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LORDS, JUNE 19. ROXBU RGH PEERAGE. The House met at Eleven o'clock, this day, for the purpose of proceeding further in this cause. The LORD CHANCALLOR. recapitulated those arguments which he bad urged on a former day, and which had led him to coadude that the eXpression tontaitled in the. deed of 16 4 $A—" to the eldest daughter and their heirs male," was to by construed in respect to all the daughters, rigcr:siel it Jerkins. He next directed his consideration to the term.-." heirs male ;" whether it was to be consvad in a.geoeral seire, or it was to be confined to the heirs male of the body ? This question was one whith depended upon the principles of the Scotch Law, and uot - upon their bf the Wish... His Lordship cited severaicases, particu larly one where a destination was made by a Sir Robert Hay, and which had been determined - before their Lordships' House, and from this he-made a strong jpfereace, that the term " heirs male," was not one of inflexibility. He argued, generally, that the principal of Law ought ever to be- such as to include, rather than. to exclude, those who might have been intended under the deed of destination. It appeared to him, frog every eonsideration, from all circumstances, and from every partof the deed, that its author meant, by heirs male,as to these daughters, the heirs male of their bodies, in succession. He con cluded, by observing, it was his duty to put the House in pos sassiest of his Iwiciion ; at the same time, reminding them the interest of the parties was great and important ; that, hoverer his opinion might concur with that of the majority of the Judge, who had decided is the Court below, it was in opposition to the firm decision of ethers. It was also his duty to remark, be was delivering his opinion in •he absence of a Noble Lord (we pre sume the Earl of Lauderdale) who had Most impartially sad most learnedly considered the subject. But having seriously weighed every circumstance, it was bis intention to make, in the course of this day, or tomorrow, a motion, which should con tain his individual opinion upon the merits of this important case; and which opinion he had so formed, that he did ' , not perceive it likely any thing could occur which would produce any alteration in his sentiments. At two o'clock, the House adjourned during pleasure. The LORD,C HANCE LLO R afterwards informed their Lord - ships he should make his proposition relative to the Roxburgh Peerage to-morrow. • HOUSE . _ TEEDINGS. 1 -„AL„"Nri "WC W. THE JUDGES' SALARIES' BILL. Upon the motion for the third reading of this Lill, The Duke of NORFOLK expressed himself in the highest terms of encomium on the character and meritorious services of the Twelve Judges. With respect-to the increase of salary to the Welch Judges, he should postpone his observations to the next Session of Parliament. The :2uke of MONTROSE st.ggested the propriety of ex tending the provisicin of income also to the Judges of Scotland. The Bill was then read the third time, and passed. xrxT WATER-WORKS. The Kent Water Works Bill, for Alpplying Greenwich,Dept ford,Rotherhithe, and other parts with water, was read a third time and passed. CONINITC110)7. The Royal Assent was notified by Cormr+sion to the Irish Mi litia Regulation BEI, the ln;olvent Debtors' Bill, and to several other public and private Bills. The Commissioners were, the Loon Cnostcmott, the Duke Moarraot 11, and Lord WALSINGHAM. Another Commission will take place to-morrow.—Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Different Messages from the Lords announced their Lordships' assent to the Seats in Parliament, Insolvent Debtors, Judges Sa laries, Consolidated Fund, and Paupers Removal Bills, together with some others of a private nature The SPEAKER attended at the Hauge of Peers, to hear the Royal Assent read by Commission to several Bills, for which see the Lords. The Amendments made by the Lords to different Bills front this House were taken into consideration twpectively, Mr. JOHNSON ' from the Office of the Secretary in Chief for Ireland, presented at the Bar certain Papers relative to the state of the Police Establishment of Dubl.u4—Ordered to be printed and laid on the Table. lUGHWAYS. Sir JOHN SINCLAIR hro - oght irra Bill to Amend the Condi tion of the Highw•ays.yßead a first and second time, and com mitted; the Report was received, and ordered for further consi deration this day three months. STAGE-COACHES- Sir JOHN SINCLAIR also brought in a Bill to reval those Asts which had been, hitherto in force respecting the regulation •f Stage-coaches, which went through die different stages to the reception of the Report, which was also ordered to be reconside red at the same period as the farmer BANK airr LAWS. Upon the considgation of the Lords' Amendments to the Bankrupt Lasys Bill, Sir S. ROMILLY stated, that although one of the principal clauses, namtiv, that tnr facilitating the ehtiiinment of certificates, bad been struck out, pit the :lilt, as it now st::od, with the addi tion of some useful amendtner.s, was sn itnrortant, that be trust. ed it would meet the cencurrerce of tine he Amend ments were considered and agreed co.