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in his original minion, it might have been complied
with at the fame time; if the Noble Lord meant to
extend his view, a further motion would be neeefrAry.
Lord A. HAMILTON, however, made no inch
motion.

P.4R Li .1.0 iNT .1 xr PROLEEDINGS.

Nousr OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MARCH as.

Their Lord(hips, In a Committee of Privileges, heard evidence
frppo:t i-h.nry ritagersid's claim to the Barony of ROO6
anaot•i:...4l to be coniidered agnn on (*tickle/ neat.
l'lse it ape-fe....1 Inip.atation Warelsouling. and &vend Private
Sils, were nrought up from the Commons, and read the BM:time.
Upon the Onier of the Day for going Into a Conimittee on the
BM for regaining the Age at which Puffins were to he admit-
ted in feel ind to Priefts And Demons Orders," Loni ELLEN-
BOROUGH, after paying loom compliments to the zeal and Id•
dußry of the Hon. and teamed Gentleman who fief! introduced
this 818 into the other Houle, moved, that the Order fflotild he
iiiielsointed. as it was his intention miming In a new Bill on the
fame fuhiedt, lone as the Provltions of which lit Meant to apply
to the pradlec of Ordination in this Country. The Order wes to
entdingty dircharged. His Lordthip then brought In the Bill,
which was read a Brit time, and on the motion of his Lordihip
ordered to be printed,
The Bills mought up from the Common. were read a &It time.
The Two Millions Exchequer Loan Dill, and fumy private Bills
pen gaffed, and a meffage fern to the Commons with the Lame.
. Adjuurned to three o'clock to morrow.

SLICTION.
Mr. SHERIDAN rofe for the purl:lore of prefent-
ing a Petition from three Gentlemen, namely, Hen-
ry Borges, Efq. of Curzon-fireft, • May Fair, Mr.
Damon, and Mr. Giles, whole condua had been
feverely implicated in the bufinefs of the late Elec-
tion for Lifkeard—as well in the language of a pe-
tition yelterday prefented to the Houfe from Mr.
flidiciffon, complaining of an undue elation and re-
turn ft.r that Borough, as in the language of a Right
Hon. Gentleman who prefented that petition, Mr.
W. Dunclas, by whom it was imputed to thefe Gen-
tlemen, that an arrant nick had been played, and
cheats had been prat-tiled, with a view to keep Mr.
Flulkiffon out of the Houle, and to bring Mr. T.
Sheridan into it. He had only to lay, that he under-
liood Mr. Damon to be a man of very fair, Pimple,
and refpthable charaaer. Mr. Burgefs, an agent
upon that elation, was a Gentleman certainly of
very high tefpatability in his profeffson ; and Mr.
Child, one of the burgeffes of Lifkeard, was a man
alit) of molt refpatable charatter, and who, upon a
resent °coition, received the unanimous thanks of
the whole body of the Magifirates of the county of
Cornwall. Thofe men, therefore, naturally hurt at
the imputations which had been thrown upon their
conduit by the petition of Mr. Hufkiffun, and the
language of his advocates, only prayed in this pe-
tition, that the Houfe would not come to any de-
cifion to their injury, without hearing them in
their defence.
Mr. W. DUNDAS Paid, that with relpea to what
the Hon. Member bad imputed to him, what he
Rata merely was, that a grofs trick had 'ken played
on the return made in this cafe, and obvioufly wnh
a view to deprive Mr. Hufkiffon of his right to a
feat in that houfe ; this he hated from what al).
peared upon the face of the return ; and if the pro-
ceedings about to be adduced did not fully bear i in)
out in the affection, he Ihould be tu.•ll ready to
apologize to anyjnan by whom his language n^i;ja
be felt as injurious.—The Petition wasreceiv•zil, and
ordered to lie on the table.
On the motion of Mr. DUNDAS, the writ iffued
to the Sheriff of Cornwall, by the Clerk of the Cross n.
for the elation of a Burgefs for Lifkeard ; the pre
ceps iffued by the Sheriff to the returning officer for
that Borough 4 the return of that returning offices
of Mr. Huikiffon, as duly elated, figned and (Mei
by him ; and alto the reruns by the Under Sin rff,
purporting to be that of Mr. Thomas Sherid.,n,
but not figned or fealed by the Mayor of Liikeard,
being read,
Mr. PITT role, and laid, that (rim the whole of
the documents jolt now read, it appeared to him,
that the opinion be had tall night given upon this
fubjea, was fully juftified ; for it was now clear,
beyond all manner of queltion or doubt, that there
was not, in this cafe, a double return ; for that with
rape& to one of the parties, there was no return at
all. The only document which could he fupprifed
to imply a return, was a piece of paper, pm-potting
to be a return of that party, and purporting to he
figned and fealed by the returning officer, hut by
who fn figned or (eater!, and confeclitently

