The Sun.
London, England, 1831-06-29 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

On the motion for bringing up the Report of the Com-
mittee of Supply,
Mr. COURTENAY asked why Ministers had made no
statement with respect to the arrangement of the Civil
List and provision for the Queen ?

Lord ALTHORP said that the subject should be brought
forward at the earliest opportunity; but the reason why it
had not been mentioned in the King's Speech was, that it
was his Majesty's wish that in so important a Session as
this, nothing personal to himself should be then introduced.

The Report of the Committee of Supply ou the Navy
Estimates was then brought up, and the several Resolutions
were agreed to.

MR. MARSDEN.

On the vote for superannuations and retired allowances
being read,

Sir JAMES GRAHAM rose, and said he had to an-
nounce to the House an act of splendid liberality on the
part of an individual, Mr. Marsden, late Secretary to the
Admiralty. No words of his (Sir James Graham's) could
express the feelings which dictated this act of generosity so
adequately as the letter of the individual himself, addressed
to his Noble Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
which he should beg permission to lead :

Watford, n. .
" My dear Lord,—,h been calledALlenham into office unJader3o the
auspices of your noble and excellent father, it is with a peculiar
satisfaction that I now address his son, as Chancellor of his Ma_
jesty's Exchequer, on the subject of the remuneration that rn„.
services were thought to merit, upon my retiring from the post
of First Secretary GI. the Admiralty.
" During the chief period of a naval war, on the mo7:t extensice
scale, the most arduous, and attended with the reost brilliant re.
sults of any recorded in the annals of the cotintry (virtually ter-
minating with the destruction of the combined fleets of France
and Spam, in October, 1805,) I laboured with the 'utmost assiduity
and zeal in the performance of the duties •;,f Second and First
Secretary, under seven different naval administrations; when,
feeling my constitution to be inater;aily injured by the close and
unremitting confinement wh':Z:n those duties demanded, was
under the necessity (at Yi(asummer, 1807) of applying for leave to
retire; on which occasion a pension of 1,5001. per annum was
granted to me under the King's order in council.
This pension, together with the blessing of restored health,
I have enjoyed for many years; and now, finding that the means
I possess are adequate to furnishing me with all the comforts
that belong to my period of life, 1 am sensible of the propriety of
ceasing to trespass on the national liberality, and therefore trouble
your Lordship with the intimation, that after the payment at
Midsummer next, it is not my intention to apply,
in-the cus-
tomary manner, at the Nary-officer for its continuance.
" NVith the strongest impression of gratitude for the bounty I
have hitherto experienced from the public,
" I have the honour to remain, my dear Lord,
" Your Lordship's most faithful and obedient servant,
"The Viscount Althorp, " WILLIAM MARSDEN."
(Loud cries of Hear,") Any words of his would fall
short of the expression of this letter, which he felt it his
duty to bring to the knowledge of the House.—(Hee;.)
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ADVERTISEMENT.—The weekly sale of
The Dispatch is now more than 30,000, a number
far exceeding that of any other Journal in England. The
circulation of The Dispatch during the last twelve
months, amounted to nearly a million and a half, as ap-
pears by the following affidavit : RICIUAxD Woon, act-
ing publisher of the 'Mehl!, Dispatch Sunday Newspaper,
maketh oath that the number printed of that Journal
from the 26th of June, 1830, to the 26th of June, 1831,
was One Million Four Hundred and Fifty-two Thousand
Seven Hundred and Eighteen, and that the last week's
sale was above 30,000.

" Sworn at the Alansion-house of the City of London,
this 28th day of June, 1831, before me,

" J. KEY, Mayor."
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writer, speaking of a lady's black eyes, says, they were
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