The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-16 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE Or LORDS, APTKL 15.
The Irish Spirits Warehousing Bill passed through a tanmitz
tee, and was reported.
Mr. Kington. from the Fast India Hensel, prileoul/41 Cdpies of
the Negorimiou tievween Government and the Court of Olive.
tors, relative to the Renewal of the Charter; which were order-
ed to lie on the tablepond hr printed.
Oa the motion of the Earl of LI V CKPOOL, it -was anreed
not to i11149L on the Lords' Amendment In the Loral Militia lli I,
and a Message to that rifeet was sent to the (Metions.
A M from the (.ommons, brought Isy Mr. Vonsitnirt and
other Membersidestred the leave of the Douse for the attendonen
of the Earl of !taste, ten Friday, at the Committee in. qui in-
come and Expenditure of Ireland. The•messengers were
In and informed that the Lords would send un answer by mes-
sengers of their own. •
Leave was afterwards given to the Earl of Rouse (who Wan
'prefk.mt, and assented) to attend the Committee, If his Lordship
should think fit.
The Custom-house. Bill, same lord and prieate Bids, weed
bronghl frtmt the Commons. by Sir dames Grabeins, Mr Ed-
ward linatehboll, and other Mt-miters, aid restriffdit surds •
'Med taiogaln 4/knit FF011.1) presented
asitia=trot •
• Manufivelfirwonoarageel in the l'o.fe.ries
after lieing till, stun ordered toile on the 'aisle. •
,Ou the third reading of the CuparlEWe) Gaol' Bill a dhow
thud of same leugth Wok place, iu which the 141 was oppireed -
by
Lard rrshitte, the Ler] of Lauderditle, and tbe.Enrl of Bus-
dye; and supported by Lord Viscount Melville: tho Lord
ettior and bad Redesdale.—The Bill was read a third thue mud •
Adjourned till to-miaow (this day). ,

lIOUSE OF commortc:
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A biesage from the Lords acquainted the Home that the
Lords had agrerd to several public and private Kilts I for which,
see Lords. It also requested a copy of the third ptid fourth Re-
ports of the Committee appointed no enquire iegolhe state of the
Affairs of the East India Company.
The Surveyors' Highway Bill was read alirst Hotel and oa.
tiered to beetled a second time ins Friday next.
TIILLF.RS OF THE EXCITEQUER.
Mr, ,CRI:IF.VEY postponed- his motiod that stood for tn.. •
marrow (titieday), respecting the two .Offices of Tellers of the •
EschcAucetill the 17th qf May.
SIIIP BUILDERS, •
Mr. MELkISH resented it Petition from certain Ship
builders eititCaulkorg, of the Port of London, opiate the eu.
couragrnseised dip building in the Lail Indies.—Ordered to
lie oe the table.
A message from the Lords acquainted the Home, lant their
Lordships did not insist on their proposed amendment to the•let-
Eel Militm Bill.
Mt. WALLACE asked nellonourable Gentleman (Mr. Ba-
ring), what was the date of the paper be had gismo nMies of
moving for to-morrow. Mr. Baring havieg stated the date,
Mr. moving
mid, that that paper was already ineloded In a
printed Report nosy before the Moshe. Mr. Baring, on un-
derstaudiug this, said, that be should withdraw hianotice for to-
morrow.
Mr. /I UT(.IIINSON brought np a Petition from the Catho-
lics of the comity and city of Cork, Ile said that .it was sigued
by all thi eathOl'es of the first r'. pectability Le that
that It deii;:eit in a. iespectful tone, sod in a constitutional man-
nee, the di. abili tip s ceder st hielithe Catholics laboured ;.-that it
• was a spontsaeotis act of the Petitioners; tier had any artifices
been empt.oyeti hew, as in other places, to promote and procure
petitloes. The Petition was then brought up and read, and or-
dered to lie ea the table.' •
Mt. OLNCLALIK gave belie* of a mike* to-morrow, tbaL
I there WWI before the Illouse an ammo t the iitber tit Ned
ten Wall and each eflbe shim of Seedamcfrom ITX fill Marla
181 g.
Sir FRANCIS BURDETT was proceeding to move for some
papers relative to the a Jerks employed in the Navy Office, bat
on the suggestion of Mr. Perceval postponed his motion till to-
Tome,.
Mr. BRAND postponed his motion that stood for next Tam
day, till Tuesday, the 28th ef.April.—lle also postponed a ma.
tiosiof a Noble Friend of his, that stood for that day; till the
Mr. BROUGHAM postponed his Metiers till the 45th.
Mr. HORNER said he should take an earjy opportunity of
bringing under the attentiou of the House the InseiventDebton
in the Isle of Man.

NOTICE RESPECTING THE EXCHEQUER BE-
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- VAULTERS.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT thought it right to offer
a few wordy on a subject so important as the defi-
ciency.of.public money. It was at all times Most
essential that the vigilance• of the House should be
directed to that object. It would recollected that
since the period of the establishment of different
BOards of Enquiry, various defalcations had been
" brought to, light ;in some of these cases he had heard •
that all the money had been recovered ; in some that
jit was in a. train of recovery ; in others, that the
I accounts were yet unsettled ; iu other instances, that
the sums were. irrecoverably lost. However this •
I,
might be, it was lit that the public should know
!the actual state of these. aceinuti. • It Was fit, in
!justice to those individuals who•had'made gOod- the
balance ngainst them : it was fit that it should he.
I known how mach aas utterly lost, that the public
might entertain no hope of recovering what was ir-
recoverable. Another object of his motion was, to
see whether proper meanawere now employed to,pre-
-1 vent the recurrence of .:ch defalcations. The House
as guardians of the public money, was bond to en-
Iquireinto these subjects. lie then enumerated the
cases of General Delaney, Mr. Steele, the house of
Boyd, Bentield, and Co., Mr. Hunt, the Dutc. Com-
missioners, and Mr. Villiers. He insisted that no
satisfactory account had been given of any settle- •
melds in any-of these cases, and wished to know
whether Mr. Hunt still retained his pension ? In tha
recent case of Mr. Chinnery,,he wished to know
whether the whole or what part would be recovered?
It had been suggested that the securities had taken
legal advice, which had informed them that they
were safe, on account of the culpable negligence of
those who had the controul of that expenditure.—
The next instance which he should mention was one
not yet before the House, but of great magnitude.
The Right Honourable Baronet then read an extract
from the account of the Commissioners of the Board
of Public Works, in Ireland, stating, thir the late
Treasurer gave in his last account in 179 G ;'that in •
1802 the Office was abolished ; that in this interval
the Treasurer had received one million eight hundred
and thirty-five thousand pounds of the public rno-.
ney ; that now .he k called upon for an account, he
says, that it is in a state of preparation—an answer
similar to the one which he returned •in 1808: that
.he could not plead occupation, as the office was abc. •
lisped, and he had no business to employ'him. The
'proper way of getting true intelligence on these sub..
jects was, hestonceived, through _the Committee of
Publie Expenditure. He should therefore more,
" Thetas instil-nation be given-to 'that CoMmittee to
examine the Accounts already reported by the Mi-
litary, and 'Naval, and Public Commissioners) aud.
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