Meade againft E. Bandon. Jofeph against Shuters: Writ of Error Non.pros'd with Cofts. Catholic Freeholds (Ireland) Bill, Third Reading put off for Three Months. Stafford Evidence to be printed. Groome againft Penfold. Adjourn. ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House. IE Sabbati, 17° Junii 1809. DID ORDERED, That the House be put into a Committee Domini tam Spirituales quam Temporales præfentes upon the faid Bill To-morrow. The House being moved, "That a Day may be appointed for hearing the Caufe, wherein Robert William "Meade is Appellant, and Francis Earl of Bandon is Refpondent:" It is ORDERED, That this Houfe will hear the faid Epus. Roffen. PRAYERS. fuerunt: Ds. Eldon, Cancella- Ds. Walfingham. rius. The House (according to Order) was adjourned dur- Judges Sala Caufe, by Counsel at the Bar, on the firft vacant Daying Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, ries Bill. for Caufes after thofe already appointed. Upon reading the Petition of Thomas Allen Shuter, John Allen Shuter, and Edward Shuter, Executors of the laft Will and Teftament of Thomas Allen Efquire, deceased, Defendants in a Writ of Error depending in this House, wherein Abraham Jofeph is Plaintiff; fetting forth, "That the Plaintiff in Error hath not affigned "Errors within the Time limited by their Lordships "Order; and therefore praying their Lordships, That "the faid Writ of Error may be Non-pros'd, with fuch "Cofts as to their Lordships fhall feem meet :" It is ORDERED, That the Petitioners do forthwith enter a Non-pros on the faid Writ of Error, as defired; and that the Record be remitted to the Court of King's Bench, to the end Execution may be had upon the Judgment given by that Court, as if no fuch Writ of Error had been brought into this House; and further, that the Plaintiff in Error do pay, or caufe to be paid, to the Defendants in Error, the Sum of Forty Pounds for their Cofts, by reafon of the Delay of the Execution of the faid Judgment. It was moved, "That the Bill, intituled, "An Act "to quiet the Freehold Titles and Poffeffions of Papifts, "or Perfons profeffing the Popish or Roman Catholic "Religion, in Ireland, who have omitted to take and "fubfcribe the Oath and Declaration mentioned in an "Act, paffed in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Year "of His Majefty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to en"able His Majesty's Subjects, of whatever Persuasion, "to teftify their Allegiance to Him," and for other Pur"pofes relating thereto," be now read the Third "Time." The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That Oldham, &c. "His Majefty having been informed of the Contents of Small Debts "the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the more easy and Bill, King's fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts within the feveral fignified: Townships of Oldham, Chadderton, Royton, and Cromp"ton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster," was pleased "to confent, (as far as His Majefty's Intereft is con"cerned), That their Lordships may proceed therein as "they fhall think fit." The Lord Walfingham reported from the Lords Com- Bill reported. mittees, to whom the Bill, intituled, "An Act for "the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts "within the feveral Townships of Oldham, Chadderton, Royton, and Crompton, in the County Palatine of Lan"cafter," was committed: "That they had confidered "the faid Bill, and examined the Allegations thereof, "which were found to be true; and that the Com"mittee had gone through the Bill, and directed him to report the fame to the Houfe, without any Amend-, "ment." ORDERED, That the faid Bill be read the Third Time Third Readon this Day Three Months. ing put off for Three Months. ORDERED, That the faid Bill be read the Third Time intituled, An Act to enable the Company of Proprie- Leeds and ORDERED, That the Committee to whom the Bill, on this Day Three Months. Liverpool "tors of the Canal Navigation from Leeds to Liverpool, Canni Bill. to make a navigable Cut, and alfo a Collateral Branch "or Railway in Manner therein mentioned, and to borrow Money for those Purposes, and for completing "their Works, and otherwise enlarging the Powers "granted by the feveral Acts for making the faid Canal," ftands committed, do make their Report on Monday next. ORDERED, That the Evidence taken before the Committee for Privileges, to whom is referred the Petition of Sir William Jerningham Baronet to His Majefty, claiming the Two Baronies of Stafford, be printed. ORDERED, That the further Hearing of the Caufe, wherein Thomas Groome is Appellant, and John Penfold Clerk is Refpondent, be put off to the First Cause Day in the next Seffion of Parliament. Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præfens Parliamentum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Sabbati, decimum feptimum diem inftantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus. Roxburghe Causes. Sir W. John fton against Jeudwine and Dauney. The House proceeded to take into further Confideration the Caufe, wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and others are Appellants, and Sir James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and James Horne are Refpondents; and alfo, the Caufe 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 alfo 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 allo, the Crofs Caufe wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and others are Appellants, and Sir James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and others are Refpondents, which were fully heard on the 17th of June 1808. And Confideration being had; ORDERED, That the further Confideration of the faid Caufes be put off till To-morrow. The Houfe being moved, "That a Day may be ap"pointed for hearing the Caufe, wherein Sir William Johnston Baronet is Appellant, and Thomas Jeudwine "Efquire and Doctor Alexander Dauney are Refpon "dents :" It is ORDERED, That this Houfe will hear the faid Caufe, by Counfel at the Bar, on the firft vacant Day for Caufes, after those already appointed. 66 way in Manner therein mentioned, and to borrow "Money for those Purposes; and for completing their "Works, and otherwise enlarging the Powers granted "by the several Acts for making the faid Canal, in obe"dience to the Order of the House :" "That the Com"mittee had met, and confidered the faid Bill, and had "heard Counfel on Behalf of the Petitioners against "the Bill, and had also heard Counfel in Support of the " fame; and that the Counsel in Support of the Bill "having stated that the Parties were willing to withdraw "the fame, the Committee had adjourned the further "Confideration of the Bill to that Day Three Months." Which Report, being read by the Clerk; ORDERED, That the faid Report do lie on the Table. &c. Water The Order of the Day being read for taking into Con- Deptford, fideration the Standing Orders relative to Canal Bills, in Bill, Standing order to their being difpenfed with on the Bill, inti- Order relatuled, "An Act for fupplying with Water the Inha- tive to Canal "bitants of Deptford, Greenwich, and feveral other Pa- Bills difpen"rifhes and Places in the Counties of Kent and fed with, and Bill paffed: "Surrey." It was moved, "That the faid Standing Orders be It was refolved in the Affirmative. Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t for "fupplying with Water the Inhabitants of Deptford, "Greenwich, and feveral other Parishes and Places "in the Counties of Kent and Surrey." Then the following Amendment was made by the Houfe to the Bill. A Meffage was fent to the Houfe of Commons, by " the Name of their Secretary." "An Act for making Mr. Steele and Mr. Thompson: The House was adjourned during Pleasure. Then Three of the Lords Commiffioners, being in Who being come, with their Speaker; "My Lords, and Gentlemen of the House of Com- "His Majefty, not thinking fit to be perfonally pre- Then the faid Commission was read by the Clerk, as follows; (videlicet) 66 "GEORGE R. "GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, "Defender of the Faith: To Our right trufty and right well-beloved the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, "and to Our trufty and well-beloved the Knights, "Citizens, and Burgeffes, and the Commiffioners for "Shires and Burghs of the Houfe of Commons, in this prefent Parliament affembled, Greeting: Whereas "We have seen and perfectly understood divers and "fundry Acts agreed and accorded on by you Our "loving Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, "and the Commons, in this Our prefent Parliament "affembled, and endorsed by you as hath been accuf"tomed, the Titles and Names of which Acts hereafter "do particularly enfue; (that is to fay), "An Act to "make further Provifion for the Execution of the feve"ral Acts relating to the Revenues, Matters, and Things "under the Management of the Commiffioners of Cuf"toms and Port Duties, and of the Commiffioners of "Inland Excife and Taxes in Ireland." "An Act for "better fecuring the Independence and Purity of Parlia"ment, by preventing the procuring or obtaining Seats "in Parliament