• PETITIOV..-AEV. SPCNCSR M 41)-`.V. Mr. WILBERFORCE resented a Petition from the Rev. Spencer Madan, praying to be heard in vindiealion of his chninc ter from the unfounde.d stwernent made by his CorAte, the Rev. Mr. Humphreys, in a Petition which the. latter gentleman lately made to the House. After a few words from Mr. ROSE and Mr. S. LEFEVRE, the Petition was received, and ordered to lie on the table. MRS. CL AIME. Sir THOMAS TURTON said, that he held ir. his hand a Pe tition from no less a personage than Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, praying fbr the restitution of the Papers, which, in the progress of the late investigation into t'-.e conduct of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, had been taken from Mr. Niel:oll's house at Hampstead The Petition was received, and brdcred to be laid on the table. pr . T. TURTON then moved, that the prayer of the said Pe tbapti be complied with. The CH,ANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER acceded * the c notron s 'and the Papers were ordered to be notated accordingly. EAST INDIA AFFAIRS. - Mr. CREEVEY wished to know whether the Papers relating to East India Affairs, for which he had moved on a former night, ecrqd be produced to the House in the present Session. Mr.DLINDAS replied, that it would be absolutely impossible tp & so. MANCHESTER WATER-WORKS. • - N -' 2 Uri. GRAHAM moved the consideration of the Amendment made by the Lords to the Manchester NVater-works Bill. , . Colonel ST.A.YLEY opposed the Amendments, and moved, that they be considered on this day t7irce months. ' The flattery was cleared, and the House I , :tving.flecided upon the original question, the numbers were, Ayes 73—Noes 36. . pirity 37. lit Amendments were consequently taken into consideration ytid irced to. EAST-INDIA CArETS. Sir T. TURTON, pursuant to notice, rose, and . -Our dwelling for a considerable time, on the in)us v- Tice ,iisd..inhurnanity of recalling from their situations —,those young men who may be ignorant of the undue .igsgag4A by which those situations were acquired, con cluded by moving the following resolutions. • • That this House did not c o n cur with th:, report of its Com asittee-appointt4 to investigate into the ahrses of East-India pa rrotlike; In that part which stated that in consequence of Juror- Inicient before them, it would be immediately necessary to recal certain persons who, by undue means, had obtained their ap pointments, and declare them incapable of bolAng hereafter any situation in the same ; and tint the House considers such a mea sure tine of extreme severity, as directed against persons either imam or ignorant cf the•oilence, ae.d that it is rcptignant to justice and the common rights - of humanity." Mr. DLIND,4,§ Court of Direc ten were inflo4Ced . toially by the report from this House, however inclined they may be to respect and atttaid to any communication it may nlake. They had acted under the resolution of 1806 pot 1789, as . . • • • • ' I' 5 . . . •• . . • • th e Hon . Baronet haehtated, as he could prove by tion, eaeo a saving of Eleven Mi;liens IR the Public Iged. The next was Lori Waggon Trahs.. their advertisement of 1806. That the proper and Emit:Wittily of the Country. He. trust-ed with,.con e :.which cest 43, 3 001. aayear, anti which h e l ef li eee e all sufficient notification of .consequences which would. -fidekie bn the • indulgelee'of,the Souse, as. he, aide i men agreed in' thinking totally useless. They wee attend an offence against theiitresolution , had been forViard at : present s iinply,f r on *wanner in which , Only fit for heme-service, where the. y were not i -re p q a u rc i:d a . r fully made. Ige did not , - see any other measure by he I*l been e;ipid on, having.hineeelf bad nq ievn e i That thee were of no use bed been fecund both at Cc which the Directors could effect, the prevention of . tion of troilbtlng theleseasesata tboauleject during the. enhagep 'Red in ' Spain . The total expence o f the such practices better than'by 'the present one. The preeent S e isitene-Whas he had stated was, that if that':"Shaff amounted to 449,64.914 he shou s l a e v b ed e pe by the ex. Board of Directors exercised only that discretion „liaise were 'the' faithful 'guardians of the .public ,a4y drne'tefshew that 200,0001; of it were improp er ly which, as far as related to removing their officers , purse, the 'Mount *of the Income. Tax might. he incurred. The Recruiting Staff amens eel to 34,95ei, when they ,found necessary; they were possessed geeatlY'gitoirrisisidi'if neeentieely afeVed- .. lithe war . and if he added the loss arising. from the recru i t i ng of. But the resolution of the Hon. Baronet , if adopt - wak con ducted lsrx /louse so constituted as he had systerte'froM ;Ram of levies, he might a dd a l ess cf ed,.