The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-02 00:00:00

yelp. this stim exceeded by 5,000,0061. what had
been raised in the precedingyear,andby 55,000,0001.
, What had been called foi- on the commencement of
the war in 1793. This sum, immense a 4 it was, he
had however to state, Was insufficient to cover our
expences, and under such circumstances he called
upon' the House to resist the extrakigant grant
which they were called upon to vote, and trusted he
should not call in vain. He concluded moving as
an amendment, " That the Report should be
brought up on that day six months."
Some conversation here took place as to the ef-
fea of the amendment on that part of the report
which was not objected to.. The result was, Mr.
Freemantle withdrew the amendment he had mo-
ved ; and at the suggestion of Mr. Bankes,. it was
moved as an amendment, to deduct from the ori-
ginal giant the sum of ninety thousand pounds,
by substituting the sum 434,0001. for 524,0001. the
sum which they were first called Upon •to vote.
General TARLETON objeaed to that part of ►he'
plan, which went to make Liverpool the military.
point of communication between Great Britain and
Ireland, and prayed for his constituents (who had
no ohjeaion to the ereolion of barracks in or near
Liverpool) that, at all events, they might not b&
erected on the particular spot at Everton, which had
been•marked out.
Mr'. C. SMITH strongly recommended every pos-
sible saving of the public money, at the presesit mo- "
mentous crisis, and objeaed 'to the zroposed bar-•
racks at Bristol and -Liverpool, but above all, to
those in Marylebone-paik.
Mr." B. BATriuttsr spoke in favour of the vote,
and in particular contended, speaking of the biz.-
racks at Bristol, that a'place where they were more
necessary could hardly be named, as well to relieve
the innkeepers and town's-people, as with a view
a view to the benefit• of the service.
General GAscosoNa did riot oppose the vote alto-
gether, but wished some means to be -devised to
avoid erecting the proposed -barracks at Liverpool.
Mr. WROTTESLEY said the House ought well to
consider, if it were necessary to erea the barracks
at all. It was said the inn-keepers would be re-
leased by the measure, but did Gentlemen consider

what a permanent expence these would entail on
the country? If happily a. peace were made
tomorrow, these would still be an expence
to the country. Might it not then he better
to give the Mn-keeper some compensation for the
inconveniences to wh,i(ll they were subjeaed.—
It had been stated on a former evening, that one of
the reasons for ere ling barracks in 11aq-la-bonne-
Park was, that if any disturbance should arise in the
metropolis, they might he called out to crush it im-
mediately. He admitted that Government should
have the means of putting down a riot at once, bial
with a view to effect this, was it necessary to have
the military actually in the metropolis. What were
the barracks at Hounslow, &e. for ? We had a
sufficient number of troops: within two, or at most
three hours march of ,the metropolis, to quell any
such tumult. 'lf the barracks were to be erected at
all, he thought they ought to be built on a more
economical plan than had been proposed. Upon
the whole, he thouglitit would be much b:_oter to
give the sum proposed (or the eretlion of there bar.
racks in aid of the distressed manufacturers in the
country. He should most decidedly vote against
the grant.
Mr. WHARTON re-stated what he had advanced
on a former occasion in defence of- the grant. He
contended the barracks proposed to be
and
at
Liverpool and Bristol were necessary; and. with re-
' sped to the Petition of the former place against the
eretlion of them on,a particular spot, he had to say
that the vote before the House would not pledge
them for their ereEtion at San Domingo, the place
alluded to. The Commander in Chief had consent-
ed to their being erected bn any other spot that
could be found equally eligible, and one ..or two si-
tuations equally good, had already been pointed out.
He defended the choice of Mary-la-bonne Park to
build barracks on, as, chusing that spot, they, had
nothing to pay for the ground. He admitted the
sum called for was enormous, but, at the same* time,
he was confident, that barracks on the model most .
approved of, that of the buildings in Hyde Park,
could not be erected at a less expence. "He then
went on to state the various advantages which would
be possessed and afforded by the barracks itt Mary-
la-bonne Park. Here he stated what were the prices
of bricks, labotir, timber, &c. at the time the bar-
racks were built in Hyde Park,' and compared these..,
with the current prices of the present day, from
which it appeared, the increased expence was about
three hundred per cent. Why then, if this were
the fad, as appeared from the tablei of prices be-
-I,ore him, and if the barracks in Hyde Park cost
52,2491. the present estimate, large as it was, was
not so large as might have been expeaed, when it
was given•in at 133,0001,

Mr. BANKES thought no 'necessity had been
proved. for erthing the proposed -works now, and
therefore called upon the House at past to suspend
the Propbsecl grant. The present state of the ports
of the Baltic has so enhanced the price of timber,
that it was . scarcely possible to st.-Wt a period at
'which the expense of building would be greater.
The Hormurable Gentleman expatiated at con Side-
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ble length on the subjed; and in the course of .his

obsexvat►ous expressed a;douht as to the necessity of
providing, that all the Officers of the Dragoon Re.
giments should be lodged under the same root as

the privates._
General PHIPPS was deeidedly of opinion, /hat
it was necessary that the Officers should be lodged
under the roof as the' men.

. .
-Sir J; NEWPORT asked,' whether it was so with
he Foot Guaids?

Gen. Phipps replied, that it would be much bet-
er if it were so.

Mr. CREEVEY made a number of observations
hostile to the grant, and particularly commented on
the negledt of -the Surveyor General of his Majes-
ty's Land Revenue (Lord Glenbervie) to comply
with the pro Visions of .the Aat of Parliament, by
which he was, directed to lay before the House at
the commencement of the Session, a report relative
to the 540 acres of,Crown Land at Mary-le-bonne,
the lease of which had expired. He objeeted very
strongly to leaving the management of this land
in the hands of Lord .Gienqervie, -who as a
chief Proprietor of the Regent's Canal pasling
through it, had contrived to provide (or some very