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the question of ginecures. The demand l 3 have
them regulated was treated as an attack on the
Itoyal prerogative. It was said to be an attempt
to tear the Crown from the Ring's herd. But the
"mow, after a time, were given up—as well as
the rines which were proposed to different branches
ti the Royal Family I—(Hear, hear.)—lf the
spirit of the country be exerted. there is nothilig
the Gentlemen opposite will not concede, except
thew he called on to give up their places.—(lPor,
Araej—The Right Honourable Gentleman, it
sciariir% has s very great instinsetice over the mind,
,rhis friends. Last tea:, lie to ,de them all vote
rValtt nu„ liwy ate all ready to vote
fur it. rpi• 1 hope he will rut sto•ceed in getting
them to t s!turge important WWI'S from toy motion,
to order to introduce others, that are Ira compre-
hensive and operative than those which I have
chosen. The next consideration is. what sort of a
ommittee is it to be ? The Right Honour-
able Gentlemen says, it ought to be a Committer
of Secreay. 1 care very little whether it is a
Secret or a Select Committee. 'rte one may,
if they ilease, be as serviceable as the other. But
the mischi..l of the Secret Committee is, that it is
to he ele,led by ballot. For my part, I caoront see
the wreaks. of a Secret Committee. The glom-
lity of bullion and tl:e amount of the discounts ef-
fected by the Bank, were the two great pecrets;
and, with respect to them. why may out the same
plant he adopted as was meted on in 1797, when
those accounts were given, in what are called tuba-
listic oumbera, the variations or which were made
upwards and downwards. By this means the se-
cret was completely preserved, without shutting
out *thee important points of stiformattost." The
Right Hon. Gentleman then directed a forri-
Me appeal to the House, on the great nuportatiee
of ihe appointment of such a Committee as would
afford distinct and categorical replies to the matters
comprised in his motion. If the Chancellor of the
Ilerhequer agreed to that, it was very well ; if lie
cid not, every dispassionate man Inua, see that his
op position arose from a desire to chew, at the ear-
iiest moment, his power in the new Parliament, and
tot from a conviction that he was right. If any
Gentlemen wished to she. their entire devotion to
'Ministers, this was their time; they had now, to use
phrase well understood its hunting, en opportu-
nity of ;dogging themselves the moment they set
oat. Should his motion he defeated, he would
look upon it as a pitiful triumph of one party over
another—entirely distinct from the merits of the
hear.)—The Right Hun. Gentle.
man then moved, . _

" 'Plat a Committee be appointed lo inquire into tbo
effrcts produced on the Exchanges with Foreign Cons-
erves, and the stale of the Circulatinot Medium, by Ika
Restriction on Payments in Cash by the Bank; and to rm.
wet hhetber any and wbat MIIIOII% exist for continuing
I. same beyond the period now axed by law fur its
to.. alma " . . .

l'he CHAIIeLLLOR of the EXCkitQUER said, the
HIM. Gent. in his whole course of proceeding,
end in his speech, bad spewed that 1w contemned
conciliation, and expected to carry his point by
sdonting the tone and language of delimiter. The
Right H. it. Gridirons,' complained of the course
that he had taken, when, in fact, all the blame
vatted with himself. Ile had given notice of e
motiao, which, after a few day.. he had wholly
sbandoutd—and now he expressed himself hostile
to the m tioo proectetl by I.no (11r. Vansithol)
although it called for a inure elistioct awl definite
itopiiry than that *bleb the 111.41 it 'divans
hitiowlf contemplated. The C:;incel!nr of the
Exchequer !lieu proceeded to compare the two
muttons, and contended, that that which hr meant
to propose as an amestdment, was better calculated,
in every point of view, to meet the wishes of the
country, than the proposition of the Right lion.
Grist. He did not mean, hr observed, to enter iuto
the details which the Right lion. Gent. bad affeet-
eil to lay before the House, particularly those which
respected the general conduct of the Goseriiment.
But he:would be ready, at ally time, to meet him on
thow points, when they were regularly introduced.
Government ware accused of rentiv,iiews, hut, in
plata of fact, more had been dour, for the emetics.
ratans of the revenue and of public cr. dit, during
toe last three years of peace, than was ever knowis
doling a like period, after any pre►l,:us war, lip
to the filth of Jan. 1819, twin:: three years after the
conclusion of peace, taxes, which, in that time, would
have amounted to upwards of 30.000,00n1. had
beets removed. He would also sheiv, takiit4 the
Umfunded Debt from Y.l to 30.000,000/ that not
only Oil 110 former occasion was any portion of
the public debt cut down its the short spare of
three years utter a war, but that, in the whole
period of peace, from the Revolution to the year
1816, so much debt had not been redeemed as was
got rid of iii the three last years. These circom-
lit lt,Cell were enough to chew that there was no blurt.
dation for charging lot Majesty's Government with
waist of system. He could have wished, for the
alike of the House and the pulps, thut decided opi-
nions bad out been stated on dos occasion. Be-
cause massy persons, who hastily made up their
'mods on • question of this complicated nature,
sould afterwards perhaps hurl it necessary to vary
their opinion. For his own part, if appoiuted on the
Committee, he should enter It wait a mind perfectly
open to conviction, and willing to receive informs-
Loh. %Vitt' respect to the mode of conducting trio in.
inlay, lie certainly meant that it should be consigned
11 a Committee of Secresy—for, in his opinion, ina
taloa Committee was competent to examine into
due private &draws of the Bank. lie tueant, there-
fore, to !propose the appointment of a Committee
ofSecresy on the state of the Bank, with reference
to tine eX In I:lelaCy oh the resumption of Cash Pay.
"eats at the period at present fixed by law, and
dhlo welt other matters as are connected therewith,
sod which may be disclosed without any injury to
Cie public interest. Such a Committee would
have au opportunity of making every inquity, and
zit Report commuisicating every information
alach an open Committee could make use of ; and
Low its structure it could have access to sources of
iiaurosiation, which it would be impossible, with
'agcy to the public interest, to lay open. No-
/1.414 could, he thought, be mole strange than the
piol...sition of the Right Honourable Gentleman
°G.l.•tte, which went to sp'.t one integral motion
961'0 two parts, and make one part secret mid the
01,.rrttfiru; co that there would be two distinct
each acting separately, but with the
t.,A tit by that course favouring u conjoint opero-
t"',l. In this tuanuer the great leading object

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