Commons Sitting of 17 February 1804

Preamble
[MINUTES.]—
The following members

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were chosen of the committee appointed to try the merits of the petitions, complaining I of an undue return for the Borough of Honiton, viz. The Hon. Wm. Broderick, R. Dallas, Esq. Sir W. M. Milner, Bart. Sir R. Lawley, Bart. G. Wood, Esq. Hon. St. A. St. John. Fonblanque, Esq. Wm. S. Poyntz, Esq. Viscount Hinchinbrook. Hon. J. Wm. Ward. Hon. Andrew Foley. J. Brogden, Esq. J. Lowther, Esq.—Nominees. Sir J. Newport, Bart. Wm. Best, Esq. The Committee immediately proceeded to business.—Dr. Duigenan, after a few prefatory remarks, in the course of which he took occasion to allude to the law as it exists in this part of the United Kingdom with respect to public notaries, moved for leave to bring in a bill to regulate the business of public notaries in Ireland. Leave granted.—On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the third reading of the Irish Bank Restriction Bill, the Committees of Supply and of Ways and Means were postponed to Monday, and the Committee on the Mutiny Bill to Thursday next.—The right hon. gent. then moved, that the House should adjourn till Monday.

IRISH INSURRECTION.—
Sir J. Wrottesleyrose, and adverting to the notice he had given of his intention to submit a motion to the House on Monday next, for the production of certain papers respecting the insurrection which took place in Dublin on the 23d of July last, observed, that this subject was not so pressing in point of time as to induce him to urge it, under the present circumstances, and he would therefore postpone it sine die; but yet it was of such importance that he felt it his duty to state, that he should hold himself pledged to the House and the Country to bring forward the business, as soon as the circumstances to which he had alluded shall have ceased to exist.