Star.
London, England, 1801-03-31 00:00:00

HOLSTLIN, MARCH 9.

A corps of Danifh troops is affembling in this
difttia, which is to amot:nt to 12,.).:,n and
will be commanded by Prince Co ARI.KII, of Hee.
The regiments of HoMein, and thufe of Sietwic.
have raceis•cd orders to hold themfelves in readi.
nefs to march at fix hours' notice. The grenadiers
of the Jutland regiments have already patied
through Slefwic, and form :t brigade under the
command of General BECIITOLSIISIM, who quits
his regiment at Gluck(Wt. The fill' regiment
of lifiquards, cavalry, under the command of
Prince CHRISTIAN of Help•, fccond fon of Prince
CHAR Las, will the preen:. be Motioned betwe,n
Altona and Itzeh,te. A part of the slefwic ca-
valry are to carry the forage wilt them on their
horfes, during the two fit!' day, of their marsh.
The inhabitants of Slcfwic arc ordered to prepare
carriages for conveying the baggage of the regi-
ments. The cavalry which will quit Ittehoe,
will be replaced by ;300 men infantry, and the
artillery from Rendlburg, with 700 The
Englifh fhips which bad been at Hamburgh are
goat t 9 Cuxhaven.

MI

PRUSSIA

BERLIN, MARCH 17.

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We fiill expeet a deciiive anfwer t: ran ::nglatd
to the Note of the tath ut. dcliveti.d by t,1,1"
Court to the Enghill Ambailicior.—Cekinel k
Coo, of the General `tai., who had hitherto beca
with the Army of demarcation in Weiiphalia, ha,
been c flied hither, aml :et out for Peterlinirgh,
on bufinelS of importance, acc.,mpa-
nied by the Secretary of Legation, ?kl. llt
ScF' .—Ti:c Ruffian 'Cc:inferior, and Knight of
l‘falta, d'Ustti, is gone to Paris, as courier
It is thovlit that the obje& of his jottracy are
negociatiors which the Emperor of Raffia intends
to open in favour of thole German Princes that
are related to hint, and whole cattle he defends.
The Ruffian Captain, M. L' St.INN, has alfo.
paired thron;,h this city, on his way for Paris. It
is laid that the alliance between the three great
powers, I'ruilia, Ruffia, and France, is confirm-
ed, and grounded on a lining hall...—Rerpeilling
Ruffian glnds, the Court of St. Peterfburgh has
declared, that all articles neceirary for the con.
fumption of the Pruirian dominions may be ex-
ported from Rullt into Pruflia, on a certificate
from the Dirc&r,--Gerieral at Berlin.
It is laid that ail Prullian regiments are to be
put in me tion. Ordtr., have been riven for in-
fpeeling the magazines of utentils for the waggons
belonging to the army.
The declaration of Pruflia againft England has
been received at St. Peterfburgh with great latif-
falion. The order not to tell any goods to Pruf-
flan merchants has been revoked. Letters from
St. Peterfburgh of the the ad inflant, (late, that a
meeting of the trade had been called by the Im-
perial Chamber, which offered to the merchants
frigates for !hipping their goods, in the name of:
the Crown.

PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE• OF LORDS, MONDAY, MARCH 30.

