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pointment of. either of .Ititetilott e Fiends; and as , were not to,be exclusively confided in. - He should , the Noble-Lord, elfho, had. r priginally recommereled !,next proceed to reed the nante7,7 those whom lie a . _ the Committee, haetib r f - atipoint6d any - perscin, in proposed to tie 'appointed afetheCtenrnittee, itireeat-e► office,' lie should adhere to 'his precedent. His Hon. ing, at the same time, that the House would- eete Friend (Mr. Bourne) being now in office, vetild not :ruse liiin trona beieg a member of it, according •to therefore be proposed on lip Committee, though .it... titl&t.g 4 ,ig i. by which any Nlereber who proposad a quitted by the Noble Lotel oppOsite of the el - etre-o'' C'ittlq`iiitt(46,r-lieCante himself a Member of it.' . I.' he urged against him f and 'the Hon. Baronet; 'eating • foilb4iltliViitetbe Gentlemen hie proposed ea-a • under theinflnence efu sense of delicacy greeter than , -•oo,o44aKair Cominittet—Mr.. Ji.in'tcoi Mr. Pidchs)ph, the occasion callpakfor, had requested that' he might. . I ,. ..o r O vt g a t i . ti. - i Vr it r i v ;l: l ic i n r i . ;: I ( , : i r r at . t v 7 . , c L a o v rl a , ( ‘ bi l i :chl ‘ h i i r ilti N ti . r a til v t e o r n t , not Jae : proposed, as . it appeared to' be the' opi- ' aft. A ideanan.cointie, Jr. Ormieil..and . - NI r. T. Baring. tiotiVeerne Members of 'the House of Commons New Nfi - . iNeYis— et ; . Leyhtter, Mr: ' Al . derma d n i. Stf , aw, -i• • that "farther explaeation was necessary.eeHe.- i. 1 1 ,i r r ... fit i , :,v i k t r i s' i r r i i ? .t % :: e li' Vilt i f r itilr; : rit i ' r. ll l l l i llF L A iniir i r ilbt ei n r' • couiskorathelp here calliogeo the recolle,c,tipte,ec the 4 J ewis; Ali'. P. Cared,' Mr. Leslie. Koster, Mr. Itycivr, Mr. I : House the manner in whirl) the Committee ho .i, eee eili tel e4iii Mr. W ) vai!.. ' . . originallS' appointed, so different from eny'aiiii it- ! - -Th ese ~,sere the perions whcinflie wisheA to have tee that had ever been appointed by Nrliapieni, Itu. l ''. appointed,on 'the Compaittee ; and, he truated;' that compesedeamdsteelteaiusively, at one ileaeroloo, of ,J. the flonse-would be sensible Of the propriety'of the Per!nnsa s,"l l 4re leelArly. tNo persons upon , it who , aeleetiop.he lead a rvaile, They would obstrve l that could -be supposedeTrom their Parliernenaary Con- in, lee hate there were two . of 'the NOrthecie.„___Meto dud, friendly to - tfieliteieut Administration.: three -.- beas I . pr SC4and, namely, Lord Arehibald t 'ffiti others were not. biassed ;inwards either .1);iTly,: LIMO eiud-'Mr. ,Rlitherford ; and two - for 'lreitiild),Alr. all the.aest were 1 4I1(:3 11; %Mild be diaposed te eieve eGrattatiaaeci,Wfr, Vaster. It was,bis intention itt c gfo. subjeds in' the same light with the Noble LOrd: * J - N- t - tolinaArt l prOposed Mr. Dawson, but he underst6od , Cotrunittee so appointed conic! not be' im pailtkilaj or • ' ; tutu „hi, 'hal nor' yet' taken his seat. Raving said answer the expeatatiens of the House .orahealleblie• . thus much, heslehiltleirst mciVe that i Committee:be As he did not mean to cidaree the ; number heyend, . appointed to incpaire into what checks might be,ne 1,. twentyHfive, the ntliobt.r of A hid) the'foriner . Coni- I cessar y for reducing the public expenditure, and for rnitteehad consisiA: because that - was iti6 greotest di n li ms hi ng the amount of salaries, &c. He should • nurnberaliat could convenikntly assemble -for liusi- ; then propose the -Members indieidually. ?less, he meant to exclude some of tic -fornw.r : .0 0 elle question .being.put upon the first Motion, Members, in order to introduce•dtliera;for the niere. ! • . Lord ,hr... P ETTY said, that it would be itnpossi impartial constitution of the Cotninittee: The five : ble for hint. nut to admire the candour Of the Right that had , been removed by the, eventof the :eleatee ; Hon. Gentleman, who, atethe moment of moving were not enough ter that purpose, ens' the House i f o r the . appeintinent of-a Committee of.lnquiry, would in its discretion decidenpon that point. In the :, had introduced his.'Motien by a gross