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PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 26. ' Fli•• LORD CHANCELLOR resumed his seat on the Wooliaek. The Oaths vvere administered to the Dittke i'm414,1(1, the Earl Cowper, the Earl of 1-lArti ‘lick, ihe bail of Glasgow, and Lord Li!kw!. S,,mc Local Bills were brought up frrin the How,. of Commons by Lotd Althorp, Sir Wil li:4m Cords, aud other Alembers, and lead a first thions were presented by Lord Holland, frwn t i, rt;r, Ayr, and Elgin, complaining of the f ir,rcto of self-election in the Government of the ghee ; from Epping and other places, for a revision of the Criminal Laws, by the Earl Gr•-y ; •trum the !Prisoners for Debt in Durham Gaol, fur a continuance of the Insolvent Act, by L reef Viscount Illelvilie from iron-masters of Scotian!! against a Duty on Coal, by the Earl of Hardwick; from the Corporation of London; for relitf from the Duty on Coal ; which, together - with several other Petitions, were ordered co lie upon the table. The Exchequer Bills in' Aids Bill, the Duke of Wellington's Estate Bill, the Netherland's Slave Trade the !,Itsbandry Horses Bill, Trelaw vey's Ditotee Bill, and the Poor Laws Amend ment Bill, were read a third time and passed. TIIE NAVY. The Earl of DARNLIiY said, he understood the motions he was about to hying forward wouli! not be opposed, and be should therefore merely state, in a few words, his reason for making them. 11e was fully aware of the necessity for economy in e . ‘ely branch of the public service, but if there was a ity one branch more than another that the public world feel least disposed to stint, it was the Naval Service, and he thought i would be found that this service had been reduced too low ; for he was afraid, from the late arrangements that had been made I,si h respect to the Guard-ships, that if the occasion required, not even two ships of the line could he sent to sea properly manned and equipped. He was alto induced to believe, that in the building of the ships all the improve. meats not yet been introduced which were calculated to pl.ce them in a proper state of effi ei'ency, when wanted. His Lordship moved tor Act ounts of Ships in Commission, those that hat! been repaired, tho , e that were building, &c. L-tt d Viscount AIeLviLLE had no objection to th e ;notions, nor the least disinclination to meet any inquiry upon the subject. He could conti detoly ass e rt, that the N..tvy was now in a more efficient state than it had been at a similar pe riod, a tter any former war ; and so far frotn the Naval ILstui)lisliment being reduced so low as sup posed by the Noble Lord, the tact was that tite number of scamep employed tVas greater than in any former peace, the nomber on former occa sions having been 16,000, whilst it was now 20 000. The Earl of DARNLEY did not mean to deny what had been stated by the Noble Lord. but %hat he chiefly intent to allude to Wits, the inet ficit nt state of the guard-ships. The Earl of LAvsaPoot. warmly eulogized the conduct or his Noble Friend (Lord Melville) and the Board of Admiralty, in placing the Navy in the efficient state in which it undoubtedly was. The Noble Eatl (Darnley), perhaps, meant lo allude to the employment of a part of the seamen in the prevention of smuggling ; but he (Lord Liverpool) could assure the House, that the ad vantages arising from that measure had exceeded expectation, as was plover, by the antrumt of, re venue in the two great articles of illicit trade, tea and spirits. So successful, indeed, had the sea men been upon this service, that the Government had been enabled to reduce some of the regiments of cavalry hitherto employed on it. The Earl of DARNLEY said, be did not mean to allude to the emploinent of seamen in the way mentioned by the Noble Earl, nor to the cavalry, but to the present state of the navy.—A Noble and Gallant Dike opposite (the Duke of Wel tngton) was enabled to gniti the victory of Wa terloo tvirbout the assistance of smart regiments (pi Lancers, brit Lord Nelson could not have gain ed the vietoryrof raf,2l. , ar without good ships of the line. What he meant to allude to was the present state of our guard-ships, there being not more, he understood, than one hundred men in any of them.