Star. — London, England, 1827-05-15 00:00:00

, . I %rni*,& amounted to only 75,0001. a year; it bad been raised by the new scale adopted le 015ato 133.0091 The expense of Consuls had also biress raised at that time from 0:0001:16 - '60,000L a year, whilst that of the whole Diplomatic Establishment, - which generally did not ex teed 120,0001. had in one year reached 424,0001. — Amongst the items at the time, he found that Lord Stewart had exceeded'his yeerie elloWanee by 5,1001 that he had 8,.5581. alleseeteeriert besides fer.4lkbanges and other lames, and 4791. fora inatney to Mantua..., Lord Cathclit also had similar cite* alloWlieces, to the amount of 4.000 L in one instance, and of 8',9701. in ano ther. Then came a long list of presents to the Russian Ministers and Diplomatists, which Came in the whole to 12 9144. He also conceived that the arrangement by which the pay of Consuls was transferred out of the Consolidated Fund to the general supplies of the year, was an arrangement injurious to the public, s only served qs a bounty to extravagance. When the pay of Ambassadors was4/3301. instead of 12,0001. a year,the situations were not worth the exercise of patronage ; but now they all belonged to the connexions of Members of Pat liatnent. And what was the result of this increased expense to the country? Did her influence also increase ? No; it was as great when the pay was small, as it is now. Our influence in the former case had re-estab lished the Statholder in Holland ; it extended over Italy, and Germany—but since that period we had delivered up Genoa, the Notth of Italy, and Norway, to, three or four great Powers. The consequences of this *waste of the public money would be more deplorable than those of any 'sum spent on any purpose whatever. He com plained that the motion did pot gcrfar enough. It only 'refit down to 1817. whilst it ought to go back to 1814 and 1816. The Noble Marquis had alluded to the dis gusting concubinage, from which he expected a monster, horreedent, iftforote to be born. Nay that monster was not yet formed, it was a kind of abortion. But the Noble Marquis was too gedtle; be did not know how to kill monsters.—Let hem take a lesson fiont a Rev. Minister, who, last wen, at the Meeting of the Hiber nian School Society, like a modern Briarens, wished that be had an hundred hands, and each had a sledge ham mer, to beat down that monster, the Catholic Religion. That was the way of the Protestant Briareus, who had more strength than sense. Let the Noble Marquis look amongst the young men in the ranks of the Opposition, and he would, perhaps, find some Briareus more capa ble of attacking and destroying the present monster of art Administration than himself. The Earl of MALMESBURY stated,rhat the sala ries of Ambassadors, before the rise, were wholly in adetteate to support the dignity of their situations, and that it bad been a master to increase settle of them.. - Earl DARNLEY defended the part which be had taten in support of the present Administration. He had had the pleasure of knowing the First Lord of the Trea sury some years, but be did not stand there to vindicate every act of his life. It was enough for him, knowing the position in which his Sovereign had been placed by the desertion of a large portion of his Cabinet, to find that he bad been called upon by his King to form an Administration. Approving as he did, in common with his Noble Friends on that side of the House, of his po . litical conduct, he had no hesitation whatever, under the circumstances of the case, to give that Right Hon. Gentleman his humble support. He admitted the ex istence of great difficulties in the state of public affairs ; but on an important question, the good sense and mo deration of the Catholics, together with the violence of the Opposition, had reconciled him to a temporary postponement. lie was convinced that the. Noble Marquis (Lansdown) whom all mankind acknowledged fittest to lead the Councils of this country, would never do anything tending in the least degree to diminish his power of being useful to the country. He had been reproached with vulgar love of office; but what motive could influence him save the conviction of being able by his conduct to serve his country? A Noble Earl op poaite had given notice of a factions motion. He calla it factions, because be defied him to prove that it was made with any other view than that of embarrassing his Majesty's Government, and a motion for that pur pose could only appeaeto him in the light of a Factious