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PARLIAMENT,I2r PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, JUNE T 5.

Conflict was heard in the .Appcal, Lafhley v. Hog. The fur-
ther hearing put off to Friday next.
The Neutral Ships Bill—the Hackney Coach Bill—the Bri-
tifh Fifhery—ebe French Letters Pottage, and the Weft India
Docks Amending Bill, were brorght up from the Commons
by Mr. Alexander, attended by feveral Members.
The Order for fummoning the Houfe relative to the Earl of
Suffolk's Motion rcfpeding the conduit of his Majelly's late
hliniftet s, was difcharged, and no futulc day fptethed for the
pupae.
The Honfe refolved itfelf into a Committee on
the Scotch Militia Bill.
Lord CARNARVON wifbed to know what was
meant by the fum Rated in the Bill as the qualifi-
cation for a Deputy Lieutenant, of 4001. Scots?
Lord Rosszys: Paid, et iminally that lulu was no
more than about t 21. Englifit flerling; but as 'ts
value became altered by the value of lands, which
had confiderably increafed in Scotland, it might
now amount to between 3 and 4001. Englifh.
'Lord CARNARVON then moved, as an amend-
ment, that this fum be fixed at 4001. Englifh.
On this Motion the Houfe divided :—Contents 6.
—Non-contents 16.—The Amendment therefore
was neqatived.
In the ccoirte of the difinftion it tranfpired, that
the Scotch Militia being, by the conclufion of the
War, in fait diffolved, the Bill was to authorife the
organization of a new Militia in that part of the
United Kingdom, and on principles entirely new ;
and alto, that as fort n as the prcfent Bill (hall have
paired, it was intended to propofe a new Bill for
granting certain Allowances to the Subaltern Of-
ficers of the Scotch Militia.
.k variety of amendments were propofed, chief-
ly by Lord Hobart, and adopted by the Commit-
tee ; and many of the claufes were feverally ani-
madverted on, and oppofed principally by the
Earl of Carnarvon, and by the Earls Fitzwilliam
and Berkeley.
The Duke of Mormon warmly defended
many of the leading provifioas of the Bill againft
the arguments of the oppofing Peers. His Grace,
however, took occafion to exprefs his opinion, that
the period limited for the purpofe of drilling and
exercifing the men was by no means fufficient for
the purpofc : it was not then his intention to pro-
pole any amendment, but in a future Salon he
hoped Minifters would fee the neceffity of extend-
ing the period in queftion.
The Earl of CARNARVON having ohferved, that
the charg,s of the Militia in this Country, as
well as the maintenance of the Parochial Poor,
fell in general upon the Land Occupiers, whereas
Perfonal Proprietors, Monied Men, and Placemen
and Penfioners, were comparatively exempted,
The LORD CHANCELLOt Rated, that perfonal
property was, by law, as liable to be rated to thole
charges, as landed or any other fpecies of proper-
ty : the caufes of its not being aelually rated in the
fame proportion, was owing to its peculiar nature,
to the imprafticability of getting it fo well—to its
intangibility, and to other obvious caufes. And
with refpeft to what the Noble Earl had mote than
once raid refpefting Placcmen and Penfioners en-
creating there rates and charges, he could inform
him, and from his own perfonal experience, that
as a Placeholder, to which fituation, however,
forne onerous duties were annexed ; he paid to the
Land Tax not lefs than four (billings in the pound
—whereas as a land-owner, for a bit of land which
he poffeffed in the North of England, the rates
were fo laid, that be got off for about yid. in the
pound.
On the remaininAclaufes of the Bill, difoilllon
more or lefs took place, particularly on that claufe
which related to the trial and punifhment of Inch
Soldiers as fhould not ufe " due diligence," in
coming to the appointed place of rendezvous. The
provifions were warmly combated by the Earls of
Casmanvos and FITZWILLIAM, and defended with
very
_great ability by the LORD CHANCELLOR, who
was followed by Lord HOBART.
The Bill being entirely gone through, the Houle
returned, and ordered the Report to be received
to-morrow.