The National Register.
London, England, 1809-06-04 00:00:00

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tract ideas of perfection, he would still say, that althot4th
had before heart) a sy.4!eig of bribery and eorrn ption avowed,
.e never did suppose that suet? a scene of bribery and corrup-
tion as this coma ever have been justified or excused. It ap-
peared from the Report of the Cammissiont-rs of Etapiry, that
the frauds committed on the Irish i.eventw the liceo,ed dis-
Mers amounted in a year to 856,0001. and that the principal
,tope of these enormous frauds was, that those officers were
biibed to COIIIIIVC at them. These Distillers now deprecated
all manner of enquiry into those transactions.
A division took place—P favour of the motion 50—Against
177. • • •

MEDICAL. BOARD.
Mr. WkRDLE stated the mortality in the East Tudies to be
Jcb, that- out of 30,000 men sent there, 13,000 died, and
'tt least one-third of those were lost on account of the incapacity
Of the medical'inen who were allo!ted to sit perint lid them. lie
filso stated an ivercharge of WO per cent. tei!,ing plarc upon Me-
dicine, which amounted to 13,0001. on an average.. Ile con-
cluded by moving, " That an lhoohle Addrs n presented to
Iris Majesty, praying, that there shoold he laid helve the !louse
a resurn of alt the medical persona emplo)ed in the army, all the
Inspectors of Hospitals, Deputy InspectoN, Mates, &c."—Thr
motion was carried.

IVednesdayt May Sl.

The Strand Bridge Bill was read the third time: rind tins,:ed.
The Surrey Sewers Bill, after some opl►osition from Sid 'l'.
Tauten, was rejected. The Bill was read the third time and
passed. Adjourned.

Thursday, June 1.
;mai) lit:kcal En sri,

Colonel Ssjjrr.ct assured the 'louse, that the motiqn of wh,ch
he had given notice did not originate from any feeling of per-
tonal hostility to the Noble Lord who was the ohject of it,
nor to any party motive?; for; from his sincere attachment to
the interests of that profession in 'c lieu' he IM spent many peat s
of his life, he really sympathized wigs the feclings of the Noble
Lord, and as far as related to him personally, he was corry for
his disappointment. He believed him t,. he very gullaot and
ineritorious Officer, and he hoped that tote country would not,
from any thing which had passed, lose tile benefit of his future
services. He could not, however, avoid congratulating the
House on .the successful resistance which they had 'mule in this
instance, to an appointment recommended by Ministers. Ile
00 congratulated the army, that they might be now assured,
that no Minister would venture in future to make recommenda-
tions contrary to the regulations which his Majesty had laid
down for the Government of the army. Having so far evplained
his motives, mid as the object of his notice was now accom-
glhed, he begged leave to withdro.v the motion of which he
given notice. The motion was accordingly withdrawn.

are now nominally. As to the IV elsh 3Ud,e,es, who were cir-
cumstanced, and not pre%ented from exercising their professions,
the augmentation hich he should prop'-e was 300' per ann.
With respect to the Scotch Judges, great alterations had lately
taken place, hit h gave an increz.!.e of interest, as well as of
business to their situati,ws, ‘vhich it would te highly necessary,
as soon as coos enicto t, unuld permit, aker this measure was dis-
posed of, to take in:o consideration ; hut he thought he should
only he doing- his duty to pnstponc t-at till etc r th;,:Seiion of
Parliament. With respect to the Judge, of Ireland, he confessed
he was so little informed as to their part:odor sit he coins!
not at present say any thing- on the subject. The Lord Chancellor
of that country had transmitted a statement that the increase 4:
salaries of the judges deserved et,osideration; but the informa7
lino he had hitherto received on the subject was so stnall,
the consideration must ptiqkioned in a future dav, nod ti
hoped both the Aldges anti the People of I reland wot.ld be sa' is-
tied that it ua.4 not owing to any infenii, -LA neglect, but to the
cause he had before assi4ned, that they, as u.ell a the Scotch
Jail ;e,:, could tint he included in tile present Resolution. lle con-
cluded by moving,
" That 1(100!. a year additional salary b? made to the
of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the PttiAle JuLiges of the
Coart.of King's Bench and Common Pleas, and the Barons :4
the Exchequer, and 800!. to the sAaries of the Welch Jods.ett."

