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the prefent occalion. The HottimiAbli s tato'neti had lad night entered into a very fhlt and fatistkehry*! explanation of the tranfigtion in Teettion; had egad with the greateil delicacy in defirtng that, in the pre fent (fate of things, he might not be named in the Comniittee. Having Rated fo much, he could Zit but notice and Tv:pelf the attention *of tbe ) Hrintiottj the original formation •of the Committee,. Antis* &dieted *bat; id the annals of that Houfe, there hall naltenbeen a Oomrnittee.confilling of fp.great a number of Cep-. flatten as twenty-one, who had been appointed in a fititilar manner. Two . Gentlernen who were on it, he believed, had voted againtt the late Adminiftration, ewe:more - had voted fometimes with theNoble•Lord. boa all the. refs were'Members who,'•unifisproty voted with the late.Adminiflration on every qtreflion ; and, he believed the Hdule would think with him that a Committee appointed on filch principles, was not the I heft calculated in the world to be impartial in all thoreseafes•which might come under 'its' confidera. lion. Irr framing this Contoritrewonew, it • was not his intention to recommend any confiderable increafe of the number, one or two could make. no great dif,.l ference, but he thought twenty-five would be too many. He wifhed, however, to ?111 - oft - other Urines into it, and in fo doing he -Mould be guided €l'what he thought wouldtnott niareriallytend.to procure as much impartiality as# poffible. •He had left five names fur the purpore of introducing five others, which he thought would tend to that definable pur. pole he had juft mentioned. He-had .alto determined to follow another fugo,eition of 'theltfo'ble Lord op • polite to hirn tLord Howich), viz. to nominate the Members openly, inaead of by ballot: He•thought,, fur his own Oirt, that the mode by tillot was pre ferable,,but, he.gave up his own opinion to the Noble Lord'ii fuggetlion, becanfe he a:ight it might be made,ll4.fuNed of much high flown declamation-- that ittnight.beffid to mean Come Iliiitter or under- . hand dealtug..to 'change the mode, of forming the Commiticetoithat of. billot,.and to avOld any fuch irOputatiOn,be wdold•fecit remain as . before. lie wouhritate tcrthe Houle alt the names he intended , for the prefent Committee, that the Mule might fee dilliceily the alterations whiitiliod been made. In (Wing that he fradleft out Conic hamesthat were on the former Committee, be begged the Houle to rer Oiled the reafeins he had iffigned for dding fu.and he thought the' Houle woad be caotiotts how they en: trolled perfons with the examination into 'all the public tranfadions of the:kingdom, who had, on all occations, fhewn Co decided add onrenritting . a-parti ality for all the 'Ails of the late Attrniniftrattoo. Tke Houle would eafily reiolled ,that . mutt: • had been laid by the late Minifters on the fobjtet, and-in con demnation of granting places in rever lion. He had very: lately come to the knoWledge Of a tinia extr•tor dinary,grant of rev.erfloo, as p 'lae believed, had ever been heard of. ..A very thort 'dine ,before the late Minift'ers.tetited from. office..they granted, in rover god, the places of Collator, temptreller, &c. of 13uettosAy t es, though they .lonewat the time the place wasnot.then.in our polfalion, and that appointments having taken place jug before they went out of office, Viewed pretty -elearly the) have not a claim to all that wonderful abflemiottfnefs they wiihed to be thought poll - cited cf. He had, before, on another orcafron. mentioned - the three hundred Surveyors of Taxes. - :He would.not Far that it might not be ne.