The National Register. — London, England, 1814-07-17 00:00:00

456 al righness to take into his gracious consideration the state of subaltern office rs of the army, and to increase the half pay of Lieutenants to 4s. 6d. per diem, and that of Ensigns to :Is. tid. Lord Vise: PALMERSTON felt it awkward to oppose the effects of liberal feelings: bat the Ilowe uould consider whether arrangements O f thii description should be taken pier -meal, or viewed in the Whole. It was impossible to decide on the point without entering into the whole scale of arrangement. If the half pay of the ensign were not enough to support him as a gentleman, surely the addition of sixpence would nut much assist the gallant General's objec'. The alteration propo:ed would haufere with the whole rule, whieu would be mischievous. Ile could never think of estimating what should be done for military ser vices by any reference to the earnings of labourers. The scale of half pav must he formed on a comperati , e view. After a short discussion the House divided, when Gen. Gascoyne's motion was lust by a innkrity of 3 to 23. A long ci:nversation took place between Mr. Tierney, the Chancel for of the Exchequer, Mr. Bennett, Lord Castlereagh, and Colond C.iigreve, on the subject of the works now going on for the j'tte, in the Pa , k• ; in the cour•e of which, the latter said that he had oo reason to alter the opinion he before gave, that after deducting the value of the materials, 15,0001 would .be sufficient to cover the expence of the pre parations fur the fire-work , . . Mr. lipxvErr wished to know of the Hun. Gentleman for whom a great structure now building in the great park of Windsor was in tended ? VANSITTART replied, that this building was intended for the residence of the Prince Regent ; and noh‘iilistin:ding II ere was alrea- Aly !nuoy royal wilaces, he did tint suppose that any one of them could be fitted up for the accotrituodation of the Prince at so small an t xpence as thi , , which was called " the coitagrt" in Windsor Park, The Poor Helier Bill passed through the Committee, and the report was meet ived, and ordered to be Liken into further consideration on rid ay Adjourned. TIIILTRSioAT Y 14. A Rlyal Memage was brio:gin down from the Prince Regent, situi l•tr to tli:a presented in the Lords reLtive to the di , ,tre...,cs to Ger ro.wy.—The Jives log in IVoo!leo Fill anti Irish Peace Bill were read s , third tittle, :And pane 4.—Adjourned. FRIDAY, JULY ALIEN 111 LI.. ' • Tit LEY A DDINGTON moved the second reading of the Alie►t Bill. He stated, that the Bill was precisely the same as that which NAM adopted on the peace establ►sluuent of IAO2. There were, he eii‘er veil, 18,001) Aliens now in this country, and it could not be doubted by any one that Gover►:ment should have a centroul over them. After some observations from Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Peter Moore, Mr. Wlntbreatl, .and oth us, a division took place, when tlicre appeared, for the second reading of the Bill 9c2, against it :33. The Bill was accordingly read a seirond ti p me, and committed for Monday. DISTRESSES IN CiERMANY. _ _ VANSITTA tut, having moved the House into a Committee of Sopply, to reft rred the message of the Prince Regent re lathe to the di.tressed inhabitant.: of Gwrmanv, made sonic obser vations upon the bravery exhibited by that nation, and the desola tions to which she was reduced by the destructive ambition of the late French Ruler. He concluded by moving, that the sum of 100,0001. be.granted .to -the relief of the distressed inhabitants of Germany. The motion Was oppos'ed by Mr. Gordon, Mr. Whit bred;l, and Mr. Tierney, and supported by Mr. Banks and Mr. NV it ocrorce, and it was carried without a division. 100.0001. was then voted to the Poor Clergy, to be vested in the bands of the Con.missiomers of Queen Anne's Bounty. CIVIL LIST. The CIIANEELLoR of hie EXCHEQUER moved to grant 180,0001. to &fray thin iletiriencies of the Civil List. In the first class, in . the establishments of the Royal Family, there had been no altera tion. The second class, the sal tries of Judges remained the swipe. Yo the .thil d, the salaries to opr Ministers abroad, thcro had hero a considerable increase. a; might he expected, amotnitii:g to 13,0001. . Li the sixth class, liovvever, to counterbalance thi s a ddi t i on , t h ere wit. 4, it diminution or coooi. iu pensions to Ministers unemployed, which...lf, course cea..ed, the pt•rsorii having liven caked upon s erv;eq i i again. In the fourth class of the I l.nisehohl, there litis a Llef . fea+e In the Lord Chainherlain's and Lord . SiewaicVs•iieiiiirtkae . nis, there was an equal 4'll6:inisti•ni.—En the tiiih class, the was an augineicati(ai of 3000'. Under the head of aaseellitheous pa)menta, there was an incleabe of jO,OOQI, 'ruin THE NATIONAL REGISTER. .TUIAY 17. 9.'5,0001. to 12ie000 In presents to foreign M.nistcrs there mid h e , a an addition of tO,eool. There bad also been a suns 100,0001. :to propiiated to the due and mignificent entertainment of the hat ign Sov,reitins. The whole alaamat of the Civil List in the List s fqr had been 1,500.00 . 