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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY, MARCH 13. The Exchrquer F 1104111( lidt, sod the Irish Coro Bill, were Rd the second tome, mid oidiccd to be committed u Mon- inv. the'rnetiott or rttrl B•llltiß.T. the hint' tlistiliery Bill rem ordered to be mad tLe second time oil Moodeq. T ?mine :%listiny Bill, sod the Salt Bill, were read the third time arid passed. Sit JAMES Gt►P►Y, Mr. O'H►t►, Mr. LUilltNi.Tton. Wed several other Members from the House of l'onotiom, bronglit up three priviite Bills, which were laud on the table, and afterwards rend the first time. Mr. LITCIITIELD prevented eertitin papers, emit ' • g in account of the number of Coombe. end Licenses pouted by Govermareut. Orderml to be Mut on the table. Mr IRVING, from the Customs, presented an semen* of the quantity of cora imported from Amcriew and &flameouts. Go , . from 18.4 it. lit . Ordered to lot: laid IA the table. Adjourned. the country. We had at home 532,000 men in re gular*, militia, and volunteers. Abroad we htt4 spa hundred and forty thousand regulars. 11111160 g together 1-10th of the male populatkini of :the country,. or 1-4th of those between SI and 50 years of age. ft was imposaible for the country to support thiii, and 1.1 was far beyond the neceasity of the case in which we stood. He was of opiniou ti ..t a reduction ought to take place. By reduciii!, the infantry 4U,000, and the cavity 5.000, which might be done without lesseningour oreurity„ a saving of one million per 11111114111 would beetrected. Ile con demned the military spirit, which, he was afraid, reigned in the country, and eocomaged us to support as great a standing army as Bonaparte did, with all his population and resources. He would not allow that there bad been any economy, but only au abatement of the exiettrig . iirofusinti. A return of the Lacai Militia Force, and their expense since lira raised. VOUS ordered. The Estimatei; or the Staff* and iloapital were then referred to the Committee, and the House went into the same. Lord PA ussaits•roa said, before moving the reso lotions he had to propose to the Caminittee, he thought it necessary to explain the mature a the reduction' agigse Staff, hich would now take place. In doing is he would mention the aiistrcha where reductions were resolved, and motive. •sv hut these redoctious were in each. In the `lgissteru District, one Lieut.-General would be taikert away, leaving eight Generitls to command toms) men. ht the South- West District, the reduction would be one Lieut.-General, but a %jar-General would be ap pointed to succeed him, and command 400 . 0 men. In the Severn I G istrict. one Lieut.-eneral to be re moved, and the command to devolve on a Major- General. In the Home District, one Major-General to be removed—(llear! froth the opposition) — leaving tire Generals to command 10,000 men. In North B►itain, one Lieutenant-General, and one Major-General to be redut ed, leaving seven Gene rals to command 11,000, scattered over that exten- sive country, where, in case of invasion, there were many vulnerable points. The difference of saving I would be 13,1711. thisyear, arising from the discon tinuance of live Lieut.-Generals, and one Major- General. As this reduction, however, would not ' take place, till 25th March, the seeing would not be more than he had stated, till next year, when it would amount to 17,0001. The Noble Lord then instanced three different periods, to Phew that the Staff bore a lees propertiou to the army new, than it had done iu Mrs. when the whole country was military, or in 1801 i, when the reduction by the General opposite had just been carried into ellet t. In 1306, the proportion was our General 1n 1971 men ; last February it was one General to 1990 men ; and now it was as one General to 2190 men ; sorely not lon great, if the necessity of order and dwipline, sod the welfare of the terrier, were cm,- !Uttered. He concluded by inotiuz. That II e sum of 457,7241. 