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IMPER lAL PA RUANI ENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS,,

FRIDAY, APRIL 6.

In the Appeal « Douglas v. Wilson," Sir Samuel
Rpnay was i;eard in reply. Judgment on Mon-
day:. " .

The Royal Assent •I,:ts notified by Commission to
the Exchequer 'Bills pending Bill, the Irish Distil-
leries Bill, the Sugar. Drawback Bill, the Irish
Sugar Bill, the Quarantine Superintendant's Bill,
the Westminster Sunday Toll Bill, and several local
and private Bills, in all 33. •

The Commissioners were the Loki Chancellor,
the Duke of ;Montrose, and Lord Walsinghem.
The Linen Duty Bill was read a thhd time and
passed.

The Irish Bilk Trade Bill passed through a Com-
mittee, and was reported. •
A conversation took.place on a Bill for rendering
valid a marriage which was invalid in law,and .legi-
timating the offspring, The Duke of Norfolk
moved to, postpone" the second reading for six
months, The Eatl of Westmorland argued in fa-
vour of the Bill. The Lord Chancellor and Lord
Elleriborough supported the Dicke of Norfolk's mo-
tion, on the grounds that it would tend' to prejudge
a question that .might come judicially before theM,
and might opt•rate great injustice to other parties.—
The motion was agreed to; and the Bill lost.
The Earl of HARROWBy laid on the table the Re-
, turns' from the different Dioceses relative to Livings
under 1;301. per annuM, and moved for an Abstra&
of them,. Which- was agreed to,
The 'Duke of Nottinui. wished to be informed,
whether the, Noble Earl intendrd to propose any
measure relative to this subject
The Earl of HARIZOWBY said, from the pecuniary
nature of the ititendt:d measure which he had on a
forstuer occasion mentioned, it must originate in the
the Commons. He was' confident that the present
staie of the •Church needed only to be known to in-
duce Parliament to:consent to the proposed measure.
Lord lixtio hoped that sufficient time would be
given to discuss the subjeet; and that ample infor-
mation would be laid bt-fore the House, particularly
as to .the. funds. already nosst-ssed by the Church. .
The Earl of H Attnoten V observed, that_the greater
part of the information necessary with respe4 to
the number of Livings under t5Ol. per annum, had
been laid on the table last .Session. The .returns of
four Dioceses were then wanting,,.whichwere now.
complete. He differed radically with the Noble
Lord as ,to his view of the subjea, and trusted that
Parliament would see the expediency 'of Givill&
that assistance to the Church which was so much
wanted:.

The Marquis.WELLE5L laid on the table some
additional Papers relative to'the Campaign in Spain,
and adverting to the documents alluded to by the
Marquis of Lansdowne on tim preceding day,
stated, that he intended to 1.:!), on the table some
further Papers on Monday, which would include all
the documents relating 'o the milit;lry operations or
political trabsa6tions, as connected with the Cam-
paign in -

. .
The Reversion Bill, some local and private Bills
were brought up by Air. Bankes, Sir. JacnbAstley,
Lord. Newark, Mr. William Smith, Sir JameSGra-
ham, and other Members or: the House cif Com-
mons, and. read a first time. The'Revcrgon
was ordered to be printed. •
Adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF CO4IIIIONS..
FRIDAY,. APRIL -
mp
The SPEAKER, accuA-:ied by the Vemberl, on
being summoned by the Usher of the-134ck Rod,
attended in ilie House of Lords to hear the Royal
Assent given, by commission, to several public and
private Bills. _

Sir
JOIIN NEWPORT postponed
,the further eon-
sidenit;on of the Itt-port of the Einbez-lenten,t 4'lll
till Wednesday.•

LATouctie pre•ser4f,4l a Petition from I.IT
Catholics of the Couniy of Carlow,. praying the re:
,--noval of disalnlities. Ordered to he on the table.
A Ales,.;_;e from 'the Lord', desired, the attendance
of J. C. Ctirwen, Esq. .to be examined before a
Committee of their House, on the subjea of
.from-grain.
_ The Hotise granted the required perinisiton.
Mr. COOPER presentii a copy=cat a letter from
.Mr. M'Leay to Mr. Hunt, dated February 1807,
calling upon thejatter to give securities for his otlic'e,
in the Ordnance.

The Ctcnroissat i t . and Barrack Estimates (in a
Committee of Supply) -were 2ostpOned till Monday'.
Mr. PERCEVAL gave notice, that on .Monday
next,. he should move, in the Committee of Ways
and Meani, for an additional issue of, Exchequer
Bills.

. ,
.•
I'he Innkeepers' Allowance B: was read a,seConCl
time, and committed for Monday. - . ..
Tne Irish Schools. Bill was rcad-a third time and
passed,

1111);;ES SALARIES.
On the motion of Mr. •PERcEvAtp the House
weor...into a Committee, to cin:,ider'of inEreasing the
saliries.ot.the Judges i,r SeOtiand and IrelJial. •
Mr. PEncEvAL'obs.rved, that list SessiOn the
salaries of the English Judges had been increased,
and the same considerations of the increased ex-
pence of living, and the propriety of the
.dignity of the judici d station, required that a pro-
portional increase should be r-,xientb d to the Ju(4cs
in every part of the Untled Kingdom. At : present
the salary of the Kirons of the Exchequer iii Seet-.
laud was, only 12001. a, yen-, a sin by 1W means
adequate to ti e,support (.f their (...,;nity r he there.:
fore proposed an acklitrou of 8001. which wou:d
make altogether a net 20001. a year., The Lord. of
Ses,iou- and. Justiciary lnl on't,y 17;001. 'their duties
were important,. attended with •the
increasing charge of goil,:g the circuit twice a ycar.:'
be prpposed for them zoi Addifion of 9001.- which
would give them a net inColbe of 26001—a ..,year.-
Ile proposed, also that ;the of the Lord Presi-
dent of the Session ,situtild be raised to 4,3061. that
of the Lord Justice clerk to 40001. and that of
the Chief, Baron-to 380.01. a year. With tbgard.
to h e Judges io Irelankh.lie proposed that the sala-
ries of the I'u she Judos of the diFerent Courts,
whin at present i.vcij.o only .(25001. a year, should be
t•iiiti to 30001. which would make them the same
with, the salarits 0-the smiler Judges in England.

