Star.
London, England, 1805-01-26 00:00:00

L♦ST MIDDLESEX ELECTION.

Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL prefented a Petition from certain
perfons wbofe names were thereunto fubieribed, clalminta right
to have voted at the hit Eledion for the County of Middlefea.
The petition recounted all!the particulars of the proceedings at that
EkElion, and after detailing the eke mßances which rendered
their votes unavailable in the final &alum of the poll, though they
had been ready to verify their right to vote upon oath, prayed NO
relief in the mania as to the wifdom of PartiAmentlimild fcem
meet; and that an early day mould be appointed to take their cafe
into conGdcratlon.

The Petition was then ordered to be taken int* eonfideration on
Tuefday, the 19th day of February reit

IRELAND.

Sir EVAN NEPEAN gave notice, that he should on Monday
next move for leave to bring in a Bill to continue for a time to be
limited,the Bills, for the fufpcnßon of the Habeas Corpus Adt, and
for eftablifhing martial law in Ireland.
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The Infolvent Dtbtors Aet Amendment Bill was read a fs:ond
time, and ordered to be committed on Monday.
A new writ was ordered on the motion of Mr. STURGESS
BOURNE, for the dedlion of a Knight of the Shire for the
county of Hertford, In the room of the Hon. P. Lamb, deceaftd.

STATE OF THE ARMY.

Mr. WINDHAM rote for the purport of making
a motion, to which, he was confident, there could
be 'no objeftion. It referred to a point upon which,
when he brought forward his motions a few days
fence, it was his with to have obtained full and clir-
tine information. He was nal of opinion, that it
world be necetrary to procure information feparately
on this head, in order to enable the Houle, when
the fituation of the milltary cireumaances of the
country fltould come to be dikuired, to form a clear
and impartial opinion upon it. He had been led to
(rive up this motion by a Ipirit of Accommodation to
gis Right Honourable Friend on the other tide of the
Houk, and to generalife the motions, he on that oc-
cafion fubmitted ; but as it often happened, that

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while acting ander fuck an impulfe, a man might
concede more than upon refiedion he would deem
confißent with prudence or difcretion, he propofed in
the prefent inftance, to corred his former omiffion by
fpecific motion. His °Wed in making it Wai, to
afcertain the number of men that had been railed in
Colonel French's levy. He was aware, that as his
furmer motions took in the new levies in England,
Ireland, and Scotland, it might be Paid that his pre-
fent motion was included in one of them. But as
the only inconvenience that could be apprehended
from it would be, that Colonel French's levy would
be returned in the double, that inconvenience would
be obviated by his moving for a feparate return of
that levy. He therefore moved, " that there be
laid before the Houfe a feparateaccount of the num-
ger of effative men raifed for Colonel French's levy
in the United Kingdom for general fervice, dillin
Ruilhing the number of recruits fir.ally approved up
to the left return ; alfo the number that had receiv-
ed bounties as boys, and the number of Officers ap-
pointed in that levy."—Ordered.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
then rofe, and obferved, that it would be highly ex-
pedient, before the queltion thould come to be dif-
cufred, to have a complete view of the aggregate
military force of the country in one conflated ac-
count. He wifhed Gentlemen to be put in poirefEon
of the molt fariaadory and comprehenfive informa-
tion on the fubjeft, and with a view to that objed,
moved, 4, That there be laid before the Houle an ac•
count of the total amount of his Majelly's regular,
militia, and provincial forces, on the ill of January,
1804, and the Ilt of January, 1805, refpedively,
diftinguilhing the limited from the unlimited force,
and cavalry from infantry ; and alfo thofe
in Great Britain, Ireland, and the iflands of Guern.
fey and Jerfey ; and thole (crying in guards and gar-
rifons abroad."—Ordered.