THE SENATOR: OR, CLARENDON'S Parliamentary Chronicle. CONTAINING AN IMPARTIAL REGISTER; RECORDING, WITH THE UTMOST ACCURACY, THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSES OF LORDS AND COMMONS. Being the SIXTH SESSION in the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain, Held in the Year 1796. FORMING A SOURCE OF POLITICAL INFORMATION HIGHLY INTERESTING TO EVERY BRITISH SUBJECT. VOL. XIV. LONDON: Printed for C. COOKE, No. 17, Paternofter-Row; AND SOLD BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. HOUSE OF LORDS. Tuesday, December 1. ROYAL ASSENT. The Lord Chancellor, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Spencer, under a Commiffion of the Great Seal, gave the Royal Affent to the following Bills, viz. Bill prohibiting the making of Starch, Hair-Powder, &c. for a limited Time. Bill prohibiting the Exportation of Candles, Tallow and Soap. MR. REEVES. Lord Albemarle moved, That the House be fummoned, to go into an inquiry respecting a late Pamphlet, (Reeves's.) Agreed. LORD AUCKLAND. Lord Lauderdale moved, that a Copy of the Grant made to Lord Auckland, in the year 1789, be laid before their Lordfhips; and likewife Copies of the Grants made to fundry Perfons from the year 1791. Lord Auckland apologized for troubling their Lordships, at the prefent moment, with fome particulars refpecting the grant made to him in 1789, it being rather irregular; but he trufted, they would excufe it, as fome private concerns would prevent his being prefent when the fubject would be difcuffed by the Noble Lord who made the Motion. His Lordfhip faid, when he returned from the Court of Spain in the year 1789, it pleafed His Majesty, as a token of his approbation, and as a reward for the fervices he had rendered the nation by his negociations there and at the Court of France, to pafs a grant to him and his two Sons, under the Privy Seal, from the four and a half per cent. fund, and which had afterwards been given up upon the reverfion of the Tellership of the Exchequer being made over to him, from which they inferred that the grant was illegal; but this was by no means the cafe, for the first lawyers, with respect to knowledge and abilities, had given their opinion to as its legality. MR. BURKE. Lord Auckland, conceiving, from the two Motions being made at the fame time, that it was intended to follow it up by one respecting Mr. Burke's grant, paid many high compliments to that Gentleman's private virtues, public conduct, and literary talents, and lamented, that while that Gentleman was borne down by domeftic calamities, any difcuffions like that which he fuppofed was intended should take place. Lord Lauderdale expreffed his furprize at the fpeech which the Noble Lord had juft made, which, he contended, was perfectly out of order. As to the legality of the grant made to the Noble Lord in 1789, he had very great doubts, notwithstanding the high authorities be had brought forward; but what aftonished him moft No. 12. ****** 4 A was, |