Star.
London, England, 1802-02-06 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

A poise from the Treafury brought up an account, &ming
bow the money granted for the fervice of IA year had been
dify,tfed of.

Lord (AL MBIRVII brought up a Bill for amending fo much
of the Act for regulating the fate of Pith, as relates to Eels. It
was read a fiat time, and was ordered to be read a feeoud time
to•morruw.

Sir 11. hfiLDMAY Lid. it was his intention to move for leave
to Lring in a Bill to amend tie 3zd Geo. 11. commonly called
the Loris .IEI. An Honourable Gea:leman had alfogiven no-
tice of intention to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend
the fame A Et, hut he believed thzir views were by no means
tie fame. He lhohld therefore with to bring in his Bill, and
afterwards, if the Houfr thought proper, the two Bills might
conGdidated. The irate of theft unfortunate debtors to
whom he walled, his Bill, to extend relief, was too well
known to tender it neecary for him to take up the time of the
Houk by commenting upon the fubjed, be &add therefore
movc.for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the 32d Geo. 11.
Lord GLKNItr.VIL Paid, he willted the Hon. Bart. would
withdraw his motion, and content himfelf at prefent with giv-
ing notice of his motion. The law in queftion had remained in
force for It-If a century, and therefore it required fome delibe-
ration before it was altered—A very Large part of the commu-
nity, particularly the trading part, were very much interelted
in the Cubic.% and therefore he hoped the Hon. Bart. would not
perfift in bringing in the Bill, until chafe who were interefted
in It, were apprized of its objed.
Mr. STUROESS Paid, that the Bill might be brought in; and
after being printed, the fecond reading might be poßponed for
force time. '

Sir H. MA LDMAT withdrew his motion, and put it off till
Monday.

I.O4GLINISCRVie moved the Order of the Day for going
into a Committee, to take into confideration the Southern Whale
Fidisery Bill. The Houk having refolved ler& into a Commit-
tee, Lord Glenbervie moved as a Refolution, that it was need.
fary to amend the kid BiU ; which was agreed to, and the Houk
being rcfunted,the report was ordered to be received on Monday.
Mr. Wll. DUNDA6 kid, that he had, before the reeds, giv-
irg notice of his intention of moving that a fum of snow].
which had been appropriated to certain fervlces in Scotland,
&mild be applied to the purpofe of building Bridges and making
Roads from the middle tithe North of Scotland. He wilbed
now to poliponc his motion, beeaufe fevers, Gentlemen from
that country, from whole local knowledge the Houk would
derive great advantage, were not arrived in town.
Mr. VAN t,ITTA KT brought up an account of .dl Places held
by Patent, or for Life or Lives.--Ordered to lie on the Table.

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQI/ER moved
the Order of the Day for the Houfe to refolve
itfelf into a Committee of Supply ; and alfo
that the account of the Extraordinaries of the
Army not provided for by Parliament, the Ac-
count of the Outitanding Debt of the Navy, as it
flood on the 3111 of December a Bot ; and the Ac-
cout.t of Ole Charge payable for re-embodying
a:lci calling out the Militia in Auguil, 18ot, fhould
be referred to the laid Committee.

The S►EAKER having left the Chair,
The CHAVCELLOR OF THE ELCHEQUER fold,
the Houk, in confegitence of the execution of its
r.v.•n ordcrs, R.ls in poffeilion of the manner in
the furn of z,sco,oool. granted laa Serum

