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Then the Lord Chancellor faid,

"In Obedience to His Majefty's Commands, and by "virtue of the Commiffion which has been now read, "we do declare and notify to you, the Lords Spiritual "and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament affem"bled, That His Majefty hath given His Royal Affent "to the feveral Acts in the Commiffion mentioned; and "the Clerks are required to pafs the fame in the ufual "Form and Words.'

Then the Clerk Affistant, having received the Money Bill from the Hands of the Speaker, brought it to the Table, where the Deputy Clerk of the Crown read the Title of that, and the other Bills to be paffed, feverally, as follow; (videlicet)

1. "An Act for enabling His Majesty to raise the "Sum of Three Millions, for the Service of Great "Britain."

To this Bill the Royal Affent was pronounced, by the Clerk Affiftant, in thefe Words, (videlicet)

"Le Roy remercie fes bons Sujets, accepté leur "Benevolence, et ainfi le veult."

2. "An Act to amend feveral Acts, made in the "Parliament of Ireland, for granting Life Annuities "with Benefit of Survivorship.'

3. "An Act to rectify a Mistake in an Act, made in "this Seffion of Parliament, for continuing and making "perpetual feveral Duties of One Shilling and Sixpence on Offices and Employments."

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4. "An Act to continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day " of March One thoufand eight hundred and ten, an "Act of this prefent Seffion of Parliament, to fufpend "the Importation of British or Irish-made Spirits into "Great Britain or Ireland refpectively."

5. "An Act to continue, until the Twenty-fifth Day "of March One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, "an Act of the Forty-fifth Year of His prefent Majefty, "for appointing Commiffioners to enquire into the "Public Expenditure, and the Conduct of the Public "Bufinefs, in the Military Departments therein men❝tioned."

6. "An Act to amend an Act, paffed in the Forty"fourth Year of His prefent Majefty, to provide for the "Defence of the Realm, with respect to the Purchase "of Lands and Hereditaments for the Public Service." 7. "An Act for better regulating the Office of Agent "General for Volunteers and Local Militia."

8. "An Act to amend the feveral Acts, for fecuring "the Collection of the Duties on Auctions in Ireland."

9. "An Act to amend an Act, made in the last Sef"fion of Parliament, for making Provifion for the "building and rebuilding of Churches, Chapels, and "Glebe Houfes in Ireland."

10. "An Act to amend the feveral Acts, for the "regulating and fecuring the Collection of the Duties "on Spirits diftilled in Ireland, and for the regulating "the Sale of fuch Liquors by Retail."

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11. "An Act to regulate the Fees payable by Per"fons charged with Treafon, Felony, and all other "Offences, at Affizes and Quarter Seffions in Ireland;

18. "An Act for altering and enlarging the Term "and Powers of Three Acts, made in the Forty-fecond, "Forty-fourth, and Forty-fixth Years of the Reign of "His prefent Majefty, for making, maintaining, watching, lighting, and watering feveral Roads to commu"nicate with the West India Docks, in the Ile of Dogs, "and the East India Docks at Blackwall, both in the "County of Middlefex; and also of feveral Acts, for

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repairing the Cannon Street Road, in the faid County; "and alfo for making, maintaining, watching, lighting, "and watering a new Road from the faid Road, com"municating with the Eaft India Docks, to Barking, " in the County of Effex; and for enlarging the Powers "of an Act, paffed in the Forty-eighth Year of the

Reign of His prefent Majefty, for making and main"taining a Road from the Romford and Whitechapel "Road, to or near to Tilbury Fort, in the County of Effex."

19. "An Act for continuing the Term and enlarging "the Powers of Two Acts, of the Sixth and Twenty"eighth Years of His prefent Majefty, for repairing "feveral Roads leading to the Town of Dartford, in "the County of Kent.'

To thefe Bills the Royal Affent was pronounced, feverally, by the Clerk Affiftant, in thefe Words, (videlicet)

"Le Roy le veult."

20. "An Act for extending and enlarging the Powers or Authorities given by an Act, paffed in the Thirty"feventh Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, "intituled, "An Act for the Enfranchisement of Copy"hold and Customary Lands, Parcel of the Manor of "Arundel, and other Manors entailed by the Act of "Parliament of the Third of Charles the First; and for "the Sale of Tythes, alfo entailed by the faid Act."

21. "An Act to empower the Truftees under the "Will of the Right Honourable Edward late Lord "Thurlow, to grant in Fee upon Fee Farm Rents, or "for long Terms of Years, certain Estates by the fame "Will devised in Truft for Sale; and to pull down the "Mansion House, called Knight's Hill; and to make "Roads; and to enfranchise Copyholds, and for other Purposes."

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22." An Act for vefting an Eftate, in the County of "Lincoln, devised by the Will of Francis Lord Le Defpencer, in Trustees, upon Trust, to fell the fame, "and with the Money arifing therefrom to discharge the "Incumbrances

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"Incumbrances thereupon, and to lay out the Surplus "in the Purchase of other Estates, to be fettled to the "fame Ufes."

23. "An A&t for effecting the Sale of certain Estates, "devised by the Will of Henry Partridge Efquire, de"ceafed; and for laying out the Money to arife by fuch "Sales in the Purchase of other Eftates; and for set"tling the fame to the like Ufes."

24. "An A&t for vefting certain detached Parts of the "Estates devised or limited to ftrict Uses by the Will "of the Right Honourable William late Lord Craven, "deceased, 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 difcharge of "an Incumbrance fubfifting thereon; and for laying ❝out the Refidue of fuch Monies in the Purchase of "other Estates, to be fettled to the fame Ufes."

25. "An Act for vefting certain Estates, 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 Incumbrance upon fuch Eftates, and other"wife, under the Directions of the High Court of "Chancery."

26. "An Act for uniting the Rectory and Parish "Church of Stanmer, in the County of Suffex, with the adjoining Vicarage and Parish Church of Falmer; and "allo for exchanging the Parfonage House and Glebe "Land of Stanmer, and the Vicarage Houfe of Falmer, "for a Piece of Land at Falmer, Part of the settled "Eftates of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Chichester, and for a new Parfonage Houfe to be built "thereon, at the Expence of the faid Earl."

27. "An Act for effectuating a Partition, directed "by the Court of Chancery, of certain Fee Farm "and Annual Rents arifing and iffuing within the "Counties of Effex and Huntingdon, and of divers Mef"fuages, Parcels of Ground, and Hereditaments, fituate "in the Parish of Saint Matthew Bethnal Green, in the "County of Middlefex, devised by the Will of Henry "Bufby Efquire, deceased; and aifo for enabling the "Trustees, or Perfons in Poffeffion as Tenants for Life "of certain of the Premises, to grant Building Leases; "and for other Purposes."

28. "An Act to enable the Company of Armorers "and Brafiers, in the City of London, to fell and con"vey to the Governor and Company of the Bank of "England feveral Lands and Tenements in the Parish "of Saint Olave Jewry, London, formerly of Dame "Elizabeth Morrys, difcharged from the Trufts for "charitable Purposes affecting the fame, by virtue of "the Will of the faid Dame Elizabeth Morrys, and to "fubject other Lands and Tenements of the faid Company of Armorers and Brafiers to the like Trufts." 29." An Act for enclofing Lands in the Parish of "Sharnbrook, in the County of Bedford."

30. "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Township "of Helperby, in the Parish of Brafferton, in the North Riding of the County of York."

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31. "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Parish of Wilfbampftead, in the County of Bedford."

To thefe Bills the Royal Affent was pronounced, feverally, by the Clerk Affiftant, in thefe Words; (videlicet)

"Soit fait comme il eft defiré."

Then the Commons withdrew.

The House was adjourned during Pleasure.
The House was refumed.

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t for "the better Government of the Watermen working on "the Paffage between Gofport, Portsmouth, and Portfea, "and other Places within Portsmouth Harbour, and to "and from Spithead, Saint Helens, and other Parts "within the Ile of Wight, in the County of Southampton, "and to and from certain Places in the said Island, and "for regulating the Fares of fuch Watermen."

