Star.
London, England, 1803-05-10 00:00:00

iiOI,SF. OF CONINTONI.

The Report on the lainat.ie. ERA,: Bill ivoi read and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to he read a third time
Elie Silver Bullion Bill we: read a brit, and ordered to he
read a fecortii timr,nn W'rdnrtilac next, and all. to he prioted.
The CuA Nr rtt mit of the hseureturit gave notice. that to•
morrow he would move to poftpone the confideration of the
feveral Election Petitions now before the Houle, except thole
which are tired her .Ihurfday nest.
Several Petition. for arid againll the Drifted Canal Bill were
prefentinl. and referred to the Committee on that Bill.
A Miliage was delivered from the Lords, requelting the
Houk to communicate to them what were the gratin& upon
which they (the Houk of Common.) laad founded the Notting•
ham fletßion Bill. To this the Houle agreed, by immediately
fending up a ropy of the minute. of the proceeding* before the
Setedt Committee au the Nottingham Petition, as the founda-
tion of their proceeding. in that wicafure.
Mr. J. C. Bt aaaa °No obtained cave to bring In a Bill for
the improvement of the harbour of Dublin, and for mending
and keeping iii repair the walls on the banks of the river Liffey.
The Order of the Dec welt moved for taking
into further eonfidtration the Report of the Com-
mittee appointed to try the merits of the Ilcheiter
Petition.
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Mr. Smtvu Rated that fence the former Report
of the Committee was laid on the table, a new
eleetion had taken place. At this time there had
been prefented two petitions, containing the fame
allegations on which this Report was founded. He
therefore thought that it would be better to defer
the further confideration of the fubjelt till the
Committee appointed to try the merits of the lag
Petitions had an opportunity of giving in their Re-
port. At all events, he conceived that it would
be proper at lean to wait a few days to give the
Houle an opportunity of determining what was
the centric moll proper to he !willed. On this
principle he fhould move, that the further confider-
ation of the Report be delayed for a fortnight.
Mr. Rost contended that the cafe laid before the
Home in the Report exhibited one of the groffea
fcenes of corruption which ever took place. If the
queftion was (offered to pars over unnoticed, there
was an end to all freedom of eleCtion, and confe-
quently the Grenville ACt was a mere nullity. It
was contrary to the honour and the dignity of the
Houle to have the Report lying on the table as a
dead letter. He fhould, therefore, give his de-
cided oppofition to any motion, the objeCt of which
was to prevent a full inveftigation of fodifgraceful
a bufinefs.

Mr. Swim' amended bi, motion by propofing
that inflead of a fortnight. the difcuilion &mild be
delayed for a week.

Mr. WALLACE thought that delay was, under
all the circumllances, highly expedient. A molt
powerful reafon for delay was, that at prefent there
were a great many aftions inflituted againfl Mr.
Davifon for corrupt praflicrs in the conduit of the
Eleftinn. It was effential that no prejudice fhonld
he created in the minds of thole who might here.
after he called on to try thefe affirms. Bur any
decision of the Houk on the ftsbjefl could not but
have the effea of creating fuch a prejudice. On
this grnnnd lie was a friend to the propofed ad•
journment of :he debate, and thought it right to
Intimate that, when the fubjeft came to be regu-
larly difeuffed, he fhotild in all probability feel it
to he his duty to oppnfe any decifion on the fubjefl
till the iffue of thefe aftions was known.

Mr.ft,,sx fAid a few wards in explanation.

Sir R. BUXTON, though willing to agree to the
propofed adjournment, could not by any means
Accede to a propolitinn the adoption ofwhich would
involve the flighteß fulpicion that the lionfl was
inattentive to its duty, in taking the mol effeltual
means to check praelices utterly fubverfive of the
freedom of Eleftion.
Mr. I.es followed on the fame fide.

The motiuu of Mr. Swim was then put and
cart teci.

After this bufinefs was difpofed of, the CHAN*
CELIMR of the Excirsosto ?Ole and fpoke to the
following effcet :—" Although I am aware, that
it is romewhat irregular in me to addrefs you at
relent, yet I ftel it incumbent upon me to a& the
indulgence of the Houle for a few moments. I
flared on Friday lad, that I erpeaed to be enabled
on this day to make a communication from his
Majeliy to this lionfe. That expeaation was
founded upon circumliances which would not ad-
mit of any other cnia-lnfi )))) than that on which I
founded my notice. I think it, however, Sir, right
to flare, that other circumilances, unforefeen and
unespeCted, prevented the departure of Lord Whit-
worth from Paris, and that his Lordlhip's depar-
ture did nut take place from that city. What there
circumthinces are the Houle will not espeel that I
Ihrndd difclofe, but I feel it to be due to the Houle
to date, that I have not any doubt in my own
mind that the points in dilculTion between the two
Governments will be brought to a decive refult in
the courfe of to-morrow, or Wednefday morning,
and I am therefore juflified in entertaining a per.
fell conviCtion that I than be able to make a com-
munication to the Houle in the courfe of a very
few days."
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The attendance was one of the anon numerous
we ever witneffed. There were upwards of four
hundred and fifty Members prefent.
As loon as the Chancellor of the Exchequer fat
down, they began to &frier& with the greaten ra-
pidity, and not a Jingle obfervatinn was made in
reply to his fpeech. _ _ _

'the otitet Orders ~f the Day being itiportd or,
the I:,,ufe adj.tui eti.