roc the Extraordinary Expences of the Army, had
been diftributed ; and all.° of the particular Cer-
vices en which the fum of 2,000,0001. railed in
purfuance of a Vote of Credit, had been expend-
ed. In addition to thefe accounts, his Majetty
had thought proper to lay before the Houfe an
Account of the excels for the Extraordinaries of
the Army beyond the 2,503,0301. It was for the
purpofe of confidering thofe Accounts, as Well as
the Debt of the Navy at the clofe of the IA year,
the Committee were now fitting, and he enter-
tained no doubt every Gentleman prefent had
made himfelf perfealy acquainted with the va-
rious items to which the accounts referred. The
aggregate of the litm exceeding the eßimate laid
before Parliament, with reference to the 2,500,0001.
was, he was concerned to fay, a Cum no lefs than
1,847,1741. The various articles of which this
excels was compofed ranged themfelves under
three ditlina heads ; the firtt was the fum of
260,0001, paid to Mr. John Wood,the DeputyCom-
mifEirr General on the Continent. In obedience
to the form's of the Houle, he felt himfelf liable to
be called upon to give every fatisfaCtion that could
be required of him, with reference to the Extraor-
dinaries of the Army, though the particular point
on which explanation (honld be required might
not have been immediately referred to the Com-
mittee. He fhauld therefore obferve, that the fum
of 260,0001. to which he had alluded, was Rated
as an item of charges which formed a part of a
considerable, but at the fame time necelfary ex-
oence. It was an eenenre which :wore not of
mands founded on various fubfidiary treaties be-
tween Great Britain and the Elector of Bavaria,
the Duke of Wirtemberg, and the Eleaor of
Mayence ; and alto fums this Country was bound
to make good, in confequence of having taken
into it-. pay the Swifs Corps, and the Regiments of
the Prince of Conde. He prefumed it was not
necelfary to Rate that every potlible check had
been interpofed on the part of Government and
its Agents, with refpea to the charges to which
he referred. To the care and circumfpeCtion of
Government there had been every additional ad-
vantage to the Public which could be derived from
the feleaion of a man whore ability, experience,
and tried integrity, rendered him, above all others,
a proper perfon to carry into effect whatever re-
lated to the fervice of his Majesty. The indivi-
dual by whole authority alone the drafts could be
drawn in payment of the demands arising out of
the Subfidiary Treaties with the Continental
Powers, was Mr. Wickham, a Gentleman upon
whole probity and unwearied diligence the Houfe
could not but rely with the molt perfe& confi-
dence. Independent of the fecurity which the
appointment of fuch an agent afforded, no bill
had ever been honoured till it had undergone a
ftria examination on the part of the Comp-
trollers of the Army Accounts. Not only had
the greater part of the charge been fubmitted to
the Comptrollers of the Army Accounts, but every
item was Rill liable to be examined by the perfous
appointed to audit them. The Committee would
fee there had been every poffible caution on the
part of Government, not merely with regard to
the mode of permitting the expence to be incurred,
but for inquiring into the application of the mo-
ney for satisfying fervices previoufly provided for
by Parliament. He felt extremely demons the
Committee Mould be perfealy fatisfied on this
part of the fubjea, becaufe he was aware it muff
have excited a confiderable degree of attention,
particularly with reference to what was the opi-
nion of thofe more peculiarly concerned, as to'
the fums Mr. Wickham had expended. It ap-
peared that of the three Sulifidiary Corps, of
whole fervices this country had availed itfelf, the
eftimate of the expence for the Bavarian Corps
had fallen Short of the aftual charge upwards of
ioo,oool. The eftimate had been 594,0001.
and the aftual charge amounted to 694,0001.—
With repel to the two other Corps, the advantage
was confiderably on the fide of Great Britain.
The actual expence, both with regard to the
Corps of the Duke of Wirtemberg, and the Eke-,
tor of Mentz, had fallen Short of the eltimate.
He meant by this Statement to infer that the whole
of the expences under the controul of Mr. Wick-
ham, as far as they were under the controul of
that Gentleman, were jultified by the neceility which
produced them ; and that in all his concerns con-
nected with the objet to which his attention had
been direaed, he had acquitted himfelf highly to
the advantage of the Country. The opinions of
thofe perfons whole sentiments on fuch a lubjea
were molt important, had been unequivocally ex-
preffed, in apps oval of the conduct of Mr. Wick-
ham. In a Letter written by the Comptrollers of
the Accounts of the Army to the Lords of the
Treafury; they Rated, that they had taken into
confideration fundry Accounts of Mr. Wickham,
refpeaing the difbanded Corps which had been in
the fervice of Great ',Britain, and had found them
perfealy cone& By thefe Accounts k appeared
the fums paid by this Country to its three Subfi-
diary Allies, were considerably below the eStimate,
except with regard to the Elector of Bavaria—
whole charge, as he had Rated, exceeded the eSti-
mate by 100,0001. There was one circumllance
which appeared eminently confpicuous in the con-
duet of Mr. Wickham, and that was, his eitraor-
dinary attention in procuring fuch remittances as
prevented any Prince his najefty had fubfidized
from having the lealt demand on this Country re-
maining unpaid. It was with the utmoft fatisfac-
tion he Rated, that the expellees of the large bodies
of troops employed upon the Continent had, upon
the whole, fallen confielerably Short of the esti-
mates, and that tile accounts were completely made
up to the prefent moment. With refpea to the
two other heads of Expenditure, as Rated in the
paper in his hand, the molt confiderable was that
which arofe out of bills drawn from Egypt in the
iprhig, fummer, and ..tunin, of !aft year. They
amounted to t,540,0001. a fum which lie freely
confelfed greatly exceeded any expectation he had
entertained at the time ; but he was thoroughly
convinced that large as it was. the circundlances
of the war in Egypt had rendered it inclifpenlibly
necelfary. He was far frt.m desiring to link the
repordibility of thole who had employed filch a
lbm, by tugiiu der: frktalid and unparalleled

