§ The bills upon the table were forwarded in their respective stages. Among these, the Irish Loyalists Commissioner's, the Irish Assessed Taxes bill, and the bill for continuing the Proceedings of the house of lords in the case of Mr. Justice Fox in the next session of parliament, were severally read a third time and passed.— The Exchequer Bills bill, the Forgery Laws Extension, the Warehousing, the Smuggling Prevention, the Cochineal bill, the Isle of Man Smuggling bill, and several private bills, were brought from the Commons, and respectively read a first time.— The earl of Suffolk, in allusion to a bill which he conceived was before the house, which he understood appropriated large salaries to Prize Agents, and allowed great emoluments to certain other persons, observed, that in many instances, the naval forces were treated with great partiality, with respect to captures, to the p[...]e- 703 judice of the land forces; he particularized some cases, where he conceived the army were fully as well entitled to its share of the proceeds of the captures, as the navy, and yet the whole was claimed by the latter, viz. at Toulon, and at the Cape of Good Hope; the latter place could not have been taken, were it not for the co-operation of the land forces. A stronger instance obtained, in the case of a detachment he had himself commanded while serving in America: the whole of what was taken on that occasion was captured by that force; and yet, because it could not be so well conveyed to the place of its ulterior destination by land, as by sea, the property was claimed by the navy. The noble earl made no motion on the subject.— The Woollen Manufacturers bill was read a third time, and passed. Lord Holland took the opportunity briefly to express his disapprobation of the principle of the bill; and his satisfaction at understanding it was intended the general subject should be taken up early in the next session of parliament.—Lord Holland presented a petition from certain inhabitants of the island of Guernsey, whose names were thereunto subscribed, against the Smuggling Prevention bill, praying to be heard by their counsel against the same. His lordship observed, he should take an opportunity to move that the petititioners to be heard by counsel in a subsequent stage of the bill. The petition was ordered to lie on the table.