The National Register. — London, England, 1809-06-04 00:00:00

THE iNAIIVNAIIs -at C tract ideas of perfection, he would still say, that althot4th had before heart) a sy.4!eig of bribery and eorrn ption avowed, .e never did suppose that suet? a scene of bribery and corrup tion as this coma ever have been justified or excused. It ap peared from the Report of the Cammissiont-rs of Etapiry, that the frauds committed on the Irish i.eventw the liceo,ed dis- Mers amounted in a year to 856,0001. and that the principal ,tope of these enormous frauds was, that those officers were biibed to COIIIIIVC at them. These Distillers now deprecated all manner of enquiry into those transactions. A division took place—P favour of the motion 50—Against 1 77. • • • MEDICAL. BOARD. Mr. WkRDLE stated the mortality in the East Tudies to be Jcb, that - out of 30,000 men sent there, 13,000 died, and 'tt least one-third of those were lost on account of the incapacity Of the medical'inen who were allo!ted to sit perint lid them. lie filso stated an ivercharge of WO per cent. tei!,ing plarc upon Me dicine, which amounted to 13,000 1 . on an average.. Ile con cluded by moving, " That an lhoohle Addrs n presented to Iris Majesty, praying, that there shoold he laid helve the !louse a resurn of alt the medical persona emplo)ed in the army, all the Inspectors of Hospitals, Deputy InspectoN, Mates, &c."—Thr motion was carried. IVednesday t May Sl. The Strand Bridge Bill was read the third time: rind tins , :ed. The Surrey Sewers Bill, after some opl►osition from Sid 'l'. Tauten, was rejected. The Bill was read the third time and passed. Adjourned. Thursday, June 1. ;mai) lit:kcal En sri, Colonel Ssjjrr.ct a s sured the 'louse, that the motiqn of wh,ch he had given notice did not originate from any feeling of per tonal hostility to the Noble Lord who was the ohject of it, nor to any party motive?; for; from his sincere attachment to the interests of that profession in 'c lieu' he IM spent many peat s of his life, he really sympathized wigs the feclings of the Noble Lord, and as far as related to him personally, he was corry for his disappointment. He believed him t,. he very gullaot and ineritorious Officer, and he hoped that tote country would not, from any thing which had passed, lose tile benefit of his future services. He could not, however, avoid congratulating the House on .the successful resistance which they had 'mule in this instance, to an appointment recommended by Ministers. Ile 00 congratulated the army, that they might be now assured, that no Minister would venture in future to make recommenda tions contrary to the regulations which his Majesty had laid down for the Government of the army. Having so far evplained his motives, mid as the object of his notice was now accom glhed, he begged leave to withdro.v the motion of which he given notice. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. are now nominally. As to the IV elsh 3Ud,e,es, who were cir cumstanced, and not pre%ented from exercising their professions, the augmentation hich he should prop'-e was 300' per ann. With respect to the Scotch Judges, great alterations had lately taken place, hit h gave an increz.!.e of interest, as well as of business to their situati , ws, ‘vhich it would te highly necessary, as soon as coos enicto t, unuld permit, aker this measure was dis posed of, to take in:o consideration ; hut he thought he should only he doing- his duty to pnstponc t - at till etc r th;,:Seiion o f Parliament. With respect to the Judge, of Ireland, he confessed he was so little informed as to their part:odor sit he coins! not at present say any thing- on the subject. The Lord Chancellor of that country had transmitted a statement that the increase 4: salaries of the judges deserved et,osideration; but the informa 7 lino he had hitherto received on the subject was so stnall, the consideration must ptiqkioned in a future dav, nod ti hoped both the Aldges anti the People of I reland wot.ld be sa' is tied that it ua.4 not owing to any infenii , -LA neglect, but to the cause he had before assi4ned, that they, as u . ell a the Scotch Jail ;e,:, could tint he included in tile present Resolution. lle con cluded by moving, " That 1(100!. a year additional salary b? made to the of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the PttiAle JuLiges of the Coart . of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Barons :4 the Exchequer, and 800!. to the sAaries of the Welch Jods.ett." Mr. C. W. WYNNE thong - ht the %VOA .iud4cl s mild cot be suflijently remunerated by an addition of 3*JO/. a ye.tr to the r re sent salary ; awl he moved therefore, as nu ilmendnsew, that in tread of SCOI. it should be 500!. 