Star.
London, England, 1815-04-11 00:00:00

init-eltY, who iiad directed xlOO to 6e pild
The expense of carryins Bonaparte to Elba was thus
left to tall on Captain Usher, a man in Knolerate cir..
cemstilaces, with a fathily, who had Leen engaged it
135 actions, and who was called on unexpectedly to
perforin a very extraordinary and delicatt service, and
had performed it to the satisfaction of all parties..--;.
This he contended was a case of great hardship, and
obe trusted it would be taken into consideration' end
that Captain Usher would be completely indemnified.
Mr. CROKER deni 'd that there was any thing
distespectfblto Captain Usher, in the supposition that
Bonaparte had kept his own table oh the voyage.—
This was commonly done, and it was natural to sup-
pose that it would have been done by Bonaparte for
his own accommodation. Captain Usher had never
been asked to make out his account item by item,
merely to state the expense incurred, 1,2, or sc(x).
When he declined to do this, the Admiralty could
do no more than direct the payment of the sum per.
mined to be paid in the case of a crowned held being
conveyed from one place to another, by the Order .n
Council of 1812.

Mr. WHITBREAD said the Right Honottrah!e
Gentleman seemed to think Captain Usher .vOO4
have been right to suffer Bonaparte to pay for his
passage. (Mr. Croker said " No.") He put it to
the Right Honourable Gentleman it any Officer, or
Gentleman, could have acted better than Captain
Usher had done. When it was temembered that no
man had fought more bravely, or bled more freely
for his country, he trusted some way of remunerating
his services would be found without wounding his
feelings.
Mr. CROKER wished, though he had already
denied that he wished Bonapat ,e had been allow.d
to pay for his passage, more torus illy to state sueit
had not been his wish. That could not be permitted.
No offence to Captain Usher was meant, in supposing
that, for his own convenience, Bonaparte might hate
kept his own table. He W4S anxious to state this,
lest improper motives should bc imputed to Captains
who permitted that to be done, which it had been
supposed it might be Bonapatte's pleasure to do.—
The course taken with respect to Captain Usher was
the same wilt that pursueds under similar circum-
stances, with Sir R. Cudrington, Admiral Free-
mantle, and tither Officers, without the smallest slight
being intended or supposed.
Mr. BARHAM said Captain Usher had been more
hurt by the manner, than by the matter of the refusal.
Sir H. MONTGOMERY was understood to say,
that if the same course htd been taken with Captain
Usher as with the other Officers who had been named,
he had not the cause for complaint supposed.
Mr. CROKER, as it had been said the offend
consisted more in the manner than in the matter of
the refusal, stated the whole business to be comprised
in two letters to the Admiralty, and their answers.
Mr. BARHAM repeated, the manner, and not the
matter of the refusal, had most affected Capt. Usher.
Lord CASTLEREAGH said, if the mode of
communicating the decision of the Admiralty ap-
peared ungracious, it had not been meant to b, sucf..
Had Captain Usher given in an account, it would
have been some guide for the judgment of the Lords
of the Admiralty. Without this they •:otild not acts
49 it was not understood a reward was desired.
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Mr. WHITBREAD had no dcubt things would
be put in a train to remunerate Captain Usher without
wounding his feelings.
Mr. W. SMITH conceived that Captain Usher
had thought his word doubted, and therefore refused
to comply with what to him (Mr. W. Smith) was a
very reasonable request. He wished to know why
the Captain whe conveyed Marshal Blucher from
Calais to Dover, had been paid sCGOO ? It was said
the Captain was not to profit by his guests, but here
he thought £5OO must have been paid above the ex-
pense incurred. In these things he thought there
might be a great deal of favouritism, as in the large
sums paid to Captains of ships carrying out specie.
Mr. CROKER conceived a reference to the stat'e
he had mentioned would answer the first question.—
The sums paid to Captains: carrying out specie, w: re
in consideration of their being answerable for the
money entrusted to them, for which they were oblig-
ed to give bonds.
. Mr. W. SMITH did not consider the answer
satisfactory.
Mr. BARING wished to know the cause of the
increasing expence of our colonies. He gave the es-
timates EOr three years to :hew the increase of expen-
diture which had taken place in Siert-% Leone, the
Cape of Good Hope, Ceylon, the Leeward Islands,
and Jamaica. In Sierra Leone the charge since last
year was increased from £12,400,000 to £16,600,000.
The sums drawn by Mr. R.. Hill, the Deputy Com-
missary of the Cape of Gond Hope, amounted this
year to £173,000, last year the charge was but
£67,000, the year before £43,000; —tor- the Lee-
ward islands, the charge was this year £507,000, last
year it was £300,000 ;—for Jamaica, Mr. Baker, the
Commissariat, drew this year for £426,000, last
year the charge was £160,000, the year before
£58,000. If these settlements continued thus to in-
crease our expences, it was impossible we could keep
them long,
Mr. LUST INGTON and Mr COULDBURN shortly
answered the last speaker. They stated that the in-
creased charge arose from cancelling Government de-
bentures, and discharging the debts of termer years.
Mr. I3ENET f wished for wine information re-
specting the £1,900,000 to Sir James Duff, for remit.
Lances to Sir R. H. Kennedy, and advances to the
Spanish Government.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
shortly explained the circumstarces under which the
sums were advanced, and the cause of their appearing
in the present estimates.
Questions were asked respecting the conveyance
of Madame Tatisoboff and suite from Gottenhu,gh
to the Nore as also respecting that of the Archduke
Francis of Austria, his wife the Princess of S.,rdinia,
&e.-trom Cagliari to the island nt Zante, and satthc.
curtly answ red by Mr. Gould urn.
Lord PRO BY enquired if, in the Commissariat,
the Commissary was not, in some instances, the con-
traCt.i. ?

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, it the Commissary acted such a rat,, ice v.r.sa
guilty of a breach of duty.
Mr. BANK ES urged the :lecessity of enquiring
into the state and conduct DI that IM).t imputant de.
partment, the Commissariat. He huprd that his
Right Hut. Frisad (the Cbaocellos of use 1.14,4.