and what proportion of them had been applied for navy services in the year 1806.

Lord Henry Petty moved that the House, on its rising on Thursday, do adjourn till Monday se'nnight. Ordered. The House then went into a committee on the ordnance treasurer's bill, when after a conversation between Lord H. Petty and Mr. Calcraft on the one side, and Mr. Huskisson and Mr. S. Bourne on the other, principally on the point whether the idea of reform in this department had occurred to the late board previous to, or in consequence of, the tenth report of the commissioners of naval inquiry, the bill was gone through, and the report was ordered to be received the next day. Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORD S.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2.

Lord Walsingham moved for an address to his Majesty to request a copy of the second report of the commissioners appointed to revise and digest the civil affairs of the navy. Ordered.

The Irish militia service bill was read a second time and committed for Monday the 14th instant.

The royal assent was given by commission to the expiring laws bill and three private bills.

The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Walsingham, and Lord Auckland.

The Cape of Good Hope trade regulation bill was read a third time and passed, and a message sent to the House of Commons to acquaint them therewith.

A petition was presented from Lord Viscount Hawarden, claiming the right of voting at the election for representative peers of Ireland, which was referred to the committee of privileges.

Adjourned till Monday the 14th instant.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2.

Mr. Windham rose, to postpone till the next day, the motion of which he had given notice for this day, with regard to the defence of the country. This delay was, he said, as much a matter of surprize, and as unexpected to him, as no doubt it would be to the House. But the

cause arose from the indisposition of his right honourable friend, which rendered him unable to attend (Mr. Fox), He has been ill, said Mr. Windham, for the last two days, but he is much better to-day. I have been just with him, and he thinks that he will be able to attend to-morrow; I trust he will, for I should be naturally unwilling to bring forward the subject in his absence.

Sir J. Duckworth's annuity bill was brought in, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time the next day.

Dr. Duigenan brought up the report of the Irish first fruits hill, which was agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time the next day.

The deputy gentleman usher of the black rod summoned the attendance of the House in the House of Peers, to hear the royal commission read. The House proceeded accordingly, and on its return the Speaker stated that the royal assent had been given by commission to the Newfoundland judicature bill, and several private bills.

A message from the Lords announced their lordships' assent to the Cape of Good Hope trade regulation bill.

A person from the excise presented an account of the outstanding duties on the 5th January, 1805; and also on the 5th January, 1806. Ordered to lie on the table.

On the motion of Mr. Vansittart, the property-tax bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed the next day, the right honourable gentleman stating that the committal the next day would be only pro forma, and that it was intended to have the bill recommitted on the 21st instant.

The tea-duty bill, and the tobacco-duty bill, were read a second time, and committed for the next day.

The House, in committee, went through the twenty million loan bill, and the report was ordered to be brought up the next day.

IRELAND.

On the motion of Sir John Newport, the House resolved into committee on the act relative to a duty on dwellinghouses in Ireland. The right honourable baronet mentioned that his object was to remove a certain incumbrance to which those houses in Ireland were subject, which were on another occasion relieved from the operation of the hearthmoney tax, and to which he was sure it never could have

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been the intention of the legislature to attach the impost he had it in contemplation to do away. The right honourable gentleman moved that it is the opinion of the committee that the tax of three shillings per annum, imposed upon certain dwelling-houses in Ireland, do cease and determine. Mr. J. Fitzgerald thought the arrangement to which this motion referred highly honourable to the humanity and justice of the present administration.

The motion was agreed to, the House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up the next day.

The House resolved into a committee upon the acts relative to Irish bank-notes.

On the motion of Sir John Newport it was resolved, that the chairman should move the House for leave to bring in a bill to revive the exemption in favour of Irish national banknotes, which was enacted by the act of the 43d of the king, and repealed by the act of the 44th.

The Irish treasury bills bill was reported, and ordered to be read a third time the next day.

Upon the Rochdale canal bill being brought down from the Lords with some amendments, the Speaker took occasion to observe, that although these amendments were made in a money-bill, yet as they were of a nature, as would appear from the context, merely to carry into effect the object of that House, they could not be considered inconsistent with its privileges to admit. Still he wished a special entry to be made of the circumstance, lest it should be drawn into a precedent.

