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te nott I,,ve J , l lte in i • , ar /I n t ,rev n , te3i) . 1 „kr ira: dl xct ' fH ll I f • I c 1. • try s.r notice that he would, on Thursda flu sher move bring Bill for the mov e :are 10 J , l of smuggling comisisiTTEE OF FINANCE. CHANCELLOR o f the EXCHEQUERhe in corm qiience of the previous notice had ,and in cianiplionce with the recommendation • in, Mak-. y hod neen graciously pleased to .n ijlt 0, S rru l peech to Parliament , to move for the . e"urnittte of Finance. He w..s tintiece.sary liar bhn to trouble the with tne many and important advantages ult tu the comity from an adoption ,111•11 S• . rc, ,10,111.11. Upon that point all patties seemed te ,liy to og ri-e. and lence 110 differ( nce of opinion ; „oh . tii occur. But, he lAI Calif - 11rd, a veiy ,;didereo..e of ,pittion WAS likely to arise a. AC S to the pet sous who ou g ht to compose this re . ... s ted Comm ttae of Finance. lie oint had reason t %AL A V % ry stro n g and p ppu •d ed, miles, every person who „ in: A) a Narsoer ot the Committee, and r.w a :4iernher of the House, was not re- Ae.l , zia.ll a re-appc-antmect of all the persons • w lie ore oil that Committee, he telt so ;) i , x c hour; that he was oeterniine , t in .) to declare that inexpedience, mid there .a 140,,C.r tO the Hollse A olfF , -rent se . 64111 , a (heel! Heart titon Apporiteun %j • .Ih. N•.ble Lord ( hi.•w.ck) opposite i, ia, his cpirii n, Chat all • bitnithri. t tool i. mini tee rhoulil '.e te-o 1 j ointed, with .$ II 01 IWO (Ar. S.urAes Bourne, and . final )• 1 o that exception he W 43 willing seism. -but he willing mil) for these lea s• : the: as, the former occasion, the lase .1;t1 u a tuns ye it proper to propose any c. ' , Li cts.l oath Adenttusttation, (Lord er, f A • eCar .9 so, upon the present, he did I I I, a 1n• WitiCh he silt:Add read to um I. o.e. t ..cane ut hit Right Hon. Friend beside ( .Ir. fruts , bourne) With respect to the r • ts :too, t I .I.dur..y) he had declined from , o 6 rly at toe Baronet's own ro c s,. , this occ•sion, he laid sifted • .1 th , he (blr• l'erceval) • .." . A ...l`e .00... wiry feel; and, Al ....o . it 'g .t wished to sus d th:11 deci. : .-n tor a to., was p. •;..tall tlie worthy 15..iitott right in g r 1 retpiesi not to tie It -a r poutt.d. la.deed, as o • .cg.st •tn. h. tend near Lint ( sir. Durum), Ca! N kale idsr.t upp site ii 141,1, that the ot 1- :11011 ag tvrn W4i removed. littt . tt,c0,.. , t, tic 4 cote cohten led, hat 11l • •C whSCG 11.,ioty ut Oleic LlC , ;er Was s'lL.ited, Wnn Mere lawn , omit,' alld penellats4l l 4 ..nnti,:ce er ct.:ulated for Me elercoe ot Its and he .c.:ornpli, of us ohjea, than las( the ctLeption of the V.v.) l'.ight atr ,, J; Able .t.r.c 1..5 ot •iit•ie. to whom I Lave "'W"•—(Hrars ee ir. f‘ oat ilirest toles of the it it %CAA gu:n,: tw.i ILLI to , 01141 0141 C•.sllolatee WAS gelletAtly IS r..e present 1..1014 K.. 1, 1!, ti:ere Wet.: ...y two %cr., wire de , id ny 111 .d the•e SW' IC three other'. W:.°, ':••in u.. I. MOJeac t 4.114 14-e nide .41,.11, .V.i. #itil‘h they UW I orals, ~.tveu, , ntht n t w be blabse , .: w..th. the nuialse: were, ..e I;o.l,e..tett, eol.tinuois) oit.o:e.ttn:„; A Ilethailt ;110 • cur t.ie ~f the I\ • ate t.ord oi,j,orite (clove,. w). As i.e kn. W It Was Z :tact %MLitt:loll Le tate tlud , e to appoint a partial I.'intuttte,, 1..:r party put pose., he was meretore t t, 1'0(1.11.11 li,, VWIICOhVI.tiiIn Ups. I r.l.lca, bilk. to propose a greater nurnher ci mar. 4 to be placed on it ithui we.e VA c.,t .1..: te.ult ut the late Elections. 'And ale ouj a on ex ending Use number or a ,v: MC v scanc.r.. crated, and ill sepia c.a. • ut Slow .vtrnmei, of ir toose, wa • tot the pan ot in git a "one iti,amtiot Comma see. Load cwasausai laugh- IQ.) It Wit alb.. I. in this instance, to satipt allUtiicr ob.. %ration ot the Noble Lor..4's, lamely, to a l poin, Cou ))))) t.ee, *ova vote, And L .107 way ot ;. ;Ugh, was he litellaied 10 I Imr3Le,i.l4. Up.... Visa part ot the subjea, be wnwi I ti.-rt Li:talon:neat, praei th. manner ut • tar tech* re.lSosl, that ale d.d mit know • at and tiezerd.itia J1,011,1;4.4 511.01 lyou t..r propriety or impiopoety ot any blimber 0i tn.. L10.1.e of , ra.-cute any a.angtted duty. Tit:try fore it *l5 that he t..OU i twe mode ..t bail lithe more F.