The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-15 00:00:00

!:ronilli the continuance of the war against
Frat.tc'e; hutdonS whiCh they know not how tome-
' 1161.1-10, but whiCh they feel it to. be their bounden
v hot :t4i ;Augment unnecessiiilv, they therefore
h+tu ;;1v prayed his Majesty to direct 'stici a sum to
be,,paid fiin the,Droits of Admiralty- to the COIF.;
solidated Fund as would purchase- the Annuity re-
(priced. . •
The.CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHE4TJEE thought-.
there wire but •few.in that. House who would stip;..
port the motion. An Address to-the
.liling; praying
hiin to App4 the whole of the Droits. to
gencfes of the, ,State would be less .^otletisie than,
that proposed. It-was couched in such terms; that
he could. hardly think the "flight Hutt. Gentleman
, s;.-rious in prupcising,it.., It set 'out - with taking
great merit to themselves, for. having made a.provi-
. sifrit for the Duke e.f..Brunswick, in obedience to
the wishes of his Majesty, and -then 'suddenly
-i'itrited round and -asked his Majesty to pay for it.
A-grant of 10,000 i. was. made some years ago to
the Duchess ot:BrunsWick, without one dissentient
voice being heard in the House. They might, as
' well haviz. ...ailed for that -pension to be paid Out of
the Drafts. The nearer the 'party was related to
the. King the more reasonably (night his Majesty be
expected to -assist them with the Droits of Admi-
ralty. lint the House ought not to act upon such.
a .principle: The Duke- Of Brunswick had that-,
claim to public liberality which had been admitted
_ to. those wito in the early part of the French Revo-
lution' were .allowed an. asylum iii this country.—
The annuity Was•not proposed to be granted to hiin
,fer his lite. ft was to cease. on his being able to
return to the Continent. After some further ola•
servations, the Right lion.
.Gentlemett read the.
Address to the Bouse, and concluded expressing his
disapProbatiop of
J!.lr. Citcgy.o,-o.id not admit the 'Droits of Ad-.
miralty, to -be the right of the Ciown. He then
took a t',e manner in which they had been.
distributed, since the year 1763, when his Majesty
ordered,the. whole to be applied to the exigencies of
the State.. The: Address „IJe could not ,whallytap-
.prove of. He would have referred his 'Majesty to
his gracious. address., of, 1763 ; have reminded tiim
that they bad Made 'provt'siens over and -aver'again
for his - Royal Family, and yet more, paid their
debts. Abiive all, he'could wish his 'Majesty to be
advised to adhere to.
.the principle. .00 .whicn..lie
had set out, when, :instead of. 70,000,0001.' the
.annUal expenditure of tilc country did- not exceed
10,000,0001. S
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Mr. HUSEISSON thought the message of that de-
scription, that it the King had not given up his heredi-
tary possession for t lit Civil List, aad the Civil List
prod to be unequal- to such aAletuandot.iNVould be
improper. If there was a fund
.a t.t he dispOsahof his
Majesty, capable of sustaining such a bur4ll,aprima
facie case was,rviade to which it might he wed
• applied. If such a charge' could be eistiwiLere de-
frayed, it ought not to.be thrown on the people. It
ought rather to be defrayed from, the revenues of
tt,e King than from those of the people. With
respect to the distribution of the fund, he had to
. observe, that it had been 'applied to the exigencies
of-the State.
_The captors of 'the Dutch ships,
and of those taken at Copenhagen, had all been
Paid out of that 'Mud, '..ithout being a burden tri.the.
üblic or, to Pathan-hilt._ When such retlections
were made on that. fund, and the Mailuer in
- which it had been used ; lie wished Gentlemen to
compare the diArihtitton 01 it in the last war with
the use that had been. made rof it in the present: if
application *Were made. to the House for that which
eu4ht to be pai‘t (Pit 01 the Civil List, they had a
right to inquire- how the Civil List was appropriated.
Mr. R. Dot.DAS coQtencled, that. the Civil' List
was not created to meet such charges., He vindi-
cated the Crown'frony r lie insinuations thrown Gut as
to the distribution to' the Admira4y.Droits. lie could
not approveof such a procedure as that recoraun
.by the: Right Hon. 'Gentleman; as the broils of
Admiralty was not the fund to which such an ap-
plication should be made.
Mr. Husktssor; explained.
Mr. BROVUHAM stated -the House tb hai7e a right
when the Crown became possessed of large sums
of money not voted-by Parliament, to call for. their
amount, and the purposes for which they were ap-
plied. If this•were not-done, they might cause the
nation to be precipitated into a. war througi' the
avarice of the Sever-eign. 'This was not..ameTe sup-
position Charles 11. went' to war, actu,rted bY such
prinCiple, in the hope of • Capttiring. the- Dutch
Smyrna fleet. Bye going to war thus, the profits.
arising from the Admiralty,..Droits might be s 9 lin-
menSe as- to render_ the„-.Crown. independent for a
time of the Parliament. ~The motion of his Right
Hon. Friend went merely to say there was a - fund
w.hich the pension Might be conveniently paid.
The question, was not whether 'the Civil List or
Consolidated Fond should be called on, but, whe-
ther or not the bnrthen should hill on the people ?
In times like these the country. ought not to be•
,called upon,' but in cases -where there was an abSo-
lute and :insurmountable necessitY,' and' from- the
admission of the Chancellor 'of the kxchepier, it
appeared the Drolts of-the-Admiralty were' sufficient
for that purpose: He wished to' get at a part of
that fund, as lie could not but regard it as, aroma-•
,lous.to the Constitution, seeing it held out an in-
ducement to the King to go to warcontitary• to the
interests of the people. He would vote for the
motion, considering it as an attack
,on the Droits of
Admiralty. . •
Mr. G. JOHNSTONE said, that during .the.adminis-
tration of a Right Hon. Gentleman near him, be
wished Jar. the -accounts of that fund; 'they were
immediately produced. by that Hon. Gentleman,
who stated the,futid to be subjected to the vigilance
. .of Parliament. 'Chad beenSWelled.to an enormous-
amount through condemning vessels. as Draits-of Ad
Aniralty, 'instead of condemning them to the, captors
as -formerly, and ought.tharefore to be looked into.

