fecond time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole House. In a Committee of the whole House went through the Bill for reftraining intercourfe with certain of his Majesty's fhips, &c. to which fome amendments were made. The fame was then read a third time and paffed with the amendments, and ordered to be returned to the Commons for their concurrence thereto. The Bill for preventing and punishing attempts to feduce any of his Majefty's Forces by Sea or Land, went through a Committee of the whole Houfe: the Report was received, and the Bill read a third time and paffed. The Duke of Montrofe, before the palling of the Acts, rose and expreffed his confidence that the two Houfes of Parliament would continue to exert that vigour, energy and spirit, in support of the Executive Government, which they had hitherto always done. Lord Grenville faid, that he should not think it neceffary to trouble their Lordships with more words on thefe Acts, than to obferve that he entirely coincided in what had just been faid by his Noble Friend, and doubted not but at such a time as the prefent every individual in the country would ftand forward and exert himself with spirit and energy in defence of his coun try, and of every thing that was dear and valuable to him. The two Bills, together with the Bill for the affeffed Taxes, and thirty other Bills then received the Royal affent by Commiffion. The Commiffioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Clarence, and the Earl of Liverpool. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuesday, June 6. MILITIA. Sir John Mordaunt moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend that part of the Militia Act, relative to the Allowances to the families of persons serving in the Militia. granted. Leave Alderman Curtis alfo moved for leave to bring in a Bill refpecting the Allowances to be made to the families of perfons ferving in the City of London Militia. Leave granted. A Meffage from the Lords informed the Houfe that their Lordships had agreed to the Bills for punishing attemps to produce mutiny in the navy and army, and to restore intercoufe with certain fhips, with feveral amendments, to which they defired the confent of the Houfe. The Amendments were agreed to and the Bills returned to the Houfe of Lords where the Royal Affent was given to them by Commission. Adjourned. HOUSE HOUSE OF LORDS. Wednesday, June 7. TEAST'S DIVORCE BILL. Previous to the fecond reading of the Bill, Counsel were admitted to the Bar, from whom it appeared that Mr. Teaft, a Merchant of Bristol, was married in the year 1784 to Mifs Eleanor Buckle; that in the year 1795 fhe went on a visit to her mother at Cheltenham, were fhe contracted an acquaintance with Mr. Bedwell, a Banker there; that she went from thence to a place at no great distance in the country, where she continued to refide there with him in a state of adultery, and had fince leaving her husband been delivered of two children, both of which the Bill went to baftardize. Witneffes were called to prove these facts: but as there was no direct evidence of the nonaccefs of the hufband, the Houfe confented that further witneffes might be heard in the Committee in fupport of the Claufe for baftardizing the children. The Bill was then read a fecond time, and ordered to a Committee of the whole House the 20th instant. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Wednesday, June 7. STAMP DUTY BILL. Mr. Rofe moved, that the commitment of the Bill be put off to Friday the 9th inftant. Mr. Huffey wished to know whether it was really meant that the Bill fhould be committed on that day. It was a fubject of great importance. Mr. Rofe acknowledged that it was of importance, and regretted that he had been obliged to move fo often for its being put off, but there were fome objections urged against that part of the Bill refpecting Newspapers; and it was wished to examine the objection, and to fee how far they could be remedied. It was impoffible to fay that the Bill would pofitively be committed on that day but he hoped it would. Mr. Hobhoufe faid, that he had attended in his place to state fome objections to the Bill. But he was perfectly fatisfied with what Mr. Rofe had faid. On the question for the further recommitment of the Corpoporation Caufes' Bill, a converfation took place. The Houfe divided upon a Motion, whether the Speaker fhould leave the Chair. It was propofed that Worcester should be excepted from the Bill, A divifion took place, but lefs than 40 Members being prefent, an adjournment took place of courfe. HOUSE OF LORDS. Thursday, June 8. DIVORCE BILL. The Report on the Bill for the Divorce of Sir Godfrey Webfter from his prefent Lady, was brought up with feveral amend, ments, received, and the Bill ordered to be engroffed. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A Ballot for the Flintshire Election ftood for this day, but, there not being one hundred Members prefent at four o'clock the Houfe adjourned. try HOUSE OF COMMONS. Friday, June 9. FLINTSHIRE COMMITTEE. The following is the Lift of Names on the reduced Lift, te the merits of the Flintshire Election: R. Richards, Efq. The Speaker acquainted the Houfe that the perfons ftyling themfelves lawful Electors of the City of Canterbury, having neglected to enter into a recognizance for profecuting the Petition, in confequence the order was discharged. Mr. Sheridan begged to ask a question or two of the Honourable Gentleman oppofite to him (Mr. Rofe.) The Stamp Duty Bill, he faid, in which the Duty on Newspapers was included, had been deferred from day to day, and he was from that in hopes it was intended to be given up entirely. It however kept Gentlemen in town from the uncertainty; and he hoped if it was to be brought forward, the Honourable Gentleman would then mention a day which fhould be peremptory for fo doing. The fecond queftion was, as to a Bill the refolution for which had been carried by a folitary majority of one, (refpecting the benus to the Loyalty Loan-holders.) On fuch a majority he could could not fuppofe the Minifter would proceed with the meafure. He begged however to be informed on this head. Mr. Rofe faid, that he was equally forry with the Honourable Gentleman as to the delays which had taken place on the Stamp Bill. He did not, however, know of any idea of its being given up. Some confideration had indeed been thought neceffary as to what accommodations could be made to the proprietors, printers, &c. of newspapers; and he believed he could now with certainty fay, that on Wednesday the 14th infant, the bufinefs would be brought before the Houfe. As to the measure of the Loan, which had been only carried by a majority of one, he could affure the Honourable Gentleman it was not intended to be given up. The Bill allowing Difcounts to the Contributors of fums to the Loan of Eighteen Millions, was read a third time and paffed. Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS. Heard Counsel in the Caufe of the York Buildings' Company against Mackenzie. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The Chairman of the Committee, appointed to try the merits of the Flint Election, reported to the Houfe, that the Committee had determined John Lloyd, Efq. to be duly elected. That Sir Thomas Moftyn was not duly elected, and that his defence was frivolous and vexatious. Mr. Jolliffe mentioned, that a Bill had been paffed laft year, to prevent Partridge Shooting from commencing before the 14th of September; that much inconvenience had arifen from this, and that he should, if it met with the concurrence of the Houfe, move for leave to bring in a Bill, to permit the Shooting of Partridges to commence at an earlier period, or at the, ufual time, viz. the ift of September. Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS. Mr. Anftruther was heard as Counsel against the Claim of Sir Adam Ferguson, to the Title of Earl of Glencairn. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tuesday, June 13, Drayton Inclosure Bill was read a third time, and passed. SHIP OWNERS. Mr. Alderman Lushington thought it incumbent on him to explain the grounds on which he proceeded in the introduction of this Bill.---He was principally induced to bring it forward on account of a legal decifion which lately took place in the Court of King's Bench. In confequence of that decifion, a heavy and fevere refponfibility is laid on the Owners and Malters of Ships, for the goods, &c. they take on board ;---it was by no means his intention to impeach the correctness of that legal decifion: he believed it to be agreeable to the Law of the land. But on this account a Legiflative remedy was required to remove the dangerous refponfibility which was thus thrown on the Owners of Ships. The decifion, in the case alluded to, proceeded on the construction of the Bill of lading, by which a general obligation was incurred of delivering the goods fafe and undamaged, fuch as when they were fhipped, making allowance for the risks at fea. Thus a feverer refponfibility is laid on the Mafters and Owners of Ships, than was understood either by them or their employers. Even fhould the fhip be wrecked on fome undiscovered rock, and damage enfue to the goods, they are made refponfible. The decifion was thus made to ftand on the fame ground respecting fea carriage and carriage of goods by land; whereas there was an obvious diftinction between them and rifks peculiar to the one to which the other was feldom or never expofed.---It was to relieve Ship Owners, &c. from refponfibility under thefe particular risks that the prefent Bill was intended---its principle was affented to by leading men in the commercial world, by all Infurance Offices, and particularly by that of Lloyd's. He hoped therefore there would be no objection to the committing of the Bill, as the principle, after being examined into, was found to be unobjectionable. Some Gentlemen, he underfood, had objections to urge against fome of the claufes, but all were unanimous in defiring that fome measure might be devifed and adopted to relieve Ship Owners from that very fevere and weighty refponfibility, and to reftore them to the fame fituation in which they ftood before the late decifion in the King's Bench. The Bill was then read a fecond time, and ordered to be committed. FORESTALLING AND REGRATING. Mr. Mainwaring moved, that the Bill for preventing foreftalling, engroffing, and regrating live cattle previous to their being brought to market, fhould be committed. On the question for the Speaker's leaving the Chair, the |