one. He hoped and believed that on reflection the Noble Earl would abstain from bringing it forward bet it only shewed how, in the irritation of the moment, twee's minds might be warped by their feelings. The Noble Earl then lamented the eagerness and haste with which a Right Hon. Gentleman who lately filled the situation of Secretary for the Home Department had joined a factions Opposition, and expressed his own intention to give his humble support to the Government. The Earl of WINCHELSEA assured the Noble Earl that he would take an early opportunity to shew that hisrinciples remained the same, and that he was quite as factious as when he last addressed their Lordships. The Earl of LONGFORD contended, that the con duct of the Catholics in Ireland was not such as to de serve the character of good sense and moderation ap plied to it by the Noble Earl (Darnley). He repelled the charge of belonging to a factious Opposition. If the Noble Earl had never witnessed such an opposition as the present, neither bad he ever witnessed such a Go vernment as the one before him; composed as it was of men who had hitherto most directly opposed each other. It was natural for those who were to be go verned to wish to know whose principles were to be followed, or on which part concessions had been made? A Noble Friend of his had applied the name of rubbish to that Administration. It was indeed only held toge ther by the strong action of Roman cement—(laughter) —which would prove as delusive as it was ',tactically adhesive, and which did nothing more than please the eye. For how could the fabric stand on a divided foundation—one part on the shifting sand of political instability—the other on the mountain destructive tor rent of revolutionary desolation? He was aware that with respect to forcing the abominable measure of Po. pish emancipation, several of the Noble Lords in office would say that they had opposed it ad their lives, and that they should not ci resent to its passing ; but as long as they acted with those whose great object was the ad= vanc , ment of that question, and claimed approbation for the past, and confidence for the future ; that appro- bation he could not concede, and that confidence he was • loth to grant. The Earl of DARNLEY explained. He did not speak of the Roman Catholics generally, but of the Idiom= Catholic Association, who had evinced their ucquiescencein the present stave of things, and their -confidence in their t I lends to take that course which was best calculated to advance their cause; and would not be goaded by their enemies to do that which would render chat cause unpopular. Lord MELVILLE would only trespass on the atter'- , tionotthe House. for a very few minutes, while he re. jetted to one point only in the speech of his Noble friend who led. it Sat down. His Noble Friend bad 44 . • . • I . • r those were , by the who was now placed at the L . the , would then indeed be found opposed to the measures of that Go vernment; but he could never believe that that Right Hon. Gentleman, and those of his colleagues who had continued in the Administration with him, could so far disgrace themselves as to abandon their former prat.: ciples. While, therefore, the Government continued tot be conducted on those principles upon which it had heretofore been carried on, his Right Hon. Fiend, he could assure the Noble Earl, would not be found in chef ranks of opposition. The Earl of DARNLEY, in explanation, said that ;he Noble Lord's late colleague had certainly exhibited a wish to oppose the present Government ; but it ap peared that he had since become ashamed of his arsei crates—(' s No, no," from Lord Melville). He was et. , tremely happy to be set right, as he had no wish 10 miaa e epresent. Viscount GODERICH rose to confirm what the Noble Viscount (Melville) had stated with regard to the conduct of his Right Hon. Friend lately at the head of the Home Department. Never did that Right Hon. Gentleman contemplate, unless his words were to be disbelieved, to place himself in factions epposititin to his Majesty's Government. But, if he should find that the Members of the present Government abandoned the priociples ; on which they had hitherto acted, and ab dicated their own honour, he would be justified, not only in withdrawing . his confidence, but in expressing his decided reprobation. But if there were individuals who remained in the Administration, joined in its mea sures, and found them perfectly reconcilable with their hbnour, why should that be a reproach to them, or to those With whom they were acting? Why should it be supposed that no men could serve their country without being base enough to part with their honour and their character ? The Earl of MALMEBBURY said ate bed for many years been acquainted with the Right Won. Gentleman in the other House who had been alluded to, and from the knowledge which he possessed of his character, he could venture to predict that the course which that Right Hon. Gentleman would pursue would be straight, forward, firm, and independent. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, that while , the Noble Baron oppisite (King) sat on the other sick of the House, he opposed a grant which was moved 11.1 the late Administrition in support of the dignity of the, Crown. Their Lordships were now told that the Go.' vernment was stilt to be conducted en the principles of Lord Ltverpool's Administration, which the Noble Baron had always opposed. What then could induce the Noble Lord to walk over to the other side of the House, he could not suppose; unless, indeed, it was that that Noble Baron was likely soon to be placed in a situation in which he would think it neither expedient nor necessary to oppose any thing which proceeded from the Govern ment--The motion was then agreed to. The Postage Duties Dill passed through a Committee ; after which their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. This being the last day find for receiving Reports on Private Bilis, the House was occupied a longer time than usual on private -- Mr. HUME presented a Petition from certain working classes in Glasgow, preying re li ef and assistance to enable them to emi grate to Cauadi.—fieferred to the Committee on Emigration. The same Hen. Manna presented four Petitions from a sect of Protestant Dissentets, named Freethinking Christians, praying to be relieved from the observance of certain parts of the =mime ceremony, which the petitioners alleged to be contrary to their rehglous opinions, and to be placed on the same footing of religious freedom on which the Jews and Qsakers were placed, by the Mar riage Act.—The Petitions were from London - from Lough hormgh, is Leicestershire ; Cranbourne, Lo st; and Dews bury, Yorkshire. Mr. PALLMER presented a Petition from the Coroners of Surrey, praying for an increase of their fees.—Laid on the table. Lard NUGENT withdrew &emotion of which fie had given notice for today. Lord ALTHORP presented a Petition from Mr. Charlton, complaining of an informality in the Report of the Committee on the Dedlow Ejection. Colonel WOOD explained the facts which had guided the Com mittee in their decision, and said that the Petitioner himself must acknowledge that they had dose substantial justice, and that be was l i not injured by the informality. Mr. W YNN quoted several instances in which the same course as had bee* adopted by the Committee had been pursued. Lord ALTHORP said, that the Petitioner had been induced to petition upon the opinion of Counsel, but as there could be no doubt of the correctness of the authorities quoted by the Right Hun. Gentleman who had just sat down, he should beg leave to withdraw the petition. Mr. HOBHOUSE, presented a Petition from the inhabitants of the Out Ward of St. George's lianover-square, complaining et some of the provisions of the Act ander which the parish was lighted and paved. After a few words front Lord Bst.saave and Mr. &acre, the Petition was road, and laid on the table. iety without national assistance ! , he might lose his tank and privileges....(Laoghter). Now that the pension st was about to be revised under the sanction of the Right Hon. Gentleman, some regulation of the nature he had described appeared to him to be a very suitable accompaniment. Mr. CANNING was utterly at a loss to im tgine on what suspicion, on what rumour, on what reason, or on what foundation of any kind, the Hon. Member had grounded his present remarks,ur questions, be scared, - knew which to call them. He was aware that the Royal Prerogative to which the Hon. Member had adverted, was one which ought not to be eiercised without the most solemn deliberation. But be would never be a consenting party to strip the Crown of its most splendid prerogative, and to strip the Commons of England of 'the right to aspiie to the most splendid reward which it was in the power of any Sovereign to bestow. • Mr. HUME declared that his remarks were not oc• 'easioned by any 'patticular rumour or suspicion. The subject had long engaged his attention, and he had long ago determined