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Surance on their lives. After which the speaker's leaving the chair, in 



the bill was read a third tinje, when order to go into a commiticc, on the 



»ir H. Alildinay proposed, as an militia enlistment bill, many of the 



amendment, to leave out the clauses former objections to it were re- 



directly affecting legacies to the newed, %vhich ended in a division, 



younger children, ^when the amend- when the numbers were, for it 113, 



ment was negatived, by a majority of against it -ly, majority G-t. In the 



92, the numbers being, for it, 72, subsequent committee, a variety 



against it 164. After which the of new clauses were proposed, but 



bill was passed. the only one acceded to, was a pro- 



On the 25 th the petition of the position by Mr. Yorke, that, after 



RomaH catholics of Ireland, pray- the words " regular forces," should 



ing to be admitted to a full partici- 

 pation of all the privileges enjoyed 

 by his majesty's other subjects, was 

 presented, in the house of lords, by 



be added, " and battalions of royal 

 " artillery and marines." 



On the 29th, Earl Darnley, after 

 lamenting that this subject devolved 



lord Grenville, and in the house of at present upon him, instead of thft 



commons, by Mr. Fox, and ordered illustrious duke (Clarence,) who 



to lie on the table.* could have done so much more jus- 



In the commons, on the 27tb, tice to it, said, he had the best 



>lr. Foster obtained leave to bring authority for asserting that, had the 



in two bills, one to restrain the ne- important naval reforms, which were 



gociation of promissory notes, and proposed, and began to be acted 



inland bills of exchange, under a upon, bren gradually carried into 



limited sum, in Ireland, the other to execution, the navy might not only 



amend an act of the32d of the king, be kept up Mitbout resorting to the 



passed in the Irish parliament, for private yards, but a considerable 



the repair of the post roads. The annual addition been also made io 



object was, that post masters may it. Unfortunately, however, the 



be enabled to send the mails by mail persons, who had now thesupcrin- 



coaches, with greater safety and qx. tendance of the naval department, 



pedition, than could be done at pre- seemed to have come into office 



lent, and on the 28th, Lord Cas- with the specific pledge of wholly 



tlereagh obtained leave to bring in a reversing the system of their prede- 



bill, to amend t!ie act of the 33d of cessors. Economy and arrangement 



the king, which prescribes the in the king's yards, begun by their 



powers to be given to the East predecessors, were either slighted 



India company, in the appointment or neglected, and the important re. 



of a commander in chief of the forces forms, partly executed, and which 



in India, and regulate the duties of would have been completely eflected 



the governor general in council at at the restoration of peace, appeared 



Ijengal. Tlie object, he said, was, to Itave been totally abandoned. Hi 



that in the event of the marquis lordship then read an amazingly 



Cornwallis taking the field as com- long string of motions, including 



Blander in chief in India, the coun- returns of all the ships, and their 



try should also have the benefit of rates, built either in his majesty's 



his assisrance in the council at docks, or the merchants' yards, for 



Fert-AVilliam. On the qiiestioa for diilereat periods of years pa^t, th« 



expenc* 

 For the Petition, vid€ App«ndi)c. 



