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^ ~~ Nvi*Fat 9132. ARMY CONTRACT. • Commissary in Chief's Office, Great George-street, London, 29th May, 1816. VOTICE is hereby given to all Persons desirous of contracting to supply the following Articles for the Use vg the Army, viz. sitgai)--To his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quar ters, and Barracks, in the undermectioned Counties andislauds AltierneY. Hu n t s , Lincoln, Durham (including Ibe of Man, I Nottingham. Holy Island), WI and MUTTON—To his Majesty's Land Forces in Can tonments, Quarters, and , Barracks, in the under-mentioned Counties and Islands: Cornwall (including 1 I Devon, I Isle of Man, Hants, isle of Wight. OATS—ro his Majesty's Cavalry in Cantonments and Quarters in the undermentioued Counties s Derby, I Hertford, • I Lincoln, Mi n a Bier, Hunts, • Westmoreland. roItAGE, viz. o.l7's x Hay, and STRAW:-..T0 .11141 idgellty'S c a valry in Barracks, and Oat* M Caosonments asid Quarters, rn the ander-mentioned Counties: Cara , (Ordnance Barracks, New )bau (including Isle of eastlo-upousTyne, and Oats in Wight), the County of Northumberland) Norfolk, Suffolk, Pluthanspton, Somerset, Nottingham, Warwick. ninths Deliveries are to commence on and for the 25th dry of y e w next; that Proposals in writing, sealed up, and marked * Tondo for Army Supplies," will be received at this Office on ar before Thursday, the 27th Day of June, (but none will be re vived after 12 o'clock on that day), and, if sent by Post, the restage must be paid. Proposals must 3se made separately for each County and Wand, and each l'r• pose! cunt bare the letter which is annexed to the Tenths properly filled up,by two Persons of known property en raging el. become bound with the party tendering in the amount rated in the printed Particulars, for the due performance of the Contract ; and no Proposal will be noticed unless made on a printed ender, and the prices expressed in words at length; and should it so happen that during the continuance of the Contract no mops should he stationed or supplied in the County, the ex pense of the Contract and Bond, paid in the first instance by the Contractor, to be refunded to him by the Commissary in Chief, • Particulars of the Contracts may be had ippon application at this Office between the hours of eleven and five. Notice Is hereby further given, Mat Tenders for supplying Bread, as also Fresh Beef and Mutton, to his Majesty's Land Forces in Cantonments, Quarters, and Barracks, in the County of CAMBRIDGE (including NEWMARKET), Will be receives at this Office, on or before Twelve o'Clock on Wednesday, the 12th day of June net. The deliveries of which will commence on the gSth day of said Month of June. Parti culars may be had as above. EYTON, STICK-BnoxElt and LOTTERY•OFFICE XL/ Pelt, 9., Cornhill, an/ In, Coventry-street, has again the pleasure of congratulating hi: Friends on the circumstance of the Capifal Prizes in the last Lottery being sold In Shares, Three of which were std at his truly-fortunate Offices, as above, where Tickets ttnd Shares are now on Sale for a Small Lottery of only 000 rickets, yet containing Prises of 240,000, illo,ooo, Sta. obe all drawls itsih Tess MONTE. OM Ticket may gain ICsO,OOO, and Shares in proportion. _ - j SIVEWRIGHT begs leave to - call the atten. tf . don of Ns Friends and the Public to the Summer Lottery of only 6000 Tickets. The '1 iekets to be drawn in one Day, Seth Ws biomes (June). SCHEME CONTAINS 1 • • - 490,000 , 1 - - 410,000 11 - - 43,000 3 • - £l,OOO 16 4100, £3OO, and £.400 1,910 of 4144 down to 410 The Ent drawn si , oue 4600 wiU be entitled to the 410,000 Pest and may be a .430,0•011. The above number of Tickets is not near what was sold in be last Lottery, an early purchase Is therefore reconunended at 37, Coartutm., I li, Hosnoxs, E . HAYWARKIT, I 141, OVFOID lITILItr. fIBERON's OATH, performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. Written by the late BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Esq. The Music by JOHN PARRY. 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The Alien it, the Irish inland Navigation Bill, Grand Junc tion Canal WU, and the Waterloo (late Strand) Bridge Bill, and others, were 11.