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PARE, ['WENT A RW AOC BiDINGS.
HOUSE OF LORIP,e3UNE 30.
This morninjt their Lordshipwaiset at: ten o'clock, when tO
appeal of " Atkyns v. Wright," velis heard out ; and the judg-
went is expected on Wednesday.
At four o'clock the "House adjourned during pleasure, and
resumed at five.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that before their Lordships
came to the business of the day he wished to move the•secesnd
reading o a series of Bills—namely, the Labour of Convicts
Bill, the Felonies Mitigation Bill, the Capital Punishments Re-
peal Bill, the Larcenies Bill, and the Sentence of Death Bill—
while he would shortly state the general purport of the proposed
measures, With respect to the first Bill, it had hitherto been
cuszomary to employ convicts on board the Hulks; but the pie-
sent na 1 would enable his Majesty to employ such convicts as
happened to be under senterke of death either in the Colonies,on
or anywhere abroad. The second Bill provided for an aboliti
of sentence of death in particular cases. It was provided by
another Bill to abolish several capital punishments, while it had
been endeavoured to combine all the laws respecting the de-
struction of machinery. Capital punishments were thus abo-
lished In most cases, hut arson excepted. There was another
BiU, which emanated from the best consideration that could be
given to the subject, by which the Judges were empowered to
abstain irons pronouncing sentence, and, according to circum-
stances, to record the verdict. He wished that the whole of the
DM, which were intended to accomplish what, upon the best
consideration, all awned to agree ought to be done, should be
read & second time, and afterwards be committed fur to-mor-
row.—The motion was agreed to. -
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Mr. LENNARD, Mr. IittOODIN, Mr. P. Moose, and otners,
brought up the Rio de se Laws Amendment Bill, the Sidney
Sum: College Estates Bill, the Southwark (Town ant( Bo-
rough) Court of Requests Bill, and the Assessed Taxes Cons-
position 1111 (which was included by mistake in the Rcyal As-
sent of Friday last), with the Amendments as agreed to by the
other Heine.
Upon *c motion of Viscount Metxtr.t.x, the Scottish Turii-
pike Roads Bill passed through a Committee, and was reported
without any amendments.
The Carl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition from the
Pariah of St. Olave, Southwark, against the New Condon Bridge
ISill ; which Petition was ordered to be referred to the Commit-
tee now sitting for the purposes of the said Bill.

PENSION TO LORD ST. VINCENT.

The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the considera-
tion of his Majesty's most gracious Message, as com-
municated to their Lordships on Friday last.
The King's Message was then read !rem the Wool-
sack, as follows:
•' GEORGE It

" His Majesty, taking notice of an Act of Parliament, which
has made provision for extending to the Viscount St. Vincent an
finuity granted to the late Earl of St. Vincent, and the heirs
male of his body, and being desirous that a pension granted to the
iced. Earl by the Parliament of Ireland should be extended in
like manner to the Viscount St. Vincent, recommends this ob-
ject to the consideration of the House of Lords."
The Earl of LIVERPOOL was persuaded that
little more remained for him, in pursuance of the
gracidus Message just read to their Lordships, than
tO move that an humble and dutiful Address be
presented to his Majesty, assuring the Sovereign that
the House of Lords would cheerfully comply with
the request conveyed in the Royal Message. It was
not, he should observe, now intended to create a new
pension ; for it should be recalled to the recollection
of their Lordships that his late Majesty had, before
the union with Ireland, been in the habit of recom-
mending fit rewards for the services of distinguished
individuals, by pensions from both countries. This
was particularly the case as regarding the late Ad-
mirals Viscount Duncan and the Earl of St. Vincent;
the laiter, in consequence of the King's Message to
the Parliaments of England axed of Ireland, were ho-
noured with the pensions of £2OOO per annum eacl
from England, and £lOOO from Ireland. It so oc-
curred that the Earl of St. Vincent had no son, ad,
therefore, in the year 1806, it was recommended to
Parliament to attach this meritorious grant to his
nephew, now Viscount St. Vincent; but this MOM..
mendation did not, of course,' take into its contem-
plation the annuity froni Ireland, as the union of
countries had taken place. The object of this appli•
cation was merely to enable his Majesty to do that
only which was intended at first. He entertained no
manner of doubt that, under such circumstances and
representations, their Lordships would feel dispnseil
to act with that spirit of liberality so properly re-
commended in his Majesty's Message.
The Marquis of LANSI)OWN, in seconding the
motion, bore his testimony, from the best of his re-
collection, to the statement made by the Noble Earl.'
—lt was true, certainly, that Parliament had nor, in
1806, been called on to renew the pension as it re-
spected Ireland; but his own impression was that, had
Parliament been applied to at that period, the exten-
sion would have been agreed to
The motion was agreed to unanimously, and the
Address was ordered to be presented to his Majesiy
by the Lords with white staves.