in partictilar to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He concluded, expressing a determination to take
the sense HO'n,e on the sdbj6Ct.•
A division took place *hen the numbers were:—
For.tlie Address • . .`"
Agaiubt it . . . . . . 103 •
Majority agatt4 the Address .
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.our re-adinittatice, to the Gallery,
.. Mr., DENT ,was speaking on a motion for. the-re-
commitment of a -Bill ; some conversation,ensped,
when. the Speaker observed; that as the circumstances
9t, the prpsent case were•different their
,nature
from, chat which he. a few days ago,took notice.of,
he was. of opinion that the - nould be recom-
rnited, inasmuch as the Member who gave tliepsti.
itig'vot,e came in tothe.ommi t tce-ropm after the di--
vision.had. taken place•:', was, -AcCordingly.
recommitted. • • . ,

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.The House he thought, was competent to examine
the subjeo,- and that .they would neglect their duty
On such an Occasion, tfieyfailed to do so.
Mr. H. BRowN thought it wouiti, be improper

to enter ioto the goeston as to tlteDroits brat

niomcint. From-Nviiitever fuhd the peusion might
be naid, it would stiii be under the controul of Par-.

liatnew: He thoog6t the Duke of Bi ons wick had

great claims on the, liberality of the country
Mr. TIIIHNEY replied to the, several speakeis,_ and

