Mr. S. Ricemoved, that the House should, at its rising, adjourn to Tuesday next. He named that day for the adjournment, as a ballot for an election committee was fixed for it. Of course no debateable business would be fixed for that day, and the bills which he (Mr. S. Rice) had fixed for it would occasion no discussion.
§ Sir G. Clerktook that opportunity to state, that a petition from the agent for the Queenborough petition had been put into his hands, praying that the ballot for the committee on that petition should be postponed from Tuesday next until after the recess. Probably there would be no 672 objection on the part of the House to comply with the prayer of the petition.
§ After a few words from Sir C. Wetherell, Mr. Fyler, and Mr. Wynn, who conceived that it would be impossible to grant the prayer of this petition, Sir G. Clerk consented to withdraw it.
§ The Motion for the adjournment was then put, and agreed to.