&cedes of the Britith Arms. He wffbed the Ac-
counts to be as minutely fcrutinized, as if Great
Britain, inftead of a glorious and well-earned vic-
tory, had experienced defeat and difappointment.
The Campaign in Egypt was one, of the molt ar-
duous and trying fervices an army could be en
gaged in, and unexampled expences had necefra
rily refulted from them. A Gentleman who Eft
his life in that country, had the direction of the
Accounts relating to the whole of that expedition.
Mr.:Mote, the Commitrary General, was too well
known to render it necefrary for him to fay any
thing for the purpofe of firming how well quali-
fied he was for the fituation he had held ; fur
knowledge of butinefs and integrity of character,
no one ever exceeded him ; the whole of the con-
cerns relative to the expence of the conquell of
Egypt, had paired through his hands. It had been
the opinion of fume of the molt diftinguifhed per-
fons in the fervice, that the operations in Egypt
would not have been of any confidevable duration.
It had been the hope and expectation of the great
and dillinguiflied man who had commanded the
army, and the lois of whole life the country had to
regret, that the fate of Egypt would have been de-
cided within a much fhorter period than that to
which a variety of events had protra&d it. When
therefore it was conlidered that the operations of
the army had continued for a much longer
time than had been expected, and that the ac-
counts had paired through the hands of filch a
man as Mr. Nlotz, the Committee, he was per-
ito..l-a• would bi- ("4" ih." 1.,4 not been la-
vithed the dealt unnecefrary expence. There was
another head of expence to which it was neceffary
to call the attention of the Committee—it was the
amount of the excels of the expence incurred in
the Weft Indies, in confequence of bills drawn
by the •Commitfary : this amounted to between
4 and soo,oool. He had no hefitation in flying
that he contemplated this excels with confidera-
ble concern. It might be Lid, that an augmen-
tation of expenditure was necefrary in confequence
of the Expedition againtt the Daniffi Welt In-
dia Iflands, and that confiderable additional ex-
pence mail have been the confequence of the un-
exampled high price of provifions. Independent
of there confiderations, the whole expence, with-
out fuppofing the 'earl imputation againft the
Gentleman who was Commiflary in the Welt In-
dies, or meaning, in naming General Trigge, to
infinuate that the leaft fufpicion attached to his
condua,hemult yet acknowledge that the taiMate
he had given was not fufficient to juftify the ex-
cels, and his Majefty had therefore determined to
appoint a Special Committee to proceed to the
Welt Indies to examine into the accounts ; to go
from ifland to ifland and enquire upon the fpot in-
to the facts upon which they were founded. The
refult of this enquiry would of courfe be laid be-
fore the Houfe as loon as it (hould be tranfmitted
to England. He had referred more particularly
to the paper in his hand, becaufe it was his with
to have put the Houfe in full poffellion of the ac-
counts of all expences up to the dole of daft year,
in order that the Houfe might fee the amount of
the additional burthens which would be necetrary,
and that no account might remain behind. Per-
haps it would rave the Committee force trouble if
he referred to the account on the table, though it
did not relate to the vote he Ihould propofe. The
Right Hon. Member Rated that the Debt of the
Navy was, on the 3ift of Dec. 1801, 9,073,0701.
and after enumerating the increafed amount of
the navy eltimates in confequence, a greater num-
ber of (hips of the line having been brought into
fervice, and the augmentation of chipping of vari-
ous defci iptions, the employment of crafts to pro-
tea the mouths of rivers, and many other fources
of expenditure, he obferved, that it was a fubjea
of finprize the excefs had not been to a much
greater extent than it appeared to be. That it
was not, was owing to the aconomy and vigilance
of thole who prefided over that department con-
nected with the fervice. As to the excels under
the head of Victualling, it was one he regretted,
kut at the fame time the term itfelf indicated the
Viafou—it was attributable to the enormous price
of fubfiftence during the lait year ; but it was to
be underflood, that under the head of viaualling
for the navy, a very large turn was applied to
victualling the army. It mutt be in the recollec-
tion of the Committee, that a much greater por-
tion of the army was afloat IA year, confequently
the charge under the head of victualling was ne-
ceffarily larger than it had been the preceding
year. It was to that he afcribed the excels, and
he trailed the Committee would contemplate it in
the fame point of view. It was impoflible, under
the prefent circumtlanees, to afcertain how far it
would be prudent' to diminifh the debt of the
nary. Much would depend on when the country
would be enabled to relieve itfelf of a confiderable
part of the naval fervioes : till it was known what
the amount of the naval eftabli(hment would be,
it was impoaible to lay at what amount the na-
val debt lhould be fuffered to remain. He trufted
it would not be thought too much if he propofed
a vote of 2,000,0001. towards reducing the navy
debt; and as to the extraordinaries of the army,
he fhould propofe that a fum to the amount of the
excels fhould be prolided for. He concluded by
moving, that a (urn not exceeding 1,847,1741. be
granted to his Majefty to defray the extraordi-
naries of the army incurred and paid by the Pay-
mailer General of his Majelty's force for the year

