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MIL He mantled to see a roof of the determination of Goys-n-
-atant to continue the Assessed Taxes, and'he gave notice Met he
Would bring the subject before the Monsoon an early day.
The.queetinn :xis g put, some voices were heard in the negative.
eige4HOBHOUSE then called foe a division, and strangers *ere
to withdraw.
On our return to the gallery, we found that the resolution had
Metz agreed to without • division.
The Juries in India Bill was read • third time end passed.
• 'lb. Irish Manor Courts Bill was read • locoed time.
SALARY TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF
TRADE.
_.
_On the motion that the Report of the Committee should be
beedght up,
. bInteHOBNOCSE said he felt that he shouldlie guilty of a
rinfarct duty, if he were not to tezproes his astonishment at
anee Aid] Ministers were pursuing; he was amazed that
they should choose the present time for an 'cementation of the
public burthens. The Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of
elle Euhequer had said, in a speech which he untie a few evenings
before. that he felt encumbered W:th the patronage which was en.
trusted to him ; be bad, on that occasion, talked of paltry pa.
nonage in a proper tone—yet how inconsktent was his conduct
With his professions. The Right Honourable Gentleman came
down to the House a few evenings after he had made that declara-
tion, and asked, as a matter 'of course, that the House would d..
Ible one office into two, in order to increase the patronage of the'
Crown. He did rot wish to give undue importance to small neat.
tors, but lie wished to ask the Right Honourable Gentleman by '
What principles he was guided when he made that demand}—
ad the Home never heard of there being poor Itielicpricks, to
ftefeh it was necessary to attach another situation in totter to give a
Offikient compensation? Ile (Mr. Hobbes:lse) had known two in.
*armee in the see of Bristol, where such had been the ease, both
the late and the present Bishops having been allowed to retain the
Illeatenhip of Trinity College; sad he 1/11111d ask if are body heal
ow heard of application being made to divide those officer'? In
Me resent question the onus of proof that the measure ears heels-
/FP, laid with the Hon. Gentlemen opposite. They ought to he
able to drew that the offices had not been satisfactorily filled by one
inister. The Right lion. Gentlemen who had filled the offices of
reasurtt of the Navy and President of the Board of Trade had not
forward to say that they were unable to fulfil the duties of those
seers; at the same time it would of course be more agreeable to
any Right Honourable Gentleman to have one office insteid of
two, provided the salary of one was equal to both. Ile (:Ir. Hob.
hdiso) bad to complain that, in opposing the measure, he was
pieced in the situation of appearing to object to viii increase of as.
my to the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mt. littaknoton). It
he (74r. Ilobhouse) could chew any respect by any act of his to the
AI& Honourable Gentleman, it would give hint the greatest sa-
*lntim to do in, from the admiration he felt for bin able and very
itreeitorieueservicas—but that was not the question upon the pre-
leen occasion—'he question 11119, whether or not in remunerating
Mr. Huskiest= they were to hare an additional officer in the House
I C 0011991019. The Right Honourable Gentleman the Chancellor
Of the Exchequer had tried to %hew that the office of Treasurer of
the Navy renews sinecure. lie (Mr. Hobhousei did not mean to
day that it was; hut he did mean to eav that those Right Hon.
Oentlernm who had filled the office had mince it adequately, and-i
without complaining of the duty imposed upon them. At the
dame time he recollected that his Right lion. Friend, the 31ember
Mr Mnareshonsugh (Mr. Tierney), had said on a former night. that
be did the duty by atfenditiv cue hour each day. The Right lion.
tbeffideman the Chancellor of the Exchequer end stated that there
tea en anxious responsibility coached to the office. and for which
et reptervionate remuneration Mrs therefofe necessary. The quemi-
SW was. whether the money was to pay the Treasurer or the
NM RAIL pet aanam far that atieious responsibility ? aed dim,
thee it was necessary that the House should inquire what that
Osponalbffity was. He (Mr. llohhowie) world ask what it was.
asearding to the Right Bon. Gentlemen the Chan:ellor of the Ex.
