The National Register.
London, England, 1812-06-21 00:00:00

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water, they would become pampered, and would tend to unhinge the
frame of s c&Lty !'—Now be had not uttered one word similar to the
abovo, nor had tie ever r.clicum.l the distresses of the country. He
therefore moved that the Printer of The Da!) newspaper be called to
the bar of the House.
A conversation ensued between several Members, who all agreed
that yo such evidence had been given by Mr. Marryatt, but by another
person, a considerable merchant in the city. Mr. Marryatt. conceiving
all impressions had been removed of his having used such language,
wished to withdraw his motion ; but some opposition being manifested,
the House came to a division, when the motion was nezatived—Ayes,
110; Nocs, 116.
Mr. N. CALVERT moved for an account of all Commissioned Officers,
prisoners of war in Great Britain. with those who had broken their
parole and escaped, during 1810, 11, and I::.—The motion was agreed
to.
Mr. Witri-ev EAD postponed to this day se'nnight his motion relative
toithe Toleration Act.

MR. SHERIDAN.
Mr. SHERIDAN rose to make the motion of which be had given no-
tice, relative to his conduct during the late negociations, he having been
charged with being the promoter of that secret influence which had de- ,
leated the late attempts to form a new Administration. Mr. Sheridan 1
denied the charge in a speech of considerable length, and declared that
on the contrary he purposely abstained going to C-,rltou House during i
the negociation ; he knew nothing of the Marquis of Hertford ; and
t'songh he was upon frien,ly terms with Lo: d Yannouth, yet they talked
little of politics. It would he attectatiou to say he knew nothing of the
progress of the negociation, having been fully informed both by Mar
quis Wellesley and Earl Moira; but in the conversation he held with
these Noble Lords, he had always laboured, as much as was in his
power, to heal and remove all differences which could impede the for-
mation of such an Administration as was desired. He did not wish to
discuss the merits of Lords Grey and Grenville, but his opinion was at
the first, and still continued the same, that after all other points had been
conceded to them, he did not expect they would have given up all for
the sake of three witite sticks. He disapproved of their demand of the
dismission of the Household, and he therefore equally disapproved of
the intention of the Household to resign. The Ri.,;lit Honourable Gen-
tleman was now about to detail his conversation with Lord Yarmouth,
• but was so much exhausted from illness, that he was unable to proceed ;
the subject, therefore, on the motion of Mr. Jekyll, was postponed till
Friday.
The Sinecure Offices Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. WHARTON informed the House, in reply to a question from Mr.
'Ward, that the erection of barracks at Mary-le-bone Park, Liverpool,
Bristol, &c. was for the present suspended.
THE MIDGET.
The House being resolved into a Committee of Ways and Means,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose, and said, that he
could not perform the duty which, in virtue of the office he held, he was
bound on that occasion to discharge, without the most painful feelings,
when he called to mind the extraordinary circumstances of the vacancy
to which he had succeeded—when he recollected who the Right Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Perceval) was, whose papers he had then before him,
the preparation of which he might consider as the last official act of
that much lamented individual. He felt how comparatively inadequate
be was to perflsrm, with equal satisfaction to the Public, the arduous
task that devolved upon him—he was fully sensible of the difficulty of
the situation in which he was placed, succeeding as he did to so distin-
guished a Member of the Government. Happy would it be for him, if,
with his office, he could inherit his great talents to enable him to dis-
charge, with ability,the duty he had to perform. Equally happy should
. be be if he could inherit, what, however, it was a satisfaction to know,
was in every man's power—the steady and unblemished integrity which
so peculiarly belonged to that distinguished person. He should proceed
to state shortly, and with all the precision in his power, the amount of
the Supplies of the year, and then a detail of the Ways and Means, by
which it was proposed to provide for those Supplies.
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