• ceffary, on Tome occafions, to appoint additional Sur-, veynrs ; but m create•fo great a number in the month of Oetober, jilt} when Parliament was about to be diffolved, was a eiremmltance that, coupled with the influence fo .many perfims ma' have in various places throughout the country, by no means favour ed of that impartiality and noninterference in elec tions, to %diet they laid fuch broad claims. There .....tras another appointment which he thbught fully as exceptionable .as any of thofe he had before mention• . eti, and that was, the appointment to the patent of 'fice df Gazette writer - it, Scotland : that offize was created by tire late Adminittration,and given to one . of their friends with a Nary affixed to it of 3001. a year. Ever (tote the year ty93, this bullock had been !tone by threenewfpaper writers in Edinburgh, who had been appointed to the office by Mr. Pitt, on the •eirprefs condition that no expence whatever . Theuldthereby accrue to this country, and they had been perfeftly fatiified therewith, and adually °voted that They 'made an advantage of about tool. it year from the fervice it seas of to their papers.— Yet thofe men, thus gratuitoufly pentorming this duty; were turned out by the late Adminiftration for the fele purport of appointing an individual, one of their own adherents, with Co confiderable a yearly falary. There were, he laid, a great number of others, bnt he could affure the Hanle he did not mean to go throreh them all (a kad laugh). He would not mention the profeifors of mAical forgery and medi cal jurifprodence, for lie fhould be really getting out or his depth. having .never before heard of fuch of fices, and therefore he did not pretend to underfland what they meant. There was one more grant, how. ever, that he could not omit to notice, which was that of a petition, Coriog, pleafure, to a Civil and Cri minal Judge in Scotland. I'his was only not carried into execution, becaufe thofe who were to do it hefi toted, from a doubt whether they could legally be come parties to furls a tranfadion. From all thole circtimaances it behoved the Houfe to appoint filch a Committee as they might espett would tet with the 4iri 9ell impartiality ; and it was evident there would lie fornething more fur theM to do, than to Ping the praile.sof the late Administration. He would now iced the names of the Committee as they flood, and part nut, as he went or, thofe who were on it tre fore,ind 'bore who wire not. It had been dual. that tape perf.rn voila nattiest rhe Committee fhould always fland the Grit on the lift, bin from this he begged to be exenfed. The Noble Lord oppofite to him (Lord H. Petty) had done the fame ; but the Moire had declared 'it ro have been the ufnal pradice, and on -that alone he was iodated to &Infinite on it. He -ithitikhentreitr, there *weld be no- irregularity in' ills reettelting to be *tenor of it. WA POPS alt +Mt Cm al %WM" g• Mr. Bonlitsas faresmr W. TN:ammo—was Mt. BLldnlgitt-6-ersen Me W. Ctrendah.—not nat . Mr. Alderman CnintSe.—stat Mr N. Olivet. ..not ittr: T. Bariiit-wiot 4.1 r. Binder —Was. Mr. brotme Sumner—not • . Mr P.,Carow—oot PikA trav:Aciit. ihMT.Sr Cord FI . Pdttr-tvhs 1 4, 111 15.11rowne--was. Adil.Ctrairsio—wale JoddrolA—not- Mr. H ANltteriour.aorit IVIr. Leak Fotter—oot Lord A. , '. `TY' ea td4blne tomiGatitfellien Office. '• ifi l tad4itli . 'lkrly for Scottand and Ireland, and thofe were, "sot korrams, Lord A. Hammon '• Mr. Rutherford 1 - "CI IllatiliD ' . Mr. Grattan • Mr. Leine Ma. , . I He then' moved, that a Committee be appointed to dontider what , rekelatiorts red check* mar be Oa -blifited-tfs eontroul•the public Expenditure in Great !b Britain and Ireland ; and) ivhethev any further im provements may be made therein, by retrenchments and other means;• & .. .: Lord HENR.Y . PETTV raid, that it had been int potlitile'fortirfiliot td atilt - tire the fingtilar Candour and mOderation'orthe Rht'flons Gentleman, who, !in moving for a Cithinittee . rfrthistiattire, bad (hewn A charitable dirpofitiln to five - them lime labour and tvritinle in'the•eitfcbtron'of their deity, by a grofitind pattial tlatement of matters that might come before ' therm (loud crier of bear! hear!) When te faid " was and partial," he did not mean to far that the date: stunt was intended - to be - fo, but that it proceeded from. iliias'• towards' a ‘particulai ladFty, - of'whieh,, I however. the Right Hors. Gentleman ought to haFew 1 'teen fuffizirntly aware , not to have prejndged matters which might occupy, the attention of the vet y Conv mittte foe the 'ittpoidttrie s nt of tvhichlte *al Crinifiig. 