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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT:

HOUSE OP LORI)S. MoaDAV, FEB? It
LOtil) KiNN
Lord Housun said, that before the House plocerefed to
business leo had a question to pot t:e the Noble Lord, which the
usage of the House allowed him to put ; mad &MO to in the a
statement of what had lierallen .t Notele Fsieaul of his. who was
a peer of the sale'', Alibiing,' he had not the honour of i.e egg
$ member of that tlou.e. It was well known, that a N-nte
Fl ivied ot it a hn:t been se at away ir.e.l neig:ebour.mg country.
Su a manner %Inch tile Noble Lord woutu have be, u ui Vet.
*Die to ata:e, had he been a inember of that Hulse. For his
owu part, 1001 e now for the purpose of a.hin the Noille
• Lord opposde if as he knew there hall) any mnemonic...thou
had taken pace eietween the two Government, on this Nula.p et;
and whether the Noble Lord had any objection to the 'nucleic-
tient of such corn:mime:thou ?

The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, he considered it as a dear else
that every government inielit maid any perann out of the
' country who was not a natural born sooject of that country.
l'his the government of nuy cumntry et.g:it do without itssi•.fn-
leg any teawu fo.- it, provided it foorol it. necessary to du so.
He tilt this the more strongly, ;I:• we had in tour statute book a
law %lieu enabled the gov lament, on its own ree, 1111 l sibility,
W send aliens out of the country. And he had no difficulty iii
stating that the opinion of this 6.,veruttlent would be regulated
by what would be its own eoriluet in a similar Clot ;an. lie would
any, that if a subset of France. however high his rank may be,
were sent out of this country. the Government would not think
fit to account to the French Allem...iodise at all for it. In this
view, the present case was one to which the Execut.ve Govern-
ment could have no adequate giouetts to interest itself; 'our
could Parliament, he thought, cal mi thou to proceed in such
a case. He therefure tilt himself callod on, by every prin-
ciple, to refuse the produettoa of any communications which
might have taken place on this subject. As to the Noble Lurd
who was the subject of them, he had no charge of any kind to
make against him.
Lord HOLLAND said, he was I.appy to hear th it no impu-
tatioe was attempted to be cast on the character or honour of
the Noble Lord abutted to. Fur bil own part, he considered
this act of the French Government as the act of the British
Govereinent, es things wet e 110 W Coll,tilllleti. It was 110 W
1011.1g0 to his p:lfiloSn to enter into a discussion of the Alien
Act ; uut he could out help venial k :lig, that it was the grew est
innovation on our Constitution that haul been iutroduced withiu
the memory of man.
Here the conversation closed.
Lord HOLLAND said, that before the House adjourned he haul
a question to put to the Noble Earl opposite :—After con-
sidering the last treaties which had been laid before the House.
and which spewed the present situation of Europe; be found
that no mention was made of any Treaty except that of fell,
consequently the Treaty of Utrecht is as not noticed. On this
account he conceived that the two Bourbon families in France
and Spain were under the control of the Tecate of Utrecht
no longer; so that ut no very (listing period Ferdinand might
succeed to the throne of France, and both France and Splint
would then be subject to one monarch ; a circumstance to pre.
scut which so much of the blood tool treasure of this country
had been lavished.
The Earl of LlvaßroOL said, there were no other treaties in
existence besides those before the House.
Lord HOLLAND said, be was them to understand, that there
was nu engagement to present the union of France and Spain
under one sovereign, if the present royal family of Frarice
should fail of male issue.—Adjourned.
TuESDAv, Fan. 13.
The Bishop of Hereford took the oaths and his seat, on his
tranalation from the See of °booster —Adiourued.
WZONESDAV, Faa 14.
The Bishop of St. Asapli took the oaths and his seat, on his
translation from the See of Hereford.
PEACE ESTABLISHMENT.
Lord GRENVILLS said, he had precedents for such a motion
as be was about to make, and thr the very reasons he was ac-
tuated by. The first was in 1742, the next iu 1736. In the
latter instance, the House was called on by the Crown to co-
operate in bringing home the blessings of peace to this coun-
try. It was then agreed to wailing debate, that an Account
of the Peace Military Expenditure should be laid before the
House. It was on these grounds that be ceded for the pro-
duction of the Estimates of the Military Expenditure for the
current year. It was necessary to consider, when they cosi-
. gravitated the Prince Regent on the restoration of peace, 'shr-
iller the peace was likely to be permanent. But abuse all it
was necessary for them to take their share in the reductim.
