HC Deb 11 April 1809 vol 14 cc1-3

On the motion of Mr. Huskisson a new writ was ordered for the borough of Eye, in the room of the hon. H. Wellesley, who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.—Mr. Campbell moved that a new writ be issued for a member to serve for the borough of Air, &c. &c. in the room of col. John Campbell, deceased.— On the motion of Mr. H. Martin, it was Ordered, 1. That there be laid before this house an Account of the Fees received at the Privy Council office from the 25th of March 1808 to the latest period to which the same can be made up, and of the application thereof, shewing the receipts and payments of every quarter, and specifying the amounts paid for the salaries and establishments of the said office, and the sums paid into the receipt of his majesty's Exchequer: 2. An Account of the gross produce of the Fee Fund belonging to the several offices of his majesty's secretaries of state for the foreign, home, and war departments, during the years respectively ending on the 31st of Dec. 1807 and 1808, specifying the amounts received in each year, and the application thereof: 3. An Account of the gross produce of the Fee Fund belonging to the office of his majesty's secretary at war, during the years ending respectively on the 31st of Dec. 1807 and 1808, specifying the amounts received in each year, and the application thereof: 4. An Account of the gross produce of the Fee Fund belonging to the office of the lords commissioners of his majesty's treasury, during the years respectively ending on the 31st of Dec. 1807 and 1808, specifying the amounts received in each year, and the application thereof.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that previous to the recess he had given notice that he would on an early day move for the revision of a motion made by an hon. admiral (sir C. Pole) for the printing of the Report of the Commissioners of Naval Revision, and a notice on that subject stood for this day. He had, however, conversed with the hon. baronet on the subject since he came into the house, and understanding from him that be would be contented with the Report itself, without the Appendix, which was very voluminous, he should have no objection to the hon. admiral's motion to that extent. He could not, however, avoid mentioning the vast expence which the public was put to in the article of printing the Papers of that house. Certainly every member had a right to any paper laid on the table of that house, and where the whole, or part was actually necessary for the due investigation of any matter to be brought before the house, it was right such papers, or parts of them, should be printed for the general use and advantage of every member's being in possession of the subject: he hoped however, that gentlemen would duly consider how far any paper was really essential before they moved for the, printing of them.—Sir C. Pole said, that he was never more surprized than when he saw the statement of the right hon. gent. who had just sat down, that the printing the Report he had moved for, would cost from 15 to 20,000l. He had no idea of incurring even the twentieth part of that expence. But as that was a Report of gentlemen who had been chosen to revise the acts of others who had been previously appointed to enquire into the transactions of a most important department, he thought the printing the Report would be highly necessary: but as he found the Appendix was so very voluminous, he was willing that the order made on the motion, which he had brought forward on a former night, should be discharged, and a fresh order made, comprehending only the Report, which was accordingly done, and a new order made, that the Report be printed without the Appendix.