The Sun. — London, England, 1817-05-09 00:00:00

r be livernne his Oriva:e. Sreretaty. tie w 4 '' l'Yivate Secretary to Mr. NI Leval ; ' l l l ll l le llon. Gentleman must ktinvv• very littl e im p or tant duti es Of bitch all individual. tescribed his employment merely as.t hat • It w as a situatiin t ot the greatest and one that in all times had usually ' P r omotion and etnolumentit. lint, treeing into any comparisons of the re ieli other person s hail obtained at other '0 had executed such important duties, ( '"IY say, th at it did not a pp ear to hint 'et'lleolan Was at all overpaid by what ilcine for Ilerries, hint. been f= o r Mr. as he h 44 ned o, by the di scernment of M r. to be his Private Secretary. He had.: Proceed e d to he one of the C omPtro li ers' inceounts, at a salary of 15001. a-year. "r 1811 lie was in possession of this lie resigned it to become Commissary lot on account of the removal of Col.. , the pu r p ose, as the Honourable Gen -4111'411, but because that Gallant Officer 114 9'60 1 the appointment, lii order: , 'lit resume his military career, which 'ongetlial with his wishes, and which tell w.ith regret when the situation of r was proposed to him by Mr. Per lontitat as given to Colonel Gordon P materially from that held by Sir ro r), the duties of which related only la ,''') and bad nothing to do with our ' hot' Colo ne l G ordon had to per. !)1 duties ot both, which entailed t la rt;ed responsibility. Mr.lierries "'Hee with all its arduous labours and '' raid he held it till 1816, when it that a more. economical arrangement "re by re is is the Continsariat as beginning Ot the war, k war, in the an thlt Vatt -of it to the Treasury. He linnourable Gentleman, that by ittelit 11,0001 , a-year bud been saved ° by a redUction ot 42'Officers'frotn Thddislintent. A still furtiti , r saving ',l)Yiore re-uniting te wle of e toe T reasury, as i t was h o iu former Air. Herries was in his frienlashiP •; hat he had not been so fortunate as to his advancement in life. What 1 14/ " e sselli be was ind e bt e d for t o - I - '"' i surely it c ou ld n o t b e d en i e d 'elllol tvas entitled to the considcra l"';Ys wh ets i t was recollected t hat tvi; ', le l; the father" of the voltioteer sys- _ toili, th e country h a d derived that s t'Y spirit that bad enabled us to, the threats of itiva 8104, and '''''' 'Y led t,) 1 1 by' which tose g I)reat resu lt s ts ail been s i gnalized all over the 4 ' o l entered on the office of Comoth" lit a time the most arduous and int ,'l ih at had ever occurre d i n this "'ere lie (the Chancellor of the Etc tll,ll, \Viten his retirement came. 'it appeared to be elear,-that'a* III"! 1° half -)lily from . not-being a ' there could be no way of ;emu wti'l,i 11 . 1 by adopting some other mode' ' til ll'il that be ought to have a cum- : An t , 16,A ttiltxiceeditig one-half of his SI. , ''I:I., Ile WKS deemed to have site. v l ei it t : , ll l'lS" been,- eighteen years in the . 'llitr i „ ft tiring which dine lie had fi lled , ch ttil 4'4 nectinktions. He was, there ,t dr ) i hill, ..ti re with one half of. his sa . li g ,. he co nsideration, that if he ' , id 11 , ^ 1 : 1 1 to the performance of . public tvhbj e income was not to exceed ~, . 0 lie n o w 1,•.1 by his late ' , 4di nt . 0 Kan., v 0, , t, It could liardly be expected iliiiie:',4r. -Herrie; should! take upon Civil Ctlaelted to the ottiece of•Atitli '44,li 14 r. for an inerease of income of flt ' That Offi ce 'had been appointed tin f t it . oily . 111 c onsideration of the sob leev,„'elion that it , was t h e on ly wa A. ratliture of the Civil Li s t could ti„terlit Me asure had proved effectual, '' 101 1 , . t he old system. there bad con no CX• ik ely 1,11:11'411 e kCCSa of expence, l ed 1 ice since the change to which he tti it,',ll'',;leen mad e. F or this Parli4- tertio!_thaalted rather than Mr. lierries , 'eat L . . , „,, ti a p t bu t i t iniist be seen, , that it 14 '44. 00 seen named Auditor of the tli 4t ~?er Person must have been iv rtio- " In tim' and be knew of "°' re f i e flo e i ' . 44 41 I • .