Star.
London, England, 1806-07-22 00:00:00

AAAAA CR DEPARTMENT.

Mr. ROBSONbf.med the abfence of his Male'. I
ty's Minißers ; but when they did not deign to give
their attendance on any of the late important diktat ;
lions relative to the Bate of India, he could not ex-
pet that they flmuld do him the honour to come
down for any thing to which he called their attention.
He fhould, however, hold himfelf at liberty to pro.;
ceed as freely as if they were relent. He pledged
himfelf to prove that the rent of the canteens, and ;
the fate of the manure, would pay the whole expenfe
of the temporary Barracks. If the fuggeilions he'
had offered fhould not he acceded to by hn Majef-
ty's Minikes, a great laving to the public would be
neglefted, and thrown away by them. If the Mini•
Item were guilty of this criminal negltt, and the
Parliament fhnuld 1411 another lemon, and he flinuld
have'a feat in it, he would call them to account.—
The Accounts prefented of the rent t:f canteens, and
of the tams received for dung (a laugh), were not
fufficiently particular at. to dates. lit begged leave
to fubmit a motion for Accounts of a more particu-
lar nature, which was the fame in fubflatice, and al-
molt in the words, at that which had been before fob.
mitted by him and ne;arived.
The SPEAKER laid, the forms of the Houle did
not permit a motion, fubmitted and I.egatived, to be
brought forward again in the Lime Cul:Mance and
form, in the fame feffinn.
After come nbrervations from Mr. CA LCRAFT
and Mr. WHITBREAD, in Copt:ma the point of
order, as laid down by the SPEAKER,
Mr. ROBSON fubmitted another motion, which
differed from the former, by extending the account
to permanent as well as temporary barracks.
Mr. CALCR AFT faw no objeftien to the pro
duBion of this account.

The SECRETARY at WAR raid, the accounts
he had prefented on the fubjeft were given to him
by the late Barrack Mailer General, to be laid be-
fore the Houle, for the vindication of his charadler,
which ke fuppofed to be refletted on by the °brava-
tions of the Hon. Gentleman on the fubjett of the
Canteens, and the fele of Dung from the Barracks.
He had no objeeion to give all poffible information
with repett to the Barracks ; but a number of addi-
tional Clerks would be neceffiry to fupply the Hon.
Gentleman's demand for papers ; and it was not
clear that the Ron. Gentleman meant to inflitute any
proceeding on the papers. Indeed, he conlidered an
Inquiry by the Houfe into the abufes of the Barrack
Department endlefs and impratlicable. It was
much better to leave the inveltigation in the hands
of the Military Commiffioners, where the Legiflature
had thought proper to place it. Neither was it right
to prefume that the Comnsiffioners did nut proceed
with all pnilible difpatch. Certainly his Majefty's
Miniffers were bound not to Coffer fuch abufes as
thole pointed out by the Hon. Gentleman to be con-
tinued, if in stalky they citified ; but he was fore
the Hon. Gentleman very much overrated them.
Mr. PAULL laid, it was not his Majelly's Mini.
tiers that negatived the Hon. Gentleman's motion
on a former night, but the Gentlemen who ufuaUy
fat oppofite.
Mr. ROBSON blamed the manner in which the
Commiffinners of Military Inquiry had proceeded.
They had begun at the wrong end. It would take
years before the abufes which it was moil material to
the public to corresa would be reformed by their
means. The public would not give credit to the rs•
lents to which Miniflcrs laid claim ; all they pin•
duced were talents of gold and lilvtr, by ravings and
retrcnchmentc (a laugh). If Minillers did not eco•
nomize they had not a ltg to !land upon ; their admi•
niilration could not lan. —nit motion was agreed to.

BALE OE BARRACKS.

