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London, England, 1810-03-15 00:00:00

.......a time plea, - - - single horse.
who shall carry the same to thebffiCe of the . .of Ea•-• i morrow. •Itkillieirroved the third .. _ • the Cuetto( House On a late Inquiry, it was found that an Officer had
chequer Bills, between the 20th and 27th days of March, both Frauds Prevaildoe Bill, which was readiaccordingly advised; in his.service to less than nine or ten soldiers, as the
inclusive—And that every person interested in, or intitled unto Mr. WHAKTON presented an accoeig of the Produoisd the
' any Exchequer Bill or Bills, dated as Afbresaid, bearing an in- Distillation of Spirits in the Highbuids said Low Lead. diktat-
regular attendants of his house, cooks, butlers, &c.
terest at the rate of threepence one farthing per certain per land.—Ordered to lie on the table: '•• . • - and four horses. - .
diem, who shall carry the same to the said office, between the • Upon,the motion of Mr. ROSE. it was e that "it' Mr. ASHLEY COOPER said, (across the table)
22d and 27th days of the same month, A
ith, both ,nelusive, Nokia a mid to-morrow moire into a Committeeri the Free Port
sum amounting to eight millions sterling principal money of the and thetCanada Trade Acts, that an Officer guilty of such practices; would be lia-
, said Bills shall be sooner subscribed) shallbe paid the interest that Mr. HOWORTH gaie notice of a motion for an :mania, of he to the sentence of a Court-Martial.
-*al become due thereod respectively to the 9th day of April, the Dividends paid to foreigners for the last three years, eliding •
Mr. CALCRAFT resumed ; he would not detain,
1610, and shall have in exchange, for such Bill or Bills, a Cer- December, 1809.
Hecate orCeracatesto the Governor and Company of the Bank Mr. MLLISH moved the second reading of tie Gas Light the House any longer upon the circumstance, but
of England, expressing the principal sum contained•in such Bill er BBL proceed. The next charge which he found was a
Bills, which Certificate or Certificates *hall entitle such person or Mr. GRENFELL objected to 'the Bill 'as giving to the Corn- small one, it was true ; but he found no cause foe
pent..for every One Hundred Pounds principal money eon- patsy a benefit and monopoly to which they are not entitled, it, trifling as' it might be thought ; £650 for Ord-
because the invention originated many years since with some per-
Indeed therein, to One Hundred and Three Pounds Five Shillings
nance Alpe:ices atk.Hungerford. The next WAS a
Capital Stock in Almeida, after the rate of Five Pounds per sons at Birmingham. The Hotiourablv(hatknaan moved, that
Centum per Annum to be added to and made one joint stock I hated ot,” kaW,” Ore Babe reada-ceasasithwe-"ehiailoyakei charge -for Barrac at -Wattcnbeck i and haw* lea
th theTivePoinas iper Centum Annuities; created by Actieietittlfe.” • - ' must observe upon the general folly of that extrava-
made in the' 24, 25, '34, 35, 36, 37, 48, and 49 years of His Mr. MARRYATT supported the Bill as highly beneficial b'
present Majesty, for granting Annuities to soder certain Navy, the coaatfy, inasmuch as we now are obliged to procure oil from garde, which built sumptuous apartments for men
,
Victualling, Transport Bills, Ordnance Debentures, and Eache- I our inernies at great expences, and this discovery would ettabk whose income could not exceed .060 or £4ooa y ear
quer Bills, and the interest to "commence from the sth day of us to light the nation without being dependent en the enemy: On which would be fit for men of as many thousands.
January last, which said Annuities are to be redeemable at the the whole he was friendly to discoveries which have for their ob- giving them idle notions of expenditure,
.and
same time, and in like wanner as the wild Annuities already este- jects national benefits. leading them into extravagance. He found an as-
blished are now redeemable by Paelkillact, and to be charged Mr. Rosa, Mr. GIDDY, Mr. BAT augur, Mr. GiLer, Sir count of the Artillery Drivers, a corps of between
upon, and mule payable out of the Cciteocildated Fund of Great 'Ames HALL, Mr.SiiA* Lerever, and Mr.ADAM, made some
Britain t" • i observations for and against the Bill. 5 and 6000 men, with 6000 horses. This great and
THE PAYMASTERS OF EXCHEQUER BILLS dohereby ! On the question being put, the amendment was negatived with- most expensive body was _of no possible • use in the
tennotice, that daily attendance.will be given at their Office, i out a division, and the bill was ordered to a private Committee. country, excepting, in case of invasion, to move the
1 Ten u'Clock in the Morning to One o'Clock in the After. I Mr.WARD moved the order of the day for the reading of the artillery from one part of the country to another...—.
soon (Sunday excepted), from Tuesday the 20th, until Tuesday Royal Marine Mutiny Bill. 'l'he Bill being read,
1 ...... He did not-find the sum relative to them printed in
1 the 27th instant, both inclusive, for the purpose of receiving the MR• HUNT.
