Thursday, February 7, 1811.

The Speaker took the Chair a few minutes before four o'clock, and immediately addressed the House as follows:—

"I have to make my excuses to the House for my absence yesterday; but as that circumstance was owing to my having been accidentally detained at the Privy Council, assembled to administer the oaths to his royal highness the Prince Regent, I humbly presume to hope that the House will grant me their pardon." (A general cry of hear! hear!)

A message from the Lords announced the permission of their lordships to the earl of Ross, to attend on the Committee on sinecure offices.—A new Writ was ordered for the borough of Ashburton, in the room of Walter Palk, esq. who had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. —On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was ordered, that on its rising, the House should adjourn to Tuesday; but that all Committees should have leave to sit, notwithstanding.—Adjourned to Tuesday.