HC Deb 25 February 1806 vol 6 c187

A petition was presented from the debtors confined in the jail of Nottingham, which was ordered to lie on the table.—Mr. Grey, sir A. Piggott, and Mr. H. Addington, and sir C. Pole took the oaths and their seats.—Mr. Eyre presented a petition from the maltsters of Nottingham, complaining of the, additional duties imposed upon malt by the act of the 42d of his present majesty. Ordered to lie on the table.—Mr. Johnson from the office of the chief secretary for Ireland, presented at the bar an account of the number of non-resident clergymen, &c. in the dioceses of Ossory and Kilmore. Ordered to lie on the table.—Dr. Duigenan brought in a bill for enforcing the residence of the clergy in Ireland, which was read a first time.—The secretary at war gave notice, that he would on Thursday submit a motion for leave to bring in a bill to indemnify those who had advised his majesty to permit the landing of a certain number of foreign troops its this country. This measure, the right hon. gent. added, was conceived to be the more necessary in consequence of the amount of the German legion, which had been recently so very much recruited on the continent.—Lord Henry Petty moved, "that a committee be appointed to examine and report the amount of the joint charge on the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, between the 1st of Jan. 1801 and the 1st of Jan. 1806, what proportion thereof has been defrayed by Great Britain and Ireland respectively, and what balance remains due from either part of the united kingdom to the other, according to the provisions of the act of the 39th and 40th year of his present majesty, for the union of Great Britain and Ireland; and likewise to consider of and report the best means of ascertaining in future the amount of such balance as may be due from Great Britain or Ireland, respectively, at the expiration of each year." Ordered.