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0 ,0.1E3 with one more resolution,chich he should tawdrier years, exeeedol374,o4o!.sterliiig.° The Hon. Gentleman bad isplanatory. He knew very well that the Hon. Member's "tared said that on the average of balasices since 1790, the ,pct was like his own, inertly to skew the real state of public were only eapueed to • loss of 13,000 f. but what t ee c ollectiou of the revenue, and therefore he gave burn full loss of interest oe the see of large gouts of money had not cr edit for hie ieAtions.—(Flenr.)—He repeated, that tick , been lust to the public by the system Ito lung acted upon t o no . Member in Liking comparative years should havetet ' It was an object to the firm gentlemen of the country to get lewd those which were relative in the .nature of their We l. , the appoisstseent of Receivers-General, but that office was perlitore. For instance, he should nut have selected elk ,to all intents and purposes a siweeure. It was very tree M , of peace to compare with a year of war, rhea there that they geee security, bat thew any banker world be sen ate a total irrelevancy between each in material facts, ling, nay &Biretta, to make the (*Detonate, upon having for directly hearing on the ha t th e of his comprises'. le his rem un eration thereinto of the balancer only. As to the irsr every body knew that the power of the navy then Deputy Dietributorieof Stamps, there was a charge by them ~ full mitre ...... furnished a material protection t, of seems and a WV per cent. nod that service err the revenue. The Home would see, that at such a period taint might be down at a twitch less expense. The ihe protection was materially, euforceil—whereas in a time saving milild be said ils be hl4ll ,ll ficaot, bet it would be led general peace the whole commerce of the world was let an contest of the leteMinsis of the House, and in that loose against thit uf this country, and all the efforts of point of view, eo.ki not but be grateful to the reentry. uneg gling were cat ried on mein a more extended scale to Hat it Premed there Reimlntions were to be negatived, and .I,fi led the revenue. The establishments for collectiox the the Public are to he satisfied with the assurance that some , -.rime were also very differeet in a time of war treat day or ether the T y mean to look into the subject. that of peace. it had been often said by Mr. Pitt, that its He besought Gentlemen to btur in plied, that by sortie' for a time of peace the high ditties could not he eutiotained. the Resolutions of his Honourable Friend, they were nut His (Mr. Luehington's)astoisishment was, however, that they boned down to any speci fi c plan, soil be world ask the were maintaieed, and that toP4III hail been provided 10 give Right Honourable Genelernms opposite to amend the an efficient protection to the revenue. After what he hail first Resolution instead of negativing it. With se said, he would seggeet that the more just periods of coot. spect to the other Resolutions, they were statements petition to introduce in such a question as this would he, of facts, bet leading to the conclusion that the re. the years ending the sth of January, 1818 and 1919, was collected at an expense heavier than the finances as compared with that of the year ended on the Stli January, of the country could bear. Bet fur the nth tied 10th Re- Ift2o. This mode of msking the comparisue would chew, Potations, which related to the office of Receivers General that the expenses of collecting had diminished within the mod Distributers of Stamps, be was ready to vote, and it woo last gear; a statement so satisfactory as that, assailed the the strung indication of his mind on them to take the sense whole foundation of the Hoe. Member's system.—(//err.)— of the Howse. His suggestion was, to pam the two resolutions relating to The ClIanCaLL Oll of the ElefletgUeß thought that the she years euding 51% Jan. 1918 and 1819, awl then to ftlltter comparative statements which the Her. Gent. had laid before these by his 3d resoluti end substitute another fur the the Horse, afforded too practical or useful light un which remainder of the its He was willing to adopt the Nemec amid proceed. It had been stated, that the re. the necessity of economy in every branch of collecting mama of France was collected et • lON expects than that of the public revenue, and he would assert and prove, that !reload; it might be ms, mod that might be easily accounted cousitterable reductions bed been made in this &pertinent fur, whey it was considered Hist the revenge of France was .1 lb, public !service. He then denied the (Dime's' of the entirely a land revenue, and, of evolve, much more easy of comparison between the rote of colleclier the revenues of