Kinfale Police Bill.

Craven's Bill,

Report:

ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to the Confideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on fame Day at the fame Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Hodie 2a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, “ An Act for regulating the Police of the Town and Liberties of "Kinfale, and for the Regulation and Improvement of "the Port and Harbour of the faid Town, and of the "Fisheries thereof, and for other Purposes therein men❝tioned."

ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to the Confideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on the fame Day, at the fame Place; and to adjourn as they please.

Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t for 66 vesting certain detached Parts of the Estates devised or "limited to ftri&t Ufes by the Will of the Right Ho"nourableWilliam late Lord Craven deceafed, and fituate "in the County of Gloucester, in Trustees to be fold; "and for applying Part of the Monies arifing from the "Sale thereof, in Discharge of an Incumbrance fubsist"ing thereon; and for laying out the Refidue of fuch. "Monies in the Purchase of other Eftates, to be fettled "to the fame Ufes."

ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to the Confideration of the Lords Committees aforenamed:

Their Lordships, or any Five of them, to meet on Wednesday the 24th Day of this inftant May, at the ufual Time and Place; and to adjourn as please.

Hodgkin's Upon reading the Petition of Anne Hodgkins Widow, Petition to on Behalf of herself and Sarah Hodgkins and Ann Hodgreceive Judges kins her Infant Children, fetting forth, "That on the "First Day of March laft, the Petitioner presented a "Petition to their Lordships, praying Leave to bring in "a Private Bill for the Purpofes therein mentioned, "which was referred to the Confideration of the Lord "Chief Juftice of the Court of Common Pleas, and "Mr. Juftice Bayley: That the Petitioner could not "proceed before the Judges until the had obtained the "Report of One of the Mafters of the High Court of "Chancery, refpecting the Application and the Con"firmation thereof by the faid Court, which Confir"mation was not obtained until the Ninth Day of "March last, when the Judges were upon their Circuit : "That both the faid Judges did not return to Town "till on or about the Eighteenth Day of April laft, "and the Petitioners' Agent then applied to them for an Appointment; but the faid Judges having been very "much occupied fince the Commencement of Eafter "Term, on the Ninteenth Day of April laft, and it "being neceffary to attend the faid Judges feveral Times "on the faid Reference, the Petitioners Agent was "not able to procure their Report till the Sixth Day "of May instant: And therefore praying, That, in Con"fideration of the Circumftances before mentioned, "their Lordships will be pleafed to receive the Report "of the Judges on her faid Petition, although the Time "limited for receiving Reports from the Judges on Peti❝tions for Private Bills is expired:"

Hodgkins

Leave for a Bill:

It is ORDERED, That Leave be given to bring in a Bill, purfuant to the said Petition and Report.

Hodie 'vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act for Bill read. vesting certain Eftates, late of Thomas Hodgkins "Efquire, lying in the refpective Parishes of Walfall "and Aldridge, in the County of Stafford, in Trustees, "in Truft to fell the fame, and apply the Purchase "Monies arifing therefrom in paying off an Incum"brance upon fuch Estates, and otherwife, under the "Directions of the High Court of Chancery."

The Lord Walfingham reported from the Lords Com- Allerton Enmittees, to whom the Bill, intituled, " An Act for en- clofure Bill. "clofing Lands in the Manor and Township of Allerton, "in the North Riding of the County of York," was committed: "That they had confidered the said Bill, "and examined the Allegations thereof, which were "found to be true; that the Parties concerned had "given their Confents, to the Satisfaction of the Com"mittee; and that the Committee had gone through "the Bill, and directed him to report the fame to the "Houfe, without any Amendment."

The Lord Walfingham made the like Report from the Glenfield FnLords Committees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act closure Bill, "for enclofing Lands in Glenfield, in the County of "Leicester," was committed.

ORDERED, That the Sitting of the Committee to Partridge's whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for effecting the Bill. "Sale of certain Eftates devifed by the Will of Henry

Accordingly, After reading and confidering the Report of the Judges to whom was referred the Petition of Anne Hodgkins Widow, and others, praying Leave to bring in a Private Bill, for the Purposes therein mentioned;

The Order of the Day being read for taking into Confideration His Majefty's most gracious Meffage of Yefterday; and for the Lords to be fummoned:

The faid Meffage was read by the Clerk.

ORDERED, That an humble Addrefs be prefented to His Majefty, "To return His Majesty the Thanks of this "Houfe, for His Majefty's moft gracious Meffage, acquainting this House, That His Majefty's Ally, the "Prince Regent of Portugal, has requested His Majefty's "Affiftance for the raising a Loan of Six hundred thou "fand Pounds in this Country, for the Service of His "Royal Highnefs; the Produce of the faid Loan to be

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applied in Part to the Liquidation of certain Advances "made by His Majefty to His Royal Highnefs at the "Period of His Royal Highness's Emigration to the "Brazils, and for Services connected with His Royal "Highnefs's Eftablishment in that Country: To offer "to His Majefty our fincere Acknowledgments for His "Condefcenfion and Goodness in communicating to this "House, that a Convention has been entered into "between His Majefty and the Prince Regent, by which "the latter pledges the Revenue of the Ifland of Ma"deira, and other Funds, as Security for the regular "Payment of the Interest and the gradual Discharge of "the Principal of the faid Loan; and that it is His "Majefty's gracious Intention to lay a Copy of the faid "Convention before this Houfe, when the Ratifications "thereof fhall have been exchanged: And to affure His "Majefty, that this Houfe will concur in fuch Measures as "may be neceffary for enabling His Majefty to fulfil the "Engagements which His Majefty has contracted with "His Ally."

