The Sun.
London, England, 1801-06-12 00:00:00

MOUSE OF 'COMMONS,

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The Committee on the Irish copy-right i'rcvrty
Bill was deferred till to-morrow,

The. Bankers' Note Forgery Bill wns read a third
time; with the addition of a plutsc that the Provi,
sions of the Bill should he extended to Ireland. The
Bills thus amended, passed.
•: The Bill fo'r consolidating into one Aet the sate.
rat Froyisions in Bills of Mellow, Wins COMlnitted,
and the Report ordered to he received on Monday.

Mr. BILAGGE brought up the Report of the Come
mime of Supply.-r-The Several Resolutions were
read, and agreed to tilt the Report was read for
granting. 3sool. Salary to the Chairman of the
House of Lords, when

Mr. TIERNEY said, this WM a novel measures
and one on which he would take the sense of the
House. In his opinion, this Salary ought, .as here.
tofore, to be pant out of, the Civil List, and not to
be recognized by The Public in any way. His first
objection was against granting such at considerable
increase of Salary to any OfEc-r whatever. He
thought such increase of Salaries to great Officers)
had been granted of late with too gte,,t fl cility..—
During ..t last year, such increase amounted to
56,0001. and in the two preceding years to notiess
than io4,octol. Another objetaion was, that it gave
to the Civil List an accession of roool. a year, whilst
the Public would be 'saddled with an additional
zfool. per year, and Government would, in faet,
have the power of granting the sum of 15001.
a.year, to whom it pleased. He complained of the
abuse,of many of the Pensions payable by the Civil
List ; many of the burdens it should have borne,
had been east upon the Consolidated Fund.,, When
the allowance of Iso6l. a. car was first given, the
Office of Chairman was almost a Sinecure, and now,
although the btriiness was increased; he saw no
good reason for so large an addition ;LS that of I°oo4
a.year.

Mr. ADDINGTON; after reminding the House
that. he had given no opinion with regard to Pen.
sions that had been granted_by former A,,dministra.
tions, said he would, repeat what he had stated last
night, that he considered 25001. a,year, to be a
fitir, 11.4n:home, and liberal allowances for the duties
of Chairman to the 'louse of Lords. With regard:
to the late allowance of !soot. this was an arbitrary
payment left with Mrs MAJerry to augmerit or
diminish,
.without
~thc knowledge of the Public ,•
but he thought it more becoming that the House
should know exaCtly what the Allowance was. He
did not think the augmentation of toool. a.year
WAS too much, when it 'was considered tint neatly
the whole of the Noble Chairman's time, and :men.
tion were required to the duties of this. b Lion, an.i.
it was now proposed that. that appointment should
become a permanent establishment. With respei't
to-trausferring the payment from the Civil List
to the Pablic, he considered it more pre ver that all
payments to Officers of either 11,00,0, slieuld b Liked
nd known to Parliament-. With I.:.gard to thel-Lort.
laylember's suggestion of initisferring this paymeoe.
to the Civil List; he must observe, the state of it
was such as not toadmit of this addition to it. The
Public accepted 'of the Hereditary revenue of the
Crown instead of the Civil List, which His MA.
Jtirit- accepted in lieu, thereof ; but the former
had been increasing in. value ever since, and the
latter dimini!,hing, whilst the charges upon it have
been uuavoidably augmenting.; therefore, under pre.
sent circumstances, he thought, the How-e shOuld be
satisfied. with this transfer, as affording some
relief'to die pressure which the Cis it List had of
late years sustained.

Mr. GREY did not alit& there. had been so great
an increase ofpnb4c business in the lionSe of Lords,
as to justify such an increase of Salary ; nor did he
see ho‘s, the, independence •of Parliament could be
affeded by continuing the foimer mode of payment
out of the Civil List. The Judges were paid hut of
the Civil List, and yet he had+nevet heard that that
eircumstince afitted their independence. 1 k
thought no claim could be made from the eircurn-
stance of giving up the Hereditary Revenue in lieu
of the Civil List, that was xbargain that wvs con-
clusive on both parties. He mnust, observe also,
that His MAJESTY was exempt from all Taxes, and
from those butcLn4 to which others were sabjea.
Mr. ADDINGTON and Mr. GREY mutually ex.
plained, au did Mr. Tx EKNEY.
Mr. JOLLIPvL CODCUTAra in the objeaions made
by Messrs. CTREY and TIERNEY..

Mr. 'WILLI citpopct itotifir%i the Grant; 0.0 the,
z rounds stated by Mr, .A.bbiliGTON.

A•Dlvisiort wai then called for, when there ap.
reprd for :qr. tiERNE-i's Motion against agreeing
+v,il-1, the Report of the committee - - 19
For agreeing, with the Report . 8o

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Majority fOfthe'Report
TTErzyEy said, he rose to request some ex.
pl a►tat4 rtrhy. thki adi-76f *Mittlt'S
of Supplies for the .service G.teat Britain, itnd of
Ireland,islibulikit'e-?' •
111*. CORRY statcl-in explanation, that by the
Articles of Union, .the proportion was br mect ac-
cording, to the rehttiyeAtbility 2f file two Countries,
and not aiecorlitat,to the:prceibe e:4"peod‘iture. of ei.
7ther, any pi7ticularinkt,ance'. He was prOceed_
ing.to,explaie, when „
rbe SPEAlo7P.obServser
d, that there sit nonhes.
-Lion .before the liouse; upon which, after 'a ‘few
word 4 between' l'ylessis.,.(joakY and -TvetiNEY, the
conVersatioriencle.d. •
/IYr. N y_2llv9lY'7:-Vg7movdi that there be
1-wfure the
silpuse an. ACCOtillt .of CvStom
Duties on'Statnes, 'and. Mioble Ornaments,
&c. %s, 11kb:being ordered to, be laitibefore the House,
was immediately presented
..by the proper Officer
from tbectattouas., •
The Ovder of the 'Day -I;.eing. moved for the com-
rni trCent„ of .:Addison' s tAvorce'kill,
t 7-he S.49.E.eIkER "s:titl, he 'thought it proper for
hinl to inform the Housei-that he had received a
letter' from Mr.cHrriry Smith.„ 'who stated himself
to/be,Mr.'Addison's 'Solicitor, and on Whom the
Hpuse had deterrnined 'tha-t 'set v ice of -notice( of this
Bill should be deemed 'good service on Mr. Adai •
*. son, This ,let,ter statid in -substance, that Mr.
Smith acknowledged having. received this notice,
bot.thatMr. Addison was not now
.in England, but
was'.abroAl, 85 he understood, in a state of insol;
vency;and that by means of poverty he was unable
to retain Counsel. •
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The letter being red, a conversation ensued as
to the.preptiety of roldering. the notice served on
Mr. Smith, a .proper service, The. Avsoa Nr Y and
Sot-loTrott, (iEN-Ea4l., Mr. SIMEON, deliver.
ed their sentiments, after which it was determin-
ed that the servic' e on Mr. Smith should be deemed
Guth lent.
',,bite Tiouse then went into. a Committee on the
Bill, when Counsel was heard, and Witnesses were
ex4rpined, dter which the , Bill was reported, and
the''Report ordered tribe received to-morrow.
./?/;,•1()GE brought up the Report upon the
.Matial Law' Bill ; flit Bill was ordered to be
read a third time to-tnotrow;

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