collection than that of Ireland, arising as it did from various Ireland and Scotland, as compared with that of Eogland. sources. Add to this that the late Ruler of France, then The great amount of the latter excluded the sort of comps- whom mu man better understood the subject, had carried the "Won which the Hoe. Member instituted. He did out mean improvements in collecting the revenue to a farther point ',say that a beneficial reform in collecting the revenue might than they had ever before attained :as to the Receivere-Gen sot take place in Ireland ;Isar year an inquiry originated ,sera of Used Tex and Distributor of Stamp', after this and was conducted in Ireland into that department, which, explanation of his Hut'. Friend, the Secretary of the Trea tie mooted, wooed lead to beneficial censequeoces. With my, be did slut *Melt it necessary for him to add any thing. „ apret to w h et t h e m a . M em b er sai d, of haying aurae of Mr. Huse, in reply, adverted to what had fallen from the the business of the Receivers-General transacted by coon- Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Loshington), who had imagined he try beaker% lie (Mr. Lushington) must protest ainst it ; had detected an error in one of tits statements; but it was it was nut permitted at the Treasury. The Roc iver' tint his being taken (corn the finance book, as printed had necessarily large profits, but not too mech, consideting by order of the House; and the Hon. Gestleman was sot en the heavy responsibility for whirls they had given secant titled to throw his Resolutions overboard on that account. to the public He denied that they wire name' to net Mr. Luestw•tua explained; after which strangers were large balmier. in their hands. Their Mures were rege. ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there bull ordered to be tratsmit ted q uarterly, and within the ap Mr. Humes Resolutions peared— quarter, us they were foetid to be in a course of collection. For ainst it As a proof of this , he world state that the amount oa fo it- Ag . Majority against the Regolutiores 26 124 venu e collected since the ye ar 1790, amounted 2 -- m illions, and she monies! balances remaining out tbruegls. out that time, slid not exceed 117,0001.—V/ear, hear, PRIVATE PROPERTY OF THE lOM . NG deaf the Litter sum, there was new in the course of We found on returning to the gallery ron his collection 100,0001.; sad of the remaimaler the ouly despite legs, making his motion relative to the private property of rate balance was 13,0001.-o(Hoor, Aeor.)--That spoke the King. II appeared that be bad been adverting to the abundantly far the efficiency of the peruse system of control. laws which regulated the property of the Sovereign previous The amount of security given by the Recrivere.General of to the reign of his late Majesty. By the 39th end 4011. Taxes was no the whole 4,000,000/.; the security gives by i George 111. it was regulated, that " whereto his !Majesty had the Distributors of Stamps amounted to 700,0001. The purchased lands, manors, sad tenemeots, and other property, Hun. Gruilentau, slier forcibly urging that every step for re. from money saved out of the privy pone, his Majesty duciug the expense of collecting the ievenoe was now in pro. was authorised by this Act is give away or dispose gross, concluded by proposing the previous question on the i by will all such property as bad not devolved u p on Hon. Member's first Rasiolution, and by preposiug in lieu Mee in right of the Crow n." His late Majesty was not thereof two other Resolutives, declaratory of the state of the Maly allowed to bequeath each properly under the pro. Revenue and mode of its collection at she end of each o f the j visions of the said Act, op to the time of his death, bet last two years; anal also • Resolutiust declaratory of ober re. the will was retrospective, end rendered valid all grants or duction in the esterase of the last year, as compared with gifts of private property which his mom , hail made pre. the two preceding years; Mid a (nether Resolution in the vioisely to the paving of the Act. The Act required that , room of the Hon. Member's remaining raises, expressive of any such wall should be executed ie writing, under the sign 1 the necessity of a rigid atteetiois to economy in this depart. i seminal; otherwise, if the property were disposed of by intuit of the public service, and a recital that such MI IS. private bequest, and ender a will not executed according quirt' vial now iu poetess. to this direction, it was not to be considered valid. What Sir H. P/InligLL complimented his Hon. Friend (Mr. thee would have been the fair and wastrel consemseoce ? Hume) ou his motion, and the pains be had taken to bring . Why, that all such property would have stood in the same this important subject before the Meuse. He still contend. I cuedition as if the law had never passed. Now in the reign eel, notwithstanding what had fallen from the Hon. Member I of Geo.). in 1727, an opinion bad been taken from four or opposite (Mr. Lushinetim), that further inquiry and reduc- i fi ve able tees, by whom it was determi ned that tbe private tits,' wer e necessary. If the collection could still , as it ought of 1 1 pruperty of the King could not be devised by I. but he reduced to a rate 5 per cent. there would be • saving i . i mast revert to the Crown. Whets the King died he left of 1,200,0001., a year by that reduction alone.