The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.,-...IVEDNSPDAT.
The Royal Assent wee given by Commission to the Na•
tionel Debt Reduction Bill, the King's Property Bill, and
the Marriage Act Repeal Bill. The Commissioners were
the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, and Earl of
Shaftesbury .
herd KINGSTON presented a petition from the Borough
of Sligo, complaining of the excessive tolls exacted there,
and of a violation of the charter.
The Prisons Regulation Bill, end some private Bills,
were brought up from the house of Commons, and read a
first time.
Lord KING presented a petition from the town of Read-
ing, ageinst the Insolvent Debtors Act.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid on the table copies of cer-
tain papers from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
BANKRUPT LAWS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR called the attention of the
House to the Bill that had been introduced last Session for
the purpose of amending the Bankrupt Laws, but which had
not been passed into a law. Since that time It had been
considered that ft would be more proper to include all the
amendments then proposed to be adopted is one Rill ; and
he wished to inform the House that it was iutended to in-
troduce such a Bill shortly after the recess, which should
comprise the whole of the provisions that were deemed
necessary to be adopted on this subject, and which wen e
connected with the subject of bankrupts, except those which
It might be thought proper to repeal. lie now pleilsred
himself that a measure of this kind should be brought for-
ward either in this or the other House of Parliament.
RELATIONS WITS FOREIGN POWERS.
The Earl of LIVERPOOL said he felt It necessary to
inform their Lordships that it was his intention, on next
Monday fortnight, to lay before the House such papers
as were connected with, and were to throw a light upon,
the late negotiations carried on between this country and
Foreign Powers, and particularly those which related to
the approaching war between France and Spain. At the
same time, It was his intention, on presenting those papers,
to state what had been the conduct and views of the Bri-
tish Government In conducting those negotiations, and
what was the policy which, In his opinion ought to have
been pursued with regard to Foreign powers. He did not
think it necessary to say any thing more on the subject at
present.
Earl GREY understood from what had fallen from the
Minister on a former day, that all hopes of preventing the
wer between France and Spain were not yet extinguish-
ed ; but every thing still appeared to him to be in a state
of uncertainty, and he could not, without great pain, re-
flect on the mode of proceeding which appeared to him to
have been adopted by our Government, and he eauld not
help viewing it with great distrust ; for he was confident,
if the tone and language which the feelings of the country
called for, had been adopted in proper time by his Majes-
ty's Ministers in the course of the late negotiations, that
we should pot be in the uncertain and alarming situation
in which the country was now placed. For his own part,
he should lad himself, on the occasion of the intended
discussion, in this dilemma—either that a statement would
go forth with all the evils attendant on a partial detail of
events, or that a discussion would be entered into without
the documents necessary for coming to a right conclusion
upon It. Therefore, be hoped that the Noble Earl would
content himself with first laying the papers on the table,
and moving that they be printed, and that he would thee