HOUSF OF COMMONS.
Mr. SPEAKER having taken the Chair.
General TARLETON preen:Ad a Sill for improving the Docks
end Harbours of the Port of Liverpell. Read the deft time, and
ordered fdr the fccmd reading to-morrow.
VOLtsuratits.
Mr. ST. GEORGE CAULFIELD gave notice. that at an early
day after the meets he &add brig forward a motion for granting
additional pay and Wpm! to Volunteer Corps.
Mr. ALEXANDER brought up the Report from
the Committee of Ways and Means of yefierday ;
which being read once, on the motion for the fecond
trading, Come objeftions were made by
Lord FOLKESTONE, on the fubjeft of the Rate-
muffle made by the Chancellor I,f the Exchequer, ow
the sth of April, 1803, 01 the war taxes for the year,
urhieh, he Paid. fill very confiderably.thort of that
eftimate in their :Anal produce. This, he Paid, he
;tad foretold at the time the eliimate was fiat under
dircuMon, and he now, found that he was borne out
in that prediftion by fails; for it appeared, that
of the Property and Income Tax, the produce of
Which, for the year. was ellimated at four millions
end a half, the return now made of the firm cone&
ed thereon, was but 1,5i00,0001. He 'fated alfo ob•
jealous to Conte other items; upon which he was
anfwered by
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER.
Who raid, that although the produce of the parti-
elder tax alluded to was, as the Nnble Lord had
Awed, when the fehednks were laid before the Houk,
••• the firft returns; yet that was by no
arena a fair criterion by which to judge of the pro-
eluee of the tax; for though it was voted on the sth
of April, it was not in a Rate of bearing until the
eniddle of July. But judging from the returns coming
hourly into the Exchequer, he had no doubt but the
produce, by the nth of April, would be 1, 00,000].
wore,• and that the whole, when conceited for the
year, would fall but little thort of the full efiimate ;
tafrietaleficiency would wife from tome modification for
ing the tax, made in the Bill, founded upon
•
the vote for the tax; and that of the eftimate of t
=Minns of war taxes, voted for the year, he had the
grOtigeit reafon to believe that the produce would
be at hall ro,soo,oooL
Alter fame farther remarks from Mr. N. VANSIT.
TART, the refolution. were read and agreed to.

