Star.
London, England, 1806-02-25 00:00:00

IMPEACHMENT WIT S INDEMNITY BILL.

Lord ELDON went over Come of his former ar-
guments againß this Bill, comparing it with the In.
demnity Bull brought into the Houfe in the year
1742. and obferving, that Inch a Bill having now
been introduced, it was effential, in his opinion, that
their Lordfhips fhould a(certain what had beep done
in firnilar cafes on former occafions. He therefore
moved fnr the appointment of a Committee to fearch
for Precedents refpeßing Bills to enable WitnelTes in
cafes of Accufrtion, to give evidence at the Bar of
the Houfe, by ingemnifying. them from criminal pro.
fecutions or civil faits, or either of them,
_ .

Lord HOLLAND faid he did not wi(h to oppofe
the motion of the Noble and Learned Lord, but he
was convinced that on the fearch being made, which
the Noble and Learned Lord defirecr, it would be
found that the preen; Bill was not by any means, as
the Noble and Learned Lord would have it under-
Rood, afar/wile of that introduced in 1948 ; but on
the contrary, wholly dill milar. He could not help,
at the fame time, thinking it unfair to argue the Bill
at the prefent moment, when it was not regularly
before the Houle.

Lord ELDON, in explanation, contended that he
had ne‘er laid that the prefect Bill was a forimile of
that of 1742 ; but that they mutt both be argued on
the fame principle.
The motion for a Committee to fearch for prece•
dents was agreed to. The Committee to eonfiti of
all the Lords who have been prefent this Seffim, and
to meet tu-morrow at three o'clock.

Mr. It,,BINSOII, from the office of the Secretary of
State for Ireland, prefented Accounts from the Pav-
ing Board of Dublin and th- Commiffioners of Ac-
counts, which were ordered to lie on tile Table.—
Adjourned till to•merrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
StlMßlllti RITURNID TO rAILIAMTNT.

Lord Tcmple, Lord William Ruffen, I .urd OfitiMon, Lord Ro-
bert Spencer, Lord Morpeth, Mr. Windham, Mr. Calcraft, Mr.
k.rlkine, and Mr. J. P. Cocks, took the oaths and their teats.
LORD hiaLviLLa's IMPIRCHMINT.

Mr. WHITBREAD moved, that Lord Temple, Lori Robert
Spencer, and Mr. Calcraft, (hoold be added to the Committee ap-
pointed to prepare Articles of Impeachment apiaß Loral Vifeount
Melville.--Ordered.

INDIA.

Mr. FRANCIS role, in compliance with a habit
which had of late prevailed in the Houfe, to give
notice of a motion which he intended to bring for-
ward. This habit, he obferved, which rendered a
previous notice neceffary when a motion of impor-
tance, or one which was likely to meet with oppoll-
tioa, was to be propofed, had certainly not always
prevailed there. Bur, however, that he might not be
deficient in any point of form which had been deemed
proper by the Houfe, he now gave notice, that to-
morrow be would move for a paper relative to the
Finances of the Eaft India Company. This motion
would be founded on a queftion, and it depended on
the manner in which that queftion fhould be anfwe. ed,
whether or not he fhould bring it forward at all. In
cafe, however, it fhould be neceffary, he hoped that
this would be conhdered as a fufficient notice.

LORD LLLLLL OROUGR.

Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE role to give notice
of a motion, which he intended to fubmit to the ,
Houle on Monday next, relative to the Gtuation which
the Lord Chief
_lonise of the King's Bench at relent
occupied in the Cabinet.
Mr. Secretary FOX willted that the Honourable
Member would Rate more explicitly the nature of hit,
motion.

Mr. S. STANHOPE replied, that he had not as
yet framed it, fo as to be able at prefent to be more
explicit.

MILITARY JUSTICE.

The SECRETARY at WAR (General Fitzpa-
trick) obferved, that he had lan Scflion given notice
of a motion refpedling the Military Ju!lice of this
kingdom. As this was, in his etlimation, a matter
of the highefi importance, he h.td always been anxi-
ous to have it brought forward as loon as poffible.—
But peculiar circumstances had prevented hint from
prang it at the commencement of the prefent Scf.
lion, as he once intended to have done. At a later
period an event had occurred which rendered it ne-
ceffary for him to polipone it fill farther. Since that
event other circumltance., had occurred, which indu-
ccd him to abflain altogether for the prefent from
urging his propofed motion—for the alteration which
had taken place with relpea to thole by whom the
affairs of the army were to be managed, and in his
Majefly's Government in general, afforded well-
grounded hopes that the defefts of which he com-
plained would be remedied by the Executive Power.
With thefe fentiments he thought it would be quite
utinceeffary for him to make thefe at ',relent the fob•
jet of Parliamentary invctligation. Amendment
was undoubtedly requifite in the points to which he
intended to have direded the attention of the Houk,
but for the re.41,0s above Liam), he would beg leave
to wave his motion.

lIISSAGII PROW TN., LORDS.
A Me(rage from the Lords announced their agent
to Lady Nelfou's, and Sir Richard Strachan's Annu-
ity Bills.
PROUST'S TAX AND SINNING FUND.
Sir WILLIAM CURTIS called the attention of
the Houfe to certain furmifes which had gone abroad
relative to fame quellioni alledged to have been put
by the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer to the
Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
As he law the Noble Lord in his place, he would beg
leave to alk whether there was any foundation for
Oleic furmifes ? About one of the queflions, that re.'
lating to the Property Tax, he was not fo anxious, but
with regard to that which related to the application
of the Sinking Fund, he was extremely defirous to
have' tome fatisfaaory explanation. He hoped the
Noble Lord would be enabled to fay that no Such
eptellion had been put, but in the mean time it was
neceffat y that the public mind fbould be fatisfied on
this head.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, that nothing had been done which had the
leaft connation with the paragraph to which the
Honourable Baronet had adverted, for which there
was no foundation whatever.

111 W WRITS.
On dm motion of Mr. CALCR 4 FT, a new Writ ens ordered.
to be Weed for a Member to Serve In Parliament for the Borough
of Eruilfitillen, to the room of Sir William Burroughs, who has
' accepted the Office of one of the ledges of the Supreme Court of
Bengal. • 1
On the motion of the fame Gentleman, a new Writ was or-
dered to be Mired for the eleellon of a Member for Plymouth.
In the room of Mr.! angmcsd,wlto has accepted the Stewardfhip
of the Manor of EaR Hendred.
On Mr. CALCRA FT's marten alto, a new Writ was ordered
to be ilfued for the EleCtion of a Member to Terre for the Borough
of Portarlington. In the room of Thomas Tyrwbitt, Efq. wbo has
accepted the Stewanithip of the Chiltern Hundred&