Of the enormous expense we bud endured for ti years; tor
upon this depended, whether we should—tatter at years or
war to maitgain the laws and constitution of this country )
soddenly abandon that constitteiun; lose our lank in Europe;
and become, at humble distance, the emit tars of the military
nationsof Europe; and from being great and free,alluvr ourselve-
to become emlaved and degraded. He dad suspect, is um the
. conduct of Ministers last year, that suet would he the coti,e-
quence. Many treated his fears as visioaa.y ; bat even then,
when a Peace Establishment of 19 millions was to be kept up,
it would have been impossible for him to behave, that it would
be proposed to keep bp no army of 130,000 men; and (still
mum to itiereast his horror and dismay) that 50,00 i) of them
nem to be kept tip in Great Britain. IsU he heard these things
asserted in Partianicut, Ile knew not how to believe Weill. Bit:
if suet' a scheme was to be proposed, it would destroy in his
nut! the very hole offreedom tor this country; and lion ev. r
much he might mesh from year to year to take less share in their
debates, yet wh,le be had a voce, lie would lift It up against
so peruiC.oDs a s)stent. At some future pei ioil be seoaluttcome
down prepared for the disc ussion ; such would then chew that
Zilluisters ouelit now to make some r.tductious eien below the
Peace I stailishinent of 1783. At that per.od it was the atiximis
study uf the :Ministry, by every woes In its power, to reduce,
our eviAli.ihment es much as Possible. At that period the
great mall then at the head of the Ministry did not think lie
had d.seliargt d hi, tints sigh: iently by the ceinitty in reducing
the establishment for the army to 10100,0001. and the navy
2.03u,0a1N. which he th, ight should have been still lower. ii
was the to to resoilect so long; het at that period hr lived in the
closest niiioll of thoughts and coinitels ut Mr. Pitt: but lie
firmly belies ed that he felt no consolation equal to that of
having (by that reduced establishment) enabled the country to
meet those drealltin 'Amine and convulsions of the French He •
volution. .He tllen moved an Address to the Prince Regent
that he would he pleas( of to
.or der the Army Estimates tOr Clue
y 0,4 lblo to be laid le fore the House.
The Earl of Li% eireurfe was pet ffEtly willing to admit 1.1.-
propriety of laying the documents asked for befure the Home.
e nes prepared for himself and his colleagues to argue this
lii.LACt point by point; and would be content to rest the isms(
ten mi. necessity or urgency et seeping up th proposed Peace
illishineig for the security of the country. I n the first 'lace
Ott proper to look at what was uecessary fur the sup-

TIIE NATION AL REGISTER.

port of the army twn, compare,: win' what it lids to 1792.
ha f-pay and other increased :Moscone, sto the :army (some of
which he had At first opposed, trail still thought w•lravittnint),
were greater than the whole pay of the army in 1794 Since
laet period he had lised in intiimiey aids Nil.. Pitt; and he
ao•dd say, that that great man expressed hi. regret, that we
11,d elected into the war of 1792, in some dev;ree impreistred,
Li consequence of the small peace establis mei:t we had pt e-
viouslv kept up. The army t.. be kept up in France was to lie
30,091) men, and th .t in India '20.08..: bat these lie deducted
from tlio• wholearmy, a hich left 99,0i1:1 men for Great liritaiu
and the Colonies. He had no objection to the production of the
papers moved for, and would he ready, at a future day, to chit r
tutu a complete diseumion of them.
The lariptis of Lssoinow sr said, the hope of the country
had now hero deceived, that after the dreadful pH. Atom: the
peop.e had suffered storing this war, the !race that tAlowed it
would bring them relief. The Peace Establishuistit this year
was greater by tour or five millions than It aas last year. Was
Itimnaparte a finmidablc in St. lie:ena than lie was iu the
Idle of Elsa; where, by the bye, tic 31inisters told them thy
had last year placed Mat in perfect security? The Noble Lail
(Liverpool) was now calling on the House to make the War
Establishment a permanent one in the time of pear.. It was
too ninth to tell the 'ample of this country, who had shed their
blood and spout flair trea,ure—who had by their valuer and
their zeal destroyed the French fleet—re Meet, their army to
10 or 19 regiments—it was too much to tell the 'wood: of this
country that thi re should be uo reduction of our expend:tore ;
no
relief to than from the hardens under which they had
groaned for 95 years. He trusted the House mould endeavour
to bring back that relation between the military avid civil esta-
hlisl ails of this country which presailed before the war,
and which could alone secure to us the blessing, of a free
constitution.

