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• • •' • Mr. Cooke. fie did not know 4r,Cooke intimately, hut from what he had two of him—from his ap. pretence, and the gravity of hi, character—(largii reel—he ehoold hare thought him well fitted for the trust. Ministers might have appointed • y ger man, whose habits might have given him better opportunities for examining into the facts ; het Mr. Cooke was a man of grave habits, and, as as h e n ia l e rstnod, his fiats. Friend was to speak to the portly of his character. He knew no foreign lingoiroe. This witianother pledge, that he would pnt.ue the inquiries no further than was proper. and not fallow, es an intriguing attorney would have done, with a resolution to establish a case. let the circumstances be what they might. As to the examinations. they were conducted with all those guards and forms of justice which were exercised at home, lie (Lord C.) would pledge his own character on the manner of taking the depositimis. Whenever the evidence should come before the Howse, he was certain that there would he no second opinion upon that subject. He hoped, then, that he had repelled the idea that en Officer of the Crown was to blame for not disregarding such rumour. as disgraced hi. country. He hoped that he had repelled the ethjections to Mr. Cnoke's character end con duct, its well as that of the whole Commission. The Hon. General upon inquiry would find, that no remuneration had yet been made to the Gentlemen who had need as Commissioners, nor that any expenses had been gone to on account of the Commission, but to defray travelling and other indispensable charge.. He did not know that it was neeessary to go further into the question at that moment ; he could assure the gallant General, that, when the proper time for explanation should come, he should feel no wish fur mystery—he should be prepared to enter into the most full and open discussion of the transaction and its character Hear. Gear/—but he felt himself hound to protest against this premature mode of forcing on a podial examination of the subject—f flearl— it savoured too much of party fretting.—(Hew.)— He most express his most decided disapprobation of that zeal which would hurry the House into the midst of die proceeding before they had well cow menced—(Henej—and which would drag on piece. Third no inquiry into the collateral circumstances, before the principal ones and the foundation of the proceedings were onderstood.—(Heee.)--Surely it sVls natural to wait till the foundation was under. 510011 : then would be the time to estimate the con. de. t of his Majesty's Minister., and if it were not rinlainrd sathfactortly, it would be open to the voiotedversione of Hon. Members. But he must protest against the present course, by which, when die most grave and important question, en accusa tion e t otiost the Queen. wus under the consideration of Parliament, it was attempted to turn aside at t.aitinti from this to a charge against his Majesty's Government. He hoped he did not ask too much of the House, whets he required that they would suspend their opinion, both on the merits of the Cisse and the conduct of himself anti his colleagues, till they were in possession of further dit• from which to make a deduction. He protested again ugaitht the present motion, because by it he was dragged, in justice to the character of professional and respectable individuals. to give imperfect and garbled explanations, the state in which the hives option stood not permitting him to enter more fully into them. He should certainly net meet the motion by a negative, but he should move the pre. sians ltt-stion; and he hoped the fate of the mo tto'. would operate as a warning to Gentlemen op. loon's., not to let their zeal get the better of tlwir toolerstnnding—(Cheers front the Ministerial Reacher) —to Pet things thenceforward take their mound course, which would allow • proper opportu. slily lot exploration ou all the points connected will. toil great and painful question—end thus save the character of Parliament from being lowered in the eyes of the country end all Europe, by exhibiting tfietzt, when a most moinentots* question was before them, ur not occupied with it in the manner its Importance required, bat engaged in these petty spies‘tiOnt, whose apparent object was to gain some iolsatitage over hi. Majesty's Miniaters.—( Hear, hear.)—All he claimed was. that inquiry might he .postponed till the character and conduct of Go 'err 1111 l eto, and the other individuals who had been concerned in this delicate tratuaction, could be fully aiefentled. The Noble Lord concluded by moving the previous question. 