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

NAVAL DEPARTMENT.

Lard DARNLEY submitted to their Lordships a
series of Motions tending to contrast the measures
of the late and present
,board of Admiralty. These
Motions were in part supplementary to the Accounts
moved for by Lord Mst,v mut, and partly for Pa.
pets of a new description. They related chiefly to
the building in the King's and the Merchants'
Dock.yards ; to a mode ef classing the Artificers.
in the Dock.yards, intended to have been carried
into area by the late Board of Admiralty, by
which the work would have been more =expeditious.
ly ,done ; to the state of the Timber and Naval Stores
io the Dock-yards ; and to the state of Sherwood
Forest. In the course of his comments the Noble Lord
stated, that if the Plans proposed by the late Admi-
ralty Board had been completed, a 74.c0u1d be built
in one of the King'S Dock-yards in one year by 48
shipwrights, at the expellee of only 5.8881.. the
• year conststing of 312 working days, and the rate
of payment being. 6s. sd. per man per day. Had
proper arrangements been ma4e, and the men kept
at work as they are in the Merchants' yards, 529
Ships of the Line might.have been built in the King's
yards in the same period in which only eleven Ships
had been produced. Ile concluded by declaring,
that whether the Papers he now moved for should
be granted or not, it would not be possible for,hitn
to bring forward the subjtel to which he referred so
tiyon as he could wish. r Tl 4 Papers which had al-
ready been produced required much consideration,
and it was his intention, after the holidays, to move
that they be referred to a Committee.

Lqrd 1115.UILLE assured the Noble Lord that
there WAS nothing which could be mare adverse to
his wishes than to desire to 'refute the statements
which had been made, If the Noble Lord. could
make good all, or even 'ha of what hi had pre.
bliseci, he should consi►ier it the 'happiest day of
his life to witness such a discovery, If it was
true that the King's Yards cou'd be put into
such a irate as to render all recourse to the
Merchant,' Yards unnecessary ; if it was trot that
they could not Only serve the purpose of recciving
anti refuting 411
,the vessels that required rpm.

but mild also supply ten Ships of 114 Line mu.
ally to the Navy, the man who should point out
the means by which this was to be accotriplished
would certainly confer the greatest beoetit en the
Navy of ,this Country that ever it had received,
from the earliest to the present times. The Noble
Viscount then observed, that whatever might be the
result of the Inquiry proposed by the Noble Lord,
no blame could attach to him for having followed the
example dell preceding Beards of Admiralty. It wag
not to be expeded that, in the few months he hrd
been in office, he should have made this great dis.
covery by intuition. But the matter did nut merely
rest there ; the Papers he had produced afforded
proofs that he was under the ireliTensible necessity
of resorting to the Merchants' Yards, in order to
maintain the force of the Navy. The objett of the
Neotions proposed by the Noble Lord he would find
sufficiently attained by the Paptrs now laid on
the Table. . When he should examine them, after
they were printed, he was convinced the Noble
Lord would find no material infOrtnation wanting.--
He had &hewn the list of the Noble Lord's Motions
to the person best qualified to judge of the time that
would be required to prepare the Papers, and had
that day received an answer by letter (from the Se-
cretary at the Navy Board), which he should read.
This letter stated, " that the Papers to he moved
fur by Lord Darnley could not be prepared in less
than three montlesi without materially impeding the
public service." On these grounds, he trusted that
the Noble Lord would not pieta his Motions at
present,
The DUKE of CLARENCS 'said, he had can-
sidered the Motions very minutely before he de.,
volved the task of proposing 'them on his Noble •
Frietel. It appeared to His Royal Highness that
the Secretary of the Navy Board must have.made
some tnistakei; The Noble Earl, who preceded the
Noble Viscount in office, would not have given his
approbation to Motions which would require three
months to prepare. His Royal Highness also sig.
rata his intention of giving his opinion in detail
on the. subjed to which those Mosions referred,
when it should come in another turns before their
Lordships.
The Motions were then put and negatived.—
Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

ITRIDAY4 MARCH 29.

MR. BALDW IN moved for, and obtained leave to
bring in a 11,1 l to erect a Chapcl of Fast at Twick.
enham, in Middle3ex.

A Bill was brought in to extend the Powers of
the Revenue Corporations in ',ontland'. Read a
first, anti ordered to be read a sce.tnd time to.mor.
row. ,

A Bill for Improving thtt liarbt)ur of Leith was
brought in, and read a firir time.

The Edinburgh Police Regulation Bill was read a
third time, and passed.
It was itIOVItd, that IfIS MAJRTY should be ad-
dressed, to dived that their: might be laid before
the Houk a Copy of the Proceedings had brfute the
Privy Council on the Petition of the Duke of
ATHOL. for a further Conyuniaiion for the Sale of
his Feudal Rights in the Lie of Man, in the year
t765.--Ordered.

M r. Rost preientcd a Paper, Atited the 21st July,
1804, relative to the Petition of, the Duke of
ATH6L, in pursuance of a Motion of the 26th in-
stain.

The House went into a Committee on the Ame-
rican Treaty Bill,
.and the Repot t Was oldetekl to be
received on Monday. . .

The Report of the Spanish Trade Bill was re.
ceived, and the Bill orotreeto be engrossed, and
read a third time 'on Monday,

The Report ,of the Committee .on the Foreign
Prize Ships Bill was received, and the Bill ordered
to be reai a third time on Monday.
The American Trade 111 was reported, and or.
dered to be read a third time. on. Monday,
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
Wine Duty Bill was reed v et!, the Resolution agreed
to, and a Bill ordered to be broughein on the same.
A Message froth the Lords iritoriiied the. House,
that their Lordships had agreed to the Legacy Duty
•

The Irish Excise` Duty Bill was reported, and
the Bill ordered to. be read a 'third time on Monday.
The Irish. Corninonable -Landi•Partitioning Bill
was read a first time, ordered to tie printed, and
read a second time on Wednesday, the thit of May.
The Bengal Supreme Council Bill. WAS read alecOnd
time, and committed lot Monday.