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PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. 75 



Proceedings in Parliament. 



HOUSE OF COMMONS. 



Friday 1 December lo. 



In a committee of fupply, Mr Gilbert in the Chair. 



The different papers and accounts of expences incurred in 

 confcquence of the late armaments, being read, 



T^he Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, " That it is the opi- 

 nion of this Committee, that a fum not exceeding Sixty-four 

 Thoufand Pounds, be granted to his Majefty, towards defray- 

 ing the charges incurred by the late Armament, as far as the 

 fame was made up at the War Office." 



General Burgoyne did not mean to oppofe the motion, being 

 fully fenlible that when expences were incurred for the public 

 fervice, they muft be paid ; but he ftated his objections to fome 

 part of the accounts, alledging that the mode that had been 

 adopted of railing new levies was uneconomical, and contending 

 that a confiderable faving would have been made, had the old 

 corps been recruited inftead of raifmg new ones. 



This gave rife to an uninterelling convei fition, in which the 

 Chancellor of the Exchequer, General Burgoyne, the Secretary at 

 War, Colonel Phifps, Mr France, Mr Fox, Colonel Tarleton, a«id 

 Mr Thomfon, the new member for Evefliam, were fpeakers. 

 The chairman at laft put the qucftion, which was agreed to. 



Mr Chancellor Pitt oh^trved, that the 4o,ocol. ftated for the 

 army levies, included only the bounty money, and that there 

 would certainly be an addition for the halt pay. The refoluti- 

 on was agreed to. 



Mr Pitt further ftated, that the. expence in the ordnance 

 department had been 301,476 1. — of this 150,000 1. had been re- 

 ceived on the vote of credit; there remained 151,476 1. to be 

 voted — Agreed to. 



The fums ilfued for provifions for the troops in the Eaft and 

 Weft Indies, amounted to 31,099!. — of this4o,oool. had been 

 paid out of the vote of credit, and 41,0991. remained to be vot- 

 ed. — /.greed to. 



Mr Gilbert left the chair, and the report was ordered to be 

 received on Monday. 



