§ Judgment was given in the Appeal Cause Redington against Redington. the decree of the Court of Exchequer in Ireland was reversed as to part of the matter in dispute, and a reference was made with respect to the other part, back to that court.—The royal assent was given, by commission, to sixty-nine public and private bills. The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the duke of Montrose, and lord Walsingham.—The Consolidated Fund bill, the Plate Glass Duty bill, and the Smuggling bill, were read a third time and passed.—Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Calcraft, Mr. Fuller, Mr. Giddy, and several other members of the house of commons, brought up the bill for continuing the proceedings relative to the impeachment of lord Melville notwithstanding any prorogation of parliament; which was read a first time, and some private billswere returned agreed to.—On the motion for the third reading of the bill to amend the act respecting bankrupts having privilege of parliament, the duke of Norfolk said, he objected neither to the principle nor policy of the bill; but he thought it required some amendment in this instance, that any person who should chuse to sue out a statute of bankruptcy against a member of parliament who never had any transactions in the way of trading, may compel his appearance. This ought to be guarded against as an absurdity, however unlikely it was that the inconvenience should arise. The Lord Chancellor said, the bill only went to this, to enable the court to put in an appearance for a bankrupt, a member of parliament, where a personal summons had been served on him; and this was to supersede the necessity of the distringas, which was greatly burthensome to the plaintiff, and often ruinous to the-defendant. The bill was then read the third time, and passed.—The duke of Norfolk moved, that the articles of impeach 812 ment against lord viscount Melville be printed, for the use of this house only. The Lord Chancellor said, he presumed the noble duke, by using the word only, meant to restrict the use of the printed articles emphatically to the house, and he much approved of the intention.—Ordered.