The National Register. — London, England, 1815-06-04 00:00:00

NATIONAL REMSTEII. S THE for he telt it was going backward. He bad tOrmerly considered the principle as admitted, and in a session or two he had expected to vitoe.s the con,toomatiou of the measure ; this expectation had vanished. He trit , ted he should see the day when the Catholics, conducted by their present or oilier leaders, would see their way back to that maim, who had proved so powerful an advocate : then lie should again be animated with sonic hope for their cause. He saw no reasons why the Catholics should not accept the Bill of 18)1 Mr. W. I'ole, Mr. W. Elliott, Sir N. Colthurst, and Mr. Ilus wile for going into the Committee. - :Ir. GRATTAN said, when the Petitioners desired emancipation ithout condition, they desire IWO 1111LgS abstuel in plincip:e ; iu t h e ti r .,t i n .tanee, they required emancipation, and secondly, eman cipation without condition, which rendered it impossible they conld succeed. It %%mild be flattering the Catholic Body to say they could have every thing—to tell them all their claims would be granted would deceive them, because he knew t h ey would not Lave cry thing. It was Ilk intention to support the Catholic question with desperate fidelity ; in other words, ro tar as there was the sltglitest hope of success ; but be was persuaded that unless the Roman Catholics adopt a spirit of conciliation, noless they come as persons at Plebe(' to the pi ineiple-. at the Constitution, they cannot succeed. it their petition dial not succeed, it was not owing to the want of candour an the pint of any Member in that House. but the want of pludenne wad di , crelimi on the part of some Ca• /holies. With those sentiments he should sit flow'', giving his snte for the question, though he did not pledge himself to support the Resolutions. The question was then loudly called for, and the House divided on theßesoln tnin for going it.to a Committee. The unnibeis were-- For the Resolution, 147— ; Against it, 'P.2B ity, The Resolution was accoidiligly negatived, and at one o'clock the Muse adjourned. which, from'cei rain eiremnstances had arisen, into et blame would attach to the Prince Regent. An art. been entered into vt ith the Crown. by which a fixed signed for the exnences of the Crown. (Here the N: about to read a document in elucldatiOn of the subjec' objected to by Mi. Tierney, and caned a long idle , point of order, but was terminated by Lord ('astleic, state the result only, and not the paper itself ) T proceeded to state the workings of the arrangement come to On the accession of his present Nlajesty to th Ordinaries and Extraortlinalies of the Civil List, dm had :.mounted to 5 i,ftr.3,0001.; but it' the House were revenue of George 11. and calculate it for a similie would find that it %wild amount to 67,499,0001. col the new al rangement, a saving had :teemed to 15,t176.0011. notwithstanding the Royal Family wei Otis than in the former reign. There had been au at in 1804, of 8:2,000I. making to 1814, a sum of 8‘20,000i thrown upon the Consolidated Fund of 5,115,0001. latter sum from the 15.876,0001 it would leave a ci 1o,7.:6,00o1.; being a saving of that sum to the emir arrangement. The whole of the grants for the Civi Pailiamehi in addition, were a21:3,0001. of which set had paid out of the Moils of the Admiralty, 1,92.`' inclit had, ill fact, he(n only called upon to give 1,291 the general and extraordinary expenditure of the Ci ing stated :hese general facts, le should now notice the Noble land in respect to infraction of the Act by misapplying the vote of 100,0001. which the Righ man (Mr. Tierney) had chosen to denominate as outfit (Lord Castlereagh) maintained the money was voted as well as perspectively. and hoped the House wow was the same thing whether this sum of 100,000 1 to the liquidation of his Royal Highness's debts; or of his Household. lie contended that. the Regent, meat, had not only behaved with great justice, but wi genre and liberality to the Public ; awl he trusted the not indulge that specie's of calumny, %%Inch tell so 1.e.: , sons of his Royal Highness's lank; and that they we bargain had been favourable to the public. Mr. Ti N LA' contended the House owed it to well as to themselves, to go into the Committee ; f. presentairccared to be no less than 100,0001. out repeated many of the arguments di livered On pre. when investigating the expenditure of the Civil Li necessity of a Committee, and urged the suspicion iii the public iniud,"if the motion was not agreed to. After a long debate, which continued till a very motion of ll,:vrd Althrop was negatived by 225 . against The CitaNc:•LLon of the EXCHEQUER having mo. House resolve itself into a Committee of Ways and Mr Sir CHAIILFS NloNcx enquired whether the Rigi intended to bring on that pail of the shedule which new tax on adveitiements? The CIRANCILI.OIt OF THE EXCHEQUER stated, conferences with several persons mho appeared to sense of those individuals who were more immediate' this measure, and an arrangement had been agreed suppoed to meet the views of both parties. The gi this arrangement was, that the progressive duty on