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finding themselves not bound by any agreement with
Mr. Kemp, they agreed to the purchase of Mr. Daw.
kins's estate—thus then no injustice was done to Mr.
Keay. This grant remained as an Act of grace,
favour, and liberality on the part of the Houses.
After a lapse of nine years, in which nn estate could
be found suitable for the family of Lord Nelson, and
when one was found would the Hou:c stop short, and
not make the grant complete ?
Mr. BAN KES considered that the House was not
justified in extpading the original grant to Lord Nel-
son, nearly a ninth-prt.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
defended the conduct of proposing this additional
grant to the family of Lord Nelson. When Parlia-
ment gave a grant tor great public services to a person
raised for these services to the Peerage, it required a
large estate and a suitable mansion.
Mr. ROSE defended his former statement. The
estate of Mr. Kemp was surrounded by inacaosible
roads.

General WA LPOLE supported the grant.
The linnse then divitizd.—For the Grant 111—
Against 66—Maj rtty 43.
On our re-entering the Gallery, we found Mr.
LOCKHART urging a grant to the High Bailiff f
Westminster of £lBO9 to indemnify him for the ex-
pences of building hustings, for the last Westminster
Election.

Mr. BANKES was not aware of this matter being
submitted to the Committee of Supply to-day, or be
would 11A ve made himself more muter of the subject.
But he believed, from what he recollected of this cir-
cumstance, that by far the greater part of the sum
sought for WAS unfounded. He would, therefore, op-
pose the grant.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
sed, that the consideration of this subject should
propose
till a future day, in older that further
inquity !night be made respecting it.
General WALPOLE wished to know where they
were to step at, if they gave this remuneration to a I
Returning Officer ?
Mr. LOCKHART said, be was the only Return-
ing Officer to whom the Act applied, obliging him to
erect hustings.
Mr. HORNER said, he was also one of those few
Returning Officers who held asituatioa of emolument.
The n:otitbn WAS then withdrawn.

Lord CASTLEREAGH brought up a copy of a
letter sent by the Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs, in 1805, to the Russian Ambassador, relative to
the emanc•pation otEurope, and restoring her to peace.
—Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. PONSONBY wished to know if there would
be any objection to the production of a letter sent to
the Russian Government, in 1811, relative to the best
mode n 1 tecering and settling Europe ?—This docti-
went he had beard was accompanied by a letter
written by the Nue,. Regent hinsseit ; which, he had
undersito d, had been productive of very banefici.il
results u • EurcTe.

Lord CASTLEREAGH said. he cfnild not then
give an opinirn whether those documents could be
Laid on the tAbl: or not.

PONSUNBY :Aid. that perhaps tic Noble
Lard would inform himself, and give an 4ns:,-et in
day or two whether out or both of these documents
cueld be Lod befog" the House or not.
Lord CAS I:I.IOLEAGH assented.

Un the motion of the. CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER, it wasordered that the H Haat gboold
pit into a Ctimmitte.! of Ways and Means on the
&Amp Acts nn lihtirsday nett.

Lo;J A. HAMILTON thought that the Bank,
on Account of its enormowi ibsues, should pay more
to the public in the way of Stamp Duty. He there-
fore wished to know it it was intended to make any
alteration as to the Dill on Stampb of Bank issues.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
said, be sh-uid pr vine an alteration in the Com-
illittee, which would take in the increased issues of
the Bank. - _

Mr. GraNFELL agreed th2t the Public had a
right to an increase .1 duty oil the enormous issues
from the 13.,iik,

Mr. ARUUTHNOT bronght copies of several
Letters to the Luid Chamberlain and ot!lers, on the
suit of tumiturr fur the PJlaces.
.1::in CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
tauved tha: they shunt(' be mimed to the Conaniitte
Qs the Civil List Expenditure, and to be printed.
Mr. BENNETT declared it his intention to divide
tin House, if the papers were not suffered to lie on
the table for the inspection of Members.
Mr. HUSK ISSr.)N they would Se wanted in
the Cwornittee to-morrow.

Mr. HORNER contended that this was making
a conduit of the House, to convey perm to a Com-
mittee which ought at first (as was pressed by that
side of the House) to have bean empowered to send
for p•tpers, persons, and records.
Mr. P. GRAN contended that it was improper
to remove the papers before there was time for an;
Member of that House to inspect them.
After some further conversation between Mr. BA-
THURST, Mr. Tigittiev, Lord BINNING, Mr. Fikkg
metirc.e, Lord CASTLZREAGH, Mr. W. WYNNF, and
others, the motion for printing die papers was tieg4-
riveif,

Mr. SENNETT mewed a petitinn fr,Jri certain
InsolvelVebiors confined in the Fleet ; and took
this opportunity of reminding Lord Castlereagh, that
lie had promised on a former day to make inquiry,
whether a new Judge of the Insolvent Debtors' Ccu, t
bad Liken Appcitited.
Lord CASTLEREAGH apologised for havi:lq
neglected to do so, but said he would prepare to an-
swer the Hot. Gentleman's inquiry tomorrow.
Lord MILTON said, several persons confined in
the Fleet and other prisons had, previous to the death
of Mr. Serjeant Palmer, 'given the necessary notices
preparatory to their discharge. He now understood
that unless something was done to relieve them they
would be at the expense of new notices, &c.
l'lre Petition was then received, and ordered to lit
on the table.

• VIE NEW POST OFFICE.
Sir JAMES SHAW moved the Order of the Da)
Air tl:e second reading of the Post Othce Bill ; and ii.
doing so; observed, that the House had been in pos
session of the Report'of the Select Committee On'this
imbject for some time, and it would be unneceisar)
for him 'to 'detain them long. ' The Hon. Baronet.
then advertediothe several plans that had been laid