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• r of Parliament to express his sentiments, is what conceived adevate language, of measures, be. fore they became Pets of the Legislature. Tire: clauven which the Noble Earl released, would cera , Aairily operate a privation of property, and ptuduce , inku i ryto individuals. The cliseus‘i••n cintisue4. Lord OREN‘ILLE delivered his sentiments on .ttte occasion s and deprecated any language din e -apeelful to ositi - of the highest Magistrates in the Realm, es lOghlriroproper. At lengthillieltsestion was put, and the Amend ; =rot negatsed without a division, as were alsq one ' or tilt° others ; and one moved, we believe, by ' Lord BLDON, for Mid:ming the first of OSober. :Tor the to of"Attglist. The lin was then agreed to by the Committee, 'sad aftervrards reported without any amendment. After disposing of some routine lau,ineas, the House Adjourned till .to-morrow. .—........:_. Ilousz OF COMMONS. the Stags Coach Amendment Bill went through a Committee, and was ordered to be read a third tins* toimorrovr. 6impson's Divorce Bill went through a Commit ' tee, And was ordered to be reported. • The City of London Additional Force Repeal MB we: also committed.—Report to-morrow. • A Messege from the Lords requested a copy of the Report of the Committee upon the Accounts of the Exchequer . in Scotland. respeeting the applica tion of the produce of the forfeited estates in that amen. It also stated, that they had agreed to the Vitriol Expert Bounty, the Quarantine, the Fishery. • Grain Intercourse, and _ _ ..... , as fro sailed , tate th• "eithaHoste upon it, upon the third reading. • The Report was then sgreld to, an/ the Bill ste ed to be read a third time to-asorrew. The General Werehneeing,tbe Bonner General Woods end Fcrests Regulation, the Witidsor Fo- Ingoiry, the Irish Hops, Glees. and Tiles veilmg Duty, the Lottery, and the Grenda Bills, were also reported, and ordered to be a third time tc-morroa. t 141LITottY ALLOWANCES. Os the Report of the &II for granting additional nen to °liters and Privates of the Infantry, Gen. 'CARLETON said, that had he been yes ey in his Owe, he should have suggested to gm 4ronsideratien of the House, the situation of Officers Jul cavalry, and particularly the Captains. As the `general 'alit& was now agitated, it was impossible !that their condition should escape the attention of Parliament. He understood that they were put ,by, upon the gruond.that they were all men of .private fortunes, and, Mandan, not in mid of Needoundland Fishery. the Grain atercourse, and the Exchequer Bills Bills. On the motion of Mr. CA LCRAFT, it was or- dered, that, an the first part of their Lordships' Nitrate. that House would send an answer by their *ens Itlemengers. Lord OSSULBTON informed the House. that Nis Majesty had been waited on with their last ad- dresses. and would give orders iteeordin&ly. The Oulamiee Lands, Bell Reek Lighthouse, .llenieh IFnelhispd Estates, Lord Rodney's Annuity, Usk lioessia Continuance, and Accountant Gene- ral's 818,, were read a third times and poised. • ♦slr.Q W 4 WYNNE :noted. "that there be laitheihrodso Haase a Copy of the Constnissioe or Casiallminatiossed on the 11th of July. WO, for *OW II the Members of that House. a mere eon- amdeat tsae ef the Registers of the Lingdons. and she Abstro&sof them ham year to year, which was speed to end also an Account of the Qualsfica- sf.thos Doyen-Lieutenants of Counties, aad 7101441iTmem of Militia, since the last Reams, toiiehtmene.astood to. iscaelto Avert of the Militia Officers' Pay BA Met MI,OIfAL said, that he did am, ;re- mot, mean to row" the debate upon the ea of chi hill. bat that it was his immulas to tats the . • •• additional allowances i but so far was this fl co printed. being the faft, that he knew many regiments, I .amongst the Captains of which, there was not one -ot private formic It should be considered, that they were metier% to extraordinary expences. The price of homes and aecoutremects was so great, that a cavalry °Meer must expend to the amount of a year and a half of his pay, before he could pos sibly mount guard. The consequence was, that be believed as many of them were now to be found • about town, and under a great difficulties. as ethers of - the military prtgession. If it was too late in the present session to extend this provision to them, be . noped. at least, an assurance would be given, that it ahould be dune in the next meeting of Parliament. • The SECRETARY at WAR explained, that there were many advantages in the situation of ea vary OEcers. which could not belong to those of ". infantry, and therefore rendered it a very desirable hoed service. He owned there was something in what had bees said es a former occasion . , of the • situation of Captains ids° may occasionally have the command of regiments, which was worthy of attention. and be supposed would, therefore, be • brought under consideration, the COWS* of out r Session. Colonel WOOD expressed his doubts of the awe • sine altogether, and of the propriety of its having been at all brought forward. 