The Sun.
London, England, 1806-07-10 00:00:00

ROYAL FAMILY.

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Mr. VANSirrART brought up a-Bill.for enabling
His Majesty to settle Annuities' on certain Branches
of. the Royal Family.--=Read a first time ; on the
motion .t:IA it be'read a second time,
Calcnel ,11/001) rose, and declared, that at a time-
like the present, such a propositions that brought
forward by the Noble Lord an this subjea, was one
of. the most extraordinary that lie had ever heard of.
At a period when we might expeel to beso seriously
Ptiacked, united and concentrated as was the force of
Botiapirte ; whln every man was . obliged to pay a
tax of 10 per cent. many of 17 per cent. and not a
few (more especially Country Gentlemen) of not
less than 50 per cent. such a proposition astonished
him. No mat) was more desirous than himself that
the Royal Family should enjoy affluence and splen-
dour ; and if the burden of the measure were to
lidl only upon the'Lords and Commons, and nat tu-
be borne by the people in general, .he should Per-
haps not objeet to it. Hu regretted that the Noble
Lord was absent, and declared, that he would take
the earliest opporiunity, when he was present, to
protest against what he conceived to be an upjusti!
:th:ble waste of the public money. •

Lord 77,11 P LE, aware as he was that it vas,
duty of ever) Ailembl:r of the care:W.ly ,ta.
ateh the e)enciitpr'e of the Public Money,
,could
vet hip.,e wished that'the 1-1011Gutble, Gentle:llm) had
made 1:44 observations ninon his NOble Friend first,
mentioned the subject in the HOuse,''or that he had
reserved them until he should be again:present.—
He could wish also that the Hon. Gentlenrin ha l
been present last night when his Noble Friend stat-
ed some furtherreasons for granting this, addition to
the provision for the Younger Branches of the Royal •
Family. The necessity, indeed, of such an addition
must be obvious to all who considered the difference
in the value of money, and the expellees of the va-
rious articles of life, between the present period and
that:at'which the, provision was originally granted.
- Sir ifs EL TORT? Was one of those who felt the
burdens of the tines as strong as any man ; but he
was convinced that it was his duty as a 'pOblic man
to provide the proper means for securing to the
Royal Family that 'splendour which the present pro-
vision: was. in 'his opinion, totally inadequate to
maintain. These sentiments proceeded frcm a sense
of public duty, and from that alone, for he had not
.the honour of being known to any of the. Illustrious
Personages who were the objea of this measure.
Colonel Woof) was proceeding to urge some fresh
argument& against the Bill, when he was prevented
by the Speaker, who observed, that he must cantina
himself to explanation. On intimating that the
Speaker did not deal with him as With others, the
Speaker appealed to the House whether he deserved ;
the reproach tat the Hon. Gentleman had east upon
him.

Te Bill was ordered to be read a second time to-
morrow.

The Clerks of Chancery Bill, the Innkeepers
-Rates Bill, the Croy., n Lands Leasing Bill, an the
Irish Excise Countervailing Duty, Bill, were read a
a second time, and ordered to be coimnitted to•mor-
row.

The Newfoundland Bounty Bill, the Masters of
Chancery Bill, and the Accomptaitt General's Bill,
went through Committees ; the Repoits of which
were ordered to be received to-morrow.

Messengers from the Lords announced the;r- LOrd-
ships' assent to the Irish Distillery Bill, the. Irish
Imports and ENportS Bill, the Irish Poor Bill, and
the Assessed• Taxes Allowance Bill.
On the Motion of Lord TEMPLE, •it was ordered
that the House should, to-morrow, resolve itself into
a Committee on that part of the Aa of the qd of
James I. which related to the penalties on the re-
grating and engrossing of bark. On the suggestion
of Mr. FELLOWES, the penalties on.thefoi:estalling
of hides Were alsd ordered to be taken into consider-
ation by the same Committee.•
The. Malt Duty Bill, and the,Lottery Bill, were
read a second time, and ordered to be committed tin
Friday. 2

On-the Motion of Mr. BANKES, the House went
into the farther consideration of the Report of
,the
Conimittee on the Lords' Message. 'The report was'
agreed to nemine contradiante. It was resolved, that
the said answer should be communicated to the
Lords in a conference; and Mr.,Bankes was &plated
to go to the Lords and desire the same. - •
Mr. Hoßnousu, bronsfilt up the Report of the,
'Committee on the Insolvent Debtors' -Bill., Sir W:
Elford wishing to' introducers new Clause, the Bill
was re-committed to a seiea Committee.

Sir J. NEwPoaT brought
,up a Bill for granting
certain drawbacks on goods exporto.l from Ireland.
Read a first, and ordered to be read a second time
to-morrow.

The House went into a Cornrnittc a on the Sugar
Drawback Aa, in wh;ch, on the Motion of Mr.
VANSITTART, it was resolved that the same Bounties
should be granted on the Exportation of Sugar
Candy as were already granted on the Exportation
of fine Sugai from Great Britain. The Report ‘Vas
ordered to -be received to-morrow.

On the Motion' of Earl TEMPLE, the House having
gone ;nto the further consideration of the Report of
Abe Woollen Manutit&nres of Great Britain, the Re-
Solutions were agreed to after some observations from
Mr. PATTISON; which related merely t& two nume-
rical errors. .

