man, warehouseman and porter, 11. 1s.-For every waiter employed in a tavern or inn, 21. excepting occafional waiters. After thefe claufes had been received, the House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up the next day. The Houfe having gone into a Committee on the Irish corn trade bill, Mr. Hutchinfon expreffed his diffatisfaction at fome of the provifions of this bill, but faid he thould take occation at another time to ftate his objections, and to bring the cafe of the Irish tanners before the House. The Irish militia transfer bill, and the medicine duty bill, were read a third time and paffed, Mr. Alexander brought up the report of the Committee. of ways and means refpecting the Irish budget; and it was ordered that it fhould be an inftruction to the Gentlemen appointed to bring in a bill relative to the lith excife, to make provifion puifuant to the refolutions contained in, thet faid report. The additional excife bill was read a fecond time, and committed for the next day, The other orders of the day were poftponed, and the Houfe adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, JUNE 24. The loan bill, and twenty-one other public bills, and twenty-one private bills, in all forty-three bills, received the royal affent by commiffion. The commiffioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Walfingham, and Lord Alvanley. One bill returned, was brought up by meffage from the Commons, being agreed to by that honourable Houfe. Several bills were brought up from the Commons, prefented by Mr. Alexander, Mr. Burland, Lord Folkftone, and others, and read a first time. · The other bills on the table were read a ftage each; two were read a third time. CLERGY FARMING AND RESIDENCE BILL. time. He He then called the attention of the Houfe to the exemption clause, and faid, the noble Secretary of State would. explain to the House what was the nature of the duties of the chaplain-general of his Majefty's forces. Lord Pelham then explained the motives which had induced his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief to abolish the attachment of a chaplain to each regiment, and to allow them half-pay for the purpofe of getting rid of them. They had been thought of very little tife, and his Royal Highness had thought it would produce a more effectual means of providing for the fpiritual fervice of the army, to appoint a chaplain general, invefted with authority, fubject to his (the Commander in Chief's) directions, to give orders for curates to do duty to every brigade or large body of the military, in a place hired for the purpofe, wherever they might be ftationed. His Lordship faid, that this mode of proceeding was found to have fecured the actual fervice of a fpiritual perfon to the regiments, much more effectually than by the former mode. He ftated the quantum of pay that the chaplain-general received for the additional trouble the alteration fubjected him to, and the mode in which that pay was fur nithed. The office was doubly efficient, as it had perfonal clerical duties, the performance of which made a part of it, as well as the duties of the adminiftering the ecclefiaftical arrangement of providing curates to the different regiments. The chaplain-general of the forces, therefore, appeared to him to be as much entitled to exemption from all penalties. of non-refidence as a chaplain of the navy. He therefore moved, that the words, or as'a ch. plain-general of his Majefty's forces," be inferted." Lord Grenville faid, he was not fufficiently mafter of the fubject to fay much upon the merit or defect of the appointment of a chaplain-general of the forces; but he could not help regretting the difmiffion of the chaplains from their reIpective regiments. Let the appointment be either right or wrong, it was a new appointment made by the state, which had ample refources, and ought to provide an adequate provifion for it, without deducting or drawing from the funds of the church, and moft efpecially without drawing from the funds created by the poor farmers and others in fome diftant parish, who ought not to be deprived of the advantage and affiftance of a refident parish prieft, for whofe fervices they actually paid. His Lordship faid, he had the highest respect Tt2 for for the royal and illuftrious perfon who had so much merit in the great care and strict difcipline he manifested in his whole conduct over the army, at the head of which he was placed ; but still entertaining the fentiments, and adhering to the prin ciple which he had ftared the preceding day, viz. that if Govern ment, for purposes of ftare convenience, creates new officers, 'Government ought to have made an adequate provifion for their new officers, and rot tax a diftant parish. by making it pay for a paftor of whom they are deprived; he must, therefore, refift the motion. The Lord Chancellor faid, he could only, in addition to what had fallen from his noble Friend the Secretary of State, affert, that the words now moved to be inferted had been more than once most amply debated in very full Houses, and agreed to, and that the preceding night