The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-29 00:00:00

REVERSION BILL.

Mt. BANKS moved for lave to bring in a fill to
prohibit the granting of offices in reversion, or for
joint_ ly(Es, for the benefit of
,servivors.—Leave
given.
Mr. ROSE obtained leave tci•bting in a Bill far.the
more etfettual teplation of Pilots on the Coast of
England.
THE KING'S HOUSEHOLD.
Mr. Lu RINGTON ()tight up the'Reprirt of the
Committee on illol.husebold Bill; but haling alrvatiy

laid a full report of the discussants on teis subject
before the public, we feel it unnecessary in the pre-
sent ir.e'ince to enter much into detale
Mr. BaouGuitar apolOgised to the House For -tres-
pas,iog.on(heir atietoloo afier the discussion that
had taken place on this question. lie maintained,
that ti objecl of t Ließill being to raise an ad.fit tonal
sum of sevenay thousand poripolse that consideration •
alone was enough to jostily the call for intpiry. Tit
Chant:L.llor of the,Eschenefer and the Chaticellor of
the Duchy of C'oratfwaii had given what they called
explanations, but it was no step tJo.vards g-eo ir; rid of •
the challenges thrown out on the opposite side, to
explain the grant of a sum of money to Sir Sidney
Smith. The two oa)jee.ts of inq;le' and pzissang the
Bill were inwparablee and therelue he would
conjure
.the . House co pause before it autho-
rlsed a measure,, the expediency of which it was
t)ot afforded he rue of juigtng. F-le.retelrod to
the•praetice of 'Parliament in , other instances, and
stated, that- no less than three Committees were
appointed on eoecasions of increasiog the Civil
List in the admivistrations Of Mr. Pat and lend,
&do-tooth. There was nothing in the- accounts
on the, table at present, which should induce _the -
[louse to relax their constitntiotiai jealousy of sacis,
proceedings : on the contraiy, there was every thing
to alarm it. He then entered into 'various items
presented to the [louse, and inferred from their cep-
parent extravagance, that they called for strict scru-
tiny. He wished Gentlemen to consider the
ent way in VL hieli things of this kind were de-•1‘
with in the reign of Genrge,ll. After he had sat upon
the 'lnoue, for the space of eu years, there as a dcticit
in the Ciskil List to the amount of 450,0001. This
deficit was made up by Parliament, and in the sue-
ceediog years a surplus of 115,0001. accemulated,
which his Majesty applied, n to the purchase of
personal property, but-to the relief of the people,
twin whom it was, originally drawn. He should
pass oier the omission of the name of her Royal
Highness the Princess of Wales, which was not
mentioned in the Bille from begiuning to end ;
but lie thought the House was bound to luale
to the increase of influence Inch was Lkely
accrue to the Crown, by the addition of twett-
ty-ont to the _corps pf attendants. He object-
ed to the manner in which her M 'sty won hi tie
tempted-. by the power to t-.!y placed in tier handi,
either to thwart the intentions of the Crown, 'or, o‘i
the other hand, to give to tie Crown a preporiderat-.,
lug influence. It appeared to hint, that, the Hot:se
bad.-neaer befote sanctioned such unauthorised ac-
counts. and demands 'without a previous inquiry.
He again recalled the attention of the House to the
precedent-of 18,04, and other precedents on
:this
subject, - The people did not grudge to pay the area..
c,ssary -expellees of the State, but teejeteapeeted that •
Parliament would take care to investigate • the neo
cessity of thoseexpenses. On till these grounds, he
opposed the bringing op of the Report.
Mr. RO•E replied to the Honourable and Learned
Gentleman. He allowed that inquiry re ght to take
place, as broad 3 one-as pos'sible, but not such as !C•
impede the progress of the Bill. In oPpuition to
the statement of the Learned Gentleman, he coo-
tended that great grants bad frequently been Made
to the' Civil' List, without any 'mini) y whatever ;
and lie instanced cases in the reigns or O. -eel) Arnie •
arid George I. and -11. in proof of assertion.---
The Learned Gentleman said thst George 11. did riot
lay out the surplus of his revenue rim tire purchase of
freehold and' toOyht4 estates. What Sol:ere:go had
ever done so in this country ? None. He asserted
positively, that no Sovereign hut ever laid out a
shiiitrig of the C,vil List revenue in that way. It
was impossible r hal he should do so. present
Majesty had Waved the various rev- noes of his pre-
decessoc, and • had accepted a specific sum of
800,0001.; being eO,OOOl. less than the revenue of -
Genige 11. He entered into a s atement of the fur-
ther Parliamentary grams that had been made to his
Majesty, the whole or which amounted only to two
millions lour hundred and ninety thousand ; being
an average during his reign of 93,0001. a year. And
let it be considered, that since the year 1740, money
had been depreciated to nearly half its value at that
period. Adverting to what the Learned Geeit ;it
had said ot the munificence of Queen -Anne, he ob-
served, that-so far from Blenheim having be
out of the Royal purse, it had been commenced by'
Parliamentary grants, which being inteirupted by
the Tory Administration, the building was com-
pleted at the expellee of the Duke of Marlborough,
who was subsequently retnuntrated by another 1-af-
liamentary vote. He trusted that the House would
not hesitate in , allowing the-Bill to pass; 'and if '
they thought proper, they might afterwards in-
stitute an Menu-yr into some ef the minOr details
alluded to.

