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eal establishment, of which. it had been before assert- House when he made the assertion.. That corps rrtf.l ed is that House, and he believed most truly, that a feting from any, in England it was necessary should saving of one-third could be made in the present ex- be supplied as if it was actually in the field. In the penditure. When such an opinion had been given same manner he had been mistaken with respect to by agallant officer ( Admiral Markham), in his place, the clothes sent to the Spanish Patriots. Under these and atter his having adverted to the particular prodi. circumstances such assertions ought not to be made, gality in the Victualling Department and the Board as however they might inflame the ignorant, he' of Sick and Hurt, the very Secretary of the Admi- thought them unworthy the consideration of that ralty acknowledged that the system in those two de. House, and unworthy the Hon. Gentleman who partments, which cost the country annually five mil- brought them forward. He had given an inco • nsi liens, was both vicious and faulty, and that no hope derate pledge (not from a bad motive) which impell of reform could be expected until the heads of these ed him to bring forward these complaints,- that those t wo departments were removed. There was, there. out of doors might consider his assertion as having fore, he contended, in that branch of public expendi- some foundation. He had complained of the expences cure an opportunity for considerable diminution of ex- of the Post-office being double since the timeof Mr.Pal pence. Amongst many other parts of that establish- mer ; when it was considered that new Post-offices had rent, where that diminution could be effected, he was ; been established wherever the interest s of the country a uthorised to state the supply of canvas for the navy. I might require them (saying nothing of the new takes), Ile had farther authority to say, that the Inspector of 1 that increase of expense could excite no su r p rise. An that article for the navy was al so the su pp lier, and that 1 other circumstance which he considered as amost glar the canvas which he supplied was of the most infamous 1 ing abuse was, that the Inspectors of the Customsrtain had description, and by the purchase of w h ich the e ublic i been increased from seven to ten ; he was ce vas a considerable loser. The next point to which he the greatest care had ever been taken to guard against should allude was the contracts in which Government an unnecessary addition to that establishment. With engaged for the various parts of the public service. I respect to the expence attending stnnips, amounting From the best information that he could collect, he i to el 30,000; he wondered he did not undertake to found that these contracts which were formerly open I save the whole. It was necessary that . stamps should and subjected to a fair competition, were now be distributed in every part of the kingdom, and to close and limited to particular individuals. Ofl do tht without expence was impossible. When they these contracts respectivdy he should hope, in I :ntended reducing the allowance to the distributors no the next Session, to state his precise views, and he ' one would keep his place, and the order was obliged would then particularly claim the attention of the Ito be reluctantly recalled. Receivers of taxes till the House to •he mode which has teens ractised relative 4 year before last, were allowed 2d. in the pound, bat to the contracts for supplying beef nd pork, Scc. At I since that has been reduced to three halfpence. The present he should only state the one circumstance, 'i balance of £6OOO, left in their hands, he maintained, that the Contractor for Grains at Deptford purchased I was necessary to answer the demands made on them. for ls. 6d. from the brewery, that which he after- The whole of the per tentage amounted to 2,800,0001. wards retailed to the Navy for 4s. 10d. The Hon. They ought to considew what was done for the sums Member next adverted to the vase arrears, which he , received. The Inspectors of Customs not only collected stated at twenty millions, which was every year left I the revenue, but rendered other services to the public. unaccounted for, without any balance being struck. As to Scotland, it could not be expected that the If such an arrear was suffered in private life, the in. taxes could be collected in a country thinly inhabited, dividual so suffering it would, at least, be a loser by as they were in England. The sum paid for collecting a twentieth part. When a Noble Lord (Henry Petty) could not be regulated by the amount of the sum of was Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had partied- levied, but by the labour and difficulty attending the lady dwelt upon the ruinous tendency of such a sys- toilecting. In Scotl.md it was necessary to allow 41. tem, and had then calculated the amount of money ;Ms. 9d. per cent. The Honourable Gentleman, in due to the public, or unaccounted for, at four hundred his usual arbitrary manner, at once asserted it might millions. The counti7 had