Star.
London, England, 1812-05-26 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

An the motion of Mr. WILSON, the Clandestine Marriage
Bill was re-committed, the Report brought up, and the Bill or-
demi to he engrossed, and read a third time to-morrow.
Mr. W. Du NDAS brought up the Report of the Committee oh
the Edinburgh Police Bill, w%tich was agreed to, and the 13411
ordered to he engrossed.
The General Enclosure Bill went through a Committee, the.
Report was received, and ordered to be town into further cm..
sideration on Tuesday se'nnight.
PETITIONS UPON TILE DISTRESSED STATE OP TRAM -
Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that his mown fth-

calling over the House stood for the 27th inst. He
did hope that by that time he should have been abte
to bring the investigation, in which the HOuse had
been so long occupied, to a conclusion ; from a
variety of circumstances, however, he found it would
be utterly impossible to accomplish that desirable ob.
ject. He therefore found it necessary to postpone
that motion to a future stay. Taking every thing
into consideration, and having had wine conversae,
tion with a Noble Lord in the other House, he was
led to believe that the evidence, if any, intended to
be adduced to rebut that Which had already been
submitted to the House, would not occupy mote
than three or four days, from which circumstance,
and intending to conclude his part of the exaraina-
tion.that night, he conceived he might be able to
call the attention of the House to the subject of the
Orders in Council, on Tuesday fortnight, which
day he begged leave to postpone his notice. He al. o
begged leave to move, that the Order .- f the Day,
the 27th inst. for. calling over the House, might be
read, with a view to postponement.
The order having been read, the Honourable
Gentleman moved that it should stand for Wednes-
day fortnight.
Lord CASTLEREAGH did not see any objec-
tion to continuing the notice for a Call of the House,
the more especially as he understood his Right Hon.
Friend .(Mr..Canning) had it also in contemplation
to postpone his motion, which stood for the 28th
(the Catholic Question).
Mr. ROSE said the evidence was exceedingly vo-
luminous, and considering the little attention which
had been paid by the majority of the House during
the examination, would require some time to digest;
he was therefore desirous that the House should not
be precipitated into a discussion of the main question,
without having sufficient time to take the matter into
their consideration.
After some observations from Mr. BROVGIIAM
and Dr. DUIGENANI the order for calling over the
House was accordingly postponed to Wednesday
fortnight.
Mr. M. SUTTON presented a Petition from the
Ship `Owners of Scarborough, in favour of the Or-
ders ir. Council.
Mr. B. BATHURST presented a Petition from
certain Merchants of Bristol to the like effect.]
STATE Of TILE ADMINISTRATION.

Lord CASTLEREAGH, after alludirg to the
present state of the Administration,.moved, That the
Orders of the Day should be read, with a view to
being postponed to Thursday.
Mr. WHITBREAD postponed his motion re-
specting-Sir James Craig's Cut-respondence relating
to America, which stood Mr to-morrow, without
naming a day, reserving to himself the power of re-
newing his notice when the Administration should
be formed.
After some few words from Lord CASTLEREAGH,

he• observed, that his motion respecting the Tele:
ration Act should stand for Wednesday se'nnight,
unless some reason occurred in the intervening time
to render it necessary to defer it to so:ne suture day.
MR. ST. JOIIN MASON.
Mr. SHERIDAN, addressing himself to the
Treasury Bench observed, that, at the end of last
Session, an h.zmble Address had been voted to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying; that
an investigation might take place into certain com•
plaints which were made in a Petition to that House

by Mr. St. John Mason, against the Earl (if Hafd-
wicke, while Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He un-
derstood that an investigation had taken place, Ipit
that there was some objection to lay the kepi t b:.
fore the House. Upon what ground this objection
had arisen he could not divine, but as the House had
passed an Address, and as an examination had taken
place in consequence, he did think tile Report should
be laid before Parliament, in order that they might
be able to form a judgment upon the result of the
inquiry in question. If there was no objection, and
.he could see none, her should then move that the
Address should be laid before the House.
Mr.- RYDER admitted that an Address had been
voted last year, for inquiry into the matter alluded to,
butjarther the Address did not require. The en
q"' had been made under existing circumstances.
However, he could not at present judge of the pro-
priety of producing the Report ; be therefore begged

the Right Hon. Gentleman would postpone his nye
.ticn to a future day.
Mr. SHERIDAN agreed to allow the Right Ho.
nnuiable Gentleman until to-morrow, to coosider
the expediency of producing the Report.
Mr. IVHITBREAD. presented a Petition fro%
Frederick Guise, a re,' lent in the I4e of Jersey, eon.
plaining of certain hardships whirl) he had expetieece4
under the Government of that Isrand.—Oldrred to
lie on the table.
COMMITTEE ON ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
On the motion of Mr. BROUGHAM, the Hotta
then resolved into the Committee on the Orden it
Council. The witnesses examined were,
Mr. Phillips, cotton-manufacturer, trots Mancbesteri
Campbell Patrick White, a native of Ireland, but settled a ie.
timore, America; Mr. Thomas Kinder, Yorkshire, woo:lanai.
nuiacturer, lately returned frorn America; Mr. Platt, a yak•
share wool en-nrarufacturer ; Mr. I. Fry, mina ins deck is do
house of M'Kenzie, 61!ennle and Co ; Mr. W
linen-nruntfaCnrcr in Fireshir:; Mr. Saso. I Wood:, eretrut
to the London Intim/Von, cameeraed in the West of boot
clothing trade; Mr. Henry •l urn. r, tricaod in the flannel Ink
in Rochdale and Haslvton ; and Mr. %1 ilha,n O'Kellstionkmed
in tie salt trade in Cl.ester.
Atter the examination of those eettnessi-e
Mr. BROUGHAM said, that he had now cote.
pleted the examination of the number of wialeuls
whom he proposed to examine, though int dealing
deemed necessary by the Right Hin. Gentlemanly.
pn'ite (Mr. Rote), or his Hon. and. Learned Frieeit
(Mr. Stephen) he had as many more who trottil
corroborate the statements already made. Itl4
however, been his object to confine himself in a gnu
degree, to those persons who had been examined psi,
pectively, on the subject of the Orders la Coed.
four years ago, and whose -opinions, at that tiny '
upon their probablo effect, had since been so
vously verified. That were some other persons elm
had been examined at that time, whom he h+ct not
called on now, as it was likely their evidence would
have been necessarily protracted toan extreme lentils
two of thein in particular, Mr. Mullock surd Mr,
I Mann. Having now gone through about 100 sit.
ne•ses, he true ed the material facts were sufficiently
substantiated without troubling the Committee nay
further,' for wlicse patient attention, during anima
tiation necessar.ly of a very complicated nautili.",
felt extremely sensible, and trusted it would-
pear, that he had in no instance, occupied-their
unnecessarily. He .would now move, " The •
C.:airman report progress, and ask leave to sit
M. ROSE said, that the number of witness%
ipr.iposed call would•not, he hoped, occupy
than two or three days, and he should be prepared*
go into their evidence on Wednesday, on 4ialt
he wished that the Committee might vitagain.
The House haring resumed, the minutes 40.
dense were brought, up and ordered to be printed, s 4
the Committee, tur • the further examination of it%
ties scs, adjourned to Wednesday.
Mr. ROSE expressed. an opinion that the alga
might adjourn-over this any, as theCommitteeasl
not sit again till V7ecinesday, but did not press it,ta
an expression-of dieient from Mr. Whitbread.
Adjoorned-at Half-pat Twelve.

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