Mr. RoswN began a feries of remarks upon the
accounts on the table, and the -feveral eflimates
referred to the Committee, by alerting that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, when, in July-lai,
he had Aced for a vote of credit, amounting to
z,g00,0001. Itated gravely in his place, that the
extent of the whole he fhould require for the ex-
traordinary fervices of the year would be rellriaed
to that fun ; whereas, laid the Hon. Gentleman,
" I, knowing from the appearance of matters he
would require a much larger firm, advifed him to
afic for two millions more, and he fhould have my
fupport ; but the Right Hon. Gehtleman poll-
tively faid he lhould want no 'Pore (a cry of No,
No, from the Treafury Bench). Mr. Robfon con-
tinued, " Upon my word, Sir, he did ; I have it
written down." (At this a general hurfl of laugh-


ter pervaded the whole Houfe).
wouldadobrlzerevoendat, the
after Hon.
all
ctr.}7tilse:mipiaerno:hcai esmdfiluert:'
pilled and difappninted at beholding the amount
of the extraordinalies of the army to exceed
5,;};,1741. lie complained much of the cuaein
which he afferted had of late prevailed, of calling
on the Houle for large isms o; money, by
Iliort notice of their nee,ffities, without any notice
at all (a laugh again) ; and now he had reafon to
fay, that however much he had hoped from the
prudence of a new adminiaration, the whale was
but hope, for ha faw as yet no rata to fatifiion his
opinion in their mconomy. For aught he knew,
many of thofe fums might very materially infringe
upon the articles of the Union ; for as tyre were
no slates affixed to feveral of the items, Ireland
would have impofed upon her the hardfhip of de-
fraying her moiety of them, and for the truth of
that he app.r.led to an Hon. Gentleman who then
fat behind the Chancellor ofthe Exchequer (mean-
ing Mr. Nicholls). He then proceeded to notice
the charges for Black Corps, and alked, whether
it was intended to continue or dilband them, ob-
ferving, that in the one cafe they would be expen.
five and burthenfome, in the other dangerous and
formidable. From thence he adverted to the
army accounts at large, laying, that during the
ten years which the pretent paymaller was in of-
fice, they had never been finally fettled ; and ad-
ding, that he believed they never would. With
regard to the peace, however much he valued it
at tira. he %villa now own he did nut fee it exactly
in the fame point of advantage ' • and with the
knowledge he has fince obtained, he would not
have contented to it, nor did he think, would even
the Chancellor of the Exchequer himfelf, when he
refleaed on the acquifition of power and territory
which Bonaparte has obtained once the lignature
of the preliminaries : this he was pofitive of (a
very general peal of laughter arifing). Mr. Rob-
fon, in continuation, exclaimed, he was convinced
of it, and a laugh was no reply to his argument.
Having touched on thofe topics in his tibial mode,
he proceeded to the feveral items charged in the
accounts, viz. the fums of zoo,ocol. paid to Mr.
Wickham ; 100,occl. to the King of Sardinia ;
80001. to Sir William Hamilton; 67,0001. to a Co-