a right to expect that be reduced to three. \Vhy did he not say to two ? such an enormous sum should be, in some way or Since the last Ministers were in office, it had been other, disposed of, in order that it might ascertain found necessary to increase the salaries of a number what it had a right to expect. The Hon. Member, of officers, in all amounting to 140,0001. per annum. after some general observations upon the impossibi- He deprecated the conduct of the Honourable Gen lity of arriving at the particular details at the public tleman in setting such rumours afloat, knowing as be expenditure, concluded with moving— did, what pains would be taken to circulate among That there be laid before the House an Account of the Anneal the ignorant assertions even destitute of common Exper.ce of the Staff Corps for the last three years up to the sth sense. In every civilized country, the taxes were of January last ; together with a statement of the Services in were for the said time employed. • . greater in proportion than in this. In France , l i g ht which they Mr. HUSKISSON said, the Honourable •Getitle- as their taxes appeared, they were great er, com p ared with the means of the persons w man seemed to consider it his duty to come f orward ho were to pay them, on the last night of the Session, to make a c hew of ,than in England. After further controverting the saving the country 11,000,0001. and by disseminating statements of the Honourable Gentleman, and ten raving an idea, excite discontent in the country by stain g his conduct in making such assertions rash and raising public expectation so high, that it could not Unfounded as• they were in fact, he concluded an able be satisfied. The Honourable Gentleman had spoken and argumentative speech. as if he would not have come forward, had he not Mr. WARD .remarked that the Inspector of can as challenged and defied to prove the truth of tbe vas was paid by the piece. He had been a iealer in assertion he had made. It was rather extraordinary canvas, but was so no longer. If the. Ho n. Gentleman that he, a guardian of the interests of the public, should would come to the Adrniraltc to - morro w, and p rove t ot think it his while ti.gountrT his assertion, the Inspector would be dism i s sed. 11,000,0001. worth ss chall to save enged e to prove Mr. PARNELL thought Mr. Ward le j u s tified it annually, unle the assertions he had made were not without founds- bringing ftrward his motion at the close of. the Ses tion. Perhaps the Hon. Gentleman was afraid he sion, and spoke generally inlaveur of a retrenchment should not come in time with his statements, Whe of expenditure. did not seize the present opportunity, as various other Mr. HUSKISSON explained. • • statements equally ingenious, and brought forward Mr. ROSE did not think it necessary to take up the ti with equal confidence by their respect ive authors, me of the House, after the lucid stateme nt of his Hon. Friend. Bat with regard to the bounties , a great were in circulation. He (Mr. Huskisson) r e m em- deal of what was so called were positive drawbacks , bared seeing a book which contained a pl an for saving to the country no less a sum than 20,000,0001. Which if stopped would, in the first p lace, ex p ose to lly. poverty and misery 30,000 weavers of Spitalfield s, annua had besides destroying much of the comforts and conve man not enlarged his scheme, it was easily He wondered the Honourable Gentle- niencies of seamen and others. It was utterly im done. He had said take off 500,0001 . here, .and ossible that £lOOO could be saved in this wa y , with -500,0001. there, why he might quite as we ll have said, p take off 81,000,000. It would not be a very difficult out infinite mischief. task to change the figures, and to save one was as Mr. MAR RYATT represented, that the merchants practicable as to save the other. The Honourable were extremely anxious to have more officers in the Gentleman had learned, that the national expen- customs rather than to have the numbers diminished. diture had increased from 71,000,000 to 79,000,000, As to the West India Commissariat, and army eitra-, and thence inferred, the 11,000,000 might be saved. ordinaries, great improvements had beeti made in these A loan had been raised, as while the war continues, respects, by the present Ministers. cue eventually must. Another great expense was Mr. H. THORNTON observed , that a savin g had been already made from tke Bank , all th e savin g that incurred by paying a debt to the East - Ind ia Corn- pany. He did not suppose he could have sa ved that. could be made in consistency with the Ac t of Parlia- The increased expences of our Navy amounted to a meat, ensions and sinecures, he himself was As to p million and a half. Need he tell Ulm how greatly of opinion, that the sum might be diminished, but at! the expences of the navy were increased , ho w greatly the same time, he did not think that the saving could the prices of hemp, pitch, tar, and all naval stores had be very material. He admitted, however, that there risen; were the whole of the circumstances attended i were points in the Hon. Gentleman's