'The qiiestion having been put-- Mr CItEEVEY said, that notwithstanding the Lord's animadversions, and protests, and ^WU r, he should still maintain that his gallant Friend's proposition was a perfectly just one, and that the present was the time whets each a motion Atotilit with propriety be made.—( Hear, hear.) — The motion bed been delayed till the proceediugs in the other House of Parliameut had assumed a dirtinet shape. But the proceeding there was a most extrnortlinery and anomalous one; it was by st lilt—a Bill which called her Majesty the most 'mid:slows name., and imputed to her the must disgearefill offeuces. Such was the state in which *hi. 'artier Majesty; and then his gallant Friend said, if you affix theft charges on her Majesty, let we. see the nature and character of this eter. nal Milan Commission by which the charges have been brought into existence—(Hear.)—Court any thing be more fair than to wish to ore by whet means thecontents of that bag, which had never been opemit in that House, had been scraped together ? —(/fear.)—lt was perfectly new for the King to grmo his Commission to follow any of his subjects so fereign parts—(Hear)—lo hood them there with rail witnesses, and lawyer., under the protec ;ion of foreign Potentatra.—(llear.)—The Host. Gentleman then proceeded to enimedvert on the conduct of the Vice-Chancelior, in relation to the transaction, whom he represented as a person in- Raining the mind and feelings of the Sovereign of toe country while investigation was going ea; they had a right to have the Vice-Chnocelior Issfisze them, as a disturber of the public peat, ef the Country.—(r largh)—He entreated the Hoene would hear him. In 1814, it was supposed that ae arrangement lad bees come to of all totaling (116, ferences between their Majesties. and that under the management c: the present Ministers. it was, therefore, quite impartible that they cook' here permed her with this inquiry. He mid thee* that it was tiger:room who attested the mind end feelings of hie Sovereign on she qweatien.--(Cries of " Order."/-.41i hail mid **thing disorderly...he ' r repeated, that it was that person who hid stirred up the Mind filed possirisis of the King alienist her Alsjesiy.—,(Cries of " 'Prder.")—To bin e we owed it -that the most dangerous inviestie K ein e was Sponging over the empire. And now for the Commis/on. awl the infarstetion cower/oil by this lawyer, this Corniniseioner. and hi. confederate the Enineror of Aostria.—(4 /4'444—His Ma. jesty's Ministers had been in possession of the in formation produced by this Commission twelve months: they mast, therefore, have considered it of • private mature; it could not hove remained en long unlocked o n , if considered to contain matter of public accusation. In the same feeling. negociee *ions were carried out with the Queen at St. Ornery ; again when she came to England. Then came this green bag with its rollout contents. Vice-Chancellor Lewis then, he said. was the person answerable if Parliament went through with x Bill which, if passed, would lead to the sub version of the laws and roust's, iition of this kingdom. He said, that if the Bill should he carried, the laws and constitution of this country would be utterly subverted, and no man safe ; therefore. he nisintsiawil that Parliament had a right to know who had been the adviser of the Commission ; he was en enemy to his Sovereign, for no man could tell in what situation the King would be placed before this Bill should be enacted. The case was, in point of fact, one of a private nature. The King wished to get rid of Isis Queen, then he came to Parliament to assist him in effecting that object. But hi* Majesty must submit to coins to Perlis. anent in the same manner, and to be placed in the same situation as all other persons applying with similar views. All persons who came into is Court of Equity MOM come with clean bends.—(Cris of " Order," and "hear, hear."/—Fie thought that the scriptural sentence, " he that is without aim among you, let him cast the first stone," was ape plicable to the present case.—(Cries of " Order.7l —The lion. Gentleman then made several Moore ration.. in • very impressive manner, but in • lola tone of voice, in consequence of which their exact , import could not be collected in the gallery. He had before. he proceeded. humble so individual as he was, warned the House to.bewsre of the coulee queoces of entering on this investigation ; because Ise was certain that proceedings by a 13i11 of Pains and Penaltier, and the inquiriee connected there with, would not only shake the laws, the forms, and principles of the Constitution, but most me jurinuely affect the habits and manners of the greet mass of the community. This was all he should say, except to declare has couviction that injustice to the Queen there was au absolute necessity foe acceding to the motion. • Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, bet