‘ei..bic. Andwoy,4o thinking,did he I tit. •ilswer was, tirC•USe Ice leaver the attempt that world Ire mode to misrepresent, and tile topic ot de el. snotiou inti a which itovuuid bet a tut, d . lie would, in isle nrsi lilsta.iet, read over Ali toe noun. wincti it was no ititention to propose to loins that Com m:tee, and he truated the House would cheat be Able to As.:ettAlO wh.:ther a c moderahle proportion 4)1 tae mast eager, s-alms, and adore name. ut those who. from p lineal haler s, may he fairly pt,:sunted to %Luca mast vigitautry the coadet of the pest* Givermiteni, was not continued. But it WAS also for the House to judge ot the disprition which was rnanitested by tale late AJMUSlbtealsoll4 and by their pa tizans—a sistoositsois to keep bask every formation which attoched censure to tnemselves, and which it was the duty of the House to testraiu .1 ,1 oppose. 'those Hon. Gentlemen had, upon I : occasion, expressed their great dislike of re. v • grants. 'eney had gone farther, in • ...y denying that the Government to which toe belouged mad granted a single oleos is ze verrion. Sit ;thin a short period he had ascertained. VIA His blaj.:sty's late Gcvernment had, before tetirement from otli•te, given in reversion the oili:e ot Colledor ot the Port, not of Dover, no, but of Buenos Ayres.—(twor.i N•4l/141r fleas elk All rasieria side) 01 Barnes Ayres, then not in our Fosrestion, and where the office must at least lee reversiodary with the posseuion. Lire a looms' occasion he bad reason to adult to the thtent i " of appointing three hundred additional Surveyors of Takes. tilt had understood that early in last blotch twelvemonth, the rrecessny of an increase was plat ell out by the Fax Office tleparusteot. bet it SO liar peneJ. that it was nut until the toll Aviv Oftobers just previous to the general Eleatue, ttatt the late Ministers declared their intention or imrtiedialeiy scloptiag that recommendation. For whoi purpose that moment sod oppoitunity were embraced. the should totally leave to the discernmest o f tar Howe. (g ait ! ce ,N • 2 perruns k it was t. tn. Mb!. app iinted, and the Hon. Gentlemen were forted to condole with those whom they had promised. he nett ohjett to which he should advert was, the revival of a patent place, where the duties to be per formed had entirely ceased to be a public expense. He mean: the parent lately given to The Casette Writer of Edinburgh. The sum upon the public am iunted to 3001. a year ; and the business to be p !formed was for years divided between three f the public newspapers of Edinburgh, whose }limes gratuitously performed every duty, for the per fie mance of which this pat-nt was alleged to be given. No person could believe otherwise. than that the plate- w is solely revived for tl r benefit of the pets n. It would be taking up the time of the House to enumerate the various and many instances in which the late provident Administration disposed of the public mo y. He W. 6 apprehensive he may discover something like ignorance when he decl trod, that he did not understand the meaning or objet of medical surg-ry, and medical jurispru dence. (// loud laugh.) He should not at present I lay much stress upon the appointment of new She• riffs in Scotland, or on the intended grant of a pension to a Criminal and Civil Judge in that country, during pleasure, and which grant was not carried into elrea, in conic qu.:nce of strong doubts being entertained of it; I.g slit!, by those whose business it was to execute it. Th-se circumstances he thought it necessary to impress upon the attention of the House, in order to convince it that the Committee which it was about to appoint, would have something more to du than to praise t.te last Administration. He con cluded by requesting most earnestly, that however it may be consistent with form, that he, in right of his office should be placed upon the Committee, he still hoped, that in the present instance, the Item might be dispensed with. He then moved," That a Committee he toymed to inquire into the state of the public expenditure, and to diminish the amount of such talsries, and the number of such offices, as are not necessary to the carrying on of the public business." the motion being read from the Chair, Lord I lENRY YET FY neet offered himself to the Attention 01 the House. He said it was impos sible not to admire the exem,ilary candeur which th- Rieht Hot. Gentleman, al,O just sat down, had t:. sr n , gh. oselayed. In the cs iiaoatiun into which had ei•ter.el and the intoi en.tion he had so li b raliy, so u..espetiedly. and, above all, so in:par tially given, he had at least shewn a charitable wish o release toe Committee of Finance trim a ar;cty of tod 'rouble, to put into their hands toe very clo:•: • -I tiecuiatisn, and to 1 , vent thc ./: 'or exaninAtinn. (if‘dr/ herr!) riot to be set • sts, what could have been the obj..ct of t gross .end • statement in which the Rh.ht lion. Gentlema s had so liberally inhuh,ed ? Was :t to create an impo per bias I burly he must and ought to know the .