The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-11-09 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER, acquainted the House,. dist bti
Royal Highness the Prince Regent had been waited
on with the Address of that House, to which his
Royal Highness had been pleased to rebus a issest
gracious answer.
The Speaker here read the Answer) which Wags
nearly in the following terms:—

" I thank you for this dutiful and loyal Address. Theeenti..
means which it breathes, and the assurances of sapport which it
cunt are such as become the Commons of a great Empire,
carrying to the Throat At such a moment the expressioa cif their
opinion. The means which you hate determined to place at
my disposal, shall be employed by me in the manner most
cCodurire, ender Provisleoce, to the:success of the great cause
in which we are engaged ; and I trust, that through else al-
liance which has been formed with the Continental Powers,
Europe testy look forward to the attaibatent of a solid and
honourable Peace."

On the Motion of Sir S. BOMILLY an humble
Address was ordered to be presented to his Royal
highness the Prince Regent, praying that he would
cause to be laid forthwith before the House Accounts
of the Persons that been committed to the Gaols
of Great Britain tO,pe tried for criminal offences, du-
ring the years 1810, 1811, and 1812;- distinguish'
log the crimes with which they were charged; and
those acquitted.from those consictede Also shisilise
accounts with respect 'to Ireland. ,
A new writ was ordered for the county of galley)
in the room of Sir Thomas Sutton, decease& tin _

BOROUGH OF HELSTONI3",
On the motion of Mr. BANKS, the
ing read from the Journals the Report of"th4 CEnt.
mittee appointed to moth the Lords' Jodiraels.tin
the subject of the Halftone Election, •"
Mt. BANK ES 'oineried, that the citcumsttntes
attendant on the Bill of last Session fot Sealfinte,M-
rity of election in the Borough of Heist** must hi,
fresh in the recollection of the arouse. Having pained'
in the House of Commons it had been 'Carried to the
House of Lticts at a period not long before the ter-
mination of the Session. This it was, perhaps, which
prevented any proceeding from being had in the
Lords on the subject, as it was well known that on
such questions each Roam preferred taking evidence
itself to relying on the evidence afforded in the other,
and there was notiime for examining in the House'
of Lords the necessary evidence in the case to which
he alluded. For that nod other reasons be was de-
sirous of thus early calling the attention of the. House
to the subject. Whatever doubt might have existed
as to the best mode of altering the constitution of the
Borough, no objection had been made in any quar-
ter to the proper mode of taking Parliamentary no-
tice of tbe corruption, which having crept into .tbe
borough of Hetstone, had so long maintained itself
there, awl of the expediency of putting ea end to it
'with all possible extiedition. Anticipating therefore
no objection to hltiiVoposition, he would proceed
-without farther preface to move, That leave be given
to bring Its a Bill to secure Purity of Election in the
Borough of Helstone.
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW heir*, second the me-a
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