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officer had to determine if individuals applying for money were entitled in receive it. If the office were abolished great inconve niences would he felt by a body of most deserving persons, en titled to the protection of Government. Seamens' wills were under its control, and were thus preserved from the most abominable ham's, by which the most worthless had enriched themselves at the expense of the fair claims of distressed families. Some of these legacies were small, many of them not exceeding 205.. but they were of importance when viewed in relation to the means of the claimants. and the fair settlement of them frequently involved con siderable trouble. requiring almost endless references. Metre the establishment of the regulations now meting, be knew of one 11/01113a who obtained numerous aunts due to person,' whom she pretended to represent. However unimportant this might appear, v. must be attended to, or they world deprive the navy of one of the greatest boons evernonferred on it. The nflire of Paymaster eat the Navy was subordinate. This officer received a salary of 1.0011/. a year. and wasremovable at pleasure. Now he contended that thaw who proposed to transfer the duties of the Treasurer to this office, it continuing to receive no more than its present poetry, woe mistaken in their notions of economy, for they could oot, for such &salary, get the duties properly performed. Really it appeared' to hint as if his proposition to increase the salary of one office was thought unreasonable. because he was riot in A elltlBooll to point out another which could be destmyed. In 1782 an Act passed for abolishing the Board of' Tmde; but it being afterwards found that the commerce of the country required tame superintendence, it was conduced by a Conmitttee, to which there was • l'resident, and the office of Treasurer with 4.000/. a year was tweeted os remuneration to that of President. The late lie. Rose held the office of Treasurer and Viee.Preeident fount 1 / 1 :07 to 1112. He then resigned the latter, and continued holding the officeof Treasurer wit hout performirg any other duties till lel IL At that gentleman's death. he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) matietionk the two offices. He did not mean to say the labour of the office of Treasurer was such as would overwhelm the energies of any person's body or mind ; but he fiord it a place of consider. able anxiety. knowing that he was responsible to the Crown for the whole of his property, such as it was. Ile was not only responsible for himself, but for others, through whose hands mioli of the details must of necessity pass. When he entered his office he found indi viduals whom he felt it would have been a hardship to hare turned mit, merely because he did not know them to be confidential. NVhat was t h e result of this? Two of them were guilty of trans_ scams which tovolved h'm to between thirty and forty thousand eounds. Doe absconded with 23,000/. to America, and in aix months after this he was informed one line moriiing the; another had embeislol KOMI/. This unfortunate individual putt an end to his existence the moment the discovery was made. Whoever held this office most be involved in anxious responsibility. When he undertook the performance of the two duties, the salary was reduced from 4.0001. to 3,000/. It was now proposed to take away the house which was at present attached to the office of Treasurer. He confessed he did not think it the most economical way of proceed ing to provide residences for servants of the Crown. If this were no longer attached to the office, they might consider that there woad be • reduction effected, amounting to about 700/. a year. 'onaidering that colt, and candles were fumieheil, it could nut be less. The Hon. Member for Aberdeen wished some office to be abolished to meet this expenditure. If he could lay his hand on any that mild be spared, he was as ready to abolish them as the lion. Member. Indeed he had acted on this' principle nee t eaten. sinly. What led them to reduce the Commissioners of Customs and Lech*? His Noble Friend at the head of the Treasury said he could do without them, and they were reduced without hesitation. (Hear.) Again a vacancy occurred in the Treasury Beene and they did not fill it up, because thry did not wish to retain anything that was useless. There were other parts of the system to which they might be able to apply the same principle. There were at present two departments of Commirtionirs of Stamps—one in Eng. land, and another in Ireland. He should propose that these be consolidated (hear), by which a reduction of 3 out of 10 would be effected. Perhaps he could not say to what extent the rethiction would be, but they would, at any rate, be reduced. (Hear.) The office to which he had been alluding was essential to the wcll.being of a most important branch ; but he deprecated any opposition to the present measure, grounded on an objection to this office. be. cause if they thought it ought to be abolishedeor reduced, it would be competent to them to make such a proposition when the votes were passing the Homo. Mr. TfIeRNEV did not think ei,oool. a year too high a remune ration to the individual who performed the important duties at. tithed to the Presidency of the Board of Controul. The office of Treasurer was certainly one of antiquity and of high trust, and if it did not call for extraordinary labour, it was undoubtedly an office of great responsibility. When he hail the honor of holding the , office, he Round that it required an hour's devotion every mooting, though- if he had felt disposed he might have found business enough to have occupied him the greater part of thr day. lie, however, wits satisfied with seeing that all was carried into elf ct. As regarded the responsibility, it was near b years before beget his quotas for having ebscharged his accounts, this time transpired though they were all correct. Though an abolishment of the office was the last thing he would suggest, he certainly could not approve of increasing the pa- Waage of Government, by placing two more offices at the dis. pout of Government. (Heir.) For six years Mr. Dundee had not only executed the duty of the two offices, but found time to intro duce new and extensive regulations. Why, then, could not the Riatht Honourable Gentleman who now premised them keep the office of Treasurer at 10001. • year, and receive