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Parliamentary Proceedings.

bill should preclude the possibility of the faculty obtaining subjects for dissection . Leave was granted to bring in the bill . The report of the committee upon the Militia Officers Bill was brought up , and the resolutions agreed to . The Attorney General moved for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing a bill of the 33 d of his present Majesty , commonly called the Alien Bill . Leave was ht and read first time

given , the bill was brougup , a . The bill for granting a duly to his Majesty on certificates for using hairpowder was brought up and read a first time . The hill stated , that all those who were in the habit of wearing hair-powder should enter their names with the clerk ofthe peace ofthe counties , or the commissioners ofthe districts in which they resided , Sec . The Bigamy Bill was read a third time , and passed . 18 . Mr . Secretary at Warin a committee of Ways and MeansmovedThat

, , , the additional pay to be allowed to militia subaltern officers in time of peace be defrayed out of the land-tax , which was agreed to . 19 . Mr . llohart reported from the committee appointed to try the rights of the Westminster Election petition , that the right lay in housekeepers paying scot and lot ; and that the Duchy of Lancaster , St . Martin ' s le Grand , and the precincts ofthe Savoy , were uiclutted in the city and liberties of Westminster .

Mr . llobarl having brought up the report of the committee of Ways and Means , and the . resolution being read , that the allowance to be granted to subaltern officers ofthe militia in time of peace , bedefrayed out ofthe produce from the faneftax for the year 1795 , Mr . Windham ( Secretary at War ) said , it was by no means his intention to trouble the House with any observations on the measure now proposed , the propriety and necessity of which were sufficiently notorious , unless he had been given , to understand that gentlemen on Ihe opposite side meant to oppose it . Not being able to guess at the particular objections they intended to

state , he could not pretend precisely or directly to obviate Ihem . In the . present stage of the business therefore he thought it sufficient to observe , that his proposition was seconded and approved by the highest authority on this subject , ihe colonels of the militia , from whom it was natural to expect the best information ; and he was moreover authorised to bring it forward by the general acknowledged deficiency of subalterns in the militia corps , a description of men on whom the country had much to depend in its present awful situalion , and whom it was its obvious interest to encourage and recompence . He therefore movedthat this

, resolution be agreed to . Mr . Bastard , Colonel Sloane , Colonel Upfon , Mr . Pitt , Mr . Stanley , and Mr . York , supported the proposition . General Tarleton , Mr . Fox , Mr . M . Robinson , and Mr . Sheridan , opposed it on constitutional grounds ; as assimilating the militia with the army . After some conversation the resolution was agreed to , and the Secretary at War moved for leave to bring in a bill pursuant to the said resolution .

20 . On the question being put for the commitment of the Franking Bill , several members delivered their opinions . Upon the clause for limiting the number of letters to be sent or received free by members . Mr . Long moved to fill up the blank with the number of fifteen . Mr . Burton proposed the number ten , as an amendment . After some conversation in support of each number , the House divided , when the oriinal number was adopted . Ayes 34 Noes 31

g , . Upon the clause restricting the privilege of franking by clerks in public offices , it being agreed that great abuses existed in the exercise of it , it was suggesteci , that a committee should be instituted to investigate them .. Mr . Pitt moved , that the clause be left out in this bill , in order that the remedy should be applied by itself . Mr . Ctmtborne moved , that the committee adjpurn , and report progress .