( fi ll It with advantage to ltd' rilit - a , 1 ,., 1 * `',113-.racter, talents, and ex ut tl ; tr ill) the world. This Oentle". .4.c the I.)rilint Ititit,ll tray, nee, had exerted himself ' 14 1 ""'l the cod had consider . a ~., ty. I, i „, ~ , country 41 tr ' i lliit ~t :1 ' I,lnotirs, but when the goes rht ly,'lliti,h.,:i.`",leraeion be ought to receive ila t l i i i s tier,i?.','"ll, Ite.thottglit it necessary kt v - i!'" lii, 1 t,4 illOre' distinctly before the 4'„ (i'iotll„tfe't ti olle. • The appointments I 't ,-:' 41 1 , 1 ,, : tind Mr. Ilerries had been ii.i '''ti I.' ' 4 e ver • the On 1 iti ft 6 a t h e .._y respect same. : t „ l lit th.reac, I,,,'"ulect t there certainly ap ;1;1441411 uldi,i(l.i.‘":ten them, but the dut . i , es , i l kt ‘t , l'• i n , s had to perform va r i ed ,Set k, e et . e t h e :icier to chew this, he would t 4 1 . 41 is ttis forf which former Com 01t, "hi e! , %%1,4'1 ato account, and what 'l: t tli v b. ! r e to heaccounted fprin/Mr. 0,1,,5'i1l ilertinount during the last year , r`" 1 ci a " rite office ~ , till i it ) ' !,00 01 eof Commissary -1, i. 111 1 ,, t • In the last year of . hits ,4, 4 • tq r tli ri"ee, they. -amounted to ) , ,i.16 . /. 1 1 9 ,00 0 4 ;t Year or Sir IV. Gordon iN,,)‘!tit,, IVher`z having: increased' more ', 1 1„ : 4 1, . ft - ' ivlr. ilerties became Com 14".bte,, "111 th e ~.., '' t he 1114 ' txt e n41'13110113 of tili tttilt , I,l‘leti to so many parts of 1,4017,t.„ it ~( tuitonal expenditure was 1 4 ',1,0001 ainettlited during the year "Ititli„lltkri.eh t y l ; l i n tt ... l in the year 1815, the 'as t , 4 'l tlie sit`''''lnnlssery-General had l;,, l Cid r n "f 15 873 0001 When l. t tt: l i 'l 147,41 °onion' antl'Al r..lerries is i lti , e . 4 ) ti i , l'nint of view h tl ought ll ' l l t r " th' ' e I • nu i ' i l ilt ltebt, klt there was no dif t,,t th eir nt their rank of office, was lt, ‘qt tr rerli tir , . e. it I tt ) . l , i Jsparit l ie leretton should be the kti!ilti‘in v:V t weet the ditties which ta ut . 49 I° grV4t. Mr. Herries !':. 1° that ti - °alb for upwards ot ..,.„,,. . , 10,031,9101. of money. -Mitt enly liect he to pro v,,tlciiers, from persons acting oil theit 'own revinisiiiility to prove the application of the si n us of tvhicli Ire bad to give an account, but he was personally much employed - in the laborious ditties Of his, sittratiork - Towards the close of the year 8 - 12, and in the year 1513, when the war assumed a new character, in consequence of the notch . 'Expetlitiou to Russia, it became necessary not only to provide military, but also pecuniary means for an almost unlimited 'exertion, lie (the Chancellor of the Exchequer), at the period which he referred to, had had the honour to pro pose measures to that House, which had been, carried. into effect .(as he thought with great ad-' vantage to the country), and which had provided for unlimited exertions, and for a very consider able time. Such. measures however would have been adopted in vain ; they could have effected nothing, if softie way were not discovered of bring iti resources of this country to Particular: places at the proper time.. Of those tv.ro reinem-, bered the,. debates which took place in that House ten years ago, he would ask if it was then sup posed that 'by any effort of activity a sum of 20;000,000/. could -be realised for this cotintry. on the Continent, in one year > This could not be answered in the affirmative; yet when the scarcity of bullion had increased, arid when the exchanges mad become. more unfavourable to this country, under circumstances unparalleled in history— when it was the object of England to unite the armies of all Europe against France, Mr. Herries tteeeeded in contriving the machine by which this great object was triumphantly accomplished. Be sent, proper persons to the several parts - of Europe to nrtlie the necessary arrangements, and these were so well adjusted, that in no instance had any of the military operations, their in pro gress, been retarded by a want of specie. Wherever the armies of our'Allies advanced, there the re sources of England were to be found ; and wherever our own army or navy was directed to proceed, Abundant supplies were provided. None of our warlike operations, extensive as wits their theatre, had