June 15. Motion respecting the Newfoundland Fisheries........ Petition of Captain Alexander Orr ........ Petition of the Earl of Elgin respecting his Collection of Marbles 828 Loan to the Corporation of Liverpool.......... 16. Chapel Exemption Bill............. Prince Regent's Message respecting the Embodying of the Militia 858 Stamps for the Bank of England .... 19. Salary of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland ........ Petition of Charles Hill................ Report of the Public Income and Expenditure of Ireland ......... 881 20. Report on Writs of Habeas Corpus ad Subjiciendum ....... 891 Mr. Henry Martin's Motion respecting the Grant of certain Motion respecting the Petition of Mr. Firth 21. Monuments to Generals Hay, Gore, Skerrett, Gibbs, and Gillespie 913 Committee of Supply .............. Mr. Bennet's Motion respecting Corporal Punishment in the 22. Early Delivery of Letters .... Prince Regent's Message respecting an additional Grant to the Confinement of Offenders in the Hulks Stamp Duties Bill ............ 23. Vote of Thanks to the Duke of Wellington, Prince Blucher, and Prince Regent's Message respecting an Additional Grant to the 26. Additional Grant to the Duke of Wellington Resolutions proposed by Mr. Mellish concerning the Bank of 27. Prioce Regent's Message respecting the Duke of Cumberland's Prince Regent's Message respecting a Vote of Credit ... 1007 Stainp Duties Bill ............ 28. Motion respecting Mr. Mallison's Invention ....... Prince Regent's Message respecting the Duke of Cumberland's 29. Petition respecting the Marshal of the King's Bench............... 1039 Prince Regent's Message, respecting the Duke of Cumberland's Address for a National Monument and Monuments to Officers who fell in the Battle of Waterloo Stamp Duties Bill ............. Duke of Wellington's Estate Bill 30. Duke of Cumberland's Establishment Bill Bread Assize Repeal Bill ...... July 3. Duke of Cumberland's Establishment Bill Vote of Thanks to the Duke of York Motion respecting the Profits of the Bank of England ............ 1084 Petition of Mrs. Pearson respecting her Discovery for the Cure of Scrofula, or King's-evil....... 4. Sir Henry Parnell's Motion respecting Orange Societies in Papers relating to Roman Catholics Vote of Thanks to the Duke of York 5. Slave Importation Bill ..... 6. Answer of the Duke of York to the Vote of Thanks............. 1139 11. Report on Mad-Houses ..... III. ACCOUNTS. THE FINANCE ACCOUNTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FOR THE YEAR ENDING 5TH JANUARY, 1815, will be found in the Appendix to Vol. XXX. IV. ADDRESSES. May 23. Address of the Lords on the Prince Regent's Message relating to 25. of the Commons on the Prince Regent's Message relat- ing to France 413 295 May 22. Prince Regent's Message relating to France ..... respecting the embodying of the *.....men 858 Page June 22. Prince Regent's Message for Additional Provision for the Duke of Wellington......................... 944 respecting the Duke of Cumberland's ....... 1006 1007 VII. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. Convention between Great Britain and the United Netherlands, signed at ........ 707 712 the Emperor of Russia, respectively, signed at London, May 19, 1815 ... 714 Letter from the Prince de Talleyrand to Lord Viscount Castlereagh, dated Vienna, Dec. 15, 1814.......... Letter from the Earl of Buckinghamshire to the Chairman of the East India Company, January 14, 1815, respecting the Pension granted to Lord 372 Official Communication made to the Russian Ambassador at London, on the 19th January, 1805, explanatory of the Views which his Majesty and the Emperor of Russia formed for the Deliverance and Security of Europe 178 Papers relating to the Negociations with the Government of Naples......... 59 Papers relating to the Overture from Buonaparté....... Papers relating to the Alliance against France.... Papers relating to the Roman Catholics Resolutions proposed by Sir Henry Parnell respecting the Claims of the Resolutions proposed by Mr. Grenfell respecting the Profits of the Bank of Resolutions proposed by Mr. Mellish concerning the Bank of England ...... 1001 Treaties with the Allies signed at Vienna the 25th of March 1815........ 303 VIII. PETITIONS. May 11. Petition from the Roman Catholics of Ireland ..... 247 391 Jone 15. - of Captain Alexander Orr, complaining of being dis- missed the Service without a Court Martial .... 826 - of the Earl of Elgin respecting his Collection of Marbles 828 1086 11.11.06 ...... May 5. List of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Third Reading of the Property-Tax Bill S. - of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on Mr. Tierney's Motion for Power to the Committee on the Civil List 23. ... of the Minority, in the House of Lords, on the Address upon the Prince Regent's Message relating to France............ 371 24. of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on Lord Mil- ton's Motion respecting the Grant to Lord Melville 390 25. . of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Address upon the Prince Regent's Message relating to France....... 