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1-10U,SE OF.PEERS,
THURSDAY, MARCH 1.

The Thank of the. House were moved and agreed
tO by the Archbisoop of Cailterbury, to the Bishop of
~Chester,, for his occellent Sermon preached before
their Lordships on the Fa-t Day. .
•r DISTILLLRIES. • •
- Lord Ai.sum ARO; rose to present. a Nfition against
the:llia from, die bit ani s of tie town of vi
in Norfolk. .His Lb,tiship siron;;ly reprobated the
haste with which it was aitempted to :hurry ii,e Bill
throngb. the The tilior inatioti moved for by a.
Noble Friend.of his (Lord Itardikicke), . which l
••• conceived to. be es.etoial to a full- and satisfactory
. discussion of t::eirisiasur,,, liad'not vet' been' laid on .
• . their Lordships' table:- The Petitioners- witted to he
heard by their COuit;el:agains•t the Bill; but it way im-
possible, owing to‘the' burry with which it •vi' as en--
oeavoured to pi eci pitote thelteasure;
tic ready this day to plead their C..(.16t before t heir. Lord-
ships.. It was 'nut ..only- rave parties concerned it, the
'town of Lynn,. bin be. verily believed. th..t every-,
:town in. Nerfolk.wori:cl .petition their Lord-
ships against the Bill,it•due time Were allowc,ithem
to prepare and present their petitions. In that view
he, should move that the second reading of the Bill
be deterred till Mcinday next. -- •
. Lord BATutra,T would hare no difficulty in ac-
ceding.to the ru,nion-cf 'the Noble Lord,' if the
passing 'of the Bill w,is not -of the utmost urgency.
The Sill,now in force- 'expired- in the-course of Next
week, and therefore he could not see -how the'pro-
gress of the Bill could_ be dell-Tech He did not mean
to object to hearing
_the Petitioners by' Counsel
but he thought they might' as well be heard. in
some future stage of the Bill, as well-as on the se
cond reading.
A conversation here arose-on the subject of post-
poning the second readirig of the Bill. till Monday, in
which Lords Albemarle, Hardwick,e,. Darnley, Hol-.
land, Lauderdalei,- Li.e.4 pool, and Sidnicaith'ti.iok a
• Dart. I,t was' insisted' upon by Liu-di Albemarle,
. -HarSwicke, DariiLy, and Lauderdale,: was
.absolutelyfnecessary to wait for the produttion of
• the paPers moved fOr befote the principle of the Bill
was discussed. Both the papers all tiole.d to, and the re-
pints of the Committee of the. House of Coin inons
on the Bill, would abundantly prove that the neces-
sity of such a measure no lbeiger. existed; :and that
as attempt to continu: it at. the present moment
was only am-endeavour to afford accommodation to
the. West Inds .Planters,, at th.expence Of the great
.body of the agrieuliurists. of 'England. They must
therefore Vo:e- for-deferring any further progress in
tie Bill till Monday. •
Lord Elot.t,,tiati thought it more evisalle- that
ithe sill-should be now read a .Second acid the
,Petitioners .night as well be barged iii some.futura
,stage of 'the Bill;
Lord IDD,r,trir professed himself a 'decided enemy
to the principles of. the Bill, and his reosons.for SO
doing he should state whenever ate-principle of it
'should come under di-cussion. He.cOuld not, agree
with his; Noble Friend. that the Petitioi .
the Bill could to as wall heard cir the third reading
as on the second; it wai the ii:qmst unifotitt practice
of the }louse to hcar,Petittoners by Counsel on the'
second reading of a Bill, and for obvious reasons. .The
" alterations suggested by the, Petitioners might be.
adopted in the Committee. The Conmtittee were
the proper 'stage for the dtscussion of sucifhlterations
and amendments, and thereto-re Petitioners, to. be
braid with any prospect of effeet, should be heard
before the Bill passed through the Committee.—
liis Lordship also intimated several arguments
against the necessity, of the Bill, under the .preiient
Cirurnstances of the prices of coin and sugar.
Lord LtvEarirou objected to delaying the Se-
cond reading of the Bill, on the same grOunds as
Lord Bat hhurs • - •
The House then divided on Lord 'Albemarle's
amendment, for deferring the- second reading of the
Bill,

Contents
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Majority io t4voor of the second reading of .the Bill now-- r 3
The Bill was accordingly. read a second time •
and the discussion of its principle, and the 11:-..ating,
of Counsel again :it the .faill„were
.postponed till ist
third reading.
Lord Hl,upwrcKE moved for some additional pa-
pers on the subject of the prices 6f corn and grain
at cliferent.pericul,—Or4ered.

wALCHEREN EXPEDITION.
•,The Marquis of LA'.:isnowNE, -moved an ';-amble
Address to his INla*ly, praying his 'Majesty would
be giteiot-isll pleased to -direct .that there he I iJ he-
fOre the House, the J9urnal o&.the 3Stati bia the
liValcheren.k.;ivOition:

INDIA *COMPANY.

Lord I.:AtinErtpaLg. gave notice; that on Thum-
day day next he should ttiove for a seled Cgaitnittee to
sake into consider4tinn the, present state .f the af-
fairs of the East india'Cotnpany.7—Adjuurned.
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HODSE OF COMMONS,

TfitIRSDAY, fiC Li I.
LORD' CHATHAM.

MT. WHITBREAD dove' notice, that he would to-
morrow movosom,e, resolutions, fountled on the
eticrence giyen V Lord cliethinn on the. 22d tam'
2711) of F,ebrhary, and' on Otis 11,14 j sty's Answer to
the #ditiesi.of that House. .He only priryed that in
the -mean time Gentlemen would reed that evi-
dence and that answer.-- .
[At a subsequent period of the evening the CHI N
CLittkt of -the
.ExonsatiO .. t 6uggested, to the -Hon
Gentleman the expediency
.of: postponing his mo-:
tion to a. later day," hi con.4equ'ence of the mi-
nutes of" Lord. Chatham's evidence on the ...:!.7th
inst. not 11,-,wing -yet been initited.r. liVii;.r--
_IIREAIS replied, that ,if printe:d minutes of that e% i-•
Alence were not delivered to 1110 Members' in the
'couise o'' 'the evening, be wohld
,defer motion
t)li ; but'shoUld they be delivered in the
coins::: of the LVCIIii,g, they were so short, and could
so soon be perused, that he would certiliply,press
his motion to-rnorrov.]-,
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