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Chairmen tit' thi•Conanittee, tire.
bennqi thrir Third Iteivirt, and in thitt it
be laid ta!mn the 1-41. ,• with
intik :nll to (16n...A e, that the
Mute meek: not be hilettuell in the g;t4t wtb. of

papers be bad then brought np, because although
tie had themes: it necessery that the a hole should
be preastoted• to itte flange, yet be did list think it
would be requisite to move liar the whole of them
being printer). Ide was of this opinion both ens
accounts( the. vent expense attending the pi:na-
il% of such • voluminous productious, anti L.PCilliNe
be believed that information was more cosily and
more goefully conveyed, when the wipers to be
consulted were cotilitsed within a narrow t oinpuss.
Ile wits afraid that when Members considered the
length of time this Committee had been sitting,
they would be spa to imagine their time had been
misapplied. Ile couldassure them, however, that
ereat diligeueo audotteutsowhad been by tin 11111111 h
waistiag on their. Part. Great delays had miter.
Co accoont of the contrariety of opinions thud ex-
isted amused.,: those alio composed that Committee,.
which was in his opinion ?ether too t tttttt erously
coustnisted. He should therefore think is advi-
sable, in a future Session o.a.'arlisintait, that the
House should consider whether. a Committee so
numerous was most I:kely to attain the rods de-
sired 1 The attention of the Committee Intil not
been exclusively employed upon the subject of
this Report. Souse coosideashile progress had
!—en made in other matters connected with the
civic slioject ; but in regard to what related to the
Pay (:).ise and the War Office Accosints,they were
desirous to be pet in posoession of the last Report
of the Cousaii.sion of Military Enquiry. which
had, on'y been laid upon the Table on Saturday
last. f his had presentrd them from coming to a.
conchs ion upon other paints. lie thought it was
necess it:, upon this meas. to observe, that the
mantle 111 which this present Report appeared,
was u t so satisfactory to him as he could have
wishei but it was lifework of the Committee more
than ci himself. There was one branch, relative W
sinecive offices, which lie regretted had been altered,
morel; by means of cireimidances attending the
dose of a Session, and such as would not have taken
place ut the commencement of one. In what re-
garded satiedire places, some words of the ori-
ginal Report hull bcen entirely omitted. He had
not, however, to complain of the proceedings which
gave rise to these altennimis, as they were certain-
ly such as were perfectly regular towards the close
of a Session, and such as insist frequently happen
amongst all large bodies of men.—lt might hap-
pen, therefire, not to come up to the expectations
of some Gentlemen in the House, and it was cer-
tainly not so satisfactory to him as it wits origi-
nally ; but there was no diligence wanting upon his
part to render it more complete, nor of those who
joined with him in that Courinimion.
Mr. Levcarrea said, that being a member of
this Committee, he was anxious to tuake a few oh-
servatio ,s to prevent any sniarepreseutations or mis-
conceptions going abroad. The Hossourable Gen-
tlensau who had just spoken, had said this Report
might have been much wore satisfactory, lied it not
been altered from the state its which it had passed
at the eounuenceineut of the discussion upon it, as
originally drawn up. Now, lie had to remark, that
there was even at that time • great dillerence of
opinion concerning it, and it was only carried by a
majority of one, and an Honourable Meinlser of' the
Committee then gave notice, that lie should, upon
its second reading. propose an alteration upon the
parsieislar part alluded to. When those passages ;
came to be discussed, an amendment a us proposed
and carried, in the regular course of proceedings ;
and, soon afterwards, another Gentlemau proposed
an adjournment, which was acceded to. He begged
leave to state what those alterations were, because,
from theellsn esortance which that Hon. Gentleman•
had atta to this matter, the House might he
led to suppose that it was a subject of the greatest
consequence, and the more especially as he had
seen, in some of the newspapers, some insinuations,
as if attempts had been made, by some of the
Members of the Committee, to screen delinquents.
The Report, as it originally stood, stated it to be
the opinion of the Committee, that sinecure places
should be abolished, with some few exceptions;
and the amendment went to say. that the emolu-
ments of some 'should be diminished, and that some
should be entirely abolished. He could not help
thinking that this did not constitute any material
difference ; and the more especially as the recom-
mendation in the first 'flounce had been only
carried by a majority of one, it being extreme-
ly difficult to determine how far they should
go upon this particular; but at any rate the House
were still left to judge regarding it. Another point
that was somewhat altered, related to the increas-
ing influence of the Crown. The alteration went
to state the cause of that increase, and the cases
where it had diminished, as well as those where it
had increased, so as to leave the House to judge of
the propriety of reducing it. This alteration, in'
his opinion, amounted to nothing at all ; for sup-
posing the passage to have stood as originally
stated, he was not aware of any circumstance that
could attach to it, as the object of the Committee
was not so much to enter into questions as to the
influence of the Crown, wino questions relative to
retrenchments in the expenditure of the public mco
ney. He was anxious to state this much, in order
that the nature of the amendments adopted by the
Committee should be precisely known by the.
House, as he was perfectly certain they were such
as would have the entire concurrence of the Iloilo..
Mr Herta, THOUNTON SSW, he was lIIIXIOUS to
make this matter still better usderstood. lie eu-
tirdy concurred in the observations of the Chair-
man of the Committee npon the subject. Ile by
no means conceived that the first emendinent was
so nportant as the Honourable Gentleman who
had spoken last had represented. It certainly
went to tore a very ditferdit impression from that
of the original. The Report at first professed to
preserve such sinecures as were deeined necessary
for the personal dignity of the. Crown ; but it ex-
po's-id the opinion of the Committee to be, that
the remainder, with very few exceptions, ought
to be abolished. It reempii.ed the propriety of
granting rimards to person., who, iii high situations,
had rendered eminent services to their country,
b...ides the rerniinerat for their daily service.,
i•si 1011 g as they coat NI to 6111 hem. The
Ile-p • rt therefore, a. it orignally stood, eat (lis-
(,111101•1111111•11IV generally the principle of grals:iht;
,iaccurr.. The Report, as amended, however, in-
stead of statio4 such an noission, inerely said that
sitiPe.ire• might w.th propriety be retrenched,
and others alsolisLed, not adopting at all the ge-