MIMATIOSO OF RUSSIA. sum it was not.
Mr. FOX role, to remind the Right Honourable was an ahfolute nullity. The other document. an.
the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the topic upon the only one bearing the Ibape of an authentic return,
which he haelespreffed, on the zad of November laft, Rated Mr. Huheilfon to be duly defied, and this was
* with of obtaining, from his MAieliy's Minifters, duly figned and reeled by the perfon known to be the
Tome authentic communication. He alluded to the proper returning officer. Here then was no contell
mediation which the Emperor of Ruffle had under- between two perfons ufually claiming the pis iiege
taken, between ibis country and the Government of of returning officer, and each making a tenon in the
France ; a mediation which his Majetty's Minilters ufual forms, for there was but one return to made,
not only ezprelfed themfelves ready to accept then, and confequently there could be no gm:llion to go
or at any future period, but declared they would con to a Committee, either as to who WAS the proper
defcend to folicit; and though upon that occation the officer, or as to the fall of a double return. liavilly
Right Hon. Gentleman had thought it inexpedient argued at lonic length to this cffeft, Mr. Pitt Juror .+.
to make any communication thereon to the Houle, his own conviftion, that the point for decirion in
for reafons then eeitting, he underffood him to fay, this cafe was completely within the jurifdrAion of
that when thole caufes were removed, he Should have the Houle; and was not of A nature which, tinder
nn objeaion to lay the whole of the documents on the Grenville Al,f ought to be referred t. a Cono
that lubjta lolly before the Houfe, and enter freely mittee. This certainly was the inclination of his
Into the difcuffinn of them. Four months had now own mind upon the lubjeft ;he wiflted, however, to
elapfed fince that promife was given (a pretty tea- collet the fenfe of other Gentlemen.
fonable time far the removal oldie impediments) and Mr. FOX Paid, the arguments of the Hon. Cen
Ise wihred to know, if the Right Hoe. Gentleman had tleman had not lufficient weight on his mind to m-
eow any (dile/lion to produce the papers to the Houfe. move his doubts. The returning officer. on his
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER an- view of the fubjea, obvinufly had two applications,
fwered, that although no teafons for not producing the one to the perfon who acted as returning officer
thofe documents on the ared of November, did at of the Borough, in virtue of the precept ditched to
that time esill, yet thete were citcurnfiances highly him by the Sheriff, and the other, to the Shetiff him.
important, now culling, under which his Majetty's kV, who was the only returning officer known to
Msnifters could not think it expedient to advife his the Houle, and by whom only the return was trent.-
Majehy to make any communication. mitted to the Clerk of the Gown. The Petition be-
Mr. FOX replied, that he underhood at the time fore the Houle appeared to him to come precifely
alluded to, and fo he believed did the Houle in ge within the meaning of the Grenville Aft, Stir it com-
mend, that circtimilatices were then declared by the plained of two returns, the one fowled by the Mayor
Right Hon. Gentleman, to be in exilience, which of Lilkeard, the other by tire Sheriff of the county
tendered the communication inexpedient. He was of Cornwall ; sod which of tilde two was the pro.
tutry if he nufunderltood Lim, but that underhand. per and legal return, was a coretlion with which the
ing of his declaration, was the only reafon why he Houk of Commons had no legal jurifdiaion, bur
lied declined making a motion on the Mica. which, stoder the letter and limit of the Gtenviiie
PAC Cr IRISH CIVIL UTFICIRS. AA, belonged exclufively to a Committee. There
Lord A. II AMI LTCN role, and made tome al- were many other points which impentorfly forbad the
hifions to a futile& to which he had Orme nights Houle to interfere in this balloter. say a fummary le-
ttuce called the atteroion of the Howe, namely, the tifdittion. There might Ire a orretlion who was the
payment of the falai res of the Officers of the Ttita proper 'conning oCicer ? flow did the Houle: know
(Government, relideto in this country, at pa:, not. that Mr. Sheridan might tint, witl-;r. foritteen days,
waidtandilig the long esitting high toot of exclienge come forward with a p.tition ? The Horde could
between Leland and this couutr y, which had kelt nr t oraffiiily know the meths of the cafe until they
in:treating ever time the Union. !N. Lroelfltip had lad the a hole to: the proofs before them. W.V. not
already made a motion fir the return of the amount Mr. Sheridan competent to preteut a octition, if lie
of the pay to thole Others, Since the Union, chain- rhotight himfelf aggrieved ? At all eel:ors, it would
gui:hing each year, which was not yet laid on the Cooly lot prenritote to d.cide before the erpiration
table. He willed to know if it was toitheoming ; of the tifnai period of forrocen doys, allowed to the
and alfu to learn the A10.,11111 .4 the hilt pay remitt.d patties under the Crens ilk Aft ; and if, within that
ia time to What y Meer. tot the liifh coati:Ult. I period, on petition humid come forward againit Mr.
'gent, r. lident in Englar.d. flotkof in, it would then he fun time for the Hoofer
o..URRY unto crest, that ro fs• from there be- ti atfonic the power of a furnmary n. Who
tog any objeflion on trot part of the I toil Government, was to be the legal judge of what was a proper re-
al making the moon icepritert by the tyrant 141.4i1 n torn ? Certainly the OrherilT. Poo in all evoite he
of the Noble Lord, ti.' ti.- Officers c. ocd were tOiriecated any jrnifiliAion to he affirmed by the
themlelver exttemely oranoiea with it, ant' molt Ore- !tome, and contended it only belonged. under the
tirnus than the fohjcii mentioned fliould not rctt I Grenville Aft, to a Committee.
there, but thould be br,,11);,t f.l u.ttJ the fulled M:. W. DI•NDAS laid, the Hon. Member only
inweltigation. 0: Jets lora fool intmethately tiara lo v.e..1 the tim lain through the sheik of his argil.
rut tea to Ireland for toc ; :triode, and mill t /NlCer Was 811I.Its and iool proved nothing to fupp 3t it. The
oo Iris way Litho v ;O. th. or. Pot the itc:o t eat r in fivotir of Mr. Si.r tidato i.e ci ntencled,
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