the previousimituit was subsequently carried without a digitalis, TURNPIKES. Mr. F. Lewis obtained leave to bring in • 111 to impend the genera Turnpike Act. MARTRIR OF THE ROLLS. ' Mr. W. COURTSWAY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to appropriate the rents of the Rolls Estates to the Master of the Rolls. KINGS MESSAGE—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Lord CASTLIZRAGE in rising to move the order of the day for postponing the seder for the ride adjourned debate o* the King's Message standing for to-marrow, commenced by animadverting with warmth on the speech delivered by Mr. Crrevey ; but. in consequence of some confusion in the House, the first of Ilia Lordship's ob.ervetions escaped our attention. He complained that the Honourable Member had transgressed all bounds of decency ; and. in speaking of his Sovereign, had wholly disregarded the considerations of that delicacy which on such a subject was due to the feelings or soy private individual. He solemnly and in the face of the House protested against the statements of the Hon. Member it. relation to his Majesty's motives in the !present distressing investigation.— Hear, Ater.)--No Hon. Member who knew any thing of the history of the transaction could assert that his Majesty. mind was in any degree intim enced by the feelings imputed to itiin.—(//ser.).- Nuthing wet less founded on Get, or less iinputs ble to his Majesty throngliout the whole course of the affair.—/Hear.)—No men could with any truth say that his Majesty in his conduct lied been sc. lusted by soy sentiment of • malignant natuye-e. (Hear)—on the contrary, he had expressly stated, that whatever might be his sense of peewits! wrong and injury, that should be wholly merged in the considerations of public convenience—Vitali—. r. el his Majesty had earnestly lent himself tam every effort which heel been made to save the country front the disagreeable and painful coesepteucesof investie onto. if Parliament was engaged in it, it was not owing to his Majesty, but to the wanner in which her Majesty had conducted herself. and the country owed nothing but gratitude to his Majesty for the efforts which he had allowed his Ministers to make le escape the great difficulties of the inquiry. But it. was unnecessary to say more mu this subject, for if the Hon. Member was possessed of ordinary feeling. reproof must have been more strongly con. veyedio leui by the tone rind temper in which lair observations lied been received by the House, than by any thing which he (Lord Castlereagh) could titter.—(Cheers frons the ministerial side./—His Lordship then referred to, and briefly described the different steps which had been taken in the House, since his Majesty's Message had Area first cominuiticated, down to the last order for adjourn. lug the debate thereupon till to-morrow. in nom. ing that day for the resumption of the debate, be had at the Mine time stated, that if a definite course of proceeding should is the mean time be origiusted in the other Howe, it would be more convenient and more consowent to usage to frame their subsequent proceedings with • regard to that measure. sod in order to take it up from the House of Lords if it should appear eepedieist. Since that time the House of Lords hediatstituted proceedings against her Majesty of a very distiad nature, and by a Report of a Committee thee Oti their table, it was ascertained that a Bill of Paint and Peuallies was now pending iii the sitlwr House. On this ground he couceiverf the all the romps for going on with the debate to-morrow isiedtt bad ceased to exist. end that her Majesty's views in desiring investigation, would be more advanced by stand still fur the present. and suffering that measure to be prosecuted. thou by any new step which could be adopted here; and lie hoped the Howe would here no object toe to desist from . .• acting. and to pottpnne the order to a more distant day. The onlyereetion then was. What the Nonce I ought toile with the papers nn the tattle, sent by Order or his Nighty ; and he certainly believed that they would be of *nisei. that their resolution in relation to them should be of a susprositre, rather than a C011ele.11 , 1! stature. It wee imposible for him to call the attentiols of the Howe to all the possible circuludeni:es which feeder it desirable that they should still hove the papers before them ; but that very difficolty remold be a reason against coming to a decision. on the supposition that the House would have nothing further to do with them. A cm*e might easily aria in which it would be siecesesry for the noose to look et the information in the papers ; it might be necessary. in order to determine the question whe ther Ministers had acted properly or improperly throughout the transaction. Again, it