Mr:BENNETT expressed his intention, in con-
fOrtnit'y to the duty wliich °sired to his Consti- •
tuents, viz. 'not to allow a single shilling at tne pub
lie money to voted away • without proof of its ne-.
cessity, to ppose the filthier progress of the 13111.-'---i
He entercd. Into 'an historical &tad of the proceed--.
it e of Plilidment on the sUbjett of
Plitcemon to retain seats iu tlie House o'f' Cot-tut-ions,'
act t!c.:l;tr..-4 his determitiatiiin fo submit to Parlia--
tiict:t a in.,t,on- on the sul7je:ef; He (Mel! at COOS:..i •
de- ablo hon thed;sinClUiatioti Which a-pp, area'
on f ie part of the Mioisthrs to consult the gen,:ra
teeing on this subj.± instanced the case 'of
Colonel iVl'Mation's appointment as 5 striking dlui- •
tration of thiS tit `t. He had no doubt that a 5 en ho-• •
fiourable man (they were " all honourable nice).
Colonel I\d`Ntihor, iv'as entitled -to the gritticuileof
the. Prince., but he could not allow:he was in'ticled
of the public money, The infinenee of
corit.ptiouwAs most One roan in five iii
rile country )o,,ked to the Eiitronage of office; anti
widef the e ei;curristinees it was host esseiti:il to
the ribose to endeaVourto keep itself as pure as pos;-:
The true interests'a ihe'Cri.vyn wourcineVet
sutler by Parliatiletit;'Oen wear there nut a sihOo