should be abandoned, and that in lieu of inhere situ a common duty of an additional sixpence, making , Ss. (id.; and also an additional duty of an balfpentr Sir eitAnLEs MoNcx conceived that a new quests, this plan for transposing the new duties on advert papers. It was generally considered that the univer of knowledge produced by the daily journals, and pithlications, was one of the most extensive and subs tages resulting from the libel - 1y of the pres , . The Hh ()light to determine whether it might not be a duty the w hose interests were most concerned, to st goveinment and the editors of newspapers, who lie apprehend might coincide in an arrangement conven hot by no means equally beneficial to the public. it was very averse to seeing the necessities of the sta' means which seemed to tend to the stir pression of illation. Ihe ItiAt lion. Gentleman, he hoped, would no objection to postpone the resolution for the present The CHANCELLOR OF THE ExcuzetrEn assented the Hon. Butoutt.—Adjourued. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31. Mr. p. GRPSFELL rose to move for certain papers, relative to the issue of Bank Notes by the Rank of England; and in doing so, took a review of the profits Vk iiich are made by the Bank on its is snes, and what it paid to the public with respect to the Stamp Duty nn •the Notes of the Bank of England. Previous to the restriction nn caith payments, a composition was paid by the Bank, by way of Stamp Piny on their Notes to the Revonne, and the sum paid by them elt that time was 1'2,0001. iu 1797, one pound Notes were is sue, and it was then provided that each note should pay 2d —One live hundred thousand pounds in one pound not( s was the n issued, making a VI bill(' of abotit 12.000,01:01. awl they then agreed to raise their composition to 2.1.0001. Since that time the is-tie of paper had increased cow ',twisty, and was last year not less than no 000,0( '01.; it might now be taken at 127,000,0001. yet the composition paid by them had never exceeded 52,000. Thus, in this article of composition, as in every other ease, a palpable advan tage had been given to the Batik over the public. To remedy this evil was the object of the present trotion.—Some opposition was shewn to the motion by Mr. Mellish and others, but it was in the cud agreed to. Mr. 611 ENE r LT, then moved that the House should, on Wednesday next, resolve it-elf into a Committee to et:(inile into the sum paid by the Bank, in consideration of their being exempted from all Stamp Dot ies.— Mr. Van•ittart cow.jarred the motion as being too inrpor tint to be brought on in this sudden way, and the motion being put, was negatived by 63 against 1:3. The Report of the Committee of Supply was brought up. The Eesoltrtinit for granting a slim of .'5,000,0001. as subsidy to the Em perors of Austria and Russia, and the King of Prusbia, was agreed to. Lord ALTTIORPE rose to bring forward a motion on the subject of the expenditure of the Prince Regent's establishment. The No ble Loid apologised for taking up the subject on account of Ilk in -anfEcieocy ; the case, however, lay in a narrow compass ; it related • to the expenditure of a sum of 100,0vOl. granted to his Royal High ress, as an outfit, takii e upon himself the office of Regent of these realms. An Aet of piffilament had passed for securing, this sum, vrbieh Wn% to he Appiird to that particular purpose, He thought, therefore, that it could not he leg:dlr applied to any other object; yet, by the paper MI the table, it appeared that this sum had been paid into the trouts of the Commissmin rs for liquidating his Royal Highness's debts. TiiiS was a direct violation of the privileges et' Parliament. He then moved for a Committee to enquire into the application of the sum of iOO,OOOl. alluded to in his speech. Lord CasTl.Eat , :ao it trusted when the matter came to be inves• tigated, that, taking the increased expencea, and the unusual charges • JUNE 4. no Ermogement had Led sum wax as- Noble Lord•was jest, which was es cation on the agli agreeing to The Noble Lord which had been he Throne. The luting the reign, re to look at the lar period, they .onsequently, by the Public of ere inure•osiner- additional grant 101 amt a charge ; deducting the .Isar balance of iitry 6y the new it List, voted by stun ilie l'iow 1,0001 1'4114'- 90,00°1. to meet :ivil List. Hav- ce the charge of of Parliament. lit Hon. Gentle- fit money. He .1 etrosneutively ould see that it 01. w as applied r to the support in this arrsinge- with great indul- be Hiiii-e would eavily sin all per- uuld see that the the Regent. as for the public at of pocket. He vvious treasons .ist, to sliew the that would lurk y late hour, the 1.4 105. moved, that the Mean-, gilt Hon. Gent. hi related to the that lie had had o represent the ely interested in rl on which was zetieral result of advertisements mild be imposed the whole dilly ly on the paper lion arose out of ertisements and ersal circulation other periodical Infantilel advan- louse, therefore, hey owed to the step in between lie could easily eilient to both, He confessed lie ate supplied by ►f general infor- uld at least have I to the wish of