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Julci 2, 1810.

IMPERLIL PARLIAJJIENI

ROUSE OF PEERS;

FRIDAY, JUNE 1.
Several Public and Private Bills were brought up
from the Commons, and read a first time:

GAR b'S -DIVORCE BILL.

On the motion for the third reading of tlys Bill,
Lord GREY rose pursuant to notice, to. move tre
suspending of the Standing Order, now usually in-
troduced into such Bills, to prevent the offending
parties from intermarrying, He thought the 11111'6-
duCtion of it in the present case of peculiar hard-
ship, as exposing one of the parties to public loos-
caution.

The •LORD CHANCELLOR conld see no adequate
reason for his suspending the Standing Order,
and therefore should feel it his •Arty to oppose
the nrition. •

Lord •LAUDERDALE warmly 'supported the motion
of Earl Grey., and drew a strong pielure of the sad
Consequences which must frequently attend the en-
forcement of such a clause.

• The'question -was Ten put on Lord Grey's mo-
tion, which was negatived without a division.

THE WALCHEREN EXPEDITION. •
Lord DARNLEY rose to 'Move for certain. Papers
from which 'might be colleeled the, present state
and condition of the troops which had been em-
ployed in the Expeditiion oo the Scheldt. He la-
mented that circumstances had occurred to divert
the attention and the indignation of the• coun-
try from the authors of that most disastrous
and disgraceful Expedition. As far,' however, as
depended upon hirn, he should endeavour to keep
alive the recollection of such aels of criminal folly,
and the just resentment with which they should.be
visited. It was matter of surprise-and of sorrow to
him, that the nation should relent or relax in the
manifestation of their displeasure, at.the crindua of
men who had so wantonly and so wickedly sacrific-
er! the most numerous,.find the best appointed army
that ever bads tiled from the shores of this country. If
the Papers he shordemove for be laid on the table,
their Lordships and the Public wotald then see what
now. remained 4.f that brave and gallant army : and
they would turn it 'seriously in their minds, whether
the men who had thus squandered away and inglo-
riously sacrificed such a ,hosen band of British,
troops, shOuld again have it in their power to infliet.
a loss so severe; and shame so indelible,. on the Bri
tish nation. Perhaps not a man who had been in-
fected with the Walcheren fever would ever be per-
fedly restored to the enjoyment of health, or the of his country. As some of the papers he
intended to movefor were already on the table, he
should not press the motion that related to informa-
tion already before the House ; at least he should
not think it necessary to ground any motion ,on
them. He should, however, urge the produElion
of further information, and to a later period, in
order to ascertain what was the real state of these
troops; 'how many had been infeCted—how many
had recovered—and how .many of them were now
fit for a€tual service. The Noble Lord concluded
with moving for different papers, with a view to as-
certain these points. .

The Eat' of LivEaroot. thought that in the avow-
al of the Noble Lord who mude the motion, that he
did not intend to follow it up with any praEtical
measure, he had 'a sufficient Parliamentary ground
for opposing the motion. ~But his opposition' to the
production of
,some of the papers should trot rest
solely upon that grdund. He should even accede to
iorine of the Noble Lord's motions, as 'they called
for scarcely any information which-was not already
befor the HouSe. To the produ&ion of-these pa•
pers, which would go to publish to the world the
condition of particular regiments. and how far .they
were fit or not for adtual service, he should certainly
objeet, and that for reasons which it was, -no doubt,
unnecessary for him to explain, as it must. be obvi-
ous to every one how impolitic it would he to give
such information to the enemy. As to the general
observations with which the Noble Lord.had accom-
panied his mocifit(he Khotild not detain their:Lord-
ships itith coartfiertftng-upon theme, as they had al-
're:icly been repeatedly, and in his mind, satisfactorily
answered.

Lords GREY, LAUDERDALE, and ROssLyist, were
at a loss to see the.grounds of obje6tion,to the pre-
cise number of the-men-who had been infected with
and still laboured under the Walcheren Fever, and
that was the chief obje& which the motion of their
Noble Friend had in view to attain.
Lord LIVERPOOL observe-A, that the fullest infor-
mation on that point might. he-obtained from, the
papers before the Honse, and from these additional
papers, to the kroduetion of which he did not
obje&.

After a few observations from Lord DARNLEY,
two-.of his motions were negatived, and the other
two agreed to.

GAS LIGHTS.
Lord ShEFFIELD, after expatiating at some length
on the advantages to be derided from,this discovery,
and from the mode proposed by the Bill for carry-
ing them into effea, moved that the Bill• be now
read a -I bird time.

The- Earl of STANII6PE opposed the Bill, on ac-
count of the stupid 'manlier in which the process for
obtaining the Gas was carried on, and bn account
of the pernicious effedts which it might produce in
the distri•l. ,which ‘it • was employed to light. He
particularly objected to the facility with which, ei-
ther from chance or design, the communication be-
tween the pipes might be obstructed, and a whole
district t thus suddenly plunged into utter darkness,
whiCh would soon invite all the pickpockets and
housebreakers of the metropolis.
The Duke of Arum, and Lord RR.DSSDALE de-
fetided the Institution from these objeaions, and the
latter proposed some alterations in the title and pre-
artible of the Bill. •