speech that de to by the House, they would not be at a loss to judge I served consideration, especially that respecting the of the cause of such an increased expenditure , though auditing of the public accounts. when a Gentletran came forward and roundly stated Mr. WARDLE declared, that he had n o intention the expenditure had risen from 2€71,000,000 to of making any comparison between the mode of col ier„000,ovo it might at first excite surprise. In lecting the taxes here and in France. As to the In every part he could show reasons equally cogent spectorship of canvas, he would make it his business to account for such an increase, but he thought to examine into the affair as soon as possible. he should not well occupy the attention of the House ' The several motions for Papers in various branches of expenditure, adverted to in the H on. Ge n tleman's by giving a set ef counter statements (and nothin g , else could he give). It was true if the arm y were speech, were then read. and Mr. HUSKISSON :educed the sum voted for their support would ter- Lord CASTLEREAGH nly be smaller. If our cavalry were r e d uced from objected to several, as being stated in sucha wa y as tai 0,10 to 15,000 s omething might certainly be saved to render it impossible to comply with them . The 28 !o the country. But it should first be ascertained latter suggested, that the best plan would be to leave that our army is too large ; such a dep arture from it to Ministers to make up the accounts according to an established system as this question involved in it the scope of the motions, in the best manner they could ; and if the returns were not sat isfactor y , the ' see :pia not to have been brought up on the last night .: t " of tine Session. Against such a procedure h e felt it Honoueable Gentleman might renew his mot ions next Session. his duty to enter his protest. Adverting t o what the Mr. WARDLE assented to this, and all the mo- Honourable Gentleman had said with respect to 1 foreign corps, he aid not think they deserved to be tions were agreed to. Lord Ce i CAST . LE d ßEA d G sa ll . presented a Return of the Offices in spoken of as he had spoken of them ; he justified the I I the , re en the table, policy and propriety of taking them into our servicemo ved for a Return ache Livings in Scot , 1 Mr. ;sa c . and thought, that instead of having reposed too much Ev r Al ; land and Ireland under the value of Xl5O a year.—Orderdd. confidence in them, they had been too often the ob- Mr. DUNDAS moved, for an Estimate of Expences in India, ! w ith the Debts due in India to the Company.—Ordered. .sects of suspicion and mistrust. He would not waste .1 - Lo rd CASTLEREAGH moved, that the Bill passed by the time in following the Honourable Gentleman through Lords for preventing the enlisting f Local Militiamen into t' e all his details, but as in one instance he thought he Regular Militia of Counties different from their own, be read a had made a mistake, he felt it his duty to clear it first time. It was accordingly read a first and second time, com -..p. The Commissariat of Ireland he had stated read a third time to-morrow. • mitted, reported, and ordered to be :tam,. Gardner, rioastkweod why refractory e . Accountants, Gardn ee a r t . cost the country 95,0001. a-year. The impression 1 made on the' House by such an assertion was that it w i te n tore ° an ° ' called upon by the Auditors since Mr. Woodford had q uitted .vas enormous. But he could state that including ' the country ? • every thing it did not cost the nation more than Mr. HUSKISSON observed, that he had no doubt the Audi -22,0601. He could guess what had led the Hon. , ton had done what was s proper. He subject a t requested the Honoura b le le e Gent. into this mistake, he had united with it the corps eentlieni House.... r mi to mengdtioat three g l g ec it. the next rneetiag of h of waggoners, but that was not understood by the • Tilt tVEI•TING STAR. LONDON. • : TUESDAY, JUNE 20. PRVIE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Sous. bar July 49.1-i—Redueel 68{—Oninium f i prom hache. Bills. 6s. ts. pr. PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY. S per Ott. Red. 684 • India Stock shut S per Cent. Cons. shut Excheq. Bills, 4s. 111.91. pre. 4 per Cent. 834 Onsnium pre. 5 per Cent. shut Consols for ace. 69ff • • Yesterday, after our paper was put to press, a Mail from Heligoland arrived at the Post-Office, brought to Harwich by the Lady Frances packet, Captain RL'TTER. By this conveyance the following article was received : BANKS OF THE ELBE, JUNE s. The Austrian head-quarters are, according to pri vate accounts received this morning, at Lintz. The. Emperor FRANCIS previous to the battle of A - pern, received proposals from Napoleon to conclude a truce on certain conditions,which overture lie instantly forwarded to the Archduke Charles, who returned it with the following note " BROTHER, " Take my Marshal's staff from me, and let me rather know the Austrian name no more, nor your's, but let me retire with my:brothers to Hungary !" The Duke of Valmy ( Kellerman) has, it is said, received orderi to Prussia. Another