The Lord Chancellor, by virtue of the commission, and by command of his majesty, declared the Parliament to be prorogued to Thursday, the 24th of September next, to be then and there holden.

The Commons retired from the bar, and the lords commissioners withdrew from the House.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14.

A little before four o'clock the usher of the black rod summoned the House to the House of Peers, to hear the commission read. On their return the Speaker called the members round the table, and having read to them the speech delivered by the commissioners, the members separated.

PUBLIC ACTS.

The following BILLS received the Royal Assent in the course of the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

JULY 7.

AN act to continue until the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eight, several acts for granting certain rates and duties, and for allowing certain drawbacks and bounties on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into and exported from Ireland.

JULY 17.

An act to revive and continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, three acts, passed in the thirty-seventh, forth-fifth, and forty-sixth years of his majesty's reign, for carrying into execution the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between his majesty and the United States of America; and for empowering his majesty to suspend, before the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and eight, the provisions of the said acts, for such period as his majesty may deem expedient.

An act to indemnify persons who have advised or acted under an order of council for making regulations with respect to the navigation and commerce between his majesty's subjects and the subjects of the United States of America.

An act to enable his majesty to grant a certain annuity to major general sir John Stuart, knight of the most honourable order of the bath, in consideration of the eminent services which he has rendered to his majesty and the public.

An act for empowering the commissioners of Kilmainham hospital to make rules and regulations for the payment of pensions to soldiers on the establishment of that hospital.

An act for raising the sum of three millions by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.

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An act for raising the sum of one million five hundred thousand pounds, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Bri tain for the year one thousand eight hundred and seven.

An act concerning common recoveries suffered in copyhold or customary courts by attorney.

JULY 25.

An act for granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

An act for encouraging the export of salted beef and pork from Ireland.

An act to provide for the recovery of penalties under certain acts, made in the forty-seventh year of his present majesty, for securing the rates and duties in Ireland in respect of dwelling houses, fire hearths, windows, male servants, horses, dogs, and carriages; and on licences to persons dealing in excisable com modities; and on paper and paper hangings; and to alter the condition of certain bonds to be given by brewers in Ireland.

An act to make further regulations with respect to licences for the sale of spirituous and other liquors by retail in Ireland.

An act for the more speedy and easy recovery of small debts in the borough and parish of Boston, and the hundreds of Skirkbeck and Kirton (except the parishes of Gosberton and Surfleet), in the county of Lincoln.

An act for constructing a pier and harbour at or near the town of Folkestone, in the county of Kent.

An act for enlarging the powers of an act, of the thirty-ninth year of his present majesty, for amending two acts, of the twentyeighth and thirty-eighth years of his present majesty, for enlarging and improving the harbour of Leith, for making certain new: streets and roads, and widening others adjacent to and connected with the said harbour.

An act for erecting a county hall, and other offices, for the. county of Perth.

An act to enable the London Dock Company to purchase certain water-works in the parishes of Stratford, Westham, Bow," Bromley, Mile End, and Stepney, and other parishes adjacent," and to amend the several acts for making wet docks and other works for the accommodation of shipping, commerce, and revenue, within the port of London.

An act fo. amending and enlarging the powers of an act, passed, in the twenty-eighth year of his present majesty, for taking down and rebuilding the gaol of the castle of Chester, the prothonoVOL. I.-1807.

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tary's office, the exchequer record rooms, and other offices and buildings adjoining or near to the said gaol.

An act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts within the parishes of Saint John the Baptist, Saint Peter the Apostle, and Birchington, and the Vill of Wood, in the Isle of Thanet, and county of Kent.

An act to amend and enlarge the powers of an act, passed in the ninth year of his present majesty, for the better paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching the streets and lanes in the parish and borough of New Windsor, in the county of Berks, and for preventing nuisances therein.

An act for amending several acts, for making and maintaining a navigable canal, from the Coventry canal navigation, to the city of Oxford.

An act for making and maintaining a road from Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, to join the Litchfield turnpike road, in the parish of Shenstone, in the county of Stafford, and for making a branch of road to communicate therewith.

An act for repairing and maintaining certain roads in the county of Dumbarton, and building bridges thereon.

An act for the more effectually repairing certain roads in the counties of Salop, Denbigh, and Merioneth.

An act for making and maintaining roads from Percy's Cross to Milfield Burn, and from Wooler to Bowsdon Burn, in the county of Northumberland.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers, of two acts, passed in the fourth and twenty-fifth years of his present majesty, for repairing and widening the road from Beverley to Kexby Bridge, in the county of York.

An act for amending and keeping in repair the road from Brampton to Longtown, in the county of Cumberland, and for erecting a bridge over the river Line, upon the said road.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers, of an act, passed in the twenty-sixth year of his present majesty, for amending the road from Flookersbrook Bridge to, the south end of Wilderspool Causeway, and from the town of Frodsham to Ashton Lane end, in the county of Chester, so far as respects the Chester district of the said roads, and for extending the same from the present termination thereof at Flookersbrook Bridge aforesaid, to the north end of Cow Lane Bridge, in the city of Chester, and for making a new road from such proposed extension of the said road to the north end of Queen Street, in the same city.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers,

powers, of an act, passed in the twenty-sixth year of his present majesty, for amending the road from Flookersbrook Bridge, in the township of Newton, near Chester, to the south end of Wilderspool Causeway, and from Frodsham to Ashton Lane end, in the county of Chester, so far as relates to the Frodsham district of the same road.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers, of two acts, passed in the fifth and twenty-sixth years of his present majesty, for repairing the roads from Kipping's Cross, in the parish of Brenchley, in the county of Kent, to Wilsley Green in the parish of Cranbrooke, and from a place near Gouthurst Gore to Stilebridge, and from Underden Green to Wanshutt's Green, in the county of Kent.

An act for reviving, continuing, and enlarging the powers of an act, of the seventeenth year of his present majesty, for amending the road from the south east end of Loughborough, in the county of Leicester, to Derby Bridge, near the Rushes, and from thence to the south end of Cavendish Bridge, in the same county.

An act for repairing, and keeping in repair, several roads in the county of Perth.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers of several acts, passed in the fifth, sixth, and twentysixth years of his present majesty, for repairing and widening the road from Tunbridge to Maidstone, and from Watt's Cross to Cowden, in the county of Kent, so far as they relate to the road from Tunbridge to Maidstone.

An act for continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers, of two acts, of the fifth and twenty-sixth years of his present majesty, for repairing the road, leading from Wadhurst, in the county of Sussex, to the turnpike road at Lamberhurst Pound and Pullen's Hill, in the county of Kent, and from thence to West Farley Street, in the county of Kent.

An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Stibbington-cum. Wandesford, otherwise Wandsford, and the hamlet of Sibson, within the said parish, in the counties of Huntingdon and Northampton.

An act for inclosing lands in the parish of Longhoughton, in the county of Northumberland.

An act for inclosing lands in the manors and township of Hunton, in the North Riding of the county of York.

An act for inclosing Chew Moor, in the township of Lostock, in the parish of Bolton in the Moors, in the county palatine of Lancaster.

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