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vernment of this country .and that of 
France. But he was fully prepared to 
‘fate, that nothing had happened to inter- 
feve with the force of ianguage which 
the noble Lord, at the head of the foreign 
department, had thought proper to ule, 
er the energy of conduét he had thought 
Gt to adopt. The queftion of adjourn- 
ment was then put and carried. 
Mr. Addington, on the 4th of January” 
faid, the confiderations whieh operated.on 
his mind, confiftent with his duty, to pro- 
‘pofe fhort acjournments, ftill continued in 
‘ force to induce him to purfue a fimilar 
meafure, though the caule was confidera- 
bly diminifhed. He however trutted, 
that it would be unneceflary, even hereaf- 
ter, to detail to the Houle the reafons 
which induced the fhort adjournments 
which had taken place. He fhould there- 
fore move, that the Houfe do adjourn to 
Thuriday fe’nnight, on which day he 
hoped to be énabled to adjourn the Houle 
over to that day, for the recefs, that was 
originally intended. The Committee of 
Supply, and Ways and Means, were de- 
ferred to Friday fe’nnight, after which 
the Houfe adjourned to Thuriday fe’n- 
night. 
‘When the Commons met again on that 
day, 2 meffenger from the Cuftoms pre- 
dented an account of the quantity of grain, 
meal, flour, and rice, imported from the 
1ft of O&t. 1800, to the 1% of O&. 1801. 
‘The Chancellor of the Exchequer rofe 
to oblerve, that he hoped and tiufted the 
Houfe would do him the juftice to believe, 
that it was with great reluctance that he 
had, on former occafions, been induced to 
move repeated fhort adjournments, at a 
period, when gentlemen were wont to ex- 
pect aconvenient recefs for the helidays. 
He had. hoped to be able to move the ad- 
journment this day, but he had been difap- 
pointed. At the fame time he mufi beg 
ieave to obierve, that the difappointment 
was not of fuch a nature as to caule any 
alarm. lt was neither attended with, nor 
productive of any, even the fmalleit, im- 
pediment to the defirable event to which be 
looked forwaid. It was-therefore his in- 
tention to move, that the Houie do adjourn 
to ‘Fueiday. 
Mr. jones-faid, he felt it his bounden 
duty to make fome enquiry into the caule 
of the repeated fhort adjournments which 
had taken place. The adjournments had 
excited a fpirit pf general alarm through- 
out the country ; an explanation therefore 
appeared to him neceflary. He could not 
help cbferving, that fimilar meafures 
fhould be reforted to on the part of the 
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French Government; and that, in the Le- 
giflative Afflembly of France, ‘adjourn- 
ments fhould take place fimilar to thofé 
which had obtained in the. Britith 
Parliament. The caufe affigned for thefe 
adjournments, cn the part of the Firft 
Contul of France, was likewife not a little 
entitled to notiee.. The Firit Conful had 
ftrongly dwelt on the want of calmnefs 
and unity of intention.. He fhould. for-. 
bear making any application, but hoped 
that fome explanation would be vouchfaf-. 
ed for the:purpefe of putting mens’ mjnds 
at reft, and quieting the alarm which had 
generally obtained throughout. the coun- — 
try. No anfwer was returned by, the 
Chancellor of the Exchequer. After 
which the motion for the adjournment 
was then put, and carried without a divi- 
fion. : ; | 
On. the roth of January both Houfes 
met according to their lait adjournment. 
Tn the Houfe of Commons the Sceretary 
at War prefented eftimates of charges for 
the militia, which were ordered to lie on 
the table. eg | 
- The Chancellor of the Exehequer rofé 
and faid, that when the Houfe laft met, he 
had exprefied a doubt whether it might not 
then adjourn to the period originally ttat- 
ed, He might now fay, that the reafons 
which induced him to move thefe fhort ad- 
journments might have been fairly confi- 
dered as no longer to exift; but fince that 
period he was happy in being able to fate, 
that the caufes were wholiy done away. 
He had, however heard, with fome degree 
of furprize, that)it was expeéted he fhould 
make communications to the Houfe rela- 
tive to the motives thereof,‘and what thefe 
caufes were. There might be circom- ~ 
fiances, which though generally known by 
the public, yet were of that deicription, 
as to be extremely unfit for Parliamentaty- 
diulcufion; and events at this moment 
fanétioned the principle: and therefore he 
now deemed it improper to make fuch 
communications as were fo expected-from . 
Ate then moved “that the Houle 
at its rifing do adjourn to the 2d of Fe- 
briiry next.’? , 
Mr. Elliot expreffed, in warny terms, 
his aitcnifiment at hearing another prepo- 
fition made fer an adjournment. ) 
After a. fpeech of confiderable length 
from Lord Hawkefbury, Dr. Lawrence, 
the Attorney General, Mr. Jones, ard 
Captain Markham, the Houfe adjourned 
to the day above-mentioned, 
Lord Elgin, we find, had not fet out for 
Egypt on. the 25th of November, but the. 
frigate which was toc oavey him, was ia y 
pe or 