failed for want of pectin Ary means. This was - in a great measure to be ascribed to the activity and judicious care of Mr flerries. After this statement, would it he said that the services of that Gentleman did not merit to be liberally rewarded . ? He contended this was necessary in the case of an individual, appointed as he had .been toofficesdf great confitknee and importance, and in which he bad acquitted himself with equal ability and honour. If such a course were not pursued hereafter, Government would have 'great tlifficulty in finding , persons wild could safely be entrusted with the expenditure of millions. lie certainly thought his retiring allowance of 1350/. in addition to the income of the oflice,he might now hold, was but a fair reward for his services. This was his sincere opinion ; as such he Submit . - tech it. to the House. Whatever their decision on the question before theta might be, of this at least he was sure, that what be had done in the ca . se of Mr. !ferries would ever stand justified to leis own conscience and his own heart. Mr. TIERNEY readily assented to all the panegy rics that had been pronounced on Mr. Berries— he would Willingly allow that he bad performed his duty faithfully and well '; but the question was, whether the remuneration had not been totally disproportioned to his services * . Without calling the transaction' a job, or using any offensive ex pressions, he would say that either Mr,. Berries had received too melt, or every other public man had been grossly neglected. Allowing that, in his confidential capacity, Ire had acted zealously, 'mud discharged his'duty faithfully, still there rould exist no' good reason for giving 'a man 2,7001. a-year merely because he Was Private Secre tary to a Minister. Mr. [lorries, indeed,' had had his. reward • almost immediately on per forming the service, for he had been ap pointed Comptroller of Army Accounts, with a salary of 1,600/. a-year. This 'situation Mr. Ber ries had resigned, but it was his own fault, and on so doing he ought to have been apprised, of what probably he was already aware, that he had accepted a temporary situation of hiOter vhlue than the perillailtlit one he had resigned, but that the difference of value must make up the difference in interest. He could see no reason why a MEWS merits must be estimated by the amount of money for which he was responsible ; his Hon. Friend oppesite, the Paymaster of the Forces (Mr. Long), had been responsible for Much larger sums than Mr. Berries, and yet his salary - wads only 20001: a year. He would not call it a job, brit he would- call it a wasteful expenditure of the -pub lic money, and one which must disguit every other Man in office who Was not equally well compensated for his services. There was the Prime Minister, who was responsible for every thing; what, therefore, ought Iris remuneration to be.? and yet the Finance Committee recommend- ed, in consideration of five years services, that the Crown should be enabled to give a retiring pen., had of Jute been talk ing of 3,0001.--,. The House so( much of millions, that they appeared to despise hundreds t But how many petitlemen of large landed properties in the country would not esteem ihimself very fortunate in being en abled to procnre half this allowande to Mr. Berries, and hoar disgusted' must those Gen tlem' en be. to find 2,700/. a-year lavished on a Clerk of 'the Treasury He expreSsed his .opi nion that:: the Auditorship of the Civil List was urn. necessary, or, if necessary, Would be well paid at 5001. a year. No accounts on the Civil List were. audited but those of the Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, and the Master of the Horse, amounting altogether to 209,0001. a year, and this tritlitig Service, from which no advantage could result, the Chancellor of the Exchequer thought proper to reward. with 1,5001. a year. Was there,.he would osic, any alike of art equal value abolished on the suggestions of theFin a neeCommittee . (" tete • ,_ _ was," from the Ministerial Bendles.l---11Jen, said Mr. Tierney; they were useless, and ought to have been ,abolished before; but no office is ever . abolished until another can be had of equal amount, that the patronage of Ministers might suffer No diminution. When Mr. Berries vivreatdiSdecfir:etatriyil . I _ e t o s the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and' for no stanfoch business, and yet hielhbeonart only 3001. a yaar,, botnOW be receive( , other reason than because he was some y i e i r o , u i s o e ld d el id . It was a rank-and a foul job, - and if the )t. expyrss their rondenination or it, lie trusted the (multi). would express to the House, at the proper season, its seisse of their catidiict.