§ The malt duty and the pension duty bill were brought from the Commons, and read a 1st time.—A message was also brought from the Commons, stating that they had given permission to sir T. Featherstone and Myrven Archdall, esq. to attend the committee of the lords on the 18th current, agreeably to their request.—Earl Camden informed the house, that the papers relative to the state of the national defence could not be ready to be laid before the house sooner than Monday.—Lord Mulgrave presented, the copies of part of the additional papers which had been moved for relative to the rupture with Spain. It had been impossible, his ldp. said, to have copies of the whole prepared to be laid on the table of the house that day. They were, however, all printed, and ready to be delivered to their ldps. It was his wish that the consideration of this subject should take place on Friday next. He therefore moved that the lords be summoned for that day. Or dered.—Adjourned.