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;',='tnen, who were always, ready to take au oppor.-
tuu4y when it ottered, of iaiing a elainour against
any one opposed to theni
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would perbaps-atioid ro satisfaction to the Gentle-

tuen opposite to him ( judging from the effeEt
Which had .been Produced Upon them by the state-
, ' mem of a similar 'circumstance respeeling him-
self) when he stated, that the recommenda-
' rion which an Honourable Gentleman had, given
to his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Yorke) re-
Speaing the receiving of his salary, had already been
aced upon by his Right Hon. Friend, who had
declared thatin consequence of his having received
the office of Teller of the Exchequer, lie would. not
accept of the additional cuoul. a year which had
been added to the office of First Lord of the
( Admiralty at the time that office was filled by Mr.
I'. Grenville. It had been said, that the circum-
stance of his not accepting the salary of his office
of Chancellor of the Exchequer, had not ;een made
',known to the public. Certainly it had not, nor
would it now have been mentioned, if it had not
.been Called for by the obsereations' of the .Gentle-
men opposite to him. It was not a thing which :he
.w4lred to boast of, because he did not think there
was any peculiar merit in it. There had been such.
a variety of opinions broached upon this. subjea of
sinecure places, that he was sure if his Hon. Friend
Mr. Bankes) expecled by his proposition to con-
ciliate that part of the public who were hostile to
• the continuance of these offices, he would find him-
eell grossly mistaken. Did hit Hon. Friend think
Iron) what had fallaUfrom those Gentlemen who
had followed him in the debate, that they would
be less inclined to find fault if his plan were
adopted than they were at present ? He eas sure
that would: be deceiving themselves and the pt b:ic
it they flattered, thamselst s that they would give
More satisfaction by the adoption of the pew plan,
than by adhering to the one now in existence. In
Opening his propositiOn to the House, his Honour-
able Friend had not stated what degree of qualifica-.
• tion he would require to entitle a person to one of
these pensions which he proposed to substitute for
sinecure offices, nor what degree of right he would
vest in the King to grant or to with-hold these pen-
sions. If a certain number of years service were
required, it would be stripping the King ofehat
light which oughealways to remain entire of grant-
ing these places, or not, as he [leased. With re-
gard to the idea which had beea thrown out, that
Parliament ought to regulate the granting these
• Places or pensions, he was sure that no man ac-
quainted with the spirit with which que-Stiona of
that kind were, discussed in Parliament, seriously
wished to vest it eith that poeer. As a proof of
the justice of this assertion, he would refer to the
case of Lord North. It would not be denied that'
at the conclusion of that Noble Lord's Administra-
lion, he would have been entitled to some rernueera-
tion for his long services ; but with what face could
the Gentlemen who succeeded him, and who had
been constantly accusing him of having by his
'Councils, ruined the Country, propose to grant him
pension ? it would be t erefore absurd to vest in
the House this poWer of rewaiding merit, because
its decisions would always be influenced to a certain
degree by party considerations. What bad occurred
With regard to himself %vireo be -came info office,
respeeting the Chancellorship of the. lluchy of
Lancaster, afforded another ,proof of the justice ,of
his assertion, for be was cons inced that that vote
Would not have passed at any -ether time, and
.Was only .proposed then with view of keep-
. jog him from accepting office. Did Gentle-
Men mean to contend that the grant of an
Of an office or pension, during pleasure, was more
'likely to secure the independence of 'the person,re-
ceiving it, than one granted for life ? But there was
'another condition which it was proposed to annex to
this substitution of offices for pensions—that was;
that the pension should be what was called " a
floating pension," and that in case of the individual
accepting an office, or. receiving any addition pf pri-
vate fortune, he should lose the pension. Now,
did his Hon. Friend really think that it would be a
proper employment for the House of Commons to
be sitting in judgment upon the increase or decrease
of the private fortune of any individual who might.
hold ore. of these pensions? How far the circular-
, stance of a large acquisition of private fortune might
Operate upon the feelings of an individual holding a'
Pension, was quite another question ; but that such
a 'condition should be annexed to the grant of the
Pension, he was sure his Hon. Friend would not,
upon consideration, persist in.- With regard to. the
, condition of making the person resign his pensiOn on
the acceptance of an office; he thought it t bad one,
because a -person must, to entitle himself to a pen-
Sion, have had some experience in the public ser-
vice, and by a faithful discharge of his duty, have
merited it. The pension then would be given him,
not to stimulate him to persevere in, but to make
pica retire from the public service, because, by elk-
jog an office under that condition, he would only in-
Crewe his labour, without adding to his emolument.
' • bethought, therefore, it would be much better, in
ail cases of this-kind, to leave it to the private feel-
ings of the individual, and not to adopt any posi-
tive regulations upon the subje&. There was one
• point which had been argued at great lengele-and
which 'was of great importance ; it had been stated,
upon the authority of General Conway, that in the '
event of the grant of an office which ultimately •
!timed out to be more beneficial than it was when
-- it was granted, that office, though granted under the
Great Seal, and with full regal authority, rnight be
resumed with justice. A dextrine less true or less
safe it was hardly possible to imagine. If Geetle-
, teen considered what it was that gave security to
Property of every description In this country, they
,could scon be convinced that they could not break
•ia upon property, once legally vested, without e;n-
dangering. the security of every species of property
Whatever. But who was to resume the grant ? Not
the House of Commons ; for Gentlemen would
' not give the House the power to annihilate the
ieing's grant. Well then, it must be the King that
Ivoukd have the power of restering his own grants,
once legally made: but he begged Gentlemen. to
c
weeder to what an extent that doctrine
would
go.
It was true, that if deceit had been practised upon
the King, to induce a grant of an office, that deceit
would
vitiate the grant; but to say, that if 1 lue va-
of the office increased after the grant, that there-
fore the office might be resumed, was a proposition
that
- would lead to the most monstrous cense-

