No, sir; there was a motion made to adjourn to the shops to request the men to stop work for the present, until the difficulty was settled between them and the company; that was the motion.
While this motion was under discussion, there was a motion made, that the whole body adjourn, and pass up around by the shops and ask the men to quit their work for the present, until the difficulty was settled with the company.
And after some little discussion, there was a motion made to amend that by making the committee twenty-five.
While we were trying to get in, there was a motion made at that time again that the body adjourn to the shops, and ask the men to leave the shops.
Another debate in which the clergy were concerned arose from a motion made by Mr. Henry Seymour, for leave to bring in a bill for securing estates against dormant claims of the church.
No opposition was made to these grants in the commons; but a motion made by the Earl of Shelburne in the lords, that the peers should attend his funeral was lost by a majority of one vote.
Ministers, however, were not so successful in their opposition to a motion made by Sir Edward Stanley, to bring in a bill for rendering Grenville's Controverted Election Act perpetual.
A motion made to recommit the bill was lost; when the bill passed--yeas 45.
The question then returned upon the motion made by Mr. OTIS yesterday, to amend the first resolution, by adding words of the same tenor with those contained in the resolution referred this morning.
The debates chiefly turned upon the pension bill, the number of land forces, and a motion made by lord Bathurst for an account of the produce of the forfeited estates which had belonged to the directors of the South-Sea company.
But this was not the case with a motion made by Mr. Pulteney, "That the ordinary estimates of the navy should be referred to a select committee.
The king receiving intelligence of a motion made by a body of French troops with a view to intercept the convoys, detached twenty squadrons of horse and dragoons to observe the enemy.
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