Star.
London, England, 1817-05-06 00:00:00

GA?IE POPS7I,VATION BILL.

I Sir CHARLES MUN:.:K objected t the re;wal
of the use 'sure vt fast year. •fle eisarproved of such
frequent changes in um G me Labbb, auU tilerefu:e
opposed the present bd.
Mr. G. BANKS rues wiling to give the Bill his
support, it a cl tuse were added to it to rereal the
;;;J: it and 4frth of the King.
The Bill w:ss read a third !isn..
Mr. G. BANdS then musrc.l his ihiuse, 'by way
•
of sidbr at. the WI.
Mr. LOCKHART thougl.t r!.e effect of the pre.
befit Bill would' bC to eiie‘;_irsge vachers to go to
steal Rame 4 night; trot arnica wi:h h:udgeosis or*
other weapons. but in such nurobers rust they wouid
be Asir to Grit and overpower those who oat& be
erisol..yed to cnea-k their depredaticni. stout.,"
by the consequence of the repeal of the wrier reg.t.:4--
tine h now iu force ceder t'ae Ac:. He ts:telit-
[lure could not tote tor the dill. •

Sir E. KNATCIigir...L hoped the HonourAle
Oe.itleurau (Mr. G. H would withdraw the
clause be bass moved. It he vi•u!.l do their, andflringt
'forward his kiropositiou by itself, he (Sir E.'Enatct,
bull) would sive the Subject his best attcntioth •
Mr. hgAND hoped the ainourable Gentle:nut
would withdraw his rider, and that the debate would
be adjournedl Other
o some her ttme.
Mr. ERANKLAND LEWIS also wished the
Horantrala..: Mover to adji.ura the present debate, le
trader to give time to w.lce some alteration in the BA
without which, he tiroo;tht f.;:sv individuals iscukt
give it their Ti._ie sira; pros/16km in tile
Bill of last year, by which any per,oo touted poachitig
at night, whether arnied or unarmed, was liable to
be seised and brougnt to punishment. This provi.
1•102 no longer esiai4t:. H.: agreed char seven years'
transportation might ue too s,vete A• punishment icr
such au tdrence,hu: he *ldled Wat the power of &vizi,.
the of/tinier sh...uld contitated. He then moved
[bat cite debate be aJj.,unied to this day se'imignt.
Mr. W. jMII # att;tlritiV4 the mot ioo, as he irroug t
'that the beat course to pursue, would he to AO jow it
present debate, *as the subject was of to.) :nue) intl.
postance-to be settled walkout ruii:rer cousitit ration.
Sir E. KNATCtilll'l.4. expiessed Lis scueutiof
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of dividing the House. a
The House divided—For the A dioriromenc, 104—
Against it, I:A—Majority for the nul,PUttlilleilt.
Atter come Ccanircra Awn between Mr. iti.tie, bet jr.
Krbroar. Mi. La :at:, Mr. B,;A:s:), Sir blotkCaitti

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10.:p•+111. CP TIIK CMIAIITTEF. OF FINANCg.

and General THolorrow, the further consideration of
Ale Report of the Committee on the Saving Bank's
was put off to next Wednesday.
Lord BINNING moved the second reading of the
Scotch Madhouse Bill, and stated, that in consequence
of several communications wh'ch lie had received, he
should tr:t press the Bill through all its stages during
the present tiessinn of Parliament. The Bill w•.as
then read a second time, and orlysed to be printed.
Mr. PEEL g.ave notice that he should s';ortly
move for kive to hring in a Bill for the recovery of
fortrAori s r.n Irc n;zances in Itel od.
The C:miniirce on the Tithe. Leasing Bill was
p soponed nix Tl.urgday.

Mr. 1) GI 1.3::i(1' moved t! at the !loose resolve
itself into a Comavttee of tb, whole House, to consi-
der the fiat ;-I:tt of tile Cemmittee of Finance.
Oa the Tteitioti 'fiat the SPEAK 1::t leave the Chair,
Mr—BROUGHAM expressed his tite, that al-
thol,lll the lions.. sheltie! tes,lve ihell into a Com-
/vim e, it wool.] net be prevented from entering into
the merits nf ti,e whole riues:ion.
Mr. 1) GILIIERT a;;reed with the Honourable
and Leal eel (i;ontlarnan.
Toe 11,,use having 'hen resolved itself into a
C unmittee,
Mr. 1). GILBERT rese, to cull the attention of
the Conirwitt e to the first Finance Report, and to
a k leave to brine, in Bills to carry its recomtnenda-
ti ins int., eff .ct. The llon"titable Gentleman said,
tut he had al,e:4ys considered Sinecure Places as
1,1 is and hlen.iNh s in the Cnesitiiitom of the Coun-
try. He had air to. nay suitinoted the measures pro-
po ted for their aboli sou by au Hen. Friend of his ( Mr.
li4nkes). lit. pm °oddity thsapproved of • ffices exe-
c .te'd by deptitirs,anti of giving sinecure offices, carry-
ing a semblance°, duty. He also th,,,lght Eh+ grant-
ing of Others in Reversion was an abase which tend-
.ed to increase the burdens no the punlic. It such
places were not given as a matter nt tavour, yet an
wehensiim Went abroad, chit City were, and a
bigwig lean% was excited in the pablic opinion
Pgain,t them. On those grounds I.e had always re-
clmniroded their abolition, even %hen the House
was much divided upon the subject. It would pro-
bably be t bjected to the present measure, that it
weeld not produce any ;peat saving. That, at first,
would certainly be the case. And the reason of it
was the necessity of keeping goad faith with those
who had vested rights in their situations, and he was
sore that but few would not concur in saying that
such right should be religiously maintained. borne-
time hence, however, the saving would become more
cousiderable. The abolition of Sinecures would ten-
d:r it necessary to point out' some other mode of re.
waroing meritorious services. Hence the system of
granting Pen:lions was recommended to the conside-
Tatou of the Committee, those Pensions to be pro-
portioned to the nature of the services performed.—
He had hoped that there would have been scarcely
any difference of opinion with tegard to the motion
which it was his intention to propose. He had since I
been .given to undetstand, that he should not be sup.
ported so unanimously as he had expected. He la-
mented it. He should have to move for leave to
bring in, not one Bill only, but a number of Bills,
as the different nature of the offices to be abolished
or regulated reluired separate enactments. Thui,
the Chief Justices in Eyie, were entirely Sinecures;
but the Warden of the Cinque Ports and the Sover-
nor of the Isle of Wight had important duties to
perform, which must continue to be executed by per.;
sons with reduced emoluments derived front other
sources than the Civit,List, or the Consolidated Fund.
He conceived that the measure to be adopted in con-

