The motion was put and carried. The Bill for encreafing the rate of fubfiftence tó be paid to Innkeepers and others on quartering Soldierspaffed a Committee of the whole Houfe, and the Report was ordered to be received to-morrow. The Bill for remedying defects in the Law refpecting offences committed on the High Seas, was read a fecond time, and ordered to be committed to a Committee of the whole House to-morrow, on the motion of the Attorney General. MILLWRIGHTS. Sir John Anderson brought up a Report of a Select Committee, to whom the Petition of the Master Millwrights was referred. The fubftance of the Report was, that there exifted among the journeymen Millwrights, within certain diftricts in and about the metropolis, a combination which was dangerous to the public, and which the mafters had not fufficient power to reprefs. The Report being read, Sir John Anderfon moved, "That leave be given to bring in a Bill to prevent unlawful Combination of Workmen employed in the Millwright bufinefs, and to enable the Magiftrates to regulate their wages within certain limits." Mr. Wilberforce faid he did not object to the principle of this motion, for it appeared to him to be a very worthy one; but he rofe for the purpose of fubmitting to the Houfe, whether it might not be advisable to extend the principle of this motion, and make it general against combinations of all workmen. Thefe combinations he regarded as a general disease in our fociety; and for which, he thought, the remedy fhould be general; fo as not only to cure the complaint for the prefent, but to preclude its return. He thought the worthy mover of this fubject deferved praise for what he was doing, as far as the measure went, but if it was enlarged, and made general against combinations, he fhould be better fatisfied with it, and then it would be a meafure that might be of great fervice to fociety. The Speaker faid that the fuggeftion of the Honoarable Member who fpoke last, could not be carried into effect, because the order on the motion could not be more than commenfurate to the petition on which the Report of the Committee was founded, and that petition only prayed that a Bill might be brought in to prevent Combinations amongst Workmen in the Trade of Millwrights. But it would be competent to the Honourable Member himself, or any other, to to make what motion he pleafed for enlarging the provifions of this Bill. The question was then put and carried. Sir John Anderson and Mr. Alderman Lushington were directed to prepare and bring in the Bill. The Order of the Day for the Committee on the Overfeer's Affiftant Bill was deferred to Tuesday next, on the motion of Mr. Simeon. Mr. Rofe moved, that there be laid before the House an account of the Surplus of the Confolidated Fund on the 5th of April, 1799.-Ordered. He moved alfo, that there be laid before the House an account of the Produce of Taxes from 1793 to 1798 and 1799, as far as they can be made up.-Ordered. A Meffage from the Lords informed the House, that their Lordships had agreed to the Scotch Distillery Bill, and to the Bill for allowing Ships to fail from the Island of Newfoundland, without convoy.-Adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS. COMMISSION. The Royal Affent was given by Commiffion to the Scotch Distillery, the Newfoundland Carrying, and a Road Bill. The Commiflioners who fat in their robes on the Woolfack were the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Spencer, and Lord Leicester. Lord Effex took the oaths and his feat. MARQUIS OF ABERCORN'S DIVORCE BILL. Previous to the fecond reading of this Bill, Counsel were admitted to the Bar; when the Petitioner's Counsel opened his cafe, by very briefly ftating the facts which had brought him as reprefentative for his Lordship to that Bar; namely, his marriage with his prefent Lady, their cohabitation together as man and wife, her criminal correfpondence with Captain, their elopement together in November last, the fact of adultery committed by them at Clifford's Hotel, and the fubfequent fentence of divorce which had been obtained in the Courts below. The marriage was proved by Mr. Secretary Dundas, the other circumftances by the fervants of his Lordship, and the officers of the Courts. Counfel were then ordered to withdraw. The Bill was read a fecond time, and ordered to a Committee of the whole House to morrow. The Bills on the table being forwarded, the Houfe adjourned. HOUSE A. ABBOT, Mr. moves for the appointment of a Committee to en- Accounts, various, brought up by Mr. Abbot, 1112. Addrefs to his Majefty, on the Union with Ireland, 656. Attorney General, ftates his approbation of the bill for the better Auckland, Lord, moves for an account of the exports and imports B. Banks, Mr. remarks of, on the evil tendency of a Union with Ire- Belgrave, Lord, remarks of, in fupport of the bill for the better Bird, Mr. Wilberforce, objects to the refolution on the Union with Browne, Mr. Hawkins, obfervations by, on the bill for better re- Budget, India, ftatement of the, by Mr. Dundas, 1073. Burdon, Mr. obfervations by, on the reducing the militia, 977. Buxton, Mr. objects to the opinion of Mr. Coke of the damage 993. Camden, C. Camden, Lord, fpeech of, in reply to fome obfervations of the Canning, Mr. fpeech of, in reply to Mr. Sheridan's objections to Chancellor, Lord, obfervations of the, on the appeal cause from the Civil Lift, motion by Mr. Abbot, for an account of the, 1072. Cold Bath Fields Prifon, proceedings and enquiry into the manage- Copper, proceedings in the Committee for enquiry into the rife of, D. Darnley, Lord, fpeech of, on the Union with Ireland, 960. In the Dent, Mr. remarks of, on the motion for the abolition of the Slave Defpard, Colonel, petition of, prefented by Mr. Courtenay, 965. Divorce bills, proceedings on, Bartelot's 902. 995. Williams's, fupporters of the Slave Trade, and recommends a medium of the E. Eaft India goods, motion by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for F. Finance, notice of a motion relative to, by Sir John Sinclair, 985. Fitzwilliam, Earl, fpeech of, in oppofition to the refolutions rela- G. Game Laws, motion by Mr. Shaw Lefevre for a bill for the better Geary, Sir William, prefents a petition for cutting a tunnel under Gower, Lord Grenville Levifon, fpeech of in fupport of the Union, 931. Grant, Mr. William, obfervations by, in fupport of the Union Grenville, Lord, fupports the motion of Lord Auckland for the H. Hawkesbury, Lord, fpeech of, in reply to the obfervations of Mr. a 2 Hobart, |