—(llC'ar 1) Lord CAsTLeattsou would not follow the Right lion. Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) through the Whole of his speech, for be discussed not only trite events, but what hail been done by the Civil List Com mittee four years back. Ite Was pleased to — call the office of Auditor a job, though it had been recommended by a Committee, and sanctioned by Parliament. A salary of 15001. kyear was alb lowed for the 'office, both by the Conithittee and the House, and the Warne which thus belonged to the Legislature was throWn open his Right Hon Friend (the Chancellor of the Exchequer.) He was surprised the Right Hon. Gentlemen (Mr. Tierney) was, not afraid to mention the word job at all alter the lesiOir.he got npon it a feW nights back.—(A laugh.)—He thought he should not have beard it from,. t htit 'side of the House far Stone time. It Iva, impossible that the House could be protected against the debts of the Civil List with out this offfee, and yet it was called a job. The question now was, whether .she 'arrangement with Mr. Herries was, a. proper one. A regular Treasury Order was made alter the appointment of the AnditOrship, tor a thc suppression of 1.10 placei connected with are Civil List. These places were to expire when the persons who then held them were dead. And the saving by this arrange ment would amount to much More therm: the salary of the Auditor. So that the Right Hon, Gentle man ,(Mr. Tierney) was not justified in stating that the arrangement recommended by the Com mittee had not been attended to. The debate was certainly conducted with fairness tower& Mr.Her ries. 'He was spoken of as his services merited. The person who filled the situation which he oc• cupied as Secretary was always considered an oh• ject of favour; but putting all idea of favour out Of consideration, if the ineasere Was looked at as a question bf business, the arrangement with Mr. Herries, he must contend, was a, proper one. Considering the retiring provision to which he would be entitled as Secretary and Comptroller, could his half-pay as Commissary-in-Chief be less than one half, that was 1354 a-year ? The rea son Sir W. Gordon had not so Much was, that he received half-pay with reference to rank. It was given - to Mr. Herries upon' other grounds. Sir IV. Gordon and others came to the head of the Department at once. , Mr. Herries ; did not. Though the Commissary-in-Chief was Gazelted, and subject to the CoMmander-in-Chief, his place was on a military footing.' Mr. I'erceval, took it out of that situation, and placed it ou civil tooting. Mr. Herries bad spent 18 yeats,in the public service. At a time when he was near being first Clerk of the Treasury, a place of 15001. a, year, he was taken out of and placed in one of g,reat labour and responsibility. In the year, 1814 he bad the outlaying of 10,000,0001. and of much more in. 1815. • 'lnc operations carried. on by !dui for the,purchase of specie were so labo rious, so extensive, and so heueticial to the nib lic, that the. services of Sir W. (Jordon, however valuable and meritorious, were not to be compar ed to his., After all his labours, all. hi useful ex ertirins,' anti with the purity •of mind which rendered him worthy to be so highly trust ed, would it • have been fair to let hint re tire apon less than 13501. a year. Hy Act of Parliament, ten years service entitled an Officer to the . half-pay, and eighkeen years ser, vice to the full-pay. The Treasury only put 'Mr. Herries upon the pay he - would have been entitled to by the former period of service. As a Clerk of the Treashry, if