The Sun.
London, England, 1804-07-17 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, JULY 16. .
The committal of Tighe's Divorce Bill wai post.
coned till, to. morrow.
The Woolwich Ordnance Lands Bill, the Ac.
comptant.Generd's Bill, and the Vote of Credit,
Bill, were severally read a third time, and passed. -
A person from the Mint presented an Account of
the Silver Bullion brought there, and the Silver
coined the're' since the' year 1797..--Ordered to lie_
on the Table. •

The Report of the Committee on the Irish Re.
venue Collettion Bill, was brought up,
Nlt" HUTCHIN.oN, on behalf of the Distillers of
Ireland, observed, that they were prohibited to send
Spirits to this Country in any vessels of less bur.
then than zoo tons he wished to know, if it was
intended that any alteration should be made for
their relief, from the inconvenient; of sending spi.
rits only in vessels of that description, and from be.
.ing subject to the controul of the' Cuatom.house
Officers ? He also wished to know, whether or not
any remuneration was intended to be made to them
in consequence of the inconvenience arising from the
alteration in the size of their stills ?

Mr. Octmiuy said, that this Bill related to the
internal regulation of Iceland, and. had nothing. t.ti
do with, the regulations in England ; that the Irish
Government could not at present interfere, but that
arrangements ►hould be made as to the inconvenient
cies complained of. As to the eipence of altering
stills, he understood it was very trifling.
The Bill was thcn otdered,to be read a third time
to•mortow,

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A ••person from the Commissioners of, Naval)n..
(juicy presented the Bth Report, which was ordered'
to lie on the Table, and to he printed.
On the Motion of the ATTORNVIC. GENERAL,
the engrossed Bill from the Lords, intitilled, " A
13i11 for the more speedy Adininistratinn•of Jubilee,"
was read a second time, and• ordcred.to he
ted to.marrow, •

Lord CASTLEREAGH I)ostponed the further COQ.
sideration of the Report of, the Committee on the
East India Budget, till Thursday tit*. 11, also
gave notice, that, on that day, he vwutild move fur
the produaion of certain 45:FOunts,-"Arhich would
bear some analogy to the very iMpOitant 409 con-
tained in the conclusions drawn by an• Hon.
man opp9site to Tim. . .
Mr. HusxlSB3/44 presented certain Mounts rum
the Receiver (.I':neral of , the Land Tax. Ordered
to be printed.
The London Additional Force Bill was read, a
third time, and pissed.
Mr. liu..xlisou moved the farther ,consideration
of the BA, for imposing
Duties.

After a few words frmn'Mr. k.R, who made
a Motion relative to subjecting to veniiitic?, pershni,
drawing 'leaseii or 4,;o6;eyances• without a litei:er,
which was nut agree‘i to, the Bth, with the Amend.
Merits, was
,ordrred to be engrossed, and read a
third time r.o.nint row.

The. I.onill‘wl D ck Warehoming Bi.l, and tile
Irish Treasury hills Bills were severally read a third
time, and passed.

ADDITIONAL. FORCE AMENDMENT BILL.

On the motion iliac this Bill be read a thiriilme,
Cilotiel c:R.I.WeURP rose, he said, in order to
ask a question of the Right Hon. Gentleman ol•pv.
site to him. This Bill had been introduced or..
der to rernOVe all daubs exiting in, a former. Aft
relative to purchasing lands'for the purpose oferett.
ing Fortifications ; he wished, therefore, to know
.if, .by the intrUduCtiOn.of &Lich 'ts' Bill ar'this late
period of the Session, it was intended to ,proceed
to the ereCtion of any particular Fortifications or
Military.
_Works, against the next Session of Par-
.liament ?

