nied to him, and on a relapse, medical assistance was brought him. His medical attendant prescribed to him the use of the same cordials, and he got better. One night he had another relapse, and disturbed the prisoners with his cries, who wished to get into his cell to afford him relief or assistance. The turnkey, however, said he could not disturb the governor, although they represented to him that the man was in the agonies of death. At length he ventured to awake the governor, but medical assistance arrived too late, for in a few hours the man died. On the coroner's inquest were sworn men under the influence of the governor of the prison. One of the medical men said, that he was called an bour too late; and another, that even then all the medical assistance would have been unavailing.

Adjourned till Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, JUNE 1..

Lord John Townsend moved for a New Writ for the University of Cambridge, in the room of Sir Vicary Gibbs, now one of his Majesty's Judges.-Ordered.

NEW MINISTERS.

Mr. Canning said, that seeing in his place an honourable gentleman who had lately originated a motion respecting the present Administration, and seeing also in his place another hon. gentleman who had expressed his intention of making, on Wednesday next, a motion of similar tendency, he thought it might be convenient to take that opportunity of apprising those hon. gentlemen, that he had on that day received an intimation from a noble friend of his, a Member of the other House of Parliament, that upon the morning of that day his Royal Highness had been graciously pleased to give directions to that noble friend (the Marquis Wellesley) to proceed forthwith in taking such measures as appeared to him best calculated to form an efficient Administration (Hear, hear!)

Mr. Wortley thought it necessary, in consequence of the statements that had appeared in several of the newspapers, to put two questions to a right hon. gentleman opposite VOL. III.-1812.

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(Mr. Ponsonby). There were at present two sorts of political writers in the periodical press, those whose sole aim it was to attack public men, and those who were employed in defending them. He thought it but fair to give the right hon. gentleman and his friends an opportunity to meet and publicly repel the insinuations which had been so lavishly thrown out against them in certain publications. He had framed two questions with this view, which he should now put to the right hon. gentleman, and which, to prevent mistakes, he had committed to writing. He therefore asked Mr. Ponsonby if any proposal for forming an Administration had, up to that morning, been made to him or his friends, and rejected upon either public or personal grounds? Mr. Yorke rose to order. He contended that the hon. gentleman had no right to put such questions.

The Speaker said, that as to the mere matter of right, no hon. Member could occupy the attention of the House unless when speaking to a motion before the House, or in originating or giving notice of one.

Mr. Wortley bowed to the authority of the Chair, while he confessed at the same time that he thought he might have been privileged by the usage of the House, in putting, at a crisis of such importance, questions of this nature.

After a short and desultory conversation, it was at length agreed upon that Mr. Wortley should be allowed to put his question. Having put the first,

Mr. Ponsonby answered, that no proposal for forming an Administration had, up to that morning, been made either to him or any of those whom he had the honour to call his friends, in this or the other House of Parliament, and rejected upon either public or personal grounds.

Mr. Wortley then asked Mr. Ponsonby if it were true that any conditions had been proposed and insisted upon by him or his friends, before they would agree to form a part of an Administration?

Mr. Ponsonby said, he thought his answer to the former question involved and implied an answer to this; for that as no proposal was made, no conditions could be demanded.

Lord Castlereagh wished, to know of an hon. Member (Col. Martin), whether it was his intention to bring forward, on Wednesday, the motion which stood for that day?

Colonel Martin replied, that that must depend upon what occurred between that time and Wednesday. He trusted there would be no occasion for his motion.

IRISH LOAN.

A long conversation took place between Mr. W. Pole, Sir J. Newport, Mr. W. Wynne, and Mr. Brougham, as to the propriety of bringing forward the Irish Loan. It was at length agreed upon that the House should go into a Committee, lest the contractors of the loan should be injured by delay. The House having then gone into a Committee, Mr. W. Pole moved a Resolution for raising a loan of 1,500,000/. bearing an interest of 5 per cent. which he stated to be about 4s. Sd, more than the per centage of last year.

After some conversation between Mr. Pole, Mr. Baring, and Sir J. Newport, the Resolution was agreed to.--The House resumed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up on Wednesday.

