The National Register. — London, England, 1815-06-18 00:00:00

• .1 TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. The Chancellor of the Exchequer next artver s rd to the Juan, the terms of which he said, were tit best the Guvernmeot had been able to make, an.. he had on hesitation in declaring, that winle it was per. fect'y cif sfactory to them, it was, ()oder all the circums•atices, ma. sAtably la rto the subscribers. He then took a comparative view of the t..xes duris g t'te last ati , ! the present year, awl slated the progres s. of the revenue since any consid, rabie audition had been mace to the puHic burr hens With regar. to t o interest ter the loan, Parliathcnt had already' made provision for about ne half, and lie intern ed to sub mit to the House to I ii}vide tor the rentaiiitier out of 'he money in the bands of the CommissirweiS for the reduction of the national debt. From every view which lie could take of the state of things, and the tootpects that might be entertained, there was no probability of the war pressing upon us to au equal extent in future years, e'en should it continue. If, contrary to expectation, the' contest turned out a protracted one, the Sinking Fund would alliad further resource. Probably, also, tl e Ivan of next yeat would n o t exceed vO,OOlOOOl, the charge of which, with some assistance front the Sinking FtnA, night be met by edditi(m•,l taxation. In respect to the is s ue o f :he contest, the sense of France would shew itself in a very short time. The colohined effirts of the Royalists, and the Allies would put the matter to the rest (He , r, hear I)—The state of France was different to that state which some supposed. At present, murmurs against the ComiLation of Bsionaparte were halt suppressed—discootents mould aril—there was not a cordial co.operatien, and therefore we plight look at the contest as a short one. The Right Hon: Gentlernin conclutte,i with moving, by way of resolution, that the sum of 9E00,0001. be raised by way of annuities. Mr TVERNEe considered the Budget, which had been opened by the Right Hog. Gentleman. as one of the most alarming which the country had ever becu put in possession of ;' at the tame time he must do the Right Hon. Gentleman the justice to say, that it had been opened with clearness and precision, and in its component parts the fairest he had ever heard. With respect to the arrears, to which the Right. Hon. Gentleman had alluded, and which he had stated would not arise again, there was no proof how long they had been growing, nor any cousclation that they might not be growing arrears. The to. tal amount of the supplies required for the year, namely, 29,728,0001. was a sum calculated to stagger even the most sanguine It was good to see the way in which the progress of expenditure had crept up, till it at last rose to this portentous amount. Here the Right Hon. Gentlemen read a statement of this progress which he had drawn up. In 1908 the war expenditure amounted to 45 millions ; in 18(9 ro millions; in 1810, to 46 ; in 1811, to E 2 ; in 1812, to 53 ; in 1213, to 57; in 1214, to 62 ; and, lost of all, in 1815, to 72 millions. It was one the mischiefs in which we were now placed. that. tram the ge neral condition of our finances, the depreciation of our commerce, and the tall of the exchanges, our expenditure was constantly increasing ; All the predictions of reduction brought forward from time to tine had been uniformly fa'sified, arid he suspect d that the predictions that they had now heard from the Chancellor of the Exchequer would equally nil. With regard to the loan itself, it seemed to rim avery fair bargain ; nay, he might think it too liberal, under all the circumstances, did he not know the resources and intelligence of the . parties. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had told the House there was no depreciation of the funds in consequence of this loan ; hur he (Mr. T.) insisted there was; and he begged the Committee not to shut their eyes to this, that they were going backward instead of forward, with respect to the national debt, which was one of the great reasons for the depreciation of the funds, and which ought to be well weighed, especially on the commencement of this new war, the end of which nobody could possibly foresee, but which, if it went on a very few )ears, must inevitably ruin the country. • The Result'lions were ultimately agreed to, as well as the Barrack and luish Estimates, and a variety of other miscellaneous grants. — Adjourned. 