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10 or 12 per cent. which, to any Gentleman procuring 10,000/.
of the loan, was equal to 1010!. in his pocket upon going to the
Bank to:dispose of it. This practice Mr. Pitt abolished, and
invited a competition, which much reduced the terms of t'he'
loan, and with the other savings must have amounted neatly to
two millions per :minim.' The regularity in the payment of the
Navy Bills also reclueed their interest, hich was sometimes so
high as -12 per cent. w hie!), t or•et her with the new regulations
he introduced into the Ordnance Department, saved in all above
two millions a year to the Pahl ic.—( hear!) In his titre
there' were also fewer Menthers of Parliament holding places
under Government than at any preceding period'. There were
'lbw only 38 in Englan:l and Scotland; whereas in the year
1782 there were 56, Ile-we:int Members bolding places for life.
fhr it was scarcly to be sun posz-d that Gentlemen holding places
at plearave would he tmtler the co:ovoid of Government, as
scarcely an iestance had occurred where any Gentleman had
List his situara:a on account of his political conduct in that
House (Hear! hear !) The amount of pensions, he commended,
was also twicii diminished, :tad not more now, notwithstanding
the difference in the value of moaoy, than in the year 11-20.-
I%lr. Pitt, he argued-, took a; much pains as any man to inform
the Country and House of every shilling of the Public ex-
penditure, and no man paid more attention to eronotny. Evers
salary, pension, or allowance, was intridneed into the Red
Book, and every indulgence to persons retiring from office was
effected hy a minute of Thu Treasury. •
Mr. Cu rcvav observed that the night Honourable Gen-
tleman had ouniil., in his account of pensions, those on the
Scotch establathment and Leeward Fund of four and a half per
cent. to tlie amount of 73.000,.. In the year 1733,, it had been
stated, that the Leeward Island Fund, from which the Duke
of Gloucester had an allowance of 9000!. a year, was insuffi-
cient to produce that sum, viltivit was provided by the public.
From this fund, however, pensions were afterwards given to a
variety of persons, and, among; others, Lady Chatham, Lad).
Grenville, and Sir Ilome Poiiatn, Mr.. iluskisson, and Mr.
Rose, which he considered as so much money taken from the
public, and argued, at the same time, that this fund of.four
and a half per cent. was not the property of the crowu, 'but
4 part, originally, of the Public! Revenue.

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Mr. Rose, in explanation, stated, that Mr. Pitt, as a proof
of his disinterestedness, died pour. The Leeward Island Fund,
In the year 1756, was in debt to the amount of VO,OOOl. and
since the Palilic liad had the benefit of it, as it.:had been ap
plied iu the civil list.

Sir Jo inst NEWPORT wished some g,rnilemin would make
the same statement with respect to Ireland that the Ffight lion.
Gentleman had..done with respect to the pension list of Great
Britain. In that country the influence of the Crown had been
carried in M. Pitesliille to the most alarming and unprece-
dented length,. so
.much so, that in 1793 the list amounted to
12},000/,111-1d when an act was passed to prevent any increase to
it, or the di:posal of more than I 20:)!. a year, till it should he
reduced to St),000/. Lord Westmorlantl,then iu office, in the
course of
.the few months allowed berore the operation of the
A.At. conunen ced , contrived to grant, in different pensions, the
additi.ot;al amount of 13.,000/. a year.—(!Bear, hear.)

' "Mr. WitiTnattin allowed the statentr!:ts of Mr. Pitt to
Baer been titore luminous and correct than those his 4urcessors

could boat.' of in the Financial Department ; and, that at one
period of his lire it • seemed to have' ,teen hi.dosign hermile a
Fin;inz.7lnl 'Minister, hy voir'otoym; well as caletarnion ;
hut whether he had changed .his vies in Ili% he coukl ion
but font (4:it period all his Fchemedi of reiliwinN had vaui.hod,
and the most expensive and onfortuna,e measures had been per-
sped, wit!ioct any regard to the resourees oe the enuntry. The
Right 13 on. Gentleman bad stated the oflices and places aholizdt-
ei, hut be had not inentioned those.sreate.l during the same pc-
The Abuses in the barrarit departms.ot alone tvere.inore
Ulan °frot td•all the other in,:traires of (-c"oirnmy. lle.nrgued
that the influence of the crown.in ;hat !louse was by much too
great., and said he should move on Thursday next asttu Aniem!-
meht to the Resol.ition propoSed,‘vhiih in his opinion did not
co far enough, 6* That some lintitatitm -ought to be put to the
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num!:er of persons having slernr-ul. tart !louse, and holding
place:, in his Majestys Gover:iment.'!:.
conversation was •continucil for some time longer, after
which the. tiretitesolution was .reatl and aL;reed to, and the
Atherrt were withdrawti till Thurtiday, wilco the Report was or.
sir=ed .io be wket/Icto farthu cgusideration,---A dioilaed .

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Tim' NATIONAL REGISTER.

LOIRIOIII,
SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 1805.

POLITIC4L 'EVESTS OF THE WEEK.

The Eighth and Ninth Buretins of the French Army, to-
gether with Dutch Papers the 31st ult. will be seen in
another part of our paper. Tht'y are characterized by.
the most extreme insolence in which it speaks of the Emu
peror of A usTatA. This tone, indeed, is of no farther im-
portance than as it leatlsio the inference, that the fitte of
Austria is determined, and that the Ew.veror FRA.xciA is
the last of his house that wear ;lib Imperial Crown,
The Emperor NA roicoK, indeed, seems already to have
assumed the functions hitherto appropriated to the German
Emperors:Ahat of creating Barons and Counts. of the
Holy Roman Emperor. The Russian pedal-allot) is of the
less importance, as it• is not accompanied. with any direct-
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menace of active warfare.- •

Accordimv.to the Ninth Bulletin, the Emperor NA rciLEom
still remains-in Vienna. This is his invariable custom.—
He hastens:to the capital. as to. the central-point, whence
flow and circulate all the supplies and resources of the
kingdom. In possession' 'of this, he has necessarily an im-
mense proportion .of the population of the kingdom in his
favour. He decides the timid and the treacherous. By a•
well.atsumed moderation, he bribes popular 10li to his
side. .•The possession of the capital moreover, is of another
incalculable ad vantag.,e—it intercepts all the supplies of the
enemy. It throws the great machine of Government and
Administration into distrder. . . .

. There is animportaut. article in one of the llamburgh
Papers, which states, that the Diet have directed; that the
'Duke of.StitiEanANlA shall possess the Throne for his life,
and that after his demise the Throne shall pass to. the
reigning family of Russia. Such Is the patriotism of the
Swedish Diet. • • . .
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There are various rumours in tovn respecting some vic-
tories said to; have heea gained by 'the Austrians, the re-
suit of which, according to the current report, has been,
that the French have been expelled from Vienna; that the
Austrians have repossessed. themselves of it, and that the
French arc in rapid- retreat. ;t is our duly to state these
turnouts, as. it is certainly not -impossible. hut that there
may he some truth in them ; hut, oi! the other hand, it is
equ3lly our duty to add, that they have •uot the air of
probability, and cannot be traced to any more respo.clable.

source than mere rumour:.. They are rumours, however,
which have ►►ot their aright in this country. They are
mentioned in the letters brought by• the last :SvVcdibh

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."I'he latest letters from Heligoland state, that a pawn-
gerfrom the Ems, in a-vesscl which left that titer on. the
v'M instant., had reported thUt the ,Arcndake bad gained a-
grta. t victory er the Fmeh, about:4o Englikh wiles from

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