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were. If this were not the case, the men might be all intercepted in
C, way to their horse-barracks. As to Bristol and Liverpool, they
we re. both populous places, and ports for the debarkation of troops
h. t this country and Ireland ;it was therefore better to have per-
nialieht barracks than temiauall ones.
retu:Ao deprecated the measure as unconstitutionakarstnd
oppryssive to the liberties of the people. This was probably the fi
tine a Minister had been heard to declare that troops were necessary
to c. nit rot the rpulation of the country. Bristol was a populous city;
and, therefore, according to him, it was necessary to erect barracks
there. • 'I he 63111:: he had said wtth regard to Liverpool; and hence it
vas to be concluded, that the main object of building barracks and
plitcitig troops in these towns, was to overawe and control the people.
An Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Huskisson) had recommended that some of
the empty warehouses should b purchased for the accommodation of
the troops. Nothing was ever more appropriate than tl:le advice. It
would h': th- perfect climax of consistency, that the Minister, whose
cominercial system bad rendered useless the loom of the manufacturer,
had etoptit d the warehouses of the merchant, and by inducing starva-
tion. had filled the people with discontent, should now till the ware-
hots,e,, with soldiers, to repress the murmurs of discontent, and control
those whom his measures had itri:a:ed to madness. The system which
the Hon- Gentleman was pursuing, was of a nature s.) profuse and
extravagant, that it would, by destroying the resources of the country,
induce the necessity of peace by submission.
The CuaNcituant of the Excunue.a reprobated the language used
by Mr. Whitbread, as tending to turn the discontents of the people
into an abamivable current against their Government, instead of rowing
them against an enemy who meditated the destruction of all that was
dear to us a nation —( Hear, hear ! )
Nlr. WIIIII3II.EAD rose with considerable warmth, and said the Right
Hon. Gent. had gr ;ssly misrepresented him, and that his friends in that
Hou=e were alt ays read yto she, r him in his misrepresentations. If an
adventurer from the bar was to be brought into the House, to get into
power. and to take place when no other man could be found to accept
of it, as would be apparent from a letter signed 44 Spencer Perceval"—
(Pere th,:re Ws re loud cries of Order, urikr and a great tumult ar-se,
which h..viug subsided), Mr. Whitbread apologised for the warmth of
his Lxpve,,,iuug, and concluded with expressing his regret, that the in-
eh;tnan; fee Bops which he experienced at the assertion that be winced to
pro-tr this country to Fiance, should have impelled him to commit
ALE! a breach of the order of the House.
I'i.e Chancellor of the Exchequer replied to Mr. Whithread, and Tklr.
St:plten r. Ponsonby spoke at considerable length, principally on
th••• m rits and (!....,merits of the Ord.!rs iu toured.
(Ad not undcrst tid how Farracks and Orders in Coun-
cil tdir.b!..:'. L,.ether in one chbate. The person who linTed
i.; !)rill r, Comer: toast be mighty ingcl,!,;us. Inonc word ex-
wit.)l.• Look to France and the West Indic: : Surar
5'•i!1i•.:.7.4 t-er pound in France; and all the wi3eacr.:s had cried
ot:t, 01, de..r Uo.i! let us all run with our sugars to France. But this
was all a cheat. sat ,naparte only wanted Ili aril sugar, and other sugar
f!-,cn G.:l I- iiews v. hr . Let England wild her own bottom, and
Pounrr, are I.loit • e best for ships and sti!;ars and colonies,
gets:' all
Thcy quarrelled wit!, two fellows pumping. hut
14- it 1,- t in pump away—Old Itx;:,l,.iid Fr:mce tor ever.
'll.c Hun ci.ine to a division, when there appeared in favour of the
Earr.l,:ll estimate,. SS; against then. 40. he Report was theu brought
up, and ordered to be received totmorrow.—Adjourned.

TUESDAY, APRIL 14.
Teti•fons were presented from the nierch.aits and manufacturers of
St7tror 141. ire, and the ‘Vest of Yorkshire, against the Orders in
C • Atri
Mr. P. CAlt ENV moved far leave to bring in a Bill for the better car-
rying into ftrt;ct. the 1 egulations existing for improving Turnpike Roads,
to make further provisions for the preservation thercof.—Leave
given.

COLONF.T.
Mr. W. WyNNr. rose to sulAnit to the Horse a motion upon the sub-
ject of t!.e recent appointment of Colonel M‘Malion to the situation of
Puicate Sccreary to the Prince Regent. He stated, that when a new
.t • created for which there was no precedent in the constitutional
history of the country, it was natural to enquire into the nature of the
duties of that office, and the qualifications that were necessary for their
discharge. l'he only information of which the country was in posses-
st(:n with respect to the present was the Gazette account of the appoint-
ment of Colntel Nl'Mahon to the above-mentioned office. The House
bad a right to he informed with minute exactness of the duties of the
situation. Was Colonel M‘Malion now to be understood as holding
tie place of a Cabinet Minister. or a simple amanuensis? was he to he
c itisidered, in conjunction with his Majesty's Ministers, as responsible
a- the acts of the Crown, or as merely rendering private domestic as-
sistance to his Royal Highness. What necessity had the Prince Regent
for a private Secr,!ary, when it was known that his ?Oak sty performed
the Royal tuncv,ons forty year; without one, and would not, at the end
of that pe, ii tl have th .ught one necessary, but f.r his blindness and
.rions disorders, troni st Well his R, val Highness was totally exempted.
'Vie excuse Gentlein, ti had to utter for the creation of this office was,
tkat, liatl of Lox years s.c.rely a private Secre-