the Alen on boaid
.the tretisperts.. were almoit
universally yroteEled Bien, '': and not frt for _the.
King's service.. With respe:2 to his Hon. Frazirds
intention of referring these papers to a S,ieet Coro-
iinittee, he should cer airily oppose it. He did not
object to his Hon.• Vriettes moron for papers, be-
cause he wished every itrtormatiren to be laid before
-the' House ; . but he should. objed to employing a
'Seleet Committee to do the duty of
-the. Admiralty
and Navy Boaesl. If those Boards were unfit for
-the discharge of aheir duty, they 6,`u,211t to be re-
mewed, litit until, that was ascertained-they ought.
not tb be deprived of their funet'Ons, -
A short conversation beta cell the' Chencellor of
'the V,Kchequer, Mr. Wlcitbreed,"apdMieCroker tbl-
loWed, when the,aation was 'agreed to:, . .. .
• Mr. It. 'WARD. postponed his toot' Ott Which stood
'for to-m'6"rro"-.;:,..teeptßaing the Marine "Pay-OtliZe,
STAMP OPFICE, till further ifotit'e. .
Mr. Wit iTEREAD, according to notice, rose to move r , Mr. A. COOPER brotioht ul,l the Re pert of the
for correspondence relative to the Stamp Office.ce. HP 1 Navy Extraurclinaries. ' The eresolutions' were read
dwelt, on the -.necessity of reform there,. and pro- , and agreed to. " •-; - - . . --*
ceded to enumerate several items from a report hTE P
e. , ; COMMITE OF SU PIY. ,
he teld in, his hands. Articles which he said were
i, Mrr Foeiret moved that the Hoe tit and Holy:
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trifling in themselves, but at the same time should l, head Harbour Bldg be referred to" the Comtnit'ree- of
haVe come, under the observation, of the.Comonse is Supply. Agrear to.
sioners. He chiefly wished to call the attention of I The" House then wetly into 'the said- Committee,-
the Hollse to the Stamp departmetn in. Scotland, i when the following resolutions were agreed to :
where additiOnal allowances and salaries had been I. L.'2;750,01)0 to • his Majesty fur extraordinary
granted to various Officers by order of the Board. He ,', services of the Ai:my of England.' ' ." ' . - -
paid every tribute of praise to the exertions of Mr... 14'60,000 tot defraying the extraordinary sets..
.: : -Neel, the head of the department, but complained that i vices of the Army of Ireland. . .... :.
he.had not sufficient power to enforce reform,-with i "L. gBrrs to be paid to the. CoMnii.is,ioners of Wkrie:::
which he ought to be .invested ley •the Board of e Streets 'in Dublin. • . .
Treasury. . He concluded, by moving, ." That therq..i . 1,. 22;158 'for . the Stationery, &c, in the -Chief',
be laid before the Eloose;Copies. oftheCorresponde i:. and Under Seereiary- of Si 'cite's. Offices in Ireland, '
ence between the Boards of Treesury aryl Stamps; on ttorn Ike .5 th..linuary 1810, to use sth January
the sehjea of.theerevtstore of the management of the ; 18j4;.. :, . u
Stamp Office up to the present period.; ' also an Ac-, !... L." 10,000 for improving the Harbour of -Holy-
count of the Appointments in, the Uffice, and the,: head...:., .
dates-of warrants thereof aogether wish Accptints of L. 3,822 for the „Salaries. "of Lottery Officer's ine
all Removals and Supersessions-of Ottiets, and all . Dublin.- - --
Increases and Diminution of their Salaries.". Ur.... /Iva NE a -,wished. to know whether these
Mr. WHARTQN was of opinion that the corre- • Commissioners HOW claiming compepsationwere in
spondettee alone would answer. every,. purpose, al- ' office at the:time of. the Union: :' '' "" -
most every thingeelse relative ..to the suhjett WO 3 : Air. Foseew could not ans.wor theAnestiop,, ' - •.,.''.
peronal,-7He • dwelt largely on
_the chatilaer and, • I i.was objekaed,• therefore, by Arr.TrOnNcyfind-
excellent services of Mr. Neel,-.but acknowledged • Mr. HORNER; that this 'resolution hii,ii.a not tee
the necessity;: of a proper establishment in Scotland e. agreed to, because it :was".ridieulous to give_tofroeef.:
Mr..HUSKISSON slated; that it was. 41-i- Neel 'a sation to persons who aetually had, not: sulfered L,.5,‘•
wish to enforce the regular and adequate attendance the-Union. -..
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of the Clerks, who lie said were-shamefully uoder- , Mr. FOSTER observed, that.the resolution, might
.paid.—He observed that the present delay was Partly be, passede.end"if on inquiry. it should.' torn out .that, .1
owing to the ill health which ' was the consequence the individuals.were not in office on the •thnorr,
of Mr. Neel's exertions. !-• ' .::: •• - - then, when the report was broueht up, it :night be
Mr. We Sm ten
,said, that the time the Clerks are .• objeaed, to. If on iioquiry he should hod any`
generally employed in Offices do not-exceed four, or : ehange,.he.weuld withdraw his. paVtictiLr vote..
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five hours, and sometimes, as in the present casei -' Upon this - understanding the resolution. _was
not an)re than two,; it would be proper, therefore., agreed te. ~ •., -.- , . . 'Ltletr...; ::.:i.
to diminish their number. • - A sum of 35,130001.. was voted fur the. harbour of'
