Star.
London, England, 1807-04-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9.

The Lord Chancellor Eldon, Lords Ayksford and Walfinghalw,
fat in their robes as his Majtfty's Cornmilßoners and declared
Malt to the Royal Family Annuity and the frill%
the Royal
Paler Duty Bill.
The Earl of Lonfdale was introduced with the secuftomed for-
malities His fupporters were Earls Camden and Weitmorland.
The Duke of Buccleugh, Lord Montague, and a few other Peers
were (worn, and took their feats.
The Treafurer of the Navy's Bill. the lei& Revenue Regulation,
and a few other Bills, were brought up from the Commons. and
read a Brit time. Thole on the table ware forwarded—Adjourn-
ed till to.morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at half part three.
The SPEAKER having been required, by
a
Menage, to attend
at the Bar of the Houfe of Lords, to hear his Majefty's
attend-
(ion read, read, for declaring the Royal Affent to certain Bills, attend-
ed forthwith, and informed the Hours, that the Royal Affect had
been declared, by Commiffion, to the Bill for Amending a Mif-
take in a Bill of the latt Seffion, for granting Annuities for Life to
certain branches of the Royal Family, and alfo to Cenral private

Bills.
Anothrr Meffage from the Lords announced that their Lord-
fhips had agreed to the Eaft India Goods W.u-choufing Bill, and
the Light and Heat Company's Bill.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS prefented a Petition from the Efta-
billed Clergy of London, incorporated under the denomination of
Sion College, againft the Catholic Milit.try Commiffion Bill,
now pending.—Ordered to lie on the ''able.
Read a fecond time, the Infolvent Traders Freehold Eftate
Mitts Bill. Committed for Friday.
Read the fecond time, the kith Infirmary Bill, and the kith
Conuniffioner of Affidavits' Bill. Committed for to-morrow.
Lord FOLKSTONE prefented a Petition frown William Drake,
a prifoner in Newgate, committed thither by Order of the Houfe,
for grofs and wilful prevarication, on his examination relative to
the late Weftminftcr Eledtion, praying to be difcharged from con.;

figment.
The Petition having been read,
The SPEAKER raid it was his duty to call the attention of the
Hoofs to the fubltance of this Petition. It had been hitherto eul-
wary, when perfons committed under fuch circumttancrs as
thole in which the Petitioner Rood, foliated from that Houfe an
titmice of its benevolence in their favour, by ordering their libe-
ration, that they lhould at !call confers the crime for which they
Rood committed. thereby acknowledging the juftice of the fen-
melee, and expreffing their contrition. But the Petition jolt now
read contained no fuch acknowledgement.
The Petition was allowcal to remain on the table, without any
father obfervation
CHANCE OE ADMINISTRATION.
Mr. BRAND now rote, for the purpofe of ing.
bg forward his promifed refolutinns tefpeai-og the
ierfons who advifed his Majefty to difmifs hi, late
itlinitlers. He rmfe, he laid, to call the attention of
the Houle to a matter of great national nromert, in-
sfmuch as it was one of high conflittrional irnpos t.
once ; and under the duty which he this night pro-
poled to himfelf, it WAS matter of painful feeling to
him, that loch a fubjetch h d not fallen into hands
more adequate to the occalion. On the topic which
induced him to trefpafs this night upon the attention
of the Houle, he had hoped to be able to rowers
thole feelings of anxiety and alarm, which he only
participated in common with the people of England;
but if he thould not have been able wholly to divett
himfelt of thole fenfations, in (peaking his humble
fentiments upon fuch a topic, he trotted the Houle
would have the goodnefs to extend to him that in-
dulgence whiCh they were feldom wont to refufe on
fimilar occafions, efpecially as he role to vindicate
the caufe of the Conititution. Immediately previous
to the late adjournment,ghe Houle had heard from a
Noble Lurd. one of its Members, and a Member alto
cf his Majefty's late Cabinet, a full and candid ex-
planation of the caufes which immediately led to the
late change of Adminiftration. By that explanation
it appeared, that a Cabinet, compofed of men of the
firll talents, and of the higheft charatler for integrity,
patriotifm, and independence, their country could
boatt, and who fo lately and fa defervedly polliffed
the confidence of their Sovereign, of that Haufe, and
of the Empire, had been displaced from their fano.
tions ; and that his Majefty had been advifed to dif-
mifs them from his Councils, and to call his prefent
Minifters to their places. The caufe of that dilmilfal
had already been fully explained to the Houle, and
to the country ; and it appeared to be no other than
their declining the duty which they owed to their
Sovereign, to their country, and ao their confciences,
upon the oaths they had taken as Privy Councillors,
that of giving to the Sovereign a full and fair advice,
upon all matters touching the honour of his Crown,
the fecurity of his empire, and the welfare of all his
fubjeas ; and becaofe they refpeafulty declined to
be bound by a pofitive pledge, which lhould rettrain
them from giving certain entitle!, which, under the
prcrfure of imperirus neceflity, might become their
indifpenfable duly. He had mentioned his in-
tention of fubmitting to the Houle tome Refolutions
upon this fubjea, expretlive of fuch fentiblents aS
would mark the kith lenfe entertained by Parliarrent
of a circumflarce fo extraordinary ; and he had
thought, that the Hook could not too fpeedily take
the fubjea into its talons confederation, and declare
its unequivocal opinion thereon. From that time to
this, fo many profs and unfounded caltimnies had
been indultrioully circulated againft his Majeftl's
late Minillers, that he was molt anxious to b, ing.for.
oiled the propofition he had mentioned. ,He was
glad, however, that the adjournment had taken place,
and thereby prevented his bringing for ward this dif-
cotton former, becaufe he had thereby polft.irci an•
opportunity of deliberately examining the ilatemene
made by the Noble Lord, in all its bearings ;—he,
• confequently, found it neceffary to make tome changes
M the Refolutions he firtt intended to prc'pnfe, and
to confine them to more fpecific heads, Vhen he
adverted to the reftriaions which had been enjoined,
and the pledges which had been demanded of his
Majefly's late Minillers, as the indifpenfable condi-
. lions of their continuance in office, he mull declare
that fuch a propofal mutt have been advifed by men.
ah, fe couofels were inimical to the interells, and
fatal to the jolt prerogatives of the Crown ; men who,
if they contented to accept the office of the King's ad-
vifets upon fuch conditions, mutt thereby incur the
guilt of violating their oaths, and of fubverting the
principles of the Coult4ion. He therefore thought