lonel Ramfey; 500,0001. without dates; 135,0001.
to Mr. Thornton, of Hamburgb ; 1,360,0001. for
St. Domingo ; Expenditures at the Bahamas,
amounting to 26,0001. ; the fame at Bermuda ;
another fum to Lord Balzarras, at Jamaica. From
all of which, taking the number of forces into con-
fideration, he could affert, that by the accounts
on the table it would appear, that the Extraordi-
naries of the Army would exceed the rate of sot,
per man per year; and no reafon was to be af-
figned for all this but the letters of the parties
themfelves concerned, and no other token of the
vat} expendirtre but what he faw in the refult—
from the fplendid equipages of Commiffioners, and
the luxurious (late of Jobbers and Contractors;
for, in fait, Army Extraordinaries have ever beea
the pack.horfes of every job. He calculated the
additional burthen this would place on the back of
Ireland as exceeding 4500,0001. for her moiety.
He defired to be informed whether the fum of
200,0001. given to Lord Minto, at Vienna, was
to be reckoned as ftrialy coming within the mean-
ing of Army Extraordinaries; and whether that
fum was expended for the act of our forces. in
Egypt ? The Chancellor of the Exchequer anfwer-
ing in the affirmative, in a low tone, acrofs the
table, the Hon. Gentleman aid, that Country
Gentlemen hearing of this fam being paid to a
fuperannuatedAmbalfador, and not having the op-
portunity of hearing what was faid by the Right
Hon. Gentleman in a low tone of voice acrofs the
table of that Houfe, could never be taught to be-
lieve that monies advanced in that grange way
could have been intended or applied to the purpo-
fes of the Army of Egypt. In the fame way he
fpoke of fums charged as paid to Lord Elgin, at
Conftantinople ; and for all this, nothing but Jet-
ters ofAuditors, Rating their approval ofaccompts
expended, without fpecification or date—letters
which that Houfe could not admit as proof, which
no Court of Law could receive as evidence; and
for the truth of that he appealed to the Attorney-
General himfelf. Having then glanced at other
items, fums iffued for fubtidies, and other engage-
ments with Foreign Princes, he concluded with
giving the queftion his negative.
Mr. MARTIN (of Tewkelbury ) faid he mull return
thanks to his Hon. Friend for having entered fo
largely into the bufinefs before the Houfe. It was
high time for that Houfe to examine minutely into
the expenditure of the public money; particularly
when a General EleCtion was in all probability not
far diaant ; and when every Member fhould give
an account of his conduct to his Conftituents. He
hoped that what had already happened would dif-
guft the people againa foolifh and unneceffary
wars, and a fcandalous expenditure of public mo-
ney. He would never oppofe any MiniAer, as long
as filch Miniaer continued to bring forward )good
and ufeful meafures. He was forry to fay, that in
his opinion the Houfe had not treated his Honour-
able Friend with the refpeet which as a Member
he was entitled to. They anfWered his obferva-
Itions not by argument, but with a laugh and a
' freer. It was the duty of the Chair to proted a
Member in loch a fituation.

