\ I4"AITi&S.I fikdl§TE R 1444 Vii:o4tp _ Ar1i.406 ___ _ . - - • - NAVAL ADMINISTRATION... . • I • Earl StANTIOTiE, adveltit l to the notice given. !...y the Earl of DArniev, of a Motion relative to the Administration of the. Naval • Alfaits of the' country, particularly sts connected: .with' what he must considef our nfortunate war with the United States of America thought it right to move, for the intinmation of the House, for a letter write', by himself, to Sir Roger Curtis, Admiral Domett, and another Officer, in 1807, with the forty-one questions therein contained, and alvi a Report from Capt. Lloyd, of. the'Racoon. and other Papers rel'ati've: to a sailing experiment in 1797, invented by WM (Earl Stanhope). The Papers were ordered. RATE OF WAGES. • Lord Viscount Stint ovrit, adverted to a Bill on the Table, brought from the Commons, for repealing so much of certain Acts in Eng : land and Scotlaud as directed Magistrates at' the Quarter Sessions to ;ix the Wages of Artificers Artizans, Handairaftsmen, and la bourers. and observed, that the existence of these Acts had, Instil lately, been unknown, partien'orly an Act of Queen Elizabeth, which • had to into desuetude, and the existence of which was unknown • to the. Magi-trates, and even to high autho r i t i es in the Law, as well as to the CommAtee of the House of Commons, which had the sub . jeot under consideration last Session. Ile was satisfied there was no necessity for Itim to point out to the enlightened minds of the it Lord-hips the pernicious consequences which must result from the operation of Acts of this description, he should therefore mei ely now move that the Bill be read a second time.—The Bill was.read a second time and ordered to be committed. —Adjourned. WEDvESDAY, APIITT. 7. Chamberlayne's Divorce Bill was read a third time, and passed. The Earl of DARN LIN moved for an account of the numher and the state of the British ships of war on the Halifax Station on the first days of every month, ti ont April 1812 to February last inclusive. i)rileied to be produced. The Earl of LtvERPOOI. presented a Petition from certain indivi duals concerned,.against the practice of registering and employing as British ships, vessels built in India and other p arts of Asia, pray •• it-lief..&c.—Ordered to lie on the table. Tire Doke of ATHOL presented a Petition frtmi the Society for Ilse prop%gation of Christian knowledge in Scotland; twaying, with. reference tb 'the arrangement to be made i.y Rulia:rent for the fu. sure Government of the British territories in India ; for an opportu nity of extending the benefits of the Institution to that quarter. Ordered to lie on the table.—Adjourned. • THURSDAY, APRIL 8. • A Message from the Commons brought tip the National Debt Bill, the Regent's Park Bill, and several private Bills. The West Middlesex Water works Bill was read a second time. The Earl of LIVERPOot brought down a Message from the Prince Regent, in which his Royal Highness informed the House, that the assistance afforded by Parliament last year to Portug al, had not -only c mtri;Juted to the safety of that k in g dom, but a lsor to thejsueeess of the operations dating the last eampaioi in Spain. - Di' Royal Higluless trusted that the House would enable him to continue the same support to that country during the present 'ear ; and also to make such additional exertions as might be thought necessary. His Lordship then moved that the Message Fhoulct be taken into consideration on Tuesday next.—Ordeied. Tile Curates' Bill was ordered to be printed ) and farther consi dered after the recess.—Adjourned. -; FRIDAY, APRIL 9. • EAST INDIA CHARTER. The Marricis of W ELLESLEY rose on the Ordcr•of the Day, (the Lords'being summoned) to make his motion rot papers, and to in teodoce the m•pw : :tion of general policy, with respect to the future Government of India. The Noble 'Marquis first considered the que.tion the hi:..Lest importance to th e country, reviewed time conduct of the p.. - esent and former Governments of India, and con teAed, that o nr e•ppiev in that part of the world had been as well v - ,;erned as po , ..dmic. His Lordship, while lisct:ssing the commer cial poqcy, and the project of an open trade. was of opinion, that lee prejudices and cwooms of the tPtives of In.tia were pot so ad verse to Enropeatm commerce as had been represented. He con cleiYed that ;he merc'mants, havin admission to India, might lied advantage, plovideml they ‘vere to trade under restrictions; at the mie time it was necessal•y i to repeal certain Act; in fort:c in India, that which enabled the Company to send home Duo- MA:!