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ety, we mull, therefore, neeeffarily Li rot!f
burdens on the general claffes of the people. Sp far.
I however, from a tfen, ing to that propafition,he thought
the very reverie to he the truth. On account of the
particular pretfure of the times, he felt it his ditty to
oppoie Any burdens on the people,but Inch as were A-
fhlu(ely rieeetfary. He did not think it proper,that any
additional tevenue thould be allowed to the Prince at
the expence of the people, merely on account of the
exigency of the times, o inch mutt fall equallyheavy on
Moth. He withed it partienlarly,however, tope andel--
n0...1 A% hi. opinion, at the fame time, that the Prince
thoill..l not he dittreffed by any inconveniency of any
detetiption: hut the allowance already made, he
thoiteht. thificient for every exigency. He could
not help thinking, therefore, that there mull exitt
C.ine *toile in the diftribution of the public money.
The iaterence that was to he drawn from this con.
duet of his Maj. Ity's Minilters was, that the Civil
Litt was not alequate to the demands that mutt be
made on it ; hot this would always be the cafe, he
argued, if Knitters were allowed to apply it in what
manner might appear to them the belt. The Civil
Litt ought, therefore, not at all to exit!, or the pur-
ples to which it was to he applied, he contended,
ought to he particularly fpecified. He could have
no objeetion that pei fons in real dilkrefs fhould re-
ceive from the Civil Lift, but in the prefeut
eircomdances of the country no other I eAfon perhaps,
could be urged, or at lean ought to be urged, for
the diilribution of the public money. When every
man knew we were engaged in a war that had no
very pofitive objed, and when we knew not when •
would be the termination of this war, nor what par-
ticular circumtiances would lead to its conduit t!.e
people, he thought, who molt uhimately boor 11a:
weight of this conteß, might n to be fartlo:r
burdened by any unneceltity charges. lie Oil
not deny that ;finances might occur when pat
tar merit might claim a particular reward; but,
in this refped, be thought Pailianient had hitherto
difcovered no very particular genrr fi y. When
he thought of the penfion allowed ti the gallant
Lord Nelfon, when he thought of the gratitude Sit
S. Smith had experienced, he cold] not help titihkiog
that the rewards they had met with were fmal.indeed
when compared to thofe rums lavithel on other. who
bad no a.ftive duties to fulfil. But there was yet an-
other article in which Minilters woe very notch to he
blamed, from the face of the accounts that now lay
before the Houle. He did not fee that Miliitiers had
a right to advance to any of the Royal Family any
pecuniary grants whatever. Stich visits alone ought
to be made by the Houle. 'foe Heir Apparent par.
tictlarly, he argued, oitaht not t be dependant on
Minilters for the grant ( (any advance or of any rums.
The Honourable Baronet then adverted to the pre-
fent circumstances of thee. um ry. We were engaged,
he fail, in rot minetetfary war, Anti of which no tel.
minatons could he foreleen ; lie mutt deny, therefore,
in the prelim circumitatiees of the country, the grant
of the font that was now demanded. What induced
him Hill farther to form this relolution was, that
however much Minithrs might augment. the Civil
Lill, they Rill wilh-d a certain tarn 14 contingencies ;
and notwithdanding former ailment itions, they dill
were anxious to preleive in their own hands a power
of exceeding the allowance. &old they go on in this
manner. the Honourable Baronet argued, the er.-
ceffes of the Civil Lill would become like the War
Contingencies, and Minitters perhaps might think
themfelves equally exempted from any particular ac-
count. If the prelent, he contended, was a moment
of preffure and danger, the people ought certainly to
be conciliated, and not to be loaded with wanton or
unnecelfary expences. But were the refolutions now
propofed, he alked, the moll likely way to coneillate
the people, or to induce them to lithusit patiently to
the preffure of circumitances? He would take a
future opporamity, he laid, in tome (rage of this bit-
liners to declare his fentiments more fully. He did
not mean, however, to exprefs any hottioty to tax t•
tioa in general. On the contrary, lie thought, that
wh:re the wealth of a nation was properly and juiii-
cioofly taxed, inflead of being any Mconvenience, it
would referable rather the vapours that are railed
(tom the earth, by the operation of the rays of the
fun, and that again return in rains and dews, enrich-
ing and fertilizing the G,il. It was to the abufes of
taxation only that he was an enemy, and to their im-
proper application. The Hon. Baronet here conch,-
ded a very eloquent fpeech, and that feemed to make
a confiderable imprethion, in again deprecating the
idea of calling upon the people to aid the Civil Litt,
from any conlideration of the preffure of the times,
which mull fall equally heavy on the people them-
! (elves, as on thole maintained by the Civil Lift.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT wilkal that the account
of the expences of the Civil Lilt Ihould he always
prelented in fuch a manner, as to feparate the item:
for the expence of the Royal Family from the ciher
cameo; ; it bad been vulgarly fuppoled that the
whole turn voted went to the fupport of the King ; it
; would therefore he right to undeceive the pen; le in
this rcipeel, and thew them clearly how much of this
turn was applied to national purpofes.
• After a few word; (torn Mr. FULLER, the Re•
folution was unanimously agreed to.

ATMITIONAL NAVY FSTIMAT&S.

Mr. W. DICKINSON, in siting to move for a
grant of 311,0c01. for additional cipences in the Na•
cal Department, did not think it necelfary to trouble
the Committee at length. He would merely Rate,
that rgo,c-ctsi. of this him was for three °tips, reals
from 4. to 63 guns, the rett for (loops, gun velfels,
and mortar, thought necetfary for the prefent fer•
vice by the Admiralty Board, and purchafed or eon-
traifted for (ince isth May.
Mr. JOHNSTONE withed to know, whether a
further funs for the maintenance of feamen would not
be requit.:-.1 ? Its March there were 89.000 feamcn,
and 12,0:0 marines, in the fervice. It the due pro.
portion of the marines was filled up. the whole
would be t ts, c. There ss..re then I 04,ccc framers
and marines ; the manning of this additional fervice
would require a Rill greater number ; he wilbcd to
know, whether there was to he an additional core
Mr. DICK EN:rON !Aid, to conli.!et Able addition
f numbers would Ise neceifary fo :IS to req•Orea vote.

Vatinus (urns WZIC then voted for l'sfifccilAnenus
Se+viccs, the nrn:: :erALie ni Which .-ere, two
fulls of To tenet e d;qrsilis in 01 kney
And Sheihnsi ; 1..),:._1. And bridges in
the liighlAnsk of Sco:Lind ; And, T 8,30 c 1. for torts
And colnn,cs on t'.e of .\ftic.t.

Mr. ui!ctilet ttia 1.4 a vote in.