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Lord KINC Coiltendvd, that this %Vat On!s an attempt to try
the tempur of the country, how fir it would stair a Will uta-
hdishnu•ut to be kept up hi ii tin.e of peace.
'flue motion %4 as Own agreed to rem. dbl.
ToLnito‘y, Ft it. 15. _

The Naval Courts Martial and the 6:ass Ditties Rini we►e
brought iip from the Cumulous. by 11r. Ititoan•.n and others,
and read a first tinte.---Adjourited till to.nioi rine, (Friday),
When the House sat; but there being lei particular hubiacts
before it, the House adjourned to ;Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Mosnnv, FEB: 12..

Lord O. Buie:Vann informed the lion.e, he ha 4 waited on
the Prince Regent with the Addre:s of the 10th inst. respect-
ing the erection of a Naval Monument, and that his Royal
Highue:s had signified be would give imediate orders fur car-
rying the vote into effect.
Sit. F. Futon gave notice, that be should, on the 11 th of
March, move for leave to brine in a Bill for the better protec-
tion of Landlords against Frauds e 'Bed open them by Te-
nants. lie would also t sky this opportunity of asking an Hon.
Member (Mr, Western) it, in his notice for a motion to appoint
a Committee to enquire into the state of the Agriculture of the
Country, it was in his contemplation to include Ireland.
STA I E OF THE FINANCES.

The House then re,olved into a Committee of Supply.
Mr.N'aSiSITTAIIT said, if, on the present occasion, lie merely
had to advert to the Resolution which he was about to submit
to the Cumniittee, it would not have been necessary to detain
them by any long statement. All that lir had now to submit to
the Committee would be, a Resolution for a sum of 12,501,0001.
for paying off that sun isined in November, 1811, at present
unprovicled for; and 4,300,0001. other Exchequer Bids now
caning due ; and, filially, for a vote for the repayment of such
as were outstanding of the grant of 1815, according to the
usual mode of proceeding; but he understood some Gentle-
men hail, during his absence on a former evening, expressed
an expectation that he should on this occasion submit to the
House, and to the country, something in the shape of a gene-
ra' outline of the nature and amount of the Supplies which
would be required far the present year. Although this was
not the usual course, he should nut consider it as either un ma-
rt asonahle or an inconvenient one ; and would now, therefoir,
proceed to give a general outline of what our expenditure was
likely to be fine the coining year, and what our tinanc•es to
meet that expenditure. Gentlemen would be await, that it
could only be a general statement, and one liable, ill some de-
ec, to rror ; but lie would endeavour so to state it now,
that there should be nu increase her cutler. We were now, he
trusted, arrived at the end of this long and eventful contc•st
a contest which We had maintain( d fur the Menet of the liberties
of Europe ; and, he trusted, we had so conducted our elves
through it, that our naval and military glory was established
with all the world ; and it now only remained for its to exert a
little of that firmness and constancy so often recommended in
that House, to meet the difficulties we had at present to en•
counter. On the present occasion, it would first be necessary
to take a short review of the financial state of the country at
the con ttttt 'icemen' of the present year, to state our winds, the
ways and means we had to meet them, and the expenditure
mutt receipts of the lust year. The documents on the last sub-
ject would be speedily laid before the House. The first head
of Finance which he would mention was the Clinton's. These,
for the year eliding the hilt of January, ltilS, amounted to
11,0.51.1,0001. ; the produce for the year ending January 5, 11116,
was only 10,182,0001.; but it mint be recollected, that in the
roci tilt of Dill the war tax un toandee, amounting to 700,0001.