sentience of the recommendation of the Committee
would give general citisfaction. The public were
aware that no great saving could at once be eff:cted
i that particular branch, and would take what was
done as an earnest of since'e intentions and future
economies. 'lie then moved that the Chairman be
directed to move for leave to being in a Bill to abolish
the o&es of Warden and Chief Justices in Lyre,
North and South of Trent.
Mr. BOSWELL rose, he said, reluctantly, to
offer himsell to the attention of the House upon this
important occasion. The measures proposed by the
Hon. Gentleman, could, in his conception, rest only

upon one of two grounds, either that. the influence u.l
the Crown had increased and ought to be reduced.
or that the finances.of the country were inadequate to
bear the butdens arising out of the appointmetits un-
der consideration. As to the first point, he was ready
'openly to avow his opinion, that the influence of the
Crown in Parliament had never been less than of late
jars especially, in consequence of the operation of
the measures adopted in 1792 (alluding to Mr.
Biirke's Bill). It was notorious that the country
never had a better House of Comments than the re-
gent. (A laugh, sad Hear, hear, hear.) He meant
what was called a more unmanageable House..L
( Reserved largbta, awl hear, hear.) He supposed, when
site Committee proposed to substitute pensions as a
reward for service, they thoright they were sugges-
ting something much better thin office; bathe would
v.:inure to assert, these was something in the nature
of a pension by no means so agreeable to the feelings
as an •ottice which had been hallowed by long cus-
tom. So far from being a saving, also, be was cer.
tarn it would create a great increase of expense. He
must own he never t spected that a Committee, com-
posed of such individuals as sat upon the one whose
Report was then before them, would have recommen-
ded that public setv.ces should be rewarded open a
calculatr n of time. The consequence was, that the
moat brilliant services which a man might perform to
his country, would go untequittd, unless he could
plead a service of hve years. Were there no other
individuals worthy of reward than thy eleven pointed
out in the Repent of the Committee He would
swpose the case of Hon. Gentlemen on the other'
s-ae of the House, some of whom might be considered,
as rendering most efficient services to their country
by resisting measures, in their opinion, injurious.—
'rhe eyes of the Sovereign might at last be opened to
their merits—(a loud largo from the oppoutioa Barbee),
but be could fun reward them until they had gone
ihrougli their tire years probation. The principle of
tie measure, therefore, only tended to encourage a
pl •ce-iteeping disposition, to induce men to cling to
odice. As to the economy of it, he could not say
much in Its savoor. At the end of five years the pen-
somt might amount to £27,000, and at the end of 90
years to ail6U,Utid. With tepid to the pieces pro-

posed for abolition, he thought they should he touched
with great caution. The Warden of the Cinque Ports
.wad one of that description. But there was All another
office, respecting which he was entitled to feel, and
he should be wanting as a Scptsman if he dd not.
At this period there were tillers retained ie Scotland,
and those few were struck %t by the present Report.
He spoke of them as the monuments of homer ill-
; dependence, and as soothing to the pride 'of the in-
I habitants of that country. The Repent, howevt r. had
touched on,! with which it was not in the power of Par-
liament to isitertere. By the 19th ar tide of the
it was provided that the office of Lord Justice Gene-
ral should be maintained as by law established. He
was aware the Committee did not propose to abolish
it, but to make the 'head of the criminal court walk
into the civil one, which was the same As it the Lord
Chief Justice of the .Court of King's Bench were,
male the bead of the Court of Common Pleas. The
general principle of the Report he considered as dan-
gerous to the Constitution, and he should 'give his
humble opposition to it in every stage.
Lord CASTLE It RAG II was not one of those
who, distingeishing the patronage of the Crown in
1792 Iron ttizt which had grown with the war and
ought certainly to he reduced at pt-ice, were prepar-
ed to admis that that patronage had become excessive
in tte present day. It was his conviction, on the
contrary, that the current of years had imposed many
restraints on that patronage. He, therefore, had
thought that no case had been made when an Ho-
limitable Friend of his (Mr. Bankes) had introduced
a motion for its reduction some Sessiocs ago. He
had consequently voted against that motion. As to
the Honourable Member who had spoken last, and
had stated, that by the adoption of the present mea-
sure the country might be burthened in five years
with pensions to the amount of £27,000, and in SO
years to that of reltio,ooo, lie must not have read the
Report of the Committee attentively. For by no
possibility, according to the Bill proposed, could
pensions ex at at once to .1 greater emotion than
£42,900, or rather 5e39.000, as the other 43000
formed an exception, and A .p.irticiair instance. The
presumption esen was, that it would never rise above
£so,oous It was not before the end of twelve years,
that .pensiens to that full amount could be in exist-
ence. He therefore conceived that the Honourable'
Gentleman bad not attacked the Report fairly. His,
Honourable Friend (Mr. lilacs) had never repre-
sented the Abolition of Sinecures as a toeasuie of
economy likely to yield the great relief to the country
which had been represented. It was a gross delusloir
which bad been practised upon the peokrle. When
he should state that the whole amount of the expense
of those Offices, which had been the objects of in-
quiry, did not excrel £lOO,OOO, it would be seen
that without sweeping away the whole, and many
of them were not Sinecures, the saving could not
bear much on the d stresses of the country.--
What would be the amount of the future savings
which might be effected, it was impossible exactly to
ascertain, as it would be necessary first to settle the
salaries ef the persons who were to replace with in-
leriUr emoluments the holders of offices attended with
real dames. He should object to the measure it it
were one intended to limit the patronage of the Crown
in such a degree ai"tia deprive it of the power of re-
warding services. And there was a feeling in the
Committee that if the measure were only one of abo-
lition, and did not tend to replace the Crown in pop-
session of a certain degree of patronage, to arise from
the substitutions made, it would operate on a wrong
principle. It was impossible not to feel how the orb-
, lic mind had been poisoned with regard to the inflo
race of the Crown, and the belief that if sinecures
were abolished, relief would immediately grow out to
the country, and the public &stress would be re
moved. There certainly had been offices, the emo-
luments of which had increased to an amount which!
had not been originally ;wended. But they had at-
tracted the notice sit Parliament by which they had
been regulated. Only one remained at the beginning
of the Session, that of Teller of the Exchequer, and
a Noble Friend of his bad relieved the public from
all anxiety on that occasion. He thought the present
motion a salutary one, as it would tree tile mind of
the people hom its gross delusion, and would disarm
those who wished to deceive of their accustomed
means. As to the principle of economy, it had been
carried as tat as it possibly could be. The Com-
mittee were pr 10-k to the system..ot pensions as a
kind of equivalent to the Crown fot the offices which
had hither to beer, used to reward othritorious services.
Nothing was to be more deprecated in establishing
the system of pensions with respect to the higher offi.
cers, than the danger of exposing them to the suspi-
cions of vulgar minds, as to the motives by Which
they were actuated in taking office. It was on that
account that the Committee fixed two years as the
shortest time of service at which persons in high
offices might receive pensions. Oo this general view
of the subject he felt anxious that the measure should
meet wiih the approbation of the House, and he
'thought that no individual who had voted for a for-
mer motion of a similar kind could object to the pre-
sent measure. It should have his decided support.
Mr. J. P. GRANT could not agree either with the
Noble Lord or the Learned Chairman (Mr. D. Gil-
bert), in the opinions which they had expressed. He
thought that when this measure was fully understood,
it would reflect no credit on those who had brought
it forward, and yield no satisfaction to the country.
The Noble Lord had revealed the reasons which in-
duced him to support that measure. It was not be-
cause it tended to diminish the influence of the Crown
or tp attain economy s fur he had avowed that it
would do neither; but because the public mind had
been poisoned with respect to .Sinecures;aqd;he hopcji
the proposed abolition or correction of a few, would
remove the impression. The Noble Lord thought
the country would give him credit for a measure,
which neither tended to reduce the imflueace of the
Crown, nor to diminish Expenditure, and he was
glad to carry public favour by taking advantage at
that feeling which he had represented as the elect of
poison !—(Near, Isear).—The Committee had been
formed to examine into the income and expenditure
of the country. The Noble Lord himself had come
'forward to prove its necessity, and to demand inquiry
into the finances of the State; but that was in order
to take the investigation into his own hands--(Hear,
hear).—That Committee had now sac within three
days of three months, and what had it produced ?
After its long period of gestation, and many throes,
it had comedown with the present Report Ought,

