Star.
London, England, 1830-03-13 00:00:00

irg themselves in the eyes of the country. He felt that this must be
jones because the appointment was made directly after the state-
tarot made by one of the right hon. gentlemen. The right hon.
member then went into a minute detail of the nature of the office.
Ile contended that the old principle should be adhered to, unless a
change of circumstances was shewn to exist to warrant the alteration.
It was impossible for the treasurer to perform the duties of the pay.
toaster. It could not be expected that he would devote six hours
a-dav, chrtihed to his desk, balancing books and accounts, paying
and 'receiving money to the amount of several millions, all drawn
from the public pocket ; the whole of which, by act of parliament,
trust be performed. He complained of the frequent changes which
had been made in this office, it must of necessity prove disadvan.
tageotts to the country. Should the house come to this resolution,
he could assure it that not the slightest embarrassment would ensue
as to the combined management of the office. The minister, it was
true, would have to select between two persons; that perhaps might
cause him a little embarrasanient. Ile might exclaim with the
poet
" How happy could I be with either,
" Were t'other dear charmer away."
Ile hoped the house would take that opportunity of declaring to the
country, by agreeing to the resolution proposed, its opinion of the
conduct of ministers.
Sir G. f'OCKBURN should oppose the resolution. The right
honourable gentleman who had just sat down had made several ntis.
statements. He contended that the duties could be performed by
the Treasurer himself. The appointment in question would be a
saving to the country of 2,2001. per annum, which the house must
allow was an object of some moment.
Mr. HUME said that, a resolution of that house, passed on the
I2th of the present month, by which the house was pledged to
make every possible reduction in the army and navy departments,
was broken by the late appointment to the Treasurership of the
Navy. If the office were useful, he would say keep it up ; but if
it were not, then let it be abolished. The hon. baronet opposite
(sir G. Cockburn) admitted that the existence ot the two offices of
Paymaster to the Navy and Treasurer to the Navy were not neces-
sari, ; but that as the Paymastership to the Navy was about to be
reduced, the duties of that office would devolve upon the Trea-
surer of the Navy, and the country would thereby gain a saving of
2.2001. Upon this admission of the hon. baronet, he contended
the government had not kept the pledge to which that house was a
ratty. by appointing a Treasurer to the Navy at the very moment
that they declared the office to be unnecessary. Ile did think that
what cost the country 35.000/. in naval departments, could be done
as effectually for 7.000/.
Mr. Secretary PEEL said that the house was called upon to pass
a sweeping censure upon the Government of the country for making
the appointment in question ; but before it would pass its verdict of
censure, it would, he was sure, wait and hear the defence the Go-
vernment had to make to the charge preferred against them. Now
what were the facts of the case. In 18211, a schism took place
amongst the members of his Majesty's Government, and other
persons were appointed to the vacant situations. Mr. Nrevey Fits-
gerald was appointed to the Presidency of the Board of Trade, and
to the Trcasuryship of the Navy. Against this Lord Melville
protested, for he considered that whoever was appointed to the
fressurphip of the navy, ought to give up his whole time to
the office. In 1826, the house resolved that those two offices
should be filled by one gentleman, at a salary of 50001 and so it
continued down to the time when his right hon. friend sunk under
the weight of the duties connected with the combined offices. When
the Government found that those offices were so weighty, they re•
solved to break them up. They then gave the presidentahip of
the board of trade to the master of the mint, and made the treasu-
rership of the navy a substantive office, by which a saving would
accrue to the country, of 2.2001. which would not be the case if
they continued the office of president of the board of trade with that
ot Treasurer of the Navy. From 1788 down to the present period,
many inquiries were instituted into the office of treasurer to the
navy, but not one of the commissioners or committees recommen.
sl,sl its abolition. The committee of 1817 recommended that the
salary should be reduced to the same sums as paid to the paymaster
of the forces. Now the government, instead of stopping here, went
beyond the recommendation of the committee--then gave, not 30001.
a veal to the Treasurer, but 20001. Were Parliament then to turn
round upon them for doing that which they were recommended to do
by the reports of their committees ? If so their reports were not true
beacons for the guidance of the government ; they were false lights
to lead them astray. The right hon. gent. adverted to the observa-
tions of his right hon. friend (Mr. Huskisson) and contrasted his
speech of that night with one made by him on the 7th April, 1826.
in which he spoke of the great importance of the office of Treasurer
to the Navy, and said that the duties belonging to it to be performed
well, should be performed by a gentleman holding no other
office. (Loud cheers) The office of President of the Board
of Trade and Treasurer of the Navy, said the right honourable
gentleman (Mr.Huskisson), who then held botb,were incompatible,
and ought not to he connected together. He (Mr.. Feel) claimed for
the Duke of Wellington's government that justice which it merited,
namely, that it was doing all It could to relieve the country of its
expenditure. The right hon. gent. after some further observations,
called upon the house to reject the resolution of the honourable
baronet.