After a few words from Sir Wm. Young, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Wilberforce, the Speaker's suggestion was complied with.

Mr. C. Wynne presented copies of the correspondence between Lord Hardwicke and Earl Spencer, with regard to Lord Hardwicke's suspension of the paving commission of Dublin. Ordered to lie on the table.

The same honourable gentleman presented, pursuant to order, the return and certificate of the deputy clerk of the crown in Ireland, with regard to the last election for the city of Waterford. This certificate, which was read at the table, stated that the return declaring Sir John Newport to have been duly elected, was dated on the 14th of March, and was delivered into the crown-office in Dublin on the 24th of the same month, on which night it was transmitted to London. When the certificate was read,

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Lord Henry Petty, in the absence of his right honourable friend (Mr. Fox), gave notice that a motion would be made the next day for the attendance of the sheriffs of Waterford at the bar of that House.

On the motion of Lord Henry Petty, Sir John Newport was added to the committee for examining the joint accounts between Great Britain and Ireland.

AMERICA.

Mr. Rose gave notice of his intention to bring forward the next day, a motion of the utmost consequence with regard to the intercourse of America with our West India colonies. This motion he was urged to press, in consequence of what he heard was going forward elsewhere, combined with a negotiation of great importance which was known to be on the tapis. The idea of enabling the governors of the West India islands to suspend our navigation laws during the war, struck him to be a project so alarming, that he felt it his duty at once to move for the production of such documents as he knew were calculated to shew, not only the inexpediency, but the danger of such a proceeding. Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

THURSDAY, APRIL 3.

The attorney-general brought up the bill for preventing the importation of slaves into the enemies' colonies in the West Indies which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Wednesday the 16th instant.

The secretary at war presented several military estimates, which, he said, did not relate to the military arrangements to be brought forward that night, and gave notice that, on Monday se'nnight, he would move their being taken into consideration in a committee of supply.

Mr. Vansittart presented the second report of the commissioners of revision of the civil affairs of the navy, which was ordered to be printed.

Mr. Vansittart brought up a bill for granting certain duties on iron, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight.

Mr. Perceval gave notice, that, on the first day after the recess, he would bring in a bill for improving the condition of stipendiary curates,

Sir John Duckworth's annuity bill was read a second time, and ordered to a committee of the whole House on Monday se'nnight.

The office of treasurer of the ordnance bill was read a third time, and passed.

The House resolved itself into a committee on the property-tax bill; the report was received, and on the motion of Mr. Vansittart, it was ordered to be taken into farther consideration on Monday fortnight. The bill was ordered to be printed.

Mr. Hawthorne brought up the report of the committee of supply; and various resolutions relative to grants to charities in Ireland were agreed to.

The report on the loan bill was brought up, and the bill ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight.

Mr. Hawthorne brought up a report from the committee of supply; and the resolution that three millions be raised by exchequer bills was agreed to.

Mr. R. Thornton moved, that there be laid before the House a letter fra Sir George Barlow to Lord Lake, dated 20th of October, 1805, in answer to a letter from Lord Lake to Marquis Cornwallis of the 5th October, 1805.

Mr. H. Addington could not see any objection to the production of these papers; and they were therefore ordered by the House.

Mr. Hawthorne brought up the report of the committee of supply; and the consideration of the resolution that the duty of three shillings on houses in Ireland do cease was, at the desire of Mr. Foster, postponed till Monday se'nnight.

Mr. Huddleston postponed his motion for India papers till after the recess.

Mr. Rose postponed his motion for papers tending to shew the impolicy of a bill in another House, granting a discretionary power to suspend the navigation laws in the West Indies.

Lord Temple said, that the responsibility attached to the suspension of these laws would not rest on the govern ors of the colonies, but on the ministers.

On the motion of Lord H. Petty, it was agreed, that the House should at its rising adjourn to Monday se'nnight.

MILITARY DEFENCE.

Mr. Windham rose.-He did not pretend to know what

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