an additional 2.000% to make up the 5.0001. which they all agreed he so fully deserved ? lie thought it his duty to attend the Board of Trade, and the sittings of the Ptivy Council. If the Right Honourable Gentleman would say that he could not execute the two, he (Mr. Tierney) would concede at once. lie did not agree quite with his Horoursble Friend (Mr. Hume). who said, before they undertook to Morisse the salary, they ought to inquire into their means ; if they assumed that the larger remuneration ought to be made, it became'on their justice. Mr. HCSKISSON could only say he felt grateful for the kind attempts of his friends in his favour, and he should endeavonr to show his estimation of them by a faithful discharge of those duties which peculiarly devolved on him. (Hear.) He was, perhaps, relieved from the necessity of addressing the Committee in re ference to the policy of preserving the office of Treasurer, by what had fallen from his Right Honourable Friend. Gentlemen were mistaken in supposing it a einecure—a mere banking estab. lieeteent. The Treasurer of the Wavy and Victualling Office was called on to exercise a discretion in disposing of all the money and bells that came into his hands ; and a discretion was also to be ex ercised to prevent frauds and abuser. He must confess he did feel it • hardship to be placed in an office of such great pecuniary re. aponeibility • and with respect to the due and efficient discharge of its duties , hemust also state, that he must neglect duties of another Mature If he would devote to this all the time which was necessary to satisfy himself that these were adequately redeemed. He had a pay-master at present who was not only fully competent to that office, but in whom he could place the tulliet confidence. What would be his situetion if by any accident he lost that person ? He was rot sufficiently informed to replace hint by another, and dis charge the duties belonging to him under that charge. Seven minims, and in time of war 20 millions, were passing through his hands. The house could nut be aware of the cotimlieattel duties that were to be performed. There were ships to be paid, then he was cashier to the establishments of all the oat-ports, /tr. The situation of Treasurer was similar to what would be 'was banker o'rliged to execute all his business by deputy. He would not say that he neglected these duties at present, but as for as he was con cerned he could not attend to them tio as to discharge them satin. hooray. Being a public servant, he felt the public was entitled to all the time his life and health would allow ; but lie could not adequately attend to both. The office of Treasurer might be coosulered agreeable enough; It was a sourer of patronage, aoJ haul been filled by some of the country's brightest orna ments, to follow whom, in any situation, he might feel proud ; but on a principle of public duty he objected to it. As President of the Board of Trade, he found full employinert, he could assure them, for all ha leisure (hear, hear), and if he were to continue to discharge the duties of Treasurer, lie must neglect others, more or less, wbieh should possess his undivided exertions. As far as he was concerned he left the business in the hands of the House; they would dispose of it as they thonght best. So much did he feel the responsihility, that he was not prepared to say, if he lost his present Paymaster, that lie would not, rather than incur the risk attendant on appointing a new one, cease to hold die office of Treasurer. IifeeCALCRAFT thought the duties of this office had been greatly magnified. It might almost be inferred from the lamen tations, from the pain, the agony complained of, as resulting from the responsibility, that these offices were forced on men who had a distaste for large salaries and email duty. The Right Hon. lien. tleman had said if he lost his Paymaster that he would not under take the responsibility which would attach to a new appointment. Did he mean to say tliat he could not find, even in that very office, a person in whom not only he but any man might confide ? ( Hear, hear.) There could not be. he would contend, any real difficulty ; tine he had ro hesitation in ratyiug there woold not he even these apperent difficulties were it not that this office of Treasurer was already promised to sonic one or other. It had been said that the sieounte were six years in arrear ; but could they say so now ? Not long aro they were In a a very short time. Ole. HUM E—Twenty-fice days. Alr. CALCRAFT—His Honourable Friend said twenty-five days. Under these circumstances, there was then one source of the great responsibility removed. The Sinicure Committee lctt the office of treasurer, that it might be posseaseul by some one holding a high and responsible office, not that it might be Uhl by itself. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had au held it, without com plaining that the two offices were incorupatilile. This was no time to add to the burthens of the people, thought it might be said the sum of 5000/. was small. ii'llat contentions had they nut had about trifling sums? It was the principle, not the som, which was the cause of contrition. The Right Hon. Gentlemen talked of the offices Ministers had abolished ; but haul he not beet, driven to this ! Ile boasted of having given up a Lord of the Treasury ; but lie trust recollect that this was not till after he had been beaten out of two Lords of the Admiralty. aid then he came forward with the former as • sort of boon to the House. If some pledge Mare not given as to the office of Treasurer, he must vote against the present proposition. Me the Right lion. Gentlemen obtained lease last night for the Committee to sit again this day, he did think it was in order that the proposition might be brought back in ruck a form as would avoid a necessity for the present opposition. Ile did not object to the increase of salary, but to the mode of ef. toting it. The Right Hon. Octlontan might thank his Right Hon. Friend that the House was not unanimous is its vote for the desired increase. Mr. CCRWEN node a few observations, but we could not catch diflr purport. Sir M. W. RIDLEY said he was averse to having the situation of Treseitrer of the Navy continued. From what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman, it was evident that the duties of the office were not difficult of Fe/formai:cc. Ile had no objection to increase the salary of the