'I hes: . Right liPtil Cetitreitian, sand thlofe with whom he acted, had the other day deprecated a decifion upon A charge,for Want of a finele document, though a full notice bad been given, and yet he was not afhamed to call for an opinion upon charges, reTpedilig 'which All the dOconfzitts'We're wanting, and of isitlch' no notice had been given t lindthiat'aboirt cafes whieli'mott de pend open rpecial circunittances, and where even the dates might be , of importance ! Under all thofe d,ifacl- 1 Vantages however,an.d without any notice tillnow that. any'charges were tnliebrotight againft him', he would as far as hi ,recolle.fti.rn enabled him, refute thtcharges. One cif them was'the appointment of a Comptroller and Colletor for . Bee nosAyres. It might be tuppoicd that this revert - tan as he called it, would have been,im mediately on its appointment a burthen to the pil,lic. ' It. was thetifote a graft want' of cini:lour ih the Right Honourable Gentleman brit ttilshve` itatetts , Tulte 'fie brought the affair forward at thictitne, that thelottr. den would only cotnraettceip c,onfequence of the pof feffiln of the place, and that, the appointment was without falary. • The want of Tuch officer hid' been feverely felt' when the place was firft taken; and' this Was .the 'reafon that they were appointed • to, as .in cafe it'lhcrold be retaken. Then the Right Hot. Gentleman adverted Va.the Surveyors of Taxes, .but acknawiedged that the fuggeßitnihad come frain the Board of Taxes..l3ut liC Zeliev'iid that the fa!lwai, char 'ihC'p'pointments had 'cot adually taken plate on. ail the3lrdatteefhould be fubmitted to Parliament.— Some notices might have been given,hut he had heard that feveral recommendations had been received, to which the anfweis had 'been that ItO f appointtnent could take place till the ineafure wax finally adopted. Thfs was 'the hate of the cart as far as his memory ferved him at prefent. With regard to the ap pointment of Gazette writer in Scotland, it was one that ought to be excepted out of the general 'ride. 'lt was a cafe that peculiarly depended' tin its °yin circomllanCes, and when thefe were examined it mull appear obvious to every candid and liberal ;mind; that no blame could attach to that inflance.— This appointment had been conferred on a perfon eminent for talents, literature, and fcience. He had through a ling courfe of life devoted liimfelf to the public fer vice, and 'to the promotion of the intereas lof learning and knowledge. Mr. D. Stewart was one of the molt dilliuguithed characters of the age, and I had pea. rated his important duties in the moll I zealous and honourable manner. Yet his falary did not amount to much more than :col. a year.— It was thought right, confidering the high impor. tance of his favices is the departments 6f fcience and literature, to grant him this appointment, which be might enjoy without any encroachment on his other avocations. It was not on fuch men that the public money was in danger of being wafted. The appointment was certainly, as the Right Honourable Gentleman had Dated, taken out of the hands of the editors of the newfpapers, where no doubt he would leave continued it in preference. That was the fort of literature which they cnl'ivated. (Hear, hear !) —That was their fcience ! The Gentleman who re ceived it from the late Miniilers had no claim what ever upon them, except that of uncommon merit in a department ale lag importance to the public and the human race. When the prefent Government could find fuch attnther man, he certainly would not objet' to their •being equally liberal. 