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the Secretary for Foreign . Affairs as to these Consulates ifd.
met the approbation of all parties.
The Vote was then agreed to.
The following Votes wera agreed to
the
.expences of Special Missions to Spanish
America - - 1:23,500
For the expences of the Commissariat Department • M 0,009-
For the Extraordinary E tleoces -of the Army
The next Vote.was,-104,507/. for-Civil Contingencies. !
Mr. HUME objected to the charge of 624!. for conveyihg
the insignia of the Order of the Garter to John the Sixth, King
of Portugal; If the King of England had the power of con-f
ferring these distinctions, it should not he in such a way as to
disgrace the Order, for so he considered :.it to be in the present
iostance.. At all . events; that House ought not to be'rallN,
.upon to pay the !expence of -such grants. He could not,con-
,ceive a more ,unfavourable - moment investing .that Sore 7•
reign with the distinction conferred on him. than the one chosen
for doing so, It, was just. -after a total..change had-taken .place
in his conduct in opposition to all. his previously. declared sen-
timents and, intention _when he hail broken .every compact,
and violated every engagement he had made with his peoplej
-Mr. Secretary CANNING, in explanation of the. abo.V?•
grant, said, .that it, was made-several years since, when a shpt.-
lar grant was made to
.the Ring of Denmark, and. several other
Sovereigns.,
.Circumstances.had prevented the order being sent
out before, but when it was claimed, it -.could not be..delayed:'
—With respect to any,ehango of circumstances ihthe intertne-
.diate period, as nothing which could happen in. the interior of a'
country could be an, inducement for such a grant, so .neittler
.could it it operate_towards its being withheld.
Mr. 111111E.,asked why. an individual of the rank of. -our
.present Ambassador to the Netheriands.was sent to that-coun-
try, when one of less note was accredited at- our own Court•
from that Power. It was perfectly understood last year to be
the intention of the Patch to .change Their Amba%sador to tl4.
Court of England for one of a lower .denomination. Now he,
was sure he had understood the Right. Hon. Secretary opposite
to have laid it down as a rule which could not be departed
from, that this Court would not send-a character of higher rank
than the onesent as Ambassador to it. _ _ c,

Mr. Secretary CANNING-said the origin of the.- report to
which the Hon, Member had alluded, was an •intention on the
part of the Dutch Government to exalt the respectable indivi-
dual who had so long held tbe.siteation of Ambassador to this
country. It did not, however, 'folio* that the reduction of
rank in the Ambassador on th one aide; of necessity entaild
a proportionate reduction. on the other.- As a- generarrule, he
might have stated it so,- without noticing the exception whin
obtained in the instance of the Netherlands, with respect to'
which it. had long been the marked policy of this country to
-
send., a distinguished -character as • A nibissadOr. • "There' was
certain. discretion.. exercised , by the Crown in these appoint-
ments, and there were reasons exceedingly strong for always
keeping a person of the highest rank at the Hague. •
Disembodied Militia of Great, Britain _ xig5,537