Star.
London, England, 1806-01-23 00:00:00

NIS MAJESTY'S e►EEUM:
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that hie Majef-
' ty's moil gracious Speech be taken into conflderation
to•morrow.— Order ed.
CONTINENTAL TREATIES.
- Mr. GREY delired to be informed, when the Co-
pies of the Treaties with the Powers of the Continent,
which had been adverted to in the Speech at the open-
ing of the SelEon, would be laid before the Houfe ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH replied, that no time
lbould be 101 l in fur Milting the Houle with every do-
cument connected with this fubjed, that could either
be wilhed for or produced.
►ERMANENT ADDITIONAL FORCE SILL.
Mr. SHERIDAN rote to fubmit the motion, of
which he had yetterday given notice to the Houle...—
As he underflood that no oppoiition would be made
to the production of the papers he wanted, it was un-
aeceffary for him to occupy the time of the Honk
with any preliminary obfervations. He fhould, there-
fore, content himfelf with moving,
.. 'That there be laid before the Houle, a return of the evinbe,
of dfedbrc men that had been railed under the Aft of the 44th et
his Majefty, entitled an Aft for railing a Permanent Additional
Force, &e. up to the period of the IA return, together with an
account of the number that have been recruited per week, diftin-
guillaing thofe that have been rated by Pariih Officers, and thole
by his Majefty's Officers for the PariChes. Alfa, the number of
thole that have volunteered from this force for general ferske."—
Ordered.
Similar Returns were alto ordered, on the motion of Mr. SHE•
RIDAN, for Scotland and Ireland.

Mr. CHARLES DUNDAS prefented a Petition
'from the Freeholders of the county cf Berks, pray-
ing a repeal of this Ad, which Petition he Rated to
have been onanimoufly agreed upon at a general and
very numerous meeting of freeholders, •convened at
Reading. He begged leave to Rate, in his place, the
purport of this Petition, for the repeal of a bill which
bore peculiarly hard upon every dais of inhabitants
in that county, but more efpecially upon the gentle-
men of landed intereft. The Petition, he lard, let
forth, that nntwithflanding all the exertions which
had been made by the Parifh Officers throughout
that county, and the higheft bounties which could be
offered, no mote than eleven men could be railed out
of the full number of 342, being the proportion al-
lotted for that county ; this was by no means owing
tu any neglea or want of exertion on the part of the
Pari(h Officers, but to the utter impraelicability of
procuring the men; notwithflanding which, fines had
been impofed upon the feveral parifbes, under the
authority of this ad, to the amountof 66201. which
had operated in a great many inflances molt oppref-
lively. At the fame. time that he felt high fatisfadion
that the quetlion fot the repeal of this molt oppref-
five bill had already been announced by an Hon.
Gentleman yefterday, much more adequate to the
talk than he was (Mr. Sheridan), yet he could not
avoid declaring his eonvidion, that not only the Pe-
titioners, but nine tenths of the population of the
whole country were upanimous in their deprecation
to the further continuance of this bill, as at once a
molt oppreffive and ineffeaual method, for that -its
operation was equally fevere upon the poor and upon
the rich : for in the poor parifhes where men had been
induced to enlist, their families were thrown upon
the pier lift, and the rates confequently (welled to
an enormous pitch ; and, in the more opulent pa-
riffies, where the men could not be railed, the lines
for defalcation fell upon the Gentlemen of landed
interehl, in a manner the moll unjull and partial,
while perfons whom he knew polkaed upwards of
ig,oori in the flocks and on mortgages, were exempt
firm the operations of the bill, the burthen falling
folely on perfona of landed property. He begged
leave molt particularly to imprefs this confideration
upon his Majefly's Mlnifters, efpecially as he heard
from the Noble Lord opposite him halt night (Lord
Caftlereagh) in anfwer to the queflion of an Hon.
Gentleman near him (Mr. Sheridan), that it was the
intention of Government to revife this bill, with tome
alterations. He hoped they would naturally recon-
Sider the Cubic& before they attempted to revive a
meafure in all its parts and details In burthenfome,
which no alteration could reconcile or render effec-
tive, and of which the repeal was fo univerfally the
with throu-torir the kinedom.
The Petition was tiiTi-Eirs and read, and
ordered to lie upon the table.
IMPIiACHMENT OF LORD MELVILLE.
Mr. WHITBREAD moved, " That the Entries
made on the Journals, of the 26th of June halt, for
the appointment of a Committee to draw up the
Articles of Impeachment, be now read ;" which
being done accordingly, the Hon. Member moved,
" That the Paid Committee thould meet to-morrow,
to confider the matters referred to them."—Ordered.
On the motion of Mr. WHITBREAD, the name
of Lord R. Spencer was addded to the Paid Com-
mittee.

MIDDLIIIII2 'Lamina.
Mr. H. THORNTON prefented the Petition of
G. Bolton Mainwaring, Efq. Sir William Gibbons,
Bart. and feveral other perfons, being Freeholders
of the county of Mic:Bele:, againft the return for the
laid County.
The :WEAKER afked the Hon. Member, whe-
ther this were a new Petition, or whether it was the
fame in fubllance with that which had been prefentcd
in the laft Sefton ; and, if fo, what time would he
with to appoint for its being taken into confederation ?
Mr. H. THORNTON laid, that in fubllance it
was the fame as that which had been prefented the
14R Seftion ; and that, as he thought, about fourteen
days slier the cummenccment of the Salon would
be a fufficient time to appoint, he would name Tod--
eliy, the 4th of February, as the day he should with
to*, for takiig it into confideratinn.
Its confidoratiou was accordingly fixed for Tuef-
day the 4th of February.

NAVAL TlNQytity.
Mr. WILLIAMS brought up the dath Report of
the Connif!loners of Naval Enquiry, containing ob-
fervatinns, by way of fupplement to the Firli Report.
Ordered to lie on the table, and to be printed.
Mr. LAMBE, from the South Sea Company,
brought up fundry accounrs.—Ordered to lie on the
table.