HC Deb 17 April 1806 vol 6 c768

A new writ Was ordered for the borough of Kinsale, in Ireland, in the room of Samuel Campbell Rowley, esq. who has accepted the Chiltern hundreds.—Mr. Francis, previously to the 2d reading of the bill for extending the powers of the commissioners for liquidating the Debts of the princes of the Carnatic, wished to throw it out, in the way of a suggestion, or a notice, that he thought it extremely proper for the members of that house, who were of the legal profession, to be prepared to give an opinion, whether, by the fair construction of the act of 1784, the court of directors of the East-India company had a right, by law, to delegate the powers with which they were invested by the act, to commissioners or any other persons?—On the motion of sir P. Stephens the house went into a committee on the acts relating to the discovery of the Longitude. A resolution granting 10,000l. for the purposes of the act was agreed to.—On the motion of sir J. Sinclair, a committee was appointed to examine into and report upon the grants already made payable out of the Forfeited Estates in Scotland, as also the balances relating thereto.