Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-06-03

race Of men, and which, By promoting INC
intercourse with other nations, increases Tue
comforts 81 civilized life; demands the pro-
lection Of government, and our navigation
law and tonnage duty are prooiss''s interests
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Furtler extracts from English papers rscea0-
ed at Ns0U york.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Yesterday the first Parliament OF His Ma
;estv King George the Fourth. (being the
seventh, Of the United Kingdom OF Great
Britain and Ireland) was assembled at West
rn;nster. The Members of the other House
began 10 assemble by twelve o'clock and
at balf-past two o clock. the Lord Chancel-
Tor, the archbishop Of Canterbury, the Duke
ot Wellington, the Earl of Westmoreland,
and the Earl of Shaftesbury, took their seats
in front of the throne as Commissioners.
The Lord Chancellor directed the Deputy
Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to pro-
coed TO the Commons, and summon that
House to attend at their Lordships bar forth
with.
Mr. Quarme, the Deputy Usher, proceed
ed accordingly to the House of Commons,
and soon after returned, accompanied by the
Clerks of that House, and considerable
number OF the Members, among whom were
the Chancellor Of the Exchequer and the
four Representatives of the City OF London,
in their robes.
The Lord Chancellor stated, that his Ma
iesty lad been pleased 10 order, letters pa
tent 10 be issued for The appointment of GER
tain Lords therein named to open the Parlia-
ment, which letters patent the Lords and
Gentlemen present would now hear read
The Commission being read,
The Lord Chancellor Gas organ of the
Commissioners addressed both Houses as
follows -
sMy Lords and Gentlemen,
BY virtue of his Majesty'S commission
under the Great seal, to US and other Lords
directed, and now read, we have to state to
you, in obedience to his Majesty's commads.
that as soon as sufficient number of mem
bers of both houses shall be sworn, the cause
of his Majesty s callinglbave this parliament
shall be declared. And it being necessary
that Speaker of the House of Commons
should first be chosen, it is his Majesty's
pleasure that you, Gentlemen, should repair
TO the place where you usually sit, and there
proceed to choose some fl person to be your
Speaker and that you do present such per-
son so chosen as your Speaker, at the Bar
of this House tomorrow, at two o clock,
for his Majesty's Royal appreciation"
The Commons then withdrew and their
Lordships adjourned, pro lempore. for the
| Peers to unrobe.
Paris, 4prH 10.
Louis by the grace of God, &c.
I'VE have ordained, and do ordain, that
the project Of law relative to new mode OF
| Election, which we caused to be presented
to the Chamber of Deputies on the fifteenth
day oil the month OF February last, shall be
withdrawn, and replaced by the following
project, and that it shall be presented in our
name to the said Chamber by our minister
Secretary of state, &c.
Art. |. There is in each department an
electoral college of the department, and
electoral colleges of districts.
:" Nevertheless, in those departments
which have but one deputy TO nominate, and
in that of Corsica, alfthe electors shall be
united in single college.
Q. The electoral college OF each depart
ment is composed of electors who are most
highly taxed. The number Of members Of
each college is equal 10 the fifth Of all the
electors, provided that il be not less thar
100, nor greater than 600. with the excep'
ton of the department OF the Seine, the de-
partmental college OF which consists of Goo
electors.
C 8. The electoral college Of each dis
trict (arondissment) is composed Of all the
electors who have their political domicile
within the district, and who do not belong
to the college of the department..
:" At all times when there are not more
than SO electors in district, they join with
those of the neighboring district where tht
college is more numerous and form with
such electors but one and the same college
| g EanE district nnliena n,minatec h1