Placernan sitting on the benches ; and at the same
fim • orel, a Parliament would steAtastly maintain
the rivileges aril endeavour to increase the happi-
ne3; of the ; while is would carefully abstain
from the ad ption of any measures by which these
pri% lieges would be invaded, and that happiness en-
denger ed.
Mr.SHERIDAN expressed his surprise at the intro-
duaion into the debate by his Honourable Foend,
who had just spoken, of so much irrelevant matter.
His Honourable. Friend had not done himself justice,
for he had put those who might be in political hos-
tility with him in possession not only of the motion
which it was his intention to make at a future pe-
riod upon another subjeel, but he had also unfolded
to them the arguments which he meant to urge on.
that occasion. His Honourable Friend had talked a
great deal of the advantages which would ensue
limn a Parliament constituted in such and such, a •
mintier, and of his conviction, that a Parliament so
constituted would abstain from such and such mea-
sures. He (Mr. Sheridan) ttaS as earnest a re-
former as any man ; and it his Honourable Friend's
arguments would tend to induce any of the great
p.ople of the country to dbsta.n from accepting
places of which they stood . in t o need, he should
tltink them eminently serviceable to the country.
Fur instance, if a certain Node Eel could be ;e-
-duced brsucheergerneots to aL)stain from holding
seili an offiOieeeeTestmaster-General, he thought
that a. great deaf of girock weold ensue. He
(Mr. Sheridan) hair said this merely to show
Honaaerable Friend hoer cautious he ought
to be in throwi,iLl out any general stigma.—
His Henourable Friend had arraigned the con-
duct of Miresters in the recent appointment of
Clow I Nl' Mallon to the Paymastership of Widows'
Pensions, as it ;hat appointaleirt were a corrupt ad
on their part to curry f•voue w;th ihe Prince. If
hia Hoe. Friend ouid trove that the office ought to
be abdis' eti, he authority to sac-, in the name
of Cui. NPNlaho,r, Lila( he (the Colonel) would not
stand in the way of such abo.ition. If k vet there
was a man by the side of a Prince wi p faithfully
served both ihe Prince and the public, Colonel
IM‘Malloo was that ,nan. He was proud of the ho-
llow of calling that Gentleman his friend; and he
could assure the House that Colonel M.Mahen
prized infieit ly more 'the honourable testimony so
generally borne to his high character in a recent
discussion in the House of Com mow', than any
eeeriumenis which his new situatioir might afford
him, and would much rather abandon re whole of
the latter than one Little of his claim to the former.
He (Mr. S.) declared that he had nut heard one
cony acing argument against the lxiegiog up the
report of the Bill. It was with great regret that he
ever differed from those with whom he had been in
the habit of during his whole political life,
but on this Oecasion- he must entirely differ from
them. He conceived that the character and feelings
of the Prince were truly consulted in not vesting to
him the coiled), arid care of his Royal Father ; and
he could not conceive that a more monstrous arid
recoiling proposition than the opposite would have
been, could possibly have been wade. He differed
also from his Hon. Friends near him in their opi-
nion of the situation in which her Majesty would
be placed by the new airaagemeet, and of the dan-
ger of possibly making a corrupt use of the
influence which she IA ould possest. From 'the
whole tenor of her Majesty's coodud, there ap-
peared to him to be no ground for such a suspicion.
She had accepted the situation which she was to
hold from a seise of the duty whi• h she owed to
her Royal Co:i,ort and to the public, and there could
be no doubt that, but for that consideration, her
Majesty would willingly be released then the re-
spolisibility thus imposed upon tier. Nor did he
conceive, with an Hun. Friend of his, that any [nen,
Lion of her Reyal Highness the Princess of Wales
was necessary in this discussion. On the contrary, -
he thought that such mention would have been im-
pertinent and irrelevant. With resped to an esta-
blishment for their Royal Highnesses the Princesses,
he was persuaded, that whenever a communication
should be made to the House on that sebjed from
the proeer quarter, it would be received with that
manliness and good will which had always been
evinced by them on similar occasions, and that the
terms of that communication would be taken into
consideration with a generosity of feeling honour-
able to themselves and to the country. Reverting
to the Bill before the. House, he confessed, that
while it met with. his general approbation, he was
not qeite satisfied with the manner in which his
Royal Highness's debts were to be liquidated. He
thought he could point out a mode more preferable,
with respect to the comfort of the Prince and the se-
curity of his creditors, and much more honourable to
Porliament itself. After having taken a retrospec-
tive view of Iris Royal Highness's pecuniary difficul-
ties, and the manner in which Lie had been as-
sisted by "Parliament, he came to the grant in
180. and contended strenuously that the grant was
by .no watts considered as a compensation for the
abandonment on the part of the Prince, of his claims
op the Duchy of Cornwall, and that no such aban-
donment by his Royal Highness ever took place.
From this source, therefore, the discharge of the
Prince's pecuniary obligations ought to proceed.
What Nould be the consequenceb of the present
arrangement on this. subject ? The Right Honour-
able Gentleman opposite stated that 50,0001. of his
Royal Highness's present income would be appro-
priated to the discharge of these obligations.—
Was Parliament to guarantee this appropriation ?
Did he ask this as implying any doubt of the
prince's honour God forbid I He knew his Royal
Highnesa's lAinctuality, and sacred adherence to hie
word, better. But were there no other contingen-
cies ? Was there not in the first place—what must
be the living wish in every man's heart—the possi.
bility of his Majesty's recovery, and resumption of
the Royal Authority ? Was there not the possibility
—of which no one could speak without lamenta-
tion and. horror—of his Majesty's dissolution 1 in
which event the income of the Regent must merge
into that of the Monarch ? 'Was there not the pos-
sibility—an event off Which it would not be exped-
ed that he could speak in terms of ordinary regret,
but of that warm affection, which must pervade
all who had ever the happiness of approaching his
Royal Highness's person—was there not the pos-
sibility of his Royal Highness's death ? In any one
of these cases, the security of the creditors would
be destroyed ; and he would ask once more, if it
IA as fitting that the creditors of so august a Person-
age as he who, as Regent, was about to assume the

L 0 IV D ,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1812.

We this morning received sufbe more Ati,eiican
Papers., from which the following are extra&s

" NEW YORK, DEC. 25.—1 n the House of Re-
presentatives, Mr. iII‘.KEE has oti,..red a resolution of
the following import :—Besolved, That the PRESI-
DENT be requested to cause to be laid before the
House such information as may be in his possession,
not improper to be communicated, touching any in-
fluence that may have been used by any subjects of
Great Britain, instiziting the Indians to hostility
with us—any evidence of hostility in the .Shawa-
nese Prophet and his adherents anterior to the late
confliEt of November 7th—The orders vested in
Governor HARRISON, by the United States un-
der which the expedition was formed ; and such
other information as it may be in his power, and is
proper to be communicated relative to these sub-
jects. On fhe moOon of Mr. TALMADGE, Mr.
M`K'art amended the resolution, by adding, or of
any other Power (besides Great Britain) that might
have instigated the Indians.'—L tid on the table.

The Senate, on Friday, passed the Bill, re-
prted by Mr. Gores, for raisins an additional mili-
tary force of 25,000 and 1 man !—The voles were
26 to 4.

