The Sun.
London, England, 1810-02-24 00:00:00

slot) by (Nose sitting on the Ministerial benches,as had
hitherto-been the cese, he had nethingto regret, for
his sound argumentS and el-IC-1-01c language, 1,, d
cornmand,edthe applause.Or alhhose who at on Ihe
opp#,site side, and he was cor,fident rra, spe.,cl) he
er made deserved more Approllition,aed Ile thcm,..ht
the Praetice ot -the 'Right ;lon, Gen t eati would
tfound,consislent with the doefrinerflie had proft'ssed.
He was :astonished toihear'an (36titleman say.
drat. Lord Chatham had deli-Veied his Narrative to his
Majesty, in . cmsequei)ce of ri---plabiic di;Patchltrorn
Sir.Richard,Srrachan. 'Stich could not be the faCt,..
as his dispatch was dated in•Augesi, and Lotd chat,
ham did not present his Narrativct 'Feb. But:if that
were the ca-e,,ewhal shoold the Hbuse thitileOf the -
conductof illy Lord Gotham .in o dung ? Instead ,•
of -transmitting 'hi* dispatches to the S,:•)Vereign •
through- the regular and constitutional clont•el., as
he proceeded with hi .operation,, the .House were to .
,suppose that he waited till he vitiat had
been sent by the Offictsz -who-cooperated With, hitn,
and finding that net favourable, to himself, sUppressed
his resentment fora time, 'arid then, at his own op-
•portueit'y, vented his vengeance on his l.eltkok Oth
cer; in a•mkinner that was likely never to be made
public, as he had not thought proper to make any ,
communication Of it even to his 61,vii
So-little notice. did his Lordship 'take of" his Col--
.;
letues, that he could not recollect -What 11e:fibers of
the whole herd- of. Ministers,:Wore present when'.
he entered the closet. It ,vas said that Lord
grave had'irt the dead el the night; art beng apprized
that such,a, Natrative had been presentil,•wrote to-
Sir Richard Str.ichan to send. a Narrative also—but•
the House oeglit not to-suppose that both Officers
.t•al justice- done them ; that lie tvould
ille'strate.by .ailec,lote • that was related of Nit)
ignO,ant laWyers who were sittirig.
.in a, coffee
hour e, and oneasked the other whether there was,'
any dilierene.e 'betwixt the words. also 'and like- ,
wise, when a Geutleuiarr who overheariti, the ..elaes-
tion, replied," Ycs, there is.; forinstance, Mr.: Due-.
ning is a lawyer, and you area lawyer also, h'it not
a Idwyerlikewise." And Lord Chatham might give
in his Narratiye ; Sir Richiird Stractr.ll might give in
his :also, but not likewise. Tne latter had not the
same access to the Sovereign. Ministers 'were ex-
tremely injudicioas.in the opposition whichthey tram
' to his motion, fer;who.kne%V. but Lord,Chatham'had
poisoned the royal var_against. themselves ? they
examined his Majesty's ,scrutoire they •ini-ght find a..
,pieCe of paper,.- whith perhapt. -Would Make the-
Chancell9r Of the Excheciuer arid .his colleakio exa'
claim with Sir Peter Teazle and Joseph Surfaceie the
Scliool for. •S-canilal-.` Lord Chatham, by all that's
wonderful !" and on-disco--ering another prit,ate Com- -
nannication,h LordChatham,•by alit!) it'sdirtnnable!'
It might' not be impossible but. Lord Chatham had
not only thrown blame on Sir:Rich. Strac- ad, hilt on
the ,Ministry;-and assigned such TeasonS as might be
important tor-the House to know. It was well known
• that a• wily Ki ig, who lived at the end of the 17th
century; heard the mutual. accusatiOns of Ors Mini-
sters, and thereby 'kept there incomplete subjeetioo,
to the,great jnjuryof the people. Such a practice was
not expected in the present King's reign ; but who,
could say, what a future Moiiarch might
.‘lO, . if
ifieans-wer=e net taken to prevent it ? At present
the
.Country, suffered severely through the incapa-
city. of. those. w Ito ruled them, and he thonaht any.
additional 'pressure would crush them.„: f-fe' herd
heard a• great dear of Cabinet dinners lately, which
induced, hirn'to say,•,that •if Ministeri meant tq par-
take of Cabinet supper,, aftru. the cliscussiim, which
they had hcard,, he wished them ell tile:, appetite,
•
they *could command. : • • ,
Strangers were- then exeluded, and the House
divided Ull Mr. -Whithreacrs 'rnUtion— •
Ayes ..... ,7s •
• • • Noes - - - 171
- . ,'Majority
On Our re-admission into the Gallery, the
,Order,
,of the Day for' going'lnt6 a Conithitte of Supply to
Votethe Army 12. st itnates lvas-moved.
A conversation then ensued as to the propriety of
an adjournint'rnt, -when ;he orderr-of the clay
moved, -fur the Hou,e, going into Committee
of Supply, _ , •
Sir THOMAS TURTON:said, that if
.it was Meant to
vote the Army• Estimates in the Committee ~of
Supply, he shOuld certainy oppose it, as he would
not trust the ..present AdMirlistratjork,.wlth one.
farthing of the public 'moneyffOr: maintaining the
army, after the imprOvident Use, they. had made of
what l'ad,hcieu-voted last year to scipport '132,000
men, which number, in three.rtiontils, were reduced'
to 16,000 men.
. • •
General GASCOYNE wished the Army Estimates
,to be postpened, as he
.should feel it his duty to
Speak at sortie length- upon thetne-and other Gentle-, •
men would likely do' the satne.'
The Cita igcEi..t.ort of the EXCIJEQUER said, that
to withhold any army floret the Ministers was not a
proper wily to retklove them and serve the country:
The propel- way to remove them; was to make a mo•-•
lion in the HouSe for- their removal, when they
shonlil•not be afraid to meet hiin.

e,lonel WARELe expreskd. a wish that the Army
Estimates shonli be postponed to a futute evening,
when an itn-;;oriant ..',.)curnent., for which he bad
moved, -sliould be !ilia ins,:fore,thetn ; he Meant
a return .o 1 alt the Staff? Office:ts .employed iii
the United. Kingdom. When th•lt return should he,
made,- he expected' to prove that gross corruption
prevailed. in that' department of the service. tindet.
it very large sums of money were paid to Foreigners
who had beb brought over to this 'Country.
It WAS at length agreed that tee Army 'EStimateS
shouldbe iiroposed on. Monday next, and the consi-
deration of the Message respecting the. Portuguese
troops postponed till Friday next.—Adjourned at
Half past •