Commiffion for proroguing the Parliament. Anno 50° Georgii Tertii. DIE Jovis, 2o Novembris 1809. Domini præfentes fuerunt. Ds. Eldon, Cancella rius. Comes Camden, Comes Liverpool. The Lord Chancellor acquainted the Houfe, "That "His Majesty had been pleased to grant a Commiffion, "under the Great Seal, for the further Prorogation of "the Parliament." Then Three of the Lords Commiffioners being in their Robes, and feated on a Form placed between the Throne and the Woolfack, the Lord Chancellor in the Middle, with the Lord Prefident on his Right Hand, and the Earl of Liverpool on his Left, commanded the Yeoman Ufher of the Black Rod to let the Commons know, "The Lords Commiffioners defire their immediate "Attendance in this Houfe, to hear the Commiffion "read." Who being come; The Commiffion was read by the Clerk, as follows; (videlicet) "GEORGE R. "Bathurst, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State; "Thomas Earl of Ailebury, Robert Earl Grofvenor, Richard Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Henry Earl of "Caernarvon, Robert Banks Earl of Liverpool, One other "of Our Principal Secretaries of State; John Earl of "Saint Vincent, James Earl of Malmesbury, Richard "Earl of Donoughmore, George Earl of Onflow, Thomas "Earl of Chichester, Edward Earl of Powis, Charles "Earl Grey; Our right trufty and well-beloved "Coufins and Counsellors Henry Viscount Melville, "Henry Viscount Sidmouth, William Viscount Cathcart; "Our right trufty and well-beloved Counsellors "Francis Lord Haftings, Saint Andrew Lord Saint "John of Bletfoe, Alexander Lord Dutton, Henry "Richard Lord Holland, Thomas Lord Walfingham, 66 "of you, by virtue of thefe Prefents, full Power and 66 Henry Frederick Lord Carteret, William Wyndham next, in Our Name, further to prorogue and continue "Witness Ourself, at Westminster, the Eighteenth "By By the King Himfelf, figned with His Own "BATHURST and BATHURST." Then the Lord Chancellor faid, "By virtue of His Majefty's Commiffion under the Parliament "Great Seal, to us and other Lords directed, and now prorogued. " read, we do, in His Majesty's Name, and in Obedience "to His Commands, prorogue this Parliament to Tuesday the Fifth Day of December next, to be then "here holden; and this Parliament is accordingly "prorogued to Tuesday the Fifth Day of December Commiffion for proroguing the Parliament: Anno 50° Georgii Tertii. The Lord Chancellor acquainted the House, "That "His Majefty had been pleafed to grant a Commiffion, "under the Great Seal, for the further Prorogation of "the Parliament." Then Three of the Lords Commiffioners, being in their Robes, and feated on a Form, placed between the Throne and the Woolfack, the Lord Chancellor in the Middle, with the Earl Graham on hi Right Hand, and the Lord Ellenborough on his Left; commanded the Yeoman Ufher of the Black Rod to let the Commons know," The Lords Commiffioners defire their imme"diate Attendance in this House, to hear the Com"miffion read:" Who being come, The Commiffion was read by the Clerk, as follows: (videlicet) .. "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 molt dear and entirely "beloved Son and moft faithful Counsellor George Prince "of Wales; Our moft dear Sons and faithful Coun"fellors Frederick Duke of York, William Henry Duke "of Clarence, Edward Duke of Kent, Erneft Auguftus "Duke of Cumberland, Auguftus Duke of Suffex, Adolphus Duke of Cambridge; Our moft dear Nephew and "faithful Counsellor William Frederick Duke of Gloucefter; the moft Reverend Father in God and Our right trufty and well-beloved Counsellor Charles Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all "England; Our right trufty and well-beloved Counsellor "John Lord Eldon, Our Chancellor of that Part of Our "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called "Great Britain; the moft Reverend Father in God Our right trufty and well-beloved Counfellor Edward Vena"bles Archbishop of York, Primate and Metropolitan "of England; Our right trufty and right well-beloved "Coufins and Counsellors John Jeffreys Earl Camden, Pre"fident of OurCouncil; John Earl of Westmorland, Keeper "of Our Privy Seal; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Coufins and Counsellors Charles Duke "of Richmond, Auguftus Henry Duke of Grafton, John "Duke of Bedford, George Duke of Marlborough, John "Duke of Athol, James Duke of Montrofe; Our right "trufty and entirely beloved Coufmns and Counsellors "George Marquis of Buckingham, George Granville 66 66 Levefon Marquis of Stafford, George Marquis Townshend, "James Marquis of Salisbury, Francis Marquis of Hertford, John Marquis of Bute; Our right trusty and right well-beloved Coufins and Counsellors Heneage "Earl of Aylesford, Steward of Our Household; George "Earl of Dartmouth, Chamberlain of Our Household; "Edward Earl of Derby, George Earl of Pembroke and "Montgomery, George Earl of Winchilfea and Nottingham, 66 Philip Earl of Chesterfield, John Earl of Sandwich, "Frederick Earl of Carlisle, George James Earl of Cholmondeley, James Earl of Lauderdale, Thomas Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Charles Earl of Tankerville, George Earl of Macclesfield, John Earl of Ashburnham, "Charles Earl of Harrington, Robert Earl of Bucking"hamshire, William Earl Fitzwilliam, Philip Earl of "Hardwicke, George John Earl Spencer, John Earl of "Chatham, Henry Earl Bathurst, One of Our Principal "Secretaries of State, Thomas Earl of Ailesbury, Robert "Earl Grosvenor, Richard Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, Henry Earl of Carnarvon, Robert Banks Earl of Liverpool, One other of Our Principal Secretaries of State; VOL. XLVII. 