could be imagined that the proceedings commenced in the other House might be discontinued there ow Freund* not very intelligible or satisfactory here. in which cave the House would leave to Cu,,. sitter whether any other proceeding should be originated, and thus the papers became mate rially necessary. Let the snore obvious case be put, that the Bill passed the other House and came down here, then the House would deal with it in the ordinary manner. But in the other ease, that the House of Lords, utter hearing the evidence on both sides, had refused their sanction to the Bill. tl*n it would necessarily appear very proper that the House should investigate *Hart what grounds and cireumst • so very grave a charge had been brought before Parlianseist, end an acquittal pronounced, in which view the informa tion on the table would be very important to be looked to, bat it was still more ou with a view to ex amining the conduct of Ministers should the Bill Therefore. in all theoe eases, he did not think that the House unsold now see it right to put an end to the order growing out of the King's Mee sage. After a few further remark.. hie Lordship said be should move, that the order for the adjourned debate to-morrow on the King's Message of the 6th Jame should be remit, fur the purpose of postpon ing it till the 15ih August. If the House should happen not to be witting on that day. it would only became a lapsed ordea l , nod, if necessary, might be afterwards revived. The question Isavinibeen put—. Sir M. W. RIDLEY said. lie should not detain The House by observation.. of any length. or irrek. sant to the subject, which he thought might better be left out of the dircossuite—(Hear, leer.).-.He did not look 011 the question as nue of party—. Vieur)—.lie looked on it as a question between the - Queen end the public, and by that principle all the totes which lie had given, or should give on the Subject. were and should be geverned.—(Hear.l— had cause to regret that the Address present. ed to her Majesty had not been attended with ;the results expected from it ; at the issue time lie should say, that had he been aware of the extent to which the charges spinet the Queen were to he carried. he did net think that hits vote would have been given is the manner it was; on the contrary. be thought that his Majesty's Mi nisters abandoned their duty to their Sovereign. if being acquainted with the heinousness of the Agrees now proposed against her Majesty. and believing theta (and he gave them bill credit for believing them), they had advised him to accede to a compromise. But he wished to confine himself strictly to the proposition of the Noble Lord. The Noble Lord wished to keep this question in the House in a suspensive, not a conclusive state ; now he differed altogether from the Noble Lord, he wished it to be placed in a conclusive and not a suspensive state. The quest' lied now resumed a very dif ferent shape from the time of the last adjournment; a Report was uow on their table, which ;hewed that since that period a very strong proceeding had keen commenced against her Majesty in the House of Lords. Now he put it to the House, whether. while that illustrious individual was standing defending herself at the bar of the House of Lords, they would keep an order impended over her head, which might lead to a second charge, if she should have the good fortune to be acquitted of the first. Did the Noble Lord mean to say, that if the Ministers should fail in proving the preamble of the Bill in the other House, and her Majesty Maisie an acquittal, that this House should then examine the papers. and institute a new charge ? He was aware that a Grand Jury, after ignoring one hill. Height find a new one against the same Defendant, but it mast be on a separate case. If then the charge agai..st her Majesty failed, was she not to have time benefit of a general principle of law ? With respect to the Noble Lord's request, that the papers might be kept on the table that the House might have wherewithal to f 1 an accusation against hlinisterv, in case of her Majesty's ac quittal, he had to observe that it was not by the evidence in the bag their conduct was to be judged of, hat by the evidence which they should produce distinct from that. These were Isis reasons for op. posing the motion. The Ilan. Gentleman then proposed that the older blioold be discharged. Lard CASTLEREAGH, in explanation, said (is we understood) that it never could be the intention of Luis Majesty's Ministers to raise a new accusation against the Queen. if the fiist failed of its merits. Mr. BENNETT said. that the country would go along with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Creevey) iu the obse;rvations he had made. He could not give his Mniesty's Ministers credit