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London, England, 1804-07-03 00:00:00

- - ties. acqttired by the villoties or A nature. palm nn-
—A perfon from the Exchequer prefented an account precedented in the Hittory cit the world, feu obi
Of certain rums of money, that had been granted. be NIOT,C carefully preferred.
marlitant to addieffes of the Houlk, and which bad Sir J. SINCLAIR wilbed to know what woold e
mot bets made good by l'arliaent. - the probable amount of the aid required for the put.
•FTAIRS ON- ultimo. pore fpeeified ?
On the order for the third reading. of the Itilh Mr. ROSE, in reply. mentioned that according to
Cullosesi mid Exeirs Duty Bill. .. the ellimate anft plan of the Petitioners, the expence
Colonel HUTCHINSON called the attention of would be about 16,0001, It WAS no. however, pro-
the Houle to the prefent enormous and growing debt poled to call on the Houfe for a vote of more than
of Ireland, which was now not lefs than fifty-three one half the rum for the firft year.
millions. He adverted to the decline of the produce Mr. FRANCIS was defirous of knowing what
of te taxes, ad entioned, as an alas mitig,proof was the nature of the quities and'cures al-
of his affertion,nth amt
on a fum of two millions and a luded to, before the Houle confented to a vote to fo
half of tales the defalcation had been upwards of large an amount as +6,0001. i
three hundred thourand pounds. The manufaftores Sir. WINDHAM, before fuch a vote pared,
of Ireland at this moment were almoft annihilated. thought it highly incumbent on the Houfe to be ap-
The Provition Trade of the Country hadruffered a moll pri(cd of the manner in which the money was to he
lamentahe decrea% and every other refoorce had applied, as well as the conduit of the whole eltabliflo
declined in a titian proportion; vct, under all there ment of the Marcum. For the mere ereftion of (beds
dileouraging circtimliances, the debt of Ireland had to cover there curiorities 16,0001. was a very large
encreafed to the amount of about nine millions within fum.
the lett year. What, on the other hand; he conjored The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHILQIER
CoHoule to confider, had been tbe fituation of this raid. that it was aro merely for the reception of there
Country during the farce period. With manutaftures eurinfities, thlt the application was 'glade to the
flomilhing almoit beyond all former example ; with
a Houfe. The grant, if tained, would be employed
1
commerce bounded only by the limits of the world ; in the general improvement and extenfion of the
whh r‘fources almolt inexhaullible, the public debt Marcum, fo as to tender it more adequate to the re-
ef this Country, witl io the Lift year, had not much I ception of new entiofities fimilar to there adverted
exceeded twelve millirw. It was needier' for him to, or to loch others as accidental circumftances, or
to enlarge oa fo extraordinary a contral. Such a individual liberality, might from time to time afford.
featement as connected with Ireland was one which Mr. SHERIDAN was by no means difpored to
be was alma afraid to look to without feelings of oppme the. Petition, but thought. that if fuels a li-
the utmoft pain mad anxiety. A Right Honourable beral grant Was afforded, the public ought in return
Gant:man oppofite (Mr. Tater) bad, however. to have greater faciiity of accefa to the curiofities
• under all there difcnoraging circumftanees, intiraot- which the Mufeum contained.
ed his intentir ato rare the taxes of Ireland thiu Mr. W. SMITH was friendly to rhea general ob-
year. moth than twelve hundred thoufand pounds jea of the Petition, as it had been explined by the
above their former amount. He begged leave to return Chancellor of the Exchequer. He confidered it ra.
the Right Hottourable Gentlemen his fincere thanks her difcreditable to the national chara, er. that fo
fur theattention paid to the fuggeftions rerpeftingthe much had for a century pall been done for other no-
impolicy dam additional tax on Salt, and the newtax throat objeas, while In little had been done for the
on Freehold!. Both there tares were abandonedond encouragement of the arts. In affording the grant
he was heartily glad of it, for he was firmly perfuad- propofed, the Houfe would only be doing what they
ed that as the one would have proved molt ruinous, ought kng ago tn !Live done.
