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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.

THURSDAY, DEC. I.

THE House sat iri a Committee cif Privileges, af.
ter which some Papets were presented relative to
Queen Anne's Bounty, and ordered to lie on the
Table.

Adjourned till to-morrow,

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY,. DEC. r.
Sir WM. SCOTT rose for the purpose of mov-
ing for . leave to bring in a Bill on the subjeft of.
the Residence of the Clergy. It would be recollea.
ed by the House that 'a
Bill upon this subjea was
brought in by him at a very advanced period of the
Session, and past the House with a pretty general
assent. It went into another place, and was there
understood to be rejefted on account of some money
provisions it contained, and which trenched on
the supposed privileges of a part of that Assembly.
IL: had been under the painful necessity of pressing
that Bill last Session, and discussing the provisions
at considerable length, but he felt great satiefac.
tion that no such necessity existed at present, for
the Bill which he intended to submit to the House,
would be the same 'as that which .had already met
its approbation, with the difference of a few provi.
siuns to facilitate its execution, and with the omis.
sion of that for which it was rejeaed in the other
I-louse of Parliament. He therefore moved " That
leave he given to bring in a Bill for encouraging
she Residence of, Stipendiary Curates on their
Cure.."—Leave given.
Sir Wm. SCOTT brought up the Bill immediate.
ly, which was read a first rime, and ordered to be
read a second time tomorrow, and after the blanks
have been filled up, the Bill will be printed.
Mr. SMITH reported at the Bar, that HIS MA.,
3 EST v had been waited upon with an Address of that
House, , when His Mat ere had been graciously
pleased to say he would give dire/lions accordingly.
Sir Plt tete STEPHENS brought up an Estimate of
certain probable Expences and Money that may be
wanted for the Transport Service of Sick and Wound.
ed Prisoects, &c. which were ordered to be laid on
the Table.
Mr, HOEHOUSE brought up the Report of the
Committee of Supply, voting too,ooo Seamen, in.
Clotting 23,000 Marines, any, for defraying the Ex.
pence of such Vote, &c,
'The Resolutions were read and agreed to.
Mr. VANSITTART moved, that the House do to-
morrow resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and
Means, for raising a Supply granted to His Majes.
ty.—Ordered.
The CIIANCELLOI% of the EXCH EQSJ RI gave no.
tice, that lie should to.morrow, in that Committee,
move, that Five Millions be raised by Exchequer
Sills; and also, in the same Committee, he should
propose the annual burn on Land and Malt, He
then moved, that there be laid before the House an
account of Exchequer Bills outstanding from the first
day .pi .i.ltestraber tilos., to the first of December
48c:a.—Ordered.
The CiI,OCELLOR ethe EXCHEQUER said,
that a Right Honourable Friend of his (Sir WI e.
LIAM Scoir) had made a Motion for leave to bring
in a Bill sitoiln to that which passed the House last
year, It would be recolleaed by the House that,
during the progress of that Bill, a Motion was
made to give instruftions to the Committee to con.
eider of provision to be made to such persons as
sluaild be deprived of their Cures by that Bill;
which instruction was adopted, and a Resolution in
pursuance of it was ingrafted on the Bill, which
8,11 was earned into the House of Lords, but was
thete lost on account of sonic informality arising,
lie believed, on that Resolution. He should there.
fore move that now as a separate Resolution. He
then moved, " That the House do to.mor.
Tow resolve itself • into a Committee of the
whole H ;use, to consider of the expediency of
affording proper relief to such Curates as may be
deprived of their Cures by the operation of the Aft
of the last Session of Parliament for providing for
the'Residence of the Clergy."—Ordered.
Lord CASTL.EitEMIII brought up 2' Bill to regu.
late the Bonds issued by the East-India Company
with respea to the Rate of Interest and Duty pay.
tilde thereon.
Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second
time on Monday next, and to be printed.
Mr. VANsITTART brought in a Bill for continu.
ins, fur a time to be limited, the Resttiftion on the
li,mk of England with respell to the payment in
Cash.

Read a fit* time, and ordered to be read a second
time to-morrow.
Mr. Ho nn ousß brought up a Report of the Corn.
mime on Expiring Laws ; most of the Resolutions
of which, concerning the importation of Corn, &c.
were postponed and referred to a Committee of the
whole iLose to-morrow, and some of them were
agreed to, and Bills ordered to be brought in pur.
suant to them.
Mr. farms moved the Order of the Day for the
H Joke to resolve itself Into a Committee of the
whole House on the Seamen's Desertion Bill.
The House went into a Committee on the 11111,
and the Blanks were filled up, and certain Amend.
filen! made,
The allowance to the Sheriff for travelling ex.
ponces, in conduEting a Sailor back to the Port Ad.
miral, is two shillings per mile ; to travel at the
rate of forty miles per day, The penalty fur non.
performance ofduty under this Sill is tool.
The Bill then passed the CoMmittee, and the Re.,
port was ordered to be received to.mottow.
I.IVI
Mr. DENT presented a Petition on behalf of the
Merchants and other Inhabitants of the Town of
Liverpool, praying for leave to fortify that Town,
and to raise Money lot the purpose of defraying the
txpence of it.
'I6:SPEAKER observed, that as this was a Pe.:
titian, part of the effeet of which would be to raise.
money on the subjefi, the House could.not enter.,
Utin' it without a recommendation from the Ctowo.
16, C/lANCELLOR s./. the EXCintutlu
said, that the HOD, Gentleman who hid brought in

