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London, England, 1801-06-02 00:00:00

PARLMIIizivTARr PROCzzDlivGl.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, JUNE a.
The Duke of Let MST ea was fwcrn, and took his feat.
The Bills before the Houle were forwarded in their refpre.
live ftages, and forepal Private Dills, brought up from the
Commons by different Gentlemen, were read a firft time.
Connfel were heard in continuation relative to
the Scotch Appeal, Sir Jamas CoegymouN, Bart.
v. the ,Paovorr and others, the Town Magifinites
of Dumbarton; after which their Lordfhips pnft-
poised the further hearing of the cafe till Friday.
The Earl of MOIRA obferved, that having to
addrefs their Lordfhips in what related to a (t.tef-
tion of Privileges he believed it might be thought
neceffary to carry, as ufual in inch cafes, the
•fianding Order into effeet, for the eaclufion of
Strangers; but which, from the nature of what
he fhould have to trouble the Houle upon, need
be enforced but for a very fliort time.
The Strangers were then ordered to withdraw,
which of courfe precludes us from Dating what
enfued. The grangers being re-admitted,
The Earl of SOFFOLR addrefTe'd the Houle at
tome length, on the fubjeel of the Paper Currency,
particularly the enormous circulation of Country
Bank Notes. In the courfe of his obfervations,
which for the molt part confifted of details, he
Rrenuoufly contended, that the Paper Currency
was the principal caufe of the exifting High Prices
of Provilions, and that the evil loudly called for
the interpofition of the Legiflature ; and in this
conclufion, he obferved, he was warranted in fome
degree by official authority ; as the ifrue of Coun-
try Bank Notes in Ireland had been Rated, he
underflood by a perfon high in Office in that coun.
try, to be an intolerable evil, and to require a Le-
giflative remedy. He Dated, that in a certain
portion of his rents, which he not long Since had
cecafion to receive, on calculating the (um in
eighteen parts, it appeared that one eighteenth
was paid in cafh, another in Bank of England
Notes, and the remaining lateen parts, in Country
Bank Notes. After Rating a variety of circum-
Dances, tending to illuftrate his main pofition,
namely, the injurious confcquences of an =mettle
quantity of Paper in circulation—the iffue of Coun-
try Banks, and its effect in keeping up the Prices
of Provilions, he alluded to the Adl paiTed fome
time Since, to reflrain the amount of their value :

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he expreffed his with, that an Ael ona fimilar prin-
ciple were at prefent in force,asthere was infinitely
more occafion for it.
Lord AUCKLAND Wiflled to know of the Noble
Earl, if he meant to conclude with any Motion ?
The Earl of Surma intimated his with to
frame a Motion, in the Alpe of a Refolution,
tending to reftrain the amount of the value of
Country Bank Notes beyond a given fum, and, on
being given to underftand that a mere Refolution
of that Houfe could not produce the defired ef-
feet, he obferved., that at prefent he did not intend
to move for a Bill on the fubjeet, but ftrongly re-
commended Minifterial -Lords to come forward

with, a Legiflative remedy on the occafion.
1 Their Lordfhips then, after further receiving a
few Private Bills from the Commons, paired on to
t „the Orderofthe Day, which was, fortaking Hayes's
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Petition into confideration.
The Prayer of the Petition was, that their Lord-
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• !hips would difpenfe with the Petitioner's attend•
ante op the Occa lion of the fecond reading of his
Divorce Bjll,as he was.neceffarily abfent from his
Country, being employed in his Majetly's naval 1
fervice, to which he belonged.
Mr. Hayes's Solicitor being in attendance, was
called to the Bar, and in anfwer to' the quetlions
put to him by the Lord Chancellor, Rated; that he
lately had a letter from Mr. Hayes, informing him,
that he was then employed to commancla Rutter,
on a fecret Expedition, but that he, the Solicitor,
had made no inquiries at the Admiralty, or at any
other official quarter, as to the truth of what Mr.
Hayes communicated to him, not entertaining the
kali doubt of his word.
The LORD CII•NCiLLOR quitted the Woolfack,
and Hated the cafe in quedion to their Lordlhips,
as well as the nature of the Standing Order which
applied thereto—the enforcing of fuch Order
with refped to the attendance of the Petitioner at
the Bar, was difcretionary with the Houfe, which
may, in particular cafes, on grounds which it
deemed adequate, difpenfe with the fame. In fuch
a Cafe as that before them, the bell evidence which
the cafe admitted of to prove the allegations of the
Petition would certainly be required, and•this, his
Lordfbip feemed to fay, had not yet been offered.
The Noble and Learned Lord moved, in the &It
inftance, that the Petition do lie on the Table ;
but after conferring with one or two Peers, he
Moved that the (aid Petition be taken into further
confideration on Wednelday next; which was or-
dered accordingly. •
THe Order being read for their Lordfhips going
intb a Committee on the Scotch Militia Officer?!
)3ill, the Honk accordingly refolved into the fame,
Lord Walfingham in the Chair.
The Preamble, and tome of the firft clanfes of
the BM, were, after tome coaverfation between
tote Earl of CA RMASVOMI, Duke of Moaraost,
Lord HOPART. and • other Peers, difpofed of by
the Committee.
When dick Lord hips came to the confideration
of that claufe in the Bill, which goesto theregula•
tionfof the Trial of Officers by Courts Martial, and
atithorifes Officers in the Scotch Militia to fit on
the trials of Englilh Militia Officers, tried by
Courts Martial in Scotland,
The Earl of CA AAAAA or, in a fpeech of fome
length and with a confideralsle degree of warmth,
oppofed the elaufe. In the courfe of his addrefs,
he went into tho general fubjea of the Militia
forces of England, defcribed the principles on
which they were originally formed, which were
1 croifonant, he faid, to thofe of the genuine Confti-
tution of the country, expatiated on their effenti.il
utlit y, th ir seal and loyalty, particularly that of
the Officers, and the important national fervices,
which, in a regular and Conibtutional way, if left
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untainted and unimpaired, they m igh t, if neceffitry,
perform. •He then arraigned the conclud of his
listjetty's late Knitters with refped to the Militia
force; particularly with refped to their mcafure of