—(Hear.) ; 7,0001. South Sea Stock, and some other stuc k to a small Mr. JOHN SMITH also- complisneided the Him. Member i amount, which he bequeathed to the then Duchess of Kest, ea the pains he had taken in bringing forward this question. gad upon the opinion given in the reign of George I. the He repeated, that a vigilant inquiry should take place into will was set aside by George it. II therefore the private pro the mode of collecting the public revenues. It was clear from rely of the Crown had nut toren administered according to the 4th Reottletion, "That the gross amount of the Ordinary the provisions of 39 and 40 Gen. 111. such property must fttoreitues of Ireland iu the year 1820 was 5,221,5291., amid of necessity have reverted to the Crown, according to the law the net produce 4,432,643/., which were collected at an ex- previous to that period. This Act was further confirmed pease of 884,9121., or at th e ' ate of 181 ' 181 ' I lid' per cent ' by 47 Geo. 111. The Slat Geo. 111. chap. 1, (called the Re on the gems receipt, and 21/. 2..40. per cent. on the nett I gency Act) appointed her tate Maj esty and the Prince Re produce.- It was clear fr om this Resolution that the co l l e c . _ . the pr . gent as jount trustees for ivate properly of the Iran of the ne of Ireland was a system of mere jobbing. King. The 52.1 Geo. 111. allowed the appointment He strongly objected to balances remaining in the handsel of three C o mmissioners, one of them So be • Master in the Receivers-General. Thuogh he was willing to pay due Chancery, for the trust mot management of the pri deference to the Committee of Finance, yet he thou g ht that wile property of his late Majesty. In the same Act , in some instances th e y appeared " t° " raja at a easts" amid chap. 14, it was stated, 0 That whereas certain doubts iu others "to swallow a camel "—(.4 laegh.)—The Excise bud arisen whether the forests, leads, and other property was maneged much better than Ilse Customs ;be knew a of the Crown, would not fall under the management of the 'competent person who would agree to wastage the latter fur said Commissioners;" and then the Act provided that the tine-tifth of the preseut expense. Ile concluded by conjuring property vested in right of the Crowe should out come Ministers to dimities this system of gore ... i.ig by influence, wore their management. The above Acts specified, to which he traced this toltratiou of inordinate and none- _ that considerable private properly then belonged to the y expense. The Government which would resist it Sovereign, which the C011)1111111110ners were to have would gain fir more in real strength as well as popularity. the management of, and they were to be bound Mr. 1-1.19111110T0W explained. on oath, not to divulge particulars. Under these certain Mr. Wc. SMITH asked, whys distributor of stamps should regulations, it was clear that property did exist, which receive 3or 4,1/001. a year fur the performance of his duties? must all be reinvested in the Crown, unless a will should be With respect to couutry bankers not teeing permitted to act produced to the contrary from hie late Majesty, conform. as receivers-genres' of the land tax, all he should say was, ing in all particulars to the regulations of the statute. It that, when he brought forward his question on the subject Will Slur duty of t ern,Minise knowing the general law to have of Estrella in Aid, tllt greatest abuses were committed by b een b ro k en throngh, 39th and 40iii Geo. 111. to lake some of these hankers as reeetvers of the land tax.