Star.
London, England, 1806-02-13 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, FEB. is.
A little after four o'clock, the LORD CHANCELLOR came'
down, and &only after the Speaker and fevers! Members of the
Houle of Common' appeared at the Bar. when the Royal Affent
MAR given by Commlflion to the Land and Malt Duty Bib ; and
to a Naturalization Bill. The CommlfGoners were the Lord
Chancellor, Earl Spencer, and Lord Walhngbam.
Mr. WHITBREAD, brought up from the. Commons the Bill
for Indemnifying the Witneffes agalnft Lord Melville, which, on
the motion of Lord Holland, was read a firit time, and ordered
to be printed.
Several Petitions were prefemod from Peons in different
Gaols. Ordered to lie on the table —Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Mr. SPEAKER having taken the Chair,
Lord HENRY PETTY and Mr. CHARLES LONG were
(worn, and took their feats in eonfequenee of their re-dello°.
A Perfon from the Commiffioners for regulating the Offices be-
longing to the Houle of Commons prefented tome official papers
from that Department.--Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Alderman COOMBE brought up the Report *fuse Corn•
mitten appointed to confider of the propriety of roiling an addi-
tional funs to complete the Work houfe of St. Sepulchre's Peril',
and obtained leave to bring in a Bill accordingly.

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Mr. JOHNSON, from the Office of the Chief Se-
cretary for Ireland, prefented (event! Papers refpec-
ting the Public Accounts, and alto certain Returns
from the Magi&ate: in the different counties of Ire-
land. _ _

air JOHN NEWPORT moved, that the latter
returns be printed. They were, he obferved, cer-
tainly voluminous, and, fiam their 'nature, neceffa-
rily mutt be co ; but the fubjed was otte of vital fin-
portance to the well being of fociety in Ireland, and
entitled to the fullell Confideration of Parliament.—
Motion agreed to.
Mr. JAMES FITZGERALD, porfirant to no-
tice on a former day, moved for leave to bring in a
Bill to regulate the Partition of Lands, to Which
rights of Commonage were attached. He Paid, that
the Till he propofed to bring in would be a tranf
cript of a Bill which pallid that Houfe lait fawn,
with the difference only of a claufe to meet the' ob-
jeftions which exilted in Ireland.—Leave given.
Mr. FITZGERALD alfo called the attention of
the Houfe to an Aft which paffed in the lag Sefton
of Parliament, for regulating the proceedings of the
Court of Exchequer in Ireland, whereby certain
Officers attached to that Court would be deprived
of fees and emoluments, for which they were to. be
compenfated at the public expence, under a claufe in
the Aft, which direfted, that the Chief Ju(lice of the
King's Bench and Common Pleas, with the Mailer
of the Rolls, thould enquire and afcertain what
thole fees were, in order to loch compenfation. As
It was important, therefore, that the Houfe lhould
know the extent of the fees, which it had pledged it-
, Pelf to guarantee, he moved, that the certificates of
the laid Judges fhould be laid before the Houfe, af-
certaining the amount of loch fees and emoluments.
—Ordered.

The fame Honourable Member obferved, that it
was a matter highly neceffilry for the Houfe to afcer.
tain the extent of official patronage in Ireland. He
Mould at a future day, if no perfon more competent
to the talk thould affume it. bring forward a motion
for a general enquiry nn that fubjett.
LORD MILVILLI.

Mr. WHITBREAD moved the third reading of
the Bill for indemnifying from civil procefs the per-
tons to give evidence to Lord Melvilte's Impeach-
ment Committee.

. .
Lord HENRY PETTY, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, feconded the motion. The Bill was read a
third time, paged, and ordered to the Lords by Mr.
Whitbread.

A Mefrenger from the Lords required the atten-
dance of the Houle to hear his Majelty's Commit'.
Ilion read, for declaring the Royal Affent to certain
Bills.

Mr. SPEAKER attended forthwith, and being
returned, reported, that the Royal Affent had been
declared to the Malt Duty and Penfion Duty Bills,
and one private Bill.
Mr. PAULL rofe to move for tome further pa.
pers relative to the Affairs cf the Eall India Com-
pany ; but at the requelt of Mr. Vanfittart, agreed
to pntlpone his motion until a Right Honourable
Gentleman thould be in his place, in a few days,
whole peculiar province it would be to give the
lint:ft information on that Department.
Mr. BROOKE moved—
rout an Account of the leveret Contrafts for Spirits, and the
prices given for the fame, made by the Coturnillioriers of the Royal
Navy. diitinguifhing the quantities of Foreign Spirits, and of Bri-
tilh Plantation Itums,frons Sept. 1803 to Jan. iBo6, be laid be.
fore the Houk.

He did not, he fair:, make this motion with any view
to impeach thofe Contraets, or arraign the conchift
of thofe Gentlemen who had made them, but merely
to (hew from the documents the injury fuftained by
his Majelly', Welt India Plantations.—Ordered.
Mr. VANSITTART prefented the Five Millions
Exchequer Bills Bill, which was read a firlt time,
and ordered for the fecund reading to-morrow.
Read the third time, Lady Nelfon's and Sir R.
Strachan's Annuity Bills, raid, and ordered to the
Lords.—Adjourned.