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preanlion k might ke proper to matte, it would
be for the House to consider on going into a Com.
• ee on the Message. In deciding on this cities.
be doubted not they would mark their attach.
tto the Royal Family by uniting that Übe-mitt',
ids became the character of the country and the
dour of the Crown, with that due attention
twiny which ought never to' be lost sight of in
arlianient. There was only one consideration which
e would press on them, as that which he was
anxious they would keep particularly in view. He
eped that in making a provision suitable to the high
situation of the parties, it would be so framed, on
dui int settlement in life, as to guard against the
ty of recurring to the liberality of Parliament
laud time. He then moved that an humble and
aesifei address should be presented to his Royal
aims the Prince Regent, to convey to him the,
tabs of that House for his most gracious Message
_the subject of the intended marriage cif the Prot-
', Mete Charlotte of Wales, with George Fre.
s"''. Loos Prince of Saze Cobourg, of Sallfeld ;
cler:fuela their entire satisfaction at the alliance
to
ztetaso be formed with a Protest tnt Prince of so it-
a family ; an alliance which, while it pro.,
mind to increase the happiness of his, Royal" High.
;ese' die Prince Regent, and• of her Royal Highness
the Princess Charlotte, promised also to prove ia
j with the best' interests of the country. To
owe him that that House would immediately pro..
ad to the consideration of his :twit gracious Mes.
far and to make such a provision as should mark
Or just sense of the great and eminent virtues of
ber Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, and he
Nimble to the honour and dignity of the Royal Fat
roily and the nation. (Loud Cliseringfrom all Avis of
thrlfsair.)
The question was put on the Address, and carried
se, car. The Message was ordered to he referred to
a Committee of the whole House to-morrow.
neenoNs IN IRELAND.

Mr. DOMINICK BROWN moved for leave to
king in a Bill to limit the duration of polls for the
election of Members et Parliament in Ireland, and
for other regulations touching the return of hlembeas
to parliament. , He cumplained much of the clamour
that bad been raised against this Oil, and particu.
fall of the conduct of a gallant General ( Mathew),
',belted moved that the House should be called over,
hinder to prevent the introduction of the Bill on a
tamer night.
Mr. rittr.TlE seconded the motion.
Sir F. FLOOD should not oppose the Bill in the
fun instance, but he did not pledge himself to any
line in a farther stage of the business.
Sir J. NEWPOIa would not object to the princi-
ple of the Bill, as he felt that polls had been otten
cted to an injurious length in behind. In teed
ilweollelf knew one instance where A pail of less than
1000 freeholders bad been spun out fur 18 days. Bur
at the same time, he feared that such inteitereuce as
the Bill contemplated would be dangerous to the
freedomot election, without stronger provisions against
the powers of Returning Officers than existed at pre.
sent; as, without sonic provisions of the kind,;t would
beta the power of Sheriffs and Returning Officers to
return the candidate they chose. Thus the power of
election would be entirely in the hands of Govern.
eient. When also it was • considered that the ex-
penses of petitioning the House against undue elec-
Isms were so exceediiiAly great, as that no man of
middling property could afford them, the Housee
iheuld be very cautions in committing any greater
power than already existed to Returning o.llcers.
Mr. V..FITZGER ALD considered the object in
riew most desirable, it the provisions of the Bill were
degnate to the attainment of that object. He begged
lave to say, he only leaned to the principle of the
1;11, without giving any opinion on the provisions till
*IT should come before the House.
Mr. BLAKE complained of the return of the free-1
Mfrs of the City and County of Galway that had
Ws laid before the House List sessien, as not sutli- '
dy full or accurate.
LotdCASTLEREAGH said there were two evils;
y to be avoided by this Bill : the first was the
r of false returns, and the second tile injurious
Irotraction of elections. He could speak from his
Inexperience of the great length to which elections
!tellable to be pretiacted Ireland. When be
%tint returned to Parliament, the election was spun
aim the Ist of May to the 24th of July. He did
kftreamit himself to any opinion with respect to the
Pilau of the Bili, but its principle deserved the
gre"eittention.