0ba11014.9 01101 shoed . Whop lie held the office of Treasurer of
Me Navy it hap that iso
Mr. Tweedie and anotheeprn cab.
zene
mended, being efaulters to the Government at the time in the sum
of 710.0001. But the responsibility on that account turned out to
be nothing at all, for it was found that he vans not responsible at
all, either in forays* or otherwise, the Treasury having relieved
Itim from it. As to the question whether the Treasurer of the
Navy ought to indemnify the public against losses by his clerks.
be (311 r. Habhouse) thought the office ought to be so arranged that
the public could not be autierers by any act of rascality whatever.
B • would contend that nothing had been shren which could
Justify the Increase at this particular time; indeed, it was
dear that no additional remuneration was required ; and lie was
wholly at a loss why his Majesty's Ministers wished to carry for-
ward such a measure at that moment. Ile was cacao that there
wee not one Gentleman on that (the Opposition) side of the House
who wished to displace them: but it was unfair to take advantage
Of the popularity they had gained by the assistance of that side of
the House, and make die Right Hum Gentleman carry weight. It
was unfair to take advantage of the character of the flight Hon.
Gentleman in proposing that measure, and indeed rot a very worthy
mode of conduct to the House, and far less to the lion. Gentleman
himself. Out of doors there was only cite opinion on the subject_
that the House ought not to go bock to the old system, and add an
additional salary, to be taken out of the packets of the pub:ie. The
eoedaet of his Majesty's Ministers had been marked by . liberal
feeling, or he might as well say of his Majesty's Opposition (a
bugh), and he should be glad to go on with them in the course
they had adopted on many occasions lately ; hut he could nut are
why t)6y should draw them through the mire when there was not
that shadow of an excuse to be matte. There was rent a single indi.
Milord, whether connected with his Majesty's Ministers or not, but
considered it a most unwarrantable attempt toadd to the number of
;linieters in that Howie. There never was a case before in which
tt was necessary for a Right lion. Gentleman to make a speech on
his own ease, and which he (Mr. ilobhouse) must consider as very
eatefr upon the Right Hon. Gentleman (ale. Huskisson) to by
compelled to do. That Right Hon. Gentlenian must not think
that it was with any hostile feeling towards him that he objected to
the reception of the report, but quite the contrary. lie objected to
the report metely to give Gentlemen an opportunity of recording '
their sentiments upon the general principle.
Lord GLENORCHY acconaed the motion of his Hon. Friend
(Mr. Hobhouse)„ and described the principles of the Right Hon.
Gentleman to be at variance with his practice. When his Lord-
ship concluded, the question was loudly called for, upon which
Mr. Secretary CANNING rose and 'laid, that on the question
99 which reference had been made by Gentlemen on the other side,
he was anxious before the House caine to decision to state his 00.
titan, and he would do 90 in ss few words as possible. lie should
out %she any advantage of the Hon. Gentlemen (Mr. llobliouse)
upon the ground of his opposing the bringing up of the Report,
bat take it in his view of it, quire as the proper way, not as op.
-prising the grant in favour of hi:. Right Hon. Friend, but con.
sidered as a general principle. Gentlemen naked why his Ma.
July's Government took the proem time time the bringnig forward
thersposition ? The fact pat, the question arose not with his
blejeety's Government but with his alajesty's Opposition, as it
was called by the Hon. Member. l A laugh.) There nos not the
'Benet intention on the part of his Majsny's Government to
bring tarward the present measure, until • suggestion came from '
the abet side of the House, and that suggestion Caine in times very
eidetic% from the present. It was •the misfurune of ilia Majesty's
Government that they had to execute the project at a his favour.
able moment, such was their miaturtune brat not their fault. As
ft was the general feeling or the House. his Maji sty's Government
ought not, and did not, shrink front bringing the meaatire forward.
