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spect to military accounts in arrear, to see if some reasonable
limit could not be put to the responsibility of itilitary account-
ants and their sureties.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that
every thing had been done by the Noble Secretary at War and
the Treasury to prevent hardship and injustice. As to drawing
any line like that talked of, that was utterly impossible. In
most cases of delay, it was occasioned by false accounts, and
other methods of subterfuge by which the accountants sought
to screen themselves.

Mr. HUME wished to know why something was not done
with respect to the payment of some Exchequer fees which
were to have been abolished. - _ .

The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER said that
something ought to be done, but nothing gravelled him more
than the endeavour to determine what that should be. These
fees, however ludicrous and improper in their nature, were very
difficult to abolish. _ _

The other Resolutions were then agreed to; and the Ord-
nance Estimates were proceeded with in the same Committee.
Mr. HUME, upon the vote including the disbursements on
account of Slaves taken out of slave ships and free blacks 'in the
Mauritius and other places, gave notice that he would in a few
days submit to the House a motion, having for its object to
ascertain the expenses incurred under various treaties and acts
of Parliament, for the support of Slaves and Free Blacks in all
our dependencies.
Mr. HUME desired to know whether the sum of 300,0001.
charged in the same estimate on account of the late Ordnance
Survey of Ireland was to be defrayed by the public, or by the '
various counties and baronies through and over which that sur-
vey extended ? When he, in Committee, had supported the
question for adopting such a survey, he imagined, of course,
that an estimate would have been previously examined, and
care taken that the cost should be as little as possible.
Sir HENRY HARDINGE said that the estimated charge,
when the question was so before the House on a former occa-
sion, was 200,000/. ; and it had been agreed to allot another
100,0001. for ascertaining and surveying the extent and boun—
dary lines of counties and town lands. It was, as the Hon. and
Gallant Officer believed, quite well known, that the expence of
a survey by the Ordnance was about one half cheaper than. of
a survey by civil surveyors.
Lord PALMERSTON then moved and obtained leave to
bring in a Bill conformable to the resolutions which had been
agreed to. .

'On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,

the Douse resolved itself into a Committee of Ways and Means,
when several resolutions relative to the Sugar Duties, &c. were,
proposed, pro forma, and agreed to.
The report of the Committee of Supply, on the motion of the
Chairman, was ordered to be received on Wednesday next.
The third reading of the Weights and Measures' Bill was
postponed also to Wednesday..
Mr. GOULBURN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the Prison Laws of Ireland ; and a Bill also to ascertain the-
Boundaries of Parishes and Town-lands in Ireland.

Mr. EVANS moved for returns of all Correspondence be-
tween the British Government and Foreign Governments
which might have taken plac‘: since the Ist of January, 1024,
relative to the Slave-Trade—of all Correspondence betiveen
the British Commissioners and those of Foreign Powers on the
same subject and from the sameslate, at Sierra Leone, Rio
Janeiro, Surinam, &c. ; and, from the Ist of January, 1823,
of the Correspondence of British Officers and others at the
Cape of Good Hope.—Ordered.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

MINORITY
On Mr. Hume's Amendment.

Bright, H. James. \V.
Howard, H. Milton, Viscount
Hutchinson, Hon. Monck, J. B.
C. H. Palmer, C. F.

Wood, M.
TELLERS.
Ilume, J.
Johnson, Col.

The name of Mr. Bernal has been by error insetted in the
List of the Minority who voted against the Catholic Associa
tion Bill, Mr. Bernal not having voted upon that question.