The fecond reading of Mrs. Addifon's Divorce
Bill ftanding one of the Orders of the Day, the
Lord Chancellor took his feat at the Table, and
Mr. Adam came to the Bar as Counfcl for Mrs.
Addifon.
Mr. ADAM opened the nature of his cafe, and Rat-
a' the feveral rafts to which he meant to ezamine
witneffes and adduce evidence. He began with
obferving, that the petition of a wife for a divorce
was almott a novelty to be addreffed to their Lord-
fhips : he tiled the term tthaill; he believed,
though the law books were Merit in that refpea,
there were precedents to be found on their Jour-
nals to Phew that iuch applications had been made
to their Lord hips, and litiened to, and he hoped,
before he had done, to be able to convince their
Lordfhips that the cafe of Mrs. Addifon was fit
not only to be entertained by their Lordlhips, but,
he mulled, that they would be of °pillion that his
Client was entitled to the relief for which (lie was
a fuitor. According to the praCtice of that Houfe,
it was always, he believed, expeCied that a Coun-
fcl on the behalf of a Petitioner fhould bring proof
of the marriage and of the adulterous rafts, and
be able to lay before their Lordfhips the fentence
of the Eceleflaftical Court, of having granted a
Divorce a M.nJa r! flora, and a copy of the ver-
dift and judgment of the Court of King's Bench,
with the ftatement of damages given. It fo hap-
pened, Mr. Adam fitid, that he could not pro-
duce this ver-liet of the Court of King's Bench,
becaufe, as their Lordfhip.: well knew, a wife
Could not, by the Law of Englans, maintain a
fuit in a Common Law Court againil ti. bufband
for adultery, though fhe might bring he 7
againft him for cruel ufar, and on other ac-
counts; bat he fhottli be a' lv amply to fupply
this defirieney of evidence, 1:1 -roducing the judg-
ment and verdii of the Cow! of King's Bench,
apinli Mr. Addifon, who was convided of adul-
tery with Mrs. Campbell, his wife's own fitter,
upon an aClion brought at the fuit of Mr. Camp-
bell, the Lady's huizand ; and who recovered
pool. damages.
The LORD CHANCELLOR Aced Mr. Adam if be
was prepared to argue the admiffibility of inch
evidence then ?
Mr. ADAM raid he w 7.5 not, but would prepare
himfelf to argue it if their Lordfhips would gise
bim time.
The LORD CHANCILLOR laid, undoubtedly the
Bottle would.
Mr. ADAM then went through the reft of his 1,
care, and laid, as he Ihould bring proof of Mr.
Addifon's having carried on an inceftuous inter-
courfe with Mrs. Campbell, who was Mrs. Addi.
fon's eldeft filler, and as Mrs. Addifon ritufl he
conuemied to a life of perpetual celibacy, if the
divorce was refacd her, he trufted their Lord-
fhps would feel themrelves obliged, in point of
juftize, to grant the Divorce prayed for. He then
proceeded to call his witneffe,, and produced the
Chrgyman who marred Mr. and Mrs. Addifon
abniit the ;,:tr t7B9,at St. Clement Dane's Church.
—He alio produced the witneffcs c.f the marriage,
and the feraence of Divorce a Alenfa d Thoro pro-
nounced by the Ecclefuel:cal Court. In proof of
the inirintie of Mr. Aeld•liiii with Mrs. Campbell,
be c.,1:‘41 a maid tevv.nt, who lived wilh the fa-
sraly in the ye are 1791, 1794, and 1794,
and it was .ea.i!,:ifbed alt Mr. Addifon parfued
hi; purport for fo herert lie fucceedcd in
his ~bjeet.
A tv:iter, at Nee? Hall lon, South Oecii's.
fe rv, in Scwiarii, gae e evidence, that fiaving
heard (tom the fervants skit they rufpected was
carryiry, on t wecn Mr. Adei.fon and Mrs. Camp-
bell, and hearing that the room in which Mrs.
Carr.!,bell flept was locket!, and Mr. Addifon in
ir, ca.-ratty pronT:ed him to bore a hole in
the do:-,r, 11:NPigh whit.% he peeped leveral times,
nti i the p ticks in a 1.:1.41if •11 c: iminal.
-.—Mr data about is pr -tatice the iuch•ntent
a,,.; e. ein:t Mr. A.:dal:in far the t,d'iltery,.
and. I.:nib-I-flood woulti air, azain
b. ; u-t d it Lorthhip,, as he beard Dr.
Lanyixii, who Vs-r. now is Wiz, vv;alel, on bi.
sett:l-r. to EnAlani.., att.tioncr at their 134: for
Lir ru:se CeauptiCl—/thea

The LORD Cl!. NCILLOR Paid, Countel muft
_ .

His L:rc'i-:p went to the Woo Yank, and
, .:it a paper which he had commit-
%d to writii at the Table, addrelfed their Lord-
(hips. raid the Learned Gentleman was a
iciliak•:u in fuppofing that it was indifpen-
fably neretfary in all applications fur Divorce to
lay fv:fori: Hoyle the Verdia and Judgment of
the C owl. of Kit:7:s Bench. There were various
Tweeed,itta, on the Journals to (hew that, under
fonve circumitances, that form v:as abfolately im-
potlible to be complied with, and the Divorce had
been graitted without it. He recollened two of
them—the one of a Sea Captain, who had been
out of the e+•ur.:ry for two years, and on his re-
turn he found one el tad horn and another ready to
he brought into the world, though he had not
Peen hii wife for two years. • Lady had been
lo tree clf her favours during his abience that it
was impoiiible to afcertain Mtn was the father of
either of the children, and therefore, as the in-
jured hufband could not find a Defendant, he
could not poilibly bring an anion for D images-in
the Court of King's Bench. Another cafe in which
no judgment of that Court was pronounced, was
that of-a Lady who went over to France during
her hulband's te.....ance, and obtained a regular di-
vorce there, under the new Laws of Divorce made
fince the Revolution, and lbe married another man
in France. In that cafe no action for Adultery
there committed could be tried in an Engin Court,
of Law.