and partial appointment of the Committee also, he •Meant to statement of tiai, winch the Cornmittee was to de adePt the suggestion of the Noble Lord, by giving e ele.ieson; - lie said the' statement was gross and the preference to. tile appointment of it -openly partial:, because it was eineupported by any . docu to , a ballot, lt was his opinion, that the. ap- mew: He did not impute any :unfair intention pointment by ballot was in ,general to be preferred. to ' tile Might Honourable Gentleman wtio'appeared Nothing-couldabe, more invidious than the dis- to hint to have spoken -from that bias ulhiCh.Gentle cussing whether any , particular individual was a men.on.either side of the House u.suallyTelt. It' he proper person to' he appointed on .the Committee ; shriold.fail of refuting the observatiens of. the Hon. arid also the fitness of e peasons to a& together upon lael4ert eeaate it was because he had no notice of the .. Stich a Committee, could be better -consulted by inea Y aiiiiiika*inkceuld not have heed the advantege of con- dividuals Making out their lists fora ballot. He had - .suitingthtise documents which would ha enabled acceded, however, to the' euggestion of the Noble !din to repel it. , The condua of the RigtieHon. Gcu- I Lord, because he would thereby get rid Of tiny tiernairevais the more''exteaordinary, as he had-shel suspicion that mly thing was intended •Which they tete4 an Hon. Barodet; on - the preceeling night, froM i were afraid to ;,vow opetily• - 'Reibi'e he n)4le: any the • etYeCts of a charge against him, till a single ' Motion; he should reed over the 'List of the Com- decetnent ' should be produced to justify ; and yet, mittee he meant to propose, in order that the House i without anydocuineuts to bear him out, that Right might see whether he Lid otitreiiiinetttheindSeetli: Hon..Gentlethin called upon the House to receive , dent Members of , :ahe late Committee. He• hurl al-.. his varioUicharges against his Majesty's late. Mieie . ready stated the teseeisity efnaaking some alteration , . sters. Unprepared as he must be from- his ignorance. in the constitution of the CoMmittee, because there of the intention,or attack of the Right Hon. Gentle- were many . tiOs of the la St Administration w !licit -, mane he,ahceltd, so far as his memory served - him, ! would be suble6ts of inquiry. He could state many endeavour to follow the Right Hon. Gent.. through ; bets 'Willett would induce the House - -not to erest• his:statement-One of the Charges made by the Hon. , with - implicit confidence .to those who were Ciis..- ' Ceialetnart was, the appointment of a Colle4el tom: posed only to }liaise the Tate Adioluktration, and. :the Port of Buenos Ayres. 'Would not every Gee li'l6, by their 6 ‘ .4 - 46 eai - ing' ''t'hnritY in thd coop - Aleitiiiri. ima;;;,,,,, from the tti;inner in which this rafittce, might keep : back -the inquiries him their charge had,been urged, that a considerable expence particular ads. eTtielateaMinisters had expressed was incurred, a heavy burtlien • accrued in conse tlatiniglves, on the:fit-at' apeointment of the Coto- quence tp the Public? Was it not common caridoni, anittereavery., muelt,avose , --to. the grant of. places or rather was it not a gross want of candour in the in isveTfißpj lt :Air, .Was., however, one instance Right Hon. Gent. hot to have stated,. thaeau expetice to which attention had .been called, of theif hay - was to be incurred on the part of the - Public, till the ink; a' 's l hot-f' time. befofettl4weieent of ofiire, duties of', the W ere to be performed on the re ap-pointatooflieosiiirettersterrof a na4itt ere s traordina- i taPriire of R r eenos A.yres?:considerableinconyeniencb . ry eature ; lie alluded to the aPpeint ment of It Collet:- hedebeen telt, from the want of.an establish ment.for keep4,4etve,yotetef.,qteateens in Ote,pert, of, Liellos * tbipilqiion of the Duties iii the first : instance, anti Ap.o, Vplace not Mien in t'he possession . 