lettet of the same date from th- Banks of the Elbe contains the following paragraph : " In the late great•battle of Esling, BONAPARTE, in the heat of action, finding the, cavalry and infantry give way, ordered the cannon to be planted in their rear. In his vehemence he loaded the horse and foot with the most opprobrious invectives. Nearly 10,000 Frenchmen are said to have been drowned in the Danube." By, this conveyance a private letter has been re ceived, which gives a more particular detail of the loss of the French in the battle of the 21st and 22d June, than any we have before seen. The letter alluded to is dated Varel the 11th inst. and states the victory of the Archdnke Charles at Aspern to have been most complete. The French lost 30,000 killed and wounded, 28,000 prisoners, 45 Eagles, and among them 5 belonging to the guards, all their ammunition, baggage, and artillery ; 9 Generals, 17 Colonels, 360 Officers taken, Lasnes and Oudinot mortally wounded, Massena slightly, and 3 generals killed. The same letter adds, that a report had just arrived of the Austrians having gained a second battle at Laxenberg ; but gives no date nor any particulars. Other letters state, that the Prussian army, consist ing of 45,000 men, is in motion ; that the advanced gaud has already reached Sprattaii, on the frontiers of Silesia ; and that the main body is at P-eitz. know not what degree of credit to attach to this state ment. The letters florn Heligoland are of the 15th, and those from liamburgh of the Oh The former state positively that the gallant Colonel &HILL iS not dead, and that advice had been received from . Lubec of his having, effected his escape with a great part of his brave followers, to Rugen, which island be was em ployed in putting into the best state of defence, and where he doubtless will receive all practicable aid from the British cruizers in the Baltic. FRENCH AND DUTCH PAPERS. AUGSBURG, MAY 29. The gent d'arrnes of the imperial guard, as well as the depots of the grenadiers and mounted dra goons of the guard, arrived here yesterday. This fine troop, forming about 1800 men, set out this mor ning for Austria. MUNICH, MAY so. The Austrian Generals Prohaska, Bauer, and F:oli bel, arrived here to-day with 54 other Austrian Offi cers, prisoners of war. Our journals contain several particulars, which prove the patriotism of the Bava rian people : amongst others, we have the following instance of the faithful zeal of the inhabitants of Neu bourg, on the Danube, who, seeing a column of 4000 i Austrian prisoners on the point of escaping from the Wurtembtirghers who escorted them, immediately took arms, and forced the Austrians to submit. DRESDEN, MAY 24. A small corps, commanded by the Duke of Bruns wick Oels, attempted - to penetrated into Saxony by Zittau. His designs were not known, but he re turned into the interior of Bohemia without under taking any thing. It is believed that the 1,- ti. events at Vienna have prevented his progress. His corps, however, consisted only cf 3000 men ; and the Saxons _under the command of General. Dyhen, were pre- I paring to meet it, when th e y learned that it had re treated. According to the last accounts from the Duchy of Warsaw, of date the 18th, the Archduke Ferdinand was in full retreat,• and the Russian army was only , two days march from Warsaw. A Polish Officer, M. Pothcki, has rassed through this city. He left Vienna on the 14th, and is the bearer of letters from the Major-General for Prince Poniatowsky. He will find the Prince at Cracow. The emigration of the inhabitants of Bohemia has ce ased for some days. They hope that the war will not be long, and they wish the arrival of the French. The Saxon army was on the 17th at Lintz, and was marching on Vienna. . • LL►i'PZf MAY 24 Yesterday we received intelligence of the entrance of the corps of the Duke of Brunswick into Lusatia. The force of his small troop is not precisely imo•vn) but it cannot be above `..,500 men.—A corps of be tween S and 4,000 mtn will to-morrow set out from Dresden to dispute with him the passage through the kingdom. The day before yesterday passed through this town Mademoiselle Burgoin, on her way to St. Peters burgh, with M. Florence, formerly an actor of the French Theatre. Letters from Poland of the 4th, state the taking of the redoubt of the bridge of Ostravrick, facing Gor , by the Polish troops. Oh the 3d of May the Austrian General, Shawroth, escaped in a boat during a storm, but three officers, and 1800 soldiers were. taken-60 Poles were killed, and an equal number wounded. MAY 25.—We this morning received news from the Duchy of - W:rrstt*. The ardour there was al ways.the same. The levy-en-masse was rapidly The Austrian General Molter had been woun led in besieging Thorn. The Russian army appeared to intend to advance from that side. Prince Poniaton ski has made some progress in Gallicia : he was on his march to besiege the small fortress of Zamoski. The roii.b, officer had an au ence of the King of Saxony, and to-morrow will con tinue his route for the head-quarters of the Emperor. MAY 29.