The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-03 00:00:00

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91i•,6M11/. 111:der the head of Half-pay Allowance.,
the amonnt or expenditure, in
l'llo. W.. 1% Yl3,tiSul • in !Stu. 323.5614/. The
expenses amosiwed, in I e 19, to 3e.9e41 ; in
41.1,5311/. the head I.f Expenses of Ilaskrtioni
the expense 1.. r 1/.119 amounted to 111,1410/.; in 1%20,
to 5,11410/. The niegregate of the expenses of the two
List hex '5 amounted, in 1,119, to 31'2,674/. ; in ItitO,
to 374,1; 31. Thus the net .xpenditure of the Ilyd-
nanr.• Department amounted, iu 11.411, to 1,319,1,4541.;
its Is-19. to 1,191,907!., showing an increase fur the
former by the sum of 1.27 949/. To these item■
he hal nut al led the arr.•-ars of last ♦ear aid those of
the year before. He t..ok the neat expen.littiri•
tOf the twa years fur the purpose of showing the u.I
thin whirls it was undergoing., while the:e iris er,ry
reason to expect a large decrease. Ile hegirell to re-
mark. th it, by the stir of stores, this department
realized in 1,419, 112,11011/., sod in I s2ll, 3113,000/.;
sot that, hr taking credit fur these suns, the expendi-
ture of the department was apparently lessened. lie
should next proceed to compare the expenditure of this
department, as had been tiUtle 111 another place n•ith
reward to the imports and exports. Ht should show
the amount of this tlepartineut at two distant pe-
riods of peace. In 1;91, the ortlinary ispenditore
amounted to Zl9 I .E 1

The extromNliitart to - - - - 136.0/10
ti..-eretar,..• (1 pertinent ut the Orgiastic,- - 4

T - - /119,19!4
This was the :thole amount of the expe:onure for the
year preceding the war. 'I he average expenditure fur
each of the six years preceding 1791, was 3111,11101.
What wa: the Nectar' of the lint six years of peace
It amoitsdeol to near 91'11.1t110/., and he would put it to
the House, did this amount of expenditure jo,t,fy the
notion that the heads of the department entertained
any disposition to economy. It :could unfair nut
to state that a great cause of the increase was to he at-
tributed to the a of half-pay, It trotild be
impossible for any one not a ontweted w ith the depart-
ment to eritir:se accurately the items of the expense ;
it depended eltirelr on the Gentlemen engaged in the
tieprtment to determine the necessity of each branch
of the expenditure. The lion. Member next adverted
to charges in the itstimates for repairs done to the
garrison at Gibraltar. lie contended that this charge
belonged nut to this department, hut should hare been
defrayed out of the money remitted to this country
from that station, and applied, illegally as he thought,
to the privy purse of the King. 1k saw another item
of expenses fur the lonian Islands, which, he main-
tained, should not Iw charred to this country at all,
a. lie would slorw more at large in a few days. By
the Treaty of Paris, the King of lireat Britain was de-
clared the protector of thr loni.uu Islands, ttptitt the
condition that the charge of mai:alining 3,0(N) troops
should be defrayed by the native inhabitants. Now,
as the islands received a Charter, and as it was express-
ly staled in the 12th chapter of this Charter that this 1,
country should not he at the expense of maintaining
these troop., he was at a loss to know why the sup-
port of 3,111/0 troops in that country should he charged
upon this country. The Bon. Member then proceeded
to animadvert upon ebutiutting i as manufacture of 'rah-
powder, end ttNn granting penshmb to the dill oG-
cern retired. Ile conelnded by recommending the ex-
treke of the 10TifteSt

Mr. WARD then rose for the pnrpose of replying to
the statements of the lion. Member. That Ma. 3ilent-
iwr took no native whatever of the suppressed offices,
and presumed upon them in his statements as if they
really were still kept np. Ile (Mr. Ward) had cer-
tainly stated that there was this year au excess of
13:1,1100/. ; but the Hon. Member, because there was
such nn excess, took it far granted that no regard
whatever had been paid to economy. He should. how-
et-et, prove that the excess h4l been created on art'.
cies of imperious necessity. Nor was the Hoo. Mem-
ber less mistaken in asserting that there was this year
an excess upon the Extraorainaries of 110,000% as com-
pared with last year.