11s. 411. should be granted for the Stall of Great Britain." Sir GeOttrift tV*aas'soea animsdyier'ell on the leaving of ten Generals to command 11,000 men in Scotland, end condeenned it as a wasteful expendi ture of the public inonty. Though Scotland was AO extrusive country, t the soldiers were conceit tested all about the north and the west towards Glasgow. tend therefore required on more Generals than the same number of men in a smaller district in the south, where, however. eight Genera t e were thought sufficient for 20,000 men. to the home district, two Geuerals were maintained at la,oool. each per ann. who were of no use whatever, amid objected so all all sides of the House. The redociimi made icy the Noble Lord could not be satisfactory to the Souse, and of all sinecures, those upon the estaWishiettits of the country• we re the worst. The misfortune was, that Generals were riot made fur districts, but districts were formed for the couveniency of Generals. He was of opinion that much more might be done oar this head, and also that a very salutary reduction might be wide in our cavalry, which were r.st efficient from the want of horses, and which yet !equired an eina • blishinent of one hundred and severity one officers. Upon the whole, he thought Ministecs hod not that ceutroul over the puhl.c expenditure, they ought to , have, and had only brought forward th-se estimates, because they had not the spirit and euer,r,y to amen their own rights, and du what would be' at citable r to the country. Mr. Cat.caaer followed on the tame skle. and expressed his utter clisitlrionitinesit at fimittig the reduction proposed so trifling. It was not made where moat wanted, in Scotland and iu the Home District ; ne,ther erns it snflicieot; and the Staff was still overcharged with a multitude of linnet:es sary officers. Ile did not think the saving. would be more than 7,1711. per ertaina, taking the ,sdlcr ence of the present mid last year .. . estimates, and he celled on the Noble Lord to sbew how it would amount to 17,0001. He did nut, however, so nine condemn Mininers; who, he believed, would have done more, hint it been in their power. As for dim tracts, he brut known, when a favoured General had a house in the country, the Stiff had moved to him, instead of his moving to the Sniff. Lord PALMERSTON explained. The difference betwe:n the estimates was what he had s tated ; the difference between 470,5901 9s. 9d. and 457,7141. 14s. 4d. and the saving next• year would consequently . be 17,0001. Mr. WARDLI we grieved that the late Minis ters had not taken the opportunity of doing honour to themselves, and justice to the country, by. doing away these enormous expenses. %Vhen the country saw so little done by one part l y. Or proposed by the other, they would get Out of conceit with the House. The Honourable Gentleman then went into a detail of what he considered as faulty in the military system. The erection of Barracks, which had coot the country, up to 1904. nine millions, slid,sioca that Period. four millions, had not, its it was promised it would, saved any of the expense of the Staff. In the piper, ton, before the House, the Ordnance Stall and the Volunteer Staff ivere kept out of *lett. This was not a fair way of meeting so im portant • question. Half-nay Officers were to have been apprinted to thew burro, Ics, but this had not bean deur. and the places were tilled by the servants of those in power. When the whole country was armed, We Staff cost only 54,0001. and, in 1908, left to 433.4001.....111 1110. t o from these estimates. This might be called an increase on a reduced establish ment. Would Ml:lnnen si,tliat this would satisfy he people of England ? For what he was CAM j .cobin last Session win now acknowledged. Would he House then vote money to pay a man for exe cuting three offices, one of which he perforated by deputy ? This was the case of the Quarter -Master General, who. besides dist office, at 41. u.. per dies, was a I .ieut.-Gener4l on the staff at 31. 15s. and a • General of erl battalion of the 9th regiment, at the least worth WWI. --year. It was the same with the Adjutant-General and his deputy. Ile did not, howeter, altogether blame the pi tient, or any other Ministers ; for so long as the system of corruption existed, there would be favourites. The Hon. Gent. concluded by objecting to the Ordnance Staff, on which several Generals had not a man under their command ; to the Recruiting Staff, and the Volunteer Staff, both of which were extravagant sad unnecessary. •He aho noticed, that thi gaff pay and contingent allowances were three years in ar rest., none having been paid since December, 1808, for what was due in 1405-ti. This was a great hardship en Officers, and deserved the attention . . of the Noble Lord opposite. Ger:Oral Hoots staid, that the Quarter-Master- General