The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-02 00:00:00

The discussions in the House of Commons last
night related chiefly to the Navy Estimates, Which
were finally adopted by the Committee, and the
Report ordered. The Party tried two divisions,
the first for reducing the salary. of Treasurers of
the Navy 1 rom four to two thousand pounds a-year,
in which they mustered :21 ,votea tO 66 ;• andithe
second for pnaking tt. reduction of 70001. per ann.
in.t.he, Nayy Pay (Mice,. beyond the srivings ..al-
k ready laid down by the Estimates, in Aviiiell fifty-
, -,
seven ayes. suppot ted Mr. MAR-111g, to i.),.)hues
for the Ministry. i
•• ,
eg:ese matters call for little remark. When an
. Administration 'diSplays' every disposition to carry
iotoklfect 'a system of the. most rigid ecrnion)y-;.
when an A thkiinistrat hm, proves by the extent of
its •retrenchinetats _(as the present Adniiobstra-
lion has done) that there is no 'branch of es:-
pentlitnre so minute as to escape salutary re-
vision ; the puny attempts a Opptpdtion . mist
fall nerveless and harrnies, "us they did on- this
occasion.. Time mad honeSt intentiolis will enable
Government. to do tenfoll more essential service
to the nation, limn tilt the petty, earpings •at
trifles now ocenpyingi the Titans who, in their
owwconceit, defeated the
,Ineorne Tax. As for
tae amendment respecting the Navy Pay Office, we
shall not deli,ver our Op, i 1101) upon that particular
question, but: seize its discussion for .the purpose
of observing generally upon the, 8-,:biest yr it a„ ,
ti'hieboP'tirs, by the di,mi,,al of Cissks, Otheets, -
&c. from varons establi:fliments. thatso fir from
eXt.rovog-,ance, if .evur Chi ,cour.e was itarried to it
blameable VXVeSS by the ti.ivcripuent of any.conn.
try, it has 143:u-done .by , the Pli IN Cii• iiI;GEN:eI I
Ad vig.ri. . . ..„.
.. .

Cases of dikstress have come to mfr.:ears:
we have'heard of Gentlemen witiplamili_es turned
adcift, npon the tvorld to beg , .starve, after
hari,ig spent the.best of theindays in public offices;
unfit for other occupations,. and improvided for
by their late employers ; we have bad many in-
stances of hardship made 'koown to us, in, which
the faithful servants of, a .Great and Per-
phi, after labouring for, years on the smallest
possible Salaries that eouhl:,supptirt existence, :in
the hope of rising• in their several nvocatiotrl,
have been discharged in a wky which the poorest
Tr.ader would think shameful, were lie parting
with an old Clerk, or One who had.,*eryed him
hollesEly for a term of yars.
negnomy, we must practise, because it is not
only necessary but indispensibte. But do-. not
let ;us sink , into hard-heartedness, ingra-
titude, and .ingeoness. Let
,us. reniemberithat
though pigged and hurtheped for the moment,
there i 3 still something 41114 to the, chlf meter 4 I;
mighty Nation, end.tieithor s LtC,r ourselv.es to be
tat Orel! by the cotunion-p;:t(T.9 of the parsimo-
nious, .nor lcel. by the misrepLesentations of the
diseontente,diuto t) line of conduct, paltry, despi-
cabh4:anthlirty : in its means disgraceful, and in
its'end. injirriOns e-tf!!) En'the.paneiple oFecunomy.
The endeavonr to reduce the' Salary- of- the
Treasury of the Navy .was.,wortity: of . its Sty-.
call Jove noobjection„ a;
.we harp
already said, to tee the principle of lavii%lt expendi-
ture checked to the uttermost, but it is neet,3i4ry
to prove the laVislincss of
.the expenditure befor
we go nit with 0115 Skt*pill;,', V:tkilee to deg6:l6
the • income:tillotted .to
.puhlie services. Who-

. .
doubts, with any experience of public or
knowledge of the heart,' the inciti.
pedie,ncy, -and even, the folly of thus 'making
etninent taltint -as dose and con-
, .tined as a contrui:t for 'so 'mach of the red::st
produce of ibe For-th.. The Nation. -requires
services which can never be tounti among
' men struggling with the dvicetionantt meatiness of
narrow rir-Clltliatill)Ce. Wilt) Mill doubt, with an
eye• on the constitution: of human nature, that
the serious trust tn,
,be reposed in those men
ought to be fortified by all that raises them tiboVe
the -temptations naturally besetting exigent cit.-
claw:meet. The policy of 'inland cannot re-:
quire those miserable savings, nor the spirit
,ot
Englishmen feel pleased or proud of the ceconotuy
which allows independence to no man in italic,
but through long inheritance : or is there to be
no foundation of fortune but -low treachery.?
The. attempt to break down Mr. Rotes in;
come, has exhibited the avers:op. with which this
system must finally be. looked,oo by the genuine
spirit of Englind.,.lt would be thflictilt to point
out among the most meritoriouttlinblie officers, it
man on Whom this vulgar and retrenching hand'
'enald wi.h more palpable injUstice; -long expe.
rienee, tried wisdom, and Most singular and extew•
sive knowledge of British affairs
.(in their Most
important departments, are' 'among the dis-
thalami* which have sustained him itt the public
esteem. Integrity, is, thanks to the. wise and ge-
nerous spirit, of the State,' no uncommon praise,
of its leaditig then, but with eminent integrity, it
would be-difficult to find rt man who has ea,Tied
more of those publieand honourable feeliati into
private life, and has been manly, and provident,
and pure, not lea's„ for the peasant and theeot
tagerart Ilk estate, that) for. the loftiest worts null
services of the mato!).

'WINCE .110ENT'S [ICALTII.--'rhe general an-
swer to the numerous ' imparers yesterday; at
Carlton-li(ttise, itfter the PutNctt ItymeNT'i
Wry:a HigimesS'i beilitis is improv-
ing ' •

or VretclltlVa, «ill nut tots; be %.va'n't el. -
fary Republic is the character which- many of our
leaders,- borrowing a little phraseology from the
French; think intended for its by our destinies.

" SO great. a slngtiation in (bole (says n IMM-
ing Paper) was never known in the City as at this
moment. • One day last week; the arrival of oul.y
one vessel was reptirtecrat the Custom-house, a
circumstance unprceedFnted in its annals.."—lt
somewhat extraordinarY that with all this stag-
nation, &c. the Reventie ait Cusipiirs should, at"
this time he more than it was last year, whether
compa-yed in corresponding d4ys, weeks, months,
or quarters ! This fact is unquestionable, not-,
withstanding the croak about a eirenthstance un-
precedented in the annals (*the Custom-ilotise.