they were rejected in a very thin Houfe. Lord Radnor denied that there was any great difference, as he had been a teller in both inftances. His Lordship ftated the numbers on each day, and added a few words of obfervation on the prefent motion. The Houfe divided on the motion, Contents Not Contents Majority Lord Alvanley then drew the attention of the Houfe to that part of the exemption claufe which referred to the fellows of colleges. He admitted that the meaning of the legislature was correctly right, but it might be misunderstood; and therefore he would move an amendment, to elucidate the meaning of which was a good deal debated. Other amendments were moved and divided upon, and fome accepted. Having gone through the bill, it was moved that the bill de país. This was objected to; and, after a debate, it was on the queftion refolved in the affirmative, and that a meffage be fent down to the Commons to acquaint them therewith. Adjourned. HOUSE HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, JUNE 24. The Southern Whale Fishery extenfion bill, was read a first time, and ordered to be read a fecond time on Monday following. The report of the bill for improving the Highlands of Scotland was prefented. The amendments were feverally read over and agreed to, and the bill with the amendments ordered to be engroffed. The East India fhipping bill was ordered to be committed on Monday following. The bill for preventing the cutting and damaging of horse hides was read a third time and paffed. A meffage from the Lords informed the Houfe, that their Lordships had agreed to the bribery oath bill without any amendments. Mr. Alexander prefented the report of the Committee on the affeffed tax confolidation. The refolutions were read over, and agreed to, and a bill ordered to be brought in, in conformity thereto. The report of the militia pay bill was ordered to be taken into confideration on Tuesday next; and the militia adjutants' bill was ordered to be committed on that day. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, that there be laid before the Houfe, an account of all the exchequer bills which have been iffued, according to the fubfifting act of Jaft feffion. WAYS AND MEANS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, "That the House refolve itfelf into a Committee of the whole House, to confider further the ways and means for the present exigencies of the state." The House refolved accordingly, and The Chancellor of the Exchequer laid before the Committee the terms upon which he had contracted for the lotteries. He faid that he had found it moft prudent, on the prefent occafion, to reduce the prices and number of the tickets. Last year there were no less than go,coo tickets, with a power of increaf ing them to 100,000. This year it was propofed, that the num ber ber of tickets thould be limited to 70,000, with a power of in creafing them to the number of 80,000. He stated, the contract had been made to extend both toward the fervice of Great Britain and Ireland, and that the clear profit which would arife to the public would be 315,000l. fterling, which fomewhat exceeded the profit of last year's lotteries. The number of tickets propofed in the prefent lottery would at the rate of 131. 35. od. yield the total amount of 3.380,000l. It was his with, and he was fure that it was the with of the Houfe, to guard against large infurances, which the plan adopted last year tended greatly to encourage. He had found from experience, that confiderable inconvenience, hurry, and confufion, ufually arofe from the mode of limiting the num ber of lotteries. It was now intended to raise by three lotteries the fum of 1,523,0331. 6s. 8d. of which fum 1,166,2571. 98. would be appropriated to the fervices of Great Britain; and the fum of 356,7751. 17s. 8d. towards the fervices of Ire land. Mr. Babington, in a speech of above an hour's continuance, objected to the principle of lotteries altogether, as tending to excite gambling and immorality. The Chancellor of the Exchequer obferved, that the fpirit of gambling to which the hon. Member principally alluded, namely, low infurance, had been entirely done away by the mode of drawing the lottery last year; and as to lotteries in general, he was convinced they were fo regulated as to have no fuch tendency; and as the country in general had a bias in their favour, he thought it fair, particularly at fuch a crifis as the prefent, to turn that bias to the public advantage. Mr. Wm. Smith and Mr. Wilberforce made alfo fome objec tions to the principle of lotteries, which were answered by Mr. Vanfittart and Mr. Corry, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer's motion was put and agreed to, and ordered to be reported on Monday. On a queftion put by Sir Henry Mildmay, the Chancellor of the Exchequer propofed that the bill for the defence of the country should be taken into further confideration on Monday following; and that the report on the bill for raising a contribution from real property, fhould be poftponed till Tuesday, and that from perfonal property till Wednesday following. EXCISE |