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SUPPLY. . . .
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111 E QUEEN. • . .
We. WiniONGTON ;nosed that ifie seep of 171 As sd.
be fringed to cOniolete die allowance of 12,Wi to
charge the ontstisiiilhig debts doe to tradromen in .tnchtud,
and that the said sow abonld be paid without any &dor-
Volta whatsoever.

Mr. HUME expressed his surprise that the Government
would not discharge so small • sons of her Illajesty!s debts
as would still rentals owealialled. The Howse must remem-
ber that the Right Htessourable Gelatinous opposite had
staled, that if the prosecution against her Majesty should out
succeed, she was to be treated in every respect as Queen, and
to get a complete outfit, with carriages, plate, soil other ar.
Hetes ,• but now they found there had been an entirC breath
of faith. The Government were about to leave a few paltry
thouland pounds unpaid, and those too debts which bad not
been coutracted by soy extravagance un her part. It would
disgrace the C,own to leave a few pour tradesmen unpaid
their just demands.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCH.F.QUER said, that the
Honourable Gentleman was not juniifitcl is saying that the
Government had given auyisledge whatever. Her Majesty
had received the allowance which Parliament had thought
At tb vote, sad this grabt was at present voted to abscissa ge
der debts.

Mr. HUME denied that this was any additional grant, it
des her Maj. sty's just right, for it nail only doing that which
had been done in the ease of the Duke of Kent and
others. filer Majesty died in the middle of a quarter, and
where was the great liberality in paying irp the arrears and
the House mutt recollect that her Majesty had peculiar
daises when she ga►e up fur fire years Memo thousand pounds
a year.
Mr.sglderinan WOOD said, the Queen bad been distinctly
prosihred that she should have a house furnished, & car-
riage, &c. There was so extravagance on her psrt, and
tberefbre the Guirernaaent ware Fotiend to distharge her
&ids.

Mr. THOMAS WILSON said, that as thesrdehls (1)41 not
mite front any retravignece, they should he entirely dis•
charged. They were of so very trifling so ammint,that it
was not worth while to cavil (bout it —Meer, bear )
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Mid, he
believed the sum proposed would cover all fair and just de-
mands.
• Mr. HUM E mid, be wowld appeal to the esadour of the
Right Hoeourable Gentleman. He could produce ft letter
from Lord Liverpool to the Gnome, authormnf her to par.
thane a house and (impish it, and sorely she never could have
supposed thet this would be included in her animal allow.
seer. He understood that the mosey paid to the • ►ors
would sot enable them to pay the *emote more than one
quarter's allowance, and if there were no claims to Justice,
surely some degree of liberality should be Aeon on the pail
of the Government.

Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that when ber Majesty &mod
atat the price of her carriage was to be deducted from her
allowance it hurt her very mach. There was no
reason to suppose that this would have been the cue, when
pertain had been actually sent Irons the Stablelard to In-
spect the carriage, and ate that it was worth the money paid
fur it.

Sir. LUSHIN6TON said, there was foreign property
that would dieeharge tiff foreign debte, tied the seem now
proposed ioald covet the debt* dui to the ticlrstneu In
Buslaad.
The vote was then agreed 10.
Ou the motion of Mr. GOULBORN, the sum of 30,000/.
was voted to defray the expeoserrof peddle works at the bar-
boor of Kingelownifeirmetly called Panleery, in Ireland.
The sett vole weir the sum of 7,200/. to &fit+ the et-
proses of the Commissioners appointed to invemigite the
&we of the Courts ofJ twice in trklend.
Oa the niotion of Mr. WILMOT, the sem of 211,0001. win
voted In defray the expense* of Ike ports and poiseasions of
his Majesty on the Gold Coast in Africa.
OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL
Lord PA LM ERSTON proposed that the sum of 4,0001.
shbstd be granted to reward Sir William Adresse for his ser-
vices in attending the Ophthalmic Hospital. The Mouse
was soticiently acquainted with what led to the appoint-
ment of Sir Wrp. Adams; and, when they considered that be
had attended for four years gratuitously, without any re-
noineration Whatsoever, he was sure they would be of opi-
nion that the sum of 4,000 L, that is, 1,0001. a year, was net
too much to give him. He bad attended with the greatest
seal; be devoted three hours • day, sad that part of the
day too most valuable is his uwn private practice; and he
was sure that if he had been so employed bie ptirate emu-
lumeut would have been much greater.

