The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-30 00:00:00

NAVAL DEPARTMENT.

Lord DARNLEY hithmitted to there IMlAShipil
series of Motions tending to Contrast the measures
of the late- and present Board'of Admiralty.. 'Eisele.
Motions were inpart supplementary to the Accounts
moved for by Lord Met.vti.t.tt, and partly for Pa.
pets of a new desCription. They related chiefly to
the building in the King's and the Merchante
Dock.yards ; to a mode el classing the Artificers,
in the Dock.yards, intended to have been carried
into effect by, the. late &lard of Admiralty, by
which the work would have been more expeditious.
ly Alone ; to the state of the Timber and Naval Stores
in the Docklards ; and to the state of Sherwood
Forest. In the courie of his comments the Noble Lord
stated, that if the Plans proposed by the late Admi-
ratty' Board had been completed, a 74.c0u1d be built
in one of the King's Dock-yards in one year by. 49
shipwrights, at the expence of only slim,. the
year consisting of 3t2 working days, and the rate
of payment being. 6s. od, per man per day.. find
proper arrangepsents been make, and the men kept
At work as they are in the Merchants' yardi, 529
Shirt of the Lint might, hare been built in the King's
yards in the same period in which only eleven Ships
had been produced. lie concluded by declaring,
that whether the Papers he now moved for should
be granted or note it would not be possible forehim
to bring forward the subjen to which he referred 60
atom as he could wish. ► The Npers which had al.
ready been produced required much coniidcration,
and it was his intention, after the holidays $0 move
that they be referred to a Committee..

Lord ItIELI7LLE assured the INtiblt Lord that
there was nothing which, could be mare adverse to
his wishes than to desire to refute the statements
which bad been made. If the Noble Lord could
make good all, or even balf of what hi had pre-
'rnised, he should consider it the 'happiest day of
his lite to witness such a discovery. If is was
true that the King's Yards cou'd be put into
ouch a Orate as to render all recoutte to the
Merchants' Yards unnecessary ; if it was true that
they could not only serve the purpose of retfiving
anki reitting ajl the vessels thM required ftpktirs4

but. could also supply ten Ships of (Le Line annu.
ally to the Navy, the man who should point out
the means by which this W. 03 to be accotriplislied
would certainly confer the greatest benefit on the
Navy of ,this Country that ever it had received,
from the earliest to the present titnes. The Noble
Viscount then observed, that whatever might be the
result of the Inquiry proposed by the Noble Lord,
no blamecould attach to him for having followed the
example of all preceding Beards of Admiralty. It wail
not to be expedted that, in the few months he lira
been in office, he should have made this great die.
covery by intuition. But the matter did not merely
rest there ; the Papers he had produced afforded
proofs that he was under the indi,pensible necessity
of resorting to the Merchants' Yards, in order to
maintain the force of the Navy. The obje4t of the
hr,otions proposed by the Noble Lord he would find
sufficiently attained by the Par rs now laid on
the Table. When lie should examine them, after
they were printed, he was convinced the NAale
Lord would find no material information wanting.—
He had shewn the list of the Noble Lord's Motions
to the person best qualified to judge of the time that
wt.uld be required to prepare the Papers; and had
that day received an answer by letter (from the Sc..
cretary at the Navy Boird), which he should lead.
This letter stated, ,d that the Papers to he moved
fur by Lord Darnley could not be prepared in less
than three months, without materially impeding the
public service." On these grounds, he trusted that
the Noble Lord would not press his Motions at
present.
The DUKE of CLARENCS 'said, he had con.
sidereal the Motions, very minutely before he de.
volved the task of proposing 'them on his Noble
Friend. It appeared to His Royal Highness that
the SeCretary of the Navy Board must have.made
stone mistake.. The Noble Earl, who preceded the
Noble Viscount in office, would nut have given his
approbation to Motions which would require three
months to prepare. His Royal Highness also sig.
nified his intention of giving his opinion in detail
on the soiled to which those Mosions referred,
when it should come in another form before their
Lordships.
The Motions %vete then put and negatived.—
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

FRIDAY, MARCH 29.

MA. BALDWIN moved fur, and obtained leave to
bring in a Rill to ereft a Chapel of Ease at Twick-
enham, in Middlesex.

A Bill was brought in to extend the Powers of
the Revenue Corporations in I.iienrlanci. Bead a
first, and ordered to bc read a sec.tod time to.mor-
row.

A Bill for Improving the llariv.bur of Leith was
wrought in, and read a firsr time.

Tim Edinburgh Police Regulation Bill was read a
third time, and passed.
It was moved, 111;,t IVIAJTLTY should be 4(1-
dressed, to (tired that there might be laid before
the House a Copy Of the Proceedings had before the
Privy Council on the Petition of the Duke of
ATHot.,, for a further Cotnputwition for the Sale of
his Feudal Rights in the Lie of Man, in the year
765.—Ordered.
_ , _

Mr. Rost presented a Paper, dated the 2 ist July,
804, relative to the Petition of the Doke of
ATHOL, in pursulnce of a Motion of the 26th in_
scant.

Th• House went into a Committee on the Attie.
rican Treaty Bill,
,and the Repot( was utdered to be
received on Monday.

The Report of the Spanish Trade fill was re.
ceivcd, anti the Bill ortiereeto be engrossed, and
read a third time bn Monday.

The Report of the Committee on the Foreign
Prize hips .Bill was received, and the Bill ordered
to be real a third time or) Monday.
The America° Trade Bill was reported, and ur.
dered to be read a third rime on NIA-clay.
An Account was moved for of all Dollars issued
by the Bank of England, to the latest period the
same could be made out.

The Report of the Committee on the Spanish
(IVine, Duty Bill was received, the Resolution agreed
to, and a Bill ordered to be brought'in on the tame.
A Message from' the Lords informed the House,
that their Lordships had agreed io the Legacy Duty

.• The Irish Excise' Duty was reported, and
the Bill ordered to be'read a third.thne on Monday.
The Irislr ComMonable -Lands' Partitioning Bill
was read a first time, ordered to 6e, printed, and
read a second time fin Wednesday, the tbit of May.
The Bengal Supreme Council Bill, was read a second
time, and committed fur Monday.