The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-02-23 00:00:00

COIIMITTES Or •LPPLT.

On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX.
CHEQUER that the Order of the Day be read for the
House going into a Committee of Snpple,
Sir NI. Ir. RIDLEY wished to knout if it was the ire
tention of his Nlajestv'a Ministers to continue still the
same number of Lords of the Admiralty. Ile bit a
motion to submit on a future day on that :subject.
Mr. BF:It:NAL said that the salary of the Lords of the
Admiralty ought to be redseed. He wished to keys
what plan was to be proposed with regard to the redae
lion of those salaries.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQ:4:II ,ail
that it was the intention, with respect to the Starrier
officers, to form a fond by a Bill for the reductive st
their salaries.—With respect to the superior plias:emit
was proposed to make a reduction of I 9 per cent. as
their salaries.
Mr. HUME said that the House was to be called In
to vote away 1.7n1,0110f. It was usual for the Meseta
assent to those votes as soon as prope.ed, without ant
inquiry into the manner in which the money bad beea
expended. No objection was ever made to chase voter
until the last year. The Noble Marquess bad stated
that we had come to that period in which we were
enabled to make considerable reductions in oar cstalalisle
ments. Thoae establishments were not by any memo
so low as they ought to be. The segregate mooing ri
reduction which lie stated might be made was three m
lions and a half. But so far was the Noble Morocco
from making reductions in the expenditure, that it en
rather increased. In the year lsl7, the Noble Mar isms
had fixed the wear and tear of the Navy at 1,5.-r6.01.1
When they considered the redaction in the rive
vialona—wheo they considered the reduction is
prices of ordnance, they were to indulge I 3 asticirr
titans, that the sour fixed in Itll7, would not herostiased.
The House vernal recollect, when the fist use a
1.7t41,0010/. wool., be proposed to them, &at tie
Committee had thought 1,556,1100(. wirficieu.. lonia
of making a redaction from that sum, as it might be
supposed, the vote in the sixth year of peace was tort-
ceed the vote fur similar purposes in the first years(
peace by nearly 130,11004. —( I bear, bear.) Wbat he sods!
Insist on WIN that that Hoose shoo koow the specifiers.'
partirnlar purposes f which the vote ass requirul--
I n the year 1419, they had to provide for 19.1100 Emu ill.
chiding seamen and marines) of the former there we:
13.41011, and 60100 marines. In the last rar they h.°
2•2,11U11, and in the present veer they were to prori3e far
21,000, which was less by 1000 than they had in the Is
year, and more by ANkr than they had in ISI9. 111'
Hon. Gentleman then went through the several item
of whirls the vole consisted, OM rontewled that the
House could not accede to the veer, without first kom;
ing the intended application of every part of it. Ik 14'
drawn op a motiuti for additional returns uf Fadasnat,‘
The Finuote Committee
to required those returns, nod k
then caHed on the House insist on them before Om!
would grant one shilling of the rehlic motaralL I!!
charge upon the staff of the Navy last year, eas 3404-,
on which dief were prevented from taking the sense
o
the Mime, because they hail not thereturns before OK:
What could be the reason of n riding front
House the particular *teener of the stslf of the nsry
marines? Why Were riot they solimitted to the Hor'..,
as. well as the secounts of the stall:tire army, to!„
there teas something in the former w nes awl."