—(//ear, p o ssession, on demise of the Crown, of all property belting /icor )—He,also implants! Government to reject this system ism to the King, in the same manner as be (Mr. H.) would of iuthieriete, and act more 10 regard to the true interests of take possession of his father's estate, were he heir at law ; and the country. until some ludivitlual with a better claim, slept in with a will Mr. Timings( added his tribute to that of the preceding sufficiently valid to bar the register succession, they ought speakers, to his Ho itograble Friend, she had introduced this to have kept pusseseion of all such effects. Whether Mieisters motion its a menace so unaffected, so clear, amid so per. were acqueimed with th e ainouut ur not, no matter ;it was apicoous in his deeds, se thepassitniately tau in every re. their business to bring curb property into the public treasury spect (anti he said ibis snort thecerely), as to entitle him to as public money• trilwy had dune this they bad done right ; Koester attention than he had expeitenced. If else Howse but if not, they were not yet barred by any will that be had will nut really attend to such mallet% as this, which heard of. His object was to make them take this necessary are unavoidably full of dry details, it world be much step. He hail heard that there was a great deal of private pro better at once to pass a declaration, consigning them perty which had been left to he divided between the wins. Re altogether to Committees up stairs. When these things did not mean to state bow mach, but as • mere 'imposition were so thsremutled, the public looked with iniltifer• let it be taken at one million, there would be then two or erne at their proceedings. Ile (Mr. Tierney) hail in 300,0601. for each. Would the Hone in sorb a case have his time worked hard r subjec s imilar to the present. granted the same allowances to the Royal Dukes, as they Ile had thole so when Ise first enteredpm ts Parliament a young would under the g co n sideration of their poseessin nu in titan, and whets he had to encounter Mr. Pot, then iu the tomes? Ministers were hotted to say what hail been picot:tilde of his power. That eminent men was the only done. If there was a will, let it end he produced, ant all person iiirtoest who gave him any encourageuieut to devote secretly would then be at isia . If there was d . to Me pursuit of such sulijects--eleevrbere he recris. will not •greeing with the Act, it would be for I nn.time.gee explanations—resolutions at mie side were interchanged for ennui of it• deficiency on technicalities, or it would then tOlilllro roes at the other, and then the House came to beve to determine in what way the 101 should be explained. the dusesotaiwn fully reword ; beside% Committees in the He would detain the 1101111 W 110 longer than while submit- Weise, i t emised of up stairs, were uniformly resorted to. nage Motion, to which, he hoped, there would be no ob. He then premed the effective i mprevement intriolueed Imo keens, air which, at any rate, would put the House ist pos. the pelthe offices by the per rem Lord Colchester, bat Mill aZnaion f the iliformation which it at present so tench need contended that a more effective reductionin the collection eal with revisit to the property left hy the King. Ple moved of the revenue eiteld take place. Vibit, for instance, world for copies of any ultimates now in the hands of the bud' , of credit that the cullectioo of the revenue ought to cost four the Treasury respecting the private property of his late Ma. wilities e Il? If the (*tree, lament stoutresisted the jelly ; likewise copies uf all procdinga and correpoudence ressem il a iiiii.. y ..* is hith assailed them, he a greed that a which might have passed between their Lorilehips s and any better and a dill - recut plan for themselves soil the public other persons seeking to ascertain the amount of such pro too g lit c oil, be ileviscril.--( Ilene, he tr.)--Who could property. took pt lie following Reentntitm, and not be struck The Coaec ..... of the ElCitiQUew felt sore that the with the necessity of inquiry it called for :.- 0 That House world *ever coosiler itself entitled to inquire into there are sixty-five Receivers -General of the Lanai awl the private circemstauces of the Royal Family, except in Aesexed Taxes, ill &Walla awl Wales, who received an at. eases of great emergency. He hid no objection to enter lownoce 040,7171. toed 41,34 M. in the years ending the fells tato au explaisatioss, swell as he conceived Parliament had a of January, 1918 and 1810, for the duties of their office, right to claim from him. The fact was, that certain papers elthoogh the greater nensber of them ReteiverrSeterreal had been Nand after the King's death, of a testamentary sae preformed that daily entirely by deputy, sod Maimed he- erre, which Ministers found it accessary to emboli to legal lacers of cash in their hands, which, on au average of these anthorily, bet epos which so report bad as yet bees made. gation of her Maiterr's conduct necessary. In mucurrence with this recommendatims ad . ilte,Copi matte, Lord LIVERPOOL immediately j notice Alt he would.this evening introduce a Bill upon thessobject of the Report. The Noble Lord did not state the precise nature of the messere, but it is presumed