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Moly it was 4,000 dollars, but it had been doubled;
making it about 2,000/. The Member,' of the Le.
gitlative Assembly had formerly a small allowance
when they attended ; they sow received 100 dollars
per month, and were furnished with quarters at the
public expense. The answer to an Order *of
that Hoarse, on the motion of a gallant Officer
(Colonel Davies) who sat near him, fur a return
of the number of militia actually embodied in the
lonian Islands, was, that the Government had not
found it necessary to call oat the militia. He would •
put it to the Hoe'. Gentleman opposite, whether it
would not have been a more proper answer to have
said, that there were no militia at all; and yet.
there were six Inspectors of Militia, with salaries
amounting to 3,0001. The fortress of Santa
Maur had been repaired at an expense of forty-
four thousand dollars from this country, on the
express promise of repayment. But that sum had
been remitted, upon a representation made by
the Lord High Commissiniser, and teat at a
time when • sumptuous palace was building for
'his residence, which would take several years
to complete, at an expense of 80.000 i. dollar.. A
lOW Order of Knighthood had been established,
the Order of St. George and St. Michael, of which
the Lord High Commissioner was Grand Master,
and the Parliament bad voted him a Star of the
Order, of the value of 40,000 dollars. The man-
ner io which the tuxes were exacted, arid the partial
administration of the strain, of the Republic, by
tug all the higher.offices with friends and reletives
of the Lord High Coinasissioeier from England, hail
excited the greatest dislike against this country.
Taxes which had been imposed during the non-ses-
sion of Parliament by the sole authority of the GO.
veruor, had led to the most disastrous consequeoces,
se had been acknowledged by him in his
speech to the Leigislat ore, who had after-
wards repealed them. A great many individuals
bail been arrested and conveyed away, no one
knew whither, for au attempt to resist an order of
the Lord High Commissioner, far the confiscation
of the Church Lands, and appropriating thew
so purposes very different from those for which
they were intended. A useless Staff was kept
up at an extravagant rate, sod the (louse would
not do its duty to the country if it allowed a
giggle shilling more to be ',wird to the sup-
port of the military establishment of those Islands
until they had before them an account of the
manner in which the revenues of the Islands
were expended. • Noble Lord had affirmed, that
no additional imposts had been laid on in the
Islands. If that were the fact, which he did not
believe, there could he ou objection to produce the
accounts, which would exculpate the Governor from
that charge. He remarked upon the extreme in.
convenience of the present scheme of duties, the
Tariff being different in every islarid, instead of
being the same throughout the whole. The Hon.
Gentleman then concluded by moving an Address
to his Majors), for an Abstract of the Revenue and
Expenditure of the lonian Islands, distiugutahing
the civil slid military expenditure for each of the
years 1817, 1818. and 1819.
Mr. GouLsuxa said, he believed, that formerly
ashen* Member moved for papers, it was usual to
reserve any discussion on the matters to which they
referred until after they were laid on the table, un-
less their production was opposed. The Hon.
Gentleman opposite had, however, of late intro-
duced the novel practice of discussing the whole
question which could be raised upon the papers for
which lie moved, and of entering into a wide detail
of staterneists concerning the matters to which they
referred, without waiting to see how far the docu-
ments fur which he moved would confirm the infor-
mation which he might have received. The error
into which the Hon. Gentleman had fallen in
making many of these charges against Sir T. Mait-
land, arose from his misunderstanding of the nature
of the office which he held. If he had read the

constitution of the lonian Islands, he would have
found that tautly or the acts of which he com-
plained were the acts of the Executive branch of
the State. which was entirely distinct from the au-
thority of Sir Thomas Nlastland. who merely. pow-
sewed the power of a Veto in some pint-011er cases.
Thu unexprcted nature of abuse statements, and
the wide extent of their range, rendered it
impossible for him to follow the Honourable
Gentleman through all his details ; on some of the
points, however, he would endeavour to meet him.
.fle admitted that there had been ass increase of re-
venue, and a nominal increase of expenditure.
The increase of revenue was produced not by addi-
tional imposts, but by an alteration of the mode of
collecting, and by the care taken to prevent the
sums collected for the revenue from finding their
way, as they had formerly too forquently dom., into
the pockets of private iiidsvidnalr.—(Cheers.)—
The increase in the charges of the colketioss, in
coissertuence of the additional salaries, could hardly
be called an increase of the expenditure since it
had secured a very large actual inc r f the re-
venue. The Honourable Gentlentan had attributed

• -I his increase to the confiscation of church property;
but so far from any such confiscation, the uttsio-t
endeavour of the Lord High Commissioner had
been exerted to rescue the property from the hoods
of• those who had improperly become possessed of
it, mid to apply it to the support of the Clergy...-
(Neer, hear.)—This had of course excited the
tll-
will of those who Mlle compelled to give up that
-which did not belnfig so them, and th•, eadea-
•ioured to excite the people to resistance, under the
pretext that it sews intended to confiscate the
Church property; to tchicl► they added, as an addi-
tional excitemeut, ,a report winch furnished an an-
swer to the statement of the Honourable Gentle.

man about the militia, far they caused tt to
be circulated that the Government celled out
the militia for the purpose of rending whole
regiments of them to the West Italie.. The
Hun. Gentleman then proceeded to reply se-
riatim. to the several ►tatements which had bevy
mode. The salary of the head of the Senate was
1.0001. instead of 2,0001. as stated. The hrgher
t•fi'iees were siot filled by relation• of Sir Thwors
Maitland ; and if the ►au►r perso►► filled ►note than
one situation, he did the duties of all, but received
only the pay ()I one. The Hon. Member scented
to have been misled into his statement reverting
the palace, by not knowing that the Julian word
palazzo did not alwa)s convey thesettecofthetngi.
Itch term palace. The fact was, that the Senate
thought it would be more convenient tl►yt the
place of the sittings of the Legislative Assembly