to state his sentiments upon it to the House. Mr. CANNING thanked the Honourable Member for his explanation ; for from what he had heard since he came down to the House, he found that the most unfounded and ridiculous rumours had been spread 'upon the subject—spread he believed by parties for the purposes of mischievous delusion. To these rumours, however they may have originated, he now felt it his duty to give the most express contradiction—(Hear, heat). Sir F. BURDETT gave notice of kis intention to take an early opportunity of submitting a motion to the House on the subject of the Impressment of Seamen. said that his Right Hon. Friend., the law Secretary for sirtunents in the hands of the Minister of the day. tie the Home Departninnt,. had eatibarhed with his lain co'- was not now prepared to propose sissy Mensure upon Ole draws in a factious apposition toJsis Illejtsty's Govern• subject, but ptcrbably on a futiye yhe mialtt siontreun I t 'neon He could mere the 2 , 701 e gasf that he was Address to the Throne, at son" re i got.tienil 112ifka ors thas t yabjeit ; that iiippiden. Gentle- outighLbeadopted as to filiternte sof 'ite m : i n-ch a p& mix if h bilkers that the isrliteille(ef those in"....proirision that whenevgidi Peejt wage() rechsccd. is Arno m- dividuals who had seceded from the Ministry were to stances as to be unable to maintain his proper station in be abandoned by the Right Hon. Gentleman who was society without national assistant!, he might lose his under the o s t a h n a c t t t i l o ie n p o e i ns t io h n e I . K .. a t i tis Pr O w t il t e o ges he .".( re L e a ised ngh now placed at the head of the Governnsent, would r oll . t , hen_ rla.n. LORD HIGH ADMIRAL. On Mr. HERMES moving that the House should revolve itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. HUME said, that seeing the Right Hon. Gentle man (Mr. Scarlett) in his place, he wished to know whether there existed any objection to laying before the House a Copy of the Warrant by which the Lord High Admiral held his office ? In former times the Lord High Admiral was invested with great powers; he had a' controul over the Droits of the Admiralty, could institute an impressment, and, as the office had been very re cently revived, he (Mr. Hume) wished to know whether it retained its ancient authority? According to the ancient constitution of the office, the Lord High Ad miral would have an absolute controul over the droits, whether they amounted to one million or to twenty. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said, that he was not prepared to answer the question of the Hon. Member as to the production of the Warrant, but it would pro bably be satisfactory to him to be assured, as he now begged to assure him, that in consequence of modern re gulations,the droits of the Admiralty were now as strictly guarded as any other branch of the national receipts. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY - CREATION OF MULL On the motion for going into the Committee, Mr. HI ME said, that he would take that opportunity to offer one or two ob,ervations on the subject of in creasing the Peerage. This was one of the Preroga tives of the Ciown which insight to be exercised with the utmost caution and reserve, not only on account of the dignity of the Peerage itself, but in order to a►oid the neces,ity of additional burdens upon the people. An excessive or incautious exercise r f this Prerogative tended to degrade the rank of the Peerage, and led in evitably to an accumulation of charge, upon the coun try. Whenever Peers tell into such circumstances as to be unable to support their rank, they became an 'ileum , brew upon the national resources, and obedient its- RETIRED ALLOWANCES. The House baying resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. HERRIES moved a grant of 17,0001 on at. count of superannuation: and retired allowances ofthe civil department. Mr. HUME objected to the grant . The Pension List was hourly swelling, and promised to, ere long, swallow up the resources of the country. Many of those who enjoyed pensions were actually young men, and were far from being unfit for service. A Committee ough t to be appointed to ascertain the fact, and to point out the best means of checking the growing evil.—The Re. plution was agreed to. The next grant was on recount of the fit. Domingo sufferers, and other objects of the national bonnty, 14,9701.