that it will be a Bill of Divorce. It is of course impossible to conjecture what im pression this Report will make upon the public mind; but as the country, aware of the constitu tion of the Secret Committee, must have anticipat ed such Is Report. it is not probable that.her Ma- JESTY'S character will be much affected by it. This circumstance, however, does in no respect diminish the measure of injustice which has been extended toenails the QUEEN by the in stitution of a Secret Tribunal, which, from its very nature. possessed not the means of ascertaining the truth. The public must further reflect that as yet only one side has been heard ; that even the wit nesses for the prosecution have given their evidence, not orally, hut in writing; that they have not been cross-exainined, nor their characters, with the do- gree of credibility due to their statements, ewer tained by any inquiry. The Ministers themselves declared that as the Committee was appointed solely to inquire whether any proceedings ought to be instituted against the QUEEN, the Report ought not to be received as implying any convic tion of criminality or even of impropriety. The public judgment ought therefore to continue in its original state of suspense, and scrupulously ob serve the distinction which the principles of British law have wisely and humanely disown between ac cusation and conviction. It cannot, we think, fail to strike every unpre judiced mind, that the Report of the Secret Com mittee is expressed in language somewhat too stroog and too decided, when it is considered that the duty of the Committee was strictly confined to a statement of their opinion, whether any and what proceedings ought to be instituted against her Majesty." It would therefore have been sufficieut for the Committee to have stated these points shortly end distinctly, but they have thought it right to notice the strength and variety of the evi dence upon which they found their jedginent, which could have no other effect than to prejudice the public mind against the Qualm. The Report, however, is to be considered as that of the Ministers of the Crown, and to this alone can it be attri buted, that in one instance • specific offence should be charged against her MAJESTY, while in another instance her general conduct is made the subject of a sweeping censure, which, from the severity of •1 the language used. must wound deeply, while it is. so extremely indefinite and vague as to prevent the possibility of its twin made the subject of a satisfactory and specific defence. The same com plaint may be urged with respect even to the first charge, for although the particular kind of of fence is marked with sufficient distinctness to affect her MAJESTY'. reputation indelibly. yet neither name nor circumstance is added which might afford the accused a means of justifi..:a tion. it will here be said, no doubt, that this Report is not meant to be the bill of indicttnent against her MAJESTY. and that, therefore, there existed no necessity of specifying the charges dis tinctly. This, however, is the very exception which we make to the entire Report, for it either should not have entered at all into the nature of the crimes charged, or it should have stated them with clearness and accuracy. The extreme severity of such • proceeding will be sufficiently obvious, by observing that if the QUIRS, naturally anxious to relieve her character in the public eye from the obloquy which this Report attaches to her. during the long space be tween the present hour and that which will be ap pointed for the legal investigation of these charges, should be desirous of anticipating her defence be fore Parliament, and strive to relieve herself from such severe imputations, by what means coal(' she enter into a defence ? To what point could she first address herself?—to what cir cumstance of her life and general conduct could she first turn? Were her MAJESTY to exer cise the severest self-examination, how could she know that. the fault or misconduct to which her conscience might point was the same that hail been made the subject of secret inquiry by her enemies And if she were to select any particular circum stance, or deny criminality with any particular in dividual, would not her enemies instantly say that she had betrayed her consciousness of guilt ? The present state of this unhappy business sheers the futility of the arguments adduced by the Mi nisters of the Crown to justify the appointment of the Secret Committee. The principal, we might almost say the only ground laid for such a mode of proceeding, was the advantage of observing se cresy upon a subject winch so vitally affected the honour of the Crown arid the interests of the em pire. But secretly cannot be observed much longer; the