HC Deb 09 December 1803 vol 1 cc156-7

The Speaker acquainted the House, that in obedience to the order of the House made on the 10th of August last, he had transmitted the Vote of Thanks of the House to the different Lords Lieutenant of Counties in Gt. Britain, and to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to be by them communicated to the Officers and Privates of the different Corps in the respective parts of the United Empire; and that he had received, through the Lords Lieutenant of Counties, and the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, answers expressive of the thanks of the different Corps for the notice which Parliament had been pleased to take of their zeal and exertion.—Mr. Forster, from the Exchequer, presented at the bar an account of the sums of money issued by his Majesty pursuant to addresses of the House, which had not been made good by Parliament. Ordered to lie on the table.—Mr. Hobhouse brought up the report of the Portugal Wine Bonding Bill, which was received, and read a third time and passed.—The Malt Tax Bill, the £5,000,000 Exchequer Bills Bill, the Ex- piring Laws Bill, the Irish Provisions Bill, Irish Sugar Drawback Bill, English Sugar Drawback Bill, Irish Promissory Not Bill, Curates Relief Bill, and Irish Oats Distillation Bill, were read a third time, passed, and ordered to the Lords.—The London Dock Bill was read a second time and referred to a Select Committee.—Mr. Secretary Yorke presented at the bar a return of the Volunteer and Yeomanry-Corps, as far as the same could be made out, in compliance with an order of the House, dated the 10th of August. Ordered to he on the table, and to he printed.—Sir F. Burdett brought up the Pancras Overseer's Bill. Read a first time; ordered to be read a second time.—A new writ was ordered, on the motion of Mr. Sargent, for the election of a Burgess to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Westloe, in the room of Thomas Smith, Esq. who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.