The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-16 00:00:00

COLONEL AVNIAIION.

Lord CASTLEREAGH, not seeing an Min. Gen-
tleman in'hiz place who had brought forward the
subject Of•the appOintment of an Hon. Member,
to be Private Secretary to the Prince Regent; 'and
had fixed a day for-the dismission of that subject,
as far as it, respected the salary of tine office, was
authorised to acquaint the Hon. Gentleman, and
the House, that his Royal Highness the Prince
Regent bad been graciously pleased to signify hiS.
desire, that the salary of that officer shall be paid
out of the Revenues of the Privy PiirSe.—The No-
ble Lord thought, after this communication, the
Hon. Gentleman would, not press his motion ;
and trusted, therefore, that as he waS.not present,
some of his friends would communicate to him the
information.

Mr. PONSONBY, inn the absence of his rion.
Friend, would take' upon himself to statd to the

_that It was tot Lis Intention tospress the
inotio;). - -

EXPLAN.II.TON ON THE HOUSEHOLD.

Zr. Sti:Ritil)l74 rose merely to nive notice; hot
•
on Wedueoolay suoinit a motion to
• the !louse, by way • of affordina,an opportunity
fer sonie explanations on point" 4"; in which his in-
dividual character was deeply concerned.:—(Hear,
hear),---No'one had el-di t etn Loove anxious than
he had been to stand fair in public opinion;- and
no one, be trusted, bad ever :been more ready,
and more able to .vindicate and protect his own
honour, The motion he would on that day sub-
mit to the House would •naturally produce, so:Le
further information .on late newiciations,
which was Much desired. "t am sure," said Mr.
Sheridan; ." there is no man, who heirs me, and
who estimates at the high rate 'which I do, the
sanction of public opinion, or wile v:.=.lkies hi&.:own
honour and character, as, I am sure, every Mem-
ber of this House does equally' with, myseif, who
must not have expected that, 'after the. late re-
ferences and allusions avade with regard to-me in
my absence, but oois..- feel that I am called Upon
to take the earliest occasion of explaining every
tbinx touched upon in these allusions. .f hare
accordinglygiven notice, that on Wednesday next
I shall submit to the House a !notion, which will
afford an opportunity fot this explanation, I do
this, not unaware of the important business fixed
for that day; but I do it with the consent of the
Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, given
in confidence, that after that statement has been
heard, _ there will not , exist a matt,- in the shape
and forM of a Gentleman, who will countenance,
in any quarter, the slighteit implication (Sr doubt
on my character and conduct, throughout 'the
whole of these transactions."

The. PAH of Sc ARMOUTiI expressed a wish to
offer a few observations. lie, trusted that he
should not be considered h.s infringing Upon the.
usages of Parliament if he endeavoured-to re-state
what he had offered to the House on the evening
alluded. to. On that evening he certainly fanCied,
When le 'Made ;the -statement, that he saw the
Right ,lion. Gentleman' in his plaee. Understand-
ing that he was mistaken, he would, if the House
pleased, re-state to lira what he had then stated.
(Go on, go 'oh.)7--The Noble Lord then obsered,
that he considered himself as one' of " the whole
public." and as an indiVidual Member of that
public he was justified in guarding himself against
any finis statement and Misconception; and would
re-state what he then said.-7(G9on, go 0n.),---He
Would therefore
.begin, with expressing his grati-
tude first to the House; for their indulgence in
listening to 'what he was about to re-state, pro-
mising, that in' that re-statement • he would not
use any surplusage ; and, secondly,• that he would
not offend the constitutional jealousy of the Right
Hon., Gentleman. On that night he had stated,
and he regretted,that what he then said had not
been heard by all, that it was the intention'on the
part of a great portion of the Household, to resign
their situations in the event of certain persons
coming into the Administration. On that occa-,
sion be had stated, not that they would wait to
be turned out, ,but that they were determined to
resign, not if a change of measures was to take
place, but that if a change of men merely was to
be the result
.of the.negociations. The persons so
determined were the three Great Officers of the
HousehOld, and that determination was come
to individually, within 24 hours; without the one
stating to the other his determination ; he 'also
stated that it was determined that a communica-
tion to the effect stated should be made to the
great Political Chiefs. He further stated, that
the determination on the part of all was firm ;
'that there was aiOt a' contrariety of opiiiion on
the subject; 'that the matter being made known.
to the Right Honourable Gentleman, he (Mr. S.)
came to the Noble Lord to a 'place where they
usually met, and said, " I hear yhu are all going
to resign. Da not take such a step. Let me ad-.
vise you as an old friend to'reconsider your deter-
mination, and we'll talk about it another
The opinion of the Rigilt HOnourable Gentleman
having some, weight
,With the • Nuble. i ord, he
did consent -tri reconsider the matter; and the
next day was fixed for farther chn'.-ersation ; the
Right-lion. Gentleman came Co the place appoint.:
edi bnt.froM some mistake? either Of the hour of
:appointment, or from some other 'chase, he
• (Lord- 17) Was gone Ont, and did not meet the
,fight Holt: Gentleinan, but subsequently--::
Mr. SHERIDAN here rose 'to .order ; observing,
that it was .not his wish to stop any explanation,
but when he had given dotice fia Wednesday,
every person might then give an opinion. on his
conduct,; and the conduct of ,the con-
cerned ; he thought premature. discussion would
be irregular. S -He trusted to the honour of. the
Noble Lordto abstain from the discussion at pre-
sent. At the same time, should it he the pleti-
+are of the House to listen. to the Noble Lord, he
hoped they Would also indulge him with -,'ermis-
Sion to reply, -and if that permission was grouted
to kiln, no doubt that :every Gentleman present
would claim a similar indulgence.
The Earl oc, NrApiothru had no wishAo pro-
ceed—he would wait for the opportunity on Wed-
nesday of explaining what -he had said, and then
he was satisfied there could be no possible differ-
ence of opinion as to what had really passed. •
Here the conversation closed. ,
The Committee on the Highway Bill was post-
-pone 4 till Friday.
SUPPLY.

.The CnAscntr-on of the EXCHECILTER moved
the House to go into a Cqmmittee of Supply..
Previous to which, .IVr. HtTsKtssoN moved-for
a variety of tapers on the.subject of Foreign Im-
portations, which were ordered. . -

On the Motion of Mr. W. POLE, it was order-
ed„that there be an instruction given to the Com-
mittee for an allowance to be made to the Coin-
mi.,sioners appointo to inquire into the reduc-
tion of the Offices in Ireland, &c.
The various Estimates of the Army Extraorcii-
naries, &c. were referred to the,Committe;:, and
then the House went into a Committee.