HC Deb 28 January 1808 vol 10 c184
The Chancellor of the Exchequer

rose, to move for a revival of the Committee of Finance. It was not necessary, he said, for him to trespass at any length upon the attention of the house, by detailing the advantages the country and the public service had derived from the arduous labours of that committee since its first appointment: or the great savings and valuable regulations which had been effected in various departments and branches of the public service, from their suggestions. He particularly instanced in the department of the army, the Pay-office; and he had the satisfaction to add, that government had been fortunate in an opportunity of committing the duty of carrying those regulations into effect, to the gentleman who originally suggested them, and under whose care he was confident they would be rendered efficient to the public service. He had also to state to the house, that in consequence of the suggestions of the committee, an application had been made to the Bank of England, under the exigencies of the country, for the aid of a loan, free of interest, to the public; and he must do justice to the directors by declaring that the Bank of England, with its wonted liberality, had most chearfully acceded. He should conclude by moving for the revival of the said committee proposing no alteration of the names which composed the list of last year, save only the omission of Mr. Richard Rider, not now a member of the. house, in whose stead he should propose to insert the name of Mr. Charles Ellis.—He then moved accordingly, and the motion passed without opposition.