Lend principle, that siuecuret °net to be redneed.
This amentlwer.t was submitted no longer ago than
Monday laq.a day of the week on which the Com-
mittee did not usually meet, uud the attendance
was therefore very thin, no regular notieehavim, been
sent sound to them. lle had, therefore, tor hs, 0111,
part, no douLt, that, under other cireimisiaoces,
the (million formerly expt. ssed by the I.:omitting.,
would have been their ultimate determination. He
thought it was fair to' let the House kiwi,. the
circumstances. (Hear ! hear ! hear !) lle did
not attribute any fault or blame to any Man idual,
but lie was :druid the Report would thereby appear
sonsrwbat inennbi,tent tiartiea'ir.. Ab
to the other aincuilinem, relative to the ineren,eil
influence of the Crown, he dill not think it 113,
.014 SO 'MIIOIIIIO as the other one, but lie perft,lly
:.),•iet-d with the lion. Chairman as a the Ilnet oat-
iog opinions that must iieces,arily prevail in a C •
uattee bu numerously colistituteil a, the one is
guest iiiiii many of the Member, of it liming tars-
oils avocations to call them away from their at-
teudance.

The Report was then ordered to be luid upon
the table.

Mr. BANKE3 next moved, " That the Report,
with the Aupendix, be printed;" ehich, after
few words from Mr. Ilontsit, relative to the purti-
color documents intended to be printed, ars
agreed to.
Mr. NIMBI( THOINITON added, that it was in-
tended, ;is he understood, to publish an account of
all sinecures, reversions, emoluments, pensions, and
annuities, received by persons perlOrming any
dutiaiii.. •
IRELAND.
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Mr. SHIRIDAN rive notice, that itwas his inten-
tion, on Friday next, to submit a notion as to the
various petitions submitted to the House from per-
sons imprisoned in Ireland.