31. and in the p! esent year 1,319,0011. The ce d or o f o w E xc h e q u er concluded with silludieg to a Royal which was at present only in remote contemplation, bat %bleb, if erected, would cost 500,0001. On the Reselution for the grant of 180,000 e being read by the Chairman, Mr. TiERNEY roe and said, the Right Hon. Gentleman had dis posed easily of the question, by Unsling his back on every thing. but the two last years. He held in his hauds a caleolatio u or th e expellees of the five last Years, beginuing with 1310. Upon tho,,e, five yearn, contiourd the Right Hon. (hullo-in:: ,, , the total amount of excess was 114,000., an amount that yet remained to be accounkel for, and which had arisen entirely in the outlay !rout the pt ivy purse, and in what were called occasional expense: , . Thu:, he tinuttl one item of 624,6001. as the annoint high vitt by Sir Climbs Stuart while at Lisbon ; hot fur his own part he was really at a to conceive how such a sum cou ld h ave been reasonably inclined by our resident there. Ile Ito donid that Sir C. Steart did a c tu a lly expend it: but there woe no statements before the House which could at all inform them how it had been expended. Nor was Le texare of any return that could be moved for %illicit would crusty the necessary information. The House, perhaps, was oot waive that since the estimate of the Civil List. which was propaned ut 1804, the expenses of it had so far gradually increased that the pe seta excess of that List amonnted to '2.10,0c01, per ammo, V. ac not this a sehject lit for Parliament to imptire into r Did it nct show that . 6 something was. rotten in the state of Denmark Ile did not expect that any thing coehl be done now upon the subject, but he hoped it would not be forgotten by the Conn uittie nhen next they met. The total aolount paid to the Royal Family, in chiding what they received from the Consolidated Fund, oas not hen. tint,' 1,700,0001. He hoped he should not be accused of stating this invidiously. He could not help also, again adverting to the etrirmily of the Windsor establishment. lien had done so on a for. met occasion, when that establishmeut was lira formed, but at no time lie was met by an appeal to the feelings of the Haase and the country : the pouibnity of the King's recovery. His Majesty was allowed 1813,0001. per annum ; her Majesty 66,0001. ; which, toge ther with the allowance of the four Pen!evsses, made a total of 290,0G01. for the mere maintenance of his the Queen, and the Princesses. Was there one man in that iloese who VI Wild not say, that under the present circumstances, teat NUM was enormous fur the Windsor establishment? His Royal I had a Privy Purse of of) 0, 01 a year, and besides that au additioitallo,oool.yrr annum. lie did not know any reason lot this 10,0001. Mom his Majesty had the Privy Purse. it amounted oti!y to the n 0,0001; knew flout what source this 10,0001. proceeded ; but when he smug to the Throne (for so strictly speaking, lie had ), why did be oat give it up ? The proceeds of the Duchy of Cornwall were c• mate•l to average amnia)? about 13,0001. per annum ; though he suspected that was an old avet age, and that for matey year. it had exceeded it. Includi n g what his Royal Highness received from the Consolidate:l Fund, and deducting what was set apart for tI e pa)- ' mem of his debts, there remaiiied 76 0901. per annum at his Royal Highness's free and necontrouled dispoial. Was not that too much, however, it' they were still to be called upon to vote Ifete;ol. out of the Cons didated Fund, for the support of her Royal Highness thy Princess of Wales? With such a Civil List, none ef the branches of the Royal Family should be cast upon the Consolidated Feint, but ought to be maintained out of it, as the practice had always been in tinnier times. He t Mr. Tierney) now ..tine to the deration of the present mast extraordinary quarter, in the expeoses of which he thoindit the Right Hon. Gentleman and his colleaanes to office had incurred a most heavy re ponsibiiity, by not havoig required estimates to he laid before the Ti easury, agreeably to what had been distinctly recommeuded by the Coinnottee of 181 i. — . Die excess in the present quarter was 177.0004 besides the 13,000:. to be expended in Ow approaching let,. No doubt' it was necessary and proper that those illustrious personages should be received acd treated with all due splendour ; but the Hon. Gent. seewed to think that the whole cause of this excess arose from our not having palaces tit for the reception of such great people. Th a t was a very comfortable hear ing. for he supposed, by and by, there would be some pujects ler building a Versailles, or a Tionlleries ; tut he hoped the lion. Gent. would pause before he gas e his sanction to certain palaces mluch knetV- were in contempkttion. some very great. ideas, .fie understood. • ere fl oat ing in a certain person's !lead upon this subj( ct, but he nnslcd Gent. would not be l ied awil by the beauty of any drasvoloi or the costly taste of any architt ct who might Sawa plans. He nish‘d ■