Sitting of 27 April 1807

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The Speakercame down to the house at five minutes past threee o'clock, and immediately after prayers were over was proceeding to count the house, its order to take the chair, when Mr. Quarme, yeoman usher of the black rod (who had been waiting in the lobby for the Speaker's arrival) announced himself in the usual way, with a message from the house of peers. The Speaker consequently took his seat in the chair, and Mr. Quarme came into the body of the house, and delivered the following message:—"Mr. Speaker, The lords, authorized by virtue of his majest. commiss. for declaring the royal assent to several bills which have been agreed to by both houses, and also for proroguing this present parliament, do desire the immediate attendance of this hon. house in the house of peers, to hear the commission read."—The Speaker then accompanied by most of the members present, proceeded to the house of lords, and on his return calling the members round the table, read to them a copy of the King's speech; after which the members separated.—Thus ended the First and only Session of the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

LIST OF PUBLIC ACTS
Passed in the First and only Session of the Third Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and in the 47th Year of the Reign of his present Majesty George III. with the Date of their meeting the Royal Assent.
January 6, 1807.
1. An Act to revive and make perpetual and to amend an Act, made in the 42d Year of his present Majesty, for the further Regulation of the Trials of controverted Elections or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, and for expediting the Proceedings relating thereto.
January 16.
2. An Act for raising the Sum of £10,500,000 by Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of Great Britain for the Year 1807.
January 22.
3. An Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1807.
4. An Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates, in England; and certain Duties on Sugar, Malt, Tobacco, and Snuff, in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year 1807.
Feb. 19.
5. An Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments; and for extending the Times limited for those Purposes respectively, until the 25th Day of December, 1807, and to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the 1st Day of Michælmas Term 1807.
6. An Act to continue, during the present War, and until 1 Year after the Termination thereof by the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, an Act made in the 44th Year of his present Majesty, for empowering his Majesty to accept the Services of such Parts of His Militia Forces in Ireland, as might voluntarily offer themselves to be employed in Great Britain.
7. An Act to declare that certain Provisions of an Act of the last Session of the last Parliament, intituled, An Act to permit the free Interchange of every Species of Grain between Great Britain and Ireland shall ex-
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tend to Grain the Produce of those Countries only.
8. An Act to continue for the Term of 7 Years certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, for preventing the Importation of Arms, Gunpowder, and Ammunition, and the making, removing, selling, and keeping of Gunpowder, Arms, and Ammunition, without Licence.
9. An Act for allowing the Exportation annually of a limited Quantity of Worsted Yarn to Canada.
10. An Act for raising the Sum of £1,000,000 by Treasury Bills for the Service of Ireland for the Year 1807.
11. An Act to authorize his Majesty, until the 25th Day of March, 1808, to make Regulations respecting the Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope.
12. An Act to abolish certain Offices in the Customs of Ireland; and to abolish or regulate certain other offices therein.
13. An Act for investing certain Commissioners appointed for the Examination of Accounts and Expenditure relating to the Office of Barrack Master General, with certain Powers and Authorities necessary for the Examination of such Accounts and Expenditure.
14. An Act to amend several Acts, for regulating the Trial of Controverted Elections or Returns of Members to serve in Parliament, so far as the same relate to Ireland.
15. An Act to continue for the Term of 7 Years, certain Acts for the better Prevention and Punishment of Attempts to seduce Persons serving in his Majesty's Forces by Sea or Land from their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to Mutiny or Disobedience.
March 16.
16. An Act to amend several Acts for the Sale of his Majesty's Quit Rents, Crown and other Rents, and of certain Lands forfeited and undisposed of in Ireland.
17. An Act to secure the Collection of the Duties on Auctions in Ireland; and to prevent Frauds therein.
18. An Act to grant to his Majesty certain Inland Duties of Excise and Taxes in Ireland,

