The National Register. — London, England, 1808-06-19 00:00:00

have eithei joined. France, or sought tor assistance from Ene - laud. There was no alternative. The war was not therefore of his own . choice, but must sooner or later have been forced • VPQn him. The payment of the Subsidy was to commence from the period of those disasters. The subsidy was to he empluved in putting Sicily into a state of defence, and bringing forwar d' great portion of the population of that island. As to the treaty Specifying only two fortresses, and omitting that which the Ilon. Member considered as more important than either of those men tioned, he would say that Milazzo was actually occupied by British troops. The reason it was not mentioned in the treaty was, that the article specified only the minimum of the force which we engaged to maintain in Sicily.• Had Milazzo been included in the treaty, the number of troops nuht have been encreased. The question on the resolutions was then put and Unanimously agreed to. COMMITTCE OF WAYS AND MEANS. After some observations from Mr. Windham, Sir W. Curtis, Mr. Canning, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Tier ney, the sum of 50,000/. was granted as compewation to the Inhabitants of the town of Roseau, in the Island of Dominica, for losses sustained by the burning of the town in defending it against the enemy on the 22d of February 1805. For the expellees of the Commissioners of Military In quiry T o the Commissioners for distributing American Claims 14,000 To Commissioners for the Improiement of the British Museum To Commissioners fur repairing Mars te Harbour, in consequence of the storm on the 14th of‘Janua'ry last 5,000 Towards improving the Harbour of Holy head.. When this Resolution was read, a division took place. For the Grant, Ayes 131—Against it, Noes 42. On the motion for a grant of 75,220!. for the purchase of land and houses in Palace-yard, MR. IVIAMIAM thought it necessary, that the money should be spent with some common judgment and taste. Ile ridiculed in the happiest manner the dwarf Gothic taste which had been 'hewn in the new front of the House of Lords. A number of little pipes and tubes were dignified with the Lames of tossers ; and although the very idea of a tower was something that would hold men for defence, yet those things which Isere called towers, would not even hold one mau. Nothing could be more repug nant to true taste. MR. ROSE completely coincided with the Right Hon. Gentle man in disapproving Of the new front of the House-of Lords, which he thought was a specimen of such wretched taste, that. Slots% ithstanding the money that it hadvost, he hoped the Riga' lion. Gentleman Nould agree with him, that it would he Ill'• cessars to incur another expense in has ing it pulled down again. Ile disclaimed having had any thing to do with the building. A very long discussion took place, after which the motion was a...reed to. Sir l'homas Tarton moved that the sum of 54,702/. he given to John Palmer, Esq. as the balance on the per ceutage due to, him from the sth of April, 1793, until the rear MS. On the questiou being put, the Committee divided, and there appeared in favour of the motion 93, against it 73. DISTILLERY BILL. Lono 11. PETTY denied that ally scarcity existed in the country, or at least not sufficient to originate such a measure. On a division there appeard for the third reading 71, against it 34. majority 40. The Bill then passed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a Lottery for t h e service of the year, not exceeding 60,000 tickets.—Agreed to. Adjourned. TVESfAY, JANE 14. The Hare Shooting Bill, the Baracks Franking Bill, and the Irish Nialt Ditty Bill, were read a third time and pared. Mr. Wharton brought up the Report of the Committee of Supply, when the various resolutions respecting the grants of Monday were read and agr eed to. On the motion of Sir A. Wellesley, the Dublin Police Bill was read a third time arid passed. The House then went into a Committee on the Duties on Welch Coals, and, on the motion of Mr. Manning, the old Du ties were repealed, and certain new Duties imposed, of Is. 6d. • ton ,-- ied - the Coffee Duties Bill, which was to be read a second time. KINGS PROCTOR. consequence of the great extent of navy, and from the general war in JUN t 10. . - which the country was engaged, the business and the emolu ments of the King's Proctor had prodigiously increased. Sinte the commencement of the present war, more than :3000 causes had passed through his hands, the costs of each of which that went into the pockets of that officer were, upon au average, 103/. for every cause, which