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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



CHAP. X. 



Parliamentary Vrorccdings continued. — Conversation in the House of 

 CoinmonSy upon Continental AJfuirs. — Appointment of Military Com- 

 missioners. — Motion of Serjeant Best upon the llth Report of the Naval 

 Commissione-rs — Agreed to. — pAirl nj Darnley's Motion in the House of 

 Lords, on the Slate of the Navi/. — Speech of Viscount Meltillc thereon. — 

 Motion lost upon a Division. — Second Reading of the Prize Agency BUI 

 - — And Amendments therein, in the House of Commons. — Motion of Mr. 

 IVhitbread, for the Impeachment of Lord Melville. — His Lordship heard 

 in his Defence, previously thereto, xcithin tlw Bar of the House of Com- 

 mons. — Purport (f his Speech. — Mr. Bond moves an Amendment, that 

 Lord Melville should be immediately prosecuted. — Debate. — Speech of Mr. 

 Whitbread. — Master of the Rolls — Earl Temple — Mr. L H. Broisne — 

 Mr. Alexander. — Debute adjourned. — Resumed the foUoidng Day. — 

 Division. — Motion for the Impeachment lost. — Amendment for a criminal 

 Prosecution carried. — Mr. f'Vhitbread's Motion upon the llth Naval Re- 

 port. — Debate thereon. — Motion lost. — Mr. Lascclles brings in a Bill of 

 Indemnity, for the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in this Transaction. — Car- 

 ried, — Motion of the Earl of Suffolk in the House of Lords, on the Affairs of 

 Ireland. — Negatived tcithout a Division. 



ON the l6th day of May, Mr. 

 Grey arose in the house of 

 commons, and after disclaiming any 

 wish to press for an answer, or em- 

 barrass the ministers, adverted to 

 the communication made from the 

 throne, on the first day of the 

 session, that a pacific overture had 

 been received from Francb, to 

 which his majesty had declined 

 giving any direct answer, till he 

 should consult certain powers on 

 the continent, and particularly 

 Russia, with which he maintained 

 relations of amity and confidential 

 intercourse, and the expectation 

 since expressed, of an important co- 

 operation on the continent, hemcrely 

 wished t© know, therefore, whether 



any further communication was to 

 be expected before the close of the 

 session. 



The Chancellor of the Exchequer 

 replied, that no time would be lost 

 in doing so, when it could be done, 

 but, at present, the communications 

 between this government and 

 foreign powers were not such as 

 could enable him to state any thin j 

 with certainty. 



The house having resolved itself 

 into a committee, on the military 

 commissioners bill, the chancellor 

 of the exchequer, after commenting 

 on the importance of the duties 

 they would have to perform, pro- 

 posed the following names to com- 

 pose the eemraission. For the mi- 

 litary 



