Page

Petitions complaining of Imprisonment under the Habeas

Corpus Suspension Act .....

519

Feb. 23. Report of the Secret Committee of the House of Lords on

the Internal State of the Country

568

Mar. 2. Petitions respecting the Chimney Sweepers' Regulation Bill ... 690

16.

713

788

..... 1060

Earl Grosvenor's Motion for the Reduction of the Army ...... 1062

Window Tax in Ireland .....

... 1100

.... 1180

............. 1181

3. Water Companies-Supply of Water in the Metropolis ......... 1183

6. Libel Law .......

1186

8. Water Companies-Supply of Water in the Metropolis

9. Leather Tax

..... 1210

1224

Fees of Courts of Justice..............

Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth..........

10. State of the Currency of the Country

13. Prince Regent's Message respecting Royal Marriages............ 1295

Fees of Courts of Justice .....

Prosecutions instituted against State Prisoners in Scotland......

Address on the Prince Regent's Speech at the Opening of the

Session ........

28. Prosecutions instituted against State Prisoners in Scotland......

Poor Laws..............

Address on the Prince Regent's Speech at the Opening of the

Session

Messages of Condolence to the Queen, and to Prince Leopold
Mr. John Smith's Motion for a Select Committee to consider
of the Bankrupt Laws
Petitions relating to a Reform of Parliament...............................

Petition of Francis Ward, and of certain Inhabitants of Notting-

ham, complaining of the Operation of the Habeas Corpus

Suspension Act...............

104

111

Irish Grand Juries Presentment Act Suspension Bill
Resumption of Cash Payments by the Bank of England ........................ 113

Feb. 3. Lord Castlereagh's Motion for appointing a Select Committee

128

of Finance......................

Mr. Grenfell's Motion for Papers relating to the Bank of Eng-
land

131

Page

Feb. 3. Secret Papers on the Internal State of the Country presented... 133

Destruction of Income Tax Returns

... 133

Mr. William Smith's Motion for an Account of the Sums re-

ceived at the Crown Office from Mr. Hone, for Copies of the

'Informations filed against him by the Attorney General

Scotch Lunatic Asylum Bill ........

Petition respecting the State of the Civil Police of Ireland

Irish Grand Juries Presentment Act Suspension Bill

4. Mr. Hone-Informations Ex-Officio ......

......

134

142

143

145

146

Mr. Sturges Bourne's Motion for a Select Committee on the

Poor Laws....

150

5. State of the Public Finances

158

Mr. M. A. Taylor's Motion respecting the Northern Circuits ...

Lord Castlereagh's Motion for a Secret Committee on the In-

ternal State of the Country .......

6. Petitions from John Knight and Samuel Haynes complaining

of the Operation of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

Secret Committee on the Internal State of the Country bal-
lotted for.........

159

162

191

Motion respecting the Treaty with Spain for preventing the

Slave Trade

232

10. London New Prison ..........................

260

Petition for restricting the Time of Labour in the Cotton Fac-

tories

264

Lord Archibald Hamilton's Motion respecting Prosecutions in-

stituted against State Prisoners in Scotland

Mr. Fazakerley's Motion for an Inquiry into the Conduct of

certain Spies and Informers

13. Petitions from Joseph Mitchell, Thomas Evans, William Ogden,

John Stewart, and William Benbow, complaining of the

Operation of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.............

Election Laws Amendment Bill ...........

Petition from certain Inhabitants of St. George's, Hanover
Square, respecting a Reform in Parliament

High Constable of Westminster .....

418

418

Exchequer Bills Bill

.... 419

Feb. 13.

Lord Archibald Hamilton's Motion respecting the Royal

Burghs of Scotland

Page

423

.......

16. Petition of the Owners of Cotton Mills for a Special Commis-

sion to inquire into the State thereof.

Petition of John Bagguley complaining of the Operation of the

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

17. Mr. M. A. Taylor's Motion respecting the Assizes in the

Northern Counties...............