by corrupt Practices." "An Act to "give to the Perfons named by His Majefty, pursuant to an Act paffed in the last Seffion of Parliament, in"tituled, "An Act concerning the Adminiftration of "Juftice in Scotland, and concerning Appeals to the "House of Lords," further Time for making their Report or Reports." "An Act for lowering the Duty of "Excife on Coffee of the Growth of His Majefty's Do"minions in Africa." "An Act for amending and re"ducing into One Act of Parliament the feveral Laws "for raifing and training the Militia of Ireland." "Act for the Relief of certain Infolvent Debtors in "England." "An Act to enable the Royal Exchange "Infurance Company of Ireland to fue and be fued in 66 6 " An 66 new Sewers and Drains, and amending the present "Sewers and Drains within certain Districts, under the "Jurifdiction of the Commiffioners of Sewers, for the "Limits extending from East Moulfey in Surrey, to Ravensborne in Kent, and for other Purposes relating "to the Execution of the Commiffion of Sewers for the "faid Limits." "An Act for rendering more effectual "Two Acts paffed for the better regulating the Poor in "the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the "County of Surrey, for enclofing the Church Yard "thereof, and for other Purposes therein mentioned "relating thereto." "An Act to enable His Majefty "to grant the Moot Hall, Grand Jury Room, and "certain Grounds and Buildings, adjoining thereto, "in the Castle Garth, within the Scite of the Old "Caftle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to the Juftices of "the Peace for 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." "An Act for making and "maintaining a Road from the Borough of Southwark "to the Kent Road, in the County of Surrey." "An "Act to repeal fo much of an Act, paffed in the Forty eighth Year of His prefent Majefty, for enclofing "Wastes in the Township of Minera, in the County of Denbigh, as fubjects the Owners of certain Mines there to Damages for working the fame, and as authorizes any Perfon to get Stone from any Mines of Stone in the "faid Waftes." And albeit, the faid Acts, by you Our "faid Subjects, the Lords and Commons, in this Our "prefent Parliament affembled, are fully agreed and "confented unto, yet nevertheless the fame are not of Force and F.ffect in the Law without Our Royal Af"fent given and put to the faid Acts: And forasmuch "as, for divers Caufes and Confiderations, We cannot "conveniently at this Time be present in Our Royal "Perfon in the Higher House of Our faid Parliament, being the Place accustomed to give Our Royal Af"fent to fuch Acts as have been agreed upon by you "Our faid Subjects, the Lords and Commons, We "have therefore caufed these Our Letters Patent to "be made, and have figned the fame, and by the fame "do give and put Our Royal Affent to the faid Acts, "and to all Articles, Claufes, and Provifions therein "contained, and have fully agreed and affented to the "faid Acts; Willing that the faid Acts, and every Ar ticle, Claufe, Sentence, and Provifion therein con"tained, from henceforth fhall be of the fame Strength, "Force, and Effect, as if We had been perfonally pre"fent in the faid Higher House, and had openly and "publicly, in the Prefence of you all, affented to the "fame: And We do by these Presents declare and no"tify the fame Our Royal Affent, as well to you the "Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, afore"faid, as to all others whom it may concern; com"manding alfo by these Presents Our right trufty and "well-beloved Counsellor John Lord Eldon, Our Chan"cellor of that Part of Our United Kingdom of Great "Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, to feal these "Our Letters Patent with Our Great Seal of Our "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and "alfo commanding Our most dear and entirely beloved "Son and most faithful Counsellor George Prince of "Wales; Our moft dear Sons and faithful Counsellors "Frederick Duke of York, William Duke of Clarence, "Edward Duke of Kent, Erneft Duke of Cumberland, "Auguftus Duke of Suffex, Adolphus Duke of Cam "bridge; Our moft dear Nephew and faithful Coun "fellor William Frederick Duke of Gloucester; the most "Reverend Father in God Our right trufty and well"beloved Counsellor Charles Archbishop of Canterbury, "Primate and Metropolitan of all England; Our said "Chancellor of that Part of Our United Kingdom of "Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain; Qur "right trufty and right well-beloved Coufins and Coun"fellors John Jeffreys Earl Camden, President of Our "Council; John Earl of Westmorland, Keeper of Our Privy Seal; Our right trusty and right entirely be"loved Coufins and Counsellors James Duke of Mont"rofe, Master of Our Horfe; William Henry Duke of "Portland; 4. "An Act for lowering the Duty of Excife on "Coffee of the Growth of His Majesty's Dominions in "Africa." 