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ANNUAL REGISTER, 180J. 



Ward, Mr, Macnaughton, Mr. 

 Bagwell, lord de Blaquiere, Dr. 

 Duigenan, jNIr. May, and Mr. Hut- 

 cliinson, spoke in favour of the ori- 

 ginal motion ; and Mr. C. Wynne, 

 Mr. Windham, JNIr. Martin (of 

 Galway,) sir J. Newport, Mr. 

 Kinnaird, and lord Temple, in fa- 

 vour of the amendment. The 

 ground taken by the latter was, 

 that there existed no notoriety of 

 disaffection in Ireland, as it was not 

 alluded to in his majesty's speech 

 from the throne, nor was this bill, as 

 in all former cases, preceded by any 

 message from his majesty. By 

 adopting the amendment, any fears 

 said to be entertained would be 

 quieted for the present, and a suf- 

 iicient interval allowed for the ne- 

 cessary enquiry. To this it was re- 

 plied, that the notoriety was suf- 

 ficient for the parliament, and that 

 in the eleven instances of the sus- 

 pension of the habeas corpus act, 

 •which had occurred since the year 

 1793, there were only three in whicli 

 the measure was preceded by par- 

 liamentary enquiry. Ou a divisun 

 there appeared, for the original mo- 

 tion, 159, for the amendment, 54, 

 majority, 105 



On Monday the 18th, tlie commons 

 having resolved themsohes into a 

 committee of the whole house, to con* 

 sidcr lurther of the ways and means, 

 for raising the supply granted to his 

 majesty, and the several accounts 

 presented to the house being re- 

 ferred to the said committee. 



The chancellor of the exchequer 

 then rose, and said, the iirst article 

 of supply to which he referred, was 

 that of the naval service. The total 

 an)ount of what had already been 

 voted, e'^clusive of the sum of 

 300,000/. for ordnanceseaservice.was 

 14,645,630/. exceedingby %600,0QOl. 



the amount of what was voted last 

 year for the 9&nie service. The excess 

 arose from the sum of 1,800,000/. 

 and for the expences attending the 

 20,000 additional seamen, voted this 

 year, and the increase in the ex- 

 traordinaries and transport service. 

 The next article was the arm)', un- 

 der wliich head had been already 

 voted the sum of 10,000,000/. for 

 guards, garrisons, militia &c. There 

 still remained two articles to be 

 voted, the estimate of the extraordi- 

 naries, and of the expences of the 

 volunteer corps. The latter article, 

 though there may be some small 

 diminution, he would take at 

 1,100,000/, The extraordinarics he 

 calculated to the same amount as 

 last year, 3,660,000/. These two 

 items, added to the total of ten mil- 

 lions, formed an aggregate, exclu- 

 sive of Ireland, of 14,778,391/. 

 which was an exceeding, beyond the 

 last year, of 300,100/. For Ire- 

 land, under the head of army, there 

 had been already voted the sum of 

 2,838,000/. To these remained to 

 be voted, the sum of 500,000/. and a 

 similar sum to the expences of the 

 volunteers, making the whola 

 amount, for Ireland, 3,838,506/. 

 The total amount, therefore, of th« 

 expences of the army, for both coun- 

 tries, would be 18,616,897/. Th« 

 total under the same head of service, 

 for the last year, was 19,143,000/. 

 The amount of the ordnance ser- 

 vice for England, Avas 4,246,994/. 

 for Ireland, 600,000/. making a 

 total of 4,816,994/. Under the' 

 htad of miscellaneous services, ther& 

 had been already voted, forEngland, 

 611.000/. but further sums remain- 

 ed to be voted, which would mako 

 the total for Kngland, 800,000/. Tha 

 miscellaneous services for Ireland, 

 iiwluding those usual permanent 



grants, 



