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Parliamentary Proceedings.
HOUSE OF COMMONS . May 3 . On reading the report of the Committee on the King's message , giving his Majestya vote of credit for two millions and a half , to enable his Majesty to make good his engagement with the King of Prussia , Mr . Sheridan opposed it , and moved , as an amendment , that the two millions and a half be gi anted to his Majesty , but without mentioning , or having any reference to the King of Prussia . On this the House divided , for the amendment 32 , against it 8 z . Adjourned .
Mr . Secretary Dundas moved for leave to bring in a Bill for erecting a penitentiary House or Houses , on a spot of ground in the parish of Battersea , in the county of Surrey . He said . that some institution of this kind was necessary , because several who were transported to Botany Bay might be made serviceable in the country , and sufficiently punished without being sent out of it . The hulks answered very well as places of confinement previous to transportation , but they were not proper places of punishment . Persons who were not confirmed in vice , by mixing indiscriminately with the abandonedbecame as abandoned as they were . He hoped tiiat habits of
, constant labour would reclaim those who should be placed in those Penitentiary Houses . The expence of purchasing the ground would be only 6000 I . and it was expected that the labour of the convicts , applied to a simple and perfect machinery , would produce sufficient for their maintenance . Leave was given to bring in the bill . ¦ 12 . The 2 , 500 , 000 ! . Credit Bill was read a third time and passed . Mr . Secretary Dundas presented a Bill for erecting Penitentiary Houses , & c . in the pr . rish of Battersea , which was read a first , and ordered to be read a second time .
Mr . Dundas then delivered the following mes .-age irom his Majesty ; ; GEORGE R . - " His Majesty having received information that the seditious practices which have " been for some time carried on by certain societies in London , in correspondence " with societies in different parts of the country , have lately been pursued with in" creased activity and boldness , and have been avowedly directed to the object of " ASSEMBLING A PRETENDED GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE . PEOPLE , " in contempt and defiance of the authority of Parliament , and on principles
subver" . sive of tue existing laws and constitution , and directly tending to the introduction " of that system of anarchy and confusion which has fatally prevailed in France , has " given directions for seizing the books and papers of the said societies in London , " which have been seized accordingly ; and THESE BOOKS AND PAPERS API-EART < c ING TO CONTAIN MATTER OF THE GREATEST . IMPORTANCE TO THE " PUBLIC INTEREST , his Majesty has given orders for laying them before the " House of Commons , and his Majesty recommends it to the House to consider the f same , and to take such measures thereupon as may appear to be necessary for
effecf tually guarding against the further prosecutions of these dangerous designs , and " for preserving to bis Majesty's subjects the enjoyment of . the blessings derived to " them by the constitution happily established in these kingdoms . , G . i- _ . " Mr . Dtmdas , after moving that his Majesty's message be- taken into coi . siileration on the morrow , observed , that probably the papers would not be ready to be hiid before the House on that day , as it required some time to select such as were fit to be made public ; but that such papers should be presented as speedily as possible . The House then ordered the message to be taken into consideration on the morrow .
13 . The Penitentiary House Bill was read a second time and committed . A motion was made by Mr . ppwis to postpone the third reading of tiie Election Bill to that day three months , when a conversation ensued between Mr . Dent , tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Mr . Fox , relative to the necessity of contracting the oaths used at elections . The motion was put and carried . Mr . Dundas brought up the papers of the societies alluded to in his Majesty ' s speech , when the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved ihe consideration of thespecchand for
^ , ' voting an Address of thanks to his Majesty for his communications , and the concurrence of the House to comply with the desire contained in it . The next was to move , that a Secret Committee be appointed . to inspect the papers in question , who should deliver to the House the report of their deliberation . The Address was earned « a « , con . 3 ?
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Parliamentary Proceedings.
HOUSE OF COMMONS . May 3 . On reading the report of the Committee on the King's message , giving his Majestya vote of credit for two millions and a half , to enable his Majesty to make good his engagement with the King of Prussia , Mr . Sheridan opposed it , and moved , as an amendment , that the two millions and a half be gi anted to his Majesty , but without mentioning , or having any reference to the King of Prussia . On this the House divided , for the amendment 32 , against it 8 z . Adjourned .
Mr . Secretary Dundas moved for leave to bring in a Bill for erecting a penitentiary House or Houses , on a spot of ground in the parish of Battersea , in the county of Surrey . He said . that some institution of this kind was necessary , because several who were transported to Botany Bay might be made serviceable in the country , and sufficiently punished without being sent out of it . The hulks answered very well as places of confinement previous to transportation , but they were not proper places of punishment . Persons who were not confirmed in vice , by mixing indiscriminately with the abandonedbecame as abandoned as they were . He hoped tiiat habits of
, constant labour would reclaim those who should be placed in those Penitentiary Houses . The expence of purchasing the ground would be only 6000 I . and it was expected that the labour of the convicts , applied to a simple and perfect machinery , would produce sufficient for their maintenance . Leave was given to bring in the bill . ¦ 12 . The 2 , 500 , 000 ! . Credit Bill was read a third time and passed . Mr . Secretary Dundas presented a Bill for erecting Penitentiary Houses , & c . in the pr . rish of Battersea , which was read a first , and ordered to be read a second time .
Mr . Dundas then delivered the following mes .-age irom his Majesty ; ; GEORGE R . - " His Majesty having received information that the seditious practices which have " been for some time carried on by certain societies in London , in correspondence " with societies in different parts of the country , have lately been pursued with in" creased activity and boldness , and have been avowedly directed to the object of " ASSEMBLING A PRETENDED GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE . PEOPLE , " in contempt and defiance of the authority of Parliament , and on principles
subver" . sive of tue existing laws and constitution , and directly tending to the introduction " of that system of anarchy and confusion which has fatally prevailed in France , has " given directions for seizing the books and papers of the said societies in London , " which have been seized accordingly ; and THESE BOOKS AND PAPERS API-EART < c ING TO CONTAIN MATTER OF THE GREATEST . IMPORTANCE TO THE " PUBLIC INTEREST , his Majesty has given orders for laying them before the " House of Commons , and his Majesty recommends it to the House to consider the f same , and to take such measures thereupon as may appear to be necessary for
effecf tually guarding against the further prosecutions of these dangerous designs , and " for preserving to bis Majesty's subjects the enjoyment of . the blessings derived to " them by the constitution happily established in these kingdoms . , G . i- _ . " Mr . Dtmdas , after moving that his Majesty's message be- taken into coi . siileration on the morrow , observed , that probably the papers would not be ready to be hiid before the House on that day , as it required some time to select such as were fit to be made public ; but that such papers should be presented as speedily as possible . The House then ordered the message to be taken into consideration on the morrow .
13 . The Penitentiary House Bill was read a second time and committed . A motion was made by Mr . ppwis to postpone the third reading of tiie Election Bill to that day three months , when a conversation ensued between Mr . Dent , tlie Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Mr . Fox , relative to the necessity of contracting the oaths used at elections . The motion was put and carried . Mr . Dundas brought up the papers of the societies alluded to in his Majesty ' s speech , when the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved ihe consideration of thespecchand for
^ , ' voting an Address of thanks to his Majesty for his communications , and the concurrence of the House to comply with the desire contained in it . The next was to move , that a Secret Committee be appointed . to inspect the papers in question , who should deliver to the House the report of their deliberation . The Address was earned « a « , con . 3 ?