11 r. 110 It N 1: It , the only difference onii.ioit of the House was, us to the 11n to he ripen to ;he Welsh Age:J. .kt pre-rut it lay between 3 and 500/. he shortid therefore recon:... o I it to the llotic to adopt the medium, and to fix the ia crc at 4001. The ttesolutir.n was agreed tf) with the medium sum now p:-o posed by Mr. Horner for the li chh J udge, of .teat. a ti ear. SALE OF SE ITS TN P TIT LI IMUNT. The Si' cAIiER addressed the Chairman by of sery t'ia: the question then before the licluse, was no less than this— hether Seat: in Parliameot ean be patdirly put op to, sale? A proilo,;ition at %Ouch our aueestors (odd b.!••41 started with indign:ztion and abhouence. They were now coo,. I v a point from which t here was no retreat. To do nothit;g, to do every thing; an:i unless they proceeded to stop (Nis hnsi lieSS, they would see before the end of the present Fe:sion, seats in Parliament put lip to public auctko, to the incalculable in jury of the Government, and eternal disgrace of that House. Ile owned that f;reat allowances might be made for the various par tialities of homan nature; but was this a political evil, or ivno tt not ? He would allow that the bias of a partiality of friend- . , hip was one of • the pureA cements of the various relations. of social 'That prnperty ought to have hdlnence, :v4 qua lly clear. this influence should be exerool in behalf of lions or of particular friends, :14 not In be wondered a: ; t ; ,( that the owner:; of this kind of proper() ,11 on Id sell it to ~ ;:-; , l ; g eri. , to person:: alio7ether unknown and imliacreut to Coal:, further than as instleteu of corrupt and unconstitutional Irtinsaet btu-, was a political evil, no-man could deny. It was cf a fool aad loathsome nature that it tainted and contatninati 41 t ios higher orders to whom it attached, and disgraced a:.d deirt.led the cha racter of Parliain.on, and furnished the most fartnidable ment of those who are, as they themselves say, for reb:rai ; but many of whom, in his (the Speaker's) opiaien; kvi,hed for milling 'U ardently as to subiekt :avd ti..stroy the p:e.. sent order of thitv,s in this country. That his, crime of i - o: t ion was ever held a. a high Parliamentary ofTette:_•, every ;sa f e of the Journals would amply bcetr ; P.:1•1 is; !1i:, rt:Tret there was a memorable instance in the case of lilt. t'ita;4l- I'44t respcting which it is expressly declared, that it' the 1.ft:(1 den do nomiteite tiny per-on to repre.ent th e l ;t , ii s N ot A,I b e deemed a grog; violation of the Law of Parli.steeta, and of the Constitution of the realm. This ofrence nail or iAia;illy :wen punishable at common law, hut had since !won trete•let red (•,1 a better tribunal. If we looked it:to rases, there would lie , cca l traces of it soon after the Revolution—in the proceed ia i :s hit forward by Sir lialward Seymour against the ca-t Company ; the same was done against Lord North, in the ir of AI ilborne Port, and several others. This was and had al Mt Vc: been held an offence, not only against privileges or Pariia ment, but against the common law of the land; and w henever similar cases had occurred, they had alw;i been treated as roe - mon law offences. The case which had attracted the attention of the House was equally a case of continua law. The Kilt AUGMENTATION OF TILE JUI,GES S 4 r EIUS. The CH NC ELLOIL of the E X Cli CQUEIt said, that he did not eoneelve any apology ss as due fmr brieging forward the present sontiost, as when he had mentioned the subject in the last Ses. It appears to be the unanimous sense of the House, that some augmentation ought to be made in the salaries of the Judges. He should also propose some further increase to the salaries of the Welsh Judges. He had the satisfaction to inform the House, that the Master of the Rolls had signified to him, that hr %vas perfectly satisfied with his present salary, atal did not % v io l f or any augmentation of it. The salary of the Chief Baron wits tiow hut UM/. per annum, and that of the !mime JudgesSooo/. Besides the diminution of these salaries from the Property and Assessed Taxes, the averageexpence of going the Circuits stood them in something more than 5001. annually. With such dimi buttons, the puisne Judges were unable to rapport themselves in that respectable situation which became their rank, unless Spey happened to have private fortunes, or not t o b e encum ered with families. The smallness of their salaries was such, that it prevented in a great measure the situation of a Judge from being the honourable object of ambition to those who might be the best qualified to fill the station. It must be al; lowed *hut it had not as yet prevented the Bench from being filled with persons eminently fit for it ; but still he knew that to ny nrofessional met, who had families, conceived they could go: accent the situation of poisne Judge, without a most incon 4e, e•c pecuniary sacrifice. The augmentation which he pr.,pose,l was 10001. per annum to the Chief Baron, and the asuisneJudgv i which would muse their salaries not what they P