was ignorant of the Election Laws
Invalid, and so, he believed, were mist of thi
a ' Members. He thought, therefore, that the
loud reading of the Bill ought to be postponed till
Ifte Easter, when the Irish Members would b. pr,t-
All seemed to have but one feeling on this sub.
,and one object in view, and he thought it a fa-
ble opportunity to assimilate the Election Laws
both countries.
Mr. V. FITZGERALD concurred in thinking
the postponement of the second reading of the
~illtill after Easter, when the Irish Members would
anid, was expedient.
Aker some farther conversation between Mr. Tien-
:Mr. VEZZY FITZGERALD, Mr. D. BROWNE, and
'GIN NEWPORT, le.tve was given.
blit. BLAKE moved that there be laid before the
font a return of the forty shillings Freeholders of
%Town and County of Galway, on the 25th Fe-
Ilttry, 1815.

HE LSTON EL ECTION.
1(r• SWANN moved !or le.Ave to bring in a Bill
/awe the putity of Election in the B.,rottsh cf

11r. PRESTON cr:ntended, that there was-rot A
gh in the kingdom freer from con upticn than
011. There was no borough under patronage in
kingdom in which more undue influence WAS not
„e„d• Why, thesefore, begin .with Helstoil If
H Gentleman bronrYht in a Bill for the purity
Election in. all t;:e Boroughs of Cornwall,- he
Id pledge himself to give him every assistance in
hislnwer. There were other Boroughs with Which
lit Honourable Gen:l::•maii could more propc: ly be-
t% But he thougl:t there was something invidious
'Particularising Helston.
24- SWANN was actuated by no private or party
gin the butinesat He had the honour to be re-
(or a Borough containing 360 voters, aid not
Tbq 801 l was founded on a Report
I Coolou'uee o am—House. That Committee

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'hart fOend that 4e election, in Helstrin Writ In the
hands of the 'rosin Clerk Wind two in,hers:..;ElV was
himself totally rineamrected with that Mit i but
having been nominee to toe committee, hie was re.
quested to draw up a-Bill on the subject. `Should,
however, the sense of the Entise appear to be
against the Bill, herhould be gild to withdraw it,
and tit he treed from a very troublesome duty ; but
tilt then he should persevere in what be conceived'
duty bound :him to.

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After v. few words trout Mr. Pnezrov, leave was
given.
Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Report of the,
Mutiny Bill, which %vas read a first and second time,
and ordered tn be read a third time on Monday.
Mr. D. BROWNS brought up a Bill to limit the
duration of Polls for the election of Members of Par.
liament in Ireland, which wag read a first time, and
ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.
A return wss ordered of the vames of cutters and
vessels under the Board of Excise, with the seizures
made by them in 1815.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Mr. GRENFELL wished to kno..v whether h Was
the wish of the Right Hotirmrahle Gentleman (the
Chancellor of the-Exchcceiti), that he should post-
pone his motion relitive io the 13.m1; of England?
The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER
thought the Honourable Gentlonan had better pro-
ceed with his motion, as, from the Meat press of
public business, expedition was more necessary at
present than usual.

