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London, England, 1802-05-21 00:00:00

A FRESH SUPPLY JUST ARRIVED.

MESSRS. HOWARD and EVAN'S, No. 42.
Long-lane, Weft-Smithfield, molt refpeCt oily inform
the inhabitants of this City and Places adjacent, that they have
juft received a lids fupply of Medicines from Dr. Lio mum, of
Manchefter, coofifting of chore molt excellent ANTISCOR-
BUTIC DROPS, fo univerfally retorted to for their eztraor.
dinary fuperiority in all Compbintvof the Scurvy, Leprofy,
itheutuatifm, Ulcers, and other diforders ailing from Impuri-
ties of the blood, Etc. Ladies and Oanianen may have their ar•
den completed in dozens or half dozens, to a Lail:, 4.1.6 d. bottle.
The virtues of this celebrated Medicine have Iseca difplayed
by many eminent Cures in this country. Indeed, fame a per.
fon who purchafes one es. 6d. bottle, but has reafon to found ita
prate. At this faitm of the year they are recommended to the
particular attention-of thefe fubjeth to tie Scurvy, &e. Lite.
Alto LIONION's Lot sok, which is founds fovereign remedy
for Surfeits, and all Scorbutic Eruptions of the Faze and Skin,
however violent and disfiguring ; alto for Pimples or Blotches.
Rednefs of the Nofe, Chin,fitc.; and for every impurity or nn.
natural appearance with which the fkin may beaffaaed. To be
ufed as a common waft for clearing and improving the com-
plexion. Sold, with proper diredions, at as: 9d. the pint bottle
Likewife Mr. Licxam's Pass for a certain difeafe, without.
the 'cart confinement in any rearon,reitraint of diet,or hindrance
of bufinds, when all other methods have failed. Price as.
the boa with directions.
There Drops arc fold In moulded Apure bottles at tots. and ss.
6d..-:one 22a. bottle is equal in quantity to three 4a. 6d. ones.
Tbey may be ha 4 whaleale and retail at Mr.Lignum's Difper-
, fury, No, 57, Midge-area, Manchefter; and a: Howard pd
Evens's, No. 42, Long-lane, Welt.grnithfield, fore whaler.*
noma in London • and retail by the following perfons:
gy, Mit:odes; W. clark,h2&e. Borouj ; pram
3j, * jeboult, LOIS 01 a; Sutton. nor.
Long..Agre I Pads, Old Bond-art:et, and 163, Fleet-Erase
Tate and Sultan, Raja Esehaixe ; Knight, Norton Elitists;
Tank, ta 7, Saand wardozg ; and by etsPeiriameeiPil
Vendors of Medan In every town in the United

I

PARI.I44fENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOWE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, MAY se. '

&wend WM went thrones Committees of the whole Hook.
Others were read a fccond time.

.111 Add:eft was moved to his Moiety. denting that be
*meld he Seared to give orders that a lilsport of the Proceed.
rigs of the Comnsiffi.iner. for redeeming t►e Land Tax be laid
before the Heide. Ordered.
ELECTION TREATING TILL.
The Order of the Day for going into a Cone.
mince of the whole Honk on the Ekdtion Treat.

being read,
The LORD CHARCELLoR left the Woolfeck, and
real-coca at tome length on the feeeral claufes of
111.2 Wll, which, in his opinion, as they Rood in
the Bill, required a great deal of ferions confider-
atinn. Hhl.orillhip in particular objeaed to the
clentc cmillituting the fpecial report and deter-
mination of a Seleß Committee of the Houle of

