Commons Sitting of 11 July 1807

ELECTION PETITIONS.
The Chancellor of the Exchequerrose in pursuance of his notice. He observed, that as the session would not be long, it would be inconvenient to take into consideration such Election Petitions as were likely to occupy any considerable length of time. He had thought it his duty to inquire into this subject, and he found that there was not one petition, on which the house could rely in this respect. He proposed, therefore, to discharge all the orders, for the purpose of nominally appointing subsequent days, at such a distance of time, as should shew the parties that the house did not intend to take petitions into consideration during the present session. If the parties to any of the Irish petitions could agree on the subject, it might be well to enter into the consideration of such of them as would require commissioners to be sent to Ireland, in order that the commissions might act during the vacation.—The several orders were then discharged, and, beginning with the petitions complaining of double returns, the various petitions were fixed for consideration, on the 9th, 1Oth, 11th, &c, of September.