'lle addition was so 1 small to those who &Meld receive it, that it could sot afford them so myth ease or as it might excite discontent or jealoury In others; at ' she saint erne , that it would tall heavy. in the eg gregatc. upon the public. at a period that was not •- the most suspicious for the exercise of liberality. . Time were sobjeas whirl. he thought. bad beam be 'curtail few a time of peace. WINLJH Aloi replied. that ilk was thee& this would give more discontent to the public s dos seowitt to the pet,' benefited. it wee as against the measure universally. Woe= jek. ell /uo had to say was. that be sod the Hee. t.:entlematt were of eltiferest opioilos s for et mold . not be easy so being any estieitaibery pooh either * way. The loosest of pay to do eelliWs was sot general, nor was it thought weemeary. but was con . fined to them who bad served* Waal period. As to the rest. it bad been so muds dimmed lsokze. that he did not think it necessary, at this time, at least.in say any woe upon it. General TA R LETON said, tha: as the rotas was beams, the cavalry. the Guards, ice. wreld c;rue tors•hrJ, JAI force threseelres sod • their situation dpots the ati,entiok . of the Heu.e.— As•te the time. he thooght it an intprcip.t one, when we had the larg . ..st establish:::ent ever known in the country. when u n theterme became the mure dangerous to Make sten iniridinol diqinelloos, a:A when there existed for it nn oth.r d neec.ssity, but the will of the Right Hon. Gentleman. The Report was than agreed to, and a 831 or dered to be brought•in upon it. Mr. Hansard, Jon. (from the Printer to the House of Commons), presented an Account of the nnntber of rapers ,upon India Affair:, printed by order of the House, from the ist of Apt:l, to the 30th of June last; which was ordered to be RILL. WEST INDIA AUDITORS' . This Rill being, on the motion of Lord HENRY PE I' rt. read a third time — Mr. HUSKISSON proposed a Clause, the effeft of which was, " that no unavoidable informality in vouchers, should prevent the accounts so riven in to be audited, or passed, if satisfadioi Was afforded of the informality not being wilful ;" which was agreed to, and made part of the Bill. Mr. ROSE proposed a Clause to limit the Lords of the Treasury to 10001. surcharge on any public accountant. Lord H. PETTY said, that if he.was merely to consult his own feelings, he should willingly accede to the clause, but there were a variety of reasons which mutt induce him to prefer the retention of power, leaving the question to be settled at the tion of the Commissioners. :The clause was then negatived, and the Bill seed. • PUBLIC HARBOUR RILL. Sir C. POLE moved the second reading of the for the preservation of the public harbours of United Kingdom. Col. WOOD expressed his apprehensions, that 's Bill, by trenching on the authority of the Corn • • Den of Sewers running into navigable rivers the porttowns. would operate very injuriously is private property. If confined to the great Wit harbours, this effea may not be produced, at to the same extent, but would be detrimental if ended to every port. Sir C. POLE replied, that he introduced this 'll, in compliance with the recommendation of a minims, to which he had the honout to belong; who thought it right. that it should not be fund to tee King's ports, but to all harbours ere trade and navigation were carried on. le did not see bow it could ailed private property, as its objeft was to preserve the present anchor age. /which was In danger of being destroyed. Coo VEREKER said, if this Bill was meant to nuisances in the harbours of the United e Kingdom, he witched it to extend to a Very n.aterial auisante in the important harbour of Limerick, where there were tee rocks which were highly in jorions to the navigation of the place, and rendered Tit impossible for ships to go out at low water. These reeks, he understood, could be removed at no gt,ater expenee than 20001. and if that was done, • it would be of the utmost advantage to the country. Mr. HUSKISSON thought what the Honour. able Geode:nee alluded to was not within the compass of this Bill, and would be best obtained by Petition to Parliament ((Willa purpose. Lord H. PETTY expressed himself very friend ly to the removal of the nuisance alluded to in the hartioor of Limerick, but observed, that as it re ferred to a grant of public money, it could have no relation to the Bill now before the House. 