--Carried. VACCINATION. Mr. HERRIE3 then moved the grant of 3,0001. for the National Vactilne Establishment. Sir .I:llORKlrObjected,to this grant. He had the greatest reason to deny the efficacy of the pract;ce of vaccination, and to describe it as a mischievous delusion upon the public. Two of his own family, a son and a daughter, were vaccinated, and afterwards inoculated, and yet several years afterwards they both had the small pox in a very severe and dangerous form. Colonel WOOD regretted that an attempt should be made to throw discredit upon a practice which he be lieved to have produced the greatest benefit to the world. He knew there were instances of failure, but there had been as many under the old system of inoculation.— Vaccination possessed this undoubted advantage, that it did not propagate the disease—whilst one individual, after being inoculated, would communicate it naturally to hundreds. Mr. PEEL thought so highly of the practice that he regretted his lion. Friend should apply his powers of sarcasm and ridicule to discredit it. If it did not yield perfect security, it greatly mitigated the virulence of the disorder The children of his Hon. Friend had pro- bably been vaccinated by some amateur vaccinator in the infancy of the practice. The existence of a Board was essential In the City of Dublin, in order to provide a proper suPply,of lymph, and to investigate ad cases of apparent failure. The remuneration afforded to the Gentlemen composing this establishment was certainly net excessive. He lamented exceedingly that anything should pass is that House calculated to perpetuate those prejudices upon the subject which had already so greatly obstructed the complete.success of the system. Sir C. BURRELL supported the grant. He adduced the instance of a large school in Sussex, in which vacci nation had been adopted without a single case of failure, and reprobated the conducrof the base and sordid prac titioners who strove to discredit the practice from mo tives of selt-interest. Mr. HUME stated a case in which a child had been innoculated in a Court in the Strand, and the conse quence was, that fourteen children took the infection, and died. He thought Government ought to bring in a Bill, to compel persons, who had their children in oculated, to take them to a pest-house, or to the coun try ; and that vaccination ought to be encouraged to the utmost. After some observations from Sir J. Yeas; the vote was agreed to. WWI SOS THE DESTITUTE. Mr. HERRIES then moved a grant of 40001. on ac count of the Refuge for the Destitute. Mr. HUME contended that grants of public money to charitable institutions served only to abate the zeal of the managers and individual contributors. Formerly be thought this a justifiable grant, as it afforded a re fuge to criminals, and effected a saving of the public money ; but he understood that now the institution had become a less valuable auxiliary to the police. Dr. LUSHINGTON having been connected with this institution, begged to say that the fluctuation in its funds, noticed by the Hon. Member, was entirely the effect of accident. The necessity of this grant was more evident from the notorious increase of crime, an I par ticularly of juvenile delinquency, which at the eastern end of the metropolis had risen to an alarming height. Mr. PEEL would vote for the grant of 40001. but lie owned that it was by his recommendation that the grant had been reduced from 50001. to 40001. He had given this advice, because he thought it ro.sible to effect all the good with 40001. as well as with 0001. The object of the institution was most laudable, and required some degree of public support. Whether it might not be expedient to form some large establishment entirely under the management of Government was a question which well merited the attention of the 'tight Hun. Gentleman, his successor in office. A considerable 'past of the Penitentiai y in Mill Bank would be at li berty for this purpo,e, in consequence of the nece-saty of ►ending off the 'mate couvreis to New South Wales He had been applied to fir Oft assistance i f Govern ' meat in the maintenance of a similar establiabincut at the eastern end of the Metropolis, Intl ht h d said N o .. ,for the natural idea was, that if Government would grant 30001. it might as well grant five or six thousand, 'and this checked the plan of private benevolence. . Mr. Alderman WAITHM AN thought the selectioe df objects was badly made. The maximum of duals under the care of the Institution WAS 180, And the annual expenditure was 20,00014 They might send the at all down into Tot kshire and have them educated at leis expense: The Hon. Aldermen mentioned several cases dining his Mayoralty in which his recommendation hut been disregatded. After a few olsagrirations from Mr. Hong, Mr. &usu., m ei W•aaostron, Ddr. PALLYAR, Abd Mr. Alderman Urn, the R m . lotion was agreed to. The next Grant WAS 5,500 t. fbr the relief of the Antedate Loy alists. The next was 3,4th1. 