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER read from ..
How th, and, severei, smaller.surns. for the services of
' the Reporea passagewhich , strongly recommended inferior Officers in the Irish Department. . ..,
the necessity. of diminishing the number of holidays, The House resumed, and• the Report.was ordered
and increasing the hours necessary for the,,Cletks to ~,.
attend. He bore the fullest testimony to the ;pine;. to be raeived this day. .
The Duke of BrauswiclCa. Annuity Bill was read
ties of Mr, N:'el. : , • a second time an,l.committed tor this day., . .
e.
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Mr. WHITBREAEI,- though lie allowed every merit The-Irish Malt Bill went through a Committee. .'
to Mr. Ned, yet there were many Other efficiept After some observations froto Me. a..,Combe-,-
persona .in that office, who, if they co-operated, Mr. Foster, Mr. Perceval, Mt, Whitbread, &c. ',--b6.
might effeet a reform. He advested to the case of House resumed, .and the report. was ordered= to
.be
Me. Lietferuan, whose solar); was only e6Ol. yet, it . received. this day—the operation,of the :Ohl. th-cZirp:'
. appeared, he annually received I pool.
mpoce from the Ist Deeember.' . ee•.
A. tew :voids followed irom Mr..R. Duedas, when - The Scotch Dined Bill was read a' third tithe
the'question was put, and the motion agreed to. and passed. .
. Mr. WHITBREAD-Staid to the House, that if the . MrtlAiry ii LTBRE A D called. thenttention of the Right
late gecrt.tary. for Foreign Affairs was in, his place, - Hon. Gentleman to the report of ;the Exchequer.
lie was prepared to ask Jahn some questions relative Funding Committee, by winch it would appear that-.
to the late Corr !spondence with America. He did . same gross miscondua had been observed. by some.
not intend to make any Motion, as -he had looked of; the Clerks; when .the :Report . Shotald be taken:
into the papers"and found it unneeesaiy. • ' 1 into• consideration, this day, he wished the Right,
.. Mr. 'HUsK.ISSON, pursuant' to notice, moved; Hon:- Gentleman to notice it. •
"That there be laid before' the" Hotise "accounts of ' dat T 'Ci k , The House - adjoutne . .w.0.,
.o 'Clock this
the hired Tninsports in tie Service,' with 'their ton-
nage, ti"cc. also of the ships of war employed in the i merning.
late war, with the number of the guns andsearnen." i '
W.R.WAHD conceived that as the object of his Hon. i
Friend was to learn an eligible mode of the
• Transport Service, he would make a supplem"entary
motion, which was, ", that there be'laid before the
Houseareaccount of what purposes ships haie been
i returned from any expedition. •
*Mi. WEI.r:ESLEY' POLE said, it was not his inten-
-1 tion to go at length, at that' time into the subje% '
but he- wished to make a few obserVations. With
' respet to what his Hon. Friend,, fl (Mr. uski-ssoo).
had said aboUt the superiority "of- troop-ships beet '°
transports, there could be no question about it-; no
man at all acquaintednith. the naval *service could
doubt it; .and nothing prevented the Admiralty from
fro
adopting that System, but the finding 'that. it was
produaly,e uflojury to the naval service.
.13e 'wish-
ed 'strongly to impresS upon the: 'Muse that ' this'
Was a. subjea which had been maturely considered,
for it Would. not be fait, either 'for, the, House or the
Public, to suppose that this was the first time the'
idea had occurred, or the question had been discuss-e
.ed. Whefi the . papers which ',had been tailed' for
were before the:eflOuge; .they
.evoUld "see* that
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troop-ships had been employed.. last Wat, forty-six
he believed in
_number: It would appear, also, that'
they caeriedli 7,800 troops, at an experke of three
fourths more than transports would have cost; that
the number of seamen employed was 7800, and That
the number Which -Would' have been 'required for'
transports would have been about 2700. He stated
thii to shew the inconvenience resulting from
was troop-shigs; and in pOint ,of fad it a
necessary „consequence. that the naval force must be
reduced in proportioneas" they were employed;
,'ancl-
this was the.reason, together With the expence which
they ueCasioried, which induced the Admiralty to
.give them up. . It ,votild be for the Heuse to cen-
sider whether it wouldbewiAejir the Present situa-
titan 'of affairs ,b- reduce the naval force of the coup=
try. With respect to anted, trattsperia," lie begged
to state the difficulty which occurred in employing
them. They were Maimed by seamen who .I:`,ere
paid the same as the men on board the transports,
and thia. was a su'oj et-A:of considetabh jealousy to the
amen on boarti the Ichis's'shipS, .oio were 'pm:
oeoyed. upon the Sa.llie. se+ • ice. V.ri tll
.respeef to 'the
tramp-ships, he' iVas sure than when the_ papers
Were produced 7.- they. would prove the accuracy
of his statekrietif;.- the House would see " that-'all
the men enipic7 -e:d on b6aril the troop-shipswere
Men, applicable to tie Kiees..seriie, and that
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ZANTE, FEBRV ART 2D:.

