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kept in NO Ira Scotia and the Oanadas-71 in the
latter sod, og in the former, at f •speo.e. of 4,000!.
and 14,000/. annually. He tht aught Mr. Herries
much or repaid, and that Mr. trotter woo not en.
titled to his pension from any p eblic service which
he had. performed.
Mr. ARIBUTemoT justified die employment of so
large Na number of the Commissariat in the Canada.
and Nova Scotia, by the gn !at extent of the des-
trice's. Mr. Berries was frilly entitled to all the
mosey he received by the set, vice which he rendered,
not only in ibis department, but as Auditor of the
Civil List, and es a Condoissioner engaged in the
inquiry into Irish revenue.
Mr. G. Bimini thriught that the poblie were
entitled to all that Mr. Herries could do between
dawn end sunset for a %Mary so large as he received.
The Cll6llcELLoit of the EXCHEillgt spoke
to the great sod useful services of Mr. Herrin.
He had for many years been at the head of a most
extensive department, one to which arduous dutin
and great responsibility attached, and having the
charge of the managensesit and expenditure of large
sums of money, for which he had aecarately ac-
counted, and be had refined any compensation.
retiring only on the half-pay of hi. office. He was
afterwards appointed Auditor of the Civil List, in
which office he had rendered amt important ser-
vicer, by agonising and regulating the emotion,
and bringing them into such a aisle ma to reader
them perfectly easy and intelligible• to .whoevcr
might succeed hies. and entirely to remove all fear
of the recurrence of that inconvenience and disgrace
which formerly arose out of the state in which the
accounts of the Civil List were 'Mowed to remain.
With respect to Mr. Trotter, the late Storekeepe►-
General, when the number of years daring which
he had served in that office, and the nature of the
duties which he had had to perform. and the man-
ner in which he had performed them. were taken
into oecouot, he did not think the Committee could
consider that the half-pay was too great as allow-
mice for the retirement from such an office.
Mr. H. G. flmixrrT said be bed never for one
•oment intended to deny that Mr. Herries had dis.
charged the duties of his office in an able and satis.
factory manner ; and when he spoke of him as a
clerk, he had not forgotten that he had filled a high
situation, sud that he had proved himself a very
meritorious officer ; and it was not fair of the
Right Hon. Gentleman to give such a nun to his
(Mr. H. G. Bennett's) observations. as to make it
appear that he had commented upon the character
of the individual, when the whole of his comments
had been directed to the, as he conceived it, un-
necnsary and chsproportioned allowance of 4,7001.,
for the half-pay of one office, and the discharge of
the dunes of another of less importance. .

The CHANCELLOR of the Eice Waft said. that
since the Hoe. Member admitted that Mr. Herries
was a meritorious officer he (the Chancellor of the
Exchequer) was willing to take upon himself the
responsibility of having recommended the allowance.
Mr. H. G. Brim is err said, he was quite aware of
the Right Hon. Gentleman's readiness to under.
take the respoosibility, he only wished he could
find that there was in reality some meaning attached
to the term. He had heard it much made use of
for many years. but had never yet kronen an in.
stance in which it had been proved really to exist.
Mr. Hoist said, he was quite ready to admit the
merits of Mr. Herries; but. still he must contend
that the scale of the Comosissariat establishment
was highly extravagant. Look at the Mediterra-
peso establishment; there were in that station no
leas than WI Commissariat officers and clerks em-
ployed, at • charge of 0,1181. The greater part of
these were wholly unnecessary. and the whole
being employed in the lonian Islands and Malts.
he objected to such a charge being made upon the
people of England, while in those places there
were ample revenues that were entirely squandered
away. The whole scale of the Commissariat in the
present state of our military establishments was
quite extravagant, and lie hoped the Right Hon.
Gentleman woulal reduce the amount of the charge.
Mr. Astaurntsor said that was not • proper
moment fur entering into the general question of
the revenues of Malta and the lonian Islands. He
could not undertake to say to what ■mount it
might be possible to carry the reductions under the
new arrangement ; but he could assure the Hon.
Member that all the reductions that it was possible
to make should be made.

The vote was then agreed to.
Mr. ARBUTHNOT then moved the grant of
121,6001. for the service of the Barrack Deport-
ment in Great Britain, for the year IfRC
Dr. LUSHINGTON wished to know what had
been done with a surplus sum under this head,
which misstated to be unappropriated last sear ?
Mr. ARBUTIINOT said, the sum had been ap-
plied to the expense of buildings for this depart-
ment, which were nearly completed, and that the
House would not be called upon fur any further
sum to defray the charge.
Mr. Hume said he was glad to heir the snuffer
of the Right Hon. Gentleman. In considering
the grant now proposed, they ought to remember
that in 1791 there was no such thing as a Barrack
Board, tile whole business of the department being
traiisacted by the Ordnance. He could not help
thinking the whole of the charges in this depart-
ment were much too large. The salaries and al-
lowances to barrack-masters and then deputies,
storekeepers, and barruck•atrjeants, were much too
great. This charge had been, it was true, reduced
2.0001. in the last year. but the Committee would
be surprised to find on looking back to the esti-
mates for the year 1817, that in this year of eco-
nomy we had not gut down to the scale of that
year. The amount or the whole charge for this
department was then 99,1001. and in 1819 it was
101,0001. He could see no good reason why in the
present year the charge should exceed that of 1819
by 2,0001. Persons were appointed as barrack-
roasters at salaries of 55.. 7... 10s.. and in some in-
stances 151. a day, who had no connexion at all with
dummy. He contended that it would be much
better to give those appointments to half-pay offi-
cers. of whom ninny, to his kuowledge, would be
glad to accept of them ; and the amount of their
half-pay would thereby be saved to the county.
He thought the Government was bound, in justice
to the officers of the a►my, to give every employment
of this kind to them when an opportunity offered, in-
stead of using them for purposes of political influeuce,
as he was inclined to think was too often the case.
If the salaries of the barrack-masters were reduced

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