`would in fact be a mandate to them not to exer - suggeste d, he hall tin tinuht k mighttbe carried on at. P 0,0001• which woutel have been cise their own free will. He shoulttnegative this re- infinitely less expehee thainwhakit snow cost.: Since cellent plan infrodulced by •the Right Honourable solution, and concluded by :peeing the previous he had said so f he had •Seenlaeguage not different, „Gentleman (Mr. 'Windham). The expense .c f A r. question. but stronger than hirnwp, used-by-a celebrated man Imy Agents was 61,9751.; but he should he able to Officec consis t ing The • Mr. BANKES wished, in the strongest terms , to whom_. he • Was convinced the gen t l emen • opposite . demonstrate, that by the appointment of a G enera l impress on the House the absolute power, which in would not attempt to under-rate; be-meant the.late Agency Office this` might be conducted f or toeeeee their own concerns was vested in the India Directors. Mr. Pitt; who se words -he b e gg ed libert y to read. 'ln the War Office, he • had already• shew a t h at a He considered the proposition of the Hon. Baronet . That great man, when reform was attempted to be in- saving of 24,0001. a-Year might be made, and Lenugatory, nugatory, and that he would. do much better by troducedinto the repre;entation in the year 1782,asIced , ncalen head v calculated was the o on a similar rd s it a ti v n iz n iq ..rt tl a lep m : c l Pay et moving the repeal of the Act which was made on if the puhliC hadelway s h ad a . Hous e of Commons arlio this head. . : would act the part of checks on the encroachments of horse artillery, • 113,0001. ; artillery drivers, Mr. WINDHAM said, that the virtue of some attemptedlo be made on the people, who would al- 229P001. ; contract horses, 9..99 Ohel. This last sent Gentlemen was so outrageous, that it him in ways stand up the people's friends ; would the bee- ,at least would full to be struck off, and still there mind of an opinion on female virtue in a certain. deps Which tile people then endured have ever beeil ! would remain the e wholh horse artillery, and all that county " that the nation could not thrive, unless a incurred ? Was this n o t stron g er than an y thin g he couldpossibly be wanted for the service. Th e next ,; certain description of women were burnt alive."— ( Mr. WARDLE) had said ? He had pnly stated, that article was 40,9451. for ammurfition for defence of 1.4 laugh.)—On such occasions the House had el. in a House so constituted as he' had imagined, the the country at home, exclusive of Ireland. Thi s h e : ready interposed; and it ought now, in order to take burdens of the people would have been less than they conceived to be a strange and excessive waste. The off the effect of such a disgraceful measure. .It may , now were. He (Me. Pitt) that such burdens would next article, for fortifications et home, am a o t e cai t foe e untde : be argued on the strength of an anecdote which he . never have been incurred. I t ha d been stated that no less a sum than 700;0001, Hearing of the w or k s remembered, that if this measure of recal, etc. were he attacked the characters of public men. He denied. at Romney M ars h , he h ad gone, to see it, n • adopted, it 'would prevent the crime. The anecdote ! that there was 'a single instance in which he lied that they had built 27 Martell° Tox ors, intended t o was; that a Prussian soldier, having his bat blown off . done so. He had attacked systems, but not indivi- carrya long gun and howitzer, lent built seas onlytebe while in the ranks, was, by the rigid discipline of the duals; if he had done so, he must have acted contrary capable of retrying the long gun. Even that ge n , h ow _ service, chastised severely, whether it Was occasioned to every principle of his life. As to systems, 'ho evetecould notbepointed within 2.soyards. of I.IIC ICC of by accident or not; however, fewer hats fell off after- would attack them so long as he had a seat in that th e tower (leaeingsomtrelideadpoints),riot ev ento i ow wards—(A laugh.)