Star.
London, England, 1810-04-06 00:00:00

Pen irt.nr BIPEDIr v.

Lord DARNLEY rose, all(' wished shortly to call
their Lordships' attention. to the_subject of .the elate
disastrous Expedition to the Scheldt, which had been
Lately discussed in the other House of Parliament:—
After she decision which. that House kid come to,
upon this subject. he entertained no very strong hopes.
that an opposite-conclusion was likely.tc.) be formed
in this. Confident 'however he has, thatLexcepting
the Reuse of COMmons, there was no ptiblie body
other set of then in. these kingdoms who entertains
the opinion which had been vxpressed Gy that House.
He thought, however, that "it was a-:subject Which.
their Lordships could no pave ovd is silence.; 'sail,.
little as he was w erranted to hope that it majority of
their Lordships would coinsider with big; on the sub-
ject; still he could not rest satisfies{ in his conscience
without calling their attention to it,.idgiving those,
Noble Lords who thought with . him an opportunity
'of expressing- their sentiments. He was not prepared
to name any particular day for bringing forward any
motion ; bur if no other Noble Lord should think fit
to take it up, he should himself do it on an early day.
FOREIGN CORPS.

Lord KING rose and expressed his wish for some
explrmatiou of a material difference between two
public Documents laid'before Parliament in the pre-
sent Session, on the subject of Foreign Corps. -In the
Estimate voted by the House of Commons, the num.
ber of men appeared to he 25 9O(>; and in the return
,made to the House' of Peers, in consequence .of his
own motion, the number tvAs-sviteifiis above SLOW.
Ike wislied to know how the difference could be ex•

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Lord LIVERPOOL perfectly coincided in the
Citimt of the Noble Lord, and thought that the
srLordsi who were Members of that Houle, should
be of the Committee.
Lord DRENVILLE moved accordingly, and his
motion passed in the affirmative.—Adjonsund. •

lIOIJSE OF COMMONS.
PROPERTY DUTY ACTS.
• Mr. GRENFEI.L rose and observed, that in ccntequenoe o.
a late occurrence, in which himself and others bad been pet.an-
ally involved, but in which he had r.t.tv no further inters, tt thao
any other Mt mber who heard hint, he felt it to be his public.' •
dir y to give nctice, that he tamuld, immediately after the Easter
recess, subthlt to ihsi House a motion on the subject of the vexa-
tious aid oppressive mode in whicl: the Property Duty Acv are
now carried into execution. He begged to add, that he should
most readily abstain altogether from troubling the Howse+ with
any motion of his upon the rrbject, provided the Right Honour-
able Gentleman oppo.,ite to him (the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, with whom he had communicatiors upon the subjtvt) inould
think proper to bring forward such lei;islative regulations, wi h re- •
fervnee to thtse Acts, as would secure the public from tbat op-
pre3Sioll and vexation which he knew practicably to exist at the
present moment.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH'QUE•R professed him-
self willing to adopt any improvement that might reader the col-
lection of the tax more easy and advantageous to the puh'ic.
Genera! WALPOLE moved to have the observations of the
Surgeon General On the Fourth and 1-ifch Reports of the Commis-
stoners of Medical Enquiry, signed with his own signature ; and
Aro that a Letter of Surgeon Keste's, dattol sth July, be laid on.

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the tAble. . .
The SPEAKER umpired whether those were public or privet'
docz.ments ?
General WAI;PCILE, not being certan on that point, se:th.',
drew his motion for the present.
Sir J. NEwpoitt moved for an account of the purchase of
Lands in the County of Cork by -the Grtinance Boaid. •
Mr. SHARP postponed his mot ion On the Cormspondence re-
lative to the gichArtje of Frisonewwith haute, till Monday.
BiIf.ACIP''OP PRIVILIE6O...
- Mr. LETHBRIDGE moved the order of the day
for resuming the •tiebatie .on Sir Francis Burdett's
Letter. .
Lord- OSSULSTON defended the principles laid,
down in the pamphlet of Sir Francis Burdett. • He'
deprecated the-opinions entertained by Gentlemen in '
that House, that a British subject should be deprived -
of hi% liberty at the mere will of Parliament, without
an opportunity of appealing to any other tribunal. •
The privileges of the Crown, it was well known, were
defined by the law of theland. It did not appear
either just or yroper, therefore, that the House of
Commons should be vested with a pouer uncontrouled
and undefined by existing statutes. The liberty of thi
People was in a high degree coiteerswd ; it was iknixi!
lido, therefore; that such a subject should pas over
without the most mature deliberation. The questioo,
of the right of the House of Commons to imprison aft
individual standing charged 'with a breach of their
privileges, had often been discussed • and it had been
decided by Lord Chief Justices HAI& and Holt,
;fink no Court could release a pert° fr.whq stood cons-
tnitted under the adjudication of the House of Cosia-
iirions ; nor was any' Court of Late ttt liberty' to cow •
'aline what were tits irsivihrw.troNgium. 41
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