity
of and Learned Lord seemed to think that the
of the Petitioners wars. excused by the eaampleset them in the.
Bill. Now he belieVed Hiatt if their Lordships had an opP-or:
t unity of looking at the Bill, as it was originally broughtinto
the other House, they 'wotild find, that though it was true the
act of William and Nary was hot referred to, yet it was
tinctly mentioned that the act of Charles 11. had been repealed.
The Commons, however, had supplied this neglect, and it was
surely hot a little singular that the Noble and Learned Lora
should think it 'necessary' to complain that a measure sent io
their Lordships' consideration should come before them in as
correct a state as possible. •
The 'LORD CHANCELLOR did not complain of the cot.-
rection ; but the fact of its having been made showed the neces-
sity of their'Lotdships well-knowing the object and nature of
this Bill before triey proceededlo legislate upon it. . .
Lord MELVILLE presented a Petition from .Brechin
against the Roman Catholic Peers' Bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN gave notice, thitt if the Dill
for giving employment to the people in the distressed districts
of:lreland shoUld come before their hardships to-morrow, he
would, in order to facilitate its progress, move that, the "Sand-
in' Orders relative to the passing of Bills be suspended.--
Adjourned.

POUSE OF. COMMONS.
AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS--

Mr. CANNING presented a Petition
.front the Merchants
of Liverpool interested in the Trade in Foreign Corn, ex-
pressing their regret at the rejection of the. Resolution which
lead been propbsed by. the Marquis of ,Londontlery fpr..per-
ruitting the Foreign ebrn warehoused in this country 'to be
ground for the purpoee of exportation in the shape of flour,
and offering to the House their suggestions why that Resolu-
tion might not to have been abandoned.
Mr. CANNING, in moving that the 'Petition should be
printed, said he felt it his duty to observe, that although, as
at present informed, he concurred in the opinion expressed by
the Petitioners he could not help regretting the tone whiCh
they had thought proper to adept iu several paragraphs of-their
-Petition., Concurring however, as tit present informed, in the
opinion of the Petitioners, he should tecl it his duty, unless
when the Bill should be in the Contmitee some Hon. Member
of the Akricultural Cornmi:tee shotrld come forward in sup-
port of the proposition of the Agricultural Corutitt*e ques-
tion' himself to propose its adoption. . •
After a few words from Mr. Cu awmr and Sir I. CorPpr,
the Petition was ordered to be printed.
Several Petitions were presented against the Resolutions of
the House of Commons relative to the Irtiportation of Foreign
Corn by Mr. Lawley from the Owners and Occupiers of
Land in the'county of Warwiclie;-by Sir A. Campbell, from
the Directors of the Chamber of Coutmerce and Manufactures'
of Glasgow ; by Mr. Curteis, from the Owners and Occu-
piers of Land of the counties of Sussex and Suffolk; by Sir
T. Lethbridge, from the Owners and Occupiers of Land Of
the county of Dorsct ; by Mr. Fane, from the Owners and
Occupiers of Land in Oxfordshire ; and-by -Mr. H. Sumner,
from the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the county of SurreY.