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London, England, 1814-07-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARr PRJCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY SO.
A number of Petitions were presented? from various parts sr
the Unfired Kiugdom, against the Slave 'Lode
Thirteen Bills were brought up by Mes.ages from the Co.".
loons, among which were the !Arbour Bill, the Irish Amok.
Bill, the Copyright 11,11, and the East India Sh;pptng Bid. 1 hey
were read a first time, after a few wards from th. }sari of iitICR
t, upon the East Ind.; Shipping Lill, which had
been adopted only as a temporary inea•rre.
Lord HOLLAND begged to be Informed, wh'-ther any sod
what measures had been taken respecting the Gaol of the Isle
of Man ?

Lord SIDMOUTH replied, that orders had been given to plat
the Gaol in such a stale of repair, Eut to he carable ot :tee v...g
persons who might he Pent into confinement.
In the Appeal " Merckle ti..Drek," after Lord Re.
desdale had gone over the points of the case at same
length, and a few words from the Lord Chancellor,
Judgment was reversed, with a refetence back to the
Court of Chancery in Ireland, as to the Accounts.
VOTE 011' CREDIT.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Order of
the Day for taking the Message of the Prince Itcgent
into consideration. It was read accordingly.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL, in pr•iponng the
Address, observed that it Would not be necessary lot
:rim, in the present situation of affairs, to trouble the
House with many remarks. It had been objected
that the sum of three millions was to ) large for a
Vote of Credit in time of Peace: —he admit:ed the
truth of this observation, but replied. that we were
still of war wilt America, and the care ot Europe
was nor yet by any means settled. A considerable
"poition of the military force of Great Britain vet re-
mained upon the Continent. for whom it would be
-necessary to. provide, partictnarly for those in 'hit
Low. Countries, which by a sort of ontlerstanding
between the Allies were to remain until the po.s-
sions of the varlotis Potentates wane filbs)l7 datermin.
ed at the approaching Congress at Vienna. In al.
•dition, several str,sidies yet remained to be paid, ati.
pula tett under the Treaty or Chao ante and the
House should nt4 forget that the Militia email tv,
be di sinstitle4l, and the country placed on'thw peace
reautiptisheethat::-ti,ttlt atter the recent' Al itte gales
part of our ironies Irons abroad; The ikeision of tike
Hesse sei.night. woolchnot at all prejod...4,the (rep.
tins ot reducing the national expenc.., woos&
he did MX think it necessary to make />sersisr.
tints He moved an Athirtn to the Prince 11.. ens,
thanking his Roys( attluleas for the Mebsisee. and
expressing a determination to confer in it.
Lord HOLLAND was not prepared to resist are
motion, aid he admitted that what the Noble Eed
had said teg+rding our troops y,t abroad, and tbe
unpaid s L b.iidies under she Deity of Cheasnont, hdd
•some weight. . lb could not adni.t, however, that
the war with America (which he was the last to era-
sure, though one of the lint to lament) ihould be
assigned as any sufficient grAtind• ler continuing the.
various services on the war estab!idnent, a.)d t.)r
voting an unusually large Vote cf er.Jit. With
regard to the unsettled state nf Europe, he could not
admit that that wis any argument in favour pt vie
vote, because if ally emergencies arose, it was the
duty of Ministers to sntrrion Parliament to provide
for those emergencies. It was a matter of the at.
most importance that the wholesome controul of
Parliament should be preserved with the utmost vi-
gilance and jealousy. Farr the sake of insisting upon
the propriety and'necessity of well a proceeding, lie
had risen, and not for the purpose of resisting the
Motion.

The question was then put, and en Adiress was
agreed to.
Eat' STANHOPE, after various Tema:, upon
the importance of the question itself, and upon the
rigt., of all persons to-petition Parliament (indefence
of which he was ready to sacrifice his life), moved
that the Petition he had presented yesterday from
Corn Growers in and near Peterborough, regrading
some legislative provision to protect their interests.
be laid upon the table.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that the
Noble Earl was most unnecessarily valiant and for-
ward in offering to lay down his life when he knew
that none would be found to oppose him. He ad-
mitted that the Petition ought to be laid upon the
table, and it was accordingly placed there.
Earl STANHOPE, after a long preface, in which
be very warmly deprecated the cisfused and unin•
telligible state of the Bankrupt Laws, laid upon the
table a Petition from an indiviJual, who :wed a
number of hardshipi regarding a Commission which
had been attempted to be sued out against 1 Im nine
years ago. His Lordship appealed to the Lord
Chancellor, whether, he had not once said in the
'Court in which. he presided, tl.at he h.td read over
the Bankrupt :Statutes 72,000 times, and yet was not
eble to comprehend them. He recommended that
the Judges should be employed to frame one gene-
subject.
ril and comprehensive Law upon the lenporusnt
the LORD CHANCELLOR denied that he
had ever u.ed such an expression s he 'tumid despair
before Ire wile hadit.hereawderiet 117(;,00441
times. The Noble /awl (Stanhope), in the sour*
lo,tiaenavicerd u.n,:thleristtalincimiug