Star.
London, England, 1817-02-24 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSIAESS.

Tuts Dot.—Ma& Rouses Bill, second tinse;.Court Of King's
Bemis, seated dose; Coosiderition'of the Report of the Cour
mitre, of Scatty; Repots of the Cormulttee of supply; Com-
mktei of Supply; Saving Banks RIP, second time; Commluee
of Ways and Means; Lord Cochraue's Motion for Account of
Mr. Jellkoes' Debt to the Public, and of Persons distrained for
Payment of Assessed Tales; Mr. M. A. Taylor, Bill fur the ef-
fectual Repair of the Pavement.

To-ssoaaow.—Sir M. W. Ridley, Address for reduction of
the nontber of Lords of the Adotirahy.

WZDNUUDAY.—Mr. BerAttt, Motion respecting the appoint-
ment of Mr. Herr n% on the Civil List Uitablisliment ; Sir E.
Brydges, Bill to alter the Law of Parish Settlementt, in so far u
relates to the right of Cow Pasturing; Mr. M. Fitzgerald, lii.l
to exempt certain Persons In Ireland from Payount
and Regulations concerning the Tithes of Fin ; Colonel Wood,
Motion for Repeal of the Law winch prohibits the safe of Gantt,
rich George 111.
TMURIDAT.—Mr. Lambton, Motion respecting t►e Regula-
tion of the Offices of Paymaster ut the Forcis and Postmaster-
GeneraL

FIUDAT.-Sir KW. Ridley, Rill for the Regulation of Penal-
ties on using Hone Hides 'for certain purposes ; Mr. Ctliciaft,
Cmunittee on Salt Duty Law. and inconveniences thereuf ;
R. Heron, Committee to inquire what reduction can be made in
the Windsor Establishment.

DROITS OF THE ADMIRALTY.

An Official Account has been issued of the state
of Droits arising to his MAJESTY, either in right of
his Crown, or as Droits and Perquisites in his Office
of Admiralty ; and of the Appropriation thereof,
from the 27th April, 1816, to the 14th February,
1817, inclusive. The total amount GI the receipts,
including former balances, is £524,781. Ss. Sd. and
out of this the sum of £145,525. 144. 10d. has been
expended in different Payments, of which the follow•
ing are the most remarkable :
His Royal Highness the Duke of Ohmmeter
The Earl of Effingham, Treasurer to her Ma-
jesty, to enable hint to discharge sundry Sills
on account of the Marriage between the Prin-
cess Mary and the Duke of Gloucester
'ha Calvert, Esq. Secretary In the Office of the
Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Home.
hold, by way of impress, and upon account, to
enable him to pay sundry Sills for Fstrokure
for the Pavilion at Brighton, (being part of
£50,000 appropriated to that service in 11116) "MO 10 1
George Harrison, Est. for Donation of his Royal •
Highness the Prince Regent to the Poor of
Spitatileitis 5,1100 0 0
The Imbue how in hand is £179,457: 9s. sd.

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1e9,000 0 0

5,000 0• 0

.RETRANCHM2N7:

The Statement of the Proceedings of the Tires-
snry, with respect to several Offices which were re•
ferred to Mr. KTDIM, Lord 133N)11)10, and Mr. Srua-
GU BOURN/. has been printed.

These Gentimass meommeaded the abolidon of the aim and
establishment of AIDJOTANT•GBINIIIRAL Or V UUUUU Stat. ikon
their reeoransendanon the Treasury determined that the Mee

'lipoid be abolished, eaddse busindi be transferred to the War
Off ace. 'lbis will prostate &sating of about £3,400.
in the Aare' Minicar. Boasts they found that considerable
reductions bad already been made, and they called the attention
W the Treasury to the retrenchments that might be matt in the
Medical Staff abroad. In consequence the number of Medical
Staff have been reduced trout 349 to 354, and II sashes effected
of about X 17,000 a-year, Mad' will be increased .1:11,000 alirar
wore by the further reduction of di ()Meas.

' in tee POllll3ll DIMS TUKNT of the Wu Olds, they thought
that piddle economy would be ben consulted by malutasuitig use
establidutiest oa &scale adequate to the speediest endear= of
the ensign aeasuns.

Thy also stated, that there were different officers eonneated
with this establishment, whose dudes had entirely ceased, and
that the duty of the Agent for Virago Corps would of routes
MOO when those corps should be disbanded.

They also adverted to the office fur the payment of allowances
to the widows and children of forelgoefikers, which would add
exist tanbark shasid be thought right to muter the dray to the
department of the Paymaster-General, to which they were nut
aware of objection; and they also suggested, that an allowance
of Ifota per annum to the same Officer. for nearniniog the anti.
Acmes of the Conde= and Swiss anagrams, should also mese, if
the payments of Mum persons *Wald be tuadertakea by the Frisch
Government.