Mr. C. W. WYNNE thong-ht the %VOA .iud4cl s mild cot be
suflijently remunerated by an addition of 3*JO/. a ye.tr to the r re-
sent salary ; awl he moved therefore, as nu ilmendnsew, that in-
tread of SCOI. it should be 500!.

11 r. 110 It N 1: It , the only difference onii.ioit of the
House was, us to the 11n to he ripen to ;he Welsh Age:J. .kt
pre-rut it lay between 3 and 500/. he shortid therefore recon:...
o I it to the llotic to adopt the medium, and to fix the ia-
crc at 4001.

The ttesolutir.n was agreed tf) with the medium sum now p:-o-
posed by Mr. Horner for the li chh J udge, of .teat. a ti ear.

SALE OF SE ITS TN P TIT LI IMUNT.

The Si' cAIiER addressed the Chairman by of sery t'ia:
the question then before the licluse, was no less than this—
hether Seat: in Parliameot ean be patdirly put op to,
sale? A proilo,;ition at %Ouch our aueestors (odd b.!••41
started with indign:ztion and abhouence. They were now coo,.
Iva point from which t here was no retreat. To do nothit;g,
to do every thing; an:i unless they proceeded to stop (Nis hnsi-
lieSS, they would see before the end of the present Fe:sion, seats
in Parliament put lip to public auctko, to the incalculable in-
jury of the Government, and eternal disgrace of that House. Ile
owned that f;reat allowances might be made for the various par-
tialities of homan nature; but was this a political evil, or ivno
tt not ? He would allow that the bias of a partiality of friend-.
,hip was one of • the pureA cements of the various relations. of
social 'That prnperty ought to have hdlnence, :v4 qua lly
clear. this influence should be exerool in behalf of
lions or of particular friends, :14 not In be wondered a: ; t;,(
that the owner:; of this kind of proper() ,11 on Id sell it to ~;:-;,l;geri.,
to person:: alio7ether unknown and imliacreut to Coal:, further
than as instleteu of corrupt and unconstitutional Irtinsaet btu-,
was a political evil, no-man could deny. It was cf a fool
aad loathsome nature that it tainted and contatninati 41 t ios higher
orders to whom it attached, and disgraced a:.d deirt.led the cha-
racter of Parliain.on, and furnished the most fartnidable
ment of those who are, as they themselves say, for reb:rai
; but many of whom, in his (the Speaker's) opiaien;
kvi,hed for milling 'U ardently as to subiekt :avd ti..stroy the p:e..
sent order of thitv,s in this country. That his, crime of i-o:
t ion was ever held a. a high Parliamentary ofTette:_•, every ;safe of
the Journals would amply bcetr ; P.:1•1 is; !1i:, rt:Tret
there was a memorable instance in the case of lilt. t'ita;4l- I'44t
respcting which it is expressly declared, that it' the 1.ft:(1
den do nomiteite tiny per-on to repre.ent thel;t, ii sNotA,I be
deemed a grog; violation of the Law of Parli.steeta, and of the
Constitution of the realm. This ofrence nail or iAia;illy :wen
punishable at common law, hut had since !won trete•let red (•,1 a
better tribunal. If we looked it:to rases, there would lie ,ccal
traces of it soon after the Revolution—in the proceed iai:s hit
forward by Sir lialward Seymour against the ca-t
Company ; the same was done against Lord North, in the ir
of AI ilborne Port, and several others. This was and had al Mt Vc:
been held an offence, not only against privileges or Pariia-
ment, but against the common law of the land; and w henever
similar cases had occurred, they had alw;i been treated as roe -
mon law offences. The case which had attracted the attention
of the House was equally a case of continua law. The Kilt