not use Members to have first considered the Income'
and Expenditure of the Country, the branches which
had failed, and those %Stitch had improved, that the
House might know the situation of the State ? But
no—they had brought forth one Report on Sinecures, !
and snot :r on the Army Estimates—(Hear, hear). I
The next would probably be en the Ordinance Eai
otates, and the last on the means re making the pub• •
tic income and expenditure meet ! Was that what
ought to have been expected from such a Commit-1
tee? If the House had thrught that it wc.uld con-
fine its 14bours to such objects, would it not have ap-
pointed another ? The Committee in 1791, which
had entered into a most lab•srious investigation, made
its report in a month. In short, in every former
Financial Committee, the report had been made in a
shorter time than the present, which, notwithstand.
ing the time bestowed oo it, carried on the face of it
the greatest marks of haste, and the greatest number
of inaccuracies. The Committee, in fact, had begun
with that which ought.to have been the last object of
their inquiries. The first thing which ought to have
occupied their attention was a general view of the
finances of the country, of the public debt, and the
'expenses of managing it. But, instead of that the
Committee at once involved itself in those details as
to the minor branches of expenditure, which ought
to have been the last taken into its consideration.
' The Report was liable to a variety of verbal criti.
cisms, with which he would not trouble the House.
One of the strongest peculiarities which distinguished
it was, thot it did not state any reason on which its
recommendations were fouoded. r instance, as to
the offices of the two Chief Justices in Lyre, they are
recommended to be abolished, and all that the Re-
port says, by way of reasou on which the recommen-
.
dation was founded, was, 't that the view which the
Corrtmittee took was, that they might be abolished."
And afterwards, as if mightily satisfied with the
strength of this reason, the Report, noticing the
office of Auditor of the Exchequer, says, " reasons cf
the same nature induce your Coi 1111 l ittee to recum-
mend the abolition of the offices of the Auditors of
the Exchequer." Now he would defy any man to
find out from the Report what the reasons were. He
then contended that the office of Auditor of the Ex-
chepter was one of the very last that ought to be abo.
fished, and that the former Finance Committee had.,
deemed it a necessary office and one which ought not to,
be abolished. In like manner, without assigning any
reason, the offices of Walden of the Cinque Ports,
And Governor of Cinque Ports, and one of the Joint
Paymasters of the Forces, came within the scope of
the offices which the Report advised should be alio-
fished, but it was the first for the abolition of which
any thing like a reason Was assigned. But then it
was curious to observe, that the Committee recom-
mend, that from the saving to be made by the aboli.
'min of this office, the what y 'attached to the office of
Vice-President of the baud of Trade should he in-
creased So that there would, as to this office ( which
was almost the only one fur the aboloicit of which the
Committee assigned any reason) —in reality be 114 sa-
ving, for the salary was to receive a different direct*.
In Scotland, the office of Keeper of ;he Great Seal
is recommended to be kept up, and to the salary
tegulated at re 2,000 a.year ; but why it shouts be
continued, or why the salary should be exactly
02,000 A-year, is not stated. In the same 'way the
Committee dealt with the ciffice stf Keeper of the
Privy Seal, the salary-of which, without any reason
being assigned,• is fixed at £l,OOO a year. The of-
fice of Justice-General of Scotland is also disposed
of without any reason being assigned. But one of
the most whimsical parts of the Report was what re-
lated to the offices of the four Sin feyors of Crown
Lends in Ireland, the duties of which the Committee
thought ought to be transferred to
,buildings—(4
lamb).—As to the whole saving to be effected by
acting on the Report, he would enableohe House to
judge, by giving the following short abstract of the
Report :—lt recommended the abolition of 28 offices
in England. and 18 in Scotland. By the abolition
of these a saving of 0;51,178 annually would be made,
and on this saving the Committee proposed to grant
pensions to the amount of de:Wel° per annum. So
that the utmost saving to the country which c. old be
effected even, it all was done that the Committee
recommended, was €20,000 a•year. He differed
entirely from the Noble Lord (Castlereagh) as to the
influence• of the Crown ( Iltar, hear, luar).—
He thought it had increased, and that it was now ex-
ercised to a most unconstitutional extent, not merelj
as exercised in this House or in returning Members
to ihe'l-Lnise, but as in the patronage affolded by the
immense number of offices in the gilt of the Crown.
But at the same time he would not excite the popular
feeling on this subject. He would not, like the Noble
Lord, seek to curry favour with the people, by seem-
ing to comply with their wishes and prayers when, in
reality, he only wished to thwart them. But when he
saw a Government which had reduced the country to
a state of bankruptcy, trying to gain popular credit
by a paltry saving, he could not but do all in his
power to expose the deceit. It was impossible for
any man to view the financial state of the country
without acknowledging it to be one of the utmost
peril, Last year the Chancellor of the Exchequer
took credit for £8,500,000 towards the supplies sf
the year from the surplus of the Censolidated Fond.
And how did the returns of this year bear out this ?
It appeared, that instead of any surplus, there was
this year a defalcation to the amount of A 0,600,000.
It appeared, that, in fact, for defraying the charge of
the public establishmeats, there remained only from
the Customs, Excise, and the War Taxes, a sum of
.10,500,000 ; and yet, in this state of things, 1:c
would ask the Committee what they had been doing
all this time ; when in their Report not one word was
said as to the general state of our finances. (Hear.):
This should have been the first and primary object to
which the labours of the Committee shOuld have been
directed; and yet it was that which they had put last
in the order of their investigation. Instead of being
the earliest object to attract their attention, as being
the most important, it wirthat to which, at the very
end of the Session, when theliouse would be in its
thinnest state, then it was, that in order of its arrange-
ment, the Committee would come forward with that
which ought to have been ~.the first object of its la-
boors. He did not wish to take a melancholy view
of the subject, but he did say the preient state of
things could not last. When the situation of the
Government came to be such that it could no longer
raise the supplies necessary. to meet the expenditure,
'it was finite evident that some change in the system

