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PARLMMENTARr PROCEEDINGS..

HOUSE or-LoaDs, MAY I.
Conine! was heard and, evidence produced at thellsr Milanlf
• Mrs Drift, 'Mom hrher.proceedings were postponed.
Earl GREY preowned sr:Petition from Mrs.-Dyett, cesapiainv
tog thy a sufficient allowance' was not granted's° her in the
etromenr of aepsratinn anti divorce. and calling' on their Lord-
skips for justice in That case- • .
The Earl of LAVDER/MLE• istretident of iha
House to a Petition which load heed jtin.4nhh hh hands in behalf
of a Mr. Dunn, complainiLg of snood hardships ishkh he hid,
endorsed intiler Pro process, but which Ids lorildsjp conceived
to lie a gross and unwarranted libel un,t/te cotillion end 'character
of Lord .Elleriborouflt. 'He felt It to tit • so iiideh
In explanation of his haling (than' tilt..Kaden to pin imo his
hands as a Membe• of Parliament,. • . - •
The Petition of etrirse was noi.zeieietai... *
Lord HOLLAND Presented I Petition `Henry
Mahns.!u, prsti:ing that .au. biventlits, which belted, fralltri and
presented to the Ail:stiraby.Board,'Ser Ate trelyvaiitirt. of he
lives of nutty nt die King's initileers sylip might be exposed in
theierils of shipwreck, should to tftily the
siid
Board, in order to his °hatpin% the reward Ole to lititiabourk
lord )ItRING burr testis:pity to the inery .Ittee
unity of Mr. Whitson, which he bad last. yitiar anogettilihy of
I:tins:lig into practice ant successful, rote, arid he • voida then
mate, that no boat's crew, under Lis conin.tindAr inittiante,
should ever go out Uroproifitied Web Mr Mahn:ores apparatus.
lord. MELVII.I.E Ayres d, that Mr. Valinsou's plan had
been received by the Admiralty, but that it was by mons a
new invention. It had not, howevsr, been rsjected, and 'maid
not fault', receive all proper attention front theisoards
RaifAL NUPTIALS. .
The Ferri of LIVERPOOL iihoulti•uot rake ep,intich.of their
'Lt.rdshirs' time in what he had to nay. Tbere was, .he knew,
a canntuy and uniform Seeing 'on the subject HP meant the
occasion of a idiessivg the Royal Family on the teen, 06101ot"'
nuptial*, which presioted every prospect of solid happiness to
the country, as well as to the illustrious personages immediately
concerned. His Lord-hip then moved,
• That an Address of congratulation on the Marriage of her:
Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales with his Serene
Highness the Prince of Saxe Cobeurg, be presented severally to
the Prince Regent, her Majesty, and .to the Princess Charlene
and the Prince Cosourgs
The Motions, &thusly pus. were agreed to unanimously.
CATAIOLICIL
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented sPeddos from the
Roman Catholics of :he County of Limerick, eotnplaining of the
hzrdships which they endured trusts the legal disabes that
pressed upon them, and praying relief from the same.—The Peti-
tion was ordered to lie he the T,able.
ENGLISH AND IRISH =CHROME&
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE felt it his duty
to call the attention of their Lordship* to a subject
of vast importance, as involving no less a- concern
than the financial efficiency of Great Britain aid Ire-
land. He had in the last Sessioa moved that a Mes-
sage should be sent to the other Heuse of Parliatuem,
requesting information item the Committee of that
House, relative to the grounds on which the •Exche,
qurrs of the two Countries had beeri•managed:; The
Message had been scot,* but
.no inforriatioa, was in
- consequence supplied. It certainly belonged to the
-House of Commons to use its own distretion in that
case, thinieh he -believed it was ridni:1•::1100litthl tti
witbt;old the information desired. • I; wuei inipo,sibie
for their Lordships to contemplate duly aliyhjtct
such itoportancerwithout full information, especially'
at so late period of the Sesiioo.: He eft itll.l79•erel;
fore mot first, for an accouot: of the aunt* of penal.
ties incurred in Ireland on the ground
_of illicit, diet:'
tilteres ; secondly, •ferinr account a the reai ••••te ut.
erchangnbetWeen the ttvo countries ; antf,,et, .
fur an account of the number of Bank ItititeS'isstisd
. in a time ,-pecified. by the tank of .Ireland;'
. great i coovenience•of the want of *L00311360 scan,
dard of exchange was tit% cticcOmmercial men,
and ought, as soon as poisibte,.tfi be reinedigits mid
he entertained no doubt, the Noble Fort opposite
would agree with him in the expediency and :the no:
cessity of such a measure. There was, in tact, no
more occasion for, a different standard between Eng-1
, land and Ireland than there was for such a clifereoce
between one county and another in England. The
burden praised heavily on Ireland, and every eir-
comstance considered of the comparative-means of
the two countries, it was but fit and equitable that
some portion of the overburdens of the Slater country
stiould be borne by this.
' The Earl of LIVERPOOL had no desire to resist
*e motions of the Noble Marquis. He fully agreed
with that Noble Lord in the importance which had
been ascribed to' the subject. As to the omission
-.on* the part of the othet House to supply the in.
formation desired by their Lordships, .he had not
previously been apprised of it, but be certainly,
thought that. full information was requisite for the
benefit as well as the satisfaction both: of England
and Ireland. • • • • " • •
'Elte• Earl of LIMERICK commended.the liberal
'spirit end language • set forth , by the Noble Marquis,
as well as by the Noble Earl who spoke last, and
' Ittay agreed in the 'propriety of the motiOni.. , •
, The Earl of LAUDERDALE should net take
• up mucla of their Lordships' time; but ou tobe,subject•
of Currency and Exchange," be could not •ornit that
occasiOn4
.eau sing his earnest wish that the ad-
vantage* of paymentsin cash should be restored to
the Public as soon as ossible..• Under the present
circumstances of England and Ireland, site was' utterly
.impossible to fix a common standard of eminency ;..
and.that imposaibility arose out of the* fact; of copper
being the only coinage in Ireland, .and that copper
coinage ;being redticedin its value in theproportion
ottsd. to Is. _ It certaialyswas desirable that a fixed
awl equitable standard thcluld be. establol4l, sad if
same measure fpr.lhat purpose should DOS .10011 be
brought befor Parliament by some other itlemis,,,lse.
should introduce a Ballo that effect. •
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE'S "motions.,.watts thee
severally put, and agreed.to. .
• • WIDGETS AND MEAIVRIL .
Upon the Order 'of the Day fir the-setoodssasnos,'
of the Weights and Measures ,
Ent STANHOPE rose. lie G 0114• I.oloer•Ohsisb;
eody. with what he felt to-be his duty, altow. of
etch a nature, so base, so inconsiderate, so unscieutfic.
.so improper, and so absurd as it was thrtnighout, to,
prated without some animadversion.; He should
avail himself of the authority of a learned and
• miens man (Dr. Hutton)," who, in a letter to him,
bed expressed, . with • great truth and propriety, 'the
trOngest disapprobation and contempt for the Bill it
queAion. Every principle on which` it professed to
proceed was wrongly set forth. In the statement of:
measures, whether of length or capacity, nothing was
to be frond tonsistest either with scientific know:
•i• ledge •or a-regard to common Convenience. ,He had
sectored sr variety of letters front tradesmen iii ciao,
sent quarters, all complaining of the folly and, absui-
like
asnce
, of the Bill. There was nothin
oil in con traction of dm Bill.
Thesci meetals,