President of the Bimini of Trade; but he was of opinion the Paymaster of the Navy might be made vellum. I Wile. lie certainly thought the sum of 1.01101. per annum an in. adequate salary for the Treasurer of the Navy. If the plan for establishing this new office was,&lopted, he thought the person who should fill the office ought not To have a seat in that House. (Iliac, hear.) That was the most objectionable feature in the entire measure. lie was anxious that an increase should he made to the salary of the President of the Board of 'trade, but he was not favourable to the manner in width that question had been brought forward. Ile had understood that the Hon. Member for Montrose had withdrawn his amendment, and there could not, in that car'', be any objection to what had been recommended from his side of the House. Mr. DROOL/EN said that be did not think that Mr. Hume had withdrawn his motion. Sir M. W. RIDLEY continued. Though he was unwilling by his vote to record an opinion adverse to the proposed increase of salary, yet ha feared he should, under the circumstances, be obliged to vote against the original question. To the grant he had no objection, if modified as had been suggested. Sir ISAAC COFFiN said, though it had been stated that the Treasurer of the I /rdnance could pass his accounts within twenty. seven days of die time at which those accounts were passed, yet that could not be an argument in the present case. If one individual could perform the duties of the Treaatirer of the Navy by an at. tentiance of one hour each day, it did not of necessity follow that those duties could be accomplished in the same time by every other Person who might fill the office. He would assure the House that it would take lima the greater part of a day to perform those duties. The lion. Baronet then made some observations upon allusions which h d been thrown out last night, relative to the connexion which the President of the Board of Trade and 31r. Baring were said to have had with a company connected with the silk trade. Mr. ROBERTSON made a few observations in explanation, the precise import of which we could not collect. Mr. DENISON said that under the restriction which hail been already allude? to, he had no objection to the increased salary of 5001.11.: but he entirely disagreed with the manner in which that increase had been brought before the House. His object in rising was chiefly in order to ask the Right lion. the Chanrellor of the Exchequer if the defalcation of 25.000 L. which hail taken place when ke was in office, had been paid by the sureties, or if it had fallen on the public? if the latter had been the ease, what, he would ask, became of the question of responsibility upon which such strew' had been laid ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER maid he was not sure whether the arm wee 24 or 25,0001. The person who had been guilty of appropriating that sum had escaped from the country ; hut being pursued, they were fortunate enough to find him in the United States of America. By means of threats. which were the only means which could be resorted to in that country, the person was taken a-beck, and consented to give up what money he had In his possession, which amounted to 14,001 or 15.11001. 'file sureties were called upon to pay what they were responsible for, and the re. maiming difiererce did certainly tall upon the public. That Inns fell upors the public. Six thousand pounds were obtained from the sureties, and the remaining difference, as he had stated, devolved upon the public. In the Inquiry on that question, he had satisfac torily proved that the circumstance had not occurred in consequence of any fault or negligence of his. (Hear, hear.) It arose out of the imperfect state of the law, which lie bad endeavoured to remedy by an Act which he had brought into the House. Ile certainly cons;. tiered himself the responsible person, but as it had taken place without any fault being attributable to him, he was not called upon in make up the deficiency (a laugh), and it would have been very unjust if he had been so called upon. Mr. DEN ISON argued ageingt the motion without the modi , fication. He thought the idea of responsibility had been dune away with. [ After a few wont' from Mr. Hu 3IE and Mr. Hrsicissow, Mr. ABERCRO3IBY said that the question came forward In an objectionable form. He had the highest respect for the Right Hon. Gentleman ; he appreciated the talents of that Gentleman, who early in life gave promise of those talents which had been re. cognised in that House. His elevation was predicted by a person who could appreciate the mental energies even of a school-boy, and he (Mr. Abercromby) had the pleasure to see those predictions realised. "%With such feelings., it would be painful to hint to vote against the grant. Much had been said of uniting the offices, and of the incompatibility of their union • they were ministerial fella. cies. The only thing which had made any impression on his mind was, what had been stated of shrinking from the responsibility The statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer amounted to this, that there was no responsibility unless some fault could be attached to the responsible person. (Heir. hear.) This he considered to be a fallacy. If in any case of defalcation the respon sible person could show that he used a sound discretiou in the ye leetion of the person who had been guilty, he should on those grounds be exonerated from any share of the responsibility. The labour,' of the Navy Treasurer were trifling. Lord Melville, when Secretary of State, held the office of Treasurer of the Navy ; he certainly had the advantage of the talents of the Right Hon. Gen tleman as Under Secretary, but the Right Hon. Gentleman could avail himself of the assistance of the Vice President of the Board or Trade. The creation of new Parliamentary offices was objec tionable, anti it was their duty to take care that the influence of the Crown should not be increased. The Bill should not be allowed to pass: the influence of the Crown had already increased. The Vice Treasurer of Ireland had a seat in the House, and the duCes of his office only required him to sign his name, and, by an Irish method of transacting business, to be absent except when he was required to vote in that House. All this con. tributed to increase die influence of the Crown. He deplored the question had been brought forward in its present shape. He