'on which Government acted must take place. p.
did not rise to oppose the motion, for to him it wss,,
matter of perfect indifference whether it was carn..l
or whether it was lost. But in this he hoped I;e soil l
not find himself deceived—that the Norte
I would not he rewarded with the popularity
s-emed to expect Irons these nii itsares.—('t
,-Gentlenian sat down amid loud cheering trim, h,
Opposition Betides.)
Mr. HUSIUSSON felt not a lisle turprzt•2
the speech of the Honourable and Learned Getalt-
man, when he recollected that he now so stteria"oy
animadverted on and disregarded the vsry nteastrn
that in the year IPI4 he supported by his vote--
Weary—lt was, too, rather extracttinary to hscr
such aspersions against the present Committee,
ceeding from a Gentleman who was not in atter.d.%,
in his duties to that House when the Committee aos
appointed, and who, for the first tine this Session,
made his appearance amongst them since the Easter
recess— (Scar, hear).—lt Was not from such
ter, he must confess, that he could expect to have
such a lecture read on the want of diligence in th?
Committee —a Committee that has sat during the ate-
sence of that Learned Gentlerian, most assiduouslr,
from day to day, in the discharge of a laborious duty
—(Haar, bar).—lt was true, such an attack as t'ist
Learned Gentleman (Mr. Grant) made, woold nr3
be very consistent from the Honourable Gentlemen
who surrounded him, because it 'must he in the re.
collection of the House, that at the time the Com-
mittee was in agitation, it was re-echoed horn the
opposite side, that it was not an inquiry into the ir..
come an expenditure that was d4resi—that,
said, wXt familiar to the whole House—it was
the teach of every man ; indeed, it he was not
taken, a Right Honourable Gentleman, not mos is
-
his place (Mr. Tierney) stated, that if that was
only object of inquiry, he was sire the Right fin.
insurable the Chancellor of the Exclieqiier had the
Report cut and dry in his pucket—(l-/eur, Ikar).-.
At that time also, the Honourable Gentlemen oppo.
site were, night after night, presenting Petitions cal.
ing for the a'aolitioo of those very sinecures as tlie
main grievance, and the abolition of which wou:d
have the effect, if not of relieving the public ciismrs,
at least of convincing the petitioners that izs corn.
nuance Was not attributable to that House. .1
verbal criticistns on the Report he was not bound ts,
explain—they could little aff.tt the arginnent. Pat
lie must say in answer, tfos with the lahours .if t ti.cr
- •
Committees before their', it was wanly ttlinecesury
to enter into a full detail of all those reasons of ssl lout
the House were already its possession. He must al:a
be allowed to say, that no Report was ever beate
submitted to-that House that bore bstter the char•:.
ter of economy, and was in het an i.optovenstnt to
lormer measures.

S'r J. NEWPORT remarked, that the Cirritree
had been appointed on the fith rebrnary, ai.d
m tde its Report on the 25th of ?larch. And %hat
was the Nnin of the labour s f the Cerni,littve during
this large portion of tiros! ? Truly, no more thin to
adopt, w.th some modifit dittos, tie meas,ires !min:oy
proposed by .he Hon. hlernber for COI to CASIL:
Backe.), and these modifications were, for t!:e mutt
part, of such a nature as to do away with :dl that la.
goad in Mae original measure. In the Repoit theta
were evident usarks of its having been drawn tir
great haste, for it aboune.ed wida unpardon It iaac-
curacies. As to pensions, the amount of the pention
fund was already sufficiently great for the tetuunet.,.•
flan of all ihose services which came to be rewarded
under this head. It would have been well for the
Corrimitteolo have considered that, in regulating the
scale of pensions, it was not enough merely to consi•
der the value' of the services, but also how much the
distressed state of the Country could afford. 'lnce
was",-in fact, ritulting itithe whole Report that would
make any one.think that. it was the matured produr•
non of %ix •weekvlaboura

Mr. MA R WYATT wished to say a few wilrrh
to what had been done by the Commivee with rorect
to colonial offices... He'Woulel apply his observatic..f
to one colony—Demerara. While that colony was is
the possession of: the Dutch, there were no sinectit.:
offices in that colony, and no offices tilled by
nonresident officers. But as sOOll as Great Bti-
tam obtamed possession of it the case was entirely
changed ; the•whole• system of the adruinOtration it
public office was altered, sinecures were created, ail
persons paid for offices in the colony who never !t•
sided there. The consequence WA, thiAt to MAilit2.2
these cifiices increased saltlr;es wen! necessary,lad to
supply the salaries, an inert a,e of t..xa!ioti Was una-
voidable. In this colony, the amount of taxes leinal
had increased wonderfully. He knew one Gentlenitio
who held an estate in. that colony, who had lately itt•
formed him that while the colony was in the
sion of the Dutch, he had paid oily three hur..:hol
pounds for taxes, wheieas now he paid seven hunahol
pounds a year on the same prape: ty. This so
4nough to shew the necessity of thoroughly revion;
the system on which colonial offices were now rec."
fated. The Report no* befete the 'douse shewtl
that the Committee had not the information n'•:c*
airy to make such a revision. In tact, all that
Committee had dom.- i w.t.l respect to our cuf,••i•ll v.:6*
tem was qrshe superficial ; and what he withiid to Foot
upon the House was the necessity ot such A row a
being undertaken.
Mr. W. FREEqh.N I'LE olikr:ted to the Tete!:
mendations contained in the Report, because the :ra-
ces which they wished to be 'abolished could mit :r•
abolished without injustice, and the saving to in
made by abolishing tiiem would be quite insignibcalii:'
The Hon. Mr. F. ROBINSON, referring to Ile
speech of the fionoutabie Member (Mr. MarryAtt)
said, it was unfair and unwise to select parlicular ...-
stances as objects of tepri.batiou on the diming:9l
a general measure like that now under considtratilr.•
Iri the present case it was particularly 'IMAM, beci.!•it
not one of the abut s complained of by the Hong
able Gentleman nnkv existed ; for the Honottraiiie
Gentleman seemed to forget that an Act was ',Aiwa
three years ago which made residence a •nezessary
condition for holding an office in any ot the Colo
niet.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord MILTON objected to the Ripon as OM
gibing far erfough. The Committee had the spescl
of Mr. Burke in 1792 hefore them, and, it they has
attended to the doctriues coettined in it.
they wouid
have found that they might have gone mitah firiber
than what had been done in 178'd. It WAS hits torn
.conviction, that if • all the recommendations of :tln•
Burke had been attended to, much, if not all, of tst

