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HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Thursday, April 20.

A new Writ was ordered for a Commiffioner to serve in Parliament for the County of Dunbarton, in the room of William Cunningham Bontine, Efq. who has accepted of the Chiltern Hundreds.

Mr. Abbot brought up a Supplementary Appendix to the Report of the Committee of Finance, which was ordered to be laid on the Table, and to be printed.

Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Friday, April 21.

Mr. Bragge brought up the third Report of the Committee of Secrety appointed to inquire into the caufes which produced the Order in Council prohibiting the Bank from iffuing Specie in payment of their Notes, which was ordered to be print

ed.

Mr. Abbot brought up the fecond Report of the Committee of Public Finances, which was alfo ordered to be printed.

On the Motion of Mr. Hobart, a Committee was appointed upon the expiring laws, with inftruétions to report thereupon to the Houfe.

The Irish Loan Bill was read a Third Time, and paffed.
Adjourned.

No. 33.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Monday, April 24.

NATIONAL CONCERNS.

The Duke of Grafton called the attention of the House to the ftate of public affairs, which appeared to him to be alarming, and the more fo becaufe his Majefty's Minifters did not make any communication to their Lordships this day. There were three points on which he wished to be informed in an authentic manner, and on which he had hitherto no information, except what appeared in newspapers, and what he had heard as mere rumour from his acquaintance. The firft was, that the Emperor had negotiated, or was negotiating, a feparate peace. The next was, that Ireland was in a state of infurrection in many parts of it; and the last was, that the fleet at Portsmouth was in a ftate in which no obedience was paid to the commands of the officers. Thefe were points of the moft ferious importance to this country, and he lamented moft fincerely that there was not in the Houfe this day, after fo confiderable a recefs, one Minifter to give their Lordships information. He had entertained hopes, before he came to the House, that after what had happened, Minifters would have advifed his Majefty to make a communication on all, or fome of thefe important points. The

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