4s. for the expense of teaming an d wh o: gaining Criminal Lunatics. SWIM 0011U1S. Mr. HERRIES then moved a grant of 5,5121. 15.10 d. tsil e t ra j the usual allowance to Protestant Dissenting Ministers and Farce Refugee Clergymen. and three of the Baptist deem Mr. HUMS objected In the grant, so far as it applied to tie Refugees. Tbry were Dow at liberty to return name. sr. HRRRIES defended the grant. That part tef it which wag for the benefit of Protestant Dissenting :Ministers was tilillibeted Was !tow tifectually cord; for by nine &Rohner' of the highest respectability—thre e of the Pres: I)T rainat wri ita ni . th rwin dilse dist!i ti b d u r rod " in enti small sums of four or Impound, r f n u .l t be ure r' they should die according to the With respect to the Refugee Clergymen, complaints had formerly been nude that they never died. This extraordinary kmanity, he r After a few words from Sir C. Fouts and Dlr. R. Douous s tareale" Mait haded appr tl i ali ved iltrar tabl en e: thbA:t 3din the Resolution was agreed to. mart mum= coin% Mr. MERRIER moved the grant of 53,0001. for Foreign mit other Secret-Services. Mr. HUME said, that the war used to be the excuse fat this grant, but they found It very little reduced in consequence of the peace. By lda. Berkes }Molds charge was to have been redareg to 10,0001. Mr. CANNING was precleded by the very terra. of the grail from entering into any detailed explanations. But the 11011. Member was mistaken when he assumed that a very considerable roped* of this suns was on account of foreign service, and again be ma anistilken when he supposed that this grant was limited to 10,0001. by Mr. lierke's Bill, which applied only to the money tape:l,A fot Secret Sefekef by the Treasury. He was as anxious as the Ho Grethen-nth to keep down these charges, which were not new, pct the inheritances of former yeses. The present grant was, h o s less by 5000 i. than that of fist year. The aezt grant was £lO,OOO for printing Acts of Parliament. PUBLIC IIBCOILDS• Mr. FARRIER moved a grant of £7500 for arranging zni printing the Public Records. Mr. HUME begged to ask the Right Honourable Gentian opposite what prospect there was as to the completion of the undo. taking, and the discontinuance of these grants? Mt. W. WYNN answered. that in the collection of F.ngli4L history great progress bad been made, bat before any cores is printed.mote must yet be collected and arranged. By the Repot of the able and excellent person to whom the chief mammies was entrusted, the materials had been corected for five rain so lames, one of which would soon make its appearance. Gentians could hardly be aware of the labour required is an undendung eE this kind, in which it was necessary to put every thing in such ism as to stake it easy of reference. The next grant was 495,980 for the probable expense of ea. tionery and printing, including the charges of the Stationst&ollen GOLD AND WTI& COINAGE. Mr. HERR/ES then moved a grant of 50,000 i. for the tyro& dinary expenses of the Mint for the gold coinage of 11127. grant prupoeed was greater than that of last year. The voce this fell short of the actual expenditure. The vote was 404:001. Ind the outlay was 42.0001. This accounted in part for the Macaw at the present estimate. Mr. HUMS 'squired how Many sovereigns had been coined last year? Mr. HERRIES replied—S,B27,s4sl. Mr. HERRIBS then moved a graft of 26,5456 to defray the low In recoining the Irish silver tohens aM coin. Mr. HUMS inquired If this operation was not complete? Mr. HERRIE.S replied that the present grant would claw the account. The neat grant was £5,000 to defray the extraordinary erpeew of tram-twins (*lnert. The next, £19,6211 to defray the egtraordinary expeases in ihe department of the Lotd Chamberlain for the fittings up and furci. tare of the two Hours of Parliament. _ _ The sett, 41180,000 to defray the expenses of law charges. CONVICTS AT WWI •lill ♦x BILUSIDA. _ _ Mr. BERRIES moved the rant of Arin,744 to &fray ti 4 menus of convicts at bomt and at Bermuda. Mr. HUME trimmed to Itito* witat numSer had ban ana• tamed ? Mr. HERRIES replied, 3,500 prisoners, of Whom 5,400 wen osnintained at the expense of