Star.
London, England, 1816-02-13 00:00:00

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itettiee inlgia.t bey else*. -But arlay eat
tended proprietor that relief whichthe foreie 50141
Might afford him ? He had also Walla .dist.great
assistance Might he derived from. a Oto4ift .of more
equal levying the poors' rates.. Tbehurdien of re-
naming the poor. now fell exclusively upoi .tind.,
,proprietors, contrary to The spirit and letter...if tile.
statnte. No levy was made on tuanaificttirdi
mirclianta, but on the,larldholderz. SupPos4 a .nl44:t
oufacturer's boost, full of spinning machinery, and
yielding thousands normally to its possessor, this
house would only be charged at the rate of sedoo
a-year, while his nett neighbour' because a landhol-
der, would be charged on £20,000 a-yeal., the whole
produce cf his estate Yet the manufacturer was
not only the manufacturer of wealth for himself) but
of paupers for the community, and the poors' rates
Were applied, not only to the reli4 of the poor, but
to the cheapening of labour. It world, in fact, re-
quire something approaching to the Pros)erty Tar,
to effect a fair assessment Icr all. He threw, out
these hints in the confident expectation that they
would not be entirely neglected .-(Near, hair)
The nett point that. he should consider would be the
etpences of the military establ6h tn. nt novi proposed.
He had participated in the regret and the itlclignati
of his Right Honourable Friend at hearing Olt called
a peace establishment, which, ,at anyouther period,
would have been considered a now grkv.)us war ea,
tablishrucnt. After strewing that 11.9,0:.:0 :nen would
be necessary for the service of the year, the Chan
cello, of the Exchequer had stated that there were
40 or 50 00 ti re be:Arles,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'
explained, that besiJes the 10,000 men, fornong
nolitary force eniploya in all a; iiiskvs:essioner
there weft linty thousand more is a course. of teat.
6014 tir whom it tv,io:d lie at-testacy to provide Mud
that_reduction was al,:omplislied.

Mr. BItOUGHAM i4ii, that about' 30 tr.illiens
were asked fur the whole empire, :tee toe millions for
England alone. A relectioa of. 10,000 s tilers Via*
in contetnpletion, and eiking- out the 4.);00e hew
ineatiOne4s what pro Feet wee there for the coire y
that next year the expenditure weule be tee:we:db.:-
low. 25 millions lie could-net see aey ether head
of expense likely to come 41.en,_ for all the items
con-ested 69f aii iirrnensa t*ii!nrr ez.! 41)1,4hrornt-...
(Hear, Leor—o.s the Oppedtien'siec), f t'ere..t Bii.
Wit) and leer colonies, weice had gr., I) from war tar
war. However good, each peace. lea.: 41u-eased our
burden, and -we were nuw saddled an army of
I50,0(X) men t .'lo,ote) of these :he Slinist tilted bound
the House by Treaty. in case it should ratify their
conventiens, to meintaii in Fraece ; 20,000 more
were to be kept in Lelia. But es it, Was SAW MI,
wire paid for by the Lest-India Company, lie found'
by the Right Honourable Gentleman's 021) suite.
ment, that this was not the case, sia,:e money was vs!
be paid to the Eest•l Cempeey nn account tsf ;
the war. Ll..ven thousand men were to be main-
tained in the Mediterranean. lo heter times. in times
of greater financial prosperity, and still more fevour-
able to the Constitution, tl a whole -army of the na.
tiva did not exceed ier ;1000 men, OA of that it
had grown tn la 1,000 nieu, and for the Mediterra-
keen alone 11,000 were required 1 We were to keep
in that see, not only Gibraitar, which might be
.a va-
-1414100 30Wet of the Crown, but M ilt Yet we were
sw lougeteed that we should retain drat Wend to
Acetate Egypt, and *at w
.enure -ifeweetereeTtat be,
cruse liseie would be in danger. t why keep the
lonian Islends ? They were fertile in patronage, and
he believed they produced currants too. y these,
Additrals, Governors, commanders, in fast, the
whole appa.-itu. patronage would be wanted --
The troupe in. tle. ;Vest behee qui to be 7)(10, now
they wore to eeiount to ;$,OOO, but a was thought
to be a triumphant answer, when it was slid that we
had many mere island,. at present. He reteuld tii e
the liberty of asking why we, tinder the present cite
emnstances, had so marry mote? We had not been
able to keep Java, which it was necessary to teeter:.
to row good friend the King of Holland, and which
sees poisonous to ,oer troops e but we' had kept St.
Lucie, which was equally bad. but it ovoid be said
mat it was a good widen slid 4.iinprtgoce to our
CrlliZrff and the security of Nu West India posses.
sions. Yet without any dread of France, in case of
'new Weir, why no: trust our navy •to do .again. what
they hove done ? Were war to begie agein, he firmly
believed that our baying those colonies, and the id,
bailee of IfoUend, would not cause the reduction of
a single frigate in our naval establishment. We bad
never kept these islands before,' and yet we had
thooght ourselves sale enough after former treaties of
-peece. Why were they now" retained ? He really'
believed, because h was good for a small number of
merchants, who, during the war, had vested therl
capital in loam to obtain the trade of theme 'places,
and Who could not bear to ,gire them up to their
lawful proprietors, because • the consignments. Ittust
then be resigned to foreign merchants. For this that
were retained by. this country, which not only 41.
not went them, but would be .better without thedu,
for it was glutted whit their produce. But tint wits
of no inominit, more sugar, more coffee, thottgli OUT
weeeheasge overdewed, for each of those island; bad
its regular establishment for patptnage, and'wes ifL
meet as. rich in it se an lonian Isle, end afforde4
pretext for keeping up a large military establishment,:
He now found tbet 25,000 men would be uccifisityr
for Ireland. He was glad to hoar at last the Ortifie
of our sister isle i he had leered Abet he should hue
I%!sted tbectegh the Whole Session Witbotte bearing it
pronouhced. )Slo untie( whoever of it had hero lett%
in the Prince Regent's Speech, Nit he now heard of
it with a vengeatice-25,000 nun wanted 4 So that
irelead required a military estalslisbaxatt larger then
England, Scotland, and the isles of Jersey and
Guernsey, And this was during peace, when there
was not a chance of
.aggrestion, when the disaffected
in 4eletad could not hope for . assistance from ally
potser. Could there be no means of redircing a force
which wits merely implored to keep the people of
that (Noun down i for it was idle .to • suppose that
if Ireland were tike England, the seat .of rest anti*
cunt/loath a military establishsoeni would be requi-
site. Heitteretore hoped, that Me situation of that
1444 Would induce the Right-lioaotwable Gentle-
man to consider attentively the scutimaus which his
Noble Colleague was known to profess, end the pro-
priety of &tug day emancipation so long withal.
den. In the sadden reed prodigious change which had
'mewled, o=4 state of general war to a time of
F0i9.644 raft, we •wilts go thin* of Out great re.