knew no reason why an Act might not be passed to make both situations compatible to be held by one person. Ile would therefore recommend that the Chairman should report progress. with leave to sit again : that Ministers might, in the in terim. consult and agree to the proposition suggested by his side of the House, upon their declaring that they were willing to grant the increased gaiety, which he was sure would be the case if the question hail not been brought forward in the way it had been. Sir J. NEWPORT said there could be no difficulty in relieving the Right lion. Gentleman from the responsibility. He thought the most proper mode would be to consolidate both situations, by which means die House would not be obliged to depreciate the ser vices of the Right Hon. Gentleman, but, by the mode now pro. posed, they were bound to resist the measure. Mr. Secretary CA NNING said whatever arrangements the House might come to as to the question before the Committee, their present decision would not interfere with any subsequent vote they might think proper to pass relative to the office of Treasurer of the Navy. He thought die office of President of the Board of Trade ought to be distinct. lie would express the same opinion on that point in private room as he did then in that House. Lord Harrowby, Mr. Sheridan, and all who had succeeded them, held the office of Treasurer of the Navy unconnected with any other office. It was inconsiderate to say the office was it sinecure. as if no duties were to be performed because they could be accomplished by an attendance of one hour in the day. Would any man say that the situation of a banker was a sinecure, because he could check his accounts and look over his clerks in the 'mace of one hour in each day. He held the situation in uncomfortable times, when undivided attention was required. The Right lion. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Tierney) had justly stated that, when he filled the situation, he had given whatever time was unoccupied in the duties of that office to oilier department'. The Goveinment had a right to call on persons who held situations, the duties of which were disproportionate to the amount of salary they rec'ived to their exertions in other occupy. dons. Some offices were paid more in proportion to their dignity than with reference to the duties they had to perform. Such offices were requisite to facilitate the transaction of public business, by the assistance those who held them were enabled to abed in other departments unconnected with that which they held. The President had quite sufficient business to occupy all his time, and could not devote his attention to the dude' of the Treasurer of the Navy. Was, he asked, the filiainess of the Treasury of the Navy ea absorbing that the person who filled the situation of Treasurer should devote all his time ? to it he would say, no ; but if he were asked was that of the President of the Board of Trade such as to prevent his appropriating a portion of his time to another office, he would answer, yes. Government was over-loaded with business, anti if lie WAS asked what would affiird the most efficient means to Government to facilitate the transaction of business? he would re. ply, the power of applying such persons as tilled those offices to the performance of duties which could not he well accomplished by theme in whose immediate department the surplus of business had arisen. Ile had al: his time occupied in the duties of his office, the Chancellor was equally occupied in his, and he ( M r. Secretary Can. ring) found it diffietilt to devote even °netlike to any other business. It would be a great detriment to abolish die office of Treasurer of the navy. There were two propositions. that the President of thellontd of Trade should have a salary of 511110/. per annum, and that the office of Treasurer of the Navy should be distinct. No one con. versant with the nature of that office would say that it should be abolished. There should be. at the head of the office, a person to whom those In subordinate situations should look tip with respect. It would lie as rational to say that • banking establishment might be carried on by &clerk., ts to think that die Treasury of the Navy could be conducted by au inconsiderable person ; but whatever became of the Treasurer of the Navy, he thought the proposed ea:ary ought to be allowed to the President of the Board of Trade. The office of Vice President of the Treasury of Ireland was not a new one. The arrangements connected with that office might not be good, but he could not imagine env danger from a person holding that situation having it seat in that House. flow did the office of President of the Board of Trade s o und ?As a salary office it was of very ancient date, and previously to die year 1782, when the salary was reduced by the reform plan of Mr. Burke, it was of the same amount as now proposed. It is now 'sought to raise the salary to what it was then stripped of; the business of the office had since increased, and it was but ,just that the salary should be Increased in an adequate proportion. The other office could not be abolished ; the salary wits quite nno:her consideretion, but the existence of the office. which, without absorbing all the time of the person who filled it. fitted bins for the performance of other duties, that was the object aimed at. and it was unfair to attribute it to a corrupt motive. An unanininus concurrence in the vote pro. posed would not interfere with the consideration of the other clues. lion ; he therefore hoped the House would concur in that grant. Mr. BERNAL supported the amendment. 