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PiIItLIAMENTARr PROG.E.EDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 6.
Counsel were fully heard touching the Scots Appeal, Mines
e. Smith; after which the Judgment of the Court of Session was
reversed by their Lordships.
Cour•sel were rarily heard nn the Chancery Cause, the Earl of
Mount Norris u. Nk bite. To proceed again on Friday.
Lord STEwiict (late Sir C. W. Stewart, K. 8.) was introduced
In the u'ual form, sworn, and took his seat. His Lordship's
supporters were Lord GOKDON (Marquis of Mundy) and Lord

Elia- Estee P.
Lord Nott-rawicK took the oaths and his seat.
Lord De DUNSTANVILLE presented a Petition against the
'Helittnue Election Lill, front an individual, complaining of the
intriugement of his rights, by certain provisions in the Bill,
‘Nbieb, being read, was ordered to lie on the table.
The Greenwich Hospital Lands Bill, the Unstamped Cloth
Exportation, East India Duties, and Parish Apprentice Bills,
together with some of a private nature, were brought up irons
the Commons by ISiir.BROGD EN, Sir JAMES GRAIL/01, and other
Members, and severally read a first time.
The farther proceedings in the case of the Barnwell Peerage
were, on the suggestion of Lord REDI:SDALL, tiled for Tues.

day next.
Alter a %bort convt-rtatlon between the Earl of I.AUDZIR DALE,
Lord Us DuNs rAxvit.t.E, and the Loan CllANcLumit, the
further cocsidera• ion of the Halstune Election Bill was appoint-

cd for Monday nett.
Sane conversation ac7oss the table took place between the
Earls of LAvocanaec and BIYCKINGHAMSIIIRE, touching the
production of certain documents relative to the Affairs of India,
a string of which was moved for by the first mentioned Peer.
The converAtion turned e= it fly on the official nature and de-
ti of one of the documents. The Earl of LivEßrooL said
a few wends upon the occasion, andthe papers moved for by Lord
LAUDESDALE were generally ordered to be produced.
PRCCESSION TO ST. PAUL'S.
The LORD CHANCELLOR thought proper to•acquiant
their Lordships it would bo necessary for them to assemble at
the House to-suorrow at eight o'clock, as they would have to
marshal and arrange themselves in an order similar to that in
which they used to proceed to Westminster Hall on occasions of
state trials; and his Lordslcp said they would have to join the
Commons, in the Procession, about nine o'clock.
SLAVE THAiiE PETITIONS.
Aconsiderable Dumber were presented in the course
of the Sitting, front different parts of the country, by
the Duke of GitasTos, Lords BOLTON, ROLLS, Earl
STANHOPE, and ether Peers, against the renewal of
the Slave Trade, which were severally ordered to lie
on the table.
Lord ERSKINE presented one to the same pur-
pose from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Corn-
=tons of the City of London, in Common Council

assembled.
The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a pet'
tion signed by a considerable number of the persons
calling themselves Quakers.
The mode of wording the Address, or designation
of House, in this Petition, gave rise to a conversa-
tion of some length. It seemed to be addressed to
the Peers or Lords in Parliament assembled, and the
remarks made by such of their Lordships as partici-
pated in the discussion, were to. the following gene-
ral effect ;
The LORD CHANCELLOR deemed it proper
to call their Lordships attention to the informality.
The House should be designated, as the Lords Spi-
ritual and Temporal. *I he Bishops were certainly
nit Peers of Paliament, though essentially a compo-
nent part of the House.
Lord ARDEN thought the informality sufEcidnt
to authorise the rejection of the Petition in its then
shape,and intimated his intention to move to that effect.
His Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER
thought the expressiop of Lords in Pailianient suffi-
ciently included the Bishops, who he certainly re-
garded as an essential past of the House.
The LORD CHANCELLOR spoke in explana-
tion, and adverted to the language of Acts i:f Par-
liament, as expressly designating the Upper House,
in the way he had pointed out.
Earl STAN HOPE decidedly concurred in the de.
finition of his Highness of Gloucester, and 'added,
that the species were certainly included in the gam:.
Lord EItSKINE, though as anxious for the treat-
roent of the House with all due respect as any man
could be, thought no hesitation should prevail re-
specting this Petition. The religious sect Irom whom
it proceeded, were entitled to every indulgence, on
account 4 their inoffensive and inubtrusive habits;
their lung standing as a religious sect ; and from a
conviction in tiis mind that no disrespect whatever was
intended to the House, by any possible trifling infor,
mality there may be in their mode of Address.
Lord ARDEN explained, that no intentional dis-
respect on the part of the Petitioners formed a vound
of his objection.
Lord REDEIODALE also acquitted the Petitioners
of any idea pt intentional disrespect to the House ;
and he adv,erted to some instances in which the pecu-
liarities or religious prejudices of the Qualcets were
very properly ovellooked.
Tne Doke of GL4pvcsTß coincided in this