66 "John Earl of Saint Vincent, James Earl of Malmesbury, "Richard Earl of Donoughmore, George Earl of Onflow, "Thomas Earl of Chichester, Edward Earl of Powis, "Charles Earl Grey; Our right trufty and well-beloved "Coufins and Counsellors Henry Viscount. Melville, "Henry Viscount Sidmouth, William Viscount Cathcart; "Our right trufty and well-beloved Counsellors Francis "Lord Haflings, Saint Andrew Lord Saint John of Bletfoe, Alexander Lord Dutton, Henry Richard Lord "Holland, Thomas Lord Walfingham, Henry Frederick "Lord Carteret, William Wyndham Lord Grenville, "William Lord Auckland, Henry Lord Mulgrave, James "Lord Saltersford, Richard Lord Wellesley, Charles "Lord Bayning, James Lord Glastonbury, Gilbert Lord "Minto, John Lord Carysfort, Alleyne Lord Saint "Helens, John Lord Redefdale, Edward Lord Ellenbo borough, Chief Juftice, affigned to hold Pleas before "Us; Charles George Lord Arden, Charles Lord Bar"ham, Thomas Lord Erskine, and Thomas Lord Manners, Greeting: Whereas We have lately, for divers "difficult and preffing Affairs, concerning Us, the "State and Defence of Our United Kingdom of Great "Britain and Ireland, and the Church, ordained this "Our prefent Parliament to begin and be holden at "Our City of Westminfer, the Twenty-fecond Day of "June, in the Forty-teventh Year of Our Reign, on "which Day Our faid Parliament was begun and "holden, and from thence, by feveral Adjournments "and Prorogations, was adjourned and prorogued to "and until Tufday the Fitth Day of December next, "then to be holden and fit at Our City of IVeflminter "aforefaid: Know ye, nevertheless, That for certain preffing Caufes and Confiderations, Us especially moving, We have thought fit further to prorogue Our "faid Parliament; Therefore, We, confiding very "much in your Fidelity, Prudence, and Circumfpection, "have, by the Advice and Confent of Our Council, 66 66 diligently attend to the Premifes, and effectually fulfil "them in the Manner aforefaid: We also strictly "command all and fingular Our Archbishops, Dukes, Marquiffes, Earls, Viscounts, Bifhops, Barons, Knights, «Citizens, Burgeffes, and Commiffioners, for Our Coun"ties and Boroughs, and all others whom it concerns; "to meet at Our faid Parliament, by virtue of thefe "Presents, that they observe, obey, and affist you, in executing the Premifes, as they ought to do: In "Witness whereof, We have caused these Our Letters "to be made Patent." Minera Enclosure Bill: Infolvent The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall It was refolved in the Affirmative. "An A&t to Hodie 3' vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "Courts in Westminster Hall, and of the Chief and Se- The faid Bill was read the First Time. A Meffage was brought from the House of Commons, Bermondfey by Sir James Graham and others : To return the Bill, intituled, "An A&t 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 enclosing "the Church Yard thereof; and for other Purposes "therein mentioned, relating thereto;" and to acquaint this House, That they have agreed to their Lordfhips Amendment made thereto. Poor Bill. The House proceeded to take into Confideration the Roxburghe The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall dents; alfo, the Cross Caufe, wherein Sir James Norcliffe It was refolved in the Affirmative. Messages to H.C. that the Lords have agreed to the Nine preceding Bills. Confolidated Catholic Judges Sala ties Bill. It was refolved in the Affirmative. To acquaint them, That the Lords have agreed to the The House (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleasure, and put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majefty certain "Sums of Money out of the Confolidated Fund of "Great Britain, and for applying certain Monies therein "mentioned for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and nine; and for further appropriating "the Supplies granted in this Seffion of Parliament." After fome Time, the Houfe was refumed: And the Lord Walfingham reported from the Committee, "That they had gone through the Bill, and "directed him to report the fame to the House, without "any Amendment." The Houfe (according to Order) was adjourned during Pleafure, and put into a Committee upon 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 Declara"tion mentioned in an Act paffed in the Thirteenth and "Fourteenth Year of His Majefty's Reign, intituled, ""An Act to enable His Majefty's Subjects of whatever Perfuafion to teflify their Allegiance to Him," "and for other Purpofes relating thereto." After fome Time, the Houfe was refumed: And the Lord Walfingham reported from the Com- Innes Ker Baronet, and James Horne are Appellants, and And Confideration being had; ORDERED, That the further Confideration of the faid Hodie 2 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An A&t to Local Militia "prevent the enlifting of Local Militia Men into the Re- Enliftment "gular Militia of any other County than