ORDERED, That the faid Addrefs be prefented to His Majesty by the Lords with White Staves.

Upon reading the Petition of the principal Inhabitants of Saddleworth, and the Township of Quick, in the Weft Riding of the County of York, on Behalf of themselves and the Public at large, Plaintiffs in a Writ of Error depending in this Houfe, to which the King is Defendant; fetting forth, "That an Indictment for a Nuifance in not repairing certain Parts " of the King's Highway, for Carriages leading from "Huddersfield in the faid Riding to Manchester, in "the County of Lancaster, and lying in the faid "Township of Quick, and next adjoining to the West "End of a public Bridge called Tamerater Bridge, "within the Distance of Three hundred Feet on each "Side thereof, was, at the Yorkshire Aflizes in March "1802, preferred against the Inhabitants of the Weft

Riding of the County of York, on the Profecution "of Robert Buckley, to which Indictment the Inha"bitants of the faid Riding pleaded Not Guilty, and "Iffue being joined thereon, the fame came on to be "tried at the Yorkshire Affizes in July 1803, when the Jury impannelled for the Trial of the fame, returned "a fpecial Verdict, fubject to the Opinion of the "Court of King's Bench: That the Records and Pro"ceedings aforefaid were removed by Certiorari into "the Court of King's Bench, and the fame came on

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gument before their Lordships in Parliament, and "was fo during all the laft Seffion of Parliament: "That there has nothing been done towards repairing "the faid Highway for the laft Seven Years, from "the Time when the faid Indictment was preferred "as aforefaid; That the faid Highway is much more "ruinous, in Decay, and out of Repair, than the fame. "was at the Time of preferring the faid Indictment, "and the Approaches at the Eafterly End of the faid "Bridge being rendered very dangerous, on account "of the Highway next adjoining thereto, having been

confiderably raifed and very flightly guarded, by "reafon whereof the Petitioners and others travelling "the faid Highway are put in Danger of their Lives "and to great Inconvenience; and therefore praying "their Lordthips, That an early Day may be appointed "for the Hearing of Arguments on the faid Writ of

Bill.

The Houfe (according to Order) was adjourned dur- Nova Scotia, ing Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, &c. Trade intituled, "An Act to authorize His Majefty to permit "until the Twenty-fifth Day of March One thoufand "eight hundred and twelve, any Goods and Commodi"ties to be imported into and exported from Nova "Scotia and New Brunswick, in any Ship or Veffel "whatsoever."

After fome Time, the House was resumed :

And the Lord Walfingham reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and "directed him to report the fame to the Houfe, without any Amendment."

ORDERED, That the faid Bill be printed.

Upon Reading the Petition of the Reverend Peter Zouche PeerDebary, Rector of Eversley, in Hampshire; fetting age, Petition livery of an forth, "That in the Profecution of the Claim to the for Re-deBarony of Zouche, the original Registry of the original "Parish of Eversley was produced to the Committee Registry. "for Privileges by the Reverend Charles Robert Marfhall, the officiating Minifter: That the Matter of the "faid Claim being now decided, the Petitioner is de"firous of having the faid original Registry returned; " and therefore praying, That their Lordships will be pleafed to order that the faid original Regiftry may "be returned to the Petitioner :"

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It is ORDERED, That the faid original Registry be returned to the Petitioner, as defired.

ORDERED, That the Bill, intituled, "An Act to Baftardy "explain and amend the Law of Baftardy, fo far as re- Law Amend "lates to indemnifying Parishes in refpect thereof," be ment Bill. read a Second Time To-morrow.

Dominus

Frank against Franks.

King's Anfwer to Addrefs.

North Creake
Enclosure
Bill.

King's Cliffe Enclosure Bill.

Margate Pier, &e. Bill.

Ds. Eldon, Cancel-
larius.
Comes Camden,
Præfes.
Comes Weftmorland,
C. P. S.

Dux Norfolk, Marefcallus.

Comes Aylesford,
Senefcallus.

Comes Pembroke &

Montgomery.

Comes Sandwich.
Comes Berkeley.
Comes Balcarres.
Comes Stanhope.
Comes Graham.
Comes Fitzwilliam.
Comes Hardwicke.

Comes Bathurf.
Comes Mount Edg-

cumbe.

Comes Liverpool. Comes Londonderry. Comes Clancarty. PRAYERS.

Ds. Byron.

Ds. Dutton.

Ds. Bofton.