'The Bill was then read a second time, and com mitted for to-morrow. The Irish Roads Bill went through a Coal mine?, and the Repott was ordered to be received to-morrow. Earl TEMPLE moved for leave to bring in a) Bill for the better regulating of Pilots and Pilotage of Ships and Vessels - Navigating the British Seas.—' His Lordship said. his intention was to bring in the Bill, to have it go to a Committee, then to be printed,' and to lay over so the neat Session. Mr. Alderman PRINSEP said, he, for one. would thank the Noble Land for bringing in this Bill ; and he was sorry them were not more Mensv ben present. who knew how much such a Bill wor wanting. If there were, he was sure they would; join in thanks for the same. The Pilots had got to an insaffer.ible pitch of insolence and rapacity I very often, in rases of :ships being in danger, refused to go to them,without being paid exorbitantly ; and it happened not unfrequently, that they refused to go out on these accounts, till it was too late for services to have any effect. He therefore thought that such a Bill as this would be of the highest service to the public, and it met with his warmest approbation. Leave was given to bring in the Bill. Lord H. PET CY moved, " that the Reports of nhe Coossuisainom appointed by the Sth of the Ring. to regulate the Fees and Gratuities of the Public Offices, with the Appendixes thereto, be printed for the use of the Members of that House." Ordered. LORD NILSON'S INNUITY. Lord H. pErry moved, " that the Hoes* would go into a Committee en Earl Nelson's An nuity Bill." On the question that the Speaker do leave the Chair.Cooel WOOD rose to mike some enervation.. which, he said, at a moment when the country was so heavily bindweed with tales, be thought it his duty to make. No man could have a higner (or the memory of the exalted character, whO ei re ec d t , by his splendid services to the country, obtained dik annuity as • remuneration to his family. At the same time, in granting away the public miner, it was necessary that every possible regard should he had to economy. He thought, therefore, that 11001. a year was an ample provistonfor that fasoily s and must therefore *hied to the groat of a soma of moil to so large en sonount as was gooptand b this Bill. Had the Noble Lard, wise had such splendid set ekes to his casaary, bow alive. or bad children of his own, he shesN not have sods this ohjetfien; bat, situated as things now ware. be sob inittori mtheNobleloid (IL Petty) ',bother it would not be better to remain this root of seas of amass to same twine period, when ibe Natirmal Debt shall be Ins heavy. He mold propose. that it should not take place till the Debt is reduced to *Y 0000(0 0 1- and Mat the seas of 110,0001. now intended to 'or ;invited, Should be theo. made 100,037,1. He de. sired the proceedings of the House of Comma:is of , 10th Die. 1710, to be seed : by which it appeerede thet ifi the reign of Queen Ame, no more thali 0,0001. a fear had been granted to the Duke of .Marlborough for his varions eminent services.—He allowed, that 5;00ke1. a year, at that time, was equal to 15,0001. a year cow, but still he t hiereht 5 0001. a year was a su:ient remuneration on the present occasion. Mr. ROSY. said, the Hoe. Member who epoke Tait certainly was greatly mistaken as to the re muneration of the Duke of Marlborough. Besides the 50001. a yea- pension, Blenheim House was built for him, and an estate of 2,500 acres adjoin. ing to Blenheim, was purchased, and added to it I which estate contained no less than seven manors, and it was gene-ally estimated. could not be worth less than 42,0001. In short, the whole 0: the sums expended towards the remuneration of the Duke of Marlborough, did not, as he had beer, informed, amount to much less than 540,0001. Added to all this, the Duke of Marlborough was a Nobleman in affluent circumstances, possessing an estate of about 40,0001. per annum ; whereas, Lord Nelson, who [ Lad achieved so many brilliant and extraordinary ,actions in the service of his country, had not, he was sorry to say, made any pecuniary advantages by all those unequalled achievements he had so gloriously performed. That Noble Lord had as sured him, that from his brilliant and important viaory of the Nile. his share of prize-money only amounted to 30001. he having to divide with three or four junior Admirals ; whilst the share of the pri vate Captains amounted to 40001. each. The Noble Lord Lad also assured him, the very evening before 'he tailed on his last expedition, that all he was worth in the world amounted only to about 15,0001. and that his debts were nearly to the same amount. When the splendid services he had done his court try were considered, he submitted to the House, whether, the House and the country having