After 1 few words from Sir G. WARRENDE/I,
The house divided, when there appeared
For Sir J. Graham's motion
Against it . . .. 188
Majority against the motion —9B
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
hotrie adjourned at Malf.past One o'Clock.

HAMPSHIRE RESOLUTIONS,
Yon lIEFORM, AND REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.

1. That the Speech from the Throne to the Parliament, at the
epeiiii.g of the present Sesaion, commonly called the King's
I,l*. rh, has created a general feeling of disappointment and dis.
aati.iaci on, anti was calculated to cause great dismay, if not despair,
amongst various classes of the people of this kingdom.
2. That the great pecuniary difficulties pervading the middle
classes. and the misery, poverty, and ditoress existing amongst the
lower classes of the people of the present period, exceed in extent
and *verily, by many degrees, that of any former period within the
memory of man.
1. That it is the decided and firm opinion of this meeting, that if
some speedy and effectual remedy be not applied to lessen or allay
these difficulties and this distress, this country must, in all proba-
bility, very soon lifetime in a state of anarchy and contusion, and
the wise and salutary lass that exist to hold together the bonds of
society sill be found insufficient for that purpose.
4. That this country has been in a great !immure brought into
this Imp 'us st..tc by the unjust, impolitic, and uncoil.
stitutiumer:C.,. which have been so frequently made by legis.
Wive eroectrucitts in its circulating money currency ; and that to
th part from a paper to a metallic currency has operated as a robbery
upon all debtors, whether of a public or private kind, and thus to
essupel the payment of debts and engagements contracted in paper
'Loney to be paid in metallic money is, in effect, the saute as to pass law to compel all the public and private debts in the kingdom to
be paid in a much higher amount than that in which such debts
have been contracted.
5. That the interests of this kingdom have also suffered, and are
how, in the opinion of this Meeting, suffering, from the experimental
and absurd system which has been resorted to under the name of
Free Trade ;" for to suppose that a nation, either in its trade or
.igticulture, where taxes, tithes, poor rates, and various other heavy
burdens exist, can compete with 0: her nations where those burdens
do not exist at all, or only in a much leaser degree, without due pro-
tec•ion. is as unreasonable and unjust as to pay debts in gold that
hay:• been contracted in paper.
U. That this kingdom has also suffered, and is now suffering,
ft•fni the want of a tbir, equal, and mopes representation of the
pshpk ite the Commons Homo of Poilatitent, which has been so re-
cently illustrated ht a late trial is this county for bribery and cor-
ruption no the borough of Stockbridge, where it was proved upon
oath that sixty guineas was the general and accustomed price for
votes; wel that such u reform should, in the opinion of this Meet-
ing, be made without delay, as would produce that feeling of sym.
lathy stud dependence between the electors and thicted, as aeon to
be implied in dud axiom of our Constitution, which says, •• that no
person shall fit taxed but by his own consent."
7. That the only mode by which, in our opinion, the severe die-
m-is and grievances of which we are here assembled this day to
complain can be relieved, and rendered supportable with a metallic
"Nney, is by a great and ih 11111111111 l reduction of those taxes which
'low press, with accumulated force, on the ptexhictive classes of the
c,annitinitv.
:t. That, in order to make such a reduvion of the public expen.
snore, all public salaries must be n:aterially reduced, all unneces-
sary places arid pensions be abolislird, and the great will-stone of the
"lion r common tkbt--tiaust tx• pared down, either in principal
or intertst, in proportion to the altered value of money.
Th:ff all the most burdemeonte and oppressive taxes should be
repealed' :ioiongst which we count those on malt, Itops,beer,liouses,
and wind"., these appearing to us to press most heavily on the
middle and lower classes of the people, and therefore ought to be
immediately repealed.
•
That tin trivial and paltry reductions In the public expendi.
'Jre will, in the opinion of this meeting, avail • such as taking the
chips arum the workmen in the dock-yarda, Of ;educing the salaries
't
the clerk' in the customhouse ; but retrenchment and reduction
should coinnience with sell the heads and principals of the govern.
me''ti and the greater the amount of the incomes and salaries, the•
greater ought to be their reductions; for it is by such- reductions
:hat this suffering and impuverished nation ought to be relieved
,-,n it* present distressed and perilous situation.
:I. That a petitice: to- the Mouse of Commons should lac foundud