Exchequer Bills, intended to be funded, pursuant to the above I Mr. CALCRAFI' gave notice, that after the printing of the the estimates. Those artillery horses were cantoned
Liteioaion ; and the Bearers thereof are desired to bring separate , ffrdinauce Estimates, be would bring forward a motion respee- by five and sir hundred together in districts on the
lists of the Bills, bearing
one
at the rate of three-pence half-•i tiug Mr. Hunt. coast ; yet in those
.very districts the country we;
iipenny and three-pence one farthing per centum per diem, with ORDNANCE. charged with £87,000, for contract horses, to do ere
the. amount of each species of the said Bills, contaiding die num- 1 Mr:A. COOPER moved the Ordnance Estimates, al work ; while the drivers horses were idle, to-
' bees in numerical order, and shewitig the amount of the principal 1
ite
Awns contained thereiv, the times of commencement of Interest, as usual. ;
- ..: , . tally idleff and sleek, and pampered till they wo old
with.,the amount that will be due thereon, (which will be paid in Mr. CALCRAFT said, he wait)* surprised that
be unfit foramen the single service to whit
!hthey were
oney), computed to the "9th day of April, 1810, on which day the HonoUrable Gentleman had been so brief upon t
desired. He knew thatofficers had an aversion to
the !Merest on the said Exchequer Bills will cease ; and they are the subject ; but he (Mr. Calcraft) must request the
Awl* to state the" amount of capital stock to be created, in •ipa
tience of the House, while lie deviated from the putting their horses to any work that sullied the glos-
amytect of the principal sums intended to be funded, and to write
their names and places of abode on their lists, and to indorse their example which had been given, and went a little siness of their skins, or dimmed the polish of their
harness ; but the expence of the corps amounted to
'isiimes en the said Bills. • ' more into detail. Hefound, in looking over the pa-'
The Bearers of the above-mentioned Exchequer Bllisure pea►s- the enormous. sum of 4400,000, while its services
rs wllith he held inhishand, a:eduction of£loo,ooo were only to be useful at the moment of actual inva-
Ocularly requested to write their Christian Names at fulllength, aid m the last year's expence, and so far as such a re-
'ilialleo, the said Bills aces to the several Ads of Parliament ender .
duction could be proved to be real, he was willing to sion (Hear, hear, froth the Optsarition) ; as if we could .
have no notice of invasion, not a moment to pre-
lim& they VW! kilted.
, . . • I allow the Honourable Gentleman due praise. This
• The dg for bagmen! of Interest and for delivering Certificates pare ; or as if the species of horses employed at the
in exchange; wall 'be advertised in the Public Papers as early as reduction had .been in saltpetre and, those charges artillery were not that precise one of which an almost
possible. ' which were proved unprovided, a phrase equivalent unlimited number might be got at any pressing
N.l). ' No Exchequer Bills bearing an Interest of three-pence to Extraordinaries m '
the common accounts of the mo.,.- ~ ... ~.
ment in the country : yet for this -event, distant, rid' ,-1
'one farthing per centum per diem, can be received at the Office army ; but when he-looked into those parts of the
- --"the 22c1 itsstant.
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it should ever -arrive, the country was to be saddled: - -
statement where extravagance was most unjustifiable with an intolerable expence, a permanent and ter; ‘,', • • .
