Star. — London, England, 1809-05-27 00:00:00

Mr. HTTSKISSON mentioned, that in the next isitte of Ex chequer Bilk, the interest would be reduced from SO. per ceat. per day to Sid. which, upon the number generally in circulation, would produce a saving to the country of about tEIOO,OOO a-year. It was also settled, that any discussion an his Majesty's Mes sage, relatin g to pecuniary assistance to Austria, Spain, or Pot toga!, should take plate when the Report should be received. The House having resolveditself in- o 'he Committee, three mil lions were voted to his Majesty, and 300.0001. for exigencies foe Ireland. The Report was ordered to be received on Tuesday next. ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. CURWEN moved the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on the Bill for the Prevention of the Sale of Scats in Parliament. • The SPEAKER explained, that the question was, that he now leave the Chair. Sir JOHN NEWPORT observed, that the object of the Bill proposed by his Hon. Friend would be of importance at any time, but it was more imperiously called for at this hour than any other. He felt anxi ous at all times to promote such regulations "as were calculated to give effect to the spirit of the Grenville Act. This was a privilege that the House constitu tionally possessed, and which it bad often beneficially exerted. He need only mention the recent case of Aylesbury. The measure now proposed was pre cisely of the same nature, with this only difference, that it went to prevent corruption ; the Aylesbury Bill to punish. That case was particularly flagrant. So notorious was the corruption, that the sale of that Borough was effected by del 'gates c—ming up to town and seeking for a purchaser with whom they might traffic. That offence was punished by disfranchising the corrupt electors, and calling in others from the adjacent districts, to purify and correct the corrupt mass ef voters. The effect of this salutary measure was the establishment of the influence of_ property, which he maintained to be a perfectly constitettional influence. He could not agree with a Right Hon. Member below him (Mr. Windham) that it was the duty of the House to make a stand against innova tion ; but he thought that they should firrt correct abuses, and then make their stand. For his own cart e he had no fear that any general call would be made' in the country that could bring the constitution into danger. Whenever any cry was raised for the pur pose of overawing the deliberations of the Legisla ture, its Mischiefs were not of long duration. The people soon recovered Irons it, and its effects fell on the heads of those who excited it. He was persuaded that great benefits would he derived trom the mea sure; and he wished it to be impressed upon the people, that the House was disposed to deal out equal justice to the 'elected and electors. It would also operate as a guard to popular election. The operation of the Bill would be particularly favourable to Bur gage tenure, and men of talents would be more likely to find their way into that House than if money were the sole passport to it. Those who possessed influence would look out for men of talents and virtue, such as would be a credit to themselves and their recommen dation. Of this a memorahle instance occurred in Ireland, where Lord Charlemont introduced into the Parliament of that country a member (whom he was proud to call his friend,) of distinguished talents, and who had proved himself not only the friend of his country, but the friend of humankind ; he meant the Right Hon. Member (Mr. Grattan) for the city of Dublin. ( Hear, hear!) That Nobleman, upon being applied toeipon some proposition relating to the surrendering of boroughs, eeplied that so long as he had held his borough, he had considered him self as holding it in trust for the public, and that he had always returned such persons for it as were capa-, ble of rendering them service. The Hon. Member observed, that if ever there was a time when' it was I incumbent on Parliament to consult the popular opi nion, and to endeavour to acquire confidence by fair and legal means, it was the present. He would not go the length of saying, that they were bound in all cases to surrender their opinion to that of the people, but th it they should look with doubt upon any opi nion of their own, contradictory even to the preju dices of the people. The common enemy could not possess a greater friend in this country, and one who could more powerfully contribute to aid him in his design upon it, than he who would advise Parlia ment to scout popular opinion. There was a defer ence justly due in this country to the popular voice. The Representatives of the People would adopt no mere effectual means of recommending themselves to the confident. of the people, than by doing away what was called the trade of Parliament. : t was no torioes that many persons.paid