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in a diitina estimate, as not properly beloneng to
the estimates of the Navy.

Mr. TIERNEY observed, that the boasted saving
was in word and 'not in deed. The public would
still tvve the money to pay. The proposed altera--
tion, iii his opinion, would only puzzle the. ac-
counts, and he was therefore against the change' as
he thought it better to let the busi,ness go on in the
old coarse.- ' •

After a conversation across the table, bet Wen
!Ir. Cakraft, Mr. Davies Giddy, the 'Chancellor
of the Exchequer, Admiral Markham, and Mr.
Ward, the ,follovvirif; sopvties were voted :

A
For. Wages • ',99t,750
For ,Viaualling - - 3,997,825
For Wear and Tear - - 3,295,70*
For Ordnance . - 591,000

Total tb,877,2.75
The Report was ordered to he received to-morrow.
REVERSION BILL.

On the motion of Mr. BANKES, the A& of the last
Session for suspending the granting of Reversions
having been read,
Mr. BANKES began by observing, that when he
gave notice of his intention to move for- leave to
bring in a' Bill to render the A& perpetualy he had
very little expe&ation that he should be compel-
led to trouble the House at any length on the sub-
let*, or that his motion would meet with that op-
position which he had since learned would be made
to it. With equal surprize and concern, he bad
heard of his Right Hon. Friend's intention to:pro-
pose the substitution of t Bill similar to that of the
fast Session. What his Right Hon. Friend's rea-

sons were for (big' proceeding he could best ex-
plain himself 3 but however' they -might operate
on his- mind, he trusted that they would not in-
duce the House to depart from ' that consistent
line of conduct which they. had pursued on this
subjed on two former occasions. That his Right
Hon. Friend's objedions to the measure which he
was about to prOpose, were not founded on, any
rational principle, could be clearly demonstrated by
a retrospeaiVe view of the history of the bill,
and of the various matters connetied with it ;
and to this view he intreated the particular at-
tention of the House. In the first, which indeed
was also the last, Session of the last short Parlia-
ment, a- Committee for investigating the state of
public expenditure wes instituted. In the discharge
of his duty, as Chairman of that Committee, he (Mr.
Bankes) presented to the House a Resolution "That
in future no office or place ought to be granted. in
reversion." The house adopted a bill proposed by
him on that resolution ; and when that bill w:ts pre-
sented, not one word was said in opposition to it.—
This bill went successively through those stages in
which measures of such a nature were. always -dis-
cussed—the second reading; and the committal ; but
its further progress was' arrested by the dissolution
of Perhamene In the speech made from the Terone
on that occasion, his Majesty wasigractiously pleased
to express hi, ssatisfaetion at the proceedings of the
House of Cornsions, with reaped to the reformation
of the public exptinditure, the only overta..t of which
. was the bill that had beet, founded on the resolution
of the Committee of Finance. On the assembling of
the present Parliament his Majesty reiterated the
expression of his opinion of the expediency of Taro-
seeming a Farliamenerry inquiry to re.erelite of toe
Public Expenditure, and repeated his approbation of
the conduct of the former Parliament. Again he
(Mr. Rapkes) presented ehe'same Bill ; it received
the same unanimous support, and in a short time it
passed the 'House ofCorninons,- and aids carried to
the other Houle. Very unexpectedly towards the
close of the Session, the Bill was thrown out of the
House of Lords. Constant to their purpose, detei,
mined not to abandon a measure ,which they con-
ceived pregnant with advantages to the Constitution
and the Country, and yet precluded by the late pe-
riod of. the SeSsion from originating any Bill of a si-
milar nature, the House of Commons thought .
•fit to
Address his Majesty, that he would be graciously,
pleased not to allow the granting of any place in re
version during the prorogation of Parliament. In the
next Session he (Mr.Bankes) presented the selfsame
Bill, -notto,suepend but to abolish Ihe-granting of
places in reversion. That: Bill passed without any -
material opposition. Unfortunately-, however, it
again failed in the House of Lords. Afier institu-
ting a proceeding, by no means a common one,that
of secreting the Journals of the Lords;- the House
of Commons thought it
,advisable, as a tempo-
rary, expedient, to pass a bill by which the grant-
. ing of daces in reversion was suspended until six
weeks after the commencement of- the present
Session. To this bill he had lent himself, not
beeanse he deism-ea in the slightest degree from
the principle -of complete .abolition, but beceose
he was willing that this Huuse should proceed tem-
perately and with moderation, and in a manner 'cal-
-eulated to be the least offensise to the other estate.
Such was the history of the billto the pis sent pe-
riod. It-now appeared to him that it became the
House so do that in the most effe(au.rl rnantirewhich
their condud on two former occasions evince.] it was
always their intention- to do. -As the bill Which Ire
meant to propose could not be objeded to on -the
principle, he. imagined it would be opposed on elm
ground of inexpediency. la might be conjeCtured that
there still existed a wish in .another quarter to thwart
a measure which the House of Commons d. erred of
such magnitude and importance. Bin why this eon-
' jedure? Why Might not the House rather belieVe that
weiiue consideration haddoue away the stiange, and he
would sav, absurd view of the subject that had been
entertained in that quarter ? But even were it not so,
it was the ,duty of the, House of Commons -at all
times, and at, no time More particular than the„pree
'sent, to retain the good opinion of their constituents.
, The eyes of all the.cOuntry were upon them, both
of those, who wished to.preserve the Constitution
and of those who wished to innovate upbn it. No-
thing coUld.give more satisfaetiOn to the foriner Class,
and nothing more effectually defeat the objea of the
latter class,, than that the House should maintain
' their consistency, and perseVere in the course Which
they had so properly-undertaken. There were three
Pnticipal points of the, subje& which.deserVed to be
separately considered. The first was with resped
the public economy which it would occasion, an ob-
ieet interesting at all times, but particularly at a per.
nod when the taxes were so oppressive. The House
would do him the justice to iemember, that tie bad
never held out the Vain hope tirde any sensible elle-
viation of the burdens of the people could be ef1441.