In the ACCOUST BRANCI of the War-Ogee, the Treasury
bad desired the Secretary of War to take an accurate review, of
the atones establishment of his once, and to submit such per
position lur its present reduction as alight appeir'practicablq.
The COM1111411.10)111114 01 BARRACK ACCOOKI7II will be lefit=
to dhoti their accotiati by Ludy-day, or at the latest by
summer, when the establishment will be • abolished, said a saving
of 4;oj° a 'ear effected

Tbe edict of WIIIT INDIa COMMISSIONZIS to be reduced
atter the ratters of the branch of the ogles employid In thy West
India% The Committee noticed, that a vacancy had taken place
moat the Commissioners which it had cot been deemed expedient

Isw%Atarn Orrice bat been already reduced; the once of
modest baying been suppressed, and the business of the
elks conducted by Mr. Beckett, Under Secretary of State. 'fbe
stupors of the Committee on this subject bas been istuniunicated
to Lord Sidinouth. 'lbis Ake cost £9,336. 6s. t there has al-
ready been a saving of MO4I.

PAITIMAPTIIII 01 EMIGI*NTS to be abolished, and the bust.
WS to be managed by eoeVennentan.

PRONIIITT TAZ LASD 1610111TER Orr e? pro-
posed to be abolished, and the bedewed the Land Tn Register
Odke proposed to-be tranderred N• this Board of 'lazes. Re-
ductions .spouted at about ‘14,00!...

INIVICT•1111.0A11$11AL GT l',asse.-arhs Treasary concurred
la the reeummesdatim of the Cecuauksioners of 1 saes. by whkh
a seduction of tfi0,779 alear would be dieted.
COMAIIIIIIDNIAD Or Tali NAvr ADD VICTUAL.
LING gIITABLIIIIMENT Bootto.—The Lurdi of the Admiralty
bad already ordered the Dock-yards at Clibraltar, Antigua, Ma-
dras, and Bombay, to be reduced. They had discontinued seve-
ral issoldishmeow mod the Contains, thought that
every reduction lad bees made.

COMNIIIIIIONERS PON Tll ItSPOCTIOS Or TON NATIONAL
Darr Dot to be redoeed. The elks of Secretary, bowever, will
Roc be filled op in cue of opesoey.

DLPUTT PATIMAIITRIWOINILIAL Ow FOICION tratteea—
Armaments are making for abeabbisti these 011eeroand traai-
(erring' their duties to the Couboariat Officers.

allentleAßT tN Cstar.—Tbifoillee abolished, and the busi-
ness so be under the superintendence of an Officer to be called
the Principal Clerk of the Commissariat. The Commissariat
also
Deparunent Ms been ireatly reduced by the 'lmam y,. and
tardier redactions are in progress.
Swiranimarsi-Oamtaaes Orrice—No retfuction mono
uteadedimach basin Leon saved to the public by its institution.
BARIUM* DeeMITIRSIPIT.—Ihe Treasury have reduced two
ceenneskuera, one Secretary, and two inspectors•Cieneral, from
the eith December k and ad other Oncers 9 from the 514th
January last. Other reductioni aim cestamplated upon the sak
of Barracks.

copioussionsas or beMOVIAL
Any prams Mac-
dos is deemed inespsdient in every point of viols.
STAIN, OVVICI. LIGACW DUTY Divaarststir.--When the
bishop of thearreer, deo prior to January ir. is more conahle.
,solay Mewed, 4.:Serits at provost oispityiel upou this urea bum•
airs stilt be diaessatiolsed;

The Vail 14114 is sodas* a“bout 450,0304 w annum

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NEXT SATURDAY TALHLE S 15;AATWENI:STTERY W111..1
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• MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, im:7.
ST.Ki.,,„LAs,Haidal at the Ban't, Eteheiutr, S.•ut
Sea Busse.
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Our Reideri are already informed the the t
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rnittee on Tina,* and Expenditure bare tea r
ded "theirbolialting of certain Offices, that ai•

expensive, and of no use to the Public. In
column wellave given the statement made i,. •
RYDER. Lord BINNING, and Mr. Boutuic, r,,p,.

the abolishing or reducing the expenses of et

Offices submitted to their consideration. It is a
document, but embraces hardly any offices but !AI.
as in their very nature were temporary, and cea-e1
have any thing to do, by the very circumstance
the war having ceased. It exhibits no search
any of the greater useless sinecure,—the exp, n,i,.
pantomimic forms of the old drpartmepts of the
chequer—the lordly offices at the Custom.bouse....4
the overgrown Boards—the Treasurership tJ.,
doub!ed Paymasters Sip of the Army and
the doubled Postmaster-Generalship—are a 9 pas„ d
over in silence; and hence, perhaps, the saiw,try
gestions of the Parliamentary Committee t., reale. I
their omissions.