their money for seats in that House upon speculation. The speculator pur chased a ticket, in the parliamentary lottery, and the public were sure to ray the prize. Of these specu lators some .were commercial, some professional per sons ; but the object of both wete the same. Now he wished to put down this traffic, and conceiving that it would be effected by the Bill before the House, he would vote for going into the Committee. Mr. W. SMITH did not wish to bear the word re form run down, :is Parliamentary Reform (which it here signifies) ie as different from anarchical reform as any two things can possibly be. But if he did not think this Bill would go farther than it now proposes to do, he would not give his vote for its going into the Committee. His objection to it was, that . it dots not cut corruption up by the roots, it only lops off the branches ; and he thought the plan of reform pro pt sed by Mr. Pitt infinitely better, as it went to dig up the very sources of corruption, which this does not GMORGE R. do. He saw no use for administering an oath against " st y was directed Returns to be made and certified br ibery by money, since any ambitious country gen hy the Arcuhishno att,i Eiwlopc t,f Engin:A and Wali 5, of the tleinan, who had a seat to dispose of, might go to the Namber of I : ivitigtoraiLi- the Value of £ l5O per AnLein ; and l Treasury, and c echange it to be made a Baronet, &c. r ti r o r n c , ti o . f in t t e frz t r h a tj , d ße i t n ur ts - ts e , , t , h ci a a t r d tutvt d ithstandi t tg the unless some renedy is provided for that, when the Queen Anne, tor the maltin g , iore effe 3 czu l .:l ea h r t s ir o A r A l a ir j s .M 7 'aj7t 6 ary Bill is hi the Cemmittee, he said he would not vote does intentions t e r rile a..7,!eiva.init of th e maiinenaiice of g ' tee for its going Out of the House. He declared, it was. Clergy,poor rho :Tr her Majesty to grant in perpetuity the with pride he beheld those men, who were destined to Re r sues ei.afeitihtiee,ktint,:maintenaticebelun ing tii the Cler g y in eiv . tr " i, s p a a n tt d s doin is still mean andg- be th! ornaments of the other house of Parliament, tusallicient.sanding forth among those who were thei supporters Majesty has directed an Abstract of the Returns, as far of the democratic part of our Constitution. Such were n c i c i e u e t e s l e cts f oe c to lie laid before the House of the younger branches oF the Nobility in that House. Commons can find my proper aC'uthniernlonnsfi sane havean e if b t t h e l e .vio j esty to accelerate the o erallon of the methud enabling Mr. SPENCER STANHOPE said, he never saw said Act, it Will be a great ativarta g e to the pu bl ic, P and very tic- a more imperfect Bill than the present, but he had no e eptable to his Maj.:sty. " it objection to its going into a Committee. On the Motion of the CHANCELLOR of . the Mr. DAVIS GIDDY observed, that it was the EXCHEQUErt, the Mess: qte was ordere.: to be re_ i common course of things for every sae, ies of property {erred to the Committee of :nipple. to be represented ; and it was impossible to prevent WAYS AND eteaes. great capitalists, whether in-land or in money, from On the motion of the lAN • Exchequer little, were votocl CEl.l.Olt of thcEXCHEQUFR o wards ion, to he raised by ll h r. r.re,ented in that house. It was well known wee ds roo ma s t : ie supplies.—Rt port toil uesday. that the greatest Statesmen, who ever were in that ki ere r e; OF SCPPLY. House, had come in from small boroughs; it was previous to the readin g of the order of the Jay f or go , s into through th ese t h at em i nent merc h ants an d em i nent eosin:etre 01 se ee ,y, soldiers came into the House ; he would therefore PARLIAMEATARr PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY VI. After further coraideration zlf the Arpeah, Pltyfair v. Mae t.bnald;and of Arrixt 17. Hint, the judgments of the Court bsluw were reVers.d. Counscl were again hoard in the Appeal Frank ; after which, a fucher hearing w►s ordered for Wednesday next. ticv.•ra Bills were br....lght up from the Commons, and read a first time. leave it to the House, whether these s h ou ld no t en ryle here ppliticai power—aat this borough-7 1 n aT g i t in through the small boroughs ? He did not see why cobinism should be destrcycd. But after great fuad-helders should not have seats in the House. made this dealt-odor, Co. lion. Gentle For these reasons he would not limit the number of round, and ortolled the eAvante ges derived fiotel—ti; small boroughs. He thought it would he an im- rotten. boroeghs (Hear, bar). nrengli s e.. provement to the Constitution, if the small bormglis s tid Isroeght ads...not:Tr of d'fferent deec, were increased. He contended that no great country into the Hnese—men of talents. Ii -t th ey ra ated Could e'er exist with a legislative power approaching no adventurers. Whitt was requited was a se e l to a democracy ; because the legislative would then check on the Government ; end for this r em ' overawe the executive power. In the midst of this Hense of Cornrows prepetly constit ute d re g Y - o. s , --- 4 war, the prosperity of the conntry was encreasing well answer, ni:liont lawyers and r her Ade- ent e r ,: every day. The agriculture of the country was Titer object was the Security or t 7, crn,arry. 1. 