The National Register. — London, England, 1808-02-15 00:00:00

t FEB. 15. of Congress; also a Copy of Mr. Mist's Note to Lord llowick, and his Lordship's Answer. On the motion of Lamb nurbr, there were ordered to be laid before the House, an Account. shew Mg all Imports and Export; to and from (treat Britain for the three last dears, ter minatin on the Ist of January, 18OS. The iteport of the Committee of Supply of last night, grant inc, various sums as estimates for the Navy, &c. was brought up all agreed to .—A djour ned. wi:DNEsn.ty, FEB. 10. Mr. Fawkener, the. Clerk of the Privy Council, presented an Account of the l'ees and t;ratnities paid by persons for carrying on the Foreign Trade from May, 150.3, to December last, show ing the apportioinneat of the same.—Ordered to be printed. Lord Temple gave teak:, that on Nlonday he should move for a c o py of a Note of .1l r. Pinclney, the late American Ambas sador, to Lardy ll:Aland and Auckland, dated the :Bst of Decem ber, ISO 6, relative to the Treaty beta ecu tireat Britain and America. !,I r. Sheridan intimated that on Monday he should move for Copies of all or any Correspondence that had passed between Mini-ter; mid the Prince of Denmark, upon the Surrender of Copenhagen, relative to our retaining, possession of that fortress. THE CU 4.SCELLOR a Tin; ENCIIEQUER stated, that he felt great sati ifaction at being utile to state to the Committee the fa vourable arrangement lie hail made with Cie Bank. The ar rangement to wriich he alluded had arisco from the suggestion of the Fillanee Committee of last Session ; and it embraced three ditferent subjects. The tirst was the management of the Public Debt; 'ldly, The allow ance to the Ban:. fur that management ; and lasth , The Unclaimed Dividends, and Unclaimed Lottery Pritc•, remaiuiog the custody of the Bank, The Bight lion. Gentleman Ora aunt Oa to describe the sums to he allowed the Bank for the management of the Public Debt, at the rate of 3.1:1/. per million, a- it at present stood. When the debt should ba feather redsced the allowance was then meant to be -10/. per million. This arrangensent would eventually prove a sav ia4 0fte2,900/. or ti5,:00!. a year. The next point was, the advance by the Bank of 3,000,0:1W. during the war. This came loan the advantages the Bank enjoyed in possessing the balances of the Public money. It appeared from the most accurate cal culation, that these balances amotimed to something between eleven and twelve millions, from w [licit, however, there fell to he deducted 600,0 t 0/. being a deposit on account of America. It amounted in the whole, he believd, to ten millions and a half, deducting the above SUM, lle then described the amount of the Unclaimed Dividends front 1791, as amounting to 400,0001. ; and the three millions as the profit of the Bank on the deposits of (lovernment in their hands. After some fur:her obr•erval ions, the Right lion. “entleinan concluded by moving, " That towards the Supply granted to his Mikiestv, a sum of 600,000/. of Unclaimed Dividends, and Undemanded Lottery Prize ,, , be granted.''—lle stated he should move the other Re solution after this preliminary one should be agreed On the question 6eing. put, :lift. /144 It ES, the Chairman of the Finance Committee, commended the object of the ltight Hon. Gentleman had in viers, on the principal that it Was nothing but fair that the Public should have the use of its own. money. A Letter bargain might have been made, and it would not have been detrimental or injurious to the Bank. He conceived, that a reduction ought to have taken place in the allow ances pro posed to the Bank on the management of the Public Debt, as the advance from the Bank of the three millious, without inte reA, might indure for a long time, at least until the end of the ar. MR, TirnNEE did not approve of the Ite3olutions, and urged, that the Bank ought, from the public balance therein depo-ited, to take the nuinagenient of the national debt ithont and charge. Mr. Banked and the Chancellor of the Lxchequer e .~plaiurd, w hen the Resolutions were agreed to, and the Report ordered to be received to-aiwo we—Adjourned. TIIIIRSIO•Y, WEB, 11. Mu.Krasom moved for leave to bring in a Bill for abo lishing the office of Surveyor of Subsidies and Petty Customs the Port of London.—Leave given. R F. Beangrr then rose to submit the motion of which he had given notice, It was his intention to ground a Parliantentar. proceeding on the Account for which he should now move. w filch was, for an account of all captures made at sea, by Bri tish vessels, which were claimed, or bait' to have reatainder in the Crown ; frogi I 19?, to the preteut dily. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE CILINCELLOR OF TRH EICIIEQUFR observed, that if such was the account wanted by the. Hon. Baronet, it would he ► difficult matter to make it out m but if he wanted only a state ment of time Droits of the Admiralty during that period, he thought the account might be produced. The Droits of the Admiralty, however, be could tell the lion. Baronet, Were burg since, by the authority of Parliament, made his Majesty's pm Tate property. Stu 4.it•RDETT had no possible objection to the line chalked out by the Hight Hon. Gentleman, Sin C. Puce; supported the origieal motion. Tus .1 Druc.crs CfaxErt.n. vindicated the l)roits pertaining to the Crown, as authorised by ancient practice. It had been the ease in the war with Spain, where ships were tahen before a declaration of war. These vessels were condemned to the Crown, the captors hating no real interest je the condemnation, moiety of two-thirds of the proceeds was, however, graated by the Crown as a reward for the capture. Mu. Lcsurtioros said he was in possession of a fact which he felt compelled, by a setve of duty, to state to the House. It nearly concerned an Honourable Baronet, one cf its Members. Who quitted the service of the navy in 11S7, and went to Ostend, where he got a vessel and proceeded to India. Lt th.t country he exchanged his ship for a vessel called the Ltrusco, and re• turned w ith a cargo to Europe. He went to Ireland, awl cams to Dungeness, w here he run a cargo on shore, or in other words smuggled ( loud cries of hear from the Opposition). His was taken oil' Dungeness by the Brilliant frigate, and she was condemned in the Court of Admiralty, The Captain of the Brilliant received no reward fur the capture: but ma September MO, 25,0001. was het owed, not on the captors, hut on au cer of the Navy w hc had violated the laws of his country. SIR 11. Porn 4.tr having been thus personally charged, vin dicated his conduct, in having gone to India. It was a period of profound peace, and he would refer to the Journals for the sanction and applause his conduct received, when in India, from Lord Cornwallis and El i e Court of Directors. lie was anxious at that time to acquire a knowledge of his profession, and his public sers ice, in India must have been of a very extraordinary kind indeed ( a laugh ), to excite this attack. lie had nevem been a -muggier, or been at all concerned w ith sintsgOers. MR. PEacar 41. moved his Amendment, which was for : .a Account of the Nett Proceeds paid into the Court of Admiralty, as Droits, since the Ist of January I tI ; and of the balance still remaining. Some conversation ensued, when the House mil% Wed —the Amendment was carried by S 2 to 57. Oil our re-tonission Abercromhy put ()This motion. pecting the in-tructions given to Lord St. irceet, relaiise to Portugal, till Monday. The Report of the Committee of last night "i% as brou.zhi up and agreed to, It respected the Bank Luau, and Bills were ordered.—Adjourued. FRIDAY, FEB. 1?. - On the motion of Mr. Caleraft, the day appointed for hailutv ing for a Committee to try the Wexford Petition, was deferseil from the ,Vitts of March to the 7th of April. :1/ R. ii, Jt,g fur► moved for au Account of all Sums issued by the Parnaiter-Ceiseral of the Forcri to persons without ac , count, The lion. Gentlemen stated, that he last Se , :•ion ob tained a similar Account, and he now wwantet another o for a far ther period, viz. from Itios, to the Ist of January, 1807. 31 n. Ca S LI. oit 1' 'cc sr z. had no objection to the au,. lion, though he could not help expressing a strong wi4l, that ti:e lion. Gentleman uould suggest the matter to the tinauce Cwa - mittce. The Motion was agreed to. On the Motion of Mr. Eden there was ordered to be b..fore the House an Account of all Neutral ships that had en tered or been brought into British Ports, under the Order ~f Council, of the I lth of November, describing the place,- to which th:.v belong, and stating, when they obtained permisai , o proceed on their Voyages. Sir C. Pole moved for an Account of the Droits of the Ad miralty, arising from ves-els, prizes, eargoe, awl part- of cat. , pie: ; and ..iecoully, for a similar account of sittli condemned as prize in any of the Courts of Admiralty an;owi, or by the High Court of Idmiralty in Englatul, since .lantiar‘, ISOI. lie alfo moved for an ;:cenunt of all .Itips and v, s el-, cargoes, or pun o: cargoes, pre:voted in the me of hi. `la. .testy, showing, the nett proluce of such se,p. , ls, a VAI !!‘e gre.it amount of their cargoes, captured previous to toe dctlitratiou or war, at carding to Vic late:t retttru:.---Ortlered. 10.3