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London, England, 1802-12-07 00:00:00

110 USE OF COMMONS,

moNoAy, nEc. 6.
AN AcCount was laid before the House of the
iturrber of Ships employed in the Whale Fishery
horn Scotland.
Also an Account of the Quantity of Rice and
Corn imported, af,d the Bounties paid thereon.
Also an Account fro the Exchequer, showing
the Amount of the Permanent Taxes from Oaober
Y.:Sot, to OP.° 18oz.
Admiral to:Er. E y presented a Petition from the
'Brewers of Gloucester, against the late Duty on
.Beer.

A Petition was presented, complaining of a double
Return from the Burgh of Stirling, in Scotland._
Orctered to be taken into consideration on the zest
IA December.
7-I.)e S,PAKER said, he had received a Letter
from the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland, complain-
ing of an undue Election for the County of the Town
of Carrickfergus.
Another Petition was presented from Coventry.—
Ordered to be taken into consideration on the same
day with the former.
A Petition from Leominster was presented, com-
plaining of an undue Elation, which was ordered
to be taken into consideration on the sth of April.
Two Petitions from Aylesbury—to be taken into
consideration on the 7th of April.
Mr. BLAcKEURNE presented a Petition from
Middlesex, from WILLIAM MAJNWARING, Esq.
Complaining of partiality in the Sheriffs, RAW.
t..tNs and Cow, as Returning Officers, during
the late EleEtion, and also of corrupt prac-
tices being employed on the said .Elettion.
Ordered to be taken into consideration on the Izth
of April. Petitions were also presented, complaining
of•undue Eleetions, from Malden, fixed for the 14. th
of April ; Honiton for the 19th ; Shaftesbury fur the
a. Ist April ; Carrickfergus for the 26th April ;
Windsor for the Och April ; Weymouth and Mel-
combe Regis for the 3d May.
The CHANCL4LOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that as the time approached in which the Re-
cess usually took place, he thought it necessary to
suggest to the House the propriety of deferring the
Petitions until after that Recess. He felt himself
justified in making that motion, both with a view to
public business, arid to the convenience of Mem-
bers. In the years 1790 and 1796, there was no
instance of any Petition being heard before Christ-
mas, that had been presented so late as the present
Petitions were, with the exception only of two
petitions, the one of. which was for o double return,
and which therefore necessarily claimed an early
bearing, the other was from Southwark, and which
the House heard from peculiar circumstances attend-
ing the case. He therefore conceived that he should
promote the public business, and contribute to the
convenience of Members, by now moving, that no
Petition be heard till after the Recess. He there-
fore gave notice that he should make a Motion to
that effed on Wednesday next, and on Friday he
should move to fix the days on which they were to
be heard. There was a Petition from Great Grimsby
fixed for the 9th inst. he should propose to fix it
for the T 4th, merely pro forma.
Another Petition was presented from Great
Grimsby, which was fixed, after some conversation,
for the same day with the former
Mr. DicieENsoN presented a Petition from the
'Debtors confined in ilehester Gaol.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought tip the Report of the
f2omniittee of Ways and Means ; the Resolutions
were agreed to, and Bills were ordered to be brought
;re,

Trish Militia Bill was read a second time,
red to be committed to-morrow.
. , presented an account of the
• . - •r inking and bringing Fish to t:4.e
_.;radon and Westminster.—Ordered to

AltiS I TTA'RT moved for leave to bring in a

t :.,Wend an Aft of the 4.lst Geo. 111. which re:
iced to Navy Bills, which were circulating at an In_
retest of 3 "„id. per cent. per diem. The reason of this
Motion was, I.P. said, that the flourishing state of the
.3ountry enabled Gove:nment to circulate Exchequer
LiPs and. oth?,r Securities at a less interest, by which
~lving,of 90,c0p1, a year would be made to the
A-) üblic. —Leave was given to bring in the Bill.
ti e Order of the Day for the first reading of the
Indemnity ilia was discharged, on account of an
informality in the tide, and a new Bill was brought
in, and read a fir t time. _

The Committees of Supply and. Ways • and Is/leans
were put off WeJoesday.
.Sir E. N El'EAti n'iovetl, That there be laid befoN
the House an Ad:count of .the Expence for the Main.
tenance of Prisoners of War, payable in 402.
Ordered.—Adjourned till tO.II2OFTOW.
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