thought them deserving an Earldam, the House ought to hesitate at granting what would enable the family to keep up the dignity' attached to that degree of rank in the Peerage I and he hoped the Hon. Mem ber would not persist in his objection. Mr. FRANCIS said, that as he had before start- ' ed an objeaion. he must, to ;reserve consistency, repeat, that he thought 110,0001. too much to be given to the collateral branches of the family, under the present echausted state of the country-. Mr. H. ADDINGTON and Mr. WILBER FORCE both spoke highly in favour of the whole grant. Lord H. PETTY said, that if the House were to admit any reference to the two cases of Lord Nelson and the Duke of Marlborough, such a reference must lead to a very coosiderable augmentation of what was granted by the present Bill, for besides the building of Blenheim, and the estates added to it,the House mast remember there was a pension of 50001. a year from the revenues of the Post-Office which was paid to the present how. He begged ;Ise the House would mill to mind how this sum of 110,0001. which the Hon. Gentleman objeted to, was to be applied. It was not to go to collateral branches of the family; but there was to,kve granted 10,0001. to each of the sisters of the late Noble Lord, whose circumstances, be was sorry to understand, were not the most nourishing; and the great bulk of 90,0001. was to be applied to the purchase of a grand national monument, to promote exertions in others, and to stimulate our brave countrymen to emulate so bright and glorious an example, by 1 shelving them, that Parliament and the country are deeply impres sed with gratitude towards those who fall gloriously in their country's cause; and that they will never fail to remunerate, with a truly British munificence, the glorious achievements of thole hie roes, who so eminently contribute to knew power and to promote the downfall of our and to which exertions we can alone t future safety and security of the country. then went through the Committee, and the report was ordered to be received to-morrow. Berl Temple brought up the Bill for regulate ing Pilots and Pilotage in ships and vessels naviga ing the British Seas ; which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. The Oak Bark Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. The Royal Family Annuity Bill went through a Committee, and the Report was ordere! to be re ceived to-morrow. Sir A. WELLESLEY moved for an Account of the Expence of Printing all Papers respelling East India affairs, during the present Session (ex cepting the India Budget) ; distinguishing the dif fere= classes, tc. INDIA BUDGET'. The House went into a Committee on the ad journed debate on the /tithe Budget. Mr. GRAN F. in a speech of some length, ad verted to the differtme arguments which had beau used on the former night, and entered into a parti cular statement of the affairs of the Company, which, lie leas of opinion, bore at present by no means an unfavourable aspea. He then remarked on the great likelihood there was at present of !hove affairs improving, on account of the treaties which bad been lately negotiates' by Sir George Barlow ; and he concluded by expressing his approbation of them, and declariug that to be the sense of the Direaors. Mr. FRANCIS spoke in explanation of what he had said on the former night; and Mr. LI RAN 1' also explained. Mr. Alderman PRINSEP stated, at considerable length, the circumstances of the Company. He was of opinion, that the great increase of the debt of India requited the sari test investigation, pattie malady as the Proprietors, et a tiros wean no UN a sum was due by the Company than 241,001411190 L were receiving ten and a hail per coot. fur their metier. The lion. Gentleman then advetted to a part of the statement made of the property pos , sassed by the Company to meet this debt, and denied the correftness of it ; as some of the debts due to them in India. would, he said, never be paid; as the amount of the three p= emit. Cessols was stated at par ; and as a part of the debts due by Government aes dibairoweit. Ile then said. that be bad intended to orive tem night. that *Committee should be appoiwestoesansitte into the *Casts of India; bet as the Noble Lord (Led Morpet'.) bad stated, that they should shortly ua- demo a sttiA investigation, he would refrain from making any motion ; but he warned the House, that it some step was not speedily taken, the natio.' tv.,uld be old,ged to take the debts and the elf:at of the Com?aity into their own hands. Viscount CASTLEREAGH said, he did not regard the affairs of India, in the gloomy view of the Hon. Alderman, but thought, that that coun try would yield sufizient resources to enal,le the East India Company to struggle successfully