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IMP ERLIZ, PA PL U 4 EN

HOUSE OF COMMONS,

THURSOAY, MAY 7.

The third reading of the Embezzlement till was
postponed to Wednesday next.
REGENT'S CANAL.
On the motion to take into further consideration
the Report on the Regent's Canal Bill,
Mr. CREEVY objected to the measure, principally
on the ground of Lord Glenbervie not having pro-
duced ;)is report to the House, as Inspecior Gene-
ral of Crown Lands, and moved as an Amendment,
" That the further consideration should be post-
poned to this day fortnight."
Mr. MANNING said, he saw no occasion for delay
after the four months deliberation bestowed upon
the Bill; a period of time which he believed was
never before allotted to a Bill of that nature.
Mr. Bt DDULPH conceived that wliether they were
guided by the pecuniary consideration of making the
most profitable use of Mary.la-bonne Park, or whe-
ther they looked to that as a mere secondary con-
sideration, still they would find that the Report of
the Surveyor General was wanting; upon which
ground he should vote against the Bill.
'Mr. BROUGHAM de'recated the usual canvas for
jobs, which he feared was too often resorted to on
both sides of the House. With respect to Mary-la-
bonne Park itself, he regarded it as a useful and
healthful recreation for the public, and the same
principle • upon which a Right Hon. Gentleman,
now no more (Mr. Windham) had objeaed former-
ly to building on it, held good in the present case.
They were now going to cut canals, to build quays,
barracks, and villas, and plant shrubberies ; all this
might be agreeable enough for the owners, but it
would reduce the ground appropriated to the re-
creation of the inhabitants of the metropolis, to one
ttnith of its present extent. He should therefore
oppose it, as a sacrifice of the comfort of the poor
to the convenience of the rich. After a few words
from Mr. P. Carew in support of the ail, the
House divided,

For the Amendment _
For the original Motion
No subscribers voted. The report was then
agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. W. Pot presented Petitions from the Di-
reators and Debenture Holders of the Royal Canal
of Dublin, praying aid. They were-ordered 10 lie
on the table. He then gave notice, that he should
to-morrow move for leave to bring in a Bill, to
make a better provision for the Petitioners.

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ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

The House next went into Committee on the
Orders in Council, .and Messrs. G. Naylor,, B.
Rhodes, J. Wedgewood, and.R., Stevenson, were
called and examined.
Mr. BROUGHAM moved, that the Chairman
should leport progress. He wished to give notice,
that he would to-morrow move, that the Com-
mit!ee should sit on Saturday, and in the mean time
he would propose .o ask leave to sit again to-mor-
row, but with an understanding in cousequence of
what occurred on Tuesday, that the Committee
should only be gone intopro forma.
The CHANCELLOR Of EXCHEQUER geed it to .Se
his intention to oppose the proposition of the Hon.
Gentleman for going into the Committee on Satur-
day. He thought it unreasonable to suppose, that
if the Committee were appointed to sit on Saturday,
the attendance would be no other than very thin,
alter the House had been occupied to so late an
hour as that to which it might be expected the de-
bate of Friday would be protradted.
Mr. Baouon Am had, no wish to press it on the
House or even on the Right Hon. Genth•min He
di.l not wish the Committee to sit late on Saturday
but, be though)! it might sit from three o'clock to five.
If this were objt:tted to, he would move, that the
Committee should sit again on Monday, at the
same time wishing to impress on the House the ne-
cessity of proceeding as tast as they possibly could
with the inquiry. -
.After a few words from an Honourable Member,
whose name we could not learn, the proposition for
going into the Committee on Saturday being ob-
jeaed to, the House resumed, the Chairman re-
ported progress, and obtained leave to sit again on.
Monday.

MARQUIS OF 13UCKINCHANI AND LORD
CAMDLN.

Mr. CaEivy-rose pursuant to notice, to call the
a!tention of the House to the t-wo Tellerships of the
Exchequer,. held by the Marquis of Buckingham
and Lord Camden. In bringthg this question for-
ward, it must be seen that he was influenced by no
party motive, as the too Noblemen he had named,
were of different pal ties. These two sinecures had
been given to the Noble Lords he had mentioned,
for certain services which they had pertormcd. With
this distribution he found no fault, as they came
within the rule which had usually been ailed upon
in rewarding such public servants. What lie found

fault with was, that they had been greatly alter-
ed from what they were, and were no longer
what they were intended to be when they were
given as pensions to the parties, seeing they had be-
come indefinite in their amount, as their Voitle rose
in proportion to the distress of the country. The
revenue of these offices arose from fees paid into the
Exchequer out of the money paid for different ser-
vices. Thus, out of the money issued for army
extraordinaries, seven shillings and a fraction were
paid per cent. for the _army extraordinaries, three
shillings and nineponce. Other sums, which he
mentioned, were paid on the Oidnance and Secret
Service, and on var;ous heads ot expenditure. These
offices had been first brought under the considerati-
on or the House, in the report of a Committee in
780, which was laid before that House in 1782.—
At that period, in consequence of the extraordinary
expenditure of the American war, it' was stated that

heir revenue was no less than 70001. each. The fees
which constituted their recenu in ordinary times
of peace made t he salary of each Teller about 2,5001.
It had since appeared to the House and the public,
fro.n the report of a Committee in i 808„ that from
the enormous expenditure in the present war with
France, the fees of tl►ese officei had amounted to the
enormous sum of twenty-three thousand pounds per
annum and upwards, to each. Since that period, a
great additional' expenditure had taken place, he
believed to the .amount of seventeen or eighteem
millions, and the fees of those offices must of course
have increased in proportion by several thousands of