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

360. 10 or 12 per cent. which, to any Gentleman procuring 10,000/. of the loan, was equal to 1010!. in his pocket upon going to the Bank to:dispose of it. This practice Mr. Pitt abolished, and invited a competition, which much reduced the terms of t'he' loan, and with the other savings must have amounted neatly to two millions per :minim.' The regularity in the payment of the Navy Bills also reclueed their interest, hich was sometimes so high as - 12 per cent. w hie!), t or•et her with the new regulations he introduced into the Ordnance Department, saved in all above two millions a year to the Pahl ic.—( hear!) In his titre there' were also fewer Menthers of Parliament holding places under Government than at any preceding period'. There were 'lbw only 38 in Englan:l and Scotland; whereas in the year 1782 there were 56, Ile - we:int Members bolding places for life. fhr it was scarcly to be sun posz-d that Gentlemen holding places at plearave would he tmtler the co:ovoid of Government, as scarcely an iestance had occurred where any Gentleman had List his situara:a on account of his political conduct in that House (Hear! hear !) The amount of pensions, he commended, was also twicii diminished, :tad not more now, notwithstanding the difference in the value of moaoy, than in the year 11 - 20.- I%lr. Pitt, he argued - , took a; much pains as any man to inform the Country and House of every shilling of the Public ex penditure, and no man paid more attention to eronotny. Evers salary, pension, or allowance, was intridneed into the Red Book, and every indulgence to persons retiring from office was effected hy a minute of Thu Treasury. • Mr. Cu rcvav observed that the night Honourable Gen tleman had ounii l ., in his account of pensions, those on the Scotch establathment and Leeward Fund of four and a half per cent. to tlie amount of 73.000 , .. In the year 1733, , it had been stated, that the Leeward Island Fund, from which the Duke of Gloucester had an allowance of 9000!. a year, was insuffi cient to produce that sum, viltivit was provided by the public. From this fund, however, pensions were afterwards given to a variety of persons, and, amon g ; others, Lady Chatham, Lad) . Grenville, and Sir Ilome Poiiatn, Mr.. iluskisson, and Mr. Rose, which he considered as so much money taken from the public, and argued, at the same time, that this fund of.four and a half per cent. was not the property of the crowu, 'but 4 part, originally, of the Public! Revenue. . Mr. Rose, in explanation, stated, that Mr. Pitt, as a proof of his disinterestedness, died pour. The Leeward Island Fund, In the year 1756, was in debt to the amount of VO,OOOl. and since the Palilic liad had the benefit of it, as it.:had been ap plied iu the civil list. Sir Jo inst NEWPORT wished some g,rnilemin would make the same statement with respect to Ireland that the Ffight lion. Gentleman had..done with respect to the pension list of Great Britain. In that country the influence of the Crown had been carried in M. Pitesliille to the most alarming and unprece dented length,. so . much so, that in 1793 the list amounted to 12},000/,111-1d when an act was passed to prevent any increase to it, or the di:posal of more than I 20:)!. a year, till it should he reduced to St),000/. Lord Westmorlantl,then iu office, in the course of .the few months allowed berore the operation of the A.At. conunen ced , contrived to grant, in different pensions, the additi.ot;al amount of 13 . ,000/. a year.—( !Bear, hear.) ' "Mr. WitiTnattin allowed the statentr!:ts of Mr. Pitt to Baer been titore luminous and correct than those his 4urcessors could boat.' of in the Financial Department ; and, that at one period of his lire it • seemed to have' ,teen hi.dosign hermile a Fin;inz.7lnl 'Minister, hy voir'otoym; well as caletarnion ; hut whether he had changed .his vies in Ili% he coukl ion but font (4:it period all his Fchemedi of reiliwinN had vaui.hod, and the most expensive and onfortuna , e measures had been per sped, wit!ioct any regard to the resourees oe the enuntry. The Right 13 on. Gentleman bad stated the oflices and places aholizdt ei, hut be had not inentioned those.sreate.l during the same pc- The Abuses in the barrarit departms.ot alone tvere.inore Ulan °frot td•all the other in , :traires of (-c"oirnmy. lle.nrgued that the influence of the crown.in ;hat !louse was by much too great., and said he should move on Thursday next asttu Aniem!- meht to the Resol.ition propoSed,‘vhiih in his opinion did not co far enough, 6* That some lintitatitm -ought to be put to the • . • num!:er of persons having slernr-ul. tart !louse, and holding place:, in his Majestys Gover:iment.'!: . conversation was •continucil for some time longer, after which the . tiretitesolution was .reatl and aL;reed to, and the Atherr t were withdrawti till Thurtiday, wilco the Report was or. sir=ed .io be wket/Icto farthu cgusideration,---A dioilaed . of JITNH 4.. Portra'ts of their Royal Ilighot"scs the IltOes of t;t,aitE,SCE and GLOUCESTER, fr.:Mt Po;oting.; by the ►mist efflioent I\lusterg art- in In:Tar:llion, fob' the purl►use of l►eing delivered Gratis to he Subscribers to this Paper. Tim' NATIONAL REGISTER. LOIRIOIII, SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1805. POLITIC4L 'EVESTS OF THE WEEK. The Eighth and Ninth Buretins of the French Army, to gether with Dutch Papers the 31st ult. will be seen in another part of our paper. Tht'y are characterized by . the most extreme insolence in which it speaks of the Emu peror of A usTatA. This tone, indeed, is of no farther im portance than as it leatlsio the inference, that the fitte of Austria is determined, and that the Ew.veror FRA . xciA is the last of his house that wear ;lib Imperial Crown, The Emperor NA roicoK, indeed, seems already to have assumed the functions hitherto appropriated to the German Emperors:Ahat of creating Barons and Counts . of the Holy Roman Emperor. The Russian pedal-allot) is of the less importance, as it• is not accompanied . with any direct . • menace of active warfare.- • Accordimv.to the Ninth Bulletin, the Emperor NA rciLEom still remains-in Vienna. This is his invariable custom. — He hastens:to the capital . as to. the central-point, whence flow and circulate all the supplies and resources of the kingdom. In possession' 'of this, he has necessarily an im mense proportion .of the population of the kingdom in his favour. He decides the timid and the treacherous. By a• well . atsumed moderation, he bribes popular 10li to his side. .•The possession of the capital moreover, is of another incalculable ad vantag.,e—it intercepts all the supplies of the enemy. It throws the great machine of Government and Administration into distrder. . . . . There is animportaut. article in one of the llamburgh Papers, which states, that the Diet have directed; that the 'Duke of.StitiEanANlA shall possess the Throne for his life, and that after his demise the Throne shall pass to. the reigning family of Russia. Such Is the patriotism of the Swedish Diet. • • . . . • There are various rumours in tovn respecting some vic tories said to; have heea gained by 'the Austrians, the re suit of which, according to the current report, has been, that the French have been expelled from Vienna; that the Austrians have repossessed. themselves of it, and that the French arc in rapid- retreat. ;t is our duly to state these turnouts, as . it is certainly not -impossible. hut that there may he some truth in them ; hut, oi! the other hand, it is equ3lly our duty to add, that they have •uot the air of probability, and cannot be traced to any more respo.clable. source than mere rumour:.. They are rumours, however, which have ►►ot their aright in this country. They are mentioned in the letters brought by• the last :SvVcdibh ',mil. ."I'he latest letters from Heligoland state, that a pawn gerfrom the Ems, in a - vesscl which left that titer on. the v'M instant., had reported thUt the ,Arcndake bad gained a grta. t victory er the Fmeh, about:4o Englikh wiles from ~. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER.