§ At four o'clock a ballot took place for a committee to take into consideration the Petition complaining of an undue return for the borough of Wey–mouth. Soon alter, Mr. White appeared at the bar, and presented the reduced list, which was as follows:—W. H. Freemantle, esq.; right hon. C. Yorke; W. Taylor, esq.; J. Osborne, esq.; sir W. W. Wynne; G. Porter, esq.; sir T. H. Liddell; sir G. Cornwall; sir E. Knatch bull; sir W. Milner; sir J. Frederick; A. Browne, esq.; R. Vyse, esq.; nominees, W. Baker, esq. sir J. Anstruther.—Mr. whitbread gave notice, that on the 12th of Feb. he would move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the existing Poor Laws. It was his in–tention to give gentlemen all possible time to examine this subject with the at–tention which it, merited. If therefore the house would, at the period which he had mentioned, permit him to bring in the bill, and would allow it to be read a first time, he would then move that the second read–ing should lie over till after the Easter holidays.—The lord advocate of Scotland, after a prefatory speech, in which he en–tered into an historical detail of the vari–ous regulations relative to the stipends of the Scottish Clergy, and in which he expressed the highest regard for that respecta–ble body of men, moved for leave to bring in a bill to suspend for a certain time the powers granted to the lords of session and council in Scotland, by an act of the Scotch parliament, in the 4th session of the first parliament of queen Anne, so far as they went to the augmentation of the stipends of the clergy in Scotland. His view was, that during the suspension, those sti–pends should be rendered adequate to the purpose for which they were originally in–tended.—Lord A. Hamilton gave notice, that on Monday se'nnight, he would make a motion relative to the Third Report of the commissioners of the Military Inquiry.—Mr. W. Wynne brought in a bill for more effectually preventing depredations on the river Thames and its vicinity, which was read a first time.