—The motions were agreed to. ROYAL HOUSEHOLD BILL The Earl of letvearoee, on moving the second reading of the Royal Household Bill, said, be should merely shortly state the object of the Bill, as he understood no opposition was intended to the nriiiciple of it, and the discussion of the de tails would come more properly in the Commit tee. The saving made in the establishment of the Royal lelousehold by ,the regulations of the pre-. sent Bill amounted. to 50,0001 per annum, ex clusive of 58,0901. per annum for the establish ment crf the late Queen ; from the latter was to be deducted the salaries and allowances given to her late Mrjesty's servants, which amounted to 18.0001. per annum ; dins the whole saving ivoidd not he lets than 90,0001. per annum. His Lord ship then adverted to the establishment for the Royal Household, agreed upon at the commence ment ot the Regency, observing, that it was then made with reference not only to the afflicted state of the .King, bait also to the situation of the Queen, and with refeienee also to the considers. trot) tiial her Majesty would, in case of her sur viving the King, be entitled to 100,0001. per atm. alti,otigh it was not deemed expedient to consider her in any other character that) as Queen Consort. Since that period eight years bad elapsed, and consegnenee of her Majesty's demise, and ot cultist much - less probability of the reco very of the King, it had been deemed advisable to retina e the Establishment, but still keeping up what was due to his dignity as otir Sovereign, as weo as to his afflicted slate. lit this view the re duction had been made ou the lowest possible scale, and, indeed, whatever difference of opinion had at first prevailed in another place upon this sonject, all were at length agreed, after a tho- rmi g li investigation, that no further reduction . _ be math:, consistently with a due and proper te, ! r‘i to the afflicted situation of the Kiug, and id) tl►use feelings of loyalty and affection wki.: I which, he dilated net, all were actuated towards the person of our venerated Sovereign. There were some minor points of detail upon which he dil[ertd with the other House, thinking that the t eduction had been in some respec's carried too far ; but into this part of the subject he should not enter. There was another point also, which more properly belonged to the Committee, bolt which he should not now pass over, because he did not wish to have it supposed that he was attempting to conceal any thing ; he alluded to the grant of I I 0,000:. p er minion to his Royal Highness the 1 D..ke of Yolk as Citstos Ptrsonie, and which was the same attioniit that hail been granted in a simi lar situation to the late Queen. He was aware that objections bad been urged to this, and he owed n to the Duke of Yolk to state, that his, !toys! Higline.at had not sought for any such allowance, nor was there any doubt that without any such allowance his Royal Highness would execute the trust reposed in him with all the fide lity and attentioli that the warmest affection emild dictate. But he (Lord Liverpool) could not con ceal from himself, nor forget in bringing forward a measnre of this kind, that his Royal Highness had other highly important duties to execute, which precluded his residence at Windsor, and that there- must be a certain expellee incurred in !he execution of the unit, to what amount he could not with any precision state, but undoubt edly PaiFament having thought it light to give the Queen 10,0001. per animun as Caistos Personae, trine could he no question that under the circum stances of his situation, the Duke of York was fully entiled to that allowance. This, however, was a question for the Committee, to the princi ple of the Bill he could not anticipate any ohjec- Hon. His Lordship concluded by moving the Serpnd reading of the Bill. 