-He did not think that would, House. In that too he was twee . out by the great : water mark. Thereis besidesan extent of shore of six however, warrant such a measure es the present, for character already alluded to. He had stated that miles withetit batteries, more favourable for l an di ng which he saw no necessity. . there was a defect in the nation, and that the disease • than that where the batteries arc built. Oa th:s alone Mr. WALLACE thought the resolution of the must take effect unless a cure was applied. That upwards ofiel,ooo,Coo had been thrown away. The Directors 'one which they had with consistency and a • without Parliamentary Reform, new wars and new • Reyal,. Military Canal, 25 miles long and eo eas e s regard to the efficiency of their acts found necessary taxes must take place. That on the present system ' broad, could not be. defended ; boats might be sate to adept, Though he felt much for the unpleasant no good minister could be of use to the country ; that from any fire from the inside of the parapet, and there situation of the young men, yet he felt much more no good man would continue minister. ' Had he is not a single flanking defence. There could be but for that of the Company. The arguments of the HOs (Mr. WARDLE) said any thing so strong as this ? : one opinion, that we did not want defences of the kind, nourable Gentleman opposite in extenuation would IHe should now, without preface, proceed to state at but thus was the public money wasted. In one part go the length of justifying the sale of all offices. few of the particulars on which he was convinced ! a Military Road was ploughing up, and another was Mr. STEPHEN warmly supported the motion of savings to a great amount might be effected. He ! forming in Scotland. It, he presumed, would soon the Honourable Baronet. • • • observed that an increase had taken place in ibe ploughed up also, and a new oneformed in Wales: Mr. GRANT observed, that the practice which it our expenditure, during the present year, to the Of the £7 00 , 000 expended in * the :loyal Canal, he was intended by this measure to suppress, had a ten- amount of seven millions. This naturally led i thought £500,000 might have been saved. The next dency to overthrew the concerns cf .the East India him to look into the documents With which, ! point was theCommiseariat—the foreign amounted to establishment altogether, and consequently he should like every other Member of that House, he was ; £1,543,000, and in Ireland £75 per cent. was paid for accede to any mole of preventing it. The question furnished. The first saving which it occurred ! delivery, He believed in this department £500,000 was now before a Court of Proprietors, and he did to him might be produced without any inconveni- i a year might be saved by economy.. Barracks was not think it right for the House to interpose. ence was in the Household Troops. The Blues , the next, the expenditure in Which for Great Mr. FREEMANTLE supported the motion. of the Horse Guards, amounting the one to 600 and I-Britain and Ireland - was £761,9e2e there being in The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER the other to about 800 men. • For parade 5 . 00 men [ Ireland numberless barracks going Co ruins, which conceived, that if this Resolution was adopted, the was amply sufficient, and more than there coal be i high rents were paid for,'hired buildings. He should question wofild not be left in that unprejudiced state any use in retaining. . Indeed, he understood that of i undertake next session to shew that a saving might which was on all hands allowed to be desirable. It late years the Blues had never been employed., The Ibe made- to the country on this head to the amount was impossible the Honourable taronet could have number of cavalry in our service exceeded ever/tree-1 of £350,000. The next was the article of cloth ! any other intention than that of prejudicing it when sonable proportioh, amounting to about 23,000. A I ing, on which he would undertake that a saving he framed that Resolution. If adopted, the House force - of 15,001 was amply su ffi cient for the service of should be made of nine shillings per man, producing should go farther than giving to the Directors a mere this country, in addition to the force in the East In. £135,000 a year. It was confessed that aesrofit of opinion ; they should tell them to exclude from their dies. There might safely be a reduction of this force to :Riper cent. was charged by the Turnishee, tieciiiisi he books the resolution which they had found necessary 15,000 horses and 18,000 men. The present expence lay ,sixerienthe put. of his money. We, in ot liii.