time cannot now be far distant in which it will be necessary to prefer the charges publicly apinst her MAJESTY, that they might be as publicly an swered. Secresy, if such were really the object of the Cabinet, had been much better observed if the Ministers of the Crown, instead of communicating the secret to 15 Members of one House of Parlia ment, and striving to force it upon 21 Members of she other House, had io the first instance submit ted to Parliament the Bill which Lord Livwe. . ' * ' 'r. , .fl ,o, - j r_re • It,mmidevideilide4 11 As intern I. for the toselart SG 6114 pmasailas of Mae Ms property to right of the lsmo. They , Woffrillielep take steps foe that purpoile, after all doubts were j et aid Mull- It alibi be ltelidaraory for the Howse AM.. usissilkod is was desirable tint it shoold be known lisalelloallitoseipoldicly, what Has the sasiiiint of this property. The Imalemeet i a Vesely money anaemic* property was ahoy t .1110.000 J., • this would be added the Weymouth es tates and other freehokl, properly. The whole amou nt would, boseavers• subject to charges, so that it was impossible to orposelast .0,44, be left. The landed proper beiug no losegee,of say nee,i ...weirdly the house sod totems of Wry asoatti, would be mild off. What they would produce c ould Lmot now be ascertained ; h a t is gu y case the produce could nly belong to his late Majesty, or to those to whom lieueccs. had deem-4 it. The•llloure would, therefore, .feel bow up awry it was to persist in the inquiry before them. Mr. Hoeft said, that had that much explanation been given before, uo individual on his aide of the House ix mild have troubled Ministers with airy motion on the subject. The inkitilMlinn wood be very useful out of doors, as rig- Mona*, of a 40 different kind wets afloat. He begged leave to sirithdrist his motion. , Lord iCallftettedu thought that the Hun. Member ought not to complain because Ministita did ant hail the House into tip tuns oli o the private 'concerns of the Itoyltl Family, ilislasleed eitelieddriliset would he indecorous. Hos Right Hoe. Friend had forgot io add, that the sale of the Weyaseatb and other estates mos out exp. c'ed to raise the whole amo unt above 102 or 105,0001., instead of the millions stated by the Hon. Member. Mr. HUME said, that he had not plated the sum in lie one million; he hid only put it aa a supposition. Ministers ought to have given an answer before; it woo four siooths since he bad first put the question to them. FORGERY PREVENTIONS BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. brooght in a Bill for the heeler preventio n of for g in g Hank of Elegised notes. Mr. litaagove wished the country bankers to participate in any measures of security against forgery. Th e CWINCILLOR of the Eiottattuan said, that the Bill gave no monopoly of inventions of that sort to the Bank of England : other Banks might have recourse to them. Sir J. M•CILINTOSH thought the clause which made it 14 years transpOrlalion for possessing any attic implements to be employed in making the new soles, very objectionable. Mr. C. GRANT brought is a Bill to amend the Acts for the issue of Irish Exchequer Bilk; she object being to a d. 'once 250..001. for public works. Lord CASTLEREAGH moved that the other orders of the day should be read. Mr. H WOE wished to know if the sew clauses to the Lot tery 11111 were to be dropped ? The CHANCELLOR of the .Eictteritiesis reply was not heard. Sir J. MACKINTOSH wished the Alien Sill to be pot off till Monday, as Friday. the day fixed fur its consideration's', wag that on which the Kios's Message was to be takes lobo coital dere t ion . Lord CAS LLLLL AGU could Not consent to pnt it off be yond Friday, and the second reading was fixed fort hat day. The second reading of the Conveyancers Regulation Bill was moved; but after some remarks from Mr. POUTUAN, Mr. Seaut.gre, sad Mr. W. Wynn, on the necessity of confining the business t o responsible legal agents, an Amendment was carried for reading tbe Dill a second time aims slay six months. The Report of the Commi ttee of Supply of Monday was brought up, and the Resolutions respecting the allowances to the Royal Family agreed to. The Irish Treasury Bills Bill was read the third time, and passed. The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at ONE O'CLOCK. DU7'CH MAIL. nnueseul, awls 29. We have accounts from the French froutiere. that some at tempts have been made to excite tumults among the young snidest , at Dorm and Aspics', uu occasion of the trams• actions at Paris, but that they have failed. In Clianspigse it appears to have been more ditimalt to calm the 'Osumi of the people. At the theatre of Lille some young melt demeaned that a certain song, called Le Serreant Francais, 'humid be sting, others opposed, earl they came to blows, so that the armed force were obliged to interfere. The Magistrates have taken measures to prevent each scenes in future. HAMM, Joan 29. His Majesty, accompanied by Prince Frederick, arrived here yesterday Amoco in good health from the Loo. The Report made by his Excelletscy the Minister of the Interior to the Second Chamber of the Slates General, re specting the state of the poor, costal*, the following state. menet .