81 hi 4 Ma- ' the appointment had been made to guard against a Tliesci: wi?tre'feverSiOnary grants to take place bikonithiitlnCiirtaifreptitingelloA and made ley, those ', si!lliiirr Inconvenient:cid the re-e.aptureoffhe Settle ine'l ir. Heitlid not exactly remember' t Ile:precise time Gentlemen who appeared to he so :lice on this sub- et w hi c h tipt e eppoiunnetit took place. The Right ifft t aTtA lel24sl) 4%14 Wl9ct(i;lfintl stated, ,aitle . eit 4 I fon'. Gelitletnen had renewed his statement with re zteitez any . opittionePo ‘ e the propriety of appeilittaeg eepeet"to theittipointment of the Surveyors of T41)6, iltielffillicers,',thelioritinathin of ifireeihunalreTStir- :1 aMeasure Which had originated with the Commission= eltitOriabeTaxei Trief 'nomination - was. foundednn' a 'ers..of 'reees. ..As to the nomination of the.Oflicers, ' altpreirnlntinu „front., titp.,4:;oininissiPtier 9f, 1-'4AP I f. • some might hate beep so nominated,' but since theii ena4e. in. :,IVleteh, 1,80,.5 0 but tlita ;Appoint meet could :• matter lied been mentioned, several persons had stated, ii(;t tikt4lace , till thedlinaitie.l.4 w'ats sebneitteclee Par- to, hire, that they had recommended individuals to liainent'c Mrhelf the'Diiihititiou took placii in 000- . .ile offici;; but it 'had been uniformly answered, fir; without any santiionef -.Paricu — nent having been thdt no.appointrnent could take .place, without the oblaiped for . these . appointments, ,the persons were sanclioe,ot Perliainent., Anotilet charge was the ..,ileAtiated to the otiices,. in _the. „w ay the NebleLord crea ti on o f affi n oce, te .which some may obie't, but iirld 7 daid'en dfartner nighi: 'lll6mbei's 9f '! r ailiAinent ' whioe had been given to an individuaf;whe had de ' waited on the Ministair, , they.yere tsCeiveil civilly, .eoteka longlifeofdisieteiegted service tctilie public, -*AI tielikellsei'Malle,:.. nut the..Parliatuent rnet in l . and 'who bad in the Urtiveraity but an ineemeof 1851.' ,Dertniber,', aftd sat gore • atei Monate; ; itheuneasure for .. .per annum.. Jt had been theught a better mode t o -san4tioning , tlM , 'ispgrAtrnetst ,wair. . riot 'brought for'- provide for this distinguished 'and tneritorious Gen-) ward,. and tlio - .1-Thrii: Gentlemen Apposite, wben j :tletnan , iMr. Dugald Stu]rt, by e eiving him that 'place,. they - lost the power- of perforinance,.. were -come w hi c h had before been'ehjoyed by three Newspaper pelted to revert to the toncitilines letteis which Nyeii era ; than b y e pensi on. Were EditorstA New s 'fit t itid' befiite alluded to:; , ' This eircemStaticettainuld. papers the .. .only literary_ men . the - Getitlemeit - oppcasite induce the House nik.'ao•Place implicit OrePeceliar W 9414 firoted i „Wits theirs the only. science they en confidence 'in those - eenttemen. who viewed every . coueaged ? As fO th - e''pension tei a Civil and Crimi a thing'in the same - light witis i:thie late .Admiiiiitre- • nal fudge, he had heard' nothing' of ahy'stich great. titan. Another appoinriient matte by the late Mini- . He; sheuld not be bold enouglet&tiay; tbilt any. Ad nistration, was that of Gazette, Writer created.by Pa- ministration may not fall into. ahuae,, sarAhe had. al= tent in Scotland, with a Wary of ;eOOl. per.anna Xhis i wa y;s„ •::,eae he, bad ase if in . that I - stipiigetect office had been before divided between the Editors of 1, motions for itiqUiries, whether in the s ape of Naval' three Newspapers , . 146 wished the Hon. Gent , . to hear or MilitarY Coniihistitinsi'''He*.Wis tlaktici see Ihti his statement, and to bear in mind that the bilai- i Right HenoiliableGentletnittfollowintetlie eaiiinple' ' .ness Of, the office 4.34ll)erkirned by these three per- 1 w hi e h . he .. l4 himself, f 9 rjo. first tillw,,,gie v n nt' vx _ ':sons, w i t hbdi anytexpence - to•the public; though they 'cldcling'Persons inffi office from ):nett a CPalittae• As made n prOtirof 2001:.-a year by the publications in to the Gentlemen whom the•Riglitllliii. Getitlernae their neWspapets. These persons had -been turned left out from the ember Of the itirther Co ; innetteei ‘•'-out of their'employment, . a nd an appointineuti:.by ' ht4.o43ulthigtly say, that: he.o4wiikgeettground for ' ''patentys giVen to the'pliesent possesior,; and he-Shenk" sod) excliision. He thought the,ebject of the Right ask, whether any - Gentleman be.lieved that-. thi s h a d Hon: 'Gentleman` would tits 7l gaiiiiid by introdticin4 '• been - crone With any other view .than to ,give . the e i g h t if ", :s t&int i et i it ;,, t y ert pla6e oithuse with were place to that person ?.He s hould not dwell itv-dOtail not. Members '-of this Parliainettti ' , and• of • the Ho '. 