The Sun.
London, England, 1819-03-27 00:00:00

PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 26.

'Fli•• LORD CHANCELLOR resumed his seat on
the Wooliaek.
The Oaths vvere administered to the Dittke
i'm414,1(1, the Earl Cowper, the Earl of 1-lArti-
‘lick, ihe bail of Glasgow, and Lord Li!kw!.
S,,mc Local Bills were brought up frrin the
How,. of Commons by Lotd Althorp, Sir Wil-
li:4m Cords, aud other Alembers, and lead a first

thions were presented by Lord Holland,
frwn ti,rt;r, Ayr, and Elgin, complaining of the
fir,rcto of self-election in the Government of the
ghee ; from Epping and other places,
for a revision of the Criminal Laws, by the Earl
Gr•-y ; •trum the !Prisoners for Debt in Durham
Gaol, fur a continuance of the Insolvent Act, by
L reef Viscount Illelvilie from iron-masters of
Scotian!! against a Duty on Coal, by the Earl of
Hardwick; from the Corporation of London; for

relitf from the Duty on Coal ; which, together
- with several other Petitions, were ordered co lie
upon the table.
The Exchequer Bills in' Aids Bill, the Duke of
Wellington's Estate Bill, the Netherland's Slave
Trade the !,Itsbandry Horses Bill, Trelaw-
vey's Ditotee Bill, and the Poor Laws Amend-
ment Bill, were read a third time and passed.
TIIE NAVY.

The Earl of DARNLIiY said, he understood the
motions he was about to hying forward wouli! not
be opposed, and be should therefore merely state,
in a few words, his reason for making them. 11e
was fully aware of the necessity for economy in
e.‘ely branch of the public service, but if there
was a ity one branch more than another that the
public world feel least disposed to stint, it was
the Naval Service, and he thought i would be
found that this service had been reduced too low ;
for he was afraid, from the late arrangements that
had been made I,si h respect to the Guard-ships,
that if the occasion required, not even two ships
of the line could he sent to sea properly manned
and equipped. He was alto induced to believe,
that in the building of the ships all the improve.
meats not yet been introduced which were
calculated to pl.ce them in a proper state of effi-
ei'ency, when wanted. His Lordship moved tor
Act ounts of Ships in Commission, those that hat!
been repaired, tho,e that were building, &c.
L-tt d Viscount AIeLviLLE had no objection to
the ;notions, nor the least disinclination to meet
any inquiry upon the subject. He could conti-
detoly assert, that the N..tvy was now in a more
efficient state than it had been at a similar pe-
riod, atter any former war ; and so far frotn the
Naval ILstui)lisliment being reduced so low as sup-
posed by the Noble Lord, the tact was that tite
number of scamep employed tVas greater than in
any former peace, the nomber on former occa-
sions having been 16,000, whilst it was now
20 000.

The Earl of DARNLEY did not mean to deny
what had been stated by the Noble Lord. but
%hat he chiefly intent to allude to Wits, the inet-
ficit nt state of the guard-ships.
The Earl of LAvsaPoot. warmly eulogized the
conduct or his Noble Friend (Lord Melville) and
the Board of Admiralty, in placing the Navy in
the efficient state in which it undoubtedly was.
The Noble Eatl (Darnley), perhaps, meant lo
allude to the employment of a part of the seamen
in the prevention of smuggling ; but he (Lord
Liverpool) could assure the House, that the ad-
vantages arising from that measure had exceeded
expectation, as was plover, by the antrumt of, re-
venue in the two great articles of illicit trade, tea
and spirits. So successful, indeed, had the sea-
men been upon this service, that the Government
had been enabled to reduce some of the regiments
of cavalry hitherto employed on it.
The Earl of DARNLEY said, be did not mean to
allude to the emploinent of seamen in the way
mentioned by the Noble Earl, nor to the cavalry,
but to the present state of the navy.—A Noble
and Gallant Dike opposite (the Duke of Wel-
tngton) was enabled to gniti the victory of Wa-
terloo tvirbout the assistance of smart regiments
(pi Lancers, brit Lord Nelson could not have gain-
ed the vietoryrof raf,2l.,ar without good ships of
the line. What he meant to allude to was the
present state of our guard-ships, there being not
more, he understood, than one hundred men in
any of them.—The motions were agreed to.