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FARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

„HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, FEB. 14.
Lord Bazingdon's Diyorce Bill received the Royal Assent by
Commission. The commissioners were the Lean CU ANCEL,
&OR, Lord WALSINGHAM, and Lord. BATlirlit!;7.
La.set's and Gregson's Divorce Bills were forwarded in their
respective stages.
l.ord Grimstone took the oaths and his seat.
Heard Counsel on a Scots Appeal, and adjourned to Thursday.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER, in consequence of a message from the Lords
attended in their Lordships' House, to hear the Royal assent de-
clared by Commission to Lord Botingdon's Divorce Bill, and re-
ported to the House.
On the Report of the Loan ADVOCATE of SCOTLAND, from
the Newry Election Committee, and the attestation of Dr. Forbes
to the Hines of Sir John Anstruther, the attendance of Sir John
in the Committee was dispensed with pro tempore, and the Com-
mittee was allowed to adjourn till Monday.—A new Member
was sworn in and took his seat.
Sir Samuel Rojnilly's Bill for the relief of debtors in equity was
read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords
A writ was ordered for the election of a Memher for Stamford,
in the room of General Bottle, now Lord Lindsay, a Peer of the
United Kingdom.
Mr. BARHAM moved for an account of the quantity of rum,
and other foreign spirits imported into Ireland, from the sth of
January, 1806, with the amount of duties paid thereon. Also an
account of the number of illegal stills and the quantity of spirits
illegally distilled, which have been seized in Ireland, since Janu-
ary, 1803.—Ordered.
Mr. HUTCHESON begged the Chancellor of the Exchequer
would defer the further consideration of the Distillery Bill to a
future day, as he understood that it had caused a considerable sen-
dation in that part of the south of Ireland, which he had the ho-
nour to represent. He wished for time to communicate with his
sonstituents upon the subject.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER agreed that it
should be postponed till Thursday next.
Sir ARTHUR WELLESLEY brought in a bill for consoli-
olating the Irish Militia Acts, which was read a first time, and
ordered to he read a second time to morrow.
Lord HENRY PETTY, pursuant to his notice of yesterday,
moved for the Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of State to Sir
Hew Dalrymple, expressing his Mojesty's disapprobation cf cer-
tain articles in the Convention of Cintra.—Ordered.

MILITIA.
The order of the day being read for the third read-
ing of the Bill to permit Volunteering from the Mi.
litia into the Line,
Lord CASTLEREAGH moved several new
clauses by way of riders, which were agreed to, after
some 'observations from Colonels FRANKLAND,
and BASTARD,
On the motion being put that the bill be read a
third time,
Lord MILTON opposed the bill, on the grounds
of its being introduced as a part of a system which
was only to be adopted in cases of great necessity and
emergency. He was against the permitting the vo-
lunteering of men from the militia into the regular
army, because it weakened and injured the former, I
who otherwise in case of invasion would be an effi-
cient force, and besides the immediate mischief, the
system, in fact, was the raising men by conscription,
though the fact was disguised from the public.
Mr. LEFEVRE agreed with what had fallen from
the Noble Lord, the present bill was but a part of a
measure, and it ought not to be introduced before the
other bill was submitted to the consideration of the
House, and he therefore embraced the preseat oppor-
tunity of asking the Noble Secretary of State when
he would bring it forward ?
Lord CASTLEREAGH said'it was his intention
to bring. in the second bill in the course of the week.
Sir G. WARRENDER opposed the bill, on the 'I
grounds that it would occasion a competition in the
recruiting service, and raise the bounty.
Mr. WINDHAM observed, that the silence he
preserved during the present discussion, did not pro-
ceed from his not being sensiLle of the great impor-
tance of the measure, but because the general opinion
was, that it ought to give way to another business,
which stood for the day. He trusted, however, that
his silence would not be considered as excluding him
from offering his observations on the second bill, be-
cause the Noble Lord called upon the House to agree
to a part of a measure, without, as he should have
done, piesentinp:, it with a whole, The attention of
the House, he observed, was drawn to one object,
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but, however important that may he, it was not of
more magnitude than the measure, or part of the mi-
litary system now before the Howe. It would cer-
tainly have a strange appearance in the eyes of Eu-
rope, and a serious effect in the eyes of the world, to
find that the Representatives of the people suffered
their attention to be drawn away as it was from every
other business, for the military system is vanished,
end horse mad foot were completely routed by Mrs.
Clarke. (A loud laugh.) The subject to which he al-
luded was important, inasmuch as it involved the
character of a distinguished personage ; but be ob-
jected to Ministers in not proposing to have the mat-I
ter submitted to a Select Committee, where it could
have been amply, fully, and fairly discussed, without
any injury to the public business, and occasioning a
sensation, to which every other consideration in the
public mind seemed to give way. If he was to in-
dulge any political enmity against Ministers, it would
have been to induce them to have brought in the Mi-
litia Enlistment as a proof of their wisdom.
The bill was then passed and ordered to the Lords.

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