§ The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the East Retford Witnesses' Indemnity Bill, and several private Bills; the Lords Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Four-per-Cents and the Haymarket Removal Bills were read a second time. Various Accounts were presented relative to the Trade of the Country, according to orders; as well as an Account of the Charges incurred by the East India Company at Canton.
§ Petitions Presented. For Opening the China Trade, by the Earl of DERBY, from Preston:—By the Earl of CASSILIS, from Ayr:—By Lord NAPIER, from Dumfries:—By the Earl of HAREWOOD, from Kingston-upon-Hull:—By Lord DURHAM, from Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sunderland, and Darlington:—
§ [The feeling of the petitioners his Lordship said, pervaded all the manufacturing districts, but he apprehended Ministers meant to renew the Charter for the East-India Company.
Lord Ellenboroughsaid, that nothing which had fallen from him, or any of his colleagues, could warrant such an inference.