The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-02
A WAR OF WORDS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, April Is.
pARRAGKs.

BARRAGKs.
Mr.. WHARTON in q committee of supply mo-
we'd the estimates for the Commissariat and Barrack
Department His first resolution was to grant sum
OF 5e4oOo. for detraying the expenses OF the Bar
rack Department.
Mr.. HUSklSSON said, that all the estimates
ought TO have been referred TO the Treasury -
and that had not been done. When the estimate of
the life guard barracks formerly referred the
Treasury, 1t was then considered AS an expenditure
so great that It ought not to be incurred. Now
great and magnificent buildings TO be carried
on, for which he did not any necessity whatever.
I he Intended new stables were to be maguifi-
cent scale but then they neither stables nor
palaces They would be nondescrifts, like some O.
Their extraordinary buildings that had been lately
rected. IL all the reports and proposals which had
been made by military men for building new bar
racks were laid on the table, he was confident the
expenses of the whole would amount to three mil
Lions. happeared tohitn, that, in TIE great pres
sure of our AFFAIRS those expenses ought to be
postponed and he was clearly convinced, that it
was only by ayoiing such unnecessary expenses
rs these, should be able to other exigencies
which could not be avoided.
:, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER OBJ
served, the barracks in King the pro-
perry OF Government s. t;eir term having expired.
they had in fact been elected, s having other
place in London capable of accommodating so many
horses Government had been under the necessity or
engaging them again ut advanced rent of CSC for
three years, whilst other barracks might be built
He commended that to build permanent barracks at
once would be much less expenS.ve than erecting
temporary buildings for the accommodation of SOL
dlers The having the men s. horses i'm the same
place was certainly an object much to be desired
their not being so. had proved circumstance of
great Inconvenience during the late disturbances in
che metropolis.
Mr.. TFhit6reGd spoke to what he considered as
che unconstitutional practice, of separating the SOL
dicr from. the citizen practice which he should
always consider rs one replete with danger to the
country Docs the Right Honorable Gentleman
CONTINUED Mr. Whitbread) through whose rash &
preposterous measures distress is spreading o.
yer every part Of the country the loom is rendered
useless, and the cries of hunger sthed by the
point OF the bayonet, seriously imagine that he can
go OH three years longer, on his present system OF
increasing expenditure, and decreasing resources
what consequences can finally result from per-
severance III such counsels but that we must finally
conclude peace with France from the very ne
cessities OF our situation do believe that many
great and glorious opportunities have been lost of
accomplishing tins event, and believe the effect of
oui present system OF policy will finally be COM
pei us to purchase peac': BY suhmission--( Hear
hear,-from borh sides). 1t is my persuasion too.
that this disastrous period is far distant unless
a great and entire change he made i'm that policy
AS to the eN'ention of the barracks in London, L
can see no good reason for the proposed alteration
II the man and the horse have heretofore been sepa
rate, Tor what purpose are they to remain so no
longer again, with respect TO the barracks AT
Brsto, underan ostensble reference to the French
prisoners who i heartily wish were all out of the
country, remember that this was the place where
the grosest abuses have been discovered in the Bar
ct.
proved, that what had been called barracks were
nothing more than number of tottel;ns old houses
without window or roof among therr---( Hear
near,) On these grounds, certainly shall oppose
The Chancellor ofthe Escheguer said he suppo-
sed the Honorable Gentleman had worked himselfup
IN the warmth of debate to say, what he was convn-
ced he would not say in any place I'm a cooler mo-
iheht, namely that the measures of government had
produced the present state of Scarcity Hear
heGr) Did the Hon. Gentleman think this state
ment, that Government had placed the manufsctu-
rers In state OF starvation, would go to allay and
cool the terment among the people Hear, hear
Did the Honorable Gentleman mean to say that i
was the conduct OF Government which had produ-
Sed scarcity Il Loud cries of Hear, hear IF he
sid say so, he must go so far to say that Heaven
was Offended, and had by its avensing hand blight
ed our harvest, and withheld the fruits of the earth
i Near, hedr The Honorable Gentleman said
many glorious opportunities of obtaining peace had
been lost. This he, the Chancellor of the Exche-
querl was certain of that declaration coming from
such man as the Hon. Gentleman, of our inability
70 continue the war, was not the way to obtain
glorious peace Hear, hea,.l The Hon. Gen
teman was ready on every occasion to hold out to
the People that it was him the Chancellor of the
Exchequer who had reduced them to starvation by
his Orders in Council whilst it was well known that
IN consequence OF those Orders in council our trade
had very much increased in the last two years
EHear, heart Was it not probable that all the evil
we had suffered would have fallen with double force
apon us, If these Orders had not been adopted
Was it the Honorable Gentleman patriotism which
pointed out to him the propriety of holding out Co
yernment and not Bonaparte, to the people, as the
cause OF the hardshps they inevitably suffered
The honorable Gentleman might be persuaded
such was his duty-but, in his opinion, such doc
trine, instead Of obtaining glorious peace, would
have the effect of laying PROSTATE at the feet of
Bonaparte. Instead of seeking for peace by such
means he thought 1t was the duty of every man
TO use l'is utmost Efforts to oppose an enemy who
IL he could once subdue us, would tyrannize tri-
1mpliant over the rest of the worll--[ Hear,
hear.
M. Whit6reai-" If we're in any other rIace
than the House of Commons. | would ask the loud
est and the warmest of those who have cheered and
supported the speech which has been just heard
whether 1t was not replets with the most gross mis-
representation! The triumph, therefore, which
the Right honorable Gentleman and his partizan9
appeared to indulge, was triumph not over me-
put over the Right Honorable Gentleman's invention
oh to be sure the House of Commons is n fine
piace--notfng but fair discussion, free debate Il
oPen doors and yet it appears, that on this Impair
tsl stage Political adrenturer, by the aid of
NIUE cleVeFnessin statement, or deXterity in ar
sument, may arrive at that emnence, because no
body else VIII take II, from which he shall dictate
what he will to this House, and find even his misre.
presentations attended with appiaudine cheers
LCr1es of Order, order II
.i1r. TOrke Iose to order.-T'he Honorable Gentle.
tleman bad just made one of the most outrageous
personal attacks on his Right Honorable Friend
which had ever been heard in that House With
respect to the justice proprety of the attack thus
made, he Cries Of Order n
.Ir. I'orSonby rose to order-T Here the disorder
became general, and cries OF chair, chair ! re.
sounded throughou the House at length Mr.. Pom
sonby obtained hearing -