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wiled fort littk &Mt, and would then agree to it on the ono*
Gbcrat t. ruts.
Mr. Serjeant BEST laid, be could not confentsto this proceed-
tag. The PIE had been brought forward faun after the Chriltmaa
reeds. AE ppGlbltconfideratioo had been &co to the claims of
every one concerned. Nothing had been dace but by agreements
bacon' the Committee and the Reprefentathrea of the City of
London; and, after theft Gentlemen had been put to the espence
of bringing forward the Bill, In order to add this trifling modicum
to the prefent (Upends, he thought it would be extremely hard to

po itporic it pow.
Tbc ATTORNEY GENERAL raid a kw wants to the fame
dice; after which the regret was ftceiTcd.
BRITISH MUSEUM.
neck° approved of by the Truftees for the ihitier Murano,
for ending a buikling to cover the trophies brought from Egypt,
was laid on the table.
Mr. lOSE Men adverting to fome obfervations of an Honour.
able Member(MeSbaidan), raperiting the accommodation which
the public met with a the Britilk Murata', took upon him to fay,
that, the Troltecs had adapted a variety of regulations, by which
every poffible degree m
ot accommodate° would be afforded to
termswho were &firma of vifiting that latcrefting cftabliikment.
gt mesprovided tbatkvany-five perfons might be admitted per
day three times a week, and that even tbok who applied in the
snereing Welt be admitted HS the tears af the kise day. Regm
Woos were nor adopted for admitting private parties three times
a week; and orders had llkarife been lffued for an city and mu-
ter seeds to the • Readint-room. in firm, It walla appear from
the paper, width be Medd saw take the liberty to move far, that
die Mama pranged to fund& the mew of being lads acrid,
Inftnative,and adequate to the pratillcadea of the public curloiky.
The lltkskt Hat. Gentleman then moved, that there be tald before
the Houk a Copy of the Regulations edoprsal by the Truftees for
sandflien to the Murano. and Ukewife to the Roane-room.
Tbelagite was laweediekely termite is, ordered to* an the
table, and to be printed.
roam* ramtirs. - •
In a Cnisonittee of die whole Houk en the Foreign-
er's•Enlitinient Bill, ' - •'. .
Mr. FRANCIS confidered the.lotriidtietiorr of .to
litany as to,ooo Foreign Soldiers for the• 'defence of
this country as a matter of high moinniii and very
great importance, and therefore ought not to be par-
ed over as Wit Were a matter of court by that Houle ;
such a mtafttre might be advitable.but he dilliked the
mode of its origin. He thought it would base been
more parliamenutry,and more cooffitutional, to have
had a mirage from the Crown on this fubjea. The
preamble of this Bill did not Ilate that the meafure
was undertaken by the advice of the Privy •Council,
which he thought should hain been confulted on fuch
a dep. He thought diefe were material omiffions in
the manner of introducing this bufinefs. Such a
mature as the prefent was generally regarded by
our anceftors as-dangerous, and mull always be look-
ed On with fulpicion. It ought nut in the climates
to have been fo mixed with other matters, but Come-
thing Ibould have Wen Rated upon it, by the perfon
bringing it forward. He could not confider the cli-
mate as fufficient notice; tine it was not a cover for
the demand, as in point of expence it was not much
more than half the charge. Would the Houfe allow
Foreign Troop to be brought into this country with.
out a regular parliamentary difcullion on the fubjett ?
There was another point on which he would fay a
few words. The Bill enabled his Majelly to grant
comtniffions to Roman Catholics. No man' could
imagine that knew him, that he felt any unfair.pre-
judices againft others, on the (core of their religion ;
but he mull fay, that it was peculiarly (Irange, that,
at a time when the Nobility and Gentry of the coun-
try, animated by a fenfe of patriotifm and • loyalty,
were many of them refuted commilions becaufe they
happened to be Roman Catholics, we fhould Ice loch
an extenfion of power given fly grant commiffions to
foreigners, who were Roman Catholics. As to the
employment of there troopi here. he mull think that
our own people were the finch to defend our awn
country. Government, he underdood, were now
fending out large bodies of Brain) troops to Ceylon.
Might not the foreign troops anfwer that purpofe ?
Had they not been employed formerly in America ?
Mr. W. DUNDAS, in repty, obferved, that the
making. public the defign of rioting a numerous corps
of foreigners would have efelroyed the ;Aka. once
it would have given info:illation to the enemy, who
would therefore have adopted means of prevention.
With refpet to what had been (aid on the bead of
rtligion, the (host anfwer was this: they were foreign
troops, and therefore mull have foreign officers. ' As
to the fending them to India, lie rather thought, even
in the Honourable Gentleman's way of viewing the
fubjeel, they were lets likely to be hurtful here, than
in diltant pottations • but there was another reafon
againft the lending ;hem to India ; they were only
enlilied for the war.
Colonel HUTCHINSON (poke with animation on
the duty and advantages of defending ourfelves. It
ought not to be recorded in hilloty, that at this im-
portant moment,when we fight fur our all,welent for
foreigners to aril us. He thought it highly impolitic
and unjull to refufe military honours to our own fob-
jeas, ansious to diffinguilh themfelves, while we taw
no danger in doing the fame thing for foreigners of
the very fame religion with them.
Colonel CALCRAFT (aid, that the foreigners
now taken into pay were not all Hanoverians, but
were men of all nations.
Mr. %V. DUNDAS admitted it, and explained.
The report was ordered to be received to-morrow.
THR CIVIL LIST.
The Report of the Committee of Supply of lift
night was brought up. Upon the fiat Refolution
bring read,
Mr. JOHNS TONE called the attention of the
Houfe to the importance of the meafure which was
.{ now before them. He lamented that a topic of fuch
eaniequence Ihnuld be difoilfed in fo thin a Houle.
Waco a party quellion WAS before then', there was
lately an attendance—of near Sao Members ; and yet
now, when lb great a (urn tit the public money was
to be voted, there was nut much more than a tenth
of that number prefent. He :irked, could it be lup-
poled to make a favJurable impreflion on the minds
of the pubbe with refpea to their proceedings, to
know that the funs of so t,s Isl. se. tod. was voted in
fo thin a Houfe to defray the A nears upon his Majef.
ty's Civil Efiblithment, and alto that a tot ure annual
addition of Go,cool. to his Kt/Jetty's Civil Lift was
voted at 4 time of inch public preffure ? In the year
1786 it was luppoled that Come bounds were put to
the elpenditure under That head. An Mull ious per-
Image had (offered his expenditure to exceed his in.
c in:T.. He then fubrnitted to make the molt honour-
:tdie fActifices, wad inch regulations were adopted as
1
r ...: it prevelit the rectirrence of Inch on evil at any future
hcriod. The fubjeet was delicate indeed; hut to (peak
is mind with iluc ref,na. at the fame lime to pre-
frtve the independence of Parliamentary difcoffion,
he th' tight .. r.ecetTary that he should advert to thole
t gets; and he could not fee any iiiffieient ieafon
' "?' the depar 'Aleut of the Lord thaurberlain, and