§ The house met this day, pursuant to, his majesty's proclamation, for the dispatch of business. At three o'clock Mr. Quarme,, deputy usher of the black rod, appeared within the bar, and delivered a message from the lords, desiring the immediate attendance of that house in the house of peers to hear his majesty's most gracious speech from the throne. The Speaker, accompanied by several members, accordingly attended. On their return, the Speaker took the chair, and acquainted the house, that in pursuance of the directions of an act, passed in the 24th year of his present majesty, he had issued his warrant to the clerk or the crown, to make out new writs for the election of members to serve in parliament for the following places: viz. for Warwick, in the room of G. A. W. Shuckburgh Evelyn, baronet, deceased; for 25 Horsham, in the room of P. Ross, esq., deceased; for Dumfries, in the room of Sir R. Laurie, baronet, deceased; and for Tolness, in the room of John Berkley Burland, esq. deceased. The right; honourable John Foster, Sir Evan Nepean, G. B. Mainwaring, esq. and several other members, took the oaths and their seats. A bill for the more effectual presenting clandestine out-lawries, was, according to custom, read a first, and ordered to be read a second time.—New writs were ordered to be issued for members to serve in parliament for the following places, viz. for Rutland, in the room of Lord Carberry, deceased; for Devizes, in the room of the right hon. H. Addington, now lord visc. Sidmouth, called up to the House of Peers; for Buckingham, in the room of Lord Proby, deceased; for Leitrim, in the room of Lord Clements, now earl of Leitrim; for Haddington, Jedburgh, Dunbar, N. Berwick, and Lauder, in the room of the right hon. T. Mainland, who, since his election, hath accepted the office of governor of Ceylon; for Peebles, in the room of Sir James Montgomery, bart. who, since his election, hath accepted the office of his majesty's advocate for Scotland; for Edinburgh, in the room of the right hon. C. Hope, who, since his election, hath accepted the office of lord chief justice Clerk, of Scotland.