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London, England, 1801-01-23 00:00:00

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PAIRLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, JANUARY s&

This day a Meeting took place purfuant to the
late Prorogation, when a confiderable number of
Peers aitcnded. _ _

The Loan CHANCELLOR, in the mode ufual on
fimilar occafions, communicated to their Lordihißs
his Majeity's Royal will and pleafure, that, as it
was not convenient to his Majefty to attend per-
fonally that day, the &ft proceedings of the Im-
perial Parliament fhould take place by virtue of
his Majefty's Royal CommiSion prepared for that
purpofe.
Accordingly, the Lords Commiffioners then pre-
fent, namely, the A rchbifhop of Canterbury, the
Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Portland, and the
Marquis of Salilbury retired to Robe ; and on their
return, having taken their feats on the Bench in
front of the Throne, when Sir Francis Molyneux,
Bart. Gentleman Uler of the Black Rod, was de-
puted, to order the attendance of the Commons ;
a number of whom forthwith appeared at the Bar,
preceded by the Clerks and Officers of the Houfe ;
Mr. Addington, the late Speaker, attending as a
private Member.
The Loan CHANCELLOR then addrefed the
Houk in the accuftomed manner, and declared
the Royal will and pleafure, that they mould forth-
with proceed to the Eleaion of a Speaker, whom
they were defired to prefent to-morrow for his Ma-
jelq's Royal approbation.
The Commons having retired, the Clerks pro-
ceeded to adminifter the 'dual oaths to fiveral of
the Peers prefent.
The Deputy Clerk of the Crown in Ireland ap-
peared at the Bar, and prefented an official lift of
the Peers returned to reprefent the high peerage
in the Imperial Parliament.
ale Clerks of the Rade continued to adminifter
the oaths to the Peers prefent, and, among them,
to feveral of the Ira Reprefentative Peers who
attended. _ _

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Their LoraMips theivadjonroed till half pall
twelve o'clock to-morrow.

The new Houfe of Lords, though only fitted up
for temporary accommodation, is well entitled to
permanent ufe. The grand entrance is at the end
next the paffage leading to the Houfe of Com-
mons. This opens into a veflibule, or hall, from
which there is an afcent of two or three fleps into
the body of the Houle. The fp3ce behind the bar
is very capacious, the area of the original build- I
ing being much more than fufficient for the ac-
commodation
of their Lordfhips, although fhort.
ened by the length of the hall. The benches are
all covered with fcarlet, as in the old Houfe, and
the walls lined about five feet from the ground
with the fame ; and the old tapeary, which has
been cleaned and furrounded with a dark coloured
pannelling, well calculated to give effect to the
lights in the refpeetive reprefentations of the dif-
ferent views of the Englifh and Spanifh fleets in
the ever-memorable defeat of the Spanifh Armada,
lends an air of fober dignity to the room, which is
extremely commodious, but, we fear, not the moll
happily calculated to render the human voice dif-
tinet and audible. There is a handfome branch in
the centre, fuflaended from the cieling. In other
refpeets, the ceconomy of the place differs very little
from that of the old Fioufc, except, indeed, that an
improvement has taken place at the table, the feats
for the Clerks being at the fides inflead of the ends.
Strangers will not hear fo well as in the old Houfe;
and; with regard to them, this inconvenience more
than counterbalances all the advr.ntages of more
room and greater warmth. All the officers of the
Houfe being in their robes, and feveral of their
Lordfhips in full drefs, the Houfe had a very
fpkndid appearance. The Houle was as hot as a
warm bath; but in a few weeks a proper degree
of temperature will doubtlers be afccrtained.