ed. per day and roo at the Tatra Is Mr. Secretary BOURNE said, after deducting the vainest their Mbar the Cost of their maintenance did not much (stead ZS it MR • year!. To pay allowances due bt Government fqr expenses incurred mike the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, A'50,000. Mr: BERNAL aid, he wished to take that oppottimity of •y ' Isee a few words with respect to Sierra Leone. Large -urn. were iflated tea! after year uselessly and prodigally upon that erabliab; Mat. He believed these grants were against the genera seated As country. The waste of life in that settlement was dreadisL—; Many Officers of rank and talent had perished there, and Inc awe: talky wax such that it amounted almost to suicide to accrpc of gal situation in the place. He need not mention that gallant aid meri torious Officer ' General Turner, who, together with almost etch individual of his family, fell of ene by aim The soldiers died id great numbers, either from the elects of the climate , or tr ues drinking rum. He was sorry to see the public money [brown awn, and the country humbugged In this manner year after year. Mr. W. HORTON said he hoped the Honourable Getulesiel would not persevere in his opposition to the vote. Re teas awns that whatever the character of the establtshment might be, the st. peases incurred within the year must be paid. The House and do country would soon be put in tall possession of every thing to; sleeted with Sierra Leone, Commissioners haviug been sent out isr the purpose. He was free to admit that there might bare been minnapagement, but this was not the time for going into the qtieb don. With respect to General Turner, he could assure the deo Gentleman that no person pressed more earnestly than that gates 011iter the necessity of retaining the &errs Leone establidneeh AU he desired was, that the House might suspend their joke. te until the Report was before them. Mr. HUhIE said if it was erne that Parliament was to to We" pied so early as report stated, they would no looser be in a situation to discuss the subject when the Sierra Leone Report was lar d spot! the table. He hoped this useless expense anti ware We • ould be put an end to. Mr. CANNING said be would not now take upon him to state what derision the Government might come to on this stititf. Parliament would not separate until the question had been I Into.—The Resolution was agreed to. For paying salaries and expenses incidental to a Commissiot pointed on the part of his Majesty to treat with the tioverniurtu t of Spits Portugal, and the Netherlands, foe the .bol:tion the Slave T rade. Mr. HUME thought that this, as well as other items. 0 1 0 be considerably reduced. Mr. CANNING said, the expenses under this bead had certain! been considerable, but of all others it was perhaps that branch of the expenditure with which the country would be lease disposed to quarrel. Government, however, bad no choice. This expense was imposed on them by Act of Parliament. Mr. HUME said the Right Bon. Gentleman would have so difficulty in prevailing on the House to alter the Act if it s hatiol be thought advisable.—Th: Resolution was agreed to. For defraying the expenses of litisfilitlf anti special commissar' to the new States of South America. Mr. HUME said, that in this item, at least, mite reductive might be made. The sum now proposed, added to the We diplomatic expenses of the country, made the whole ammo.' to .€495,000. Mr. CANNING said. this vote:was .feu s less Riau last yea' , and that for American Cumuls £5OOO less. lie could /*Mite tee natl. Gentle/Ilan that in all communications be received bunt tte British Consuls in South Amenca, they assured bins that it was ut terly impossible they could subsist there upon less daao the toml, allowance. Sume represented the salary as totally huad eo u.te. 4 " their privateistortunes as absorbed by the expenses ino-t. rata to to iltuation. This might appear extraordivary to Eurtifizati ea One requested that be might be allowed either to lay down n office, or to embark in nict gentile speculations somber M '—l tusk •dly 000 imm *to • r, sf 11 411 Gar Mooed et late nal ig bet E t rader peruse cirri" Mr. trim lad na thee w 111•. price. A 1 Mr. vow, Mr. gu• ms le 1180 Cob 1 1 And Rios k from I Mr. H &r C. Mr. Milky Mr. Aker. tbe WI M r. tbo pro tor a ip for mil Mr. 4Daw riding mak boo? *either jection approh &Fmk , Mr. of def. Mr. Caoad tbe M. Mr. trod o keno' AM Sir et to prof I &Ws/ Mr. • pens Mr. hid be M. 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