The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-30 00:00:00

St. G.,,ury the
.Afartiyt. and Norfolk-street, if
:era-street, S'igrey-street, and Arundel-street# in ti ,e
Scrand.—Orde'red to lie on the table.

• PAYMASTEIGENERAL's
LoNG,. in pursuance of his notice, .rose to
miive for leave to bring ina Yig to accelerate the

exqn)ipittion ,3tlJl auditing of the Autxmoti of the
Office of the Paymaster-General of his Majesty's
Vcircs. It*Avatt not ,requisite that:he should tres-

pas 'long :OW the +loose, to thew the IleC-ei3ily of
a measure of this description. Since the pAs4ing
of, the Bill; known by the name of Mr. Barkels
Bill, Only five Accounts from the Office of them Pay-i
tuaster :General of his Majeaty's..Forces-:had been
delivered' in, only one of which bad been., exathined.
That one related to part of the year ITB9, sotuat
there were accounts lying unexamined ;and-nnandit,

ed for the last 2... years. - He did nut attribtxtpabii
circumstance to any neglett, in thane wlto-hathhe)ti
the office which be now had the hon(wto hold, or
to any.negied in the ntfice of tit, Secrflaity:atMar;
but to a deleCt in the existing I.e.Vs4 ,Ho was for
from disapproving of the general regal:4'6,am in Mr;
Burke"s plan.; btu with all the r‘‘,pe# hielthe:o4
tertained fOr.that :Right .Hon.Getttlettitaa Meinory;
he..confessed, that he did not think thathris habits had
peculiarly qualified him'f )r arranging subject 4 of this
nature. Tne Hon. Gentleman here entered. into a
minute detail of, the :system that had,prevailed pre-
vious to' Mr. Burke's Bill of the system ;which it
was intended by. Mr. Burke's Bill to carry into effett;
and, lastly, of the system which he meantiti. pro-
pose 40 the House. He meant to propose that the
examination and audit of the Paymaster Getarall's
Accounts should in future not depend upon the ar-,
.
rang,etnent of regimental,accounts, ,tint thatiltitnc-
counts,should be a cash; ect'ui Having-said that
none. of ;the Accounts of the Paymaster General's
Odice . had been examined ft>r the- Mist _25 ye.srs, he
should be sorry that an.untOunded and disadvantage-
out impression should be ,made on the publie.by
that st;itement. The fad was, that all the, sums is-
sited hoot the Paymaster General's Ofiice.were is•
sued to Sub-accountants, who rendered accounts of
the disposition of.ibuse sums to various other otfices;
so that it was evident that the .greater part of those
AccountS were a&ually examined. The Only.part of
them which had in a great degree remainedunex-
amined,. was :the part which related to ,regimental
. Accounts. No persdn-could be more satisfied than
he of .the extreme importance .of examining these
Regimental Accounts. The subieCt was now engag-
ing the•attention of that Committee from whose
labours the pablic_had
_already.. derivedso much
advantage ; but whatever might be their decision,
With reaped to Regimental Accounts, it -would not
at all ailed the propriety of enacting, that the Ac-
count of the PaymasterGeneral'sliould be consider-
ed asp cash account, and be. Audited and examined
as such.. He .therefore moved fur leave; &v.

Dr. LOnotcs contended, that it waiLthe inten,
tion 'la Mr. Burke, in his Bill, to accomplish that
oojea .which the Hon. Gentleman propuied.. He
dweJt atsotne length on the liardship to which •Pay.
marten ;were exposed,• who, having quitted office
foryznanylears, were called upon to Mahe up .their
aciOut ts; :When the documents ny.which .they might
beet lhledto do's() were extiosed to be: stolen, .and
!tangly, .were volen, for the purpose of to !al•
low-chaodlers and others, :engaged in various h'llsi•
rrspai to which waste paper was necessary.
Mr. LAG again disclaimed any imputation what.
Over on 4r. Burke; but still contended that his BUJ
did not, go.to make the Paymaster's Account a sash
account.--44eave was then granted.
LOCAL MILITIA BILL.

- Mr..Dotisms, in the absence of .a Noble Friend
of his, wished
.to ask an Hon. Baronet behind him,
whether he had any ohjedion to, defer his motion
relative to the Carnatic, twin Monday next, as his
Noble Friend wished to postpone to that -day the
second reading of the Local Militia Bill. It would
also be a matter of personal convenience to him, if
the Hon. Baronet would defer his motion for a few
days. •
. Sir .T. Toit-roN, although he Was strongly im-
Pmssed with the importance of the motion, notice.
of which be, bad given 'tor Monday, wonid be sorry
to impede the public business by pLlsisting to.bring
it forward. He was the more induced to postpone
it, as from what the Hon.•Gentleittan had Said he
was not without hopes that he.metint. to inte,tigate
the snbjed, in which.oase he was satisfied that ill;
Honourable Gentleman must be of his -opinion
upon it.
. • The second reading, of the Local Militia Bill was
then fixed for Mdnday;and Sir T. Turton's motion
for Tuesday seinnight..
• The Call or the House was postponed to Tuesday.
On the it-unite). of. :Sir J. NawPotrr, then was
ordered •to be Idict.before the. House a Copynt'the
Ileturns mode.to thetPrivy Council of Great Britain
by the -Archbishops. and Bithops, relative to be
Residence' of the Clergy .in .their respective Dio-
ceses, during the years Am., 5, ti, and 7'.
MAVNOOTH •

The House haVing-reolved- itself into a o,)m.
tnittee of Supply, Mr. Fovrtz.it rose to move the 1.1(!-
solution for a grant to .Maynooth College. The
grant in,fortner- years had been 80001. LaSt year
it had • been increased to 13,001, for the purpose
of enabling that Instifution to erect buildings capa-
ble of containing titty'additional Students. It was
now his intention to move in addition to the 804p1.
of -Wider years, by whiCh two hundred Students
had been maintained, an additional sum for the
Maintenance of the fifty -new'Students he there-
fore' moved Oft 'a sum not exceeding 92601. (Irish
currency) be granted to his Majesty to "defray the
Expences of 'the Romaii,Caiholic Seminary in Ire-
land !Or the current year.
Sir JOHN Nrwpotvr moved to leave out the sum
.1.L2,501. for the' purpose of substituting I 3,0uu1. In
the original estaniNinnent of the College 'at May.'
nova), 20U°students were then tic-located. 'This was
When Europe was in 't Stale' of tranquillity. Pre-
vious to the French-Revolution, 478 students were
educated on the-Continent 'for the Catholic Priest-
hood of Ireland (of'whoin 49.6 received,graiintons
support), T.la)itOoth College, not bring able to pro-
vide a sufficient ninnber lOr the di,charge of the cc-
clesiastical itin JiUnc Conceiving it to b&. 'of the
canseqUence that the cAhOlic Priesihopd
IN *educated `inll,eir natoto wintry, and
tinder the' eye of Govettitretit,' IJst Administra-
tion hia.4ll9adhi-it tight, to 114 en-to an application
.Lp mit/went .1 he numbetof r.tu,:ents. at Maynooth to