309 rd our own territorics...but hirw far that jurisdiction extended, was IS . point open to tut urerliscuasi3n. The motion fox an address was not carried. Mr. Ws tin presented a petition, lie - ohject of which was the purchase of Lord Elgin's marbles Cr the use of the public. In the course ofd chtiversation on the subject of the petition, it ap. petard the general se n timent that the marbles should be purchased at' a price to be named by a Committee of the Muse. i he petition was ordered to lie on the table. The report of the Mutiny.Bilt being brought up, Mr. Bk:NNETT spoke•at cousidt rade length respecting Courts'-Mar. tial, and wished to propose a clause limititmg the power of the crowns to de.iiiiss officers without trial. Ile adverted to several casecia Ida he coils :tiered as shewing the necessity of shewing sonte new regulation, and among them that of Ensign Cowed, who lad been dismissed in consequence of the sentence of a Court martial for not having fought a duel at Boureeaus with a person with whom he had qusrelled at tit* theatre. sir. AlastivEns Swrinx was aware ft'le grist diffeidry and delieaet of the case respecting fighting duels, and was sensible of the inconsis tencies in the article's ot war upon that head. Ile, however, appre. hostler' that greater evils would result from an alteration of them. He explained the several cases adverted to by Mr. Bennett, and the BM was.then ordered to be read a third time to morrow.---Adj. FRIDAY, sv 16. ASSIZE OF pREAD. Mr. F. LP. vire gavt notice, that on Monday next he should move for leave to introduce At bill to repeal the laws respecting the asise of (Hear,) OLIPELS EXEMPTIONJ BILL. On the motion that this Bill be read a third time, Mr. W. SCOTT strongly opposed the Bill, on two grounds. namely. that it was not called for either by justice or the higher &int of e ape. diency. It was a great objection with him to the Bill, that it made nu distinction between the ebublished pltices of worship and those of thee Dissenters—that in truth it went to level all distinctions. As to cha pels, any man might open them under the name of religious instruc tion, and thereby chem and delude unwary and ignorant persons. He concluded with moving,. that the bill be read•a third time this dap three months. The -- of the EXCIIiinfER defended the Bill. As to its CHANCHLLOIt :OVEN. heaping additional burthens on the parishes, it could - not lint be ob servable that they had not received ally oha petition from any parish, complaining of this. A.,: it was not tie amount of the relief- that was the object, since he believed that all the poor rates,Acc. of all the club. pets in the metropolis produced not mute than soool. but it was to re. lieve the chapels from the vexations circumstances attendant upon lay. ing and levying these rates. Mr. BANKEts opposed the Bill. Mr. Burrsawottin deft/tided the measure, as being necessary 10 secure the chapels from being the objects of vexatious rates. Sir J. NICHOL and Mr. WETHERALL strongly ()pinned the mil. Mr. PHOTliknOr'svas favourable to the Bill, thinking that it could not tend to strengtlisn'the Church to heap pains and pe►alties on Cha pels. It had always been seen, that real or imaginary opposition or persecution pten►oted the cause of seetarism. hl r. Brij. 13Far opposed the Bill. Mr. BA itINO and Mr. W. Sari u having strongly defended the Bill, cootedding that thee,tablished Protestants were more interested in this meetture than the Dissenters, since, if there were any speculators in chapels. they had venet ally been round to be builders, mild ►uch like persons whn were Of the regular E.tablisbnient.--A division then task . place,:and the number's were-. Fat the amendment 4t Against•it Majority-49 • The Dill wits of course lost. The Howe afterwards revolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Menne, in which Mr. W. FITILGERAI.D hronght forward the Esiitnatea fur Ireland ; in which it was announced 16. ii the offices of the Chancel. for of the Exchequer forireland, and that for England, were about I* he coirs.oltd.terf Mr. itvAaT, Mr. rxrte, Lord CASTCEREA OH, and Mr. D. GIDDY. having made some observations, the resolutions were agreed to. Rtputt on Monday. T„, R NcEtr , on o f the Excnrcau FR, in answer to a question front Mr. Lirentell, stated that the 14..0k had agreed to give 3,54.311. as a cola. pensation for the ..t.itup duties fvr cv ry siillwu 1,11 Beak notes, Adjourned to gvuday. THURSDAY, JUST 15. Mr. Pole introduced A Hill, which was read a first time, and the . car jcct of which he statell.to.be—the prevention of ignorant persons triiruf esercising the profes.ion • • of surgery. It had no sort cf coipiesionwith' the objects of the, late blll, conimottly called the Apoil!tecarics' Sir J. C. HtrPvt.Ll;Y : gave notice, that early neat session lie should' move fur leave - to bring in a bill to amend the provisioni of an Act of the ?6th of the late-Ring, commyttly called the 'Marriage Acr. • The Post Otlice Ball vfis read a third time, after another oivision of .49 against t 4 Sir J N wp owl'. made, some observations on the importance of the British American I.l4lexiei,,and moved an Address to the Regent, pray ing titor encouragement. • Load CsFetstmson coincided with the Hon. Baronet on the value 01 these fidieries, and considered that hy the law of nations. ally claim that America 'night forme' ly hove put forward, hot which had nut hero, renewed by lite late treaty, had fallen to the ! vaunts. H tOrretbr e ounAidereti n thing ut the treaty of 1783 to b- in force, except what had hen renewed and cm firmed by the late treaty. By die law ut itatkos, ir e had clearly the right of exclaaiVe fishery vtithiu the juribdicuou MINE 19 :; 7.: