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British Parliament.
Several clauses in the schedule of the Income bill were then , with a variety of amendments , which produced much desultory conversation , agreed to by the Committee . The House then resumed , and the Chairman reported '' Dec . sC—The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the order of the day on the bill for continuing the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aft , and it . being for the bill to go into a Committee , he moved that tire Speaker leave *
the Chair . Mr . Courtenay opposed the motion , and produced a letter , which he read , from the wife of Colonel Despard , complaining of the rigorous treatment which her husband had suffered in the prison in Coldbath-flelds . He said , that , in his opinion , the complaints of the abuse of power given to Government by this act might logically be urged against its renewal . The Attorney-General reprobated the conduct of any gentleman who ,
rely ing upon newspaper accounts , complained of the treatment of persons .-confinedin prison ; and desired the Hon . Member , if he had any complaint to make , that he would do it from the information of his own mind . The ii st of May , 1799 , was fixed on as the period to which the duration of the bill rhould be limited . 27 . The order of the day for the House to take into consideration the report of the Income billwas moved bthe Chancellor of the Exchequer . After a
, y general discussion of many of it clauses , the report was agreed to be taken into consideration on the 29 th , when several amendments in the bill were , read and adopted , and a great variety of clauses brought up and agreed to . Several other clauses were likewise added to the bill . The clauses being all gone through , the report was brought up , and ordered to be received on . the mst ; when the bill was ordered to be read on Monday Jan . 6 , 1799 .
Parliament Of Ireland.
PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND .
^ CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST . ]
ON the 6 th of October the Lord Lieutenant , after delivering the following speech from the throne , prorogued the Parliament to the 20 th of Nov . ' My Lords and Gentlemen , ' I have the .. satisfaction of acquainting you , that I have received the King's commands to release you from your long and fatiguing attendance in Parfiament ; aud I am ordered to thank you , in his Majesty ' s name , for the unshaken firmness and magnanimity with which you have met the most trying
difficulties , and with which the measures have been planned which you have adopted for the preservation of your country . I offer you my most sincere , congratulations on the glorious victory which has been obtained by his Majesty's squadron under the command of Sir Horatio Nelson , over the French fleet in the Mediterranean , which not only reflects the highest honour on the officers and seamen by whom it has been atchieved , but affords a prospect of the most beneficial . consequences to the future interests of the British Empire .
' Gentlemen of the House of Commons , ' I am commanded to convey to you his Majesty ' s particular thanks for the supplies which you have so liberally granted , and by which you have manifested both the extent of the ' resources which this kingdom possesses , and the spirit with which they are employed by the Commons of Ireland for the preservation of the state . His Majesty laments the necessity which calls for tlie imposition of fresh burdens on his Majesty ' s subjects ; but he trusts that they will see how much their present safety and their future happinesa depend on their exertions in the arduous contest in which they are engaged :
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British Parliament.
Several clauses in the schedule of the Income bill were then , with a variety of amendments , which produced much desultory conversation , agreed to by the Committee . The House then resumed , and the Chairman reported '' Dec . sC—The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the order of the day on the bill for continuing the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aft , and it . being for the bill to go into a Committee , he moved that tire Speaker leave *
the Chair . Mr . Courtenay opposed the motion , and produced a letter , which he read , from the wife of Colonel Despard , complaining of the rigorous treatment which her husband had suffered in the prison in Coldbath-flelds . He said , that , in his opinion , the complaints of the abuse of power given to Government by this act might logically be urged against its renewal . The Attorney-General reprobated the conduct of any gentleman who ,
rely ing upon newspaper accounts , complained of the treatment of persons .-confinedin prison ; and desired the Hon . Member , if he had any complaint to make , that he would do it from the information of his own mind . The ii st of May , 1799 , was fixed on as the period to which the duration of the bill rhould be limited . 27 . The order of the day for the House to take into consideration the report of the Income billwas moved bthe Chancellor of the Exchequer . After a
, y general discussion of many of it clauses , the report was agreed to be taken into consideration on the 29 th , when several amendments in the bill were , read and adopted , and a great variety of clauses brought up and agreed to . Several other clauses were likewise added to the bill . The clauses being all gone through , the report was brought up , and ordered to be received on . the mst ; when the bill was ordered to be read on Monday Jan . 6 , 1799 .
Parliament Of Ireland.
PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND .
^ CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST . ]
ON the 6 th of October the Lord Lieutenant , after delivering the following speech from the throne , prorogued the Parliament to the 20 th of Nov . ' My Lords and Gentlemen , ' I have the .. satisfaction of acquainting you , that I have received the King's commands to release you from your long and fatiguing attendance in Parfiament ; aud I am ordered to thank you , in his Majesty ' s name , for the unshaken firmness and magnanimity with which you have met the most trying
difficulties , and with which the measures have been planned which you have adopted for the preservation of your country . I offer you my most sincere , congratulations on the glorious victory which has been obtained by his Majesty's squadron under the command of Sir Horatio Nelson , over the French fleet in the Mediterranean , which not only reflects the highest honour on the officers and seamen by whom it has been atchieved , but affords a prospect of the most beneficial . consequences to the future interests of the British Empire .
' Gentlemen of the House of Commons , ' I am commanded to convey to you his Majesty ' s particular thanks for the supplies which you have so liberally granted , and by which you have manifested both the extent of the ' resources which this kingdom possesses , and the spirit with which they are employed by the Commons of Ireland for the preservation of the state . His Majesty laments the necessity which calls for tlie imposition of fresh burdens on his Majesty ' s subjects ; but he trusts that they will see how much their present safety and their future happinesa depend on their exertions in the arduous contest in which they are engaged :