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Author of " The Mont,"'" Celtic Sy .e&x," Ate dce.—{Vita
a Prnfcript EStraordinarY, and an Ode on the Union.
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A LETTER on the MEDICAL PROPER-
TIES of FLEECY HOSIERY.

By iiIIIIAM BUCHAN, M. D.
Autboi of " Dorneltic Medicine."
The SIXTH EDITION.
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PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 9.

The Bifliops of DURHAM, ROCHISTEIt, and
LINCOLN, Lord KING, and other Peers, were
from, and took their feat;,—after which
The Earl of SUFFOLK called the attention of
the Houfe to the eircurnftances of what he had
Paid in the debate of the firft night of the Sec-
Bon, being in a great degree mitreprefented, or
given in Inch a way, in one of the Public Print!,
as that inferences, widely different from any he
could have in contemplation, might be drawn
from it—namely, that what he laid tended to re-
flea upon the profefiional charaChr of his Royal
Iliglinefs the Commander in Chief, as the moft
remote idea of any thing of the kind never oc-
curred to him.—He felt a confiderable degree of
anxiety and impatience, until the opportunity ar-
rived when he could regularly make this declarap
tion in his place in thelloufe. The Noble Earl
did not, as we could trolled, fpecify the Print in
which the account alluded to, of his fpeech, had
been given t but he fecitibd to feel coufiderably
bum that his obfervatioas therein fhould bear
such a complexion.—His Lordflip Rated the Reps I
which he felt it incumbent on him to take, in con- ,
fequence of the mifreprefentation, on his being
apprised of it, particularly, as we underflood has
Lordship, on application to an Muth-ions Perron-
age who was prefent at the time. His Lordfhip
!poke in &rains of approbation of the Proteffional
Charater of his Royal Hightsek and particularly
adverted to the afability and gentlemanly de-
meanour with which be uniformly concluded him-
fell as Coniinander in Chief. He e sprefled no in-
tention of propofing to ground any proceeding
upon it, as we could colleet, but concluded by
expreffing himfelf with a degree of afperity, on
account of his fpecch being Id Rated, in the Print
which he alluded to.
Several arrangements were made !with refpec
to the hea:ing of Appeals .--.-Some Petitions were
received, among which was one, though, at lo
early a period atter the Union Al becoming un
operative Law, refpetting an appeal frcim Ireland,
relative tcrosehich Mr. Warbucton, an Officer of
the Count of King's Bench, in Ireland, brought
up a Writ of Error from ;hat Court, and made
the neceirary depofitioas thereon, as that he had
it iu.der the authority of Lord Kilwarden, the
Chietlittice, that the papers were now in the fame
Rite in which he received them, &c.
- Mr. Bea Oa I, attended by feveral Members,'
brought up from the Commons a Bill to fufpend
=tit the asth of March next, the operations of
the late a'cad Bill, as tar as the fame related to
the Mixture, with illiraten Flour, of Oars,
Bailey, &c.
The Bill was forthwith read a firft and fecond
time, the Commitment of it negatived,' and [holt-
4/4,ter read a third time and paired.
It being the intention that the Bill Ihould
an-
rnc•liately receive. the /toyel Arent, the Corn-
Isigioncle prdent, vt:nl were the Archhilhnp of
Ceara-burp Ole -d Chancellor, and Lord

Wulfingham, retired to rebe, when they toot
their Seats on the Bench • the Commons were fent
for, and that Houfe, with the Speaker, Mr. Ad-
dington, at their head, appearing at the bar, his
Majefty's Royal Affent was announced to the Bill
in the ufualiorm. _ _

In the condi of the private bufmefs, a great
deal of which \VHS tran:aaed in the courfe or the
evening, a Petition WAS received from .a Mrs.
Janc Addifon, of Argyleiliire, in North-Britain,
praying to be divorced from her hulband Mr. Ed-
ward Addifon, &c.
•