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• Our force is thus divided :--General.Q3Fo3kitli;
the head-quarters at ,Zante,.and the.3sth
At ,Cephalonia, ,CoinnelLoweconimand2.,- with the
Corsican Rangers,.. and, two companies of ,the;44th':
regiment,. At Cerigo, Captain Macalister, . with
100 men of. the 25. th 3 and at. Ithaca, Captain Ti
cholsorr, with .two companies of the ,Corsicans.--.,
We anxiously wait_ the arrival a teinfofcements to
enable us to procmitagainst. Corfu. and 'St.. Maura.
At the- fOrmer the ,French have a considerable ,gari is
At the tatter they have about 4000 men ; but
being' principally. Greeks, and:. greatV disaffeetcd:
to the 'French,. we may view . it. as an. easy _con.-,
,quest:wherever we may chuse to undertake its,4&.
duction. -s•

We haVe -es tab:fished a provisional form .of Govern=
ment at.each of the Islands under blit-Sprotealion ; at'
the head of which are British Officers, assisted by a
Council cainposed,Of the Most tespetiable inhabitants.
This state Of. things 'of 'course only exists- till some=
definitive 'is- decided 'on.' The tenor -of our
Proelatmitions - hitherto promis-eg the restorafilJtsiiif
-the Sepiinsular .Republic. I rather imagine we
shall be .released froth that 'promise by a volunr
mry''act 'on -the part of the inhabitants • of these
rslands,:prAying the immediate firottction of out
sag.' They are by- semi [ben weir -- attached to us;
and all-powerful interest renders -them more so:
Their trade was perfectly stagnant during the domir
'Dion Of the French, and on our arrival we found
their magazines stored with the invaluable pro-
duce of the last two and three years ;• great part of
these, 'principally currants and oil, -have already been
exported: We shall not enake.dur fortunes by priZe=
money on thiS'occaiion.; I fear that our shares-will
be very trifling. 'At Cerigo we found a rich Ame-
tican -that bad' been,taken by the French, and
cuu-
d'emned fOr havihg touched at a Sicilian port.
A Greek-corps' is' forming here, and is already.
totripleted to 800 strong; It is expo. red that Ge-
neral Oswald, a most rneritorious-Offictir, will' be
-appointed.' ' We have not heard from. Sicily. now
-upward§ of three months, though the distance is
'hardly three days sail: We ;ire all in-great ill Ini-
-7-titiotti-- at- their neglect of us. The death of. Sir
leXauder Bali; the 'Civil Commi3sioner and Natal
•Confinan,ler at Malta, ,Who•I believe was the Prin-
icipal adv:ser of this expedition, has caused us a great
'to* • • . • \