His Lordfhip faid, he thought it necdfary to
throw out thefe obfervations and as a doubt hung
on his mind, as to the admiflibility of a copy of a
verdiet and judgment in a dilliat cafe, which they
were told would he hereafter exhibited, as a ground
of application for a Bill of Divorce, as matter of
evidence in the prefent inflance, he had therefore
drawn up a queitinn upon that point, and if the
Houle concurred in opinion with him, and efpe-
cially his Noble and Learned Friend ( Lord Clare)
he would move it, and propofed to have the qucf-
tion folemnly argued at their Bar by the Learned
Counfel, who had fo clearly and ably opened the
cafe, on fome future day.
Thc Earl of CLARE faid, he concurred with his
Noble Friend entirely in his law, and It: thought
it right to let the Learned Connie', who had dill
played fo much ability, underhand, that fomething
better and more full evidence of the continuity of
Mr. Addifon's intrigue, and fumething left vague
than the look converfation of fervants, and the
i.roof of the criminal fags, than what arofe from
the teflimony of a waiter at an inn, would be ex-
peeled, before the Divorce prayed for would be
granted.
Mr. Adam was called to the Bar, and raid if their
Lordlhips would allow him, on a future day he
would give further grounds of evidence in Support
o
f the ncefluous intercourfc and converfation, and
the continuance of Mr. Addifon's intrigue with
Mrs Campbell.
The LORD CtIA4CELLOR contented, and then
put the queftion on the motion he had hated to the
Houfe.

The queition was ordered to be argued at the
Bar next Tuefday fent:tight.
PAPER CURRENCY, &C.

The Order of the Day for fummoning their
Lordfhips being read, a &oil converfation enfued
between the Earls of SUFFOLK and WARWICK, in
regard to the nature of their refpedive propoft-
ti(.ll,, and the point of priority, both having been
fixed for this evening ; in the courfe of which the
former Peer mentioned, that he had not yet de-
cided whether or not he thould propofe any fpeci-
fic Motion, but merely to call the attention of the
Houle to the important points which he meant to
recur to, and to point out to his Majefty's Minifters
thole remedies which ftruck him as the molt likely
to prove effedual.
Lords HOBART and MULGKAVI feverally ob-
(erred upon the improp:i,:tv effing the
Houfe at any length, except where a fpecific Mo-
tion was intende.f. _ _

The Earl of Surroex Paid, that in that cafe he
certainly should conclude with a Motion. He then
oblerved, that, with refpdt to his motives fur
thus coming forward, there was nothing perfonal
in them. He was folely atluated by public confi-
derations ;—neither ambition nor avarice formed
any part of his charaEler. He wanted nothing—
and his tole with was to fulfil his duty as an inde
,
pendent Peer. What he witted to call the atten-
tion of the Houfe to was of the kit importance to
all defcriptions of perfons, particularly the poorer
orders of the People—namely, the prefent im-
menfely High Price of Provifions.—This evil he
attributed to various caufes, the first of which, he
inlitled, was the continuance of the war. lie
well knew the initaenfe confumption of the Army
and Navy, which were not over-rated at 4.00,000
men, and the great wage attending Inch confump-
tion ; which laft would go very fir, in a period of
Peace, towards obviating the evil they now had
to lament, The mode of purchasing Cattle, too.
aggravated the Scarcity and heartiest's. as alfo did
the manner in which Grain was bought tip, patti-
cularly in London. The increafe of Taxes alfo
contributed highly to increafe the evils, and thefe
sprung dirt:illy from the IVar but what more
than any thing elk contributed •In. ',relent High
?rice of Proviiinns, was the enormous extent of
the Paper Currency. It had been calculated there
were no Ict, than four hundred Country hanks,
which mull futility a moil alarming iffue of Paper.
This he contended, al:lffed, in a confiderable de-
gree, the prices-of Grain, and tended much more
than any deficit:Ley in the Harvetl, to enhance
them. His Loreffilip here teferred to the evidence
of a Noble Earl (then abkut) given before the
Committee, and of whore eharafter he (poke in
terms of unqualified approbation. .He read copi-
ous Earaeis from the Minutes of the Noble Earl's
E :idence (Egremout ), which he %%tithed were print-
ed for •Jle general information of their Lordthips,
and intimated his intention of making a Motion to
eiTett. He i4iJ, from thefts it appeared to be the
Nt.l)lc Earl's opinion, that. the late harvelt was up-
on the whole at. average crop, which was an addi.
timid reafon with him for dunking that the Paper
Currency kcp'. iip lie prices of Corn. He raid,