'I he Earl GREY said, he did not rise to oppose the second reading of the Bill, being satisfied wi; h it so tar as it went upon a principle of re duction, which was so highly essential in the pre .ent distressed state of the country, and which, if it could be cart ied still further, it would he still more salisfacrory to him. In saying this, he meant nothing derogatory to the Monarch; sincere and affectionate loyalty to his Sovereign, compassion tot his afflictions, respect for his age, induced him to wish that Sovereign to have every comfort that his state required, and to have every appendage of dignity consisient with his afflicted situation; hut he 'would grant nothing on the delusive pretence of digol.y, which formed so melancholy a contrast with the actual affliction of his situation. The Noble Lot(' h.ad alluded to what had passed in an other place, and he (Lord Grey) might regularly ' do so, because the Votes of the other House, and other documents, were before their Lordships.— He found by those documents, that in the other House it had been thought expedient to refer this j. 811 hject to a Committee; and he could not but think, that the delicacy of the subject, and the respect due to their Lordships, called fur a simi lar proceeding in that House; or at least, if that Was not thought ingredient, they might have sent a Message to the other !louse, requesting a copy of the Report of their Committee, which would have given them some information as to the details i4ticit had been investigated. Instead of this, how lever, they were called upon, without information, to vote upon the Bill ; and though he undoubtedly rejoiced• in in the saving that was t n h l a a t de r ' ec s lu ti c i t l io li t e t should wish t o know could be still further consistently extended ; every saving, however mintite,being imperiously called for by the distressed situ,tion of the country. The question also still remained, why the reduction of the Windsor Establishment had not before taken place ? for no reason had been stated by the. Noble Earl for the reduction now, in conse quence of the demise of the Queen, which did not equally apply to it during the life-time of her Majesty, and the propriety of which reduction lie (Lord Grey) had often urged in that House.— With regard to the allowance of 10,0001. per ann. to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, it was a subject to which he adverted with very consi del able pain. He highly respected the Duke of Yolk for his public services ; he highly esteemed him for his private virtues ; but no consideration should induce him to shrink from the discharge of a public duty ; and that public ditty undoubtedly compelled him to oppose the allowance. He could nor, indeed, but painfully regret that such a question had been dragged fOrward, tending, as it did, so deeply to injure the- Duke of York in the public estimation, and making so unfavour able an impression as it had throughout the country, the public every where considering it as prejudi cial to their interests, and iasulting to their un derstandiogs. Nothing had been urged by the Noble Earl that could in any way justify such a grant ;—antl when he considered the only plea that had been brought forward, the expence of the otiice of Custos, he could not but view it as ob taining a grant of 10,0001. a-year under a false pre tence. The Noble Earl had endeavoured also to justify the grant on the groomd of the same allow ance having been given to her late Majesty; but to this he, would say, that in not opposing that grant to her late Majesty he was guilty of a great over sight, but undoubtedly he considered it as unjus tifiable equally with the present proposal, and the very argument itself skewed the danger of making a precedent of this nature, which was thus brought forward to justify a measure contrary to just ire, and et hich might be adduced in the same way to 'amnion other measures of the same tendency.— lie could not but deeply regrer that such a mea sure had been at all brought forward ; the Noble Earl opposite might not be acquainted with the effect produced by it in the country, but he (Lord Grey) could assure him that that impression W. 15 the most unfavourable that any proposition could have- given rise tn. Under these circinnstpmces be certainly should not oppose the second reading of the Hill, approving ai he did of the principle of reduction, and wishing it to be carried, if pos. 4ible, still farther; hut be undonbtedly,pust give his determined opposition in the Committee to the proposed allowance to the 1)11kt! of Yolk. The Earl of ilaattowaY. said, whether the un derstandings of th'e public wete iwsttlted by the proposed allowance, it would he