was inn luded s this was repented, and, therefore, if that SUM
was deducted front the amount of Customs fur 1811, it wood
lie found, that even that head of Revenue had increased in the
last year. The next head of Rureipts which he would advert
to was the Excise; this branch of Revenue in 1814 produced
25,145,0001.1 in the last year it produced 26,56r!,0001. exceed-
ing the former year by 1,400,0001.; yet no new duiy had been
unposed, except all additional duty on licenses; which, how.
ever, had produced no more than 300,0001. of the increase.
flie next 'minx of Revenue was the Stamp Duty : which in
fall produced 3,500,0001.; and in 1813, 6,965,1:001. A con-
miler:4lde i,u•re'ase had been made in the Duties on Stamps of
different desetiptions ; but he could not say, that the increased
duty was occasioned by this circumstance. l lie Ploperty
ax, in 1514, produced 14 millions ; iu the last y v ar, its
produce exceeded 15 millions. The next vain head of
revenue was the Assessed Taxes, which, iu 1014, produced
,6,111,0001.; and, in the last year, 6,620,0001. The Right
ilotiourable Gratlemau than proceeded to enumerate the
revenues of the Post-utliee, the Lund-tax, &c. arid compat tit
he receipts of last year with those of the precediug y ear ; and
' observed, that there was an iiierraie upon each item ; and on
looking to the total amount for each year, it would be found
that the total mount of income in 1814 was 65,130,0001.; and
in the last year it was 66,413,0u61. being an increase of wane-
thing nose than a million, notwithstanding the difficulties an-
der sib eh the counti y had laboured during the last year. It
would be ex; edit d that lie should now give some account of
the applicatiou of Supplies so liberaley raided, so well
boned to ineet the daggers we kill to apprehend at the tune

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they ei re given. Ily the ii alts attic everglorione battle of
Waterloo, teat ever, the twee. for them was in a great de-
gree esavessetled. On the 11th tifJ tine Islet, the Holl,l* voted a
ereat part of there Supplies, iind there were at that time some
Gentlemen on the other side of the I lotiee, who prophesied
that, us great as they were, they wroth! hill short of the wants of
those v lie applied for them. Those Gentlemen also predicted,
tbat any attempt upon the French fortresses would end only in
proy lug the absurdity of the attempt. On the very next day,
however, Ow atteniai was made, the valet. of the prediction
was sheen, fur the attempt frilly succeeded, and thr cannon did
not eerie to roan till the power of France ices overthrown in
the field of ataiteiloo.—( How, hear.)—And he had now the sit.
tistaction of stating, that so for from the slims them granted by
Parliament not has itig been sufficient, 20 tailbone. a part of
them had ireen applied to the reduction of the mit...tided debt of
the ram wry, and a feather et to of 21 millions to the payine, off
oatatrinding Eye:Napier Hilt..—(tlear,hcar.)—in the bieginniee
of the year 1015, the Hecht:liner Relit outstanding armainteil to
08.54'.1,0tat. ; now they were 17,000,0001. From a view of the
res enure he would wish the Honse now to look to the trade of
the country. The total of r.% ports for the three quarters of a
year ending on the !Orli of Oct. Il 14, was 31,167,0001. ; fer
the three quarters ending Oct. 10, tart, they aniounted to
.12,121,01101. Thin Cotton Exports in lala were 13,169,9004.; iii
tee last y; ar City were 113,376,1M:11. The Linen Exports in
Itilt welts 1,1813,0001.; in the last year they were 1,334,00111.
