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London, England, 1807-01-28 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS;

TUESDAY, JAN. 27. '
THETFORD ELECTION. •
The House ballotted for a Committee to tr.;/ tho
merits of the Thetford Bieaion -Petition. The
Members ,on the ,reduced list were these=-='
ose'*'=
PascoeGrenfell, fsrl. Geor:le Hibbert, Esq,
Charles O'Hara, Esq. PrialtOae
Robert Ferguson, Esq. - l'olin Fane,.E,A.
The Hon. Hairy Lyttleton .Arthur Srulcepeare,
Sir Robert Williams, Bart. . Hr.n. Clia.lattreiwe Dundas
George Anson, Esq. Lord Ileadly.
Esq.•
Samuel Whitbread, Esq.?
Nomirlees,
Robert Fellowes, Esq. s

FINANCES, .
Lord HENRY PETTY' rot:et-or the purpose, Of giv.
ing notice, that on Thursday nest he .would move
certain, Resolutions relative to the Finances. The
most formal way of doing so would be in a Cotes •
Mit tee of the: whole House and therefore* he begged.
leave now to move,' that the House do, on hurs-
day .next, resolve itself into a Committee for tit/
purpose of receiving and considering these Resolu-
tions.—Ordered, .

MR. DAVISON. •
Lord A. HAMILTON gave notice, that to-morruw
he'would move for certain Papers, which would
tend to illustrate some transaaions in &Third Mi.
litary Report relatiye to the case of Mr. Davison..

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rgNsioNs AND OFFICES
' Mr: SWAN
,moved, that thrc.' be laid before the
Hodie--iSt. An Account.of all the Perisiotis gralt-
ed by the crown, from the Ist of April, 1805, to
tilt; Ist of January, 1807, as far as regards Great
Britain. ~ •

• 2d. An Account of all new OfEces and Additions.• to Salaries, whether in the shape of .Fe...s or other
wise, granted during the sane period,. as far as re-
gard 4 Great Britain. •

3d. An Account of all the Pensions gracited
the Crewn.durnt the same perioct as far as regard;
Ireland.. .

-4th. An Account of ali new o.lices and' Addi-
tions to Salaries, in the shape of Fees, Vic. granted
during the same period, asfar as regards Ireland,
All these Nl:minus were agreed co.
The Report of the Supply, as far as respeaed
the 1,000,0001. on Exchequer Bills for Ireland, was
brought'up, the Resolutions agreed to, and a Bill
ordered.

OAK BARK.
' Mr. HERBERT i-noved, thit a Conatriittee' be ap-
poiGted to considei the 'Act of Janaesi; relatiVe to
Oak "lark.

PLositit seconded the Motion, becanqe* he
thought it pe,.-uliUrly hard upon the Tanners that
this one elanse should he repealed, While the others
were stiffered to remain-. • He thought therefore
that the appointment of a.aoniinittee to ekani ine the
whole Aet was highly prope
The ComMittee 'Was. then appointed, and ordered,
td 'report their observations and opinions to the
House. •

All the Petitions-on this .cubjea were, on the Mo-
tion of Lord TEMPLE, ti!'dered to be refeKredto the
Committee., .

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, .
Mr. WYNI4E brought up.an.Account of_ the ef-
festive strength of-the Volunteers,- which bad been
before.ordered.-by the :House,---Ordered to lie on
the table. . . _ ....i

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Mr. WYNNE moved for leave to.bringin a Bill to
continue the Ads of the, 37th of.. the King, of tlae
British and Irish ,Parliaments, to prevent .the. seduc-
tion of Boldiers and Searnen.—Leave given.

SCOTCH CLERGY.
The LORD .ADVOCATE FOR SCOTLAND moved the
Order of the Dayfor the second reading of the Scotch
Clergy Bill.
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•
ST?: WILLIAM DUNDAS highly' approved of
the Bill.' Since the publicationn-of the intention to
alter the iorin.o(proceeding in the Court of Session,
the Clergy bad been running a race order to ob-
tain augmentations before the new regulations should
take place.
_This occasioned disputes between the
Clergy and the Landholders. The Court of Session
had power to give augmentations tfli the tythes were
exhausted. As there vi; ere so many applications;
he thought that the evil ough(to be remedied; and
some repose given to the Clergy to attend to their
duty for 18 or 20 years...

31r. IV/11, observed, that if this was thq
true state of the;case,• it formedan argument. not
only lor:this Bill to suspend the power of the Court
of Session, but also for the proposed regulations,
for if that Court exercised its power of grinitin'g atig-
mentaions and without consido,,ration, it
was 4 good reason why •it should be deprived of it.
And if the Clergy shewed such ithproper
.greediness,
certainlythey ought to 'be restrained. He Was sorry,
however, to hear this charaaler ofj hem, for he had
before underS;ood that the CiergY,of Scotland were
a most respeEtable body of men, aginst wborn.there
was less ground of reproach than almost any (Aber
class whatever. Th..:House was not insa situation,
however, to decide upon these posnts, and therefore
this could not be any argument in favour of the Bill;
at present. That, in 'addition to this, it. would be
hard to stop suits already commenced, and. therrfore
if there were a great many suits of this sort pending,
this was rath-r an argunient for not suspending thtt
powers or the Ccurt of session.