hail been in the service of His Majesty for 35 yea's, during which time he had received the twist inifenned approbation. He, as well as the Adjutant-General. were upon the Staff, by a bar gain with the Public, who saw die propriety of es tablishing them. With respect to tbri deputies, that understanding did not apply. Mr. WAUDI.V. said, that the present question was a mere mutter of money ; there certainly existed such *bargain as that alluded to; and a very pretty one for the public, who, instead of keeping it, by paying 5001. it-year, paid the enormous increase of 13001. Gen. T•almrow spoke against the diminution of the cavalry, which required more Officers titan at present commanded it. It was necessary to have two General Officers to the Severn district. The French prison, within four miles of Bristol, de manded more then one Officer to look to its secu rity. He then compared the situation of that dis tract with the Home, for the regulation of which there were ton General Officers: Mr. PITRIt MOORE said, that the average ex penditure was twenty-one millions over and above the actual income of the country. He deprecated the bug-bear of invasion, which, since the year Ma, had been operating; by which 100 millions of money were uselessly expended. He wished strongly that the Committee would reform altoge ther their financial system. and prevent the per petn II disagreement upon that head. One side of the House was perpetually bringing in Bills, in which the profusion of the public money was con cerned; the other sedulously employed in counte racting that profusion. Mr. Thaw kV moved an amendment, «That a sum no greater then 449,19381. 118. 10,1. be granted for the service of the Military Sluff." Mr. W• 11131.1 supported the amendment. The CUANCILLOR of the Excnene La was sur prised that Gentlemen should think the connate extravagant, when such a mode had been adopted by those who were formerly in power, sod to whom the Gentlemen had been supporters. He then stated the peculiarities under which the Dake of Cambridge and Lord Ileithiield laboured; and wondered why any hint tlisMl4l be thrown out against the propriety of their remaining on the Staff. Was • man, after having served for a series of years, to be discharged immediately after his ap pointment to a Getwndship, at a time when he was capable of acting with alacrity ? Mr. WHITIALE A D Sit.d. the Right Hon. Gent. bad begun his speech we hr cointnenced his political CV. reer, • hy recurrtug to the conduct of those who pre ceded him, and by a trifling recrimination, He then stated the impropriety of detaining officers is sinecure situations, by which the public money was wasted, and a mostilestructive example of the en couragement of idleness set. He instanced some sitsorticms to which an establishment upon the Staff was annexed. and particularly dwelt upon those of the Dake of Cambridge and Lord ileatlitield. No duty had been pet formed for the large salaries which they had received.—He did, not see why the Adjutant and Quarter- Master-General had any basin. 164 to meddle with any other sitnatioo. than those fruits which they re ceived their titles ; as those were, if properly at tended to, they would demand their must strict attention. He considered the system of those mates vicious, and would therefore rote fur the amendment. After some observations from Sir G. WARRRN- Des. Mr. HUSKISsON. Sir 'l'. Tuarort, Captain Palms'. and Lord PALSIERVITON, the lions& di tided on the amendment, when there appeared— Aycs Pl'oes Majority is favonr of Ministers.... 3d The Other orders of the (14y were then disposed af, and the Flintx aelj,.ll rued tst 011 F. &CLOCK. MR. MACON'S BILL .'ISE&?ATIONI UPON 111. MACON% ■(L/.. [From a Ners-Y.rk Alper) Are we neve.- to see the end of measures, equally repugnant to the seenrirleil prnfe a mos of our rulers, and subversive of Ow public welfare ? After running through all the cheeses of eelWine!etal restrictions. which have Isnot hled t i ny /ellen( ' iin pal ed the uto: . als, and utterly drrmigerl tics eons:tierce of the country, is there no priepect of administration bring yet wrested front that folly, ter t spirit off.rtien, which is test anniltiliting the sourros of our wealth, as it has already emasculated and .I.'egraced lntr amino Or, are we to contrut ours hr's with btuuibrtiuu. poverty. and dishonour, provisfri we receive the approbation mud countenance of 'mime ? I haul really hoped that there did exist town te!. if not sufficiency of elevated pride and snood Mg, at least such a portion ref C4lllllllOll 'user lilt eClin IT) CM discernment, as would restrain t .glees (rem farther rape nistriits in the downw :111 which, to a period certainly neat, nuts , deli! Vi its up to r.