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IMPERL4L, P..4I7,LLIMENi!

HO'UtE OF PEERSI

FRIDAY, APRIL 13.
• Counsel Were heard on the Roxburgh Appeal ;to
be farther heard on Monday.
The Local Militia Amendment Bill was brought
up from". the Commons, and on the motion ot the
Earl of Livaltroot. read a first time, and ordert.d to
be printed.
number of private Bills were also brought up
from the Commons, and read a first time. -
Lord LAUDERDALE gave notice, that on o
next be,should call the attention of their Lorqi,qii,i'L
to a Standing Order of that House, of May 2, 1794;
in, which he should propose-.some alteratietAd-,
journed. till ;to-;Morrow.

110U$E OF COMMONS, • , ‘.,.
.
• • •13. •
• -Mr. i-Voodfordi from the Eirehequer, presented
an account of the surplus of the Consolidated gond:
Ordeied to Ire on the table. 1
.On the second reading of the Yarmouth Water.
works 'Bill, Mr. ElAliao-Aan 'moved as ati- amend:,
rnent,-. that it should. be read a second time on that
day six months.—The amendment was carried with-
out a division: _ •
-.Mr. H. Spmxtrt brought tip the ICeport of the
ComMittee on the South London Water-woiks.
a: MARTIN .opposed the Bill, on the grounds
that it infringed the'rights of another 'Company estaz
• blished for a similar puropose, and against which no
complaint had been made. He thought the Bill called
on the HOuse to violate ..every principle off-zood
faith ;--for if. the' Lambeth Company, established
in 1785, hadperformed what they undertook to dos-
the House could not be justified in depriving them
of the advantages they at present enjoyed.—,
He concluded, offering to move an amendment on
the objeetionable clause.
On-the -suggestion of the SPEARBEij he deferred.
.his motion till the Bill had gained a more advanced:•
-stage, it beitg understood that the Bill was intro-
duced:solely -for the purpose of enaEting the elapse-
'inrques tion; It was agreed that the debate should
take plate on the further. consideration of-U2e,,,Rewt--
port!' _
•• ..r. r.".r. •

-Mr. MARTIN then moved that the further cofiJ
sideration of the Report should be postponed to that
day six mouths.

• .:Atr..l-1. SnuNEit—contended that the Cotnpany
alluded td had abused their power by keeping per-ssis without water for eig[lt or nine years, becAuse,
Coming-int-0 hotises which had:. beeti'- inhabited by
•teetants tot.of s very honourable description, they
Would nor pay the arrears of. the former-inhabi-
tant.. •

Sir T. TURTON opposed the taking of the Re.
port Into consider'ation. •
'A division took place, when the nutribers were—
For the Amenament 6O
Against it -_ - __ 3,

-.The Bill:was of course thrown out. ,
Mr. GitArrAN gave notice of a motion for Mom
day the 16th inst. in favour of the Catholics of Ire-
land. His argurntnts would be grounded on two
grand points, fist, on the justice of their claims to
those privileges enjoyed by. their felloW-subjec.s;
and secondly, on the propriety-of granting the K.,ng
a veto to forbid the inauguration of 11.,ar Bishops by
any Foreign Power. •
..

• Sir S. ...1-Tomit4t.gave .notice, that *on Monday lie
would move for the release of Mr. Gale Jones.
Lcird 'COCHRANE save notice, that on Mondriy he
'would move. that -certain Papers relating to the
Navy should be 'referred to a Committee of liiO
• whole House:
.The Report of. the Highway Robbery Bill was
brought up, and 'ordered to:be'faken into Cansidera•
Lion on that day three weeks. . •
On the motion of Mr. ROcEi a Copy of the oh.
servations of the S,urgeon-General on the Filtli Re.
port of, the Comtnisiioner's of Military Inquiry, and
a leiter to Francis Knight, Rsq. were ordered to be
laid before the... House: ,
.„SE CtI.RITIES FOR PLACES OF TRUST,
Mr. CALCRAET, in conseqUence of the -3CCUSA".
lion made against him on Thursday,. had.given no=
rice that he would move for, certain- Papers bri
the:subje6t. 'He bad looked over ,the,instructioiik;
but could not find. any thing it them -that seeme.t
to apply 'to himself ; .but as., he might have over.
looked them, he should move. for' an extra& of that
part which ,was considered as bearing on his ca•e.—.
He begged to ask the Honourable Gentleman Oppo-
site; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer,whether,
on further inquiry, 'they had found dm: Mr, Ridge
did not give securities for the office he held und&r
Lord Moira. He would also move fer the datf:s
securities which Mr. Ridge had. given at any.
Did he renew his securities on a new 114 aster or the
Ordnance Board being appointed ? , Those "givvii
under 'a former Master Ceased to behinding rm
Chatham's being placed at:the head of ;the Board', .1.1
being the pradtice to renew in the under
,evory tiew
Master. He wished those queStions' to. be answer-
ed; till they
_were, he would trouble tie Hot,sd
no farther.. If, however, the returns 'tiode' wers
not satisfattory, he should feel it to be u duty he
owed toshimself, and to the Gentlemen ;with ‘Vh,.1.1;
be had atted, two of whom be should state' weie
still of that .Board, to take some farther step on Pte.;
'occasion. He concluded ,by Moving -." for such.
extracts from the instrudions to.the Board of Ord-
.nance as relate to the takingof securities for the of.
lice of agent to the artillery.'
Mr. A. 'Coorett observed, there was no such pas-
sage. in theinstrpetions to the Board of Ordnance,
.tor this reason ;-4t the time they were made, in
the reign Of Kind ;Charles 11. no such corps as that
of the artillery was in existence. Every body
through whose hands money passed was 111464 IQ-