THE Parliamentary Register; O R HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF The most interefting SPEECHES and MOTIONS; accurate DURING THE Fourth and Laft Seffion of the Fifteenth Parliament OF GREAT BRITAIN. VOL. XII. LONDON: Printed for J. DEBRETT, (Succeffor to Mr. ALMON) oppofite M.DCC.LXXXIV, 10 22-37 CON ONT EN T S Of VOLUME сом HOUSE OF COMMON S. EBATE on the Addrefs, page The Houfe in Committee on Mr. Fox's DE The Addrefs, 24 Mr. Fox's firft Statement of the Affairs of India, 29 to 49 Debate on the fame, 49 Bill, and the Commiffioners' Names inferted, 315 to 326 Motion to repeal the Receipt Tax de- Debate on the Report of Mr. Fox's on the third Reading of the Bill to explain the Tax on Receipts, Ordnance Estimates debated, 412 55, 59, 108 Debate on the Report of His Majesty's New Miniftry appointed, 450 Earl Temple refigns his Poft of Secre- Debate on an Addrefs to the King not to diffolve the Parliament, 463 The King's Anfwer, 486 the King, and bringing on the Order of the Day, 492 to 522 Debate on Mr. Fox's Motion to ftop the iffuing of the public Money, 523 Mukiny Mutiny Bill put off, 526 Debate on the Earl of Surrey's Motion, that Minifters fhould have the Confi- Debate on the Earl of Surrey's Motion, Debate on Mr. Pitt's Motion for Leave to bring in his India Bill, 541 Debate on the Rumour of a Place ha- ving been offered to a Mr. Hamilton, Interview between the Earl of Galloway Debate on the Yorkshire Petition for a Debate on the first Reading of Mr. Pitt's Debate on Lord Charles Spencer's Mo- Debate on the Rumour of an Union of THE HISTORY OF TH 2 PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSE of COMMONS, In the FOURTH SESSION of the Fifteenth Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN. Tuesday, November 11. S foon as the Speaker and members returned from A. 1783. the House of Peers, to which they were fummoned to attend his Majefty, and that the bufinefs of fwearing in new members, and iffuing writs was over, the King's Speech was read from the Chair [for which, fee Lords' Debates]after which, Offsory. The Earl of Upper Offory rofe to move an Address in answer The Earl to it. He faid, that unaccustomed as he was to speak in of Upper public, and confcious of his want of the powers of perfuafion, he would not have undertaken the task of calling upon the House to vote an Address of Thanks, if he was not convinced that every part of the fpeech which had been juft read, was perfectly unexceptionable; and therefore he was confident that an addrefs in reply to it, would meet with the unanimous approbation of gentlemen of every defcription within the walls. The Speech, he obferved, recapitulated the principal political events that had taken place during the recefs of Parliament. The definitive treaties of peace, between the Court of Great Britain and thofe of France and Spain, and the United States of America, had been happily concluded; by which the feal was put to the pacification that had freed this country from a calamitous and expenfive war. VOL. XII. Though B |