The Perceval Annuity Bill was read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords.

The House then went into a Committee upon the Orders in Council, when witnesses were examined.-Adjourned.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

TUESDAY, JUNE 2.

Mr. Perceval's Family Provision Bill was brought up from the Commons, and, on the motion of the Earl of Liverpool, read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow.

DISSENTERS.

Earl Stanhope, after adverting to the present situation of a number of persons, forming a majority of his Majesty's subjects, he meant the Non-conformists, in consequence of the late construction of the existing laws, and referring to a promise given to this body of men by the late Mr. Perceval, to meliorate their situation, proposed a Bill for the relief of Members of the Church of England, and others, from unjust penalties and disabilities. His lordship stated, that the Bill did not touch the Test or Corporation Acts, nor upon the question of Catholic Emancipation. He merely now wished to have the Bill read a first time, and hat it should be printed.

The Earl of Liverpool objected to the word " unjust” in the title, as assuming that to be a fact which was a question for the House to determine; and Earl Stanhope agreed to leave out the word.

The Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

Lord Redesdale moved the order of the day for taking into consideration the Report of the Insolvent Debtors Bill. The Earl of Moira, after complimenting the noble and learned lord for his conduct in bringing forward this mea sure, moved, with a view to the further consideration of some amendments which he wished to propose, to discharge the order for taking the Report into consideration; suggesting, at the same time, if it was found impracticable to get through the Bill in the present session, that a temporary Insolvent Bill might be passed.

After some conversation the order was discharged.

The House then resolved itself into a Committee on the Orders in Council, when several witnesses were examined, after which the House adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TUESDAY, JUNE 2.

The Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the case of Mr. St. John Mason, was ordered to be printed.

ADMIRALTY DROITS.

Mr. Brougham rose, agreeably to notice, to move for a continuation of the Accounts relating to the Droits of the Admiralty. In submitting this motion, the honourable and learned gentleman took occasion to advert to the various opportunities which at all times presented themselves for a misapplication of those funds, under the check, or rather no check, to which they were at present submitted. If the returns, for the continuation of which he now moved, were at any time necessary, they were more particularly so at the present moment, when, in consequence of the temporary suspension of the Government, the proceeds of this fund might be employed in supplying the exigencies of the

State, which ought only to be defrayed by a vote of Parliament. There were also other sums paid out of this fund, of which it was necessary that Parliament, if it had not the controul over them, should have some knowledgethere were occasional grants to different branches of the Royal Family. He concluded by putting his motion; and it was afterwards ordered, that an Address be presented to the Prince Regent. praying that he would be pleased to order, that there be laid before the House, an Account of all Sums taken from the Droits of the Admiralty, and repaid, up to the present day.

NEW MINISTERS.

Mr. Martin (of Galway) said, previous to the withdrawing of the motion on the subject of an efficient Administration, of which he had given notice for to-morrow, he wished to put two questions, the answers to which would enable him to judge whether he ought to withdraw that motion altogether, or to vary it in any sort. There was, he knew, seldom a person of any consequence in such an assembly as that, who had not what the French called a double to represent him. To such person, if there was any such in the House, he wished now to put similar questions to those which had been put yesterday by an hon. gentleman to a right hon. gentleman (Mr. Ponsonby), whom he did not now see in his place, namely, "whether, up to that moment, a proposition had been made to him or his friends, by any person whatever, to form part of an Administration, to which they had given a refusal on public or personal grounds?" &c. He assured the House that no man was privy to his intention of making the present motion, and therefore that no man to whom the present questions might be found to be addressed, could justly be accused of feigning astonishment, as be understood, if report spoke truly, was the case last night, in requiring the reading and re-reading to him of questions which had been framed in his own presence. He hoped he was not irregular or disorderly in alluding to the name of a noble marquis (Wellesley) and asking if any such refusal had been made to a proposition coming from him? The line of conduct to be observed by him to-morrow should depend upon the answer he received from the hon. baronet opposite (Sir J. Newport). Sir John Newport declared that he had no means of information on the subject alluded to by the hon. gentleman,