for - believing the charges contained iii the preamble of the Bill ; for, ewer tabling that impressiots, he could slot conceive that their conduct would have been such as it was. The House was told that by their recommendation the King of England lent himself to an accommo. dation wills a Queen, whom they considered, ou this supposition, as guilty—of what ? licentious con. duct and adultery ! She was :u be addressed ss Queen by both Houses of Parliament, and her right to that title to be communicated to :may Court in Europe where she should fix her resliteuce. Was it credible that Ministers, with mud* an impress sign. should have made each toiscesoions ? Be. sides, he had another reason fur thinking that his Majesty's Ministers slid not give credit to the eccuiustious. A Right Hue. Cronyism) among them (Mr. Canniug) had said nit a former night. That his esteem, respect. and 'Election for Majesty ren.siised unabated ; so that he heel the evidence of oust of tbetu, that is opinion her Majesty was , . as white as snow. In every part of the country a en sentimt of respeCt for her Majesty, .adbeßei her innocence , hail been crested. in conseqttence of the defiance she had thrown. down to the Ministers. In ferns* she Ciransittee the. Noble. Lord said that his two Hon. and !Awned Friends, the Quern's Attorney and Sdiciraw.Gerwral, mast he Irff out. A verdict was determined to he got. and if it could not be had in one wey it must be hail in another. In rimming the Committers one would have sup. posed that they would have ncted oil the principle that, I.lte Coerar's wife. they should not roily be pure (into guilt. bat above all sosirienm of guilt. What then could the et ttttt tty it.y when they saw four ‘lembere of Ins Majesty's Caws. , ttttt eat on that i.s the ether House, rod at !Lao heed of it the keeper of the King's conscience ? Ni , result could flow from such a Committee hat one. The Queen called for trial—but it was a fair trial she called foe; but the Grand Jury against her contained on it her prosecutors, and was wfirrwards to be termed into a Petit Jury. , It was *ga m s .' this injustice that the voice of the people was raised. He cautioned the mailagera of the toward* how it might end—oto man could me %h u t m i g ht b e the consequence*. He WWI neither for the King nor the Queen, but for public lattice. There was no ludo• widensl that would cuter into this iiivestigatiou, when it should come before the House, with less of party feeling shin himself—he should do his duty stoutly. 00 the our side he saw a helple.s and desolate woman. Who was her opponent ? The King, possessing in the very House where her Majesty was to be placed on her trial a direct and powerful ilia ttence—having at los dip l omat dignities, and titles. and rrbbauds, rod orders-- Lord CArTLEREAOII appealed to the Chair, whe. titer it was l iarliamentary or constitutional to im pute to the king an interference with either noose of Parliament, or to attribute to hie Majesty acts which, in the eye of the constitution, could be does only by his Minister.. The SPEAKER said, it was certainly uncntnititur tional to impute to his Majesty an interference with either House of Parliament, begzed the House, and the Honourable Member himself, to re collect in what ao awkward situation the person who filled that chair, and the Howe, and the Hone Member himself, would be placed by tram rowing the orders of the House, in spirit or letter, in the discurrions on the present must distressing subject. Mr. BENNETT spologired ; and after a variety of ether observations, said it was his intention to support the motion of hie Hon. Friend (Sir M. W. Ridley), because he was friendly to any thing which tended to put a stop to farther inquiry. Mr. TIIIINLY stated the course he had ne.ready pursued during the previous agitation of this un fortunate business, and thought the time had now arrived when it became him to mato the course he should take daring its future investigation. He now felt himself in the painful situation of meti n g as a judge, about to be called oil to decide. so far as his voice went, upon the most s-rims and im portant subject which had ever called for the coo. aideration of Parliament. He always felt great re. gret when he was unable to participate in opinion with any of the Gentlemen with whom he was iu the habit of acting, and with whom he was always most anxious to act. But though he was a party man, and had ever avowed I ' If to belong to what was called a party, yrt he would always recollect lie bed a paramount duty to per form to the public, in itoiug which he trusted he should be ever found to speak out his own sentiments manfully.—(hear, hear.) —With th.t candour he must now say, that he hews' with great regret much of what had been this night said by an Hon. Friend behind him (Mr.Creevey).