Star.
London, England, 1806-07-22 00:00:00

/NDAY. JULY at.
Commilbon to the Sugar Bill
noes Bill, the American Inter-
Bill, the Volunteer Officert.
ion Bill, the Chancery
the London Quay Bill, the
Ligothoufe Bill, the Infolveut
is and private Bill., to the
Chaacellor, Lord Walling-
Chamley v. Lord Miami).
.it Ster.
In the Appe-iil, - ill
Rennie v. Tod, and Others, the LORD
CHANCELLOR moved to reverie the Dtcrce of the urt of
Sefton, which motion was fupported by Lord ELDON, and
agreSir ed to.
WILLIAM SCOTT, Mr. HOLFORD, and feveral other
Members of the Houle of Commons, brought up the 11,.nitrupt
1-swa Bill and flame mho. Bills, the amendments made in 'which
by ,he Lords had been agreed to by the Co:nmons.
I b.: Confolidatcd Fund Bill. the Royal Annuities Bill,
the high Pottage Bill. the Lottery Bill, the Malt Ezetfe Bill the
London Additional Force Repeal Bill, Earl Nelfou's Annuity Bill,
and Lord Rodney's Anauity Bill, were read a third time, and
pelted.
flee Secta Forfeited nate' Bills were read a fccood time, paired
through Committees sod were reported.
The Cuftoms Regulation Bill, the Oak Bark nin, and the other
Hills on the table ureic ordered for committal, palled through
Committees, and were rep,,rted.
MILITIA.

On the third reading of the Militia Officers' Pay
Bill,
The Earl of RADNOR proteded againtl it as a
Bill that offered an intuit and injury to the Militia,
whilst it was at the fame time a breach of faith to-
ward: that valuable b. ty of men, it having been
clearly declared by Parliament that the pay of the
Militia Officers thould be equal to that of the Officers
of the Line. He lamented that every party who came
into power teemed inclined togive a blow to the Militia.
The engagements that had been entered into with the
Militia had now nearly all been broken ; the men had
been taken out of the regiments to feive in the line ;
officers had been appointed without the requiftte
landed qualifications ; now the pay of the Officers
was to be rendered lets than that of the line, and he
fuppofed their rank would next be affeded. He wait-
ed to fpeak againll this meafure in the droned terms
which his liberty of Ipeech in Parliament would al-
low ; and viewing it in the light he did, he felt it
his rimy to move, that the Bill be read a fecond time
this day three wraith.,
The Earl of WESTMORELAND alto thought
the Bill a breach of faith towards the Militia, and
was at a loft to ..-on.,eive on what grounds it could be
fuppor:ed. On a former occation, when dilcuding
tine of the military nicafures of his Majefly's Mini
tiers, it had been fail, do not take a meature tingly,
tot look it the .shale plan, and with this licence, lie
would fake the liberty of adverting to a bill for re•
gulating the rack of Volunteer Officers, which,
either through hit midake, or the mitlake of other:,
had paled through the Houle without his having an
opportunity of making any remark on it ;—a Bill
which he concciv:d calculated to give offence to the
Voltinteers, without any benefit being likely to be de-
rived from it.
Lord GRENVILLE declared hitntelf a warm
friend to the Miliia, which he confidered a very va-
luable part of our military force, not only as af-
fording a l•ree for the defence of the Country in the
hour of danger, but alto as giving an opportunity to
Gentlemen of landed property. not chufing.to enter
Into the regular military profelli3ll, of evincing their
real and fmril, and of obtaining that degree of mill.
tary knowledge which would render them effentially
ufeful in the crifis of public danger. There was not the
' flighted intelevirt on the part of his Majetty's Minitlers
to give a blow, or offer any intuit to the Militia; nor,
could he conceive bow this Bill could be fo CCM'
*trued. He denied that there was any breach of faith!
—all that had formerly been declared by Parliament.
was, that the Officers of the Militia thould receive'
the fame pay as the Officers of the Line, that is to,
ray, the pay which the latter then received ; but it
never could be contended, that from thence a prin-I
ciple was to mite, that the pay of the Officers of the
Line was never to be augmented without, at the fame
time, augmenting to an equal amount the pay of the
Officers of the Militia. It fhould be recoled that
the Officers of the Line made the military profeffion '
the bufinef; of their lives, and were liable to many
duties of fervice to which the Militia Officers were
not ? the latter, blides, might purfue other avoca-
tions, at the fame time continuing the exercife of their
duties as military Officers. He could not, thireftire,
conceive in what way the Bill could operate as a
hat dthip upon the latter.
• Lord ELDON objeded that the Bill was incon-
fiflent with Well, inatmoch as it merely profeffed in
its title to be a Bi'l for regclating the pay of Militia
Officers, in England and Scotland, whilst in the body
Of the Bill there were enadments applying to the
Yeomanry and Vithinteers of Ireland.
- The Eat! of MOJRA (Nerved, that a triflingamend
, mint would obviate the incnnfidency of which the
Noble and Learned Lord complained. He profeffed
Huse& a warm tiiend to the Militia, and, coinciding
completely wish the argtiments urged by his Noble
trend (Lor.; Grenville), he could not conceive in
v liat way tLe Bill could be confidered as offering any
itiOdr to tlo-r valuable part of our military force.-
14 e thought tlie lamentation of the Noble Earl(Wett-
in, telari3), that Inc had m;iTed an opportunity of de-
Is ding the Btil for reguloing the rank of Volunteer
elicers, wis rier•tlef:, as every part of the plans of
''..i..i•tete as embodied in the different 'natures
hr.- tile,t up to that Knife, had been moll amply dif.
.c-',, e,! by Noble Lords on the other fide who had
Puede' omitted any opportunity of attacking them.
twheoruldmoubfeit rfreeel,
,:ienth
by the
;hat not only nu offence was intended to the Volun-
teers, but he was convinced that ors offeom could be
tVoo:hluantteßeiril,Qh:eerve,er:se
ati from want or experience is salmi ferric', they
i,
• e got Competent to take the command of Field
°MAteer, of the line and of large bodiei of troop's, in
the event ed their being 'dually called oat for the
,terphee of the captor).
. fa I FrI7.WILLIAM laetrile defended the Bill,
rn, V..unds fimilar in dioce urged by Lord Coreovllle
'um/ the Earl of Moira. .
' The Earl i f RADNOR repeated his former difap-
i:obatiOn of tire Bill.
Ti)e Earl cf HA RDWICKE objerffed to the Bill,
.... ri.e.griroad'of the inereafe of pay not being ex. I
'. 'Mt: .1 to Cattalos in the Militia, toms, of whom, he

