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any certainty that he would have abilities to perform
the duties annexed to the office granted to him 'in.
reversion, which, as far as he (Mr. Whitbread).
could learn, was merely W count the.money it pro-
duced,before he put it into his 'pocket. He thought
it necessary to re-state.thus correatly the 'argument:B
on which the Hon. Mover rested the motion, fo or-
der that those who were not reversioners may form
a correct judgment for themselves. He hoped the
motion would now pass with the same unaniniity
that had attended it before..

Sir JOHN IVEWPORT thought it his ,duty to
state a particular instance in which. the reform of
an office recommended by, the Committee:of In-
quiry, in Ireland, could not be carried intiiii,etrea,
in consequence of its being'granied in reversion.-+
The office he alluded to was that of o'l'4i:i-kr of
the Port of Dublin. It had been granted in.revet',-
sion upon reversion to three persons at a time.
Two of these' had died while the reform was in
preparation ; but ,the right of the third barred the
reform. .

.111 r. HORNER rose to vindicate the illustrious
name of Mr. Burke from the imputation oast by the
Hon. Gentleman, who charged 'fiat great and up-
right man with regretting, in his' later days, those
measures of reform and 'economy, and constitutional
restraint on the prerogative, which he hull been so
aelive in bringing forward at the close ache ,Ame-
rican War. Those who were most .confidentially
intimate with Mr. Burke in his later das,'kneW
that, on the contrary, lie spoke with pride and plea-
sure of the patriotic services which the Hon. Gen-
tleman considered so much matter .of repentance
and remorse. But it was not verbal evidence atone
that could be adduCed in vindication of Mt.tarke—
the latest of his published works were testimony to
his proud and unrepenting recolleCtion *those aCts
the Hon. Gentleman alluded to,. by the pains he
took to shew their perfe& consistency
.with his
latter .cOnduCt. The opposition of the Honourable.
Gentleman arose, it appeared, not so much from
pure regard to the prerog,aiive; as froth a fear', that
this Might be the commencement of a war against
profusion and prodigality, and the first step towards
an attempt to introduce a system of reform and eco-
nomy.. The measure now proposed was the., first
step, and bilt El small step towards those refortits that
• were proposed, by the Committee instituted- last
year, Sand on that ground he supported it. He. was
of opinion that it would neither 'increase 1“x
dimi-
nish the prerogative. It. would afford a proteiition
frOm practical abUse, in which mane of the advisers
of the Crown, as example proved, might otherwise
orticipath instead of restraining. The BW
,WaS
be respeCied, because it came froM a Cdinniitte
appointed by the Hbuse to consider the•rnefans of
reducing the public expenditure,, and .• because it'
was the first step recommended by the Committee
for the attainment of .that , object ; and whether it
should be deemed expedient as an ulterior measure
' to purchase the interests, of the present reversioners,.
or to await. the expiration of their tehns, ;ie. was
equally unfit that further grants in reversion'lhould
.be made.

•
- The question being put, leave. was giien to
bring in the Bill,• with the single dissenting voice
of Mr. W. Du NDAS. Mr. BAN ICES afterwards broUght
in the Bill, which was read, a first time, and ordered

to be read a second time on Wednesday, and to be
printed.
On the Motion of the CHARCELLOII of the
'EXCHEQUBR, - his Majesty's Speech was' referred
to. a Committee of rite whnlet Honig. to pit
morrow.

On the motion of Sir Joitri NEWI'ORT, it W3F)
ordered, that there be laid, before the House an Ac-
count of the number of gallont4 Of spirits, for which
duty had been paid in Ireland, in the year outing
Jana I, 1808. Al. o, an Account of the quantity; of
corn, ;grain, meal, and flour imported,into Great
Britain) from Ireland.--Adjourned: