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London, England, 1827-06-27 00:00:00

1111PERNL PA RLIAVEiI
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HOUSE 4:=IDS, Jaws 26.

.REIGSI °mos-
‘rhe INa uis of LONDONDERRY said he wished
'to take the present opportunity of saying. a few words
about the papers he had moved for, and confessed that
in doing so he felt considerable delicacy, and no small
degree of reiuMance, because it must naturally give
him grew pain to appear to adopt a line of conduct
which hrd been abandoned by hi, Noble Friends who
had given notices of motion calculated to pot to the test
the principles of the Administration Circumstances
had occurred to induce his Noble Friends not to come
forward with ihese motions s and it might be, perhaps,
but proper in him to acquiesce in the correctness of the
determination they had come to, and pursue a similar
line of conduct. His Noble Friend (Lord Goderich),
upon the opposite heoches. might accuse him of faction,
but he could tell his Noble Friend that the school of
faction was not thf school he bad been brought up in.
His principles, he could assure his Noble Friend, lay
another way. He had never, at any period of his life,
shewn the slightest disposition to faction; but nothing
should prevent him from distinctly stating his opinions
with respect to the individual at the head of his Ma-
jesty's Government, or from saying that the present
Administration was one founded upon manoeuvre and
intrigue, and fostered by delusion.. He wished most
sincerely that his Noble Friends bad proceeded with the
"C slag., hod g• neisa._ They "plaid
have then seen the sense of the House, and have given
his Noble Friend, who had, be presumed, become the
leader of the Whig Opposition in that House, that fair
field for which he had so frequently asked upon behalf
of himself and colleagues. For himself he would say,
that he was persuaded fully that that fair field and no
favour would not have been so agreeable to those upon
the benches opposite as they seemed to have anticipated.
He was pet fectly convinced that if the motions of his Noble
Friends had been brought forward, they would have
put Ministers to the same embarrassment as the Corn
Bill. He contended that this must have been the result,
because the Government was founded upon no principle
whatever. A Noble Friend of his had said, upon a
former occasion, of some of the Members of the present
Administration, that they would be the basest of man-
kind, if the Government did not act upon the principles
of Lord Liverpool. And upon another occasion, a Noble
Lord now connected with the Government, and possess-
ing great weight and influence amongst them, had posi-
tively and unequivocally declared, that the Government
was not formed upon the principles of Lord Liverpool.
The only conclusion which could be drawn from this,
obviously was, that the Government was founded upon
no principles at all—(Hear, hear). Fortunately for them,
however, they had arrived at that period of the Session,
when it was impossible to bring this more completely to
the proof. Having said thus much upon the present
state of the Administration, he would now refer to the
papers. upon their Lordshir' table. He would not
trespass upon their Lordships time by going into details,
'but would cantent himself with stating the results. He
eras ready to allow that the expenditure at home TO
inained much Vie same--,in fact, there was little eerie-
lion in it since the year 1322. With respect to the el-
peniliture abroad. the case, however, was widely dif-
ferent. In Ihe year 1822. the expenditure of the Foreign
Office abroad had been 241,2751. in the year 1826, it
was 285 8571. and, therefore, there was an increase of
44,58.1. And allowing 28,1701. for the alterations with
respect to the mode df paying Cansuls and -Vice-Con-
suls, there was stilt an excess of 164061. This was not
certainly any thing very great, but he wished their Lord-
ships to look as to the immens,. increase of the patronage
of the Foreign Office. The expense of this office gene-
s. all y,bad been in the year 182'2, 241 2451. In 1826 it was
572,4391. and, consequ-n le, the increase was 181,1941.
The second re urn stated the number of new appoint-
ments which had taken place in consequence of the se-
cognition of the independence of South America, it ap
peered that three new Envoys extraordinary had been
appointed, and 25 Consuls or Vice-Consuls; and it fur-
ther appearea that there had been fourteen new appeint-
',lents of Consuls or Vice-Consuls in France, making
thirty-nine new appointments in all. The next return
contained an account of the expenditure of secret ser-
vice money, about which some discussion had already
taken place. In the year 1822, and in all the years
preceding, except one, this account had never exceeded
30,0001. but, from the year 1822 to the year 1826, it
had been increasing gradually until it amounted to up-
wards of 58,0001. He had asked the Noble Lord now
at the head of the Foreign °Ace, for separate accounts
of the sums expended in secret service money at home
and abroad, but the Nuble Lord had declined comply.
ing with his request. He had,,however, ascertained
what those sums were, and he would state them to their
Lordships; if he were wrong, the Noble Viscount,
(Dudley and Ward) could correct him. The expendi
tore abroad had been 23.7181. at home it was 35,1251.
This expenditure of secret service money at home, he
Must say, he considered most lavish and monstrous,
and he thought, that without accusing any body of
breach of oath or honour, he might fairly question
the judgrhent of the Right Honourable Gentleman
who had lately been at the head of this department ;
the more particularly as a Noble Friend of his (Lord
Strangford) who was himself a celebrated diplomatist,
bad thought proper to pronounce a glowing eulogy I
upon the great merits of the now Prime Minister, in his
situation as Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs. His
Noble Friend had bestowed the warmest praise upon
the exactness of the Right Hon. Gentleman in that de-
partment of the service, and had stated that he always
took especial care to get a god pro pro. He hoped
the Right Honourable Gentleman had also succeeded in
getting the grid pro quo at home—(A laugh). For
himself he must be allowed to say, that he was com-
pletely at a lost to know how the money could have
been spent at home. The Spanish Liberals might have
been subsisted upon part of it, and it might have been
applied to other purposes. He would only once more re.
toark upon the subject of this return, which was. that
t`se expenditure of the last four years,exceedad that of the
tour preceding by fifteen thousand pounds. The next
return related to the Foreign Office Befldings,and to the
I-. oust in Downing-street—the eapenditure amounted to
about 43,0001.-8,0001. of which had bees laid out for
furniture. Now, he was of opinion, that if such expense
was to be incurred by the nations for the sake of the
Principal Secretary for the Foreign Department, there,
was equal reason for lavishing money upon residences
for the head of the Colonial Department, and for the
Dint Lord of the Admiralty; sad he wished to know
with what centateuance, after this. their Lordships could
think of refusisfg say grant, however large, for.a real-
deco for the Lord High Admiral? He begged that,