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The. CHANCEL LO R EXCH'EQ,U4 R said;
that the Legislature had already thought proper to
grant powers for that purpose ; but these not being
sufficiently explicit, the present MI was intended
to amend and. render this more tffedive. These irn.
prOventents 'were therefore introduced upon general
grounds, and had no reference to any particulai
procedure.
Colour/ CRAWFURD then said, that if His Ma.
jesty's. Ministers had any ()bled in contemplation,
he should certainly think it his duty fo move, that
an account of the expences thereof should be laid
befrtre Parliament. it was certainly the duty of
Ministers' to :inform the House of their ioten.
Lions, in order that the necessary expence might be
provided, and the Public Money nit voted away
without the consent of Parliatuent, upon a proper
estimate, so far as the.same could be made up. He
suspeded that
.some works of that nature had al.
ready been crated during the present. War, without
any such estimates being put in.

Sir WM. PULTENift said, that as His Ma.
jesty's CHANCHLLOR of the Excit EQU ER had just
4low told the House, that the present Ma was
brought in only upon general grounds, he was lei to
imagine, that no particular exertion was to he loolt.
ed.for before the meeting of Parliament next Session,
He thought, that from the conduit 'of Minitteit

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been of late greatly relaxed, as to the apprehenstor
of invasion. His Majesty's Ministers, unless they
had really good reasons for thinking the dangers
not so pressing, _ought,- on the contrary, to have
endeavoured to.:have kept up the zeal, public spirit
and energy of the country. We certainly, had
already been making great preparations;--brit--lie
might ask, had nor the enemy also been nniking vast
preparations, so. as to, keep pace with us in every
particular ? On the whole, "lie was led to imagine
that the codntry was not•at this present moment
properly awake to a just sense of its dangers.
was a fad, in: his opinion, that' the enuntry is at
preientin very imminent. danger, and he was 'gad
that the, Hon. Gentleman had I ut such a question
•
to the 'Reght Han. Gentleman, as he (Sir WIL-
LIAM PULTENEY) had thereby an opportunity af-
forded him of expressing these his sentiments ; but
he co.ifessed himself at die same time somewhat
sorry at hearing the answer that had been made.
Dr. LAWRE,\ CE said, that he understood some
months ago that Fortifications wore to be'made, and
he thought them very necessary fur the Defence of
the CoLinfry: He would wish to know, why such
plans. as had been fortherly approved of by • the Right
I-fon. Gentleman himself, had not been carried into
effefil • •

The CH ANCEILOR cfihe EXC,YIEQUER
he had never meant to assert (as the Hon. ,Baronet
insinuated he had done), that all danger a Invasion
was ove:. He certainly thought, that considerable
prOgress bid been made to,bring forward our Force
to a state of as great perfeCtion as possible; and he
trusted, that our means of &log so were yet incrnso.
ing. He.sliould be sorry to find any person itnagine
that our present situation did not still require our
utmost energy and exertion. Upon the very last
application tor a Vote of Credit, 'the Country 110
been represented as in very great danger. He could
assure the Hon. Gentleman opposite. to him, that be
had not changed his mind as to the necessity olusing
every means he had formerly approved of for the,
defence of the Country, and that every thing that
could possibly he suggested by the must skilful 10.
litary men would be attended to. .
Sir WILLIAM PULTENEY said a few words 10
explanation ; after which, •
The. ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought Up two Ad-
ditional Clauses, which were added to the Bill by
way of rider. The .Bill was then read a third time,
and passed.
Sir E. Nitretalr postponed the committal of the
Bill for appointirg.Commissioners to inquire into
the Fees of Public Qffites. in Ireland till- to-morrow..
The House 'then went into a Committee n1)13111110'
Irish Warehousing Bill, after h4ring a few obser•
v.atioat, from Coliiallityrcit t MON agaioit the
riVete'answered by the CriAt4cittl.oB.
of the EXCIiSQUII4...
Un
the
eH
to.i seretsrrrw.iong,
the Report was ordered
robe received

-The Irish
.Reveliue Bill was next committed.
Report to be recoved to.morrow,
Theturther e,nsideratio.l of the Report on tb.
Loyaltt.l.o4o _kill) was postponed till to.mortow.
Adjuurilt.d. . •