and unserviceable, he found the old spirit still alive, min expenoe, to meet an event barely contingent..-
and as vigorous as ever; he found charged in-1809, The number of the corps employed on fbreign set--
41586, for a house for the Secretary, in Pall-Mall ; vice must be-small, and.no ground for maistami:w
-he next found for building, for a similar purpose, an useless expenditure at home, The corps should
£8406, which, with a note-descript charge, which he be reduced, not perhaps totally ; k might be advisee- _
[could not distinctly trace; arthat time, amounted to we to leave a skeleton for an increase of•the corps, if
10811,000. The expenditure in the Ordnance Office it should be necessary • but if the number of horses
itself was intolerable; summed up, it was not less were 6000, he would reduce them to 1000. He apo•
than £45,000. It might be alledged that.part of this togized-for the detail into which the subject had led
expence had been sanctioned by himself (Mr. Cal, him, but it was one to which too keen and patient a
office
while
craft) and his colleagues, in oce ; but the
spirit of inquiry could not be applied : it was not be-
contract for the house in Pall-mall had been,made coming the economy of that Hon. House, to vote
before they could have any influence-over it. As it away immense sums without minutely investigating
I was, they tried to get lid of it, to throw it off the the necessity of the charge, and peculiarly without
NEW STATE LOTTERY—AII to be Drawn it hands of the nation, to exchange, to sell it ; and, in knowing the application of former estimates. The •
oth JUNE, 1810. Five 'thousand Numbers, Four Tickets - the failure of all, were forced to perform the contract; charge for saltpetre, in which a reduction was boasted
of each Number.
THE SCHEMA CONTAINS . but improvements and embellishments were going on ,
of was it 600,000. The charge for Artillery Drivers'
4 Prizes of £20,000 4 Prizes of X 5,000 , which would make the cost of that onerous fabric horses in Ireland was £lO,OOO. He did net _Co M-
le - prehend the foundation
.of a charge to that extent;
20 .«....... 100 44 ... ••. ... ..... 50 ' merit did not halt here ; a miserable house in Palk did it comprehend the purchase of horses in Ireland
- - &c. arc. &c.
5,000 Prizes amounting to •
£200,000, mall was bought up at the sporting price of -A'7,1632 for the ,corps here ? (he was answered in the nega-
AND FOUR EXTRA lI'LNEFITS, i for an Engineer Officer ; another for the Inspector- tive across the table. He confessed himself totiklly
In addition to the Money Prizes, consisting of Four Packets of.; General was purchased at a splendid price in that
One HundreeTiekets each; by which improved mode
.of adver..l at a loss to accounter a charge which seemed so su-
-1 same most expensive part of the town. He must no ••
tore, the Purchaser of 4 single Ticket obtains the chance of gain- perior to the necessities of the small cotpssstationed in
ing One Hundred Thousand Pounds ; by an Half, a Quarter, or _
' ;advert to an expenditure which it might seem invidi. Ireland ; and he must lament to find, that the spirit
an Eighth, in proportion, and t Sixteenth may pin X,: Thousand 1 our fo touch upon ; he meant the pay of superannu• of economy which had given such hope of rational
Pounds and Upwards. 1 ated men, and the penslOos of widows and officers ; retrenchment was merely nominal at best ; a reduo.
Tickets acid Shiver are ass Sale by RICHARDSON, GOOD. ; but 'under this title; interesting as it must be to the'
LUCK and Co. Bank Bellamy, Cornhill, and facing the Otte of :- .. tion only one degree of waste to another ;from
feelings of the House, a large !iystem of peculation the indefensible extravagance of the last year, to the
the King's Mews, ChaticeeZeiee, who Sold and Shared in the 1
last State Lottery, Time( the Four Prizes of Twenty Timemed was
easily concealed ; it contained 'all the private almost equally culpable extravagance of the present
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Pounds, No. 3,734 11.460,000-.-3,734 D. 420,000, and 999 D.l pensions of the Ordnance, and even in the last yetr one,
£l.OOO--11932 B. £1,000,061k556 C. £5OO. I had I'm:eased by £6,599. He found a charge for 'lltisii- COOPER defended the cement of .the
• • Persons who Willi Oast minim. Natakis tiestati mks the , .
•• %Angus Posts* he requested to know if the forti- Boarskovids respect to the estimate 'et tbe.mspeoces
early appScation, to prwillOsitagoinuaria„
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'6II.4ERK Of THE PEACE'S OFFICE, LANCASidIRE.
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• Preston, February 24, 1810.
PRESTON HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
WANTED, a aoyernor or GaOler for the House
• of Correction at Preston.
• • •
All Firming tr.aking application for the above Office, ire to
send Testimonials, in writing, of their character and abilities to
execute the same, to the Office of the. Clerk of the Peace at
Preston.
The governor will be allowed n Salary of X 250, together with
the use of the Fied-idjoining the Prison. All Fees and Gra-
- thighs-of what description soever. are abolished, and out of the
aTfyAialary the governor Is to pay the Turnkey.
Disnhetleta wiY.bt siven by future Advertisement of the day
of elecdoe. 'E. CORM peputy. Clerk of the Peace.

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