LONpo iv,

FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1810.

In the course of the Debate in :he. I-touse'ot
Commons last might, Mr. PERCEVAL staled, that he
has not accepted the salary or his -office of CHAN.,
CLLLO4 of the.ExcqEourn, in consequence of his

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be:ng in prrtsesilon .ol the •ofrice of Chancellor of . .
the Dutch of, Lancaster, and lie also said that Mr.
Yosits had :cleelined accepting the 20b01. a year
which was added to the salary of First -Lord of the
Admiralty, when Mr. GRENVILLE held 'that -office,
in consequence of his appointment to the office of
Teller of the ,Exchequer. The disinterested and
really patriotic conduEt of these:Gentlemen was not
attended with any boast or parade; and the fad
would probably never have beeniknown to the pub-,
lie, if Mr. PERCEVAL had not been forced,to:men-
lion it, by the animadversions which. we.re thrOwn
out upon him and Mr. YORKE. We do not recril-
lea that any of those who are now so loud in pro.
fessing their own purity, and . in making attackS
upon the characters. of their opponents, ever gave
such a proof of disinterestedness, when they had
the power of reducing their professions to -prac-
tice. •

We are happy to find that the signatures -already
affixed to the Middlesex Counter-Resolutions are
very numerous, and we have no doubt that, in
a few days we shall, be able to publish such a list of
names, as will sliew, beyond the possibility of a
doubt, the real opinion of the Freeholders of Mid-
dlesex upon the proceedings which took place at
Hackney.

The Declaration of the inhabitants of Liverpool,
stating their abhorrence of the principles and con-
dud of the modern professors of Reform and pro-
moter?, of Anarchy, has been signed by near fifteen
hundred of the most respeaable inhabitants of that
great commercial town.

The West India fleet sailed from Cowes yester-
day, under convoy of the Thalia, Capt. VASLIOiI.