'tae Right Honourable Gentletnan had talked of a penfion to a civil and criminal Judge in Scotland. With the eir cumflances of that cafe, he was not acquainted, and therefore could fay nothing refpeeting they at pre fent. He had replied to fuclrof the charges as he was more immediately acquainted with. No Government could, perhaps, in the prefent Date of the expenditure, guaid againd every poffible abufe, and there'. re he was a friend to all Committees of Inquiry, whether appointed like the Commitlianers of Military Inquiry, or corn poled of Members of this'Houfe. Both mightibe eminently ufefol, and recourfe ought to be had to them 1 front time totirne,under every Govcrnmentfor in loch a large expemlititre all Governments mull be liable to f abufes. Ile would now fay a few words as to the form• 1 ation of this Committee. The Right Hon. Gentleman ihad anticipated his with, in having the Committee appointed openly, and in excluding all perfons in offices under Government. He had alfo anticipated 1 k as to the Hon. Baronet againit whom a charge I now depended. This led him to ads'ert to the Gen j flenteri who had been Members of the frirmer Cana l*Avec, and had done their ditty in the molt zealous 1 and honourable manner. . Why were fo many of 1 thefe excluded ? The Right Hon. Gentleman h ad maintained that the dilrolution was not in any degiee intended for the purpofe•of puttintan eiidtri the C: m_ 1 nsittee of Finance. If that was the cafe, Why (h o rrid not the former Members he appointed acfar al that could potfibly he done? Why not leave the Committee. as much as potlible in the fame Rate as bernre. Aker naming all the MeMbers of the fOritter Contlhitt s ee who . Were in the prelim Parliadient'oiith'tifi viten-, tinnof thea:tvrts already' mentintted.' he' stioult Rill have had eighty) limply, and this might Curdy hav,e' , fatisfied him.. He,mult _Appeal to the .fenfe of the 'Honfe, whether fame of thofe d'ho were firma hid not merited confidence, by the diligence and• fidelity with *filch titer had done :their duty. Hr cnn'dud. ed hp rerding.the statues of the foll..wiole pelloati who, tie raid, ought all to have been in the lid:— -.7 , • -a •,•• ---7. lipillirr7l7"•. — r::: . 4 , • . • ' ' . Mr. H. Thoristoa . . Mt.:Lambe Mr. Bank, ' ,; . ~ Mr, Whitbread lord Mahon . . Mr. Broaden Mr,Diddulph Mr. Calvert ti Lord Archibald Hantilven Mr. Welters Mr. Cavandifh Mi. Shaw . . 1 ' He propofed that the Right Honourable : Gentle- man fhould in the fir* place propofe the names re trained of thofe who held been in the former Com rilittee, to which there would be no objet ion, and the reft afterwards. ' Mr. BOYLE, Snlicitor, , General tor Scotland,- thoughethe Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Per ceval) had ailed more candidly in particularizing the different inflamer- in which he alledged that the late Minifters had dime amiss, than if he had in general' accufed them of improper exereire of their power.— Had he done otherwie, the Noble Lod opptifite• 'would have •faid .4 Use rile inftances of what you .chargt againft me r , The Right Hon. Gentleman I did fn, and now the Noble Lord laid, he called upon ' him, without preparatinn, to anfwer a-number Olfpe ''Cific charges. As to the firft intlance, namely, the, , sappnintment of Collators, Comptrollers, &c. fir pa tine Ayres, he left it with thegood fettle of the Houle, if this was a judicious and propel exercife of power. Did they properly difcharge their duty in appointing Men to of which did nut exift 3 This was.indeed a new fpecies of tevertions. 'The fecund itiftance was one which impoled a grievous hardthip and burden on. the country; for' whatever might be the ntetits of the 'perfon on whom it *.was bellowed. it was. . no other than the creation , of 7 et new place,. that 'too • a finecute—the pure* . 4 all finecores—as be, !hewed by a ftatement of the duties of. the Cflice from its otiginal apraintment in the -year •5793. when it 'Was bel6lved or, the prnprietors of the Mer cury. Courant, and Herald, of lidiuhurgh, they being , intitled to nothing,but the profits of the paper. Here, ' however, the grant we.. made to Dr. S:ewart, his heirs and alliances, for the period of 2 t years, with a Miry or 3001. per annum. The appointment. of new Sheriffs, much as lit rerpeited the Gentlemen who•haid bun uninitiated to, thole newly ellablithed ofiice', he regarded as a thing moll unnecefrary, and, ' therefore,•as a very improper wafte cf public money. He-watperfeElly (visaed that thole Genilemerl who formerly held the joint charges, 'did ample juilice to the duties of both. . .: •!:, . 