01:Iowan- the a:ets of the late MinititerA, tint he.con_ nouriible Baronet and the Hancorable,cirentipari festeil hitnaelf at a lot iio understand what they 'could Opposite, who is at 'ke:sent in °thee. It the P f erlia a ' mean by the appointibent - of a 'Professor o f Medica l •theitt ivas not dissolved toter rid of the Coithtntee . ; J urisprudence. 'He :Acknowledged -that'lit was i , g'''. -Wlithlet reviveit, as, tar as that could be alone, as it. norant of-the dety of that Professore and could not : - e) , 44 . , i befote the Dissolution ? [lie Members who conroretend what' wile 'ateent by the science .he bad. roceeded with the bueitielia in the forenerepoin professed.: Therehad also been three new Sheriffs . = • it . ripen this, and' lie ' iniel if mote readily take i appointed in. Scotland,,-;'with salaries / of• het waen . sliotaidubteretbre obje6l to any intlividuat who should , e6Ol. and 4001, a yea, on a' divisioli of 6ountie , i, be • prepesed, ,to ,the exclusion Qt . 011y4 Ole " , prtner - where -the. duties Were , before , execute a 4 in ADC tleenbers whe were eliible. l i ve ere . i Shriev a lty. Thvso were some of the -matireacts 7 ' . ;11,, 101194ing was (he Lit t the former ItiTeinbcrs in the Of the late Adminisrratien ,which Wonld be, like- . . er b . Parain MI i i-- M r.' H. ThorntoN Mr.i , ltattNettotlioid , Itil e ali e cl:!,lr.,LtittLitilpli, 'Lord Archibald itarniiion„Mr. Limb, • Iy , t. come - Under. the .'consideration' of the- Cartliliit- Mr: i WhirVeikt, ' Mr. Baring Mr: Brogskii, Mhatelitleit,'; tee? ' Adother appointment, which was equally ten. Mr. W, cayeedisia, Mr. Shaw,.A , lr t Western, and kir. A-' !Parable . , was the grant of a Petesion, during pleasure,- tt derinAitCoifibe: , - • - - .4 ' of 4001.-a' ye ar ,. to • civil and criminal -' , Judge in- . .. Ifethese'Members should: be . appointed , ,e!y't 0 ~ 'SeetlanCli This grant had, nodoubt, not beetacarricd ctioitnittee he should net, then objet to the non is 'an • other Meraber4 Whom the Right Hun, into etreft, but thatwas owing-to the doubts-enter- nation et ) . . ee • • iota eK-1 .. .:t Gentleman might think proper to propose, tzlined by the person who was to cerry. it•• ,„. ,_ ... 8. y F 0 1, , .(Soliclior-General for Scotland), in Scotland, 'its ti `its:. Ngality,'• • lie stsotild . not. ga ~ : .117? , , ~ , t!'rJugh the other exeeptlouaule appoititmeies lieide coot , . tocled that it was-the duty of the Committee to ,:nveAlgate :the jobs of onteAdininistratibu_a well as. t;' , ) ib..-se Gentlemen, as,ile had stuted-enougli to:t ' ' • ,fit''' • " to by the Noble Loede opposite' - theerlullittlgetl' ies• beeot here also. The appointment. of a Col , let' or Buenos ;Ayres, earlioliee%!others; Called: mostilluerZ o for investigatiatei Itewas true, -the ap-, polittaffi . uld'tioct@ce 'Meet . ' -unless the Settle meet should be red eced by ieyejeste's al ms ; but the nontinefien censtifitted' a new ipistiee of reversion coneingetiron ae etient which May 'or may not hep-. pen. The 'appointment of Gaiette.Writer of 'Scot. - len& an eit ict! quite new, and the , pure.stfof all pos eible sinecures, was also a proper obje6t of inquiry. He allowed'the hibh Merit ofeheindividttal who was appointed to this (Mr, - DiagalctStuart)t. but that MerrOught to be rewarded by less excep tionable. provision. The Printers of the Edin bUrgli' New'spaperi bad been allowed toe palish what was called a Gazette, when a change was introdiiced 'in the Bankrupt Laws of Scotland, in i7g3, on the express condition, stipulated by an illustrious judiviclual now no More (Mr. Pitt),' that it should cost the country nothing. Now it was taken out of the hands of those Newspaper Printers, to wheat . it had afforded a • Pi'efit of 2001. a-year, 'and with a salary of 3001. annexed, it was waft , ferred to Mr. Dugald Stuart, his heirs and assignees. This was surely a