1 ; proved in a high degree; and he would oppose any had no desire for ornaments ; they wanted befits a .: 1 4 measure that might tend to make an alteration in the bits to confine the executive witliie roper ne e its p %,"' ... present system of the country. One week's confusion If it was die design of the rvin. gerelemsn is se ; would be more dangerous than three years corrupt tinue a system which rendered the House suOser es -2: influence. to the Minister, in other wor s, to have pri j ; Sir FRANCIS BURDETT said, that doctrines so Government:, w 1:: did he net .r p 0;" !H tv. i Ft n . novel and extraordinary had lately• been introduced without the. Fewest incumbreace ? Ia this is I, ay te e into that House, he found himself altogether at a loss constitutien was a farce— • mere masquertas. if„ e how to answer them. The situation in which he stood must have a despotism, why not eave it rinieet ay at that moment was so new and so unknown to the this m ich.nery end expensive appe.nclages ? Adven. received and acknowledged principles of the Coned- ing to the observations of the Hone' r. Ges , tution, that he could not but conceive the House no denten upon the case of usury, the Henri:table. longer wore the appearance of being the Representa- Baronet observed, that the,l eves egaiest eery weir tives of the Commons House of Parliament. The ineffectual, because the system was wrong. Th e , circumstances of the present clay were so new and sin- stilly confined the trede to the worst detrieti n e t per ;, gular, that it teemed impossible to call that House pie, and prevented a flit cornpeer:ion. So this ba the Representatives of the Nation—bin, like the would only aggrava:e the evil, inasmuch as te e system atoms of Epicurus, some represented one thing and was radically bad. As the lass against usury gave some another—wine represented certain sm ell par- the monopoly to the worst description of pork, s u cels of individuals, some their own money; but, least this bill would give the monopoly of the Seat Tots of all, did they represent the Commons of England. to the Treasury. Unless you stopped the mirket He felt, therefore, considerable difficulty how to act; together, you only did Mischief by preventing a free but he was determined to do his duty to those who traffic. It the bill could be eflicieot, which it caned had delegated him to that place, and would raise his not, the Treasury would monopolize the whole, and voice in as strong and energetic language as decency i therefore while the system coetinued, it was let ern and decorum would allow, against that system of cor- I have a free market. If the House was not to le cor. ruption which, if not immediately assailed and spec- nosed of Representatives of the People, it would be dily*overcome, must prove most disastrous and de. infinitely better to have an auction of seats ; to have structive to the dearest and most vital interests of the , a public mart where ail might go, and conduct mat. country and of the constitution. The present debate ters openly. Where all was conducted in this ores had been originally opened by an Hon. Gentleman way, the barter might be turned to some advantage. Apposite, who he did not then see in his place, in the In the first plate, the money might be turned to pub. most extraordinary manner, and upon the most extra- he purposes. We might then ; get alt r i i i d ou o g f h th h e e d s e a l ‘% ' . delicacy vagant ground. he had ever heard of. He had at- which still rent:tined these subjects, a nd s p ea k tempted to justify the present mode of sending Mem- openly what every knew hers to that House, by comparing it with what had reason why the ears of Gentlemen should be More de. been done in former periods of our history. He (Sir licate than their consciences. ( Hear ! hear!) Another F. Burden) thought it, however, necessary to state, advantage would be, that the man who purchased that if that House could be allowed to be viewed in with his money would, in all probability, be more i . any other light than that of the Representatives of dependent than p'acernen, and those who represented the People, they would lose all their dignity and im- their patrons. For, Recce dine to the modern im portance. That Hon. Member, in the statement which rality, these last were bound by private honour, while he made in order to cover the shame of their House, a man might purchase and Trove an hnnourabla set for the transactiops Which had lately passed it it, had vent of the public. taut this Lill, like all shim mea avowed that the House had formerly been in the pay sures, would be inefficient. ea it it was not, it wcul.', of a French monarch. He knew not to what particto is he had stated, give the tronnpoly of the market lar periodehe Hon. Gentleman meant to allude.— to the Treasury. While he said this, he was d Whether it was to Charles the Second, when he sold sirous tr do justice to an in lependent Men.b : Dunkirk to the French, or to the particular case of of Parliament. He was f illy convinced that the H - Barillomptho took upon hOrre to stigmatize that House nourable Gentleman who brought in the bill expo. with the title of the Pensioned Parliament. He did ted that great public advantage would result from is not envy the Hon. Member hi; feelings, which could The Hon. Baronet also objected to the Bill in anotho permit hiM to bring forward such an extennatien view. Oaths were already too common in the let's of the present proceedings of that House. if he latirn of this cnuntry, and the extension of then meant to say that Members had a right to sit there by would be a great evil. The misfortune besides eas, means of corruption, he hoped this doctrine would th it they would not be effectual for their pursose.— stimulate Ministers to act and openly to declare, that How mach were they abused in the excise and is °nee the House, as then constituted, was not the Com- revenue Cases ? Was the oath if qualification sufb. mons House of Parliament. dent for its object ? He saw no reason why this oil The SPEAKER called the .Honourable Baronet should haste more virtue than others, except on at: to order. count of its length, fur it WAS the longest he had ent Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON submitted, seen. Ile was averse besides to oaths as a.check en whether, under the peculiar circumstances of the case, cond mt. But still his great objection to this Bill was, the Honourable Baronet might not deny that this was that it would, under the present system,: rather eggio properly the House of Commons, since, by the openly vete than remedy the evl of which the nation had so avowed and defended corruptions, the House itself much reason to compla'n. An sther singular circum. appeared to have disclaimed that tide. stance to which he cool I not- help adverting, was, The SPEAKER said, that it was his. duty to call 'that old notions seemed to be so completely obliteratei any Member tb order who affirmed that this was not I that they were reptoached fer that which formerly the House of Commons—and he would do so as long would have been reckoned an honour—namely, that as the House supported him. (Hear, hear.) they were of no party. The:gentlemen of the prciest Sir FRANCIS then observed, that he was perfectly' d;y seemed to be astonished at Caere. " You d ret aware of the impartiality of the Speaker's conduct on w tnt plate or pension, you say—Why what are you this as well as on other occasions ; but he would re- lat ? What object can you possibly have in eiew ? collect, that until the 12th of this month, the claim . You must surely b' trailers." They had been re of the House to be called the Houk of Commons proached for not desiring a change of Ministers. But was founded on its assumed purity. He admitted, why should they desire:My . , Lange ? They did not se: however, the necessity of some rules to guide the pro- that the Ministers conducted m 'tters at all in a were ceedings ; and the Speaker; no doubt, spoke from the • way than their predecessors, who taunted him for remembrance of former periods. But then he must 1 being of no party. lie would nst join any faction: allow that he (Sir F. Burden) spoke in a situation but he would be clad to support any . Minister who and under circumstances entirely new. The Hon. I acted properly. Tlie only return he could make to that Baronet then resumed his argument, and said, that numerous body•which had sent him to that House, the Honourable ge n tleman (Mr. G. Johnstone) had so undaservedly perh:tps on his pet, but so honour. boasted of the purity of the present assembly, by corn- " ably to themselves;, was to refrain from termentiog paring it with what the House of Commons was der- the Ministers, and to stand up there onlsoon peat ing die existence of the South Sea Scheme. But the coestitmional p ints, as a guarlsin of the riches acid Honourable Gentleman had forgotten to state that the privileges if tlie people. The Gentlemen of the the Members who bad Leen detected in that instans,e Opposiden were like :one one in The Rehearsal—their were expelled the )douse, and punished in variaus old mester turned t em off, and no one el,e ways—and that the Commons then had pureed off . receive thcni. The. seid th :t their delinquency con. the baser matter. ( Hear, hear.) In order to prove s'sted in having be 'n in Cfhc Noe n one Lad re the purity and dignity of the 'louse in the present - proacbed dism with :hat cii,umstancie. Their