The Wnolli in Int 1 were 6,131 Judi. ; in the last year they
were 8,339,000 i. 'file great and leading difficulty which we
had to encomiter at present was the distressed state of the agri-
cultural interests of the country.. the depreciation of veiny of
all agriroltnral productions, wiocln daring the war had, from
Various eiretimatancee, risen so notch beyond their dew priva-
tion : th's unnatural rise had its origin in the (a wits of the yews
ITtla and HMI; fair supplies from the Con:Mate, lit that now,
deomuled on the caprice of an Metier:ate enemy, and a great
price wee afterwards given to our own gene eta, to etwouravis
the growth of grain at Mime, and rend( r us, as tar as
in.:— ',twilit of tie Continent fir a supply ; the hieh mice
which all agricultural produce fetched in the market fawn that
time, certainly encouraged the growth of corn at home, lint on
the Continent becoming open to its, it was discos et eit that we
could totality ourselves cheaper, and the consequence
was that corn fell at 110111 e. v oiler ileac cirelliti-
stance*, adopted th, illeannUre Of !Ana Session, butt that measure
coming immediately alter a plentiful harvest, rind it large sup-
ply from the Continent, came leo bite, and the prices continued
to Lill. Besides the large sue• lies of corn sent into the Mil -
ket. it must be recollected, mit Government din ine the war
had betel in the habit of taking a large quantity of done for
biscuits, a nnomiling inuatially to 200;000 ne.ll'lon ; the Con tttt i t sary
General was also in the habit of unitising large contracts; and
whew-% er Government went into the market, it had the elfect
of raising the priee of the cammoility, because it was know a
that its liver ssities wet:( pressing, and the commodity must he
had at any price ; this was; 110 doubt, another rause of the hill
in price. Hail Parliament interfered at an earlier period, and
adopted the IIIenISHIC of last Scission, it might have had suave
etteet in art lath; the evil: sorb a measure was proposer) in
the recce dine Session ; but the country was not then prepared
for it, and it was abandoned to the following Scesiem ; awl iii
the mean time the blow to agriculture was struck. .1 van bay
of remedies had been proposed; at present he should oak ert
to but two or three of them. Hon. Member had suggested,
ae a remedy fee the evil, a suspension of the Usury Lees.
Could he (Mr. V.) consider the evil as likely to be lasting. he
would not dismiss this reememendation without a most mature
considi ration : but he trusted the evil would not be of that
description. Fur himself, he considered there were two modes
to be adopted; first, a diminution of taxation—theur, Afar ;,--
und secondly, the support of public credit. The first might
appear, and certainly was, desirous ; but he did nut consider it
as the most politic. He would put a case to the I louse. Sup-
pose, for Mamm. every prison in tit eat Britain, num, women,
and children, could, by any magical des ice, find at their rising
tomorrow morning each ofthem a guinea in their pockets.—(.4
genera! iangli. ) '1 lrie woold bring it capital of near 15 millions
into Great Britain : vet no person would be able to pay a Ilia
hill, or buy as heel of earn with it, any mere than he could at
present. Unless it could be collected together into a capital, it
would be of no rebel* to the country. It', instead of a ;dilute
guinea in the pocket of each individual, the 15 millions could
be paid into the country banks, the distress of the country
won he was convinced, disappear almost instantaneously.
E cry man who stood in want of temporary uesistanee. and had
security to otter, would get it, and get it ?rum the usual clime
net. Now it would not be convenient to Parliament to give
assistance to every individual in tine proportion in which he
might emit it, or would it perhaps be prudent to lead la mil-
lions to rational bankers; yet, what Patimment could not du
positively it :night do negatively ; and in hie opinion. the only
way to alleviate the distress of the reliantly at large, would I;.,
to uphold public credit. raise 15 millions by taxation,
would be to take a guinea from each individual; but this he
did not believe would have any elect on public credit ; thenieli
to take that sum by way of loan for the public service from ti.e
money market, would have that effect. n4llll tend eery materially
to aggravate the distresses of the country last year 54
were added to the public debt ; if this year we should add
nothing, but on the contrary pay MI 17 millions of old debt,
much woald be dune, and the country bunks would then obtain
assistance from the nuiney-market through the usual channels.
He had 011 a fin ma r night stated his intention to propose the
rednetiou of the Property-tax to five per cent.: this would take
01l seven millions of taxation, above four millions of which
would belong to the agricultural interest. lie also 1101A4 llt be
able to diminish agrtealtural taxi a to the amount of anothet
million, making altogether a diminution of five iiiiiliotts. it
would he for the futon. consideration of the Howe to say on
what cuticles of taxation this reduction could best tie made.
His regent opinion, however, wln lie would Atate, was, that
it email be best made by taking; oil part of the duty set forte
in schedule It, namely, the Tenant's Tax, and the duty of fann-
ing Mires altogether. 'Elie Hight Hon. Gentleman ngaiu oh-
served, that lie trusted be should be able to raise the mipplicv
without having recourse to any luau for the present year;
three loans had amounted to alle millions, of which Si
had been taken in the last y ear. If we this y ear refruim d bout
taking any loan, and instead of doing so throw 14 iuillinns into
the money mark et, a great deal Would be done towards relic.'
big the distress of the country, and he trusted weiltd, in a fill'
months, accomplish that object altogether.—(l/car, heur.;—
With respect to the expenditure of the present )uar, au Heo.