Co the principle of the other was altogether uncontli- Mr. BANKES did not oppore the Petition, but
tutional. He wither! that Ireland Ihould bear its was for referring the harmers to a Committee.
fair proportion of the expence incurred in defence of all Sir W. YOUNG laid a few words in favour of the
that waste:oft dear to both countries, and he was the Petition.—Ordered to lie on the table.
more anxious that every thing Ihould be done which The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
thould promote that union of feeling, and that vipour then moved, that the plan and eftimate of the goat-
of.exertion, on which the fafety, the independence, dians of the Mufeum be referred to a Committee ;
and the dignity of the whole fo effentially depended. this motion was put and agreed to.
If ever he expelled any advantages to refult from the ADDITION To THE CIVIL LIST, AND PAYSTENT or
Union, he always anticipated the inmate of this ARREILIS•
Union ac its greaten bleffing. On this principle, he The Houfe having refolved itillf into a Committee
thought it his duty on the prefent occallon to enter of Supply.
his fitlemn protelt againft ado trine which had been The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
lately promulgated, that the Reprefentatives for Ire- begged leave to call the anemia° of the Committee
land were not to interfere in the local concerns of to the Rate of the Civil Lift. It would appear, from
this country, and that, on the other hand, the Eng- the reports of the iwo preceding Seffions, that a coo-
l& Reprefentatives ought to pay no attention to the tide' able exceeding had accrued in that department
local concerns and intereas of Ireland. Whatever of the national expence, an exceeding which was
reliance he placed on the wifdom and patrintifm of principally to be confined to three heads, namely,
thufe of his countrymen who had a feat in this Hoak. Foreign Miniflei s, his Majefty's Houfehold, and oc-
he looked for the united wifdom of all the Reprefen. cafinnal payments. Nothing was more definable than
tatives of every part of the Empire, for the full be- to equalize the expences of the Civil Lill with that
refit of all the interefts and concerns which it tin rum which was appropriated annualy to the dif-
braced. The Right Honourable Gentleroan, to charge. of them, and it would be for the difeetn.
whom lie bad abeady alluded, had two pond ao- mint of Parliament to eftablilh fome new arrange-
rangements in view, for the removal of the financial mcnt for that porpore. There.
Parliament no
of the mode of collating the revenue of Irelands and obje&ion that the arrears of the Civil Lill Ihould
the ellablithment of plans for retrenching exiling ex- have been liquidated in the year atm, he trufted
pence'. Both of there were, doubtlefs, very laudable there would be no reluitance in the Houfe to a fi-
and defirable, but if the Right Honourable Gentle- milar vote of this day. Much of that debt had
man looked to no other means of ameliorating the arifen out of the circumftances of the war, much
con Mien of It eland, he would find himfelf griev- of it arofe from the internal late of the court-
-0..14 deceived. Much more than this was neccffitry try, and a very confiderable portion of it proceeded
to be dent to render the peot.le of Ireland not only from expellees of ttationary, printing, and a variety
more able, but more willing to bear their fair pro- of other articles, with which the Civil Lift Ihould
portion of the national expenditure. He lamented not, in jullice, be chargeable. Mmy of thofe ma-
fincerely, in common With many others in the Houfe, cies, among which were law charges, and the et-
that an exclulive adminifiration had been formed, pence of maintaining the police. he willed to mad-
and that more individuals had not been, at prefent. ter, and to provide for by a feparate climate.
employed in his Majdly's Councils, from whole in- amounting in the whole to about 135,0001. The
terell, and whore fervicei, the moll beneficial effeas contingencies of the Secretaries of States offices, the
might have been expetted. Lamenting this, how- additional expence of Meffengers, and the item in
ever, he could not help addraing a few confider- the accounts, denominated Extra-Extraordinaries,
ations on the prelint fanation of Ireland to the Right all contributed, in a very confiderable degree, to the
Himourabk Gentleman oppofite, now at she head of creation of the arrears. It was his intention to move
his Majefty's Councils. When he recollefted the the Houfe, that a fum fufticient to liquidate the
Right Honourable Gentleman's long experience, whole debt Ihould be granted to his Majdly ; and
and that during his firmer Adminiftration the Pen- he further meant to move, that a pofitive grant of
pie of Ireland had received many important privi- lonic reafonable addition Ihould all() be given to-
hoes, he trolled that he would endeavour to turn wards maintaining that particular branch of the Ci-
the powers of his gigantic mind to the fubjea of frith vin Lie, known by the name of the King's Houfe.
