HL Deb 03 June 1805 vol 5 cc721-2

The order of the day being moved for the second reading of the Smuggling Prevention bill:

Lord Holland

called the attention of the house to the petition he had presented on a former evening from the inhabitants of the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, praying to be heard by their counsel against certain provisions of the bill. It was his intention to move, that the petitioners should be heard by their council.

Lord Hawkesbury

said, that the objections of the parties were stated rather as against certain provisions of the bill, than to its principle. The committee was of course the fittest stage for the hearing of counsel, and to that he had no objection.—The bill being read a second time, and committed for to-morrow,

Lord Holland

moved that the petitioners be heard by their counsel in the committee, and that the lords be summoned for to-morrow, on which motion both were ordered.