Com moni:conclufi e evidence of the truth of the
la•ils therein Bated. After much argument upon
the danger of Lying down fuch a doarine by a
foletnn act of the Legiflature, and noon many I
ol:;e6ionable parts t•l•tlie Bill, which might poit.
bly be better treated of in the Committee, his
Lordfhip exprcffed his furprize that no friend of
thx Bill fhoild have thought it neceffary for him ,
to ',Ave raid one word in explanation of the Bill,
previous to its reaching its prefent Urge; fo far
from this having been done, the Bill, like too
many others of equal importance in the prefent
fedion, had been brought in with as much indiffe-
rence as if it were a common Inelofure 8011.
Lord eizvazzt.y Paid be did not, of a friend to
the Bill. feel himfelf at all railed upon to enter
into any defence of it, before he had heard the
arguments of his Noble and Learned Friend ; and
notwithftanding the objections that the Houle lird
_just beard made, he mull Bill contend in fupport
of the Bill, that it was highly neceffary to fix and
afiertain practice which the Houfe of Commons,
and (fincc they fo honourably voted themfelves
improper to exercife the tight of trying Eleaion
Ca:es,) their Eleaion Committees had, almoft
without exception, adopted from the very time of
: palling the Aa of Kii%.William. His Lord-
fr.ip instanced the determination in the cafe of
Aldhoroutli, which happened won after the Aft
palled under the name of Mr. Grenville's Bill.—
lie then enumerated the cafe of General Smith's
conviaion of bribery at the Hendon Eleaion and
his fu'irequent reelection. The cafe of the 'Thet-
ford Elcaion, andvarious other Boroughs, to be
found in the Eleaion Reports of a Noble Lord
(Glenbervie), in which the fame rule of incapa-
citation was adopted, till he came to the cafe of
Norwich, where the decision of a Selea Commit-
tee was grounded on very oppolite principles.—
Now, he would elk their Lorelfhips, if it was fit
that there Should be one law for Thetford and an-
other for Norwich ? Surely it was high time that
Come Legifirtive rule timid be ensiled, in order
to render the dettifions of Sclea Committees uni-
form, and founded on known principles. He hid
no man entertained a higher refpeSt, or a more af-
fectionate regard for Mr. Grenville's Bill, but he
did not conceive that the prefent Bftl, when Come
f4w oeceffary alterations, which he Should himfetf
propore in the Committee, were made in it, would
be any violation of the Spirit of that wife ended-
vantageous rneafure. The Houfe would recollea
that the Bill came op from the Houfe of Com•
mons, and related Solely to the Eleillions of their
own Members. It was, therefore, entitled to
attention from their Lordships, andhehthat
they would not decide upon it without at leaft
feting it to go into a Committee, as they might
debate it fully on the Report.
The Earl of Rossi.ve Paid, he thourfit it re-
quired a great deal of ferions confidention before
their I.ordfhips agreed to do Co Itrong a thing as
to conflitute a Seca Committee of the Houfe of
Commons a Court of Criminal Judicature. Ex-
clufive of fuch a Committee having neither Judge
nor Jury, and wanting Several other of the ellen-
tial forms of a court of law, their decifions *ere
always private, a circumstance at once revolting
to the mind of an Englifhmau, and repugnant to
the practice of every Court in Weftminfter Hall.
&fides, of what was this new jnrifdiaion to con.
via a man ? Of an undefined crime. Bribery was
a crime, and punithable as fuch at common law,
but what was Trostimg P Could any body define
? Was it a cheerful entertainment at an elec-
tion ? Was it a glafs of ale, or any refrefitment
adminiftered to a voter on the road to the place
where the election wet. to take place, when he was
hot and covered with dug or dirt ? And who
were to be the witnefes to convict: a feared Member
of having been guilty of Treatigg ? The electors
themfelves, aauated by all the heat and prejudice
that a contefted election never failed to imprefs
their minds with. His Lordthip reafoned upon
the 4 considerations with great acutenefs and
Itrength of argument, putting the pollible cafe
of the witneffei, on whole evidence a perlon was
conviEleti by a Sclea Committee of the Houk of
Commons, being afterwards conviaed of having
been guilty of perjury in giving that very evidence.
Where and how was the incapacitated Member to
obtain hi. remedy, if the evidence before a Se.
lea Committee of the Houle of Commons were
'to he declared conclusive and final.
Earl Roma sr Paid, he had been a Member oldie
other Houle for many years, and hrd often been
on the &lea Committees to try elections. That
be could bear teflimony to the Upiightnefs and
equity of their proceeding.; on their overflow, and
thought that the Houfe in paving voted themfelves
improper to hold the power of decidinion
Elections. had done themfelves the higheft honour.
His Lordfnip iaiJ, that notwitliftanding what had
fallen from the noble and learned Lord on the
Woolfack, and the noble and learned Lord next
bins, he mud thir.k that a Bill which came fmm
the Houfe of Commons, and the objea of which
turned up regulations relating to the Eleaion of
their own Members, was entitled to every poGbk
refpea and attention in that Houfe, and he mull
concur with the noble and learned Lord oppolite
to him (Lord. Alranley), that there wanteiffome
Bill like the ri dint, in order to render the deci.
tuns of fele& CenTinittees o; the Hoak of Com. '

moos uniform, for nothing could be more nrijufi
than that there &odd be one law for Thetford
and another for Norwich, Canterbury, and a petty
Cornifh Borough oughr to have their conceited
Ele&ions dccided by one and the Came Law.

