Star.
London, England, 1803-05-28 00:00:00

rARLMMANTARr PRuCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MAY ay.
The Royal Affient was given by Comtriffion to three public and
thirteen private Bills, The I.ordswho fat as Comerniffiesers were
ANCKLAND, WALEINOHAN. and the CHANCELLOR.
Counfel were then admitted to the Bar, on an Appeal from Scot-
hand, in which the Stirling Bank Company, and other creditors of
Jason Stein, late of Kilbeggie, a bankrupt, were Appellants. and
the faial James Stein was Refpondent ; and having eoncludedtheir
arguments, the LORD CHANCRLLOR took a general vie* of the
cafe, and, in conlideration of the little grounds there appeared to
hint, and the very great hardthip it was, that a Bankrupt, who had
perfeelly conformed to all the laws with refped to that fituation,
ihnuld be put to the expellee of defemelinghimfelf in that Houfc,
(which, in many cafes, he might not be able to procure the means
DC) with an unanimous decree of the Court of Sefilon iu his (e-
-yeful'. moved, " That the decree be affirmed, with 'tot colts.".—
ordered.
Lord Own Dill pre cent d a petition front certain perfons intereft-
ed in a private Bill before the Houle, and moved that they might
be heard by their Counfel —Ordered.
In the Committee on the Bill for regulating the Proceedings in
the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas in Ireland, fo as
to be equally advantageous as thole in the Court of Exchequer,
Lord ALVANLIV °hied:led to the Clank which grants annui-
ties to the Officers in the tatter court, for the lofts they may Cur-
tain by this aheration, and that the annuity Ihould be equal to the
average emolumerts which they had receited for the lift three
years. His Lor Into argued.that this was a novel mode of remu-
neration, and, as scatting money without having the adlual (um
fpecified. might be a bad precedent, he iltould with their Lord-
*lips to make what he thought to be the neceffary alterations, not-
withßanding, he was aware, it would be at the hazard of luting
the Ball.
Lord Ay ea LAN held the claufe in the very oppofite paint of
view ; he confide red it to be no more than what was fair and juti.
and fn far from its la log without a precedent, his Lordfhip read
a claufe front an Al ut Ragttlatiats, by which Lycra! perfons In
office were likely to be fulcra, wherein the Lone terms were made
ore of.
Lord 11.1MIRICK, went into a long account of the manner by
which the Court of Ezchequer in Ireland obtained the advantages
over the other Courts, in their proceedings, and wilhing them to
be all equal; in that refpedt he was anxious the Bill mould
cot he loft.
Lotel C,si d, the Bill, upon the ground that it was
ame ,f see wt,ch was o Aired, and had been long looked for
by tla. ; and as to tic particular claufe it fliould
havc hie .ut. t, hecauie re ave. !won a principle that re-ula-
lands for the benefit of the public ninuld not be made at the expence
of indtriduals
The Lotto Curtner t Loa corr.:feted the !.earned Lord (Al-
yanks') as taking lit objection in a Itronner point of view than
Crre was any reafou for ; aim' to convince his Lordfhip that this
idea if granting attnuitie. to pctfons who were likely to be injitrod
by a petals tigulation, equal to their former ioenmes, his Lord-
flip read a claufe from the Ad. known by the name .d Mr. Burke's
Reform Bill, in which the fame terms were made ufe of. His
Lordatia admitted, that he fhoold have liked the Bill touch better
if it bad etntairted the fpeeihe turns that were to he granted, hot
t, ...Wel Lot f,e how it war polble for that to have been the cafe,
as. in Lei. there tai,-Itt :,at be any diminution in th, incomes,
a..• 1 tben tiver could be to datnu for remuneration ; and this ap-
p..to: hir• to be very probable, for it woo at difficult to :
it, Naafi," from a Court as it was to take the belinets out
t tl.„ f ....rite Barri ft er, when he bail once go: pof-
f• 1.1..1, of t:. rho Et", at any rate, he confider:id •o be id great
:n al::: its It ,ehjeets in Ireland, and therefore, he
w 1.e..... to ;is.. y amer.dment, as, from its nature, that
r..'glit .li, i. Art. I.
Ite t: the Committee, and war aril:red to he
sr.,: a .hir.l it.
1 P., HAY pee.flted C 01,116 of f weral Papers which
were loosed or Tette; t!..7 in tli, ddrch-s to has hlajelty.
Adiae;:.,4 to Wcdne:Jay r.ext.