But they were not responsible for the time, for en intimation had
reached them, that if they did not stir in the 'never that it would
be taken up by the other side of the House, no that that choice of
tome was not of theirielection. What he was going to say, he said
upon his word of honour, that last year lie had not intended to
bring forward the measure: and lie thought it recessary to say,
without reference of course to any advantage to accrue to his lion.
Permit, but io reference to the question generally, treconnected
with any particular Administration. that he would prefer to claim
the ancient office of Treasurer of the Navy. Ile t Mr. Secretary
Canning) would look back to the history of the two offices, which
Gentlemen seemed to consider it would be inlionien to separate—
or that, if separated, hike the :sons coterie, with two bodies joined
together, part them and one must die. He would lank hack to the
mate of those offices in Mr. Burke's time, when reform was intro-
duced in 1782; previous to that time the Board of Trade was a
salaried dr= like the Admiralty, with Commissioners and Officers
whose salaries amounted to between 11,00 W. and 10,6041/. a-year: by
Air. Burke', Bill they were abolished. At the same time, and in
she some Bill, ...Ir. Burke proposed the regultititti fur the Trearurer
of the Navy and the Paymaster of the Army, and what he paid,
therefore, °rune, would be applicable to the other. The Treasurer
of the Navy at that time enjoyeri large emolument by salary, and
by the permitted use of the public money in his hands, and so did
the Paymaster of the Army. Alt. Burke did not propose to drive
tease officers out of Parliament, but he very properly did not sane
ties the using of the public money, but proposed to transfer all
pabliewtooles to the Dank of lingiend. Ile had no intention of
diminishing the salaries of time officers; he said, mm Gad forbad 1
should touch those offices, held by gentlemen of the highest rank
and eminence in the country ;" meaning by rank and eminence to
apply it to the situations they held in the House of Commons. The
circumstance of transferring the balances to the Bank of England
bad the Whet of depriving these offices of part of their show of
budnesa. hi r. Burke's Bill also abolished the salary of the Beard
of Trade. in 1756 the Bill was brought in, and Mr. Burke's
memeare was tarried into effect, the salary of the Treasurer
being recognised at 40001. a.year, which existed up to the year
MT, add from the year 178.5 up to the present period, - the
ollese bed as often been held separately as jointly. For the
lest See yore after that time the office of Treasurer of the
iriwy weo held by Mr. Dung" with that of President of the Board
of Central. to 1790 the Board of Control was made a salaried
eitaithe President receiving 2.0001., main the 11491.1 t of NT. '
De 'a salary 8,0001., somewhere about equal to that of the Se-
crets/Me of State. Mr. Dundee held them until 1710, when the
resent Lord Ilerrowhy, then 31r. Dadley Ryder, held it, but
whims the Board of Trade, until BIOL. Alc Bathurst, • gentle.
snaei DO • Member of that House, was then appointed, with.
out heidi soy tuber
( ke offlee. lu lOUS time Right Hon. Gentleman
kigar
fr. Tierney), with great credit to himself, tilled the
2rishboot say other annexed to it. In 1804 he (Mr. Canning)
hod the heseste Se succeed, without any office annexed. In-ffiefi
ptfr.akintgan apecroded. without holdinF any other office. In
V/If Ali. lime Warne ?mason of the Navy, and held the office
it YiesoPeloident of the Bawd of Trade in ceojenction ttotil the
peer Mee be the emend to hold.the office in the Board of Trade,
soil bad lOW of Temwarer of the Navy alone until bpd death. It
wee dkatafte tiwiee a same to suppose that die situations
rate be field alone ; in point of number it was in favour
th. hilkiibills bolding. .He (31r. Canning) would soy,
as allieD sae not •• 'lnmate. What the Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Timmy) mid an Friday be (Bt. Secretory Canning) would