4. 1 . ~ Mr. BIDDIJLPH fait!, . he erad.not be foppofed to haVe any pat ticularpredilatiotsfor the Gentlemen a ha formed the fall 'Cotannitter,:frir .though he had made the motion, in conliquefice oftilltich the Corn mittee had been appointed; (hey had hokbeen named by him. He conking - art, however, that the fpirikof ' candour,' of jollice. of inquiry, 'and of : impartiality, by which they had heen:aftuated, had not,. and could not bi exceeded: It ...villa, have been impoffible fin any perfon unacmfainted with the - Gentlemen who compelled it, and who only judged from their conduct there, to have difcnvered the rolitical creed of any ohe of them. The only aft they had done was that of infiruCting their Chairman to move for leave to bring in a Bill to prevent the granting of Offices in Beyer fion. It might have been fuppofe'd they migl:rt.have done more, bin a great.part of their time had hen occupied in fending about and making inquiries. The Right Honourable Gentleman (hlr.Perceval)feemed to think that the Committee haft appoirzed was for iavelligating the accounts of one let of-men, apd that to be appointed by him for invelligating the accunts of another let of men. In aching to, he foray did 1 himfelf effenttal injury. It he wilhed the ails of any , future Committee to be esteemed ails of fainters, im partiality and jullire, for O. , D'S like let them gn forth as the nets of the Committee originally appoint ed. This could alone fatisfy the public. The names propofed by the Right Honourable Gentleman were no doubt, u rerceptionaLle in theznfelves. At a proper time he fhould take an opportunity of propcfing the name of a per fon known to eneertain the keenelt fenfe of public wrongr, and who was particularly zealous in his defire to alleviate the burdens of the people. Mr. BRAND conceived, that the Houle was call-1 ed on to appoint fuch a Committee as would fatisfy I the anxious wifhes of an expelling and oppreffed peo ple. He might be prefomed to think well of thole ; men who computed his NI tjelly's late government, of ' whole conduit he had hitherto approved, and to many of whom lie was bound in the firmcft ties of regard ; but if the accufations againft them fhould.be true, he would be one of the first to fuppor any inquiry, in. veftigation and accufatiln againli them. When he looked, however, on the Treafury Bench, and raw that there were pot two on it who had not penfions, reverlkons, expeitancies for themfelies and their fa. milks and friends, he ivifhed to fee a general and fair inquiry. This he afkcd in the name of his con. flituents and of an exceiting people. He vithed that a fair, or rather an ecrufing Committee, fhould be appointed.. If thofe with whom he had hitherto ailed thould ditto' from him in this, he fhould think it high time for hini to leave them. When, hOwever, he law perfons anxious fir inquiry, (lit - miffed from the Committee, and when be law the prefentGovernment, thought in poffeffion of 8 vacancies in the Committee, which it vows in their power to RI lip as they pleafed, not fatisfied with doing fo, but anxious to procure a majority of their own friends into the Committee t he could not believ t it would continue, that eager, zealous and ben i!1 Committee - which the country required. He timid therefore fuggelt the propriety of allowing the names in the former Critiimittee again returned to Patti intent to continue in it, and to move on tome after day for the appOintment of a Corn mirtee to inquire into the othet charges now first ex hibited. Mr.SECRETARY CANNING hid nn doubt the firMourable Gentleman who (poke Taft, delivered the genuine fentiments of his mind, in thinking well of the Gentlemen with whom he was conoefted, and that he would alto think that the fairest aytAnsnff ufeful 