-narafters of those serious he himself het determined to prnpos- for the Con,- mittee. lie must and ought to know that Crey were not to be influenced by any gross or partial starcment, that they were superior to all premature and unpioved accusations. Bat perhaps it was to circulate abroad an unt , .orollea charge. For if it yeas otherwise, h-rely the Right Ho nourable Gen-. tleman ought to have ...stained from propagating Nis charge, until he had produced the documents. by widen it c-itild either be proved or refuied ; and ti es, , erience such conduct final him, who had within the las' twents-lour hours shielded the H neurahle Baronet (Mildmay) near him, under th; pre' .xt Oa: mere was yet unpioduced one so litary document, although there was Lid on the Tah.e of tile House . variety of into: mation ist every kind, together with the decisive Report of the Comintssioners of Military Inquiry. hear !) Yet, with this laft fresh in the recolieftiou of every Member of the Hover. the Kight Hon. Gentleman has issued forth an accitniulatiim or charges, without producing even a single document, convirLed as he was, that those wlium t.e has accused, were ch bored of the meaus of pie curing information. Sti.l, ignorant as he was ef some of the charg..s. and although -debarr from the resources sit information, he would pr. - reed, even under such disadvantages, to rep 4 to the statemme of the Right Han. Gentleman; an I, first, with respea to the appointment nt the Cot leaorship of Buenos Ayres, he would ask. was it not to be expeatd that when the Right lion. Gentle man laid so great a stress upon the burden attach ing t r the country from this appointment. that he was bound, in common candour. to state the parti culars i namely, that the burden to be imposed was only in the aflual fait of re-capture, and that whilst ingot was no possession. there certainly was no salary ; it was true, the probability of our again retaking that important possession was very probable; and, therefore, it was proper to be pre pared with an establishment, the want of which had been severely felt during the former possessien of that place, and which entailed no expense whilst no duties were performed. ( Hear ! liter!) With respea to the intention of appointing Surveyors of Taxes, it was certain that the proposal did originate with the Board of 'razes. Nu nomination did take place; some perms might have beeu induced to expea it. But with this fad he was accurately acquainted, that many per sons had applied for the tiosnination in behalf of their friends. and the answer was, that no promise would he made until the arrangement was completed. As to the appointment of a Writer to Tits Ldinhrgh Gasatt, it must be considered as the grant of a new office. And when the distinguished talents and pie-eminent learning of the individual upon whom It was conferred were taken lute consideration, it would, he was assured, be thought more befitting the chestier of the country to bestow such an office on Mr. Dugald Stewart, that upon three Editors of Newspaper% amongst whom it has been heretofore divided. It was certainly more w the taste of the ,'mpht Honourable Gentleman and his friends to serve the latter, for purposes with which they wets best acquainted. Newspaper litera ture was what they wished most to encourage. It was that species of science and stud y which they themselves most assidu ousl y cultivated. To the charge of conferring upon distinguished talents and admired literature. this office, and upon a man s.ho had spent Ins serviceable if e. it sa t is *sh waame nt, a at least in h on ourable rutty, W it was , • ---- he n icade,i antlte• Upon the tidies pounds of accusation nude by the Right Honour. was not sufficient ; these appointments wen able Gentleman, he was perfealy ignorant, and out for what thos had in contemplation ' therefore would, in the