t times, the Honourable Gentleman had alluded to the queneyeconsisted in not havieg pet formed what they cases of Lord Melville and the Duke of York. In' had promised to the 'whet. Ile had host dof a lank the former case, it was only by the casting vote of the : rupt fortune h ving 'wen owed, in that House ; but Speaker that the dignity of the house was at all sup- . e had new.: heard of .t broksn eh rater having been ported—but the Speaker would recollect that those retrieved. sA preset ma y BTs ha.' be 3 brought in to who endeavoured to save Lord Melville, even from remedy the evil o the system ; tit i was in vain to censure, voted for his impeachment, in order to los- attempt to alter the natu e taco thin ,by these ems cue him from the equal justice of a Jury. (Hear, clients. The Hope:ea-Able adv reed, as an ire hear.) As to the case of the Duke of Yak, he was stance, to a BiAir eight in by :i.Burke to correct the at a less to conceive how that could be turned into a mischiefs cf die system, and to eecci. an economical re proof of the purity of the House, which had cleared form. It had been introduced with ail that pump of do. his Royal Highness, while even the Ministers, in de- spience with which he could adorn the slight :st subjects. ference to the opinion of the,people, whom an Hon. It was a sort of substitute for Parliamentan Refoi Gentleman near him (Mr. D. Giddy) had declared to and was to Le eternal in its operatioas, Iks the great be incapable of judging of these matters, had advised principles on which it WAS founded. But Mr.lltoks the resignation of the Duke of York. This they had himself had outlived its operation. In oppoe . ti• 0 . " done out of respect to that opinion, which the House the economical part of that Bill, too, Lor,ll\idvi ;.e 'had disregarded. But suppose, as that Honourable li of flatly refused to give ;lily account of :In 119.1(e iii Gentleman bad said, that the House had been curs upt which he had expended a large sum, lied et eioes from the time of the Revolution, were we to justify who talked' so ranch about the dignity if the House, crime by crime ? Many persons in that House had did not move that Lord . MelyiLe be seat to :11::Ton'es. said, that the system would lead to arbitrary power :Bet this Bill would Le tnischievoes pohn —but he believed it could scarcely have been in the of view, it would act-as , an indemnity to, ail past es contemplation of any one, that a Minister would ever linquencies. It was now civility steted, that :sorrily have dared to avow what was now openly defended. ton h.id been going' on: since th' If it The Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down, • was so it was treason to Abe teonetitutien. If such a had made such contradictory statements, that it was mode of proceeding had beeneadopted %%Oda respat difficelt to fellow him. He said that political power the Executive part of the Go veninient it, wool.; le a ought not to be separated from property. Why, that fin feiture of life. Belt eeils'lhere no treason iiihictiee was the very ground on which they :toad. Their against the libe'tt ef't)l4.s(iLject ? Suppose that,' object woe, that they who had no property should not century hence some Minister, such a one who 10-IF 4 MILITIA COF4PLETIONT RILL. Lori CA FT!. BR t Ace appeared at the bar, and requested a co-.- fetenct in bchslf of the Comrn'rts with their Lordships, respec ting the Amendments made by their Lordships in the above bill. Stveral Peers were immediately appointed to manage the con ference, at the heal of which was Lord AYLESBURY. After a shirt deliberation they returned, and Lord A•tesseitv reported the result to the House ; when, urn the motion of the Fan of Liverpool, the House at to withdraw the amend ment, and a Mvssage was forthwith sent t• the Commons to ac quaint them thereof. VOTE OF CREDIT. After a few observations from the Earl of LIVER POOL in favour of encouraging the exertions of Spain and Austria ; which the Duke *of NORFOLK shortly opposed, an Address to .his Majesty was voted in terms c'f the Message. The hills on the table were then forwarded in their respective stages, and the House adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MAY 26. The ship Owners, the Windsor Forest, the Poor Removal, and the Irish Post Roads tills, were forwarded in their several stares. Mr. FOSTER pres'7.nted a Bill for raising a Loan of 1,250,0001. by way of amiuity : and also a Bill for raising a loan of 500,0001. by Treasury Bills, for the service of Ireland in the present yvar ; both were read the first time, and ordered for a second reading to-morrow. Mr. VANSITTAPT moved for the printing of several ac counts upon the table, respecting the proceedings of the Com missioners for the Reduction of the National Debt—Ortlered. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved, that a Committee of Mem bers then present, be appointed to attend a conference with a Committee of the Lords, respecting some amendments made in the Lords' House, upon the Local N gliti4 Amendment Bill. _ . Agreed to : the Cmmittee attended f.ftthwith, ald on theft return Lord Castl.reagh reported to the House, that the Lords had agreed to vdbhdraw their Amendments. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER presented at the Bar an Abstract of the Returns of the First-fruits anal Tenths, which he tioverl should lie on the table, and be taken into con sideration on Wednesday next. . . . . Mr. PONSON B wi , hed to know whether it was the inten tion of the Right Hon. Gentleman to take any steps in the busi ness this Sessi3:: ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, it was in his contemplation to propose that a sum of money should be gran ted to :he trustees of Quern Anne's Bounty, to be applied to the I chief of the Clergy who were entitled to it under tLat A ct. 'To this he trusted the House would have no objection. As to any ulterior object, he would defer the consifts ration of that until fur ther informaliwi wai laid before the House. Lord CASTLEREAGH obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the office of Agent-General to Volt.ateers and Local CRIMINAL CODE- Sir S. ROMILLY rose, in pursuance of a motion which he had given, to move for a Return of the Persons committed to the va rious Prisons in the Empire., and of those who had been for va rious offences convicted and punished for the same. So far back as the year iSO2, at least as to the convictions. The object of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman in making this motion was, that he may be enabled to submit to the House from such informrion, a proposition for altering the criminal law of the country, so far as would diminish the severity of the punishments at present in force, and yet augment their certainty in the cases where they should be applied. If he could have flattered himself, that lie might in the present Session introduce such a measure of alteration with effect, he certainly would have done 41; but it was unnecessary far him to star the particular reasons which rendered it impracticable. lie would, however, early in the ensuing Ses sion, bring forward a measure to alter the criminal laws, which was different, he said, in practice, from what it was in the statute books. The lion. and Learned Member, after some further state ments, concluded by naming— " 'f hat an humble Address he presented to his Majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to direct that there be laid before this House a return of the males and females committed to the different prisons in Fogland, Wales, and Ireland, for the years 1805, 11406, 1807, and 180 s, distinguishing their crimes, the son victions,and the capital punishments which haveensued upon rhos, convictions. And also a return of the male and female convicts, w::0, during the same years, had been transported, together with the periods for • :hich they had each been transported; and fur • tber, a return of the number of .:onvicts transported to New South Wales,.from the commencement of that colony, with an account of suck as had returned from transportation, the time of their convicaon, and dates of embarkation, and an account of the' period they may have been confined in the hulks previous to trans portation." Thr Hon. and Learned Gentleman observed, that greatly dan gerous effects arose from the let ter intermediate kind of punish ment, namely, imprisonment for a long period after sentence of tratisportatioo had been passed. Mr. JENKINSON did not think the returns could be made to the ratt.nt desired by the Hon. and Learned Mceober. _ _ Mr. ABERCROMBIE stated at some length the necessity of such information relative to the colony of New South Wales, as would lead to its limer regulation. lie should at some future period move for a Committef on that subject. Lord CASTLEREAGII remarked upon the d'fficulty of admi nistering that colony at the present moment. He should, how ever, state to the House that Government were taking the most prudent steps towards introducing a nrw order of things in that quarter, and to regulate the conduct of those concerned in its ad ministration. They were folly resolved to do justice in every par ticular as far as related to the transactions which lately occurred in the colony. After a few words from Mr. \VILBERFORCE and Mr. HO RNER, Sir S. ROMU.I.Y withdrew that part of his motion relating to the return of c.ommitrnents for the purpose of renewing it in ano t'an way to-morroty. • '1 he motion iv all as other parts was agreed to. A tncssage fror. Lori lb ;;i•iifiet! that their Lort!air aid not insi4t on lite amendment propoinitl by them to the Com pletion Bin. 'nit Linidships els° declared their awn: to a num. Ler of private ROYAL NIESAGE. Tht CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brong!it down t:ie following Message from his Ma-