The Sun.
London, England, 1806-01-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PABLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF CO 1'71404VS
'sATIMIDAY, JAN. 25.
Mr. Pain, froin the AffiCall Company, presented '
the Annual At:Count of. that Conipany for the year
taot. ';
A person from the India Board, presented a Copy
of a Letter of Sir JOHN SHO.RE, and several other
Pa 3ers, pursuant to Order.' •
Mr. .A.I.XANDER brought up the Report of the
Committee. of Resolution that a Sup-
ply be granted" to His Majesty was agreed to. ..
, NEW, ADMINtSTRATION.
Mr. Hostcassost. moved, that the House should,
on Monday, resolve itself into a Committee, to con- -
sider fUrther of the Supply to be granted to His Ma-
jesty. . - •- -
_Mil. GREY recommended the Hon. Gentleman
to consider,- whether it would be proper to proceed
so immediately to vote the Supplies, under the pre- •
sent circumstanceS. It was his wish, that the
Public Business should be forwarded with • all possi-
ble expedition, and he should be extremely sorry to
cause utine4.:essary.delay, where exertion and promp-
titude were so necessary. ,But he really, thought it
would be very improper in the House to 'go into a
CoMmittee. for the purpose of voting the Supplies of
the year, while it was altogether uncertain who was
to have the, Management of these Supplies, or to be
responsible for the application of them.
Lord CASTLEREJIGH said,-whatever reason the
Honourable Gentleman may now see for interrupt-'
in the progress of the Supelies, he hoped that,
when Monday arrived, he would not feel himself
called upon to obje& -to going into the Committee,
as arrangemeots would, probably, be made before
that time, which would, in a great measure, re-
move the difficulty the Honourable Gentleman now
conceived he would labour under. It was with the '
.discretion of the House, whether it would proceed
to grant the Supplies in the absence of the Chancel- -
lor of the Exchequer. :His Majesty had determined .
to vest that Office, for a • time, according to former'
precedents, in the Chief. , Justice of the King's
Bench, andthe appointment would be immediately-
carried intos'effeCt, . 'Majesfy 'Was, at the samethne, taking meesuree to form a new Administratien.
Under these cirauinstances, if the Chancellor of' the
Excheqter were now '.ll office, he _could not 'attend
in this House. He should hope, therefore, that the ..
House would find no difficulty; in proceeding on the
Supplies in his absence. The Public Sevvice would
suffer very material injury if the Supplies.were pre-
vented from passing through the preliminary stages:
If any Gentleman did not approve of granting the
Supplies, it would be competent to him to op r ose the
Vote in anyof those subsequent stages in w: they
would be again so often before -the Hot- e, and in
which' any , adequate cause of opposi:: :i may' be
Much better stated and .:cussed. : would only
submit, for the present, ',at it wa:- y material to
r, forward the Sunplies .;ugh t' slier stages, to
their progress througl ,vhick.,.. ie:e,onable objection
could be made, awl: to reserve, the future and
more proper steees for disci any objeetion
that any Honoir Gentleman may 'be disposed to
make. .
Mr., FO' < :The objection made by 'my Hon.
Friend met by what has fallen from the Noble--
1,;orfl pniat.the Noble Lord has said of the corn-
y to proceed to vote the Supplies in the ab-
...ice of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of
the propriety,' ot, so proceeding in this instance, does
not apply to the objeetion. The objealon is not to
voting the Sopplies when the Chancellor of the -Ex-
chequer is hot present ; for the Chancellor of the
Exchequer may happen to be absent at any time.,
from various Causes, when it would be necessary,
for the' House to vote supplies : it was not
_to the.
appointment. of any particular Chancellor of the
, Exchequer in any situation that would preclude him
trotti being present in the Heuse. The objection is,
to- being called, upon
.'to grant
the
Supplies when
there Is not any Chancellor the'.gxchequer at all,
nor any First Lord of the TreaSury ; to being called,'
upon to vote them in total 'ignorance who are the.
persdns that are 'to be responsible for the manage-
meat and application of them. When, therefore,
the matter cinnes to be discussed, 11 Wish- to have it
understood, that my objection is not 'that the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer is absent, nor -eveo.that the
Office should be in the hands of
.the Chief justice,
What I Mean to insist upon is, thaethere should be
some person to look to as charged with trust,-
and pledged to responsibility, before the Vote passes.;
and that . the -louse should not vote its Supplies
without knoWing into whiise hands they are to be
put, Or to wheal to look for that 'account whichlt
has. always a right•to expett.
,Lord C'..4.SPLERE.:IG/1.--iNty answer, - which I.
.thought would.go at least a considerable way to meet::
• the objeaion" of the Hon. Gentleman, amounted to
this; that the Supplies could not be in such, a state'
of forwardness as'to be tangible till lung after the
-gafft'e which it' is proposed they should pass through
on Monday, and,. therefore, there will be full op- ,
portunity to see into whose hands they wilt pass, and
to offer any reasons that may appear to any one to
, militate against granting them ; that to refuse . the
Supplies in the first instance, without Sortie very ex-
, ttiordinary 'reason indeed, is unusual, and would be
attended 'with much inconvenience, .and, perhaps,_
mischief to the public seivite; that the
,011 ice of
- Chancellor of the Exchequer is to be vested for, a
titne in' the Chief Justice, who i 3, of course, to under-
take the responsibility of that Office; and that it is
His Majesty's intention, without delay, to take mea-
sures for Forming a new Administration.'
Mr. GliEr7--My objeaioli was not to the ab-
'sense of the Chaocellor, of the Exchequer, but
that there was not any person to be responsible for
the aPplication 'of the What the Noble'
- Lord teas said as to -.inconveuiencies and enibarrass,
ireints;.ltkely to result to the pnbliC service fiom any
• delay in thepresent stages Of the Supplies, that is -a
consideration which, will, no doubt, 'have. its weight
with other censiderations when the matter shall be
more: fully before the House, The information the
Noble Lord has' given, with resped to thu Office
of Chabeellor of the gax6equpr'beina for a time
eutrusted Ip the Chief .Justice; is also material.
lint.'what -.have to pres 4 upon ttie liopse is; that
.it F; u I not.yot&the ,withont I.no,Wing iu
• whom 4 cotninio them, and. 111'.0—m whotil* it is to
look' for the account of the clivi.)sal. of '