absence of all proof, give no and subdue. He supposed they had pre opinion. Whether in or out of office, he was. and pointments of Comptrollers and Surveyor, e'er would be, the advocate ter inquiring Cemtnit- Besphores, and searchers and waiters for tees, and he never did arrogate for himself or the (Hear! hear!) When Buenos Ayres was friends with whom he Ord, that there ever was much was said by those Gentlemen to dent a Government which ought to be exempted from dervalue it, and no mention was made of the superintending column! of Parliament. He King's Speech. It was not the glory of begged to say a few words on the list which it was net the recolleOf of the new the Right Honourable Gentleman had deter- commerce to the country, or the exertie mined to propose; he thought it a most unpa- brave troops, that engrossed their thought ralleled and improper attempt to omit the names first thing which occurred to them was the install of so many respefteble Members of a Cern - taneou s a pp ointment of searchers and waiters. The meter, which had aetually engaged in its labours, Right liimourable Gentleman next alluded pa the and two of whose Reports would now be on the appointment of a pension to Mr. Dugald Sumach table of the ifotise, but for the dissolution ot Par and the institution of Ms Scotch Greats. liament. Surely, the Right lion. Gentleman was Mr. BIDDULPH shortly explained. not willing to have it generally believed, that it was Mr. CU RWEN, after some observations, which merely to get rid ot these persons and the Corn- our limits will not permit us to detail, asked the mittee of Finance that his Government had resew- Right Hun. Geetleman ( Mr. Canning), whether ha ed to the measure of dissolution. Were not eight himself did not hold a pension 1 persons. friends of the present Ministers, sufficient Mr. CANNING admitted, in answer, that at to enable them to carry on their intended system the time of h i s resigning the of fi ce of one of the of recrimination. Indeed, there was something SCCTC:4I lei of State, by the express desire of Mr. which strongly conveyed that opinion, in what had Pitt and Lord G lenville, he del receive a Pension fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman, both with of rareei the half of whicii went to his two 'lutes. respe&ao the p7eOilention of the matl single man upon the former Committee , wh o could rity of the Committee for the politics of his 2 oble Friend Dr. LAWRENCE did not think t here was a ( Howick), and in what he (Mr. Peiceval) had hint- tin the Oigettot degree be exceptionable. As to the ed of a wish in them to withhold information from appointments to Buenos Ayres, alluded to and Tes the House. Mr. BOYLE (a Scotch Member) conceived it lied upon with $0 much warmth on the other bide of the House, they amounted only to thi s, that p inions fair and manly in the Right Honourable the Chan - were appointed, but the public did not suffer in any cellar of the Exchegusr to state the reasons why he inner from this appointment. He reprobated is wished to change the list ct the Committee. of Ft nance. He contended, that a great grievance was strong terms the ilea of bickering and sq uabblin g among one another, upon this question, while the imposed on the public, by reviving that pu.est of rumours in town respettng the eff sirs of the Con. all sinecures, Tke I.glintargb Goethe. tiaent. in which we were so deeply interested, should Mr. BIDI)ULPU observed, that he could not be l occupy our particular attention. thought to have any cr.nsiderahle predileelion (or Sir JAMES PULTONEY made a few °beer. that Committee of Finance, which eas erpoiiited vations in favour of the new appointment of the upon his mi tion, though tint by his nomination, t Committee. during the last Session. Bet ft nm his constant at- Mr. BR IND explained. tendence upon that Commiliee, he felt the propriety Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY wished to recall *ea r of adhering t, it, as i. the whole cosine of his attention of the House to the real question seers Parliamenary I fe he had never witnessed a greater II them, and regretted that matt -vs had eaten intros aggregate of c endow. activity, and earnestness; I dined which were irrelevant wholly nethe subjeas and further he would say, that excepting that 'Phil was a question in which thee `honour a nd the knowledge which the votes of the House immanent. cherafter of