`jde. to adopt, and in fact, the House should make by- under this head, was about £1,277,000, and the pro- Ipartments,.paid bekrehand, withontanycall on, fes to laws for them. If the House should refuse to give posed reduction would produce a saving of £900,000 sda so ; would it not he better to borrow here, at 'leer their accord or dissent to this measure, it would be a year. The next article of expence was our foreign ,or foie per Cent: and wive the 20 per cent. which" we much better, and less prejudiced. corps, amounting to 27,600 men, besides artillery,ahe •at present lost This would amount . to.. 3.5,001. a Sir S. ROMILLY was surprised to hear austere expence of this force was £1,005,800, and of them - 'year. On ccionial corps and supplies sent to Spill, sentiments 'of justice from the opposite side of the 3700 were cavalry. He would maintain that in a a saving of 100,0001. On Packing and - Insurance House. They should recollect what they had done house such as he had suggested this would not be suf: to foreign stations, not less than 20,0001:. By a view in the case of a Secretary of State, for whom they tend. • Lord Chatham in the war 1757, even when `of the Military, Expenditure for thelast fetweyears, lie conceived theremay he a locus penitentiz; and also the the bugbeir of invasion was afloat, sent all foreign :hewed that .during the tizo'yens the late - Adria. indulgence given to Beauchamp Hill, though, proved troops out-of this country. That Noble Lord regarded nistration were .in office, there evv a saving of to receive bribes, before they would proceed to-adopt them as an unconstitutional force; and be, Mr. War- 2,000,0001. annually. The next-swing lie thought such a measure of severity, as the recal of young nett die, was satisfied that such a House as he had alluded might be produced was in the Avenue. - fri the over whom the shield had not been thrown. - to, would not vote a single guinea on account of the Post-office there was an wees...expeenditure since The ATTORNEY GENERAL believed, 'that ' mainten..nce of them. He wished no reflection on this Mr. Palmer's • dismissal of 24j0,61201:ariing from the arguments of his Honourable and Learned I force more titan the subject required ; some part of it bad management. In the Cuespenr, a great saving Friend were made use of for the purpose of intro- i had behaved well, but others had not.—lnHanovere might be produced by the checking of : patronage, ducing his closing reflection—( Hear ! hear !) -The : our troops were obliged to act as guards on them to ' in the stamp s, th e collect i on coat 130;001e1. a year.' power of the Directors was admitted on all hands, as, prevent their deserting. In this opinion he was borne' —He was convinced it could be Well done by to execute what they considered advantegeous to out by Sir R. Wilson, who was employed by Govern-- taking away the 100,0001. and leaving .30,0001. their concerns. But would not this resolution convey ment. He thought thatnot a guinea should be issued on In Scotland a per centage of 2QI. wai • charged on an intimation to the Directors that they should act 1 this account. There was another grievance coeneeted, window lights ; 161. on malt; Sec: end the Receivers from the impulse of their own sentiments ? Upon with this subject, that O ffi cers of high rank were erne and Collectors were suffered to havela - ege bounces in the whole, this resolution would go farther perhaps ployed in it, put)aver the heads of British Officers, by their hinds. Why was thiseuffered.? ...By al4iwing 'then was even intended by the Hon. Mover. having their commissions antidated. Another useless a fair per centage on the awhole revenue of 31. per Mr. P. MOORE defended the motion, epnceiving corps waseheßoyal Staff corps, very expensive, but of cent. for Whiclett could easily be collected, a wing that the matter ought not to go any farther, which it which he could find no account except to the amount of £1;051,000 i-year would- be, pteduced.. The ex would do,without parliamentary interference. Nothing lof 20,0001. a year. They were neither more nor less pence of collecting the revenue was yearly encreasing, coule be more unju s t than to visit the sins of the fa- I than engineers, and should rather have formed an ad e whereasehe rate ought to decrease as the sum to be ther upon the children, which would unquestionably 1 dition to the engineers. The militia amounted to collected grew larger. In Ireland the per centage was be the case, if the severe resolution of the Cubit of 1 109,070 men, and the expence was three millions.— still higher, and exceeded all bounds. By reducing Directors should be persisted in. . By allowing this description of force to be absent it even to the high rate in England, a saving of . . . Mr. LUSHINGTON supported the previous g le es- during the harvest month * saving of 300,0001. would £ 388 , 000 a.yeer would be produced. The. excess -. _ _ _ - _. _ . —. . . -__ _ _ ._ . _ _ _ _ . a 51 tion. An ipterferente with the Directors of the East India Company, such as that now proposed, was, in his opinion, by no means justifiable. Mr. HUTCHINSON argued, that if the House negatived the proposition of the Hon. Baronet they would act in direct opposition to the tendency of their conduct during the whole of the present Session. He gave the motion his decided support. Mr. H. SMITH maintained the expediency of coming to the previous question on the motion before the House. Mr. N.. VANSITTART hoped the Court of Di rectors would re-consider their