grant which in every shaee called for .investigetioe. It was a sinecure and a rever- Sionary.grant united.. BIDDULPH; though he had introduced the Measure of the Committee of Inquiry, bad not been ;Mewed to chuse the Members. Yet he was anxious to impress upon the House the propriety of adhering,_ as much as possible, to \he names of which it was, originally composed. He; had attended the Committee :constantly, except on a few days, n which . he had been prevented by ill health, an d he could say, that the candour, thelaocl understanding, and the inquiring spirit that lied been manifestedie had never been surpessed.f. .11 was impossible to state' any political gr4vance to which it • did Of attend: The a& which it had brought forward, was the ap plication to the House upon which the Bill for re straining the Grants of . Pkces in Reversion was tblinded. The titne required for the investigation ne cessary to prepare well-founded 'and useful Reports, bad prevented those Reports, from being made es early as they 'Might otherwise have been. As to the' persons who Lhottld be introduced-to fill the vacancies created bsechinees in the representation, be saw no, great exception - to the- persons proposed. At the seine;time e lte should take occasion, whenthen:itues . should come to be coeeidered, to propose the name of one persoe, whom 'he shoeld, at .present, desigs nate no further than by sayitig, that he had the keen est sense of Ili public wrongseand the strongest disc. positipti to investigate and to reform the wasteful expenditure of the public' money„ .11Ik ,DR4ND svishedfoe.a (,air and honourable inquiry, andel* was due to the charmer of the. House, such 39 'vas expeCted by an anxious country acid a sittfering people. He was partial to the Right Hon. Gentlemen on the Bench below him '(the late Ministers) from a high opinipn of their talents and integrity., But if any , charge should be made on them, he would be the first to call for inquiry and investigation into the grounds ef tha t charge. But when he looked to the Beneleopposite (the Treasury Bench), and saw on it men ceitainly all remediable for their talents, but pf sishcim no two were without pensions, sinecures, and reversions, settled on them selves, or on their fmilies, ieqttiry,wai loudly called for, to shew how they and their infante hair become possessed of those drains from the public purse: He was shocked at the mode of meeting one accusation by retorting another. When these most. remarkable ..for ability in investigation were excluded—wben the names o f the new Commissioners were More nu merous t ban those of the old--when the preseritMioie sters were nut satisfied with introducing.eight names instead of those of the old Members not returned, he was sure the Country would not think the pir sent Committee auspicious to the coke of retrench `meat and reform. To bailie a people leeded with laurthens by holding out a delusive investi g a t i on , could teed to nothing but disappointment and dis content. lie latnented the insinuation, that no set of men could be found in' the House free from party deVotions, or froth party animosity ; an insinuation that must sink the cbargter ot - the House in the opt nipn of the Country, and musodituinish the hopes entertained from the investigatioii. Mr. SocrAary CANNING bad no doubt that: the Hon. Gentleinee •Wliee,epoke last wished fora fai r . inquiry, and peeliepe they. thought drat the .appoint ment of the formed' ,tubers the best means of se curing suclean inquiry. In answer. .to them, and particularly le the. Hop. Gentlentan below (Mr.. illddulpit), who was entitled to pariiCular coteciera , tiou in every thing cotinected with this Subjeet, he hod to say, that if huinan atlairecould be coutlutited, .without partiality or prejudice, the plan they reeomJ, ...Mended woeld , tse vptitted to:prefereece,: hdt a 4 the ceritrery W:+41),(34,t and aspereonal and parry ate tictunent,were itriomiti to be almtiel eteiversally, vatetet tirafitOese, he. ;law; no danger in avowing to the public . what was, Alreedy seen ktip \yet alto prevalence of those party, attachinents, and to' guard against any unfair preponderance of those attach.: ments, by 'Aileen% thelnufibers Of the parties.