The National Register. — London, England, 1809-05-14 00:00:00

318 TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. • 41•••••• business he did not feel hhoself authorised to exprcti. lie trbsted the opportunity would occur of evincing the fal:acv of the present <barges, should the liouse be pleased to investigate • his con duct. his e d ordship then withdrew greeted with cries of Hear ! Hear ! Mr. Nladocks then moved, " that the House should on Mon. day next re , olve itself into a Cominittee of the whole !louse, to consider of the improper manner adopted for returning Mem bers to sit in Parliament for the borough of Cashel!. through the tneans of Lord Castlereagh and the lion. 'leery Wellesley, contrays to the di. pity, and subversive of the privileges, of the 11 nose of Commons." Mr. Mattocks then moved, that the matter in charge should be betiril at the Bar of t he House. Mr. W hit bread secuituled the ni t ion. The question being; then put trout the Chair, Mr. Cartwright -oppose:, the IntotiOn. M f.eTierney expressed his opinion that the house «as no; •goin! no proper and co'r'rect priocipies; they were quite in ii, •dark, or at lea 4 so irregular, that it was ‘utite impossible the , . :could cone ady fair /decision iii their VON*, from the WIN la -stanch the sobject was before it:/•m. The it ittoor,.hte Gentle man, in the eottn•e s hich ne thonOit lit to ad toid taken ft , r his•thedel the entry on the .too coat: , in the case of Shephaid ; but in these (In: s that was not tio;te elloozh, there should soo.- ,the i v: entered no N• upon the books lit , Fore the CI- . k•:, some A cinn eto handed in from the ?';etittet.oin, slating di-tinetl% .thechr_rge or charges meant to he brought forth. It was the foulest delusion, practised upon cie i teople to make them believe, that by any alteration in their representation, that th- y woutel•he relieved from the/ pie-sure of taxation ; nod hr wool,: have been much more satisfied, if the of reform had not been lot-minced ; it had no earthy conive.ion wit It the sohjec for ihe•imieediate consideration of House. If any i!etolc man is olesirous of ealliag the attention of Parlia neat lit .the question of reform, let him make it the suliito t of ,/ specific motion, and in defeove of a moderate reform he wouti ,support such a motion. lit' never would support such a refone n wouldtro the leugth of e xciting to tumuli-the public mind ; .never would go the leo':ah of making a sacriiice at the altar of vanity, to gratify popnlar let-moo:moo. lie, how ever, had too bong and grave an experleore 1/1 7 t he events of Parliament no t to Ilnow,-that without being of some ',art% there oas no suc h t hi„ l2 . ;is doing one's duty to the country. Ile acknowledged, t here iore, that ho the most extensive sense of tiie w.,rd, he was a I rv( v men. Taking I xurics of the presem age into .e.ot.iittNratino, he really thooght that there was less eirroption among pahlir men in Engtaiol than in any cointry in toe wouid. With .r..spect to the topic before the House, he thought 111 they should ~elect the case, and apply that part of it which charges undue influence only to the individual accused of it (Lord Castlereggh) by doing - which they would come to a clear and comprehensive vote. And Lath respect to the other part of tit charge, that, namely, of buying, seats in Parliamem, let them support that. it will de some good ; hut let them not tarn short front the sanction which the support t hat Bill h.ts got, and by virtue of it direct an attack upon two indi viduals., st hen hundreds have done the same hei . ore. wished for a gradual amelioration of the representation; to such a thing he would he a sincere friend, and he thought it might •be occomplished. Something - must he done to prevent the house from beeotning the butt of such repeated atov•ks (a cry of !fear!! hroughorit ) and he trusted the period was not far din taut when.tbat would be attempted. With le-peel to the charge of corrupt /influence, if the Hon. Member can subttantiate it, he woitli• support him. The question being loudly nod universally called for, a division took place :--Ayes, 85 Noes, 310 f Majority against tile Mo tion, 2'15. Attiourtled. Friday, May 19i - - Mr. Rose, porsitant to leave formerly obtained, broug'at in the BM for enabling American Vessels to import Sug:lrs, Cotreo, &e. from our %Vela India Uol.inies for re-exportation, at the same rate of imposts and duties as British ves,els.