—(Hear. bear, hear.)—His othei. Hon. Friend (Geis. Fer guson) certainly mood free from reproach in the fair and honourable manner in which he had intro. duced his motion—a motion, however. in which he (Mr. Tierney) had no connexion, and one which, by meddling in the present stage of the proceeding. and isitrodocing. as it were, iocidental ute•ter, was so liable to misconstruction, that had the piratical gone to a division, he should certainly hive felt himself compelled to refrain from giving it h.s sup pure.—/Hear. hear, from ihe Treasury Benches! —From this day forward he felt that the House stood committed to proceed judicially. They now knew that a Bill haul been instituted against the queen in the House of Lords, and it was only fair to presume that those who instituted it bad suffi cient grounds to justify the step they had taken. Whets the proceeding's upon that Bill came down from the Lord. to them (if they did ever so come down), it would be time enough for hum to state his opinion upon the whole case, at present be should await the proceedisigs in painful suspense. The discussion was else which must be viewed with great ~.in, but it was one in which every man must be prepared to do his duty calmly and dispassion• alely.—(Near. hear.)—The subject was not one in which the King was the accuser--(Hear,rear).... but in which the people of England were the ac+ center and the Qom, the accused.—(Hea►, hear.) —Her Majesty was entitled to•that which, be trust ed, she should ever receive—impartial justice.— lis Ilse future course of these proceedings, a threat of recrimination bad been tauntingly thrown out. On that point he rhould now say nothing; but when the proper day for delivering hit sentiment' upon the whole proceedings arrived, then, without free or apprehension of popular clamour ma the one hand, or Court favour on the 'ether, he should do Mr duty calmly. impartially, and firmly. to the best of hie judgment. Such %hook, be hit course. and he recommended its adoption to others.— (liter. hour.) —Having said thus much, he should only add, that he was indifferent to the selection of the two motions before the House. His, Hon. Friend's. of the two. he certainly thought the more manly one. After what had occurred it would be a mockery to talk of any longer talking the King's Message into consideratiost."—(lieur.)-- The case was 'Wu!. to receive iurestigstiou, and week' probably reach them in doe course. They had, it was true. the green hag. and they kites iliac monbiog could be dune upon it without a specific atratiou. He. however. thought it right to ask, if it was uncoiled. rhould any ertifopce.ealdneed else. where fail. to protium this has..soonts supply the deficiency in any mare of proemallins in Hun /loose ? 11.014 CAIITLERRaGH reialteal. that there'll's+ no • intention of making use o f the evident* ia that bag - • • for the purpose of supplying any degoinucy. Amid welt mire elaerrhere...-(Hermi 64 Mr. WYNN raid. the only object of the tw ittar tious before the House was to keep the ease a:II regularly Is enc. While the bag remained on their table, it ILIA competent far them to i n atitaie soy proceeding they ',lmbed ; he thoirgio. !her-- fare, the hest course would be to disetrwre itw or der rimpecting the Message altogether. Up.rn subject of the power of impeeclonsent lie twigged to toy a few words, in cousegettnce of what had beau said elsewhere. It was mid, that 'srlierr no to. thetasent could he framed for the strecidc crino N aim impeachment could not be considered 'trimly w ieldy ap t :hobble. This doctrine he denied a lt.,. gether.—he denied that an impeachment nod an to ilictioent were convertible terms. Aal :O Woo tit dream al going up to Flicker Gall with an indict merit against a Minister for signing the Treaty of Utrecht, or any other Treaty ? Whp wank , have thought of an indictment against Mr. ilsonigo, (at commencing the Mahratta war ? 'flit Knox' was not a party in this awe, any more floor he was in any other public acter--(fieur.)—He strongly contended for the propriety of their calmly at.,{ dispassionately considering the question. Mr. KECK, we understood. praised the Net of the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Tier nil), and expremed himself prepared tor fallow k g example. He should. therefore, dismiss front his P-collection all he had hitherto beard *gainer the. Queen, and nothing hut proofs, the inostotaimaing proof., *liould make hint believe her Majesty gi.l:l 3 r of this charge. He should pursue • straight for. ward course, determined to do his dory boutatly, 'mowed by popular clamour, and uoi.iflttenceill hiv say thing but the evidence in the case. Lord CASTLEREAGH said. lie had no partiality for one of the motions before the Howe arty more than the other, except so far as the 'notion kept the case still in a pin liamentary forte before the If the Chair could indulge them with advice .t. ie which motion WS/ beat calculated to keep the ~- ter in Parliament, be should readily acquiesce.