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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 .
SATURDAY , NOVEMBEK 12 . THEIR Lordships met at three o ' clock , and by Commission under the Great Seal , gave the Royal Assent to the Indemnity Bill and the Three Million Exchequer Bill . " Lord Walsingham afterwards moved , that the House do adjourn to Monday the jSth inst . and their Lordships adjourned accordingly . MondayzSHeard Counsel in the Scotch AppealMacdonald and Burt .
, . , A Petition was presented from the Earl of Errol , praying , that the Order for the Meeting of the Committee of Privileges , to consider of the Petition from the Earl of Lauderdale , against the return of the sajd Earl of Errol as one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland , might be discharged , and that the Meeting of the said Committee might be fixed for the first Tuesday afier the Christmas recess , The Earl of " Derby , on the part of the Earl of Lauderdale , said , that he acr quiesced in the Prayer of the Petition ; but that he hoped the House would then peremptorily proceed in the business . Ordered . Adjourned ,
Tuesday , 29 . In the Scotch Appeal , Alexander Macdonald , Appellant , Rober * : Burt , Respondent , the Decree of the Court of Session was reversed . Adjourned , Thursday , Dec . r . Lord Radnor attended , and took the oaths . After which two Petitions for Private Bills were presented by the Duke of Portland . Adjourned to Monday .
House Of Commons.
HOUSE OF COMMONS .
MONDAY , October 31 . ( Continued . J MR . Fox was of opinion , that a mere declaration of the country being in danger , was not a sulficient reason for blindly subscribing to the measures of the very * men , by whom the danger had been brought upon us . He looked upon it as extremely improper to put so many men under martial law , and officers of the Crown , without any of the safe-guards contained in the old Militia Acts , at a . time when the buiiding of barracks evinces a design of separating the soldiery from the leand when gentlemen talk of making the latter deafif
theycanpeop , , , not make the former dumb . Sir , said he , much as the term has been ridiculed , I declare invself an alarmist—I am alarmed at the state of the country--- I believe that there is a faction who wish and endeavour to increase the power of the Grown at the expence of the liberties of the people . With these feelings nothing but the necessity of risking every thing can reconcile me to the measures proposed . After some further conversation between Messrs . Pitt , Fox , Sheridan , Curwen , and Sir James pulteney—The House resolved itself into a Committee of the That Counties
whole House , and a clause was proposed and agreed to , " , or Districts of Counties , where persons might choose to form themselves into Volunteer Corps , should be at liberty to do so , provided they should have been so vssociated before the day of the appointed ballot . "
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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 .
SATURDAY , NOVEMBEK 12 . THEIR Lordships met at three o ' clock , and by Commission under the Great Seal , gave the Royal Assent to the Indemnity Bill and the Three Million Exchequer Bill . " Lord Walsingham afterwards moved , that the House do adjourn to Monday the jSth inst . and their Lordships adjourned accordingly . MondayzSHeard Counsel in the Scotch AppealMacdonald and Burt .
, . , A Petition was presented from the Earl of Errol , praying , that the Order for the Meeting of the Committee of Privileges , to consider of the Petition from the Earl of Lauderdale , against the return of the sajd Earl of Errol as one of the sixteen Peers of Scotland , might be discharged , and that the Meeting of the said Committee might be fixed for the first Tuesday afier the Christmas recess , The Earl of " Derby , on the part of the Earl of Lauderdale , said , that he acr quiesced in the Prayer of the Petition ; but that he hoped the House would then peremptorily proceed in the business . Ordered . Adjourned ,
Tuesday , 29 . In the Scotch Appeal , Alexander Macdonald , Appellant , Rober * : Burt , Respondent , the Decree of the Court of Session was reversed . Adjourned , Thursday , Dec . r . Lord Radnor attended , and took the oaths . After which two Petitions for Private Bills were presented by the Duke of Portland . Adjourned to Monday .
House Of Commons.
HOUSE OF COMMONS .
MONDAY , October 31 . ( Continued . J MR . Fox was of opinion , that a mere declaration of the country being in danger , was not a sulficient reason for blindly subscribing to the measures of the very * men , by whom the danger had been brought upon us . He looked upon it as extremely improper to put so many men under martial law , and officers of the Crown , without any of the safe-guards contained in the old Militia Acts , at a . time when the buiiding of barracks evinces a design of separating the soldiery from the leand when gentlemen talk of making the latter deafif
theycanpeop , , , not make the former dumb . Sir , said he , much as the term has been ridiculed , I declare invself an alarmist—I am alarmed at the state of the country--- I believe that there is a faction who wish and endeavour to increase the power of the Grown at the expence of the liberties of the people . With these feelings nothing but the necessity of risking every thing can reconcile me to the measures proposed . After some further conversation between Messrs . Pitt , Fox , Sheridan , Curwen , and Sir James pulteney—The House resolved itself into a Committee of the That Counties
whole House , and a clause was proposed and agreed to , " , or Districts of Counties , where persons might choose to form themselves into Volunteer Corps , should be at liberty to do so , provided they should have been so vssociated before the day of the appointed ballot . "