affairs. When she people of Ireland were called on hold. That fuch namable addition was extremely
to (ottani great additional burdens, it was but fair aeceffitiy, he was perfoaded every Gentleman mull
that every exertion fhould be made to place the pest admit, who reeollefled the great tire which took
pie in a fituation to follain there burdens with the place in all the articles of life within the lag twenty
halt poffible harsifhip. A fubjen of this magnitude yeas, which may very fairly be calculated at nearly
he was fenfible could not be entered into this fefFon; fiery per cent. It was the anxious detire of thole
and that during the teeth the Right Hottotieable; persons wno were chat ged with the ruperintendance
Gentleman would torn it easefully in his mind, and of the hourehold, not to call upon the public ; but
endeavour as foon as poffible irr the nett feffion to wilt all the economy they endeavoured to introduce
&boat to the fair and candid confederation of the into the management of it, they found it impailihle
Hunk the iduit of his incantation and reflee.ion. to rethia it to the fum that was annually allowed
The Honourable Gentleman. after a few mere ob- for it. This exceeding, however, was not ditenver-
fervatinna on this point, paid to the Government of able in every item of the Civil Lilt ; in the Penfion
Lord Harelwielte come very hanMotre compliments Lift, for ;tamer., there was a ded,i!tion of ro,cDol.
fur his humanity and moderation. He wilbed, how- per annum, as all the charges upon it, at prefen,,
ever, that the fiber' yof the people of Ireland Mould only amounted to ne,oool. a year infteaci of oe,oool.
not depend on the good condo& of any Governor, the fum let apart eighteen years ago for that ['arum
however refpeelal,le his charaller. What he defined In branch of it. In the film which he Ihould move
V A•, that the teal fituation of Irelarai Ihould be fully for by way of addition, lie meant to include about
coi.fidereJ, that it• evil. Ihould be removed, and that font. that it was propaed to give as compenfa-
thole castles Ihould be done away which gave even a tiun to Foreign Mini:tett. about to retire, and which
pretext for loch meaftnes as the fapention of the was to be proportioned to the falaries they had hem,
Habeas Corpus A'l and the ellablithment of Martial coiner received. It was within the knowledge of the
Law. The Hollow •ble Gentleman touched on this Houk that her Majeay received 58,::.:.c.1. out of which
and apparent zeal for the theyeme branches of the Royal Fay received, as
fubjeft with much feeliilt
bets interett. of Id, coo at) men. te sans. urn have ellablithment., n00t..1. a year each.
The SPE 3+ KER again put the qiieflion for the Ile would prop,,te a turthcr addition to that of 20001.
third reading, but it being found that one chafe re- with the design that the allowance of the Princelces
quire.' altera.i .1.. farther proceeding los. t::...:1 was
whole ()mold be
amount ine
orcaledf the aJzoCi l. to eac
Litth of them.
preli The
put off till tu-snot t.,w• Civil WAS at m
975,0cz I. hot which wa. reduced by the payment of
fees to 9: 1,0-....1. making ass annual deficiency of
5.4,c44.1. It was t.i. intention in pay the esiqing debt,
and to grant a:, amival addition to it of 60,0001
lie cot.cladcd ails moving tii.it a fum not ex-
ceeding 591,8131.35. told. tin •tild be granted to his
hla;aly tor the pasmcnt of t:,c debt of the Civil Lill.
bir. 13,1:`4.1:5 raid that is was generally expelled
when the last a, ii..cao.o v:a. waste to Pathamcnt

all TIS/4 att;stow.
Mr. G. ROSE preiented a Pctittnn from the Ma.
nagers of the hltactim. praying for all Gam the
ku.,,le to ti able them to prnvidc buildings for the
tectoton of Cif taiai Jrluwbla c.riofricaby
11. e viftorio. of our Lravc troops In Egypt. He
that lo heal, tLey had be:liptcfcrt%.: tr, m the
inc I income.. I I 111, ne.atilet tAldcf I nyormry rhelter,
but at (ma. nut to be foppoled t..at v4:tutlik at;tlqui•