he remained in that situation, he might have had more than '1350/. a•year, but he wits called to another laborious place, and alter so well filling the.duties of it, would it have been liberal or just to call upon him to audit the Civil List for a trifling salary ? flis half-pay was called a . job, and his Atulitorship a sinecure. There could tic no greater misapplication of language. The office of Audi:or of the Civil List was a most im portant one ; and it was fit that it shoohlbe placed under the direction of extraordinary habits, and extraordinary je,dgment, such as Mr. Herries pot sessed. He Was satisfied that what Mr; flerries bad received could not be considered as any fa vour'; in fact, it would have been an injury to him had not his services, .which had been . of -the utmost importance to the public, been adequately rewarded. It was also of the first consequeove to guard against a recurrence of the evils which have been witnessed in the charges of the Civil Li st; an d ip , oo way could the public be better protected than by a person of the abilities which Mr. Herries justl been proved to posseis. On time grounds he should oppose the motion. Mr. PoNsoNRY Mahltahicd that the Office of Mr. Herries was ft military one, not withstanding what bad been said by the Noble Lord; but sup pose be were to allow that it was merely a civil o ffi ce , h e wou ld then ask ' where was the role which entitled civil officers, who retired, to re ceive more than their half-pay ? Ile might ask, indeed, what were the instances in which they Were granted the.foll half of-their salary ? -If Mr. Herries chose to' teke the office of Auditor of the Civil List, 'why' were the peblic t s to suffer lie saw . no 'reason why hi should-not surrender his half-pay, upUn having accepted that function ; unless, indeed, there was some peculiar merit in his case;' which entitled him to he a principle violated for his sake, which had never peen yin. Wed. for, any other per Sou. He doubted, how.' ever, ivbeiher the transaction proceeded upon any grotind of merit : he rather. believed the whole thing was to be traced to the influence of layout and he thought.the House was bound to ;gown, i!ec upon it, that it wa* Animpruptr use of the public money. Mr. C. ORANT said, that the Treasury, in fixing the compensation due to Mr. Hetries, were not bound to refer,to,the enactments of the Superan nuation Act, because that Act related to offices from' which persons retired 'in consequence of ill health, length of service, or advanee - of years, whereas the office of Mr. Herries was abolished. The only quution, therefore, was, whether the TressoryAked, or had not, exercised a sound dis cretion in the mode and amount of compensation. 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The Bermtidas, and Newfoundland Trade 13111 s, were read a second time, and of tiered to besono. milted Lo-morrOw. TYTHK LEASING BILL. 'Lord Tibringtnn, Sir IVnt. Scott, Lord Milton, and Mr. I). Gilbert made stinte general observa• lions on the fill. A Motion for extending the Leases according to Queen . Anne's Act was pro; pOSed, on Which Mr. LOckhart, Leird Mdton, • Mr. Ponsonby, Mr. - WrOtteiley, Mr. L. Foite'r, and others made. some observations. motion for the ilonse going int6.a CO4- . mittee being Made nod second e d, A.lvjotitt Smyth, Sir IVm.' Scot..., Sir H.' Parnell, Sir Charles Monck,Lird Palmerston, Mr. Saville, M r . H. Martin, and Mr. lirOughitm Seerally Sp'oke. The motion was then'agreed to, and the [louse having. resolved into a Committee, the Bill was read It first time, hnd then ordered to be read paragraph by paragraph; , On the Clause with respeet to the duration of the Leases of Tythes, '' ten years" were inserted. In the Clause respecting the appointment of surveyors to appreciate the,l)tthes, that appoint ment was, upon the Motion of Sir W. Scott, vest• ed in the Bishops. On the motion of Mr. LEst.tt rotrza, in order-- to meet the ease of Ireland, where' there are so many intermediate tenants between the owner and actual occupant. of land, an 'lntendment was made in the Clause, giving "he' option of the Leases of Tythes first to,the, owner, and next to the tenant . , namely, by substituting the words, " Old int r mediate landlord and tenant, or tenants." , On the motion of Si r W; Scotr, t h e Ch a i rman was ordered to report progress, and ask leave to sit again. The House having resumed, the Chair.; man accordingly reported progeess ; nod it was ordered that the • Committee should sit again on Wednesday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of and at Halt-past Eleven °IAA,. the House, adjourned, LAW INTELLIICiENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MAY 8. CONTEMPT OF .COURT.