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from she Deputy Usher, and premsted ii t• Mt. Asepott, of
the Trei.wey, who toM hi. it was ell right.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that some Cematittee
sped to he appointed to arratote the ioretioe si there or.
dear, white *ore oftee dellwerml to lie aueseneera of the
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ssNlefuefe ate war than bidisaged so my wee .f their Lords
art.--111r11011,111 tl 141 ft expedient that a comtaittee
mink' delermlas olr mebs-*ade ler Oar *fame of the Huuse
to be able to aseemal• is way ems eat what °Seer She tw-
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TMgral of LTTPrith/OOLthltintbl not • Committee for
that roffom "WO :Ity desirable. Whets she lionsib
• pwrtredso byway cd gp It the Crown, there was at. op.
inetissiltr fur t is other caw % Owe was nitiltiug
to goddrille Mimi' if the House, and the gre.tiest imago-
hard y followed.
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Mintele Lordships so knew debt',
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la m*c ewing them. In remes
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Oil Omni& boned Ai -et Awoet, at she Tatman, pie re-
atelmal 4t,i MOW MO Of detiverry woe gone right.
lb& Noy& or LtgletlDOWN moved that Mr. rayon,
iso Tustmaamy,. slideild be called to the bar.
Same *mahereateMeramtima teamed, in which tie Earl of
tdosepord, tall ling, sad Lord Eteraley took part, wises
senject wire,lby agreermat, art aside for the present, and
Ark Loteholhir proceeded to the Ordir of the Day fur taking
ialiatirotweratitti
THE CIVIL LIST.
Lad Kate mod that to movitig an Address to the
'chosen, it had been his wish to have expreased the
tlionkb of the House to hi. Majesty for the retitle.
title's iu the axiominure of the Civil List, which he
ttad been spaciously pleased to order, but he
found that the forms of proceeding would not
adkma him in comprise any expressions referring to
tbracta of the Crown its en Address of the nature
die had to propose; as pert of the public, how.
Weir. their Lordships had general cognizance of
thit gracious eteosure. and were as liberty to notice
It to their deliberations. First, it was to be ob.
**resod that these reductions were such as c,..ild nut
hpek been asked of the Crown ; they were spoons.
netotsly given by the King, and eerie the more satis-
factory on that accoesui ; but ID proportion to the
son4efactiou generally felt must he shit regret that
thy reductioue were soot corned on further in re-
Ord to the other branches of the civil list. The
Ciown having made so spirited a sacrifice of ire
own. proper int eresiosot would have been but a decent
"41° of roPirti .14 kiinisitio. sod all odiers concern.
ed, to hoer followed the gracious example. Ile could
alsj. bells thinking that it would have brell more
decorous in Ministers to have brought down • Mrs-
sage from the Crown, stating the intentions of his
Majesty-es to thole reductions—to have taLest the
scale of No-Isamu, wpm, that measure—and then
they might hove gone up with an Address of hum-
ble end grateful at know's...Nolen( fur the gift of the
Sovereign. Why they had not an done he knew
net. Did they wish in do good by stealth. that ,
they had hid from one House that which they bed
communicated rarely to soother i—were they.
anxious to pretetit the right hand from know-
ing whet the left was doing ?—or was it
that they were. afraid of being called on to
follow the example of their Sovereign, and make
sunnlar reductions iu their oral emoluments
dial not wish to cast reflections on those of their
Lordvhiut who were most interested, or to assume
that they 'were unwilling to complete the reduc-
tions of the civil bat. lie was aware that many of
them holding very high and efficient situations in
tat Govetitmeist, were chiefly anxious for the ho-
nour .of holding them. The expesolitthe of the
civil list woe novolved in intricacy ; at, indeed,
what part of the public accounts was not mate
intrresie, to prevent, it would seem, the profane
oyes of the people from looking into the arenas of
&nice. Ile was sorry to say that their were
ep-
ptterai.crs of extrovagame in the accounts of the
civil list, which seemed to be incurred for purposes"
of purliametitury influence and patronage.
oneens•oseghc be necessary for carrying on the mea-
sures of Goveruniont in another place, but could
aysicely be Deeded in this Heuer. It could scarcely
Lecouteuded that their Lordships had not a right
to inquire ins. the condition of the civil list, or that
it woe not within the cognizance of Parliament to
revisor it. if they thought proper. It was indeed
lowed for she life of the Sovereign; but that did
not bar the right of Parliament to inquire into its
if any „Aube were manifest. It had never been
toatesided- that Parliament had sin right to inquire,
.when complaint. were subsumed to them of the
general dellcieocy of those supplies, as had been the
ease more than once in the reigu of his late Ma-
jesty so now; if it could be 'hewn that those
bapplots were more than enough fur the proper ne-
cesaistewof the State, it must be competent in
Insonrat •to inquire and make reductions accord*
awls: Ou one branch of it Ire intended, before
he sat down, to propose • rerluctiou—the ex-
proses of foreign Ambassadors and Ministers
—an article of tali ezlrevtigsncr. over which
Parliament bed severed by its owl, act a power
to teinde Mid reduce according to the (tees-
eoion. The Crows moreitree had uo interest in keep-
. rig up that branch of the es,seiw, and therefore no
benefit would be lost to the Crown, but rather
otherwiee. by a.serioua reduction. By the 56th of
the late King it was provided. that if any saving
attnoiri sugar lo the 31 chess (the expense of foreign
inissiotis and ensbassie4, it was not to be carried
to throttler classes of the list, but to the consolidat-
ed fund. The Crowu parted with no benefit in the
&enaction. made on that cies"; sud it must be
quite.eleor that of • cheaper mude of effrctiug the
service could lie devised by Parliament, it would
be airadatole, notwithatauding the previous outrage-
merit., 'foe that %touch of the expeuditure of
the civil list. There were two or three other
dense' on which he might have to remark. At
. serereut he would °Leave that the classifications
adopted were not such us promised to conduce much
(*economy: 'fray sere arranged ou the plan of
she IroillEilltO Of 1816, a perluil when the effect of
• diminished print was nut cce,treeptated. and Hie
value of all articles stood in a very differeut state