for the tinier standings of their Lordships to consider; but better wrytii , l it be tor the Noble •1401:1s th(• other side to oppose going into the Gan wit iee, 1.1) (i into iL ,tvitit the ;:tellisg tits played by the Noble Earl, with regard to the es tablishment of our afflicted Sovereign. If mere comforts were to be provided, that would be con fined to sufficient raiment and food, and medical attendance ; but were they to forget that the in dividual whose situation was to be provided for was our Sovereign—that we had been his subjects fur 58 years—that we owed him every mark of affection and loyalty—and that, though unfortu nately precluded from exercising the power, he was still our Sovereign ? As a man indeed, he might require nothing more as to personal corn• torts than another individual, but would any at fectiouate parent, would any dulifisl son, in any class of society, think that he had provided suffi ciently for a dear relation in so melancholy a situation, by merely furnishing sufficient food and raiment, and medical atteodance ; and was the Sovereign of the country to be placed in a worse situation than the meatiest of his subjects. If such were the feeling indeed, it was a feeling di rectly adverse to Monarchical Government, in tending as it did to degrade the Sovereign, and that too under circumstances the more afflicting and the most melancholy. Desperate and irre mediable must be the distress of the country, if it could not afford a few thousands a-year for the maintenance of the' dignity and state of a Mo narch, endeared to us by the benignity of a long reign. Place all thb savings thus made in one scale, and Monarchical Government in the other, for that, under such circumstances, must be the questio,n—to reduce the Monarch, in such a situa tion, to the mere enjoyment of personal comforts, was, in tact, to degrade and destroy the Mo narcy. He trusted none of their Lordships would go into the Cominittee on this Bill with any such feelings. The Earl of CARLTSLII observed, that the Noble Earl had trade a most loyal speech, to which there would be . no other objection than that it was to- Lally unnecessary. The Noble Earl had certainly misunderstood what had been said by his Noble Friend (the Earl Grey), in whose speech there was one little word, namely dignity, which rendered the speech of the Noble Earl totally unnecessary, because that word dignity comprehended in fact every thing that the Noble Earl had urged. He wished to ask the Noble Earl (Liverpool) whether the 10,0001. a year was given to the Queen in her character of Custos Regis ? , The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, the clause hi the .Act of Parliament would be the best answer to the Noble Earl, but as far as be recollected, the 10,0001. .a year, if not given to her Majesty in terms, as Costos Personm., was expressly given on the ground of increased expences in consequence of havit7g the custody of the King's person. The f Earl GREY said, his Noble Ft lend had al most rendered it unnecessary for him to say any thing, but certainly the Noble Earl (Harrow.by) had most entirely misunderstood what he (Earl Grey) had said. He never hinted at confining the provision for the Sovereign to mere personal comforts ; on the contrary, he had distinctly stat ed, that tram loyalty and attachment to that So. vereign—from compassion for his afflictions—.from respect to his age, he wished every attention to be paid to his-dignity that was consistent with his afflicted situation, objecting, as he did, decidedly to the calling for a large and expensive establish ment, on the delusive pretext of dignity, forming, RS it must, so melancholy a contrast with the actual situation of the Sovereign. To this opi nion he still adhered, but this opinion the Noble Earl most certainly had greatly misunderstood, or he would never have so misrepresented it. The Earl of HAtutowsY said, he meant chiefly to allude to the desire expressed by the Noble Earl (Grey) for a still further. .reduction, without meaning any personal imputation. After a few words from the Earl of DARNLEY, on the unfoonded ,attack made by the Noble Earl , (Ilarrowhy) on his Noble Friend— The Bill was read a second time, and committed for Monday.