the affii Rance which the Farmers received from
thefe Country Bankers, enabled them to withhold
their Corn. He again expreffed his with that their
Lordtl43 would agree to have the Noble Earl's
Evidence printed, as, in his mind, nethin,?.. fu cleave
and to (lecifiee had yet been offered on the fubjett.
He then proceeded to fitzgell thole remedies which
he thought molllikely to :tauter the piopofcd en .L.
He meant merely to threw tlieni opt, in III: hope
that Minillers would digell and improve them,
v. I. ich his imperfea abilities weir Itne(ltt:tl to. tk
firli propofct' that the number at Banktrs thould
he tak,ai, and, as far as priffible, the extent of the
Paper Circulation alma:tined. It may he laid this
was a private trantaftion, with the Legit:a-
ttire fhould rot interfere, hut h: nui:le,l that,
where private trontaaions tended to public ii cries,
it was the duty of the Legill (tore to interfere ;
there were two Ads, he raid, pa,fed this reign, the
effect of which went, in Ihme degree, to reilrain
thefe allies, a menfure which was much more need-
fary at prefent. He would alto fuggcll the expe-
dient of laying on a Shilling Stamp Duty upon
every Note idued ; this would have the (Sea of
abridging their cireulo:ion—if not, the Public
would have 5 per cent. out of the immenfe proilfs
of thole Bankers. Another expedient, the effeas '
of which would be very beneficial, was the ells-1
blifliment of Public Granaries. A great difference,
exiled between the weights and meafures in dif-
ferent parts of the kingdom, and there he thought
fhould be equalized. With rcfpet to the fade of.,
Corn in the Metropolis, he thought there fhould
be two inftead of one market, which would give
the public thole benefits obvioutly refulting from
competition. Another important confideration '
with refpel to the prices of Grain was, the im-
menfc body of Cavalry maintained in the kingdom,
for which number he thought there called no
necefti ty. The immenfe qnantities of Land lying'
walk, from feven to eight Millions of Acres, was
another cattle of the prefent evils ; were thefe re-
claimed and taken into cultivation, the molt bene-
ficial effeEts would be produced. He alfo thought
that all the country markets fhould be held on the
fame alayos by the prefent mode, a great opportu-
nity was afforded to the machinations of foreftal-
ling, 8:e. Thefe were the principal points which
the Noble Earl fuggefted in the firft inftance, as
likely to obviate in their adoption, the evils com-
plained of; and he concluded by moving, ,4 That
it be an inftrudion to the Committee of the Honfe,
to inquire into the extent of the paper currency,
and what effect the fame has with relped to the
prefent High Prices of Provifions."
Lord HOBART Etid, it was not his intention to
follow the Noble Earl in the various tlatcments
he had jut delivered, but he obferved that the
motion was at leall unneceflary, as the Committee
whom it was propcfed to infirud, were diligently
employed in invelligating the very important fub-
jeds under their confideration. That he was con-
fident that whatever appeared to them mot wife
and expedient to recommend, they would do, and
they were already confiderably advanced in their
work. He therefore thought it improper, at prefent
at leaf, to inftrud them upon any particular point.
With relped to an official document, to which the
Noble Earl teemed to allude, the Letter of a Noble
Duke, he was, upon inquiry, fully convinced that
every line of it was juftified by the exiling circum-
!lances, and its circulation through the country
was attended with very beneficial effeds. In re.
gard to the Noble Earl's ohfervations on the late
harvetts, and the Rate of the country with refried
to provifions, he begged to refer their Lordfhips
to the important reports of both Houfes of Parlia.
ment ; from thefe, on which his Lordlhip °Nerved
fomewhat in detail, it would appear that the pre-
fent Scarcity was to be attributed to the difpen-
fation of PROVIDENCE, and which, of courfe, was
the operating caufe of the high prices. With re. '
fped to the point on which the Noble Earl laid fo
much ftrefs, the Country Banks, he was not then
prepared to give a decided opinion ; but he was
certain the Bottle would feel the impolicy, not to
fay danger, of treating upon that fyftem by means
of which this country has rifen to an unexampled
height of profperity and happinefs ; and they
fhould entertain, with the utmoft caution, any pro-
pofition tending to interrupt that fy (lent, or to
trench upon any particular branch of commerce.
In regard to the high prices of corn arifing from
thefe, or from the war, no potations could be more
erroneous ; the latter had already been ably argued
and decided upon by the Houfe. Added to which.
the Reports of the Committees he had already re-
ferred to, and a reference to the prices of corn in
former years, particularly in 1793, 4, and 1797,
(refpening which his Lordfhip entered into lonic
detailed calculations,) filmed tile fallity of the
potations. In thefe periods the iffue of Country
Bank Paper was never thought of as the caufes of
the high prices, Is hy then fhould it produce that
effed now ? He then touched upon the point of
the Wafle.Lands, refpeding which the Committee
I were then butily employed, whofe merits, in what
they had already done, was very ably pointed out
by the Noble Lord, as well as thole beneficial
efreds which the public had every reafon to taped
would rcfult from their future labours.