The Marquis of 'Byes INGHAM rofe to fay a few
words in defence of a Bill which had been one of
the laft acts of a long and ufefid life of a near re-
lation of his (his Lordfhip's own father). He
Paid the conftitution of Seidl Committees had been
formed with the utmoil precaution and jealotify.
Their powers were limited, and every poilible
guard placed around the exercife of them. It be-
came, therefore, a confideration of great moment,
whether a firuiture of fo much delicacy Ihould be
touched at all or not ? He dreaded any attempt
at extending the powers of that Bill to which he
alluded, lea ate beer objects of it fhould fuller. He
complimented his noble and learned Friend near
him (Earl Rofslyn) on his having more than any
man proved himfelf the fincere friend of that Bill.
He had been the father of its being rendered a
permanent law. He agreed, his Lordfbie Paid,
with his noble and learned Friend, that treating was
an undefined offence. His noble and learned
Friend had eked if it was a glafs of ale handed
to an elector in the way to the place of eleCtion ?
He would put the ilrongett poffible cafe : Was it
a glafs of wine handed to an elector by a Peer,
who, not by any legiflative law, but by a refolu-
tionof the Houfe of Commons, was reftrained
from interfering in Eleßions ? is Lordfhip con-
curred with Lord Rofslyn and the Lord Chancel-
lor in feveral other points, and concluded a fpeech
of fome length, with declaring that, as an enemy
to the principle of the Bill, he Ihould objet to the
Bill's going to a Committee.
Lord ELLENDoaoucH ftrenuoully defended the
prefent Bill, contending that it gave no new power
to the Wed Committees of the Hoare of Com-1
mons, neither did it extend their jurifdiCtion one
iota. His noble and learned Friend near him had
complained, as well as the Noble Marquis, that
treating was an undefined crime. The prefent
Bill did not Rate the whole of the Act of King
William, which he had referred to and read that
morning; and, if any other of their Lordfhips
would take the trouble to refer to it, they
would fee in the margin againft one of the clatifes
the words „giving money and great treating."—
Now, giving money was a criminal ad that compre-
heniled every fpecies of bribery, and great treating
was fomething more than the mere handing of a
glafs of ale to an Elettor. His Lordfhip laid con-
fiderable arefs on the right of the Houfc of Com-
mons to regulate the election of their own Mem-
bers, and to empower their Select Committees to
decide upon a tight to a feat, and the impropriety
of a Member convicted before a Committee, cf
bribery and treating, being allowed " to go out
at one door and immediately return through the
other," as his noble and learned Friend (Lord
Alvanley) had ftyled it ' • and concluded with ex-
fling a hope that the Houfe would fuller the
Bill to go into the Committee, and to dircufi it
when it fltould be in a more pedeft fhape, after the
neceffary amendments fhould have hem made in it.

Lord Pecnam deprecated the argument, that
becaufe the Bill came from the Houfe of Commons
and referred to the trial of the right to the feats
of their own Members, their Lordthips were not
entitled to give it a full and free difcuffion. He
would affert the contrary doarine, and mull ac-
knowledge himfelf adverfe to the Bill. During
the whole time that he had fat in the Houfe, he
had looked with jestingly on every Bill, he obje4t
of which was the difqnalification of a Member to
be eleaed after having loft his feat. He conceived
that the true intent and meaning of Mr. Grenville's
Bill was to inveft the Selea Committees with the
power of deciding upon the right to the feat in the
fpecial Eletion contefted before them, and nothing
more. Entertaining that fentiment, he fhould
vote againft the Bill's going into a Committee.
The queftion was then put, 4, That the Houfe
do now refolve itfelf into a Committee of the
whole Houfe on this Bill."

The Hoare divided—Contents 6 ; Not Contents 7.
Lord ALYANLEY then moved. "That this Houle
will on Tuefday next refolve itfelf into a Commit-
tee of the whole Houle on the laid Bill." Nega-
tived without a divifion.

The LORD CHANCELLOR immediately moved
a Thin this Eill be related." The Houle divid-
edtents 6 ; Not Contents 7.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
On etc motion of Mr. &toners, the Weft India Dock Bill
was ordered to be recommitted to a private Committee.
Mr. Alderman Come prefented a Petition from the Sugar
Coopers of Londoo,againft a certain Claufc irl the Sugar Draw-
back Bill.--Referred to the Committee on the [aid 818, and

onlered that Cgonfol &odd be beard for and againft the kid
Petition.

Mr. A 'NW ARI NO brought up tbeßeports.of the Commit-
tees on the Petitions from the Parilltloners of St. Aan's and St.
Margaret's, Weftininfter, praying aid for the repairs of their
rcfpodive Churches.--Ordered to lie on the Table.

Ordered. on the motion of Lord Gig nagavia, that an Ad.
drefs fbould be preilancd to his Malefty, praying, Ste. that there
should be laid before the Houle a Bateman oldie proceedings
of the Commilioners appointed under the Ad for the tale and
redemption of the Land Tam
Mr. ALZIANDRZ brought up the Report of the Cotrpnittee
of Supply.--Read and agreed to.
The Committee on the Volunteer Service Bill was deferred
to Tuelday next.

Mr. A r.ZZAND/It brought op the Report of the Committee
on the Lettery Bill.--Agreed to, with fonts Cbulls propored
by Mr. VAN.ITTAILT, aad the Bill was ordered to be road a
third time to-morrow.