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and to allow certain Drawbacks in respect thereof; in lieu of former Duties of Excise, Taxes, and Drawbacks.
19. An Act to provide more effectually for regulating the Drawbacks and Bounties on the Exportation of Sugar from Ireland; and for allowing British Plantation Sugar to be Warehoused in Ireland, until the 25th Day of March, 1808.
20. An Act to suspend, until the First Day of May, 1807, the Payment of all Drawbacks on Spirits made or distilled in Great Britain or Ireland, and exported from either Country to the other respectively.
21. An Act to provide for regulating and securing the Collection of certain Rates and Taxes in Ireland, in respect of Dwelling Houses, Fire Hearths, Windows, Male Servants, Horses, Dogs, and Carriages.
22. An Act to allow for 2 Years, from and after the passing of this Act, an additional Bounty on Double Refined Sugar, and to extend former Bounties on other Refined Sugar to such as shall be pounded, crashed, or broken; and to allow for 1 Year certain Bounties on British Plantation Raw Sugar exported.
23. An Act for repealing so much of an Act, made in the 9th Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, as vests in the South Sea Company or Corporation, by the said Act erected, the sole and exclusive Privilege of carrying on Trade and Traffic to and from any Part whatsoever of South America, or in the south Seas, which now are or may at any Time hereafter be in the Possession of his Majesty, his Heirs or Successors.
24. An Act for allowing, until the 1st Day of August, 1808, the Importation of certain Fish from Newfoundland and the Coast of Labrador, and for granting a Bounty thereon.
25. An Act to allow Turkey Tobacco to be imported into Great Britain, in small Packages.
26. An Act for extending to German Yarn the Provisions of an Act made in the last Session of the last Parliament for permitting Prussian Yarn to be imported in Foreign Ships on Payment of the like Duties as if imported in British Ships.
27. An Act for granting to his Majesty, until 12 Months after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace, certain additional Duties of Excise on Brandy in Great Britain.
28. An Act for raising the Sum of £14,200,000 by way of Annuities.
March 23.
29. An Act for further continuing, until the 25th Day of March, 1808, certain Bounties and Drawbacks on the Exportation of Sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the Countervailing Duties and Bounties on Sugar when the Duties imposed by an Act of the last session of Parliament shall be suspended.
30. An Act to continue, until the 25th Day of March, 1810, an Act of the 44th Year of his present Majesty, for permitting the Exportation of Salt from the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, the Port of Exuma, and the Port of Crooked Island in the Bahama Islands, in Ships belonging to the Inhabitants of the United States of America, and coming in Ballast.
31. An Act to repeal Part of the uty on the Importation of unmanufactured Tobacco into Ireland.
32. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
33. An Act for the Regulation of his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore.
34. An Act for continuing, until the 1st Day of August, 1808, an Act of the 45th Year of his present Majesty, for allowing, under certain Restrictions, the bringing a limited Quantity of Coals, Culm, or Cinders, to London and Westminster, by Inland Navigation.
March 25.
35. An Act to secure the. Payment of the Duties on Licences granted to Persons in Ireland dealing in Exciseable Commodities.
36. An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
37. An Act to continue, until the 25th Day of March, 1814, and amend an Act, made in the 30th and 40th Year of his present Majesty, for the more effectual Prevention of Depredations on the River Thames and its vicinity; and to amend an Act, made in the 2d Year of his present Majesty, to prevent the committing of Thefts and Frauds by Persons navigating Bum-Boats, and other Boats, upon the River Thames.
April 9.
38. An Act to amend several Acts for regulating and securing the Collection of the Duties on Paper, made in Ireland; and to make perpetual so much of an Act made in the 45th Year of his present Majesty, as relates to Paper Hangings printed or stained in Ireland.
39. An Act to rectify a Mistake in an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for enabling his Majesty to settle Annuities on certain Branches of the Royal Family.
April 25.
40. An Act to grant to his Majesty, until the 29th Day of September, 1808, a Duty upon Malt made in Ireland, and upon Spirits made or distilled in Ireland, and to allow certain drawbacks on the Exportation thereof.
41. An Act to continue, until the 25th Day of March, 1808, and from thence until the End of the then next Session of Parliament, an Act, made in the 44th Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites, and Emoluments received in several Public Offices in Ireland; to examine into any Abuses which may exist in the same, and into the Mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for Public Money in Ireland.
42. An Act to continue for 21 Years, so much of certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland, as relate to the lighting, cleansing, and watching of Cities and Towns, for the lighting, cleansing, and watching of which no particular Provision is made by any Act of Parliament.
43. An Act to declare, that the Provisions of an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland in the 33d Year of King Henry the Eighth, relating to Servants Wages, shall extend to all Counties of Cities and Counties of Towns in Ireland.
44. An Act to amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for regulating and providing for the Relief of the Poor and the Management of Infirmaries and Hospitals in Ireland.
45. An Act to continue an Act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the 31st Year of the Reign of his late, Majesty King George the Second, for the better supplying the City of Dublin with Coals, and for the better Encouragement of the Collieries of Ireland.
40. An Act for raising the Sum of £1,500,000 by way of Annuities, for the Service of Ireland.
47. An Act to authorize the Payment of Prize Money arising from Captures made by Ships of his Sicilian Majesty in conjunction with British Ships, to the Sicilian Envoy, for the use of the Officers and Men of such Ships; and also the Payment of Money arising out of Proceeds of Prizes or Captures made by any other Ships or Vessels belonging to Foreign States, in conjunction with his Majesty's Ships.
48. An Act to repeal so much of certain
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Acts as relates to the Regulations or Condiditions under which Coffee, Cocoa Nuts, Sugar, and Rice, (not being the Produce of the East Indies), are allowed to be secured in Warehouses, without Payment of Duty; and to authorize the Collectors and Comptrollers of the Customs in his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and the West Indies, to administer certain Oaths.
49. An Act for permitting the Exportation of Fullers Earth, Fulling Clay, and Tobacco Pipe Clay, to any Place in Possession of his Majesty.
50. An Act to repeal the several Duties under the Care of the Commissioners for managing the Stamp Duties in Ireland, and to grant new and additional Duties in lieu thereof; and to amend the Laws relating to the Stamp Duties in Ireland.
51. An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, for abolishing Fees received by certain Officers and other Persons employed in the Service of the Customs in the Port of London, and for regulating the Attendance of Officers and others so employed, to the Out-Ports; and to appropriate the Fees of certain abolished and vacant Offices in the Customs to the Superannuation Fund.
52. An Act for enabling his Majesty to grant the Palace, called the King's House, with the Appurtenances, situate in Greenwich Park, in the County of Kent, to the Commissioners for the Government of the Royal Naval Asylum, and for enabling the said Commissioners to appoint a Chaplain to officiate therein.
53. An Act to suspend for 12 Months so much of an Act of the 2d Year of King James the First, intituled, An Act concerning Tanners, Curriers, Shoemakers, and other Artificers, occupying the cutting of Leather, as prohibits the regrating and ingrossing of Oaken Bark.
54. An Act for increasing the Rates of Subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers and others on quartering Soldiers.
55. An Act for charging the Sum of £12,000,000, Part of the Loan of Twelve Millions two hundred thousand Pounds, raised for the Service of Great Britain for the Year 1807, upon the Duties of Customs and Excise, granted to his Majesty during the continuance of the present War, and for certain Periods after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of Peace; and for providing a Sinking Fund for the Redemption of the Stocks or Funds thereby created.
56. An Act for the further regulating the Office of Treasurer of his Majesty's Navy.

KING'SPEECH.
About a quarter before three o'clock the lord chancellor, earl Camden, and lord Hawkesbury, took their seats as his majesty's commissioners. Mr. Quarme, the deputy usher of the black rod, was sent to the house of commons to require their attendance. After some time had elapsed, the Speaker, accompanied by a great number of members of the house of com-
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mons, came to the bar. The royal assent was then notified by the lords commissioners to two private bills, after which,
The Lord Chancellorin his majesty's name, delivered the following speech:
My Lords and GentlemenWe have it in command from his majesty to inform you, that his majesty has thought fit to avail himself of the first moment which would admit of an interruption of the sitting of parliament, without material inconvenience to the public business, to close the present session; and that his majesty has therefore been pleased to cause a commission to be issued under the great seal for proroguing the parliament.— We are further commanded to state to you, that his majesty is anxious to recur to the sense of his people, while the events which have recently taken place are yet fresh in their recollection.—His majesty feels, that in resorting to this measure, under the present circumstances, he at once demonstrates, in the most unequivocal manner, his own conscientious persuasion of the rectitude of those motives upon which he has acted, and affords to his people the best opportunity of testifying their determination to support him in every exercise of the prerogative of his crown, which is conformable to the sacred obligations under which they are held, and conducive to the welfare of his kingdom, and to the security of the constitution.—His majesty directs us to express his entire conviction, that after so long a reign, marked by a series of indulgences to his Roman catholic subjects, they, in common with every other class of his people, must feel assured of his attachment to the principles of a just and enlightened toleration, and of his anxious desire to protect equally and promote impartially the happiness of all descriptions of his subjects."
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, His majesty has commanded us to thank you, in his majesty's name, for the supplies which you have furnished for the public service. He has seen, with great satisfaction, that you have been able to find the means of defraying, in the present year, those large but necessary expenses for which you have provided, without imposing upon his people the immediate burthen of additional taxes.—His majesty has observed with no less satisfaction, the inquiries which you have instituted into subjects connected with public economy; and he trusts that the early attention of a new parliament, which he will forthwith direct

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to be called, will be applied to the prosecution of these important objects."
"My Lords and Gentlemen, His majesty has directed us most earnestly to recommend to you that you should cultivate, by all means in your power, a spirit of union, harmony, and good will amongst all classes and descriptions of his people. His majesty trusts that the divisions naturally and unavoidably excited by the late unfortunate and uncalled for agitation of a question so interesting to the feelings and opinions of his people, will speedily pass away; and that the prevailing sense and determination of all his subjects to exert their united efforts in the cause of their country, will enable his majesty to conduct to an honourable and secure termination the great contest in which he is engaged."—After which
The Lord Chancellorsaid, "My Lords and Gentlemen, By virtue of his majesty's commission under the great seal, to us and other lords directed, and now read, we do, in his majesty's name, and in obedience to his commands, prorogue this parliament to Wednesday, the 13th of May next, to be then here holden; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to Wednesday, the 13th day of May next."
The lords commissionersthen withdrew from the house, and the commons retired from the bar.