amounted to considerably more than.3oo,oool. during that period. lie did not complain, how ever, of the enormous amount of the emoluments; but he thought that the mass of duties which he had to perform was much greater than could be properly got through by one man. To remedy this evil, he shellac' propose a Resolution to the house, to the following effect, namely, " That it is the opinion of thii that the duties of the Office of King's Proctor are ton great to he performed by one man;'' and should follow it by another, for presenting an Address to his Majesty, praying that he would be pleased to appoint three or more Assistant Proc. tors, for the purpose of inure speedily performing the duties of the office. 'f,i Ani'OrlTE GENERAL opposed the measure, both on the grounds of political inexpediency, and from a regard to the in terest., of the navy. The Office of King's Proctor was of very ancient standing, like that of the Solicitor or Attorney General. With reAard to all those suits in the Court of Admiralty, the ing was doniinus [dim, and it wag highly important 'for our respectability with Foreign Powers, that the (Mies should he exercised by one in w horn the Crown pldced that confidence, which could not properly be plliced in a number of individuals. Besides, if Navy Agents in general were employed by the rap tors to prosecute their claims, there would be no end of %I`X atious proceedings. This was exemplified in the conduct of prilateers, where the complaints of vexatious conduct nr.-e in numerable. It was therefore important that the King's Proctor Arnold have no competitor, eke it would be productive of end less vexation to neutrals. -.MR. MARTIN supported the motion at some length. lie was certain that the navy in general had imbibed the .amc•• opinion on the subject of the office of Ding's Proctor with his llon. Friend. There was one evil of which they liv.cl to complain, namely, that the King's Proctor was totally independent of the raptors, and thus captains in the navy were in a worse situation than those of privateers, who could employ iheir own agents; and the fact was, that cases of captures in the plantations were generally five, and sometimes ten years before they were deter mined. Now it was only proposed that three or more addi tional Proctors should be appointed, to any one of w hom car ains in the navy might apply. Ile mentioned one case, in which a•cause wa,i pending from 1794 to 1801. It wa certainly more reasonable that the captains of the navy should be able to employ a Proctor who was in some degree amenable to them, than one who was quite independent ; on the whole, he obould dears ily concur in the pre-ent motion. The !louse divided, against the motion, 35—For it, 16—Lost by a majority of 19. on every Gin carried coasts% is, Mr. I luskitlion sought up I real '• . A.5.r ... rdered -1 1 1 P - y - Of . N t • . . W. 1 4.. " .. II 1 ''' in ( ".I'M ' 79 er top. ‘. \ ' ',L . : 4it ,I -‘-• Ok a . 11 , 6 . .!,-• . kierstlnw TILE NATIONAL REGISTER DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE, MONEY WITH ALLIES. Til EAor oc .or Gev ett.t t. stated the propriety of enahl his Majesty to cane t he payment of such division of prize-m-ine) the troops of his Sicilian Ala.jesty were deemed entitled to, n ho aad co-operated with the British forces against tae common enemy. Ile observed, that the best mode to be adopted for this purpose would be, to have the money advanced here to the \I inister of that Sovereign residing at our Court, to he by him transmitted to hi• Master for distribution accordingly. lie . then moved fur leave to bring in a Bill to extend the powers of the 17th of the King, for the payment and distribution of prize money to foreign states and foreign ships co-operating with Bri tish ships or British forces, Ordered. The Bill wat read a first time. STIPENDIARY CUR ATES. On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Home went into si Committee on thi► Bill. A variety of amendments were moved by different Members, and some were adopted, and others withdrawn, but the Coin ',Mice did not divide on any. ME SPEAKER proposed a clause to be inserted, granting re lief to persons against whom an order should be made by the enablinh them to appeal against it to the King in Coun cil, who should be at liberty to confirm or reverse the sentence, as might seem best. 7'u CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQOER proposed a clause, whereby Delegates or Commissioners should be appointed by the King, by a warrant node?' the Great Seal, who should have authority to make such decisions as should be conclusive in all appeals that should come before them.