440

441

444

Petitions of James Leach, and of Benjamin Scholes, complain-

ing of the Operation of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.. 453

Lord Folkestone's Motion for a Committee to examine into the

truth of the Allegations of the several Petitions complaining

of Imprisonment under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.. 460

18. Mr. Alderman Wood's Motion for a Committee on the State of
the Prisons in the City of London and the Borough of South-
wark

Chimney Sweepers Regulation Bill......

501

506

Game Bill

508

Mr. M. A. Taylor's Motion respecting the Assizes in the

Northern Counties

510

Prosecutions for Forgery

25. Privately Stealing in Shops Bill

24. Motion respecting the Revenues of the City of London

Blood Money-Pardon of Brock, Pelham, and Power........

27 Petition from Cork complaining of the Increase of Poverty

Report of the Secret Committee on the Internal State of the

Country

Mar. 2. Conviction of Offenders Reward Bill

Election Laws Amendment Bill

Irish Courts of Justice .....

Bank Tokens

593

603

610

615

671

679

690

693

700

701

710

3. Poor Laws

735

Police Report-Petition of the Magistrates of Surrey

740

Petitions of J. Buckley Mellor and Samuel Pilling, complain-

ing of Imprisonment for the Sale of Political Books............ 741

Reform of Parliament-Petitions from Bristol

752

Petition of Robert Thom, complaining of the Operation of the

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act.....

Mar. 4. Mr. Brougham's Motion respecting the Destruction of the In-

come Tax Returns

Motions relating to the Resumption of Cash Payments by the

Bank of England

5. Mr. Brougham's Motion for a Committee on the Education of

the Lower Orders

..........

Mr. Philips's Motion for an Inquiry into the Conduct of Spies

and Informers with respect to Treasonable and Seditious

Practices..........................

6. Lord Althorp's Motion for the Reduction of 5,000 Men from

the Army Grant...........

Longitude Discovery Bill...............

Page

773

778

.... 815

820

862

876

Petition of James Robertson, complaining of the Operation of

the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

946

Poor Laws Amendment Bill-And Parish Vestries Bill

Indemnity Bill

11. Indemnity Bill

12. Lord Althorp's Motion for the Repeal of the Leather Tax...... 1043

13. Petition of Robert Swindells, complaining of the Operation of

the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

..........

1069

.......... 1109

The Chancellor of the Exchequer's Motion respecting the

Building of New Churches

1118

Tithe Law Amendment Bill.........

1131

17. Lord Folkestone's Motion respecting the Right of Magistrates

to Visit County Gaols

Apr. 6.

Mr. F. Douglas's Motion for a Bill to diminish the Expense of

Pardons under the Great Seal

Page

..... 1207

8. Breach of Privilege-Interference of a Peer in the Election of a
Member of the House of Commons

Reform of Parliament-Petition from Royton

Forgery of Bank of England Notes........

... 1219

1219

1223

1228

1229

9. Police of the Metropolis

Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth..............................

Bank Restriction Continuance Bill-And Bankers Notes Bill... 1229

Lord Archibald Hamilton's Motion respecting the Interference

of a Peer in the Election of a Member of the House of

Commons ...

....... 1266

Jan. 27. Prince Regent's Speech at the Opening of the Session

IV. PRINCE REGENT'S MESSAGES.

1

Apr. 13. Prince Regent's Messages respecting Royal Marriages........... 1296

V. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

COPY of the Treaty between Great Britain and Spain for preventing the

Slave Trade. Signed at Madrid, the 23rd of September, 1817 ..........

VI. PETITIONS.

Jan. 28. PETITION from Bath for Annual Parliaments and Universal

Suffrage..............

- from Francis Ward, complaining of the Operation

of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act

67

90

29.

104

from Samuel Haynes on the same Subject............ 197

from Manchester, concerning certain alleged Sedi-

tious Practices

217