— (Hear, heir.) Mr. TIERNEY thought it rather hard to cull on tar Speaker fur any op ' which may by pow bility involve the merits of the ease. The SPEAKER observed, that his answer shoal not touch on the merits of any case. Ile sl.otilrt merely say, that the adoption of either motion) would not divest them of the papers a:reedy brought into the House. _ Lord CASTLIREAGH then consented to discharge the Order or the Dly for resuming the &bar on .the King's Message lu-morrow ► which was dm charged accordingly. _ SUPPLY. PROPERTY OF TILE LATE KING—THE QUEEN. The Caartcrrroa of the EXCHEQUER ionised the Order of the Day for receiving the Report of the Committee of Supply. Iu an .w er in questions from Mr. Hone; The CHANCULLOR of the EICT/llQUlCUllpidMiet Bill would be brought in to make prolfiretitre regulatums for the allowances to his lee Majesty 's • servants, and that a sum adequate to the previous annuity to the Queen should be still continued until the question respecting her Majesty thus fi ootiy determined. Mr. BROGDEN brought up the Reptirl, nand no the first Resoluti 111 l being read— Mr. Hums desired explanation respecting a suns of 79.0001. and smother very large mu. which were set down to the civil contingencies of 1.. t He also desired explanation respertii g two items in page 6—one was • charge of pf u, and the other of 1,034/. which were stated to arise nut of the disturbances in the metropolis, in the coon. try, and in different parts of the 1111 l tit of Eng land. What expenses were these r 40,0001. had been already voted for lase charges liming ant of these absinth:nicer. The Secretary for she Department ought to explain the nature of these large expenses. Mr. CLive replied, that the sums alluded to were voted in the estimates last year. for the ex penses of magistrates. clerks, and extra police, who were sent on duty, and to take deposition, in dif ferent parts of the country. Mr. HUME said, that Magistrates had • claim upon their own districts for retnutieration on ac count of expenses incurred in the reglortaance of their duty. He admitted that there wits something in the allusion to the expense of extra police. Mr. Ci.tvc explained. Mr. Huse also requested explanation respecting a sum of 1,6001. and one of 4.4001. siattsl to be for French refugee clergy and laity ♦ descendents of those who came to thee country on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Some termination ought nor, after a century, to he put to this expenditure, which ought not to go un ist perpetuity. Mr. ARBUTHNOT said, the first item was under the superintendence of the Archbishop of Canter. bury ; and he could see no chance of its reduction from the nature of the claims upon it. But the second was in daily progress of being considerably reduced. The original expense under this heed amounted to 40.0001. or 00.0001.; but by the r e. gulation of 1811. no new pensioner could, as *de scendant of the former one. be put upon the last. The course of stature was, therefor., fast reducing the Pension List. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH had no objection to see a small sum still devoted to the French Protestant Clingy in this metropolis. Mr. NUDGE expremed himself satisfied with the explanation he had recrivrd. He then requested information respecting 33.1081. which was ended to have been mild ono account iif Bills drown fro* abroad by Governors ow savant of rapist rd seams; tO,OOOl. would be footed elaewhere appropriated ns a similar ussosorr. He did nut quarrel with the allowance of 401. for reels eaptnred negro, but he did essatplaie that Governors were out ordered to spprrotiee out stigrur* to the planters, who would be sexism to pet throw, instead of krepieg threw iw fans is their ewer bosom aIifeGOIFIWINION ittesetted that be lead not the paper of chtildeslll4,o4/41* -hp him, which might pt t nape afford the ouphlimikie soeiptelty Ast Illiao.Musebar. He braid. how. 404411* say, that 01.0•111= 1 : mo ttbe Colter. were ehars , tl wilblbe wire of weetweell who won to be suitably out. If twelve , 1 awe existed, it should he. Impliiseal item ohm: owl. and remedied if beat, valet. that a lame ponies of Woe istmerelletfle4 ii. had Weir Mow by the Guesser if lime iwrtew~ ale. liiiteeeebeessal lo the mom haiabiemlit so we., that be hem a meat osimild ear s.. widow rat imwereed etreargeogrot et' tbe Pidweiliee ilt mad OA enema of Willi* Osman di reftattlll.l.l4m4 t with a amnia malty sod . • 14.41,.. . . , . 4.,%.11111141ti1r 1 /, iL is a i ! ' , ' 1 _,_ . iar, ._. • a~