Let the Committee proceed in titeir
diligence and zeal, and they n•ii: d!, mole 1,.
the discontent of the people thin ti .• sutpe.
the Haifa: Gluts Act.can sec:. Ja

law may shut the mouths of mat:y and repreb-
moors; but Reform, in the shape ut practi.as
trenchmeitts,, if persevered in by thr Cc.inuog,,

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give ibv lie direst to every libeller who ....,111.1

suade the ignorant that Parliament is cony,

wholly of u!peincipled dishonest men, whose o;•..
object is.to aotic/A themselves, at the expense of
community&• •

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Mr. SARGEANT, one of the Directors of the Unitc,.
States-Bastk,vitAme ha this country, for the purpcit
of purchasing ten millions of Spanish dollars, is
order to enable that Establishment, as soon as it gets
into operation. to meet its engagements in specie.
This may have given rise to the report, of a large
quantity of American Stock being now in our mar-
ket, as Mr. SAIRCILANT comes furnished with procerty
of this nature to enable 'him to make good 13:s
engagements.

The Loan Ctiancatcoa had an andlence of the
Pam/ Racsaur on Saturday.
Yesterday the Loan CHANCELLOR, V;sc(unt 5.:7-
)MM and Viscount CASTLERRAHH, had Audit;.,,s
of the Patrice REM!.

Friday evening Mr. Yoaat, the King's Messenger,
was sent off with dispatches to Paris.
The two Irish Lords of the Treasury that are
added to the English Board are Colonels Onst.t.
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Friday the.GRAND Dote left London for Ports.
month, attended lxy Sir WILLIAU CONGREVE and his
Russian saite; all of' whom arrived in the evening :it
the Crown Hotel, Portsmouth, where a guard of
honour from the 36th Regiment was in attendance.
A great concourse of people waited their art ival, and
received them with a hearty welcome. On Saturday
his Impetial Highness and Mite walked upon the
Platform Battery, and visited the D ,ck-yard. They
went on boafd Irk Majesty's ship Roca:eraser,. co -n-
-mended byCAPtain. S:r ARCHIBALD COLLINOWOr.O
*Dicittot4, PhriAnder a Royal salute from that ship,
and afterwards-proceeded to the Royal Hospital et
Raisin; His ittipetial Highness and suite dined
with Admiiil•"dir gDWARD THORNBOROUGH in r
afternoon. 'His Imperial Highness is expected ;c
be from London, on• a tour in the West of liT.l-
- about a fortnight.
A Private Letter front Stockholm, dated Jan. 29,
says Yesterday Prince ONCAR made his first Pp-
peArance at Court, in an official character. T.
Military Assembly. which had not been convoit_t
since the year 1793, met in the Royal Pal.ise
eleven o'clock. }t consisted of Generals, Cekne!:.
and one Deputy Irom each Regiment, elinsen a: re-
presentative of its Offis:ers. The Duke cf
swam, Prince Oscan, wbo had been appointed by
the'Kum Vice-Speaker of this Military ParliistrPie,
addressed to them, in the presence of the Cftowv
Pawn, his father, a speech of considerable length,
in this coarse of which he congratulated himself re.
being the organ of his Majesty's feelirtgs towards 1!:.
brave warriors, many-of whom bad been the I:r.c's
foMpanions in the dangers of his early career, and
ni of whom. had contributed o place Or
crown upon his head. He was penetrated r.-
rspect on beholding the brave men who end s'.•
promoted the glorious issue of that cause, ano pie.
titularly the tvio Generals &MIN= and E:,r• %
His Royal Highness stated, that the cause ot
being called together was not to charge t!!e
ministration of the Pension Fund, but th.it
Majesty would propose some essential improwmce!
in the situation of wounded or worn-out OfEc...rs.—
His Royal Highness concluded by declariii-,
Count Srsotent: had been nominated Speaker i,t *
Meetings. = The latter Officer made a compiinieni
reply to the young Prince, whom he considerei!.
surest pledge of fhe continued glory and happiitesst:
Sweden. 'The Astarmbly then waited on the KlNf,t
and on the Cstown'PitiNes, from each of %show, hi::
especially the latter, they received the W.I:IIICSi ;V"
.urances of esteem. It is not surprising that
CROWN PRINCE should endeavour to excite an c;i:iy
Attachment on the part of the army to his son ; but
there is another body,' the Swedish peasantry, f
o_grcett
influence and importance in the affairs of this king-
dom, Whose sentiments it would, perhaps, be +0
more desirable to Mils-114W and secure in larva 0.
the new auccettion.,. "

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