HC Deb 24 April 1806 vol 6 c903
Mr. Glassford

took the oaths and his seat for Dunbartonshire, in the room of sir J. Colquhoun, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds —Mr. Fellows moved, that a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the act of the 2d of James I. as related to the making and vending of boots and shoes. —Lord Castle reagh moved for a return of the number of effective men in the army, from the 1st of Jan. 1793, to the 1st of Jan. 1801, the recruits procured in each year, and the bounties given them: 2dly, of the number of men raised for rank, permanent or temporary, during the same period.—Lord Howick presented the estimates of the expences arising from the additional pay ordered by his majesty in council to be given to the officers and seamen of the navy, between the 1st of May, and the 31st of Dec., 1806. —Mr Paull gave notice, that on Monday he would move for the printing of his first article of impeachment against lord Wellesley. —Ordered, on the motion of Mr. Whitbread, that a message be sent to the Lords, with a list of witnesses to be summoned to attend the trial of lord Melville, and Mr. Whitbread was ordered to bear the message to the Lords. It was afterwards ordered, that a note be given to the serjeant at arms, with the name of the right hon. George Tierney, and orders to serve him with notice to attend at all times the trial of lord Melville.