this Petition, had had the goodness to communicate
to him the nature of ir, and he had no difficulty in,
recommending it to the House on behalf of the
Crown, as far as His Majesty could have an interest
in it.

The Petition was then brought up and read. It
stated it to he the opinion or military persona of.
;eminence, that in consequence of the defenceless
state of the town of Liverpool, it was necessary to
have Gun-boats provided, and certain works of de.
fence erefied at the mouth of the Harbour that
the Trustees of the Dade had proceeded at their
own expence,•rn fortify it in a considerable degree,
but it was found insdicient for entire and secure
defence ; that it was expedient to proceed much
further for that purpose; that this plan has been
communicated
.to the principal inhabitants in gene- ,
ral, who have expressed their acipiescence, but
that such plan canktf. he accomplished without
ising money for that purpose by way of Loanothich
cannot be done without the aid of Parliament, and
praying for leave to bring in .a Bill for that purpose,
On the question for laying the Petition on the
Table,

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, that the Hon. Gentleman who brought up
this Petition had had the goodness to communicat.
to him the general purport of it, and he had them
fore recommended it from the Crown, as far as His
Majesty was concerned in it with the form and.
words of the Petition he was wholly unacquainted
before he heard it read at the Table ; but had he
heard it all read before he recommended it from the
Crown, he should have exercised his discretion,
and given his general consent to it on the part of
the Crown as far as His Majesty was concerned.--
It was not his intention to make many observations
on the particular pits of this Petition at present,
parts of which he was confident must have attradled
the attention of the House. What might be the in_
tention of thrkEnemy was a question into which he
was not at present disposed to enter, neither should
he say any thing now on the public spirit which
had manifested itself in Liverpool ; it was well
known and esteethed ; but there was a dele&in the
Petition as it stood, to which a remedy must be ap.
plied in the Bill, if it should be the pleasure of the•
House to grant leave tobring it in. The Huse
would certainly not allow any works for any milita.
ry or naval purpose to be eretted any where in His
Majesty's Dominions, without the express direftion
of the King himself—neither .would the House
allow any money voted by the House, to be applied
to the ereeting of any such works, but under the
immediate direCtion of His Majesty. This was
incumbent on him to state, that:the Parties might
understand the condition on which he ventured
to give the recommendation of the Crown to this
Petition, in order that it might be understood what
Course he expeCted the measure to take when it came
before the House in the shape of a Bill. So that
the House would supply that defeat which •was at
present apparent on the faCe of this Petition. He
then quoted a case which happened in the year 1798,
which was similar. to the present, in which the
measure Was adopted. He consented, in the quail.
fled manner he had stated, to this Petition, it would
be for the House to say what further proceeding
would be proper.

Mr. ChEtVEY said, that this was the very first
time he had ever heard of,the defenceless state of
Liverpool. It had appeared to the Chief Corn.
mander of that Disttia, that Liverpool was a
vulnerable place: the idea never occurred before,
althongli the Navy of France was much greater than
at present. He doubted very much whether the
majority of the people of Liverpool thought this
measure necessary ; at all eventai if it was so, the
expence should not fall on the inhabitants, for it
was a national conceit), and ought to be at the Na.
don's expenee.

The Petition was then referred to s'Committee,
who are to examine the matter thereof, and 'report
it, as it shall appear to them, to the House.
Mr CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, he wished to be distintt►y understood as not
haviag pledged himself to suppert this measure by
the recommendation of the Crown ; all he lt,td done
was merely to put it in a train for investigation ;
for without the recommendation of the Crown the
measure could not have been entertained in the
House, He had consented, on the part of His Ma-
jesty, merely that the parties might not be debarred
from an opportunity of having the matter considered.

Mr. DENT said, the Petition was signed by se.
sera respettable Merchants of Liverpoid, added to
which, the Military Officers of the Distria thought
it necessary that additional measures of defence
should be resorted to for that Town. For this put.
pose ao,oool. had already been raised by subictip.
lion. He wished for nothing more than that the
case should be fully considered, particularly as the
measures alluded to were thought to be necessary by
His Majesty's Generals.
The Petition was ordered to he referred to a
Committee to consider the same, sod report thereon,
Adjourned at live o'clock till to-tuotrows