§ Earl Greysaid, that in rising-to move the first reading of the Bill, he should very briefly state the reasons out of which it had arisen. About eight or nine days ago a letter was received from the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, stating, that no new commissions of the peace had been issued since the demise of the Crown, and that it was out of his power to issue them without the order of the Executive Government; and as the Government was now in the hands of the Lords Justices, of whom he was one, he could not in one capacity issue an order which he was himself to execute in another. The commissions would all expire on the 26th instant, and it was necessary to introduce the Bill to remedy the inconveniences he had pointed out.
§ The Bill read a second time.