raid, from having been appointed without the quali•
fication previonfly required, flood as much in need of
an increafe as any of the others to whom it had been
extended.
Earl SPENCER thought if the not extending the
inereafe to captains had the ate& of bringing back
the Militia, in that refpea, to its Icirtna principle,
that of only having Captains poffeffed of the landed
qualifications before required, it would produce a
good effedi.—He defended the Bill on the grounds
before urged, and as to the rank of Volunteer Offi-
cers, he, as a Volunteer Fie!d Officer himfelf, con-
(idered that Bill as a boon, and he had no doubt it
would be generally confiderel by Volunteer Officers
as a favour, as, with all that zeal and fpirit which '
they would doubtlefs evince in the hour of danger,
they could not, from wag, of exp-riencc, feel them•
Mires adequate to the command of large bodies of
troops.
The Duke of RUTLAND expreffed his entire dif-
approbation of the Dill, which he conceived to be fub-
verfise of the Contiiiu:ion of the Militia.
The LORD CHANCELLOR contended that the
former declaration of the Legiflature, that the pay
of the Militia Of fhnuld be the f,,me as that of
the Line, could only apply to the then pay of the
Regular Army, and nut to any (inure augmentation.
Thole Noble Lords who conceived that this augmen-
tation ought to be extended equally to the Militia,
might ale that as an argument againtl the Bill, but
it never could be maintained that the not extending
to t:tat force an increafe of pay, granted under fpccial
circumflances to the Regular Army, was fubverfive
of the conititatinn of the Militia. _ _ .

Lord ELDON raid a few words in explanation.
Earl CAMDEN oppofcd the Bill. He thought
the meafurrs brought forward by Minillets were not
exally in unifon with their profeffions of regard for
the Militia and Volunteers. . .

The Houle then divided on the quellion, that the
word a nov " fiend part of the motion tor reading
the Bill a third time.—Contents 13—Non-Contents 8
—Majority S.
On our readmiffion we Emma the Earl of WEST.
MORELAND on his legs, fpeaking on the queflion
for reading the fame Bill a third time. Hit Lordthip
expreffed his difapprobation generally of the meafures
which had been brolght forward by Minifters, and
confidered his own honour and char.s.ler, as well as
that of thofe with whom he had recently alted, in-
volved in his oppofition to them.
The Bill was then read a third time and paid.
PUBLIC HAIBOURS.

On the queflinn for going into a Committee on the
Public Harbours Bill,
The Earl of LIMERICK complained that a Bill
of this importance had been brought forward at fo
late a per iod of the Salon. It appeared to him likely
to be mifchievons in its operation, as it tended to
prevent perfons having property on the banks of the
navigable rivers, as far as the tide flowed, from mak-
ing.' he Zeal improvement on their eflates without
giving notice to the Secretary orthe Admiralty.—
The penalty for not giving this notice was 2001. and
many perfons might thus be entrapped without being
at all aware of the nature of the law. He thought it
would, in many cafes, be Wiles as to the interefts of
the public, and hillanced the river Shannon, in Ire-
land, where the tide flowed a mile higher than vef•
kis of any burthen could come up, yet this Bill would
equally operate in that part of the liver where it could
not be of the teal! ufe.

