The Sun.
London, England, 1808-03-03 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLI44.4IENI.

HOUSL OF qommoNs.
WEDNESDAY' MAUCH 2.
Sir R. SALUSEURY, Chairman of the Committee
on the DeNnpattick Elet'tion, informed the House
alai Lord Burgherst, a Nrentherof that Committee,
bud been taken ill, and that the Committee had in
coesequenee been obliged to adjourn this day. The
fad being verified :ay a Medical Gentleman, the
Noble Lord was excused.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Great
Yarmouth Eleaion, reported that the Sitting Mem-
bers were duly eleeted, and that the Petition was not
frivolous or vexatious.
Mr. Meeersu brought in the Report of the Com-
mittee on then Petitions praying leave to bring in a
Bill for.building a Bridge across the Thames at Vaux-
hall Turnpq(e.—Leave.-was given to bring in a Bill
accordingly. •
A Person from the Office of Chief Secretary fdr
Ireland .presented Accounts of Balances in the Bank
of Irelaed.
A Person from the Office of the Chest at Green-
wich presented the Aunual Account of that Institn-
tidb.
Mr. FITZGERALD gave notice that he would to,'
morrow Move for certain Accounts relating to Grand.'
„lure Presentments to IrelantL '
-ISlr...'Weattrow brought up the Report of the
Committee of Expiring Laws. It was ordered that
a Bill should be brought its' to continue the sugar
drawback, &c.
Mr. TIERNEY expressed a wish chat the Debate
on the Liverpool Petition against the Orders of
Council Bill shook' be deferred till to-morrow, for
the accommodation of some Gentlemen who could
not attend this day. Cm GASCOYNE, in compli.
:ince with the Hon. GentleMan'sdesire, deferred pre.
seining the Petition till to-morrow.
LORD LAKE.
Lord CASTLERE4GII, in calling the attention
of the +fame to the notice respecting a monument
to ho ereaed to the memory of Lord Lake, which
had been suspended, by a notice having a prior
claim to tlte attention of the House, an a. former
night, did not mean to recur to that notice; or again
to offer to the House the motion which was the sub-
jea of it. Having communicated with many per-
sons devoted to the Memory of Lord Lake, and
and participating in the high veneration in which he
held the services of that gallant man, lie fouud that
it was the general Whli of those persons to give way
to the difficulties of Parliamentary form that bad
arisen. The &nil), of the Noble Lord, deeply -pc-
netrated with a sense of gratitude for the vote passed
the of her night, was willing to rest itsclaim on the pub-
lie bounty there, rather titan press a point upon which
ninny of those whp had voted inapprobation of Lord
Lake's general merit and services may be found in
oppositiolL In this feeling he thought it his duty
,to concede ; but he could not help lamenting, that
Parliament appeared to have laid it down as a prin.
ciple, that the glorious testimony of a public monu.
went was to he confined to the services of those
who died iu battle. Lord Howe's donunient Was
the only exception to this ride, for that of Lord Corn-
wall is's stead on entirely distieet grounds. fle admit.
ted that the limitation to those who died in battle was
a good :led convenient general principle But at, the
saran time, when monuments were held to be the most
appropriate marks of public gratitude, as being at
the sarne,tiLlle Most honourable to the deceased, and
Wit calculated to excite emulation in the Minds of
posterity, it seemed to he a strange exclusion that
pravented a Lord Lake, a Lord Rodney, and a Lord
Drineatifroei being found among the illustrious he-
roes thus consecrated to tame, while many persons
of much interior rank and merit were so honoured.
The distinction would never be asked but ter strik,
ing examples of merit and service, and the reward
may safely be granted without the,tear of deviatittg
into abuse. It would certainly be no injury to these
who fell in battle to admit to a participation of this
honour, those who had equally entitled themselves
by victory, and who bad no other bar to their claim,
but that of a greater interval of time .between
their service it'd tiwircialub. It was not the (Kat
but the service that, was the proper ebject of sea-
ward. : '
Leave was given to bring in the Marine Mutiny
Bill.