: THE SENATOR: OR, Parliamentary Chronicle. CONTAINING AN IMPARTIAL REGISTER: RECORDING, WITH THE UTMOST ACCURACY, THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSES OF LORDS AND COMMONS. Being the FIRST SESSION in the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain: Held in the Year 1796. FORMING A SOURCE OF POLITICAL INFORMATION HIGHLY INTERESTING TO EVERY BRITISH SUBJECT. VOL. XVIII. LONDON: Printed for C. COOKE, No. 17, Paternoster-Row; AND SOLD BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thursday, April 20. A new Writ was ordered for a Commissioner to serve in Par liament for the County of Dunbarton, in the room of William Cunningham Bontine, Esq. 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 Secresy appointed to inquire into the causes 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 second Report of the Committee of Public Finances, which was also ordered to be printed. On the Motion of Mr. Hobart, a Committee was appointed upon the expiring laws, with instructions to report thereupon to the House. The Irish Loan Bill was read a Third Time, and passed.. HOUSE OF LORDS. NATIONAL CONCERNS. The The Duke of Grafton called the attention of the House to the state of public affairs, which appeared to him to be alarming, and the more so because his Majesty's Ministers 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 first was, that the Emperor had negotiated, or was negotiating, a separate peace. next was, that Ireland was in a state of insurrection in many parts of it; and the last was, that the fleet at Portsmouth was in a state in which no obedience was paid to the commands of the officers. These were points of the most serious importance to this country, and he lamented most sincerely that there was not in the House this day, after so confiderable a recess, 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 advised his Majesty to make a communication on all, or fome of these important points. The No. 33. * 70 moft |