Star.
London, England, 1806-12-25 00:00:00

, PAItLiA.VENTART PKOCEEDINGt

HOUSE OP COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. as.
The SPEAKER having taken the Chair at the Void hour.
Mr. MAY an it two other Members took the oaths and their
testa.
Admiral MARKHAM gave notice, that be would move the
Seamen for slot on Monday next.
Mr SWA N N gate notice that be &mild, oo Tuefday nest, mere
rn poitree to a future thy, the confider-pion of the PenrymEkc•
don Prieton hem the day alrdlly appointed.
On the Motion of Mr. Hominustr, the Eledtion Trial Bill
was read the •hird time. hatred. and ordered to the Lords.
• The WWII Election Petition was put off till the itth January.
Mr W. WYNNE obtained leave to bring is a Bill to continue
the Thames Police A. which expires on the astk of March.

entwAY iLecTinw.
Lewd IHO97ICYC moved the Order of the Day for the Deont y
Orri of the Crown for frelard to attend at tbe Bar. That Officer
accordingly attended.
Lord HOWICIK then moved. that the Writ (greeted to the
Sheriff of Galw■y for the Elcdtion of two Members ►or that coun-
ty. end his return to the laid writ, be read. They were read
accordingly. The letter Rated that the Steelton was t•oe ern-,
eluded on the rsth of December, but 11111 going on until all the
'freeholders of the county lhould bare polled.
The SPRAICER Informed the Honk, that there had been a
fulafequent return received. hearing date no the rith of 1). cent
her, which ma. an read and which declared the Hon. D. Rolm
Italy and Richard Martin. Pro duly eleeted lot the raid county;
Geed Edmund Nettervale, High Sheriff
lord HO NICK (aid, that In elmfeetience of the return lira,,
ews two Jays fuhkonent to that on which the writ we. ecturnahle,
and of the celebration given left night by bis Hon T. 'end (Mr.
Corry y that there was a material difference editing betrieen the
breath yokao Mg laws, and chore of Ireland. and that there had
been a precedent In the proceedings of the frith Parliament of
Smiler return received. without my cenfure upon the Virgil/ ef
the county (torn which it came. he Mould not confider thiSiKeiff
of Oalway to amity of that fort of culpable negligence 4rlitieft
would have galled for the revere rev Pure of the Ilionire; and There.
fore he Mould relineuilb hi. nutter or a motion on affairs day to
tate the 109(.4 Into further confident ton.
Mr. COR R Y was v.?, glad he had happened tithe in the iiroufe
left night. to give the Nohle Lordithe explanation to which he al-
, laded. and onirciTed bis hope that the Noble Low' would follow
up the fuggettion be had then, thrown out, by bringing forward
Come mrafitre fur the am.liora.hin of CR. hint Pledlion Laws, upon
„this phdb,• as vo, II m wane (otter. whop roily required It. He
bawd this wonlii teriour at (ante period ofitheirMnii when the
.Dontlemen wh•n reentrant that part of the Value! Kingdom mould
Ise hi dm* plae.a.
C 0481118.1101 4.11 TON Mata•lTTltftp Ways AND MIMI':

Mr. BIDOULPH. purfuancto the notice he bad
given yellerday, rote to bring forward his motion for
iholiffting the Mary itfually annexed to the office of
Chairman of the Committee of Ways awl Maass in
that Hmife. He hoped his condwft on this necafion
would not he confider ed as reftiltMs from any bofti.
lily to his Majeily'a prefent Mirhrs. of whole ho.
sour, iategrity, and anccuty. is promoting public