Refpeeling this, the Loan CHMICELLOR made
a few obfervations, laying, that in confequenee
of the fingularity of the cafe, he propofed that
the Petition should lie two or three days upon the
Table, for the confideration of their Lordtbips.
The Earl of SUFFOLK, after adverting to the
prefent very High Prices of molt articles of Pro-
vifion, and the hardfhips which the middle and
lower aegis of the People mull necelfarily fuffer
therefrom, expreffed his with to know front Mini-
fiers, whether, Government intended to propofe
the revival of the Committee of their Lordfhips,
to confider of the High Price of Provifions, or the
appointment of any other to the fame end ? He
thought it highly material that a Committee of,
Inquiry into the Caufes of the High Prices (honk!
be inflituted ; and the proceedings (hould take
place with as little delay as potlible. He ac.
quainted the Houfe, that in the courfe of an In- 1
veßigation of that kind, he had to propofe the
adoptlon of a meafure which, he entertained no
doubt, would greatly conduce to lower the Prices
of Provillons. After continuing to commeat up-
on
the neeeifity of adopting .Legillative rneaftwes
to remedy the evils he alluded to, he again ex-
pretred his will' to learn what was intended on
that head by Adminittration. None of his Ma-
jelly's Minifters being prefent, no reply was made
to the query of the Noble Earl.
The Duke of BEDFORD addreffed the Houfe on
a fubjed rather of a fimilar complexion with that
touched upon by the Peer who had lag fpoken.
His Grace re-called to the attention of their Lord-
(hips, what he had thrown out in the late Seffion
relpeeing the adminiaration of the Poor Laws,
and the defies, in fome points of view, in that
fyftem. Of the latter, he principally felt himfelf
called upon, to call the attention of the I.egifla-
ture to the fituation of a certain defcription and
dais of perfons, who, by the culling Laws, were
liable to Lthe parochial affeffment, but whole in-
comes, in general, did not exceed thole of an or-
dinary labourer.—Such perfons, their Lordfhips
would feel, were fitter °hied' to receive charity,
than to be compelled to bellow it, and under that
impreffion, he threw out hints for the adoption of
Minillers hall year, thinking that meafures of the
kind would bell originate from them ; and he ob-
ferved, it could not be Paid that they had not fuf-
ficient time to have come forward fince. With
relpe& to himfelf, another reafon for his not pro-
poling any thing in the fliape of a Legiflative pro-
vilion, was, that in addition to the confideration
he had iu ft Ilated, he thought fuels a meallire would
preferably originate in the other Houfe, as by
bringing it forward here, in the firß inflance, their
Lordfhips might poffibly be led into a• contention,
as to what were and what were not their rights.
Under all tilde difadvantages, however, fo Rrong
were his feelings upon the fubjea, he had himfelf
framed a Bill in the endeavour to meet the evil he
bad complained of; and he fisted, as he had for-
merly done in detail, the leading provifion of the
Bill to be, to empower the Jitßices, for a limited
time, to exonerate the defcription of perfons to
whom he alluded, from the payment of Afreff-
meats to the Poor Rate. He lhould, in the fira
inflance, move, that the Bill be read a firft time,
and be printed for the perufal and confideration of
their Lordfhips. -
His Grace then prefented the Bill, the breviate
of Which was read to the abose effeel, by the Clerk,
fromail the
which it
t wasWoolfack, read,
fd
anda
thegurfeueaalb
agreeable
tway,o thae
mfi roil.
tr the Noble Duke, ordered to be printed.
e, Officer from the Bank of England laid be-
the
Houk, the annual accounts of the farther
progrefs made by the Commifiioners for reducing
the National Debt, in the liquidation thereof.

The Duke of Bioroao aglin called the atten-
tion of the Houle, to a fubjea conflated with the
prefent Scarcity and High Price of Provifions.—
After making fome obfervation refpeaing the
appointment of a Committee to ccinfider Further
of the above important fubjea, he adverted to that
part of the lalt Report of their Lordfhipl' Com-
mittee, which related to a fyilem of General In-
cloture, which he read, and called, in forcible
terms, the attention of the Peers to it. He expa-
tiated upon the beneficial tendency which he Paid
would Teti& from carrying into etre& as far as
praCticable, the recommendations of the Commit-
tee, and pointed out the propriety of, and probable
good confequences of their Lordfhlps coming to
refplutions in approbation of that part of the Re-
pin of the Committee. So fully was he imprefled
with the importance of the fubjea, and convinced
bf the expediency of fpeedily adopting fome mea-
lures thereon, that he thould, on Thurfday next,
fubmit tome propolitions relative to it, for the con
federation of which, he moved, 44 that their Lord-
(hips be fumnioned."
The qucftion being put, the pmeielling was or-
dered accordingly ; and the Houle, at five o'clock,
adjourned Ell a quarter before four to-morrow%

the ganlit had retUrncal to his former praltices, and
the prifon was daily the fcene of the moll difgrace-
fit! tranfaaions. Hb hoped the Houle would in-
, ftamtly interfere;; before the common methods of
proceeding could be had recourfe to, the prifoners
might be murdered. The Honourable Baronet
then read a paper which contained a liatement of
the Mocking Rory he alluded to. In this it was
affirmed, that a man of the name of Hudfon hay-
, ing on Sunday morning, without the leaft provo.
cation, incurred the ddpleafure of the Governor,
he gave' him a dreadful kick in the belly, and
ordered him to be locked up. Some time after,
feveral* then armed with naked cutlaffes, rated
into his cell and dragged him out into the yard..
There they pulled him about, and as Airis imagin-
ed that he made refinance, he ftruck the unhappy
man again and again with a large flick. Hudfon
called out murder, but no one ventured to come
to his alliance. When he returned to his cell he
was taken violently ill, and though now in a high
fever, he is denied medical aid, and every thing
neeekary to area his recovery. Having finifhed
the narrative, Sir Francis lard, he had no doubt
the Honfe would take foam fiep promptly to re-
medy Rich abufes, and above all to procure relief
to this unhappy wretch. It would be paying a
poor compliment to their humanity and their juf-
lice, were he to ufe arguments to thew the propri-
ety of their immediate interference. To apply to
the magiftrates would be nugatory, as their con.
dal had ever been more reprelaenfible than that of
the gaoler hintfelf.
A smell-age from the Lords informed the Honfe
that their Lordlhips had agreed to the bill with re-
gard to the manufacturing of meal from barley,
oats, and rye, without any amendment.
Mr. Assor moved, That there be laid before
the Honk an Account of the Proceedings of the
Board of Admiralty, concerning his Majelly's
Dock-yards, &c. fubfequent to their laft Report.
—Ordered.

Mr. JosLirrs raid, that as he had affirmed the
expence of this war to have been much greater
than that of any former war, he was determined
to prove it ; and for that purpofe he moved, That
there be laid before the Houfe an Account of the
Expence of the Army, Militia, &c. during the
years 1793, 1794, 1795, and 1796, and the years
11779, 1780, 1781, and 1782, together with the
number of troops employed during there two pe-
riods.

The Report of the Committee appointed to re-
port what changes would be neceffary in the Stand-
ing Orders of the Houfe, in confequence,of the
Union between Gnat Britain and 4cland, was
read and agreed to.