—Adjourned till Monday. [For the Proceedings in the House of Commons see the Last Page.] BIRTHS. On the 21st of October last, at Nlullye, in the East Indies, the Lady of Major Charles P. flay, of a con. O❑ the 25th at Horton Lodge, the Lady of Lieut.. Colonel West, of a daughter. NIARRIED. At Wanstead, on Tharsday last, David Dural, Esq. of the 81st Reginient,t6 Mary, eldest daughter of Charles Danvers, of Wanstead, Esq. DIED. On Thursday, the iSth instant, Mrs. Swift, wife of Mr. Swift, sen. of the Poultry. On the 25th, at Oxford, Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald. PROVINCIAL BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. EI RTIIS. On the 42d inst. at Williams'-place, Nlpuntjoy-square, the Lady of Joseph Smith, Esq. of a daughter. Lately,at York, M rs. Milner, of Nunnionkton, of a daughter. ItfARIIIED. On Wednesday, at Littleham Church, near Exmouth, Wtn. Hickey, Esq. to Frances Isabella, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Edmund Gilbert, of IViiiiisor nonce, Bodmin. Lately, in Thomas's Church, Dubllu, John Clancy, F,sq. of the Coutt of Common Pleas, to Eliza, only daughter of the late ROI. William tChiteslde. DIE U. On Sunday last, the Rey. Charles Staggall, Rector of Wy verstooe and Wenhorp, Suffolk. Lately, Samuel Jones, Esq. of Green-hill, near Manchester. Lately, at his scat, Davy Hultne Hall, Henry Norris, Esq. a Magistrate for the County of Lancasttt. Lately, while on a visit to attend a patient at Hiodley, near Wigan, Richard Cowling, Esq. M. 14 of the latter place. PRUSSIAN Loart.--L-The half yearly dividend on the Loan of 5,000,0001. contracted for in London for the service of his Majesty the King of Pays stn, due on the Ist of April next, Will be paid daily from that time at the counting-house of M. Romscrin.D, Ne l / 4 v-court, St. Switbitcs-lane, between the hours of 10 and 3. CoaoNen's IsnuesT.—Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Crown, Lambeth, on the body of Mr. Hinds, brush-maker, of Dove -court, Lewher-lane, who was found drowned on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge last Tuesday intuiting. It Was. stated, that he absented him self from home on the Tuesday before ; that he had beeu deranged, owing to embarrassed circum stances, and had made two attempts before to drown himself, 'but was prevented. Verdict— " mueani!v." LITERARY REVIEW. Al FACTS, illustrative of the TREATMENT of NAPOLP— ett ` IWONAPARTE in SAINT HELENA. Being the ne suls of minute Inquiries and personal Research in that Isfallai With Three Views. The factious Writers of this country, '" well as the foreign m i screan ts i n t he interest of the exiled Tyrant, have circulated so rin ini falsehoods respecting the treatment which he e % ' Perieuees , and so many unjust and infamous as' pensions upon the conduct of Sir Huosot 4 1- ,( " / that a work like the present was absolutely ttee esj sary to vindicate our national character. fille work before us effectually accomplishes that poi' Pose. It is written with a vigorous freedom' 'nixed with a degree of humour and sarcastic plea' sentry which do not, however, in the least degre e ill'• lessen the air of truth by which it seems throat, oneout t i o i a n b d e icharacterised,impresses nna conviction, s i v n l i i l i , c 11 ,, other ig induces us to admire the manly sp Ci i ‘ r v it hil:n:"El l i g ‘e‘ British feeling of the Author. As one 0f t i l l , charges against the Government r a ge s to I i provision for the table of the man who was raise d from contemptible obscurity to flagitioos eleva tion, it is proper to submit to the people of 11115 c y ci c art try the bill of fare for the month ot June last - e. ... e.de.int t c 2 r° ,4 c ni l i u r s - r s " : a b :1 s which is as follows : "Items of Supplies furnished to Longw° 4 in eke Month of June, 1818. Claret Vin de Grave 6O ditto Madeira Teneriffe l5O ditto Charupaigne And as i(l m :alep u e c a Constantin l5 ditto ditto h nild d 'i r (ne a d g e l r it Beer as might hat e Flour Rice ...... ' Potatoes 300 lb s • f 6 Butter Cheese 4 6 8 5 0 0 II lbs.bb s s .• Bread e e a f and d . ............ .. 1 1 : 0 : 0 0 0 1 1 b b , s .• Coals .......... 0 l b s . Salt Vermicelli 45 lbs. Mutton ........ 150 Maccaroni Salad Oil Vinegar 4l Bottles Milk ........ '• 30 Laid Pet:per 1 6 5 0 Bottles ib d s i - tto Geese D ßo n s k t s i n g . . ........... '.• .... Q 1 4 : 0 Mustard Pickles Olives l2 ditto Fowls ........ " 15 lb!. Hams l2 Black Tea. ••• • • ) 5 lbs• 'tongues l2 Soap Wood 20,160 lbs. Vegetables, Fruit, a" Fish , as touch as required, to the season. &e. fro ) ,R G r u r , e l:n en . . T . c . a . . .......• accord to Confectionary of all sorts, Liqueurs Preserves, —.•• Hoffman, included only in the daily accet ilit9 t i e . All these articles, the Author po sit t heir re. elares, were, perhaps, more excellent i" g is i n ed spective kinds, than could in general be ° in any other pace. 1-feleb 4 The Author declares that he entered St , a vv r i i t a l i t a s g t strong prejudices p o r i e e jUdices against Sir Htips° l4 7, ll. ' " c vv i, ° : and referring to those works , falsehoods, he says : w o f o r ks, SANTINIan othera and LAS irg h n -6-11; " It was for the want of some such refutaollo that I became completely bigotted agains t lb' proceedings at St. Helena, and the principal Pea; sons concerned, without knowing any thing ab°i, them, more than I had gathered from these de b it/ en official although anonymous works ;--wbBi tised was my surprise to find in the man charseicr of by BUONAPARTE and his adherents, both w in, a Colony and at home, as a tyrant and an assn r•l' being not only amiable in the highest deg r , ee .. " ,; - tise vate life and general society, but with a rig la ion o f of duty, feelingly alive to the peculiar 8031 c on. his prisoner, and actively employed, in „ the areelf trivance of comforts for him. A " e i o se perso" passes in which Sir HUDSON LW" is c ll ne w nally superintending the building °` - i i t. does n °t house at Longwood, nor in which ,ii , w capt ive's endeavour, with perfect regard to II ~•„0 . security, to contribute to his accommo"' l l - fits 0 11 " Let us see how Sir HUDSON LOIVB f 1 , and the social duties of life, as father, friend ;—trace him into the bosom of bis,. p e , n ts, surrounded by all the beauty, accoroPlinf its blooming gaiety, and healthful innocence, " te ro pla various' branches ;—let us, while we c on an t~ this excellent man in his domestic circle , r e ' o oo her the noble traits of munificence wh ich ' aria marked his conduct during his goyeromeni44ich then for a moment imagine the heart in, p s oil valour, friendship, and charity flourish, "-pea. vale,for feelingswantonly n w l y h which unnecessarily,could tititi)c to a O : 9 D: o gO4 privations of a prisoner committed to l it s i b s aneft ri a l o i: " The instances of Sir HUDSON LOW B'S ?i ll y re' ficence to which I have alluded, I could " Si na red• cord, but the feelings of others are tofu 51;,-,telt,, Justice demanded that I should say t delicacy forbids my saying more, f eat Why f ß t u h c e r sta righte a e T o o f ,in England referring o over t i ° ) i toil:estitgc,io tail;l4 question Sir HUDSON mix up iitIDSON ill ills Obser/Sti°llS a for the tacks, no better reason can be given the n f c on. personal animosity (mow so feshionable) I :, n og victed criminals towards the J u dges cv "„, " ,„„sly sentence on them for violation of law, P ., re v 'i3 t io , proved to the satisfaction of a Jury ; 11-1 c',-,,. his NAPARTC can have hardly so much cause '" les• violence as those men ; for ne ither was the q t I , lion of his confinement submitted to Sir Hub s° : i h •outPh nor the sentence conveyed to NaroLeoN •--,1, higher hini.—All these matters were settled by 0„'g . ,',,,„ authorities than either Generals LOWS Or 13_i . NAPARTE ; and the result was, that the latter.w.o declared a prisoner, and the former the important trust of keeping hint one. red The work is embellished with three col" prints, Long,,*. prints, two representing different views o i r li r an d wood House, the Palace of (he great Bo- e, 4 , appointed t Oppressor of iilankind, and the third the .I.`a,` li li.P.lsroENcs that has been erected tor , bin' a l , condescending compftance with hit splenetic ca, price, which can never he allayed, unless be sh", ii'e again be let loose to ravage amid destroy' t, shall probably resume our notice of _..... this ittte res ins work 4, I inquired why this article was inc.ftded, and found was used lor tying puddin - bagf ! • Mi tt 11!I 1 p,l ti l , t ‘trd, ~~