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STORY OF URBAIN GRANDIER. Article 16
BASEM; OR, THE BLACKSMITH. AN ORIENTAL APOLOGUE. Article 23
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ACCOUNT AND DESCRIPTION OF THE CHAPEL OF ROSLIN, &c. Article 32
AUTHENTIC ANECDOTE. Article 37
SUMMARY OF ALL THE ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST RICHARD BROTHERS. Article 38
ON THE DEPOPULATING INFLUENCE OF WAR. Article 42
ANECDOTE OF THE LATE KING OF PRUSSIA. Article 43
THE GREEN ASS. Article 44
ACCOUNT OF A CASK IN THE CASTLE OF KONIGSTEIN, Article 45
CURIOUS PARTICULARS RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF MALTA. Article 46
ON AVARICE. Article 47
THE HANDSOME MAN AND UGLY WIFE : Article 47
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. Article 48
POETRY. Article 56
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BROTHER JOHN MILLS, COMEDIAN, OF THE THEATRE ROYAL, HULL. Article 57
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Parliamentary Proceedings.

bill should preclude the possibility of the faculty obtaining subjects for dissection . Leave was granted to bring in the bill . The report of the committee upon the Militia Officers Bill was brought up , and the resolutions agreed to . The Attorney General moved for leave to bring in a Bill for continuing a bill of the 33 d of his present Majesty , commonly called the Alien Bill . Leave was ht and read first time

given , the bill was brougup , a . The bill for granting a duly to his Majesty on certificates for using hairpowder was brought up and read a first time . The hill stated , that all those who were in the habit of wearing hair-powder should enter their names with the clerk ofthe peace ofthe counties , or the commissioners ofthe districts in which they resided , Sec . The Bigamy Bill was read a third time , and passed . 18 . Mr . Secretary at Warin a committee of Ways and MeansmovedThat

, , , the additional pay to be allowed to militia subaltern officers in time of peace be defrayed out of the land-tax , which was agreed to . 19 . Mr . llohart reported from the committee appointed to try the rights of the Westminster Election petition , that the right lay in housekeepers paying scot and lot ; and that the Duchy of Lancaster , St . Martin ' s le Grand , and the precincts ofthe Savoy , were uiclutted in the city and liberties of Westminster .

Mr . llobarl having brought up the report of the committee of Ways and Means , and the . resolution being read , that the allowance to be granted to subaltern officers ofthe militia in time of peace , bedefrayed out ofthe produce from the faneftax for the year 1795 , Mr . Windham ( Secretary at War ) said , it was by no means his intention to trouble the House with any observations on the measure now proposed , the propriety and necessity of which were sufficiently notorious , unless he had been given , to understand that gentlemen on Ihe opposite side meant to oppose it . Not being able to guess at the particular objections they intended to

state , he could not pretend precisely or directly to obviate Ihem . In the . present stage of the business therefore he thought it sufficient to observe , that his proposition was seconded and approved by the highest authority on this subject , ihe colonels of the militia , from whom it was natural to expect the best information ; and he was moreover authorised to bring it forward by the general acknowledged deficiency of subalterns in the militia corps , a description of men on whom the country had much to depend in its present awful situalion , and whom it was its obvious interest to encourage and recompence . He therefore movedthat this

, resolution be agreed to . Mr . Bastard , Colonel Sloane , Colonel Upfon , Mr . Pitt , Mr . Stanley , and Mr . York , supported the proposition . General Tarleton , Mr . Fox , Mr . M . Robinson , and Mr . Sheridan , opposed it on constitutional grounds ; as assimilating the militia with the army . After some conversation the resolution was agreed to , and the Secretary at War moved for leave to bring in a bill pursuant to the said resolution .

20 . On the question being put for the commitment of the Franking Bill , several members delivered their opinions . Upon the clause for limiting the number of letters to be sent or received free by members . Mr . Long moved to fill up the blank with the number of fifteen . Mr . Burton proposed the number ten , as an amendment . After some conversation in support of each number , the House divided , when the oriinal number was adopted . Ayes 34 Noes 31

g , . Upon the clause restricting the privilege of franking by clerks in public offices , it being agreed that great abuses existed in the exercise of it , it was suggesteci , that a committee should be instituted to investigate them .. Mr . Pitt moved , that the clause be left out in this bill , in order that the remedy should be applied by itself . Mr . Ctmtborne moved , that the committee adjpurn , and report progress .

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