Ds. Harrowby.
Ds. Walfingham.
Ds. Eliot.

Ds. Douglas of Loch

leven.
Ds. Rolle.
Ds. Carrington.
Ds. Seaforth.

Ds. Keith.

After hearing Counsel in Part of the Cause, wherein William Daniel Arthur Frank is Appellant, and James Frank and William Frank are Refpondents:

It is ORDERED, That the further Hearing of the faid Cause be put off to Friday next; and that Counsel be called in at Half paft Two o'Clock.

The Lord Steward reported, "That the Lords with "White Staves had (according to Order) waited on His Majefty with their Lordships Address of Yesterday; " and that His Majefty was pleased to receive the fame. very graciously."

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A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Wye Towing by Mr. Symonds and others:

With a Bill, intituled, " An Act for amending seve"ral Acts for making navigable the Rivers Wye and "Lugg, in the County of Hereford, and for making a "Horse Towing Path on certain Parts of the Banks of "the faid River Wye;" to which they defire the Concurrence of his House.

The faid Five Bills were, feverally, read the First Time.

Path Bill.

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Friendly So. by Mr. Wharton and others : cities (Ireland) Bill.

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to explain and "render more effectual an A&t paffed in the Parliament "of Ireland, in the Thirty-fixth Year of His present "Majefty's Reign, for the Encouragement and Relief "of Friendly Societies;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

The faid Bill was read the First Time.
ORDERED, That the faid Bill be printed.

A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, Minera Enby Mr. Wharton and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act to repeal fo much "of an Act paffed in the Forty-eighth Year of His "prefent Majefty, for enclofing Waffes in the Township "of Minera, in the County of Denbigh, as fubjects the "Owners of certain Mines there to Damages for work"ing the fame, and as authorizes any Perfon to get "Stones from any Mines of Stone in the faid Wastes;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this Houfe.

clofure Bill..

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Norwich by Mr. Chute and others : Bridge Bill.

With a Bill, intituled, " An A&t for building a Bridge "over the River Wenfum, between the Site where the "Gates called King Street Gates formerly stood, and "Carrow Abbey, to the Hamlet of Thorpe, in the County "of the City of Norwich;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Bledlow En

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for enclosing "Lands in the Parish of Bledlow, in the County of Buckingham;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

closure Bill.

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Weft Wellow by the Earl Temple and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for enclofing Lands "in the Parish of Weft Wellow, in theCounty of Wilts;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

Enclosure Bill.

Referred to Judges.

North Duf

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir James Graham and others:

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for the Application "of the Purchase Money of certain Lands, taken from "the Poffeffions of the See of Winchester, under the "Provifions of an Act of the Forty-fixth Year of His "pretent Majefty, intituled, "An Act for vefting certain Meffuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments in "Trustees for better fecuring His Majefty's Docks, "Ships, and Stores at Portsmouth, and for extending "the Works and Lines at Dover;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

The faid Bill was read the First Time.

;

ORDERED, That the Confideration of the faid Bill be, and is hereby referred to the Lord Chief Juftice of the Court of Common Pleas and Mr. Justice Lawrence, who are forthwith to fummon all Parties concerned therein and after hearing them, and perufing a Copy of the Bill, attefted by the Clerk of the Parliaments, are to report to the House the State of the Cafe, with their Opinion thereupon, under their Hands.

A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, field Enclo- by Mr. Charles Dundas and others:

fure Bill.

Skelton En

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for enclosing Lands "in the Township of North Duffield, in the Parish of "Skipwith, in the East Riding of the County of York;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, clofure Bill. by Sir James Graham and others :

With a Bill, intituled, "An Act for enclosing Lands "in the Township of Skelton, in the Parish of Howden, "in the East Riding of the County of York;" to which they defire the Concurrence of this House.

Portbury En- A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, closure Bill. by Sir James Graham and others:

Stokintinhead Enclofure Bill.

Illington En

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A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Anne Campby Mr. Abercromby and others:

To return the Bill, intituled, " An Act for empow"ering the Judges of the Court of Seffion in Scotland "to fell certain Parts and Portions of the entailed "Eftate of Lochlane, fituated in the County of Perth, "which belonged to, and was entailed by, the late Anne "Campbell otherwife Menzies, of Fairntoun, fufficient "for Payment of her Debts, and to raise a Sum for the "Purchase of other Lands and Hereditaments contiguous to and convenient for the faid entailed Estate, to "be entailed in the like Manner, in lieu of the Parts and "Portions fold;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to the fame, without any Amendment.

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bell's Eftate Bill.

Hodie 3a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act for Glenfield Enenclofing Lands in Glenfield, in the County of Lei- clofure Bill: cefter."

The Question was put," Whether this Bill fhall
"pafs ?"

It was refolved in the Affirmative.

And Meffages were, feverally, fent to the Houfe of Commons, by Mr. Stanley and Mr. Cox :

To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the faid Bills, without any Amendment.

H. C. that Meffages to

the Lords

have agreed

to the Four preceding Bills.