'Committee could be formed from among %he'll'. As no part of the eonduft rf the gook, h owever , was taw t . . wanting to thew that there are parties in it, he i no danger in ailing insthe prefent cafe on thOrillree . tical grounds, by which their cOnduci was itigineril regulated. The public knew well, that apart, feel ing pereaded the public life and publid tbriduer of 'the Members orthis Houle. It would hi ridleultiut, therefore, as welt as improper, to endeavour to titioe i the public mind, by pretending, on an ocealion.like l • the prefent, that all therr.ufual habits and feelings for. foOk them: The beltway Was•to appoint perfons of dif-,' ferent ways of Oinking, left, if all of one perty,.their !.prejudices might lead diem, withont, tegerrl to the' 1 teak merits of a cafe, all to incline one way. It • . 1- Mr. Rutherford.. 6r. Ryder...not Mr. Plifon-4" _ .. J.-- I . 1 °.7 , .? 4 " 11,PI P. Pmem irl y—w- 7 7- 7 — =7- 7- ' ll T r-7-. ' would he a d'ilfiretittiling, , in fps!e ofthefe pre jo `4lkes and, pa flubs,, there had ao ifen a dais of ;men who formed anietecekoion frotnrhis ru)ei peif.os who rproivt Might exceptions from the genet,rl prejudices rifninirirtd. If Arch had ex:lll4'6e° indeed it would have been right to have appointed a Committee from • antong.ittelt conleltatjpns ; among' fuch 'Angels of Purity. If he T.vete - here called on to deli. neate Incrt a lei of men, he untaneffionobly would not look to the bench oppofitc for map ,wito roade th e belt le :a of the lion time the " ! had been ir, power ; who, fortonately,for their cooper, had been btn,a Ikon time in office ;bur Whp made the heft urea that flora e :ice of time for their own a.tv'atitage, end first of their -, 'adherents, he ;might t , ,,ok' to the, bench . or..pot?.e ,(Heur, hearq) he r had heard . in a former ,Parhament 9r a Roman M , n•alitt,,Who,avyhed to live in a. O a f,. hottle4-(.111aug4.), Pcifous who indulged iu furnilar wilbes ought, h i lwewier,styr,to recoiled a, faring in .thip,Conntry, lhat tie, who lived in a glaf! Itoufe :floo l l,l not learn to iheiti.lione s." The. Noble Lord . . r 'impolite (Lord Henry Petty) ought tOlav e pt ;his A naeirn hi view, and it it. was Its 3tith,;(3 Live ip a hoore of Oars, gstt he ought M hare le ell not, ,to throw :Pear:: b l ows!) . lib . gight - Alntternr- , able Friend (Mr. Pemeval) in anticline tn thc,cbaanca r made againit the late Minifters, milk • ither ue dme fo generally or Ipecifically. If he bad; done to gene'rally, the Noble Lard, there could b..e douto, would have been equally offended at the want of ,cancintir which the . darknels of the infinu t ati,on might have teemed to imply, as he was now p(cafeef to be, at the detail into which he had co h ered, ft wits • not colleBori'merely which the late 'Cov et nment had,. appointed for Buenos ; Ayres, there were "clammed. lets, fearchers t waiten, Az., Tittle, howeger c the Noble Lend laid, were only appointed I napt:air/4,, and that they were peestliatly fen . other offices granted in reveal ot, that oo l itpiniedi" to borden was thereby ti he thruro - oiLittc - ;ppblicsr, —Now, without vindicating the final e! deep, the p-Oice of graqting o ffi ces in rem 4o ' ,Mod laying immediate butaeloa.nOte public was e l ear2l,„ 1 the fault which he 4 Mr.. C . a i ming), could „nees,e,!, difcover appli.rd to this Xpecies Waite. •- i Pr . 0b51, 4 bly, indeed, the Gentlemen who granted kbefs ;es were in. no expe.ati3On t. at that time, .that Beenos Ayres wools! ever r egain. be poffeffion of his Majtly, of cootie r t hat no 101 l would fall, on any perfon, except an the deluded Collators, Compte, rollers, &c. It was Lobe reColated, however, ; ft ch grants were, not calculated to produce burdens alone, ,lint all) to produce influence, and purls.latage effeet tiermull immediately have had. They vmy prJyidently ; anxious that .this courpti l old As‘ ; b e dilappoin,erd of the revenpecuf*'-nce4irce when it thould be ialually onr . property, fore they :appointed the proper revenue fore the c•;untry fell into our hands. 