The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-02-22 00:00:00

NUTINT BILL.

!me I P.II.I,IF.RS'I'ON o:nerved, that in movims for
leave to bri..g in a to reneu the 'Matins our a
:aitod period. it was only neceasary to state that it was
to 110 simply a r.newal of the last. It was not his in-
tentlans, in C
of the stunsh:T of roves to be kept up, or the dif-
I •t em ciaarg.,s ; this wisasid be a matter of future discus.
S. in. Ile war ; : 1., move a gran' of 900,1littlf. on ac-
cost'', of army se: es. Ilia concluded by
;,t !,ti na in a 11111 to eil:,•inite tin. Mutiny
If !I Irmo th.• ft!, larch to the i.ls of Jame.
Ca,:ms,,l 9.1%1 sail, that althoss •Is he did not, in
the pro..ent al the !louse, wiAt to postpone l's
tt ,mal.lttoo, ye; ! r eterid not resist offering a few words
via ,t 1 the pres.!.• assion. lie shonlil feel sorry that
r..:1 so humble ;s:. individual as hived! should, be
Ftasin,r over thi:. motion in silence, be anpposed to Orr
hi= eanctkan or saj..ort to the continuance of so large a
s• in. me army as now existed in the conntre. lie
I. ~:ged the /twisr to cots,:ider Ow state in which thr
a , ,:.try was bef..re any additional force Lip been voted.
It th..t tl. i. la discontent hail existed in the
a arntry. The disorder was at its crisis. The late Bills
%sated i:; the civil an:Lerities power sedieient to repress
:,r.:wls;, was to he apprehended, end there-
, we a iarw, t: t 'ter was tanner r • . In the west
o' Srotland tiere had existed more danger of distant,.
arcs. than in any other part of the country, and yet 1,500
r-loslar troops, aided by tbe civil power and local forces,
ts..re found r; era tint: stAilent to preserve the public
tranquillity. itiith these facts before him, he could not
a :eirterance a thmasure which added near 5C0,000/. to ,
tile expenses of the country.
GALtaitArr said, that he anal his friends must
either refuse their consent to this Bill. or else give their
1.411....i0n to t!.: further continuance of an unnecessarily
large standing army, and to an extravagant and useless
srmliture. When they were called upon last Session
to umpire into the distresses of the public, with whose
petitions their table was loaded—when a nnmerous boity
of merchants prayed their attention to the difficulties
which oppressed them, Parliament tomcat their barks
urn all ibis, and adjourned themselves to• the 13th of
February. Before that peri
mod. his late 31siestyliall been
removed from the smithies of this life. 'Then, instead of
I eing at once as; 'tubbed. according to law, the first thing
they heard was that they were to e‘ist lint a few days
longer, instead of occupying the usual time, from Juno
ary to May, in the dischargt of public business. There
was no man who knew the practices of the present Mi-
nisters, who did not :,eta that they Intel some latent ob-
jects in view. both respecting the Civil List and the
Arun'. which it would be inconvenient to bring before
a Pailiament *heat to be returned to their Constituents.
They would have, in the course of oho evening, aft Op-.
portunity of dismissing the mow matters whirls were
to be brought foriverd ; and lie, for one. would make
some observations tipon the snhjert, unless some better
explanation was given than that with which the Noble
Lord (Palmerston) had th t proper to favour them.
Lord PALMERSTON 21.4rith. respect to the late
aildition to the army, as.well as the late new Bills, he
felt convinced that the great body of Ass toothy was or
opieien that Ministers 'meld' Wes Wets guilt,' of it gibes
dereliction of their *sty. akisl. )bey oeglected re take
those necessary steps for the than of the lire*
and properties, as well at- • the tranquillity of his
Majestt's_ subjects.
Mr. UME hoped his Majesty's Ministers would hart
the candour to declare, whether the state of the reentry
Iran at present such as to rege're that se large a sand.,'

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