Mr. H. G. BENNETT said he could set help lamenting
the late period of the Session at which this vote wee trrestfit
on. The mirstioe fur the Howse to cousider was, whet was
the claim of Sir Wm. Adams. The Noble Lord was bound
to make it appear that these claims rested upon services
alone, for as to any thing else it appeared to him that all
his preterites and letters of service was a liable. His
claim to inveishou was entitled to ets credit. 10 1813 Sir
Witham Adams teenier/A his serviced to the Government on
erriain cosditions. He stated that be would he able- to cure
one half of the pensioners who were pessioned are mensal
of complaints of the eye, lied that by tbirmease they would-
be rendered fit fur employment, aid an animal sam of
.50,000:. a year would be saved to dm public. These midi-
lions were accepted by the Government. He did not meow
twiny that Sir William Adams was bound dose by his boad
to fulfil these stipulation., or that the caring of one man
mom or.oser Naas less wield have been very material, bet
nibstautively he was pledged to effect • rossaderable avid`.
Thep lineation of Me W. Adams was in feet uotbimm, Weems@
Dr. Veitch bad tired it in his praelice from 1808 to len.
He referred to the mingles tates before lb* Committee,
from several surgeons who bad sent the same made of rec.
tier long before-they beard of Sir W. Adams. He entered
brit fiy into lba early life of Sir W. Adam., Itieleppointment
to the office is the Ophthalmic lastitutios, his ussoccessfil
practice, the inquiry which ensued, mid the detettnittaliod
of the Medical Board therrepoe, add hie dismissal teem-
quent opts* that. He explainedithe nature of the operative
on• ophthalmic polecats, genesally used, mad 'beefed OM
there was °sly a very slight diftheiroce between the practice
of Dr. V. itch and Sir W. Adams, in which the piercer Sir
W. Adams wee scateaspenied with a math greater degree of
useless severity. He ciamplained of the mode of selee.
ties adopted to get the experiments tried. &Mead of
gatlurtng 'objects from twisty miles 'boor London,
they were brought from distant parts of Ireland sad
Scotland. When collected, the'opetasionw were proposed
to these, and iu malty cases where they refereed to
submit to some which were of Ike tenet-tract torture, they
were tented out, and threatened with the lot. of their pen.
sinus, and is some imaascee seinelly deprived of them...-
Whereas the rule of the sentice was, that there could be no •
operation performed oar a patinae except after a neediest
council. He paid a tribute to the great bemauity she's by
the Duke of-York totSess sufferers. He contended, from
the *hide scope of the evidence takes before-the Committee,
that there was nothing, is the plan of Sir W. Adams wide%
could es itle hies to the rew.rd of invent tub. All that *se prac-
ticable ant useful is it was obvioitsly taken.frons Dr reitels,
whose practice was exactly that of the prevent day. Yet they
had the geestest difficulty is ittliiag • single compliment
patti to that most demurs', practitioner, who still bad -tlie
painful and arduous thine of the eye petients upon Mm.
He then referred mare particularly to the coneptaials made
of the Ophthalmic Institution to the- Coseemender-in Chiefs.
mid the reasoustrancesddremed in consequesee to the Secre:
lay at War, is which his' Royal Higher's gave directions
;or the reduction of Ili* hospital. He also reed the letter of -
the Doke of Took, which determined ageism the practice of
Sir W. Adams. sod his clams to any reword either forts.
vestion is his plans, or foe the tandem t of the retabliAnseut
wader him. Up,* Nita letter the Commlnee of the House
sm appoimed, the! real was to be taken from the evi-
dence. He the.gbs that be might rely .upon these
particulars for the case be esdertook to make ma—
ths*. there was so merit in the Invention of Sir
Adams---thst-his mmalect and practice had hires
reprehensible, end bed havered caviare awl cendemeetlow
Berm Use Commodlerle/Chief mid the Medical : Haan,. Vd
diem cermet% aemteadiestraticate otbeir aught ter be added,

