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London, England, 1809-03-08 00:00:00

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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDIA'C,I.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MARCH 7.
The Distillery Prohibition Bill, the Spirit importation Su/v..
elon Bill, and the Irish Bank Note Forgery Bill, were read a third
time and passed.
Mr. WIIARTON, the Honourable Mr. SIMPSON, art! Geo.,
Members, from the House of Commons, brought up the Hat.
said Importation Bounty Bill, whida was laid upon the Table,
and read a first time.
STILL AND OTIIERS, V. THE MAGISTRATES AND 1•C).
COUNCIL OF ABERDEEN.
Sir SAMUEL. ROMILLY was heard in this Scotch Apre,i,
on the part of the Respondents ; and the LORD AlivocAl 1,
in reply, on behalf of the Appellants.—The further proceeding,
were postponed till Friday.
This is a case of considerable interest to the Royal Borough,
of Scot Lind. The question is between Still and other freenter,
butchers, against the Magistrates, who, under the general char.
tern granted to the town ofAberdeen,thought themselves at liberty
go empose a duty on all commodities brought into the borough to,
.4., and, accordingly, imposed a duty upon all rough fat sold h)
the butchers within the borough, which they cotisidered as an u.
fringement of their rights as freemen, and teetered an action it.
the Court of Session for the purpose of havieg it declared illegal.
In this action judgment was given in favour of the Magistrates;
in consequence of which the present appeal was entered. The„
are two questions—the one, Whether Magistrates of Borough,
have a right to levy duties on the inhabitants without theetpresa
authority of Parliament ?—the other is, Whether they can ill.
crease those dues to make them correspond with the present
value of the commodities
SIR GEORGE BROGRAVEPS DIVORCE. BILL.
Counsel appeared at the Bar, and, in answer to the inquiry of
the Lord Chancellor, informed the House, that it was not their
intention to adduce any further evidence before their Lordships..
The LORD CHANCELLOR shortly observed, that after hay
lag read the whole of the evidence, he did not perceive any ob.
jection to the further proceedings on this Bill.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be corn.
matted to-morrow.—Adjourned.

• HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Colonel LONGFIELD presented a Petition from the Mayor,
Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the City of Cork, praying, that in
the bargain negotiating with the Earl of Ormond, by Government,
for his right to the Prizage Duties on Wines in Ireland, the rort of
Cork might be excepted, as the grant to the family of that Noble
Earl did not 'extend to that port.
Mr. Huremisso is and Colonel LoN Grip Lb briefly explained
the nature of the case; and Sir ARTeUR WELLESLEY, aim ex.
pressing a wish that the circumstance had been mentioned to the
Irish Government before the negotiation with the-Earl of Ormond
had proceeded so far, promised to pay every attention to the con-
tents of the petition, though if the right of the Earl of Ormond did
not extend to the port of Cork, it did not appear to him then ne.
cessary to make any exception, as, if the right did not exist, •
could not be transferred to Government by the bargain.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY then brought upthe report upot
the Dublin Paving Petition, which stated, that the Standing Or.
den of the House bad not peen complied with as to the object
the Petition. Be then gave notice that he should to-mono,
move for leave to bring in a Bill pursuant to the prayer of the Pt
tition, because notices had been published, though not conforma•
bly to the standing Orders of the House.
Mr. HUSKISSON withdrew his notice relative to the contin
ante

_ of the one shilling and sixpence Duties on Pensions and
ces, and gave notice, that he should on Friday, in the Commit,'
of Ways and Means, move a resolution to that effcut, that bell
the regular course according to the practice of Parliament.
Ordered, on the motion of Mr.HUSKISSON, that there be laid
before the House an account of the real value of all Exports flow
the ports, of Gseat Britain to America, exclusive of the Unitt
States, ift the years ending the 10th of October 11107 and 1805
respectively.
The House, 6n the motion of Mr. HUSKISSON, went into
Committee to consider of the Trade to and from the Cape of Good
Hope; when ft was resolved, that the Chairman should ask for
leave to bring in a Bill for establishing regulations respecting the
trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope. The
House then resumed, when the Chnkman moved for and obtain-
ed leave to bring in a Bill accordingly.
A Message front the Lords acquainted the House, that their
Lordships had agreed to the Bill for preventing the Distillation
Spirits from Corn, and to the Bill for Suspending the Import 1
Spirits from Great Britain and Ireland -reciprocally, without and
amendments, and also to the Irish Bank Note Forgery Prevention
Bill, with an Amendment, in which they desired the cone"—
of the House.

IRISH AND grairsir CURRENCY ASSIMILATION.
Mr. PARNELL gave notice, that he should on Thursday se'.
night, move for the appointment of a Select Committee, to inquire
and ascertain, what steps may be necessary to be taken, in order
to assimilate the Currency of Ireland to that of Great Britain.

REPORT OF n'AYS•AND MEANS.
Mr. WHARTON brought up the Report of the Committee
Ways and Means, when the Resolutions respecting the funding
eight millions of Exchequer Bilis were agreed to, and a Bill order•
ed pursuant thereto.

MUTINY BILL.
The SECRETARY at WAR moved the Order
the Day for the further consideration of the Report
the Mutiny Bill ; but as the new clauses which I
proposed to introduce had been printed, and were
the hands of Gentlemen, on a recommendation fro
the Chair, the Bill was recommitted for the purpoi
of making these clauses part of it.
The House having resolved into the Committee,
Mr. WHARTON in the Chair,
The SECRETARY at WAR called the attentic
of the Committee to the object of the first clause,
which he proposed to introduce into the Bill. It was
to enable the Commissioners of Excise to grant licen-
ces to persons holding canteens in barracks. Sur
places of accommodation were necessary for the .
freshment of the soldiers, and with a view to disci-
pline it was unquestionably better that they should 1'
so situated as to be under the eye of their officers:
This clause had been rendered necessary by the
convenience which had been felt, when vacancies oc•
curred, or new barracks were built, the Magistrat
by whom these licences had been hitherto grantei
not having the power to grant them but once in
year. The same inconvenience was felt when person:
who had canteens were dismissed. It became there
fore desirable that the power of granting licence
should be lodged somewhere independent of the usu:
mode of granting them. n was difficult to provi
against other than the military resorting to sui.
places ; but every care should be taken to contini
them to the accommodation of the troops, and
trusted that no inconvenience would be felt in
country from the operation of this clause.
On the motion that the clause be made part of
Bill, a short conversation took place, in which
EDWARD KNATCHBULL suggested the pro-
priety of giving the power of granting the licences -
any time within the year, when vacancies shot
occur, to the Magistrates, rather than to the Com,
missioners of Excise; and Mr. HURST Tecom,
mended that the power of granting such licences,
when vacancies occurred, should be restricted
licences for military purposes, and that the present
mode of granting licences for civil purposes shot:
be preserved to the Civil Magistrates ; upon which
the SECRETARY at WAR agreed to postpone
consideration of the clause till to-morrow, when
should be happy to avail himself of the suggestions
cf the Honourable Members.
The various amendments in the body of the
and the new clauses were then gone through, the chief
of which were the following : an amendment to ex-
, teed the exemption from billeting soldiers on a match,