447 of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on Sir Henry Parnell's Motion on the State of the Laws affecting the 31. ...of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on Lord Al- thorpe's Motion respecting the Application of 100,0001. granted for the Outfit of the Prince Regent....... June 6. of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Motion for going into a Committee on the East-India Ships 8. • of the Minority, in the House of Lords, on the Earl of Donoughinore's Motion on the State of the Laws affecting the Roman Catholics.... • of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Motion 692 12. of the Minority, in the House of Commons, respecting the Loan made in Holland for the Service of Russia .. 19. of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Bill for increasing the Salary of the Irish Master of the Rolls 883 28. • • of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Prince Regent's Message respecting the Marriage of the Duke of 29. . - of the Majority, and also of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Additional Grant to the Duke of Cum- 30. . - of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the first reading of the Duke of Cumberlaud's Establishment Bill 1071 • of the Majority, and also of the Minority, in the House of Commons, on the Motion for reading a second time, on that day six months, the Duke of Cumberland's Establish- ... of Public Acts passed in the Tbird Session of the Fifth Par- liament of Great Britain and Ireland -55 Geo. 3, A. D. 1157 ADDENDUM TO VOL. XXXI. Speech of the Earl of Egremont upon the Court-Martials of Captain Philip THE Parliamentary Debates During the Third Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, appointed to meet at Westminster, the Eighth Day of November 1814, in the Fifty-fifth Year of the Reign of His Majesty King GEORGE the Third. [Sess. 1814/15. HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, May 2. HELLESTONE ELECTION BILL.] Earl Stanhope presented a petition from Mr. Christopher Wallis in favour of the Bill" for preventing corrupt and illegal practices, and securing the freedom and purity of Election, in the borough of Hellestone." The noble earl said, he merely presented it for their lordships consideration, without pledging himself to agree to the prayer of it. The petition was then read, and stated the constitution of the borough of Hellestone, and that the petitioner himself had, since the report of the Commons which led to the present Bill, become a freeman and voter of Hellestone; that he was also a freeholder of the two hundreds to which it was proposed that the right of voting should be extended; and that he believed that this bill of disfranchisement was the only method, considering the present constitution of the borough, by which the election could be free and independent; and he prayed to be heard by counsel at the bar in favour of the Bill. Lord Grenville said, that their lordships ought at least to pause before they agreed to the prayer of this petition. This Bill was novel in its nature, for its object and principle was to disfranchise all, not merely those who had exercised their right of voting corruptly, but also those who had given an honest and independent suffrage. The principle of former bills was to disfranchise those who had voted corruptly, and -preserving the franchises of those who had not voted corruptly-to extend the (VOL. XXXI.) right to others in the neighbourhood. Now, the petitioner stated himself to be a freeman of Hellestone; the object of his petition was, therefore, to be heard in favour of a bill which disfranchised himself, and likewise all the rest, whether guilty or innocent. This was partly a penal and partly a remedial Bill. With respect to the penal part of it, that was merely a matter of public concern, in which the petitioner, as an individual, had no particular interest so as to entitle him to be heard: but as to the remedial part of the Bill, he might perhaps have some interest, as he was a freeholder of the two hundreds to which it was proposed to extend the right of voting as a remedy against the corrupt practices alleged to have taken place in the borough. It was not decided, however, that this extension should take place; and until it was so determined, he doubted very much whether this petitioner had any right to be heard. The most proper course, therefore, would be to adjourn the debate on the petition till to-morrow, that they might consider the subject in the mean time. This was a matter of great importance, and they ought to proceed with caution. The Lord Chancellor said, that this gentleman had the other day presented a petition which was found to have little or no relation to the points respecting which the petitioner was desirous to be heard; and their lordships would recollect that he had refused to be at one farthing's expense in producing witnesses in support of his allegations. If he had a right to be heard, it was because he had an interest: and if he had an interest, this conduct was very (B) |