a
• it ition lately excited in the public mind would
te •beer. voieee, The Honourable and Learned
beer
Gee:Linen j. P. Giant) who spoke so ably,
bee ever, to have mistaken the objects for
eel ibe Ciinntlittre iippeineed.
: seed hoteitig of the veriens poiets to which
„ eee &ie.-- their atttelioli iu their future
fah le, it seethed te him tilet in their first Report
w their onty to Ii ive stetee, not in detail, but
feet
tl.c snrots to Which Cley meant to direct
,Vl'' ,
• , 1„ le dielern hrench of expendi-
frt;Cantlty Called b r investigetion. But on
Ise ..e t.: aching had ) t t been delve, nor %V.as any
prielescd. in seen, the whole Rt- pest was
...teeteeity . The Hon. Gentleman ( Mr. D.
Viso) s.eineJ, on tlile occasion, to have acted (he
its t ti • effeilee) as the organ of Govein•uent.
;e, D. Cl denied that he acted as the
erg:: l'4 on this or any other occasion.
bosun stseperted a similar measure when
t torward by the Honourable Mernb:r for
ece teeth: (sl:slr. Ban kes).
rEY was decidedly of (pinion, that the
even:cue had been appointed, net so mach for the
rotposes of economy, as to put a screen between the
fierce . f t':e country and the anxiety which had
been SO liriaty expressed for investigaCon—(Hear,
cautt•tled, that the time occupied Ly the
e, emcee' had been 'entirely lost; for the Right llo-
resbh• Gentleman opposite might, on the 9th Fe-
st:: tiy leiv.e given to the I 3 else all the facts and
stitereeits v. loch the Report of that Cernmitti e con.
leirce —;ilese, sie.:r).—He attended the Committee
v;.e ne more, for his health would net per
vet loot :t that time to undertake laborious investiga-
teee ; and upon that occasion his Honourable and
Lemed Friend (Mr. J. P. Grant) whose conepre-
beeve speech delivered that night had left him so
f :Le on which to trouble the House; his Honourable
ra Learned Friend submitted a number of Resold-
tee dec:eritory of the principles on which the Com-
mittee slioaid proceed—such as that all Offices, the
clue: of which had decreased, should have their sa-
I ees diminished; and that those Offices to which no
eeies were attached, should be abolished, but the
Lord, with an air which clearly showed his
olden:,e in the obedience of the Committee, said no,
:y must have nothing to do with any Resolutions
cr tar kind, it was sufficient for them to determine
see should be ahelished and what continued, with-
tat slating the ground) to themselves on which their
eue.etlings were to stand. However, the question
cis peshed to a division, and though he was in the
habit of getting into a minority ewe or three times a
leek in that House, yet the minority in which he
feted himself in the Committee was such as lie had
rat eerve enough to endure, for the Resolutions were
I by a division of sixteen to three—(Hear, hear).
It e is evident, then, that the Committee was nOtiling
mere than a delusion : it was composed of persons
chow sentiments respecting economy were well
leuevii beforehand, and they readily acquiesced in the
iteeet :ion of the Noble Lord, to give no reasons for
What they did, lest they should risk their measures of
retteachment in another quarter. Under such cir-
came .aces, he would not have attended the Cern.
rime had his health permitted, for it was nothing
bet a delusion. le was fir from hie intention to deny
thilesece and-propriety of rewarding the servants
of the but why did not the Committee exe-
vie: tee Pension List ? He was sure, that on the
c:. List alone, which amounted to the enormous
sten le two hundred and lolly thousand pounds,
Ire thisesand pounds might have been saved, which
was squandered upon persons engaged in little, dirty,
eti jobbing—( Hear, hear, hear.) When he looked
i to that list, he saw names of persons who had never
been servant: of tee public, or related to these that
ante The House, the Right Hon: Gentleman said,
ought to have the Pension List before them—(Hear.)
He did not complain of the Cerninittee needy be-
c else they had consumed the time uselessly, but they
hal exceeded the bounds of elieir functions, and had
entered into inquiries as to the compensation which
cecld he made to the Crowe for the offices which
were to be abolished. They had dignified themselves
well the character of guerdiens of the Constitution.
lisy, they had even taken upon themselves to create
"see offices—(Thar, /par).--Tbere wes the J nnt Pay-
master of the Forces, who, since the 'war ceased, had
become a piece of live lumber—(.1 laugh)—and he
must be provided for in some way, so he was made
Vice-President of the Board of Trade, with a salary
of £1•000. Why might not this office have been
given to the 'immutable Gentleman the Master of
the Mint, as he was not over burthened with duties,
and the salary saved to the country ?—( Hear, hear)—
Lit it was evident that econemy was not the object
of this Ministerial Committee. Then there was the
additional Postmaster-General, with his salary of
14500, when one Postmaster was enough, and thus
was selesoo utterly wasted ; and this the Right Ho.
mutable Gentlemen called economy—(Hear, hear.)
--He could put no confidence le a Committee which
could sanction such bate-faced jobs (Hear, hear).—
He knew that notwithstanding else alarming state of
t'te Finances, the Stocks had risen ; they were kept
Op by the manceuvres of Bank Directors, Chancellors
of the Exchequer, and Jews. (Hear, and a laugh.)—
A peat weight of unfunded debt hung upon the
cuats/s and he supposed it was intended to InCreaie
'he amount, for borrow they must, rather than re-
duce the price of stock, by funding any part of it.—
The Noble Lord (Castlereagh) had stated, when he
was nut able, front his state of health, to contradict
i'tes, that he (Mr. Tierney) had declared it as his opi-
eioa, that the Peace Establishment could not be re-
' duced below 19 millions, and that he (the Noble
Lord) had the rare merit of reducing it to 18 millions
three hundred thousand pounds. He declared he had
'eve: made such an assertion; he had merely
_Quoted
I:iat sum from the other side of the House, as a point
"in wlsich to start his arguments. But he would
new say, that unless the Peace Establishment was re-
duced below that amount, a national bankruptcy
would be the consequence. ( hear.) lie hoped
the present motion would be unanimous, though he
Must again repeat that the Committee had not done
its duty.
The Resolutions were then put and agfeed to.
The House having resumed, the questions founded
on the Resolutions were put from the Chair, that
leave be given to bring in Bills, conformably thereto.
, Ors that which related to allowing compensation to
he given to persons who had held high offices in the
States Mr. BROUGHAM declared his intention of

opposing the Bill in ettery stage, %s it would introduce
a new principle in the Constitution, foun,ied on the
perversion of patronage which was ablut to he take')
away from the Crown. This was the first time the
House hid been taught to consider men who accepied
of high otli,es in the State in the saris! light As tilf)Sr
who ei aged in lucrative professions.

