Star.
London, England, 1806-04-29 00:00:00

CUISMITTIIS OF SUPPLY.

The Report of the Committee of Supply being
brought up,
Lord GARLIES role, not (he Paid) to give any
onneceffary trouble, but, as the Noble Lord had ex-
preffed his inclination to hear with pleafure and re-
ceive
with attention any fuggellions which might be
offered, to propofe two amendments, the one of which
he had himfelf already alluded to, and the other of
which proceeded rather from what had fallen from
the Noble Lord. The firft of there amendments re•
garded an addition to the pay of Firft Lieutenants
of (hips of the line, including fifties, who at prefent,
and by the rate introduced by the Noble Lord, were
to Rand on no better a footing than the other Lieu-
tenants. This addition, he propofed, (bould only go
to thofe Lieutenants who had a feniority of fix years ;1
and the rate he (hould propofe above the allowance
to other Lieutenants was is. per day, being an ex-
pence to Government of not more than five or fix
pounds per day. The praftice, he Rated, during the
naval aciminiftration of a Noble Lord, whore careful
attention to the interefts of the navy was univerfally
admitted (Earl Spender) had been to employ as lirft
Lieutenants only Inch officers as had a feniority of fix
years. While he was at the Navy Board, he had
carefully attended to this diajnßion, which he knew
to be highly gratifying to the feelings of the officers.
The other point to which he wifbed to call the atten-
tion of the Noble Lord, was that of the Petty Officers.
The Noble Lord had Rated it to be his wills, not to
confine this clefs of perfons to their prefent number.
If increared, however, in the way in which they at
prefent exifted, he was afraid Come inconvenience
might refult. He fbould therefore recommend,
that a new clefs be introduced among the petty
officers, under the defcription of Q.2arter Gunners.
Thefe men formed the prime Britith failors of the
navy, and he !book( propofe that one be appointed to
every fourth gun, being to a Chip of too guns an ad-
dition of 25 men of this defcription. There was lull
another fultjeft to which he begged to call the alien.
tinn of the Houfe. This was, as a fufficient encou-
ragement, in many inliances, had norbeen held out
to petty officers, that the out penfion of Greenwich
fhould be granted to their widows, mothers, or or-
phans, in cafes where they fhould chance to be wound-
ed, or lore their lives in the fervice of their country.
After Rating that he was ailuated by no party feel.
ing of oppofitioa in proptifing the prefent amend-
ments, but that on the contrary he had formerly fob-
mitted his fentiments on the fubjzft to the confidera-
tion of the Fri Lord of the Admiralty, his Lordthip
concluded by moving his lira amendment.
The SPEAKER fuggefled to the Noble Lord, that
this could be only effelled by moving a ref-Motion,
fpecifpng the was rum which it was wi(hed fhould
go to effect the ohjel of the motion, to be put at the
command of his Majeßy.
Lord HOWICK, after thanking the Noble Lord
for the pains he had taken in the bufiners, begged to
doubt the neceffity or even propriety of the amend-
ments fuggelted by him. He had never yet heard
that any greater refponlibility attached to Fitft Lieu
tenants of a line of battle (hip than to thole of a fri.
gate. In many inaances, he was certain the labour
was infinitely lets. Neither did he underfiand that
Firti Lieutenants formed a fep.trate and diflinft dal.;
fu lefs that fix years feniority was necefrary to pen.
c.oe them fisch a lituation. If the hit requifite were
proper, he thought it amuld be at once declared that
none elle could be Firil Lieutenants. It was well
kamn, to-, that, from convenience to the fervice,
from the will of the Admiral, etc. a perfon who was
Firtt Lieutenant of a !hip to-day might be Second
Lieutenant of her to morrow. S.) ir, this way the dif-
I by the Nobie Lord ld
wolf.—beof
prejudice. Th.it, however, FUR Lieutenants had
great achiant.yes over other Lieutenants. was to be
feen in the facility Of acquiring rank. For
in the battle of Trat.oo.lr, and in that lately gained
by Sir J. Duckworth, every Fir It Lieutenant had beer.
promoted to the rank of Muter and commander.—
As to the fecond propotal of the Noble Lord, relpec-
ting i-,2arter Guns v, the 1-:.d)/e Lord had mifun-
derar.od his meaning as to the number of petty al).
cers which he propofed adding. His ohjeit only was
to make the number on an age ten to each (hip,
being to the larger Iltips, probably fifteen, and to the
(mailer in proportion. The eltimates he had moved
for, would in no refpea admit of the addition pro.
poled by the Noble Lord.
The Itefolutions paned in the Committee, were then
put and agreed to.

FOR tICK STrekintDtill.
Mr. CAR R. after a few I.telitninat v f..trtelts. ttion-
on the ',office cf all perfons being obliyt,l tti pa, for
the protellion which their propt—ty received, Onots ed.
" That an ace unit be laid before the Honfe of all
exemption' granted to Fireigrcts; whit Tette* to
the Duty on the Dividends r 1 ,It•ick, in the Fends of
the United Kingdoms', er of EJlt India or Smith Iles
Stock, in the year tlfoti"
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQSER
did not oppnfe the prtiduflion of the Paper, but
thought It would be unfair t,i lay a tax on thofe who
were not reprefented in that 14oure, and that it
would be equally contrary to the rules of found pm

licy.
Mr. ROSE was again the ;41: operating on the
property of foreigner. t not fo inocvthat he thluglit
they were entitled to this privilege of exemption, bi.t
becaufe he thought it would occafi-n many of th=at
to withdraw their property from our funds,' and lo.ige
it el fewbere.
Mr. FRANCIS could fee no danger of the t farts
nor did he know any other country in which they
could lodge their money with equal fecurity. He
thought, that upon every principle of juffice, th
property of foreigners ought to contribute to the ex
pence of its proteftion. Betides, this diflinetion
would impofe an additional difficulty in the colleeion
of the tax, as it would not be cal), to afcertain what
pan really belonged to foreigners.
After font; further conversation the account was
ordered.