'ln tbt, cod could there have been to the - conquei to the patronage of the late Minillets., what was alnally conquered, but wInO: to conquer, for which they had to appoil Had they been allowed time, the conque, pane would have been nothing to their's, have teen revenue officers appointed remote and widely divided fettlements. have teen Collators, ComFitroll•iw, 'Waiters appointed at the Bolphor us. We lhould have teen Colleaot s, Comptrollers, Searchers, Waiters, &c. appointed at Rofctta, and in every other quarter. of the habitable globe. He could not help . recollelt. ing, that a wonderful change teemed to have taken place in the fentiments of the late Government, as to Buenos Ayres. At firfi it was not w.n-th mention ? ing—thofe who captured it were not entitled to any thanks. But all at once their ideas were completely changed. They did not regard Buenos Ayres for itfelf. Titey did not confider the advantage it was likely to • produce to our trade and commerce—No I but they recolleaed that here was a place for a Collator, Comp troller, Sr.-. and that too after it had ceafed to be in our poffeffion. He was lorry that he mutt return borne fiorn•thiS fubjeEt, to the appointmeot of the 300 Sur- ' veycos. It, too, he was told, was profpative--it too 1 , 4 was contingent. He again a(ke4, was the influence cory:gem or prolpedlive ? It was orange that it. Itheuld for the firft time be found out, that 300 ad dition Surveyors would be wanted, and that intima tion of that circumilance fhould be made jolt upon th e commencemem ofa general elation. No doubt this too was a for t mute contingeney—a thing which had not been fettled till that very moment. None of theft offices, however, he was informed, had been difpofed of. He (Mr. Canning) believed the other Noble Lord near him could tell him that there were fotr.e of them fettled. From this he had now to turn to the inlitution of the office of Writer of the Edin burgh Gazette. This of f ice, it was to be obferved, was not granted during pleafure—was not limited even to the endurance of the life of the perfon on whom it was conferred, tam was a finecure office, now for the firft.time created, and granted to Dr. Stewart, hit heirs and aligns, for the period of 2t, years. The Noble Lord and he (Mr. Canning) had oftee agreed in .lamenting how patfimonious were the rewards in this Country which were conferred oa literary merit. But, furely, his Lordfhip did not mean, that fuch a man thould be rewarded as they would a corrupt voter for a borough, by a finecure place, into which he fhould meanly creep, if puffible, without any notice of being called to it. The Nubl Lord had alluded to the (hare he and fome of his friends had had in the Anti Jacobin. He (Mr. ning) felt no fhame of the principles of the Anti.Jaco. h,wever he might have caufe to be alhamed at his own individual (hare in the work. The Noble Lord had laid, that the place of Gazette Writer teas not a new place, but had formerly belonged to three newt. paper printers in Edinbutgh. There was then no fa. lary to the office, IP. there was no pretence for laying it was not-a new place. The. I tie Government bad alfo made a Profeffor of Jurifprudence. He could alone accoupt for loch a nomination by foppofing 4hae, atter. tome long debate, in the fwiil of infolence, and to fhew how far they could gcs they had laid" we thallffiew them what we can d0 77 ,%-e will create a Pro feffor of Medical Jurifprudencer The No.i l i c L or d . bad Paid, however, that newlpapers,were the only (peeler,. of literature which found favour with the prefent ,Minifters. He, ,for,one, could fay that h e felt no predileelion of the kind.. But would the No. We Lord venture to fay, that.there was an newipap e r Which received snacks of favour. during the late Asir mipittratiors.? That ;her was not,,a ; newkaper jet `London, which balled of the purity and uprightne4 • 4 11 "11•4111_, _4O A i. 1 ,14 , 211• te h. orapp r - .41,W 'e 4ft, ts , r2441* :. dig int -NW : iWi officeige r '. ells of Bit* We fhi to_ = , _ihe We (hould tearctms snit I 7