LORD INCHIQUINin moving, That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty for, Returns of the present state of the Irish and Scotch Peerage, showing what Peerages have become extinct since the union of those countries with England, and what extinct peerages are now represented by inferior titles; the number of Scotch and Irish Peers without seats in Parliament; and the roll of English, United Kingdom, Scotch, and Irish Peerages at the respective dates of union, and at the present time; also, the number of Irish Peerages created since the Union, and the number of British Peerages conferred on Irish and Scotch Peers, and the years in which they were 1780 granted, said, he was induced to make his Motion in order that he might be able, at an early period next Session, to bring under their Lordships' notice the exceedingly anomalous and unsatisfactory position of the Scotch and Irish Peers, with a view to the removal of the disabilities under which they laboured.
§ Motion agreed to.