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Report Of The Proceedings Of The British Parliament.
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT .
THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT .
HOUSE OF LORDS . DURING the month of April the House was chiefly engaged in the hearing of Appeals , and in passing , without debate , the various Bills already discussed by the Commons . Our Begister shall , therefore , recommence with 3 Lord Grenville had it in command from his Majesty to
de-Wednesday , May . liver a message to that House , the purport of which was , ' That his Majesty had consented to the proposal for a marriage with the Princess Royal to the Hereditary Prince of Wirtemberg , which he thought proper to communicate to that House , not doubting but thai an alliance with a protestant prince of that rank and station , and who was nearly related to his own family , being also in a direct descent from the Princess Spohia , would give satisfaction to all his faithful subjects ; and having so repeatedly experienced t ' heir attachment to himself and family during lhe whole " in such
of his reign , he relied upon their concurrence measures as were necessary to bring this marriage to a conclusion . ' The message being read , Lord Grenville moved an address , thanking his Majesty for the gracious communication , and assuring him of the ready concurrence of the House to any measure tending to promote the happiness of his family . Agreed to nem . con . There was another subject to which the Duke of Bedford wished to draw the attention of the House—the recent transactions in the fleet . If , however , his Majesty ' s Ministers meant to bring it forward , he should not interfere . Earl Spencer rose merely to say , that he had not received any commands from
his Majesty upon the subject , nor had he any reason to believe that he ever should . The Duke of Clarence paid many compliments to the last Noble Lord ; considered the making conditions with seamen as injurious to discipline , and thought that the question could not be safely discussed . The Duke of Bedford said he should , however , move , without making any comment , for the production of certain papers , which , strange as it might appear , -would shew that , for the first time in our annals , his Majesty's Ministers had held
an official correspondence with the seamen of the fleet . Lord Howe said that the lirst he heard of this unfortunate business was during his indisposition in February last , when several petitions were sent to him , as from the seamen , all of one tenor , and though written in-different hands , dated by lhe same . As they were not signed , he wrote to an officer in Portsmouth to know if any discontent existed in the fleet . The answer was—none . The day after he came to town he mentioned the circumstance to a member of the Admiralty Boardand sent the petitions to the First Lord . An attack on his
pro-, fessional character he must have borne but from the one he had received , he could only be rescued by their Lordships . Thursday 4 . The order of the day being read for taking into consideration his Majesty ' s message relative to the » . oan ot one million tun ! a hail ! o lve' . __ iu < , and t , he guarantee of one million six hundred thousand pounds already advanced , and two millions to be advanced to his Imperial Majesty ,
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Report Of The Proceedings Of The British Parliament.
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT .
THE FIRST SESSION OF THE EIGHTEENTH PARLIAMENT .
HOUSE OF LORDS . DURING the month of April the House was chiefly engaged in the hearing of Appeals , and in passing , without debate , the various Bills already discussed by the Commons . Our Begister shall , therefore , recommence with 3 Lord Grenville had it in command from his Majesty to
de-Wednesday , May . liver a message to that House , the purport of which was , ' That his Majesty had consented to the proposal for a marriage with the Princess Royal to the Hereditary Prince of Wirtemberg , which he thought proper to communicate to that House , not doubting but thai an alliance with a protestant prince of that rank and station , and who was nearly related to his own family , being also in a direct descent from the Princess Spohia , would give satisfaction to all his faithful subjects ; and having so repeatedly experienced t ' heir attachment to himself and family during lhe whole " in such
of his reign , he relied upon their concurrence measures as were necessary to bring this marriage to a conclusion . ' The message being read , Lord Grenville moved an address , thanking his Majesty for the gracious communication , and assuring him of the ready concurrence of the House to any measure tending to promote the happiness of his family . Agreed to nem . con . There was another subject to which the Duke of Bedford wished to draw the attention of the House—the recent transactions in the fleet . If , however , his Majesty ' s Ministers meant to bring it forward , he should not interfere . Earl Spencer rose merely to say , that he had not received any commands from
his Majesty upon the subject , nor had he any reason to believe that he ever should . The Duke of Clarence paid many compliments to the last Noble Lord ; considered the making conditions with seamen as injurious to discipline , and thought that the question could not be safely discussed . The Duke of Bedford said he should , however , move , without making any comment , for the production of certain papers , which , strange as it might appear , -would shew that , for the first time in our annals , his Majesty's Ministers had held
an official correspondence with the seamen of the fleet . Lord Howe said that the lirst he heard of this unfortunate business was during his indisposition in February last , when several petitions were sent to him , as from the seamen , all of one tenor , and though written in-different hands , dated by lhe same . As they were not signed , he wrote to an officer in Portsmouth to know if any discontent existed in the fleet . The answer was—none . The day after he came to town he mentioned the circumstance to a member of the Admiralty Boardand sent the petitions to the First Lord . An attack on his
pro-, fessional character he must have borne but from the one he had received , he could only be rescued by their Lordships . Thursday 4 . The order of the day being read for taking into consideration his Majesty ' s message relative to the » . oan ot one million tun ! a hail ! o lve' . __ iu < , and t , he guarantee of one million six hundred thousand pounds already advanced , and two millions to be advanced to his Imperial Majesty ,