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London, England, 1808-01-26 00:00:00

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.e. the power of making grants liable to abuse, tod ~ o
fact generally abused- The Honourable ~
questioned the fact of the liability to abuse. .
Thud- Honourable Gentleman may have been a tnat, a Thu
tn.. capable of performing whatever duty was aunt* 11, wi
he the office granted to him in reversion, at the tea . Woo
r ! grant was made. But others were not so ; alai . Heim
were many instances fresh in the memory of ,
around him, of reversions granted to infants a From
sr cradle. Unless the 'Honourable Gentleman w ,
acknowledge that to' be improper, it was in via
ion think of arguing with him. Others would e.„„ such
ito the pi actice of making such grants. The Right
hat nourable GeotleMan opposite (the Chancellor ti; , si
ua- Exchequer) spas in. fact but an infant in the inudes
'at least a ireit iripang minor, when a grant was .
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made to him in reversion of a very ]tic ante
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iep ltala n- now held by ale relative of the Right R oo; . nor,
Ito able Gentlensan, for whom he had privately - th,arge ec:
a r, . out
respert, as he had also for the Right Honourale
tleman.' •It was, impossible at that time to I
rtitanyg that the, Right Honourable Gentleman would u Arr
sess the brilliant talents which had raised hint to AMIN
obe distinguished station he now held ; nor took , t /au
. even have been any certainty that he would hue , , bees
lities to perform the duties annexed to ;be ,
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t granted to him in reversion, which as far ashe
Whitbread) could learn, was merely to coma . rice
• money it produced, before he put it into his ~ , **stir
(A laugh.) He thought it necessary to re-state , : the
- correctly the arguments on which the H „„,. , ,
Mover rested the motion, in order that those who •
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not reversioners may form a correct.judgmeut
, themselves. He hoped the motion would now ~ ' ' ila
tne with the same unanimity that had attended it ,Ai ' - ial
;it Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought it his dm .' a
. his state a particular instance in which the reform, of
's, of office recommended by the Committee of Inot,• Am,
ting Ireland, could not be carried into effect, in ~ ,
and - ter I
quence of its being granted in reversion. The ,
any he alluded- to was that of Customer of the Pet •
'ght .ince
b Dublin. It had been granted in reversion ups
at° version to three persons at a time. Two of thexi , host
Pal
hen died while the reform was in preparation ;Nu • d
right of the third barred the reform.
TER : we
Mr. HORNER could not suffer this gonna , ace
the Pass without giving his opinion upon the proptm
ntle- such a measure ; but more particularly he cook S
re- suffer to pass unnoticed the rank aspersions ... '' a
by the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. t,, . '. we
upon the memory and character of that- ', .. it
Pro- statesman, Mr. Burke, who, he said, in his . Spa
we to days had repented the services he had rendered
d ae- country. He was ready to come to an issue withlam
the Right Honourable Gentleman upon this qualm ex
Ise of Mr. Burke, in all his conversations with his •• ... .eh
Loider tar friends in his latter moments, in all his luta . ..-
then which he had written, nay, even in the very last chi fix
r, to works which he had given to the public, so feta con
repenting of that opinion, took credit =dhow O.
it me-
vhich himself for it, and gloried in the prosecetire d 'ld
d noteengra. measure which had for its object enquiring intot ~ not
teen of public rapine and plunder. He thought : nig
con- measure the more valuable, not because it bare.,
one
It the prerogative of the Crown, but became it was l
° put measure of reform—and this, perhaps, was the
d re- reason of the Honourable Gentleman's oppoitita. di
)er6e- it. He thought it a Bill highly entitled to the . • ol
of the of that House, more especially because it arose ..
us to the deliberations of that Committee, whose bulls , „
other e e it was to consider the best means of reducing*
ter of public expenditure and by whom also it was firm
commended. •
ye of The question was then put and carried in the -'t
sus- firmative, with but one dissenting voice, Mr. 1.. • .
Pre- Mr. BANKES then brought up the Bill, wid ~ t
intelY was read a first time, and ordered to be reads semi
the time on Wednesday next.
of in Upon the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Em ' a
rage.
QUER, the speech of •the Lords Commissioners,tat
those it
opening of the Session, was ordered to be referred' Be
"firm a Committee to-morrow. nt
a the Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved for an account th
been
er- number of Gallons of Spirits which paid dug.* id
e
Ireland • also an account of the quantity of Cars
any Grain, Malt and Flour, imported into Great Thai
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givennd from that country, ending Ist January, 1808. „
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inion, Besides the four mails which arrived yesterday',
hould was others arrived this =Filing. By these mails leto
ion of have been received from St. Petersburgh, dated'
lurke, Christmas day. These letters were forwarded fau
ry for Petersburgh to Stockholm by a special messesgui
and assign as a reason for this mode of convey
mself
that all correspondence between Russia and B
fallen
mad_ by letters, or otherwise, had been interdicted. II"
gave letters also state that passports to British subjects,'
in the no longer granted ; and that, as several Swedish not
read) had arrived at Petersburgh, without bringing of
e no
English letters, it was inferred, that the add's°
duty,
of letters from this Country into Russia was ion
to do
-louse be prevented, in compliance with the wishes of lik
:rOwil POLOON, ALlMANosit's new ally.
lf the Accounts had reached St. Petersburgh of tki
mane suing of the Order of Council, relative to the o'
at a coerce of neutrals, and had excited- 'a strong 1/1.
traor- sation. .
indt
nude, o Ho- The articles from Petersburgh, whichaPPear
Continental Journals that have reached ns, are Da.
office
,ht Of late by some days as the letters above alluded to''
i ful
to re- In the preceding columns, our Readers will °
lupus few foreign articles worthy of a perusal.