Star.
London, England, 1805-05-01 00:00:00

PARIAMENTART PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, TUESDAY, APRIL to.

Mr. WILBERFORCE motto!, that the Petition from the Cloth
workers of York fhire, Sonterfetihire, and Gloucefterfhire, prefented
on the ayth of February, be read; which was accordingly done;
and they were referred to a Committee.
Mr. OWEN prefented India papers, and Mr. IRWIN,from the
Infpcdtors of Excite and Cuitonts, brought up fundry papers.
Mr. BROOKE. moved for an account of old copper ufed in the
Ring's duck-yards, alto of fheathing nails, dtc. now in fince,diain-
guilhing the quantities at prefent in ftore--Ordered.
Mr. ROSE moved an account of the quantify of ballaft delivered
for the lalt 30 years by the Trinity.houfe, with the profits and the
prices paid by collier% and other coatting yards.
Mr. I.EE obtained kave to bring in a Bill for better fupprying
Market Towns and Cities in Ireland, with Waren
Mr. VANSiTTART moved for an Account of the Amount of
S.atupt on Game Licences in Ireland, finct the Year 1801;diftits-
gtiifhing each year and county.—Granted.
Mr. W. DUNDAS brought up fundry Papers relative to charges
' of Volunteer Corps, and gave notice of his Intention to move the
lAtimate on Friday.
• Mr. FOR.STE.it brotight In a Bill to prevent the counterfeiting
of dollars in Inland, which was read a ft:wand...ism, and ordered
to be printed.

rautoLlistx esscrusit.
Mr. H.. THOR,.NVON tenved to difcharge the
order for the Petition of Sir F. Burdett being taken
into confideratitim 'which be had expeEted Gentle-
men on the other Mk would have moved, to have
• withdrawn. The day wai near approaching, and
Ito inconvenience could relult from difcharging the
order, as Vir F. Burdett or his friends could be
heard before the Committee notwithflanding.
did not think it advifeable to have two Committees
fitting on the fame general bulinefs. He concluded bj
Moving, that the order for 11.turfday, May 2,be read.
Mr.o It LENT.Y thought the Petition could not be
taken oft the Order Book, and stifhed the matter
poltpOned till to•morrotv.
After lonic converfation, the Speaker explained
the Rate of the hufincfs before the Houle. A Peti.
Lion againft a Gentieman, then a Member, had been
prefented, complaining of his want of qualiEcation.
This had been rendered ufelefs by his feat being
taken away by a Committee. The queltion now was,
how to difpole of the order complaining of rune who
had no longer a feat in the Houle, and this flood for
Thur next, when the Houfe mtifl ballot for a
Committee to do %hat the Houfe might deem need:-
Cary. The Aft provided that a Petition might he
withdrawn by thole who prefented it, in cafe of the
feat being vacated by death, or in any other man-
ner. If the parties did not apply, there might be a
qtiellion, whether the Houfe fhould appoint a Com-
mittee to try the matter of which no refult could be
getio_d?
After explanation from Mr. Creevey, Mr. H.
Thornton, ;owl Pone words from Mr. P. Moore, it
being undetllnod that difcharging the order pre-
cluded not the right of Sir E. Burdett to be heard be-
fore the Coromittce, the order was read and dilcharged.
rnsiceas PARISH.

Sir T. NIETCALIE moved the fecond reading of
the Pincras
Mr. METCALFE thought it his duty to take the
fenfe of the Houle on thi> matter. This was the
third Bill of the kind. In the IA Bill feven Audi-
tors were to be chofen by the Pariih ; but in this they
were to be elated by the very Directors themfelves,
to the prejudice of the privileges of the parith.
Sir T. METCALFE explained. This Bill was
merely to remedy the defeds of the lall. Objedions
might be met stud accommodated eafily and fairly in
the Committee. The oppolition arofe from the lower
claires in the Farah, as the object of the Bill was to
place the r.anagement in the hands of nobility, gen-
try, and reputable inhabitants, in the manner of St.
George's and Mary -la-bonne, &c.
Mr. CA LC RA F obferved, that the county
'Wernher who brought it in abandoned it, becaufe he
did not find the fopport in the pari!h which he was
taught to expeA.
Mr. P. MOORE confirmed the laft natement of
Mr. Caleralt, and made feveral remarks on the Elate
of the parith of Pancras, where the direEtors wanted
auditors of their owl, choofidg, to examine their own
accounts.—On a divilinn there appeared—For the fe•
cr•nd reading 47—Againft it 30—Majority ta.—The
bill was accordingly read a fecond time.
cossres.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL made fome ob
fervations on the Clergy Refidence Bill, relative to
the (Upends of citrates. A claufe was then iwro.
duced, which had hen 101 l in the other Houle, and
he therefore withed now to bring in a leparate Bill.
The Bilhops had already power to tee that citrates in
refidence under 4001. a year were properly paid ;
but he &mild with that in all livings exceeding that
turn, the Ripend lhould amount to one fifth, fo that
in a living of t ocol. a year, the officiating curate, the
incumbenttheing a non-refident, fhould receive tool.
a year. He moved, therefore, for leave to bring in
a bill for encouraging the refidence of tlipendiary cu-
rates in their cores.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT highly approved the bill,
and hoped the provifions would be extended to Ire-
land. He tl ght it much better to make the eta-
blilhed clergy attend to their duty, than to deprive
ether religions of the privileges of fubs.
The CHANCELLOR of the ECHEQUER
(aid, that a Learned Gentlem..n intended to bring in
a bill of a fimilar nature, refpraing Ireland. •
Mr. PITTON hoped that refidence would be at-
tended to.
Mr. CREEVEY thought the bill a dire 4 attack
on rcclelianical property. .
The ATTORNEY GENERAL espreffed his de.
fire that filch a-bill timid.' be framed for Ireland.—
• The indent Wlti only an aeceffary to a former .Al,f
and it would ineumber it were it attempted to intro
duce into it the church affairs of Ireland. There

were many particulars relative to that country, of
which he had nut at prefent futficient information for
\ the Parpofe. • ,
%, Dr. DUIGENAN Paid, that the Bill he bad the
honour to move for wouktembrace the objees allud.
al to by the Hon. Baronet.
• Sir J. NEWPORT expelled his fatisfalion at ,1
what left from the Attorney General.
• Leave was granted to bring in the Bill. •
Mr. JAMES FITZGERALD role to call the at-
tention of a Right Houourablc Gentleman to a moil
important futtjeB, refpeaing the trial of an individu-
Al in the three different divifions of the Empire for
offences bailable or not ; when the Speaker interrup-
cd him, by obterving, that he cculd riot• speak at
fLogilt withesut Maio! kakthimg fpccific to the Houk.