$ tlieu without licence. liad consl4cri'd Anil, 11. • the. Bo.oluticuis paytsed on the In , llan que.tion. in another part of the Legislature, totally inapptieable, and ult ; :2 , it the necessity of fur ther engniry into the atiairs of India, before they procrecied to exa -i»itie witnesses heture a Committee. Having offered a clear view of the internal situation of the Indian.territories, and the great objects which Government were called on to consider ' conelnded by moving for Papers •applicable to t he. Affai r s of India, and the sib- Jeet to be discussed. After a debate of some leng th, during which. 1..0rd Liverpool, the Earl Buckinghamshire, and other Noble Lords, delivered their opinions, the motion was negatived, without a divibiou.—Adjonrued. HOUSE OF COMMONS. - MONDAY, APRIL 5. •Mr. PITT moved the .second reading of the North Wilts Canal Bill, when Mr. SHAW LirsnvuE-moved, as an amendment, that it be read this day six months. • - A long conversation ensued, dntirg which the Bill was supported by Mr Freemantle, M Brown, Colonel Ellison, and Mr. Lyttle ton ; and . was opposed by Mr. Simeon and Mr. Hart Davis. A di. vision then took place :--Fur the second reading, 156; against it, 69.—M8j0rity 97, for the Bill. On the motion for bringing up the Report of the Attainder of Treason Bill, Mr. YORKE opposed it, , contendirm that to make a person guilty of high treason incapable, not only of traimnitting property to his posterity, but of being made the channel of its transmission, acted as a prevention of the crime. Sir S. RomiLLY ably supported the Bill; and, after a lour dig. cus , ion: a diviAmi took place on the motion of Mr. Yin ke, the Report be bro , n up this day six rinintlis:"—For the Amend ment, b 3; against it, 4:1. - Majority 12. aitainst the Bill. • The Sinecure Lill was read a third time, .and passed.—Ad ; jourued. • TUESDAY, APRIL 6. TAW. GEAny presonted a Petition from several 'Freeholders of Kea, against the (taut phoposed to he built in that comity. Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented three Petitions in tavonr of it. A conversatioo then took place between Sir W. Geary, Sii T. Knatchbull, and Mr. Caleraft ; after which, the Bill on this subject was ordered to be Committed. in Mr. JOHN Smt - ra presented a Petition from Nottirgbam, favour of peace. He stated, as an instance of the distress of the in habitants, that in one parjish, consisting of seven thousand p ersons, one -third received parochial The Petition was ordered to be read, when it appeared to be printed. Tile SPEAKER observed, that it was contrary to the rules of the House to receive a printed Petition, and it was accordingly with drawn. Mr. LOCK II ART rose to make - the motion of which he had givers notice 'On the subject of the present state of the laws relatiihr to bankrupts. It had certainly., he said, been the intention of .that portion of our ance:tori who had originated the bankrupt laws, t g o iiivc to the fair, but unfortunate trader, every possible advantie that justice would admit, consistent with the real interest and se curity ofthe claims of his creditors. In process of time, however, many glaring abuses, in spite of 'all 'endeavours to the contras ., " had crept into the administration of those laws, and ha rd wha rendered wey them in their present effect almost the direct opposite o t the re in their origin designed 'to Iw. He thcretbre moved as a liesoln. tiet; that the Home hill, this Session, take into consideration the Acts if Parliament relative to banktuts ; and also te administra tion of the said laws.—Agreed to nem. c oy:. —Adjournehd. WrDNEDAY, APRIL 7. JOINT PAYMASTERS OF THE FORCES. Mr. CREEVEY rose, iu pursuance of his notice, to submit to tlit Hoiise a resolution, that the place gf one o f the Joint Pa y masters of the Forces sholild ' be abe!slied. It was said that no shying could be effected by the measure he proposed, as the present salary could not be reduced if the office's %%TIT vested in one person ;- but, the salaries of the Deputies might he added to that of t tLe Right Kononrable • Geo ilii tlem opposite (Mr. Lone;) , a u hen have 5f.:0 ii. per nnitin, and a year to Lord C. Somerset ouktbe saved. : But it Was not on the ground of econoMp that he proposed the nit:is:nye 'because the office in qKstiOn was a ki niiap i cntary place, for pose which tht , poesitir did nothsiug but re. geive the 2CP0.1. Oed; file only Way to abOIIOI.O*CCA) (