The Earl of WARWICK faid, that much of what
had fallen from the Noble Earl anticipated what
he himfelf had propufed to fuggefl, in favour of
the motion.

Lord Aura LA w n ohferved, that the Noble Earl
had attiihtited much of what he had to deprecate,
to a popular caufe, and one which was in general
very ill underttood. What the Noble Earl laid,
had a tendency to thake the commercial ()item of
the country ; the nature and procefs of the inftitu-
thms fo much deferied, were egregiottfly mifcon-
ceived—the itfue was for value received—the point
was plaits—the iffuer was ultimately anfwerable ;
his fign upon the paper gave it value, 44 the
upon a piece of metal gives it a nominal, or a dif-
ferent value from the real. lisle banks create a
little circle of fecurity round them; the proceeding
was limilar to that of lending money. When the
paper came round again it was repaid by the iffuer.
His Lordlhip entered into tome calculations to
evince that there eftablithments had far from an
injurious tendency, and concluded by expreffing
his hype. that on a (ration of fuch delicacy and

importance, the Houfe would be lcd by its men
good feufe, and not induced to tamper with tint
fyllcm which had conferred the greateil praaical
benefits upon the country.
'rho Duke of Arum exprefred his opinion that
the fcarcity complained of principally arofe Iron;
the chfpenfittions of PROVIDENCE, and enzeted int.,
fume detail to they: the clabiiflimvot of
Fevinci: pailicularly in the Not•th?rii part:
(.1 the Lir-gd.4.1, prcdt:',_ed loin: very falutary
e :Tea s.

Ettrl h.s~.sit st did rot inatet;ally obj' to the
nal:on of the Nol,le Earl, at the fame time that
he tionbted dn. eptcli2pcy of it.
After a fcsv v.-ortls from the 1'.;,r1 of Sttproty,
in reply, biti motion was put and nzg.ztiveci.

HIGH PK:)VISIOXE.

