§ MR. AYRTONsaid, he rose to ask, in reference to this measure, Whether the House had passed any Bill in the present Session authorizing Her Majesty to pay the Officers of the Navy Reserve, and whether the Government intend to pay them any sum, or make any allowance whatever to them?
§ LORD CLARENCE PAGETsaid, that there was no engagement in the Bill to pay any of these Officers, and it was not intended to pay them. What he should propose was that in the Estimates of next year a certain sum should be set apart in order to give the Officers in question a small allowance, while under drill, for lodging and food. That must be voted by Parliament and, therefore, the House was not engaged to any sum by the present Bill.
§ MR. AYRTONsaid, that the noble Lord had not answered what he had asked, and was proceeding to explain the object of his question, when
§ MR. SPEAKERsaid, it was improper to enter upon a discussion of a Bill stand- 1801 ing in the Orders of the Day before it came on in a regular order.