The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-21 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD HAYNIARKET.

1-lav 41. cs. cid. to sl los 0(1. Strawo 11. ss. to 31.
os. Clover, st . us. ott. to oz. tot. od.

CORN•EXCHANGR, FEB sn.—To-day the market
has a totetaule supply of Wheat, sales re
last plices.----Fat, dealei.—Qxj.„ And

there was no chance of pro:' lion. there were At
present only 39 chaOttins in the whole, to do the
duty of the .Nayvy consisting of between 5 and 600
.sail. In proportion as the chaplains had fallen off,
the schoolmas,eis had fallen off also ; it would be
.propos,d :herefore, to connect the two duties, and
to appropriate the 4d. fund, amounting to about
thirty thousand pounds annually, and .the bounty of
Queerr Anne,.of2o pounds annually, so that the pay
of each Gentlemen should be about 2601. a year;
that atter (as in the army), they had served ten
years, a pension of ss, per.diihm shou!d be given,
Until they procured church-appo;ntmenis to the va-
lue of 40ti1, per annum. " The Rigia. Hon. Gentle-
man then moved— •

" That a sum not exceeding 1,033,5141.. be grante• for
contingent expellees of the Aihniraltyßoard, .eze."

Mr. CAtCRAFT was glad that the Rt. Hon. Gen-
tleman had not pressed the vote of:80,0001. for the
Break-water, and -trusted that the estimate for the
whole of the works in that fund would be shortly
before the House. The I-Jon. Gentleman called
the attention of the Right Hon. Gentleman to se*-
Vera! Petitions which lie had' preserved from certain
of the artificers in the dock-yards of Eiheerness,
Wool wich, Dept ford, and Chatham, complaining of
the hardship of the Income Tax, and of the 'tare of
xvagcs which they received for task work, which
had induced some to emigrate to Ametica, but he
hoped none had gone over to the enemy. He
wished to' knoW •if it was .compatible with the
proceedings of the Admiralty that redress might be

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given.
Mr. YOUKE observed, that these complainants,
were not in a worse situation than the whale of.
the ciimmunny, and he shekvtd'troin documents,
that they were paid better than herekifore. 11e-
hoped they would not be perverse, but'ahat their
good sense would convince them that in compbining
tliey
Mr. CALCRAtT was obliged to the Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman for his explanation, which he
•Would communicate to the Petitioners, who were
men of sense, not at all inclined to be perverse.

Mr. GRENF2LL noticed the rnailnfaEtories of
copper carrying on in Portsmouth Yard;:gs being
of a nature calculated to increase the expences Co the

country.
Mr, YoRKE replied, that the charge of the Esta-
blishment was a saving to the country of from. 8 to
10,9001. a year,And finer copper was prodUced than
private yards.
Admiral . MArmuam conceived. that the only
objedion to the. Portsmouth copper was, that it was
put into the rollers before it was cleansed. With
resped to the proPoied arrangement respeding the
Chaplains, he wished to see the thity of the
Schoolmaster united to that of
ur tlre. Ch3plain.—
The Honoable Admiral then alluded to the con-
strudion of, a
,new ship to
.be called
,the Tremen-
dous, and trusted there were not many more: to be
built upon' the same construaiOn; as be understood
the timbers ;Acre rotten.

Mr. YORKE replied, that the report on that ship
would, he believed, convince the House. that the .
Tremendous was not rotteni the only doubt was as
fa her decks. There gas, he could assure the Hon.
Admiral, only•one more ship to be built
.on that
principle.
Admiral HARVEY approved of the regulation re-
specting clergymen, and observed upon the neces-
sity of having then oisuperior education, and of the•
greatest respectability.
Mr. G. 101INSTONE expressed his regret that the.
Right Hon. Gentleman should be about to quit the
Admiialty„ and threw out 'suggestion, for the :Mop-
lion of the Board; with re.spect to theneceSsity of
not :logintenting our naval force; observing, that
the victory„ot Trafalgar, and other , great exploits,
bad so reduced the naval 'roger of the enemy,
that he was no longer able to cope with this count-
tay. The danger was not sct 'great as was generally
imagined.
Mr. Yotucc conceived that the I-lon:Gentleman
was mi-inforeted as to the state of the French NaVy.-
He thanked him for his suggestion, and assured him
that the Beard had nowish to propose a larger esta-
blisln,:nt than was neCes,ary for the piablk service.
The French had, fur years been ends avoining to
bring up their Naval force, and it Was 'astonishing,
Nvlltii he stated it, what they had done. They
stood have bet,:veen twenty-five and; twenty-sip
Sail in. the S, belch, in the, course, of the Summer ;
thirty-fiVe s.,il in the North seas—they were bhild-
ing ships at Toulon, iri the ports pf Italy, and in the
Tvlediterranean. The only difficulty they had in
bniid:ng was at Brest. He was Certain that the
Committee would, be of opinion titat• it was ex-
pedient to meet 001 at ail
,points; and if-Once
the naval force
.was to be low2red-, and an exi,-
*epee at ise, it thiuid be difficult to increase it. We
should be prepared to meet them in ail parts'Of the
world. An interior tray. would be a great-detriment
to this country: .
.•LOrd'CocurtANE recomMended to the considera-
tion of the House the necessity of directing a por-
tion of our- forte to One 'particular point. He noticed
the extension of the-comMeree. of France, which he
slid was almoif ito redible.in brandies, cottons; and
wines, and it seetned almost impossible to interrupt
Cie trade. The, Noble Lord then drew the atten-
tion.of the
.Right Hoa. Gentleman to the telegraphs'
eleCted.all along the French coast, which'attbrded
tire-enemy an opportunity of being acquainted 'With,
trod of conurnpuieating our signals. By. deatiOying
thts chain of telegrephs,-he thought more mischief
might be done to the enemy than was to be expect-
ed from all the sums voted in the estimates applied'
in the usual way. The Noble Lord, proceeded at
some length, to point'out the errors in the present
5) stem, and to suggest improveMents. He was in-
fluenced by nothing but a wish to serve brs country;
and was conhdent, that if the power of—,this
country teas properly directed, it would be impos-
I:ble for the Government of Buonaparte to go on
another )ear. _ _ _

disapproved.of that species of
wartare which had been recommended by the Npble
Lord. fie wished the salaries of the schoolmasters
in the Navy to be increased, so as,fo malie it worth
while for respeBable persons to fill those situations.
lie again culled the attention of 1116 Right Hon.
Gentleman' to the situation of that highly deserving
body, the Royal Marine COrps, and wished to know
if the ,Right Hon. Gentleman was not satii...fied train
a memorial on his table from that corps, that he
(Mr. H.) had not spoken in that 'House the sen-
timents.of a few iudividnals, but those the whole
budy.

Son-te (orator ennt'ergalion followed% in
Lord Coebrane,,, Admiral- Markham,, Mr. Ye>l ke,
and Mr. Tierney, participated ; after which tl,-; re-
solutions .►•ere severally put and carried.