— Read a tir,t, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday next. Mr. Iluskißson bruuglit in the Bill for exempting small Liv ings from paying the Land Tax—read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Mlinday next. r: BU D G ET. The Chancellor of the Exchequer nag happy to sate, 01' the expenditure of the current year would require no new taxes, though, at the same time, the continuance of the present war taxes woniii he necessary. (;over.):nent have found it necessary' to snake a small loan, to be able fully to meet the supplies already voted ; but that contract the Treasury had obtained on such reasonable term , , that he was confident it must meet the approbation of the 11ouse. These contr::ct,l were to the amount 14,100.000:. the ial:.rest of which remained to b e provided f For the Navy there was a sum of 18,986,961 t. to be pro. vidcd. For the Army Barracks Commissariat Excess Eitraordinaries 16,247.1'2T 5'79,503 1,16'2,C51 `215,449 3,000,000 Total for the Army - 21,144,790 Ordnanct- for England - 5,::75,u45 9 For Ireland - 627;870 Total of Ordnance - Miscellaneous services granted for England, 8!7.463t. voted, hut he proposed to take them at 1,000,090:. Far E , l, e land • and Ireland he toook them at 1,000,000 e Swedish subsidy 3..4)01001. Sicilian subsidy 400,000'. w , with the various sums consti twine*, the ,joint charges of Great Britain and Ireland, he eitimated 51.934,91 V. and the gross total for Englaad at 'f he :owls already voted for malt, &c. were 3,000,001/. war taxes 11,001,0.11!. lotteries 300,000'. The amount of notie a p hy fitadi.tg Exchequer Bills, and the sup of tie Was, s and 'Wails of 1805, was 2,761,8521. The of E.' i Bits, parsu tut to the 49111 of the King, was 3,151,000'. and under the it: ad of the Exchequer Bills v ted tae 48th of the Klee. was 1,500,000% The Exchequer bills the: constituted a suin of 1,'_65,0321. Exchequer fatiOed ,verc '1,93.3001. and ther e has been applied for the leticiencie!;. or grants of last year 576,5 r/. It was proposed to i .sue l'.xcheatter hills to the mnount of 2,000,000/. There was a Levi of +3 , .0,0)0!. for Portugal, and a loan, contracted this day, or Eitel:led, of 11,003,1;00f. TheNVa)s and Means he estimated a 132,1;00/. more Oli) the Supply, w ltich left a total for England of 47,718,05 V. It now became him to call the attention of the House to the loan of 11,000,000/. contracted for this mot-lino for lingland,3,ool,o;:ol fur Ireland, and 600,000 f. for_Portugar. Ile stated that the terms were extrealely favourable. A part was in the per cents a part in the 3 per cents. eeduced, awl a part in the Lang Annuities, that is to say, 60f. in the 4 per cents. aail 60'. in the 3 per cents. reduced, with an interest of Bs. 103. per an :ant granted to subscribers for lOW. each. The amount of the interest for every 100 1 . furnished by the Subscribers was .11. 12s. Iod. per annum, a rate of interest at which no pri vate individual could get money to any extent. Of tire *otal amount of the capital created by the Iran, 600,000% V't as to be defrayed by Portugal, secured on the revermes of ; and where that was deli( lent, it was to be me le up by Ruud, sent from the Brazils. And now he begged to c all the at tee ti oa of the House to a circumstance which arose out of the state of the Coloineat, tool the situation of this country, and how ever desirous hi Nlajesty's Ministers might be to furnish assist ;ince to Austria, thes did not hold out to that country any pro mise of sup p' y. G ivernment wishes; to have the Vote of Credit, but there tvas tio treaty between Austria and his Majesty. In the event of her going to war, she hail ventured to draw bills on the •freasury withont notice, bat those which arrived were o a limited amount, and he understood the whole would not amount to more thin 3:)0,000!. Th, arsolotion being then moved, turd il. Petty rniv• say, that if there ever was a period in the eirt toustaaces of Europe, when Caution in this respect was n.Tessary, it was in the situation in which the Continent Wit 9 pl Ka-.1, particularly when emulsified with the situation of our own country at the per-eat moment. ( Mare! hear !) Ile ilmitelit also that the experienced inutility of the advances is hieh we had mall; to t'ae Swedish Government was a proof of the oe eessity of cautiou oa our part. As to the general plan of tin:ince adopted 1), , the [tight iluu. Getitlemao, he cordially concurred in that part of it s.hich went upon the principle of 111)1 any additional borthens of taxation for this year; though he also 4 ;; a p jit that the II sl141(1 carefully guard against' too deeply nortgagiog the war lakes, W iiicit must WIN(' elfect of perpe4 mating theta in time of peace, whenever that period should ar- i Air. Canning agreed with the Noble that it was ilo posAble to :town any ;L ester - al principle which could apply eithet to the giving or withhuhling of foreign btablidiel is all ! MAY 1,