'lr. Canning, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer !tad said that the office was and of responsibility, but he could not discover how a salary of 2,0001. or 3.000/. a-year could secure the public from embezzlement. Ile though: no case had been made ant why both offices should not be united. After a few words from Sir FRANCIS OMMANEV, at which the Moos? trotted the greatest. inywience, Mr. CA LCRAFF arid, it the abfeetce of Mr. Abercrombie, be THE BRITISH PRESS. would move that the Chairman report proms!, with leave to sit again on Monday. *Arrangers were then ordered to withdraw, when thellouse divided on Mr. Umlcratt's amendment, when there appeared fur the amend. ment, Ayes . - 411 Naar . Majority .39 On returning to the gallery we found, Sir. III:31E on his legs. The Hon. Gentleman animadverted on the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers, who required twenty-four hours' preparation to muster strength on the. present occasion against the public opinion. He intended to withdraw the amend. ment which he had suggested last night, and should adopt another course which, he hoped, would prove more satisfactory. The amendment which he should withdraw was objected to, as being of a nature too diffuse and comprehensive in its bearings. The lit). Gentleman then proceed to explain the principles of the amend ment of last night, and recapitulated the points which he had urged in its introduction. He did not think that the Treasurer of the Navy should be a Cabinet Minister, and the purport of the amendment which he proposed to substitute affected the conside ration of that question. It should be considered whether the 30110/. a year attached to that office should go in addition, or in et.tenu ation of the wavy allotted to the office of the President of the Board of Trade. The necessity of an inquiry of the kind to which lie had called the attention of the House, appeared to him to be mast obvious, and one which could not excite opposition. He should reduce the generality of the former amendment, and simply inquire at present into the office of the Treasurer of the on which subject many gentlemen who had filled the situ ation had expressed themselves with so* much discrepancy of opi. nion. One Hon. Member gave one statement, and another fol lowed with a different, as to the mode of filling the situation. By one account an hour was deemed adequate to the performance of the duties annexed, while another gentleman's was quite at variance. He now wanted merely to inquire whether a Cabinet Minister should he also a Public Accountant. The Board of Trade was certainly most important as regarding the interests of the country, but with its establishment the amendment was not intended to in terfere. The lion. Member then ptoposd as an amendment, that " it was the opinion of the Committee that the sum of 511001. a year should be attached to the office of the President of the hosed of Trade, but that it is also expedient that an inquiry should be instituted to try if any and what alteration can be made in the office of the Treasurer of the Navy." Mr. THOS. WILSON said it was admitted on all sides of the House that the duties of the President of the Board of Trade had been natit efficiently discharged. and that 511001. a year should be granted as a remuneration ; but what was desired in the present in stance was, that the 30001. annual salary of the Treasurer of the Navy should not be added. It was asserted in answer, that there would be a future opportunity of considering that subject, but it seemed to him that if the present occasion were omitted, there would be but a sorry chance of procuring another equally favour able. Mr. HUDSON GURNEY made Come observations in favour of the principle of the amendment. Mr. 31A DERLY objected to the occupation of a seat in that House by the Treasurer of the Navy. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER contended that it was a proceeding totally inconsistent with .cage and propriety to propose to the consideration bf a Committee, appointed for • dif ferent purpose, to inquire wh2ther a person holding a particular office should be competent to sit in Parliament. It was erroneous to suppose that the fitness of a person to possess a seat in that House should be made to depend on his office or his salary. The reason for refusing seats was to be found in a wish to limit the in. flume. of the Crown, but that did not apply in the present instance. Mr. BARING expressed his approbation of the proposed com pensation to the Right lion. the President of the Board of Trade; but he could not countenance the mode in which the proposal for that purpose had been introduced. Every person agreed in bear ing testimony to that Right lion. Gentleman's deserts, but the Government invidiously attempted to avail themselves of his ac knowledged popularity to make the matter such as was fully en titled to the appellation of a job. Mr. R. MARTIN said he should vote for the separation of the two offices, though he concurred in the propriety of giving the pro posed salary, The House then divided on Mr. Hume'. amendment, when the numbers were— Fur the Amendment, 35 ; Against it, 71.—Majority, Mi. The o-iginal rnotinn was then put and carried. The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. The East India Writers Bill was brought up by Mr. C. W. WYNN, read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Ten o'Clock. PRICES 01 BRITISH Dank Stock 203) I per Cent. Red. 7111 S per Cent. Cone. 7sta I 1 Ditto Aeet. 791 tali per Cent. 861 la per Cont. Red. ItS2 New 4 per Cent. PSI PRICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Bondi 6O Brazilian Sonde 55 Ditto Acct. 55 6 5 Buenos Apes Bonds 61 Colombian floods 47 Ditto Bonds (1824) 5U i49j90 49 ibi 746 be 8 7} Si Ditto !tett. 50$ 50 494 54 7 6 7 6/ Danish Bonds (1825) 574 11 ORM Acct. 574 Russian Bonds ttOi COURSE OF EACH aseterdass C.F. 12 10 Ditto at sight Rotterdam 21'. 12 11 eetwery Harnlntrgh 2 U. 38 0 Alton. 2 U. 2.8 1 Parts, a day.' xight 25 80 Ditto 2 U. 26 10 Bordeaux lierlln Frankfort on Maine Ex. M. Me Petereburgh. rble I Us. 8 Vienna, effective 0 2 M. 10 28 Trieste ....do ..... II 28 Mndrld Cad's /Mhos S Barcelona SI Seville alkalise PRICKS OF FRAIL] 111/1 AnglaMetkan lir British (ma Oolomblan Pasco.Peruvlan ..... 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PETERSBURG, MARC!! 21. The Journal dr SI. Parr:burgh contains, at great length, the account of the removal of the body of the late Emperor from Tachesme. to the Cathedral of Cason, at St. Petersburg, on the 18th. The procession was divided into thirteen sections, in the last of which was the hearse, drawn by eight horses, followed by his Majesty the Emperor, and accompanied by the Grand Duke 'Mi. chael, the Prince of Orange, and Prince William of Prussia. His Majesty was supported by Field Alarshal the Duke of Wellington, General Count Peter Tolstoi, and Lieut.. Gen. Emmanuel. The Empresses Alexandra and Maria followed in one carriage, with the Crown Prince and the Princess Maria of Wurtemburg. The body will lie in state for several days in the Cathedral of our Lady or Cason, where Divine Service will be performed twice a day, and prayers read day and night. Notice will be given of :he day fixed for the interment in the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Baussv.Ls, Aran t. His 111ajesty hat appointed the Chevalier de Stuers, Consul- General at Bogota, the capital of Colombia. M. W. J. Van Riders, Consul at IA Guars, in the same Republic. The Allzenteine Zits''s!! of 31srch 31, the Frankfort Journal of April 1, and the Nutemburglt Correspondent of March 30, have no news relative to Greece subsequent to the accounts already given of the defeats of the Egyptians betore 3lissolonghi. EXCHANGES. IlAmnunnit, 31Ancit 31.