determination. Mr. H. THORNTON expressed his opinion, that the proposed resolution was unnecessat y. From what had been• stated by the Hon. Chairman of the Court of Directors, it appeared, that it was not intended to enfOrce their determinatior. with the severity supposed by the Honourable Baronet. Sir T. TURTON made an animated reply to the arguments that had been urged against' is motion.. The House then divided, For the previous question 77---Against it 35—Majority 42. On our re-admission into the Gallery we found the House discussing A motion of Lord OSSULSTON's, for printing several- returns of Offices at Home and in the Colonies, which had previously been presented by Mr. Huskisson. After some conversation, in which. Mr. Huskisson, Mr. H. Thomson,. and Mr. Bankes participated, and which turned on the eipediencrof:avoiding expente in .. • the printin of unnecessary documeßth - Lord OSSULSTON waved his motion with a view of renewing it to-morrow, if necessary. PUBLIC ECONOMY. Mr. WARD4E.. rca, to make his promised nie be produced. On the Welsh corps asaving of 20,0001. would be occasioned. Another species of force, which was totally useless, was the Lt!cal Militia, the erpence of which amounted to 458,5001. 'and their Staff to 306,3901. Of all profligate expenditures this Wel the- Most profligate. If discipline was the object; 800,000 D for the Staff could never have bearliteeesiaty. - If they hiii got Adjutants and serjeauts, with the assistuice 1 ffici of the militia, that would hate heen suent • yet for this one month in the lest. ) , yas deettledexPedi ,i erg to incur an e.xpease of 0 0 0 $ sl.' 'As 'to their 1 clothing. too, that ,wiss,,suyter 'tictiss. Before it was ' , voted; they had their voltuitect clothing, which wal ' perfectly good yyst, iu such tiuses ss these, new clothing :was thought nectios,arg. , If any :f lin\tlS re4lll*, Stith' expensive clothing was needless." The sclOtheilurnishi: edsaine to about blioalpaN . Z lr l us,lnt:4l,ned that a jacket. and trowsers , which coo lialli asuinea, li4t i would have beak mintiest; nay, aheyWOillit4rave beetl,esttally pleased Withbut clothing- oS, *ith it.-:i; On .t .s, there 46114 mite , a:isaving3f -7f)0,0001..5.64 The next artiCle Was Volildliers, and' tn - em s there was a sum of 240,01101. just fpr_changir.g into ano ther home service. . This he thought might better have been saved. The estimate of the Volunteer ex pence for this yeai..was 1,000,0201. ;'for the last year ar amounted to 1,000,0941. It seemed rather strange !'that it should amount totto much doting the &few ' rear, when 240,0001.- had been . paid for exchanging from this service into the Local Militia. In his •Opi. • pion, there never were better volunteers than those of I . lrelnd :in the year 1780, who served without pay, ' Mitt td whose protection the whole country was left. lln this opinion he Wikigain borne Out by Sir Ro bert Wilson, th at in a force of this kind, neither ex pellee nor the 4p:slating of attire should be encoura. • expense of the Irish Post-Office amounted to 50. per cent. while its revenue was less than that of Seetland, which did not cost 121. percent. The,money paid to the Auditors of Public Accounts was thrown away. -It was impossible theynbciuld ever get through them. It er as th e duty .of that • Housq by forrr,wg into •Committees to effect this desirable qbjecOyithout putting the country to any expellee; That would produce a saving of £75,000 a-year. The next sub ject he should touch on • was the Bank,: He had made up an account. ,of debit and,crecti*tweett the Bank and the Country, and found that there was a balance in the Country's favour of £3:38,738, besides the £210,000 a-year for transacting the busi ness of the countyy, but which ,w 4,5,4 4y . remunerated 14 the:balances of cash left in tlAe . Bank, aac; which 4 - ptivattelaasker would esteem a suthejent teumnera tioia. He should.not touch on sinec.ures,, &c.. farther than 4o state, 'that far from being freeholds, 'as some persons thought them, in the yar 1744 2 offices of feller, &c.• were revised and redsced one third, in • consequence of the great •enereitse of tle expenditure of the army, &c. There was paid this year on boun ties the sum of £523,00.0. How far this was a pro per expenditure he could not say. He objected to the sums for buildings, such as a new Knt, amounting to /1198,775 ; Houma. in Downing-street, #9,000, &c. By the late contrast -with Mr..Borton; the copper coin age was furnished at a profit. ,There was no occasion, therefore, for any extravagant expente in building a new mint. Ministers, however, were probably I re pared to take of the .Bank ,restriction. He also •objected to the issue of such large sums to our Wolk' ahrOnd, • witbmtt seeing, that the greatest economy was in the management of them. 'The Hottontable . r be next . proceeded to the na . • • • • . s