-;CLANDESTINE MARMAGE. Mr. SHAW applied to the', Lord Chancellor, ini the matter of Mr., Lockett, a your% gentleman twenty years of age, who, since it had been re. ferred to the Master to indite of a proper settio: meat, had conimitted CofiteMpt of Court, by h,tving eloped with and c'andetinely marine! Alias EdWards, a Ward in 'Chancery, whilst hit prepaid was tinder the consideration of Mr. Ste•' phen, thcfMaster. The young lady in this case was of . the age of. 19, and the patties harl-been in lops ; habits of intimacy. The father of Mr. Lockett was represented to the Mister as a respectable Attorney at.. 13411), being also a person . of coml.: . derable property. The young Laity is entitled ter, 50001. invested in the Funds. The sogge:itioo the Master was,' that the Marriage waitinekeep. .tionable, provided Mr."Lockett's father Would make a settlement upon his son till the Lady be., come of age. This the young Gentleinan agreed to apply for to his father, , whose consent he hatt no doubt of obtaining.. No conniumication of, the result of this proposed settlement of tbe fa titer was made to the Master, ulsibt in the, hoe rim the marriage took place iu the Parish Cliinclt of St.Maryle-hone, on the 24th of last month.. It was stated that neither the Guardians of the. Lady nor the friends of either patty had objet- ; thins to the marriage, provided the terms pro• posed by the Muster Were cousplte - if with. Sir ARTUUIf PIGGOTT obseriedi that the, young gentleman was now in Court, ready to, abide his. Lordship's pleasure if he wete to be committed. 'He had this to offer as denying Contempt of Court—he was ready to make affidavit, that hue iog applied to his father, bis.father, though ti p proving the moulage, had .refused his assent to the terms proposed by the Master. The platy,' however, having no sordid motive for marrying.' the lady, and there being an equal affection on, her part, he was willing the whole of her,property , should be tnnda~ over by a settlement on her hir life. The Loan CHANCELLOR said, there was rio doubt of the contempt in this case. The matter being on reference to the IN:Lister, this clandestine marriage takks place without the Master's coo sent..'!"he representation was, that his father was a...tnan of fortune and that 'his consent would be procured to make a suitable provision for . hint (the son), being what the Master regitired. It vas impossible to say that this marriage was Hot a Willtil contempt of the Coon and -on less, us stated, the young man had not inch sordid motives as made these 'cases of coni , nipt extremely odioOs, his Lordship woold not pass over this marriage even upon furfilliog the: terms proposed. Not haying the accession tit the, fat her to tiid Master's proposal, bring then under reference to the Master, ho'marries - 11 ward of Court, Rita Lordship observed---' -I am bound to commit this Oentletuan, and cannot help it." COURT OF KING'S DENCII, Q. The Court was chiefly occupied tigaio to day . in , passing" sentence upon persons convicted dining the last Assizekof obstructing Revenue Officers, The ilrovost, Magistrates, and Town Coon. di of Paisley have transmitted a Petition to Parliament, expressive of their decided - opinion of the sound policy and unquestionably cypedi. once of abrogatiag the tax, commonly called the Cottage Tax, and praying that an assessment, so vety'unproductive and so haraqsing, to those ,who are the object* of it, may be t tpt-Alett new cot dingly, onside' that they had inclined the censure of the House, Mr. .13ENNETT replied, and the liotve till..eu the nondier:i tvcrc.— Ay , s. .... •93