Lord MILTON said he should also Wl.:et to this
Bill, as tending to degrade all the high 'oil:7es of tl
State. He objected to it, because the compenk et:-n
was to depend on the continuance: in office, and ibis
was a temptation that could be called by no other
name than political profligacy ; for if the honour a
man is office was not unblemished, his rernainiog in
office was an injustice and a curse. Pe skull.' resist
the 13:11, on the principle that it made tae tenure of an
otlice a twre mercenary act.
Mt. ISANKES contended, that it ought not to be
expected that distinguished talents could be brought
out of lucrative professions to enter upon offices of
State, by which individuals sacrificed the certainty
of acquiring large private fortunes, without the pros-
pect of some fair remuneration. It was not a new
principle that the Crowe' should have the means of
affording aitell remuneration.
Lord MILTON, in explanation, said he was not
sure the framer bill (that for abolishing Sinecures).
want to the same extent as this ; but though he voted
for that, he had a right to change his opinion now,
wheat compensations were proposed to be given to all
I wit a had held high offi:es. - -

Mr. BROUGHAM, in explanation, alluded to
the Sinecure Abolition Bill, which pa,•sed in 1812,
and declared, that though he voted silently for that
Bill, because he wished to get rid of what was bad ;
yet if it had been followed by one like the present, to
allow compensations, he would have voted for neither,
if one was to be accompanied by the othw... lie
rrentioned Ibis to shield himself from the charge of
inconsistency in opposing this measure.
Mr. CANNING said, the Bill for which the Noble
Lord and the Honourable Gentleman voted in 1812,
was not simply tor the abolition of Sinecure Offices,
but for their abolition with compensation. But no
artifice would make it appear that two votes were
consistent on the part of those who voted for the
former and intended to oppose the present. They
voted on the former occasion for that principle which
was now, for mere convenience, divided into two Bills.
Mr. PONSONBY could perceive no artifice in his
Honourable and Learned Friend's conduct. lie had
merely said, that when the Bill whico had been
brought inko the House by Vie Honourable Gentle-
Wan (Mr. Bankes), combined the abolition of Sine-
cures with compensation ; h., however. averse to the
latter, accepted both, for the sake of the former.—
The Right Hon. Gentleman had applauJed the man-
liness of his Noble Friend in avowing a change of
opinion on the subject. Zr was certainly consistent
on the part of the Right Honourable Gentleman to
argue in favour of those wh r changed their opinion
(Hear, hear). It fitted him. He had changed
nis own —(lleur, hear). He had found it so desirable
to do so, that he thought proper to accept of office
under the coati-mil of an individual, agaitist whom
lie formerly intrigued in the Cabinet, and whom he
had declared to be incompetent to the high situation
which he filled—( Hear, bear). It was natural there-
fore that the Right Honourable Gentleman should
argue in favour of a change of opinion. With respect
to himself, he (Mr. Ponsonby) was ready, as for-
merly, to vote both for the abolition and compensa-
tion. The abolition of Sinecures would do great
good, as the Public could then never be deceived,
but would know the exact amount of the Pensions
enjoyed by public servants retired from office.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
defended the consittency of his Rijlit Hun. Friend,
and attacked that of the Hon. and Learned Gentle.
man (Mr. Brougham), N ho, if fie disapproved of the
cempensation part of the former 11.11, needed not to
have Assented to it, hat might hue muved to strike
out the ailau,e in which it WAS contained.
Mr. W. SMITH had no hesitation in avowing

that he concurred in opinion wita his Honourable and
I.t/arned Friciid, and that he thought it neither un-
manly nor 113Vil11 to pursue the line of conduct which
he had followed. _ _ _

Mr. ['EEL WAS not astonished that the Honour-
able Gentleman (Mr. W. Smith) should see no in-
consistency in the conduct of the H:n. and Learned
Gentleman—he who himself. • in proof of an accusa-

Linn of change of opinion, had imputed an anony-
mous publication to an absent authf:r—(Loud cries of
Ilear,from the Ofsposition)—without the means of vin-
&eating biassed in that House.
Mr. W. SMITH said, he had not called the Right
Honourable Gentleman to order for what might be
considered as disorderly in referring to a former de-
bate, though had lie done so, he should have had
the support of the Chair. He took it for granted,
that the Right Honourable Gentleman not being pre-
, sent at the time alluded to, wished to take the pre-
sent opportunity of delivering his sentiments with
respezt to what had then fallen from him. The Right
kionourable Gentleman could not have been present,
because, if lie were present, and had given any at-
tention whar passed, and his recollectioa had served
him properly, he would not have made such an enor-
mous and extravagant mis•eieesentation of what lie
had then said. The Riot Honourable Gentleman
could not have been present, for he had too much
good sense and candonr—he said that in perfect sill-
? cerity —to have attributed any expressions to him
(Mr. Smith) as having been levelled against a per-
son merely on account of a change of opinion. It
was against the exceeding halal censure, that a per-
son who had chanArd his own opinions levelled
against those who held the opinions which he had
abandoned, that he had then expressed himself.
Mr. LAMB dated that he or his friends could fairly be accused
of inconsistency : he objected to this measure, because it defi-
nitively fixed the reward of services; whereas he thought a cer-
tain sum ought to be placed at the discretion of the Crown, to
be disposed of in that way in. the proportions that might be
deemed proper.
fuIr.TIENNEY wished it to be understood, that though he
approved uf the substance of the Ball, be :emceed his opinion
with respect to its details.
Lord EdRINGTON vindicated his friends front the *barge of
inconsistency which had been brought against them.
Mr. O. GILBERT insisted that the difierence between the
two was merely formal. It had been deemed comenieot to di
vide the clauses for the, abolition of sinecures, and the reward at
sinecures, into two bilis, instead of submitting them to the House
as in MS, on one sheet ut paper.
Mr. LI l'nxi ON was not surprised to observe a smile on
die ealuatensakes. of I. Gentlemen on the other side of th.
House I uo doubt they held it to be a very sidled= and iures-

.0 N 1)0N.