—The somber of hospitals, besides those for found lings, is 710; some of them have received assistance from the public treasury, or those communes which at I present are unable to support them ; some which had re ceived a drat Motion, at variance with the will of the founders, have been restored to their origins , purposes; among this somber is that of Mermen, in West Flanders, founded by the Empress Maria Th , for the children and widows of soldiers. The number of childreo in the fuendling hospi tals has been but little increased. la the management of them attention has been paid to the complaints of the administra tions Other important Improvements and saviags will depend upon the principles which shall be adopted by the Legislature its this head. There are 4,22 4 administrations of the Pone supported by charity. Th e number of pumpers throughout the kingdom amounts to one-ninth part of the population, but the proportion is very different io the several provinces. lie some the number of the poor amounts to only the 45th part, in others to the sth part of the population. Since the accounts were made mit, the somber liar been considerably ' reduced ; in one arrondissement the reduction amounts to 700 persons. The revenues of all the institutions fur the poor amount to ten millions of Soria,. Tires sum large as it is, requires, however, to be increas.d, be cause the populatiou of the kingdom increases loy 50,000 souls annually, a considerable portion of which increase be bugs to the poor class. The increase of these revenues results from donations, legacies by alienations, and more advantageous disposal of capital, Sic. The revenues arising from donid.ins and legacies, which were ac cepted with the approbation of his Majesty the King, in 1819, *moulded to 70,000 Norms; those arising from TICIM yen-it domains iii she same year, amount to 40,000 florins. — lit the provinces of Holland, Guelderlann, Zealand, Utrecht, Freesland,Overysscil and Groningen, forty.eigbl basks fur savings have been already established. THE PRESS. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 5. 1820. THE QUEEN. The Report of the Secret Committee was, as we ' lied anticipated, presented yesterday evening to the !louse of Lords ; and, as we had also anticipated, charges , the QUEEN with offences of the highest magnitude. It accuses her MAJEITT of having formed au intimacy of a most criminal nature with a foreigner, who had filled the situation of a ser vant in her own household; and further alleges, upon the authority of the papers contained in the green bag, that her MAJESTY . II conduct has in other instances been marked by circumstances of a licentious nature, unbecoming her rank and station. Upon these grounds the Committee conceive that the honour of the Crown renders a further investi. !Got wiM this evening iotroduce. Even the Mi nisters mese themselves feel that the inter/clot*e of' alkirelionsittee has afforded a* facilities to the lossecation of the case. far the constitution of the Committee can mid nu weight to the charges preferred, ;Report is much too vague sad indefiutswAstseand in the place of a bill of indictment; the Ministers must at last appear in their places in Parliament, and, as they ought at first to have done. must diy tinctly end specifically state the ustore and charac ter of the offences chatged, the weight and meths bility of the evidence, the mode of trial, with the kind and degree of punishment. All this might have been done in the first instauce, for to this dot the COW'Se of proceeding suggested by the Ma. . Misters themselves necessarily and inevitably heat. The only object, in feet, that was sought by the Ministers was, that they might be enabled by the semblance of Parliamentary Committees to remove from themselves the responsibility that attaches to so momentous s proceeding as .a charge of adultery against a Queen Consort of Great Britain; but the • public see through the device, and while they pity the Members of the Committee for being made the instruments with which the Mir istets have veii-' tared to surd her MsoestY's chsraeter, they fling upon the Ministers themselves the odium that imp loess to such a measure. A Meeting of the Inhabssants Householders of Westminster was held yesterday in Covent-garden, to consider the propriety of addressing the Waco on her return to England. A full Report of th. proceedings will he found in •uother part of out Paper. Au Address of Condolence and Congra tulation was unanimously adopted. The Pori' Papers of Saturday arrived last night. The following are extracts : IPAILIS, JULY t. Lieut.