Mr. GRENFELL had not intended to proceed
with the bisiliess this nigfit, an,l therefore he would
'isave little more ro do at present than to submit to
the House certain propositions whit!' he held in his
hand. He had not proposed' to trouble the House
with many itservations on the _subitct, as he could
not have expected any opposition. But now as lie
understood that the Chancellor Of the Exchequer
would oppose his motion, he should beg leave Ye
make one or two observations on the subj:cy, re-
serving AO himself the opportunity of making such
ob3;rvations.as 11 should think proper on -the other
propositions, which he should have the honour to
submit to the House, on a future ccc isi.4l. The
propositions which he should stibinit to-night were the
s:tme as the Resolutions which he had iai,t before the
House last Session. l'hey metely contained facts
and accounts which were mov•--ii for last Session, but
not laid before the House till so late a petiod, that
the discussion of them.had been deterred to an early
period of this Session. He should not at present do
any more in tie bujoess than lay tfloe propositions
before the House previous to the oils of next month,
when all the agreements relative to those facts and
accounts would nave expired. He thou ;tit the House
was bound in duty to the Pu'olic to go into an inquiry
on tin! subject. Lie had wade a motion to this effect
last Session, but that motion was negatived, not
However nitilsit Willa: that the cIITCt was not worthy
of inquiry, but that the mode in which it was sought
was not the best.
At the present moment of unex-
ampled distress, the House and the Public ought to
look to toe Bank fur warty millions to be applied to
the service of the State. Ile was at a loss to know
on what grounds the Batik ..f England could possibly
object to Resolutions containing a dry statement of
tact, and accounts, unless, as they had done fur the
last 2d years, they wished to involve their conduct
in tnystAty and concealment. But it the Bank did
object to these Resolutions, it would Knee that there
was something in their conduct and transactions
which would not bear investigation. The Honourable
Gentleman then rend his first Resolution.

Th. CHANCELLOR. of- the EXCHEQUER
did not think that any iiives:igvion into this Subject
was now necessary, and theretore he should move the'
Order of the Day.
Mr. iII:ANDY was clearly of opinion, that the
Chancellor of the Exclieqiier was completely under
the power and lash of the Bank, and that he must be
without a sixpence in his pucker, unless the Bank
chose to a2vai:ce him money. This was a stale ot
degradation unworthy of a Member of the House ot
Commons, and it was indeed a most pitiable sittia.
tion for a Chancellor of the Exchequer to be placed
in. It was just as if a man were to leave £lOO in the
hands ot his hanker, and when he asked tor it, should
be told he must not lw.ve it iinleis lie paid 5 per cent.
into est for his own money.
Mr. S. THORNTON conceived, that the House
ought not to interfere' in the conccrns.et the /Sauk,
who were trustees for their proprietors.
Sir-JOHN NEWI'OR I' observed, that the Bank
Directors were always adverte' to Committees, be-
cause when they dealt with blinisters, they acted as,
masters ; but when with Committees, they met their
equals. He strongly nbjected to this dependance of
the Government on the Bulk Directors, who profited
by the public distress. He deprecated this power on
the part of any Chartered Company, by which it
overawed the Government. He deprecated the prac-
tice of any Chartered Company Mixing in political
questions, by which it was enabled. to exercise an un-
due and dangerous influence. He recollected that
in 1806, the Bank of England refused to accommo-
date the Government, merely because the Admini-
stration of that day was not palatable to the Bank.—
They refused an application for making an inter-
change et money between England and Ireland, al-
though it was demonstrated that no inconvenience
could result. This was done merely out of dislike to
the Administration.
Mr. THORNTON declared, he never knew any
instance on the part of the Bank, of partiality or pre-
judice towards any Administration. .
Lord CASTLEREAGH conceived, that the Cell.
sure thrown out against the Bank was very harsh;
and so far as he understood, there was no public
body that ever conducted itself on more equitable
1 principles than tire Bank of England. He confessed,
it he were a Bank DU-Lew, he should hesitate before
he exehanfted English for Irish notes. (Hear, hear.)
Sir J. NEW roRT replied, drat the proposal was
not her an exchange et dotes, but for facilitating the
transfer of money between one country and the other
on the best securities, and in. a manner which could
not have put the Bank to the slightest inconvenience.
Mr..BA RING said, he must differ in one point•
,from hit /tight Hon. Friend.—that of the Bank Di,-
recteis having been influenced by -political partiili.
tics. If such had existed, he sliostial be vnworthy -of
a seat in that Plrection ; and he declared he never
knevi an instance •of the kilia. As to rousing :1w
accommodation alluded to, it was merely a tviall to