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Proceedings in Parliament..

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

Committee of Supply,

Monday, December 6. 1791.

THE most important bufinefs in the Houfe of Commons is ufually agitated in a committee of fupply; here it is that the Houfe exercifes one of its moft valuable functions, the controuling the expenditure of the public money; and were the members of that Houfe to exercife their faculties on these 'occafions without bias in favour of party, their debates in thefe cafes would be the moft interefting that could be propofed. In the prefent ftate of things, fuch impartiality is not to be expected, and of course the reader does not meet with that entire fatisfaction he might otherwife have received. Still, however, much may be learnt from the observations that occur on thefe occafions.

The business under difcuffion at the prefent feffion, respected the navy. The Houfe having refolved itself into a committee, Mr Gilbert in the chair,

Mr Hopkins, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, rose to move for the fupply of feamen for the current year. He regretted that the circumftances of the times had rendered it neceffary for the nation to have a greater naval force than usual, but he hoped that Government would foon be able to make a confiderable reduction in the establishment. The number of men voted last year for the peace eftablishment of the navy, had been 20,000; but this year we muft apply for 4000 more. He concluded with moving, "that 24,000 feamen, including 4,800 marines, be granted to his Majefty for the service of the enfuing year."

Mr Rolle rofe to thank the Admiralty Board for their employing at this time a greater proportion of marines than usual; and hoped they would continue to encourage more than had been hitherto done, that useful body of men, an hinted at the propriety of forming an eftablishment of invalids for the marines, as well as for thofe of the army, the artillery, and engineers. The queftion was then carried unanimously.

Mr Hopkins then moved, that 41. per man per month, be allowed for defraying the expences of the faid 24,000 men for the enfuing year.-Agreed to.

Exchequer Bills. \

Mr Rofe then moved, that 3,500,000 1. be granted to his Majefty for the purpose of paying off a like fum raised on Exchequer bills to that amount, that had been iffued in confequence of an act paffed in the laft Seffion of Parliament.-Agreed to. The committee then broke up.

Tuesday, December 1.

Mr Gilbert brought up the report of the Committee of fupply, by which 24,000 feamen were voted for the year 1991. It was read a first time: On the queftion being put for its fecond reading,

Mr Fox rofe,-not, he said, for the purpose of opposing the refolution, but for the purpose of making fome obfervations, which might, perhaps, lead to the information which he wished to have, and which every Member in that House ought to poffefs, before he votes a queftion of supply.

It had been stated on a former day, that the confideration of our late armament, as well in point of the expences which attend it, as the means to be adopted to defray them, were to be kept separate and diftinct from all other ways and means and fupply of the year; to this there could, perhaps, be no objection; but the vote now propofed required fome explanation; without which, it must appear to him dark and ambiguous.

By the vote now before the House, a very confiderable augmentation was to be made in our usual annual peace establishment: for this there fhould be given fome reason, which the mere vote did not convey, and which argued, and conclufively established, one or two points; "Either that his Majefty's Minifters are of opinion, that all our former establishments in time of peace, in the maritime departments, were too low, and that 24,000, inftead of 18,000, feamen are requisite for the fecurity of this country in the time of peace; or, that something appears to them, in the whole policy of Europe, to indicate that our prefent pacific fituation is more precarious than at the conclufion of a treaty we are accuftomed to expect."

Upon the firft of thefe two points there could be but little difficulty with the Houfe. The cafe was not precifely fo with regard to the fecond; for Minifters might have reafons which they may think proper to conceal; and on this he could not help obferving, that, although he was one of those who were willing rather to allow to Minifters a certain quantity of confidence, with regard to the application of fupplies, and thereby run the rifque of fquandering the money of their conftituents, fo far, blindly, than be parfimonions when the intereft of the ftate required vigour and action; and although he was willing to allow, that, in certain cafes the King's Minifters were the