Star.
London, England, 1819-03-18 00:00:00

; leave full power. to the guardians ditriag la „
rity of their wards, bat he should allow ro- th.t ,"'
of his own marriage. His secotel
only one year to instit.ute a suit against th—.)
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e');nt rei7:,e
marriage by banns. While mail i,t,,v Fiv r ~"
protected to a great extent, that b..; kw' a',",-*
without any protection whatever ; for in gle '
like this metropolis, the publication c f bee,'
complete nullity. It frequently occurred 01;14.
living in the west end of the town had 0..!.
put up in a distant part of the city, where .I„.t.
scarcely be known. Hence minors miszet....i,l7
entrapped. He should prcpose to place tiee-:'
the pale and protection of the law, els these m
by licence, and to render a residence of a fereel
the pariJi where the minor should be tie:Tried ,•
pearl bl y necessary. He s'oolild alto otti; ;Sew
or.e year to institute a :nit. These wtee c"
of the measure which he wi..hed to htre,;•
would tend to correct an evil which ^...e r
tical, but led to much iajivnice; and •
granted him leave to bring ia his Lill,
syouhl be found that he was propreii
like a radical remedy.— Leave was the:
ORDNANCE SALE%
Mr. Alderman WOOD had so shape,
of which he had given notice, that he
could be no objection on the part of :hi
Gentlemen belonging to the Board of
prod,ice the documents for which he si:
had no intention to complain of the o
Board of Ordnance, but as a sale. be pri
amounting to £200,000 and embracin
fire kir.ds of articles, such as brass, i
gunpowder, and muskets, was niter
transaction, he wished for detailed info,
subject. re then moved that there he
House, an account of all the Stem,
Samuel by the Board of Ordnance, bt
of January, 1,418, and the Ist of Mar,
cifying the different Articles, the date:
the total amount paid for the same.
Mr. R. WARD repeated what he
stated on a former coecte ion, that no bl
imputed to the Board of Ordnance fox
zealous in the execution of its duty
obeyed the recommendation of the Tin
tee of the last year. It had struck ale
that great quantities of perishable stores
hand, and, iu order to save the capes
houses, and also for the purpose of r.
derable sum, and rendering it as sou
available to the public service, the
mended their speedy sale. Had the Bo:
itself with the usual Tower sales, it trot
seven years to raise the sum of 1.00,0 i
now at once procured for the public. II
of the transaction, however, a memorir
ceived from the gunpowder merchat
dered themselves aggrieved, and stated
a tight to suppose (how they could pre:
he could not conceive), that they ough
allowed to be the sole purchasers of the
amounted to 150,010 barrels, for :hi
materials alone, leaving out the erpete
ture, as a compensation for having b,
shut up their work•shopr. But those si
shut on account of peace, which had die-tier..
sale of gunpowder, and not in consequence at
interference on the part of Government. Sad.
their reasonable request I Had Government ace
rn their terms, years would have elapsed Were I.
could have proeured so large a sum, as the Ordne
Estimates, it they were printed, would sheer they h
done, by the ccurse which they had adoeted. ...'
had besides incurred no risk, for senate:Tr migle
the gains or losses of Mr. Samuel in consequence;
his barge&i, Mr. Rothschild had secured to f
Board of Ordnance the full payment of the stlittian
sum. He should not object to giving the za.•..
amount, but considered that it might be inconvee;n!
to produce .particular items.
Mr. GRENFELL complained that the Board ha?.
abandoned the principle of public sale and fair com-
petition. The Finance Committee might have re-
commended the sale of the Ordnance stores, bet tr:
in the way in which it had been done. had not tie
principle of open competition been departed frcr
he had no doubt a much larger sum would have
been procured for the public. Why have recoarse n
concealment if all was right ? It was said the article
sold were of a perishable nature : but he und:astoa:
there were .74X) tons of brass guns--were those of a
perishable kind? If they had been sold for £4,0? ,oe:a
he would say that less had been obtained thane:tea:
to have been done. Tie was so convinced that the::
was something wrong concealed under so much ni:•!.
tery, that he should move, as an amendment to tie
Hon. Alderman's motion, that the prices at whi:l
such stores have bean sold be added to the return.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQIE7.
considered that the amendment only served to reurke
the motion still more objectionable. Any inquiry, 1:
inquiry were deemed necessary, ought to follow a •
conelusien of a contract, and not to be set on foo:
while it was going on. The Board owed this duty 1,,
the party with whom they had contracted.
'Alr. BARING saw no possible objection to pub.
lishing the terms under which the contract had beau
made, It could not injure the contractor, and be
therefore trusted his Hon. Friend would persist in b:i
amendment.
Mr. BROUGHAM conceiving that the subjett
could not rest where it was, and must produce faun
discussion, suggested to his Honourable Friend to
withdraw his amendment, and to the Honourable
Alderman to rest satisfied at the present with a.
papers conceded to him, and if they did not prcv
sufficient, when in the possession of the House. t-
take another opportunity of moving for the rest.
Mr. It. WARD would have been bettor pre)r.e
to answer, had he expected every Gentleman to :'
one after the other upon this subvert. .II contende.i
that the Board of Ordnance had not acted claiulca
tinely. They had done nothing in the dark, and ti:'
Honourable Gentleman who had made such a cline
was too intimately concc; red to be a fair judge e'•
the transaction. If instead of the word eeemetifiee
that Honourable Gentleman had used that of CC:3'•
itali9n, he would have come nearer to the truth :10,
*the Board had found that nothing could. be proclacn.
.by competition, but that much mischief arose iron
combination. He then gave several iustances to
prove that Whenever a sale had been thrown o; aril
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parties had 'coalesced so as to keep down the v....
of articles) and to force their own low price alat)

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