§ Mr. Hurstpresented a petition from the Albion Fire and Life Insurance Company, against the bill for incorporating the Globe Insurance Company, praying to be heard by counsel against the same. Referred to the committee ,on the said bill. On the motion of sir J. Sinclair, the house went in to a committee, to consider the report of the committee on the Expiring Laws, in which a resolution was agreed to, that the act of the 45th of his present majesty, for allowing, under certain restrictions, until, the 1st of August 1806, the bringing of coals by inland navigation to the cities of London and Westminster, had nearly expired, and that it was advisable to renew it. The house having been resumed, the report was ordered to be received tomorrow.—Mr. Calcraft obtained leave to bring in a bill to vest certain messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in trustees, for the purpose of securing his majesty's docks at Portsmouth, and extending the works at Dover. Mr. C. immediately brought up the above, which was read a. first time.—Mr. Vansittart obtained leave to bring in a bill to consolidate the several acts for building and improving the streets leading to Westminster-hall and the two houses of parliament.—Sir C. Price brought 871 up a bill for making certain regulations concerning Smithfield market. Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time.—On the motion of sir J. Newport, the Irish Butterage bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. —On the motion of sir J. Newport, the Irish Militia bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.—Mr. Secretary Windham, in moving that the report of the committee on the Training bill be taken into further consideration, observed, that it was his intention to propose several new clauses, and suggested the propriety of postponing any further discussion until the report should be again considered, which he meant to move should take place on Thursday.
§ Mr. Canninghad no objection to the course of proceeding which the right hon. gent. suggested, although it would be attended with some inconvenience to the gentlemen who remained in town solely on this account. He should avail himself of the next opportunity to take the sense of the house on the principle of the bill, which in his opinion, no new clauses whatever could possibly amend.—A variety of clauses was then introduced by Mr. Windham, and the report was ordered to be taken into further consideration on Thursday.
[BARRACKS The Secretary at Warmoved for the production of copies of certain letters which passed between the secretary at war, the barrack master general, the deputy barrack master general, and major Davis, barrack master of Sandown, relative to the building of barracks, and the hiring of barns, &c. in the Isle of Wight, including the letter of the secretary at war, on the 15th of February last, which communicated his in majesty's order for the dismissal of Mr. Atkins from his office as barrack master of Sandown.—Ordered. They were accordingly presented, ordered to lie on the table and to be printed.
Mr. Robsonthought proper to add to the papers just presented another document connected with the same subject. In calling the attention of the house to this business, he could assure gentlemen that his sole motive was to prevent the improper expenditure of the public money, and he was persuaded that the right hon. secretary had no other object. With a view to that object he had to move for a paper to the production of which he hoped there would be no objection, as it would serve to afford the house much useful information, The 872 hon. member then moved for a Copy of the Memorial presented by John Pritchard, late barrack master of Sandown, to the Commissioners of Military inquiry, relative to certain glaring peculations in the barrack department.
§ The Speakersuggested to the hon. mover, that the latter words of his motion were rather such as it was unusual to introduce or admit in describing a paper to be submitted to that house.
The Secretary at Warconcurred in the observations of the Speaker, and suggested the insertion of "certain practices," in lien of the words objected to.—This suggestion was adopted, and the motion, so amended, was agreed to.