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the terms of the Amendment had been offered to bis
i4oice previous to the debate. he would have found
tery little difficulty in preferring them to his uw•
ntiption. Both of these documents recommend an

i..vrettgaliois into ihr mode of collecting the reve.

rue—a revision of salaries, especially of those in.
creased sitter 1797, with a view to their reduction—.
and the observance of • general retrenchment, espe-
cially io the military department. So remarkable
a concurrence could not be the effect of accident.
It was explained by Mr. Hums, iu his reply, who
intimated that he had " been soft enough" to
s'teee his Resolution to a ministeriol Member, who
doubt communicated the nature of it to the
Moser of the A.nend went. This Amendment, there.
lore, must he considered in the light of a ministerial
expooition of the pest conduct and future views of
the Government, and as such it offers no very flat-
ieriog picture of the exertions hitherto made by the
Ministers to gratify the desires of the public, or
to afford tiny relief to the distresses of the coun-
try. There is, however, is promise of much good,
and the Ministers must feel that they are as strongly
topustd to pursue, to every prectiestble extent, the
principle of a severe and rigorous economy, as if
Mr. HVllleg motion had beeu adopted invitees! of
Ameridusent proposed by Mr. RANEE.. The
points too to which they are principally to address
,')ellaselves during the ensuing prorogotion are
r'istitictly indicated, namely, to effect such alters-
, ions in the collection and management of the re-
venue es to render the one " more economical"
avid the other " more efficient ;" to reduce the
.'atulsers of persons employed wider the Govern-
/cent, and to restore the salaries of officers which
had been increased since 1797 to the amount at
v h4;11 they weie rated previous to that increase;
;old fluidly, to Inuit the military establishment
an icily sod bona fide to the necessities of the coun-
try. Should the spirit of this Revolution, collected
1-om the obvious tenor of its language, be
honestly pursued—ahotilil the abuses introduced
by time and the corruption of human nature
in the extended system of our enormous revenue be
corrected—shook, salaries of public officers be pro-
portioned fairly to the extent of their duties, and to
the facility with which respectable men cast be found
lo till offices in every department of the State,
esett with salaries considerably lower than now are
paid—should the excrescences of corruption •be re-
moved from the great branches of the public ser-
vice, and retrenchment be enforced in the military
v.tablishment, more especially in what is called the
t ivil department of that brooch of the general ex•
prouliture, the Ministers will meet the Parliament
in the next Session in a manner that will do credit to
theinselven, strengthen their interest'', and promote
the welfare of the community. in pursuing these
cbjects they would do well to refer occasionally to
the useful hints given to them in the course of the
Session by Mr. Hums and some other Members on
the side of the Opposition ; fur although Mr.
Basin thought proper to qualify Mr. [lotto's
views and proposals as visionary, and the Marquis
of LONDONDERRY cloned them among projects
which exceeded all his notions of practical policy,
yet it must be allowed by all parties that the exer-
tions of the Member for Aberdeen have tended
very much to shew the practicability of effecting
retrenchment in the public service to an extent far
exceeding that which the Ministers proposed as the
limit of their economy.
The following are copies of the Address sod
Amendment, extracted frosts the printed Votes of
the House of Commons :
Motion made, sled question .proposed--" That an bumble
Address be presented to his blejesty, humblyso request, that,
with • view of affording relief to the coyote', from a part
if its burdens, be ;sill be graciously pleased to direct that a
miente investigationte insiiinted into the mode and expense
of the management and collection of the several breaches of
the Revenue; that • careful revision be made of all salaries
sad alluwaeces, especially of those which have been increased
since 1797, in order that they may be adjusted with reference
Sc the increased value of the currency, anel to the distressed cir-
cumstances of the country; that a vigilant soperinteedence
be exercised over the expenditure of the country, in all its de-
partments, in order that every reduction may be made therein
which can be effected without detriment to the public iu.
terms, and in particular is the number of the army, and the
expense of its establishments."
Amendment propertied, to leave oat from the word " Ma.
jest)" to the end of the questiun, in order to add instead
thereof the WOILII, " to assure his Majesty that we have re-
garded with satisfactiou the measures which have bees taken
by his Majesty's commands fur a general revision of the de.
partment of the Customs in Crest Britain; and to entreat bin
Majesty to give directions that • similar investigation may
be 'Strolled to all the other branches of the Revenue, in
order •to render its collection more economical, and its
vanagement more efficient; that, fur the purpose of afford-
ing a further relief to the country, his Majesty will be
pleased to order a minute inquiry into the several depart-
-17,1115 of the Civil Government, as well with a view to re-
dueteg the number of persons employed ie. those de.
partments, which, from the (real increase of business, were
anginented during the late war, as with reference to the
increased salaries granted to individuals since the year 1797,
either in coeseleresion of the additiossl labour thrown upon
them during that period, or of the diminished value of
enamel :—Aud further, that his Majesty will be graciously
pleased to direct that every possible saving which can be
made, without detriment to the public interest, shall be ef.
freed iu those more extruded establishments which the
esseintry is obliged to maintain for the safety sod defence of
the ;Jolted Kiugdom sand ii. dependencies, and more 'ripe-
comity in the military expenditure, by a reduction iu the
here of the army, and by • ceramist and vigilant superin-
tendence over that sad all the other departments connected
with the application of the ample supplies greeted by this
Meuse."

Yesterday the Marquis Of LONDONDERRI• hod
au audience of his -Ma, ETT at 113 pmlace ni Pall-