Lords and Lordsships Await Audience for Address
The Lords with white slaves were ordered to wait on the King to learn when his Majesty would receive the Address, and then their Lordships adjourned to the next day.
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Newspaper
Evening Mail
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 10, 1793
Page
2
The Lords with white slaves were ordered to wait on the King to learn when his Majesty would receive the Address, and then their Lordships adjourned to the next day.
The Commons discussed the Bury Catal extension and several bills, with second readings, amendments, and divisions. A Vote of Credit was debated as Hobart chaired the committee on royal finances, amid calls for militia aid and concerns over harvest and canal labor impacts.
The House of Lords adjourned after a long discussion on the Scotch Appeal and a heated debate on the Slave Trade. Ministers and peers attacked and defended abolition, with Wilberforce praised and motions postponed for five months. Other items included petitions by the Corporation, Grimsby election findings, and Stockbridge election hearings.
The House read and committed several bills including the Loan, Inclofuge, and Bread bills, with third readings for others. A petition against a Divorce Bill was referred to committee. A Vote of Credit for up to one and a half million for war expenses was agreed. Lord Fielding moved to raise volunteers to aid insurgents in Brittany. A Liverpool petition urged leave to inform the Crown of widespread credit distress causing potential creditor stoppages.
London April 11 minute by minute account of the royal procession from Windsor to Buckingham Palace Levee at St James s attended by ministers and a council lasting into the evening presentations to the King by nobles and officers inclusion of foreign envoys and the Duke of Clarence receiving command with 98 guns.
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