5." An Act for amending and reducing into one A& "of Parliament, the feveral Laws for raifing and train"ing the Militia of Ireland." 6. "An Act for the Relief of certain Infolvent Debtors "in England." 7. "An Act to enable the Royal Exchange Infurance "Company of Ireland to fue and be fued in the Name "of their Secretary." 8. "An Act for making new Sewers and Drains, and "amending the prefent Sewers and Drains, within cer"tain Districts under the Jurifdiction of the Commif"fioners of Sewers for the Limits extending from East Moulfey in Surrey, to Ravensborne in Kent, and "for other Purposes relating to the Execution of the "Commiffion of Sewers for the faid Limits." 9. An Act for rendering more effectual Two Acts "paffed for the better regulating the Poor in the Parish "of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the County "of Surrey; for enclofing the Church Yard thereof; and for other Purposes therein mentioned, relating "thereto." "Portland; Our right trufty and entirely beloved "Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Seventeenth "By the King Himfelf, figned with His own "BATHURST and BATHURST." Then the Lord Chancellor faid, "In Obedience to His Majefty's Commands, and by "virtue of the Commiffion which has been now read, 66 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 Deputy Clerk of the Crown, at the Table, read the Titles of the Bills, to be paffed feverally, as follows; (videlicet) 1. "An Act to make further Provifion for the Ex"ecution of the feveral Acts relating to the Revenues, "Matters and Things under the Management of the "Commiffioners of Customs and Port Duties, and of "the Commiflioners of Inland Excife and Taxes in "Ireland." 2. "An Act for better fecuring the Independence "and Purity of Parliament, by preventing the procur❝ing or obtaining Seats in Parliament by corrupt "Practices." 3. "An Act to give to the Perfons named by His Majefty, pursuant to an Act paffed in the laft Seffion ❝ of Parliament, intituled, "An Act concerning the "Adminiftration of Juftice in Scotland, and concerning "Appeals to the Houfe of Lords," further Time for "making their Report or Reports.' 10. "An Act to enable His Majefty to grant the "Moot Hall, Grand Jury Room, and certain Grounds "and Buildings adjoining thereto, in the Castle Garth, "within the Scite of the Old Caftle of Newcastle-upon"Tyne, to the Juftices of the Peace for the County of "Northumberland, for building Courts of Juftice, and "also a Gaol for the faid County; and for other Purposes therein mentioned, relating thereto." 11. "An Act for making and maintaining a Road "from the Borough of Southwark to the Kent Road, in "the County of Surrey." To thefe Bills the Royal Affent was pronounced, feverally, by the Clerk Affiftant, in thefe Words; (videlicet) "Le Roy le veult." 12. "An Act to repeal fo much of an Act, paffed in "the Forty-eighth Year of His prefent Majefty, for en"clofing Waftes in the Township of Minera, in the County of Denbigh, as fubjects the Owners of certain To this Bill the Royal Affent was pronounced, by Then the Commons withdrew. The House was adjourned during Pleasure. H 49 GEO. III. Seamens En Journals of the Houfe of Lords. A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, couragement by Mr. Rofe and others: Bill. Strand Bridge Bill. Ship Owners, &c. Bill. Deptford, &c. Water Bill. Gofport, &c. Ferry Bill. Bankrupt Laws Amendment Bill. Poor Removal Bill: To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to explain "and amend an A&t, made in the Forty-fifth Year of "His prefent Majefty, for the Encouragement of Sea"men, and for the better and more effectually manning "His Majefty's Navy during the prefent War; and for "the further Encouragement of Seamen; and for the "better and more effectually providing for the Interest "of the Royal Hofpital for Seamen at Greenwich, and "the Royal Hofpital for Soldiers at Chelfea; and to "extend the Provifions of the faid Act to Cafes arifing "in confequence of Hoftilities commenced fince the "paffing of the faid Act;" and to acquaint this Houfe, That they have agreed to their Lordships Amendment made thereto. A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, by Mr. Tyrwhitt and others: To return the Bill, intituled, " An Act for