The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEUER Said,
he hoped whenever it would pleafe his Majelly to
call a new Parliament, that the people would
chute fuch men as would be true to the interefts
of their country, and to the welfare of their con-
ilituents. On what ground the Hon. Gentleman
who fpoke 'aft could impute a fcandalous expen-
diture of
.the public money to either the prefent
or the late Minillers he was at a lofs to know.—
And he was equally at a lofs to know, on what
ground the Houfe could be charged with treating
with levity the obiervations made by the Hon.
Gentleman (Mr. Robfon) who (poke before him.
" I have," Paid the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
" liitcned to that Hon. Member with great pa-
tience ; and that is all I can fay. I heard him
with that refpca which i 3 always due to a Mem-
ber of Parliament. No man applauded more
than himfelf that jealous and vigilant attention of
Members of Parliament to the management of

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pnhlic affairs, to the condu& of Minders, and
the difpofal of public money. He withed every
Gentleman in the Houfe to examine the accounts
on the table, and be Satisfied whether the rums
Slated there had been properly applied er not.—
He was lure the Houle would agree with him
in this point, that it was need:try not to
provide any of the fupplies for the current year,
until the contra& for the loan could be made
with greater certainty and he thought it would
be more proper to provide for the extraordinary
expences of the laft, before any money thould
be nifed for thofe of the current year. With
refpea to the fum given to the Prince of Heffe
Calk!, it was one on which there could hardly,
be a difference of opinion ; and it was only to be
lamented that it had not been paid Sooner. The
reafon of giving too,oool. to the King"of Sardinia
was this ; Parliament had regularly allowed that
Prince the (urn of zoo,c.col. annually, from the
time of the commencement of the'war until the
misfortune which beta him in 1796. Before that
event was known, one halt of the furn voted for
his ufe had been fent off; and a warrant was if.
fued from the Treafury for fending the remaining
too,oool. ; which, however, on the news of his
being driven from his dominions having reached
this country, was not fent away. But in Oaober,
I Soo, the late Adminiftration admitted the claim
of that Prince, and agreed to pay him the ioo,oool.
at the rate of ;cool. per month, and the prefent
Minifters thought themfelves bound to fulfil that
engagement. As to the obfervations that thee
fonts were applied to other betides military pur-
pofes, he muft obferve, that the expence inctuded
in army extraordinaries never could be purely mi-
litary. The two millions for the navy was not for
a new ferrite, but to get rid of incumbrances ; to
take up out.ftanding Navy Bilk"
Mr. MARTIN explained; and obferved, that
whatever might be Paid in favour of there papers
in that Houle, the people thought very different
of them out of doors.

Mr. foe Es laid, he had to thank his Hon. Friend
• (Mr. Robfon) for the great exertions he had made
on the prefent occalion ; and his obfervations
fhould not be treated with levity. He hoped that
at the next general elation not a man of thofe
who had fo long been voting away the public mo-
ney would be returned to that Houle. He was
aftonifhed to hear the Chancellor of the Exchequer
praife the laf Miniflers for their management of
the public money. There was not a man from the
(pot where be then flood to John O'Groat's Houfe
who WAS not convinced that under their admini-
ftration there was the moll lavifh and fhameful
expenditure of the public money that ever took
place in any country ; but he would not then en-
ter into the difeuffion of their condua, as an Hon.
Friend of his was fhortly to bring it before the 1
Houfe, and he hoped he would make twenty mo-
tions on the fubjea. He had advifed the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer to make out a feparate ac-
count, diftinguilhing the expenditure of the late
from thofe of the prefent Minitters, and it was to be ,
wifhed he might do fo. It was evident the papers
on the table related to expences incurred during
the late Adminifiration.

