nue, for a limited time, an act, made in the 7th year of his prefent Majesty's reign, intitled An act to discontinue, for a limited time, the duties payable upon the importation of tallow, hogs-lard, and grease.'

On the 21ft, it was refolved, That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, That he will be gracioufly pleafed to give directions, that there be laid before this Houle accounts of all fuch Affociations, in his Majefty's Colonies and Plantations in America, not to import into the faid Colonies, from Great Britain, certain goods and merchandise, as have been published in the faid Colonies, and tranfmitted to his Majefty's Principal Secretaries of Stare, or to the Commiflioners for Trade and Plantations, fince the first of August, 1768; and it was ordered that the faid addrefs be prefented to his Majefty by fuch Members of this Houfe as are of his Majefty's most honourable Privy-council.

On the 22d, two bills paffed the House: The firft, for dividing and inclosing the open fields, c mmon meadows, common paftures, commons, and wafte grounds, in the parish of Waddington, in the county of the city of Lincoln; and the fecond, for naturaliing John-Julius Angerstein.

The fame day, it was refolved, That a fum, not exceeding 4800l. be granted to his Majetty, upon account, for defraying the expences of the civil eftablishment of his Majefty's colony of Welt-Florida, and other incidental expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June, 1769, to the 24th of Jane, 1770.

That a fum, not exceeding 4750l. be granted to his Majesty, upon account, for defraying the expences of the civil establishinent of his Majesty's colony of Eaft-Florida, and other incidental expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June, 1769, to the 24th of June, 1770.

That a fum, not exceeding 30861. be granted to his Majesty, upon account, for defraying the charges of the civil eftablishment of his Majeity`s colony of Georgia, and other incidental expences attending the fame, from the 24th of June, 1769, to the 24th of June, 1770,

That a fum, not exceeding 42391. 5d. be granted to his Majefty, upon account, for maintaining and fupporting the civil eftablish ment of his Majefly's colony of Nova Scotia, for the year 1770.

That a fum, not exceeding 18851. 4s. be granted to his Majefty, upon account, for defraying the expences attending general furveys of his Majefty's dominions in North America, for the year 1770. And

That provifion be made for the pay and cloathing of the militia, and for their fubfiftence during the time they shall be abfent from home, on account of the annual exer. cife, for the year 1770.

On the 27th, four bills paffed the House: The firft, for dividing, allotting, and inclofing the open fields, and commonable places, in the parish of Saddington, in the county of Leicester: The fecond, to continue and render more effectual an act of the 1st year of his late Majefty, for repairing feveral roads, in the counties of Dorfet and Devon, leading to and through the borough of Lime Regis, and for repairing the road, from the turnpike-road on Uplyme-hill, to the turnpike-road at the Three Afles, in the parish of Crewherne in the county of Somerfet; and other roads therein mentioned: The third, for amending the road from Aylesbury, in the county of Buckingham, through Thame and Little Milton, to the turnpike-road between Bensington and Shillingford, in the county of Oxford: And the fourth, for better regulating the navigation of the river front, from wilden Ferry, otherwife Cavendish Bridge, in the county of Derby, to Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln.

On the 28th, four bills paffed the House: The firft, for repairing and widening the road from Upton, in the parish of Ratley, to the north end of Bridge-street, in the town of Great Kington; and from thence to the Guide-poft at the town of WelbourneHaftings, in the county of Warwick: The fecond, to continue, amend, and render more effectual, the feveral acts now fubfitting, for repairing the road from Dunchurch to Stonebridge, in the county of Warwick: The third, for repairing, widening, and keeping in repair, the road from New Chapel, in the county of Surry, over Copthorne, in the county of Suflex, through Lindfield, to the town of Ditchling, up to the top of Ditchling-Bofthills, in the faid county of Suffex: And the fourth, to enlarge the term and powers of an act, made in the 31st year of the reign of his late Majefty, for repairing the road from Leeds to Sheffield, in the county of York, fo far as the fame relates to the road from Leeds to Wakefield.