the County to Bill: "which they belong." The Houfe (according to Order) proceeded to take Standing into Confideration the Standing Orders Nos. 26. and 155. Orders 26. & respecting Bills not being read or proceeded in Twice the 155. difpenfame Day. And Confideration being had thereof accordingly; ORDERED, That the faid Standing Orders be dispensed with on the last mentioned Bill. ORDERED, That the faid Bill be committed to a Committee of the whole House. ORDERED, That the House be now put into a Com- The Houfe (according to Order) was adjourned during And the Lord Walfingham reported from the Com- ORDERED, That the faid Report be now received. Amendments. And the fame, being read Twice by the Clerk, were, agreed to by the Houfe. ORDERED, That the faid Bill, with the Amendments, be engroffed. fed with on it. The ondley Bil Parliament, Independence of, Bill. Proteft against the House being put into a Committee on. Deptford, &c. Water Bill, specially reported: The Order of the Day being read for the Houfe to be put into a Committee upon the Bill, intituled, "An Act for better fecuring the Independence and Purity of "Parliament, by preventing the procuring or obtaining "of Seats in Parliament by corrupt Practices;" and for the Lords to be fummoned: It was moved, "That the House do now refolve itself " into a Committee of the whole House upon the said "Bill." The Lord Walfingham reported from the Lords Com. mittees appointed to confider of the Bill, intituled, " An "Act 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 com"plied 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 August 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 propofed 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 diftinct Hundred, made no Part of the ori"ginal Notice, and because it cannot, as the Committee "conceive, be admitted by this Defcription under the 66 66 "Orders of the House, as the Hundred of Blackheath " contains the Townships of Charlton, the Parish of "Eltham, the Liberty of Kidbrook, the Hamlet of Not "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 respect 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 obferve, that Appli"cation was made to the Owners and Occupiers whofe "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 "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 Purpofe 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 Houfe to do therein as they fhall think fit; " and that the Committee had gone through the Bill, " and directed him to report the fame to their Lordships, 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") 66 "L. 7. After ("Lee") infert (" and "), and in the fame Line leave out from (" Lewisham") to (" in ") in Line 9. "Pr. 68. L. 31 & 32. Leave out ("Saint Nicholas « Plumstead") "L. 33. After ("Lee") infert (" and "), "and in the fame Line leave out from ("Lewisham") "to ("in") in Line 35. Pr. 100. L. 15. Leave out from (« A&t") to "L. 21. Leave out (" aforefaid ") and infert 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 fpecified") "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 Act. "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 said Amendments, being read a Second Time, were agreed to by the House. The Earl of Liverpool laid before the House, pursuant to an Address 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 Charmilly, 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. Dominus Cancellarius declaravit præfens Parliamentum continuandum effe ufque ad et in diem Veneris, decimum fextum diem Inftantis Junii, horâ undecimâ Aurora, Dominis fic decernentibus. by Edward Westley Efquire, his Guardian, was this Day brought in. The House proceeded to take into further Confidera Roxburghe tion the Caufe, wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and Causes. others are Appellants, and Sir James Norcliffe Innes Baronet and James Horne are Refpondents; and also, the Cause wherein John Bellenden Ker Efquire and others are Appellants, and Brigadier General Walter Ker and Richard Hotchkis are Respondents, which were fully heard on the 20th of May 1808; and also, 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. The Answer of the Right Honourable Francis Earl of Bandon, to the Appeal of William Meade an Infant, And Confideration being had; ORDERED, That the further Confideration of the faid Causes be put off to Monday next, Eleven o'Clock. The Order of the Day being read for the Third Read- Parliament, ing of the Bill, intituled, "An Act for better fecuring Independence of, Bill: "the Independence and Purity of Parliament, by preventing the procuring or obtaining of Seats in Parlia"ment by corrupt Practices." The faid Bill was accordingly read the Third Time. It was refolved in the Affirmative. 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 It was refolved in the Affirmative, To return the faid Bill, and acquaint them, That the to it. Lords have agreed to the fame, with fome Amendments, to which their Lordships defire their Concurrence. Hodie 2vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act for Judges Sala"further augmenting the Salaries of certain of the ries Bill, Judges of the Courts in Westminster Hall, and of the the Great Seffions in Wales." "Chief and Second Juftice of Chefter, and Juftices of ORDERED, |