the House was managed, and mast be it would be impossible to learn, Isom any thing 4 1-.. ply affeeted by the sieciialn of tik.ll night. The which passed is their Committee-room, the political subjeft of this Committee engege& the attention of creed of any of the itolididuels who composed it. I the public to a great d/gree, and tee inteiruptino of The only haterference which they et ircisei was ot a its proceedings ecentedly alluded to in Hie • nature to trench upon the prerogatives of al l Ma j est y 's late e ach. An opinion had goo s parries—he meant tee Bill for prohi b iting the About!. that iwas not the intention that granting of Places in Reversion. He recom. these inquiries ishould be prosecuted with fair. mended to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ness and impartiality $ but be trusted there consider the injuty which might result from was as iittle4oundation for this report as that the poiblic believing, that as one set of men were of the CiturOt being in danger. Every thing, supposed to he put in to screen one party whilst in he thought. shoeld be done, to put the pro. power. that those who succeeded them in effice, credings es nearly as risible upon the sena thought it necessary to pack a Committee to screen footing 014 were on before the dissolution. Fie them and their devrettaitons. Ile was free to admit gentiemeo who had been upon the former Commie. that the new M-mbos prepared were pertedly un- tee, he centsidered as qua!ified in every respell to dB excepti nah'e. •I'tiere was another Gentleman, whine the imps ant duties of that office; and Ise sated name it was his iretentien to propose on a future whether it was possible to appoint any weis3r per who oppertaility. He should oily now des i gnate hen would be so proper, Aloe, isiVag a. one who had the lieene.t sense of public wri ago occupied with the subj ea, and having had the (alluding *to Sir F. tior,httt). opportonity of seeing the department of wit. The don. Mr. BRA NZ), in Ile eloquent appeal Aesse;'? But it was objeaed. that the Mens. to the House, asked them if it was not t stir v.i.li to bets of that Committee were all faiendly to the procure a great, honourable, and t %tient inquiry ? late Administration. th et I this w a s not the beau , i pon t was It was true, he was partial to the friends who sat a g...- ! r 3soll why y sht below him ; he was partial from •ffe.eii•us .. cI coo- C Immo e . Jr was 'aid that the committee should viaion. But the MI &ion and conviction the more be composed of the fr "ids of the one side and the strongly impelled him to seek for the tullett investi- other, Lut lei. cos:: was to lure it composed of pea r ins; that he might ascertaire what he sea: s ins who were th. oireids of neither. In order to sure he would ascertain, namely, that in his ieelirg, mike the Committee toeless, it was said, that, and pin oion of te late hlinisters he was tnll, jei- when tle carge was broug .t forward, there was titled. They might deserve the atcuse in Is et tee reeriehn 'Ori h n tor recriminetion. the puelic. how. Right Hon curable Gentleman opposite, mid hi. co:- ever, expeaed from that House, that they wuulal cn. litegues, but the House should recollect that there sinter a Committee as neatly as possible with that Wit not one of those accusers, not one of the which existed before the late dissuletion of Parka. Members oi that l'reasury Bench, voio were not men. either for themselves, their wives, or children, load- Mr. BANKES highly condemned the pension eel with public minvy, in places. sinitCUTCI, grants, granted to the Scotch Judge; but, however he and etpectenciet. (Near ! hear ! bear I) He might find 'Ault with that measure, hr thotteht tee recommended, wet an Accusing Committee should former Committee was composed of gentlemen of be immediately appointed, and he felt little doubt the f i;rest and most respetiab e character, draws whet party would most engage its att en t ion. lle fairly from both sides of toe iii use ; and the uni. again appeased, in the name of his ;:raistittunts, ter form prat ice of Pat liament hithe •to has been, intim something 'pot and effition, something to alleviate event of a dissolution, to place every thing on as the burdens of a sufferieg piemle. fir' country to arty the same footing as possible. He regretted to expetied it, and the refu •al would be introduaory noel the names of some of the former Olemomis