-evhten the COllllllllOll9, sod Tea! a first time. The Earl of I AIHACIIDALE mused for several Accounts re lative to the Stair of tint Coin at ptment in circulation, with rule rwtee to the pi' •osed new Silver Coinage ; and the Papers were ordered secnrdityZ He then gave notice, that he would on 1 Tnesday move a-Coounit , ee to examine into the state of the 1 Coln; and Vey& ea this principle—that the new Coinage would produce good whatever, while it would impose a heavy expo:lw on theploublic. On the very principles laid down by the tete Earl of Liverpool, it was ImpossUde that the new Coin could rennin in circulatien with a depreciated Paper Currency. He moved that the House be summoned for Tuesday, which was ordered. _ _ _ The Earl of DONOUGHMORE gave notice, that he would on Tuesday present the Catholic Petitions, whi ch be ought per haps to have presented at an earlier period of the Session, He named Tuesday, because he wished to consult certain Noble' I.larda as to the best course of proceeding to be proposed upen these Petitions. _ _ The Earl of LAUDERDALE moved the second reading of the Pillory Abolition Bill: the Bill was accordingly read a snood time, and ordered to be committed for Thursday. Lord SIDMOUIH gave notice, that he would move the ad. toad reading of the Alien Bill on Tuesday. Lord HOLLAND expressed his hope that the Noble Lore. would be prepared to 'thew the necessity of this measure, and what was the object of Ministers hi recommending It. hen they were depriving strangers, by this most impolitic, unneces sary, unjust, and extraordinary Bill, as he conceived it to be, of those advantages which they had for ages enjoyed, the least that could be expected was, that the object of the measure should be clearly stated, whether it was to introduce Foreign Ministers into the internal Police of this Country, or to protect the Constitution of the Country. It would be necessary, also, to know who were or were not Aliens, that they might know with respect to whom they were legislating: and some quer ions on that point ought to be put to the Judges, in ease the Noble Lord should be able to persuade the House to adopt the principle of this Bill at all. The Earl of CARNARVON moved for am Accouct of Aliens residing in this Country since 1792 to the present time, and the number of Aliens sent out of the Country during the sane period. Ordered. The' LORD CHANCELLOR gave notice, pursuant to his ,practice, of the iotention to propose to-morrow the clause in a Divorce Bill ( Abdy's Divorce we believe) for preventing the in termarriage of the offending parties. 816, of the •seeter4.t 4 .seri ts, and that expenditure of Al ,100,000 *tilting it in round To that was to be added: for the Wind sor Establishment, 4173,000, nesiang the whole £1,275,000. The sum now proposed to be fixed was £1,339,000 which, excluding fhe expense of the Windsor Establishment, which arose lout of extraor dinary circumstances, )41 only 466,400 as the addi tion now made to the average of - 1811. The open ing of the Continent had increased the,expenditure for Ministers abroad in no less a sum in one year than £150,000. Part of this, he admitte4, would not be necessarily permanent ; but still the xpense in this branch must necessarily be larger *in it had been for some time before. The queetts# then was, what was the best course to supply the deficiency ? Parlia ment had, in 1131.2. contemplated ',nod sanctioned an increase of 4120,000i.ind upon the whole a sum of £250,000 remained unprovideti kr.. 'That might he Sonde good in two ways--either *adding to the Civil List revenue, or by witlideawine. certain charges from the Civil List to that af00t...7.410 be voted is another way. The latter coarse seemed to be the better of the two. As the principle of a fixed :eve nts for the Crown had been adopted, it was desirable that the articles of fluctuating expenditure should be separated from it, and there could be no objection to bring all the articles of fluctuating expenditure an nually before Parliament. His Lordship then ad 'vetted to the office of Auditor appointed in the Bill, which would be useful as a check on the Civil List expenditure, and bring that expenditure more under the controul of the Treasury. The salary of this officer was to be 41,500 a year ; but offices in the Lord Chamberlain's department, to the amount of 42,600, and in the Lord Steward's department to the amount of 44,700 were to be abolished as they fell. To obviate certain prejudices respecting the supposed enormous expenses of the royal personal establishment, his Lordship stated that the total ex pense was little more now than it was in 1760. In this arrangement no expense was proposed which was not for the support of the proper dignity of the Crown, and for the advantage of the public. The Marquis of LANSDOWN observed, that as no inquiry had been made in the other House previ ous to the passing of this Bill, it would be in vain for hini to expect that an inquiry by Commit tee would be agreed to by their Lordshins. That, I owever, was the mode of inquiry which certainly oe : ilit to have preceded. a measure of this kind, in order to ascertain whether this addition of an expenditure of 42.50,000 to the public burdens WAS or was nut ne cessary. To one part of the principle of this Bill he assented—he meant that part which separated cer tain articles of fluctuating expenditure from the Civil List : but as to what might be required for the per , song establishment of the Sovereign, lie wank; not go to other countries for illustrations, and least of all to that country which the Noble Earl had mentioned —a country which had been remarkable at different periods, for the most servile devotion to a monarch, and for the most decisive hostility to monarchy alto gether. It might be hoped that the state of that country at present was considerably removed from both extremes ; but if the restoration of the King of . France was the restoration of the old principle of government, the illustration was one which certainly had no application to this country. In other coun tries, the splendour of the Crown might be one of the chief engines of government ; but here the case was different, for in this country the Sovereign re quired no greater revenue than that which was ne. cessary to support the proper dignity of his station, without making his splendour a chief engine of go vernment. The ground and principle on which Par. liament had acted with respect to Elio crown revenue, both at and since the revolution, must have been this—that as the personal expenses of the Sovereign were, or ought to be, fixed and certain, it was for the advantage of the Sovereign, and also for that of the public, that the revenue should be fixed and cer- i tain also. This was a sound principle, and it was for that reason that he assented to the separation of the articles of fluctuating expenditure from the Civil List, and he never had been able to understand on, what principle they had been suffered to remain there. l Whether this addition of 4250,000 to the public hue dens was necessary or not he did not knew, as no in quiry had been permitted : but assuming that it was necessary, Ministers ought to have seized the occa sion of this new arrangement to take other branches of fluctuating revenue out of the hands of the Crown .fpr the public benefit. The droits of the Admiralty belonged to the Crown, but not more particularly than any of the other sourcespf revenue which had been taken into the hands of the public.• Under every Administration it had been thought proper to have recourse to the Droits of the Admiralty to supply the deficiency of the Civil List. Why, then, when the public was called upon to make good this deficiency, were not these Droits of the Admiralty taken into the hands of the public ? The arrange ment would have been for the advantage, and much more consistent with the dignity, of the Sovereign ; because then, the Sovereign, instead of coming to Parliament is forma Morris, Would give some com pensation to the pub tie for this additional allowance. As to the necessity of imposing some check on the Civil List expenditure, the experience of the past abundantly proved it : but he saw no great security from this officer, who had no power to check the ex penditere of the heads of departments, and appeared to be of no manner of use, except perhaps to facili. late the exercise of any cotstroul which the Treasury might have: the only effectual controul would be a Parliamentary one, and not. that of an officer re movable at pleasure. The arrangement, then, in his opinion, ought to have been much more comprehen sive, and to' have included all the uikcertain revenues of the. Crowe upon a proper allowance being made by the public for the expenses of the Sovereign, not upon the principle of French splendour, but with a view to that which was necessary for the maintenance of the Reasonable and solid dignity of the station. . • . e. ,• . , . t 4 . J , . r ifet, '•' • - 144,_ .., - N air _____. • , ,_ 1. 4 4 T t PRICE SEVEN-inNCRe. Lord HOLLAND concurred in the principles mentioned by the Noble E irl, and sots oily sorry that his Bel and his statements were completely at variance with these principles. His statements ape peered to be intended to shirty that there had been nO abuse in the Civil List expenditure, an d y et t h e Bill established this new office of auditor, with.n salary of £1,500, in order to check abuses in that expenditure. He could, therefore, place no great confidence in the statement that there had been no abuses. The plea. ciple stated by the Noble Earl was, that it was rea. sonable to make additions tit the Civil List according to circumstances, because the Crown had been de prived of its fluctuating revenue ; and yet when the large addition of 41250,000 was made to the Civil List allowance, the Droits of the Admiralty were still kit in the hands of the Crown—a species of fluctuatine revenue of the most dangerous tendency to the interests of the country, and the peace of man kind. while it was suffered to cootinne in the bands of the Crown. The