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London, England, 1817-06-30 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS, SATI7RPAr, .TuNs 28.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, took his seat at two

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HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION ACT.
A 'Messenger being 'announced from the Hon.
tile Ilouse of Commons, Mr. BROGDEN, attended.
by several other Members, appeared at the bar,
and stated to their, Lordships, that the House had
agreed to the Bill (which they now brat lit up)
for the farther SuspenSion of the Habeas Corpus
Act, with an Amendment.
The Earl of I,lYattroot-_saiti, he perceived that
the amendment made was. of 'considerable- im-
portance. It was originallylnc.posed to con-
tinue theoperation of.the Act i 9 question for. six •
weeks altar the re-assembling of Parliament. By
'%e ameruhnent now institaited by tlic Honour-
. the Iloosc of COSTitTIOIIS; the Bill Was further
eat.entlett ltt of March next. Under ocir-
eumstatm+ such: importance, he did not feel
warranted in proposing the adoption of the
aniendment without some notice, and his Lind-
ship, moved, that it be taken into Consideration on
Monday next, :Ile further, moved that the ques-
tion should kake precedence of all other busi-
ness on that day.—Ordered.
'The frith-Woollen Yarn Importation Bill was
read a second titne.
The other Bills on the table uofre forwarded a
Stage ; atter which the House adjourned.

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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

A BILL. to EXEMPT the TERRITORIES within the L
MriNS of the EAST INDIA. CO,MPAN CHARTER,
from certain of the NAVIGATION LAWS.
Whereas by en Act passed in the twelfth year
of the: reign of his late Majesty King Charles the
Seetuol, for the encouraging and increasing of
Shippiog and Navigation ; and by apther. Act
passed in the frftet;ntit year of the same reign, for
the encouragemen• of Trade ; and hy another Act
passed in the twenty-second •and twenty-third
years of the same reign, among other things, for
regtil;tting the Plentation•Trade; and by another
Act passed in the twenty-fifth year of the same
reign, amongst other things, tor the better seem--
ingtlie Plantation 'Trade; anti by another Act
passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign
of his Lite Majesty King William the Third, for
the incr'ase and encouragement of' Seamen ;-and
by another Act passed in the third and fourth
Years of the reign of her late Majesty Queen
Anne, for granting to, her Majesty a for:ltCr
subsidy on liVinOs 'and Merchamlizes imported.;
tv.'ol passed in the eighth year of
recto. of his hits: Majesty King George the
auto.igst other things, to sobjCet 'Copper
Ore, of the produetion of the IlritHt Plantations,
to such regulaiiiio4 as other enumerated commo-
dities of tile like pro:faction are subject ; divers
piohibitions, regulations, and 'provisions, have
tern enected, respeetingThe importation of goods
itui,coomorlities of the growth, production, or
mantifartnre of Europe. into-,any Lands, Islands,
Plantations, Cofilliies, Territories, or Places to
his hii y belonging or in his -possession, .in
Asia, Africa, or'Ametica, and also TesOecting the
transportation of certain articles of the growth,
prodection, or tnatiolacture of British Plantations
in Asia, Africa, rit'AmeriCa.
And whereas-the said prohibitions, regnlationi,
And it' visions, have been commonly supposed
not to apply, ati,l !gave not in practice been applied
to the trade to from the East
B ' it enacted byshe King's most excellent Ma-
jesty, by and with the ;Advice and consent.of the
Lot di Spiritnal and Temporal, Anti Commons, it
ibis present Patilametit assembled; and by the
aitthority of, the Same, that notbiogtontained in
the said Acts, or in any-other-Act or'Acts passed
For the like pinisoqes, or any of them, shall ex-
tend or he constrtted to extend to, or in any way
affect the importation or exportation, by - the
I.Tniteti Company of Alerchants trading to the
East Indies, fee by any other of his Majesty's sob!
jects, in Britt b-4- registered ‘essels navigated ac-
cording to law, or in any vi,sels registered or
trading under the provisions of an Act Passed in
the year of the reign of bis•present Majesty,
iittitided, "An Act to to e further regutatitifis for
the Registry of Ships- -built in
.India," of any
goods, wares, or merchandize, tit i,tto or front
lay pOrt or place within the limits of the Charter
of, the said Company, or to aflect the importation
or exportation at into or front'any place whatso-
ever, in such vessels aforesaid, of any goods,
wares, or -merehantlize of the growth, produce,
or manufactore of any place within the limits
aforesaid, or to require that any bond for the ex-
portation or iMOortatiOn of goods, in any parti-
cular manner, shall be given in respect of any such
ites7els bound to or from any place situate within
the limityforesaid.
And be it further enacted, that front and after
the Y no person or per-
sons, hotly politic or corporate, shall he liable to
be sued for any penalty,nor any ship, vevel, goods,
wares or merchandize, liable to be seized by tea-
ton of any offence committed contrary -to Hoy
such prohibition, regulation. or provistOn afore-
said, or by reason of any such bond as aforesuid
not having been given in, respect of any ship or
vessel bound to or from any place within the limits
aforesaid.
PlOvided always, and be it further enacted, that
nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be
construed to extend, to alter or affect the provi-
sions of -anAct.made in the fifty-third year of the
reign of his present Majesty, intitnied, " an Act
for confirming in the Bast. India Cotiapanv for a
'further term .the possession at the British-Terri-
torids in India, together with certain exclusive