en Medina of it. genes surf illiberal 'candid circulated
pligthast the Medical Rimed in papers and pamphlets by the
portions@ of jrl W. Adams. He was ready to 0.111111 that
Sir I' Adidas was ostitii.il to remuneration as a surgeon et
thy head of • Medical establishment. He believed that there
was no practitioner however eminent who would sot be glad
of the sionatinu. There was fatigue and loss of time attached
to the mice. But there were also reputation and prifie-
Mons! fame; so that no commission in the guards would sell
for as large a. sum as that situation if it could be offered for
sale. Upon all the es Wore Lc •au inclined to believe that
2,0001. isuuld be • sufficient remuneration for all She
SICCS of Sir W. Adana.. He moved that sung to he sub
toted fur tie 4,000/. inihe Resolution.
Mr. W. PEEL said, that if Sir W. Adams had opt
sight tot cases berate held incurable, he was euttiled more
remuneration than his wit re pay.
Mr. J. DAWSON Inmentesl that this should ye been
made a patty question in the Committic,. Ile.t; rased 0,-
m-ritually of the dispute let wren the A.. , ibe.d
Board against Sit W. Adams before the Coma ..eand qss.
party heat of some of the Committee to 1. kin mot
stout essing and virufeut. lie denied that Sir Adonis had
claimed the merit of iseent ion. Ile only p, acll to
humeri' a superior mode of irealmeut ill $1:;;;I•
of the dkesse—that he look to the plan ut ilirog for the
source of the thsesee in the eyelid in ilea,' the eye,-that
ever ling the rye-lid and removing the rat twin, was.th,-
only successful mode .;r tresimetal. lie ce doss Dr.
Weiteb, whose modesty and abilities could is. he ton !tiptoe
had practised upon the granulation if the reelide,
as early all 1009. But circuwataoces prevcs •I his.alts nig-
tog it, and the service dose by Sir W. Aden •as to r.Vps.
manic+tiog the plan to the public service. then, wept
over the partienlars which led to the eisgsgi o eut Sir W.
Adams by the Government to bead the new 05 Seismic 20-
stitutiun, which was enforced upon the S-reel at Woe
lay the very great prevalence at the time of that ease. Do
stated the wiry eminent success which ails tided t Arst es-
periorseuts. Some of the subjects had et-celled p, ons for
Windnees, and were afterward. restored to eight. parti-
cularly mentioned the cases of Poisons and Pros —tied
former, from the dimwits! sight, was enabled. i rend
the cloth on the highest steeple in town—the tier
being blind, and Shen fore in the receipt of a Ise p,
was rentered to sight, and at resent was entatet.
a clothwother, whit h requited the very hunt vocuit.
was cease us like thine which Wert() him to believe ti.
Sir W. Adams was eetiikd to re*noll—ulot for taseuiiwr
but for giving circulation to the plan of Dr. Treteit—for the
lon of professional time and 10b0',,, and for alhvisting the
sufferiugs of those put under his care. lie supported the
grant.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON did DO altogether approve of
the course taken by his Hon. Frielitl, either isow or in tle
Committee, when he called iu a third p.irty, with whom Sir
W. Admits bad been contending for years' end rhos* eau-
lions had mainly preve6ted the srees; oi of bit gnat mad is.
traoediaary talents in clinking the rage of oplubJlin:4
throughout the country. He cohere. don Ilse difficult:es ert
iu the way of Sir William Adams, lay the kaleugy of iLe
army physicians and Medical Boma, against the appoint.
men' of • civil head to that estabtish ment. lie really did run.
reive that it was not cooeisteut with the usual tenor of he
Houoursble Friend's conduct to isetrodnee ou tir, 0e.,..,i0A
the angry evillest' between the Army Medical hoard asl
Sir William Adam,. As one of the Committee, he (Mr.
C.. Mitchinson) took blame to himself feu affessaiog a
single line of the improper rvisleorre which load brew trilinitird
to be takes, fur It had Ito relation whatever to the question
before the Committee, and could answer no purpose bit that
of gratifyling. the Vitaliser ut the Mt dital Board. N.
did believe the whole of those violent proceedises
have smelted from a conspiracy against Air William
Adams's pearlier. He did not believe that Sir W. A4atir
would be at all overpaid, nor even adcmintely rewarded by
the paaa of the sum propmed, fur the service he had !of-
formed, aid what. he had miffs red in these Cueleft• from
being dragged before the public ••• Ise bad biro in au odious
and offenaire manner. Like mauy of the great, st men of his
professioe in foirsur times, he bad undergone "such some,
riled persecuting', foe nu other cause than HMI of bony(
made disteveries add peoprifaled im proreMenfs iu the nig e'en'
with which he whir cOunectea, and thereti exulted the Its:
lousy of his ronternpuraries.
Mr. HUME doubted whether the speech of the Ma
nourabfs Under.Secretery opprite hail out deprited Sir
W. Mains of the elitist le be reek. cl with any of the cele-
brated inveolorsi W dtscore.ers of new systems of practice,
with whom his Hun. Priced who had jest sat down but cons•
pared blue; for, according to that speech, the utmost molt
he could claim was the adoption of a discovery made by
another perms.. At the request of his Honourable Frail.'
the Member for Shreersbriry (Mr. H. G.Ressnett), he (Mr.
Hume) did certainly fake a great deal sit trouble' to go
through the whole of the evidence lake. berate the Cum-
mhtee, sod he must say !hat there appeared to he a 5-cal
deal of professional Paliy feeling tut 000 ose throne' the whole.
But his lion. Friend the Member for C4llk jtir. C. Hutchin-
son) mast also reeldrect how completely Sir W. Adonis had
failed itrsubithollate the original grounds of Lis that
he first of all claimed the'ectinpensution on the roved of
original discovery, and was beaten (fowl that: that' he then
stood upon the superiority of his practille,•att Fries driven
from that also; and duel afierwatds lie resulted In'tlic true
foundatiou sof hie claim, his se'-vices in'stoperintinditig the
Hospital. The groood on which the Hon. klemhcr fur
Shrewsbury resisted the grant of 4,0001 wasemile cdnii•tent
with the speech of the Won. Unler-See'rettiey ; he said that
Sir W. Adams was not the inventor of his ic:urae of prac-
tice. The question theectn he deferents/ea was. What was the
value of his elervicenf? Mod would any foilleidnal nudwal
officete,who had been is the "melee forte or ati yi Ms, gel for
the superintendence of an herepital! A !Mises a day siesta
be the allowance to a persbnin anal eirefranositCn? He
(Mr. Haw) asked them; with his Hob. Prtredli, why' Sir W.
Adams was to receive three theirs as rebeli'ag wet rieeired
by tbra pftwas what superieentled the ho.liptist et Chadian;
the largest we had? With respect to tR. ehafge of roa-
'piney add persecution, it scented to' llifti Oa there
were great hake •an both sides; bett,• Oak' an indi•
vidual act himself up above others, and indulged in ea•
luminous obaervations open the prat-Tile or other., he
must be prepared to meet that Moto which, it ass
natural for all men so mailed to mike. 'the NAir
Lord (Palmerston) was, in fact, to Um*, But wl.cti he ap:
pointed Sir WillimsrAsiasos, he must have itimw., that hos-
tility would naturally be elicited agsinit'an inefltidnal
from a class out erf the service, and placed over Of heads of
the whole of the medical practitioners in the.aeshy,. be mud
have been aerate that there was enough of -etprirdu [reps
in every prOfessies to resist such an •pputntrreent. lie did
*di think Sir Willits Adams hid any ett•it clu'hi to COM-
primitive; because he considered that hit • introdortion into
practice, laud the tiring*/ of his name' idespulitte nsiirs
through:his appoisaraeut to the Hospital • by- heeNnt-11.-1 and.
as much more than equivalent to noylossite could lios,
at in costequenee. The proper measort-of theveitirld S•
given wsi,.iu his estimation, the valve of. the labour u• • •
formed.

