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SENATOR:

OR,

Parliamentary Chronicle.

CONTAINING

AN IMPARTIAL REGISTER:

RECORDING, WITH THE UTMOST ACCURACY, THE

PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES

OF THE HOUSES OF

LORDS AND COMMONS.

Being the FIRST SESSION in the

Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain:

Held in the Year 1796.

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VOL. XVII.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Saturday, Dec. 31.

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The Speaker informed the Houie that the perfon employed to compile an index to the Journals from the 35th to the 45th volume inclufive had finifhed his work, and that copies were left in the office of the Clerk of the Journals for fuch Members as might call for them.

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Doctor Lawrence stated, that he intended to make a Motion foon after the recefs relative to the Negotiation. He declared, that he was a pupil of the old fchool, and that it was his opinion even the bafis of Negotiation brought forward by his Majefty's Minifters was inadmiffible. It had been faid, in the debate of lait night, that Minifters had very properly left a door open to future Negotiation. To this fentiment he was decidedly oppofed. The object of his Motion would be to filence that declamation which was fo commonly used on the other fide of the Houfe whenever the prefent war was the fubject of difcuffion, and to unite all thofe who had approved of the original and fundamental principle of the conteft. He fhould make the Motion he alluded to on the firft vacant day after the recess.

Mr. Douglas moved, "That this Houfe fhould receive no petitions for private Bills after the 20th of February next."--Ordered.

The Election Committees that flood in the Orders of the House for difcuffion early in February, were feverally adjourned to the end of that month.

Lord Stopford appeared at the Bar, and stated, that his Majefty had received, with great fatisfaction, the expreffions of attachment which his faithful Commons had made in their Addrefs-His Majefty had alfo ordered a copy of the Treaty between him and the Prince of Hefle Darmstadt to be laid before the Houfe.

The Bill for the relief of the Poor was committed.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that the blanks being filled up in the Committee, it was his intention to propofe, as he had formerly ftated to the Houfe, that the Bill should be printed, fo that Gentlemen might have the opportunity of confidering it during the recefs.

Mr. Jekyll reminded the Honourable Gentleman that it had been fuggefted to print more copies than would ferve Members of Parliament only, for the purpofe of diftribution to perfons out of that Houle, who could afford much useful information connected with the object of the Bill. He hoped that this fuggeftion was not to be overlooked. 4 F

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