The SECRETARY at WAR rote to explain the na-
ture of the items that had been complained of.—
The fum of tsool. given to the Duke de Choifeul,
was an indemnification for the idles he fuftained
while aCtually in the Britith fervice, in confequenee
c' having been fhipwrecked on the coaft of France,
where he was detained a prifoner for a long time,
and 101 l all his property. The money for the
Black Corps, was for the payment of the fervices
of thole who had diflingnilled themfelves in affia-
ing to take the Danifh Weft India Iflands. Thefe
corps altogether amounted to 9000 men. With
regard to the propriety of keeping them up, he
would not then fay any thing. Minifters had con-
fidered the extreme delicacy of the queftion, and
when he brought forth the army eftimates,he fhould
Hate the fentimenti of Government on the fuhjeCt.
Mr. VA NSI TTART role to explain feveral items
of expenditure, which had not been noticed by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer or the Secretary at
War. It was impoffible, he obferved, to avoid
mixing, upon all mations, the political and mili-
tary expences, more particularly upon remote
and complicated fervices. With refpet to the fum
drawn for at Malta, he was confident that when
the Hon. Gentleman knew the caufe, he would,
in common with every Member in the Houfe, con-
fider it as highly meritorious. The furns of ao,OOOL
and 47,0001. were in that cafe applied to the par- ,
&ale of corn, when the country laboured under
the preifure of the late fcarcity. The total was
then carried to the account of the ViCtualling De-
partment in the fervice of the Navy. The Hon.
Gentleman had expreflcd his furprife at the men-
tion made of Capt. D'Auvergne,and enquired who
he was: The anfwer would, he trolled, prove fatif-
faCtory, when he Hated that Capt. D'A it vergne was
no other than the Prince of Bouillon, a Nobleman
of one of the oldelt Families in Europe, who
hood very high in the lift of Officers in the Britifh
Navy, and had particularly diftinguifhed himfelf in
the naval command which he held on the Jerfey
Ration. The expence incurred in die Wand cf St.
Domingo was occafioned by the necetlity of Hill
keeping up a proper intercourfe with that fettle-
ra.nt for obiL:ls of great utility; and in adverting
'0 the funis charged, under the head of Dominica,
n- had merely to remark, that they were produced
by the arming of gun-boats and craft of that na-
rare, fur the defence of the coaft, and the pro-
%Coon of trade. The bills drawn by Lord Bal-
carrm, Lieutenant Governor .f Jamaica, certainly
I,rrmed a confidtrable fum, which was, however,
ocifioned by the extraordinary expences of vic
Nailing, and the relative Rate of that Wand to
Domingo. As to the articles of expenditure,
rdpating Nova Scotia and Canada, he could af-
fire the Committee, that they had palled the exa-
-filiation of the Comptrollers of the Army Ac-
counts, and had been created by a mixed kind of
military and naval fervice, which at once em-
braced troops and the eftablifhment of armed vet-
Ms. Mi. Vanfittart then went into a minute
riLtilativn of fume other items, and-concluded with
esprefhng his hope, that the Hon. Gent:email
objalon, had been fully anfwered.

Mr. Jones was defirous of learning from the
Right Hon. Gentleman, whether he had not for.
merly affured the Houfe, that there was no further
exnce to be incurred for Foreign Troops ?
The CHANCFLLOIt of the ExcuEvErt declared,
that he could not have made any fuch affurance,
as it was fill necefrary to retain fome foreign
troops in the Britifh fervice, particularly thofe who
continued in Egypt. No returns had been receiv-
ed, and confequently their accounts could not be
yet made up.
Mr. Ronsom affured the Committee that he was
perfe9ly fatisfied on many points by the fair and
candid anfivers which he had received from his
Majefly's Miniflers. He wifhed, however, to
learn what became of the Premiums on Exche-
quer Bills ?

Mr. VANSITTART obferved, that they were ap-
plied to the Intereft of the Exchequer Bills.
The Refolutions of the CHANCELLOR of the Ex.
CHErtykß,_

_ . .
That the funs of r,847,174 be granted to defray the Extra-
ordinaries of the Army for the year Igor.
That the turn of 2,0c0p001. be granted to defray the expences
of the Navy for 1801.
That tia,oool. be granted for the payment of the Militia re-
embodied from Augult tq 3t ft December, ilior.
Were all put, and carried without a divifion.
Mr. RoasoN poßponed his motion relative to the
Bank to Tuefday next.—Adjourned.

Lo NDO IV_

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK :
Confols, money, 68j—Ditto, for account, 6pi.
Reduced 69i••••4 per Cent. 85i 86--Nevr 5 per Cent. soot.
Olds per Cent. 99t—Long Ann. zoi.