Droits of the Admiralty could be considered in no other light than as a bonus to go to war, thus giving the Crown interests at variance with those of the people. Inducements were thus held out to embroil the nation with foreign states for objetts purely personal to the Sovereign, in order that, be fore a declaration of hostilities, a greater revenue might be swept into the Civil List Exchequer. He agreed with his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Lana down), that the hereditary revenues of the Crown, which had been so much talked of, did not belong to the Sovereign without the consent of Parliament ; that they were within its controul, and were left with the Sovereign merely in consequence of arrange ments; but even allowing the exclusive title to their enjoyment to exist in the King, when the Noble Earl (Liverpool) claimed . them, he had forgotten what the country had done to supply their place to the Civil List. He had forgotten the debts incurred by ithe Crown, and paid by the Legislature ; he had for. gotten the debts contracted against the law of the land, in opposition to Acts of Parliament, and in contempt of the interests of the country. Did not the House know, did not the Noble Earl know, that in 1782 Mr. Burke had said, in the discussions that took place on his Bill, that the Clown could, after its passing into a law. incur no debt, because no debt tould be legal ? But u hat followed ? f-I id the Crown never incurred debt ? Often since had we seen term mons debts paid by the nation, theugh coat-Aced contrary to law. Taking into account the grants made at frequent iatervels to tee . Crown ; taking into account sums paid from the Consolidated Fund for the purposes of defrayii e what wetild formerly have been Civil List expenditure; addinte• to that the amount of debts paid at different periods ; and then joining to the whole the £BOO,OOO bareeined for by the Crown m e ttle beginning of the present reign as its fixed revenue, he would venture to say that the ex penditure of the Civil List had exceeded thrice the sum then contemplated by Parliament. Let not elle House and the country then be told that the Crown had been strictly economical—that it had kept down its expenses—that the country had had few calls for exerting its liberality—that the whole measures of Government were conducted on the most moderate scale. He was not now prepared to go into the cal. culations and statements necessary to substantiate the opinion he had given : but be had no doubt that oa a subsequent occasion, by entering into detail ip the Committee, or in some stage of the present Bill, he could prove what he had stated with regard to the excessive expenditure of the Civil List. The Droits of Admiralty applied to defray the charges of the Civil List constituted an enormous sum of them. selves. The Noble Earl took credit to the Crown for applying this revenue to pay the debts of the Civil List, and while providing a measure that would ren der it necessary to contract no farther debt, he still wished the Crown to retain its hold over these extra,. ordinary means. The Noble Earl was not entitled to gain two objects that appeared to be inconsistent. He could not in fairness to the country exonerate the Civil List from all fluctuating charges by giving it sh fixed income, while he retained, in addition to that fixed incense, a fluctuating revenue. If the Crows was freed from uncertain expenses, it was not equita ble that it should have an uueeitain ificome in addi. tion to what was thought a sufficient estimate for supporting its splendour. in addition to the Droits, the Crown exercised a right over the 4s- per cents., and many of the charges, which were foimerly paid by its hereditary revenues, were now defrayed out of she Consolidated Fund. He would not enumerate all the sources of the Royal revenues, but he believed there were four or five still unmentioned by him. The Noble Earl had maintained an opinion in which he concurred, that the Civil List expenditure of this country, applied for the purposes of royal magnifi cence and useless splendour, was less considerable than the revenues enjoyed Ly continental Sove. reigns for supporting their state and dieesier ; but whet was this to the purpose ? Why were we to draw precedents fir our justification or palliatives for our excesses, from states where liberty was not understood, where our happy constitution was not enjoyed—where the prerogative of the crown was every thlig, and the privileges of the people no thing ? GOD for bid that we should compare ourselves with the arbitrary and despotic governments of the Cuntineno and rest contented merely by not being in so bad a situation as the people uoder them. If we were determined to compare ourselves with fo reign states, let us look for 4 people whom ode re sembled in the democratic part of our Constitution. as well as in the monarchical. Let us fix upon Amite rice as a point of comparison. It would be answered that the Governinent of the United States was Repub. lican ; but had not ourown government 3 Republican branch ? Was it neat owing to the copular part of our Constiteti m that we lied transcended all the other European nations ; that we had advanced to such a high pitch of improvement in the arts of peace, and had developed such energies in the late struggle' We should not, therefore, disdain to , . . • . .. • • •• • 1 74. ' • . • •kt , r•-••: • • • , t., • t --- ' • J • 0, -- ... , _ -,, '' s --" -.. .