§ The house met this day pursuant to his majesty's proclamation, for the dispatch of business. At three o'clock Mr. Quarrne, yeoman usher of the black rod, appeared within the bar, and informed the house that the lords, authorised by virtue of his majesty's commission, desired the immediate attendance of the house, in the house of peers, to hear the commission read. 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 warrants to the clerk of the crown, to make out new writs for the election of members to serve in parliament for the 13 following places: viz. for the city of Gloutester, in the room of John Pitt, esq. deceased; for the district of burghs of St. Andrew's, Perth, Dundee, Cupar, and Forfar, in the room of David Scott, esq. deceased; for the county of Monmouth, in the room of James Rooke, esq. deceased; for the borough of Boroughbridge, in the room of the hon. John Scott, deceased; and also, that he had issued his warrant to the clerk of the crown in Ireland, to make out a new writ for the election of a member to serve in parliament for the county of Waterford, in the room of the right hon. John Beresford, deceased.—Lord Castlereagh and several other members took the oaths and their seats.—The bill for preventing clandestine Outlawries was, according to custom, read a first and ordered to be read a second time.—New writs were ordered for the following places: viz. Dunwich, in the room of S. Barrie, esq. who, since his election, had accepted the office of the lord treasurer's remembrancer in the court of exchequer; for Queen's County, Ireland, in the room of sir Eyre Coote, who had accepted of the situation of lieutenant-governor of Jamaica; for Dunbartonshire, in the room of sir J. Colquhoun, who had accepted the Chiltern hundreds; for Bedfordshire, in the room of the hon. St. A. St. John, called up to the house of peers: for Leominster, in the room of the hon. C. Kinnaird, now a peer of the United Kingdom, and for Yarmouth, in Southampton, in the room of sir Home Popham, who had accepted the Chiltern hundreds.