The Sun.
London, England, 1808-06-30 00:00:00

POLYGARS.

Sir T. TURT(itI stated, that as the Papers he hal
moved for in the last and present Session, were vo.
Inmious, and would, if printed, be prodil6tive of
great expeuce, and as he was not sanguine enough
to expect that the prusecntiou cit the
lead to any result consonant to his views of the eam.,
it was not his intention to move ihat tne papei,s
should be printed.

THIRD RERORT OFr THE FINANCE Ct)M.

MITThE.

Mr. Biontas premed-- from the Bar 'the Third
Report of the committee of Finance. •
On the Report having been read,
Mr, BANKIS rose to move that it do on the

arebl'c.; 'l:),:iftere Tieshould tritllece that proi364Hen, he
telt to addrees observation or two to the
He -hoped that Gentlemen woeld not be
Manned-1r the'eteinuous mast of which he had 1
hereug,fe liteeese'UndeetheinstrnetiOn4.whieh had
been 7o,,,,ti't6i,the ce,mlititiet.•;'he had coticeired is ne-
ceiteire've Commenieete all the returns upon which'
thliv!Report 'Of the Committee was foended; Only a
small part, however, el the Papers before the House
won) it be teiceseiry,to- b& 'printed. and he trusted,
from the part he hid taken in the diseussione re-
peeling questions 10.-ont the, printing of rapers, that
the Huuse would give 'Mil credit in not Wishing to
have more printed than were absolutely necessary to
feie the Hpuee in poseession 'of the suhjeet. It was
red.,' a small part therefore of the Papers which he
halt or(oght up that he should move to be printed.
(-)i) pre teeing a Report which had occupied so large
a ortioe et the atiention•of the Committee, he was
afraid that the House might Suppose that meth time
heebeen lost. in pretparingn. But he could say, es
welie: I- • himself es on the part of the after Nem-.
here of :the corninittee; that they had not been
wanking in their duty. The delay, and thatof some
mbiehs, in presenting the Report, had arisen from
teeeconirerietv of opinioe which, had arisen in the
Comtnii tt e, owing perhaps to its being ceenpoSed of
too nemetons,an -assemblage of Members. If it
shibuitt he the pleasure of the House that the, Com-
mietee shuttle be renewed in another Session, it
\keit& he founded upon the experience
of tee present Session, whether it ought to be come
posed of so large a nereber. l'hotigh this was the
Lacey: titft.ott ‘ithiCh tlfe Conn-111110 haci presented II
the present Session, he aeeored the House that they,
bad attended !‘) mhersubjects, upon which they had
Made some progress, though under the instruce
Vein given to theta by the . House, they had looked
upon themselves .as • bound to suspend such in-
quiries, in order to make `up thiS Report. They had
made progress in the business felatipg to the Pay-
Ottice, and the Public Accounts; 'but as these sub-
je Acre also kitider the consideration of the Com•
mecsioeers,' they deemed it expedient to wait till
these Cemmissionere should. Intake a Report upon
these herds, a -Report which had been presented on
Setureay lest. tie to the Report Winch the Corn-
millet: of Fetanee now made to tee House, he
had only to say, that it. was less satisfaetory to
-
belt t Lill) the Report which a few days'since he had
hoped to lay upon the table of the House; and -if
Gentlemen should be disappointed by its contents,
he could assere them
.he ead expected -a few days
since .to have presented a 'deport in a shape more
coueistcut with his-own wishes. Some alterations,
however, had been made- in passages of that Re-
port,. end some omissions ; but he did not mean to
complain of thiat.e.V. might have arise from a
smaller tett»Wr of- the Members having attend;.
ed 'towards the Ouse of the Session than .in the
'earlier part of it, when the, original form 6i,
the Report had been agreed on. Stith a cir-
"eurostance was incidental to all large assertible's,
and Without complaining of it, he stared the
feetonly fur the guidance of the House, when the'
question, concerning the revival of the Committee
cone till tier t heir consideration.
_Whatever
might be thought of the Report which he had pre-
sented, he. had acted under maim) of the majority
of the Committee presente when it :watt 4iinally
voted. Upon the
,whole, however, it
.Nkonistbd,,
found to cement much useful information, and ma-.
ny suggestions that would ,be roduttive of public
good; it will still remain for the House to de-
Ode; how hit it will adopt the suggestions of the
Cienunittee. At ell eveets, he wee happy that this.
pert of the laboctra .bf the Committee hid been
brought to a termination. The Honourable Gene,
tleman concluded by -moving, that the Report do,
lie on the table, and be printed. et e •

Mr. LittCESTEIt coincided with the. Hon. Gentle-
-11) in. eveti thing hey had asserted, with respect to
maiduSty %vitt) which that Honourable Gentle-
Man, ,and the other Members of the Conuitt'ee,
discharged the trust committed to them. He:
13110(iid comiae himself to this.corroboration of the
statement of the; Honourable Chairman of the
Committee, if he had not felt it 'necessary from ,
what haci fallewfront him,, on other topics, to add
rptions in order to obviate. any mikan-
ception with regard to what had passed in the Com-
nuttee.. The Lion. Gentleman had stated, that
some passages.of the original ICeport prepared by him
had been altered, and another left out. As to the al-
terations he should observe, that when the li.q)urt
had been first proposed to the Committee, thOi't
im-
portant differences prev.ailedrespealing several pas-
i..ges in it, and oriepasage had been carried in that
,instance only by a majority Of one. Upon that oc-
Casion notice had , been given, that, on the second
reading of the Report, a stage undeistoodien all
Lanls to be.designed for a revision of the Report,. an
alteration would tan Proposed. Soma alterations were
on that occasion carried by v small, others by a great
majority of the CoMmittee, and other 3 again
and this at a meeting called b;r the Chair.;
man to the tegular w.e , anti acceded to by those,
present, when the adiotrrnmento). the proceedings
`Was proposed. At a' rOetitig• so adjourned, the
Amendment to which the Hon. Gentleman had al-
luded, had been carried. The other paesuza to which
trice Hon. Gentleman had alluded had 1,e...41 left out
of. the Report. From the importance,. which Abe
Member attnchcd to these passages, the House
Might suppose that they were of, very zre:at oonse.
-.pence, and from'lnmt had been 'insinuated out of
doors, it wog ld seem 'as if Conunittce was
dispoied'to screen the public delinquents. But the
Rouse would be surprised when he ettptained to them.
the real state of the case. The Original Report stated,
if not in terms, at least in substance, that all
Placesetight to he abolished, with few exceptions ;
and the amendment :Was, that the emoluments of
somer, sinecure places ought .to diMinkhed, and
that others should beaupiisilvd. ht; stated
this, he was convinced that the Tfotiie would not
4:,,usidei the difference of finch iMportance, nor that
couch weight . was to be attached AO the circum:.tance
of the 016110 passage baying beeit :In t lie first in-
stance. cart fed by a map:44)7'9l' one, The House
seas left in the ratpe situation xtith, resi,e6t to the
course. it might think prof et to pursue,' b the
,:tmendnient as by the otiginal pas•ine, Lecanse no
definite line was pointeA out itr either, and it ret
trained for the House eventuall to de!eruliue for