" WASH I NGTON, DEC. 17.-It is reported
here, on the authority of weste,-u letters, that the
Indians hare &dually alienated, or ate inclined to

alienate thetnselves from the Prophet, with a view
td re-assume the relations of peace and amity with
the United States, so blindly departed from by the
savages. I have heard it mentioned that the Bri-
tish envoy feels deeply mottfied at the suggestion
of the agents of his Government having instig-ated
these unfortunate people to commit hostilities
again,t us, and that he has laboured to convince some
gentlemen, perhaps members of the cabinet, that his
Goveinment can have no interest in such a proceed-

ing.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM WASHINGTON, DATED

DEC. 23, 1811.

" I perceive, by the style of your composition,
you are not much chilled Nvith the apprehension of
war. If there are any among you, operated upon
by this palsying fear, do your utmost to subdue it
There is just as much likelihood of MArmisoN's
attempting to scale the Moon, as to induce a war
with England. He had been already suspeaed of
using " Presidential Machinery," as your great
Baltimore man described it, to damp the ardour
of Southern War-hawks. Since the passage of the
resolutions, and GILES'S Bill, the court party,
that is the Palantine regulars, who are perfectly up
to the President's minceuvr es, live become, xceed-
ingly disturbed. They seem to fear all will be lost un-
less the Hornet brings back tidings of a change in the
ministers and measures of Engl tnd. 'W e have got
the gentlemen upon the li;p, and shall inevitably
floor them. -Simpletons, th n they -hou!d for ever
exrea to intimidate federalists with the threat of
war, and thus fasten upon the nation the conti-
nental system of Frznce."

We feel great pleasure in being able to state, that
the differences which have so long subsisted bet weer
the Governments of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video,
are happily adjusted. A treaty has been signed, by
which bosh
_parties acknowledge their Sovereign
FEEDINAND the Seventh, and th.e rights of the
Mother Country. There are various ()net- stipu-
lations in the Treaty, which we have not at present
room lo

We are strongly inclined to think, fiorn the tone
and temper of. some paragraphs in the last French
Papers, respe&ing Sicily, that affairs in that island
have taken a favourable 'urn, and that ihe intrign-es
of BUONAPARTE and his Emissaries have been de-
teEled and frustrated. The Tyrant is, evidently,
very much vexed at some events which have recent-
ly occurred in Sicily, and we hope that he will
shortly have further cause fur displeasure.
Muir AT, we are assure], is still in disgrace with
BuoNAr.AnTrr ; and the destruion of the convoy
with naval stores, at Palinuro, will, we fear, tend
rather to widen the breach between the amiable
pair.

The Gazette and the Gazette Extraordinary, pub-
lished yesterday, contain the official details of the
gratifying intelligence which we had previously
communicated to our Readers. Some doubt still
hangs over the account winch reached town
on Monday, of the defeat of BLAKE?, and the
capture of Valencia. If BLAKE was defewed, and
Valencia taken on the 24:1I ll!cember, the news
must have reached Paris before the 22d inst. to
•
which day we have Paris Papers, and if news
of such importance had reached Pads, most u•
doubtedly no time would have been lost in making it
public. But though the silence of the French Papers
induces us to entertain a hope that the news re-
speaing Valencia may prove unfounded, it must no
be considered as decisive evidence that the event h s
not taken place.

Yesterday, the Dukes of YORK and CLARENCE
visited the PRINCE REGENT.
The Duke of CAmuntnoE was of the d;nner
party- give') by Princess CHARLOTTE of WALES, on
Mouthy.

A party of the military have commenced doing
duty every night at the Navy Pay Odice.
A dreadful accident happened about four o'clock
yesterday afternoon in Leadenhall-street. A Lady
and Gendemampass'ng a waggon in a g(!, the wheel
of which coming in contact with that of the wag-
gon, the L2dy was thrown our, and ti,e wheel of
the latter passing, over her head. tilled her instantly.
WILLIAMSON'S MCI:MR.-Thomas Pryor, a lame
man, was apprehended on suspicion of hay ing been
concerned in that atrocious transaMion. Tne pri-
soner is known to have lodged at Williamson's on
the Wednesday night before the murder was com-
mitted, and for ten nights before. He was sea
pa4sing over London Bridge at an early hour in the
morning afterwards. He was traced to have slept
at a- house in Noah's Ark-court, Stangate, one
night ; he was put into a room in which two other
young men, named Harris and Dalton, slept, which
he left unperceived by them before day-break, and
on waking they found their pockets emptied of what
money they contained. He is detained on suspi•
cion of this robbery, as well as on suspicion of being
concerned in the murders.

This morning, were executed before the Debtors'
Door of Newgate, the following malefaciurs,
C. Phillips, for setting fire lo his dwelling7house,
at Shadwell ; J. Frazer, E. Hall, and W. Higgins,
for burglaries ; Wm. Habberfield, for forgery, and
uttering Bank notes ; and P. Whitehead, for for-
gery. A vast concourse of people attended, and the
unhappy men conducted themselves in a manner
suitable to their melancholy situation.