with all their Vficulites, however great, as be admitted they at present were. The Company had a del* outstancliog against them, of 31 millions ; or, tak. ing the capital into calculation, 3!) millions ; a n d possessed assets to the amount of 37 millions. Due. ing thirteen years of war, the ezpences hat amounted to 191 millions, and the revenue of the Company's territory to 133 millions vit that, in this protrafted period of warfare, India had ailually been able to cope with all its es. pence, with the small deficit of .less than two Alit. lions, including the interest of the outstanding debt.. This was a statement sifhich afforded strong earnest, that prosperity might, by the pur suit of energetic and wise measures, be won made the feature of our Indian affairs. The step that wol;!I most conduce to realise the hope of promerit7, would be to reduce the Asiatic debt of the Compaq to an European debt, and to get rid of the extra. vagant interest of nine per cent. which was rail in India for it. He thought Parliament shoot! interfere in this particular, as it had used to do with the loans of Ireland, when that country was distant from this ; and that sums to be in futuTe borrowed for India. should be included in the public loans made for this country, and security taken on the Indian revenue, whilst a part of tile sinking fund should be set aside to cover the in t e r est. The Noble Lord pursued this topic at considerable length, and concluded by observing, that as this IPLIs a novel and comprehensive plan, Gentlemen would feel many objedions, perhaps, to it, on its first blush; which he thought would wear away on mature con sideration. He thought there was a great deal in the ha.incial concerns of the East India Company. that needed to be inquired into ; and thougl:t, that the inquiry should originate with Parliament, and be amieabiy and fairly ebndutted with the Company. Mr. ROBS'JN rose to notice the absence of all His Majesty's Ministers ; and. as he thought bash. ness of so much consequence ought not to be eon duded in so thin a House, be moved, " that it be counted." The Chairman counted the House morainic • and, there being only St ?daubers present (at Hai put Eleven o'Cock) an adjournment took plats of COWS!. THE BRITISH PRESS. LON DON, WEDNESDAY. JOLT 16. A Claim* Council was held, yesterday, at Me. Foit's Office in Downing-street. which was atteaded by Earl Spruces. Viewdata Howie, Lord Gies. va.t.a. Lord MARY PUTT, and Mr. Wzxoaa*. Dispatches were made up, to be forwarded to the Court of Vienna. Several of the troops to be employed in the rt. pedition fitting out for the Mediternmean. 40 ow bark at Ramsgate; but the general readesemeswil be at Portsmouth, where preparadiss sal ow making. Eight companies of the 93th Rifle Regiment boa begun their march from Ospringe; three swerehed, on Monday morning, for Portsmouth, and five am to embark at Ramsgate. The brigs& of Guards ► from Chatham, marci this day and to-morrow. and embark at Portsmouth. The 45th and 62d Regiments commenced their march, yesterday, from Shorncliffe for Portsmouth. Their ground at Shorncliffe will be occupied by the 14th and 91st Regiments from Ashford; the orders for the embarkation of those regiments. having. we understand, been countermanded. a pneumonic complaint. attended with typhus. having been ptv valeta. of which several men of both Regiments have died. The 924 Regiment. from Brabourn Lees. w 4 I Move, in a few days, for embarkation at Portsmooti. The 7th Regiment of the German Legion ban marched from Winchester to Portsmouth. 'lls. ^ I 9th Foot marchei, at the same time, fro" &ester. The Stich Regiment of Foot, now quartered g Battle, the 40th commanded by en!noel Br , owi, the 11th, and sSib, commanded by Colonel Duel, ow? at Hastings, received orders, no Friday, to bog themselves in readiness to march at a reetwent's notice. The Bth Regimect of Foot. commaade4 by Colonel Houostoi, wul do duty at Hoop in their absence. That fine old corps, the 14th Feet, is fe bad a way, from the prevalence of a contagious ver in Ashford barracks, at to be reported sulk Gs , service. and consequently unable to proceed with the Expedition. The Regiment is now under rodeos t go to Stromeliffe camp, where it will rake up tie ground of the 4ith and 61.1 Regitnents,winch march this day and to-morrow for Ise* barracks. Tb• gallant Marquis of I-lunette, who is tiitaAly reco vered from his wounds. goes out with the rarka Lieutenant Generals his brother, Lord Asses:rose Goto is, accompanies his regiment, the 59 h• Lieutenant Cclo.el Campus. t. of the lit le/ meat of Guards, nephew of Earl MANVII.. it 4 Qua cousin cf Lord Cargos, kit t-R*ll r for e r e, bas Fr cil M Fc cc da it Si fr ti ti fi o. a 1 f • lad 1%- I*. the es- ral MW ova hoil, •