Friend of his would, in the of the evening, propose a
resolution fur the ittinibi:r of seamen and wan Met for the pre-
sent a car. In what was now to he imbinitti ii to the house, I,e
den trot intend to say such was to be the eceee csiahlkloment;
pie contrary-, he was in hopes consideree,e teductietns inkla
see be made, even in the present y ear,setal in future )eara Mut!'
gi eater, The Home would not think it catraorilitieny tort
every thing could not be done in the hi St year after the Olic.G-
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the Report of the Finance en 4 in 172i0, three year aft,
the conclusion of the American war, they would find that Com-
mittee declaring a certain part of the war taxes still necesFary,
and that they probably would he so till the year 1190, sere,.
years after the conclusion of the war. The t ate of seamen fer
the
,present year would be 33,009; the peace establishment
m woil probably be 23,0.10; the expense would be two millions.
In 1790, our seamen amounted to 29,0110. The additional
"rases of the navy, almost the whole of which required
most expensive retmirs' in consequeuce of the !MK course
of service in which it had been engaged, would raise that
item of supply to 7,00a.0101. For the army no vote would
at present 4e required. The nimbi rof infantry and cavalry
thr Great Britain, including Jersey and Goernse, won:d
be 2:000, and for Ireland the same. (Ilear, hear, front th,
(Jppoition.) 'the time would arrie e when this proposition
mieht be taken in detail. 'flu' number of troops for fare,gn
garrisons would be 3,0011 ; the army' in Fenny,. 30,000 ; Gib-
raltar, Malta, and the garrisons in tic Medi!erraneam 11,00 e;
the garrisons in British Anna lea, 10,000 ; the West I edia
hods, 13,090, of which 4,900 a`d,re in Jamaica; the Cape (,t*
Good elope and Africa, 3,e00 ; Ceylon, 3,000. With re-poet to
them. last, the Right Hon. Gent. said, they vesase formed partly
of eolonlal and partly of British troops. The House would see
hew (lesiva/deft was that a force to serve iii these islands, and
unhealthy climates, sle odd be formed, as much as possible, to
emeest of natives, even though we were under the necessity of
keeping up a larger establishment, as we should therethre Save
a considerable number of valanble British live-. The garrison
of St. I:tlenti wool,! consist 41,200; these, together with 3,00 u
which would be kept afloat, would make up a force of 99,000
teen, indepetment of those in France. Many of these regiments,
however, would he skeleton regh»ents ; and, owing to this cit.-
cumstaixe and ecmtalties they could not be taken,though no.
minally 99,000, at more, in reality, 'han 54 or 9u:100 at most.
Besides these, there would be a force of 20,000 for the East
India Company ; bat for thee, or for those troops in France,
so call would be made oa this country. Th.• French contribu-
tiom Vi,IS equal to the pay 01' these troops, and hitherto that con-
tribution had been regularly paid; 100,0001. had already been
paid. Ile understood that !caddy these contributions belonged
to the Crown us drolts. His ttoyal Highness the Prince Re-
gent, however, had scorned to take as such what had been ac-
quired with such bravery by his army. ( Hear, hear.) Out of
the contributions, 30 millions of livres were to gi"en 'o the
British and Prussian army; the rest, amounting to four millions,
h:.applied to the payment of the troops. The total
amount of the charge for the army would be 9,300,000. ex-
elusi e of extraorditimies. The Commissariat would be
09,001.; the Barrack Department 258,0001.; and the Extra-
ordinaries of the Army would be two makime a total
of 12.23U.0001. for the entire of the army. The IVEseettaneons •
would be 2,500,0001; this would he better discussed when the
diGrent items curve before the House. Three was au ,her
in ma still o meatier', and that we:, payment of a sum to the
E.-tit India Company, fur money advanced by them Kir the pun-
lie service in East Indies. According to the ::est r: ithon
which could at present be formed, their demind would amount
to two millions, and they had already had tioa,oaol., and it was
pr mused now to ad vamai them one minion nun e. This would
snake the total of supply requ:tod 24, 55,000!. : besides this,