Lord GRENVILLE fail the bill had been brought
for ward as form as the grievance to which it applied
was known ; and it was a meafure which he contend
ed was highly neceffary in order to preferve our pub•
lit harbours and navigable rivers from oblituflions.
It was merely required of the perfon mating any em•
bankment or other work in the flirtations mentioned
Ito fend notice to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
which could be but a very trivial hardfhip. Many
other rivers might be in the familiar) of the Shannon,
where the tide flowed higher than velfels of any bur-
den could navigate, but it was, notwithaandirg, im-
portant to prevent oblirtiftions ire thole parts of loch
rivers, in order to prevent the navigable parts of chore
rivers from being ultimately injured.
The Earl of LIMERICK Paid a few words in Cup-
port of his former objeltions.
The Bill then palled through the Committee, and
was reported.—Adjourned rid tomorrow (tkis clay.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Houk was funsmoned, In the 'Waal form, to the Houk of
Peen..

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The SPEAKER, on his return, declared that the Royal Agent
had been given by Commiffiou to feverat Bills.—(See the Report
of the Lords.)
New Write were ordered to be made nut for Members to ferve
for Seaford in Suffer, In the room of Sir R. Sullivan, deceafed ;
for Buckingham, in the room of Vilcount Proby, who has accepted
the Steward,hip of the Chiltern Hundreds ; and for Ennlikilline.
is the room of John King, Efq. who has accepted the Stewardship
of the Hundred of Defbotough.
The Lords amendments to the Philantrophic Society and Bank-
rupt Laws Bills were taken I. to confideratlon, and agreed to.
The Report of the Committee ou the EAR India Accounts was
received, and the Refolotions read.
Mr. PAULL did not ohjedt to any of them, but wand to mark
this eircumitance, that there was a drf.dcation in the revew.te of
Oude alone to the amount of 450,0001. and other defalcations, in
all abort three millions Reding.
Lord MORPETH faid that the proper time to confider that
point would be when the accounts came over.
Mr. PAULL laid aI, w words in explanation. After which
the Refutations wet; agreed to.
A e fr,mi the Lords announced th, ir having
agreed to the Scotch Nlilida ()dicers jitll, and the lei& Pon Road
Bill.

A Petfon from the Excite O ce, prcfented an Account of the
Profeeutions tor violations of the Malt Ad for the fait ten years.
Ordered to lie on the tahk.

Mr. JOHNSTONE, from the Office of Chief Secretary in Ire.
had. prefentedian Account of Irifli Linen, of a certain breadth,
exported to the Weft Indica wit Lin a given time—Ordered to lie
a the tank.

A Perron from the Weft Wit Oak Company premed a State-
meet of the pruereti of the Viotti in the Ilk of Doge, purfuant to
Ad of Parliament —Ordered to lie on the table.

A Aldine from the Lords acquainted the lioufr, that the Lords
bad agreed to the Wareboufing Bill, the Auditors' Bill, Lord Rod-
ney's Annuity Bill, the Royal Fsinilfs Annuity Bill, the Stage
Coach Bill, the Irllb Countervailing Duties Bill, the Land Tax
Confoitdation Bill, the Windfor Fmcß Bill, t►e Woods and Foret
Surveyors' Bill, the City of London Additional Form Repeal Rill,
the Malt Facile am, and the l.otury Bill.
The Lords alto delired the Houfe to continue &tine for Come
time, which, ea the motion of Lord 14. 1,11"IrTY, was agreed to,
sad dire idaffengeta were acquainted therewith.
Lord OSSDLSTON acquainted the Howe, that his MaJetty
bad bona waited on with legend AddrelTes puritanic to order.

jimumems, .
PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDh
HOUSE or LORDS, MONDAY, JULY
The Royal Alicia was even by CommilEon to tb
the Silk Bounty bill. the kith Revenues Bill, the Am
crude bill, the lrilk Militia 9ervlcc Bill, the Volut
Rink Bill. the Slave Ship Reftriaion Bill, the Chal
Bill, the Malta Bill, the Bailing Bill, the London
Port of London Bill, the Bell Rock I.igothoufe Bill,
Drbtors Bill. and fevcral other public and private
amount of 98.
The Commillioners ware, the Lord Chaucellor, L
hum, and 1 ord Eldon.
'The furea !scaring of the Appeal, Ch'amley v.l
and others, was poßponed until mat Saler.
In A nnosal laenr.l, w_ TM_ end Other..

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