The fame day, a motion was made, and, the question being put, th t an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, That he will be graciously pleafed to give directions, that there he laid before this Houfe an account of all the Civil-lift expences which were incurred, or became due, between the 5th day of January, 1769, and the 5th day of January, 1779, according to the efta,

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blishment and other appointments then in ufe, it paffed in the negative.

On the 1ft of March, two bills paffed the Houfe: The firft, for repairing the road, from the Bridge on the old river at Barton, to Brandon Bridge, in the county of Suffolk: And the second, for dividing and inclofing certain open fields and common paf tures, in the parish of Scawby, in the county of Lincoln.

The fame day, a petition of the coalheavers working on the river Thames was prefented to the House and read; fetting forth, That the petitioners have, for a number of years, laboured under the greatest hardships, through the cruel impositions of a fet of men who call themselves Coal-undertakers, who have obliged the petitioners to give them a very great part of what they earn, in order to obtain employment from them; by which means their wives and children have been reduced to starving; and, in cafe of fickness or death, the Undertakers have never contributed to their relief, but left them a burthen to the feveral parishes where they refide; and that these Coal-undertakers are, in their profeffion, an unnecellary body of men; and that the coaltrade can be better carried on without them, by an Office properly eftablished by Parliament; and therefore praying the House to take their cafe into confideration, and caufe an amendment to be made to an act of Parliament, paffed in the year 1758, for their relief and regulation; which act has been found to be deficient, and ineffectual to anfwer the purpofes of protecting the petitioners from the impofitions they labour under; and that fuch an amendment of the faid act may be made, as the Houfe fhall judge neceffary, to enable the petitioners to enjoy the fruits of their labour, without being impofed on by a fet of mercenary men, which, the petitioners prefume, has been the occafion of all the disturbances that have happened where the petitioners re de.-It was ordered that the faid petition be referred to the confideration of a Committee, to examine the matter thereof, and report the fame, as it should appear to them, to the Houfe; and a Committee was appointed accordingly, impowered to fend for perfons, papers, and records; and all were to have voices, who came to the Committee, to whom the faid petition was referred.

Afterwards it was refolved, That the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the 25th day of March, 1779, be defrayed out of the monies aning by the land-tax granted for the fervice of the year 1770.

It was alfo refolved, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, That he will be graciously pleafed to give directions, that there be laid before this Houfe an account of all monies iffued by any of his Majefty's Receivers or Collectors, or their a gents, for his Majefty's fecret and special fervice, from the 25th day of October, 1760, to the 25th day of October, 1768; diftinguishing each year. And

That an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, That he will be graciously pleafed to give directions, that there be laid

before this Houfe an account of all monies iffued by any of his late Majefty's Receivers or Collectors, or their agents, for his faid Majefty s fecret and special service, from the 25th day of October, 1752, to the 25th day of October, 1760; diftinguishing each

year.

On the 5th, four bills paffed the House: The firft, for dividing and inclofing an open common, or tract of ground, parcel of Mendip, in the parishes of Eaft-Cranmore and Weft-Cranmore, in the county of Somerfet: The second, for repairing and widening the road from Lewes to Brighthelmftone in the county of Suflex: The third, for dividing and inclofing the open commons, within the manor or lordship of Brampton, in the parifh of Longmarton, in the county of Weftmoreland: And the fourth, for repairing, widening, and keeping in repair, the road leading from the Eaton-bridge turnpike-road, at Cockhamhill, in the parith of Wefterham, in the county of Kent, through the village of Limpsfield, to the village of Titley, over Botley-hill, Wormheath, and Wallingham common, to the turnpike-road leading from Croydon to Godstone, in the county of Surry.