building "a Bridge over the River Thames, from the Precinct of "of the Savoy, or near thereunto, in the County of "Middlefex, to the oppofite Shore; and for making "convenient Roads and Avenues to communicate there"with, in the County of Surrey;" and to acquaint this Houfe, That they have agreed to their Lordships Amendments made thereto. A Meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons, by Mr. Ahley Cooper and others: To return the Bill, intituled, " An A&t for preventing "Frauds and Depredations committed on Merchants, 66 Ship Owners, and Underwriters, by Boatmen and "others; and alfo for remedying certain Defects rela"tive to the Adjustment of Salvage in England, under "an Act made in the Twelfth Year of Queen Anne;" and to acquaint this Houfe, That they have agreed to their Lordships Amendment made thereto. A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Abley Cooper and others: To return the Bill, intituled, " An Act for supplying "with Water the Inhabitants of Deptford, Greenwich, "and feveral other Parishes and Places, in the Coun"ties of Kent and Surrey :" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to their Lordships Amendments made thereto. A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, by Mr. Afhley Cooper and others: To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act for the better "Government of the Watermen working on the Paffage between Gofport, Portsmouth, and Portsea, 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 faid Ifland, and for "regulating the Fares of fuch Watermen;" and to acquaint this Houfe, That they have agreed to their Lordfhips Amendments made thereto. A Meflage was brought from the House of Commons, by Sir Samuel Romilly and others: To return the Bill, intituled, "An Act to alter and "amend the Laws relating to Bankrupts ;" and to acquaint this Houfe, That they have agreed to their Lordfhips Amendments made thereto. Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for "altering, amending, and explaining certain Acts re"lative to the Removal of and Badging the Poor, and "for making Regulations in certain Cafes, touching the "Examination of Paupers as to their Settlement; and "for extending to all Parithes certain Rules and Orders "in Workhoufes under an Act of the Twenty-fecond "Year of His present Majefty, intituled, "An Act for "the better Relief and Employment of the Poor." VOL. XLVII. 393 The Lord Walfingham reported from the Lords Com Ogilvy and mittees, to whom was referred the Petition of David Graham Ogilvy of Airly, and Sir David Wedderburn Baronet, his gait againft Tutor of Law, Refpondents in a Caufe depending in this Sir D. WedOgilvy and Houfe, to which the Honourable Walter Ogilvy and Ro- derburn, bert Graham Efquire are Appellants; praying their Lord- Report from fhips to take the Premifes into their Confideration, and Committee. to difmifs the Appeal as irregular and incompetent, or do otherwife in the Matter, as to their Lordships, in their great Wisdom, fhall feem proper, to confider and report: "That the Committee had met, and confidered the faid Petition, and had heard the Agents on both "Sides, and had come to the following Refolution: Upon reading the Petition of Richard Griffith Efquire, Griffith Plaintiff in a Writ of Error, wherein George Hatton, against HatJohn Moore Junior, the Reverend Francis Carleton and ton et al. in Francis Higginson, are Defendants; fetting forth, "That Error. "Petitioner having commenced Four several Actions "against the Defendants in the Court of Exchequer in "Ireland, for Bribery committed by the Defendants at "the Election for the Borough of Lisburn in Ireland, in "the Year 1790, and Iffue having been joined therein, "Petitioner did obtain Four feveral Verdicts against "the Defendants for Five hundred Pounds each: That "Bills of Exception having been taken to the Judges "Opinion upon Matter of Law in each of the faid "Trials, and feveral Proceedings having been had in "faid Caufes, faid Exceptions were all over-ruled on "Argument in the faid Court of Exchequer in the "Year 1795, and faid Judgments in Favour of Peti❝tioner were all affirmed: That faid Defendants having "fued out Writs of Error upon the faid Four Judg"ments returnable in the Court of Exchequer Chamber " in Ireland, one of the faid Caufes only were argued in "that Court, the Caufes affigned for Error, and the Question of Law arifing therefrom, being the fame in "the faid Four Caufes: That on the Argument of faid "Caufe the Judgment of the Court of Exchequer was "reverfed by the Court of Exchequer Chamber, where |