Mr. DAMSON whited it to be distilled, oodrrotool.
he had newer intruded to cam soy redection os the iirk'.
duals composing the Aliny Medical 11.roed; Dor h.! he tt
remotest sospiciini of soy of its Members baring tut
opium Se W. Adams.

Lord PALIIIERWTON nid, the Hot,: Mcwittcr-(., Ahrr•s•
bury bar/messed him of ',parenting tbresideort shrfAre :he
Committee. He certainly had need his endesvenrs minden.
the House to reject the .Mien for prioting the/indent-v.
because be thought that very meth of it did not bear at-all
on the question of Sir W. Adair's'. claim ; end a large mane
of matter of the snort objectionable kind hod hero at:-
ovitted. So great a degree of intemperate nod vietent PA.-
eonal feelings of hostility be had
osi mar occasion as some of time iadivideth cr.serrired
the Committee betrayed towards Sir IV,lliaies Adams.
With reapeet to the pretensions of Sir W. Adair", hr Lord
Patmeesseu) read a latter from the Corwarsatler.iti•Chad,
proving of his exertions, and commending the real which
had led liar to make the commonication, sad the caadosr
with width be bad ascribed the merit of the discovery to MI.
Saunders. What the. was it that he bad offered to com-
monied. ? WU it, as the lion. Member bail sated. the
alPtriOlt.turfil of reimara, of knives, or of blue-atoue t. It
had oti reference whatever to instruments of spy kind. V. hat
he propped to' coinsnuuicate, sad which wag pored the