The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-02 00:00:00

LVPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Mosul Air. MAT I.

The Honse proeeetted in Appeals.
The Oaths were administered to the Marquis et
Downshire, the Earl Pitstriltlam, noddleUlm" et
Hereford.

The LORD CHANCELLOR reported the King's
must gracious Answer to the Address of th.• House.
Mr. Irving, from the t'ustoms, presented an Ac-
count of Exports and Imports; Mr. Massey, Accounts
from the Insolvent Dekors' Court; and Mr. Win-
chester, (ruin the Post-office, an Account of Arrears
and Balances in the hands of Deputy-Postmasters-lie-
neral.—Ordered to lie upon the table.
On the motion of the gar! of LAUDERDALE, Ac-
counts of the Consolidated Fund, &c. ordered last
Parliament, and not presented, were Again ordered.
*The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented • petition
from the Manufacturers of Norwich, praying the Re-
peal of the Duty upon the Importation of Foreign
Wool.—Ordered to lie upon the table.
Adjourned till to-morrow (this day).
HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, MAT I.

The SPEAKER read to the House his Majesty's
most gracious Answer to its unanimous Address. It
expressed his Royal thanks fur their lopd and du-
tiful Address, and pledged himself to the upholding
of those securities and blessings which had established
the superior charaoter of the country amidst the other
nations of the world.
Some short time after, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER stated, that it was the usage of the
two last Accessions for the new Parliament, at the

commencement of the respective Reigns, to pass a
Vote of Thanks to their respective Majesties, for their
gracious ,answers. He moved the adoption of the
same course on the present occasion, and the motion
was carried unanimously.
Mr. M. A. TAYLOR presented a Petition from the
Lighteritten on the River Thames.
Ytr uvu4s, SAJJ14‘11;1811. Ibmil she Waterton !teeth
of She Over, as well as from the Wharingers between
Blackfriars and London Bridge, complaining of the
state of hazard and insecurity in which London Bridge
now stood, and of the Olinger to property and life to
which they were, in the exercise of their respective
callings, exposed, in consequence of such insecurity,
and the impediments it produced to the navigation of
the river.

Mr F. Bußintrr presented a petition to • similar
effect from the Whacfingers between Westminster
Bridge and Blackfriars. They were ordered to be
printed.

Thirteen Members took the oaths, amongst whom
was the Solicitor-lieneral.
Lord LIOWTHEK presented a Petition from the
31anufacturers and Merchants of Kendal, against the
Wool Untie..--Orilered to lie on the Table.

On the motion of Mr. TREMAYNE, a Return of
the Import and Export of Tin for the last year was
ordered to be laid on the Table.
Petitions were presented (ruin Val. Blake, Esq.,
complaining of an undue return of the sitting Member
for the Borough of Galway, in Ireland, as was one
from Carnation, Cornwall ; the ballots for which were
fixed for the 30th 1•1 May.
Mr. BROUGHAM stated, that as he nnderstood
the discussion fixed for Thursday, on the arrangement
of the Civil List, was likely to be postponed until the
next day, in consequence of the indisposition of a
Noble Lord (Castlereagh), not then in his place, he
felt it necessary to move for the production of papers
of material importance in the elucidation of the pre-
litninary discussion, which it would be his duty to
bring on, before the discussion on the Report of the
proposed Resolutions. As the paper containing the
information which he was solicitous, to ohtiin, had
originated in the Colonial Assembly of the Isle of
Barbadoes, and was the act of that Local Legislature,
he had simply to move an Address to the Throne, i
praying that a copy of the Act, of the year 1663, by
which a duty of 44 per cent. was levied upon all pro-1
duce exported from that island, should be laid before
the House.-3lotion agreed to.
Mr. BROUGHAM next observed, that as, by a case ,
ruled in the Courts of Law, the Barbadoes Act did not
apply to the Leewards Islands, burthe Legislature of
those islands having copied that Act, lie had next to
move for the production of all other Colonial Acts
einpdnering the levy of such a duty on the exportation
of West India produce.—Motion agreed to.
WZIGLITA AND NILAIIVIDA.
Mr. H. SL'MNER, adverting to the inconvenience
felt in various parts of the country, on the present ine-
quality in weights and measures, particularly in 'he
county of Surrey, where the precedent adopted by the
city of London in subdividing the minor measures was
acted upon, but on which prosecutions took place, and the
convictions were quashed, was anxious to learn from
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Com-
mission appointed for the purpose, whose Intoenn were
for the two last years suspended, by the serious in-
quiry on the Bank-note question, had yet concludeil their
labours, and whether any general legislative measure
was intended to be introduced by his Majesty's Go-
vernment
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, is so-
wer, Mated, that his lion. Friend to od attrilorsd the
delay of the Report to its tune cause--matnely, the
other very important Wittig of the Cototaiieion. Be

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