notice, that on Tuesday next he should move to stay the proceedings for the present, and at the same time bring in a bill to continue those which had already taken place, till next session, to avoid the necessity of recommencing them.

Lord Mulgrave addressed their lordships, stating, that in the case of Thellusson v. Woodford, two of the judges had died since the argument, and he therefore moved that the matter might be argued again. After a conversation between the Lord Chancellor, Lord Westmorland, and Lord Hawkesbury, the motion was negatived. The judgment was postponed till Tuesday, when the judges were ordered to attend.

On the motion of Lord Hawkesbury, a message was ordered to be sent to the commons, to request a copy of the report of the committee of the house on the tenth report of the commissioners of naval inquiry.-Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORD S.

MONDAY, JUNE 24.

The house went through the bills on the table, among which was the prize agents' bill, which was read a second time. Some progress was made in the Rous peerage, which was ordered to be further proceeded in the next day.

Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, JUNE 24.

The land tax redemption bill was read a third time and passed.

On the motion of Mr. Wellesley Pole, several accounts were ordered to be laid before the house of the number of officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates in the royal artillery, royal artificers, &c. stating the total number of those corps in Great Britain and Ireland, on the 1st of June, 1805. Lord Glenbervie brought up the report of the select committee on the eleventh report of the commissioners of naval inquiry, which was ordered to be printed.

Mr. Serjeant Best gave notice that on Monday he would move certain resolutions founded on the above report, provid-. ed (as he observed in reply to a few words from Lord Glen

bervie),

bervie), that it was printed time enough to allow the house to become sufficiently acquainted with its contents.

Sir J. Stewart brought up the second report of the committee on Sir Home Popham's conduct, which was ordered to be printed.

LORD MELVILLE.

Mr. Leycefter, adverting to the notice given by an hon. friend of his of a motion for the next day, to exclude from the proceedings of the attorney general against Lord Mel ville the affair of Mr. Jellicoe, gave notice that he should on that day move that an impeachment of Lord Melville befubftituted for the criminal profecution.

The Irish civil list bill was read a third time and passed. 'The Irish infirmary regulation bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed next day.

The house went into a committee on the report of the committee on the pilchard fishery bill, in which it was agreed that a certain additional bounty should be given on every barrel of pilchards. On being resumed, the report was ordered to be received next day.

Mr. Rose brought in a bill for granting certain premiums on the Southern whale fishery, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time next day.

The Irish loyalists compensation bill passed through a committee, and the report was ordered to be received the next day.

The coasting seamen's bill was read a third time and passed.

Mr. Higham, from the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, presented an acount of the quantity of stock redeemed of the Irish debt. Ordered to lie on the table, and. to be printed.

On the motion of Lord Archibald Hamilton, the house went into a committee on the corn bill.

A conversation arose on the manner of taking the average for exportation in Scotland, which was stated by Lord A. Hamilton, Mr. M'Dougall, and other members for that part of the empire, to be very oppressive in its present form. Mr. Pattison, Colonel Stanley, &c. were willing to give every relief to Scotland, but without making any alteration in the mode of taking the average for exportation in England.

Mr. Foster wished to introduce an amendment, putting

corn

corn exported from Ireland into Great Britain, on the same footing as corn imported from foreign countries.

On this, and amendments proposed by other members, the gallery was repeatedly cleared for a division. During the latter part of the discussion strangers were excluded for a considerable time. On our re-admission into the gallery we found the Speaker in the chair, and understood that the different clauses of the bill having been gone through, the house resumed, and the report was received and read, after a division, in which the ayes were 40, the noes 9; majority 31.

On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, a secret committee was ordered to be balloted for the next day, on the secret part of the eleventh report of the commissioners of naval inquiry.

On the motion of the Secretary at War, returns were ordered to be laid before the house of the total effective strength of the British army at home and abroad up to the latest returns; of the number of men wanting to complete the infantry and cavalry, distinguishing the foreign corps from the British, and the men enlisted for general and limited service; and of the number of men enlisted from the militia into the regular force, distinguishing those enlisted into the line, into the artillery, and into the marines.

The Secretary at War presented the last mentioned returns, which were ordered to be printed.

