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typlications of the Petitioner to the Admiralty ; and
prayed that the Hiluse would give an opportudity of
. ascertaining the merits of the invention.
On the motion that the Petition do lie on the
table-- •
.Irir G. HOPE declared, in' defence of the Admi-
ralty,"ihrit they would be molt happy to receive any
proposition calciilaied to secure the advantages which
Captalk.Latham claimed its belonging to his inven-,
• tion, aiw3 that the only reason which had induced
them to reject Captain Latham's application, was
their persuasion that his invention would not answer
the purpose. I
Mr. BARHAM said. that in consequence of Cap-
tain L I thAnt's having told him about tout- years ago
that the Admiralty had turned a deaf ear to Iris
noplications, he-had advised him to apply to the
irct of Agriculture. He (Mr. Barham) had been
present ulieri some experiments had been made,
Viich proved very satistactory to all by whom they
were witnessed. Captain Latham, by the process
which hi used, bad rmttlered a piece of sap oak
stronger than a similar piece of heart of 'oak ; and
another piece having been cut in two, Captain La-
tham had made thebalt which underwent his process,
capable of 'beating twice the weight of the other part.
Atttr a few further word* from Mr. Form,
urging the great n itinnal import ince of the inven-
tion, the Petition'avas oriereul to lie on the table.
NAVY ESTIMATES.

The House having resolved itself into a Committee
of Supply—
ar G. WARRENDER moved that a sum not
exceeding r 1.3,864. 12s. Sl. he granted t 6 his Ma-
jesty for the expenses of the Navy Pay Office for the
present year.
Mr. BEN NET, after complimenting the ability of
the present fielder of the office of the Treasurer of
the Navy, whose salary was iettette observed, that
the duties, which he understood could be performed
by the appropriation of a single hour in the day,
°tight not to receive so large a remuneration, the
more especially in the existing distresses of the coup-
' tel. He proposed that the salary should be reduced
to £2OOO ; and therefore moved as an amendment,
that instead of £43,864. 12s. 6d. the sum of £11,864
12s. 61 be granted to his Majesty, fur the expenses
of the Navy Pay Office for the year.
Mr. ROSE thanked' the Honourable Gentleman
for the manner in which he had brought torweid his
proposition,. but peremptorily denied that the office of
treasurer of the Navy was one deo little laboue as it
had been described to be. Nor was it one of those
offices, the salary of which had been lately aug-
mented. At the Revolution the salary was axed at
82000 a year, but then great advantages were de-
rived. by the holder of the effice, from having large
sums of the public moeey in Ins hands. When those
SUMS Were taken out of the hands of the Treasurer of
the Navy, £2OOO was added 'to his salary as a corn-
pensation. He had no dispnsitirm to cling to his
office, or to the sal try attached to it, and to the de-
termination of the Cernmittee, whatever it might be,
he would submit without a murmur; but he con-
fessed, that und,r all the circumstances of the case, he
could see no reason for the selection of this particular
diem as an Object of exclusive reduction.
• Mr. BENNE r expressed his intention not to eters-
fine his privosition for a reduction of enieluments to
the office et toe Treasurer of the Navy, but to ex-
tend it to many other civil offices of the State.
The ChANCELLOR of its: EXCHEQUER
manteti ed, that the exiting sal .ry of the Treasurer
of the N.tvy, was by no means too great a .11'01111tlefit•
tioe for the impi.rtant duties pert 'Tined by that officer.
Mr. PRES TON entered at considerable length
into a statement of the ;seises of the distressed state of
public Altars, and a comparison of the mash. which
would proceed from measures calculated to produce
high prices, and measures calculated to coutiaue low
. prices in the country.
Mr. MOR LAND argued against the reduction of
the salary N die 'office in question.
Admiral MARKHAM adverted to some inconve-
niencies endured by seamen, who, on inquiring at the
Navy Pey (Nice fur piste money, were reteired to
*ten wich.
Mr. ROSE expressed his conviction that the Hon.
Adteiret bad been misinformed on this subject.
Sir G. 1101'E opposed the motion tor reducing
the salary of an old, meritorious, and public spirited
officer, who had spent lie whole life iu the service 01
his country.
Mr. ['RESTON repeated his former statement.
Mr. M. W. MLLE Y thotieht, in the present state
of the cautery. retry possible reduction should be
made; and though the sum which might be saved
on one vent of the estimates would be but small, yet
Where there were anany items it might he considerable.
Sit G. WARRENDER observed, that any in.l
mast which appeared did not proceed from any aug.,
nsentatioa of the numbers of the Clerks, but from
the scale of salaries, to which some of them bad risen
it; consequence of increased length of servitude.
Mr. BARING asked whether there bad been any
augmentation tit the number of Clerks in the Navy
Pay OfEce ?
Mr. G. ROSE replied in the negative. He also,
added, that be had rather endeavoured to reduce than
increase them. He had omitted to fill up one vacancy
which occurred whine the • clerk had 8500 a yew,l
th.eigh he (Mr. R.) might have done so.
Mr. BAR.CLAV contended, that from the general
distress of the country, every possible saving which
could be made to the public should be attended to.
Mr. ItOS.E jusutied any increase which had been
made to the clerks in the Navy Pay Office, on the
grossed of their length of service, and observed, that
the most of them had commenced with very small
salaries, some of them at ‘7B), and were a long time
ee•ployed byline it rose to any Otitis considerable.—
seee ul them at bad large salaries were obliged to
give security to a very considerable amount.
Mr. 13A RING observed, that on looking over the
estimates. he saw no salaries so low- as that which the
• Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Rose) had stated.
Mr. ROSE fee/ Circle that what he had slated was
correct.
Mr. MA RRYATT opposed the amendment. He
thought it better not iu reduce the salaries of old me-
ritorious public servants, but to leave them to the
discrete n or the Ministers ut the Crown.
Mr. THOMPSON would n t wit that the Right
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Rose) was overpaid for
Ids services, but be thought that no scason why he