The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-28 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

Mr.WtHARTON bronght up the Report of the Com-
mittee of Supply. Several of the Resolutions were
agreed to. . . .
On the motion for Agreeing to the .Resolution;
granting the sum of 10,5071. for building a bridge
Over the IliVer Eden, trg Carlisle .
Mr. d i L'Es reneWed.his objections to: the grant;
and intimated his Intention of taking the sen,c of
the House. . . .„
In this obje4:tion he was supported by Mr. WHIT..'
BREAb and Mr. SUMNER, who contended that the
CoUnty of Cumberland had no right to a boon from
Parliament in preference to other counties. .
The Grant was supported by Mr. WHARTON,
Lord MORPETH, Sir C. BURRELL, and Mr. WM.,
LACE, as being. recommended strongly by the Com.
toittee, and as being only part of a plan of improve-
ments and:pubiic accommodation, on a long line of
roads through that part of England extending to
Scotland, as far as Dotniries.
The House divided on the motion of Mr. Giles,
For the Grant 68
AgaiMt it - 49
Majority tg
MS MAJESTY'S HOUSEHOLD.

When strangete were re-admitted,
The CHANCELLOR -Of the EXCHIMUER had pro.;
posed.to refer cortain Papers to the consideratlon
of the Committee.on the Bill for regulating the tu-
cure Establishment of his Majesty's Household, and
was proposing ths the House should then go into a
Committee. _ _

Mr. TIERNEY immediately rose and-opposed the
Speaker's leavieg the• Chair, on the ground that suf-
ficient information was not• before the House to en-
able them tUeome, to a right understanding of the
question', and make such a full report as should Sil.•
tisfy the Public. in order that proper information
might be afforded, he would suggest sonic distant
day for the House going into the Comm %tee. He
was free tceconfess, that, for his part, after perusing
the papers, he was not in a situation to comprehend
the Bill ; and he believed that many other gentle-
men were not aware of the whole bearing of it. A
variety of papers had been laid on the Table, and it
might be expected that be should be prepared,—as
as far as they went he was prepated,—but he should
only waste the time of the House was be to offer
any observation upon these detached papers, and
therefore he should refrain until the whole neces-
sary for the elucidation of the subjea were in the
hands of the Members. He could not see, from
the papers already produced, any thing which could
enable him to
.Make up his mind. They had been
undoubtedly very liberally provided by the Right
Honourable Gentleman, and he did riot mean to
throw- blame upon that Right Honourable Gen-
tleman for the_manner in which they were drawn.
up, but he wanted to know if any means c,,uld be
devised of abridging t he amount of the 311111.131expen•
diture of the Civil- List, without, at the same time,
diminishing the splendour of the Monarch ? There
was no personehe ti usted,would believe of him, that
in expressing a wish that the Civil List should not
be liable to excess of expenditure,he meant to abridge
the comforts or the necessary splendour which
should at all times appertain to Royalty. The public,
however, were led to believe that when the arrange-
ments were made in 1804, care had been taken that
no future excess should arise. The first question
which presented itself would be,was the expenditure
of 1804 warranted ? When Gentlemen considered
that at that time the House sided upon an estimate
which they were given to understand would, as fat
as it related to the department of the Lord Steward,
comprise the full amount of the outgoings, and
voted in conformity with that estimate the sum of
65;0b01. as sufficient for that purpose, it was not a
little extraordinary, that upon referring to the pa-
pt;rs, the result of the expenditure of that year was
a sum of 84,0001. He did not mean to say that any
thing unfair had been going on in that department
to occasion the excess, but it had the effect of
shewing, that little reliance was to be placed upon

estitnatcs. There was alio an extraordinary paper
relaying to the .disburietnents to. Foreign Miqisters,
the.ifems of which he did not chargr as being un-

just ; but when he moved for
.the papers on the
subj&l, the accounts were never eleariyUnderstood,
except by the Committee up st=irs, and it wai r -
ijuisite that' the House should knoW what vouctivrs
were befOre that Committee to enable them to come
to a just conclusion. The account- was certainly
correct in figures and detail, but it wanted inlortna-
tion. Now, in 1804, the House was told that
10,0001. was all that would be required fur the pur-
pose of disbursements to Foreign Ministers. The
papers sheaved that 83,0001. had been expended.—
This might be all right, but it seemed extraordinary
that an estimate so short of the actual sum expended
should be given in. With respect to the Chamber-
lain', accounts, he should not offer any observations,
his object being, that the nature of the Civil List ex-
penditure shojalti be referred to a Committee, so ag