It was yesterday erroneously reported, that in. the
case of Sir FRANCIS BURDETT V. the SPEAKER of the
HOUSE Of COMMONS, the Special Plea had been
withdrawn, and the general issue pleaded.--
That is not the case, but we believe the latter plea
has been pleaded in addition to the former.

The Bulletin received in town yesterday after-
noon from Dr: BAYLEY, relative to the state of Prin-
cess AMELIA'S health, stated, that her Royal High-
ness was somewhat better ,than on Tuesday and
Wedne`sday last, and that she had two hours sleep
during the night. •
Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the Prince
Of WALES left Carlton House for Windsor, on a vi-
sit to their MAJESTIES and the Princess AMEILA:
Yesterday being the PRINCESS of WALES'S birth-
day, her Royal Highness received the Congratula-
tions
.of a great number of the Nobility and Gentry,
and in the evening gave a grand entertainment at
her apartment's in Kensington Palace, Her Royal
Highness's trades7people all illuMinated on the oc-
casion.

By vessels arrived from Goree and Sierra Leone,
we are enabled to state, that so late as the month.
Of March last considerable hopes, were enterta,ined,
that the celebrated and enterprising Mungo Pa, k, so
often reported to have lost his, life, was still alive.
For the information of that Gentleman's numerous
friends, and the public, we can now state, that the
ship Favourite, of London, Capt. Truman, is arrived
at Plymouth from Goree. Previous to the depar-
tare of that vessel, information had, been received•
at Senegal by a native of the Mandingo country,
who accompanied Mr. Parke as far into the interior`
as Sego and Sansanding, that be was alive in the
month ofJanuary. Colonel Maxwell, the Governor
of Senegal, had, in consequence of this information,
dire&ed that a decked boat should immediately be
fitted out to proceed up the River Senegal, for the
purpose of giving assistance to Mr. Park in his inde-
fatigable exertions in exploring the Continent of
Africa. This account is further corroborated by a
letter, dated in March last, received by a vessel
frOm Serra Leone, from Dr. Douglas, who writes
as follows

" Permit me to lay before you-some inforrmrCon
respecting Mungo Park., which I was favourddWith
from an intelligent Mahomedan, whom I met at
Goree, and who had acted as a guide to Mr. Park,
from the time of his landing on the Continent of
'Africa, to his embarkation on the Niger. • He
states, that the.King,of Sego bad shown much fa-
your to Mr. Park, and that the report of his assassi-
nation there was untrue. He.had passed far along
the Niger without any molestation whattver from ;
the natives. My informant could hot recollect the
date of. his embarkation on the Niger, but thick s it
must be about three years ago. Mr. Park had taken
four months provisions for himself and two follow-
ers, with whom he intended to proceed to. the east-
ward, and onwards' as far as the Red Sea. Some
traveller4, who had fallen in with this guide, in-
formed him, that about two or three months subse-
quent to Mr. Park's embarkation, he had been se=
verely scorched in his breast by the bursting of a
gun while- firing at some birds, but that be passed
Tombuctoo in the night by water." •
• Letters have been received from the Dutch coast
to the It2th inst. which' mate, that BuorlarAitrg
and his Empress were expected to visit all the:prin.
cipal towns in Holland. Great preparations were
making for their reception at Rotterdam. 'These
letters say nothing of the Decree reported to have
•
been issued against the Americans, and which, if
really adopted, is likely to he extended to the Dutch
ports.

We have, for a considetable time, ceased to over
any obServations on the subjell of the Catholic Veto.
We ‘vetv:, and still are of Opinion, that all the cir-
cumstAnCes of the times should have decided the Ca-'
tholici to grant this satistitolion to the Crown '; but
we must neirertheiess observe, that a recent publica-
tiqn by Mr. FELIX M'CARTHy, in justification of the
Veto, is well worthy of the attention of those who
are de,iirous of considering the su!-,jea in all its
bearings.