elegloompahle was convinced, elk Ahdp sever woikld
hi' , te recommendation of inane policy e
sort O tbe• peech from the Throne. • It teat, with
;ache seatessfl relußance. be brought forward finth a
*,:s;,;-o omit be could not (ores& hit dute as a ltifetn..
of Pailiameor, through. hn ;moat* or patina'
efards for Adminißration, although he was roue
thet.the Weight of great talents naafi:Le )00 his
Anneion..Towerdather Gentleman who Was generally
trontldered as deUined to fill the fituation, he could
not be iuppofed to aft with any ft-Aide fisting, far
he had hest inhabits of (hie intimacy and friendlkip
with Wm from his earliell -daps, and no man kitten"
!tined a higher rofpsd for hischarader and abilities; 1
and even (Mould he be ruccefsfid ice his. Motion this
night, knowing fo. wall as he did,,the liberality of i
that. Honourable Gentleman, there Imam man to
whom he would more readily appty-tn.mornor, for
tit
an a& of perform! favour. Public womanly alone
was his motive for bringing furwaed the propanion.
...-He had done it with the approbation of many
of his friends, fume of the moll difcreat Mem-
bers of that Houfe • and he brought it forward thus
early, before any Gentleman was appointed to the
office, in order that any perfon who Slimed it might
be aware of the circitintfances under which it would
be accepted. But when he adverted to that paffage
in his Majetty's Speech, in which hit Majelty, out
of his paternal regard to his people, at a moment
when new exigencies rendered new burthens rtecef•
fury, recommends the mutt frill attention to sumo.
my in every branch of the public expenditure, he
fhould c motive, that not to ad upon that recom-
mendation would be a violation of public confidence.
kriere the Hoo. Member read the pzffage in the
bpeech to which he alluded, and appealed to the
judgment and candour of the Houle, whether the
meafore he propofed was not flee-Airy as part of a
great (I km of public retrenebenent.l The of of
which he was (peaking was certainly important, but
,it required no great talents, nor any great portion of
knowledge, which any man might not acquire with
common application. Neither the talents nor the
Application neceffary to fultaio the duties of the
Chair of the Hoare were required in the u-her de.
pirtment ; nor did he think the former at all over•
paid, confideting the manner in which that honoura-
ble office was now filled. He taw no reafon why the
duties of the Chairman of the Ways and Means
Amulet not be divided amongll the Members of be
Houfe generally, or difcharged by forni of the young
'Climmiffioriers of the Tieafory, who received Jew
Wanes with verplittle to do for them. It might be
laid that the propoled retrenchment was an unufual
seaftire r bat to this he would anfwer, the exigencies
of the times, and the diftteffes of the people, were
alfo unufual, and the departure ftom ordinary mea-
fats perfectly juaified by extraordinary times. The
faring might be deemed trifling io the particular cafe,
but the principle was important, and in pellet nnifon
with his MajeNy's recommendation. As a meafure
of mcotrouny, it was clearly poffible ; and filch •
poffibility mild not be rejefted, without a deviation
from the duty of the Houle. A radical change was
abfolutcly nectraty in the public expenditures of the
country ; and, notwithlianding. all that had hereto-
fore been profeffed arid promifed, no filch fyflem had
ever yet been adopted. The. Hon. Member con-
cluded by moving a Refolution, " That the affign,
ment of any Salary to any Member of the Hook,
for executing the Office of Chairman of the Wayt
And Means, is improvident; and, ouster prefent cir-
cumftances. inexpedient."
Lord HOWICK was extremely lorry the motion
of his Hion.• Friend placed him under the neceffity of
oppofing a propofition cloning horn a Gentleman
whom be knew to be an attached fupporter of the
present Government. No MAO was more ready than
himfelf to admit the neceflity of that public economy
and retrenchment fo zealouffy urged by the Hon.
Gentleman, and fo nracirmilly tecommended in his
Makers fpeecli, as far as it was pradicable coat(
stray with the infertile rf the public good ; but feel.
ing as he did that it never was his Majelly's intention
under the injundion hated in his fperach, to abolifh
the emoluments ufually confidered as a moderate
compenfation for the office in qaeftion, he could not
think the Hnufe difpcifecf to adopt-a propiifition for
effeding in fish a manner the Paving of fo trivial a
fum, which was always fo fairly applied to the pur-
pole for which it 'Was appropriated. The Honour.
able Gentleman had fuppoled that a perfon was al-
ready appointed to the rffiee, and to all that he had
laid in favour of the taenta and•charader of that
Gentleman, the Noble Lord perfeftly agreed. But
the Gentleman who had been alluded to had nut been
called to. the Chair, nor was any appointment yet
made : there was no lettleciliderg attached • i the
office. F.•r a :erica of years after the Revrlution it
was paid rot of the Civil Lip ;:Sul of later years it
was thought expedient to remove it hop,..n etta-
. blifbment to which it did not properly belong, -and
to place the remuneration At the diferetion of the
Houle of Commons, where it hard been the uniform
Adage, at the end of every Se ion, to vote a coropen-
fation to the Gentleman who clifchai mil the archrout
duties of the office, in proportion to his trouble dot-
ing the &Rion. The proper opportenity, therefore,
for the Hon. Member's rooting, would base been at
the latter end, and not the hesitating of the Sopron
With refped to the Stems tweedy:ay for the r (ice in
quettion, Ile differed entirely from-the Honourable
Illetraher r- for nip Wily wax. at. peterfary for the per.
fon who flltertit: tit stoke hiatfelflreallers of At buil.
nets of the 'Houle, and to regulate aPtehlgidila the-.
~order of piroweffifirigitt eointnittees, as the Samilter -
.doeshfthe chair of the Houfe Miff; but he Sulk at- .
tend thelititife daily, from Its fining. in it; riling r---.
and, when the qualificati ins of mind neceflar I tot
and the laborious attenti in ;Severable front the
duties of the fiturtion, were confidetect, arty temete-
ration attached in it mutt appear hieing. It the Ho-.
ttionable Gentleman realty-thought there were any'
offices in that Honk unneceitty to carry on the 141-
finefe of its proceedings, let him move at once for
their abolition ; but not feek to vote awey the rens-
nerationaof thole. whole laborious attentions a ere re-
quired for the:eafe of other Members, sad Isr the
limner vearrhulry and ditpareh tir public farthing's...-.
In anfwer to the propofitiort of the am Gentleman,
for dividing the defies of the office micron the
Members Of the Houle at large, he would anfwer by
Me trite adarte; " What is tasty body'. blifilwis si
no body's bulinefo." Tholaviag of Inch an erne:nee
ter the conftent •atteetdante Af ArtesaYfon who .• pre
Reny, . mallet of the bufmcfs, *AI tie moor that 1
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