Star. — 1827-05-15 (London, England)

BILUSIDA. _ _  Mr. BERRIES moved the rant of Arin,744 to &fray ti 4 menus of convicts at bomt and at Bermuda. Mr. HUME trimmed to Itito* witat numSer had ban ana• tamed ?  Mr. HERRIES replied, 3,500 prisoners, of Whom 5,400 wen osnintained at the expense of ed. per day and roo at the Tatra Is Mr. Secretary BOURNE said, after deducting the vainest their Mbar the Cost of their maintenance did not much (stead ZS it MR • year!. To pay allowances due bt Government fqr expenses incurred mike the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, A'50,000. Mr: BERNAL aid, he wished to take that oppottimity of •y' Isee a few words with respect to Sierra Leone. Large -urn. were iflated tea! after year uselessly and prodigally upon that erabliab; Mat. He believed these grants were against the genera seated As country. The waste of life in that settlement was dreadisL—; Many Officers of rank and talent had perished there, and Inc awe: talky wax such that it amounted almost to suicide to accrpc of gal situation in the place. He need not mention that gallant aid meritorious Officer' General Turner, who, together with almost etch individual of his family, fell of ene by aim The soldiers died id great numbers, either from the elects of the climate, or trues drinking rum. He was sorry to see the public money [brown awn, and the country humbugged In this manner year after year. Mr. W. HORTON said he hoped the Honourable Getulesiel would not persevere in his opposition to the vote. Re teas awns that whatever the character of the establtshment might be, the st. peases incurred within the year must be paid. The House and do country would soon be put in tall possession of every thing to; sleeted with Sierra Leone, Commissioners haviug been sent out isr the purpose. He was free to admit that there might bare been minnapagement, but this was not the time for going into the qtiebdon. With respect to General Turner, he could assure the deo Gentleman that no person pressed more earnestly than that gates 011iter the necessity of retaining the &errs Leone establidneeh AU he desired was, that the House might suspend their joke.te until the Report was before them. Mr. HUhIE said if it was erne that Parliament was to to We" pied so early as report stated, they would no looser be in a situation to discuss the subject when the Sierra Leone Report was lard spot! the table. He hoped this useless expense anti ware We •ould be put an end to. Mr. CANNING said be would not now take upon him to state what derision the Government might come to on this stititf. Parliament would not separate until the question had been I Into.—The Resolution was agreed to. For paying salaries and expenses incidental to a Commissiot pointed on the part of his Majesty to treat with the tioverniurtut of Spits Portugal, and the Netherlands, foe the .bol:tion the Slave Trade. Mr. HUME thought that this, as well as other items. 010 be considerably reduced. Mr. CANNING said, the expenses under this bead had certain! been considerable, but of all others it was perhaps that branch of the expenditure with which the country would be lease disposed to quarrel. Government, however, bad no choice. This expense was imposed on them by Act of Parliament. Mr. HUME said the Right Bon. Gentleman would have so difficulty in prevailing on the House to alter the Act if it shatiol be thought advisable.—Th: Resolution was agreed to. For defraying the expenses of litisfilitlf anti special commissar' to the new States of South America. Mr. HUME said, that in this item, at least, mite reductive might be made. The sum now proposed, added to the We diplomatic expenses of the country, made the whole ammo.' to .€495,000. Mr. CANNING said. this vote:was .feus less Riau last yea', and that for American Cumuls £5OOO less. lie could /*Mite tee natl. Gentle/Ilan that in all communications be received bunt tte British Consuls in South Amenca, they assured bins that it was utterly impossible they could subsist there upon less daao the toml, allowance. Sume represented the salary as totally huadeou.te. 4" their privateistortunes as absorbed by the expenses ino-t. rata to to iltuation. This might appear extraordivary to Eurtifizati ea One requested that be might be allowed either to lay down n office, or to embark in nict gentile speculations somber