VOL. XLVII.

Bill;

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act to Northumber "enable His Majefty to grant the Moot Hall, Grand land Justices "Jury Room, and certain Grounds and Buildings ad. "joining thereto, in the Castle Garth, within the Scite of "the Old Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the Juftices "of the Peace in the County of Northumberland; for building Courts of Juftice, and alfo a Gaol for the "faid County; and for other Purposes therein men "tioned, relating thereto."

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

It was refolved in the Affimative.

Parliament, Independence of, Bill.

Proteft against the Houfe being put into a Committee

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ported:

Deptford, &c. The Lord Walfingham reported from the Lords Com. Water Bill, mittees appointed to confider of the Bill, intituled, " An Specially re"A&t for supplying with Water the Inhabitants of Dept"ford, Greenwich, and feveral other Parishes and Places, "in the Counties of Kent and Surrey :" " That the "Committee had met and confidered the faid Bill, and "proceeded in the first Place to examine whether the "Standing Orders relative to Aqueducts had been complied with, and found, that with refpect to the First "and Second Standing Orders, that Notices were given "in the London Gazette and County Papers, in the "Months of Auguft and September laft of the intended Application to Parliament for the prefent Bill: That "these Notices contain the Names of all the Parishes, "Townships, and Places, through which it was pro"pofed in the Bill which was referred to the Commit"tee to extend the Pipes, except the Hundreds of "Blackheath and Little and Lefs Nefs, which made a "Part of the Bill when the Houfe fo referred it to the "Committee, but were not contained in the Notice: "The Notices alfo contain the Names of other Parishes, " videlicet, Saint Luke, Charlton, Saint Mary Woolwich, "and Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, through which "it was not proposed in the Bill referred to the Com"mittee that the Pipes fhould pafs: The Committee "had taken out of the Bill, firit the Parish of Plumstead, "because the Parish of Woolwich being now particularly "and by Name excluded in the Bill, the Parish of "Plumstead cannot be approached, and therefore the "Infertion of it is altogether needlefs: The Committee "had next taken out the Words following; namely, ""The Hundred of Blackheath;" because this Hun"dred is a diftin&t Hundred, made no Part of the ori"ginal Notice, and because it cannot, as the Committee "conceive, be admitted by this Description under the

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"Orders of the House, as the Hundred of Blackheath "Eltham, the Liberty of Kidbrook, the Hamlet of Not" contains the Townships of Charlton, the Parish of "tingham, and the Town of Woolwich, which make no "Part of the Bill, and which must have been parti ❝cularly defcribed in the Order, if they had made a "Part of the Bill; and it would include Woolwich though fpecially excepted in the Bill: The Committee had also "taken out the Hundred of Little and Lefs Nefs, be "cause it made no Part of the original Notice, and "because it contains the Village of Crayford, the Townfhip of Erith, and the Township of Wickham Eaft; "neither of which were or are propofed to be included " in the Bill: That with refpect to the Third Standing "Order, the Committee observe, that the Map which "has been depofited with the Clerk of the Parliaments " contains all the Parishes and Townships through which "the intended Line is to pafs, except a Part of the Pa"rifh of Bermondsey; but the Township of Plumstead "is not laid down in the engraved Map which is an"nexed to the Bill. That with refpect to the Fourth Standing Order, the Committee observe, that Appli"cation was made to the Owners and Occupiers whose "Lands lie contiguous to the Lines laid down in the Map; they confift of Three Perfons only, all of whom "affent to the Bill, but none of the Lines touch their "Premises; but the Lines or Pipes go altogether along "certain Turnpike Roads. With refpect to the Fifth 66 Standing Order, it appeared to the Committee, that as to a Power to deviate, which is proposed by the "Bill, of not more than Fifteen Yards of Three Feet "each on each Side of the Roads, that no Notice had "been given to the Proprietors on either Side of those "Lines; but as the Company of Proprietors defire not "to have a Power to make any Deviation, no Deviation "being deemed by them to be neceffary for the Pur

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pofe of carrying this A&t into Execution, they defired "the Committee to take out that Part of the Clause, " which Propofition the Committee fubmit to the Deci"fion of the House to do therein as they shall think fit; "and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, "and directed him to report the fame to their Lordfhips, with several Amendments."

