Star.
London, England, 1814-12-02 00:00:00

r Mr. Tltititltt diattit4, that When the question
!of adjournment catate'tts' be put, he should move that
the dropped orders of yetittiday, les fir as they related
to the Committeesof Supply and of Ways:lntl Means,
should nand for to-morrow. Two Acts also were do
the eve of expiring, filr which no provision had been
; though he anderstood that one of them, by a
eertaia kind of atrimgemeat with the Bank, made
without consulting the House, and tallith he acci-
dentally heard of this morning..was to lay over, the
Bank having consented to permit a loan of three mil,
lions, borrowed first without interest, but which was
conditioned to be repaid in six months after a Treaty
of Peace, to stand a year and a half longer in the
same state. This was certainly some indulgence
on the part of the Bank ; but as the Cash Restriction
Bill teas to expire in Marcb; it seemed not impro-
bable to suppose the Bank might anticipate some ac-
commodation on the part of the Right Honourable
Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer).—
Could he consent to t!:e proposed adjournment, hu
must consent to leave three millioas unprovided for;
he must consent, by the same vote, to leave the
Committee of Supply in like manner as unprovided
for,, in violation of all former' precedent ; and for
these reasons he thought it necessary for tl:e House
to sit to morrow. But, this did not trouble the Right
Honourable Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer), whose convenience alone must be consulted.
They had nothing to do with the Bank, and as little
to do with the Committee of Supply : all their ohjs:ct
was Christmas holidays and Christmas pies, and so
efftliey must go.—(l..ayhr).—No provision had been
made for more than One halt of the supplies just voted
by the House, .the Right Honourable Gentleman by
his conduct thus assuming the fact that the Property
Tax would be continued; for except from some such
source, it was difficult to guess what quarter he in-
tended to look to for the supply of the demands that
crowded upon him.—(Hear, bear.)—The whole pro-
ceeding was as unjustifiable as ever had been taken
by man.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
observed, that the Bank having this day confirmed
the arrangement as to the three millions last men-
tioned by the Right Hon. Gentleman (Tierney), no
practical inconveidohe could happen, since the entire
sum would continue in its present state till April 1816.
He should, therefore, have to propose a Bill, imme-
diately on the re-assembling of Parliament, to conti-
nue the Act in question; but here he begged to ob-
serve that this measure was quite unconnected with
the Bank Restriction Bill. Certainly it was true that
the Ways and' Meant fell rather short; there was,
boarever, nothing in this.circumstance that would not
be found perfectly agreeable to Parliamentary prac-
tice, though the Right Hon. Gentleman ("Tierney)
appeared not alto6ether to understand the subject. It
was nothing more, in fact, than a transfer, which
made the Ways and Means of either year applicable
to the purposes of each. Unless it could be proved
that the three millions were actually to be provided
for, without a moment's delay, he could not conceive
.why the House should not now adjourn, at a time
when the state of private business admitted of an ad-
journment, and as no positive inconvenience would be
occasioned to the public service.

Mr. TIERNEY still persisted in censuring the
arrangement so suddenly made between the Bank and
Ministers, together with the manner of its being kept
secret till the precise day when' the Holise eiak to
adjourn, for the pleasure of the Right Honourable
Gentleman. The truth stood perfectly thus :—that
Right Hon. Gentleman (the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer) was afraid to meet the condition of the
finances of the country.—( Hear, hear.)—He had not
been misrepresented out of doors, when he was de.
scribed as having called Parliament together for
money, and as intending to dismiss them whenever
the money was voted. But, lie would ask, why were
they now to adjourn ? He called upon the Right
Hon. Gentleman to assign at least one reason for the
adjourement ? He knew of no earthly reason for it,
unless it was proposed on account of the labour they
had gone through, and on the ground of hard work,
having voted away 24 millions in the course of as
many days, sshich, unquestionably, was hard work
enough.—( LarThs.)—Still he wished to know, if ad-
journ they must, slam voktu on his part at least. why
it must be till the 9th of February, when Easter
would be at their heels, and, before any business was
transacted, send them again to the country, so that
no time would be allowed for the dispatch of business
of the most weighty kind ?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
replied, that no facility would be obtained, as it re-
lived to public business, by an earlier meeting than
that which he proposed, to the House, it being in the
knowledge of every Gentleman how difficult it was
to obtain any attendance at.a season of the year when
Members would neither be inclined to neglect their
own business nor forego the hospitalities they were
accustomed to enjoy—(4 laugh.) Another reason
was, that he confidently expected the return of his
Noble Colleague (Lord Castlereagh) from the Con-
gress by the time he proposed to adjourn to, with im-
portant conimurications to Parliament.
Mr. Aszacnosiais opposed the adjournment, which
was suppfated by Mr. ROBINSON.
Mr. PONSONBY entered into a variety of argu-
ments to prove the necessity that Parliament should
continue sitting.
Mr. FITZGERALD spoke for the necessity of
reposirg a confidence i■ Ministers at this crisis.
Sir G. HEATHCOTE spoke •.n the opposite side,
arguing from the different situation of the country
now and at the time the property tax was proposed,
that there was no occasion for it, provided the resultof
the discussions of the Congress at Vienna was pacific.
Mr. J. P. GRANT very strenuously opposed the
adjournment. However he esteemed the private con-
duct of Ministers, he could not give them his cnrifi-
dence in the management of public affairs, for which
they were wholly incompetent.
Mr. MARRYATT conceived it would be useless
for Parliament to be sitting while such great events
were depending and as yet undecided.
Mr. WHITBREAD declared, that the late abo-
minable transactions on the Continent, and the state
of ignorance in which Lord Castlereagh kept his col-
leagues, induced him for the present to withdraw his
confidence from that Noble Lord. The financial
blunders of the Chancellor of the Exchequer were no-
torious, and he had called the House together, not
to provide fur the evil day, but only to postpone it.—
As to the questions he felt it his duty to put, one