—Excliange on London, 67 2; Two 3lonths- rib U. BERLIN, Manor M.—Exchange on London, Three Months, 73i. LISBON PAPERS. Lisnow, Maar lg. Yestenlay the funeral ceremony took place of breaking the es cutcheons, as a sign of the public grief fur the death of our be loved sovereign. The Members of the Senate left the Senate-house in deep mourn ing, in a numerous procession, accompanied with bands of music, and, in the squares Cornmercio ltozio and Santo Antonio, having pronounced the usual words, the escutcheons were broken by the persons who carried theni for the purpose. The whole company then attended a solemn Requiem in the church of St. Antonio. 111axcrt 20. An Order of the Day to the Army, stating the death of the King, commands, in the name of the Regency, a year's mourning. On the 11th, one of the most melancholy days in the history of Portugal, the body of his late Majesty having been embalmed, was laid in state, with the insignia of Royalty, in the Hall of the Palace of Bemposta, where the Court, the Chief Of f icers. the Servants of the Royal Household, and numerous persons of die. tinction, of all classes, kissed his hand. The next morning the body, being placed in the coffin, was removed to another apart ment, where it was placed on a stage under a canopy, supported by tour pillars, with an altar at the head, and the Royal Crown at the tem. High Maas 11114 performed in the apartment by the principal Clergy of the Patriarchal Church—the Court attending in deep mourning. . . . All the preparations being made, and the troops posted in the streets through which the procession was to pass, the funeral train, which was very splendid, left the Palace of ilemposta at half-past eight o'clock, and proceeded by torch light to the Church of St. Vincent de Fora, where it was received be the Clergy, with all the ceremonies usual on such occasions. The coffin was taken from the car, and placed on a stage near the altar, by the Dukes of Cor. daval and 'Aloes, and the Marquisses of Abrantea, Lomita!, lA vradeo, Tancos, Sabugota, Pombal, d'Antouio de Almeida, and Ponte tie Lima. The Minister of the Interior caused an officer to read two copies of the account of the depositing of the Royal corpse, one of which is to be preserved in the archives of the Torre de fombo. the other in the Secretary of State's office, both signed by the AI joiners, &e. declaring the coffin to contain the body of his 3lajesty Don John VI. 'l'he coffin was then placed in the vault, and three salutes of ar. tillery were fired, as well as three volleys by the troops in the square of St. Vincent. A salute was also fired by the forts and the men of war in the Tagus. The immense multitude that crowded the long ling of the proces sion, showed by their silence and tears how deeply they felt the loss of such a Sovereign. The Infanta I►onna Isabella Maria, with the two Infantas, her sisters. on Saturday received the condolence of the Court, the Po reign Ministers, and an immense number of persons at the Palace of Ajuds, where they have fixed their abode. The following is the (louse List of Governors anl Direc tors of the Bank of Englanil for the year ensuing, viz. PoR coVF.RNORS. John Baker Richards ' Esq. Governor. Samuel Drewe, Esq. Deputy Governor. ion DIRECTORS. John Bowden, Esq. John Honley Palmer. Esq. Cornelius Buller. Esq. James Pattison, jun. Esq James Campbell, Esq. John Henry Pelly, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. John Perim, Esq. Timothy Ahnham Curtis, Esq. Charles Polo, Esq. •• George Dorrien, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Ban. Jeremiah Harman, Esq. William R. Robinson, Esq. John Benja:niii Heath, Esq. Henry Smith, Esq. Samuel [libber', El. Samuel Thornton, Esq. William Manning, Esq. William Word, Esq. William Mellish, Esq. Thomas Warre, Esq. William Mie..hell, Esq. ;limey ‘Vigram. Esq. The Election for Governor and Deputy Governor will be held at the Bank on 'Cuemlay, the 11th, and for Directors on Wednesday, the 19th inst., from ten o'clock in the fore noon till four in the afternoon. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. This Reaning, SATURDAY, April 8, will be performed the new National Ballad Opera of MALVINA. The principal Characters by Messrs. Wallach, Slnelalr, Horn, Harley, Archer; Misers Stephens, Posey, and Kelly. After which the new Grand Romantic Fairy Tale of OBERON ; or, THE. CHARMED HORN. Parfet--Oberon, Miss Vincent; Titania, Miss Macdonald. French—The Rmperor Charlemagne, Mr. 0. Smith ; Sir Huon of Guyenne, Mr. Ben. Deft; Shenunnin, Mr. Browne; Sir Aubert, Mr. T. Blanchard. Arabians— The Caliph of Bagdad, Mr. Pope ; the Prince Babekon, Mr. Howell ; Sedak, Mr. Webster; Otnlac, Mr. Mercer. The Princess Amanda, Mile Smith. son ; Palma, Mrs. C. Jones. Tunisians—The Sultan of Tanis, Mr. twinge; !Wogs, Mr. W. Bennett; Fisherman, Mr. G. Smith. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Ttda Evening, SATURDAY, April 8, will be performed the Opera of LOVE IN A VILLAGE. Young Meadow+, Mr. Penman ; Justice Woodcock, Mr. W. Vamp ; Hodge, Mr. Keeley; Hawthorn, Mr. Brabant; Eustace, Mr. Duruset. Rosetta, Mho Paton; Deborah Woodcock, Mr.. Davenport; Lucinda, Miss Love; Madge, Miss Goward. To which will be added the Melo-Drams of THE MILLER AND HIS MEN. Gam:Mt Mr. Parley , Karl, Mr. Blanchard ; Lothalr, Mr. Coops Claudine, Mrs. Vining, Rarina, Mra. Fauclt. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. MR. MATHEWS AT HOME Thls Evening, SATURDAY, April $, with an entirely new Entertalameot, In Two Port., founded on his 01, lons on Characters, Manners, and Peculiarities, entitled MR. MATHEWB' INVITATIONS. PAST Monopolylogue, to be called THE CITY BARGE 1 Seven Characters by Mr. Mathews. Doors open at Ralf•past Seven (instead of Seven, as heretofore ; tba Performance begins at Eight precisely. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "A Mrs Ft or Hen a rt." may receive the communication he addressed to the Editor by an application at the °Mee of this Paper. The BRITISH Pass, commenced publishing yesterday morning at five o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1826. We have received the French papers of Wednesday, and the Etoile of Thursday. The following are extracts : [From the Etoile dated Thursday, April 8.1 PARIS, APRIL 5. We had deferred announcing the melancholy news which we had received from Corfu respecting Missolonghi, because we wished to wait for the final result of the siege, and because we felt real sorrow at giving afflicting news, just at the moment when cries of victory were heard on every aide. But it is too true that Ibrahim has made himself master of a fort which commands Missolonghi, and that that place cannot receive any more supplies by sea. This news is of the 23d March. A steam-boat brought it to Ancona, and a courier was despatched from that city, which accounts for the celerity with which it has become known at Paris. Arnsnuacm, MARCH 29. By a letter from the frontiers of Poland, dated March 23. it seems certain that very satisfactory accounts are received from all the Russian provinces respecting the army; but the desire to humble the arrogance of the Turks, and to succour the Greeks, is loudly expressed by the troops. This disposition alarms the states men, who fear a general conflagration in Europe ; and the mission of the Duke of Wellington, the recall of Count Strogonoff who, as well as General hangeron, hes left Paris for St. Petersburg!), and the precipitate return of Count Lieven, excite a conjecture that it has been judged advisable to forma kind of Committee in the capital to consult on these important affairs. It is generally affirmed that a plot has been discovered at War saw, in consequence of which numerous arrests have taken place. It is said, also, that the plan was wholly unconnected with the conspiracy in Russia. The application made by the Nobility of Esthonia, to be allowed, according to their ancient privileges, to try themselves the conspirators born in that province, has been favourably received at St. Peteraburgh. Nothing is said of those of the German Provinces; it seems that the old Russian blood has rejected these strangers. It was the Emperor Alexander who bought for the University of Abo, for 17,000 rubles, the valuable library of the celebrated Jurisconsult Ilaubold. [From the Conatitutionnell PARIS, APRIL 4. The most sinister reports have been spread to-day on 'Change respecting the fate of the heroic Missolonghi. It was said that, while its immortal defenders were giving themselves up to the jny of victory, the ferocious Ibrahim, having recalled his troops, had returned to the town with renewed fury ; that he had surprised it, and that a horrible massacre of the whole population bad crowned his triumph. This news has spread profound consternation throughout Paris, and even the allies of the barbarian have not dared publicly to express their joy at this butchery of Christians. Happily, the evil is not so great as some well. known agents of the congregation have chosen to represent it. But it seems too certain that Ibrahim, enraged at his defeat, had collected all his remaining forces, and made himself master of a fort which commands the entrance of Missolonghi, so that it would be extremely difficult to convey supplies into that unhappy town, unless the courage of the inhabitants should succeed in dislodging Ibrahim's troops from the post which they have occupied ; a very difficult undertaking, considering the want of artillery. It is said that this news, so afflicting to the real friends of tell. gion and humanity, was sent from Corfu to Anemia by Sir F. Adam. the English Governor of the lonian Islands ; that an ex. traordinary courier has brought it in six days from Ancona to Paris, and that the Frencb Ministers received it yesterday evening. We willingly think that it has been exaggerated by the men who bear so much good will to the Pacha of Egypt, and that the heroism of the Greeks will triumph over this new misfortune. Missolonghi has still provisions for months. Let us hope everything front the despair of the unhappy Greeks. It' the alliance which calls itself holy makes prayers for the enemies of the religion, the God of the Christians will not abandon the martyls who shed their blood for the triumph of the cross. Frenchmen of all parties, whose hearts have remained pure amidst the corruption which surrounds us on every side, do not courage and misfortune assist a people struggling against its execu. tiunets ? • Vhou it sheds all its blood for religion and liberty, has- ---,—. ten to afford it consolation ; share your superfluity with it, since y,.. cannot share its perils and its glory ! I From the Courrrier franca The battalion lately formed from the Moscow Regiment and t'A Grenadiers of the Guards, who took the most active part in tile la., fter his trarclli•G disturbances, is to be sent to Caucasus, to reduce the ree t ,i t.d tribes in that quarter. The Emperor and his family went, on the I Ith of 3 larch, to the Palace of Zarskojeselo, to which the Duke of I t • elltv on ax several of the principal Ministers had previously proceeded. BERLIN, MARCH 27. The celebrated traveller, Dr. Ehrenberg, who hnarti.b,e4enratbmiap,lo,yredi s fo i r r a ia i it , yheaasrsj just e r x et p u l r o n r ed ing to Eg ße y pr Merlin, ,Nsuobrnia,e weeksA byssai companion, M. de Frankenstein. They have since recovered horn their sickness, and Dr. Ehrenberg is about to publish his obm. eations in the course of his journey, as well as the manuseript a h.- : him by one of his companions who died at Mossana. lie lk s a t his possession a valuable collection of articles of natural hittory. A rumour has been circulated to-day that Missolonghi had bee, taken by storm, and the garrison put to the sword. This net, t h e origin of which is not yet known, must be extremely agreeable to M. de Villele, and all those who like him have not been ashamed to favour the cause of the Turks by their wishes and their assist. ante; but the inhabitants of Paris, who are not acquainted w i th these unworthy sentiments, have received, with the most pai n f ul emotion, the report of a deplorable calamity which happily has not been confirmed. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIP, APRIL s. —Fire per Cents., Kt 90.; Three per Cents., 65f. 50c. ; Bank Stock, 2,020 f.; Renter de Naples, 73f. 05c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 4841; Hayden Loan, 765 f, —Exchange on London, one month, 23f. 70c. ; Three ditto, 2Lf. 45c.