Lord HOLLAND thought the present simply a
qufstion of form. He adverted also, in reference to
• what tip from a Noble and Learned Lord; to certain
statutes. one of Mirabeth particularly, 4nd on a reli-
gious subject, where that' House was designated as
the K Lords in Paidameue assembled.'' He really
believed that the l'ctitioners, in cheese resent Address
meant bona dw whole House of Lords; there
pas nothin* disrelectipl to their real dignity in the
Lord ELIIENDORCAJGH observed, it behoved
the House to attend to the mode in which it was ad-
dressed; though iii the piesent instance he thought
the ilofirif sufficiently designated, by die words—
•• Lards is PorliAment assembled." •
The Earl of LAUDERDA4aE was decidedly of
opinion their 'lordships should not hesitate to receive
the Petifieu.
The ArChbislapp of CANTRBITRY thought,
that there was but an irregularity in point of form,
and which he seemed not to think it worth the while
to reject the Peitiou.
Load ARDEN referred to what seemed to tee a
general SLAW Of their Lordships, and particularly to
what fell from the most Reverend Prelate. He
iberefore should not press its rejection; though he
full felt the propriety of the House attending to the
Intuit; in which it should be addressed.
The Petition was then ordered to be on the table,
as Pere some other Yetitions to the same effect, pre-
sented tiny Lord HOLLAND and the Each of DES-
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LOMAS raNOUTII •2111
The Eall of LIVE4POOL rpoved the girder of
the Day for taking into consideration tlic Prince Re-
gent's Messages respecting the Prams of Annuities
to these Noble Pessoria6es.
His Royal Hit,iiriess's Message in the asp of Vice

Admiral Edward Lord EXMOUTH, was according!?
read.
The Noble Earl then moved a Corresponding Ad-
dress to the Prince Regent, assuring him the House
would cordially concur in'enabling his Royal Hit:
ness to confer the annuity stated in his Royal
sage on the Noble Lord in question.
The Earl of GALLOWAY took the opportunity
to express his cordial concurrence in the proposed
remunerations,' and to express his hope that some
measures would he adopted towards ameliorating the
condition of the Warrantand Petty Officers, as the
most beneficial consequences would thereby result to
the service, particularly in guarding them from the
seductive arts of the Americans. He doubted net
but the attention of his Noble Friend at the head of
the Admiralty was directed to the subject.
The question being put, the Address was immedi-
ately voted by the House.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL then moved the con-
sideration of his Royal Highness's Message, respect-
ing the Annuity to be granted to Lieutenant-General
Stapleton, Lord Cumbermere, being read—
His Lordship observed, that on a former occasion
he had certainly stated that the provisions then made
for certain other Noble and meritorious Lords, were
not meant to be extended to the subject of the pre-
sent Royal communication. The Noble Lord was
at that time absent from this country, and he spoke
from the best information he could obtain. However
he had since arrived, and from what he (the Earl of
Liverpool) could learn, respecting the state of his
affairs and circumstances, he would not, without
such means as were now proposed, be in that situa-
tion, which he was sure all their Lordships would
wish, with reference to a due maintenance of that
dignity so worthily conferred upon him.—(Hear,
hear.) —The Noble Earl then moved a corresponLing
Address to the Prince Regent, as with the former
case, which was immediately voted by their Lord-
ships.

ttPiCELLANrous. •
Earl STANHOPE presented a Petition from cer-
tain Masters and Journeymen in the Gold and Silver-
smiths" Trade, in the cities of London and Westmin,
ster, against the Apprentice Bill.
Their Lordships resolved into a Committee on the
Treason Law Amendment Bill.
Several amendments were proposed and adopted
in the course of some discussion of the measure, on
the part of the Loan CHANCELLoit, Lords Et.t.r.:,%:co-
ROUGH, ERSKINV, and HoLuisto.
The Bill, as.amended, was ordered to be printed;
the report to be taken into consideration on Monday.
The Corruption of Blood Bill was then committed;
a few amendments introduced, in the course cf some
conversation on the subject, and principally on the
suggestion of the LORD CuANceuxu.
the House resuming, ordered the Bill, as amend-
ed, to be printed. It secured to be understood, that
both these Bills would be recommitted.
On the motion of Lord EIisKINE, the Peers were
ordered to be summoned for Monday next, for the
consideration of the Simple Contract Debts Bill.
Dundas's Divorce BM received some amendments
in a Committee, which will be reported on a future
day.
The Irish Spirits Distillation Bill passed throu7ll
a Committee, and was repotted without any amend-
ment. _

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The Committee pa the Highways Bill was yost.'
pont:4 tilt Frigar.
The remaining Bills being tecpectively forwarded,
their Lordships adjouincci till eight o'clock, jzr
forma, when they niereiy assemble tor the purpose
`of joinining the Procesion ordered to take place, to
he Cathedral church of St. Paul.