The Sun.
London, England, 1810-02-01 00:00:00

if they took awly the pewter of irattring Reversions
altogether., which certainly could not accelerate the
period when they-:.could either reform Otabblish
these Offices. ,Nith regard to the prerogative of
the Crown, he had only one obsenatiOn to make :
he had already stated, that -he did not think.that this
Bill would in substance affect it, but -it appeared to
him that if they could acconiplisluhe obiedt they.
had-in view, without making eveman unimportant
change with regard to,the prerogative, it would be
much wiser to do -so, and that waSbne reason why.
he preferred the plan of suspending the power- Of
granting Reversions to ALIA of taking it away alto-
gether. When the House had entered into am exa-
mination with regard to all the Offices reported. ia.y
the Committee of Finance, it would then Have an
opportunity of exercising its judgment with resped
to the reform or abolition, and to toe Sider whether
it would be wise or aavantageous to take- away the
power of granting Reversions altogether. This tier-
tainly was a subject that required some consideration,
because there right exist cases-in Which the :public
may sustain coosidtrable inconvenience from the c'r-
curnstatice of an Office not being granted in Rever-
sion.. He alluded to a case to which the public at-
' tention had recently been drawn in a very melan-
choly way,- and begged Gentlemen to consider what
might be the conseqcence of a vacancy in such an
Office happening two or three days before the issue
of any sum of money for an import ant publie sp-vice;
suet], for 'instance, as paying the dividends. 'The
cteisequeoce must be, that the issue of the money
must be deferred till the OffiCe was filled*. In
fad, the inconvenience resulting -from such "a
-case
might be so great, that he thought it would be-ne-
cessary to. bring in a Bill- to make some provision
upon the subject. "He wished again to repeat, that
in an economical point of view, he did not think
thiS Bid would be productive of the least advantage
to the publice" because 'when they had once' deter-
mined what Offices they would reform or abolish,
certainly the power of granting Pisces in Reversion
or in Possession could make no difference whatever
to the public, as far as-economy was concerned.—
He should not occupy any more of the time of the
House upon this subject; not 'considering the Bill
as very important either one way or the 'other, as
other Gentlemen did, he -had adopted that Middle
course which appeared to him the best calculated to
promote the public convenience. Thosew ho d id think
this an important measure, were certainly right in
persevering in it ; but he was convinced that they
would be disappointed in their expectations. The
proposition, therefore, that he had to submit to the,
House was, that instead of bringing in a Bill to
render the suspension permanent, the title of it
should be, " A. Bill to continue, for a time to be
limited, the. Act of laAt Sessiows ;" at the same
titne, if he found the sense of the House strong
the 'other way, he should not persist in his Amend-
ment. _

Mr, PONSONBY remarked, that the Aight Hon.
G3ntleman had taken care to confine his observs-
ti.ms to that point which was the least important in
the present subject, namely, the consideration of
public econ)my, and kid ,with great prudence
passed by all those topics of "more material in-
terest, which might be found in the undue Mi-
nisturial influence, which the measure now pro-
posed tended to curtail. It was eviderit,that by the
nraetice of sranting reversions, the legitimate in-
fluence of the Crown was diminished, and the Mini-
ster of. the day was. compelled to loOk out tor
other and for undue means to support his own in-
dividual power.