%il cnnvulsians. 01-yr1.11,011., and rt. ;i.. 'hhese ruler., whatever miry be ilte.r tires or tort a islies.• cannot new plu , .4e the moots iron o, r . The last attempt. by their mimestivre 'sigh Mr. Jackson, to infirmie the country, and to raise it to t h e war 1 0 e , ha s t lithely failed. lit I at. have been the public sensibility upon Ile I*llo the bulletin, the curmage, and the first lip,. of the documents, the ' , debates that have tokti place in Congreses, joined se the di-cos-ion. that Rare appeared in all the leading federal have so far destroyed the public twolidence 411 the integrity of these people, that .thsy tum.ut now, t f they would, excite u desire for war. Thtir ortly expectations, their may retnaiiiiiig diaper ror is to effect the adoption' of measures, wined , how. ever mischievous to the country, may produce loc i, retaliatory regulations, on the part of Eaglet d, may be made the occasion of agitating and iiitLina iug the country to such it iitch as will eneht e t haw to bring &shout their object, indirectly. Mr. Macon's. Bill, whatever may have been de signed, is a measure of thin tendency.-.. The r- can be no doubt of the authority of Congress to ivies Nasigetion.Act. But its principles must la.: su c h as will secure ns sgainst those mediae _ore r. ' . 1. tissue, which must either put an end N all agrt:;,.- lion, or must detect the professed object ul av g ..... lug the whole or a principal part of it for ...1140••'‘..c. As the Britisli Navigation Act is deemed to he aii thority and a model, let AS examine its proceioi,., and compare them with thouti ß o ri f ti M sh r. si M;ou: i s:l :4 l: Acenriliog to the British Navigati on Act, the trade between Great Britain anti a for eign couttrr cats be carried on only by *lisps of such foreign country—And foreign pro dactione eau only be imported into Eugland direct ly from the country of their growth or wsunfx tare. The liusitations of this &mons Act apple only to the articles imported into Great Britain; it being free for soy weasel to export and to t a rr y whithersoever may be . draired, the interlace aed manufactures of Great Britain. Thus, by my of illisstratiou, while British tnerchani'ise may be exported to -Russia its Russian or British vessels, nr in die vessels of any other country, which /Livia permits to import them, the pro. ductiona of Russia can be imported into Great Britain only iu British or Russian vessels, and such i&portaitions must be directly from Rime., and nut front any third place. In time of war, the Kill in Council has, by occasional Acts of l'adiauicui, a power to dispense with this restraint, as to the di rect insportatious, and to permit fitertgii tuerchaii dise to be imported from interinaliete or thud places, so that as far as respect* the productions and manu(actures of Great Britain, they may be ex ported in the vessels of any country ; and, as far IS concerns the produs thins and massufactures of say foreign ebuistry, that are permitted tube imporml into England, such importation re couhued to llii tt%h Vessels, and ve.is.-Is of melt foreign country; the right of carriage being connives to both. Mr. !Flacon's bill propeis s a very different regu lation: namely. tis.a the whole of the imports of the United Stmts. from ceflain foreign conniries, well as the whole of the exports to these cauteries shall be confiner) to American* bottoms. Greet Britain and the Uuited States are COAlatel• cial stations, and rivals in the carrying trade. It is a maxim alike elicient and equitable, that the law which others apply to 134, we may justly apply h. them°. Great Brittle, therefore, train 'bosom°. tires, which lull IltlltV All states. Mill, without ilmot. enact a regulating srnicenring MAT C ttttttttttttttt (recourse with them. of the like impent with the es gulations of Mr. Macou's bill coneeritiog t4t.ir eon, nterciad intacounse with us. The (se:seen:net •i:l be drat our se-sels, beiiit, excluded (iota their part., sod their vessels•meluded from ours, they will meet in the Western islands, sad other iiittruttinate places, whither we shall carry our rapper, mad she,e