-General Viscount Doar• lee was last morning committed to the military prison of the Alibsye l.y older of the Lieutenant-General commanding the first usilitery division. We are assured that this enrasare was pew. yoked by the false and improper ex/sessions iu whiar Viscount Donnadieu indulged, in • conversation which he had some days ago with the President of the Council of Mi• nisters, charged to communicate to him the wishes of the Kicg. This conduct towards the first depository of the royal authority is considered a serious violation of duly in a military man.--(Monilettr.) It is said that M. Vil(email', the Master of Requests, is to proceed to London as Secretary of Embassy. A question of importance to the law of nations and the. policy of two great Powers, will be submitted on Monday to the Royal Court of Paris at a solemn bearing. It is to de cide whether a Frenchman, who, after having been establish ed in England and is naturalised there by Royal Letters Pa tent, has lost in France the quality of Frenchman. It is said that Ali Pada liss caused an insurrection of the Greeks in Macedonia, Thesaaly, and Roadie, and that they have joined him to the gamest of upwards of 20,000 armed men. A private letter Irons Rome, dated June 16, announces the receipt of letters from Janina, stating that hostilities had c o mmenced between Ali Pacha and the Porte, in a manner favourable to the former. The Turks had occupied Salmi?, a city belonging to Ali Pacha, sad placed its its often( garrison. The Pacha, after a forced march, surprised the place in the night, and instantly put to the sword the whole Turkish garrison and the inhabitants. At sea the Turks have the advantage. The Paella bad addressed a Dote to Sir T. Maitland, the British Commissioser of the lonian Islands, requiring the execution of the ancient Treaties between Venice and the Porte, accordiug to which no Turkish squadron shonid ap pear iu those seas. Sir Thomas Maitland answered, that he should transmit the note to his Court. The 5 per Cent. Cousuls are 77 1.10 fr.; Bank Actions - - The contest for the city of Dublin finally closed no Friday. when Mr. ELLts was elected. ' It wa s on the evening of the same day a Rerolution passed by the House of Commons declaring his office of a Master in Chancery incompatible with a seat in Parliament. Hie MAJESTY returned to town on Monday night from 'Hampton Court. Yesterday the Duke of YORK transacted mili tary business with the KING. Count MUNSTER had an audience of his MA JESTY yesterday. The Duchess of YORK, we are happy to Pay. continues better. Yesterday afternoon Sir H ENRY HALIPoRD left town to attend her Royal Highness at Oatlands. Yesterday the Duchessuf GLOUCESTER, Princess A taUsTA, and the Duchess of KENT, accompanied by the Princess FroV_R and the Princess Soellik MATILDA, visited t' M.)tichess of CLAGANcE. Yesterday the DI • ICU of SAXE-WEIM•It visited St. Paul's, &c. On Monday a meeting of the Lords Commie. skitters appointed by the Kula to make preparations for the Curonatiou, took place at the Cockpit. Whitehall, which was numerously attended. Several Ladies of the first class, in addition to the Duchess of ‘VELLINGTota, with large parties, will grace the fashionable circle this night at Drury lone. A considerable sprinkle of Dandies is also expected, hoping to see at Fashionable Levities their predecessors of five-and-twenty year. ago. Letters have been received from Trinidad to the loth of May. They contain the following intelli gence respecting the movements of Col. MUSA . % • corp. : ( Extract front Ike Caraceas Gazette o f ,Varek 8.,) " DISPATCH FROM THE CObIMANDANT - GENER AL OF THE PLAINS OF BARCELONA. COL. ABABA. " With a view to harass the enemy, I made my arrange malts fur • party to leave their cautoutnents of Guereaud ban Mateo on the lit of February, under the command of Colonel Lozano, whom I ordered to destroy the positions ut the Insurgents to Uria, Ares, and Sesta Barbara. The above officer informs me, that having taken the lowa of Beata Barbara, where be found • force of sweaty-sia Creoles and twentymia• British, eansmataded by a Can- Rio of the latter uation, the Carribean tedious of Sau Jo:, waist sod atampari Apt fell upon theta sad put the whole to the sword, uotwithmandiag the romoastratices of tbeir Chief sod Offices; en great is their enmity to thilaitartatits, is wits impassible to restrain their fury." • , , , • • Ar by er al- ryr 111 A wu ory 110. • ,Ur, 'Pe NI 1