Lord TEMP I_,E calls try the recolleEtiOn of the
House the\ anxiety which had ever been mani-
fested by, him, that some decision' should be made
upon the subject during the present Session. The
late period, however, at which the Report of the
Committee had been
_made, seemed to make thiS
(to the. extent that could be wished), impraelicable.
In Laying this, he begged not to be understood to
impute any unnecessary delay to the Committee,
to , whose abilities, energy, and a6tivity, on the con-
trary, he bore the highest testimony. Although all
could not be done that it was desirable to do, he
trusted that before the House separated they would
at least consent to a Bill to make some regulation
in the contending interests on this subje& ; and as
early as possible in the next Session; he trusted, that
an ultimate arraugenient would be agreed . The
Noble Lord then moved for, and obtained:leave-10
bringin pursuant to the Resolution of the said
Committee.

The Nabob of Arcot's • Private Creditors' Bill
went through a Committee, in which a 'desultory
conversation ',arose between Mr. liortHOOE,'Lord
H. PETTY, Mr. PAULL, Mr. WINDHAM; Mr. WHIT-
SHED KEENE, &c. The ileport‘was ordered to be
received to-ruorrol.v.

On the Motion of Mr, MoottE, it was ordered
that the Minutes of Evidence on the Petition of the
Journey Men CalicO Printers, dated.the 4th of Ally;
1804, which were printed for the use of the'House,
be referred to a Committee, with instruaio.ns to
them ~to report to the House their 'opinion
thereon:

Colonel STANLEY expressed his satifaEt ion to.
find that the Horn Arable Gentleman. n;:t. intend
to go the length -cf moving .for a Bill oil the Subjeet
in the present Sess.ion.
The SECRETARY at Mr(tß presented &d mates
,of•
Additional Allowances to the Officers of the 4kriny.."
Ordered to be printed. •

' The SECRETAttY at WAR gave notice, that it was
his intention to raiwe these Estithaies in the-Com,
mittee of Supply on Friday. Adverting to the Al-
lowances of Militia Officers, he obserwd that it vas
not intended tip extend the Allowances to the stye-
rior Officers in the Militia ; but as by an A& of
Parliament of the year 1802, the Allowance fro the
OtficerS oldie Line and the Officers of the Militia
were rendered equal, he should to-morrow move for
lea're to briig in a Bi!I to repeal that part dale ►

said' Aa- that contained the prOvisions to which he

In reply to a question from Mr._ Huskisson, the
SECRETARY at an stated, that it was intended.to
grant these Allowances to the Subalterns of the Mi-
litia, but to 11Q other. .

Mr. DAwsoN brought up a Bill for securing the
safe and expeditious conveyance of Letters by post
in Ireland. Read a first, and ordered to be read a
second time to';-morrow.
COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.
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The Order of-the Day baying been read for going
into a Committee of Supply, it was ordered, on the
Motion of Lord .HENRY PETTY, that it be an in 7
stru6tion to the said Committee to consider a pro-
per recompense for the Commissioners of Naval
Inquiry ; and that it be an instruElion to the said
Committee to make a certain Allowance to the
Commissioners of Military Inquiry.—The Petition of
the Veterinary.Colle.ge; and the Report of the Corn-
Mittee on the Bell Rock Light-house were also re-
ferred to the said Committee.

The House then resolved itself into the Com-
mittee (Mr. FIOBHOUSE in the Chair), and voted
the following sums to His Majesty out of the Con-
solidated Fund of Great Britain for the following
purposes :

On the Motion of Lord HENRY PETTY, a sum of
50001. annually for her Highness the Princess So-
phia ofGloucester, instead of 40001. charged on the
Aggregate Fund, and an addition of 20001. perann.
after the decease of the present Duchess Dowager
of Gloucester.—Also as a recompense to the Com-
missioners of Naval, Inquiry for their diligence and
ability in the execution of the trust reposed in them
by Parliament, to be paid without fees,

a sum of - - - L.-26,50G 0 0
Also as a compensation on account to
the Commissioners
_of Military Inquiry,
to be paid without deduction fees of 10,500 0 0
A conversation took place on this Resolution.
Mr. PAULL objeaed to the Grant, as the Com-
missioners had done nothing yet to entitle them to
remuneration.

Lord HENRY PETTY reminded the Hon. Gentle-
man of the very important Report of that Com-
mittee, which hadben some time on the Table, and
had led to the recovery of a large arrear due to the
Public; and he was happy to have the opportunity
afforded him of stating to the House, that the Trea-
sury was in possession of securities for the whole of
that sum.

Mr. WINDHAM could not agree with, his non:
Friend's position, which was founded on the prin-
cipled' no abuse, no pay."—(A The
hOrse may die while the grass grows. was de-
fiirabhr that no abuses should be.found to exist, but
it would h unreasonable to expeel the services of
the Corm nksioilors without 'remuneration.

Mr. IW3P. and Mr. Hos}Lissom, both stated,. that
some or, the Commissi users had been taken from-
other lucrative Ott-I,es, and were not in circum.
stances to admit of their waiting till the end of their
labours, co,npensation.
Mr. BURTON reminded the House that:the
Commissioners of Public Accounts, the most im-
portant .and usefol thit had ever been instituted, had
,been reimmerated after tne two first years- tar their
service,and every year after uniformly till they brought.
the business referred to them to hterminatiOn. The
vote-was then agreed to without otrr.osttion.
It was also resolved, on the Motion of Mr. Secre-
tary WiNIMA.SI,, that there be granted to his l'tiljes-
ty, out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain,„
for the use of the Veterinary College, for the year
1,805, a sum not exceeding 15001.
The House then resu:ncct, and the Report was or-
dered to be received to morrow.