Mr. IVILLM DUNDdS, in explanation,
denied his hayi. g expressed au distrust of the Court

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Mr. MELLisn presented a Petition from several
Tamers, against the Oak. Bark Bill, wbich was or-
dered in be referred tdtbe-C6mmittee.

Upon Motion of Mr. PAR NELL, the Committee
'upon .the 23 tll of the King, respeaing Woollen-yarn,
was.postponed until o-rnort oNtr.
Upon Motion of Sir JOHN NEWPORT, the Irish
Customs Office Abolition Bill went through a Com-
ritittee, and the -Report. ofderecl to be received to-
ti orrow.--Ther-louse theit adjourned.

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WEDNESDAY, JAIWARY 28, 1807.

By the Goitenburgh Mail of the 20th instant,
which airived this morning, Stockholm and copen-
tingen Gazettes, up to the 14th have keen received'
Nyhich contain nd _intelligence of any :importance
relative to the military .operations in Poland.
Letter from a Gentleman; who on the loth
inst. arrived at Ystadt from Stralsund, states, that on
,his departure from the latter place no news had been
.received there from the Armios.

of Sescion, or having said any thing disrmeeifui to
the,Clergy of Scotland. What he said was„ ;hat
some reposp was d4rable for the Clergy, and he
was not singular in this opinion, for the present Pre-
-sident of the Court of Session; had, when Lord Ad-
vocate, iutrOduced.a Eill for discontinuing the suits
for augmentation for '4O years.

Mr. HORNER, said, that he understood the Bill
to be brought in, not in the spirit of hostility to the
Court of Session, but the contrary, for it was in-
tended as a relief to them. The power to grant
augmentations belonged fo the Members of the
Cport of Session only as Commissioners. It was
Dot a business that came under their jurisdiClion as
a Court of Justice, b,lt properly of a legislative nar
lure. This business had lately very much increased,
;Ind it was proper that the court should be relieved.
lie highly complimented the Clergy. of. Scotland,
who Were distinguished for their piety and good
morals. Their emoluments, be said, were very in,
adequate to their station, and the duties they had to
perform.
The LORD ADVOCATE disclaimed any dis-
trust of the Court of Session, or any disrespe& to
the'Clergy of Scotland. It was bi 4 pride to be de-
seehded from a family which the Clergy of Scot-
land, who were eminent for their learning, piety,
And morals, had always looked up to as their firmest
friends. The obje& of the Bill was to relieve. the
Court of Session frorn a press of business of this
nature. No less than 149 suits for augmentations
had commenced since July last.
After soave 'frirther conversation between Mr.
Re'vkiwpiq, Mr.. WM. DuNpas, Mr.. PERCIVAL,
Mr. STURpES BOURNE and the LORD ADVOCATE,,
the Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
'committed oh this day se'nnight.
IRISH, ELEcTit)tsr BILL.

Sir JOHN NEIVPORT moved the' Order of
tine Du for going into a Committee on the Irish.
Election 13111.

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The House having resolved. itself into a Corn-
niittee, several new clauses. and amendments were
proposed by Sir JOHN NEWPORT; Mr. Coady, Col.
ARfor, and some other Members. One of the,
Pew clauses proposed and adopted, was.tor prolong-
ing the time. for entering into recognizances to pro,
secute a. Petition, from 14 days to 28 ; and the-
grotlnd assigned for this.clause was, that great delay
might be. occasioned'by contrary winds in crossing
the channel. _Sir Joni.: NEWPORT proposed an
amendment for reducing the Clerks' • fees for taking
,own the evidence before the Commissioners' in
Ireland, froM 6d. to 3d. a Sheet ; and providing that,
n .no case, whatever the length of the proceedings
might be, the Clerk should charge moro.than 501.
for a copy of them to the parties. Sir JOHN NEW.-
pORT also proposed a clause for preventing any person
having or claithing a right to vote, from wing
either as Commissioner or Clerk, without the con-
tient of both the parties interested.
Mr. CURRY suggested' some amendments to the
Bill, but said he rather threW them out for the con-
gideration of his Bight Honourable Friend (Sir J.
Newport), and he should not embarrass the pro--.
ceeding byproposing them regularly as amendments.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, lie highly approved
of the alterations suggested by his Right Honourable
friend, and 4,0 u-kt pay every attention to them.
ne Bill having gone. through the Committee, it
was agreed, on the suggestion of the SPEAKER,
that the Report Should be immediately brought up,
and t4e Bill be printed. The Report was immedi-
ately brougftt up, and ordered to be taken into con-
sideration on Monday.
The Bill was ordered to be printed, and it:was un-
derstood that it was to be're-Committed.