THE Parliamentary Register; OR HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF The moft interefting SPEECHES and MOTIONS; accurate THE HISTORY O F THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES THE HOUSE of COMMONS, In the FIRST SESSION of the Sixteenth Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN, Appointed to be holden at WESTMINSTER May 18. THE Commons affembled agreeable to the return of the writs, and a number of members being fworn by the Lord Steward, they attended His Majefty at the bar of the House of Peers, where the Lord Chancellor addreffed the Clerk in the usual terms *-That His Majefty deferred declaring the caufes of calling this Parliament until there fhould be a Speaker of the House of Commons--and therefore directing them to chufe a fit perfon to be their Speaker, and present fuch perfon the next day. The members being returned to their own House, and the pleasure of His Majefty being fignified by Mr. Hatfell, The Marquis of Graham moved "That the right ho- Marquis of nourable Charles-Wolfran Cornwall be called to the chair." Graf n. This was feconded by Sir George Howard. Mr. Fox highly approved of the motion for re-feating the Mr. Fox. late Speaker. He rofe only for the purpose of taking notice *For the detail of the bufinefs of electing a Speaker, vide this work, vol. I. for the year 1780. VOL. XV. B of |