The fame day, two petitions were prefented to the Houfe and read: The first, of the Lord-mayor, Aldermen, and Commous of the City of London, in Common-council affembled; fetting forth, That the petitioners obferve, by the Votes, that the Commiffioners for putting in execution an act for paving the ftreets and lanes within the town and borough of Southwark have peti tioned for power to collect a small daily toll on carriages not used in trade, and on faddle hories; and to have the faid act, in fome other refpects, amended and explained; and that the Commiffioners for putting in execution the several acts for paving, cleanfing, and lighting the city and liberty of Weftminster, have petitioned for the like power to collect a finall daily toll, on every day in the weck, except Sundays, at the feveral gates or turnpikes mentioned in an act of

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the 5th of his prefent Majefty's reign, for collecting tolls on Sundays; and that the petitioners conceive the additional tolls, prayed for by the faid petitioners, will be a great burthen upon the public in general, and upon the inhabitants of this city and the liberties thereof in particular; and therefore praying the House, that they may be heard, by Council, against the faid petitions, and may receive fuch relief as the nature of their cafe may require, and to the Houfe fhall feem meet. -The faid petition was ordered to be referred to the confideration of the Committee, to whom the petition of the Commiffioners for putting in execution an act of Parliament made in the 6th year of his prefent Majefty, for paving the streets and lanes within the town and borough of Southwark, and certain parts adjacent, in the county of Surry; and for cleanfing, lighting, and watching the fame, &c. was referred; and that thefe petitioners be heard, by their Council, before the faid Committee, upon their petition, if they think fit.

The fecond, of William Bollan, fetting forth, that, in his prefent Majelty's reign, measures have been devifed, and laws made, for raising a revenue for feveral purposes out of American commerce; the natural aug. mentation whereof, thus prevented, would have caufed a continual growing confumption of British manufactures, with a conftant increase of British navigation, the fource of their naval power; would in circuit have inriched the King and kingdom far more by confent, than they could be by any compulfion; would have preferved in its former full ftrength that cordial union of the British fubjects refiding in Britain and the Colo. nies, which is apparently neceffary to their mutual and lafting welfare; and would, moreover, have augmented the abilities of the British Americans, and given fresh spirit to their laudable inclination to venture their lives and fortunes against the public enemies, when they shall renew their hoftilities, which, in point of difficulty and danger, may equal or exceed thofe that were in the late war fo happily furmounted, and which without question, though with uncertain pace, are daily approaching; and that, amongst other measures, even British manufactures have, contrary to the plaineft principle of commerce, been made the fubjects of taxation, when imported into the colonies; and that regulations of American commerce have been fubjected to military execution, fitter to extirpate, than to regulate, preferve, and increafe trade; and that offences, acculations, and litigations, relative to laws enacted touching the American trade and revenue,

have been fubjected to civil adjudication, incompatible with the English constitution, and pregnant with hardships exceeding all example; and that the King's caufing fuch monies to be applied, out of certain American revenues, as he fhall think proper or neceffary, for defraying the charges of administering justice, and fupporting civil government, within all or any of the Colonies, would be fuch a feizure of their immediate civil government into the King's hands, as would be attended with unspeakable difficulties and hardships; would fubvert, pro tanto, the proper conftitution of the Colonies, which are, in their nature, and by their inftitution, diftinct members of the Commonwealth established by the wisdom of former ages; and would be inconsistent with the charter granted to the province of Maffachufet's-bay by their late Majefties King William and Queen Mary; and that the junction of the Colonies, for the purpoles of civil government, is manifeftly repugnant to that ftanding policy of their feverance, whereby they have been fo well governed from the time of their exiftence; and that the application of monies raised in a Colony, which defrays all the proper and necellary charges of adminiftering justice and fupporting civil government there, to pay the charges of fuch adminiftration and fupport in any other Colony neglecting its duty in this behalf, would be a plain departure from the permanent principle of natural juftice; and that the new fyftem of defending, protecting, and fecuring the Coloni s, deviled and practifed by his Majesty's Minifters, is likewife improvident, oppreffive, and dangerous to the kingdom and the Colonies; and that, in confequence of the preceding and other Ministerial measures, the British manufactures, trade, and navigation, have been difcouraged, and British America reduced from a state of quiet, with chearful and profitable obedience, to a ftate of great ditress and dangerous infatisfaction; and that the errors and improvidence of Ministers, with the hoftile defigns and proceedings of France to undermine the British American dominion, trade, and fishery, brought on the late expensive and dangerous war; and British America is now, in confequence of the errors and improvidence of his Majesty's Minifters, brought into a ft te of invitation of foreign war; and therefore praying, that he may be heard before the Houfe, in order that he may defend the rights and intereft of the province aforefaid, and give fuch neceffary information as this or the late Parliament have not received; whereby, he hopes, the Houft will be, in fome degree, aflitted

in taking thofe falutary measures, which the profperity and fafety of the kingdom and the Colonies, at this interesting conjuncture, require. It was ordered, That the faid petition do lie upon the table.

