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London, England, 1804-05-09 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARr PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE OF LORDS, TUESDAY, MAY 8.
Ina Committee of Privileges, Counfel were farther beard and
evidence was adduced, for the Claimant of the Rode Pecragc
Poftponcd tfThorfdq•
The Dills on the Tat& were forwarded.
Several private Sills were brought from the Commons, and rand
a Brft time.—Adjoarned.

HOUSE OP COMMONS.
A Ballot for the Clapp/ant Halloo was aged for this day,
but the Coeofel Sad Agent for the Pethiceter not appearing, their
recepluares are forfeihod, and the cone& is of mate at an red.
Mr. POMP. wooed the peeptatessent andl this day fel:night,
of the Order torte gpsiamet of a Committee to email= the
Pedtions with id to the Tax of 4 per Cent on the trio
fJa Tbe Honourable Member Rated his make to be the pre.
tentftate of things relative to the Adralalitration.--The motion

was agreed to.
The Accounts rofpeding the Imports and Exports of Ireland for
the lait keen years, were ordered to be printed.
The ATIVIRNEY GENERAL gave notice, that be would to-
morrow stove for leave to bring In a MU to facilitate tha urea of
offenders duping freed ome part of the United Kingdom to the
other.
The woke for the third reading of the Ender Army of Referee
Sufpcullon Bill was poftponed till tomorrow, as wag the motto
for the kcond reading of the Ida Army of Referee Bill.
The Report of the Worm Doty IRE was brought up and agreed
to, and the Bill ordered to be morroffed.
The ENS& Loyn Hill, the Iriß Lean BULand the &elk Duty
Bill, were read a third time and paged.
Alter a converfation between Mr. CHARLES DUNDAS and
Mr. WINDHAM, the mirdespeinor Erekeodue Dill was read s
fecood dine, aid committed to a Private Committee.
The Eosins MHitla Difemloodied Subaltern Allowance Mins
read a third time and pared.
Mr. KINNAIRD poitponed till to morrow fortnight the modes
of which be had given notice with refpoet to half-pay Officers, Ste,
The Caledonian canal Bill was read a fumed time, and com-
mitted to a Seled Committee.
Mr. VANSITTART preferred an Account of the Arrears and
Balances due to the Eseik Office. from the stb of rummy, 1803,
to the nth of January, 1804; sod this with the other Accounts on
the table trains the Arrears due to the Revenue, were ordered
to be print

AYLESSURY ILECTION SILL.
The Third Reading of the Ayleibury Meeks BM being moved
Mr. J. RHINE rote, and (poke with much ability egalaft the
principle and tendency of the Bill.
Mr. DICKENSON fupported the modem.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL ftroogly reprobated the Bill.
Lord ARCHIBALD HAMITON thought the re of Ms
Mime who provoked this mtafure fo phdn and paipable, that he
coald not, without furprife, Mal to the oppoetion that was made
to it, sad pardeularly by the Learned Gentkman who had jolt fat
dowses Gankinan who was not ceily adverfc to the idea of Cane-
nosing dm aseNestion of any
_remedy to the general fyftena of ba
rough cis in. bet to a partkviar cafe of flagrant corruption.
The Hods avian:la—For the modon y3—Noes an.
The MI was peed, and ordered to the Lords.

?AMISH ICBS•

Mr. WILBERFORCE rofe, purfoant to notice,
to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better re-
gulation of Patilh Appentices. The Honourable
Member Rated, that he fubmitted this propolition to
the Houfe, from a flrong perfusfion of the necellity
which culled for extending the power of the Magif-
crates with raped to the fuperintendance of thofe
Apprentices, who were by law committed to their
proteftion. The provifions of this law were however
i found to be inefficient to the objea in view, and to
remedy this inefficiency was the purpofe of the mea-
tfure he bad to prtrpofe—a meafure which came
' firongly recommended to him by a number of re.
Ineffable Magißrates refident iu the county he had
the honour to reverent. The Motion being read—
Mr. BURLAND exprefred a hope that it was
not intended to peels the adoption of this meafure
wiihin the prefent fell-on. It appeared to him that
it would be better to have the Bill read a &ft time,
printed, and circulated, in order that during the re-
eds it might be fully examined, particularly by the
Magißrates, upon whom it propofed to call an ex.
traordinary degree of trouble. If this mode of pro-
ceeding (horrid be adopted, the Honourable Member
Rated, that he would have no oblation to naafi.
dare, with the Bill moved for, the ideas which he
meant r.. (ohmic to the Houfe in the fhape of a Bill
upon the fame. fubjeft, of which be had already
given notice.
Mr. WILBERFORCE profeffed Marfa unable
to anfwer the Honourable Gernleman deciSvkly in
the prefent Rage of the meafure, at the fame time
he begged to mention, that any hints from the Ho-
nourable Gentleman upon a tubjeft with which be
was known to be fo well acquainted, would of courfe
be peculiarly acceptable to the framers of the _BA
to which the motion before the Houle referred.
• Mr. LASCELLES laid, that the Bill would not
go to fubjea any Magißrates to the duty of fisperin-
tendance who might not he willing to execute it,
and added. that the neceffity for the adoption of the
Bill was. in the county with which he was conflat-
ed. urgent in point of time.
Mr. lIOBHOUSE obferved. that this Bill would
operate a material change in the law. and thbefore
he willed to hear Come cafe Rated that rendered loch
change neceffary before he agreed to the Motive'.
Mr. WILBERFORCE Rated, that neceffity was
'Maga by from forty to fifty reipeflable and expe•
rienced Magißrates of the county of York, and in-
deed it was univerfally telt, for the power which
Maliftrates poffetred to enforce the performance of
juaree towards Perils Apprentices was notoriougy
Impede& and no provilion whatever was made for
the gnardianlhip of apprentices when transferred, as
they frequently were. from one &aria to another.
Dr. LAWRENCE crnceired that the Houk
Oswald be extremely cautinus of granting authority
upon the requell of the men by whom it was ezer-
cried, as appeared to be the cafe in this inflame.
Lease was g;Ven to bring in the Bill.
lire other eiders of the Day were difpoled
and the Hoak 4:C.0.:1:Ad.

LONDON.