TN, WiLLESLIT.
Mr. PAULI, moved, that the Articles of Ins.
peadiment which he had prefented again( the Mar-
quis, be now read. The Motion was put, and nega-
tived ahnoft sinanirnoully.
Mr. PAULL complained of the treatment he had
met with from the Houle on a former night, and he
thought the time would come when they would be
lorry for it. Some thought it a ferious charge to
make againft him, to fay, that he had come into that
Houfe for the purpore of &ceding Lord Welk-Rey.—
He did not know white they obtained this informa-
-1 Lion; but if it had been true, and that defter the
means of judging of the Marquis Wellefley's eon-
duel, which a refidence of thirteen years in India
gave him, he thought it his duty to accufe him, he
thought it would rather be met itorious to come for.
ward as his accufer. Much had been raid of his
imprudence, but it appeared to him, that the rela-
tives of the Noble Marquis had bien at leaß as im-
prudent. He thought the Honourable General
(Sir A. Wellefley) did not much confult- his pru-
dence, when he (poke fo warmly in defence of thole
meafures, in which it was known that he was himfelf
mot deeply implicated, one of the charges being for
his illegal appointment at Oude. It had before been
Rated in the Houle, that every Rep of the Mahratta
I war WAS a ground of impeachment. Twenty-nine
Direftors had already, by their declared opinions,
ftigmatized the conduet of Lord Wellefley. It had
been Paid to him emphatically, that he brought this
accufation " at his peril." This was a language
which he had never heard applied to the *milers of
Lord Melville, nor did be believe it was ever ad- •
drefed to the Right Honourable Secretary of State
(Mr. Fox), when he *ceded Mr. Hafting'. He had
fuch an opinion of the guilt of the Marquis Weller
lacy, that were he to take (hater in the bofom of
the Prime Minißer of England, be did not think that
welter would he fufficleat to proteit him from thefe
accufations. Although the Houfe had, nn a former
night, refcinded the vote for printing the charge, yet
that had been the courfe in all the former precedents
in impeachment cafes, in the cafes .of the impeach-
ment of Lord Arundel, the Earl of Canby, Lord
Koningflzy, and recently, in the cafe of Sir Elijah
Impey—(The Clerk then read from the Journals, at
his request, the order for printing the charge in Sir
Elijah Impey's cafe), There was no cafe in which
he conceived the notoriety of the fats warranted the
publication more than the prefent. The atrocities at
Madras, the Mahratta war, the Rate of the finances
when he came to India and' when he left it, were all
matters of notoriety. He thought it would have
been better if initead of taking advantage of an error
l in point of form, Gentlemen had fet him right on a
I former occafion. He, however, now held in his
hand fome of the papers which had been moved for,
and which were the proofs of the charges he had
brought forward. He had charged him with the
illegal application and wage of the public treafure,
and, he was now prepared to prove it. He had be-
fore Rated the increafe of the Company's debt dur-
ing his adminittration, and had undertaken to prove
that it did not proceed from war, but from his pro.
fufe and illegal expenditure of the revenues, and his
wale of the finances. He then took a very ample
view of the lituation of the finances of India, at the
time that the Marquis fucceeded to the Government
of India, and at the time when he quitted the On•
Ivernment, and concluded a fpeech of confiderable
length, in which he recapitulated his charges again(
Marquis Wellefley, with obferving, that the papers
now before the Houle, furniftted proofs to fubltanti-
ate thole charges in a great part, if not in all ; and
he was ready to move for othrrs to futlain the re•
mainder. He would call upon Hon. Gentlemen on
both fides of the Houle, who knew. the bet, to lay,
whether there were not bani. which would become
due from the Company in India, in the robing year,
to the amount of five millions, for which orovifion
mull be made, if poffible; but which it was more
than probable mutt he added as a permanent increafe
Ito the already enormous debt of thirty one millions
' The charges he brought forward, he laid, were net-
' bier novel nor unccaillitutional in their principle
and having laid them on the table, be was warrant-
ed from Parliamentary afare to fay, he had a right
to claim and demand of the Houle the objet of his
prefent motion, which was, " That the Paid charges,
laid before the Houle on the 24th ingant, he printed
for the nfe of its Members."

1)1. LAW RENCE raid, that whatever might have
been heretofore his opinion touching the propriety of
printing the charges, before all the evidence in cup.
port nt them was laid on the table, from what he had
heard this night from the Honourable Gentlemen
whin had juh fat down, he mutt fecond his motion,
and lupport hini, if he perfilted in it. At the tame
time he begged leave to fuhmit to his own difcretion
whether it might hot better anfwer his porpofe, and
recite lefs nppolitinn, if he were to pnllpone bis too.
non for a few days, until the whole of the paper en
lisppott of the charges mould be laid oa the table.

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