Afterwards it was refolved, That the Prince's tenants, capable of being Portreeves of the borough of Fowey, in the county of Cornwall, are fuch tenants only as have been duly admitted upon the Court-rolls of the manor, and have done their fealty.

On the 6th, a bill paffed the House, to enable William Harwood, and his iffue, to take and ufe the furname and arms of Backwell, pursuant to the will of William Backwell, deceased.

The fame day, it was refolved, That it appears to this Houfe, that the poll, taken at the late election of a Knight of the Shire, to ferve in this prefent Parliament, for the county of Pembroke, was in many inftances fo irregularly taken, as to render it impof fible for this Houfe to afcertain which of the Candidates had the majority of legal votes; and that, therefore, the election is void.

On the 7th, fix bills paffed the Houfe: The firit, to enlarge the term and powers of an act of the 18th year of the reign of George II, for repairing the road from Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, through Elmdon, to a lane leading by the end of Stone-bridge, in the faid county: The fecond, for repairing and widening the road from Tunstall, in the county of Stafford, to Bolley, in the county of Chefter, and from Great Chell to Shelton in the faid county of Stafford: The third, for dividing and inclofing certain open and common fields, common paftures, common meadows, and commonable grounds, in the parish of Blackbourton, in the county of Oxford: The fourth, for amending and widening the road from St. Benedict's Gate, in the county and city of Norwich, to Swaffham, in the county of Norfolk; and from Halfpenny Bridge, in Honingham, to the bounds of Yaxham; and alfo a lane called Hangman's-lane, near the Gates of the faid city: The fifth, for amending and widening the road from St. Stephen's Gate, in the county of the city of Norwich, to the Windmill, in the town of Walton, in the county of Norfolk: And the fixth, for enlarging the term and powers of an act, for amending the road from Chriftopher's Bridge, in the borough of Thetford in the county of Suf

folk, to the north-east end of the town of Newmarket, in the county of Cambridge.

The fame day, Mr. Charles Townfhend reported from the Committee of the whole House, to whom it was referred to confider of the prefent ftate of the corn-trade, the following refolution, which the Committee had directed him to report to the House, viz.

That it is the opinion of this Committee, That it is expedient, at this time, to permit the exportation of malt.

A motion was made, and, the question being put, That the faid refolution be recommitted, it paffed in the negative. Then the faid refolution, being read a fecond time, was agreed to by the Houfe, and a bill was ordered to be brought in, pursuant to the faid refolution.

On the 8th, two bills paffed the House: The firft, to continue two acts of the 3d and 17th years of the reign of King George the Second, for repairing the road leading from Galley Corner, adjoining to Endfieldchace, in the parish of South Mims, in the county of Middlesex, to Lemsford Mill, in the county of Hertford: And the fecond, for dividing and inclofing a certain common or wafte ground, called Derby-hills, in the county of Derby, parcel of the manor of Caftle-Donington, in the counties of Leicefter and Derby.

On the 9th, four bills paffed the Houfe: The firft, for enabling his Majesty to grant the inheritance in fee-fimple of the manor of Cofham, in the county of Wilts, with the rights, members, and appurtenances thereof, now held under a demife by letters patent under the feal of his Majefty's Court of Exchequer, in truft for Paul Methuen, Efq; unto the faid Paul Methuen and his heirs, upon a full and adequate confideration to be paid for the fame: The second, for amending the road, from Wellsbourn-Mountfort, to Stratford upon Avon, in the county of Warwick: The third, to enlarge the term and powers of an act, made in the 20th year of his late Majefty, for repairing the road from Cirencefter, in the county of Gloucefter, to Birdlip-hill, in the faid county: And the fourth, for dividing and inclofing feveral common fields and commonable lands, within the parifh of Bulkington, in the county of Warwick; and an amendment was made by the Houfe to the bill.. [To be continued.]

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