omit. to nothing bat general discontent. tad. Upon the (Term.; of a new Parliament, it was Mr. CANNING said, toat no vever pleasing in not only necessary to give the greatest setisf Onion to theory the piSure of imp ertiality which the Hon. the public, but to avoid everything that COW .1 create Gentleman (Mr. Brand) had so eloquently drawn, suspicion. He thoetore the mote regretted that yet the fag was, that ii a Government mixed as :he names of this Committee had beet. altered, and ours, parties in the state most. of necessity, exist. tie particularly alluded to the omission of two names and so existing, the strength of p tray attachment ot Hon. Members ( Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Lambe). would beget a wish and spirit of personal recri• who, from their regular attendance. knowledge of mination If it was possible to find a set of the subj •et, and indefatigable exertions. should not men completely independent, and unconneeted with have been excluded. These, along with another both parties, a Committee composed of these angels lion. Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread), be strongly of purity, perhaps might suit the ideas of the recommended should be added to the list of the Honourable Gentlemen; but in those days of im- Committee. purity, be appreeended no such persons were Mr. WHITBREAD said, that when be was likely to be found; it such men were to be sought proposed a Member of the former Committee. he for, it was not on the opposite benches they should was engaged in a most arduous undertaking (the look for them. After what had already been before Impeachment of Lord Melville) which prevented the public of late, after what had happened i t the his attendance upon that Committee If this was course of the Debate that night. they should not look the motive for his present exclusion, the Right Hon. to the opposite benches for snch men as had been I Gentleman (Mr. Perceval), according to his own described. In the last Parliament (it he might be I principles, was pertealy justifiable in so excluding allowed to advert to a classical subjeft). an Hon. him. Member had alluded to a certain moralist of that I Mr. HILEY ADDINGTON also urged the p sbe ro. day, who, for the precept's sake , c aused a house to prim,' of having the Conrinittee co mposed . I be made entirely of glass, from whence the adage same Members with those bete re the an 1)1150 Arlu:ae ii of to of " Those who live in glass - O nuses should not be Pailiatnent ; he higbly deprecated y mn: the first to shsow steam "—(A hoard cry of bear!) and thought such a measure very inenspicious to a His Right lion. Friend (the Chancellor of the Ex e new Parliament. upon which the public so much se• chequer) had gone at great length into detail upon lied. the suhj..et before the House, and the Noble Lord Loyd COCHRANE and Colonel SHEPLEY (Lord H. Petty), talked of places in reversion not ' expressed themselves of a similer opinion. then in His Majesty's m ion ; and it was singular 1 MT. r to was ready on the city of the WORTLEY esked whether the excuse of the Noble Lord for these premature i the Rertrt alluded appointments ; because they did not bring any 1 , dissolution of the late Parliament t immediate expense upon the public ; and then the ; Mr. BANK ES, in answer, said, the Report was Noble Lord said they did not intend that Buenos I prepared by soothe, gentleman of the Committee is Ayres should not be resaptuted. But what vine his ab,ence ; bus h he thought it could no. Leave been the consequences of these premature appointments ' ' prepared in coformity with their resolutions. they gave the party influence by courting oftite.— (Hear ! firer ! ferns :be Ministerial Brecr.l . The glory upon glory, and conquest upon co: quest, Mr. HENRY 1 HORN roN staid, the ceeettioa which the late Government had to boast of, were in the Committee was, whether she reeurt of the eufficitut to autherise these acemiotmeats. But this remedy sltculd be preesnted, before they ptsscis s4 i' i . 1 1 if ~~ . IN, ' ' oler • • 4 were made ' pri o e: r Parsc ß i7e c o le rdli t awri t hP a e : first taken. cry and un- ' 0! st it io the the aftions r source of ions of the • : 1 hts, but the the instan- 1 titers. 'The lied t,a the aid Stewart, S ft; dons, which il, asked the , whether be , • rer, that at one of the wire of kr. re a Pension :wJ +isms. there was s )• e, who could • it _ _