they, in virtue of a relaxation of this nativism lan, will come to receive them, as alm—t eir,y other market will. by belligerent Dec:sea awl Or. tiers, be closed against us. Great Britain sell be the principal and almost the only market for OW produce, witch is • .re than sufficient for its silo ply so that to the reductions of price, from the want of competitions in the markets, the pro posed regulations, by requiring the d o ut,k. freight, sill reduce still lower the rice of out productions. Aud as by the proposed law oar vessels cannot import into the United Shurt the manufactores of Great Blithin or her territer , ii. except directly'; us we shall be shut out' from thy r ports, us the same manner that they are shut nut from air--the coasequence must lie, that stn to!.. de of British manufacture will be lawfully im ported let., the Unites! States. lint although aims may divert the course of a river, a million isa not stop it from r •g to the sea ; in, Otte our rulers may forbad the importation of sit which our habits and wants 7equire, they col prevent our obtai g them—we shall be 501.1 1 . and the country will Mt only line the islaeni t, goods, but an udilitional suite, suffivient 10 1 . 01.11 sate the risk of briuging them. Not only will goods Ise sopplied at an enhenced pike, but the venue will be defrauded ; since, lw , M4 1"‘1 0 " rootrary to Li.. no ditty will lie colri led. even these are not the wow effects of the rc; , non. No coantry on earth possessed a bah of I: honourable merchants than those ut• the Slates. In 11011 e wits there eVer 11.1 1,414 t. A NA. ColititO C l with co few frinda. Tv-c men, victims of the incapacity of our rule!, be restrained lie' the law, but their P isces as, under the exigusg cud formic r lions, their t okers have been sarieheil, I.v known vet•tiumerons body of - ..I c hilaiteiii with for•i b thers. heshiscui. %4 4fisig xt pairiottl.vo, Laws, wdl WI our M:11 krt , ) with •,1 alreiviv liu.itit , % hie shifted ;anti s Me" per isprarmg isuloug•st it. **oh credit to do that bustuemi %511t,•1i Wore worto I I Vt.% to.uprllyd olerhite. If till the 1.4.0 r of France his brett ett.tl @saute.. r 1/1.611111160.{. CAI 4 Ke peg •11 1(11 I'll' thAt the Utittral States 1410 be aliic to sac. this itnoolthe and unmoral r ? A tri d tht.ios the entir.r of the and then Armed In I. Valli .I.lr via • woe will lie .1e le: -1 timmlimi of Ilitse re.triok. cown.t. Corrt4i6 lint iot,• r 11 r Irrwprritr, at rerlet.i-h gill rlo "wither-4ml the 0 Vr imagmr4 lor t . .eir :rrbryr• m • .• 4 4.4 ingetn flint n. by P.. Mt. —St.% t annul.. Jr put: •tr,t4..1 HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Teyomrson rapetHed ceriain Papers from the Com esissitosers of Tebbe Aerosols. ()siesta to lie tin the Mr. H. NI ASITIN moved, That on hsisiLlr Address he "'matted to His Majtiity, to order, t hut there be laiJ hefure Ilse House, so seeming of the 'wittier of (Mims employed seder the Crows. since the tills J mousey, 1795, with their se. ......... dud PWIII4II " Avec,' to 'nob Seger Draw tuck Bill was read a aerosol time, and &ordered to be read a third time ea a home day. CLEARING TIRE GALLERY. On the SpEAKEtt calling upon Mr. Sheridan to woke hia mutton reiwctiug the Brnehers of Lin t:olu a• It 1. r its'outary to do on those whose motions or uunets sta , td first Oil the Orders of the Days Mr. Sstatoss and Mrs WINIIHIAII stood up at the same moment. The former haying relinquish ed his claim fur priority upon the Speaker's att trostion, Mr. Wt sr IMAM said, that if ever there was an oc casion mu-Inch it caught he accessory to put in prac tice an Order of the House, he conceived the piesent to be that occasion. The motion of his Right Hon. Friend would embrace a discuio.ion respecting a certain data of people ; upon whom, he had no doubt. his Right lion. 