* '' " - 1. •,. ,e. • Irk p • . il; ,# \ - _ . ....7 4 •*2,..r, 4 0.143 Ji , ..; sr ..,, ..-,.....--..... . . ....- •••, „........._ . _ •k it FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1 wiI ick CALEDO MAN ASYLUM. an average oi A SPEC L GENERAL COURT of - the gave an expel' CI. GUARDIANS of this COaPORA I'ION, will be holden numbers. Tc here on MONDAY, the 171 b instant, to Twelve o'Clock, to Cr.. sor R 0,144111 CIVIL LIST. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the second reading of the Civil List, and in doing so he should not conceive, he said, that be did his duty. unless he stated generally the vowed* and objects of she 'Bill. ' The Civil List had will been repeatedly brought!. under the view of Parliament; and if this was done oftener in the present than in any former reign, it arose from the nature of the compact made wit h Majesty on this subject at the commencement of his reign. Their Lordships were aware that before the Revolution, the expenses of Government were de. frayed by the Crown out of certain hereditary reve nues. At the Revolution a great change took place in this respect, as it was then thought proper to sepa. rate the expenses of the Army and Navy from those of the Civil Government, and to vote the Army and Navy expenses annually under the controul of Parlia ment, leaving a certain revenue in the hands of the Crown for the expenses of the Civil Government.— Parliament, however, fixed a minimum, and if the revenue fell short of £700,000, the deficiency was to be made good by Parliament. In the reign of George 11. the minimum was increased to 4800,000. In both cases, if the revenue produced more than these sums, the advantage belonged to the Crown. But his present Majesty stood in a different situation in this respect from any former Sovereign, for the Public took the hereditary revenues for its own advantage, and fixed the maximum for the Crown first at 4800,000, afterwards at £900,000. The difference was mate. rial, as the revenues would have increased, and had in fact increased in the hands of the public with the increase of other revenues ; but of this advantage the Crown had been deprived by the compact with his present Majesty. The centequence necessarily was, frequent applications to Parliament in • the course of , a long reign, during which the Sovereign bad the advantage of a numerous family, for it was obvious that a fixed sum which would be sufficient in 1760, was not sufficient in 1816. He did pot argue whe. then the arrangement made at the commencemeat of the present reign was or was not a wise one, but only contended that the necessary effect was, that in the course of a long reign these applications should be made to Parliament. Having explained this, he wished to observe also, that this was not a revenue merely for the personal advantage of the Sovereign, but likewise for the adeainistration of a great part of , the Civil Government. Only 4409,080 went to the expenses of the personal establishment of the So vereign—not more than one-third of the Civil List.— ' The personal expenses of the government were less in this country than in others. The 25 milliohs of, livres granted to the Sing of France were intended entirely for the personal eetablishntentof the Sovereign. Of our Civil List two-thirds went to the expenses of the civil government. If they looked into the details they would find that by far the greater propor tion of increase had takes place in that part of the Civil List which went to the adofinistration of the . civil Government; and though debts had been in curred, not merely in that branch, but also in the personal branch, their Lordships would consider that a revenue settled 56 years ago, according to the state of revenue and expenditure at that period, was not likely to be sufficient during the subsequent changes. The amount of debts paid , off by the public, on account of - the Civil List, was not by any means m large as the change of circumstances might have justified. Then, refining to the arrangement ..Of 1811, he observed, that it had ban calcu acted at re. ti