The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Yesterday the corn exportation bill was brought back to the House of Commons from the Lords with amendments, which was ordered to be read, and after undergoing some very severe animadversions it was rejected nem. con. In a short time the game bill underwent the same fate, with this difference, however that the principle on which it was rejected underwent some discussion. Not one of the ministerial members said a word in opposition to this measure. The motives assigned by the house for rejecting both bills were, that the house of Lords had no right to alter any bill, by which money was to be levied on the subject. In the debate of the latter it was urged, that money levied by way of penalty could not be properly looked on in that light; to which Mr. Solicitor General replied, it was not the sum to be levied, nor the manner of levying it, but the precedent which it might establish, and the doctrines and principles it might hereafter maintain; and concluded by remarking, that it was not 40s. that the glorious Hampden contended, but for the property, liberties, and privileges of his countrymen. The affair took near 2 hours; the principal speakers were Governor Pownall, Mr. Burke Mr. T. Townshend, Lord John, & Lord James Cavendish, Mr. Dempster, Mr. Solicitor-General, Captain Phipps, and the Speaker. Sir Fletcher Norton protested before he put the question yesterday, on the corn and game bills, that he was sincerely for throwing them both over the table; and when they were rejected, he was as good as his word, for he tossed them into the very middle of the house. So strong a sense have the House of Commons of the inattention, nay the contempt shewn to them, by the other house, in a number of particulars, that as the rejected bills lay yesterday on the floor, where the Speaker had thrown them, several of the members, on going out before the house broke up, kicked them about, and tore them with their feet.