—The SaxOn corps has had several skirmishes on the frontiers with the Austrians, com manded by the Duke of Brunswick Oels. MAY 30.—The Polish cavalry extends towards Lemberg, and makes movements against Cracow. Sendonus surrendered by capitulation ; and in the action of the redoubt of the bridge 1000 Austrians were killed, and 200, with twenty pieces of cannon and considerable magazaes, taken: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Lilac, Ripley, and the Swift, Ray, from Malta to Lon don, have been taken by a Freach privateer, after an action of three hours, arid carried into Marseilles—the Master of the Swift killed, arid the Master of the Lilac severely wounded. • PLYMOUTH-DOCK, JUNE 18. Arrived, the Ocean, 98, Captain CARDEN, (late of the Ville de Paris) from the Mediterranean, last from Portsmouth ; her crew will be turned over to the new Milford, 74, and the Ocean will came into Dock to be caulked, aired, and undergo a thorough re pair; she is not expected to be fit for sea again in lei* than six months.—Also arrived, the Nettuno, 18 guns, from the Medi terranean, brings no news: Lord CoLtieuwoon is not coming home till next spring; the Betsey hired cutter, from Rochefort and L'Orient ; Ann hired brig, from the Downs; Neptune (a) tender, from D.tblin, with imprested men for the Navy ; and the Louisa tender, from Cork, with dltto.—The Resistance fri gate, Captain ADAM, will sail In three days for Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ; she takes out £500,000 in dollars, &c. to GI. braltar, part of tbe kubsidy granted to his Sicilian Majesty. PORTSiNIOUTH,• JUNE 19. Arrived his Majesty's ship Bellona from a cruize; Apollo, Carey, for Oporto ; and Atikentt:re, Smith, for Gibraltar.— Sailed the Tickler gun-brig on 'a cruize; Duke of Montrose, White; Dueketteld,eriedtels yßuckers,fretand; and Mary Ann, Birkett, (running ships) to the ißcst-Indies. His Majesty's ship Little Belt, takes Convoy to the West Indies.:—Wind N. DEit!L, JUNE 19. Arrived the Royalist sloop of war, from a cruize.—Sailed the Trompeuse sloop of war, on a eruize ; Rhine, TAYLOR, for St. Domingo; and Ameican , Co Lava ta, for St. J o hn ' s. --Wisd S. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. GRAN - 2SEND, JuNC 19. Arrived the Lucinda, Davidsor Haabets Anker, Martin ; Caledonia, Cabbie; Elinar Marie, Sal bury ; G eorg e, Foster ; Vigilantia, Harnbuis ; Charlotte Maria, Dstbrry ; Wahala, Smith ; and Aslinford, Bulling, froM Gotten burgh ; Liberty, Brown ' • Valiant, Owen ; Three Sisters, Dagon ; V r ow Sophia, Sutland ; Brothers, Harnbuss ; Little John, Lacey ; and Vrow Eltina, Gronewald, from Heligoland ; Minerva, Hayes, from Harlingen ; Caledonia, Hut chinsoa ; Severn, Pearce; Fowei, Coats ; and Mary Ann, Love, from Malta ; and Weymouth, Llewellin, from Cadiz.—Sailed the Union, William Pitt, and Sir William Pulteney, for India ; and Catherine, Luckey, for Heligo land. His-MAJE3TY has been pleased to direct the Com mander in Chief to signify to the 2d Royal Veteran battalion, Major WHITE, Commandant, that, in fu ture, the 2d Royal Veteran battalien, on all oc casions, are to take the right of the whole army k when in line, except the Foot Guards and Royal Artillery ; and, in consequence of the long services of these veterans, they are to be permitted, without limitation, to Vake'out to Madeira all their wives and children. • Accounts have been received of the safety of Colo. nel CARKOL, for whom apprehensions were entertain ed, since he escaped from Gijon, on the 20th ult. with the Marquis de ltomaNA, on the entrance of the French into A;turias, from Biscay and Gallicia.-.. Colonel CAattet. was left at sea, proceeding. to Vigo, where he meant to land, in order to proceed to the army of Marshal BERESFORD, and to place his ser vices at the disposal of that General, or of Sir Aa- THU& WcwisLcr. RoMANA intended to land in some of the unfrequented creeks on the coast of Galficia, in order to join his army, if it yet remained entire,. which he had left on the banks of the river En, on the con fines of Gallicia and Asturias, when he' went to Ovi edo to new-model the Junta. ..-: Captain Biact.av is pcirsuing his labours, and is as , fresh and well as when he started. half his task will [be completed to-morrow. • One of the Eiperimentalists at Woburn hie exhi bited a .maa-Craft, which detains and secures the offen der without any injury. The man-trap placed in the lobbies of the Theatre: are not exactly of this description. The reporters of Prior Intelligence have been more than usually attentive to the young Prince of Orange. One has provided him with a Princes who is hot ear riageable, and another has confined him to h*l study at Christ Church, Oxford ! We can have no Objection to feats of fiorseman ship or of walking, that have a tendency teunproVe the breed of horses, or the strength of ran ; but for a rational human being to tamper with his con• sututi"n, and, we fear, his reason, by interrupting the course of natural rest for forty days, merely that he may perform a feat of not the least utility, is a subject, to express our opinion in the mildest terms, more calculated to excite compassion than aisplarse.. .... •