Mr. ROBSON then ovcd—

" '1 hat there be laid before this Houk, a return of al' the fate
whieh have taken place at the fevers! 'Temporary Barracks, or
Buildings rented or hired by Government, and uled as Barracks,
or as Bartsch Store-honks. in the whole of Great Britain. That
the laid return do embrace all Inch fates bs tween the alt day of Ja-
nuary t 793, and the 24th slay of lune 0106 ; and that it be cab!.
bled in nine columns, In the order and with the titles here
following, viz.-111, 1 he name of the pries (or Ration) and
the county, where cacti tale refpedtive!y was made; the (aid
names of the parifbes (or nations) follo A lag each other in alpha.
betical order. id, I he date of the (dc. 3J, The name of the
auCtioneer or perfon by whom the fate was made, and if the fate
was a private one, Rating that dreumliante. 4th,
_The names of
the purchafers, if left than Etcln number. sth, A general Jeferip.
dor. of the things (old. 6th, The name of the barrack Matter
or other perfon under whole Inuncallatc &mato') and fupetinten.
dance the late took place. 7th The grofs amount of the Pale. a.
credited to Government. Bth, The total amount of all the rums
expended by Government in fitting up each Building refpedively.
gth, The number of man or horks ulually quartered in each Its.
tion refpcdtively."
Mr. Secretary WINDHAM faid, the Hon Gen•
tleman placed his Majeßy's Minifters in a very invi•
dious fituation, when their refufal to grant any pa.
pets he moved for might be imputed to a difpofition
to fcreen abufes. But the abaci of the laR war
were not theirs, unlefs with the exception of the
(hare he himfelf might have had in them. The ac
count now moved for was of fuck a comprelienfire
defcription, all the pots and kettles, and pans, and
utenfils of all forts, that had been fold in barracks,
that if it could be produced at all it could not be
without much time and trouble, and a great expenfc
of additional clerks. He did not know what objeft
the Hon. Gentleman had in view. It feemed as if
he thought he could difcover a fort of noltrum for all
abufes in every branch of the extenfive department
of the Barrack fervice. If be did, he w( old confer a
very great benefit on the country. Bit be, for one,
bad no confidence in hint and be had the I,fs cong.

.., . .
dace from the manner in which libel!
dotted himfelf with retped to this bufineti. Seeing
no pradical gond from producing heaps of papers at
an enormous expenfe, he fhould in future give his no.
gative to motions of this nature. He agreed to the
prefent motion, that the trouble and expenfe, and in-
utility which he forefaw would attend it, may operate '
as a warning in future.
Mr. JONES Wilted on the neceffity of eorretling -
abufes, and economizing in a war of finance, and a
war of great expenfe. There was no fo
much dreaded by Bonaparte as that of economy ;
let us be economical,and a fig for Bonaparte (a laugh).
Mr. PAULL maintained. that his Majefty's Mi. •
Milers had (hewn themfelves favourable to inquiry.
Sir W. ELFORI) contended, that tbnfe ioquiries•
ought to be left to the Military Cnmmiffloners„
whom the Legiflature hadintrufled it; and he thought
the Hon. Gentleman took an unfair method of court-
ing popularity, by taking their bulimic out of diem
hands.
Mr. ROBSON raid, this account was abfahrtely
nereffary for the Commit:Boners themfelves.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHETIER.
fiid, his Majelly's Minifiers wifhed to facilitate in-'
quiry, and to promote economy. It was the very
heft mode of promoting economy, to refute to affent
I to a motion that would involve great expeofe, unlefr
time pradical benefit teemed likely to retain If the
Hon. Gentleman had any objedion to the Commit
lion of Military Inquiry, he lhnuld move for a Bill to
repeal it, and take the fenfe of the Houle upon it. In
figure he mould vote &gait& motions of this nature.
The account was ordered.
After a few more words from Mr. ROBSON and
Mr. JONES, the motion was agreed to.
The Order of the Day being read for returning the
debate upon the fubjed of the Public Debt. it was
'eturned accordingly ; and the CHANCELLOR of
the EXCHEQUER moved a lift of Refutations upon
the fubjed of the Debt, Finance, and Commerce of
the Country, which were carried without oppofition.
Adjourned.

TUESDAY, IDLY 12.
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IMPORTANT INQUIRY.
We have hitherto cautioufly avoided referring
prematurely to the inveiligation, direeted by the
King's (pedal command, to the LORD CIIIIIaLLOR,
Lord Gassvit.‘c, and Earl SRI nom, on the fubjea
of certain rumours refpeBing her Royal Highnefs
the Princefs of Warm. Thofe rumours, and coda.
quently the examinations founded upon them, have
been reduced under me interelling heads: Theft.,
relpeaed the Birth and Parentage of a Child of jot►
years old, educated under the immediate eye of her
Royal Highnefs. This child, as was indeed well
known to almoll all the world, is afcertained, by re-
ference to the Reglllry, and to its Parents, as well as
by the concurrent teftimony of every perfon examined
on the occaf:on, to be the child of perfons in a very
Nimble rank of life at Deptford, and to have been
maintained and educated by the Princefs 'on the
pure and moll arrsiatle principles of Charity and Be-
nevolence : And there is every reafon for believing,
that the three Noble Comrnitlloners have reported on
this matter—(on which no doubt ought to exiik)—•
in terms the molt diflinet and the molt expreffive of
their fenfe of the motives that ftiggeited this amiable
at of Charity I

The fecond general head of examination is Paid to
refer to rumours of very indifireet and geelienahle con-
dua ; and on thefe points a very large mars of evi- t
fence has been brought for ward by the depofitiont of
the Ladies of the Patacsss's Houfehold, and of al-
moll all the perfous of all ranks in her immediate fer-
vice. The Noble Commiflioners are Paid to have
figned a very istereiling opinion on the points Rated
in thefe depofitions ; and the whole of the Report has
been prefented to his MAJISTY. It is (aid, that he
hat been pleated to direa, that copies of all the delta-
Gaon', and of the report, &mild be tranfmitted to
their Royal Highneffes the Pumice and Pawns* of
WALES.

In this Rage of the bufinefs, it would be prema-
ture to fay one word farther. From the confidence
which may be repofed in the CharaEler, Temper, and
Juftice. of the three Noble Commiffionerr, it is moR
clear, that the benevolent and excellent Intentions of
our beloved &WEIGH, in the inflituting this 111-
quiry, will be fatisfaftorily anfwered s—more efpeci-
ally as the fulleß opportunity is afforded, by this
mode of proceeding, to the produdion of any Sup- •
plementary Evidence that may be wifhed to be of-
fered by the Penmen of Waxes, on any part of the
Depolitions already taken by the Ktuo's commands.
Our Readers will have Peen from the foregoing
Ratement, that there have been but three Noble Per-
lons employed in this invefligation ; and that Lord
ELLEusottouom never was included in this Special
and moR important Commiftion.

The report of the capture of fo many Greenland-
men, about which fo much clamour againtl the Ad•
miralty was railed, turns out to be a falfe alarm, as
the following letter from Hull, dated the tath intl.
fhows:

" The report of two enemies frigates being in the
" .Greenland Seas is now proved to be erroneous.
o The (hip which castled the alarm proves to be a
Ruffian, with a figure head, yellow fides, fpardeek,
4s wish a wimber of portholes, bat without guns."

PRI

OF lA Ut•ftll`T.

The Parliament is to be prorogued to morrow.—
The Speech, with which the Seffion is to dole, was
taken inteconfideration at the Privy Council yetterday.
It is firongly reported that the Speech will allude
to the pending negotiations ; and will (late that an
offer having been made by the French Government,
his Majesry, from an anxious defire to put a
period to the calamities of war, had been induced
to enter into pacific difeoffions, the refult of which,
however, is Ain doubtful. In Come fueh general way,
and without in any degree hinting at the progrefs of
the bufinefs, the fad of a negotiation being now on
foot, will, h is thought, be introduced.
A Difiblution of the Houfe of Commons is ex-1
reed to follow Peon afterwards.