TO-MORROW SECOND DAY OF DRAWING-ALL
FOUR £20,000 MAY TIIEN BE DRAWN-NOTHING
ABOVE £25, FIRST DAY-BUT NJ ADVANCE OF
PRICE.

TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1817.
PRICE or STOCK4TI-1111 DAY AT TWELVE 'YCLOCK
Nrduced 71f 7tli—Vo. for Ace. 72
4 prr Cent. tati,i-5 per Lent. Navy, i02,1i
India Iknds 7z 73 'qr.—Exchequer Bib by. 15s. 1.. r.

T!te Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last
have arrived.

The 3d of May being the Anniversary of the KING'S
return to Paris, hi► MAJESTY received the congratu-
lations of all the Public Authorities on the occasion.
Madame D'AvueLx has been examined twice by
the King's Attorney-General, and once by the Pre-
fect of Police. Her relations have lull permission to
communicate with her.

The importation of grain into France has of late
been so abundant, that the Maritime Assurance Cm-
pany of Paris has insured vessels laden with grain to
the amount of no less than ten millions.
In Switzerland the distress continues as great as
ever, and is but too likely to be mei increased by
the absurd measures taken by the Public Authorities
to relieve it. In the Canton of Schaffhausen, they
have not only prohibited the exportation of corn, bet
have fixed a maximum price for it, which is, in tact,
to expect that they can command whatever they want
at their own price. The subject is now too well un-
derstood to make any words necessary to :hew th4t
any arbitrary regulation of this kind must have the
very reverse of the effect intended.
Every intelligence from Turkey confirms the re-
port of its warlike preparations, but affords no certain
information of their object. On the one hand it is said
!list the Form has views on Persia ; while, on the
other, it is affirmed, and with perhaps more truth,
that serum recent demonstrations on the part of the
Christian lowers have excited apprehensions at the
Ottoman Court, which make it desirous to ptesein
as imposing an attitude as possible to its imagined
foes. The account which we gave yesterday of the
insurrection at Bagdad is confirmed—bnt we do not
rmet with any further particulars.

The contagious malady which lately broke nut in
Italy, continues still very destructive At Turin—but
has entitely ceased in Feirara, oNing, it is said, to
the very excellent measures of a B)ard of Health,
established at that place.

The reign of the new King of WIRTEMBERG, which
seemed to commence's() auspiciously, is beginning to
get involved in gloom and trouble. The Constitu-
tion which the King presented to the States for their
consiJelation and adoption has, notwithstanding its
greet literality, met with much opposition; and on
one point the parties ate at such direct vat iance, that
only the subinissioa of the one or the other can pre-
vent an open rupture. The States insist, that in the
Constituent Assembly proposed to be established for
the whole kingdom, the representatives of the ancient
and new territories shall v'ite separately, 'so that the
majorities of each shall determine, instead of a ma-
jority of the two bodies united.
But the King very wisely, we think, refuses to con-
skier his people as any other than one great family—
,' their representatives as any other than one entire
body—he will allow of no distinction between uld
and new—hereditary or acquired dominirins—lie de-
' mauds that a majority of the whole Constituent
Body shalt, it) all cases, decide. And in a Rescripi.
which he. has issued to the States, of date the 23‘1
eftimo, he declares, that unless they snake a &data-
Lion, fully recognizing these principles, it will be.. an
obstacle to ad further negociation."
French Funds, Ist May, 661 r. 75e.
The following are.extracts from the letter of Ma-
dame de St. Jean d'Angely to her husband:
" MY Dean .Fttletio!—lt is impossible that these miserable
people can !Manioc to exist. A revolution is inevitable. It will
he terrible, but it will hid to good, and we must resign our.
selve, to the aw.st painful operations fur the recovery of health.
Do not believe that my partiality misleads me. it is easy to see
Ido out deceive nlystlt. Ask M. de Robert—he will tell you,
that if we could have anticipated the effect of Gruthrenes, we
should perhaps have hero delivered from these odious
It will requite Ito very great edhrt to overturn them, and they
feel it. li they thought themselves strong, this week would have
undeceived them.
t;overnuient is obliged to.change the system of mildness
which it has adopted and pursued fur the last six months.
by that they expected to lull us asleep, and ina:ty persons have
said that they would do so ; hut things are taut so bad. '1 hese
men are our executioners, They are the destroyers or our hu-
*sour, ut our glory, of ourOlaurels, ul our industiy. Nu vossible
reconediation ran take knew between them and France, aud every
body must suffer, bi cause every body is hostile to theist.
And that man whom we have lost by our own fault, and
given up to our most cruel monks who have him ist their power
--AU lily strength and all my courage fails Inc In this reflection,
at once so painful and so humiliating. Ile lett us his sou, and lie
knows that that son is the only true King ot France. But we
;will deliver the lather. Our honour depends •on it.. How all
:hese people, already su contemptible, will sink betore that Co-
looms I. Ido nut believe that lam credulous, my dear friend.—
it is the sole occtipauen of my thoughts ; but it is that of many
Alien, who are perhaps more armee. I will tell you nu more;
out believe me we see approachint a more happy 0144% itatortr
platy, that you may judge more nearly."

THE ARMY.

Det tchments fur the caval,l reg:rnents in F • e.
were embarked yester.lay a t Di.vr, uu !maid Ihr.)e
transports, for Calais.
Tuesday the firer &vision of the 47,1 reg:uient
marched front Gia,g,iw to etnl)lrk 1.4 ; 41d
on the sane d thr rit•t div:tioo of the 4./-4 legi-
mein artivd at C!aszt,w-
Cominisi.iry-Cielieral IMPA, wine to
America in the r i,f C.orrintizsisty-Gencias
sox, who returii,, to l•Ii44101:1.
It-is said that in tw! new, regiil iti ,n is to
take place %via) resr),:ct to G ofly
three hunched of all ai,ks a receive rittions for
past servic.,•s; acd then the alciwaiii-e ur t to incteitle
on promotion to.Lentena 1 -Gefal ;is and ;I,•nerall
By Returns which Lave b.:e hriati the Attl.
}utant•GeneralisOffi:a., it appeav, that 1,m)) the 25th
January, V-116, to Mirth, 1817, Ole number ut men
who have enlived for the regular Army, has been--
for rr limited petiod. 516; for life, 1(i,33.; : the num-
ber of boys fur a limited peri.id, 2; tar 5.)7
Total 17,411. —That from thellsth Deer-mkt:l.,
to 25th December, 1816, the nutubor o' deaths in the
Brutish Army (ex:Tring the forces on some foreign
stations, horn witch the Retn:rs have not been re-
ceived) was 5.427 ; cf diccharrs, 51,702 ; of deser-
tion, 4,721—T0t..1 casualt'es, 46,850.-I'lin irom -
the 25th Decern'aer, 1816, t) the M irch,
1817, the number of di/charges i a d e re4clar Army
been 43,175 ; of (I,,sertions 5,550; air: :hit the
total ellectom s'rengtl) of the 1.3 t isb ATusy at home
aed abroad (exclusive of Artillery) was, on the 25t1t.
June. 1616, 161,191 ; on the 25th December, 1616,
146,991; and on the 25t:i March, 1817, 141Ali:G2.

