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Mr LUSHINGTON brenght op the Report of the etinunit-
tee cat Supply in ',Stich the Army Extraordinaries were voted in
_Friday.— Fiir Rr.uiutione were reed and agreed to.
Mr. W. POLE brought ill a Bill, pursuant to noioe, for the
Prete/cotton of the Marriage of Lunatic. in Ireland.—Read a first,
and ordered to be rad a second 601.1 to-morrow.
'Mr. wHAttroN brought is a 11.11 fur the Better Regulation
el certain Oft.ces Of the Customs—for the Abolition of Fees, au&
,panting Camper:intim for the maim—Read a but, anti ordered
to be read a second time to-morrow, and to be printed.
• Mr. CALCK,AFT, the absence of Mr. M. A. l'arcoa,)
put nettle Motion relative to wits is Chancery and Appeals in
;be Rouse of Lords, front the Sell tothe toth ut May
Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for a Return of the names of
the itrevimilve survey Ors and other Preventive-Oncers attached
414 the Districts of Sligo, Killybegs, 'Praire, sad smeral other dis-
trict& of treLtud ; and for a Return Glad Seizures of Linen Clotl.
Shade on board oftward•bound vessels, with the names of the
*Ming Officers, &c.—Ordered.
On the motion of the CHANnELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
•It vim ordered, that the Souse do revolve itself, OR Weilsievtag
nett, Into a Committee of Ways and Mean,.
The CHANCULLOIL of the EXCHEQUER revived, that the
House do resolve itself, on Wednesday, into a Cm/no:tire oath&
Irish Stage-Mach 13111.—Ordared.
Lord PALMERSIDNE brought in a Rill for Regulating ILI
Allowances to be granted to Innkeepers on whom Soldiers clap
be ipiariered.---Read a first, and ordered to be read a elliMot
time to-morrow.
Mr. ROSE brought In the Portuguese Commercial Treaty Bah
—Read a first, and ordered to be rMd'a second time to-tuvret.w.,
The House resolved itselfinto &Committee of Supply, it, which
the two of £3OOl w'as voted fur the repair of Henry tLe Vlki
eh:pct.—Report to be received to-morrow.
A message from the Lards infurised the Home slim their Lard-
ships hal given permission to Lord Xekla to attend a Committee
of this House, for the.porposesof giving evidence as to the pro-
priety of forming a Wet Dock in the Harbour of it-Nictsolas,
the island of Tbanct; and that they had speed to several par.
vase Bills.
sir JOON SINCI.AIit ifieWed.lbset Haire be laid before the
House as Account of all Private Acts of Parliament passed win
the year I ust to the late* peril to whir* theatre can be marls
up, relative to the Inclosing of Lands, /be Buikting of Churches
add Chipeli,-Moving and,Lighting Tesirns, Budding bridges., he.
DUTCH AND DANISH bill!S-
-• Sir FRANCIS BURDETT-observed, that, in Fe-
bruary lasil it had beeliiirderedAtat there should tat
'laid before tht House,'in Account of the net proceeds
of each Dutch ship and cargo-brotight into the ports
of this country since the year 1808—and als' an Ac-
' count of the final adjudication of all Danish ships and
cargoes previous to the declaration of war against
Denmark—He should be glad to know why they had
not been presented
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE;iUER,
said a few words in explanation—atter which
• Sir FRANCIS BUR.DETT moved, " That the
Accounts should be laid on the table forthwith"
which was agreed to.:lle.Hlin. Baronet then moved
for an Account of all sums of money paid out of the
Treasury, by way of remuneration, to those persons
whose property and effects' had' been
.sequestrated in
foreign countries, in retal.ation fai acts committed by
this country, distinguishing -British'subjects from fa
reigners.—Ordered.
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IMPIUSONHENT ACM PINT Ifr nut TILIE Qf NAN.
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Sir SAMUEL RUMILLY7 red a Petition
from certain individuals 'con fri; 'debt hi the isie
of. Man, complaining of the great hardships under
which they laboured. By the *it the island, na-
tives, upon giving up the whisk of their iir,.perty to
satisfy their crediti,rs, Were entitled to their freedom ;
but this rule did not extend to strung:7-s. The Pai-
tloners were imprisoned for debts which they were not
able to discharge—and, gas they were iviltit g to give
up any property which they possessed, for the benefit
o.t their creditors they prayed relief; from the Hoax,espe
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ctatty.*.no -insolvent Act, bactiaithvecia estantied
to the island.—Ordixed tulle on the tahlT.
On the mafiosi of Mr. BROUGHAM, the Report
of-the Stare Trade Felony Bill was taken into further
consideration. 1:1)e Bill being, recommitted, in a
Committee of the whole'House, Mr. 1.1:-mghans pro-
posed two new clausga,.which,were
'House then roakined;*4a the .Report vrae-ordereu to
ibe,received to.rgorrovr.
RIizIiECTING! MONEY, Bir..4lo!fs
A 195 EICCtIANGPS.
(Hived by Mr. VAI4SIiTAIr on Friday Isst.)
1. That the right of establishing and. regulating
the legal wary of thii; kingdoos bath •at All times
been a Royal Prerogative, vested in the Sovereigns
thersof, who have froM time•io time eiercised the
same as they have seen fit; 'in changing such legal
Money, or a*ering and Varying the value, and en.
forcing or restralting the circialatiou thereof, by pro-
clamation; or in concurrence with the Estates of the
Realm, by Act of Parliament, and that such legal
nioney caonet lawfully be defaced, melted down, or
Isexported.
* 2. That the promissory notes of the Goirraor and
;Company-of the Bank of
.England are *engagements
to-pay certain sums of money in the legal coni of this
kingdom ; and, that for more than.a canary past,
4he said Governor and Company were at all times
ready to discharge inch prongs .notes: in legal
`coin of the realm, untfl.r4strained from 1119 doing, on
Nfietssh of February 179? A .byitisesty's Order in
.Council, confirmed 14 4a: Zor taclii4ment.
, 3. That the' promiltory 'liana of the said Company
I.taye hitherto been, apt are at • this time, held (sr be
equivalent to thit•lvar tint rexl;ll,in all pa,
tuplibeiaabrlye.trans.actions to which such cola is legally ap.
. • •• , •
4. thit , 1111 well before as mac
the said restriction, the sEcliangee between Great Brt•
tain and several other canntrualiave been unfavous
414 e to Greer Britain ; mut that during such periods•
the prices of gold and silver bullion, especially of such
gtild bullion as could be legally exported, have ire'
quently risen aboyi,the,lvrint price; and the coinage
of money at the Mirtt 114 been either..vholirsuipendi
e 4 or greatly diminished in amount : and that such
circumstances have usually occurred, whet' expensive
Naval. and Miiitary,operations have been cat ned on
abroad, and in times of public danger or alarm, or
when large importatioun of grain Irpm foreign parts
have taken place.
5. That such unfavourable ex-changes, and rise in
the price of bullion, occurretito *greater or lessdegree
during the wars carried on by King William 111. said
Queen Ann ' • and also during part af,the seven Tzars
Weir, and of the American war ;, and duringthe war
and scarcity of grain in 1795 and 1796, when the
difficulty increased to such a degree, that on the '2sth
of February, 1797, the Bank of
.England was irstraiwd
from making .payments in cash by his Mejest}!s
Or-
der in Council, confirmed and continued to the pre-
sent time by divers Acts of Parliament ; aid the ex-
changes became afterwards still incest onfavOurabln.
and the price of bullion higher, ditring the scared,'
which prevailed (yr two years 'paresiitis to the Peace
if Ainiem
G. That during the period of 7d yew. esdisi. wig