FRICK OF STOCKS YESTERDAY :
Bank Stock 190 l Long Ann. aof 3.16
3 per Ct. Red. 60.1 Short Ann. S 5-16
3 per Ct. Conl.6Bg 69 EBf 69 Imp. 3 per Cent.6B:l
4 per Cent. 831 86i Imp. Ann.
3 pei Cent. Ann. 981.24 Englilh Ticker t6L ass.
3 per C. Ann. 1797 99f wolf Cong for Ace. 69ff
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Hamburgh 32 oalU. I Madrid 39 effee. Venice 36f
Altona 31 af U. Bilboa 3 effue. Lilbon 68
Cadiz ay# in paper Leghorn 31 Oporto 69
Ditto 39 cffedive Naples 44 Dublin 12
Madrid 894 in Mee Genoa 48

His Majasry, yefterday morning, at nine
o'clock, left town for Windfor.

The gylilll and PRINCIESI3, with their at.
tendants, followed at noon.

The Royal Family are expeeed in Town on
Wednefday.
His MAJESTY will hold a Levee at St. James's
Palace on Wednefday next.
J. KNIGHT, Efq. killed hands at the Drawing-
Room on Thurfday lall, in confequence of his ap-
pointment to be Infpettor-General of Army Hof-
pitals.
Mr. TNorsas CLARKE, of Peeltown, Ifle ofMann,
is appointed to the office of Captain and High
Bailiff of that town, in the room of GEORGE
SAVAGE, Efq. deceafed.

In confequence of an order from the War Of-
fice received at Birmingham, feveral recruiting
parties beat up there on Monday; but it is only to
complete the old regiments, lamed by deaths and
difcharges, and no more than apeace bounty is offer-
ed for rcct uits.

The outlines of the new Militia Bill are—That
the whole Militia Body shall be fixty thoufand men.
That the men than be drawn to ferve for ten years,
but fuhltitutes to be taken for five years, and re-
newed at the end of that term. One-third of the
body is to be called out for twenty-one days an-
nually to be exercifed. Regiments of 800 men to
have one Colonel, two Lieutenant-Colonels, and
three Majors. Regiments of 700 men to have one
Colonel, two Lieutenant Colonels, and two Ma-
jors, and fo on, reducing tht number of Field
Officers in proportion to the fize of the Regiment.
The Bill contains a number of other regulations,
and is generally approved of by Militia Officers.
The late determination of the Court of Exche-
quer that Ty thes are not payable for the forced pro-
dußions of Nature in hot-houfes, gives univerfal
fatisfaßion, lave to the parties now confidering
themfelves difpoffelfed of a right.
On Thurfday the remains of the late Mr. Wall
were privately interred. His friends had previ-
oufly made a prefent of 501. to the Philanthropic
Society.
The Englith papers Rate very erroneoully the
death of Sir HENRY BROWN HAYES, on his pat-
fage to Botany Bay, thortly after he failed from
Cork ; no fuch event has taken place, and his
daughter, who has very juftly been termed ami-
able and accomplithed, is now in Cork, and never
had any intention of embarking with her father.
=Waterford aro&
Sunday morning, the remains of the late Earl
of CLARE were interred in St. Peter's Church-
yard, Dublin. The Gentlemen of the law, to the
number of at leaft boo, attended the funeral.—
Twenty-four fervants, with fcarfs, and twelve
mounters, the Lords ELY, SHANNON, KILWARDEN,
and TvIAWLEr, bearing the ball. His Lordthip's
family coach was followed by 74 of the Nobility
and Gentry. The proceffion was through Hume-
ftreet, Stephen's-green, and York-ftreet.—He has
bequeathed to his Lady t tool. a year, and his feat
at Mountfliannon, during the miuority of his eldeß
fon : to her he has alfo confided the education of
his children' with an allowance of t6OOl. a year for
that purpofe ; to the prefent Earl, his paternal and
acquired property, about 60001. per annum ; to
his fecond Con and his only daughter, io,oool.
each ; and in cafe of failure of his own iffue, he has
dcvifed his property to his nephews, the lons of
Archbilliop BERESFORD. He particularly cautions
his children againft the fordid and difgraceful vice
of gaming ; and though he willies their education
to be in England, he recommends them to refide
after they come of in Ireland, the country to
which they owe every thing.—llls Executors are,
Lord KILSVAILDEN, ROBERT Fe lice, and GEoLOS
STAW•RT, Efqrs.