•
The night Hon. Gentleman concluded with pro-
posing 'twoßes•lniions to the above efFeti.
Mr. HU,TCHINSON wished to call the attention of
the Right Hon. Gentleman to the inadequate salary-
ofthe Recorder ot.Cork, whose jurisdiaion.extended
over a distrita of thirty miles, And a. popUlation of
100,000 inhabitants. He submitted that some- ad-
ditional provision should be made for this Judge.
Mr. l'eticEvAL corcived that the Recorder of
Cork must look to that city, and not to the public,
for any increase of emolument. At least, in this
country, no sneh'application could lie listened to.
After a fe'w additional observations from Mr.
FOSTER, the Resolution for increasing the Salaries
of the'Jtidges in Ireland was put and-agreed to.
The'ResolutionS, propoSing an increasmf Judges
Salaries in Scotland, produced a short discussion.
• Lord A. HAMILTON professed 'himself not satis-
fied of the necessity for increasing the salaries'of the
Barons of Exchequer. It was notorious that the
duties they had to perform were far from. laborious
Mr. BOYLE COUt.2o::,:d; it i.vould.be- invidious to,
make a, marked distinction between their salaries
and those of the other Judgers in -Scotland.
Mr._,BßouonAm proft-ssed himself or the same.
opinion. He trusted, however, that steps would..
be taken to throw open the Court of Exchequer tn
Scotland to civil causes, as well as those conneEted
with the. Revenue. This would increase the im-
portance and 'Utility of the Court.
Mr. ADAM thought that the Chief Baron ought
to. have 40001. a-year, as well as the Lord -Chief
Justice Clerk. The dignity of the former was, in
his opinion, eqeal to that of the latter.
Mr.. PeticEv4r. bad no objeOion to insert that
sum in the Resolution, and if afterwards thought

to be too large, it might be diminished in the Bill.
The Resolutions were then agreed to, and the
Report was ordered to be received on Monday.
Mr. WHITBRBAD postponed his motion for• the
produaion
_of. Mr. Bathurst's correspondence, till;
Monday next. At the same time he wished to put
a question to the Right Honourable Gentleman op-
posite. Lord Chattam. had resigned his office of
Master of the Ordnance on the 3d March; was
any successor appointed to that office, which
hitherto bad bra thought of importance ? If it-
could remain vacant a month, ui-hoot detriment to
the public service, why not abolish it altogether as
unnecessary ?
Mr. PBficEVAL, as we -understood, replied, that
the appointment to this.office was at present under
consideration, and had not yet keerrv,ettled.
Mr. GoLpuaN Movei.l the order of the day for_ the
further. consideration of tlie Report of. the Local
Militia :Bid.

Mr. W4ITBRAD expreSsed a wish that this or.
der should be postponed, as being likely to create
a good deal of discussion, for which, after the fa-
tigues of lat night, the House W35..n0t in a fit state.
Besidoi, several of his f6ends, who had amendments
to propose, were nosy absent.

This request va acceded to, and the Bill went
through a Cormnitte pro furrini.„ when several
amendments were rtceived, and the Report was
ordered to be taker' is►to farther co►►sideration on
Monday.

el:he other orders of the dly were then disocs d
cf, and the floll3eadjournei till Monda.f.

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APP,IL 7, 1810.

The private. letters to the 24th ult. which accom-
pani,ed the Portuguese and Spanish RiperS brought
by the Cadiz yesterday,• (the chief contents of
whicli.appeared in THE ti.r.r of last nighty-4 tend
to give a- favourable account of the state of affairs
in the PeninsUla, and shew that wh;qever niay be
the.final issue, the Renck have very great difficul-
ties to encounter. •A sally was made.on the- 17th
from the Castle of San Pedro to Chiclana, about
seven Miles, and the Spaniards destroyed two bat--
terles, which had been, raised by the,. enemy.. Se-
veral hundreds of the latter were killed. The French
had not made any formidable attempts on Cadiz-
down to the Lad.

Some differences have arisen between the Re-
gency and the Puke of ALBUQUERQUE, the -ilex
Governor,of Cadiz, respelling the want of due pro•
visions,. clothing, &re. for the troops, but all things
had been settled quietly. The accounts from Cate_
lonia were very favourable. VICTOR (who has so
often been killed by report) and not SOULT, is said
to be the Commander of the French army that in-
vests Cadiz. His force consisted, at the date of
these diSpatches;of about 25,000 men.

By the
,accounts of dest•rters from the-enemy,
they are much in want of •pro+isioris. A packet
steering for Cadiz• saw On the 24th the fleet bound
for that port, with a reinforcement of troops. The
dispatches which arrived yesterday from Lord W 24-
LINGTON give a very gratifying account of the state
of our army on the Poi tuguese frontier 3, as well as
of the improvement of the native troops.'

A report was this morning circulated that the
French had taken Heligoland. We are happy to
say that iris Wholly unfounded, and that there is no
danger of that valuable little island falling into the
hands of the enemy.

Yesterday, a little before three o'clock, hisMA-
ZESTY visited lIICTiILiCCSS AMELIA.