Which Report, being read by the Clerk, was agreed to by the House.

Then the Amendments made by the Committee to the faid Bill were read by the Clerk, as follow; (videlicet) "Pr. 1. L. 5 & 6. Leave out (" Saint Nicholas Plum ftead")

Colonel de Charmilly, Account of Allowance to, delivered.

Adjourn.

"found to be true; and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, and made feveral Amendments "thereto."

Which Amendments were read by the Clerk, as follow; (videlicet)

"Pr. 75. L. 37. Leave out ("fuch") and infert ("fome") Pr. 79: L. 37. After ("Bridge") infert ("within "the Limits herein-before mentioned and specified") "Pr. 84. L. 38. After ( Act") infert Claufe (A.) "Claufe (A.)" Provided always, and be it further "enacted, That nothing in this Act contained fhall ex"tend, or be conftrued to extend, to authorize or em. power the faid Company of Proprietors to take any "Lands, Grounds, Houfes, Tenements, or Premifes, for "the Purposes of this Act, or to proceed with the "Works herein authorized to be made, until a fuffi. "cient Number of Subfcribers fhall have been obtained, "who will undertake to raise the Sum of Three hun dred thoufand Pounds; fuch Subfcriptions to be "proved to the Satisfaction of His Majefty's Juftices of "the Peace, affembled at Quarter Seffions of the Peace "for the Counties of Middlefex and Surrey, and to be "fubject to all the Provifoes and Enactments herein "contained, in refpect of any other fuch Sum or Sums "of Money mentioned in this A&.

"Pr. 112. L. 3 & 4. Leave out (" in the Liberty of "the Savoy")

"Pr. 202. L. 19. After (" mentioned ") infert "(" and in cafe of any Difference")."

And the faid Amendments, being read a Second Time, were agreed to by the House.

The Earl of Liverpool laid before the Houfe, pursuant to an Addrefs to His Majefty of Thursday the 1ft Day of this Inftant June;

"An Account of any Allowance, by way of Gift or "Emolument, at any Time paid to Colonel De Char"milly, fo far as relates to the Army Pay Office." And the Title thereof, being read by the Clerk; ORDERED, That the faid Account do lie on the Table.

by Edward Westley Esquire, his Guardian, was this Day brought in.

tion the Caufe, wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and Causes. The House proceeded to take into further Confidera Roxburghe others are Appellants, and Sir James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and James Horne are Refpondents; and alfo, the Cause wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and others are Appellants, and Brigadier General Walter Ker and Richard Hotchkis are Refpondents, which were fully heard on the 20th of May 1808; and aifo, the Caufe wherein Walter Ker and Richard Hotchkis are Appellants, and Sir James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and others are Refpondents; alfo, the Crofs Caufe wherein Sir James Norcliffe Innes Ker Baronet and James Horne are Appellants, and Brigadier General Walter Ker and others are Refpondents; alfo, the Caufe wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and others are Appellants, and Sir James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and others are Refpondents; and alfo, the Cross Caufe wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and others are Appellants, and James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and others are Refpondents, which were fully heard on the 17th of June 1808.

Archiep. Cantuar. Epus. Roffen.

Meade against E. Bandon.

fuerunt:

PRAYERS.

Ds. Dutton.

Ds. Boston.

Ds. Harrowby.

Ds. Walfingham.

Ds. Boringdon.
Ds. Heathfield.

Ds. Douglas of Lochleven.

Ds. Bolton.

The Answer of the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Banden, to the Appeal of William Meade an Infant,

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act to Local Militia "prevent the enlifting of Local Militia Men into the Enliftment Regular Militia of any other County or Stewartry than Bill: "the County or Stewartry to which they belong." The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall "pass?"

It was refolved in the Affirmative,

A Meffage was fent to the Houfe of Commons, by the Meffage to former Meffengers:

To carry down the faid Bill, and defire their Concurrence thereto.

H.C. with it.

ORDERED,