After a short conversation between the Secretary at War and Colonel Craufurd, it was ordered on the motion of the gallant colonel, that there be laid before the house an account of the number of men volunteered from the militiá, included in the returns of the regular force, up to the 1st of May.

On the motion of Sir J. B. Warren, the house went into a committee on the report of the committee on the petition from the trustees of the naval asylum; when a resolution having been agreed to, that a sum not exceeding 20,000l. should be granted to his majesty, for the support of that institution, the house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received the next day.

Colonel Stanley brought up the report of the committee on the Duke of Athol's petition.

After a few words from Mr. Curwen, who declared his determination to oppose the measure in a future stage, and some observations from Mr. Creevey, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Giddy, Mr. Pole Carew, Mr. Rose, and Mr. Wilberforce, the resoVOL. III. 1805. lutions

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lutions were read and agreed to, and a bill ordered in pursuant thereto.

On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the house went into a committee on the report relative to the improvement of Leith harbour, when a sum of 25,000l. was voted for that purpose. The report to be received next day.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice, that he should on Wednesday, in the committee of supply, move the annual grant for the Sierra Leone establishment.

The house went into a committee of supply on the motion of Mr. Foster, and voted the sum of 600,000l. for the extraordinaries of the army in Ireland for the year 1805; and 4,000l. for the improvement of the harbour of Plymouth. On the house being resumed, the report was ordered to be received the next day.

Ordered, on the motion of Mr. Foster, that the house should the next day go into a committee, to consider of the duties on Spanish red wine.

Mr. Sturges Bourne obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish the fees of certain officers of customs, and to ensure a more regular attendance in the discharge of the duties of their office.

Mr. Sturges Bourne brought up a bill for authorizing the lords commissioners of the treasury to permit the warehousing of goods in certain ports upon security for payment of the duties; also the inland coal importation bill; and Mr. Huskissen brought up the cochineal dust duty bill; which wererally read a first time, to be read a second time the next day.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of.
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, JUNE 25.

The Lord Chief Baron stated the opinion of the judges on the appeal Thellusson against Woodford, which was unanimous for affirming the decree of the court of chancery. The Lord Chancellor also delivered his opinion on the same side, and the decree was affirmed.

The Duke of Cumberland presented a petition from Mr. Justice Johnson against the bill pending before their lordships,

called

called "The Offenders Escape Amendment Bill," and praying that the said bill might not, with respect to him, have the effect of an ex post facto law.

On the motion of his royal highness, it was ordered that the petition do lie on the table.

Lord Holland wished to know what was the nature of the orders which had been sent by government to the lieutenantgovernor of Jamaica, relative to the trade between that island and the United States; and whether any orders had been sent out since the 21st of May for discontinuing the restriction on the importation of goods in American bottoms?

Earl Camden said that the lieutenant-governor had not received any orders to prevent the suspension of the law, in cases of necessity, against the importation of goods from America.

Lord Holland then asked, whether the house was to understand that no orders had been sent to enforce the restrictions on the trade between the United States and the West India islands?

The Duke of Montrose observed, that the state of the law on the subject in question was this:-According to the navigation act, there could be no communication between the United States and the British West India islands, except in British bottoms. But a power was given to the governor of every island to allow the importation of provisions and other articles in cases of necessity. It having appeared, however, that some irregularities had arisen in the exercise of this power, and that a too general importation had been permitted, directions were sent out to the governors not to make too frequent use of the discretion which they possessed. There was no ground for supposing they were prohibited from suspending the restriction; they were only required not to give way to too great a facility of importation.

Lord Holland said, that the noble duke seemed disposed to volunteer a reply, which it belonged to the noble earl (Camden) to give, but which, at the same time, was far from being satisfactory. Indeed all he had heard convinced him that the restriction had been improperly enforced; and he conceived it to be his duty to move for such papers as might tend to elucidate the subject. He therefore gave notice, that he should move for copies of all petitions from the West India islands, and all correspondence between the governors of the islands. and his majesty's government, respecting the trade with America, from the commencement of the present war with France to the 21st of May last.

The Duke of Montrose observed, that if he had volunteered