—Court Authentique, April 5. Although the news from Greece is not of so favourable a description as we could have wished, we are still able to announce that Missolonghi continues to brave its assailants. It does not appear that Faller En or GOI; RA s were present at the reported repulse of I BRA HIM PAC/lA. We observed, in commenting upon the news of his defeat, that " it was not likely the garrison alone could have compelled him to retreat in the open field." It would seem now that this retreat was merely a feint for the purpose of throwing th e garrison off their guard, and that the PA CIIA has since returned to take advantage of their over-weening security, in order to make himself master of a position which enables him to command the entrance of the port, so as to cut off the supplies of provision which would otherwise be thrown into the town. Missolonghi is already provisioned fct some months; but it is to be feared that the position is such as will enable IBA* HIM to bombard the town, or to command it with his cannon. In that case the danger would still be imminent, if some method cannot be taken to dislodge him from his post. If there were a heart in England that did not deprecate the fall of Miseolonghi—that would not bleed for it as fcr some domestic calamity —we might think it necessary to say a few words to excite, if possible, some spark of gm sous sentiment in a breast that could be so dead to all true feeling, so insensible to the interests of its religion, so blird to the welfare of its country, and so lost to all those princi ples which ought to distinguish a man and an Englishman —which ought to glow in every soul that feels interested in the progress and the dignity of its nature. If such a man there were, it might be necessary, though perhaps needless, to inform him how deep a wound all that is great, and noble, and generous, would inevitably re ceive in the fall of Missolonghi. Could our voice reach those ears which have so long been deaf to the cry of Greece, we would ask them why they thus play with the fate of men and of nations? Must they wait, because, forsooth, their time is not yet come ? because their decisions are not yet ripened ? because there are still some petty considerations to be arranged ? Must they delay, for such reasons as these, an interference which must come at last ?—an interference on which they hare already determined ? Must they delay it thus, while the sword is wasting the ranks of their brethren ?—while the accursed Mussulmans (and deep and loud we breathe our curse—not for their being Mussulmans, but for their being unworthy of the name of men), while these unhallowed be lievers in an unhallowed creed, bring the hounds of the desert, and the assassins of the hill, to tread down the sym bol and the scutcheon which we reverence ; vaunting that Europe cannot save the victims whom they butcher under her uplifted sword? lire are as certain of the determina tion of Europe to save Greece in the end, as we are of our existence; but why delay to save till nothing remain to be saved ? If the delay be owing to any petty jealousies, in God's name let them cease. Better a thousand Russian tyrants than one Egyptian or Turkish. England mutt save herself by saving Greece. It is on the Nile and the Danube that the battle of Greece must be fought, if the ' menace should not be found sufficient without its execution. A Morning contemporary states, upon the authority of a military friend, that it is intended to construct pieces of artillery for the Greeks, which shall discharge balls of 6 pounds from gun-boats. Nothing is impossible, we be lieve, which does not imply a contradiction ; but it does not yet appear what means are to be used to enable gun boats to sustain the recoil of pieces which would shatter the decks of the largest and most firmly built man of war. We are persuaded, however, that mechanical genius may be successfully employed in war to counterbalance numeri cal superiority, and never was there an occasion where it could be more beneficially employed than in the support of the Greeks. The use of fire-ships has been a principal feature in their naval contests, and every improvement of this sort is an advantage gained by the weak over the strong—by the intelligent few over the ignorant multitude. The French long since invented self-loading &decks, which were discouraged by their Generals as not suited to the impetuosity of the French character—little adapted to use effectually, or to sustain coolly long-continued fire of small arms or artillery. The Chinese are said to employ a species of cannon with different bores in different directions, discharging several balls at the same time from distinct chambers, which communicate with the same touch-hole, and are fired by the same priming. Military men know how little dependence is to be put upon the soldiers taking aim with their small arms, and it is therefore a first prin ciple of discipline to reduce the firings to mechanical regu larity, both in the degree of levelling and in the time of discharging. The proposed salary of 5000/. to the President of the Board of Trade, was again the subject of debate in tto House of Commons last night ; and, as our readers must have anticipated, carried by a large majority. The neces sity of this increased allowance recommends itself to all who are familiar with the immense mass of business which devolves upon this member of the Government. It is bi exclusive province to plan and mature every measure con nected in the remotest degree with foreign and domestic trade—to adapt them to the state and circumstances of the country—to keep a watchful eye over the march of national industry—anti, by a seasonable relaxation of the restric tive, and a fostering of, more liberal, regulations, to pre serve the commercial system on a fair and equable balance. Having these important interests to guard, which in a country like ours are the very sinews of our strength and greatness, fer upon i give to it, time and Lion, and l the public fore, of t Consol in conset acted, as on ACCOII facturing consume year at first thrt all the it the price and to morning rally clic turers it to the d ceh t. It is i recently these di tive pro bably n should I that the we are symptcu prosperi Consols Bills wi tnium. 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