'Friend might pass as &M -utated panegyric. At public dinners It was not usual to drink the health of the Chairmen. lewd he had left the Chair, sod lie thought it might be as well, in the present notance, that the persons an At out hear their own praises. Mr. SnERIII4III rose to order. He was in posses si•in of the House, and notes' the Right Honoist. able fletitleman h ad: some riot of order to urge, he had no right to give him this intrri tiption. Mr. WINDHAM again rose to exiolaiti his abject. There was a Standing Order, shit la might be en fore, d,tosave Menthers from speaking under restraint upon this quatiou ; and, at tile same time, probe's" save that deg of people, whese merits would be the subject ofiliscossiou, from hearing whet might be •tiwrkome ' - Mr. SHERIDAN, to order—` " If the Right Hon. - - Gentleman had any motion testate, which would indult' , him to take inrsetletwe on this occasion, it ut.iNt be of ,such it kind as to preclude all prelimi nary olwiervation." Mr. WlNDFlAlieglaill rose to define. He &M. cluinied haying auy interest in the Nutting debate, es he did not intend to offer his sentiments upon it. lie ors I .f...credit% to state his Te 21601111 for some 1110 tutu that might be invade, when The SPEARCI, for the second time, interrupted the Right Hnn. Geutlrma'', for the purpose of in ' farming him, that if his /dint was to move the Stgarlicg Older of the. Howe, to which he seemed to allude. for*the rsclu.•ieu of .tretigers, it wee !Q important a rule, that the 'louse permitted . any diw•ussioe upon it. Mr. Wiwi:mast bring the, pressed, mined the 5t:11.144:1g Order for the exclusion of Wafters, and the gellery was intim di.itely (leered. lit s:e REVENVIL On hr tog re•iodseiea te;ei to the gallery, after an exclusion us two hours, we found Sir Jutis New roer on les legs, and I. rusted front the speakers w h o f o ll o w e d loin, that lie hod been detailing a number of &Muses in the application of the Vote of Credit for the Revenue of Ireland Inst• year.— Ainoug others, were the sums expended on the Police ; on Colonel Taylor ; on the Private Secre tary of the Lord Lieutenant; and on the Irish Newspaper,. He conduit el liv moving for au me m:went of the application of last year's Vote of Credit. Mr. FOsTra diJ not oppose the motion, •nd ex plained the merle of applying the Irish Revenue. in order to do away some impievsions that might be made by the speech of the Right Hon. theronet. Mr. W. Put.e agreed with the Right Hon. Ba ronet is many of his armaments. He colieleinned the enormous expeet.ea of the .Irish Nee,,papers, which Government would this year attempt to reduce within the WO% of the vote of Pariimient„ The salary of the Nitwit. Secretary ought not to be is the vote of credit, but inure prep, fly on the civil He promised, however, that these and other matter, tonclie.l upon should be attendee, to. After • few word. from Sir J. Newroar, the motion sax wilt:brim. S., J. Nawaaar, before siitinig.lowa, rave notice that he would, as nasals, weionight, call the a testion of the 'louse la tie subjert diaensacil last im:lit„ (Ike sisperaimu lotion of Me: Hos urd, ransarer to the Pust-Oflice,) and other glom misapplications urthe Public *lmpinge in Ireland. De also gave notice ot . • nioliusi, relative no the Police in that c o untry but did not its the day fur twingin• it furwsrii• Mr. Ross:Nought in the Limn Export and Sugar Ilininty Ditiwback Rills, which were smeratiy send • lirat time, tad ordered to be read a seemid lime us Monday. (ii the motion of klr. Lrwtar.ruv, she Message from the Lords, requiring the attelidassre of Mr. T. W. Coke, on their Committee on the Distillery Acts, us Tuesday next, was taken into consideration ; and Mr. Coke hawing sigisibed his midi:sc.' to attend their Lordships to be examined, leave was zivea try the House fur his attendance arrordiagty. ARMY STAFF. Lord PAIXERSToN moved the Order of the Day, foe the fort/wr consideration of the Report of the Supply, which bering read, he moved “ That the same be re-cotomitted." Sir 'l'. 'rewrote objected to the Speaker's leav ing the Chair, as he could not conceive that any viiggestions in a Committee could ever assimilate the enormous Staff to the army of this country. Ile also o' jetted to voting more money. till they taw how the vote of the lest year was expended. Ile then commented, at considerable length. on the irate of the staff and army. The army was great - 4 only nu piper ; but 3 ei. with uli the deoluctithis to I the experem wets iurreew Le tandem' tbet eccuttut, at was still too great fur 401r;OV01. ae appeared • nut. b T., to o• !well it , 6 2 . uffil firm' an .1 sz re ;lurk pert. it 1111 1 1 f.te awl be are at c l ue thin reel ott aid the thor ewer be I eete beell Csh b;th A dots gnat sent Tike the has ago 1 an Del a n d tic! tot of i sot o ,:ie oi eni Fr. 1 till Tit alit cul tai toy the troll 1.711 h O for r C..... MI 111 - 1. En I th • It I 13 I rott. •• eve anc the cn , : tilt I'. fl4l Nli . • net tint I.' F 4 B 1 •• (;, ~• • • 1 111 111, act dri