INT.XLLIGENC
The GENERAL KBD and Al t.As outward bound
East•lndiamen, arrived at Madeira on the I:writing
of the 24th of March, and proceeded on their voyage
the sante day.
From the New Yori Evening Poet, of March '29:
" CHARLESTON, MARCH IH.—I be British brig Nanny Of
Liverpool), Captain Janus Livingston, in 14 days from Barba.
does, in attempting to Si into GrolleioWll on Wednesday night
last, struck and went to pieces. lames Livingston, Captain ;
Nathaniel Ashton, td Mate; Win. Thomas, seaman; and
Ropers (a black mats), cook ; were the only p<fio.l, who reach, e 1
the shore, after henig in the water five hoots, swimming from
buoy to buoy. I he remainder. fourteen in number. were drop •I•
ttl•—.l he Cap:ails died two hours after he reache'd the s'iore, on
the brach ; .and- the others reached town un satueday
about right o'clock. Tiomia4 and Rogers were carried to the
Marine liospi...l In a deplorable state. Ihe Nancy was bound
to taeorgetown, in ballast a.iel -specie.— above. account was
!andel usby Mr. Ashton, who returns hi. sincere thanks to-Mr..
Cooper, in lieurgetcwri, for the a•sastance rendered them."
PALMOU 11-I, MAY 3. •
Arrived the Dwarf and Active cutters, from a cruize.—Sailed
the Duke of Kent packer, with a mail for Lisbon; wattle Dwat
cu ter again on a cru ze.—Wind N.W. lig t breezes, and hue,
POR ISMOU I li, MAY S.
Arrived the Odessa, Hansen, from Chi istiana. The Corn-
wall, for India, passed iltivh,V-hannel last nik;lit.
DEAL, MAY 5.
Cone down from the River and rention, the Zenophon, for
Bermuda; John, for Charlatun ; Mary, f St. JAWS; and Ante.
lass; for Jamaica. Arrived and sailed fur the Rivt r, the Aimee,
Brine, from Smyrna; and Lydia, [luta, frail Bengal.
GRXVEsLND, MAY 5.

Arrived the Eliza, Lamb, and Clio, Gardiner, from Lime.
rick ; Frederkk, ©'Harr, and stag, Burton, ifollt tiamhureli;
Sarah, Barrett, from Laskin; View Aitna, VCAcr, Iron, Nor-
den ; Elizabeth, Henderson, iina Cape Packet, Ag ew, from dee
Cape of Good liaise; Galatia, Nts4, from Jersey ; Vrow try,
Abbtn, trum Ymbden; Three. Friends, Scott, from Havre; Cre-
tan, Wm..% front the Coast of Peru ; and timid, Medd, Isom
Anwerdant, ha led the Utu.in,.J uhrwon, fur Made ra and India ;
Jung KlaWnLine, bol, ter Antwerp. . .

His ExcellencyyCount Nuutz, Ipen4h Aeolus's-
dor to the Ci tut of France, tonbatked yestudgy at
]),,ver, for CAA:.

At nine c'ctotk this night precisely, Congreve
Rockets are to be dischargod irotri W.,01 a ieli Warteil,
to WhiCh something i, kit a Parachute will tr:. attached,
Irorn which O.lll.retit fire-works will detach themselves
at intervals. These tire-works will be well seen from
the Bridges and other elevated parts of the Metro•
polis and vicinity. The object, we understand, of
the ethibition, is to ascertain how fa: fire-works may
be of service in determining the longitude.
A Dutch Mail ariived this morning, from which
the following are extract, :
The Cavalry Barrack.; at Ath were nearly burnt
to the ground on the '2.tith ult. they were set fire to by
a Hussar, who has deserted with his !torte. The M.
gazine was entirely cnsumed, and the rest saved
(July by the courage and exertions of the garrison and
Cajuns.

.' Letters from Sedan say, that the KINK; of Num&
is expected there at the cud of May to review tfte
Prussian troops in France, which will Le embodied in
two corps, on the Maese ; one neat Ligi ; the
other near Charleville. It is added that the Duke of
WELLINOTON will go to Sedan to meet his MAJESTY.
After the review, it is said, the Kivu will g., to Cant..
bray, and then to Pais.
The 7,W0 Itussom troops which leave the Army
of Occupation, are expected to embark at Dunkirk,
about the middle of May, when it is supposed the
transports for their reception wall be in that port. A
fifth part of these troops consists of cavalry, prinei.
pally Cossacks. The discipline of the Russians• is
still highly praise.l.
General ExCELMASS, who was unable to procure
permission to reside in the Netherlands, and there.
tore settled in Prussia, had since found nieans to take
up his abode in a C numeric of the provioce ob
He was however diseoveret,as;idastchliereaviteids itnnititt
intopu i tliallet• nYt sgi4itart teesatavidl": y.
it is not known what may
have been the intention of the General. • •

of for unrqual parii:dnt of the land-tas. &e. the
Complaints having been nude in several provinces
Kin}; of thr IIIiIiLANDS has just appointed Com-
w up a ptgli kr .1 new ',Ana .ton,
over the several pcnvincesq..

The
o opportunityr
of gatumg a2o,tiou for 18 Gni.
near,
itnd% Part of it, N1`250, for 21;
the
Sixteenth
Shillings, is still afforded to the-Public, as mar of the
Capitals have yet been drawn, or lias the Price of
rickets beta advanced. To-,tortevv the Drawing
will be resumed, when some of the Foutt Twenty
Thearamth will probably be drawn, or the Price, of
Tickets must advance considerably, as, after To.
morrow, there will be but one day more. Wes s's
Offices, 9, Cornhill, and 17, Ludgate-street, suit! re-
sin, Open until Eleven o'Clock This Night, a;,d
'Tickets and Shares will also be on Sale toit.l the
Wheel goes round To.inoirow—For as he soli
very last aft2I),UUO. Prize ever di a,
ing presentiment that lie will also

ti, there ISA MINI-4.
txll the ntxt.