— It" was therefore.desirable to avnid appointing those eet hese party 'prejtiefices ran: all the same He would indeed be ready 'to allow, that if there was one set of men free from all party preju ttliee antli:attiimolity„ . that it those men had been for •thanyyears tett e4ollice,.atid if OR comics g at length into office they exercised their newer 'Wither to stignetizetheieetpponents,,nor innoediately . to re ward their ' adherents, he would allow that it would be very :fit to eitcourege.se brilliant an example: of purity, by appointing these men to be of the Conl nlittee.. If not perfectly pure, they would at least be perfealy pnacciesed, while the conded of the inquiry wottldbein theirown hands. If, however, he were called upon' to' paint out the description of . men enqec frete, from, political animosity, it was not to the oppesite bench' that .he would 1001.. If he ewaecalled upon to point .out. these who had abstain ., ed most flout the use of power for the advantage of their 'dependents,' he would look there as little for , the of the fanciful petfOlion which .Vas.se"ten.t . ch : „v.) be wished fine lion the contrary he were to look for' elmse v'hp made the beit use of a shout interval vf pawer ;let, the benefit of themselves :eel their adlte-; rents, thq Hon. Gentlemen were throe on whoM be _should fix. He had heard of a certain Roman inol relict who wished to live in a iniuse of e,lass, that e . every thing ; he,did might . be. seen. 1.1t114 moralist he whovlived in '0 glass house should not begin by throwing stones. Those by whom the principle ot ; Parliamentary pra&ice had been not long since down, were now that the house of gia43, -which this inquiry waSIO - constitute, should larged by a bow-window, as to inch:3e them. -i was -impossible to state g rounds for inquiry oihe . wise. than .generally in clettil, W-hen Hon. Friend made, general charges, he was calle,.l loudly to particularise ; and when, he . did part'cit larise, 'those who forced him to do SO, Cried $11:13/ Well indeed ,might the speciticatinn be Objeaed to by the Noble Lord opposite _end his Cnlical,ne; The Noble Lord and his Colleagues had linnet e et, that a Colleaor, Comptroller, Searchers, and Wei-- , teis,, Were wanted at.Bneoos Ayres, a place not yet in' our possession. Common reversions were at heel exempt froth the fault of bringing immediate chart S on the country. But this.appointment conveyed s,, many 'reversions which would become innuediatel4 • chargeable,. unless indeed the place should not be and the mischief would entirely on the , unfortunate Colleaor, Comptroller, Searchers, 'Waiter& But it not only in the burthen that this appointment was mischievous, but iu the intle•-' ence which it created. If it •had been in the contem plation of ai Government that covered sea :iil.l with its glories, and - was to extend it= te,yet oy e ,- the.world, to apply this system. to, ail its enntwsli, not-only to those aaually achieved, but to those thr;y: • meant to accumulate one upon another, opening ,scene which. would. have made Botiaparte little in comparison, weshouldhave hadColleelers andCornn trailers of the Bosphorus, and Searehersaod Waiters eaf Rosetta. There was .here to be observed a great change in the tone of the Rt. Hen. Gentlemen on the sub- jeet of Baenos Ayres, When the conquest of th Place was etfeaen 'the Hon. Gentlemen thought it , not . worthy of being mentioned hi the King's Speech. Now it had acquire a vast importance in -their eyes; and why ? not trom its importance to the conirnerce : or • navigation, of to the general' resources of the, Cotintry,•bitt because it . wa_t a place that room for 'flit appointment of Co le Chniptrol- Searehers, and' ,Viiters. This was 'a plete key - to theho!e policy of the late Ministers —and a most happy illustration it was of their large, ania 401, 4 1)ter N d viewa.However far . t::e range tnight-:'110,m extended in contemplation, the a&uaF fist ended 'here, awl became rtecessarY tn. return' lionie,to the 3'M) Serveyors, The Noble Lord's defence here; as,in the former instance, was; that the appointment wa's proipective: But was the. in . fluencerospeuive ? Why did the appointinent take place : on,the eve. of a C.4eneral :1 e6l) en.? .it. th e co incidence was accidental, the Him: Gentlemen Wient the first favourites of fortune. Her, ackniiwtt.d.zed' the' high literary Merit of Mr. Dneald '_Stuart, who had besides the'tuerit; and he thotT,litit no light oth', of having educated - the Noble Lord. He acknow. !edged andilartiented the general insufficiency of the rewards bestowed on literary ,morit in this Country ; but he highly .tititlenined the mode of .reward here ' adopted, by constituting a new sinecure, and. stowing it on Mr. Soitre and his assignees- for 9i years. As to the comparison instituted by the . Noble -Lord between this grant and the Awards granted to the; writers Of the Anti-Jacobin, he, 14 one, felt no shaMe fat. the chargter or principles ,eel'' that work ; nor any other sorrow for the share lit% had in it, than that which the imperfeetion of hi pieces was,calculated to inspire. lie was told thAt 016 provision for Mr. Stuart was substitnted for professorship of medical . jurisprudenCe, Which it hai been intended to institute.. lie should I ihe . tti so! trto Hon. Gentlemen, in the full swini; of their inso lence of power, making this appointment, diately after their unqmdified ;weeks upon their an" tagoniSts, as nitich aVto say, " Though you can lto* nettiing,' we dareet t r every thine,. " He doulne.l whether'thiasame s•jenee of medical cotti4 be totutti , Any whgre mentioned, even in the Scotch .Faniyelopaidia.--;(4. laugit)-1n answer- to the Noblti:Lonl, had said about i\rewspap:T.;, be .would ask, was. there 110 instance here pia Newspaper consplcnonS .for its attaehment to the :Constitution, and- tar the fairness of its mode- . (4 - detailing all tranS,Vtions. in which itttlr.tarty intereAs. had place, whtbe Proprietor was andointed Seer,- .tart' to tite. l3.trracl Bbard, at which tvtieCrotary a new and sinecure •in tirotielt. With such an its stance in the'ir own conduCt, how't,:onld that' tax 'the pr :sent Ministers with partiality . - to Newspapers'? There was another ACt' WhiCh helooked upon as a flagrant t hreack'Of 'the Constitutiob, the grant of a neosiougof 4et;l: of year during pleAs , ite to a Scotch Jtfilge (Gan H.: aer;.) , :s the table, ill kuo‘'` 1 , 401 if 9en tlemen . , when in power, were so gritted, that n,) ditieronce of opinion 'prevailed amen 'them ; -when • and:put, charged with a job, they tied in .all direr. 'ttons, mid left it to light on what bead it. wrralcl,- Mr ; ,PIDDUI,PI, in explanation, vindiCated the in. dependence 01 t,le hie Committee. Alr, CUR WEN r.joiced to see the •111 ,., 1tt 'Hon; Gentleman throw Ale: first stone froth the: gliSs hotti6. "Khengh he was partial to 1113 Hoo..Frieti below him, he was not one of those who would feed any man thrpugh thick and thin. Helwas s nal there was these Who, aced an the contrary system. 'There was .1t vote of the House, deelaring the pro priety of atieliiiitig.sittectire places'. He Was Oil .to, hear the ktght.ljnit. Gentleman opposite so so-'. ,ons in condertiOng i iiie . creation 01' such plaees. It ,Was a 00,0 ~that.o4,aech thing would be done' in the Administration 4,,the Honourable Gentlet'rrin. it was however reported, that all the flight Itoo. Gentlemen opposite • held sinecure places fop thee . ... selves or their fainilies.' It such a system was C:z quered, Abongh,onr Allies may have lost 'a battle, we would have acgoired a great viaory, when the money that was wrung from the people could no longer be absorbed in 'this manner. The Right Hon. Secretary IrStt said, there was' no'indepenAnt man in Parliatnent he Hits, at least thus far in.te. pendent, that he had never accepted a ta‘:•otir from any Minister, net . ever would. He would tvk tie! Right Hon, Secretary, whether or not he had a pensian ? Mr. Secretary CANNING denied haying there were no independent men in the Tiott had ssserted Daly that party attachments v. valent. Aa.to the Hon.' Gentleman's • . ; answer was, that on his retiring from the . .r,, , 'Under Secrettuy for Foreign Affairs, Mr. itt - a., Lard Grenville proposed• to makes tor . 1401, ::which he'llad accepted, and stittled des:-