The Earl of WAr.WICK laid, he would nor ti •
tam the Houle long with the motion he wa,.:11:01:r
to fubmit to their Lordthips. l'er.baded as lie
that the high price of prcviiions proceeded iron.
artificial caufes, he felt himfelf called upon to loin;
the motion he meant to rropofe before the II 'oft..
In fopport of his opinion he adverted to the law
quantities of corn continually in the river Thames.
and in all the granaries on its banks, as a proof t):
monopoly. The only remedy he coulti fee for th,
evil was--firfl, to afcertain the einanti.y of c, a ie
the kingdom, and then to compel Ow holder s of
to fell it at a given price. lbging the neeetrity
thefe objeCts, he concluded with a motion to th,
following purport : " To authorize all M.ig:ar.fte
and other proper Officers thr,:4onit the king.!,:.n
to make returns to that Houfe of the qua.lti..v
Corn, Hour, and Grain, in their ditlrids."
Lord MORTON• oppofed the motion.
The Duke of Mori-toss faid, he wa rot ry t
find the Noble Earl bring forward the prefcnt'sno.
tion ; of his intentions in doing fo, no man could
have a doubt and no perfon was more ready :a
bear tellimony of them than his Graco, becanfe ha
was well convinced a better man did not ezill than
the Noble Earl, yet he was forry to fay, he had
taken a wrong ground, The Committee appointed
by that Houle had done every thing men could do
to alleviate the fufferings of their fellow creatures,
and he was well perfuaded it would gladly receive
any information the Noble Earl had to give on
the fubjed of the prefcnt fcarcity, and at upon it
with that vigilance which has marked all its ma-
tures ; he dapproved of the remedy propofed by
the Noble Earl, becaufe he did not think, if it were
pradicablc, it could have any beneficial effect, but
of the impracticability of it no man could have the
'Mika doubt—how was the return to be made ?
It was a fad well afeertained, that farmers wen-
very unwilling to give fuch information as the ;no-
tion went to demand, and he doubted the power of
the Houfe, in the thane the Noble Earl propofed,
to force the returns. He difapproved of creating
refentment in the minds of the lower enders of the
people againft any dthriptirm of porfons, particu-
larly when they were not really culpable. The
people, with a patience which refiedcd great credit
upon them, had borne their fufferings from a on.
vidion th tt they were the difpentattions of PR OV/-
°VICE : Alt if they were told that their rniferies
were produced by the avarice of any let of men,
they would not bear it fo tamely--for his pair, he
had no doubt as to a fcarcity. There had been 4
great outcry about the quantity of corn in the rive;
Thames, but the Haute would reflect that the live 7
Thames was now become a det4 for almo't the
whole of the kingdom, from the great ti 711
city of London, and confequently its ta
of procuring, fupplics. He knew of corn Orin; lent
from London to Leicefter very lately; a eircen,
Rance perhaps that never hetore occurred, and
which clearly proves that leart.itY does en d. Is..
Noble Duke vindicated the conduct of the Com •
tee from the blame imputed to them by the 1•:. `ale
,earl, and concluded by laying, on the grounds lie
had hated, he (hould vote againft the motion : he
never could approve of a maxims"
The Earl of AVaawick role to explain ; he de-
clared if any thing which he had faid could be con,
ltrued into a cenfure on the Committee, it mull
have proceeded from his having been milcuoccived
by the Houfc, owing to his manner of delivery's
himfelf; but certainly fuch was never his intention:
he did not mean to throw the fmalleit iniputation
upon was fatisfied it had *Red according to
the belt judgment it could form from the evidence
laid before it. _ _

Lord HOBART faid, he should trouble the Houle
but a very Ihort time; he had merely to acquaint
their Lordfhips, that having been informed that a
report had gone abroad of corn having been dimwit
into the river Thames ; he felt it his duty to af-
cistain, as well as he WAS able, the fad. He ac-
cordingly applied to a perfon from whom he ima-
gined it was moil likely he lhould obtain the de-
fired information ; and that perfon, unable to fpeak
as to the fait himfclf, referred him to a Merchant
in the City, who he :aired him would rttisfi Lim
fully on the fubjed. The Noble Lord laid he im-
mediately fent to that Merchant, who declared the
ilatement to be falfe.

.............._
Lord 13 _
contended that the means the
Noble Earl had propofed could not remedy the
evil, but would create much diiratifaftion ; lie
therefore oppofed it, and would oppofe any mea-
fure which would produce a maximui.i.
The Duke of Bsproitzi confined his oppofition to
the meafure to the inutility of it—he faw no good
purple that could be anfwered by reminding the
poor of their fufferings. He was perfuadecl a liar-
city did exill ; and if the Noble Lord would refer
back to the fituation of the country in August laft,
he could not doubt it—for at that period his Grace
faid he knew many inflame- in counties NA re-
I markable fur poverty of foil, that die poor inhabi-
tants fpent hours, nay almoft Whole days, at the
doors of bakers, waiting for bread. As to what
produced the fcarcity, fhould declare his fend-
mcnts on that fubjetct when the committee made
its report. As to a maximum, he considered it a
bad =afore. _

Tie motion was then put, and negatived with-
out a divifion.
The bills Mafia of the Rolls Bill was read a fe-
cond time, and ordered to be committed to-mot-
row ; upon which,the Duke of Bedford intimated as
intention of oppofing h.—Adjourned at 9 o'clock,

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