there •e, as a separate charge fur Gre..t Britain, making the
total of Great Britain and Irclami 29,393,0001. The Ways and
Means to meet this sw. wer - The surples •• ill tummies -priated
of three millions of last year's grant; ilia surplus of the Con-
solidated Fund, say 2,5e1,0001.; the ordinary annual taxes,
three millions ; the war taxes, ,:hick he would now tuke at
only six milf.ons ; the five per cent. Property-tax, which he
'wield also take at six millions; the Lottery, 211'1,0401.; Ex-
cheq tier Bilis, six millions ; and lastly, ix millions fro . the Houk,
by way of Luau : these sums would altogether• make a total of
ati,loo,oool. to meet that part of the eapenditure bekaging to
Great Britain, amounting to 20 millions. Here the Right
Gent. entered iato a detail of the negociation with the Bank,
which, he onserved, had been brought to a cohelusion on terms
highly advantageous to the pultlie, the whole stint been
burrowed at an interest of no 111.01 e than fmr per cent. Ile
hoped, notwitlistandine the Lumi of Exchequer Bills now Con-
teutplateti, ..341 this advance on the part of the Haul:, when the
neenunts should be made up to the cud of the yee r, there would
be isitind to he act nicr,ase in the unfunded 'debt of the coun-
try. He would now detain the House no longer; but merely
again add, that the establishment, the outline of which he had
just subruittcd, ougl.: by no %leans to be akin as the intended
Peace Est::::hslunent, but as one founded on the wants and
necessities of de: present year. 1 was happy in being able,
at the conclusion of such a dlr_ conflict, to make the statement
be had now clot. • —(hear, n" ~I—and was convinced, in con-
tradiction to the many gloomy prophecies of Gentlemen on the
other aid:. e f the Hot:se of the ruinous state of the country,
that our finance were floe visiting, and tha, one expenses were
diminishing. 'I I,,..tight lion. 11,•nt, concluded by moving tin
a sum of 12,300,0001. to he applied to the payment of Exche-
quer Bilia ' • and sat down amidst loud cheering from all quar-
ters of the House. _ _

Mr. PONSON BY said, in no view, which he had taken of the
situation of ti._ country, vac t':rre any pretence to justilv so
large au establishment. The Right line. Gent. had talked of
the desire of Ministers for economy and retrenchment. He
knew of none; it' economy was necessary, surely that head
required peculiar care, tic must also enter his protest against
the Propeety-tax : be would not consent to grant one shilling.
The country must nut be deceived by thsir Representatives ;
for if they voted tin this tax, real retrenchment in the Public
Expenditnre would not be seen; and, therefore, the only way
was by denying Ministers the tax they .ere about to' demand
tor tau years to route. He relied ou the ittterity of the House,
and the spirit of the People, fur eetapelltil4 Ministers to re-
trench. If the House did ro.t, the People of England %%mild
think twat the Represeuta,tves bad deserted their interests.—
near. hear)
Mr. I:twee:twit complimented the Right Hon. Gentleman
(Mr. Va;l.4ii.l..lrt) on his able teal luminous statement. Another
opportutoty would be aW.reled to follow him through the
!.e this ltu•ge and complicated subject; for the present he
amid only t -aer his protest against time of the principles of
it. Ministers thesta,:tly talked of economy, bet did nut pro.
eeettlo carry iT jute ettect. The first onject of attention was
the dlstrefsed stole of the country ; and here he wouid remind
iiinsuf the statement in the Speech front the THrOnt!, of the
flourishing state of the country, which it now turned out was
not quite so liouri,hlng. Their first object should have been to
relit ye those distresses. but how were those distresses to be
relieved ? Tate lion. Gentleman ado mit d to what he buil thrown
oat on a former evening, in respect to the Usury Acts, as giving
a (acuity of borruwiugmoney in ease of esigen9r. if the distress
was the consequence only oil a ; .wing storm. Ibis subject he
again recommended to Miols .s for their consideration, for
rene,,Mg the wants of the londbotderv, as the restrictions Im-
posed by law on borrowers wet' very hens y. All the Life In.
stir:ince Companies were in the practice of taking more than
Per cwt. Lu n 0 one tare was a rtguLtr atortioge to h ob-